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The author prepared this self-help manual for professors who want to write more productively, painlessly, and successfully. It reflects the authors two decades of experiences and research with professors as writers -- by compressing a lot of experience into a brief, programmatic framework. Like the actual sessions and workshops in which the author works with writers, this book admonishes and reassures.
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"Genius physics professor Dr. Jane Darling desperately wants a baby. But finding a father wont be easy. Jane's super-intelligence made her feel like a freak when she was growing up, and she determined to spare her own child that suffering. Which means she must find someone very special to father her child. Someone who's more comfortable working out his muscles than exercising his brain."--Publisher's website.
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"Some years before Peter Taylor's death in 1994, the tacit agreement was made that Hubert McAlexander would be the author's biographer. Peter Taylor, McAlexander's accomplished portrait, achieves for readers a remarkable intimacy with this central figure in the history of the American short story and one of the greatest southern writers of his time." "Taylor's life spanned most of the twentieth century, a fact borne out in the themes of social and...
6) Working it out: 23 women writers, artists, scientists, and scholars talk about their lives and work
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These twenty-three women artists, writers, scientists and scholars are diverse in their ideological positions. Most, but not all, contributors have married and have had children. In this pioneering collection of essays, these women write candidly, often shockingly, about the dilemmas and rewards of work of their own.
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"Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their home. He worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure, and believed a woman's highest virtue was her obedience. In an...
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George, a disillusioned academic, and Martha, his caustic wife, have just come home from a faculty party. When a handsome young professor and his mousy wife stop by for a nightcap, an innocent night of fun and games quickly turns dark and dangerous. Long-buried resentment and rage are unleashed as George and Martha turn their rapier-sharp wits against each other, using their guests as pawns in their verbal sparring. By night's end, the secrets of...
11) Crescent
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Never married, living with an Iraqi-immigrant uncle and devoted dog, and working as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, thirty-nine-year-old Sirine finds her life turned upside down by a handsome Arabic literature professor.
Thirty-nine-year-old Sirine, never married, lives with a devoted uncle and an adoring dog named King Babar in the Persian- and Arab-American community of Los Angeles known as Irangeles. She works as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant,...
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In provocative essays exploring the themes of identity, power, and change, thirty-three black woman academics and administrators from around the country discuss their experiences of life in America's institutions of higher education. Often inspiring, these accounts serve collectively both as a handbook for today's black female academics, administrators, graduate students, and junior faculty and as a call to the nation's academies to respond to the...
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