Question: Who is the author of American Dream, Global Nightmare?

Answer: Ziauddin Sardar

American Dream, Global Nightmare

American Dream, Global Nightmare is a book by Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies (Icon Books, 2004). It presents the neoconservative ideology of Pax Americana as ten laws.

Sandra Louise Vogelgesang

American Dream, Global Nightmare: The Dilemma of U.S. Human Rights Policy, Norton, 1980, 272 pp, ISBN: 9780393013634 ; Long Dark Night of the Soul: The American Intellectual Left and the Vietnam War, Harper Collins, 1974, 249 pp, ISBN: 9780060145125

Eugene Ludwig

Ludwig is the editor of The Vanishing American Dream, a book that provides comments from experts across the political spectrum on the economic challenges facing lower- and middle-income Americans. The book examines how traditional economic measures like the unemployment rate and GDP are masking a crisis for millions of lower- and middle-income families, who struggle to afford health care, housing, and education and occupy jobs that cannot help them reverse the downward slide. The book, to be published September 22, 2020, was the outcome of a 2019 Yale Law School symposium organized by Ludwig. It includes commentary from 23 experts,

An American Dream (novel)

An American Dream is a 1965 novel by American author Norman Mailer. It was published by Dial Press. Mailer wrote it in serialized form for Esquire, consciously attempting to resurrect the methodology used by Charles Dickens and other earlier novelists, with Mailer writing each chapter against monthly deadlines. The book is written in a poetic style heavy with metaphor that creates unique and hypnotising narrative and dialogue. The novel's action takes place over 32 hours in the life of its protagonist Stephen Rojack. Rojack is a decorated war-hero, former congressman, talk-show host, and university professor. He is depicted as the metaphorical embodiment of the American Dream.

Broken Sleep

Broken Sleep: an American Dream is the second novel by American writer Bruce Bauman, published in 2015. It follows the exploits of the powerful Savant family, including rock star-cum-US presidential candidate Alchemy Savant, his half-brother Moses Teumer, and their brilliant but insane mother Salome Savant. The novel chronicles 60 years of U.S. politics and pop culture, from the aftermath of World War II leading up to a speculative 2020 presidential election. The novel touches on many topics, including rock music, postmodern art, celebrity, insanity, terminal illness, the Holocaust, and United States presidential election politics. It makes political references to the fake news website phenomenon, the rise of a third party to save a failing two-party system, and a grass-roots movement for partition and secession in California. Its discussion of Jewish-American identity has led to its categorization as a Jewish literary novel in the vein of Saul Bellow.

American Dream

American Dream

The American Dream is the national ethos of the United States, a set of ideals including representative democracy, rights, liberty, and equality, in which freedom is interpreted as the opportunity for individual prosperity and success, as well as upward social mobility for oneself and their children, achieved through hard work in a capitalist society with few barriers.

The term "American Dream" was coined by James Truslow Adams in 1931, saying that "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.

Proponents of the American Dream often claim that its tenets originate from the United States Declaration of Independence, which states that "all men are created equal" with the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution is used similarly. It states that the Constitution's purpose is to, in part, "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity".

Throughout American history, there have been critics of its national ethos. Some critics point out that American focus on individualism and capital results in materialism, consumerism and a lack of worker solidarity. In 2015, only 10.5 percent of American workers were members of a labor union. The American Dream has also been criticized as a product of American exceptionalism, as it does not acknowledge the hardships many Americans face, namely in regards to the legacies of American slavery and Native American genocide, as well as other examples of discriminatory violence.

Belief in the American Dream is often inversely associated with rates of national dissolutionment. Evidence indicates that upward economic mobility has declined and income inequality has risen in the United States in recent decades.

Merryl Wyn Davies

Merryl Wyn Davies

Merryl Wyn Davies (23 June 1948 – 1 February 2021) was a Welsh Muslim scholar, writer and broadcaster who specialised in Islam, and the co-author of books and articles with Ziauddin Sardar. An exponent of Islamic anthropology, she was director of the Muslim Institute, London.

Dusty Rhodes

Dusty Rhodes

Virgil Riley Runnels Jr. (October 11, 1945 – June 11, 2015), better known as "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, was an American professional wrestler, booker, and trainer who most notably worked for the National Wrestling Alliance, Jim Crockett Promotions, World Championship Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Federation, later known as the WWE. Rhodes is considered as one of the greatest wrestlers and talkers in the history of professional wrestling.

Rhodes was a three-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, and during his time in Jim Crockett Promotions, later known as WCW, he was a United States Heavyweight Champion, and multi-time World Television, World Tag Team and World Six-Man Tag Team Champion. He also won many regional championships, and is one of seven men inducted into each of the WWE, WCW, Professional Wrestling, and "Wrestling Observer Newsletter" Halls of Fame. His sons, Dustin and Cody, both pursued careers in professional wrestling, currently performing for AEW and WWE, respectively.

Following his retirement from wrestling, he made occasional on-air appearances on WWE television and pay-per-views and worked as a backstage booker and producer in WWE's NXT developmental territory. Billed as "the son of a plumber", Rhodes did not have a typical wrestler's physique; his character was that of the "common man", known for the personality exhibited in his interviews. WWE chairman Vince McMahon remarked that no wrestler "personified the essence of charisma quite like Dusty Rhodes".

Sweet Dreams (Beyoncé song)

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Nightmare Before Christmas (also known as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas) is a 1993 American stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy film directed by Henry Selick (in his feature directorial debut) and produced and conceived by Tim Burton. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, the King of "Halloween Town", who stumbles upon "Christmas Town" and schemes to take over the holiday. Danny Elfman wrote the songs and score and provided the singing voice of Jack. The principal voice cast also includes Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Ken Page, Paul Reubens, Glenn Shadix, and Ed Ivory.

"The Nightmare Before Christmas" originated in a poem written by Burton in 1982 while he was working as an animator at Walt Disney Productions. With the success of "Vincent" in the same year, Burton began to consider developing "The Nightmare Before Christmas" as either a short film or a half-hour television special, to no avail. Over the years, Burton's thoughts regularly returned to the project, and, in 1990, he made a development deal with Walt Disney Studios. Production started in July 1991 in San Francisco; Disney initially released the film through Touchstone Pictures because the studio believed the film would be "too dark and scary for kids".<ref name=Forbes20th/>

The film met with critical success upon release, earning praise for its animation (particularly the innovation of the stop-motion art form), characters, songs and score. While only a modest box office hit at first, it has since garnered a large cult following. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, a first for an animated film, but lost to "Jurassic Park". The film has since been reissued by Walt Disney Pictures and was re-released annually in Disney Digital 3-D from 2006 until 2010.

The Terror Dream

The Terror Dream: Fear and fantasy in post 9/11 America is a 2007 book by Susan Faludi, in which the author argues that the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001 resulted in an attack on feminism.

