Article: Alfred Habdank Korzybski

Article: Jago, Richard
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature;      40 words ...Jago, Richard (1715–81), was the author of Edge-Hill (1767), a topographical poem in four books describing, with many digressions, the views seen at morning, noon, afternoon, and evening, as he looks from that famous spot over his favourite country.

Article: Procopius
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      185 words ......questioned, but most scholars now agree that it is an authentic work of Procopius. He also wrote On Buildings, a work in six books describing buildings erected by Justinian throughout the empire. In his polished style Procopius imitated the historians of the Greek...

Article: Kramer, D. (2002): Life on Cripple Creek.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Palaestra;  June 22, 2005 ;     275 words ......532-8663, FAX [212] 683-0118: ISBN 1-888799-68-4; paperback, 149 pgs, $19.95). When the author could find only one or two books describing ongoing, everyday lives of ordinary people living with multiple sclerosis (MS), she began writing essays about her own...

Article: canoeing
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      215 words ......credited with being the initiator of modern sport canoeing. Between 1849 and 1869, MacGregor wrote a number of popular books describing his experiences on long canoe trips throughout Europe. Sport canoeing today may either involve recreational journeys or...

Article: Marketing-driven fits the times: sales-driven just doesn't do it anymore.
Canadian Manager;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ...With effusive CEO testimonials and countless articles and books describing how companies have transformed themselves into tightly focused, totally energized commerce machines, it would seem that change...

Article: Attitude Adjustment: How the Hungarians got it; who needs it now.
National Review;  June 3, 2002 ;     700+ words ......of the Lechfeld, which was fought on a rainy Friday in August of a.d. 955, does not figure in any of those books describing the most decisive or most significant battles in world history -- books by historians like Edward Creasy or...

Article: Frontier Metropolis: Picturing Early Detroit, 1701-1838.(Brian Leigh Dunnigan)
Michigan Historical Review;  March 22, 2002 ;     502 words ......247. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Cloth, $125.00. It is hard to imagine anyone who loves books describing this beautiful volume as anything less than a treasure. In particular, those readers with an interest in maps or the Great...

Article: Back to Britain The Holiday Journals of a G.I. Bride.
Contemporary Review;  January 1, 1996 ;     651 words ...Travel books and books describing a nation's daily life have been for millennia one of mankind's favourite reading. Indeed, they are often two sides of the same...

Article: The Description of England. The Classic Contemporary Account of Tudor Social Life.
Contemporary Review;  January 1, 1996 ;     651 words ...Travel books and books describing a nation's daily life have been for millennia one of mankind's favourite reading. Indeed, they are often two sides of the same...

Article: The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes.
Contemporary Review;  January 1, 1996 ;     651 words ...Travel books and books describing a nation's daily life have been for millennia one of mankind's favourite reading. Indeed, they are often two sides of the same...

Article: Ethical review of interpretive research: problems and solutions.
IRB: Ethics & Human Research;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......review may affect their research practices. (1) The last few years have seen a proliferation of reports, articles, and books describing and analyzing the situation. (2) In particular, investigators using interpretive methodologies (e.g., ethnography, grounded...

Article: Birdlife of the Churchill Region: Status, History, Biology.(Book review)
Arctic;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......155 p., b & w and colour illus., bib. Softbound. US$30.50, Cdn$35.00, EUR25.00, [pounds sterling]17.50. Although many books describing the birds of a local region have been written, this book is in a class of its own. It is written with scientific rigour...

Article: Riis, Jacob August
The Oxford Companion to American Literature;      114 words ......who, as head of the city police board, as New York governor, and as U.S. President, gave him great support. Among Riis's books describing his work were How the Other Half Lives (1890), The Children of the Poor (1892), Out of Mulberry Street (1898), and The...

Article: Sir John Ross
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      102 words ......last trip to the Arctic was made in 1850-51, when he went to the Lancaster Sound region to search for Sir John Franklin. He wrote two books describing his quest for the Northwest Passage. Bibliography: See E. S. Dodge, The Polar Rosses (1973).