Sentences with phrase «old academic book»

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There is something of a boom going on these days in Melville studies, with Kelley's book and at least half a dozen other major academic monographs appearing from university presses, and with two new full - length biographies published last year: Laurie Robertson - Lorant's relatively unimportant but informative Melville: A Biography (Potter, 752 pages,, $ 40) and the first volume of the endlessly detailed Herman Melville (Johns Hopkins University Press, 941 pages,, $ 39.95) by Hershel Parker, the grand old man of Melville studies.

The essays in Smith's persuasive book mostly concern how one collection of influential males (the new academic secularists) successfully wrested control of the institutions of national culture from another collection of influential males (the old Protestant leaders).

However, my father's keen interest in machines, mechanical tools, and puzzles of all sorts — and my older siblings» strong interest in books, music, and higher education — maintained an academic type of environment in the household, compared to the other business families in town.

Nina and I are friends as well, even though I say her name wrong, who has also written some books about fat, but there's this national conversation where you have the old school low - fats, mostly paid for by big grain sort of research out there, and you're refuting some of that using very strong academics, randomized controlled trials, and the things that everyone wants, but no one has paid for except for maybe big drug companies and things like that.

Public Presence scores really reflect three things: articles and academic scholarship, books of a more or less academic bent, and visibility in the new and old media.

Public Presence scores reflect, in more or less equal parts, three things: articles and academic scholarship, book authorship and current book success, and presence in new and old media.

Some academic institutions do not allow using the books more than 10 years old age.

I was 23 years old, nine months into a year - long fellowship to live and paint, no academic strings attached, in Paris — and to roam from city to city, looking at works of art that I had studied only in books.

There have been books (and more are coming), issues of journals, academic conferences and exhibitions of older works - or their documentation - especially from the 60s and 70s.

This book is very suited for teachers of 4 - 8 year old pupils and presents a variety of classroom management techniques aimed to develop children's social, emotional and academic competencies.

For example, compared to older mothers, teen mothers display lower levels of verbal stimulation and involvement, higher levels of intrusiveness, and maternal speech that is less varied and complex.47, 48 Mothers with fewer years of education read to their children less frequently25, 49 and demonstrate less sophisticated language and literacy skills themselves, 50 which affects the quantity and quality of their verbal interactions with their children.2 Parental education, in turn, relates to household income: poverty and persistent poverty are strongly associated with less stimulating home environments, 51 and parents living in poverty have children who are at risk for cognitive, academic, and social - emotional difficulties.52, 53 Finally, Hispanic and African American mothers are, on average, less likely to read to their children than White, non-Hispanic mothers; 54 and Spanish - speaking Hispanic families have fewer children's books available in the home as compared to their non-Hispanic counterparts.25 These racial and ethnic findings are likely explained by differences in family resources across groups, as minority status is often associated with various social - demographic risks.