Author: Eileen Crist
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: animals, society, culture, images
Number of Pages: 245
Published: 2000-04-19
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 156639788X
ISBN-13: 9781566397889

Seeing a cat rubbing against a person, Charles Darwin described her as i??in an affectionate frame of mindi??’; for Samuel Barnett, a behavioralist, the mental realm is beyond the grasp of scientists and behavior must be described technically, as a physical action only. What difference does this difference make? In Eileen Crist’s analysis of the language used to portray animal behavior, the difference i??is that in the reader’s mind the very image of the cat’s ’body’ is transfigured from an experiencing subject into a vacant objecti??’. i??Images of An

Authors:Stephen A. Crist, Stephen A. Crist, Roberta Montemor
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Keywords: eastman, studies, music, interpretations, methods, musicology, sources, historical
Number of Pages: 444
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1580463010
ISBN-13: 9781580463010

How do we know what notes a composer intended in a given piece? -- how those notes should be played and sung? -- the nature of musical life in Bach’s Leipzig, Schubert’s Vienna? -- how music related to literature and other arts and social currents in different times and places? -- what attitudes musicians and music lovers had toward the music that they heard and made? We know all this from musical manuscripts and prints, opera libretti, composers’ letters, reviews in newspapers and magazines, archival data, contemporary pedagogical writings, essays on aesthetics, and much els

Author: Eileen A. JoyEileen A. Joy; Mary K. Ramsey; Bruce
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Keywords: casebook, critical, beowulf, postmodern
Number of Pages: 772
Published: 2006-12-31
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 1933202084
ISBN-13: 9781933202082

Amidst the immense body of Beowulf interpretations, translations, and commentary, Eileen A. Joy and Mary K. Ramsey s "The Postmodern ’Beowulf’: A Critical Casebook" stands out. In "The Postmodern ’Beowulf’, twenty-three critics take on the Anglo-Saxon superhero, creating a best of anthology of contemporary theoretical approaches to the epic poem that is so popular today. The essays collected here make an important scholarly contribution not only to Anglo-Saxon studies but to postmodern theory. With essays by Eileen A. Joy, Mary K. Ramsey, Edward Said, Claire Spon

Author: Steven Crist
Publisher: DRF Pre
Keywords: racing, biggest, payoffs, win, bets, betting, multihorse, multirace, exotic
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-06-13
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1932910921
ISBN-13: 9781932910926

In the last 30 years, horse-race betting has undergone a revolution from the musty days of win, place and show into a bazaar of high-risk, high-reward wagers that have transformed the game. Yet no book has explored this new bazaar of exotic new wagers that has transformed the game – until now. Daily Racing Form publisher Steven Crist’s long-awaited exploration of racing’s newest and wildest wagers is the first comprehensive guide to the new world of pick-sixes, superfectas, carryovers and jackpots. Using the same common-sense approach and layman’s terms that have made him a

Author: Larry S. Crist
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Keywords: textes, litteraires, francais, french, croisade, cycle, suite, fin, deuxieme, saladin
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1972-12-31
List price: $66.00
ISBN-10: 260002462X
ISBN-13: 9782600024624

Author: Michael W. Crist
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: blossoms, dogwood
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2009-03-12
List price: $19.98
ISBN-10: 1438943601
ISBN-13: 9781438943602

A dream of many years has come to fruition. For many years, growing up, I was encouraged to be a writer by my mother. She told me to experience life and one day I will have the heart to write a great book. I began sailing the Chesapeake Bay in my sixteen foot Hobie cat when I was a preteen. As I gained experience, I grew braver and ventured across the bay and into some of the major rivers that flowed into it. One day, about midday, I was sailing up the York river and I met a young Mattiponi boy about my same age. I offered to take him for a ride on my cat and a friendship developed. When I g

Author: James J. Crist
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
Keywords: kids, guide, worried, scared
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-01-15
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 1575421534
ISBN-13: 9781575421537

From a dread of spiders to panic attacks, kids have worries and fears, just like adults. This is a book kids can turn to when they need advice, reassurance, and ideas. They’ll find out where fears and worries come from, practice Fear Chasers and Worry Erasers, and learn to seek help for hard-to-handle fears they can’t manage on their own.