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Sharing the Years

Sharing the Years

Linda Lear Shofner

Linda Lear Shofner. Sharing the Years Sharing the Years Linda Lear Shofner Sharing the Years Sharing the Years Linda Lear Shofner Book. Front Cover.
Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists ...

Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists ...

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P40684 2007 577.27'9— dc22 2006103363 Printed in the United States of America Book design by Robert Overholtzer mp 10 987654321 "Love, Fear, and Witnessing" by Linda Lear. Copyright © 2007 by Linda Lear. Reprinted by permission ...
Rachel Carson: Pioneer of Environmentalism

Rachel Carson: Pioneer of Environmentalism

Scott Gillam

Linda Lear. Rachel Carson: WitnessforNature. New York, NY: Henry Holt, 1997. 227. 4. Rachel Carson. Silent Spring. 40th anniversary ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. 297. 5. Linda Lear. Rachel Carson: WitnessforNature. New York ...
The Florida State Constitution

The Florida State Constitution

Talbot D'Alemberte

Jerrell H. Shofner, Custom, Law, and History: The Enduring Influence of Florida's “Black Code,” 55 Fla. Hist. Q. 277–98 (Jan. 1977). Jerrell H. Shofner, A Note on Governor George F. Drew, 48 Fla. Hist. Q. 412–14 (April 1970). Jerrell H. Shofner  ...
Lethal Punishment: Lynchings and Legal Executions in the South

Lethal Punishment: Lynchings and Legal Executions in the South

Margaret Vandiver

Jerrell H. Shofner, Nor Is It Over Yet: Florida in the Era of Reconstruction, 1863– 1877 (Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1974), 88. Jacksonville Journal, July 15, 1927, 5. Jerrell H. Shofner, “Judge Herbert Rider and the Lynching at ...
Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, ...

Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, ...

Roy Jr. Morris

Governor Marcellus Stearns charged: Jerrell H. Shofner, Nor is it Over Yet: Florida in the Era of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 (Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1974), p. 316. the city was so quiet: Jerrell H. Shofner, “Florida in the ...
Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres: A Reader's Guide

Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres: A Reader's Guide

Susan Elizabeth Farrell

In A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley transplants the tragedy of King Lear to the Cook family farm in Zebulon County, Iowa, in 1979. The Lear story is retold through the eyes of Lear's oldest daughter, Goneril, who, in the Shakespeare play, is one ...
Aristotle: The Desire to Understand

Aristotle: The Desire to Understand

Jonathan Lear

This is a philosophical introduction to Aristotle, and Professor Lear starts where Aristotle himself started.
Aristotle and Logical Theory

Aristotle and Logical Theory

Jonathan Lear

Dr Lear explores Aristotle's philosophy of logic through logical consequence, validity and proof.
William Shakespeare: 'King Lear'

William Shakespeare: 'King Lear'

John Lennard

This book aims to introduce students (including those with little or no prior experience of the field) to the worlds of Shakespeare and his theatre revealed in King Lear.
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature

Linda Lear

This captivating biography brings us the passionate, unconventional woman behind the beloved stories: a gifted artist and shrewd businesswoman; a pioneering scientific researcher; a powerful landowner who conserved acres of Lakeland ...
Wisdom Won from Illness

Wisdom Won from Illness

Jonathan Lear

Can reason absorb the psyche’s nonrational elements into a conception of the fully realized human being? Without a good answer to that question, Jonathan Lear says, philosophy is cut from its moorings in human life.
Beatrix Potter: The Extraordinary Life of a Victorian Genius

Beatrix Potter: The Extraordinary Life of a Victorian Genius

Linda Lear

This captivating biography brings us the passionate, unconventional woman behind the beloved stories: a gifted artist and shrewd businesswoman; a pioneering scientific researcher; a powerful landowner who conserved acres of Lakeland ...
A Case for Irony

A Case for Irony

Jonathan Lear

Joan Didion has lamented that Obama’s United States is an “irony-free zone." Here Jonathan Lear argues that irony is one of the tools we use to live seriously, to get the hang of becoming human.
Freud

Freud

Jonathan Lear

Jonathan Lear clearly introduces and assesses all of Freud's thought, focusing on those areas of philosophy on which Freud is acknowledged to have had a lasting impact.
Love and Its Place in Nature: A Philosophical Interpretation ...

Love and Its Place in Nature: A Philosophical Interpretation ...

Jonathan Lear

"Jonathan Lear has shown us both Freuds texts and his subject matter from a new angle of vision, one that renders much recent controversy about psychoanalytic theory irrelevant. For any student of those texts this book is indispensable.
Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life

Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life

Jonathan Lear

But if, with Jonathan Lear, we scrutinize these thinkers' attempts to explain human behavior in terms of a higher principle--whether happiness or death--the pictures fall apart.
Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature

Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature

Linda Lear

This definitive, sweeping biography shows the origins of Carson's fierce dedication to natural science--and tells the dramatic story of how Carson, already a famous nature writer, became a brillant if reluctant reformer.
Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark ...

Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark ...

Chris Lear

What they managed to achieve in the face of such adversity is the stuff of legend and glory. In Running with the Buffaloes, writer Chris Lear follows the University of Colorado cross country team during one unforgettable NCAA season.
The Natural History of Edward Lear (1812-1888)

The Natural History of Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Robert McCracken Peck

In that golden age of colour-plate books, an era still celebrated for the great volumes created by John James Audubon and John Gould, Lear created some of the most spectacular natural history illustrations ever published.
Midnight Amethyst

Midnight Amethyst

Linda Austin

Linda Austin. Linda Austin Copyright © 2014 by Linda Austin. Library of Congress Control.
Linda's Summer Kitchen

Linda's Summer Kitchen

Linda McCartney

Taking 100 recipes from Linda's Kitchen, this vegetarian cookbook presents lighter dishes for warm summer days and al fresco dining. The seasonal selection is illustrated throughout.
The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies

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Linda Kalof, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Animal Studies Program Linda Kalof ... Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Kalof, Linda, editor. Title: The Oxford handbook of animal studies / [edited by] Linda ...
Proceedings of the ... Representative Assembly

Proceedings of the ... Representative Assembly

National Education Association of the United States. Representative Assembly

I would like to yield to Linda Bacon at Mike 2. President Chase: Microphone 2, Linda Bacon. Linda Bacon (Florida): Thank you, President Chase. Linda Bacon from Florida, speaking for the delegation. Delegates, this item is simple and it helps ...

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