Browsing by Author "Shepherd, Gary"

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    About Water: an Interview with Jerry Dennis, Author of The Living Great Lakes
    (Oakland University, 2013-01-01) Freeman, John; Greene, Janae; Haar, Catherine; Horning, Alice; Kraemer, Elizabeth W.; Shepherd, Gary; Walwema, Josephine; Cole, Natalie B.
    Jerry Dennis, a Traverse City resident and author of many books about nature and outdoor recreation, visited Oakland University on October 26 and 27, 2011 to speak about the Great lakes and his books, The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas (St. Martins Press, 2003) and The Windward Shore: A Winter on the Great Lakes (University of Michigan Press, 2011). He spoke to the university community, and met with students in the Honors College and in the OU Writing Center, where he talked about working as a writer. In addition, a small group of faculty and students in the department of Writing and Rhetoric and from Kresge library and the Honors College interviewed Mr. Dennis about water issues and about his life as a working writer.
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    Blood on Blanket Hill
    (Oakland University, 2009-10-01) Shepherd, Gary; Folland, Sherman T.
    Reflections from a 1995 interview conducted by Gary Shepherd with Gail Roberts, an attorney, in her modest frame home in a working class neighborhood in Akron, Ohio while conducting research on the 1970 Kent State shootings and the related topics of student radicalism in the 1960s and 1970s.
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    Hello Sociology
    (Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Shepherd, Gary; Nixon, Jude V.
    The story of all success is typically sprinkled with good fortune—being in the right place at the right time or knowing the right people who can help. But prior to being in that right place and time, there has been a preparation process, an accumulation of knowledge, skills, insights, attitudes, and values that you have picked up along the way.
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    The Moral Career of a New Religious Movement
    (Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Shepherd, Gordon; Shepherd, Gary; Brieger, Gottfried
    The Family’s emphasis on the Bible and its attempt to reinstate such early Christian practices as “sharing all things in common” and full-time dedication to evangelize the world for Jesus “without purse or script,” taking “no thought for the morrow,” are sectarian Christian themes. At the same time, its radical sexual teachings and practices, its origins in the prophetic claims of David Berg, and its continuing dependency on direct revelatory guidance from Jesus (as well as Dad’s departed spirit) clearly mark The Family as a new religious “cult movement” in the sociological sense.