Author: National Academy of Sciences
Publisher: Washington: National Academies Press
Keywords: volume, memoirs, biographical
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2004-11-30
List price: $73.00
ISBN-10: 0309091837
ISBN-13: 9780309091831
Book DescriptionBiographical Memoirs is a series of essays containing the life histories and selected bibliographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences. The series provides a record of the life and work of some of the most distinguished leaders in the sciences, as witnessed and interpreted by their colleagues and peers. They form a biographical history of science in America--an important part of our nation’s contribution to the intellectual heritage of the world.
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Publisher: British Academy
Keywords: lectures, volume, academy, british, proceedings
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 2005-03-24
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0197263240
ISBN-13: 9780197263242
Volume 125 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 15 lectures delivered at the British Acaademy in 2003.
Author: Barbie Zelizer
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: academy, news, seriously, journalism, taking
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2004-04-29
List price: $50.95
ISBN-10: 0803973144
ISBN-13: 9780803973145
How have scholars tended to conceptualize news, newsmaking, journalism, journalists, and the news media? Which explanatory frames have they used to explore journalistic practice? From which fields of inquiry have they borrowed in shaping their assumptions about how journalism works? In Taking Journalism Seriously: News and the Academy, author Barbie Zelizer discusses questions about the viability of the field of journalism scholarship and examines journalism as a discipline, a profession, a practice, and a cultural phenomenon. Taking Journalism Seriously argues that scholars have remained too
Author: Frank Peretti
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Keywords: project, veritas, academy, nightmare
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-12-04
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 1400303400
ISBN-13: 9781400303403
With more than 9 million novels in print, Frank Peretti has been called America’s hottest Christian novelist. Peretti’s The Veritas Project has become one of the biggest selling fiction series ever written for teens. Finally, the hugely popular Nightmare Academy is being released in a brand-new paperback edition. As a follow-up to Hangman’s Curse (now a major motion picture), Nightmare Academy is a frightening thrill-ride that takes a realistic look at right and wrong, as Elijah and Elisha seek to find the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of two runaways. The Springf
Author: Richelle Mead
Publisher: Razorbill
Keywords: book, academy, vampire, sacrifice, last
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2010-12-07
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 1595143068
ISBN-13: 9781595143068
The astonishing final novel in Richelle Mead’s epic series! Murder. Love. Jealousy. And the ultimate sacrifice. Now, with Rose on trial for her life and Lissa first in line for the Royal Throne, nothing will ever be the same between them.
Author: M. D. Bishop
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: bane, ascended, academy, yuri
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2006-07-23
List price: $17.46
ISBN-10: 1847281974
ISBN-13: 9781847281975
In the infinite reality of the divinely created Multiverse, a cosmic university explores the unknown while battling the forces of darkness, spanning space and time.
Author: Ron Robin
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: shook, academy, cases, seven, scoundrels, scandals
Number of Pages: 289
Published: 2004-10-11
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0520242491
ISBN-13: 9780520242494
Ron Robin takes an intriguing look at the shifting nature of academic and public discourse in this incisive consideration of recent academic scandals--including charges of plagiarism against Stephen Ambrose, Derek Freeman’s attempt to debunk Margaret Mead’s research, Michael Bellesiles’s alleged fabrication of an early America without weapons, Joseph Ellis’s imaginary participation in major historical events of the 1960s, Napoleon Chagnon’s creation and manipulation of a "Stone Age people," and accusations that Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú’s te
