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The Fourth Dimension and the Theology of Edwin Abbott Abbott
No full textThis paper is a brief biography of Edwin Abbott Abbott, author of Flatland, and a sketch of the main ideas in the book. It also incorporates some personal reflections
2013-2014 Megan Abbott
No full textMegan Abbott is the Edgar-winning author of the novels Die a Little, Bury Me Deep, The End of Everything, Dare Me and The Fever. Her most recent book is You Will Know Me, which was chosen as one of Best Books of 2016 by NPR, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Time Out NY, the Washington Post, Google, Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, and The Believer. Her stories hav appeared in multiple collections, including the Best American Mystery Stories of 2014 and 2016. Her work has won or been nominated for the CWA Steel Dagger, the International Thriller Writers Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and five Edgar awards, Currently, she is a staff writer on HBO\u27s new David Simon show, The Deuce, and is adapting two of her novels for television and feature film. Born in the Detroit area, she graduated from the University of Michigan and received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University. She has taught at NYU, the State University of New York and the New School University. In 2013-14, she served as the John Grisham Writer in Residence at Ole Miss. She is also the author of a nonfiction book, The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir, and the editor of A Hell of a Woman, an anthology of female crime fiction. She has been nominated for many awards, including three Edgar Awards, Hammett Prize, the Shirley Jackson Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Folio Prize.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/grisham_res/1006/thumbnail.jp
Aaron Abbott
No full textPhotograph of Aaron Abbott of Sulphur, OK, c. 1910-1918. He was a publisher and author of, "The Lure of the Indian Country" using the pseudonym Oleta Littleheart
Dr. George Knapp Abbott
No full textPortrait of George Knapp Abbott. Abbott was the youngest president of the College of Medical Evangelists at the age of 26. He spent 32 years in service to Seventh-day Adventist health institutions, during which time he was very active in promoting a vigorous health program. He is the author of thirteen books on physical therapy, diet and nutrition.10 x 16 c
Citizen piece on the Harvey Prager controversy. The author, Susan Clark Abbot
No full textCitizen piece on the Harvey Prager controversy. The author, Susan Clark Abbott, is executive director of the Hospice of Maine in Portland, and takes exception with the judicial system and the media for implying that caring for the terminally ill is similar to a prison sentence
Dr. George Knapp Abbott
No full textDr. George Knapp Abbott poses near the portraits of former presidents of College of Medical Evangelists. Dr. Abbott was the youngest president of the College of Medical Evangelists at the age of 26. He spent 32 years in service to Seventh-day Adventist health institutions, during which time he was very active in promoting a vigorous health program. He is the author of thirteen books on physical therapy, diet and nutrition.6 x 10 c
Edith Abbott (1876-1957)
No full textAbbott was the first woman dean of a graduate school in an American university and, simultaneously, the first dean of the first graduate school of social work in the nation. Her leading role in social work overshadowed her deep roots in sociology, in which she was a major scholar of her day. She was a prolific author (Marks 1958) and specialized in the study of women\u27s rights and wages. Her life was dedicated to the eradication of social inequality facing blacks, immigrants, people in poverty, and laborers. Abbott championed the use of statistical data at the University of Chicago during an era when this activity was considered women\u27s work in sociology
George Knapp Abbott
No full textDr. George K. Abbott was the youngest president of the College of Medical Evangelists at the age of 26. He spent 32 years in service to Seventh-day Adventist health institutions, during which time he was very active in promoting a vigorous health program. He is the author of thirteen books on physical therapy, diet and nutrition.13 x 18 c
Chronicles of Oklahoma
No full textArticle describes the life and career of middleweight boxing champion Tom Abbott, the grandfather of the author. Devon Abbott illustrates his impact not just in the ring, but in his careers as a football and track coach and a chief of police in McAlester, Oklahoma
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