Sentences with phrase «scholarly book which»

The Natural History of Unicorns might sound whimsical, but in fact it is an erudite, scholarly book which uses the unicorn to illuminate millennia of social and geographical change.

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The book's most irritating flaw is the author's relentlessly polite Episcopalian - scholarly prose: readable and informative, but not the penetrating or polemical critical analysis for which this topic calls.

Back in the 1980s, Jane Schaberg wrote a scholarly book called THE ILLEGITIMACY OF JESUS which also touched on these controversial subjects.

the evidences cited above are all from a scholarly book published in 1975 — and all of which speak directly to the contrary of the supposed «absence» of evidence necessary to generate this «headline.»

considering an Ivy league historian (Richard Bulliet) has relatively definitive book on the topic that is over 40 years old («The Camel & the Wheel», 1975) and which arrives at the exact opposite conclusion based on KNOWN evidences, it certainly would appear this a media - generated ratings grab without scholarly basis.

But on the whole, the American scholarly scene is one of frenetic decadence, with the publication of vast numbers of articles and books which fewer and fewer people read.

For instance, Huston Smith, in the book to which reference has been made (above, n. 15), states in his Preface that he has had scholarly members of the faiths concerned read some of his chapters.

Into it had gone something of Luther's new theological assurance but also of a new spirituality which was to be seen in his other «first» book, in the more scholarly sphere.

A noted, Mexica Empire had a specific religion which required human sacrifices to War God (Danielle Bolelli's recent History on Fire podcast had several excellent episodes on Cortez and the Spanish conquest of Mexica empire, for those not in the mood for more scholarly history books on the topic; and it covered pre-Cortez Mexica pretty well).

I also encourage you to get your hands on some of the phenomenal books of haiku that are out there right now, from the scholarly anthology Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years to the more whimsical, illustrated Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys and the hilarious Suburban Haiku: Dispatches From Behind the Picket Fence, which brings satire to the form.

Broadly speaking, the scores generally draw about 40 % on scholarly influence in terms of bodies of work and citation counts, 25 % on book authorship and current book success (which frequently overlaps with scholarly work), and about 35 % on presence in new and old media, as well as in the Congressional Record.

The scholarly journal Studies in Art Education has published a commentary by Howard Gardner in which he reflects on his 1980 book Artful Scribbles: The Significance of Children's Drawings.

* Survey participants were required to have met the following criterion: They had authored one or more published books including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, short stories, educational books and scholarly works, in formats which included traditional print publishing, ePublishing, self - publishing, multi-platform works or other equivalent book - length publications (including other digital platforms and related performance works).

Interview (starts at 10:57)-- Marshall Poe, a professor of history at the University of Iowa, is creator and editor - in - chief of New Books Network, a consortium of podcasts in which scholars interview authors of scholarly bBooks Network, a consortium of podcasts in which scholars interview authors of scholarly booksbooks.

LONEY: I read many books about VanDerZee, including his biography by James Haskins, books curated by his widow, Donna Mussenden VanDerZee, fine art and scholarly books on the study of photography, and one rare tome titled The Harlem Book of the Dead, which depicted VanDerZee's side business as a funeral photographer.

HighWire, which was founded in 1995 and is a part of the Stanford University library system, partners with a variety of sources like universities, publishers, and professional organizations to publish scholarly journals, ebooks, and more, while Tizra's web - based platform makes book discovery and book selling a more streamlined process.

In this article, he talks about his recent book, Scholarly Publishing and its Discontents, which looks at the market power of journal publishers.

My book is not «escapist / entertaining»; it's more challenging and literary, if not scholarly, which is more difficult (takes longer).

So I basically pulled all the relevant books I could find off my shelves at home and in my office and did my best with what was available... Part of this is to keep my own work honest, while part of this is intended to direct the reader to more serious scholarly work that I think supports my own work but which does a better job of explaining what, again, are phenomena to which a 5,000 - word essay can not do justice.»

Google Scholar, books, journals, newspapers, magazines, and online scholarly databases, such as InfoTrac, LexisNexis, and EBSCO are some of the credible sources which you can use.

In that book, which the scholarly journals have declared to be the definitive study, Rothbard found that a great many contemporaries identified the Bank of the United States — which was supposed to be a source of stability — as the primary culprit in that period of boom and bust.

He maintains a blog which has attracted both scholarly and industry attention at videogamemusicnerd.blogspot.com and has written proactively commissioned book reviews published in the American Journal of Play.

By the mid-1990s Arnett's efforts resulted in an ambitious project to survey the visual tradition of the African American South: an exhibition and two - volume book, titled Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, which was ultimately presented at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and remains the most in - depth scholarly examination of its kind.

Participants will have a role in determining the form of the book and its contents, which may include photographic documentation, scholarly texts and interviews that contextualize McCabe's residency and the practice of «social sculpture».

Her research and curatorial practice, which span large - scale museum exhibitions with extensive catalogues as well as scholarly books and articles, have been instrumental in introducing the work of now seminal black artists (such as Martin Puryear, David Hammons, and Lorna Simpson) to wide audiences and bringing to light long - forgotten or overlooked black artists.

With these exhibitions Ms. Bove is also branching out from the scholarly eclecticism of her earlier artworks, which incorporated found objects like books and crystals, into a more elemental kind of abstract sculpture that at times evokes Richard Serra, Franz West and Mark di Suvero.

From an economics point of view, Martin Weitzman has been at the forefront of attempting to work out how to fit black swans into economic analysis of risk and decisions (his review in Nature of Lomborg's new book gives a very concise statement of his views, which are worked out in more detail in his scholarly writing).

«The quality of the writing is exemplary, especially for a book which must meet the highest scholarly standards.

It has become widely known that scholarly publishing has been hit by its own version of Napster, with Alexandra Elbakyan's creation of Sci - Hub, which offers up to 48 million pirated journal articles and, as we have more recently learned, hundreds of university press books through its dark - web companion site LibGen.

I know of some excellent books published by EMP which have had excellent reviews in leading scholarly journals.

However, the decidedly weak prospects of sales for such a book, which was to run to nearly a thousand pages when printed, meant that printers and booksellers were unwilling to take on the investment in paper and typesetting needed for such intricate scholarly works.

This approach of going back to the greats of scholarship, many of them still in copyright, recalls the paperback revolution of the last century, which introduced many, with Harper Torchlight and Beacon Books in hand, to the world of learning through such reasonably priced leading scholarly works of the previous decades back to the nineteenth century.

The three authors have created a book that is both scholarly and highly practical, which will be helpful for mothers and fathers who find themselves coping with a difficult, overly litigious marital separation or divorce.

She is editor of Children in a Violent Society (Guilford Press, 1997), two editions of the Handbook of Infant Development (Wiley, 1979, 1987), and co-editor of the four - volume WAIMH Handbook of Infant Mental Health, which received the Association of American Publishers / Professional and Scholarly Publishing PROSE Award as the best multivolume reference / science book in 2000.

In addition to scholarly articles, Tim has co-edited two books, the most recent of which is Procrastination, Health and Well - being (2017, Elsevier).