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Male Armor: The Soldier-Hero in Contemporary American Culture

Male Armor: The Soldier-Hero in Contemporary American Culture

Jon Robert Adams

In Male Armor, Jon Robert Adams examines the ways in which novels, plays, and films about America’s late-twentieth-century wars reflect altering perceptions of masculinity in the culture at large.
Robert Adams: tree line

Robert Adams: tree line

Robert Adams

This volume commemorates Robert Adams' receipt of the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography for 2009.
Silence of the Heart: Dialogues with Robert Adams

Silence of the Heart: Dialogues with Robert Adams

Robert Adams

Adams, an American student of the great master, Ramana Maharshi, discourses with wisdom and delightful humor as he clarifies for Westerners India's teaching of Ultimate Reality.
Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

Robert Adams

This critically acclaimed work brings us a new selection of poignant essays by master photographer Robert Adams. In this volume, Adams evinces his firm belief in the importance of art.
The Meaning of Liff: The Original Dictionary Of Things There ...

The Meaning of Liff: The Original Dictionary Of Things There ...

Douglas Adams

This new definitive edition celebrates the 30th anniversary and ties in with a brand-new book of definitions, Afterliff, from John Lloyd and another old friend of Douglas Adams, Jon Cantor.
The Adams Women: Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and ...

The Adams Women: Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and ...

Paul C. Nagel

Depicts the lives of the Adams women, including Abigail Adams, and her sisters Mary Cranch and Elizabeth Shaw Peabody, Nabby Adams Smith, Nancy Harrod Adams, and Louisa Johnson Adams.
Estate of Seth Adams

Estate of Seth Adams

Seth Adams

Collection of one hundred thirty-four letters mostly from the 1870s, relating to the estate of Seth Adams (brother and business partner of Isaac Adams, inventor of the Adams Printing Press and proprietor of Adams Sugar Refinery of Boston).
Diary of Charles Francis Adams

Diary of Charles Francis Adams

Charles Francis Adams

Charles Francis Adams Robert J. Taylor, Marc Friedlaender, Celeste Walker. my bad nights when things ... Received a letter from Mr. Johnson in Paris complaining of not receiving any remittances through the Barings. His date is as late as the ...
The Legacy of Custer's 7th U.S. Cavalry in Korea

The Legacy of Custer's 7th U.S. Cavalry in Korea

Edward L. Daily

Richard Abd James R. "Jim" Abshear Warren E. Adams William A. Adams William Alexander Robert Alicea Roy E. Allen Erank H. Almy Jose "joe" Alva Terry Ammons Ashley C. Anderson James A. Anderson Robert J. Anderson Robert P.
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography

Ansel Adams: An Autobiography

Ansel Adams

Very helpful comments on the manuscript were given by Jeanne Adams, Michael Adams, Peter C. Bunnell, Anne Adams Helms, Ken Helms, George Kimball, Beaumont Newhall, Otto Meyer, Sue Meyer, Andrea Gray Stillman, McDonna Sitterle ...
The Americas: International Dictionary of Historic Places

The Americas: International Dictionary of Historic Places

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Papers of John Adams: June 1783 - January 1784

Papers of John Adams: June 1783 - January 1784

John Adams

June 1783 - January 1784 John Adams, Gregg L. Lint. Repertorium Ludwig ... Dorothy Twohig, Mark A. Mastromarino, Jack D. Warren, Robert F. Haggard, Christine S. Patrick, John C. Pinheiro, and others, Charlottesville, 1987- . Washington ...
Ansel Adams: A Biography

Ansel Adams: A Biography

Mary Street Alinder

2 Anne Adams Helms, ed., Remembering Virginia (Salinas, Calif.: Anne Adams Helms, 2000). 3 Rob Hastings, “Ansel Adams: A Son's Perspective,” Independent , London, England, March 13, 2013. 4 “Michael Adams, Son of Photographer ...
Memoir of the Rev. William Adams, of Dedham, Mass: and of ...

Memoir of the Rev. William Adams, of Dedham, Mass: and of ...

