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Redemptive Encounters: Three Modern Styles in the Hindu ...

Redemptive Encounters: Three Modern Styles in the Hindu ...

Lawrence A. Babb

00 In this comparative study of three modern religious movements, Lawrence A. Babb argues that thematic continuities exist between traditional Hinduism and its widely divergent modern expressions.
Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture

Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture

Lawrence A. Babb

Using these questions as his point of departure, Lawrence A. Babb explores the ritual culture of image-worshipping Svetambar Jains of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan.
Whose Names Are Unknown: A Novel

Whose Names Are Unknown: A Novel

Sanora Babb

As Lawrence R. Rodgers notes in his foreword, Babb submitted the manuscript for this book to Random House for consideration in 1939.
Ain't Got No Home: America's Great Migrations and the Making ...

Ain't Got No Home: America's Great Migrations and the Making ...

Erin Royston Battat

Tom Collins to Sanora Babb, ca. 1938–39, box 18, folder 8, Sanora Babb Collection. 39. Ralph Ellison to Sanora Babb, ca. 1943, box 43, folder 3, Sanora Babb Collection. 40. Walter Babb to Sanora Babb, 24 September 1937, and Jennie ...
Desert Temples: Sacred Centers of Rajasthan in Historical, ...

Desert Temples: Sacred Centers of Rajasthan in Historical, ...

Lawrence A. Babb

Most of the papers presented at various seminars and symposiums; some previously published.
The Lost Traveler

The Lost Traveler

Sanora Babb

There is a good deal of tragedy in it, too, for Miss Babb has given us a living and unflinchingly honest picture of a wandering gambler and his family. This is her first novel and she shows herself to be a searching storyteller.
Cry of the Tinamou: Stories

Cry of the Tinamou: Stories

Sanora Babb

Her marriage to a cinematographer took her around the world. Babb mined and transformed her experiences into the novels and stories collected in this volume.
Whose Names Are Unknown: A Novel

Whose Names Are Unknown: A Novel

Sanora Babb

Written with empathy for the farmers’ plight, this powerful narrative is based upon the author’s firsthand experience. Babb submitted the manuscript for this book to Random House for consideration in 1939.
Emerald City: The Birth and Evolution of an Indian Gemstone ...

Emerald City: The Birth and Evolution of an Indian Gemstone ...

Lawrence A. Babb

A fascinating study of the gemstone industry of Jaipur with special emphasis on its ownership class.
Understanding Jainism

Understanding Jainism

Lawrence A. Babb

As the only surviving examples of ancient India's non-Vedic religious traditions, the two religions are often grouped together as 'heterodoxies', but this is to ignore deep differences between Jain and Buddhist beliefs and practices.
Theatre Profiles

Theatre Profiles

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Chay Yew; (D) Richard Hamburger; (S) Beje Fort; (L) Ed Schmitt; (C) Donna M. Kress Simpatico, Roger Babb; music: 'Blue' Gene Tyranny; (D) Roger Babb; (S) Michael Fajans; (L) Pat Dignan; (C) Gabriel Berry, with Angela Wendt; (CH) Rock )' ...
Alchemies of Violence: Myths of Identity and the Life of ...

Alchemies of Violence: Myths of Identity and the Life of ...

Lawrence A Babb

Amherst College Faculty Fellowships supported brief visits to Rajasthan in 2000 and 2002. I would like to thank Dr R. C. Swarankar and the Department of Anthropology, University of Rajasthan, for institutional hospitality in 1996–97 and the ...
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1975: ...

Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1975: ...

United States. Congress. House. Ad Hoc Select Committee on Outer Continental Shelf

Mr. Roger Babb will be the moderator of the Federal witnesses and he will introduce each of them. Mr. Babb is from the Department of the Interior and we will ask him now to conduct the introductions. We would hope that the statements would ...
The Descendants of William James Adams and Cassandra Hills ...

The Descendants of William James Adams and Cassandra Hills ...

Anne Adams Helms

ROGER BABB (1949 - ) Roger Babb was born in Kodiak, Alaska on 26 January 1949. As a child he lived in the Philippines and Hong Kong and then went to Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Presently he teaches drama at Princeton ...
The Price of Scandal

The Price of Scandal

Kim Lawrence

Kim Lawrence. All about the author... Kim Lawrence KIM LAWRENCE comes from English/Irish stock. Though lacking much authentic Welsh blood, she was born and brought up in north Wales. She returned there when she married, and her ...
One Night with Morelli

One Night with Morelli

Kim Lawrence

Kim Lawrence. All about the author... Kim Lawrence KIM LAWRENCE comes from English/Irish stock. Though lacking much authentic Welsh blood, she was born and brought up in north Wales. She returned there when she married, and her ...
No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence

No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence

Emily Herring Wilson

For the next several years, family and friends saw the robust figure of Sam Lawrence weaken dramatically, and from his first stroke sometime in 1934 until his death in 1936, he was an invalid. Bessie Lawrence's inheritances, when her ...
T.E. Lawrence

T.E. Lawrence

Jeremy Wilson

301 T. E. LAWRENCE AND CLARE SYDNEY SMITH IN THE BISCUIT, PLYMOUTH SOUND By an unknown photographer ( 1 930) During the Schneider Trophy races in 1929 Lawrence spent much of his time on the private yacht which acted ...
African-American Poets

African-American Poets

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One of the chapters in his autobiography is called “D.H. Lawrence Between Us.” Faith Berry thinks that Lawrence's “reactionary political views”31 probably limited Lawrence's influence on Hughes, but clearly Hughes could not have read ...
A Correct Report of the Trial of Lawrence Coppard ... on a ...

A Correct Report of the Trial of Lawrence Coppard ... on a ...

Lawrence COPPARD

Lawrence COPPARD, William Brodie GURNEY, Samuel PEACH (of Portland Place.) THE KING 1;. LAWRENCE COPPARD. Copy from Mr. GURNEY's short- hand Notes of the Proceedings on the Trial of this Indictment in the Court of King's ...
Journal

Journal

Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives

A resolution honoring Lawrence W. Prakken. Whereas, The members of this legislative body are pleased to collectively laud the contributions to education and to the publishing industry by Lawrence W. Prakken. For a half-century, Lawrence ...
Arta hârjonelii. Exerciții amuzante de practicat cu copiii

Arta hârjonelii. Exerciții amuzante de practicat cu copiii

Lawrence J. Cohen

Lawrence J. Cohen, Anthony T. DeBenedet ... Kid Needs It. Anthony T. DeBenedet, M.D. si Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D. Copyright © 2010 by Anthony T. DeBenedet, M.D., Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D. O.P. 16, Ghișeul 1, C.P. 0490, București Tel.
Belchertown: Bits of History

Belchertown: Bits of History

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It was an envelope addressed to Mrs. Sara T.D. Robinson in Lawrence, Kansas. ... Sara Tappan Doolittle Lawrence was the daughter of Myron Lawrence, a Belchertown lawyer who was also president of the Massachusetts Senate for two  ...
Becoming Elizabeth Lawrence

Becoming Elizabeth Lawrence

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Emily Herring Wilson. Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White & Elizabeth Lawrence — A Friendship in Letters No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence North Carolina Women: Making History (co-authored with Margaret Supplee ...
The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence

Contains almost all Lawrence's letters written in the last fifteen months of his life.

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