Reformatoren.

Church History;  December 1, 1999 ;     244 words ......on the lives of influential Reformers. Comprised of an introductory essay and twenty-six brief chronologically ordered biographies...precision and context is readily apparent. The valuable introductory essay deals with the essentials: it seeks to define what a Reformer...

(book reviews)

Scandinavian Studies;  January 1, 1995 ;     652 words ...Center on the Periphery comprises an introductory essay and nineteen articles on diverse aspects of physics...place of physics in Swedish society. Lindqvist's introductory essay is a good example. He begins by telling the story...

prolusion

Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      37 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 pro|lu|sion (pro loo'zhn) n. a preliminary part or performance; often, specif., an introductory essay or article --pro|lu'so|ry (-s re) adj. Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

The Political Economy of Japanese Society, vol. 2: Internationalization...

American Political Science Review;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......state of Japanese scholarship. The two volumes contain one introductory essay and seventeen separate chapters. Fifteen chapters are...the 1880s and as far forward as the mid-1990s. In his introductory essay, the editor has wisely refrained from articulating a rationale...

The Political Economy of Japanese Society, vol 1: The State or the...

American Political Science Review;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......state of Japanese scholarship. The two volumes contain one introductory essay and seventeen separate chapters. Fifteen chapters are...the 1880s and as far forward as the mid-1990s. In his introductory essay, the editor has wisely refrained from articulating a rationale...

Religious Change, Conversion and Culture.(Review)

Oceania;  December 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......attempts, are brilliantly summarized by Carole Cusack in her introductory essay for this volume. Each of the following essays draws from...papers, I would like to focus on some aspects of Cusack's introductory essay 'Towards a General Theory of Conversion'. The initial...

Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge.(Review)

History: Review of New Books;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ......the Wellcome Library, London, in 1994), a substantial introductory essay by the editors, a series of rich and up-to-date bibliographies...Shapin pose their question in the first sentence of the introductory essay The Body of Knowledge : How is one to think about the...

The Subject Is Sex.(Documentary)(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)

Video Business;  November 15, 2004 ;     44 words ...* THE SUBJECT IS SEX With the theatrical Kinsey opening this month, Facets gets into the spirit of the controversial author's subject matter with this documentary, streeting Dec. 28 (prebook Dec. 7) priced at $24.95 on DVD. Film scholar Eric Schaefer provides an introductory essay.

Mosses from an Old Manse

The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature;      100 words ......during his residence (1842–46) at the Old Manse in Concord. They were published in two volumes (1846), with an introductory essay, “The Old Manse,” followed by 25 short stories and historical sketches. Among them are historical pieces...

(book review)

Journal of Environmental Education;  January 1, 2000 ;     574 words ......Place-Based Environmental Education Anthology, with an introductory essay by John Elder. Great Barrington, MA: Orion Society. 1998...our schools and homes. Stories in the Land opens with an introductory essay, Teaching at the Edge by John Elder, that reminds us to...

Of horses and silk

Natural History;  September 1, 1997 ;     323 words ......Textiles, by Anne E. Wardwell and James C. Y Watt. With an introductory essay by Morris Rossabi. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, $65...and win loyalty. Morris Rossabi, whose comprehensive introductory essay in When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian and Chinese Textiles...

Mark Catesby's Natural History of America: The Watercolors from the Royal...

The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography;  July 1, 1998 ;     647 words ......Windsor Castle. By HENRIETTA MCBURNEY. Introductory essay by AMY R. W. MEYERS. London: Merrell...understanding of the artist and his work. An introductory essay by Amy R. W. Meyers, curator of American...19). Besides the catalog and the introductory essay, McBurney's book also ...

Reinventing the look (even smell) of a book

International Herald Tribune;  March 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ......it should have a white cover, raggedy page edges and an introductory essay printed in type that starts off big and becomes smaller...shrinking type was conceived to coax people into reading the introductory essay by the philosopher Arthur Danto, by drawing them into...

FINE ARTS SPECIAL

The Spectator;  May 20, 2006 ;     93 words ......title of an exhibition of work by Daniela Gullotta at Marlborough Fine Art, 6 Albemarle Street, W1 (until 3 June). In an introductory essay, Andrew Lambirth explains how Gullotta, who was born in Bologna in 1974, makes paintings of interiors based on reinterpreted...

F&M professor writes on 1960s

Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA;  November 11, 2003 ;     68 words ......co-edited a new book titled, "The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America." Gosse also wrote the book's introductory essay "Postmodern America: A New Democratic Order in the Second Gilded Age." The book, published by Temple University Press...