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Edith Wharton.
Stuckey, W. J.
Book Book | Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Jan2010, p1-8. 8p. Please log in to see more details
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Edith Wharton.
Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Jan2010, p1-8. 8p.
A biographical essay about Edith Wharton, with brief critical analysis of major works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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EDITH WHARTON.
Springer, Marlene
Book Book | Research Guide to Biography & Criticism. 1985, Vol. 2, p1256-1260. 5p. Please log in to see more details
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EDITH WHARTON.
Research Guide to Biography & Criticism. 1985, Vol. 2, p1256-1260. 5p.
The article presents a research guide on the life and works of author Edith Wharton. Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862 to wealthy, socially prominent parents in New York City, New York. In 1885, she married Edward Wharton, a wealthy Bostonian playboy. She started her writing career with the publication of two stories in 1891. Wharton was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the book The Age of Innocence in 1921. She died in 1937 following a stroke, leaving papers to Yale University with stipulation that they not be opened until 1968.

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Women authors - Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 - Age of Innocence, The (Book : Wharton) - Life history interviews

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The Letters of Edith Wharton.
Burton, Ursula
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The Letters of Edith Wharton.
Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series. Mar1995, p1-4. 4p.
A summary and analysis of The Letters of Edith Wharton. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Authors - Friendship - Literature - Novelists - World War I

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Edith Wharton.
Bruce, Mary Hanford
Book Book | Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century. Jan2000, p1-3. 3p. Please log in to see more details
Edith Wharton was a novelist who was noted for her portrayal of the decline of New Yor... more
Edith Wharton.
Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century. Jan2000, p1-3. 3p.
Edith Wharton was a novelist who was noted for her portrayal of the decline of New York aristocracy and for her characters’ trapped sensibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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WHARTON, Edith.
Zilversmit, Annette
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This article profiles author Edith Wharton. Although mistaken marriages, painful and u... more
WHARTON, Edith.
Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature. Letter W, p1212-1218. 7p.
This article profiles author Edith Wharton. Although mistaken marriages, painful and unequal unions, thread through Wharton's fiction, divorce is never unequivocally taken or suggested. That legal act of separation, Wharton implies, is fraught with moral and social peroration, an implicit callousness on the part of the divorcing party and the unsettling loss of status in society, prohibiting frequently another marriage, especially for a woman.

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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 - Authors - Marriage in literature - Fiction writing - Fiction

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The Age of Innocence.
Ziskin, Alan
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The Age of Innocence.
Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series. Mar1995, p1-3. 3p.
A summary and analysis of The Age of Innocence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Adultery - Bohemianism - Divorce - Duty - Gossip - Lawyers - Marriage - Nineteenth century - Peer pressure - Upper class - Values (Ethics)

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Edith Wharton.
Book Book | Notable American Women Writers; 2020, p1243-1248, 6p Please log in to see more details
A biography of fiction writer, essayist, and poet Edith Wharton is presented. Wharton ... more
Edith Wharton.
Notable American Women Writers; 2020, p1243-1248, 6p
A biography of fiction writer, essayist, and poet Edith Wharton is presented. Wharton was born on January 24, 1862 in New York City to George Frederic and Lucretia Rhinelander Jones and died on August 11, 1938 in St.-Brice-sous-Foret, France. She was educated at home by governesses and later tutors and she was considered a highly intelligent, well-read, brilliant conversationalist. Her works include "The Greater Inclination," "Crucial Instances," and "The Descent of Man and Other Stories."

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WHARTON, Edith, 1862-1937 - GREATER Inclination, The (Book) - DESCENT of Man & Other Stories (Book) - AMERICAN women authors - AMERICAN women poets - ESSAYISTS

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Edith Wharton.
Bendixen, Alfred
Book Book | Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition. Jan2003, p1-2. 2p. Please log in to see more details
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Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence
Bloom, Harold;Bloom, Harold
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Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence
1999
'A contemporary literary views book.'

