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Subatomic Writing
See science writing fundamentals afresh through a subatomic lens! In Subatomic Writing, Johns Hopkins University instructor Jamie Zvirzdin goes bravely into uncharted territory by offering a totally new kind of guide for writing about science—from the subatomic level up! Subatomic Writing teaches readers that the building blocks of language are like particles in physics. These particles, combined and arranged, form something greater than their parts: all matter in the literary universe. The six levels of language covered in this guide create writing that illuminates and energizes the reader to feel, learn, change, and act. This interdisciplinary approach helps scientists, science writers, ...
Fresh Courage Take
The twelve essays in this anthology provide a refreshing array of female perspectives, personalities, and circumstances. Along with an introduction by Jamie Zvirzdin, the essays invite readers to recognize and own their personal struggles, gifts, faults, and desires and to accept where they stand on the spectrum of humanity. Fresh Courage Take demonstrates that the road to heaven is not a conveyor belt powered by a checklist of religious obligations, cooked casseroles, and a collection of children. If anything, it is a complex network of interchanges and decisions ... including long, often solitary paths. The authors span a wide range of views and situations in life: politically conservative...
The Clock in the Sun
On the surface of the Sun, spots appear and fade in a predictable cycle, like a great clock in the sky. In medieval Russia, China, and Korea, monks and court astronomers recorded the appearance of these dark shapes, interpreting them as omens of things to come. In Western Europe, by contrast, where a cosmology originating with Aristotle prevailed, the Sun was regarded as part of the unchanging celestial realm, and it took observations through telescopes by Galileo and others to establish the reality of solar imperfections. In the nineteenth century, amateur astronomers discovered that sunspots ebb and flow about every eleven years—spurring speculation about their influence on the weather a...
My Story As a Survivor of U.s. Nuclear Tests in the Marshall Islands
A short history by Katner Tima detailing his experience surviving the fallout from the Castle Bravo nuclear test, which was conducted by the U.S. government in the Marshall Islands on March 1, 1954.
The Important Book about Majuro
This book was written by a class of fourth graders in the Marshall Islands as a pilot project for The Unbound Bookmaker Project. The children, students at Majuro Cooperative School on Majuro Atoll, selected the topics themselves, revised their descriptions, and illustrated their own pages. The book is modeled after Margaret Wise Brown's The Important Book. To view other books produced through The Unbound Bookmaker Project, please see our webpage: www.unboundbookmaker.com/the-unbound-bookmaker-project.html.
Bridging the Gap
This thesis examines the possibility that Christian exhortatory writing directed to educated readers has a specific discourse grammar. That is, all apologists attempting to persuade educated readers to live a more Christian lifestyle have a specific writing style. To study this statisitically, I took two Christian writers, C.S. Lewis and Neal A. Maxwell, and compared ten of their writing samples against those of the control group. The control groups consisted of the writings of Billy Graham and Thomas S. Monson, who, in contrast, speak to the general public. The thesis discusses eighteen possible elements that Lewis and Maxwell might use in their persuasive grammar.; the stastistics revealed that four of the eighteen elements were significant statistically; Information Gaps, Contrasts, If-Then Statements, and Copular Verbs. I then analyzed the use of the information gap and its efficacy in persuading people to change.
The Empire of the Self
Christopher Star uncovers significant points of contact between Seneca and Petronius, two important Roman writers long thought to be antagonists. In The Empire of the Self, Christopher Star studies the question of how political reality affects the concepts of body, soul, and self. Star argues that during the early Roman Empire the establishment of autocracy and the development of a universal ideal of individual autonomy were mutually enhancing phenomena. The Stoic ideal of individual empire or complete self-command is a major theme of Seneca’s philosophical works. The problematic consequences of this ideal are explored in Seneca’s dramatic and satirical works, as well as in the novel of his contemporary Petronius. Star examines the rhetorical links between these diverse texts. He also demonstrates a significant point of contact between two writers generally thought to be antagonists—the idea that imperial speech structures reveal the self.
Odes for Victorious Athletes
You've just won the gold medal, what are you going to do? In Ancient Greece, your patron could throw a feast in your honor and have a poet write a hymn of praise to you. The great poet Pindar composed many such odes for victorious athletes. Esteemed classicist Anne Pippin Burnett presents a fresh and exuberant translation of Pindar's victory songs. The typical Pindaric ode reflects three separate moments: the instant of success in contest, the victory night with its disorderly revels, and the actual banquet of family and friends where the commissioned poem is being offered as entertainment. In their essential effect, these songs transform a physical triumph, as experienced by one man, into a...
The Writing of Orpheus
Winner of the Translation Prize for non-fiction from the French-American Foundation. Son of a mortal king and an immortal Muse, Orpheus possessed a gift for music unmatched among humans; with his lyre he could turn the course of rivers, drown the fatal song of the Sirens, and charm the denizens of the underworld. The allure of his music speaks through the myths and stories of the Greeks and Romans, who tell of his mysterious compositions, with lyrics that only the initiated could understand after undergoing secret rites. Where readers of subsequent centuries have been content to understand these mysteries as the stuff of obfuscation or mere folderol, Marcel Detienne finds in the writing of O...