Nightmare (novel)

Adi Solak, an intellectual, a journalist, a critic, an essayist ; Aca Nikolić, Solak's double, Chetnik Duke

Alan Wake's American Nightmare

the ability to rewrite reality, and was able to write his escape from Cauldron Lake in Washington. He ends up near the small town of Night Springs, Arizona, and learns that he has been missing from the real world for nearly two years. A nearby oil derrick erupts with hordes of Taken controlled by Mr. Scratch. Seeking light, Alan runs to a nearby motel, where he encounters Emma Sloan, who at first thinks he is Mr. Scratch, since they look identical. She tells Alan that Scratch was at the motel the night before, and provides Alan with a typewritten page, a way to

Alan Wake's American Nightmare

Alan Wake's American Nightmare revolves around the titular Alan Wake, a former bestselling author of crime fiction. During a vacation to the small town of Bright Falls, Washington, Alan encountered a supernatural entity known as the Dark Presence, which forced him to write the manuscript of a horror novel which would give it power by turning the events of the story into reality. This occurred through the power of the Dark Place, a subjective alternate dimension located beneath the volcanic Cauldron Lake near Bright Falls. Alan was ultimately able to defeat the Dark Presence by altering the ending of the manuscript, freeing Bright Falls and destroying the Dark Presence but trapping Alan within the

An American Dream (novel)

struggle toward psychic redemption which is the daily warfare of our hidden outlaw selves". Joan Didion writing in Vogue called An American Dream "the only serious New York novel since The Great Gatsby". Conrad Knickerbocker writes in The New York Times that Mailer "is one of the few really interesting writers anywhere", and that An American Dream "defines the American style by presenting the most extreme of our realities — murder, love and spirit strangulated, the corruption of power and the powerful, the sacrifice of self to image, all of it mix mastered in booze and heat-and-serve sex, giving off the smell of burning rubber to the sound of sirens". Since 1965, An American Dream has been

Who Stole the American Dream?

Who Stole the American Dream? is a non-fiction book by the American author and journalist Hedrick Smith published in 2012 by Random House. It describes the consolidation of wealth in the United States, and the dismantling of the middle class. As a result, the American Dream—a national ethos, or a set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility achieved through hard work—is becoming increasingly unattainable. Although Smith's distinguished journalistic career includes covering the Vietnam War, the Pentagon Papers, and the civil rights movement, serving as the Moscow Bureau Chief for the New York Times, writing a #1 bestseller, and working on 26 prime-time specials for PBS, he views this book as "'absolutely' his most significant achievement."

An American Dream (memoir)

An American Dream: The Life of an African American Soldier and POW Who Spent Twelve Years in Communist China is a memoir by Corporal Clarence Adams posthumously published by the University of Massachusetts Press and edited by Della Adams and Louis H. Carlson.

An American Dream (novel)

An American Dream sold well and spent six weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, reaching number eight in April 1965. The reviews for An American Dream were polarized, with very few mixed. Conventional wisdom was that the novel was one of Mailer's lesser works of fiction. While critics like Granville Hicks, Philip Rahv, Roger Shattuck, Stanley Edgar Hyman, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Tom Wolfe called An American Dream a failure, the novel has strong defenders, notably critics Leo Bersani, Richard Rhodes, Paul Pickrel, Richard Poirier, and Barry H. Leeds. Writing one of the first and most positive reviews in Life, John Aldridge states that An American Dream "transcends the conventional limits of blasphemy to expose

Ziauddin Sardar

shaping ‘us’ and ‘our society’. We thus have no yardstick to measure our difference and define ourselves." In his book Orientalism and in Why Do People Hate America and American Dream, Global Nightmare, co-written with Merryl Wyn Davies, he explores how Muslims are perceived in books, films, television series and advertisements. He argues that the image of Muslims as "the darker side of Europe" seems to be a fixture of western consciousness and is recycled from generation to generation. In Aliens R Us, he says that Orientalist imagery has become an integral part of science fiction cinema. Sardar is a strong supporter of multiculturalism. He

Nightmare (Marvel Comics)

through the concept of the 'American dream'. Many people who were deeply patriotic or had achieved a degree of success through hard work were going on violent rampages. Nightmare was soon stopped by the combined forces of Captain America, Sharon Carter, and S.H.I.E.L.D. In the Tempest Fugit storyline of The Incredible Hulk it is revealed that Nightmare has been plaguing the Hulk for years with hallucinations, misdirections, and manipulations of reality, by empowering himself. His second, more benevolent, daughter Daydream is also introduced in this story arc. Nightmare here claimed that this daughter was conceived by forcibly entering the mind of

Poet Anderson ...of Nightmares

The novel's protagonist, who is a lucid dreamer and who is trying to find his brother Alan in The Dream World to wake him up from a coma ; Jonas's older brother, also a lucid dreamer ; Jonas's love interest and classmate ; Sam's dad. Owner of Eden Hotel ; Poet's Dream Walker ; Guardians of The Dream World. ; Main antagonist. Controls Night Stalkers. ; Corrupted souls of those killed by REM.

An American Dream (novel)

The style of An American Dream seemed to grow organically from Mailer's "Big Bite" columns for Esquire. His voice, explains Rollyson, is a "supple first-person" persona "punctuated with feisty asides and comic exaggerations". An American Dream is narrated by Stephen Richards Rojack, the novel's protagonist, in "an edgy, rococo style" that shows Mailer at the height of his narrative powers. Andrew Gordon points out that the events of the novel unfold at a quick pace, compared to Mailer's prior works, writing "before we are five pages into the novel, Rojack has killed four Germans in a grotesque and graphically violent scene. By the end of thirty pages, Rojack has murdered

Martin Dressler

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer is a 1996 novel by Steven Millhauser. It won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the 1996 National Book Award. The novel follows the exploits of a young, optimistic entrepreneur, the eponymous Martin Dressler, in late nineteenth century New York City. It vividly evokes its time and place through elaborate description.

An American Dream (novel)

by Mailer's critics, some of which call it one of his better novels. Tony Tanner posits that a few critics likely found An American Dream to be "outrageous" due to their perception of it as a simple narrative and not as a surrealist work. Tanner hailed Leo Bersani's review of An American Dream as a "brilliant comment on the novel as a whole" because Bersani recognized the purposeful "exuberance" that Mailer used. Stanley Edgar Hyman describes An American Dream as a dreadful novel and says it's the worst that he has read in years. He calls the novel pretentious and focuses his critique on what he sees as the flaws in the plot, images, and the tropes.

George Muñoz

Muñoz is co-author of the book Renewing the American Dream: A Citizen's Guide For Restoring Our Competitive Advantage (2010, IMC Publishing). The book discusses what America needs to do to keep its global competitive advantage and how the next 10 years (2010–2020) will determine if the United States retains its global leadership position in this 21st century.