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Literary Contexts in Novels: Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth".
Sloboda, Noel
Book Book | Literary Contexts in Novels: Edith Wharton's 'The House of Mirth'. 2006, p1-1. 1p. Please log in to see more details
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Literary Contexts in Novels: Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth".
Literary Contexts in Novels: Edith Wharton's 'The House of Mirth'. 2006, p1-1. 1p.
This essay presents a summary and analysis of Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth." It situates the novel in historical, societal, religious, scientific, and biographical contexts. "The House of Mirth" provides a candid look at the narrowness and hypocrisy of American society at the beginning of the twentieth-century. Wharton's novel focuses on a year and a half in the life of Lily Bart, a young woman who tries unsuccessfully to keep her integrity while maintaining her place in Old New York. Overcome by circumstances beyond her control, she is ground down by the elite and made to suffer because of her penury. Despite the sympathetic interest of several of her peers — including a man who secretly loves her — Lily cannot survive in the cruel conditions of Old New York. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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House of Mirth, The (Book : Wharton) - Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 - Hypocrisy - Social classes - Integrity - United States

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MONEY AND THE NOVEL.
Delbanco, Andrew
Review Review | New Republic. 7/23/2007, Vol. 237 Issue 2, p43-47. 5p. 2 Illustrations. Please log in to see more details

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Augmented Education in the Global Age : Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Learning and Work
Daniel Araya;Peter Marber;Daniel Araya;Peter Marber
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Augmented Education in the Global Age : Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Learning and Work
2023
Augmented Education in the Global Age: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Learning and Work is an edited collection that explores the social impact of Artificial Intelligence over the coming decades, specifically how this emerging technology will transform and disrupt our contemporary institutions. Chapters in this book discuss the history of technological revolutions and consider the anxieties and social challenges of lost occupations, as well as the evolution of new industries overlapping robotics, biotechnology, space exploration, and clean energy. Chapter authors unpack the nature of augmented education, from revamping curriculum and personalizing education, to redesigning workplace learning for an algorithmic era. Ultimately the book discusses policy and planning for an augmented future, arguing that work and learning are undergoing a metamorphosis around creativity and innovation amid a new global era and the race against automating technologies. Bringing together expert perspectives from around the world, this exciting, informative collection of research and analysis helps educators, policymakers and analysts navigate the future of work and learning amid rapid and accelerating technological change. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Artificial intelligence--Educational applications - Education - Artificial intelligence--Forecasting

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Across Species and Cultures : Whales, Humans, and Pacific Worlds
Ryan Tucker Jones;Angela Wanhalla;Ryan Tucker Jones;Angela Wanhalla
More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting place between human... more
Across Species and Cultures : Whales, Humans, and Pacific Worlds
2022
More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples who built lives and cosmologies around whales, to Euro-American whalers who descended upon the Pacific during the nineteenth century, and to the new forms of human-cetacean partnerships that have emerged from the late twentieth century, the relationship between these two species has been central to the ocean's history. Across Species and Cultures: Whales, Humans, and Pacific Worlds offers for the first time a critical, wide-ranging geographical and temporal look at the varieties of whale histories in the Pacific. The essay contributors, hailing from around the Pacific, present a wealth of fascinating stories while breaking new methodological ground in environmental history, women's history, animal studies, and Indigenous ontologies. In the process they reveal previously hidden aspects of the story of Pacific whaling, including the contributions of Indigenous people to capitalist whaling, the industry's exceptionally far-reaching spread, and its overlooked second life as a global, industrial slaughter in the twentieth century. While pointing to striking continuities in whaling histories around the Pacific, Across Species and Cultures also reveals deep tensions: between environmentalists and Indigenous peoples, between ideas and realities, and between the North and South Pacific. The book delves in unprecedented ways into the lives and histories of whales themselves. Despite the worst ravages of commercial and industrial whaling, whales survived two centuries of mass killing in the Pacific. Their perseverance continues to nourish many human communities around and in the Pacific Ocean where they are hunted as commodities, regarded as signs of wealth and power, act as providers and protectors, but are also ancestors, providing a bridge between human and nonhuman worlds.

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Whales--Pacific Area - Whaling--Pacific Area--History - Human-animal relationships--Pacific Area

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Justiz zwischen Diktatur und Demokratie : Wiederaufbau und Ahndung von NS-Verbrechen in Westdeutschland 1945-1949
Edith Raim;Edith Raim
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Justiz zwischen Diktatur und Demokratie : Wiederaufbau und Ahndung von NS-Verbrechen in Westdeutschland 1945-1949
2013; Vol. 00096
Das Bild ubiquitären Versagens und moralischer Stumpfheit der deutschen Justiz ist fest etabliert. Edith Raim stellt es nicht ganz auf den Kopf, sie relativiert die gängige Deutung aber in vielerlei Hinsicht. Ausgangspunkt ist die facettenreiche Sozialgeschichte der westdeutschen Justiz nach 1945, wobei auch die leidenschaftlichen deutsch-alliierten Diskussionen über die nationalsozialistischen'Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit'untersucht werden. Den Kern der Darstellung aber bildet die Analyse zahlreicher deutscher Gerichtsverfahren, die brisanten Themen wie der'Reichskristallnacht', der'Arisierung', der'Euthanasie'sowie Denunziationen oder KZ-Verbrechen gewidmet waren. Auch die deutsche Justiz blieb, als es das Dritte Reich nicht mehr und die Bundesrepublik noch nicht gab, keineswegs untätig. Nie wieder wurde so intensiv ermittelt wie damals. Dass die Gerichte dabei Beachtliches leisteten, ist im vergangenheitspolitischen Diskurs kaum präsent. Edith Raim hebt es auf beeindruckende Weise in unser Bewusstsein.

