Sentences with phrase «first modern author»

This culminates, in terms of the book's narrative, with the early eighteenth - century origins of intellectual property law: «An Act for the Encouragement of Learning,» otherwise known as the Statute of Anne 1710, the first modern author - based copyright legislature.

Not exact matches

«These conditions have combined to produce the first legal marijuana markets in modern times,» the authors note.

since the modern day Christains are nOT the authors of the NT.and they abuse Hebrews 11:1 taking it out of contexct since it did not stop at the first verse.

Christopher Calderhead, author of Illuminating the Word: The Making of the Saint John's Bible (Liturgical), points out that in the case of a modern book the reader is the first to see any particular copy — it is sometimes wrapped in cellophane at the printer's and opened for the first time by the purchaser.

And Reva Seth, author of First Comes Marriage: Modern Relationship Advice from the Wisdom of Arranged Marriages, reveals the No. 1 «secret» of a successful marriage: Your man doesn't have to be your best friend.

Many authors consider hot - air balloons, which were developed in the late 16th century, to be the first step towards modern UAVs.

First, it's a piece of music intended to make a political point about a modern conflict, one inherent in the nature of networked digital communications — authors and copyright holders have long profited from creative works by charging to distribute them, but in a digital world, books, music and movies can be made in unlimited copies and shared essentially for free.

First published anonymously in 1818, the book and subsequent films and plays have become what Jon Turney, author of the book Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture, calls «the governing myth of modern biology»: a cautionary tale of scientific hubris.

14 Meanwhile, in the humble brick - and - mortar world: Sci - fi author Gene Wolfe helped develop the machine that cooks Pringles, while Robert Heinlein conceived the first modern water bed.

We've used modern molecular approaches to characterize the vaginal microbiome and link specific bacteria to HIV acquisition risk in young women living in Sub-Saharan Africa, where HIV is most profound,» says first author Christina Gosmann, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard.

Dr David Poznik, from Stanford University, California, first author on the paper, said: «We identified more than 60,000 positions where one DNA letter was replaced by another in a man with modern descendants, and we discovered thousands of more complex DNA variants.

The two teams did differ on one question, however: whether Middle Eastern farmers first spread from the Levantine coast (modern day Israel, Lebanon, and Syria), the conclusion of the Fernández group; or from the southern coast of modern - day Turkey, as found by the Proceedings authors.

Dr Ricardo Rodríguez Varela, researcher at Stockholm University and lead author of the study, explains: «By generating the first autosomal genetic data from these populations we can conclusively demonstrate that the Guanches were most closely related to modern North Africans of Berber ancestry than to any other population we included for comparisons, supporting previous studies but adding more detail and nuance.»

Corey is the author of «20 Ways the World Could End,» one of the first doomsday manuals, and «God in the Equation,» an examination of the spiritual impulse in modern cosmology.

To get to the bottom of the dating - meets - fashion debate, we enlisted Chiara Atik, a dating expert, blogger, and author of «Modern Dating: A Field Guide,» and asked her this question: Does what you wear on a first date really matter?

Although it may seem a bit unconventional for our modern society — it sparked a bit of criticism upon its release — this first book from author Joshua Harris is an insightful book, touching on concepts from genuine purity, purposeful singleness, and sincere love.

Erika founded A Little Nudge and is the author of Love at First Site: Tips & Tales for Online Dating Success from a Modern - Day Matchmaker.

Based on the first major work of Pulitzer Prize - winning author John Steinbeck, this rousing tale of farm laborers fighting for a few more dollars a day takes on modern relevance as workers across the U.S. continue the struggle for a living wage.

This talented first - time author has made the classic Chorus Line theme modern and bright for the Glee generation.

Author David Morrell, who has been called «the father of the modern action novel,» may be best known as the creator of Rambo, the scarred American soldier who first appeared in Morrell's debut, First Bfirst appeared in Morrell's debut, First BFirst Blood.

As for one of my personal favorite authors, Francesca Lia Block, her second novel, Witch Baby — unlike Lipsyte and Cormier's — is a sequel, following her first, the modern classic Weetzie Bat.

First Impressions By Charlie Lovett Penguin • $ 16 • ISBN 9780143127727 In two parallel narratives, Lovett portrays Jane Austen's friendship with a young clergyman in Hampshire in 1796 and a modern - day bookseller in Oxfordshire who begins to suspect that Austen was not the actual author of Pride and Prejudice.

