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Plutarch

Plutarch

Robert Lamberton

Robert Lamberton sketches the cultural context in which Plutarch worked and discusses his family relationships, background, education and political career, then analyzes his writings.
Beyond Desert Walls: Essays from Prison

Beyond Desert Walls: Essays from Prison

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... Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lamberton, Ken, 1958- Beyond desert walls : essays from prison / Ken Lamberton ; illustrations by Ken Lamberton. p. cm. isbn 0-8165-2354-1 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-8165-2356-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1.
Getting Over the Color Green: Contemporary Environmental ...

Getting Over the Color Green: Contemporary Environmental ...

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Reprinted with permission. ken lamberton, "Of Pinacate Beetles and Beaches." Copyright © 1995 by Ken Lamberton. Originally published in Southwestern American Literature 21, no. 1 (Fall 1995). Reprinted by permission of the author.
Birds of the Athenian Agora

Birds of the Athenian Agora

Robert Lamberton

The book ends with a field guide to species likely to be seen on a visit to the Agora archaeological park today.
Hesiod

Hesiod

Robert Lamberton

The reading of Hesiod offered here does not stress his value as a historical, mythological, or theological source, although these issues are fraught with difficulties that require at least a provisional resolution in order for the poems to ...
Fundamentals of Accounting

Fundamentals of Accounting

Robert A. Lamberton

The writing of this book has afforded him pleasure in his leisure moments, and that pleasure would be much increased if he knew that the perusal of it would create any bond of sympathy between himself and the angling community in general.
In the Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and ...

In the Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and ...

Armando Maggi

As Robert Lamberton explains in Homer the Theologian (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), Neoplatonic readers such as Porphyry or Proclus " transform [ed] the [Homeric] poems into revelations concerning the nature of the ...
Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and ...

Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and ...

Robert Lamberton

Here is the first survey of the surviving evidence for the growth, development, and influence of the Neoplatonist allegorical reading of the Iliad and Odyssey.
Chiricahua Mountains: Bridging the Borders of Wildness

Chiricahua Mountains: Bridging the Borders of Wildness

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... Borders of Wildness. Chiricahua NAountains Bridging the Borders of Wildness TEXT BY Ken Lamberton PHOTO GRAPHS BY Jeff Garton The University of Arizona Press Tucson The University of Arizona Press © 2003 Ken Lamberton First.
Homer's Ancient Readers: The Hermeneutics of Greek Epic's ...

Homer's Ancient Readers: The Hermeneutics of Greek Epic's ...

Robert Lamberton

This collection surveys the entire field of preserved ancient interpretations of Homer, beginning with the fictional audiences portrayed within the poems themselves, proceeding to readings by Aristotle, the Stoics, and Aristarchus and ...
Wilderness and Razor Wire

Wilderness and Razor Wire

Ken Lamberton

A former science teacher and inmate in the Arizona State Prison presents a study of the natural world as seen from within the prison walls.
Time of Grace: Thoughts on Nature, Family, and the Politics ...

Time of Grace: Thoughts on Nature, Family, and the Politics ...

Ken Lamberton

This is the final book of LambertonÕs trilogy about the twelve years he spent in prison. Readers of his earlier books will savor this last volume.
The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide

The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide

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KeN LAmBertON Ghost Cat: On Being Haunted by Mountain Lions There it is again. In the wet sand at the margin of the pool, right beside the clear Vibram pattern of my boot. And it wasn't here when I walked this slick-rock grotto at sunrise.
Chasing Arizona: One Man’s Yearlong Obsession with the Grand ...

Chasing Arizona: One Man’s Yearlong Obsession with the Grand ...

Ken Lamberton

I'm surprised and pleased to see that my friend Jim Kristofic has adopted a sandhill crane (déłí) to help the park feed and care for it. It's name is Carrie. Since the Navajo don't have a word for “pet,” I wonder how this kind of animal sponsorship ...
Dry River: Stories of Life, Death, and Redemption on the ...

Dry River: Stories of Life, Death, and Redemption on the ...

Ken Lamberton

At once a fascinating cultural history lesson and an important reminder that learning from the past can help us fix what we have damaged, Dry River is both a story about the amazing complexity of this troubled desert waterway and a ...
Let There be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark

Let There be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark

Paul Bogard

NIGHT TIME KEN LAMBERTON The first night after I got out of prison, I realized I had become afraid of the dark. I was lying in bed and my wife turned out the lights . I thought I had gone blind, as if a simple flip of a switch had severed my optic ...
Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World

Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World

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When Ken Lamberton published his first book, Wilderness and Razor Wire ( Mercury House, 2000), the San Francisco Chronicle called it “entirely original: an edgy, ferocious, subtly complex collection of essays.” The book won the 2002 John ...
American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. ...