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War crime trials--Germany (West) - World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities - Criminal justice, Administration of--Germany

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Edith Wharton
DelFattore, Joan;Yudin, Mary F.;;;DelFattore, Joan;Yudin, Mary F.
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: American Writers; January 2012, p1-2
A biographical essay about Edith Wharton, with brief critical analysis of major short fiction works.

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LITERATURE AND ARTS.
Wharton, I. Edith
Periodical Periodical | America Magazine: The Jesuit Review of Faith & Culture. 3/31/1951, Vol. 84 Issue 26, p762-767. 6p. Please log in to see more details

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The Age of Innocence.
Cahir, Linda Costanzo
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The Age of Innocence.
Identities & Issues in Literature. Sep1997, p1-1. 1p.
A summary and analysis of The Age of Innocence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Adultery - Bohemianism - Divorce - Duty - Gossip - Lawyers - Marriage - Nineteenth century - Peer pressure - Upper class - Values (Ethics)

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Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 19 : 1991–1995 (A–Z)
Melanie Nolan;Melanie Nolan
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Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 19 : 1991–1995 (A–Z)
2021; Vol. 00019
Volume 19 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) contains concise biographies of individuals who died between 1991 and 1995. The first of two volumes for the 1990s, it presents a colourful montage of late twentieth-century Australian life, containing the biographies of significant and representative Australians.The volume is still in the shadow of World War II with servicemen and women who enlisted young appearing, but these influences are dimming and there are now increasing numbers of non-white, non-male, non-privileged and non-straight subjects.The 680 individuals recorded in volume 19 of the ADB include Wiradjuri midwife and Ngunnawal Elder Violet Bulger; Aboriginal rights activist, poet, playwright and artist Kevin Gilbert; and Torres Strait Islander community leader and land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo. HIV/AIDS child activists Tony Lovegrove and Eve Van Grafhorst have entries, as does conductor Stuart Challender,'the first Australian celebrity to go public'about his HIV/AIDS condition in 1991.The arts are, as always, well-represented, including writers Frank Hardy, Mary Durack and Nene Gare, actors Frank Thring and Leonard Teale and arts patron Ian Potter. We are beginning to see the effects of the steep rise in postwar immigration flow through to the ADB. Artist Joseph Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski was born in Poland. Pilar Moreno de Otaegui, co-founded the Spanish Club of Sydney. Chinese restaurateur and community leader Ming Poon (Dick) Low migrated to Victoria in 1953.Often we have a dearth of information about the domestic lives of our subjects; politician Olive Zakharov, however, bravely disclosed at the Victorian launch of the federal government's campaign to Stop Violence Against Women in 1993 that she was a survivor of domestic violence in her second marriage.Take a dip into the many fascinating lives of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ... more
Dictionary of World Biography
2021
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post-industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.

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A Day in the Life of an American Worker [2 Volumes] : 200 Trades and Professions Through History [2 Volumes]
Nancy Quam-Wickham;Ben Tyler Elliott;Nancy Quam-Wickham;Ben Tyler Elliott
This introduction to the history of work in America illuminates the many important rol... more
A Day in the Life of an American Worker [2 Volumes] : 200 Trades and Professions Through History [2 Volumes]
2020
This introduction to the history of work in America illuminates the many important roles that men and women of all backgrounds have played in the formation of the United States.A Day in the Life of an American Worker: 200 Trades and Professions through History allows readers to imagine the daily lives of ordinary workers, from the beginnings of colonial America to the present. It presents the stories of millions of Americans—from the enslaved field hands in antebellum America to the astronauts of the modern'space age'—as they contributed to the formation of the modern and culturally diverse United States.Readers will learn about individual occupations and discover the untold histories of those women and men who too often have remained anonymous to historians but whose stories are just as important as those of leaders whose lives we study in our classrooms. This book provides specific details to enable comprehensive understanding of the benefits and downsides of each trade and profession discussed. Selected accompanying documents further bring history to life by offering vivid testimonies from people who actually worked in these occupations or interacted with those in that field.

