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Rebecca West: A Life

Rebecca West: A Life

Carl Edmund Rollyson

A profile of the influential twentieth-century author discusses her childhood with a sexually abusive father, her relationship with the writer H. G. Wells, her literary accomplishments, and other information. 10,000 first printing.
The Boundaries of the Literary Archive: Reclamation and ...

The Boundaries of the Literary Archive: Reclamation and ...

Lisa Stead

Rick Roche discusses the concept of the 'definitive biography' – 'the idea that the biographer has discovered the indisputable truth about a subject and told the full story' (2009: xvii) – and cites Carl Rollyson's (2008: 70–80) and Andrew ...
American Biography

American Biography

Carl Rollyson

John Jay: Founding Father by Walter Stahr Why do certain historians—British and American—write history in the passive voice? Walter Stahr's prose is cluttered with of's and by's that result in historical congestion. Why write “In words drafted ...
The Essential Edmund Leach: Culture and human nature

The Essential Edmund Leach: Culture and human nature

Edmund Ronald Leach

Brings together a representative selection of the writings of Edmund Leach.
The Essential Edmund Leach: Anthropology and society

The Essential Edmund Leach: Anthropology and society

Edmund Ronald Leach

Brings together a representative selection of the writings of Edmund Leach.
Selected Letters of Edmund Burke

Selected Letters of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (1729-97) was a British statesman, a political philosopher, a literary critic, the grandfather of modern conservatism, and an elegant, prolific letter writer and prose stylist.
Blue Skies of El Dorado

Blue Skies of El Dorado

Carl J. Barger

Carl J. Barger. BLUESKIESOFELDORADO Carl J. Barger Copyright © 2016 Carl J. Barger. All rights reserved. No. Front Cover.
Edmund Spenser: A Life

Edmund Spenser: A Life

Andrew Hadfield

——The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser, ed. John Hughes, 6 vols. (London, 1715) . ——The Works of Edmund Spenser, ed. H. J. Todd, 8 vols. (London, 1805). —— The Works of Edmund Spenser, with observations on his life and writings, ed.
Announcements

Announcements

University of California, San Francisco. School of Medicine

Edward C. Hill, M.D. Alan J. Margolis, A.B., M.D. So1 M. Shnider, B.S., M.D., Anesthesia. Associate Clinical Professor Edmund F. Anderson, A.B., M.D. Carl Goetsch, B.S., M.D. Louis B. Goldstein, B.S., M.A., M.D. William K. Graves, B.S., M.D. ...
Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser

Andrew Hadfield

This collection represents some of the best recent critical writing on Edmund Spenser, a major Renaissance English poet.
Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life

Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life

Stanley J. Tambiah

Intellectual biography of Edmund Leach, a leading social anthropologist of his generation, with illustrations.
The United States: An Experiment in Democracy

The United States: An Experiment in Democracy

Carl Carl Lotus Becker

According to Carl Becker "if the framers of the Constitution could come back to earth and see what the federal government is doing to-day, they would all agree that this monstrous thing was no child of theirs; for to-day the federal ...
Ten Acres Is Enough

Ten Acres Is Enough

Edmund Morris

Edmund Morris. Practical. Views. Safety. of. Investments. in. Land. There. was not a particle of romance in my aspirations for a farm, neither had I formed a visionary theory which was there to be tested. My notions were all sober and prosaic.
Edmund W. Gordon: Producing Knowledge, Pursuing Understanding

Edmund W. Gordon: Producing Knowledge, Pursuing Understanding

Carol Camp Yeakey

The initial volume in this new series focuses on the work of Edmund W. Gordon, the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Yale University.
Dental Implant Prosthetics

Dental Implant Prosthetics

Carl E. Misch

Carl E. Misch, BS,DDS, MDS, PhD (hc) Carl E. Misch is a Clinical Professor at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in the Department of Periodontics/ Geriatrics. He is alsoan Adjunct Professor at the dental schools of Louisiana State ...
Chaos

Chaos

Edmund White

At once hilarious, sexy and heartbreaking, Chaos is a new novella and collection of short stories from the hugely acclaimed writer, Edmund White.
Carl Sandburg: Chicago's Award Winning Author

Carl Sandburg: Chicago's Award Winning Author

Carole Marsh

Carl Sandburg's life experiences and respect for the working people of America inspired his poetry and books. From a student, to a hobo, to a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Carl Sandburg was proud to call Illinois home.
Collected Essays

Collected Essays

Edmund Gosse

Edmund Gosse. WOLCOTT BALESTIER IT was early in 1889 that, on an evening which must always remain memorable to some of us, two or three English writers met, at the house of Mrs. Humphry Ward, a young American man of business ...
The life of St. Edmund

The life of St. Edmund

Matthew Paris

This book offers a comprehensive and intimate portrait of Edmund as a scholar and archbishop and a study of his most famous biographer, Matthew Paris, the monk and historian of St. Albans.
The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz, Vol. 1: 1829-1852

The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz, Vol. 1: 1829-1852

Carl Schurz

Carl Schurz (1829-1906) was born in Germany and emigrated to the United States in 1852.
Listing Application

Listing Application

American Stock Exchange

The names and addresses of all the Directors are as follow : Names Addresses Carl Stanton Bell Ralph Leslie Binning Carl I. Hall Harry Eastwood Howard, F.C.A. Carl Olof Nickle John James Petrie, Q.C. Cody Ralph Spencer 3415 Cadboro ...
Old Fishing Lures & Tackle: Identification and Value Guide

Old Fishing Lures & Tackle: Identification and Value Guide

Carl F. Luckey

Identification and Value Guide Carl F. Luckey ... Carl Neal, Columbus, Ind. Several collectors have sent in flyers advertising that original Neal Spinners are now being “... Faithfully reproduced in high grade redwood with the highest quality ...
Education and Justice: A View from the Back of the Bus

Education and Justice: A View from the Back of the Bus

Edmund W. Gordon

Edmund Gordon is one of the few people alive who could bring together — with passion and precision — such wide-ranging concerns as the nature of teaching and learning; the social and educational determinants of academic achievement;  ...
Lives of the Judges: Jessel, Cairns, Bowen and Bramwell

Lives of the Judges: Jessel, Cairns, Bowen and Bramwell

Edmund Heward

Each one of Edmund Heward's subjects makes interesting reading: Jessel, for example, was the subject of an apparent assassination attempt - but although he had been deafened by this in one ear, apart from writing a reassuring letter to his ...

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