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Erez Natanblut Queen's University Kingston, Canada Andrea Wilson Nightingale, Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2004, x+311 pages, Hardback $75.00. Andrea Wilson Nightingale's Spectacles ...
Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy

Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy

Andrea Wilson Nightingale

This 1995 book takes as its starting point Plato's incorporation of specific genres of poetry and rhetoric into his dialogues.
Plato As Author: The Rhetoric of Philosophy

Plato As Author: The Rhetoric of Philosophy

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SUBTEXT AND SUBTERFUGE IN PLATO'S CRATTLUS Andrea Wilson Nightingale The Cratylus is a curiously evasive dialogue: purporting to discuss names and, by extension, human speech, the text is often silent when we would most like it ...
Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy: Theoria ...

Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy: Theoria ...

Andrea Wilson Nightingale

This book examines the philosophic appropriation and transformation of theoria, and analyses the competing conceptions of theoretical wisdom in fourth-century philosophy.
The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece

The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece

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7; THE PHILosoPHERs IN ARCHAIC GREEK CULTURE Andrea Wilson Nightingale n his Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Hegel claims that there is a paradox inherent in the very notion ofa “history ofphilosophy”: The thought which may ...
Earthographies: ecocriticism and culture

Earthographies: ecocriticism and culture

Wendy Wheeler

Andrea Wilson Nightingale, Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy: Theoria in its Cultural Context, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004, p268. ordinary dimension: the small causes and their large effects.' Does such an  ...
Florence Nightingale on Social Change in India: Collected ...

Florence Nightingale on Social Change in India: Collected ...

Florence Nightingale

Jharna Gourlay''s highly positive assessment of her work pitted the progressive Nightingale against the timid administrators and health officers.15 Here, instead, I prefer to examine Nightingale''s achievements in the light of the objectives she set for herself. Her work, of course, was always done with collaborators, so what contributions can be said to have been distinctly Nightingale''s will be a matter of judgment. In some respects she was clearly the leader and initiator of action, bringing ...
Literature in the Greek World

Literature in the Greek World

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... evidence for the shadowy figures who are counted as early philosophers, we must remember that 138 | SAGES, SOPHlSTS, AND PHlLOSOPHERS Sages, sophists, and philosophers: Greek wisdom literature Andrea Wilson Nightingale.
The Rebirth of Dialogue: Bakhtin, Socrates, and the ...

The Rebirth of Dialogue: Bakhtin, Socrates, and the ...

James Philip Zappen

Andrea Wilson Nightingale and Robert Wardy observe Socrates' insistence that his art of dialogue is the only "true political art" since his art alone is capable of improving people's lives.41 Brickhouse and Smith and Penner explain the Socratic ...
Florence Nightingale on Health in India: Collected Works of ...

Florence Nightingale on Health in India: Collected Works of ...

Florence Nightingale

As this Collected Works goes to print there has been only one full-length book on the subject, Jharna Gourlay''s Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj. Barbara Dossey gives one chapter to India in her excellent book on Nightingale as a “visionary.”42 Yet there is no lack of primary material. Of the daunting amount of articles, letters and reports Nightingale wrote, often with lengthy and sometimes several drafts, only a small amount has heretofore been published. Hence the ...
Florence Nightingale on Health in India: Collected Works of ...

Florence Nightingale on Health in India: Collected Works of ...

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As this Collected Works goes to print there has been only one full-length book on the subject, Jharna Gourlay''s Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj. Barbara Dossey gives one chapter to India in her excellent book on Nightingale as a ''''visionary.''''42 Yet there is no lack of primary material. Of the daunting amount of articles, letters and reports Nightingale wrote, often with lengthy and sometimes several drafts, only a small amount has heretofore been published. Hence the ...
Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command

Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command

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... John • Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John - Wilson, John, the younger Wilson, John Edwards Wilson, John Gray - Wilson, John Jowitt - Wilson, John Nathaniel Wilson, John Richard Shepherd.
Guardian Records of Williamson County, Tennessee 1859-1929

Guardian Records of Williamson County, Tennessee 1859-1929

Albert L. Johnson

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Florence Nightingale: Lady with the Lamp

Florence Nightingale: Lady with the Lamp

Sam Wellman

For Florence Nightingale (1820--1910), following Christ's example of service meant tending to the medical needs of the sick and injured.
Nursing Research Using Historical Methods: Qualitative ...

Nursing Research Using Historical Methods: Qualitative ...

