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The Recruit

The Recruit

Maurice Valency

Eighteen-year-old Moshe Valency decides to quit school and enlist in the army.
Conversation with a Sphinx: A Play in One Act

Conversation with a Sphinx: A Play in One Act

Maurice Valency

THE STORY: The scene is a mountain pass in ancient Greece, on the road to Thebes.
Tragedy

Tragedy

Maurice Valency

This introduction to Greek tragedy, the origin of much of our modern drama, is the work of a remarkable scholar who is also a practical man of theater.
Ashby

Ashby

Maurice Valency

Ashby, an artist and confidence man during the thirties, seems only to care for money, but idealistically joins the Civil War in Spain
The Thracian Horses

The Thracian Horses

Maurice Valency

THE STORY: Howard Taubman's description of At the outset he shows us the radiant Alcestis greeting King Admetus, her husband, returned from the wars after another victory.
Julie: A Novel

Julie: A Novel

Maurice Valency

The narrator, an English professor, begins an affair with Julie, a twenty-five-year-old graduate student, but she seems more interested in Ashby, his artist friend
Feathertop: A Play in One Act

Feathertop: A Play in One Act

Maurice Valency

THE STORY: In the sinister recesses of her kitchen, Mother Rigby, the witch, fashions a scarecrow and then, christening him Lord Feathertop, she sends the scarecrow off to the house of Judge Gookin, a rich and haughty man who has repeatedly ...
The End of School Reform

The End of School Reform

Maurice R. Berube

Allen, Dwight to Maurice R. Berube, e-mail, November 8, 2004. Apple, Michael to Maurice R. Berube, e-mail, December, 18, 2004. Aronowitz, Stanley to Maurice R . Berube, e-mail, November 22, 2004- Berube Maurice R. Interview with Fred ...
Barthes: A Biography

Barthes: A Biography

Tiphaine Samoyault

(letters to Maurice Pinguet, 10 November and 2 December 1967, Fonds Maurice Pinguet, IMEC). 95. Letter to Maurice Pinguet, 8 April 1967. Barthes wrote this letter straight after he had got back from his second trip. 96. Letter to Maurice ...
Maurice Dobb: Political Economist

Maurice Dobb: Political Economist

T. Shenk

Dobb, Political Economy, 337–8;Maurice Dobb, “Economic Planning in the Soviet Union,” Science and Society6.4(Fall 1942), 305. 67. “Aspects,” DD75. 68. Quoted in Laybournand Murphy,Red Flag, 107. 69. Maurice Dobb, “Socialist ...
The Theology of F. D. Maurice

The Theology of F. D. Maurice

Alec Vidler

An examination of the work of 19th-century English Christian socialist and theologian F.D. Maurice.
The Encyclopedia of Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary ...

The Encyclopedia of Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary ...

Maurice Rickards

A Guide to the Fragmentary Documents of Everyday Life for the Collector, Curator , and Historian Maurice Rickards Michael Twyman. Editor's introduction This encyclopedia is essentially the work of Maurice Rickards, whose death in 1998 after ...
The Idealist Illusion and Other Essays: Translation and ...

The Idealist Illusion and Other Essays: Translation and ...

Maurice Blondel

Translation and Introduction by Fiachra Long, Annotations by Fiachra Long and Claude Troisfontaines Maurice Blondel. APPENDIX Chronological List of Main Books and Articles written on Maurice Blondel or containing significant reference to ...
Radical Reformers: The Influence of the Left in American ...

Radical Reformers: The Influence of the Left in American ...

Maurice R. Berube

The Influence of the Left in American Education Maurice R. Berube ... and the Politics of the Curriculum 75 8. Conclusion: The End of Educational History 89 References 101 Index 107 For my lovely son, John Maurice Berube, born December 27,
Maurice

Maurice

E M Forster

As Maurice Hall makes his way through a traditional English education, he projects an outer confidence that masks troubling questions about his own identity.
Handbook of Israel: Major Debates

Handbook of Israel: Major Debates

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Roumani, Maurice M. “The Military, Ethnicity, and Integration in Israel – Revisited. ” In Ethnicity, Integration, and the Military, edited by Henry Dietz, Jerrold Elkin, and Maurice Roumani, 51–80. Boulder: Westview Press, 1991. Roumani, Maurice ...
Papers on Capitalism, Development and Planning

Papers on Capitalism, Development and Planning

Maurice Dobb

This volume consists of lectures and articles by Maurice Dobb selected from among those delivered or written by him during the 1950s and 60s.
Studies in Medieval History Presented to Frederick Maurice ...

Studies in Medieval History Presented to Frederick Maurice ...

Richard William Hunt

A group of essays on medieval England collected and published to honor Sir Maurice Powicke.
Fred Wilson: objects and installations 1979-2000

Fred Wilson: objects and installations 1979-2000

Maurice Berger

Edited by John Alan Farmer and Antonia Gardner. Essays by Maurice Berger, Jennifer Gonzalez.
Halfmen Of O

Halfmen Of O

Maurice Gee

From the multi-award-winning author, Maurice Gee.
Culture, savoirs et sociétés dans l’Antiquité

Culture, savoirs et sociétés dans l’Antiquité

Maurice Sartre

Sous la plume à la fois vivante et érudite de Maurice Sartre, faits de civilisation, habitudes culturelles, aspects religieux reçoivent de nouveaux éclairages.
Peacemaking in the twenty-first century

Peacemaking in the twenty-first century

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Dr Maurice Hayes Introduction When Maurice Hayes lectured on 'Moving out of conflict' on 4 June 2007, his title seemed especially apt, since the devolved administration which had come into existence as a result of the St Andrews Agreement ...

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