I feel privileged to be writing these forewords at a time when these studies are being completed and their results are being disseminated in scientific publications.
Maybe because, as Stephen Jay Gould points out in his foreword to SCIENTISTS AT WORK: Profiles of Today's Groundbreaking Scientists From Science Times, edited by Laura Chang (McGraw-Hill, paper, $19.95), the sciences drew, for the first time, on a democratic pool of talent.
Germaine Greer, in her foreword, hints at an agenda.
After the irritatingly knowing foreword, she begins at the beginning, and the portrait she paints of her childhood is heartbreaking.
As Andrew Rawnsley noted in 2007 in the foreword to the Riddell at the Observer exhibition: "His [Chris'] cartoons combine political intelligence with instant accessibility.
In a new foreword, he wrote, "Now, at a time when we often lament the loss of a sense of place, and as 'sustainability' becomes an increasingly popular catchword in landscape design and management, this volume has a message that is as valid today as it was the day it was published".
It is not surprising to read in her brief foreword that she taught at a Mississippi Freedom School, helping people prepare to register to vote, in the summer of 1965, or that her life was transformed by the determination and commitment to nonviolence she witnessed in the Southern black Americans who confronted racism during the era of boycotts and marches.
And here, for all those who have admired her epic story-telling, comes five new Tales From Earthsea, where, Le Guin writes in the foreword, a mere glimpse at the place told me that things had been happening while I wasn't looking.
"He can give the impression of being casual and often appears as the court jester," wrote Lester Piggott in the foreword to On The Level, at a time when he was Cecil's principal jockey.
