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The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin
by Douglas Anderson
Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2012 by Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-0523-0, ISBN: 1-4214-0523-7

"Benjamin Franklin wrote his posthumously published memoir - a model of the genre - in several pieces and in different temporal and physical places. Douglas Anderson's study of this work reveals the famed inventor as a literary adept whose approach to autobiographical narrative was as innovative and radical as the inventions and political thought for which he is renowned. Franklin never completed his autobiography, choosing instead to im ..."






William Bradford's Books
Of Plimmoth Plantation and the Printed Word
by Professor Douglas Anderson
Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2002 by Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-7074-3, ISBN: 0-8018-7074-7

"Widely regarded as the most important narrative of seventeenth-century New England, William Bradford's Of Plimmoth Plantation is one of the founding documents of American literature and history. In William Bradford's Books this portrait of the religious dissenters who emigrated from the Netherlands to New England in 1620 receives perhaps its sharpest textual analysis to date―and the first since that of Samuel Eliot Morison two generat ..."






Lost in a Foreign Land
A tale of survival and intrigue set in Alaska and the Yukon during World War II
by Douglas Anderson
Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2009 by Publication Consultants
ISBN-13: 978-1-59433-115-2, ISBN: 1-59433-115-4

"The war in the Pacific is raging, the rudimentary Alaska-Canada military road is completed, and vast quantities of supplies are being moved northwest to deter a Japanese invasion of Alaska. Shinichi Oda, a pilot of the Japanese Imperial Navy, is launched on a daring mission to disrupt these shipments and, hopefully, weaken the resolve of the enemy. His actions were to set in motion a sequence of events that could never have been foretol ..."






News Writing and Reporting for Today's Media(7th Edition)
by Bruce D. Itule, Douglas Anderson
Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 2006 by Mcgraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-298109-4, ISBN: 0-07-298109-1

"News Writing and Reporting takes students on the beat, into the press box, council chambers, and courthouse, and to a speech and press conference. It introduces them to current issues such as cultural sensitivity, multimedia journalism, and legal and ethical considerations that journalists face every day. Throughout the text, reporters and editors offer their down-to-earth advice, and, whenever possible, professional journalists coverin ..."






The Planet of Waters(1st Edition)
by Douglas Anderson
Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 1988 by Bread & Butter Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-912549-00-2, ISBN: 0-912549-00-9

"All the universe is an ocean of music. Everything that IS is made of music, just as you yourself are. The story begins in a world called The Planet of Waters. The planet is composed of layers of waters. Each zone of the waters is inhabited by a distinct tribe of beings, each with its own name, character and function. All the tribes work together to support The Planet of Waters. At the center of the planet is a “seedcore.” When in ..."






Reggie the Rocket
What Goes up Usually Comes Back Down
by Douglas Anderson
62 Pages, Published 2015 by Publication Consultants
ISBN-13: 978-1-59433-549-5, ISBN: 1-59433-549-4

"The story of Reggie The Rocket closely tracks the history of the 1960s British Blue Streak rocket program."






Endurance Sport and the American Philosophical Tradition
(American Philosophy Series)
by Douglas Hochstetler, Amby Burfoot, Douglas Anderson, Kaarina Beam, Cody D. Cash, Tim Elcombe, Jeffrey Fry, Shaun Gallagher, Peter Hopsicker, Professor Daniel D. Hutto, Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza, Pam R. Sailors, Scott Tinley, Ron Welters, R. Scott Kretchmar
Hardcover, 226 Pages, Published 2020 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-4781-9, ISBN: 1-4985-4781-8

"Endurance Sport and the American Philosophical Tradition, edited by Douglas R. Hochstetler, analyzes the relationship between endurance sports—such as running, cycling, and swimming–and themes from the American philosophical tradition. The contributors enter into dialogue with writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, Henry David Thoreau, and John Dewey, as well as more recent scholars such as John McDermott and bell hooks. Ex ..."






The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin
by Douglas Anderson
232 Pages, Published 2012 by Jhu Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-0613-8, ISBN: 1-4214-0613-6

"See Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin: The Price of Representative Personality (New York: Cambridge UP, 1984), pp. 282-85. 11. This motto contains the seeds of Robert Middlekauf's theme in Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies (Berkeley: U of California P, 1996). 12. Franklin thought highly enough of this prayer to include it in his daily regimen, yet even readers who do attend to it frequently slight its language. Nancy Glazener, fo ..."






Pictures of Ascent in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
by Douglas Anderson
201 Pages, Published 2009 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-0-230-10082-4, ISBN: 0-230-10082-1

"(PT, 558) “The Tell-Tale Heart” is in fact a tale of a tub, a miniaturized version of the cultural landscape that Jonathan Swift had surveyed, a century earlier, when he cast the history of the Protestant Reformation as a fable of madness, initiated ..."






Lost in a Foreign Land Ebook
A Tale of Survival and Intrigue in Alaska and the Yukon During World War II
by Douglas Anderson
120 Pages, Published 2009 by Publication Consultants
ISBN-13: 978-1-59433-172-5, ISBN: 1-59433-172-3

"Shinichi noticed immediately there was a big difference between the northland and here. The highway was smoothly ... Then he saw many cargo ships at anchor and some tied up by docks where there was a veritable forest of crane booms. Obviously it was the ... Sounds almost like a Japanese name. Doesn't it? But, it's ..."






