Or those who take the e-reader on a summer vacation, and are happy to receive a signed hardcover
of a new novel from a favorite author.
«The subject
of the new novel from Heti is neither birth nor child - rearing, but the question of whether to want a child, which the unnamed narrator calls «the greatest secret I keep from myself»....
Not exact matches
«When I think about how I understand my role as citizen, setting aside being president, and the most important set
of understandings that I bring to that position
of citizen, the most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned
from novels,» he recently told The
New York Review
of Books.
«When I think about how I understand my role as citizen... the most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned
from novels,» Obama told The
New York Review
of Books.
The book is beating out
New England Patriots» quarterback Tom Brady's «The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime
of Sustained Peak Performance,» which comes in at No. 2, as well as two
novels from 1986: Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic, «The Handmaid's Tale,» and Stephen King's horror classic, «It: A
Novel.»
And a third, different kind
of gene therapy
from Spark Therapeutics — to treat a rare inherited form
of blindness — is likely to be approved by the end
of 2017, too, making this year a landmark for treatments that manipulate the body's own biological mechanisms in
novel new ways to fight deadly diseases.
Summary: «This five - part limited series based on the acclaimed
novels by Edward St. Aubyn tracks Patrick
from a privileged but deeply traumatic childhood in the South
of France through severe substance abuse in his twenties in
New York and, ultimately, toward recovery back home in Britain.»
Marly Youmans's
new novel, Maze
of Blood, has an epigraph
from Jorge Luis Borges (who wasn't writing for Marly or for me, but whose books I have read and reread over the years).
I have found time and disposition, for example, to occupy myself much more than formerly with universal Geistesgeschichte; on two journeys to Italy to let classical antiquity speak to me as it had never done before; to gain a
new relationship with Goethe, among others; to read countless
novels, a good many
of them
from those first - rate producers
of the English detective
novel: to become a very bad but very passionate horseman, and soon.
Just as Creativity functions to produce the
novel one
from the disjunctive many, inference allows the dropping
of a set
of premises which conjointly imply some proposition asserted as the
new theorem (ILM 424).
Griffin & Sherburne,
New York: The Free Press, 1978, 88) Whitehead further comments that God's «primordial nature directs such perspectives
of objectification that each
novel actuality in the temporal world contributes such elements as it can to a realization in God free
from inhibitions
of intensity by reason
of discordance.»
The journals
of the Mathers, the Cottons, the Endicotts in
New England, the travel diaries
of Crevecoeur, the
novels of James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville, the essays and public addresses
of Ralph Waldo Emerson — all
of these breathe an air which blows in
from the open frontier.
That is obvious in a broad and vague way when we consider some
of the various ways in which we speak
of trying (and often failing) to understand: We speak
of hoping to understand the instruction manual that accompanies a
new word processor and
of trying to understand a
novel like James Joyce's Ulysses; though both are printed texts, what it is to understand one is quite different
from what it is to understand the other.
In C. Lloyd Morgan's terminology, Whitehead seems to hold that human mind and self - consciousness are «resultants»;
novel reorganizations
of potentialities and principles present
from the beginning and common to all; whereas for Morgan himself, by contrast, mind represented an emergent quality, wholly
new, different and inexplicable in terms
of what had come before.
It is unclear to me, however, why an entity that has the influence that God has at the level
of creativity - characterization could never be said to have the capacity to coerce another entity Sureh; through granting and withholding
novel forms, through organizing the network
of inclusion and exclusion
of past characteristics in the provision
of the
new entity» with its actual world, and through shaping the very purposes
of the
new entity; God can sometimes act in ways that in ordinary language we would consider to be coercive.36 But these considerations do not stem
from any
of my revisions.
Finally, we learn
from Robert Langdon, the
novel's hero, that the so - called Priory
of Sion's aim has been to present «to the world thousands
of ancient documents as scientific evidence that the
New Testament is false testimony» (451).
In the origination
of a
novel theory the scientist may propose a model incorporating analogies drawn
from several familiar situations, together with radically
new assumptions.
