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Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered ...

Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered ...

Ursula K. Heise

Ursula K. Heise argues that understanding these stories and symbols is indispensable for any effective advocacy on behalf of endangered species.
The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism

The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism

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7. URSULA K. HEISE ... and power plants), journeys to the Moon and Mars, television, global communications networks,tl1c discovery of DNA, in i'itro fertilizatiim, the cloning of. 136 Science, technology, and postmodernism URSULA K HEISE.
Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism

Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism

Ursula K. Heise

An analysis of the way postmodern novels respond to changes in the experience of time.
New International Voices in Ecocriticism

New International Voices in Ecocriticism

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Lawrence Buell, Ursula K. Heise, and Karen Thornber, “Literature and Environment,” Annual Review of Environment and Resources 36 (2011):417–40, at 422. 27. Helena Feder, “Rethinking Multiculturalism: Theory and Nonhuman Cultures,” ...
Comparatizing Taiwan

Comparatizing Taiwan

Shu-mei Shih

42 Lawrence Buell, Ursula Heise, and Karen Thornber (2011) summarize ecocritical treatments of indigenous literatures in “Ecocriticism Review.” 43 In contrast, for instance, to the indigenous whalers whom the Japanese writer Nitta Jiro- ...
Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental ...

Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental ...

Ursula K. Heise

Kasperson, Roger E., Jeanne X. Kasperson, and Kirstin Dow. “Vulnerability, Equity, and Global Environmental Change.” In Kasperson and Kasperson, 247– 72. Kasperson, RogerE., JeanneX. Kasperson, and Kirstin Dow. “Introduction: Global ...
The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities

The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities

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Niemann, Michelle, editor. Title: The Routledge companion to the environmental humanities / edited by Ursula K. Heise, Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann. Other titles: Companion to the environmental humanities Description: Abingdon,  ...
Journey's End: An Orphan Train Rider's Story

Journey's End: An Orphan Train Rider's Story

Barbara Heise Grooman

An Orphan Train Rider's Story Barbara Heise Grooman. Cbaloter. 6. T. be. In- between. Years. It's true that when I gathered information about my great-uncle, his adoption, and his life in Nebraska, I didn't pay much atten— tion to the family who ...
Hotel of the Saints

Hotel of the Saints

Ursula Hegi

Ursula Hegi's bicultural background enriches these eleven luminous stories that are set in Europe, Mexico, and the United States.
Acta Cancellariae, Or Selections from the Records of the ...

Acta Cancellariae, Or Selections from the Records of the ...

Cecil Monro

... daughter of the said Ursula Peterson, whom they do think most fit and convenient to take benefit of the said legacy, the said large bason and ewer, to the only proper use and behoof of the said Ursula Dysney, her executors, administrators, ...
Ursula Hegi The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set: Floating in My ...

Ursula Hegi The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set: Floating in My ...

Ursula Hegi

The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set by Ursula Hegi brings together her four novels set in Burgdorf, Germany that explore the consequences of Hitler’s reign and the ramifications of World War II.
Acta Cancellariæ: Or, Selections from the Records of the ...

Acta Cancellariæ: Or, Selections from the Records of the ...

Great Britain. Court of Chancery

... daughter of the said Ursula Peterson, whom they do think most fit and convenient to take benefit of the said legacy, the said large bason and ewer, to the only proper use and behoof of the said Ursula Dysney, her executors, administrators, ...
Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories

Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories

Ursula Hegi

In this stunning collection of stories, bestselling author Ursula Hegi focuses on the problems of love -- familial, parental, conjugal, and emergent.
The Golden Day

The Golden Day

Ursula Dubosarsky

What actually happened in the seaside cave that day? And most important — who can they tell about it? In beautifully shimmering prose, Ursula Dubosarsky reveals how a single shared experience can alter the course of young lives forever.
Intrusions

