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This Life, This World: New Essays on Marilynne Robinson’s ...
PreviewFassler, Joe. “Marilynne Robinson on Democracy, Reading, and Religion in America.” The Atlantic (May 16, 2012). n. pag. Web. 11 Aug. 2014. Fay, Sarah. “ Marilynne Robinson: The Art of Fiction No. 198.” Paris Review 186 (Fall 2008): 37–66.
Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and ...
Marilynne K. RoachSix Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials.
Contesting Christendom: Readings in Medieval Religion and ...
PreviewRoach. Historians have long debated the appearance of significant dissident and heretical groups in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The most ... The following selection by Andrew P. Roach is a good example of this point of view. Roach ...
The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-day Chronicle of a ...
Marilynne K. RoachThe Salem Witch Trials is based on over twenty-five years of archival research--including the author's discovery of previously unknown documents--newly found cases and court records.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary RoachMary Roach's Stiff lifts the lid off what happens to our bodies once we have died. Bold, original and with a delightful eye for detail, Roach tells us everything we wanted to know about this new frontier in medical science.
Lila
Marilynne RobinsonRevisiting the beloved characters and setting of Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead and Orange Prize-winning Home, Lila is a moving expression of the mysteries of existence.
A Study Guide for Marilynne Robinson's "Gilead"
Gale, Cengage LearningGilead by Marilynne Robinson was published in 2004 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, amid widespread acclaim. This epistolary novel presents a sympathetic portrait of Reverend John Ames, who writes about his life and his ...
Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife
Mary RoachAlong the way she encounters electromagnetic hauntings, out-of-body experiences, ghosts and lawsuits: Mary Roach sifts and weighs the evidence in her hilarious, inimitable style.
Zoological Catalogue of Australia:
James K. Lowry... A.M.E. Roach DERMAPTERA by G. Cassis PHASMATODEA by J. Balderson, D.C.F. Rentz & A.M.E. Roach EMBIOPTERA by G. Cassis ZORAPTERA by T.R. New Published 2 September 1998 24 ORTHOPTERA 24.1 Ensifera 24.2 Caelifera ...
Bonk: The Curious Coupling Of Sex And Science
Mary RoachFew things are as fundamental to human happiness as sex, and few writers are as entertaining about the subject as Mary Roach.
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Mary Roach" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we ...
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Mary RoachMary Roach shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm-two of the most complex, delightful, and amazing scientific phenomena on earth-can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to make the bedroom a more satisfying place.
Crustacea: Malacostraca : Phyllocardia, Hoplocardia, Eucarida
Preview... D.C.F. Rentz & A.M.E. Roach DERMAPTERA by G. Cassis PHASMATODEA by J. Balderson, D.C.F. Rentz & A.M.E. Roach EMBIOPTERA by G. Cassis ZORAPTERA by T.R. New Published 2 September 1998 24 ORTHOPTERA 24.l Ensifera ...
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Mary RoachIn this international bestseller, Mary Roach breaks bread with spit connoisseurs, beer and pet-food tasters, stomach slugs, potato crisp engineers, enema exorcists, rectum-examining prison guards, competitive hot dog eaters, Elvis' doctor, ...
Zoological Catalogue of Australia
P. J. F. Davie... J. Balderson, D.C.F. Rentz & A.M.E. Roach DERMAPTERA by G. Cassis PHASMATODEA by J. Balderson, D.C.F. Rentz & A.M.E. Roach KMBIOPTERA by G. Cassis ZORAPTERA by T.R. New Published 2 September 1998 24 ORTHOPTERA ...
Hemiptera
Gerasimos CassisBalderson, D.C.F. Rentz & A.M.E. Roach DERMAPTERA by G. Cassis PHASMATODEA by J. Balderson, D.C.F. Rentz & A.M.E. Roach EMB1OPTERA by G. Cassis ZORAPTERA by T.R. New Published 2 September 1998 24 ORTHOPTERA ...
The Warren Companion: The Definitive Compendium to the Great ...
David A. RoachThe Definitive Compendium to the Great Comics of Warren Publishing David A. Roach, Jon B. Cooke .... By the late '50s, Fleetway Publications like Valentine, Mirabelle, Roxy, and Marilyn were almost entirely Spanish-drawn, and S.I. was ...
Home
Marilynne RobinsonNow comes HOME, a deeply affecting novel that takes place in the same period and same Iowa town of Gilead. This is Jack's story.
The Givenness of Things: Essays
Marilynne RobinsonThese seventeen essays examine the ideas that have inspired and provoked one of our finest writers throughout her life.
Gilead
Marilynne RobinsonYou might not share its faith, but it is difficult not to be awed moved and ultimately humbled by the spiritual effulgence that lights up the novel from within' Neel Mukherjee, The Times 'Writing of this quality, with an authority as ...
When I Was A Child I Read Books
Marilynne RobinsonClear-eyed, eloquent and profoundly insightful, with these essays Robinson demonstrates once again why she is one of our best-loved writers. 'Like Wollstonecraft, Robinson's intellect is threatening.
Drowning in Rational Discourse: Strategies of Survival in ...
PreviewI will then investigate the ways in which women negotiate rationality both within and beyond the social structure through analysis of Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, and Louise Erdrich's Tracks. Introduction ...
Housekeeping
Marilynne RobinsonFrom the Orange Prize winning author of Home Acclaimed on publication as a contemporary classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphansgrowing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America.
A Political Companion to Marilynne Robinson
PreviewFrom an exploration of the democratic potential in being a "housekeeper of homelessness" to a study of models of action against racial injustice, this volume provides fascinating new insights into Robinson's work and how it reflects and ...
The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought
Marilynne RobinsonTen essays explore a range of social, political, religious, and cultural issues of the present day, sharing the author's thoughts on Darwinism, McGuffey readers, and the religious right.
Grunt
Mary RoachBeyond weapons and strategy, this is about the other side of war – how scientists protect soldiers from panic, exhaustion, heat and noise.
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