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My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred ...

My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred ...

Marsden Hartley

A collection of correspondence between American artist Marsden Hartley and avant-grade impresario and photographer Alfred Stieglitz, this work chronicles the painter's three-year-plus European pilgrimage before and during the inception of ...
The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment

The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment

William L. Garrison

PrimaryVictor GeneralElectionVictor Bud Heidgerken656 (13A-Freeport) Retired Paul Anderson (R) Rod Hamilton657 (22B-Mountain Lake) Rod Hamilton Rod Hamilton Rod Hamilton (R) Ron Erhardt658 (41A-Edina) Keith Downey Keith ...
Dear Miffy

Dear Miffy

John Marsden

Telling powerful stories has become the hallmark of John Marsden's writing. But even John Marsden has never written a book as powerful and gutsy as Dear Miffy. [Contents may offend some readers]
Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation

Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation

Donna Cassidy

A provocative new reading of the great American avant-garde arist Marsden Hartley's late work.
Trout from Small Streams

Trout from Small Streams

Dave Hughes

Dean Jones, a bamboo rod maker who inherited the planing forms and knowledge of fivestrip builder Frank Wire, brought a rod to a workshop on aquatic insect hatches that Rick Hafele and I taught together. I cast the rod in another parking lot ...
The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship

The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship

George M. Marsden

In this book, Marsden argues forcefully that mainstream American higher education needs to be more open to explicit expressions of faith and to accept what faith means in an intellectual context.
The Tomorrow Series: The Dead of the Night

The Tomorrow Series: The Dead of the Night

John Marsden

John Marsden. Chapter. Four. Homer was quite impressed tohearthat wewere so wellknown, so notorious. 'Let's showthem we're still in business,' hesaid, smiling his slowest, most dangerous smile. Ishivered slightly. Despite my murderous ...
The Tomorrow Series: Darkness Be My Friend

The Tomorrow Series: Darkness Be My Friend

John Marsden

John Marsden. at all. Instead I had to struggle to get upright. True to form, I was not the athletic jungle fighter but still the awkward koala. Nothing had changed. When Idid manage togetmy balance I crouched onmy haunches to take agood look ...
John Marsden: Darkness, Shadow, and Light

John Marsden: Darkness, Shadow, and Light

John Noell Moore

Throughout the book, Moore weaves together Marsden's recurring themes, chief among them writing and storytelling as ways of constructing identity in the transition from childhood to adulthood and the ability of young adults to endure ...
Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism

Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism

George Marsden

Presenting a historical overview of fundamentalism and evangelicalism in America, this volume has been developed from a number of studies undertaken by George Marsden during the 1980's in efforts to understand the recent resurgence of these ...
The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and ...

The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and ...

George Marsden

As award-winning historian George M. Marsden explains in The Twilight of the American Enlightenment, postwar Americans looked to the country’s secular, liberal elites for guidance in this precarious time, but these intellectuals proved ...
Sports hero: Rod Carew

Sports hero: Rod Carew

Marshall Burchard

A biography of an outstanding hitter in the major leagues, the Minnesota Twins' Rod Carew.
Rod Stewart: The New Biography

Rod Stewart: The New Biography

Tim Ewbank

An account of the life and career of Rod Stewart.
Paintings of Pueblo Indians and the Politics of Preservation ...

Paintings of Pueblo Indians and the Politics of Preservation ...

Sascha T. Scott

... Randall Griffey, would like to extend a discussion of Hartley's work beyond a presumed inherent homoeroticism. See Randall Griffey, “Encoding the Homoerotic: Marsden Hartley's Late Figure Paintings,” in Kornhauser, ed., Marsden Hartley, ...
Do It Yourself Bonefishing

Do It Yourself Bonefishing

Rod Hamilton

They inhabit shallow waters close to the shore and pose a challenge to even the most experienced fisherman, though they are seldom eaten. This book explains all you need to know about bonefishing, whether you use a fly rod or spinning gear.
Marsden Hartley's Maine

Marsden Hartley's Maine

Donna Cassidy

"This catalogue is published in conjunction with "Marsden Hartley's Maine, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from March 14 through June 18, 2017, and at Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, from July 8 through ...
The Education of a Tennis Player

The Education of a Tennis Player

Rod Laver

This is Rod Laver's first-hand account of his historic 1969 Grand Slam sweep of all four major tennis titles.
The Pilgrim Chronicles: An Eyewitness History of the ...

The Pilgrim Chronicles: An Eyewitness History of the ...

Rod Gragg

Award-winning historian Rod Gragg brings the Pilgrims to life in this lavishly illustrated guide, filled with moving, eyewitness narratives.
Hot Rod Hamster

Hot Rod Hamster

Cynthia Lord

A hamster, with the help of a canine junkyard dealer and his mouse assistants, builds a hot rod and drives it in a race against some very large dogs. By the author of the Newbery Honor book, Rules.
Black on Blue 1948-2013: Continuing the Rich Tradition of ...

Black on Blue 1948-2013: Continuing the Rich Tradition of ...

Rod Hamilton

Winston Churchill once described the part-time soldier as ?twice the citizen'.In this easy to read but factual account of the 9th Battalion, The Royal Queensland Regiment, author Rod Hamilton has told the story of the soldiers and their ...
Outback Heart

Outback Heart

Joanne Van Os

The powerful true story of life with Rod Ansell, known by many as 'the original Crocodile Dundee'. Joanne van Os was just twenty-two when she met Rod Ansell.
How to Build Hot Rod Chassis

How to Build Hot Rod Chassis

Timothy Remus

Remus shows you what goes on in a variety of chassis shops to offer a well-rounded look at your hot rod's most important asset-the foundation.
Rod Laver: An autobiography

Rod Laver: An autobiography

Rod Laver

I also pay tribute to their wives: Helen Cooper, Joy Emerson, Thea Neale, Jenny Hoad, Angie Newcombe, Sue Roche, Wilma Rosewall, Jean Sedgman and Pat Stolle. A cheer, too, to nonAussies Charlie and Shireen Pasarell, Butch and ...
Hot Rod Hamster and the Awesome ATV Adventure!

Hot Rod Hamster and the Awesome ATV Adventure!

Cynthia Lord

With the same bouncing rhythms, fun choices, and daredevil antics that make the acclaimed picture books sparkle, these Level 2 readers will be a sturdy stepping-stone for Hot Rod Hamster fans and series newcomers alike as they move on to ...
Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First ...

Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First ...

Steven A. Riess

Lucsko, David N. The Business of Speed: The Hot Rod Industry in America, 1915 –1990. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Moorhouse, H.F. Driving Ambitions: A Social Analysis of the American Hot Rod Enthusiasm. New York: ...
Fly-Fishing the Yucatan

Fly-Fishing the Yucatan

Rod Hamilton

In Fly Fishing the Yucatan, Rod Hamilton offers nitty gritty specifics for the angler, including details such as exactly what rods, lines, reels and flies are must-haves, a battle plan for walking a flat and a course in presenting to and ...
Splitting Cane: Conversations with Bamboo Rodmakers

Splitting Cane: Conversations with Bamboo Rodmakers

Ed Engle

This is the best kind of book: one that grew naturally out of the author's interest, knowledge, and enthusiasm." --John Gierach "Reading each chapter of Splitting Cane is much like opening a rod tube containing a fine bamboo rod.

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