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100 Most Popular Children's Authors

Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies

A guide based on a 1997 survey of popular children's book authors provides biographical sketches and selected bibliographies for such writers as Beverly Cleary, Lois Lawry, Lewis Carroll, Mary Downing Hahn, and C.S. Lewis.

I love reading, British style crossword puzzles, and drawing silly cartoons for my
own amusement. " Always a reader, Alexander's message for those who read his
books is, "Read! Read every book you can get. Each book we read adds ...

The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors

Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies

Offers brief biographies, annotated listings of each author's works, and suggestions for additional reading

for a department store, taught high school English, and lectured as a college
English professor. ... Both of our lives are filled with words, whether it's teaching
composition courses, doing crossword puzzles, or fighting our ongoing Scrabble
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Konsep monarki konstitusional kerajaan Luwu

Writing about Lives in Science

(Auto)Biography, Gender, and Genre

Following discussions on scientific biography carried out over the past few decades, this book proposes a kaleidoscopic survey of the uses of biography as a tool to understand science and its context. It offers food for thought on the role played by the gender of the biographer and the biographee in the process of writing. To provide orientation in such a challenging field, some of the authors have accepted to write about their own professional experience while reflecting on the case studies they have been working on. Focusing on (auto)biography may help us to build bridges between different approaches to men and women's lives in science. The authors belong to a variety of academic and professional fields, including the history of science, anthropology, literary studies, and science journalism. The period covered spans from 1732, when Laura Bassi was the first woman to get a tenured professorship of physics, to 2009, when Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol W. Greider were the first women's team to have won a Nobel Prize in science.

Some of the most interesting works in the recent history of science have explored
the ways in which value is attached to ... strategy for addressing more general
questions about the ways in which knowledge is made, and made authoritative.

The quest for community and identity

critical essays in Africana social philosophy

This collection of essays engages two of the most fundamental social and political issues of our time: community and identity. Wrestling with the perplexities of these two issues within the Africana world, the contributors delve into the influences of a postmodern world of globalization with outdated, crumbling forms of identity and sociality. In the wake of such an order, new forms of identity and community must be established.

Fatimah L. C. Jackson, "Anthropological Measurement: The Mismeasure of
African Americans," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
Science 568 (March 2000): 154-171. 12. K. Anthony Appiah, In My Father's
House: ...

Longman Dictionary of Twentieth 20th Century Biography

Offers brief profiles of more than 1700 men and women associated with modern politics, art, literature, philosophy, sports, medicine, and science

Offers brief profiles of more than 1700 men and women associated with modern politics, art, literature, philosophy, sports, medicine, and science

Believe to Achieve: The Power of Perseverance

This is an inspiring and uplifting personal memoir about overcoming adversity, creating high expectations and aspirations, and the discovery of purpose in life. Although born without a left hand, Lynn Effinger never let that fact keep him from doing whatever it was that he really wanted to do. He learned at an early age that he had an important choice to make; he could either sit in the corner of his room and feel sorry for himself or he could simply go out and do those things he wanted to -- never letting others define who he was or what he could accomplish. He chose wisely. By playing Little League Baseball and other sports as a youngster, and performing well, the author also learned he could be more readily accepted by his classmates and earn self-respect and self-esteem through the positive recognition he received from family, friends, and teachers. Lynn shares with the reader many of his experiences and inner-most thoughts growing up that shaped his character, determination and drive to succeed. He also describes his decision upon entering high school to play varsity football by the time he became a senior and the trials and tribulations experienced in the process of achieving that lofty goal despite the many challenges he faced. And there is the exciting play-by-play account of the Championship Game during his senior season that had such an impact on his life. As a result of his efforts, following his senior year Lynn was given a "Responsibility" by one of his football coaches to help others learn to overcome adversity to be the best that they can be. The story builds as Lynn discovers how he will fulfill that responsibility and the life-changing course he embarked upon that so many thought was an impossible dream... an attempt to earn a free-agent tryout with an NFL team and by doing so setting an example to others that through hard work, determination and perseverance you can achieve your loftiest goals. Because he believed so passionately in his mission, in himself and his abilities, and most of all because he believed he was compelled to reach this major goal by a power much greater than himself, and achieve it, Lynn's story captivates the reader and makes this a genuine page-turner. The book itself encourages the reader to believe that they too can achieve greater goals than anyone might think possible. This entertaining and enlightening autobiography ultimately serves as a guide for others to learn to overcome adversity to be the best that you can be. Not just in sports, but in business. Lynn's story moves beyond his athletic achievements and explains how he applied the same principles necessary to achieve his athletic successes to his vocational life, over and over again. Those principles, which he refers to as "The Winning Ways to Peak Performance," are clearly explained within this tome. Lynn also goes into detail how becoming an accomplished motivational speaker has enabled him to continue to fulfill the responsibility that his football coach instilled in him so many years ago. Lynn's inspiring memoir is another way for him to fulfill that responsibility; to spread the word far and wide and to ensure that he reaches as many people as he possibly can on his mission to "finish well." It is intended to convince YOU that you must BELIEVE to ACHIEVE.

This is an inspiring and uplifting personal memoir about overcoming adversity, creating high expectations and aspirations, and the discovery of purpose in life.

Philip Roth

Essays to help you understand and appreciate the works of Philip Roth.

After the success of his novel Camovsky in 1969 (the year of Portnoy, of course),
people accost Nathan Zuckerman ... He'd seen it! . . . You don't believe me, do
you? You can't believe that what you write about people has real consequences.

The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1829

With this seventh volume, The Papers of Andrew Jackson enters the heart of Jackson's career: his tumultuous two terms as president of the United States. The year 1829 began with Jackson fresh from a triumphant victory over incumbent John Quincy Adams in the 1828 campaign, yet mourning the sudden death of his beloved wife, Rachel. In January, having hired an overseer for his Hermitage plantation and arranged for Rachel's tomb, he left Tennessee for Washington. Jackson assumed the presidency with two objectives already fixed in mind: purging the federal bureaucracy of recreant officeholders and removing the southern Indian tribes westward beyond state authority. By year's end he had added two more: purchasing Texas and destroying the Bank of the United States. But meanwhile he found himself diverted, and nearly consumed, by the notorious Peggy Eaton affair--a burgeoning scandal which pitted the president, his Secretary of War John Eaton, and the latter's vivacious wife against the Washington guardians of feminine propriety. This first presidential volume reveals all these stories, and many more, in a depth never seen before. It presents full texts of more than four hundred documents, most printed for the first time. Gathered from a vast array of libraries, archives, and individual owners, they include Jackson's intimate exchanges with family and friends, private notes and musings, and formative drafts of public addresses. Administrative papers range from presidential pardons to military promotions to plans for discharging the public debt. They exhibit Jackson's daily conduct of the executive office in close and sometimes startling detail, and cast new light on such controversial mattersas Indian removal and political patronage. Included also are letters to the president from people in every corner of the country and every walk of life: Indian delegations presenting grievances, distraught mothers pleading help for wayward sons, aged veterans begging pensions, politicians offering advice and seeking jobs. Embracing a broad spectrum of actors and events, this volume offers an incomparable window not only into Jackson and his presidency, but into America itself in 1829.

Andrew Jackson, Harold D. Moser, Daniel Feller, Laura-Eve Moss Sam B. Smith,
Harriet Fason Chappell Owsley ... Dr. Sir The bearer Major Nathan Reid, who is
the son of Major Nathan Reid an old revolutionary officer va, and a particular ...