Question: Who is the author of Patience?

Answer: Jason Sherman

Answer: Jason Sherman

John Patience

He is trained in typography and book design and he has been a published author and illustrator of children's books since 1979, with more than 140 published titles to date, selling all around the world.

Patience Ward

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John Patience

John Patience is an English author and illustrator. He is best known for his Fern Hollow series of books for young children.

Patience (play)

Patience is a play written and published in 1998 by Jason Sherman (Doollie.com). It is about Reuben, who one day loses everything. The play follows a path similar to David Mamet's play Edmond. It traces a psychological journey through Reuben's head while he tries to figure out how everything happened. The play was written at a time when the story would hit home for a lot of middle-aged, middle-class men.

The Patience Stone

The Patience Stone (Syngué sabour. Pierre de patience) is a 2008 novel by the French-Afghan writer Atiq Rahimi. It is also known as Stone of Patience. It received the Prix Goncourt.

Patience Worth

Patience Worth

Patience Worth was allegedly a spirit contacted by Pearl Lenore Curran (February 15, 1883 – December 2, 1937). This symbiotic relationship produced several novels, poetry and prose which Pearl Curran claimed were delivered to her through channelling the spirit of Patience Worth.

Psychologists and skeptics who have studied Curran's writings are in agreement that Patience was a fictitious creation of Curran.

Patience (Guns N' Roses song)

Patience (Guns N' Roses song)

"Patience" is a song by American rock band Guns N' Roses from their second studio album, "G N' R Lies" (1988), released as a single in April 1989. The song peaked at number four on the US "Billboard" Hot 100. The song is a ballad,<ref name="Ballad" /> played using three acoustic guitars and was recorded in a single session by producer Mike Clink. A music video of the song was shot and appears on the band's music video DVD, "Welcome to the Videos".

The motivation for the track is generally accepted to be the troublesome relationship between Axl Rose and his now ex-wife Erin Everly, though this was never stated in the album or interviews. According to bass guitarist Duff McKagan, "Axl came up with a great lyric, seemingly out of nowhere, that of course became the story and melody of that song." It has also been stated by the band that Stradlin wrote the song about his ex-girlfriend Angela Nicoletti McCoy.

Steven Adler did not record on the track, although in some live performances prior to release of the album, such as their performance at the Orange County Fair in New York in the summer of 1988, percussion (and electric instruments) were used.

Patience Abbe

Patience Abbe

Patience Shorrock Abbe (July 22, 1924 – March 17, 2012) was a best-selling author as a tween & teen.<ref name=redding>"Writer Patience Abbe, 87, of Redding dies
Best-seller recounted life in prewar Europe" "The Record Searchlight", March 18, 2012 </ref>

Patience (poem)

Patience (poem)

Patience (Middle English: "Pacience") is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the "Pearl Poet" or "Gawain-Poet", also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", "Pearl", and "Cleanness" (all ca. 1360–1395) and may have composed "St. Erkenwald". This is thought to be true because the techniques and vocabulary of regional dialect of the unknown author is that of Northwest Midlands, located between Shropshire and Lancashire.

The manuscript, Cotton Nero A.x is in the British Library. The first published edition was in "Early English Alliterative Poems in the West Midland Dialect of the fourteenth century", printed by the Early English Text Society.
Of Patience, considered the slightest of the four poems, its only manifest source is the Vulgate Bible. It also resembles Latin poems by Tertullian and Bishop Marbod. There are certain mannerisms found in Patience that Pearl does not have. For instance, both homilies clearly follow the same pattern: 1. statement of theme, 2. announcement of the text from the New Testament, 3. discussion of another passage from the New Testament in elucidation of that text, 4. and elaborate paraphrase of "exemplum" or "exempla", from the Old Testament.

John Patience

John Patience

John Patience is an English author and illustrator. He is best known for his "Fern Hollow" series of books for young children.

Patience Gray

Patience Jean Gray (31 October 1917 – 10 March 2005) was an English cookery and travel writer of the mid-20th century. Her two most popular books were Plats Du Jour (1957) – written with Primrose Boyd, about French cooking – and Honey From A Weed (1986), an account of the Mediterranean way of life.

Patience and Sarah

Patience and Sarah is a 1969 historical fiction novel with strong lesbian themes by Alma Routsong, using the pen name Isabel Miller. It was originally self-published under the title A Place for Us and eventually found a publisher as Patience and Sarah in 1971. Routsong's novel is based on a real-life painter named Mary Ann Willson who lived with her companion Miss Brundage as a "farmerette" in the early 19th century in Greene County, New York. Routsong said she came upon Willson's work in a folk art museum in Cooperstown and was inspired to write the story after reading the description of Willson and Brundage. It tells the story

Patience and Sarah

Routsong originally published 1,000 copies of the book using her own money, selling them on street corners in New York City and at meetings of the Daughters of Bilitis. She contacted Gene Damon (Barbara Grier) at The Ladder, who also promoted the book in the book review section of the magazine, calling it "a gem" and that, "it very much belongs with that small bookshelf full of basic classics of Lesbian literature." Grier also had to assure their readership, who had to order the book directly from Routsong that she was an actual person, not a police agency. Routsong then resubmitted the novel to publishers under a pseudonym.

The Patience of Maigret

The Patience of Maigret is a 1939 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret.

Patience (poem)

Though the real name of the author, called "The Pearl Poet", is unknown, some inferences about him/her can be drawn from an informed reading of his/her works. The original manuscript is known in academic circles as Cotton Nero A.x, following a naming system used by one of its owners, Robert Cotton, a collector of Medieval English texts. Before the manuscript came into Cotton's possession, it was in the library of Henry Savile of Bank in Yorkshire. Little is known about its previous ownership, and until 1824, when the manuscript was introduced to the academic community in a second edition of Thomas Warton's History edited by Richard

John Navone

(Translation from Italian) "It (patience) is a theme that I (Pope Francis) have pondered over the years after my having read the book of John Navone, an Italian American author, with the striking title, The Theology of Failure, in which he explains how Jesus lived patiently. In the experience of limits, he (Pope Francis) adds, patience is forged in dialogue with human limits/limitations.  There are times when our lives do not call so much for our "doing" as for our "enduring," for bearing up (from the Greek hypomone) with our own limitations and those of others. Being patient – he explains – means accepting the fact that it takes time to mature and develop. Living with patience allows for time to integrate and shape our lives."

