Against the Grain

  • Against the Grain: An Irreverent View of Alberta
    By Catherine Ford

    Emily Murphy, a writer and journalist was told she could not be named a Canadian senator because she wasn't a “qualified person.” This, regardless of what she had contributed to her community as reformer and suffragette, ...

  • Against the Grain
    By Steve Fiffer, Eugene Morris

    The former football player for the Miami Dolphins recounts his battle with post-football financial disaster, cocaine addiction, incapacitating medical problems, and a conviction for hyped-up drug charges that he fought all the way to State ...

  • Against the Grain: A rebours
    By J. K. Huysmans

    " The novel did receive great publicity on its release, but even though it was heavily criticized it also became influential with a new generation of writers and aesthetes.

  • Against the Grain
    By J-K Huysmans

    Because of his extreme sensitivity to the absurd and the grotesque in human affairs, des Esseintes, who is really a mouthpiece for Huysmans himself, has estranged himself from 19th-century society and leads a hermit-like existence in an ...

  • Against the Grain
    By John Howard, J-K 1848-1907 Huysmans

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.

  • Against the Grain
    By John Howard, J-K Huysmans

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

  • Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection
    By Museum of Modern Art, John Elderfield, Edward R. Broida

    ... S. Lauder Chairman Emeritus Eli Broad Edward R. Broida Clarissa Alcock Bronfman Donald L. Bryant , Jr. Thomas S. ... Cowles ** Douglas S. Cramer Lewis B. Cullman ** Gianluigi Gabetti * Howard Gardner Maurice R. Greenberg ** Vartan ...

  • Against the Grain: Bombthrowing in the Fine American Tradition of Political Cartooning
    By Bill Sanders

    Both groups sprang from Citizens for a Sound Economy (CES), an organization founded and financed by the Koch brothers in 1984. The underlying vision was to reshape public support for a government like that which existed in the era of ...

  • Against the Grain: Selected Essays
    By Rodney Symington, Hans Eichner

    Hans Eichner has enjoyed a distinguished career as one of North America's most productive and insightful literary scholars.

  • Against the Grain
    By James Haydock

    The book dramatizes the plight of abolitionist Quakers living in eastern North Carolina during the Civil War.

  • Against the Grain: How to Succeed in Business by Peddling Heresy
    By Joel M. Stern

    Bryant Gumbel, the host at that time, had Sullivan speak first.He madeaneloquent case forsanctions, while I was shaking myhead inthe London NBC studio. Whenmy turn came,Imade my argument about thedismaleffect sanctions wouldhave on the ...

  • Against the Grain: Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship
    By Marcelo Spina, Georgina Huljich, Alan Organschi

    Against the Grain, features the work of three studios of the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors at Yale.

  • Against the Grain: Insights from an Economic Contrarian
    By Paul Ormerod

    This book accepts many of the criticisms of conventional theory but argues that the fundamental insights of economics are capable of reinterpretation and reinvention to deal with a host of contemporary concerns – social networks, ...

  • Against the Grain
    By Michael Woods, Ramona Woods

    Against the Grain

  • Against the Grain: A Historian's Journey
    By Jerold S. Auerbach

    His office had never contained much more than the bare essentials; desks, chairs, files, and telephones; a huge safe, with multiple dials, wheels, and handles, for overnight storage of precious gems and metals; and a quaint little bell ...

  • Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
    By James C. Scott

    In Philip S. Khoury and Joseph Kostiner, eds., Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East, 153–182. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. ———. “The Shadow Empires: Imperial State Formation Along the ... In Susan E. Alcock, ...

  • Against the Grain: Colonel Henry M. Lazelle and the U.S. Army
    By James Carson

    After graduating from West Point in 1855, he scouted with Kit Carson, was wounded by Apaches, and spent nearly a year as a "paroled" prisoner-of-war at the outbreak of the Civil War.

  • Against the Grain: Advances in Postcolonial Organization Studies
    By Anshuman Prasad

    Where Does Economic Development Really Come From ? Constitutional rule among the modern Sioux and Apache . John F. Kennedy School of Government , Harvard University www.ksg.harvard.edu/hpaied/pubs/pub_010.htm ( accessed 28/02/2006 ) ...

  • Against the Grain: Parody, Satire, and Intertextuality in Russian Literature
    By Janet G. Tucker

    Against the Grain: Parody, Satire, and Intertextuality in Russian Literature

  • Against the Grain: Beverley Farmer's Writing
    By Lyn Jacobs

    “ The Art of the Impossible ” , Island Magazine , 29 , Summer , 1986/87 . " Letter to Judith Brett " , Meanjin Vol . 45 , No. 1 , March 1986 , p.142 . “ Lives of Modern Women ” , Island Magazine 28 , Spring 1986 , pp.3-5 .