The industry manufactures an abundance
of products,
from the familiar to the
novel, but generating growth through
new product development is difficult because consumers can be reluctant to try something
new.
Beyond this, the unique power
of GM lies in its ability to incorporate
novel genes with useful traits for rice, including genes
from plants and organisms unrelated to rice, into
new rice varieties that can not be achieved using other breeding methods.
From the United Nations General Assembly to the First Green Business Forum to World Water Week and her position as Chair
of the Global Water Partnership, she continues to explain the far - reaching implications
of food loss and waste to
novel groups and to recruit
new actors in the fight against food loss and waste.
Don't forget to check out
new shareable content
from SNA to help you positively promote your school meal program during SNEW, and all year; visit the School Lunch Hero Day website to learn more about the history
of the holiday, and author Jarrett J. Krosoczka and his «Lunch Lady» series
of graphic
novels.
From what we know about brain development, it is quite possible that continued exposure to this type
of stimuli, especially if it occurs in different types
of circumstances will gradually generalize to a more permanent reaction style to
new and
novel things they encounter.
It has been estimated that 5 % to 10 %
of infants who die
from SIDS have
novel mutations in the cardiac sodium or potassium channel genes that result in long QT syndrome as well as in other genes that regulate channel function.44 A recent report described important
new molecular and functional evidence that implicates specific SCN5A (sodium channel gene) β subunits in SIDS pathogenesis.47 The identification
of polymorphisms in genes pertinent to the embryologic origin
of the autonomic nervous system in SIDS cases also lends support to the hypothesis that a genetic predisposition contributes to the etiology
of SIDS.
There are elements
of a
novel Labour agenda floating around that derive
from neither
of those absurdly over-polarised alternatives, «
New Labour» and «Corbynism».
A former official
of the
New York City medical examiner's office sued the city on Thursday, claiming that she had been forced
from her job for raising questions about the office's use
of a
novel form
of DNA testing whose reliability had come under question.
Hillary Clinton's
new memoir is No. 1 on Amazon's best seller's list beating out New England Patriots» quarterback Tom Brady's «The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance,» (No. 2), and two novels from 1986: Margaret Atwood's «The Handmaid's Tale,» and Stephen King's «It: A Novel.&raq
new memoir is No. 1 on Amazon's best seller's list beating out
New England Patriots» quarterback Tom Brady's «The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance,» (No. 2), and two novels from 1986: Margaret Atwood's «The Handmaid's Tale,» and Stephen King's «It: A Novel.&raq
New England Patriots» quarterback Tom Brady's «The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime
of Sustained Peak Performance,» (No. 2), and two
novels from 1986: Margaret Atwood's «The Handmaid's Tale,» and Stephen King's «It: A
Novel.»
The researchers have found indications
from 3D structure modelling that this
new version
of the toxin may possess a
novel targeting mechanism, which could enable it to treat a wider range
of conditions.
Through detailed genome comparisons, sequence - alignment algorithms and other bioinformatics tools run on Los Alamos computers, the Los Alamos team identified features that differentiate among F. tularensis and other
novel clinical and environmental Francisella isolates, providing a knowledge base for comparison
of new sequences
from clinical or environmental surveys.
«Our computer aided drug screening process has now identified two
new classes
of anti-cancer agents, specifically targeting two distinct and
novel mechanisms underpinning cancer,» said Dr Andrea Brancale
from Cardiff University's School
of Pharmacy, who led on the compound's design.
«This gives us
novel and exciting
new therapeutic options to pursue based on results
from drug screenings
of primary tumor samples
from patients.»
With the
new chips as linchpin, Modha has envisioned a
novel computing paradigm, one far more powerful than anything that exists today, modeled on the same magical entity that allowed an impoverished laborer
from Mumbai to ascend to one
of the great citadels
of technological innovation: the human brain.
A
new study carried out under the direction
of Professor Lutz Wiegrebe at the Department
of Biology at Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich sheds light on a
novel mechanism that is employed by humans to estimate their relative distance
from sound sources.
