The scholar and encyclopaedist al-Bīrūnī, who lived in the 11th century, produced a series of geographic works about India and a wide range of writings in the natural sciences and humanities.
Including a wide range of writings by and about artists, juxtaposed with influential texts from diverse theoretical bases, this collection provides an overview of the eclectic scientific and philosophical sources that inform contemporary art's investigations of nature.
Campbell assembles a wide range of writings, images, and objects to render this eighteenth-century landscape: commercial dress displays and David Hume's ideas of novelty as historical form; popular illustrations of recent fashion trends and Sir Joshua Reynolds's aesthetic precepts; fashion periodicals and Sir Walter Scott's costume-saturated historical fiction.
Excellent resources for a range of learning-by-writing activities for all disciplines include Davis's Tools for Teaching, Bean's Engaging Ideas, and the chapters on student writing in McKeachy and Svinicki's Teaching Tips.
Through a "citizen lobbying platform," volunteers will A/B test a range of tactics—letter-writing, petitions, what have you for lobbying their existing representatives to make campaign finance a priority.
Co-creator J.J. Abrams' inspiration for Fringe came from a range of sources, including the writings of Michael Crichton, the Ken Russell film Altered States, and the television series The X-Files and The Twilight Zone.
Abrams's inspiration for Fringe came from a range of sources, including the writings of Michael Crichton, the film Altered States, films by David Cronenberg, and the television series The X-Files and The Twilight Zone.
She continued to write throughout her life, ghost-writing a range of books, including a sentimental novel, and writing "Mother Is Minnie," a biography of Minnie Guggenheimer, founder of the Lewisohn Stadium concerts in Manhattan, under her own name in 1960.
It will focus on introducing students to a range of genres, such as doctrinal writings, ritual manuals, temple and shrine origin legends, vernacular sermons, didactic tales, and personal letters.
