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A Conversation about Aliens, AIs and Jack Benny
No full textPresented on March 14, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. in the Crosland Tower, 7th floor reading room.Jack McDevitt is a former English teacher, naval officer, Philadelphia taxi driver, customs officer and motivational trainer. His work has been on the final ballot for the Nebula Awards for 12 of the past 13 years, and he holds 16 nominations in total. His first novel, The Hercules Text, was published in the celebrated Ace Specials series and won the Philip K. Dick Special Award. In 1991, McDevitt won the first $10,000 UPC International Prize for his novella, "Ships in the Night." The Engines of God was a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and his novella, "Time Travelers Never Die," was nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula awards.Runtime: 60:59 minutesThe Georgia Tech Library is proud to host Nebula Award-winning author Jack McDevitt in the Seventh Floor Reading Room Thursday, March 14 for “A Conversation about Aliens, AIs and Jack Benny with Sci-Fi Author Jack McDevitt
What can we learn from 10 superintendents who identify as instructional leaders: a qualitative study
No full textThe purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore the instructional leadership of experienced and effective superintendents, focusing on how they define it, the standard strategies they employ, and how they perceive different contexts influencing their work. The ten superintendents interviewed for this research are among the most successful and influential superintendents in the country. One was named the National School Superintendent of the Year, two were state superintendents of the year, and among the ten superintendents, they have collectively authored 24 books, all while serving as full-time practitioners. Nine of the ten have extensive consulting and presenting experience, including serving as keynote speakers at multiple national conferences on educational leadership. Braun and Clarke's (2006) reflexive thematic analysis and used to identify themes related to instructional leadership. Data sources included semi-structured interviews and demographic surveys. The final themes were (a) effective instructional leadership entails transformational and adaptive leadership style for long-run success, (b) leader-member exchanges (LMX) leadership styles for short run success, (c) instructional leadership begets boundary-spanning collaboration, (d) effective instructional leadership requires educators to feel responsibility, effective instructional leadership that requires universal (re) focus of all goals and roles on student learning, (f) effective instructional leadership requires direct participation in all levels by superintendents (g), the outcome of effective instructional leadership is student learning equity, and (h) a culture of instructional leadership that is requisite for minimizing student learning inequity. The findings demonstrate the value of collaborative and shared practices to support instructional leadership and student equity.Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2026-02-19 without embargo termsThe student, Jack Baldermann, accepted the attached license on 2025-12-05 at 10:20.The student, Jack Baldermann, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2025-12-05 at 10:31.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2025-12-05 at 10:56.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #23079 on 2026-02-19 at 18:29:4
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1902-1907
No full textIn this second volume of Author Under Sail Jay Williams investigates the life of Jack London as a professional writer at the turn of the 1900s, as his publications spanned The Call of the Wild to The Iron Heel and The Road. While documenting key life events, especially his rising fame, this biography explores London's necessity to illustrate the inner workings of his own vast imagination through his socialist essays and fiction.Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Howl, O Heav'nly Muse! -- 2. Jesus in the Theater of Socialism -- 3. Jack London's Place in American Literature -- 4. Theater of War, Theater at Home -- 5. Revolution, Evolution, and the Scene of Writing -- 6. The Jack London Show Goes on the Road -- 7. Red Atavisms and Revolution -- 8. Earthquake Apocalypse and Building the City, Boat, and House Beautiful -- 9. The Future of Socialism and the Death of the Individual -- 10. The Road Never Ends -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexIn this second volume of Author Under Sail Jay Williams investigates the life of Jack London as a professional writer at the turn of the 1900s, as his publications spanned The Call of the Wild to The Iron Heel and The Road. While documenting key life events, especially his rising fame, this biography explores London's necessity to illustrate the inner workings of his own vast imagination through his socialist essays and fiction.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Stephanie Mathson interviews poet and author Jack Ridl
No full textPoet and author Jack Ridl explains how he began writing, the writer series at Hope College, his coach poems, his chapbook "Against elegies," how working and living in Michigan shapes his work, and works in progress. Ridl is interviewed by Stephanie Mathson of the Michigan State University Libraries. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Poet and author Jack Ridl reads his selected works at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textPoet and author Jack Ridl reads his selected poems. The event is convened by Peter Berg, head of Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held at the Main Library
On Campus Video, featuring Abilene (TX) businessman and author Jack Cox.
No full textA videorecording of an interview with Abilene (TX) businessman and author Jack Cox, conducted by Dr. Gary McCaleb of Abilene Christian University
Interview with Jack Fryar
No full textIn this interview, author, publisher and Wilmington native Jack Fryar discusses his writing career, his passion for educating people about southeastern North Carolina history, and the ins and outs of owning and operating his own press
Jack Spears
No full textSpears standing on sidewalk. On verso: bsba '41.Jack Spears (1919-2012) was the executive director of the Tulsa County Medical Society for 44 years. He received the Oklahoma State Medical Association's Distinguished Service Award in 1980 and the Outstanding Layman Award in 1984, as well as several other awards and recognitions throughout his career. Jack was the author of two books and numerous magazine articles on motion picture history and criticism
Kilpatrick, Jack
No full text"Under the Reading Lamp" by Jack Gregory and Rennard Strickland, Tulsa World, Oct. 26, 1969. Review of Kilpatricks last book, "New Echota Letters" (SMU Press, $5). Information on the five other books by this Cherokee author is also given in the article. 1 pag
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