![]() ![]() ![]() Bartlett" front flyleaf of volumes one, four, and five. Spines feature red morocco title labels and green morocco volume labels with gilt lettering. The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the first edition.ĭescription of the Wolf Law Library's copyįirst edition, first impression bound in contemporary tree calf, rebacked with original spines laid down. It later appeared on Randolph's 1832 estate inventory as "'Marshall's Washington' (4 vols., $10.25 value)." Both Brown's Bibliography and George Wythe's Library on LibraryThing include Marshall's Life of Washington. Jefferson gave it to his son-in-law, Thomas Mann Randolph. Thomas Jefferson inherited Wythe's copy and noted it in his inventory of Wythe's Library as Marshall's Life of Washington. George Wythe is listed as a subscriber in the atlas volume of the first edition. Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library ![]()
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![]() ![]() When the hostility between Cuba and the United States erupts at the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Margarita’s worlds collide in the worst way possible. Words and images are her constant companions, friendly and comforting when the children at school are not. But most of the time she lives in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. ![]() ![]() Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother’s tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. In this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpré Author Award, was a YALSA Nonfiction Finalist, and was named a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. ![]() ![]() Anyway, the Baby-Sitters are worried that the Phantom may consider targeting a home where this a babysitter present. It's also an easy concept to explain in a children's book. It's a crude technique, but it was one that was indeed quite effective in the days before caller ID and when every house had a landline. If no one answers the phone, The Phantom knows that they can break inside the home without being caught. If someone answers the phone, The Phantom knows that they are home. ![]() ![]() (I wonder if Lee Falk considered suing over this?) The Phantom's MO is simple, they phone the house they plan to burgle. In this volume, there is a burglar targeting houses in neighbouring towns, who the police have dubbed The Phantom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each book in the Sons of Sinclair series is STANDALONE: * Highland Conquest * Highland Warrior * Highland Justice Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Now Gideon must choose between his duty and his heart when his lovely thief is accused of treason against the king himself. Because one kiss with the Highland's most brutal chief leaves her breathless and out of her depth. a Sons of Sinclair novel by Heather McCollum To keep the conquered clan in line, new chief of Clan Mackay Gideon Sinclair must mete out. Only her act of deception has made things worse. Heather McCollum, As the new chief of Clan Mackay, Gideon Sinclair knows the importance of maintaining order at any cost. It was bad enough she picked his pocket to feed the children in her care, but sometimes a desperate woman must disguise her crimes any way she can. Cait knows that kissing the brawny Highlander is a dangerous game. But from the moment he meets Cait Mackay-aye, from the moment the sweetness of her lips captures his-all of Gideon's careful objectivity is well and thoroughly compromised. To keep the conquered clan in line, Gideon must mete out ruthless justice or risk losing their precious new peace. As the new chief of Clan Mackay, Gideon Sinclair knows the importance of maintaining order at any cost. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eugene Dawn, the narrator of The Vietnam Project, is a mythographer inquiring into the efficacy of American propaganda in Vietnam. DusklandsĬoetzee’s first major work, Dusklands, is composed of two novellas, The Vietnam Project and The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee the common thread that runs through the two seemingly unrelated pieces is the obsession of each protagonist with the personal dimension of colonization. Also permeating his work is the issue of the treatment of animals and the perception of difference in the rights of humans and the rights of animals, a perception that Coetzee often challenges. ![]() ![]() ![]() Colonialism and its legacy form the basis for much of his fiction. On one level, Coetzee’s novels deal with the suffering that human beings inflict on one another, whether as agents of the state or as the victims of their own obsessions. One may see this indirect approach as an evasion of the censorship that was a factor for any writer in that state during the years of apartheid, but this necessary blurring of temporal and geographic actualities also endows each work with universal overtones. Coetzee’s (born 9 February 1940) novels, the land and the concerns of that country permeate his works. Although contemporary South Africa is seldom mentioned