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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy

Eric Donald Hirsch

Provides information on ideas concerning people, places, ideas, and events currently under discussion, including gene therapy, NAFTA, pheromones, and Kwanzaa.
The Darkest Path

The Darkest Path

Jeff Hirsch

USA TODAY bestselling author Jeff Hirsch once again creates a futuristic world with stunning, dramatic realism.
A Method to Their Madness: The History of the Actors Studio

A Method to Their Madness: The History of the Actors Studio

Foster Hirsch

" Based on firsthand observations and numerous interviews, Hirsch's examination of the Studio's origins reveals how its graduates forever shaped the American stage and screen.
Why We Never Danced the Charleston

Why We Never Danced the Charleston

Harlan Greene

Hirsch's and Ned's eyes locked; in the cacophony, you could almost hear ancient voices shrieking down the centuries. Salome was dancing ... All they really want for me to do is gild the lily of Hirsch and Ned's lovemaking. They expect a string ...
Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King

Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King

Foster Hirsch

Foster Hirsch shows us the man—enraging and endearing—and his brilliant work. From the Hardcover edition.
The Hirsch Chumash: Sefer Shemos

The Hirsch Chumash: Sefer Shemos

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Since it first appeared, nearly 150 years ago, the Hirsch Commentary on Chumash has gained worldwide popularity for the breathtaking scope of insight and information it offers to scholar, student, and layman alike.This expansive work ...
Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance Permutations

Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance Permutations

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Hirsch, Arnold R. (1992). 'Simply aMatter of Blackand White: The Transformation ofRace and Politics in Twentieth CenturyNew Orleans'. CreoleNew Orleans:Race and Americanization. Eds. ArnoldR. Hirsch and JosephLogsdon. BatonRouge ...
Protest Cultures: A Companion

Protest Cultures: A Companion

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Catherine Corrigall-Brown, Patterns of Protest: Trajectories of Participation in Social Movements (Stanford, CA, 2012). 11. Ibid. 12. Eric L Hirsch, “Sacrifice for the Cause: Group Processes, Recruitment, and Commitment in a Student Social  ...
The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture

The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture

Rachel Neis

Lapp, Eric C., “Lamps,” in Rebecca Martin Nagy, Carol L. Meyers, Eric M. Meyers, and Zeev Weiss (eds.), Sepphoris in Galilee: Crosscurrents of Culture (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1996), 218–24 Lateiner, Donald, “Humiliation and ...
Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory

Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory

Marianne Hirsch

Hirsch and Spitzer present the first historical account of Jewish Czernowitz in the English language and offer a profound analysis of memory's echo across generations.
Guide to U.S. Foundations, Their Trustees, Officers, and Donors

Guide to U.S. Foundations, Their Trustees, Officers, and Donors

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... Catherine, Portland Women's Union, OR, 45490 (FD2) Hinkamp, AnneC, Trotter Family Foundation, IL, 15209 Hinkes, .... Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation, CA, 1476 (FD) Hirsch, Bryan L., Gladys and jack Hirsch Family Foundation, ...
Soil

Soil

Rebecca Hirsch

Rebecca Hirsch. Others, such as mushrooms, are bigger. The aboveground part of a mushroom grows from long threads the soil richer take nitrogen from the air and turn. in the soil. Termites and Soil Some termites live in homes built from a ...
The Wilhelm and Krieg families of Huntington County, Indiana

The Wilhelm and Krieg families of Huntington County, Indiana

Ann Freehafer Andersen

Donald Keith and Ann Ward (Freehafer) Andersen had the following children: 107 i. Ward Donald Andersen ii. Eric John Andersen b. 26 March 1967, Thornton, Colorado graduate of Ponderosa High School d. 17 February 1987, age 19 years , ...
Quicklet on Eric Weiner's The Geography of Bliss

Quicklet on Eric Weiner's The Geography of Bliss

Lacey Kohlmoos

Sources and Additional Reading Sources Bolton Street Synagogue, NPR commentator Eric Weiner sponsored by breathbooks Eric Weiner Books, Bio Book Reporter, Biography: Eric Weiner The Globalist, Eric Weiner World Database of ...
Acting Hollywood Style

Acting Hollywood Style

Foster Hirsch

Noted theater and film critic Hirsch has gathered rare photographs that show actors, from Rudolph Valentino to Meryl Streep, who embody aspects of the Hollywood Style--a unique blend of personality, acting ability, and sheer "star power". ...
Jewish social studies

