![]() ![]() ![]() The course will have a mix of synchronous and asynchronous instruction. Not in Library Want to Read 1 2 3 4 5 Review Notes Check nearby libraries Buy this book Better World Books Amazon More When you buy books using these links the Internet Archive may earn a small commission. The course will conclude with excerpts from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and other selections of poetic and polemical writing. The woman of colour (2008 edition) Open Library The woman of colour Anonymous edited by Lyndon J. Our reading list will include Defoe's Roxana and Haywood's Fantomina alongside two short epistolary novels (the anonymous Woman of Colour and one of Jane Austen's early works). We'll also examine societal anxieties about the single woman, ranging from their perceived wayward sexuality to their ill-gotten wealth. ![]() In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Mary Wollstonecraft makes her case for women's education by warning that an uneducated widow may find that "the vices of a licentious youth bring her with sorrow, if not with poverty also, to the grave." In this course, we'll ask how the figure of the unmarried woman becomes linked to feminist philosophy over the course of the eighteenth century. GE Areas: World Cultures Writing Experience Description"All the Single Ladies": Spinsters and Widows Topics in 18th Century British Literature Class Information Instructor: Hulbert, Annette ![]()
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There is no one else to speak for Jane’s husband-or the others who have followed him into death at their own hands. unless she does what all the grief, fear, confusion, and fury inside of her demands: find the truth, no matter what. ![]() In the void that remains stands his widow, Jane, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered. ![]() These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live for-but took his own life. ![]() A dazzling new series debuts with a remarkable heroine certain to become a new icon of suspense, propelled by the singular narrative genius of #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Looking at animal behaviour that appears to require some thought - tool-making, territoriality, counting, language (or at least sounds), pairbonding - Peter Watson moves on to the apeman and the development of simple ideas such as cooking, the earliest language, the emergence of family life. ![]() The book begins over a million years ago with a discussion of how the earliest ideas might have originated. In this hugely ambitious and exciting book Peter Watson tells the history of ideas from prehistory to the present day, leading to a new way of telling the history of the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Gamache knows that evil is lurking somewhere behind the white picket fences and that, if he watches closely enough, Three Pines will start to give up its dark secrets. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines - a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own police force. ![]() The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache's world of facts and feelings. 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Robbins’s novel War of the Rats tells the story of the siege of Stalingrad from a very personal nature. Each man has his own mission: to find his counterpart-and kill him.īut an American woman trapped in Russia complicates this extraordinary duel. These two marksmen are equally matched in both skill and tenacity. Through this twisted carnage stalk two men-one Russian, one German-each the top sniper in his respective army. The combat is horrific, as soldiers die in the smoking cellars and trenches of a ruined city. German soldiers call the battle Rattenkrieg, War of the Rats. If Hitler's forces are not stopped, Russia will fall. For six months in 1942, Stalingrad is the center of a titanic struggle between the Russian and German armies-the bloodiest campaign in mankind's long history of warfare. ![]() ![]() ![]() She had witnessed God at work and then had dedicated her own life to leading worship, as part of the popular Christian band ZOEgirl. ![]() She was raised in a Christian home, where she had seen her mom and dad feed the hungry, clothe the homeless, and love the outcast. Others Believe that It Is an Attack on Historic Christianity.Īlisa Childers never thought she would question her Christian faith. Some Think that It Is a Much-Needed Progressive Reformation. Description "This may be the most influential book you will read this year." -Lee Strobel, bestselling author of The Case for MiraclesĪ Movement Seeks to Redefine Christianity. ![]() |