World Authors, 1980-1985
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Page : 938 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Literature, Modern
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Author :
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Page : 938 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Literature, Modern
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Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 20,83 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781857431797
Accurate and reliable biographical information essential to anyone interested in the world of literature TheInternational Who's Who of Authors and Writersoffers invaluable information on the personalities and organizations of the literary world, including many up-and-coming writers as well as established names. With over 8,000 entries, this updated edition features: * Concise biographical information on novelists, authors, playwrights, columnists, journalists, editors, and critics * Biographical details of established writers as well as those who have recently risen to prominence * Entries detailing career, works published, literary awards and prizes, membership, and contact addresses where available * An extensive listing of major international literary awards and prizes, and winners of those prizes * A directory of major literary organizations and literary agents * A listing of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Author : Anthony Burgess
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Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Dystopias
ISBN : 9781846689192
In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, Burgess sheds new light on what he called 'an apocalyptic codex of our worst fears', creating a critique that is literature in its own right.Part two is Burgess' own dystopic vision, written in 1978. He skewers both the present and the future, describing a state where industrial disputes and social unrest compete with overwhelming surveillance, security concerns and the dominance of technology to make life a thing to be suffered rather than lived.Together these two works form a unique guide to one of the twentieth century's most talented, imaginative and prescient writers. Several decades later, Burgess' most singular work still stands.
Author : Vineta Colby
Publisher : New York : H.W. Wilson
Page : 1050 pages
File Size : 13,80 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Provides incisive accounts of 345 writers' lives and works, including critical responses and bibliographies. The authors include novelists, playwrights, and poets who have risen to prominence in the late 1980s as well as essayists, historians, biographers, critics, philosophers, and scientists who have made exceptional contributions to literature. Some included authors are Jean Baudrillard, Andrei Codrescu, Bharati Mukherjee, and Amy Tan. Previous volumes in the series cover Western literature from classical times through the 19th century. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Mary K. Mannix
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 13,13 MB
Release : 2015-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838912966
Profiling more than 1400 print and electronic sources, this book helps connect librarians and researchers to the most relevant sources of information in genealogy and biography.
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Page : 730 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography
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Author : Charles Moritz
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Page : 728 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Biography
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Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 22,1 MB
Release : 1999-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440674477
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • An “eerie, brilliant, and touching” (The New York Times) modern classic about mass culture and the numbing effects of technology. “Tremendously funny . . . A stunning performance from one of our most intelligent novelists.”—The New Republic The inspiration for the award-winning major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig Jack Gladney teaches Hitler Studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America where his colleagues include New York expatriates who want to immerse themselves in “American magic and dread.” Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the usual rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. Then a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives, an “airborne toxic event” unleashed by an industrial accident. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the “white noise” engulfing the Gladney family—radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings—pulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous.
Author : Nin-Pratt, Alejandro
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0896291820
West and Central African nations face major obstacles to achieving the Millennium Development Goal of cutting poverty and hunger in half by 2015, not least among them the fragile state of their agriculture. Although most regional economies depend on agriculture for employment, national income, and export revenues, farm productivity tends to be low, owing to relatively little use of chemical fertilizers, improved seeds, and other modern technologies. Yield Gaps and Potential Agricultural Growth in West and Central Africa responds to this problem by identifying potential areas of growth in the agricultural and livestock sectors. Using data on the soil, water availability, and weather in different parts of West and Central Africa, the authors find significant gaps in different locations between the potential and actual yield of various agricultural products. They then use an economywide multimarket model to simulate the future economic effects of closing these yield gaps. In coastal nations, crops such as cassava, cereals, and yams have the greatest yield gaps, whereas, in the Sahel, livestock, rice, coarse grains and oilseeds (groundnuts) have more room for growth. Although identifying these yield gaps does not guarantee that they can be closed, it does provide a focus for development efforts in the region. The authors conclude, moreover, that if such efforts involve transnational cooperation in agricultural research, marketing, and other areas, they could produce significant benefits across West and Central Africa. This study's findings will be of interest to policymakers, researchers, and others concerned with African development.
Author : Robert Balay
Publisher : ALA Editions
Page : 2056 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Presents an annotated bibliography of general and subject reference books covering the humanities, social and behavioral sciences, history, science, technology, and medicine.