Seeing with the Eyes of Love

calls upon us to be both patient and impatient. Without a certain measure of impatience, you're not likely to cut through all the... fetters that tie you to limited, self-willed living.... I was... impatient... in the first half of my spiritual life, almost reckless... But in the second half I came to realize that... Even to have come as far as I had was due entirely to the grace of God." Seeing with the Eyes of Love concludes with a 22-page afterword by Carol Flinders that profiles the Imitation's presumed author, Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380 – 1471), and the times in which he lived. She states that the

Patience (poem)

Patience (Middle English: Pacience) is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the "Pearl Poet" or "Gawain-Poet", also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Cleanness (all ca. 1360–1395) and may have composed St. Erkenwald. This is thought to be true because the techniques and vocabulary of regional dialect of the unknown author is that of Northwest Midlands, located between Shropshire and Lancashire. The manuscript, Cotton Nero A.x is in the British Library. The first published edition was in Early English

Patience and Sarah

two women in Connecticut in 1816 who fall in love and decide to leave their homes to buy a farm in another state or territory and live in a Boston marriage. The story addresses the limited opportunities and roles of women in early America, gender expression, and the interpretation of religion in everyday life. Sarah Waters, author of Tipping the Velvet and other historical novels with lesbian themes, has said that this book was an influence on her writing. She received the book from a girlfriend in 1988 at age 22 and was "struck by the lyricism and economy of it, by its gentle humour, and by its sexiness."

Patience (poem)

it was almost entirely unknown. Now held in the British Library, it has been dated to the late 14th century, so the poet was a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales, though it is highly unlikely that they ever met. The three other works found in the same manuscript as Pearl (commonly known as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Cleanness or Purity) are often considered to be written by the same author. However, the manuscript containing these poems was transcribed by a copyist and not by the original poet, known by scribal errors. Suggested emandations may be found in "Patience:

Patience and Sarah

Following its October 1971 publication, the novel was the first ever to be recognized with a Stonewall Book Award. ; In 1999 Patience and Sarah was listed #24 on the Publishing Triangle's list of 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels.

Patience and Sarah

The novel was adapted into an opera by Paula M. Kimper, to a libretto by Wende Persons. It debuted at the Lincoln Center Festival in 1998, and has been revived several times since. Alma Routsong gave her approval to the project shortly before her death, but did not survive to hear more than a few songs from the score performed privately. The idea for the opera originated with Persons's crush on a soprano in 1981, when Persons wrote the music to impress her. When she was rejected, she kept the work until she met Kimper and they both revived its creation in 1989. Concerning the 1996 pre-premiere of the semi-staged final draft, with piano accompaniment, The New York Times claimed it had "an accessible, attractively lyrical score" and

Patience of Angels

"Patience of Angels" is the first single by Scottish singer/songwriter Eddi Reader released from her eponymous second album. The song was written by Boo Hewerdine. It was released in June 1994 and peaked at number 33 in the UK Singles Chart.

He Wouldn't Kill Patience

He Wouldn't Kill Patience is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr, who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a locked room mystery and features the series detective Sir Henry Merrivale and his long-time associate, Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters.

Gertrude Atherton

series he was editing for Cassells Pocket Library, which she wrote as A Whirl Asunder (1895). Once Patience Sparhawk and Her Times, A Novel was published, William Robertson Nicoll gave a review of it in the April 12, 1897 edition of The Bookman that said it was "crude" in its portrayal of a clever young woman with burning interest in life and identified it as a protest against the tame American novel. In the May 15 issue of The New York Times, the reviewer said that Atherton had "incontestable" ability and a "very original talent" while noting that the book offered a series of


Question: Who is the author of Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study?

Answer: Idries Shah

Answer: Arkon Daraul

Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study

Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study is a book by the writer Idries Shah published by Octagon Press in 1977. A later edition was published in 2002. Shortly before he died, Shah stated that his books form a complete course that could fulfil the function he had fulfilled while alive. As such, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study can be read as part of a whole course of study.

Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study

Based on university lectures at the New School for Social Research, New York, and the University of California, San Francisco, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study deals with many of the problems of Sufic methods of study and those which militate against its effective progress in the modern world; notably the unrecognised assumptions which we make about ourselves and about learning and its process.

Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study

Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study was favourably received, the Books and Bookmen review commenting that; “It elaborates points found difficult in our culture because of sets of mind.” Asian Affairs wrote that it “contains serious warnings about the dangers of facile cult-formation”, while the Psychology Today review described the book as “an extraordinarily effective learning tool.”

The Way of the Sufi

The Way of the Sufi was the best-selling follow-up introduction to Sufism by the writer Idries Shah after the publication of his first book on the subject, The Sufis. Whereas The Sufis eschewed academic norms such as footnotes and an index, The Way of the Sufi provided a full section of notes and a bibliography at the end of its first chapter, entitled "The Study of Sufism in the West". Shortly before he died, Shah stated that his books form a complete course that could fulfil the function he had fulfilled while alive. As such, The Way of the Sufi can be read as part of a whole course of study.

The Sufis

is as successful as this one in provoking interest in Sufism for the general reader." Richard C. Munn, reviewing the book in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, concluded that "One cannot approach this book either in the role of scholar or in the role of seeker (nut), for the author has cleverly blocked both these 'postural' approaches, much in the same way, one suspects, as a Sufi shaikh would. If the Sufi essence is untranslatable into book form, it naturally remains so, but Idries Shah, by 'playing' with the reader, and 'scattering' his points of information, has perhaps given the reader an inkling of Sufi 'experience'." German orientalist Annemarie Schimmel commented that The Sufis, along with Shah's other books, "should be avoided by serious students".

Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study

Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study

Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study is a book by the writer Idries Shah published by Octagon Press in 1977. A later edition was published in 2002.

Shortly before he died, Shah stated that his books form a complete course that could fulfil the function he had fulfilled while alive. As such, "Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study" can be read as part of a whole course of study.

Idries Shah

Idries Shah

Idries Shah (; , , ; 16 June 1924 – 23 November 1996), also known as Idris Shah, né Sayed Idries el-Hashimi (Arabic: سيد إدريس هاشمي) and by the pen name Arkon Daraul, was an Afghan author, thinker and teacher in the Sufi tradition. Shah wrote over three dozen books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies.

Born in British India, the descendant of a family of Afghan nobles on his father's side and a Scottish mother, Shah grew up mainly in England. His early writings centred on magic and witchcraft. In 1960 he established a publishing house, Octagon Press, producing translations of Sufi classics as well as titles of his own. His seminal work was "The Sufis", which appeared in 1964 and was well received internationally. In 1965, Shah founded the Institute for Cultural Research, a London-based educational charity devoted to the study of human behaviour and culture. A similar organisation, the Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge (ISHK), was established in the United States under the directorship of Stanford University psychology professor Robert Ornstein, whom Shah appointed as his deputy in the U.S.

In his writings, Shah presented Sufism as a universal form of wisdom that predated Islam. Emphasizing that Sufism was not static but always adapted itself to the current time, place and people, he framed his teaching in Western psychological terms. Shah made extensive use of traditional teaching stories and parables, texts that contained multiple layers of meaning designed to trigger insight and self-reflection in the reader. He is perhaps best known for his collections of humorous Mulla Nasrudin stories.

