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Documents include a handwritten letter written by Mr. Berg, January 30, 1946, telling of his reminiscences of early San Francisco.
Elliot J. Berg was a distinguished development economist. After teaching at Harvard in the early 1960s, he was Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan and Director of its Center for Research on Economic Development. He ran Elliot Berg Associates during the mid-1980s and later was a senior vice president of Development Alternatives, Inc. Elliot Berg served many advisory bodies and wrote numerous articles, reports, and books on development issues. The Elliot Berg Papers on African Economic Development are selected working files that contain professional correspondence, articles, research, meeting minutes, and personal notes pertaining to Berg's work with economic development in Africa. The majority of this collection is made up of internal documents and notes from Berg's work with the African Capacity Building Foundation, 1995-2001. Other major subjects within the collection are civil service reform, learning in aid organizations, and privatization. Works by other scholars are included in the papers, as well as documents pertaining to the World Bank and the Cellule d'Etude de Politique Economique, many of which are in French.
Reflections on Biochemistry: In Honour of Severo Ochoa offers reflections on a wide range of topics relating to biochemistry, including energy metabolism, lipids and saccharides, regulation, nucleic acids and the genetic code, protein biosynthesis, and cell biology. The essays celebrate Severo Ochoa's outstanding contributions to biochemistry spanning nearly half a century. This book is comprised of 47 chapters and begins with a biography of Ochoa and his scientific work in the field of biochemistry, particularly his research on intermediary metabolism, RNA synthesis, and the genetic code. The discussion then turns to energy metabolism, photosynthesis, and fermentation, touching on topics su...
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.
"The news in 2008 was that women had taken huge strides forward. Feminists' decades-long struggle finally seemed to be paying off, not only in boardrooms, classrooms, and kitchens but also at the very top-in presidential politics. But what is the truth behind the headlines? In Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining Our Future, renowned feminist author Barbara J. Berg debunks the many myths about how far women have come and the pervasive belief that ours is a post-feminist society. Combining authoritative research and compelling storytelling, Berg traces the assault on women's status from the 1950s-when Newsweek declared "for the American girl, books and babies don't mix"-to the present,...
Table of Contents THINGS TO THINK OF FIRST--A FOREWORD ACQUIRING CONFIDENCE BEFORE AN AUDIENCE THE SIN OF MONOTONY EFFICIENCY THROUGH EMPHASIS AND SUBORDINATION EFFICIENCY THROUGH CHANGE OF PITCH EFFICIENCY THROUGH CHANGE OF PACE PAUSE AND POWER EFFICIENCY THROUGH INFLECTION CONCENTRATION IN DELIVERY FORCE FEELING AND ENTHUSIASM FLUENCY THROUGH PREPARATION THE VOICE VOICE CHARM DISTINCTNESS AND PRECISION OF UTTERANCE THE TRUTH ABOUT GESTURE METHODS OF DELIVERY THOUGHT AND RESERVE POWER SUBJECT AND PREPARATION INFLUENCING BY EXPOSITION INFLUENCING BY DESCRIPTION INFLUENCING BY NARRATION INFLUENCING BY SUGGESTION INFLUENCING BY ARGUMENT INFLUENCING BY PERSUASION INFLUENCING THE CROWD RIDING THE WINGED HORSE GROWING A VOCABULARY MEMORY TRAINING RIGHT THINKING AND PERSONALITY AFTER-DINNER AND OTHER OCCASIONAL SPEAKING MAKING CONVERSATION EFFECTIVE FIFTY QUESTIONS FOR DEBATE THIRTY THEMES FOR SPEECHES, WITH SOURCE-REFERENCES SUGGESTIVE SUBJECTS FOR SPEECHES; HINTS FOR TREATMENT SPEECHES FOR STUDY AND PRACTISE
Isherwood’s lectures on writing and writers, now all available for the first time In the 1960s, Christopher Isherwood gave an unprecedented series of lectures at California universities about his life and work. During this time Isherwood, who would liberate the memoir and become the founding father of modern gay writing, spoke openly for the first time about his craft—on writing for film, theater, and novels—and spirituality. Isherwood on Writing brings these free-flowing, wide-ranging public addresses together to reveal a distinctly American Isherwood at the top of his form. This updated edition contains the long-lost conclusion to the second lecture, published here for the first time, including its discussion of A Single Man, his greatest novel, and A Meeting by the River, his final novel.
New perspectives on Christopher Isherwood as a searching and transnational writer “Perhaps I had traveled too much, left my heart in too many places,” muses the narrator of Christopher Isherwood’s novel Prater Violet (1945), which he wrote in his adopted home of Los Angeles after years of dislocation and desperation. In Isherwood in Transit, James J.Berg and Chris Freeman bring together diverse Isherwood scholars to understand the challenges this writer faced as a consequence of his travel. Based on a conference at the Huntington Library, where Isherwood’s recently opened papers are held, Isherwood in Transit considers the writer not as an English, continental, or American writer but...