William Palmer: 23 books
In Search of Humanity
Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more...
The Wayward Pilgrim
A Pilgrimage to Santiago De Compostela in Northern Spain Is Stitched Together with Adventures, Side-Trips, and Visits to Sites Unknown to the Medieval Pilgrim.
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
The Wayward Pilgrim is an account of the desultory pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain made by a professor of Spanish on Sabbatical leave from the Salisbury University in Maryland. The professor undertakes the pilgrimage not as a religious experience but as an attempt to better understand...
The Burro Ranch
A Professor's Fantasy of a Burro Ranch Withers in the Desert Sun of New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
A retired professor of Spanish attempts to convert his fantasy of a Burro Ranch into a reality among the descendants of the original Mexican settlers near the pueblo of Bosque, New Mexico. Living in an adobe house on a ranch of about three acres, the professor sets out with the intention of restoring...
by Aka Black Palmer, William Senior
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Child of the Great Depression
Growing up Poor but Proud on the Eastern Shore of Maryland
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
In this book CHILD OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION, I try to recapture and revive the lore of the enduring legacy of Powellville. My, but there are so many things to remember: riding atop a load of tomatoes and throwing a tomato at every mailbox along the way, shooting marbles in the alley by the general...
by William M. Palmer, Alvin L. Braswell
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Based on more than twenty years of research in the field and in museum collections, Reptiles of North Carolina is the definitive work on the 71 reptile species found in the state. It is an indispensable resource for herpetologists, zoologists, ecologists, and wildlife managers, and it will be enjoyed...
by WILLIAM SCOTT PALMER
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it:
The moon is within me, and so is the sun.
The unstruck drum of Eternity is sounded within me;
but my deaf ears cannot hear it.
Kabir.
Deep in every one of us there is a passion of desire to understand,...
by William Elihu Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
This I can say to you, Dear Reader, is a story of love and marriage beyond the wonders that make of life a grand and incomprehensible mystery. Explain if you can, how a young, innocent Catholic girl in Madrid would become the wife of a naive, Protestant American traveler stopping-over in Madrid en...
by William Scott Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Deep in every one of us there is a passion of desire to understand, just as there is of desire to enjoy and of desire to be somehow or other 'in the right.' I say deep in us, because we are in the habit either of burying these desires beneath a pretence of satisfying them or else of diverting our...
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