Shah was at times criticized by orientalists who questioned his credentials and background. His role in the controversy surrounding a new translation of the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", published by his friend Robert Graves and his older brother Omar Ali-Shah, came in for particular scrutiny. However, he also had many notable defenders, chief among them the novelist Doris Lessing. Shah came to be recognized as a spokesman for Sufism in the West and lectured as a visiting professor at a number of Western universities. His works have played a significant part in presenting Sufism as a form of spiritual wisdom approachable by individuals and not necessarily attached to any specific religion.

The Idries Shah Foundation

The Idries Shah Foundation

The Idries Shah Foundation (ISF) is an independent educational and cultural charity,

Based in London, England, the charity is primarily for the study, dissemination of knowledge, and promotion of Sufi arts, literature, culture and heritage, with special focus on the published works of Idries Shah.

Printed books, ebooks and audiobooks are being made available by the foundation's publishing arm, ISF Publishing.

Asceticism

Asceticism

Asceticism (; from the ) is a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from sensual pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals. Ascetics may withdraw from the world for their practices or continue to be part of their society, but typically adopt a frugal lifestyle, characterised by the renunciation of material possessions and physical pleasures, and also spend time fasting while concentrating on the practice of religion or reflection upon spiritual matters. Various individuals have also attempted an ascetic lifestyle to free themselves from addictions, some of them particular to modern life, such as money, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, entertainment, sex, food, etc.

Asceticism has been historically observed in many religious traditions, including Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Stoicism and Pythagoreanism and contemporary practices continue amongst some religious followers.<ref name =volume/>

Practitioners abandon sensual pleasures and lead an abstinent lifestyle, in the pursuit of redemption, salvation, or spirituality. Many ascetics believe the action of purifying the body helps to purify the soul, and thus obtain a greater connection with the Divine or find inner peace. This may take the form of rituals, the renunciation of pleasure, or self-mortification. However, ascetics maintain that self-imposed constraints bring them greater freedom in various areas of their lives, such as increased clarity of thought and the ability to resist potentially destructive temptations. Asceticism is seen in the ancient theologies as a journey towards spiritual transformation, where the simple is sufficient, the bliss is within, the frugal is plenty. and the Dionysian Mysteries, "vamachara", and the modern Western occult left-hand path traditions, openly reject ascetic practices and either focus on various types of hedonism or on the importance of family life, both rejecting celibacy.

Ibn Taymiyya

Middle Eastern Americans

editor of the journal Sufism: An Inquiry ; Anousheh Ansari, first Iranian in space and the first female space tourist; ; Nima Arkani-Hamed, theoretical physicist and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey ; Abbas Ardehali, surgical director of UCLA's Heart and Lung Transplant program ; Saïd Amir Arjomand, professor of sociology at Stony Brook University, and Director of the Stony Brook Institute of Global Studies. Founding Editor of the Journal of Persianate Studies ; Yahya Armajani, professor of history and soccer coach at Macalester College ; Reza Aslan, scholar of religious studies, television host, and

Ruzbihan Baqli: Mysticism and the Rhetoric of Sainthood in Persian Sufism

The book has been reviewed in the International Journal of Middle East Studies. Leonard Lewisohn calls the book "of key importance to the study of Ruzbihan well into the next century."

Ruwaym

Although Ruwaym was a Sufi, he was also critical of other practitioners due to perceived errors. His book Errors of the Ecstatics was a compilation of what he viewed as such errors. He also warned Muslims from the mainstream against arguing with Sufis about metaphysical matters of which the mainstream had little knowledge, viewing that such a person would lose faith and that such matters should be left to experts in Sufism.

The Sufis

The Sufis is one of the best known books on Sufism by the writer Idries Shah. First published in 1964 with an introduction by Robert Graves, it introduced Sufi ideas to the West in a format acceptable to non-specialists at a time when the study of Sufism had largely become the reserve of Orientalists. Shortly before he died, Shah stated that his books form a complete course that could fulfil the function he had fulfilled while alive. As such, The Sufis can be read as part of a whole course of study.

International Association of Sufism

a commentator of the Qur'an, Dr. Kianfar has taught Sufism and Islamic Philosophy for over 40 years. He has lectured throughout the world including Australia, Scotland, Egypt, and was a keynote speaker at a conference organized by the government of Uzbekistan and UNESCO on the topic of Interreligious Dialogue and Peace, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Dr. Kianfar is the Editor in Chief of the Sufism: An Inquiry, a scholarly Journal dedicated to Sufism, the History of Sufism and Sufi Schools, Science and Spirituality, Peace and Social Justice, United Nations programs, and has been featuring prominent Sufis, Scientists, Cosmologists, Poets and more for many years. Sufism: An Inquiry has been in publication since 1988, and an on-line version is also now available.

Yousef Casewit

Böwering, Brill, Tafsir Qurʾānic Studies Series (2015) ; Sufism Revived: A Contemporary Treatise on Divine Light, Prophecy, and Sainthood Qureshi, Jawad Anwar, The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 34:4: 78-82 ; Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 139, No. 3 (July-September 2019), pp. 733-736 ; A Qurʾān Commentary by Ibn Barrajān of Seville (d. 536/1141): Wisdom Deciphered, the Unseen Discovered - Ῑḍāḥ al-Ḥikma bi-ʾAḥkām al-ʿIbra, co-edited with Gerhard Böwering, Brill, Tafsir Qurʾānic Studies Series (2015) ; Sufism Revived: A Contemporary Treatise on Divine Light, Prophecy, and Sainthood Sufism Revived: A Contemporary Treatise on Divine Light, Prophecy, and Sainthood

Ahmad Ali Hasan

He was interested in history and thought was of his research and books in this area: "Sufism dialectic and affiliation" which is considered as one of the important researches in this field, as he chronicled to the village of Hmmein, and he searched in an analytical and historical reading, and anthropological approach to the life and travels of poet mystic "Almkazhon Alsnjari" quoted through them, as hypotheses of the research, on whereabouts of the tomb of this poet, where it is a place of disagreement. In addition to several books included articles in literary criticism, including: Spotlight, Attitudes and Emotions.

Wahid Baksh Sial Rabbani

He also collected his Shaikh Zauqi Shah's discourses and published them under the title Tarbiat-ul-Ushaq (Training of the Lovers), which is now available in English as well. This highly readable and beautifully written book focuses on the highest spiritual states and stations. He also worked on the history of Sufism and Sufi Texts and Teachings in English, encompassing the entire Muslim world, and wrote United States of Islam, discussing the notion of pan-Islamism, with a vision for the rise of the Muslim world. He also translated Sirr-e-Dilbaran, an encyclopedia of Sufi terminology, a work in Urdu by Zauqi Shah. His articles also appeared in the series "The Sufi Path."