In a
new study, a group
of scientists
from ITMO University and Giricond Research Institute put forward a
novel WPT system that can maintain up to 80 % transfer efficiency across a distance
of 20 centimeters.
According to a study published in the leading journal Science, Rafael Luque — a research scientist at the University
of Córdoba Department
of Inorganic Chemistry — and other members
of an international team comprising scientists
from the South China University
of Technologyand the KAUST institution in Saudi Arabia, have succeeded in developing a
novel porous material with
new characteristics and properties which will ensure improve performance in a range
of applications.
While the commercial potential might not be immediate, Duncan says the collaboration could yield concrete rewards for the companies, such as
new R&D avenues
from identification
of novel drug targets.
«
New soft material could reduce complications for women suffering
from urinary incontinence: Researchers have developed a
novel implantable material which could reduce the number
of debilitating side - effects that occur as a result
of using a material that is too rigid for surgical treatment
of incontinence.»
Scientists
from Tomsk Polytechnic University together with their colleagues
from USA and Japan have proposed a
novel way to address the most important and fundamental challenge
of organic chemistry, i.e. breaking a bond between carbon and hydrogen atoms to form
new organic substances.
As such, this
new synthetic route to oxide nanoparticles also shows great promise for a multitude
of other catalytic, electrical, magnetic, or electrochemical processes,
from novel cathodes to solution preparation
of other types
of ceramic materials.
Dr Ishwar Singh, a specialist in
novel drug design and development
from the University
of Lincoln's School
of Pharmacy, said: «Translating our success with these simplified synthetic versions
from test tubes to real cases is a quantum jump in the development
of new antibiotics, and brings us closer to realising the therapeutic potential
of simplified teixobactins.
A
new study
from the University
of Eastern Finland provides
novel and detailed information
of the movements
of ringed seals and grey seals in the Baltic Sea.
This method is a
new tool for cell biologists and neuroscientists to use to address questions ranging
from fundamental mechanisms in cell biology, to the underlying causes
of mental illness, to the discovery
of novel therapeutics.
Researchers
from North Carolina State University, the National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a
novel approach to materials characterization, using Bayesian statistical methods to glean
new insights into the structure
of materials.
But this is the first time, to my knowledge, that the direct link is established
from a
novel gene to a
novel structure to the invasion
of a completely
new ecological opportunity,» said Abderrahman Khila, an evolutionary and developmental genomicist at the Institute
of Functional Genomics
of Lyon, who led the study on the delicate insects called water striders.
Wang invented a
novel statistical method that was able to take advantage
of new kinds
of data
from the fossil record, which reached the conclusion that early birds had a high rate
of evolution.
The question is — and it's a question at this point — can we learn
from these
novel biophotonic mechanisms that have evolved over millions
of years
of natural selection
new approaches to making tunable and switchable photonic materials to more efficiently encode, transmit, and decode information via light?»
A
new analysis
from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
of severe disease caused by the
novel H1N1 virus again emphasizes that people under 65 suffer the bulk
of hospitalizations and deaths
from the virus.
Co-author Professor Eelco Rohling,
from the Australian National University and formerly
of the University
of Southampton, adds: «By developing a
novel method that realistically approximates future sea level rise, we have been able to add
new insight to the debate and show that there is substantial evidence for a significant recent acceleration in the sea level rise on a global and regional level.
But a
new report
from Hong Kong, which conducts the world's most comprehensive surveillance
of influenza viruses in pigs, has described the first instance
of a swine virus picking up a gene
from the
novel H1N1 circulating in humans.
E. O. Wilson says,
of his
new novel Anthill: «This is the first time anyone has written about the lives
of ants
from their point
of view» (10 April, p 38).
«The variation
of Mercury's calcium exosphere with the planet's position in its orbit has been known for several years
from MESSENGER observations, but the proposal that the source
of this variation is a meteor shower associated with a specific comet is
novel,» added MESSENGER Principal Investigator Sean Solomon,
of the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in
New York.