Margaret Cavendish, one of the inventors of science fiction and one of the first successful female authors of the modern age, was unabashedly ambitious and wildly eccentric.

I had written a post, Kickstart Your Indie Project, on Indies Unlimited in favor of Kickstarter, and my fellow IU writer Rich Meyer had written one, Mendicancy — The First Refuge of The Modern Indie, critiquing the idea of independent authors asking for money to fund their book costs.

On the first day of the show, congressional candidate turned bestselling political author, Kevin Powell, signed copies of his 11th book «Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, and the Ghost of Dr. King,» which explores modern politics and pop culture through recent events such as the tragic murder of Trayvon Martin.

The first in our series of tools for the modern author covers a little - known tool for our Kindles.

Piracy «is present, in mutated form, in the second volume from 1615 of the first modern novel, Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel Cervantes, when the author refers to an unauthorized continuation of the first volume of his Don Quijote by an imposter, a pirate of his ideas.»

Once Upon a Prince, the first novel in the Royal Wedding series by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hauck, treats you to a modern - day fairy tale.

For the first time in modern history, authors have a choice.

The pairing is the first in a what the publisher has dubbed a «major» new series, in which it will team modern authors with Austen's six novels, asking them to reimagine the books in a contemporary setting.

Called the Bridge series by catalogue author Richard S. Field, the new pieces comprised the first substantial body of work that Johns created following his major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1996.

And in 1931, Matisse was the subject of the Museum of Modern Art's first monographic exhibition, organized by its founding director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., whose continued advocacy of Matisse (organizing a larger retrospective, and authoring a substantial monograph in 1951) solidified Matisse's relevance to a younger generation — right as the New York art scene was on its way to replace Paris as the art capital of the world.

He also happens to own one of the finest collections of late - modern Americana — first editions, manuscripts, letters, and inscribed copies of Nabokov, Southern, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Salinger, Capote, Kesey, and Pynchon; multimedia material from Warhol, The Velvet Underground, Jim Morrison (whose poem and posthumous album, An American Prayer inspired the show's title), Bob Dylan, Robert Crumb, and Jimi Hendrix; and iconic material from four American authors who are bigger in France than in America: Philip K. Dick, Jim Thompson, Richard Brautigan, and Chester Himes.

In celebration of the publication of Judith E. Stein's Eye of the Sixties, Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art, the first - ever biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential and enigmatic art dealers, and of Miles Bellamy's Serious Bidness, a selection of his dad's hitherto unpublished letters, artists Mark di Suvero, Alfred Leslie, Richard Nonas and Rosalyn Drexler join the authors in a conversation about the legacy of Dick Bellamy.

Among the main female protagonists that inspired this research are Balkis Sharara, Rifat Chadirji's wife who in 1979 carried copies of his works into and out of Abu Ghraib allowing him to author three of his seminal books while in the prison; artist Nuha al - Radi whose diaries of 1990/91 describe the dynamics in the lives of Baghdad's people beyond the news coverage; an unknown young woman who stands out in the festivities of the gymnasium's 1990 new year concert; Fahrelnissa Zeid who was herself an artist (most recently the subject of a major exhibition at Tate Modern) and the wife of the Iraqi Ambassador in London when Le Corbusier received a telegram confirming the approval of his first design proposal for Baghdad; poet Iman Mersal who paid a solidarity visit to Baghdad under siege in 1993; Zaha Hadid whose architectural drawings influenced the imagination of architectural students in the 1990s; and others.

Glenn Lowry, the director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, noted that «Richter is the author of pictures so different from one another that at first glance they seem to be by different hands».

Okay, Halloweenies, whether «You're Going As Someone Who Is Not Going To Be A Supreme Court Justice» or «If You're Going As Some Other Member Of The Bush White House» or «If You're Going As An Author, Librarian, Or Allegedly Infringing Search Engine» or «If You're Going As A Blogger Or A Blawger» or «If You're Going As One About To Explode From The Pressures Of Modern Life In General» or any number of other costumes Denise Howell invented and tucked into her exhaustive wrap - up of last week's legal blogging, you should read Blawg Review # 30 first.