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Author, Geraldine Brooks at the National Library of Australia for the 2009 Ray Mathew Lecture, Canberra, 23 October 2009 [picture] /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author, Geraldine Brooks during her visit to the National Library of Australia for the 2009 Ray Mathew Lecture, Canberra, 23 October 2009.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Summer of Service: Greg Jao
No full textGreg Jao, Vice President of Campus Engagement for InterVarsity, speaks on Nehemiah and the importance of investing where God has placed you.
A second-generation Chinese American, Greg helped develop The Daniel Project, a leadership acceleration program for Asian American InterVarsity staff, and formerly served as National Field Director for InterVarsity in the Northeast. He has emceed several Urbana conferences, speaks often to student groups, and is a volunteer preacher at his church. Greg is the author of Your Mind’s Mission, The Kingdom of God, and Following Jesus Without Dishonoring Your Parents (all IVP)
Portrait of Robert Dessaix in the National Library of Australia bookshop, Canberra, 10 October 2008, 1 [picture] /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author Robert Dessaix in the National Library of Australia bookshop, Canberra, 10 October 2008.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Portrait of Robert Dessaix in the National Library of Australia bookshop, Canberra, 10 October 2008, 2 [picture] /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author Robert Dessaix in the National Library of Australia bookshop, Canberra, 10 October 2008.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Greg Bottoms, 24th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textGreg Bottoms is the author of the memoir Angelhead, which was named one of the best five works of nonfiction of 2000 by Esquire magazine. His second book, Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks: Tales, was released in September 2001 by Context Books. His stories and essays have appeared in a number of magazines, literary journals, and anthologies, including The Beacon Best of 1999, Creative Nonfiction, and Esquire. He is currently the Teaching and Writing Fellow at Sweet Briar College
Greg Larson, 44th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textGreg Larson is an author, editor, and stand-up comedian in Austin, Texas. His memoir, Clubbie (University of Nebraska Press, 2021), was his graduate thesis for Old Dominion University’s Master of Fine Arts in creative writing. Library Journal called it “[A] necessary addition to current baseball literature.” He has since been featured by NPR, CBS Sports Radio, ESPN, and the MLB Network. He has edited clients’ work that has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, the Wall Street Journal Bestseller List, the USA Today Bestseller List, and more
The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
Full text linkAlphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more often than Professor Z, will have published more articles and experienced afaster growth rate over the course of her career as a result of reputation and visibility. Moreover, authors know that name ordering matters and indeed take ordering seriously: Several characteristics of an author group composition determine the decision to deviate from the default alphabetic name order to a significant extent.performance measurement, incentives, economists, name ordering
Peter Macinnis conducting a teachers' workshop at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 22 October 2009 [picture] /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Teachers' workshop for the book Australian backyard explorer by author Peter Macinnis at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 22 October 2009.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Greg Mortensen: Humanitarian and Best-Selling Author of \u3ci\u3eThree Cups of Tea\u3c/i\u3e
No full textGreg Mortenson is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Three Cups of Tea: One Man\u27s Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time, and co-founder and executive director of the Central Asia Institute, a nonprofit organization that provides educational resources and promotes education in regions where there are few or no educational opportunities.
Founded in 1996 and based in Bozeman, Mont., the organization is governed by a board of directors, all of whom are educators, who have traveled or lived in Pakistan and/or Afghanistan, and committed to the promotion of education and literacy. According to Mortenson, the organization has established over 61 schools in rural and often volatile regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan, and educated more than 25,000 children, including 14,000 girls, where few educational opportunities existed before.
Mortenson\u27s decision to help the people in those remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan stems from a personal event in his life. In 1992, his younger sister Christa died from a massive seizure after a lifelong struggle with epilepsy. Mortenson decided to climb Pakistan\u27s K2 Mountain (also known as Mount Austin Godwin) in 1993, the second-highest mountain in the world, in honor of his sister. While recovering in a local village after climbing K2, Mortenson met a group of children writing in the sand with sticks. There, he made a promise to help them build a school. And the rest, as they say, is history.
His humanitarian efforts have not been without strife. He survived an eight-day kidnapping in the Northwest Frontier Province tribal area of Pakistan, and, according to his Web site, received hate mail and death threats after 9/11 for helping Muslim children with their education.
Born in Minnesota in 1947, Mortenson grew up on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. His father was a founder of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, a 480-bed teaching hospital, and his mother founded International School Moshi, also in Tanzania. He served in the U.S. Army in Germany from 1977-79, where he received the Army Commendation Medal, and later graduated from the University of South Dakota in 1983
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