Intrusions

Ursula Hegi

Brilliantly stretching literary conventions, Ursula Hegi, author of the best-selling Stones from the River, creates a funny and original novel within a novel to explore the doubts, decisions, and "might-have-beens" that mark not only the ...
The Cult of St Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins

The Cult of St Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins

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LegendeVerehrungBilderwelt (Cologne: Wienand Verlag, 1985); Scott B. Montgomery, St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne. Relics, Reliquaries and the Visual Culture of Group Sanctity in Late Medieval Europe ( Bern: Peter ...
Publications

Publications

Essex Record Office

22 December 1582. [26/14] To my brothers Benjamin Gonson £10 and Anthony Gonson £20 and to my sisters Ursula Peterson £5, Bennet Gonson £20, Thomasine Gonson £20, and Avis Gonson £20. To my niece Ursula Peterson £ 13 6s. 8d.
Coastal Planning and Management

Coastal Planning and Management

Robert Kay

Ursula Kaly and John Morrison School of Earth and Environmental Sciences University of Wollongong NSW 2522, Australia Also: Ursula Kaly, Tautai International Consultants PO Box 913, Port Moresby, NCD Papua New Guinea Emmanuil ...
Elizabethan Life: Wills of Essex gentry and merchants

Elizabethan Life: Wills of Essex gentry and merchants

Frederick George Emmison

22 December 1582. [26/14] To my brothers Benjamin Gonson £10 and Anthony Gonson £20 and to my sisters Ursula Peterson £5, Bennet Gonson £20, Thomasine Gonson £20, and Avis Gonson £20. To my niece Ursula Peterson £ 13 6s. 8d.
Elizabethan Life: Morals & the church courts

Elizabethan Life: Morals & the church courts

Frederick George Emmison

22 December 1582. [26/14] To my brothers Benjamin Gonson £10 and Anthony Gonson £20 and to my sisters Ursula Peterson £5, Bennet Gonson £20, Thomasine Gonson £20, and Avis Gonson £20. To my niece Ursula Peterson £ 13 6s. 8d.
Floating in My Mother's Palm

Floating in My Mother's Palm

Ursula Hegi

Floating in My Mother's Palm is the compelling and mystical story of Hanna Malter, a young girl growing up in 1950's Burgdorf, the small German town Ursula Hegi so brilliantly brought to life in her bestselling novel Stones from the River.
Supervision und Weiterbildung: Instrumente zur ...

Supervision und Weiterbildung: Instrumente zur ...

Ursula Klein

Präzise und stimmig beschreibt Ursula Klein, wie die Instrumente Weiterbildung und Supervision wirkungsvoll zum Einsatz kommen.
Verbindung und Affinität: Die Grundlegung der neuzeitlichen ...

Verbindung und Affinität: Die Grundlegung der neuzeitlichen ...

Ursula Klein

Jahrhundert Ursula Klein. IV. 1 DAS „CHEMISCHE“ GEWERBE IM 16. UND 17. JAHRHUNDERT Ein chemisches Gewerbe im eigentlichen Wortsinn, d. h. ein Gewerbe, das ausschließlich und im größeren Umfang dhemische Präparate ...
The Sin of Obedience

The Sin of Obedience

Kenan Heise

This well-crafted story enables the reader to go along with a young boy, seminarian and priest on his idealistic pursuit and mission and the consequences he has to face as a result.
Art of our time: selections from the Ulrich Museum of Art, ...

Art of our time: selections from the Ulrich Museum of Art, ...

Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art

Emily Stamey 1. Von Rydingsvard interviewed by Deborah Emont Scott in Michael Brenson, Ursula von Rydingsvard, and Deborah Emont Scott, Ursula von Rydingsvard, exh. cat. (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1997), ...
Chicago Originals

Chicago Originals

Kenan Heise

Examines various influential or notable figures from Chicago's history, including athletes, politicians, gangsters, artists, and more, organized by decade from the 1830s through the 1990s.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

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