American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. ...

John Lamberton Harper

On the Soviet shift on dismemberment see Philip Mosley, "Dismemberment of Germany: The Allied Negotiations from Yalta to Potsdam," Foreign Affairs, 28, no. 3 (Apr. 1950), 493; Winant to Secretary of State, Mar. 29, 1945, PSF Germany ...
Darling

Darling

Frederic Raphael

It was all happening. “Diana?” “Yes. Who's that?” “I rang to congratulateyou.” “ Robert?” “Robert? Who's Robert?” “Who is that?” “I read you're about torollwith Maxim.” “That's notyou,Mai, is it?” “Robert! Mai!What afull lifeyoumust lead.” “ Miles?
Jackson Squared

Jackson Squared

Smallwood F. Robert

Smallwood F. Robert, F. Smallwood Robert F. Smallwood. Acclaim for,. ROBERT. SMALLWOOD'S. WRITING “Robert Smallwood writes in a feral style... unique & gutsy and what I call writing without a net!” -- Rex Reed, New York Observer ...
Journals of Robert Rogers of the Rangers

Journals of Robert Rogers of the Rangers

Robert Rogers

Robert Rogers. Arcadia Ebooks 2016 [email protected] www. arcadiaebooks.altervista.org Robert Rogers Journals of Robert Rogers of the Rangers (1765) INTRODUCTION. FRANKLIN B. HOUGH. The Journals of Major Robert ...
The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire,: Extracted Out of ...

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire,: Extracted Out of ...

Robert Thoroton

... of the Gift of Robert de Archis ; and whatever Robert de Grefley, and Albert, his Son, the Founders, gave to the said Church of Swinjheved, fourteen Acres which Robert Rosell gave, and. the Exchanges which Rxsger de Buran and his Men ...
United States Congressional Serial Set

United States Congressional Serial Set

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08/21/79-08/31/79 1079323199 HOUSE RECORDING STUDIO . 10/09/7910/30/ 79 1079324021 ROBERT MCCLORY . 10/24/79 1079324019 ROBERT MCCLORY .. 10/31/79 1079324016 ROBERT MCCLORY .. 11/11/79 793240 ROBERT ...
Robert McNamara's Other War: The World Bank and ...

Robert McNamara's Other War: The World Bank and ...

Patrick Allan Sharma

G. H. R. to Robert McNamara, February 1975, I:20, Robert S. McNamara Papers, LOC. 117. Shaun Farragher to Robert McNamara, September 28, 1977, I:20, Robert S. McNamara Papers, LOC. 118. Blaxall, interview with author. 119. Shapley ...
The Last Linotype: The Story of Georgia and Its Newspapers ...

The Last Linotype: The Story of Georgia and Its Newspapers ...

Millard B. Grimes

In 1981 he received the John E. Drewry Award for Distinguished Achievement in Journalism. ... Robert Tribble Neely Young Robert Chambers ROBERT E. TRIBBLE, 1982-83 Robert E. (Bob) Tribble started his newspaper company with ...
Miscellaneous works of Robert Robinson: to which are ...

Miscellaneous works of Robert Robinson: to which are ...

Robert Robinson

Mr. Robert Robinson was born on the 8th. of October, 1735, at Swaff ham in the county of Norfolk.* His father Mr. Michael Robinson, a native of Scotland, was an exciseman ; his mother was the daughter of Mr. Robert Wilkin, of Mil- denhall, ...
Pioneer Families of Northwestern New Jersey

Pioneer Families of Northwestern New Jersey

William C. Armstrong

We now tabulate herewith the early household descending from (B) Robert Lanning based on data kindly furnished by Mr. Robert C. Lanning of Washington, N.J. Robert Lanning Robert Lanning married Martha Hart who died in 1749. She was ...
Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson

Robert A. Sobieszek ln 2001 a nondescript cardboard package with taped sides was discovered in a warehouse storing what was left of Robert Smithson's estate. Nearly thrown out as trash, the package revealed two large works on paper ...
L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema

L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema

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director Kaliche Warni script Kaliche Warni ROBERT WHEATON A Little Off Mark 1986 (16mm, b&w, 9 min) producer / production co. Robert Wheaton director Robert Wheaton script Robert Wheaton camera S. Torriano Berry editor Robert ...
Tibetan Buddhism and Mystical Experience

Tibetan Buddhism and Mystical Experience

Yaroslav Komarovski

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Buswell, Robert E., and Robert M. Gimello. “Introduction.” In Paths to Liberation: The Mārga and Its Transformations in Buddhist Thought, edited by Robert E. Buswell and Robert M. Gimello, 1–36.

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