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Let it ride
(University of Missouri Press, 1991)
Written with the breathtaking beauty of the woods at night, 'Let It Ride' is a lyrical, witty celebration of the significance of the small things in our lives--children, insects, fleeting thoughts--by a writer of uncommon talent
Trip report, 1989
(1989)
The following reports by members of the faculty of the four campuses of the University of Missouri System and the University of Western Cape, located in Bellville, South Africa, are the result of participation in a faculty ...
Michelson in the desert
(University of Missouri Press, 1987)
Trip report, 1987
(1987)
The following reports by members of the faculty of the four campuses of the University of Missouri System and the University of Western Cape, located in Bellville, South Africa, are the result of participation in a faculty ...
The secret & Lily Hart : two tales
(University of Missouri Press, 1979)
Holtz transcribes and adds commentary to a manuscript containing two stories, "The Secret" and "Lily Hart" by Charlotte Brontë.
Social studies in West German schools
(University of Missouri Press, 1978)
The authors describe the process and results of the implementation of a social sciences curriculum in German schools after World War II, and compares this curriculum with that of American schools.
Veterinary medicine, University of Missouri--Columbia, 1872-1968
([University of Missouri, School of Veterinary Medicine], 1969)
Covers the history of the University of Missouri. College of Veterinary Medicine from 1872, when the first instruction in veterinary medicine was offered, until 1968. Include photographs, biographies, and lists of faculty members.
Sir Thomas Browne's Religio medici and two seventeenth century critics
(University of Missouri Press, 1973)
Browne has become so traditionally a part of the history and texture of classic English prose style that we sometimes unconsciously undervalue his ideas and their power to arouse dispute in his time. The primary purpose ...
Turbulent partnership : Missouri and the Union, 1861-1865
(University of Missouri Press, 1963)
Allan Nevins pointed out that Missouri was "of critical importance to the salvation of the Union" in the Civil War. The richest and most heavily populated state of the trans-Mississippi West, Missouri was the key to ...
Off in Zimbabwe
(University of Missouri Press, 1985)
Decade of fear : Senator Hennings and civil liberties
(University of Missouri Press, 1965)
The genius of Thomas Hennings lay in his fundamental attachment to justice, his constant emphasis on the widest limits for individual freedom, and with his realistic approach to the need for order in American society. The ...
Fire drills
(University of Missouri Press, 1982)
Nurses, patients, and social systems : the effects of skilled nursing intervention upon institutionalized older patients
(University of Missouri Press, 1968)
The authors, a team of nurses, behavioral scientists, and a psychiatrist, tackle a difficult, interesting, and important task: to observe and measure, objectively and under experimental conditions, the impact of skilled ...
TEST : The eternal saga of TULIP or composing a union list of serials in the computer age
(International Library Center, 1986)
Authority, church, and society in George Herbert : return to the middle way
(University of Missouri Press, 1993)
Hodgkins constructs a portrait of English poet, George Herbert, through his works and personal life. Hodgkins emphasizes the role moderation played in Herbert's religious and political views.
The great western land pirate : John A. Murrell in legend and history
(University of Missouri Press, 1981)
John A. Murrell lived in Tennessee when Andrew Jackson was president. According to legend, he was an able
man who had been raised to be a rascal by his unscrupulous mother. Flogged and imprisoned as a youth, he swore eternal ...
Dickens, Manzoni, Zola, and James : the impossible romance
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
The unrivaled power and tension in the best works of Dickens, Manzoni, Zola, and James are derived precisely from the authors' imaginative experimentation with the dialectic structure of this perpetual opposition. Unlike ...
David Rice Atchison of Missouri, border politician
(University of Missouri Press, 1961)
It is the purpose of this study to trace the public career of David Rice Atchison from his early cases in a frontier courtroom to his last defense of Southern rights in Kansas which ended in ultimate defeat and undeserved ...
Gracious laughter : the meditative wit of Edward Taylor
(University of Missouri Press, 1989)
Study of the New England colonial poet, Edward Taylor, and the relationship between his verbal wit and his religious commitment to Puritan belief. Gatta evaluates the anti-utilitarian dimensions and Puritan themes in ...
Charles Perrault : memoirs of my life
(University of Missouri Press, 1989)
It is impossible to know whether Perrault intended the Memoirs to be published. There are early references to "your uncles," identifying Perrault's children as his immediate audience; however, he offered nothing about his ...