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Employees--United States--History - Labor--United States--History - Occupations--United States--History

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Empire of Liberty : Die Vereinigten Staaten von der Reconstruction zum Spanisch-Amerikanischen Krieg
Michaela Hampf;Michaela Hampf
Wie erklärt man den Aufstieg der USA von einer britischen Kolonie zur globalen Hegemon... more
Empire of Liberty : Die Vereinigten Staaten von der Reconstruction zum Spanisch-Amerikanischen Krieg
2020
Wie erklärt man den Aufstieg der USA von einer britischen Kolonie zur globalen Hegemonialmacht in einem Zeitraum von knapp 140 Jahren von der Revolution bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg? Welche Bedeutung hat dabei die nach dem Bürgerkrieg einsetzende forcierte „Nationsbildung“, die im Kontext der Besiedelung des Westens, der Etablierung eines kapitalistischen Systems à l'Américaine, der Ausbildung eines sich von Europa deutlich unterscheidenden Systems der Regulierung von Arbeit und Kapital, der nicht Durchsetzbarkeit sozialistischer Ideen und der Politik des „small government“ und „laissez-faire“ stattfand? Kurz: Welche Bedeutung hatte die spezifisch amerikanische Entwicklung mit ihrem Fokus auf den innenpolitischen und innergesellschaftlichen Problemkontext für die Entstehung bzw. Entwicklung der diskursiven Formation des „Empire for Liberty“, das sich spätestens mit dem Spanisch-Amerikanischen Krieg in eine außenpolitische Maxime übersetzte und handlungsleitend für die offensive amerikanische Hegemonialpolitik nach dem Weltkrieg wurde, ja das Empire zu einem „Way of Life“ machte? Obwohl der Erste Weltkrieg gemeinhin als Beginn einer amerikanischen Dominanz in der Weltpolitik gesehen wird, argumentiert M. Michaela Hampf, dass der Aufstieg der Vereinigten Staaten zu einer imperialen Macht bereits nach 1865 erfolgte. Methodisch geht die Untersuchung insofern neue Wege als zur Erklärung des „amerikanischen Sonderwegs“ die sozialwissenschaftliche Theorie der Pfadabhängigkeit herangezogen wird. Erklärt werden soll nicht die expansive amerikanische Außenpolitik als konsequente Anwendung amerikanischer Prinzipien, sondern die Pfade, die dazu führten, dass die amerikanische Politik bereit war, einen Weg zu beschreiten, der eine Abkehr von eben jenen Grundsätzen darstellte.

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2020
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry and abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post‑industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the •Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.

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Edith Wharton.
Cahir, Linda Costanzo
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Wharton is a discerning and unrelenting American social critic with a complex, realist... more
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Identities & Issues in Literature. Sep1997, p1-1. 1p.
Wharton is a discerning and unrelenting American social critic with a complex, realistic, and sympathetic understanding of human nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Coins and Currency : An Historical Encyclopedia, 2d Ed.
Mary Ellen Snodgrass;Mary Ellen Snodgrass
 During ancient times currency took varied forms, including beaver skins, bales of to... more
Coins and Currency : An Historical Encyclopedia, 2d Ed.
2019
 During ancient times currency took varied forms, including beaver skins, bales of tobacco, and sea salt blocks. As art and technology advanced, monetary systems and currencies altered. Today, coins and currency provide an historical and archeological record of culture, religion, politics, and world leaders. This updated second edition offers numerous entries of historical commentary on the role of coins and currency in human events, politics, and the arts. It begins with the origin of coins in ancient Sumer, and follows advancements in metallurgy and minting machines to paper, plastic, and electronic moneys designed to ease trade and halt counterfeiting and other forms of theft. A timeline of monetary history is provided along with a glossary and bibliography. Numerous photographs of coins and bills provide an up-close look at beautiful and ingenious artifacts.

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Money--History--Encyclopedias - Coins--History--Encyclopedias

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Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2 : Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination
Philip A. Greasley;Philip A. Greasley
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The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the ... more
Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2 : Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination
2016; Vol. Volume two
The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film, comic strips, graphic novels, and environmental writing. Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest's continuing cultural vitality and the stature and distinctiveness of its literature.

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American literature--Middle West--Dictionaries - Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Middle West--Dictionaries - American literature--Middle West--Bio-bibliography--Dictionaries

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