(22 December) NEW: A personal
narrative of my research career, showing how my ideas about climate change have evolved since I was an undergraduate student (1978 - 1981) and placing my publications into this historical account.
Not exact matches
Donald T. Critchlow's impressively
researched Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism, a
narrative of Schlafly's political
career, explains that it was this unyielding quality
of hers — her resolute refusal to cultivate the intellectual and cultural elites
of either coast, even the conservative intellectual and cultural elites who were her natural ideological allies — that provided the astonishing power that she managed to wield in American politics for more than three decades.
In service
of that institutional need, academic culture has fostered the misleading
narrative that graduate school and postdoc positions are solely intended to prepare young scientists for academic
research careers rather than for a range
of nonacademic and even nonresearch endeavors.
But Sturm, senior scientist at the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers Cold Regions
Research and Engineering Laboratory in Fairbanks, Alaska, had not done two things in his notable
career: taken an outlandish trek to explore the human history
of the North or written a
narrative book.