Jewish social studies

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.(1842), p. 5. 59. Henry John Marks, Narrative of Henry John Marks (2nd ed., London, 1840), p. 4. 60. Ridley Herschell, Conversion of Mr. and Mrs. Levi '(New York, 1852). 61. Shemoel Hirsch, The History and Conversion of Shemoel Hirsch  ...
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960

Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960

Arnold R. Hirsch

In Making the Second Ghetto, Arnold Hirsch argues that in the post-depression years Chicago was a "pioneer in developing concepts and devices" for housing segregation.
American Indians and Popular Culture

American Indians and Popular Culture

Elizabeth DeLaney Hoffman

Breaking Seals by Eric Gansworth. (Courtesy of Eric Gansworth) Plastic Fred by Eric Gansworth. (Courtesy of Eric Gansworth). 158 Literature, Arts, and Resistance.
Der Hirsch: Popularisierung und Individualisierung eines Motivs

Der Hirsch: Popularisierung und Individualisierung eines Motivs

Silke Krohn

Der Hirsch ist das Tiermotiv, das in der abendländischen Kultur nicht nur am häufigsten dargestellt wurde, es ist auch eines der am frühesten dargestellten Motive und beinhaltet zahlreiche Bedeutungen, die sich bis in die Ursprünge ...
Foundations of Ethical Counseling

Foundations of Ethical Counseling

Donald A. Biggs

Donald A. Biggs, Donald H. Blocher. Donald A. Biggs, Ed.D., is Professor of Counseling Psychology and Student Development at the State University of New York at Albany. He received his doctoral degree from the University of California at ...
Eric Clapton: The Autobiography

Eric Clapton: The Autobiography

Eric Clapton

Eric tells his story as it is, hiding nothing, with a directness and searing honesty that will make this book one of the most compelling memoirs of our time.
The Coal Field Directory

The Coal Field Directory

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Cooper, Shawnee, 0. GM—Donald Hannah, Jr., Shawnee, 0. GS—Donald Hannah, Jr., Shawnee, 0. PA—Donald Hannah, Jr., Shawnee, 0. CE—Donald Hannah, Jr., Shawnee, O. EM—Mr. Vanrietta, Shawnee, O. EE—Donald Hannah, Jr., ...
The Women In Lincoln's Life

The Women In Lincoln's Life

Donald Winkler

Donald Winkler. The Women in Lincoln's Life By H. Donald Winkler Rutledge Hill Press ® Nashville Tennessee A Division of Thomas Nelson, Inc. Copyright © 2001 by H. Donald Winkler All rights reserved.
Eric Clapton: the autobiography

Eric Clapton: the autobiography

Eric Clapton

Now for the first time, Eric tells the story of his personal and professional journeys in this pungent, witty and painfully honest autobiography. But the rock star lifestyle has had a darker side too.
Somerset Airman

Somerset Airman

Eric Gardner

Eric Gardner grew up in Frome on a small family farm. At the age of 19 he joined the RAF. He finished the manuscript for this book just days before his sudden death at the age of 82 and so, sadly, Eric never saw it in print.
Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation

Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation

Donald Miller

Donald Miller's dad left when he was very young. From that point onwards, Donald felt different. Different from the other boys in his class; different from the other boys at camp.
The Michael Eric Dyson Reader

The Michael Eric Dyson Reader

Michael Eric Dyson

DYSON. “Such is the genius of Dyson. He flows freely from the profound to the profane, from popular culture to classical literature.” —WASHINGTON POST THE MICHAEL ERIC DYSON READER ALSO BY MICHAEL ERIC DYSON.
The Land of Ridge and Valley: A Photographic History of the ...

The Land of Ridge and Valley: A Photographic History of the ...

Donald E. Davis

A Photographic History of the Northwest Georgia Mountains Donald E. Davis, Donald Edward Davis ... A narive of Norrh Georgia, Donald Edward Davis, Ph.D., holds masrer's degrees in borh Social Ecology and Psychology. He serves as ...
The Choir Boy: Why I Turned to a Life of Crime with the ...

The Choir Boy: Why I Turned to a Life of Crime with the ...

Eric Schneider

Eric Schneider was one of the young victims in the notorious Boy Scout sexual abuse case that rocked Boston in the mid-1980s. By his teens, Eric was a drug dealer, arsonist, and small-time thief.
Three Years a Soldier: The Diary and Newspaper ...

Three Years a Soldier: The Diary and Newspaper ...

George Perkins

I am grateful to Donald Pfanz and Eric Mink of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. Mr. Pfanz searched for references to my great-grandfather's battery in the Chatham House collection. Claire and I spent a particularly ...

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