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Three authors of novels for middle - grade / middle school students discuss the value of including fiction in teaching various curriculum areas — and not just designating novels as «extra-credit!»
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She is the author of novels for middle - graders and teens, including The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah and Anything But Typical, which won the ALA Schneider Family Award.
She is also the author of a novel for young readers, The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman.
She is the author of novels for middle - graders and teens, including The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah and... (more)
I'm Victoria Strauss, author of novels for adults and young adults.
Not exact matches
The adaptation of author E.L. James» erotic novel won worst screenplay, worst actor for Jamie Dornan and worst actress for Dakota Johnson during Saturday's 36th annual Golden Raspberry Awards, according to the Associated Press.
The author of three novels and a memoir on his parents» romantic life, Lanchester is a layman writing for laymen.
His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamfor David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of MesopotamFor Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.
A former columnist for the National Post, Anne is also the author of two novels and has edited a book of writing advice.
Reading novels can improve empathy and understanding of social cues, allowing a leader to better work with and understand others — traits that author Anne Kreamer persuasively linked to increased organizational effectiveness, and to pay raises and promotions for the leaders who possessed these qualities.
William Goldman, the author of the beloved Princess Bride novel that became the beloved Princess Bride movie, told fans that he'd love to write a sequel to his book, but has not been able to think of an idea for it.»
There can be no doubt that the author of these words also had in mind the purpose of a novel, perhaps one that would help break the spell of current assumptions in order to surprise us with the complicated truth about ourselves — with more dreams than we have dared to dream in what passes for our philosophy.
Borg is the author of nineteen books, including the bestselling «The Heart of Christianity», «Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time», «Reading the Bible Again for the First Time», and the novel «Putting Away Childish Things.»
gave me a chance to rediscover Jane Austen, not least because she is my mother's favorite author: For not only does the Oakesian matriarch own all six of the Austen novels in the elegant Oxford edition, but Park Honan's marvelous biography, Jane Austen: Her Life, occupies a prominent place on her bookshelf as well ¯ which I gobbled up (naturally) even more avidly than I did the novels.
Today's guest post comes all the way from Laos, where my friend Lisa McKay — author of the highly acclaimed novel, My Hands Came Away Red — lives with her husband Mike, who works for a humanitarian organization in the region.
Then, Julia conjures the spirit of the William Peter Blatty, who died earlier this month, and discusses The Exorcist — that very Catholic work of horror, for which he authored both novel and screenplay.
Author Dan Brown also used the idea of Jesus being married as a jumping off point for the fictional novel «The Da Vinci Code.»
Almost two decades ago, authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins chose a similar premise for their Left Behind series of novels, which sold more than 65 million copies and has now spawned a big screen adaptation starring (almost unthinkably) Nicolas Cage.
International experts in other disciplines joined them including novelist Laura Esquivel, author of the hugely popular novel Like Water for Chocolate; Kirmen Uribe, one of the most widely read and translated Basque language authors; Cristina Franchini, an expert on International Law; Matthew Goldfarb, organic farmer, rural sociologist and expert in sustainable production; and María Fernanda di Giacobbe, winner of the 2016 Basque Culinary World Prize.
Susan Peterson is the author of five books, including «Western Herbs for Martial Artists and Contact Athletes» and «Clare: A Novel.»
Cecil Castellucci is the author of books and graphic novels for young adults and the young at heart.
It shows that Dorries — who is the author of novels such as The Four Streets, Ruby Flynn and The Angels of Lovely Lane - has just pocketed a # 50,000 advance payment for her next book.
Author Robert Harris turns to the mysteries of the papal conclave for his new novel — ambition and intrigues are familiar ground to a former political journalist
«Complex models are needed to effectively evaluate PMed study designs, and this proof - of - concept trial validates the dog with cancer as a model for clinical evaluation of novel PMed approaches,» said Dr. Melissa Paoloni, the study's lead author and former director of the COTC.
«What's new here is we figured out how to deliver a drug into the inner ear so it actually stays put and does what it's supposed to do, and that's novel,» said Charles E. McKenna, a corresponding author for the study and chemistry professor at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
Polly Shulman is a contributing editor for Science and the author of Enthusiasm, a novel for teenagers.
«The discovery introduces — for the first time — stem cell - based «biological resynchronization» as a novel means to treat cardiac dyssynchrony,» says Andre Terzic, M.D., Ph.D., senior author of the study.
«One area we are focused on is the identification and characterization of novel viruses,» said the paper's senior author Gustavo Palacios, Ph.D., who directs USAMRIID's Center for Genome Sciences.
«These new breathing techniques could represent a breakthrough for athletes seeking help with breathing during training and competition,» said J. Tod Olin, MD, senior author of the study, developer of the novel breathing techniques and Associate Professor of medicine at National Jewish Health in Denver, CO..
