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Buffalo for the Broken Heart
Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch
Av Dan O'Brien
E-bok, 2007
197 kr
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For twenty years Dan O’Brien struggled to make ends meet on his cattle ranch in South Dakota. But when a neighbor invited him to lend a hand at the annual buffalo roundup, O’Brien was inspired to convert his own ranch, the Broken Heart, to buffalo. Starting with thirteen calves, “short-necked, …
Hume on Testimony
Av Dan O'Brien
Inbunden, 2022
2133 kr
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This book is the first devoted to Hume’s conception of testimony. Hume is usually taken to be a reductionist with respect to testimony, with trust in others dependent on the evidence possessed by individuals concerning the reliability of texts or speakers. This account is taken from Hume’s essay on …
Teleology and Modernity
Av William Gibson, Dan O'Brien m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
706 kr
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The main and original contribution of this volume is to offer a discussion of teleology through the prism of religion, philosophy and history. The goal is to incorporate teleology within discussions across these three disciplines rather than restrict it to one as is customarily the case. The …
Hume on Testimony
Av Dan O'Brien
E-bok, 2022
762 kr
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This book is the first devoted to Hume’s conception of testimony. Hume is usually taken to be a reductionist with respect to testimony, with trust in others dependent on the evidence possessed by individuals concerning the reliability of texts or speakers. This account is taken from Hume’s essay on …
Hume on Testimony
Av Dan O'Brien
E-bok, 2022
762 kr
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This book is the first devoted to Hume’s conception of testimony. Hume is usually taken to be a reductionist with respect to testimony, with trust in others dependent on the evidence possessed by individuals concerning the reliability of texts or speakers. This account is taken from Hume’s essay on …
Brendan Prairie
Av Dan O'brien
Häftad, 1998
204 kr
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Still coping with the loss of his young wife years ago, passionless Bill Malone has to take on developers who want to build condominiums on his beloved South Dakota retreat, Brendan Prairie, and an investigation into the suspicious death of developer Andy Arnold.Once a great falconer and …
Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge
Av Dan O'Brien
Inbunden, 2016
777 kr
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An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, 2nd Edition guides the reader through the key issues and debates in contemporary epistemology. Lucid, comprehensive and accessible, it is an ideal textbook for students who are new to the subject and for university undergraduates. The book is divided into …
Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge
Av Dan O'Brien
Häftad, 2016
357 kr
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An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, 2nd Edition guides the reader through the key issues and debates in contemporary epistemology. Lucid, comprehensive and accessible, it is an ideal textbook for students who are new to the subject and for university undergraduates. The book is divided into …
Stolen Horses
Av Dan O'Brien
Häftad, 2010
252 kr
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Honor Book, 2011 Nebraska Book Awards, Fiction CategoryForeword Reviews, 2011 Book of the Year, Silver Award, General FictionMcDermot, Nebraska, is a pleasant, scenic western cattle town situated in the Pawnee River valley-just the place for people seeking refuge from their hectic city lives. It is …
Contract Surgeon
A Novel
Av Dan O'Brien
Häftad, 2011
252 kr
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Winner of the Western Heritage Award, this beautifully crafted historical novel from one of the West’s most popular writers tells the true story of the friendship between Valentine McGillycuddy, a young doctor plucked from his prestigious medical career and newly married wife to serve in the army …
Indian Agent
A Novel
Av Dan O'Brien
Häftad, 2011
252 kr
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Dan O'Brien's earlier award-winning novel The Contract Surgeon introduced readers to Valentine McGillycuddy, a friend of the great war chief Crazy Horse. Through McGillycuddy's eyes, the novel recounts the friendship that so deeply impacted history. It also chronicles the great Sioux Wars, one of …
Wild Idea
Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land
Av Dan O'Brien
Inbunden, 2014
391 kr
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For more than forty years the prairies of South Dakota have been Dan O'Brien's home. Working as a writer and an endangered-species biologist, he became convinced that returning grass-fed, free-roaming buffalo to the grasslands of the northern plains would return natural balance to the region and …
Great Plains Bison
Av Dan O'Brien
Häftad, 2017
211 kr
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A Project of the Center for Great Plains Studies and the School of Natural Resources, University of NebraskaGreat Plains Bison traces the history and ecology of this American symbol from the origins of the great herds that once dominated the prairie to its near extinction in the late nineteenth …
Teleology and Modernity
Av William Gibson, Dan O'Brien m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2512 kr
