Sentences with phrase «scholarly books on»

She is the author of two scholarly books on divorce: Divorce Reform: Changing Legal and Social Perspectives (Free Press of Macmillan, 1980), a featured selection of the Lawyers» Literary Club, and Separated and Divorced Women (Greenwood Press, 1982), a Choice book of the year selection for academic excellence.

Hammer is the author of several important scholarly books on the art of Francis Bacon and Professor of History and Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent.

The Light Club of Vizcaya: A Women's Picture (2012) emerged out of McElheny's interest in the work of Paul Scheerbart and is part of his effort to bring the German author's writing into the 21st - century — a project that includes the publication of two scholarly books on Scheerbart as well as a series of sculptures, drawings and performances based on his ideas.

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.

She sounds like a typical conservative critic of modern academia, except that she's complaining about this kind of thing in scholarly books on sexual «kink,» particularly bondage and sadomasochism.

Also in the 1960s C.F. Holt published a scholarly book on Magna Carta.

This will not be the most complicated or scholarly book on stock investing you have ever read, but it will be one of the simplest and most practical.

Recently, the artist has had a bit of a moment, with exhibitions at Printed Matter and Performa, so Johanna Gosse's scholarly book on him is timely.

She will soon be publishing a scholarly book on emotional availability.

Not exact matches

Reporting suggests the company did just this in 2013, by hiking prices on scholarly and small - press books and creating the risk of a «two - tier system where some books are priced beyond an audience's reach.»

His 1994 book Reasonable Faith (Crossway) argues that «Evangelicals have been living on the periphery of responsible intellectual existence... there is an intellectual war going on in the universities and in the professional journals and scholarly societies.

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

I am sure this is far from a scholarly answer on the subject of «translations», but the subtitle of this wonderful book is «Every Story Whispers His Name».

We could point to examples of semantic structure, grammatical style, references to culture, and a whole host of other historical critical standards to prove by scholarly consensus that the author whose name is on the book did not actually write it.

And, on the «new nonfiction» table at my local book store, I've spotted both the schmaltzy — A Travel Guide to Heaven — and the scholarly — a 700 - page tome by an Ivy League professor, Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion.

Scholars have tended to ignore the final chapter of the book, assuming it to be no more than the customary pious ending to a scholarly attack on Jesus and the church.

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.

This book doubles as an issue of the scholarly journal, Sociology of Religion, and offers eight essays on the «New Christian Right.»

This is new territory for me, doing a book - length study of Jesus and the origins of Christianity, but I have read everything I could get my hands on, weighed all the scholarly debates, and hope my book will be useful to the book - reading public in explaining what we can really know, historically, about Jesus.

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.

Thee are literally hundreds and thousand of scholarly articles, papers, and books on tthe hihistory of contraception going back thousands of years.

But non-academics need not worry, because I plan on following it quickly with a much shorter work that will capture the gist of my argument, but without all the scholarly material that's packed into the larger academic book.

It is remarkable that in spite of the massive scholarly work on medieval science there are still books on the history of science that begin with an account of the achievements of the ancient Greeks and pass immediately to the Renaissance, completely ignoring the contribution of the Middle Ages.

As such, this book argues that much of the scholarly literature in the electoral domain has the wrong object in view in focusing on the outcomes of this work, rather than the processes that create information environments.

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).

Maps, by Rose Mitchell and Andrew Janes: Too many scholarly works on cartography skimp on the maps themselves, but this gorgeous book is full of them.

His book Demonic Males popularized ideas he has developed in scholarly research focused on the influence of ecology on the evolution of primate social behavior.

This book contains the collective wisdom of many years of practice and scholarly research on gut health, and includes: evidence - based science and background information to expand readers understanding of digestive health; practical nutrition strategies with menus and recipes to restore digestive function; natural remedies and supplements helpful in healing the gut; and mind body practices for long - term health and healing.

Hitchcock / Truffaut (Kent Jones, 2015) A fascinating adjunct to Truffaut's 1966 book on Hitchcock, this feature documentary is both scholarly and charmingly anecdotal.

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.

