Sentences with phrase «useful background reading»

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BRIEF BACKGROUND The team of Dr Kshirod Jena at IRRI focuses on breaking yield barrier of rice and introducing useful traits from wild Oryza species into rice... Read more

On top of this, reading view gives students the ability to change text background and font sizes to break the page up and make it easier to read, especially useful for SEN and dyslexic students.

Useful as background to «The Crucible» or reading «Witch Child» by Celia Rees.

One of our authors received an email from the Amazon Kindle support team informing her that they had received a complaint from someone trying to read the author's book using the black background for reading (very useful at night, just ask my wife).

Because I have a background in music and languages I tend to be very sensitive to the sounds of words and so I find it useful to read the finished book aloud and to eliminate anything that sounds ugly or which destroys the flow of the narrative.

If you haven't done so already, I encourage you to read ACX 101: The Audiobook Production Process, which provides some very useful background information on the process of making an audiobook, and which I will refer to during many of these articles.

This is useful if you are reading e-books, digital magazines, newspapers or apps like Feedly, which all have fairly white backgrounds with default settings.

If you haven't read my prior posts (which provide plenty of useful background, some of which has contributed to ARGO's cheapness), I think you're in for a treat!

Now, I should encourage you, please go back & read my original post — it provides useful background on the fur industry & Saga Furs, which I don't plan on revisiting here.

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.

If you want a good background on climate sensitivity, David Biello's article at Scientific American is useful or read our many previous posts on the topic).

For background to this section in Longhurst's book, it is useful to also read sections 8.1 and 8.2.