Dr Toby Pillinger, first author of the study from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London, said: «The mortality gap between people with schizophrenia and the general population is growing, and there is a need for novel approaches to halt this trend.
Publishing their findings this week in the academic journal Nature Communications, author Dr Nick Aldred says the findings could pave the way for the development of novel synthetic bioadhesives for use in medical implants and micro-electronics.
Mark Poznansky, MD, PhD, director of the MGH - VIC and senior author of the Wound Repair and Regeneration report adds, «Having a novel therapeutic that is based on the immediate isolation of a patient's own cells, with minimal manipulation, will represent an attractive option for the wound care field; and a successful option that accelerates healing would greatly benefit patients, as diabetic ulcers typically need up to a year or more heal.
«These novel luminescent nanoparticles, called upconversion nanoparticles, have become promising candidates for a whole variety of ultra-high tech applications such as biological sensing, biomedical imaging and 3D volumetric displays,» says lead author Dr Tim Zhao, from the University of Adelaide's School of Physical Sciences and Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS).
«Because we found changes in the brain as a consequence of binge eating that were predictive of decreased myelination, therapeutically promoting remyelination may represent a novel treatment avenue for promoting recovery from negative feeding behaviors in eating disorders,» explained corresponding author Camron Bryant, PhD, assistant professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics & Psychiatry at BUSM.
«As a powerful model system for studying adult stem cells, Drosophila female GSCs have revealed many novel regulatory strategies which have been later confirmed to be generally true,» adds Su Wang, a co-first author of the paper and also a graduate student in Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at University of Kansas Medical Center.
Regardless, understanding the conditions under which productivity enhancing innovation occurs is critical for economic development and can provide novel insights into the arise of new inventions, according to the authors.
Professor Sean Connolly from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE) at James Cook University (JCU) is the lead author of the international study, which he says overturns the long - used theory by employing a novel mathematical method.
Multiple mesh - based procedures for SUI are a novel risk factor associated with an almost 5-fold higher rate of mesh removal or revision, and the safety of this practice should be studied further,» the authors write.
Anthropologist Shara Bailey, an expert in ancient human teeth at New York University in New York City, says that «the barium method is novel and appears to be even more powerful» than previous approaches, adding that despite small sample sizes, «the authors present a strong argument for the utility of this method for extrapolating weaning history.»
Our findings provide novel evidence suggesting that certain fruits may be especially beneficial for lowering diabetes risk,» said senior author Qi Sun, assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition at HSPH and assistant professor at the Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Coupled with a review of these results by experts on a molecular tumor board, the opportunity exists to identify novel therapies that would target specific abnormalities,» notes senior author of the work, Shridar Ganesan, MD, PhD, associate director for translational science at Rutgers Cancer Institute and associate professor of medicine and pharmacology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
«This is very novel information that begs for more research,» said cardiologist Richard G. Bach, MD, the study's senior author and an associate professor of medicine at Washington University.
«Further understanding of the mechanisms of [the improvement found in this study] could provide novel insights for the elimination of racial differences in survival for other conditions,» the authors write.
A recent study led by Alice Lam, MD, PhD, also of the MGH Epilepsy Service and lead author of the current study demonstrated a novel tool for detecting hippocampal seizures not detectible by scalp EEGs in patients with epilepsy, Cole adds, and his team is working to refine this tool and apply it to Alzheimer's disease.
«I think this paper is novel in that we're presenting some of the first indirect effects of sea ice loss for an Arctic whale species,» said lead author Donna Hauser, a postdoctoral researcher at the UW's Polar Science Center and former doctoral student at the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences.
The findings «highlight the need for novel strategies to inhibit EGFR even in the presence of this [C797S] mutation,» the authors said.
«Our novel results indicate that impulsivity may be a risk factor for uncontrolled eating and excessive weight gain,» said lead study author Christian L. Roth, M.D., professor of pediatrics at the Seattle Children's Research Institute in Washington.
«There have been few studies on fruiting cherry trees with respect to novel irrigation strategies such as partial and deficit irrigation, which have been intensively researched worldwide for several other tree fruits,» said Gerry Neilsen, lead author of the study.
«In this study, we developed a novel method for controlled crumpling of graphene and graphite via heat - induced contractile deformation of the underlying substrate,» explained Michael Cai Wang, a graduate student and first author of the paper, «Heterogeneous, Three - Dimensional Texturing of Graphene,» which appeared in the journal Nano Letters.
«This study, done using a mouse model, expands our understanding of how associative fear memory for a relevant context is encoded in the brain,» said Cho, the lead author of the study and a member of the UCR School of Medicine's Center for Glial - Neuronal Interactions, «and could inform the development of novel therapeutics to reduce pathological fear in PTSD.»