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Ordericus Vitalis
Ordericus Vitalis , 1075-c.1143, Norman monk and chronicler, b. England. He spent most of his life in Saint-Évroul in Normandy. His Ecclesiastical History (4 vol., tr. 1853-56; repr. 1968), a universal history to 1143, is valuable for a study of the Normans in England, France, and Italy and... Read more
Johan Bojer
Johan Bojer , 1872-1959, Norwegian writer. Bojer's novels of contemporary Norwegian life treat social issues from a classical liberal viewpoint. The Power of a Lie (1903, tr. 1908) and The Great Hunger (1916, tr. 1918) illustrate his humanistic philosophy. The greater depth of The Last of the V... Read more
Institute for Advanced Study
Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J.; chartered 1930, opened 1933. It differs from a university in that it offers no curriculum or examinations, and confers no degrees. Founded with a gift from Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld as a center for graduate study, it subsequently became a r... Read more
time and motion study
time and motion study analysis of the operations required to produce a manufactured article in a factory, with the aim of increasing efficiency. Each operation is studied minutely and analyzed in order to eliminate unnecessary motions and thus reduce production time and raise output, which increase... Read more
William Stubbs
William Stubbs 1825-1901, English historian, educated at Oxford. Ordained in 1850, he was a professor of modern history at Oxford until in 1884 he was made bishop of Chester. Stubbs's critical studies of source materials transformed the study of medieval history. His Constitutional History of Engl... Read more
John Addington Symonds
John Addington Symonds , 1840-93, English author. Educated at Harrow and Oxford, constant ill health exiled him for the greater part of his life to Italy and Switzerland. His many writings include travel books, Sketches in Italy and Greece (1874) and Italian Byways (1883); literary essays, Intr... Read more
Charles Eliot Norton
Charles Eliot Norton 1827-1908, American scholar and teacher, b. Cambridge, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1846. As professor of the history of art at Harvard (1875-98) and as a man of letters he had a stimulating influence on his time. He edited (1864-68), with James Russell Lowell , the North American R... Read more
Joseph Justus Scaliger
Joseph Justus Scaliger , 1540-1609, French classical scholar. He was the son of Julius Caesar Scaliger, from whom he acquired his early mastery of Latin. He adopted Protestantism in 1562, served as companion of a Poitevin noble (1563-70), studied under Cujas at Valence (1570-72), and was professor o... Read more
Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle
Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle , 1820-97, Italian art critic and writer. Cavalcaselle studied painting at the Academy of Venice and traveled extensively through Italy studying its art treasures. He participated in the Revolution of 1848 and escaped to England, where he remained for several years. Wh... Read more
Egon Wellesz
Egon Wellesz , 1885-1974, Austrian composer and musicologist. Wellesz studied with Schoenberg at the same time as Berg and Webern. His early compositions show the influence of Mahler, but the clarity and articulation that characterize his later works are already evident. He is the author of studies ... Read more

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social history
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...Trevelyan's often quoted ‘Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left...the less the tradition of social history which dominated the 1950s and 1960s...Hammonds and the Webbs . Social history inherited from the Scottish ... Read more
Adonis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...work reflected a radical vision of Arab history and culture, as well as a hunger for change and modernity. Adonis is...received a scholarship which enabled him to study in Paris. Adonis wrote extensively during...thinker with a radical vision of Arab history and culture. This philosophy is ... Read more
Stewart, George R(ippey)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...Bret Harte (1931); Ordeal by Hunger (1936), about the Donner Party...Pickett's Charge (1959), a vivid history of the final attack at Gettysburg...California Trail (1962), a study of the main overland route...episode in early San Francisco history; Good Lives (1967), studies...1951), the ... Read more
Knut Hamsun
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...anonymously published first part of Hunger (1888), which made him immediately famous...novels of the first period — Hunger (1890), Mysteries (1892), Pan (1894...its lyricism, its humor, its merciless study of the outsider — this time Hamsun...19, 1952. Further Reading The finest ... Read more
Binge eating
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...eating often occurs in the absence of hunger and is characterized by eating very rapidly...separate diagnostic category, pending further study. Symptoms and treatments Binge eating...the disorder is often marked by a long history of on-again, off-again dieting. As is... Read more
Ovid
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Ovid an excellent education, including study under great rhetoricians (masters of language...to fifteen devoted to Roman legends and history. The transitions between the various stories...helped to fill the overpowering medieval hunger for storytelling. During the Renaissance... Read more
Paulo Freire
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...situation, Freire noted, "We shared the hunger, but not the class." After completing...Through such experiences and further study, Freire began to realize that the poor...where he was to soon become professor of history and philosophy of education. Leading the... Read more
Bellecourt, Clyde
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...given up hope. He decided to go on a hunger strike, figuring he would die. A fellow...brought him a book dealing with his Ojibwa history. Reading the book made Bellecourt proud...The center focused on American Indian history and traditions. However, in the early...Minneapolis public school system after a ... Read more
Wright, Richard
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...all the fear, rage, rebellion, spiritual hunger and the undisciplined drive to satisfy...psychologists (people who are trained to study the mental and behavioral characteristics...published Twelve Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro of the United States. By... Read more
Swaminathan, M. S.
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...and 1943 made him resolve to work to end hunger in his homeland. Famine Inspired Switch...around southern India, he switched to the study of agriculture and enrolled at the University...his experiments, beginning a publishing history that would grow to include an eventual... Read more

