Search Results - "The Epilogue"

Anna's shtetl by Coben, Lawrence A.

Table of Contents: “…The two Shevchenkos -- The town -- Grandmother Beyla -- Grandfather Avrum -- Aaron and Leya -- The surprise (1914-1916) -- The marketplace -- Nobility and obscurity -- At Alta's house (1916-1917) -- Anna's prize (1916-1917) -- Between gentile and Jew -- Cousin Zavl -- Leya the smuggler (1917-1919) -- The first pogrom (March 1-8, 1918) -- The aftermath (March 1918) -- The Germans occupy Korsun (1918) -- Fall and winter in prewar Korsun -- The worst winter (1918-1919) -- Spring and summer in prewar Korsun -- Spring and summer (1919) -- The third pogrom (August 13-26, 1919) -- How to tell a sollop -- The two Korsuns -- Moscow (1919-1921) -- Petrograd (1921) -- Epilogue -- Appendix A. Shtetl influences -- Appendix B. …”
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Physics in Oxford, 1839-1939 laboratories, learning, and college life /

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Oxford readings in the Attic orators

Table of Contents: “…Porter -- Demosthenes as advocate : the functions and methods of legal consultants in classical Athens / Hans Julius Wolff ; with an epilogue by Gerhard Thür -- Law and equity in the Attic trial / Harald Meyer-Laurin -- Social relations on stage : witnesses in classical Athens / S.C. …”
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A little taste of freedom the Black freedom struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi / by Crosby, Emilye

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Native speakers Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita González, and the poetics of culture / by Cotera, María Eugenia, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Frank Dobie, Jovita González, and the study of the folk in Texas -- Re-writing culture : storytelling and the decolonial imagination -- "All my relatives are noble" : recovering the feminine on Waterlily -- "De nigger woman is de mule uh de world" : storytelling and the black feminist tradition -- Feminism on the border : Caballero and the poetics of collaboration -- Epilogue: "What's love got to do with it?" : toward a passionate praxis.…”
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Becoming good ancestors how we balance nature, community, and technology / by Ehrenfeld, David

Table of Contents: “…Pretending -- Brainstorming has its limits -- Nothing simple -- The comforts of fantasy -- Rejecting gifts -- The uses and risks of adaptation -- When machines replace people -- Pseudocommunities -- Obsolescence -- Accelerating social evolution -- Writing -- Affluence and austerity -- Energy and friendly fire -- Durable goods -- Preserving our capital -- Conservation for profit -- Hot spots and the globalization of conservation -- Putting a value on nature -- The downside of corporate immortality -- Wilderness as teacher -- An opposing view of nature -- Death of a plastic palm -- Scientific discoveries and nature's mysteries -- I reinvent agriculture -- Thinking about breeds and species -- Strangers in our own land -- Teaching field ecology -- The ubiquitous right-of-way -- A walk in the woods -- Old growth -- Intimacy with nature -- The utopia fallacy -- Traditions -- Jane Austen and the world of the community -- Universities, schools, and communities -- What do we owe our children? -- Epilogue: A call for fusion and regeneration.…”
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Disunion! the coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 / by Varon, Elizabeth R., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…: the crisis of 1850 -- Beneath the iron heel : fugitive slaves and bleeding Kansas -- To consummate its boldest designs : the slave power confronts the republicans -- War to the knife : images of the coming fight -- Epilogue: The Rubicon is passed : the war and beyond.…”
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Fluid mechanics a short course for physicists / by Falkovich, G. (Grigory), 1958-

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The end of straight supremacy realizing gay liberation / by Gilreath, Shannon, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Trans/sex: transsexualism, patriarchal ontology, and postmodern praxis; 9. Epilogue: flaming, but not burning.…”
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Jim Tully : American writer, Irish rover, Hollywood brawler / by Bauer, Paul, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Coins for a dead woman's eyes -- Six years of imprisonment -- Hearts ignorant of homes -- Big rock candy mountain -- The end of the road -- The fire and the ring -- Troubled in heart -- Write or starve -- Emmett Lawler -- Hollywood writer -- The road-kid and the little tramp -- Beggars of life -- One more illusion -- Jarnegan -- Circus parade -- Shanty Irish -- Shadows of men -- Beggars abroad -- Blood on the moon -- Laughter in hell -- Ladies in the parlor -- Return to the ring -- The bruiser -- Biddy Brogan's boy -- The last division -- Epilogue.…”
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The ethos of medicine in postmodern America : philosophical, cultural, and social considerations / by Eiser, Arnold R., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…-- The postmodern physician ethos and morale -- Bioethics in postmodern America -- Ethical medicine, performativity, and the Silicon cage -- Medical care embedded in American culture : repositioning the medical ethos for the 21st century -- Epilogue : ethos of medicine in postmodern America.…”
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Fighting for Hope : African American Troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar America / by Jefferson, Robert F., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Black morale and War Department racial policy -- Of sage and sand : Fort Huachuca and the U.S. 93rd Infantry Division -- Service families on the move -- War maneuvers and Black division personnel -- War, race, and rumor under the Southern Cross -- Relative security in the southwest Pacific -- Epilogue: Black 93rd Division veterans and former service families after World War II.…”
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Friars, Soldiers, and Reformers : Hispanic Arizona and the Sonora Mission Frontier, 1767–1856 / by Kessell, John L.

Table of Contents: “…Hanging On, 1828-56; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Recoding World Literature : Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books / by Mani, B. Venkat

Table of Contents: “…World literature in the digital century -- Epilogue.…”
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Seasons of Grace : A History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit / by Tentler, Leslie Woodcock

Table of Contents: “…Maturity : the Gallagher and Mooney episcopates ; The diocesan clergy ; The laity ; Catholic education ; Catholics in a changing world -- Epilogue: From 1958 to the present.…”
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Impounded People : Japanese-Americans in the Relocation Centers / by Spicer, Edward Holland, 1906-1983, Opler, Marvin K. (Marvin Kaufmann), 1914-1981, Luomala, Katherine, Hansen, Asael T.

Table of Contents: “…Holding the centers ; The stake in America ; Disintegration of the centers ; Confusion at Tule Lake -- Epilogue. The journey continued ; The journey back ; Discontinuities and continuities.…”
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Listening For A Life : A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories / by Sawin, Patricia

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : dialogism and subjectivity -- "That was before I ever left home" : complex accounts of a simple childhood -- "If you had to work as hard as I did, it would kill you" : work, narrative, and self-definition -- "I said, 'don't you do it'" : tracing development as an empowered speaker through reported speech in narrative -- "He never did say anything about my dreams that would worry me after that" : negotiating gender and power in ghost stories -- "I'm a bad one to go pulling jokes on people" : practical joking as a problematic vehicle for oppositional self-definition -- "My singing is my life" : repertoire and performance -- Epilogue.…”
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Mo Yan in Context : Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller /

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Domestic Enemies : Servants and Their Masters in Old Regime France / by Fairchilds, Cissie C.

Table of Contents: “…Relationships between Servants and Their Masters' Children -- 8. Epilogue: The Revolution and After -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index…”
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Mo Yan in Context : Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller /

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