Abdalqadir as-Sufi

The Book of Strangers, (State Univ of New York Press, 1972, ISBN: 978-0-88706-990-1) ; The Way of Muhammad, an existential exposition of the pillars of Islam from the perspective of Sufism (Diwan Press, 1975, ) ; Indications From Signs, (Diwan Press, June 1980, ISBN: 978-0-906512-12-8) ; The Hundred Steps, a classic work on key steps in the path of Sufism (Portobello Press, ISBN: 978-1-874216-04-9) ; Qur'anic Tawhid, (Diwan Press, 1981, ISBN: 978-0-906512-14-2) ; Letter to An African Muslim, (Diwan Press, 1981, ISBN: 0-906512-13-1) ; Kufr – An Islamic Critique, (Diwan Press, 1982, ASIN: B0007C6U32) ; Root Islamic Education, written on the school of the people of Madinah under the leadership of Imam Malik (Madinah Press,

Henry Bayman

2001 The Station of No Station: Open Secrets of the Sufis. North Atlantic Books. ISBN: 1556432402 ; 2003 The Secret of Islam: Love and Law in the Religion of Ethics. North Atlantic Books. ISBN: 1556434324 ; 2005 The Black Pearl: Spiritual Illumination In Sufism and East Asian Philosophies. Monkfish Book Publishing. ISBN: 0974935956 ; 2012 The Teachings of a Perfect Master: An Islamic Saint for the Third Millennium. Anqa Publishing. ISBN: 190593744X Till January 2012, Henry Bayman has authored 4 Books and a number of articles.

Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

He authored Rangkaian Ruba'iyyat a literary work that was among the first ever published in 1959 and the classic work, Some Aspects of Sufism as Understood and Practised Among the Malays, in 1963. His two-volume doctoral thesis on The Mysticism of Hamzah Fansuri, which is the most important and comprehensive work to date on one of the greatest and perhaps the most controversial Sufi scholars in the Malay world earned him the PhD in the UK in 1965. Al-Attas engaged in polemics on the subjects of Islamic history, philology, and Malay literary history, which have resulted in the opening of new avenues for known as the Sha'ir, and have established that Hamzah Fansuri was

List of contemporary Sufi scholars

Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930–2021) – South Africa ; Abdullah al-Harari (1910–2008) – Ethiopia ; Ahmad Tijani Ali Cisse (born 1955) – Senegal ; Amadou Bamba (1853–1927) – Senegal ; Hassan Cissé (1945–2008) – Senegal ; Sa'adu Abubakar (born 1954) – Nigeria ; Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (born 1961) – Nigeria

Ahmed Hulusi

than taking them out of context. He shares his findings through his writings, all of which are available for free on his website. Having studied preeminent collections of Islamic Law and evaluated the works of many renowned Sufi saints (wali) and scholars, he synthesizes his findings with scientific truths and presents them as an integrated system of rational reality. In order to refrain from self-promotion, he has not put his surname on any of the books he has written over the last 40 years. He does not claim to be a guru or a teacher to anybody; on the contrary, he chooses to have very little contact

Wazifa Zarruqiyya

one of the most eminent scholars of the school of Maliki fiqh, but he is better known as a Shadhili Sufi Sheikh and as the founder of the Zarruqiyya branch of the Shadhiliyya Sufi order Tariqa. This notable Sufi who studied in Béjaïa is well known in the Muslim world because around his teachings was born the Sufi order of Zarruqiyya. This scholar has succeeded in this wazifa using a synthesis of fiqh and Sufism as a feature of the litanies in the Maghreb region, and he has the well known quote which states that: “There is no Sufism except through fiqh, and there is no fiqh but through Sufism.”

Thinkers of the East: Studies in Experientialism

Thinkers of the East consists of a series of anecdotes and brief recorded conversations between thinkers and questioners, mingled with occasional extracts, stories and legends (including "The Legend of Nasrudin"). The preface asserts that the book's content is "arranged in a manner commanded by the tradition and not by superficialist obsessional arranging." As the book's subtitle Studies in Experientialism suggests, these illustrate Sufi thinking in action, rather than in theory. On the principle that it is for the reader to dwell, not the author, the narratives are related with a deliberate economy: enough detail to provoke thought, but too little to flood it. In The New York Times, Doris Lessing writes: "in its claims and statements about the role of contemporary Sufism [Thinkers of the East] is more open than any of Shah's books."


Question: Who is the author of Smoke?

Answer: Lisa Unger

Answer: Lisa Miscione

Robert Bausch

Out of Season, was published in the fall of 2005. It was a Washington Post Favorite Book of the year as well. His seventh novel, Far as the Eye Can See, was released by Bloomsbury Press in November 2014. The Legend of Jesse Smoke, will be released in August 2016. Since 1975, Bausch has been a college professor, teaching creative writing, American literature, world literature, humanities, philosophy, and expository writing. For the balance of his career he has been teaching at Northern Virginia Community College. He has also taught at the Algonkian Writers Conference and served as a director on the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.

Stuart Evers

Evers published his first book, Ten Stories About Smoking,  (Picador) in 2011, which won The London Book Award.

Peter Gzowski

home, breathing with the assistance of an oxygen tank. In 2001, he contributed the essay "How to Quit Smoking in Fifty Years or Less" to Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast, edited by Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane, and published by Greystone Books. The essay was reprinted in September 2001 by The Globe and Mail as "Out of breath". He also wrote the essay "Life after smoking", which was published in 50+ Magazine in June 2001 and included in A Peter Gzowski Reader, published by McClelland and Stewart in October, 2001. The book is a collection of Gzowski's written works, commencing from his time as a writer for

Ashes to Ashes (book)

Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris, written by Richard Kluger and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1996, won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

Robert Bausch

Robert Bausch (April 18, 1945 – October 9, 2018) was an American fiction writer, the author of nine novels and one collection of short stories. He was a Professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College, and he had taught at the University of Virginia, The American University, Johns Hopkins University, George Mason University, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His fourth novel, A Hole in the Earth, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Washington Post Favorite Book of the Year. He was awarded the Fellowship of Southern Writers' award for fiction for his fifth novel, The Gypsy Man. In 2005 Harcourt published his sixth novel, Out of Season, which was a Washington Post favorite book of the year. His novel Far as the Eye Can See was released by Bloomsbury Press in fall 2014, and in August 2016, Bloomsbury published his last novel, The Legend of Jesse Smoke. In 2009, he was awarded the Dos Passos Prize in Literature. He was the twin brother of the author Richard Bausch.

