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Dear Miffy

Dear Miffy

John Marsden

Telling powerful stories has become the hallmark of John Marsden's writing. But even John Marsden has never written a book as powerful and gutsy as Dear Miffy. [Contents may offend some readers]
The Tomorrow Series: The Dead of the Night

The Tomorrow Series: The Dead of the Night

John Marsden

John Marsden. Chapter. Four. Homer was quite impressed tohearthat wewere so wellknown, so notorious. 'Let's showthem we're still in business,' hesaid, smiling his slowest, most dangerous smile. Ishivered slightly. Despite my murderous ...
The Tomorrow Series: Darkness Be My Friend

The Tomorrow Series: Darkness Be My Friend

John Marsden

John Marsden. at all. Instead I had to struggle to get upright. True to form, I was not the athletic jungle fighter but still the awkward koala. Nothing had changed. When Idid manage togetmy balance I crouched onmy haunches to take agood look ...
John Marsden: Darkness, Shadow, and Light

John Marsden: Darkness, Shadow, and Light

John Noell Moore

Throughout the book, Moore weaves together Marsden's recurring themes, chief among them writing and storytelling as ways of constructing identity in the transition from childhood to adulthood and the ability of young adults to endure ...
My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred ...

My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred ...

Marsden Hartley

A collection of correspondence between American artist Marsden Hartley and avant-grade impresario and photographer Alfred Stieglitz, this work chronicles the painter's three-year-plus European pilgrimage before and during the inception of ...
Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation

Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation

Donna Cassidy

A provocative new reading of the great American avant-garde arist Marsden Hartley's late work.
The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship

The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship

George M. Marsden

In this book, Marsden argues forcefully that mainstream American higher education needs to be more open to explicit expressions of faith and to accept what faith means in an intellectual context.
Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism

Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism

George Marsden

Presenting a historical overview of fundamentalism and evangelicalism in America, this volume has been developed from a number of studies undertaken by George Marsden during the 1980's in efforts to understand the recent resurgence of these ...
Home and away

Home and away

John Marsden

Mum is a rehab counselor for people with alcohol problems.
The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and ...

The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and ...

George Marsden

As award-winning historian George M. Marsden explains in The Twilight of the American Enlightenment, postwar Americans looked to the country’s secular, liberal elites for guidance in this precarious time, but these intellectuals proved ...
The Chemistry of Gold Extraction

The Chemistry of Gold Extraction

John Marsden

This book is a valuable asset for all professionals involved in the precious metals industries.
Paintings of Pueblo Indians and the Politics of Preservation ...

Paintings of Pueblo Indians and the Politics of Preservation ...

Sascha T. Scott

... Randall Griffey, would like to extend a discussion of Hartley's work beyond a presumed inherent homoeroticism. See Randall Griffey, “Encoding the Homoerotic: Marsden Hartley's Late Figure Paintings,” in Kornhauser, ed., Marsden Hartley, ...
Letters from the Inside

Letters from the Inside

John Marsden

When Tracey and Mandy first became pen pals, they never guessed that they would soon discover the darkest secrets of each other's troubled lives.
Marsden Hartley's Maine

Marsden Hartley's Maine

Donna Cassidy

"This catalogue is published in conjunction with "Marsden Hartley's Maine, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from March 14 through June 18, 2017, and at Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, from July 8 through ...
Tony Hillerman: A Critical Companion

Tony Hillerman: A Critical Companion

John Marsden Reilly

Looking back on the time and place of his childhood, (Anthony) Tony (Grove) Hillerman sees in it an augury of the career as Southwest storyteller for which he is now best known. Born on 27 May 1925 in Sacred Heart, Oklahoma, where the  ...
Fatal Desire: Women, Sexuality, and the English Stage, 1660-1720

Fatal Desire: Women, Sexuality, and the English Stage, 1660-1720

Jean I. Marsden

Gen. ed. J. Douglas Canfield. Toronto: Broadview Press, 2001. Brown, Laura. " The Defenseless Woman and the Development of English Tragedy." SEL 2.2 ( 1982): 429-43. Bull, John. Vanbrugh and Farquhar. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998.
Secret Men's Business

Secret Men's Business

John Marsden

It sets out, in direct, honest language, the things every young man needs to know... And the things young men aren't being told. Young men who read this book will learn how to be strong, how to be honest, how to confront their fears.
Handbook of Data Analysis

Handbook of Data Analysis

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Borgatti, Stephen P. and Everett, Martin G. (1992) 'The notion of position in social network analysis', in Peter V. Marsden (ed.), Sociological Methodology 1992. London: Basil Blackwell, pp. 1–35. Borgatti, Stephen P., Boyd, John P. and Everett, ...
While I Live: The Ellie Chronicles 1: The Ellie Chronicles

While I Live: The Ellie Chronicles 1: The Ellie Chronicles

John Marsden

The follow-up to the bestselling Tomorrow series BOOK 1 IN THE ELLIE CHRONICLES TRILOGY "Addictive reading" Sydney Morning Herald "Australia's king of young adult fiction" The Australian We were halfway up the spur when we heard it.
The Soul of the American University: From Protestant ...

The Soul of the American University: From Protestant ...

George M. Marsden

Explores the decline in religious influence in American universities, discussing why this transformation has occurred.
The Evangelical Mind and the New School Presbyterian ...

The Evangelical Mind and the New School Presbyterian ...

George Marsden

"The passing of reformed theology as a major influence in American life during the nineteenth century was not a spectacular event, and its mourners have been relatively few.
The Evangelical Historians: The Historiography of George ...

The Evangelical Historians: The Historiography of George ...

Maxie B. Burch

This book explores the personal backgrounds, historical methodologies, and academic philosophies of George Marsden, Nathan Hatch, and Mark Noll.
Cosmo Innes and the Defence of Scotland's Past C. 1825-1875

Cosmo Innes and the Defence of Scotland's Past C. 1825-1875

Richard A. Marsden

... Martin Willis, Mrs Sharon Wiseman, Dr Alun Withey and Dr Dave Wyatt for providing support and encouragement at various stages of the Acknowledgements.
Jonathan Edwards: A Life

Jonathan Edwards: A Life

George M. Marsden

Presents a biography of the clergyman who played a major role in eighteenth-century American religious life and served as president of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University.

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