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Peter Matthiessen: An Annotated Bibliography
William H. RobersonThis is the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of English-language works by and about Peter Matthiessen, who is considered by many to be the foremost contemporary American nature writer.
Peter Matthiessen and Ecological Imagination
Intaek Oh"Peter Matthiessen and Ecological Imagination "offers an ecocritical reading of the Watson Trilogy "Killing Mister Watson" (1990), "Lost Man s River" (1997), and "Bone By Bone" (1999) which draws together themes Matthiessen has been ...
The Snow Leopard
Peter MatthiessenMatthiessen was a student of Zen Buddhism and for him this was as much an inner journey as a field trip. The resulting book is an extraordinary account of a 'true pilgrimage, a journey of the heart.
Killing Mister Watson
Peter MatthiessenDrawn from fragments of historical fact, Matthiessen's masterpiece brilliantly depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida Everglades around the turn of ...
Under The Mountain Wall
Peter MatthiessenIn Under the Mountain Wall Matthiessen illuminates the lives of the Kurelu's with respect and sympathy, capturing a culture untouched by civilisation and vanishing along with the wilderness lying beneath the dramatic peaks of the Snow ...
In The Spirit Of Crazy Horse
Peter MatthiessenWhen this book was first published it was immediately the subject of two $25 million-dollar legal actions that attempted to suppress it permanently.
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Peter MatthiessenSet in the South American jungle, this thriller follows the clash between two misplaced gringos--one who has come to convert the Indians to Christianity, and one who has been hired to kill them. Now the basis for a major motion picture.
In Paradise
Peter MatthiessenIn Paradise tells the story of a group of men and women who come together for a weeklong meditation retreat at the site of a World War II concentration camp, and the grief, rage and upsetting revelations that surface during their time ...
Blue Meridian
Peter MatthiessenBlue Meridian records the awesome experience of swimming in open water among hundreds of sharks, the beauties of strange seas and landscapes and the camaraderie, humour and tension of people who live in close proximity and risk their lives ...
The Cloud Forest
Peter MatthiessenThe Cloud Forest brings to vivid life a South American journey that took him from the Sargasso Sea to the jungles of Amazonia, from the Inca city of Machu Picchu high in the Andes to the bleak rocks of Tierra del Fuego and the winds and ...
Shadow Country
Peter MatthiessenInspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself to his ...
Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves
Brenda PetersonIn the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's Wildlife in America or Aldo Leopold, Brenda Peterson tells the 300-year history of wild wolves in America.
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977
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Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
Laurence J. PeterFrom the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
Dr. Laurence J. PeterFrom the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter
Robert SteinerSixty years after the original story, Wendy must face her fears and weaknesses and return to Neverland to rescue Peter from certain doom in this final and most touching chapter of the ever youthful legend of Peter Pan.
Before I Met You: A Novel
Lisa JewellPeter Lawler. He sounded like he might be a financial adviser. Or a solicitor. The intercom crackled, and the sound of an elderly lady's voice emerged. “Yes?” “Oh, hello. I'm looking for a Peter Lawler.” “Who?” “Peter Lawler.” “Peter Morler?” “No ...
Key Terms in Systemic Functional Linguistics
Christian MatthiessenMartin, James R. (1985) 'Process and text: two aspects of human semiosis', in James D. Benson & William S. Greaves (eds), Systemic Perspectives on Discourse. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex. pp. 248–274. Martin, James R. (1987) 'The meaning of ...
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong
Dr. Laurence J. PeterWith the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying ...
The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...
Paul Dickson280 Peter's Paradoxical Paradox of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to ... Peter's Theorem: Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. (Dr. LaurenceJ. Peter and Peter Hull, from their book ...
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Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis
Peter TurchinMany people provided extensive comments on previous book drafts, or draft chapters: Alan Berryman, Lev Ginzburg, Roger Nisbet, Peter Hudson, Alexei Sharov, Peter Kareiva, Mauricio Lima, Peter Abrams, Jason Matthiopoulos, Larry Mueller ...
Peter's Almanac
Laurence J. PeterProviding support and encouragement for enduring the occasional lunacy of modern life, Dr. Peter brings together, in the form of an almanac, a collection of appropriate adages, epigrams, one-liners, and little-known historical facts
God Had Me In His Hands All The Time
Willie M. GrahamPeter was Nan's nephew and Lulla's grandson. Peter was a baby when he came to live with Lulla. He was her only grandchild because Lulla only had one child, a son. Peter's mama didn't want him when he was born. They say Peter's mama told Peter's daddy, “I don't want no black baby and if you don't come and git th bastard I'm gonna git rid of him. I don't care what you do wit him you can throw him in th river forwhatIcare. Jes git him away from me.” Dey say she was white or half ...
Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...
Jack J. GibsonJohn Strazicich writes: The apostle (Peter) does not yet understand the universalistic interpretation of 110;"53. It is obvious that, for him, 'all flesh' has a distinctive Jewish interpretation, since on the Day of Pentecost he is addressing his own ...
Peter Hujar: a retrospective
Peter HujarPeter Hujar, a New Yorker of Ukrainian descent, died of AIDS in 1987.
James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions
PreviewThe author of 2 Peter is no exception to that rule as he evokes the gospel tradition as a source of reliable testimony which ... Philosophical Quarterly 47 ( 1997), pp.227–32; Peter Lipton, 'The Epistemology of Testimony', Studies in History and ...
In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...
Josh FrankMaybe we'll lunch at the Harvard Club on me—Thanks, Alan, say hi to Fam— Love, Peter Peter set his head down on the table ... He had written a letter to Alan Siegal with an update about the recent developments with his screen-writing and ...
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