Smoke on the Water

Smoke on the Water

"Smoke on the Water" is a song by English rock band Deep Purple, first released from the band's sixth studio album "Machine Head" (1972), which chronicles the 1971 fire at Montreux Casino.

In a 2004 publication by "Rolling Stone" magazine "Smoke on the Water" was ranked number 434 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time",<ref name="RollingStone" /> "Total Guitar" magazine's ranked "Smoke on the Water" number 4 on its "Greatest Guitar Riffs Ever",<ref name="BBC" /> and in March 2005, "Q" magazine placed "Smoke on the Water" at number 12 in its list of the 100 greatest guitar tracks.<ref name="QMagazine" />

Tree of Smoke

Tree of Smoke

Tree of Smoke is a 2007 novel by American author Denis Johnson which won the National Book Award for Fiction<ref name=nba2007/><ref name=wpost/> and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.<ref name=pulitzer/> It is about a man named Skip Sands who joins the CIA in 1965, and begins working in Vietnam during the American involvement there. The time frame of the novel is from 1963 to 1970, with a coda set in 1983. One of the protagonists of "Tree of Smoke" is Bill Houston, who was the main character in Johnson's 1983 debut novel "Angels".

There are several references in the novel to the title phrase, which has Biblical origins in three cited passages: Song of Solomon 3:6; Book of Joel 2:30, 31; and Exodus 33:9, 10.

Smoking ban

Smoking ban

Smoking bans, or smoke-free laws, are public policies, including criminal laws and occupational safety and health regulations, that prohibit tobacco smoking in certain spaces. The spaces most commonly affected by smoking bans are indoor workplaces and buildings open to the public such as restaurants, bars, office buildings, schools, retail stores, hospitals, libraries, transport facilities, and government buildings, in addition to public transport vehicles such as aircraft, buses, watercraft, and trains. However, laws may also prohibit smoking in outdoor areas such as parks, beaches, pedestrian plazas, college and hospital campuses, and within a certain distance from the entrance to a building, and in some cases, private vehicles and multi-unit residences.

The most common rationale cited for restrictions on smoking is the negative health effects associated with secondhand smoke (SHS), or the inhalation of tobacco smoke by persons who are not smoking. These include diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The number of smoking bans around the world increased substantially in the late 20th century and early 21st century due to increased knowledge about these health risks. Many early smoking restrictions merely required the designation of non-smoking areas in buildings, but policies of this type became less common following evidence that they did not eliminate the health concerns associated with SHS.

Opinions on smoking bans vary. Many individuals and organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) support smoking bans on the basis that they improve health outcomes by reducing exposure to SHS and possibly decreasing the number of people who smoke, while others oppose smoking bans and assert that they violate individual and property rights and cause economic hardship, among other issues.

Smoke (Turgenev novel)

Smoke (Turgenev novel)

Smoke () is an 1867 novel by the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) that tells the story of a love affair between a young Russian man and a young married Russian woman while also delivering the author's criticism of Russia and Russians of the period. The story takes place largely in the German resort town of Baden-Baden.

River of Smoke

River of Smoke

River of Smoke (2011) is a novel by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh. It is the second volume of the Ibis trilogy.

Eric Burns

Burns is an author who has written fifteen books, two of which won the highest award given by the American Library Association for volumes published by a university press. Named as the "Best of the Best" were The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol, and its companion-piece, The Smoke of the Gods: A Social History of Tobacco. Burns is the only non-academic ever to win the award twice. Those two books, and his biggest-seller, Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism, which was a selection of both the Book of the Month Club and the History Book Club, are among five of Burns's book to have been "adopted" by various college curricula for courses in journalism, American history, and American Studies. Infamous Scribblers

David Goerlitz

In 1999 Goerlitz published his story with Gary LaForest in a book titled "Before The Smokescreen" with Gladstone Publishing. The book recounts how and why Goerlitz began his 23 year long three and a half pack a day addiction to tobacco. In addition he gives the reader a behind the scenes look at how his ads for the tobacco industry were made and reviews his award-winning educational program for young people.

Allan M. Brandt

Allan Morris Brandt (born 1953) is a historian of medicine and the Amalie Kass Professor of History of Medicine and Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is an author of several books, including The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

Richard Beard (author)

Beard's first few novels are experimental works in the literary tradition of Oulipo, in which an artificial constraint is imposed on the narrative. X20, A Novel of Not Smoking (1996) is constructed in twenty parts, each containing an identical number of words, to represent the twenty cigarettes in a pack (the story's narrator is trying to quit the habit and makes himself write something every time he has the urge to light up). In 1997, it was a New York Times Summer Reading Selection. The Sunday Times called it "an unusually intelligent, funny and readable first book." All of the action in Beard's second novel, Damascus (1998), occurs on 1 November 1993 (the day on which the Maastricht Treaty

Thank You for Smoking (novel)

Thank You for Smoking is a novel by Christopher Buckley, first published in 1994, which tells the story of the fictional character Nick Naylor, a tobacco lobbyist during the 1990s.

Peter Gzowski

1989 Afterword to Mordecai Richler, The Incomparable Atuk (New Canadian Library) ; 1994 Introduction to Festival of the Written Arts, The Great Canadian Literary Cookbook (Harbour Publishing) ; 1999 Foreword to Steve Dryden (Ed.), Total Gretzky: The Magic,The Legend, The Numbers (McClelland and Stewart) ; 2001 "How to Quit Smoking in Fifty Years or Less", contained in Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane (eds), Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast (Greystone Books) ; 2002 Foreword to Chris Czajkowski, Cabin at Singing River: One Woman's Story of Building a Home in the Wilderness (Raincoast Books)

Ellis Avery

The Smoke Week - Gival Press, (2003) ; The Teahouse Fire (2006) ; The Last Nude (2012) ; Broken Rooms (2014) ; The Family Tooth (2015) ; Editor, "Public Streets" series  at Public Books Online. ; Tree of Cats (2020)

Maurice Leitch

Leitch's short story, 'Green Roads', originally published in The Hands of Cheryl Boyd and other stories, was collected in 1995's The Hurt World: Short Stories of the Troubles, edited by Michael Parker, and his next novel, The Smoke King, was published in 1998. Robert McLiam Wilson's words, on the cover of the Secker & Warburg edition, continue his argument from his review of Gilchrist: 'With The Smoke King, Maurice Leitch does what he's been doing for three decades, he raises his glorious, inconvenient voice ... a unique, troubling fiction, unpredictable and moving, shows Leitch's customary unremitting integrity and profound knowledge of what the novel is for.' The story he tells in The Smoke King

Robert Sabbag

book with a "Smugglers' Tour," in which Sabbag and Long appeared before audiences at various venues in the U.K. with celebrity smuggler and bestselling author Howard Marks (also known as "Mr. Nice"). Smokescreen was a bestseller (Canongate’s first) in its British edition, making the hardcover lists of both the Sunday Times and the Observer. Sabbag in 2009 published Down Around Midnight, a memoir of the fatal plane crash he survived in the wake of Snowblind's publication thirty years earlier. Sabbag is a member of the Authors Guild and Writers Guild of America. He is represented by the William Morris Endeavor agency.

