593 research outputs found
Letter from Upton Sinclair to Melville L. Kress - December 22, 1938
No full textA letter from Upton Sinclair to Melville Kress, dated December 22, 1938, in which Sinclair reflects on relationships and interactions he had as a young author
Letter from Upton Sinclair to Melville L. Kress - June 29, 1933
No full textA brief letter from Upton Sinclair to Melville Kress, dated June 29, 1933, in which Sinclair mentions the author [Thomas] Hardy, calling his books 'pretentious and boring.
Letter from Upton Sinclair to Melville L. Kress - August 5, 1940
No full textA letter from Upton Sinclair to Melville Kress, dated August 5, 1940, in which Sinclair thanks him for his notes on the manuscript, but will not be using some of his suggestions. Sinclair also states that he has been busy writing and getting material from his friend, Martin Birnbaum. Martin Birnbaum, a longtime friend and classmate of Sinclair, was an international art dealer, critic and author, and was the inspiration for the character Lanny Budd, the hero of the World's End series
Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 28, No. 2
No full text“Lewis and Thompson and the Writers’ War Board,” by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University
“The Filming of Free Air”
“An Interview with Ken Cuthbertson, Author of Inside: The Biography of John Gunther,” by Susan O’Brien
“Sinclair Lewis as Seen through the Eyes of Ernest Hemingway’s Biographers,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
“Sinclair Lewis, Dante, and the Jews,” a discussion by Mark Bernheim, Sally E. Parry, and Ralph Goldstein
“Sinclair Lewis,” by George Simmers from Great War Fiction Plushttps://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/slsn/1022/thumbnail.jp
Agroforestry: Science, policy and practice: selected papers from the agroforestry sessions of the IUFRO 20th world congress, tampare, finland, 6-12 august 1995/ Sinclair, Fergus L. (Edt.)
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Geometrical reasoning in the primary school, the case of parallel lines
No full textDuring the primary school years, children are typically expected to develop ways of explaining their mathematical reasoning. This paper reports on ideas developed during an analysis of data from a project which involved young children (aged 5-7 years old) in a whole-class situation using dynamic geometry software (specifically Sketchpad). The focus is a classroom episode in which the children try to decide whether two lines that they know continue (but cannot see all of the continuation) will intersect, or not. The analysis illustrates how the children can move from an empirical, visual description of spatial relations to a more theoretical, abstract one. The arguments used by the children during the lesson transcend empirical arguments, providing evidence of how young children can be capable of engaging in aspects of deductive argumentation
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Destination 2010: regional economic strategy for the East Midlands 2003-2010
No full textDestination 2010 is the second regional economic strategy for the East Midlands. The strategy is a high level framework that sets out a vision for the East Midlands economy in 2010 and provides a blueprint for economic development activity in the region for the period 2003-2010
Author Correction: A shared neural basis underlying psychiatric comorbidity
No full textCorrection to: Nature Medicine. Published online 24 April 2023. In the version of this article initially published, the STRATIFY data also included cohort data from the ESTRA consortium, though this was not acknowledged in the author list and the section in Methods on the Stratify dataset. The Methods are now updated, and the author list is amended to combine the STRATIFY and ESTRA consortium names and to include the following authors: Marina Bobou, M. John Broulidakis, Betteke Maria van Noort, Zuo Zhang, Lauren Robinson, Nilakshi Vaidya, Jeanne Winterer, Yuning Zhang, Sinead King, Hervé Lemaître, Ulrike Schmidt, Julia Sinclair, Argyris Stringaris and Sylvane Desrivières. The STRATIFY and ESTRA consortia are now combined to list Marina Bobou, M. John Broulidakis, Betteke Maria van Noort, Zuo Zhang, Lauren Robinson, Nilakshi Vaidya, Jeanne Winterer, Yuning Zhang, Sinead King, Gareth J. Barker, Arun L. W. Bokde, Hervé Lemaître, Frauke Nees, Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos, Ulrike Schmidt, Julia Sinclair, Argyris Stringaris, Henrik Walter, Robert Whelan, Sylvane Desrivières and Gunter Schumann as members, and the IMAGEN consortium is updated to also include Sylvane Desrivières. Affiliations, author contributions and acknowledgements have been updated to reflect the new authorship, and all changes have been made in the HTML and PDF versions of the article
Pod availability, yield and nutritional characteristics from four fruit bearing tree species dispersed in pastures as a complementary feed for animal production in the dry tropics
No full textThe objective of this study was to determine the annual pod availability, yield and nutritional characteristics of four fruit bearing tree species (FBTS) from which pods are more readily consumed by cattle, as reported by farmers. Tree density and abundance were estimated by conducting a complete inventory of all individual trees larger than 10 cm in diameter at breast height (DBH) on sixteen traditional livestock farms in a dry tropical ecosystem. All fallen pods from seven individual trees of each FBTS were collected as they fell on the ground. A total of 1402 trees were found dispersed in 614 ha of pastures with an overall mean tree density of 2.28 trees/ha.
