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The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent

The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent

Walter Laqueur

The Last Days of Europe explores how a massive influx from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East has loaded Europe with a burgeoning population of immigrants, many of whom have no wish to be integrated into European societies but make full use ...
Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh; viz. Maxims of State. Advice ...

Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh; viz. Maxims of State. Advice ...

Sir Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh. The Table of the Chapters contained in Sir Walter Ralezgh's lnsttuctions to his Son. Vlrtuau: Person: to be made ehaiebctgf for friend' si' 60 Great eare to be had in the chafing of a Mfe 62 Men ha-ve been abased by ...
Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter ...

Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter ...

Walter Goodwin Davis

Gardner-Moses Walter Goodwin Davis, Gary Boyd Roberts ... is written before the fact, the proof will have been read by Miss Sybil Noyes and will benefit from her careful and intelligent criticism. Walter Goodwin Davis Portland, Maine May 8 ...
Transactions of the Annual Session of the Peninsula ...

Transactions of the Annual Session of the Peninsula ...

Peninsula Horticultural Society

General Display— First, Walter B. Harris, Worton, Md $200.00 Single Box, Special— First, Walter B. Harris 50.00 Single Box— First, Walter B. Harris 25.00 Second, Wine & Garber, Woodside, Del 15.00 Three Boxes— First, Walter B. Harris ...
Walter's War: Memoirs of the Great War 1914-1918

Walter's War: Memoirs of the Great War 1914-1918

Walter E. Young

'Walter's War' is one such book. Written without the knowledge of his family and not discovered till after his death, this is the account of an ordinary soldier, who was awarded the Military Medal.
Walter B. Gibson and the Shadow

Walter B. Gibson and the Shadow

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30. Walter B. Gibson, personal papers. 31. Bernard A. Drew, ed., "Walter Gibson's Magicians/'Affic Revivals (1982): 1, 8. 32. Bernard A. Drew, "The Turn-ons of Yesteryear." 33. Will Murray, "Out of the Shadows— Walter Gibson." 34. Rex Miller.
Iris and Walter: True Friends

Iris and Walter: True Friends

Elissa Haden Guest

Walter shows Iris how to make friends with his horse, Rain, and in turn, Iris helps Walter deal with a problem at school.
Iris and Walter: True friends

Iris and Walter: True friends

Elissa Haden Guest

Walter shows Iris how to make friends with his horse Rain, and in turn, Iris helps Walter deal with a problem at school.
Iris and Walter: True Friends

Iris and Walter: True Friends

Elissa Haden Guest

Walter shows Iris how to make friends with his horse Rain, and in turn, Iris helps Walter deal with a problem at school.
Verdi, Opera, Women

Verdi, Opera, Women

Susan Rutherford

The question of the prevalence of female orgasm in rape is still disputed today – see Elisabeth Anne Lloyd, The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005), 85. Laqueur ...
The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin

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2. Art. forms. Jan Mieszkowski Film today articulates all problems of modern formgiving . . . Walter Benjamin, Arcades It is a foregone conclusion for me that there is no such thing as art history. Walter Benjamin, Letter to F. C. Rang Scarcely any ...
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains

The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains

Thomas W. Laqueur

A case was brought against escott in the name of Frederick George Mastin, a Methodist class leader in Gedney, and made its way to the Court of Arches. There escott lost on more or less the same grounds that Wickes had lost. The court this  ...
Humanitarian Photography

Humanitarian Photography

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5 See the important work of Thomas Haskell, Karen Halttunen, Thomas Laqueur, Lynn Hunt, Lynn Festa, Elizabeth Clark, ... Julia Adeney Thomas (“The Evidence of Sight”) has written insightfully on the use of photos as historical evidence.
The Lasalle Quartet: Conversations with Walter Levin

The Lasalle Quartet: Conversations with Walter Levin

Robert Spruytenburg

26 5 Richard Kapuscinski, Frank Pelleg, Erich Levin (Walter Levin's uncle), Rudolf Bergmann, Walter Levin, Ernst ... German emigrants were often derided by the prior generations of immigrants as yekkes (from German Jacke: 'jacket') for their ...
Iris and Walter and the Field Trip

Iris and Walter and the Field Trip

Elissa Haden Guest

When best friends Iris and Walter go on a field trip to an aquarium, Walter gets lost and a worried Iris helps Miss Cherry look for him.
Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home

Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home

Walter Cronkite

" Illustrated with heartwarming photos of Walter and Betsy Cronkite during the war from the family collection, the book is edited by Cronkite's grandson, CBS associate producer Walter Cronkite IV, and esteemed historian Maurice Isserman, ...
American poetry

American poetry

Walter Bates Rideout

Gay Wilson Allen, Walter Bates Rideout James K. Robinson ... Walter B. Rideout: Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, William Vaughn Moody, Ezra Pound, T. S. ...
Legacy: A Biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg

Legacy: A Biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg

Chris Ogden

"Moses and Walter Annenberg built a vast publishing empire and one of the nation's greatest family fortunes. ... [Eventually Walter] sold his publishing empire to Rupert Murdoch and began giving away the proceeds to improve U.S. education.
SAO Special Report

SAO Special Report

Walter Köhnlein

Walter Köhnlein. SAO Special Report No. 216 ON THE GRADIENT LINE OF THE EARTH'S ZONAL GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL Walter Kohnlein 63 ,/ Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory Cambridge, Massachusetts 0Z138 ...
The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern ...

The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern ...

Helen King

This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud through a detailed exploration of the ways in which two classical stories of sexual difference were told, retold and remade ...
Walter Rodney's Intellectual and Political Thought

Walter Rodney's Intellectual and Political Thought

Rupert Lewis

Placing Rodney's work in the larger tradition of West Indian involvement with continental Africa, Walter Rodney's Intellectual and Political Thought traces the evolution of Walter Rodney's political ideas through biography, analysis of his ...
C.U. News

C.U. News

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GARY HANDMAN APPOINTED TOWNSEND FELLOW Professor Tom Laqueur has appointed Gary Handman as the first Townsend Fellow from the Library. This is one of the best kinds of "fellows" to be. Duties include participating in the ...
The Rebel Box Set:

The Rebel Box Set:

Chrissy Peebles

Walter's gonna be devastated. He loved that girl.” “She couldn't have gone too far ,” Chad said, “but maybe we oughtta just let her go. She'll never survive out there, and she's a whole lot more trouble than Carla. Walter will never break her, not ...
Antitrust, the Market and the State: Contributions of Walter ...

Antitrust, the Market and the State: Contributions of Walter ...

James W. Brock

Contributions of Walter Adams James W. Brock, Kenneth G. Elzinga. (1951).] See also riposte by Walter Adams, "The 'Rule of Reason': Workable Competition or Workable Monopoly?" Yale Law Journal, pp. 348-370 (1954). 4. Federal Role in  ...
Walter, the Farting Dog

Walter, the Farting Dog

William Kotzwinkle

Walter the dog creates problems with his farts but becomes a hero when burglars enter the house.
Walter Scott and the Limits of Language

Walter Scott and the Limits of Language

Alison Lumsden

Notes 1 Jane Millgate, Walter Scott: The Making of the Novelist (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984), p. 153. 2 David Hewitt and Alison Lumsden, ' Historical Note', The Heart of Mid- Lothian, p. 596. 3 Jane Millgate, Walter Scott: The ...
Hitler's Intelligence Chief: Walter Schellenberg: Walter ...

Hitler's Intelligence Chief: Walter Schellenberg: Walter ...

Reinhard R. Doerries

By a world renowned specialist in intelligence history. The best and definitive book on the subject.

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