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Embodying Liberation: The Black Body in American Dance

Embodying Liberation: The Black Body in American Dance

Dorothea Fischer-Hornung

Anthea Kraut Canonization and Obscurity: Zora Neale Hurston's Place in the Academy Over the last two decades, the study of Zora Neale Hurston has flourished, with her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God in particular earning a ...
Akhenaten and the Religion of Light

Akhenaten and the Religion of Light

Erik Hornung

Erik Hornung, one of the world's preeminent Egyptologists, here offers a concise and accessible account of Akhenaten and his religion of light.Hornung begins with a discussion of the nineteenth-century scholars who laid the foundation for ...
Old cemetery burials of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Old cemetery burials of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Elizabeth Doherty Herzfeld

l8Dccl882 d/o Frederick (Fritz) & Fredericke Fischer, with Edward C 69 FISCHER Anna M b.l884 d.l960 on narrow side of Fischer Family Stone with Gertrude and Henry A 69 FISCHER Anthony M b. l8I9 d. l890 with Margaret, Rose, Louis, ...
Breaking the Chains: The Crusade of Dorothea Lynde Dix

Breaking the Chains: The Crusade of Dorothea Lynde Dix

Penny Colman

Such was the case with Louisa Hall, the wife of Reverend Edward Hall, who had begged Dorothea to come investigate conditions in Rhode Island. Louisa Hall wasn't looking forward to Dorothea Dix's visit. She didn't approve of what she ...
Glyph-Breaker

Glyph-Breaker

Steven R. Fischer

Steven R. Fischer. Hachette. Fischer, Steven Roger. 1988a. Evidence for Hellenic Dialect in the Phaistos Disk. Berne: Peter Lang. Fischer, Steven Roger. 1988b. Meersburg im Mittelalter. Aus der Geschichte einer Bodenseestadt undihrer ...
Stained Glass

Stained Glass

Stephen A. Fischer

This is a fictional story about Georg Roman Fischer that takes place between 1910 and 1927. The narrative opens at a time of chaos in Germany's history and concludes when Fischer migrates to America.
The Pawns Court (Spy Thriller Classic)

The Pawns Court (Spy Thriller Classic)

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Mr. Fischer sat quite still for several moments. He was struggling very hard to ... “ Then there is room there for a discussion,” Mr. Fischer pointed out eagerly. “I should like to put my ... a young soldier that morning at Henry's?” Fischer nodded.
Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from ...

Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from ...

Frank Brady

This is the definitive account of a fascinating man and an extraordinary life, one that at last reconciles Fischer's deeply contradictory legacy and answers the question: 'Who was Bobby Fischer?'
Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange

Kerry Acker

Discusses the life and work of the twentieth century American photographer, Dorothea Lange.
The Balkans Since the Second World War

The Balkans Since the Second World War

R. J. Crampton

Woodhouse, C. M. Almond, Mark Behr, Edward Brucan, Silviu Carothers, Thomas Castellan, Georges Deletant, Dennis Deletant, Dennis Fischer, Mary Ellen Fischer-Galati, Stephen Fischer—Galati, Stephen Fischer-Galati, Stephen Floyd,  ...
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning

Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning

Elizabeth Partridge

This beautiful volume celebrates one of the twentieth century's most important photographers, Dorothea Lange.
Political Democracy and Ethnic Diversity in Modern European ...

Political Democracy and Ethnic Diversity in Modern European ...

André Gerrits

3, July 1995). Fischer-Galati 1969: Stephen Fischer-Galati, The Socialist Republic of Rumania (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1969). Fischer- Galati 2000: Stephen Fischer-Galati, "Romania: Crisis W1thout Compromise," in Dirk ...
Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in ...

Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in ...

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Fischer suggests that the Somnia Danielis was "but a collection of self- perpetuating topics stemming from the ancient tradition"; Fischer, The Dream, 31. See Steven R. Fischer, The Complete Medieval Dreambook: A Multilingual, Alphabetical ...
Kubismus

Kubismus

Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire, Dorothea Eimert. Guillaume Apollinaire & Dorothea Eimert Guillaume Apollinaire & Dorothea Eimert. Kubismus. Kubismus. Text: Guillaume Apollinaire, Dorothea Eimert, Anatoli Podoksik Redaktion der deutschen.
The Games of Robert J. Fischer

The Games of Robert J. Fischer

Bobby Fischer

Was Bobby Fischer the Greatest Player Ever? The question often asked is: Was Bobby Fischer the Greatest Player Ever?
Return to Sullivan's Island

Return to Sullivan's Island

Dorothea Benton Frank

But now change is coming, and the next generation has its own way of doing thing. Conflict and passion, heartbreak and family bonds are all tested in Dorothea Benton Frank's wonderfully evocative new novel.
The Universal (in the Realm of the Sensible): Beyond ...

The Universal (in the Realm of the Sensible): Beyond ...

Dorothea Olkowski

Drawing on the work of De Beauvoir, Sartre, and Le Doeuff, among others, and addressing a range of topics from the Asian sex trade to late capitalism, quantum gravity, and Merleau-Ponty's views on cinema, Dorothea Olkowski stretches the ...
Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of ...

Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of ...

Dorothea Lange

A stunning array of nearly 120 photographs originally censored by the U.S. Army, many of which have never been published, captures the stark reality of the internment camps and the lives of the Japanese-American citizens who were rounded up ...
Dorothea Lange: The Crucial Years, 1930-1946

Dorothea Lange: The Crucial Years, 1930-1946

Richard Keith Doud

In 1935, the photographer Dorothea Lange joined Franklin D. Roosevelt's Farm Security Administration project, charged with the task of inventing an iconography that would record and convey the tales of Depression-era America.
Same Beach, Next Year: A Novel

Same Beach, Next Year: A Novel

Dorothea Benton Frank

New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank returns to her magical Lowcountry of South Carolina in this bewitching story of marriage, love, family, and friendship that is infused with her warm and engaging earthy humor and ...
Eastern Europe and the Cold War: perceptions and perspectives

Eastern Europe and the Cold War: perceptions and perspectives

Stephen A. Fischer-Galați

13. Stephen Fischer-Galati, The New Rumania: From People's Democracy to Socialist Republic (Cambridge: The M.I.T. Press, 1967), pp. 44-77. 14. Ibid. 15. Stephen Fischer-Galati, Twentieth Century Rumania (New York: Columbia University ...
Cubism

Cubism

Guillaume Apollinaire

Cubism. Cubism. Guillaume Apollinaire & Dorothea Eimert Guillaume Apollinaire & Dorothea Eimert Authors: Guillaume Apollinaire, Dorothea Eimert, Anatoli Podoksik Layout: Baseline Co. Front Cover.
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

Linda Gordon

We all know Dorothea Lange's iconic photos—the Migrant Mother holding her child, the shoeless children of the Dust Bowl—but now renowned American historian Linda Gordon brings them to three-dimensional life in this groundbreaking ...

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