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The main and original contribution of this volume is to offer a discussion of teleology through the prism of religion, philosophy and history. The goal is to incorporate teleology within discussions across these three disciplines rather than restrict it to one as is customarily the case. The …
Irish Questions and Jewish Questions
Crossovers in Culture
Inbunden, 2018
764 kr
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The Irish and the Jews are two of the classic outliers of modern Europe. Both struggled with their lack of formal political sovereignty in the nineteenth-century. Simultaneously European and not European, both endured a bifurcated status, perceived as racially inferior and yet also seen as a …
Irish Questions and Jewish Questions
Crossovers in Culture
Häftad, 2018
396 kr
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The Irish and the Jews are two of the classic outliers of modern Europe. Both struggled with their lack of formal political sovereignty in the nineteenth-century. Simultaneously European and not European, both endured a bifurcated status, perceived as racially inferior and yet also seen as a …
Fine Meshwork
Philip Roth, Edna O'Brien and Jewish-Irish Literature
Av Dan O'Brien
Inbunden, 2020
918 kr
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In a 1984 interview with longtime friend Edna O’Brien, Philip Roth describes her writing as ""a piece of fine meshwork, a net of perfectly observed sensuous details that enables you to contain all the longing and pain and remorse that surge through the fiction."" The phrase ""fine meshwork"" not …
Fine Meshwork
Philip Roth, Edna O'Brien and Jewish-Irish Literature
Av Dan O'Brien
Häftad, 2020
410 kr
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In a 1984 interview with longtime friend Edna O’Brien, Philip Roth describes her writing as ""a piece of fine meshwork, a net of perfectly observed sensuous details that enables you to contain all the longing and pain and remorse that surge through the fiction."" The phrase ""fine meshwork"" not …
Irish Questions and Jewish Questions
Crossovers in Culture
E-bok, 2018
482 kr
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The Irish and the Jews are two of the classic outliers of modern Europe. Both struggled with their lack of formal political sovereignty in the nineteenth-century. Simultaneously European and not European, both endured a bifurcated status, perceived as racially inferior and yet also seen as a …
Fine Meshwork
Philip Roth, Edna O''Brien, and Jewish-Irish Literature
Av Dan O'Brien
E-bok, 2020
538 kr
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In a 1984 interview with longtime friend Edna O’Brien, Philip Roth describes her writing as "a piece of fine meshwork, a net of perfectly observed sensuous details that enables you to contain all the longing and pain and remorse that surge through the fiction." The phrase "fine meshwork" can apply …
Hume on Testimony
Av Dan O'Brien
Häftad, 2024
648 kr
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This book is the first devoted to Hume’s conception of testimony. Hume is usually taken to be a reductionist with respect to testimony, with trust in others dependent on the evidence possessed by individuals concerning the reliability of texts or speakers. This account is taken from Hume’s essay on …
Teleology and Modernity
Av Marius Turda, Dan O'Brien m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
831 kr
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The main and original contribution of this volume is to offer a discussion of teleology through the prism of religion, philosophy and history. The goal is to incorporate teleology within discussions across these three disciplines rather than restrict it to one as is customarily the case. The …
Teleology and Modernity
Av Marius Turda, Dan O'Brien m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
831 kr
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The main and original contribution of this volume is to offer a discussion of teleology through the prism of religion, philosophy and history. The goal is to incorporate teleology within discussions across these three disciplines rather than restrict it to one as is customarily the case. The …
Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone
Cultivating Wisdom
Av Dan O'Brien
E-bok, 2011
228 kr
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Philosophy and gardens have been closely connected from the dawn of philosophy, with many drawing on their beauty and peace for philosophical inspiration. Gardens in turn give rise to a broad spectrum of philosophical questions. For the green-fingered thinker, this book reflects on a whole host of …
Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone
Cultivating Wisdom
Häftad, 2010
202 kr
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Philosophy and gardens have been closely connected from the dawn of philosophy, with many drawing on their beauty and peace for philosophical inspiration. Gardens in turn give rise to a broad spectrum of philosophical questions. For the green-fingered thinker, this book reflects on a whole host of …
Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone
Cultivating Wisdom
Av Dan O'Brien
E-bok, 2011
228 kr
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Philosophy and gardens have been closely connected from the dawn of philosophy, with many drawing on their beauty and peace for philosophical inspiration. Gardens in turn give rise to a broad spectrum of philosophical questions. For the green-fingered thinker, this book reflects on a whole host of …