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Rocha, Glauber
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Position of Brazilian Cinema," and "Hunger vs. Profit Aesthetic," in Framework (Norwich), Autumn 1979. "The History of Cinema Novo," in Framework (Norwich...no. 101, 1982. "The Aesthetics of Hunger" and "Down with Populism," in 25 Years...Rocha and the Cinema Novo in Brazil: A Study of His ... Read more
Walden
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...the superiority of shabby clothes, cold, hunger, and loneliness in a light-hearted and...View of the Universe: Henry Thoreau's Study of Nature. Urbana: University of Illinois...Worster, Donald. Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas. New York: Cambridge... Read more
Pol Pot
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Ho Chi Minh's Indochinese Communist Party and in 1949 went to study electrical technology in Paris. On his return in 1953, he briefly...reign of terror, as a result of assassination, imprisonment, or hunger caused by a collapsed economy. He was deposed in January 1979... Read more

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HISTORY: Come, Clio.(study of history remains relevant)
Magazine article from: National Review; 1/24/2000; ; 700+ words ; THERE is an anecdote circulating in the history department at Harvard, where I have taught until...apocryphal--illustrates the growing ignorance of history in our society as well as the sense of its irrelevance...The classical adage Historia est magistra vitae-- History is the teacher of life -- epitomized ... Read more
The Years of Hunger.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 6/1/2004; 242 words ; The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933...fuller story is possible. This study complements that of Robert...geography, the weather, Russian history, international hostility to...this crucial period in Soviet history. (H.T.E.) Read more
Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 and Speaking in Hunger: Gender, Discourse, and Consumption in 'Clarissa'.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...paperbound $22.50; [pound]16.95). Speaking in Hunger: Gender, Discourse, and Consumption...is with what he calls the 'cultural' history of the novel much more than with any sort of generic history. As he says near the outset, his 'account...packaged for respectability. Warner's study is ultimately ... Read more
Heritage and history.(City/Region)(Local Armenians form a club to help preserve their culture)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 4/24/2009; 700+ words ; ...share their food, their stories, their history and a culture they do not want to lose. It's a history with an especially painful bond that...nephews, were killed, according to family history. Her grandfather survived because he...the United States when she was 20 to study music at Sonoma State ... Read more
Argentine addition: tango students submit to the passion.(Summer Study Guide 2004)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...infused with desire and loss, impossible tenderness, insatiable hunger. So what am I doing at 9:30 in the morning dancing tango on...dance, and can immerse themselves in all things tango: the history of the dance, the physics of tango, the different styles, the... Read more
Report shows world hunger increasing.(Column)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 4/2/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...the goal of halving world hunger by the year 2015 is out of...2001 period. The rise in hunger came even though the world...1995-2000. But the news on hunger was grim in sub-Saharan Africa...World the fifth edition of a study initiated by the organization...production in any period in the ... Read more
Hunger for the Wild: America's Obsession with the Untamed West.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2009; ; 550 words ; Hunger for the Wild: America's Obsession...questions. Michael L. Johnson's study of wildness is complicated...part, Johnson focuses on the history of ideas, but most importantly...323). The breadth of Johnson's study, however, sometimes limits his...to begin. This is a landmark study that ... Read more
Hunger in America: A Matter of Policy.
Magazine article from: Social Research; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...In the United States, for example, hunger and welfare policies have shifted in...examines such inequalities, and the history and present status of policies designed...enough food for its population? Does hunger exist in America? And, if so, what policies...paper will demonstrate, centuries of ... Read more
A change is coming.(BIBLE STUDY)(Trust in God)
Magazine article from: Sojourners Magazine; 8/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...out in these narratives seek to change history in accordance with God's will. Repeatedly...everything has changed and nothing has changed. Hunger, the oppression of immigrants, the false...no distinction between Jew and Greek in hungering for salvation and wholeness (Romans 10... Read more
Reflections on how to study and understand the human being. (Sixtieth Anniversary, 1934-1994: The Legacy of Our Past.)
Magazine article from: Social Research; 12/22/1994; ; 700+ words ; Creative minds are hungary for significant problems. It is this hunger which, with its own force, drove Leon Festinger towards new...difficult for me to believe that anyone who looks back on the history of psychology would not be very impressed with its accomplishments... Read more