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English
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From the author of Composing a Life (first published in 1991 and still in print), an inspiring exploration of a new stage of the life cycle, “Adulthood II,” created by unprecedented levels of health, energy, time, and resources—of which we have barely begun to be fully conscious.
Mary Catherine Bateson sees aging today as an “improvisational art form calling for imagination and willingness to learn,” and in...
Mary Catherine Bateson sees aging today as an “improvisational art form calling for imagination and willingness to learn,” and in...
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 477
Publisher
Twayne
Pub. Date
[1984]
Physical Desc
126 pages : portraits ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Series
Dictionary of literary biography volume 246
Publisher
Gale Group
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
xxi, 490 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Series
Dictionary of literary biography volume 298
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
xxv, 461 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 437 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The first comprehensive biography of the pioneer of postcolonial studies, a tireless champion for his native Palestine and an erudite literary critic discusses his dramatic effects on politics and civic life.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxi, 362 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws readers inside the circle of philosophers, scientists, politicians, businessmen, clergymen, and scholars who brought Charles Darwin's controversial ideas to America in the crucial years after the Civil War. Prominent among these men were the English philosopher Herbert Spencer, industrialist Andrew Carnegie, clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, and political reformer Carl Schurz.
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Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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"Set in Provence, London, and New York: a daughter's wonderfully evocative and witty memoir of her mother and stepfather--Dee Wells, the glamorous and rebellious American journalist, and A. J. Ayer, the celebrated and worldly Oxford philosopher--and the life they lived at the center of absolutely everything. Gully Wells takes us into the heart of London's liberated intellectual inner circle of the 1960s. Here are Alan Bennett, Isaiah Berlin, Iris...
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