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A “Mighty World-Force”: Wheat as Natural Corrective in Norris

Kathryn Cornell Dolan.

in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

September 2012; published online July 2012.

Journal Article. Subjects: literary theory and cultural studies; environment. 9413 words.

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“A Bizarre Ecology” The Nature of Denatured Nature

Molly Wallace.

in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

January 2000; published online January 2000.

Journal Article. Subjects: literary theory and cultural studies; environment. 0 words.

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“A Collective of Individuals”: Between Self and Solidarity in a Rainbow Gathering*

Iddo Tavory and Yehuda C. Goodman.

in Sociology of Religion

January 2009; published online August 2009.

Journal Article. Subjects: sociology of religion; religion. 9955 words.

Using ethnographic fieldwork, this paper examines the relation between practices of individuality and solidarity in an alternative spiritual gathering called “The Rainbow” in Israel. Following the...

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“A Gift from God”: Adolescent Motherhood and Religion in Brazilian Favelas

Liza G. Steele.

in Sociology of Religion

January 2011; published online November 2010.

Journal Article. Subjects: sociology of religion; religion. 10451 words.

This study seeks to understand how young, unmarried mothers and mothers-to-be in the favelas (shantytowns) of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, have experienced religious morality as applied to themselves and...

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“A Minister of Happiness”: Nature in Beecher's America

William W. Stowe.

in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

January 2006; published online January 2006.

Journal Article. Subjects: literary theory and cultural studies; environment. 0 words.

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A (Not So) Modest Proposal

Paul Siegel.

in The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education

January 2010; published online May 2009.

Journal Article. Subjects: education; linguistics; teaching of specific groups and special educational needs. 552 words.

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“A Timely and On-Time Journal...”

Marc Marschark.

in The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education

January 2000; published online January 2000.

Journal Article. Subjects: education; linguistics; teaching of specific groups and special educational needs. 0 words.

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Abandoned New England: Landscape in the Works of Homer, Frost, Hopper, Wyeth, and Bishop

Thomas Bailey.

in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

January 2006; published online January 2006.

Journal Article. Subjects: literary theory and cultural studies; environment. 0 words.

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Abandoning Informed Consent: An Idea Whose Time Has Not Yet Come

Becky Cox White.

in The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine

January 1998; published online January 1998.

Journal Article. Subjects: philosophy; public policy; bioethics; medical ethics. 0 words.

In a recent critique of informed consent, Robert Veatch argues that the practice is in principle unable to attain the goals for which it was developed. We argue that Veatch's focus on the...

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The ABCs of New Zealand Sign Language: Aerial Spelling

Wayne Forman.

in The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education

January 2003; published online January 2003.

Journal Article. Subjects: education; linguistics; teaching of specific groups and special educational needs. 0 words.

Aerial spelling is the term given here for the way many deaf people in New Zealand, especially the elderly, manually represent letters of the alphabet. It is simply a system using the index...

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