or referred to explicitly in most of J. ![]() ![]() However, he also says that he wants Regine to give the hotel a womanly presence, adding that the sailors will want to have fun in the evenings. He wants to open a hotel for sailors, he explains, and though he knows this sounds like a disreputable establishment, he claims that it will only accommodate captains and other distinguished guests. Ignoring her, Engstrand implores Regine to come home with him. Knowing that he’s an alcoholic, Regine doesn’t want to be associated with Engstrand, instead hoping to cultivate a sophisticated image. As he approaches the Alving household, Regine tells him to leave, not wanting anyone to see her speaking to him. The orphanage’s grand opening is the next day, and since his work is finished, Engstrand plans to return to his home in the nearby town. Alving has commissioned to commemorate the tenth anniversary of her husband’s death. ![]() Engstrand has almost finished his work on the nearby orphanage, which Mrs. ![]() ![]() A carpenter and heavy drinker named Jacob Engstrand pays his daughter Regine a visit one morning while she’s working as a maid for the wealthy Mrs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Before coming to Emory, Kugle was an Assistant Professor of Religion at Swarthmore College and, most recently, a research scholar at the Henry Martyn Institute for Islamic Studies, Inter-Religious Dialogue, and Conflict Resolution in Hyderabad, India.Ĭopyright © Emory University - All Rights Reserved | 201 Dowman Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30322 USA 404.727. He conducts research in India and Pakistan his research languages are Arabic, Urdu, and Persian. He is the author of four books and numerous articles, including Sufis and Saints' Bodies: Mysticism, Corporeality and Sacred Power in Islamic Culture (UNC Press, 2007) and Homosexuality in Islam: Critical Reflection on Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Muslims (Oneworld Publications, 2010). His fields of expertise include Sufism, Islamic society in South Asia, and issues of gender and sexuality. I desperately searched for answers.Scott Kugle is the first Muslim to publish widely on the issue of homosexuality and transgender identity in Islam. His dissertation, In Search of the Center: Authenticity, Reform and Critique in Early Modern Islamic Sainthood, examined Sufism in North Africa and South Asia. ![]() ![]() He received his PhD from Duke University in 2000 in History of Religions after graduating from Swarthmore College with High Honors in Religion, Literature, and History. ![]() Scott Kugle joins the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies in Fall 2010. Professor of South Asian and Islamic Studies ![]() ![]() In 1935, he moved to Maximilien Luce's old studio on the Avenue du Maine in Paris. He also painted frescoes in the Museon Arlaten and in the dining hall of the Collège Ampère, both of which are in Arles. He painted frescoes in the city halls of Saint-Martin-de-Crau and Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. In 1922, he moved to Arles, where he was trained as a painter and set up a studio. He started a career as an engineer, but soon decided to become a painter. He grew up in Normandy, in the towns of Ault, Deauville and Trouville. ![]() A wonderful example of a reclining nude by Marcel Dyf, painted with characteristic panache fabulous brushstrokes and colour employed to capture the curves of the model.Īuthenticated by Madame Claudine Dyf and included in the e-catalogue raisonné as no.5297 ![]() ![]() Gibson skillfully alternates short chapters from Verity’s 2017 reality with Wilf Netherton’s 2136. That future is 2136, the timeline and the characters we came to know in The Peripheral. ![]() With a shock, Verity realizes that she is visiting the future. ![]() ![]() Eventually they make it possible for Verity to visit their world by sending her awareness to inhabit a much more sophisticated android, one that looks human and is considered semi-sentient in its own right. In fact, the decision to trust someone is the closest thing to agency anyone has in this novel.īefore Verity knows exactly what’s going on, she’s on the run from her original employer Eunice abruptly disappears and a few people get in touch with her via a strange robot. But Verity, for reasons she can’t understand, trusts Eunice and the network of people she is put in contact with. We start off in an alternate 2017 (Clinton won, no Brexit) when Verity, the “app whisperer” in San Francisco, takes a job from a mysterious corporation to evaluate a new headset and eyeglasses.Ībruptly she finds the high-tech rig talking to her in the voice of Eunice, an advanced artificial intelligence, who enlists her in a series of urgent actions of questionable legality. ![]() Since this is Gibson, the ride is always interesting, even fun, despite the fact that everyone is always mostly in the dark about who is calling the shots and why and where it’s all heading. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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