Pod availability started on the final days of January and ended in May. Acrocomia aculeate (Jacq.) Lodd. ex Mart. produced pods during most of all of the collection period compared to the other tree species. Enterolobium cyclocarpum (Jacq.) Griseb and A. aculeate were the FBTS that produced the most and the least pod yields respectively. Pod nutritional quality ranged between 5 to 16% for crude protein, between 25 to 42.5% for neutral detergent fiber, and between 63 to 72 % for in vitro dry matter digestibility among the four FBTS. It is concluded that leguminous tree species were present at low densities despite the fact that they produce the higher nutritional quality pods. However, pastures containing a FBTS combination with different fruit pattern distributions during the dry season could provide a more stable overall fodder nutritional value available to cattle during the dry season than monoculture pastures. But more research is needed to determine the level that pod production will compensate for pasture availability decline as tree density increases
Review of \u3ci\u3eA Cowboy Writer in New Mexico: The Memoirs of John L. Sinclair\u3c/i\u3e By John Sinclair
No full textJohn Sinclair was the author of four unique grassroots novels: In Time of Harvest; Death in the Claimshack; Cousin Drewey and the Holy Twister; and The Night the Bear Came off the Mountain. In addition he published numerous articles and short stories in the New Mexico Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, and other journals. Throughout all his writings runs the thread of his love of the land and the simple, earthy people native to it.
Sinclair was born in New York City in 1902. His father was the son of a wealthy and aristocratic family in northern Scotland. His Irish mother, however, was shunned by the Sinclairs who considered her socially inferior. Following his father\u27s death and with his mother unable to care for him, young Sinclair was sent to Britain in 1912 to be reared by his grandfather and uncle. In 1923, after schooling and an apprenticeship in animal husbandry, he returned to the United States. The Sinclairs wanted him to establish a family-owned ranch in British Columbia, but a stop-off in New Mexico not only changed his plans, but his life. He saw saddle ponies and cowboys at the station and decided this land was the place for him. When he returned to England to tell his family he found himself disinherited.
Returning to New Mexico, Sinclair worked as a cowboy for fourteen years, all the while nurturing a growing desire to become a writer. By 1936 he had moved to Santa Fe, already well-known for its colony of artists and writers, and eventually was hired by the Museum of New Mexico to write articles on exhibits being prepared in the Palace of the Governors. This experience led to his transfer in 1940 to establish the Lincoln Museum in the old courthouse where Billy the Kid was incarcerated and from which he made his sanguinary escape. Two years later Sinclair completed his first novel, In Time of Harvest. From 1944 to 1963 he was superintendent of the Coronado State Monument near Bernalillo. He and his wife spent their remaining years in a nearby stone cabin with a view of the mountains. His life, he said, was like that of Thoreau, one of simplicity and solitude. His writings earned him two Western Heritage Wrangler Awards, the Western Writers\u27 Golden Spur Award, the New Mexico Governor\u27s Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts, and the Western Heritage Center\u27s Honorary Life Membership in the Cowboy Hall of Fame
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