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Benjamin Capps and the South Plains: A Literary Relationship

Benjamin Capps and the South Plains: A Literary Relationship

Lawrence Clayton

Benjamin Capps has been called the Texas author whose work will be read 100 years from now, but Clayton notes that Caps has not been the frequent subject of nationally disseminated critical interpretation, perhaps because he is an ...
Woman of the People

Woman of the People

Benjamin Capps

In this story of the Texas frontier, Capps dramatizes the capture by a Comanche band of a ten-year-old white girl and her five-year-old sister from the upper reaches of the Brazos River a decade before the Civil War.
The Trail to Ogallala

The Trail to Ogallala

Benjamin Capps

This novel won the 1964 Spur Award for best western novel of the year.
The White Man's Road

The White Man's Road

Benjamin Capps

Set on the Fort Sill Indian Reservation at the turn of the century.
A woman of the people

A woman of the people

Benjamin Capps

Captured by the Comanches at the age of nine, Helen dreams of escape for more than fourteen years yet, when the time comes to choose freedom she discovers no choice exists as she has become absorbed in the Comanche culture.
The Institutional Problem in Modern International Law

The Institutional Problem in Modern International Law

Richard Collins

I am also grateful to my two PhD examiners, Patrick Capps and Rob Cryer, not only for their thorough treatment of the thesis, but in helping shape the direction that this book has taken since. I am particularly indebted to Patrick Capps, whose  ...
Tales of the Southwest

Tales of the Southwest

Benjamin Capps

An award winning western author returns with a collection of short stories-humorous, poignant and unusual that celebrate life in the Southwest United States and invoke a simpler, gentler era
The Brothers of Uterica

The Brothers of Uterica

Benjamin Capps

French socialist Jean Bossereau and his followers found the community of Uterica--utopia in America--in the mid-nineteenth century, based on the principles of reason, brotherly love, and communal property, but clashing personalities and ...
Sam Chance

Sam Chance

Benjamin Capps

In the cattle country of Northwest Texas in the late nineteenth century, a man had to be smart and tough. Sam Chance was both. Chance mustered out of the Confederate Army and head west.
The Heirs of Franklin Woodstock

The Heirs of Franklin Woodstock

Benjamin Capps

When ninety-one-year-old rancher Franklin Woodstock disappears from his West Texas nursing home, his five presumed heirs squabble over his estate.
Ethical Rationalism and the Law

Ethical Rationalism and the Law

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Patrick Capps, Shaun D Pattinson. 1. The. Past,. Present. and. Future. of. Ethical. Rationalism. PATRICK CAPPS AND SHAUN D PATTINSON. I. Introduction. What role does reason play in determining what, if anything, is morally right?
Native Americans of the Old West

Native Americans of the Old West

Benjamin Capps

... University of Oklahoma Press, 1956; 20 — from "Picture Writingof the American Indians" by Garrick Mallery, 10th Ann. .... 72,73 — Frank Lemer, courtesy National Collection ofFine Arts, Smithsonian Institution; courtesy National Collection ...
Benjamin for Architects

Benjamin for Architects

Brian Elliott

This is a concise, coherent account of the relevance of Walter Benjamin’s writings to architects, locating Benjamin’s critical work within the context of contemporary architecture and urbanism.
Walter Benjamin - Selected Writings, 1927-1930

Walter Benjamin - Selected Writings, 1927-1930

Walter Benjamin

In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, Benjamin emerged as the most original public intellectual in the German-speaking world.
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb: A Novel

The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb: A Novel

Melanie Benjamin

BONUS: This edition contains a timeline, an interview with Melanie Benjamin, and an excerpt from Melanie Benjamin's Alice I Have Been.
Walter Benjamin and Romanticism

Walter Benjamin and Romanticism

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Through a detailed and scholarly analysis of the major texts, the book explores the endurance of Benjamin's relationship to Romanticism, the residual presence of Romantic Goethean and H÷lderlinian motifs in Benjamin's subsequent writings ...
Illuminations

Illuminations

Walter Benjamin

Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin's life in dark times. Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times.
Illuminations

Illuminations

Walter Benjamin

The literary-philosophical works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) rank among the most quietly influential of the post-war era, though only since his death has Benjamin achieved the fame and critical currency outside his native Germany ...
Dorland Family Redwood

Dorland Family Redwood

Raymond Clyde Flesher

Roberta Belle BENJAMIN b. 20 Aug 1998 Arlington. 520. Ann Merrill BENJAMIN was born 30 May 1958 in New Orleans, LA and married Benjamin Charles ZURAW on 27 Aug 1983 in Greensboro, NC. He was an attorney before 2000. He was ...
Human Dignity and the Foundations of International Law

Human Dignity and the Foundations of International Law

Patrick Capps

This book is one of a series on Constitutions of the world.
Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings

Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings

Benjamin Franklin

Through Benjamin Franklin's own words, these writings present remarkable insight into the man and his accomplishments as a writer, publisher, scientist, inventor, diplomat, and politician.
The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire

The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire

Walter Benjamin

" Benjamin reveals Baudelaire as a social poet of the very first rank. The introduction to this volume presents each of Benjamin's essays on Baudelaire in chronological order.
The Aviator's Wife: A Novel by Melanie Benjamin ...

The Aviator's Wife: A Novel by Melanie Benjamin ...

Trivion Books

Trivion Books. a. b. c. d. Question #1 Melanie Benjamin Melanie Hauser Melanie Murphy Melanie Gray a. ANSWER b Melanie Hauser Melanie Benjamin is a pen. What is the author's real name? Where was Melanie Benjamin born?
Pocahontas to Benjamin Bolling

Pocahontas to Benjamin Bolling

Oakley Dean Baldwin

So far no documents have been found that state definitely just who Benjamin’s parents were. Family folklore is that Major John Bolling and Elizabeth Blair are the parents of Benjamin, they descend from Pocahontas.
Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

Esther Leslie

the Concept of History' (London, 2006) Eugene Lunn, Marxism and Modernism; A Historical Study of Lukács, Brecht, Benjamin and Adorno (Berkeley, CA, 1982) Laura Marcus and Lynda Nead, eds, The Actuality of Walter Benjamin (London, ...
Modernism at the Microphone: Radio, Propaganda, and Literary ...

Modernism at the Microphone: Radio, Propaganda, and Literary ...

Melissa Dinsman

See, for example, Lecia Rosenthal's recent book Radio Benjamin, translated by Jonathan Lutes (London: Verso, 2014). Texts in English written on Benjamin's broadcast work include: Graeme Gilloch, Walter Benjamin: Critical Constellations  ...
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 ...
A Benjamin Franklin Reader

A Benjamin Franklin Reader

Benjamin Franklin

A companion volume to Benjamin Franklin: An American Life presents a definitive version of Franklin's Autobiography along with a selection of some of his most important writings, including "The Art of Conversation" and "Rules for Promoting ...

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