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Monica Baly''s Florence Nightingale and the Nursing Legacy (1997) turns to the famous nurses'' training school at St. Thomas'' in London and suggests that much of its success came from a well-oiled publicity machine. Jharna Gourlay''s Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj (2003) focuses on Nightingale''s involvement with India and charts her movement from a narrow focus only on the health of the British Army to a much broader perspective that supported political changes ...
The Nightingale

The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah

The Nightingale tells the story of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, courage, passion and circumstance - each one embarking on her own dangerous path towards survival, love and freedom in an occupied, war-torn ...
Nightingale's Nest

Nightingale's Nest

Nikki Loftin

Inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen story, Nightingale's Nest is an unforgettable novel about a boy with the weight of the world on his shoulders and a girl with the gift of healing in her voice.
On the edge: a history of poor black children and their ...

On the edge: a history of poor black children and their ...

Carl Husemoller Nightingale

a history of poor black children and their American dreams Carl Husemoller Nightingale ... Designed by Ellen Levine 93 94 95 96 ♢/HC 987654321 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nightingale, Carl H. On the edge : a ...
Sherlock Hong: The Immortal Nightingale

Sherlock Hong: The Immortal Nightingale

Don Bosco

According to Aisha's aunt, our neighbourhood's everreliable source of information, William Fong had been in and out of prison in a number of cities around the world, mostly for cheating. At Uncle Chan's house, he had hidden a live nightingale ...
Rock Chick

Rock Chick

Kristen Ashley

Indy Savage, a rock chick and used bookstore owner, and Lee Nightingale, head of Nightingale Investigations, team to solve the mystery of missing diamonds belonging to her boss, and why bad guys are shooting at him.
Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

Susan Bivin Aller

True or False? Florence Nightingale was the first woman nurse. False! Women had worked as nurses for years, but it was considered a miserable job. Few nurses in England had any medical training.
Explaining the Genetic Footprints of Catholic and Protestant ...

Explaining the Genetic Footprints of Catholic and Protestant ...

S. Barter

For Carl Nightingale, “unlike white men in the English-speaking world, Frenchmen were less likely to object to cross-racial sex.” Carl H. Nightingale, Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), ...
Rowland B. Wilson's Trade Secrets: Notes on Cartooning and ...

Rowland B. Wilson's Trade Secrets: Notes on Cartooning and ...

Rowland B. Wilson

Notes on Cartooning and Animation Rowland B. Wilson Suzanne Lemieux- Wilson ... Kevin Gollaher, Stephanie Schreiber, Geraldine Lemieux, Margo Lemieux, Amanda Wilson, Reed Wilson, Kendra Wilson, Megan Wilson, Manfred Klein (for ...
Andrea Mantegna and the Italian Renaissance

Andrea Mantegna and the Italian Renaissance

Joseph Manca

Maud Cruttwell, Andrea Mantegna (London, 1902). Giuseppe Fiocco, L'arte di Andrea Mantegna (Bologna, 1927). Paul Kristeller, Andrea Mantegna (London, 1901). Ronald Lightbown, Mantegna. With a Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, ...
Dictionary of Labour Biography

Dictionary of Labour Biography

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Joyce M. Bellamy, David E. Martin, John Saville ... 81, 125 Willis, Fred, 222 Willis, Robert, 82, 220 Wilson, Alphonse, 195 Wilson, Bertram, 175 Wilson, Charles, 134 Wilson, Francesca, 26 Wilson, (James) Harold (later Baron Wilson of Rievaulx ...
The Walter O. Evans collection of African American art

The Walter O. Evans collection of African American art

Andrea D. Barnwell

Andrea D. Barnwell, Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Tritobia H. Benjamin.
Clio

Clio

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Andrea Broomfield Johnson County Community College Overland Park, Kansas NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Andrea Broomfield is Assistant English Professor at 370 Reviews Andrea Broomfield.
The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and ...

The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and ...

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Even more recently, Carl H. Nightingale places the Chicago Freedom Movement within the global history of segregation. While Nightingale calls King's Chicago campaign a “defeat,” he sees it as part of a wider, planetary story. Carl H.
Fireworks: and, Song of the nightingale

Fireworks: and, Song of the nightingale

Igor Stravinsky

"Fireworks" is a brilliant early score written in 1908; "Song of the Nightingale" is a symphonic poem for orchestra, "the last of the . . . "'"spectacular' stage works of [Stravinsky's] first period." -- "Grove's Dictionary."
Toni

Toni

Andrea Anderson

Andrea Anderson. ANDREA ANDERSON ISBN: 978-1-4835601-9-9. Front Cover .

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