Barbara Ward

Barbara Ward
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 226
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781441155573
ISBN-13 : 1441155570
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Barbara Ward by : Jean Gartlan

The first major study of the immensely influential political economist Barbara Ward, drawing heavily on her own writings.

Only One Earth

Only One Earth
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Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 039330129X
ISBN-13 : 9780393301298
Rating : 4/5 (9X Downloads)

Synopsis Only One Earth by : Barbara Ward

Only One Earth remains a classic study of the environment on a global scale....The organization and subject matter of Down to Earth reflect the metamorphosis of the environmental issue in ten years. Walt Patterson, New Statesman"

Dancing in the Streets

Dancing in the Streets
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Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 9781429904650
ISBN-13 : 1429904658
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Dancing in the Streets by : Barbara Ehrenreich

From the bestselling social commentator and cultural historian comes Barbara Ehrenreich's fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy In the acclaimed Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich delved into the origins of our species' attraction to war. Here, she explores the opposite impulse, one that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. Although sixteenth-century Europeans viewed mass festivities as foreign and "savage," Ehrenreich shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greeks' worship of Dionysus to the medieval practice of Christianity as a "danced religion." Ultimately, church officials drove the festivities into the streets, the prelude to widespread reformation: Protestants criminalized carnival, Wahhabist Muslims battled ecstatic Sufism, European colonizers wiped out native dance rites. The elites' fear that such gatherings would undermine social hierarchies was justified: the festive tradition inspired French revolutionary crowds and uprisings from the Caribbean to the American plains. Yet outbreaks of group revelry persist, as Ehrenreich shows, pointing to the 1960s rock-and-roll rebellion and the more recent "carnivalization" of sports. Original, exhilarating, and deeply optimistic, Dancing in the Streets concludes that we are innately social beings, impelled to share our joy and therefore able to envision, even create, a more peaceable future. "Fascinating . . . An admirably lucid, level-headed history of outbreaks of joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead."—Terry Eagleton, The Nation

The Reindeer Keeper

The Reindeer Keeper
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Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Total Pages : 163
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781604944433
ISBN-13 : 1604944439
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis The Reindeer Keeper by : Barbara Briggs Ward

Abbey senses something special about the little man tending to the reindeer who, along with a century-old farmhouse, a barn full of animals, and fields abounding in woods and pasture, was a gift to Abbey from a stranger. Turns out this Christmas proves to be more magical than anticipated as Abbey realizes an understanding never thought possible through the rekindling of a belief rooted in childhood. Of course it's who delivers this gift on Christmas Eve that gives Abbey and Steve the strength to face their greatest challenge.

Spaceship Earth

Spaceship Earth
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Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 168
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951001562624M
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Rating : 4/5 (4M Downloads)

Synopsis Spaceship Earth by : Barbara Ward

Prospects for an integrated world community in view of contemporary progress in science and technology analyzed by a British economist.

Progress for a Small Planet

Progress for a Small Planet
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Publisher : New York : Norton
Total Pages : 330
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ISBN-10 : 0393012778
ISBN-13 : 9780393012774
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Progress for a Small Planet by : Barbara Ward

This book deals with the apparent conflict between the use of science and technology in economic development to raise standards of living worldwide; and the limited nature and unequal distribution of resources, environmental destruction, and threats to health from industrial waste. The author presents the thesis that there is no real conflict, only a need for a balanced, careful use of world resources.

Policy for the West

Policy for the West
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Publisher : Greenwood
Total Pages : 330
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X000112350
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Policy for the West by : Barbara Ward

Contesting the Moral High Ground

Contesting the Moral High Ground
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 245
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780773541122
ISBN-13 : 0773541128
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Contesting the Moral High Ground by : Paul T. Phillips

How four of Britain's best-known thinkers influenced the public consciousness on issues from God to the environment.

Home

Home
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Publisher : Hachette Books
Total Pages : 465
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781401395421
ISBN-13 : 1401395422
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Home by : Julie Andrews

Since her first appearance on screen in Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews has played a series of memorable roles that have endeared her to generations. But she has never told the story of her life before fame. Until now. In Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, Julie takes her readers on a warm, moving, and often humorous journey from a difficult upbringing in war-torn Britain to the brink of international stardom in America. Her memoir begins in 1935, when Julie was born to an aspiring vaudevillian mother and a teacher father, and takes readers to 1962, when Walt Disney himself saw her on Broadway and cast her as the world's most famous nanny. Along the way, she weathered the London Blitz of World War II; her parents' painful divorce; her mother's turbulent second marriage to Canadian tenor Ted Andrews, and a childhood spent on radio, in music halls, and giving concert performances all over England. Julie's professional career began at the age of twelve, and in 1948 she became the youngest solo performer ever to participate in a Royal Command Performance before the Queen. When only eighteen, she left home for the United States to make her Broadway debut in The Boy Friend, and thus began her meteoric rise to stardom. Home is filled with numerous anecdotes, including stories of performing in My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison on Broadway and in the West End, and in Camelot with Richard Burton on Broadway; her first marriage to famed set and costume designer Tony Walton, culminating with the birth of their daughter, Emma; and the call from Hollywood and what lay beyond. Julie Andrews' career has flourished over seven decades. From her legendary Broadway performances, to her roles in such iconic films as The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hawaii, 10, and The Princess Diaries, to her award-winning television appearances, multiple album releases, concert tours, international humanitarian work, best-selling children's books, and championship of literacy, Julie's influence spans generations. Today, she lives with her husband of thirty-eight years, the acclaimed writer/director Blake Edwards; they have five children and seven grandchildren. Featuring over fifty personal photos, many never before seen, this is the personal memoir Julie Andrews' audiences have been waiting for.