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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Anne Sexton, Albert Levitt, Peter Balakian, George Barton Cutten, Wande Abimbola, Meredith Jung-En Woo, Briton C. Busch, George Estabrooks, Jack N. Rakove, Dewitt Godfrey, Bernhard Anderson, Nathaniel Schmidt, Charles Franklin Phillips, Fred S. Keller, Graham Russell Gao Hodges, Charles H. Trout, Anthony Aveni, A. Rees Clark, Gary Urton. Excerpt:A. Rees Clark is an American academic. Clark researched and taught geography at University of Maryland , Villanova University and Colgate Universities from 1971 through 1980. He has also worked as a city planner, systems analyst and developer of environmental remediation technologies. Since 1994, Clark has been a principal of Clark Internet Publishing, which hosts The Geography Project, a user-configurable "geography magazine" publishing tool that allows teachers to set up their own online publishing environments for courses, research projects, etc. Titles Papers A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Albert Levitt (1887 1968) was a judge, law professor, attorney, and candidate for political office. While he was a memorable teacher at Washington and Lee University , and as judge of the United States District Court for the Virgin Islands ordered that woman voters must be registered, he later came to hold eccentric views on religion. Levitt was born in Maryland; at the age of 17 he joined the Army and served seven years, rising to the rank of sergeant. He then went to seminary and obtained a degree. After World War I broke out, he twice served, once in the ambulance corps for the French and back in the U.S. Army once the United States joined the war. After the war, he returned to school, obtaining two legal degrees, and joined the Bar. He had a number of teaching positions at various universities, and served briefly as a Federal jud... ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Anne Sexton, W. I. Thomas, Lawrence Buell, Frank Ebersole, Aaron Wildavsky, Joseph R. Wood, Richard Miller, Gisela Richter, Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Amasa Walker, Jonathan Kramer, Martha Collins, Wilson Carey Mcwilliams, Kazim Ali, John Millott Ellis, Laurence Thomas, David W. Orr, Ronald Grigor Suny, Curtis Roads, Daniel Asia, Olly Wilson, James Fairchild, John Keep, David Boe, Pamela Alexander, Geoffrey Blodgett, Ryan Anthony, William Dawes, Hugh Ragin, John Milton Yinger. Excerpt:Aaron Wildavsky (1930-1993) American political scientist Aaron Wildavsky (31 May 1930 - 4 September 1993) was an American political scientist known for his pioneering work in public policy , government budgeting , and risk management . A native of Brooklyn in New York , Wildavsky was the son of two Ukrainian Jewish immigrants . After graduating from Brooklyn College , he served in the U.S. Army and then won a Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Sydney for 1954-55. Wildavsky returned to the U.S. to attend graduate school at Yale University . His PhD dissertation , a study of the politics of the Dixon-Yates atomic energy controversy, was completed in 1958. Wildavsky taught at Oberlin College from 1958 until 1962, when he moved to the University of California at Berkeley and where he worked as a professor of political science for the rest of his life. At Berkeley, he was chair of the political science department (1966-1969) and founding dean of the Graduate School of Public Policy (1969-1977). Wildavsky was president of the American Political Science Association for 1985-86. He was also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Public Administration. Wildavsky was a noted scholar on budgeting and budget theory . He is associated with the idea of incrementalis... ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Yasunari Kawabata, Sylvia Plath, Roger Salengro, Stig Dagerman, René Crevel, Anne Sexton, Herculine Barbin, Gabrielle Russier, Mathilde de Morny, Dan White, Tadeusz Borowski, John Kennedy Toole, Keith Andes, Chaval, Hugo Distler, Sadao Hasegawa, Mike Whitmarsh. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Yasunari Kawabata , ), né le 14 juin 1899 et mort le 16 avril 1972, est un écrivain japonais, prix Nobel de littérature en 1968. Considéré comme un écrivain majeur du XXe siècle et obsédé par la quête du beau, la solitude et la mort, il a écrit en particulier des récits très courts, d'un dépouillement stylistique extrême, regroupés plus tard en recueils, mais ses œuvres les plus connues internationalement sont ses romans comme Pays de neige (1935-1947), Le Grondement de la montagne (1954) ou Les Belles Endormies (1960-1961). Le 14 juin 1899, pendant l'ère Meiji, Kawabata Yasunari, deuxième enfant d'une famille prospère et cultivée, vient au monde à Ōsaka. Né prématuré à sept mois, il restera de santé fragile toute son existence. Sa sœur Yoshiko est de quatre ans son aînée. Son père, Eikichi, médecin à Ōsaka fit ses études de médecine à Tōkyō. Fin lettré, amateur de poésie chinoise et de peinture, il meurt de tuberculose en janvier 1901. Sa mère, Gen, née Kuroda, précédemment mariée au frère de son époux, est issue d'une famille fortunée. Après le décès de son mari, elle retourne dans sa maison natale du village de Toyosato en périphérie d'Ōsaka avec ses deux enfants, mais décède de la même maladie en janvier 1902. À trois ans, Yasunari est orphelin. Séparé de sa sœur qui est recueillie par sa tante, il est élevé par ses grands-parents paternels qui vivaient dans le village de Toyokawa, autre district de la...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Anne Sexton(November 9, 1928, Newton, Massachusetts -October 4, 1974, Weston, Massachusetts) was an influential American poet, known for her highlypersonal, confessional verse. She won the PulitzerPrize for poetry in 1967. Themes of her poetry include her suicidaltendencies, long battle against depression, and variousintimate details from her own private life, including herrelationship with her husband and children. ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Anne (Harvey) Sexton, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2973 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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