News Writing and Reporting for Today's Media(6th Edition)
by Bruce D. Itule, Douglas Anderson
Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2002 by Mcgraw-Hill Publishing Co.
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-119960-5, ISBN: 0-07-119960-8






Canyon De Chelly(Updated)
The Story Behind the Scenery
by Douglas Anderson, Charles Supplee, Barbara Anderson, Mary L. Vancamp, K. C. Dendooven
Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 1990 by Kc Publications, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-0-88714-042-6, ISBN: 0-88714-042-4

"Canyon de Chelly is a labyrinth of sheer-walled canyons, spectacular in their beauty and enthralling in their history. Now home to the Navajo, Canyon de Chelly once harbored the mystery-shrouded culture of the Anasazi--ancient people of the canyon's many ruins. Canyon de Chelly National Monument, located in northeastrn Arizona, first set aside in 1931, preserves ancient canyon wall caves and ruins of Indian villages built between A.D. ..."






Canyon De Chelly(Reprint)
The Story Behind the Scenery
by Douglas Anderson, Charles Supplee, Barbara Anderson
Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 1988 by Kc Pubns
ISBN-13: 978-0-916122-09-6, ISBN: 0-916122-09-3

"Canyon de Chelly is a labyrinth of sheer-walled canyons, spectacular in their beauty and enthralling in their history. Now home to the Navajo, Canyon de Chelly once harbored the mystery-shrouded culture of the Anasazi--ancient people of the canyon's many ruins. Canyon de Chelly National Monument, located in northeastrn Arizona, first set aside in 1931, preserves ancient canyon wall caves and ruins of Indian villages built between A.D. ..."






Knucklebones
A comedy
by Douglas Anderson
Paperback, 70 Pages, Published 1983 by French
ISBN-13: 978-0-573-61117-9, ISBN: 0-573-61117-3

"ANNE. Is this Dr. Evans' house? Mrs. Evans. Heaven forbid. But I let him sleep here. I'm Mrs. Evans, and you must be ... Anne. Anne Yoder. Mrs. Evans. Anne Yoder. Well, I'm certainly pleased to meet you. Let me take your sweater. (ANNE  ..."






The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin
(New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History)
by Professor Douglas Anderson, Larry Anderson
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2000 by Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-6739-2, ISBN: 0-8018-6739-8

"Benjamin Franklin, writes Douglas Anderson in his preface, is "no one's contemporary... Blending elements of the fifteenth-century spiritual discipline of Thomas à Kempis with the journalistic energy of Daniel Defoe, the urbane reason of Lord Shaftesbury with the scientific initiative of Thomas Edison, Franklin places exceptional demands on the historical imagination of his readers―demands that are inevitably slighted by writers who emp ..."






Northern Crown
New World Adventures
by Douglas Anderson
Hardcover, 168 Pages, Published 2005 by Atlas Games
ISBN-13: 978-1-58978-077-4, ISBN: 1-58978-077-9

"What if Cotton Mather's paranoid fantasies about the Salem witches were all true? What if Paul Bunyan really was 10 feet tall and could fell a tree in one stroke? What if Ben Franklin was a natural philosopher whose inventions blurred the border between science and magic? Brawl with Mike Fink or swing an axe with Paul Bunyan. Brave the dangers of sweltering southern swamps in pursuit of the Fountain of Youth. Prowl the misty streets ..."






All About Cribbage(Updated)
by Douglas Anderson
Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 1979 by Macmillan Publishing Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-87691-262-1, ISBN: 0-87691-262-5






The Collected Letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek - Volume 17
by Lodewijk C. Palm, Huib J. Zuidervaart, Douglas Anderson, Elisabeth W. Entjes
520 Pages, Published 2018 by Crc Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-315-35865-9, ISBN: 1-315-35865-4

"... dog wanneer ik het hair van verscheyde Dieren, welkers huyt seer ruyg is, als onder andere het hair van den Beer, ... vond ik de langste hairen der selven seer dik, in vergelykinge van de hairtjens die daar rontomme staan, en ik kan dit niet ... dun Takje van een fyne Palm-boom, anders Box-boom17, die seer kleyne bladerkens hadde, ende wiens bladerkens digte aan het Takje waren afgesneden."






Kuuvanmiut Subsistence
Traditional Eskimo Life in the Latter Twentieth Century (Classic Reprint)
by Douglas Anderson
Paperback, 386 Pages, Published 2017 by Forgotten Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-282-42619-4, ISBN: 0-282-42619-1

"Excerpt from Kuuvanmiut Subsistence: Traditional Eskimo Life in the Latter Twentieth CenturyUpper Kobuk: Traditional Subsistence Cycle Upper Kobuk: Modern Subsistence Cycle Lower Kobuk: Traditional Subsistence Cycle Lower Kobuk: Modern Subsistence Cycle.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical wo ..."






Reggie The Rocket(1st Edition)
What Goes Up Usually Comes Back Down
by Douglas Anderson
Paperback, 60 Pages, Published 2015 by Publication Consultants
ISBN-13: 978-1-59433-548-8, ISBN: 1-59433-548-6

"The story of Reggie The Rocket closely tracks the history of the 1960s British Blue Streak rocket program. The author Douglas Anderson worked on the assembly and testing of the Rolls-Royce RZ2 engines powering the Blue Streak and was present in Woomera, Australia, for the launch of F3. Based on that experience, Douglas has assigned a personality to the rockets and has thus woven a whimsical element into an otherwise historical account o ..."



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