The book emerged from the authors» study of choice programs in the schools of San Antonio, but it became an attempt at a sweeping synthesis of scholarly work on education policy, drawing on literature in philosophy, economics, political science, education, and law.

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.

Although he is neither a career educator nor a member of the House Education Committee, Representative Charles Thomas of Georgia is making it his business to stockpile scholarly articles and books on the latest in educational research.

He has authored more than 150 publications, including nine books; co-edited two editions of the Handbook of Early Childhood Intervention; and served on the editorial board of several scholarly journals, including Child Development.

Each book or manuscript on the Turning the Pages site is accompanied by a short scholarly essay that explains the work's significance and elaborates on its history.

Jason is a published author in books, scholarly journals, technical reports, and early childhood journals and has served on editorial advisory boards.

Dr. Noguera has published over 200 research and scholarly articles, monographs, research reports, and editorials on topics such as urban school reform, education policy, conditions that promote student achievement, the role of education in community development, youth violence, and race and ethnic relations in American society as well as the author of several books.

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.

Professor Zins has authored more than a hundred scholarly publications, including eight books on consultation, prevention, and the delivery of psychological services in schools.

Thus far, there have been four total books written about value - added models (VAMs) in education: one (2005) scholarly, edited book that was published prior to our heightened policy interest in VAMs; one (2012) that is less scholarly but more of a field guide on how to use VAM - based data; my recent (2014) scholarly book; and another recent (2011) scholarly book written by Doug Harris.

Timothy A. Pychyl, Ph.D., has published several scholarly articles on the topic of procrastination to improve the academic community, and is now a bestselling author with Tarcher Publishing, an imprint of Penguin dedicated to publishing self - improvement books.

Some sources say BookScan does not report on 75 to 85 % of sales but I'd bet that number is actually lower (in terms of what BookScan reports on) because if you consider the lists of technical, scholarly, law - related books, the Christian market, the millions of self - published titles each year, and all of the eBooks that use Amazon's ASIN system, I'd wager a guess that BookScan gets maybe 65 - 70 % of the market.

Her work has appeared in numerous literary and scholarly journals, as well as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, Bitch magazine, The Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, and on NPR.

Considering her scholarly interests, evident in her book on Nabokov's nature imagery, Mason's style is surprisingly straightforward, never tricksy, seldom particularly allusive.

I'm also Executive Director of the Rebus Foundation, a non-profit that is building the infrastructure to support books on the open web, by: building a new collaborative model for creating and publishing Open Educational Resources (OER), and building an open platform for scholarly reading.

Digital Sean Kleefeld points out the launch of Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels, «the first ever scholarly, primary source database focusing on adult comic books and...

Amazon's Description: «Drawing on scholarly research findings, this book presents a cogent case that librarians can use to work towards prioritization of reading in libraries and in schools.»

Thus in the Preface to Person and Object (1979) he writes «The book would not have been completed without the epoch - making File Retrieval and Editing System...» [21] Brown University's work in electronic book systems continued for many years, including US Navy funded projects for electronic repair - manuals; [22] a large - scale distributed hypermedia system known as InterMedia; [23] a spinoff company Electronic Book Technologies that built DynaText, the first SGML - based e-reader system; and the Scholarly Technology Group's extensive work on the Open eBook standbook would not have been completed without the epoch - making File Retrieval and Editing System...» [21] Brown University's work in electronic book systems continued for many years, including US Navy funded projects for electronic repair - manuals; [22] a large - scale distributed hypermedia system known as InterMedia; [23] a spinoff company Electronic Book Technologies that built DynaText, the first SGML - based e-reader system; and the Scholarly Technology Group's extensive work on the Open eBook standbook systems continued for many years, including US Navy funded projects for electronic repair - manuals; [22] a large - scale distributed hypermedia system known as InterMedia; [23] a spinoff company Electronic Book Technologies that built DynaText, the first SGML - based e-reader system; and the Scholarly Technology Group's extensive work on the Open eBook standBook Technologies that built DynaText, the first SGML - based e-reader system; and the Scholarly Technology Group's extensive work on the Open eBook standard.

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