A distinguished Oxford professor of public policy, a weighty, progressive intellectual of international repute, author of Exodus, he has thought about these things harder than most of us.
The report did not put it that way exactly, nor did Dr. Solecki -- who as a scientist speaks in more weighty terminology befitting a soon-to-be full professor of geography in the department of earth and environmental studies.
"Capital" has entered the New York Times best-seller list, an unusual achievement for a weighty economics text.In France, however, where Mr Piketty is a professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics, it has drawn far less attention.
In the same spirit, wrote Pat Kirkham, a professor at the center who assembled the show and its weighty catalog, as the turn-of-the-century feminists who favored separating women's art and design from that of men at the world's fair.
Gluttony as sin is a centuries-old concept, said the professor, author of "The God of Thinness: Gluttony and Other Weighty Matters," but applies even more today.
The weightiest bicentennial volume thus far has been "Emerson," by the Harvard professor Lawrence Buell (Harvard; $29.95).
"The Poetry of Pablo Neruda" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $40), edited by Ilan Stavans, a professor of Latin-American and Latino culture at Amherst College, is a weighty volume of almost a thousand pages, including an informative introduction, a bibliography of translations into English of Neruda's work, and notes on his life and his poetry.
Written by 45 historians led by Andrei Zubov, a professor at the institute that serves as university to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the weighty history — almost 1,000 pages per volume — was published this year by AST Publishers and is already in its second printing of 10,000 copies.
Bernanke has written a series of weighty economic tomes, including one of the standard textbooks used by students — Principles of Macroeconomics, with fellow professor Robert Frank.
As Professor Garraty often explained in interviews, deciding whom to admit to the pages of American National Biography was a weighty responsibility.
