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Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern ...

Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern ...

Joseph Kip Kosek

Richard B. Gregg to Mary Van Kleek, March 17, 1936, Gregg Papers. 65. Richard B. Gregg to W. E. B. Du Bois, November 19, 1926, Reel 18, Du Bois Papers; and Richard B. Gregg to W. E. B. Du Bois, July 24, 1928, Reel 25, Du Bois Papers.
The Power of Non-Violence

The Power of Non-Violence

Richard B. Gregg

The idea of non-violence (passive-resistance) has always seemed beautiful but too good to be true. As a practical proposition it arouses scepticism and ridicule. But Mr Gregg is strangely convincing.
The Value of Voluntary Simplicity

The Value of Voluntary Simplicity

Richard B. Gregg

In turn Gregg was an influence on figures such as Martin Luther King Jr and Aldous Huxley. His book The Value of Voluntary Simplicity is a philosophical essay on the reasons for and benefits of living more simply.
An American in Gandhi's India: The Biography of Satyanand Stokes

An American in Gandhi's India: The Biography of Satyanand Stokes

Asha Sharma

3. Stokes to Florence S., 6 May 1925. 4. Stokes to Florence S., 1 December 1924. 5. Richard B. Gregg to Florence S., June 1926, Stokes Papers. 6. Interview with Fazl-ud-Din Ali. 7. Richard Gregg to Florence S., 11 July 1925, Stokes Papers. 8.
The Substance of Things Hoped For, the Evidence of Things ...

The Substance of Things Hoped For, the Evidence of Things ...

Rhonda Mawhood Lee

For a discussion of Gregg's importance to FOR and to Martin Luther King, Jr., see Joseph Kip Kosek, “Richard Gregg, Mohandas Gandhi, and the Strategy of Nonviolence,” The Journal of American History 91 :4 (March 2005). King discussed ...
The Power of Non-Violence

The Power of Non-Violence

Richard B. Gregg

One of the classic treatises on pacifism.
Gun Control in the United States: A Reference Handbook, 2nd ...

Gun Control in the United States: A Reference Handbook, 2nd ...

Gregg Lee Carter

Gregg Lee Carter, 659–663. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. Kopel, David B. 2012b. “Product Liability Lawsuits.” In Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law, Vol. 2, ed. Gregg Lee Carter, 684–689.
Now That She's Gone

Now That She's Gone

Gregg Olsen

There’s only way to stop a killer as brutal, brilliant, and twisted as this: beat her at her own game… “The fifth Waterman and Stark thriller from the very talented Gregg Olsen . . . it’s truly a great read.” —Mystery Scene ...
Gregg Toland

Gregg Toland

Jesse Russell

Gregg Toland, A.S.C. (May 29, 1904 - September 28, 1948) was an American cinematographer noted for his innovative use of lighting and techniques such as deep focus, an example of which can be found in his work on Orson Welles' Citizen Kane.
Mysterious Journeys

Mysterious Journeys

Gary T. Brideau

Eyes red from crying, Yasu stared into Gregg's eyes and said, “Dad, no matter what happens, please don't abandon me.” “You have my word, as long as there is breath in me, I'll be by your side, night or day.” With that, Gregg kissed ...
Gifted Hands, Revised Kids Edition: The Ben Carson Story

Gifted Hands, Revised Kids Edition: The Ben Carson Story

Gregg Lewis

ZONDERKIDZ Gifted Hands, Revised Kids Edition Copyright © 2013 by Gregg Lewis and Deborah Shaw Lewis Requests for information should be addressed to: ... Rev. ed.of:Gifted hands. c2009. ... Lewis, Gregg, 1951– Gifted hands. III. Title.
Shared Stories, Rival Tellings: Early Encounters of Jews, ...

Shared Stories, Rival Tellings: Early Encounters of Jews, ...

Robert C. Gregg

Early Encounters of Jews, Christians, and Muslims Robert C. Gregg ... Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gregg, Robert C. Shared stories, rival tellings: early encounters of Jews, Christians, and Muslims / Robert C. Gregg.
Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory

Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory

B. Trezise

1–33, p. 2. Ibid., p. 2. Brian Massumi, Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002), p. 35. Italics in original. Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg, 'An Inventory of Shimmers' in Melissa Gregg ...
Republic of the Dispossessed: The Exceptional Old-European ...

Republic of the Dispossessed: The Exceptional Old-European ...

Rowland Berthoff

A Cement Company Town in the Land of Tom Sawyer GREGG ANDREWS Gregg Andrews weaves together labor, social, business, immigration, and environmental history to tell the very real story of the exploitations and eventual destruction ...
The Invention of the Beautiful Game: Football and the Making ...

The Invention of the Beautiful Game: Football and the Making ...

Gregg Bocketti

"In this cross-cutting cultural history, Gregg Bocketti traces the origins of soccer in Brazil from its elitist, Eurocentric identity as 'foot-ball' at the end of the nineteenth century to its subsequent mythologization as the specifically ...
Trauma Controversy, The: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary ...

Trauma Controversy, The: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary ...

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The chapters in this first section, by Gregg Horowitz, Sara Beardsworth, and Kristen Brown Golden, evince the necessity and fecundity of pluridiscipli- narity. By asking what sort of loss can be identified in the analysis of trauma, Gregg Horowitz ...
Heart of Ice

Heart of Ice

Gregg Olsen

. . Praise for Gregg Olsen: 'Olsen will have you on the edge of your seat' Lee Child 'Wickedly clever... twisted' Lisa Gardner 'Olsen is a top-notch writer' Michael Connelly 'Olsen keeps the tension taut and pages turning' Publishers Weekly
The Fear Collector

The Fear Collector

Gregg Olsen

Praise for Gregg Olsen: 'Olsen will have you on the edge of your seat' Lee Child 'Wickedly clever... twisted' Lisa Gardner 'Olsen is a top-notch writer' Michael Connelly 'Olsen keeps the tension taut and pages turning' Publishes Weekly

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