Frances Manwaring Caulkins

A general subscription of inhabitants at Ipswich, in December, 1648, contains the names of William Adams and William Adams, Jun. William Adams died in 1661. William Adams, Jun. died in January, 1659. * It may be assumed with probability  ...
Report of the President

Report of the President

Bowdoin College

Other gifts of books and funds too numerous to describe in detail were given by Albert Abrahamson '26, Charles F. Adams '12, Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Adams, Alcoa Foundation, Mrs. Fred Antho- ensen, The Anthoensen Press, William H.
A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams

A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams

David Waldstreicher

A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams presents a collection of original historiographic essays contributed by leading historians that cover diverse aspects of the lives and politics of John and John Quincy Adams and their spouses, ...
A Love of Reading: Reviews of Contemporary Fiction

A Love of Reading: Reviews of Contemporary Fiction

Robert Adams

Eighty per cent of Adams’ 3,000 subscribers in Toronto and Montreal renew for the following season • This book is a selection of modern classics from a discriminating and entertaining guide • Perfect for reading groups • Quill & ...
Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams

Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams

Lynne Withey

The lively, authoritative, New York Times bestselling biography of Abigail Adams. This is the life of Abigail Adams, wife of patriot John Adams, who became the most influential woman in Revolutionary America.
Architecture and Empire in Jamaica

Architecture and Empire in Jamaica

Louis Nelson

I would like to thank them each by name: Jasper Adams, Jesse Adams-Doolittle, Sara Anderson, Stephanie Arbieto, ... Adam Erby, Robert Erickson, Tahinee Felix -Marin, Stephanie Fernandez, Jason Fox, Marina Freckmann, Laura Frye, Molly ...
Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People

Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People

Jon Ronson

. . Often funny, sometimes chilling and always thought-provoking, these books combine Jon's trademark humour, charm and investigative incision whilst asking some very serious questions.
The Social and Civil Influence of the Christian Ministry: A ...

The Social and Civil Influence of the Christian Ministry: A ...

Leonard Bacon

Andrews, Henry Adams, George W. Adams, James J. Anderson, Rufus Adams, Charles J. Augustus, John Adams, William ... John D. Bancroft, Jacob H. Bumstead, Edward G. Bumstead, Thomas Bumstead, Ebenezer W. Bumstead, Sereno D.
Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done

Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done

Jon Acuff

From New York Times bestselling author Jon Acuff, a book for those who want relief from always starting and never being done. Jon Acuff, sought-after speaker and consultant, is the friend who always gives you great advice.
The Adams Papers Diary of Charles Francis Adams

The Adams Papers Diary of Charles Francis Adams

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Johnson (1823- 1893) had been the husband of Mary Louisa Adams Johnson ( 1828- 1859), who was the only child of ... page with the portrait of Charles Francis Adams painted by Charles Bird King in 1827 (see volume 2:vii, and facing p.
Obituary Record of the Graduates of Bowdoin College and the ...

Obituary Record of the Graduates of Bowdoin College and the ...

Bowdoin College

... daughter of Samuel Gray and Adeline (Cushing) Adams, who survives him, with their three sons, Edward Chase Adams, Frederic Winslow Adams, both of Bangor, and Rev. William Cushing Adams (Bowdoin, 1897), of Gorham, N. H. [ Sketch ...
The Computer's Nerd

The Computer's Nerd

W. Royce Adams

W. Royce Adams. THE COMPUTER'S NERD Hardback copyright ... Publisher's Cataloging-in-Publication (Provided by Quality Books, Inc.) Adams, W. Royce The computet's nctd / W. Royce Adams. — 1st ed. p. cm. SUMMARY: Bullied and  ...
Out of My Tidy Mind: Impossible Perfectionist, 27, Seeks ...

Out of My Tidy Mind: Impossible Perfectionist, 27, Seeks ...

Jon Richardson

' Jon Richardson Is your filing faultless? Your CDs, apostrophes, cutlery all in the right places? Can you eat a biscuit in the correct way? Then Jon Richardson (single for seven years and counting) could be your ideal man.

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