Smoke (Miscione novel)

Smoke is a novel by bestselling author Lisa Unger writing as Lisa Miscione. It is the fourth and final book featuring Lydia Strong.

Simone Person

Simone Person is a multi-genre author, poet and scholar based in Indiana from Adrian, Michigan. In 2018, Person became the Prose Editor for Honeysuckle Press and was named a Pink Door Writing Retreat Fellow in 2019. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Conium Review, The Rumpus, Thrush, Atticus Review,  and elsewhere. Person's first chapbook collection Dislocate won the 2017 Honeysuckle Press Chapbook Contest. Bhanu Kapil, who judged the 2017 contest, praised the collection for "its figural imaginary," and described it as "a work of abject longing, set in temperatures that don't easily regulate or normalize." Person's second chapbook collection Smoke Girl won the 2018 Diode Editions Chapbook Contest, judged by Founding Editor Patty Paine. About Person's latest collection, Rachel Wiley said, Smoke Girl "will look you in the eye and exhale thick truth that will either warm you or choke you." Most recently, Person won the 2020 Eric Hoffer Chapbook Category Award and was shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize.

Cigarettes are Sublime

Cigarettes are Sublime is a 1994 book by Richard Klein published by Duke University Press. The author wrote it as therapy when he quit smoking. Klein states in the preface that the "book aims to be simultaneously a piece of literary criticism, an analysis of popular culture, a political harangue, a theoretical exercise, and an ode to cigarettes." The decisive encounter for the author, in terms of coming to terms with his own cigarette habit, came through reading the novel Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo.

Smoke (film)

Smoke is a 1995 American independent film by Wayne Wang and Paul Auster. The original story was written by Paul Auster, who also wrote the screenplay. The film was produced by Greg Johnson, Peter Newman, Kenzo Horikoshi, and Hisami Kuroiwa. Among others, it features Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Stockard Channing, Harold Perrineau Jr., and Forest Whitaker.

Auberon Waugh

form of atmospheric pollution and even made references to the dangers of "passive hamburger eating". He also claimed that computer games "produce all the symptoms and most known causes of cancer". The Tobacco Advisory Council of the UK organised a pro-smoking book to be ghosted for either Bernard Levin or Auberon Waugh. Neither columnist agreed to put their name to it, but Waugh wrote a foreword endorsing the book and hitting out at the anti-smoking lobby: "Let us hope this book strikes a blow against the new control terrorists", he said. He also posed for photos with a cigarette in his hand.

James Leavey

James Leavey (born 1947) is a British writer, who works especially for the tobacco industry. Leavey's appearance on the BBC Horizon programme 'We love cigarettes' attracted criticism. Leavey also wrote The Harrods Pocket Guide to Fine Cigars. He writes regularly for Cigar Journal and other magazines. He is the author of the FOREST Guide to Smoking in London and the FOREST Guide to Smoking in Scotland: Where To Light Up.


Question: Who is the author of The Great Perhaps?

Answer: Joe Meno

The Great Perhaps

Percy F. Westerman

His publishing house S. W. Partridge included Westerman in a series entitled 'The Great Adventure Series' along with Rowland Walker, author of Oscar Danby, V.C.

Great Books of the Western World

Originally published in 54 volumes, The Great Books of the Western World covers categories including fiction, history, poetry, natural science, mathematics, philosophy, drama, politics, religion, economics, and ethics. Hutchins wrote the first volume, titled The Great Conversation, as an introduction and discourse on liberal education. Adler sponsored the next two volumes, "The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon", as a way of emphasizing the unity of the set and, by extension, of Western thought in general. A team of indexers spent months compiling references to such topics as "Man's freedom in relation to the will of God" and "The denial of void or vacuum in favor of a plenum". They grouped the topics into 102 chapters, for which Adler wrote the 102 introductions. Four colors identify each volume by subject area—Imaginative Literature, Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, History and Social Science, and Philosophy and Theology. The volumes contained the following works:

Great books

The Great Books of the Western World is a hardcover 60-volume collection (originally 54 volumes) of 517 individual works on the Great Books list. A prominent feature of the collection is a two-volume Syntopicon, meaning "a collection of topics", that includes essays written by Mortimer Adler on 102 "great ideas." Following each essay is an extensive outline of the idea with page references to relevant passages throughout the collection. The collection was published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., which owns the copyright. Shortly after Adler retired from the Great Books Foundation in 1989, he served as editor-in-chief for the 1990 edition of the Great Books of the Western World for Encyclopædia Britannica, which included more Hispanic and female authors and, for the first time, works

John Franklin Swift

Going to Jericho; or, Sketches of Travel in Spain and the East (1868) ; Grant And Wilson: Speech Of The Hon. John F. Swift,Delivered At Platt's Hall, July 9, 1872 ; Robert Greathouse: An American Novel (1870) ; Robert Greathouse: A Story Of The Nevada Silver Mines (1878) ; The Present and Future of the University (1887) ; California a Republican state: Address to the Republicans of California (1888) He is considered one of the writers of the Sagebrush School with Joseph T. Goodman, Mark Twain, Fred H. Hart, Henry Rust Mighels, Dan DeQuille, Samuel Post Davis, John Franklin Swift, Charles Carroll Goodwin, Joseph Wasson, Rollin M. Daggett. and others. Bret Hart commented that "of the three humorous writers: Twain, Miller, and Swift, the last was the greatest genius.

The Great Perhaps

The Great Perhaps

The Great Perhaps is the fifth novel by Joe Meno. It was a winner of the Great Lakes Book Award for Fiction in 2009 and a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice.

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Joe Meno

Joe Meno

Joe Meno (born 1974) is an American novelist, writer of short fiction, playwright, and music journalist based in Chicago.

Looking for Alaska

Looking for Alaska

Looking for Alaska is American author John Green‘s debut novel, published in March 2005 by Dutton Juvenile. Based on his time at Indian Springs School, Green wrote the novel as a result of his desire to create meaningful young adult fiction.<ref name=":7" /> The characters and events of the plot are grounded in Green's life, while the story itself is fictional.<ref name=":7" />

"Looking for Alaska" follows the novel's main character and narrator Miles Halter, or "Pudge," to boarding school where he goes to seek a "Great Perhaps," the famous last words of François Rabelais. Throughout the 'Before' section of the novel, Miles and his friends Chip "The Colonel" Martin, Alaska Young, and Takumi Hikohito grow very close and the section culminates in Alaska's death. In the second half of the novel, Miles and his friends work to discover the missing details of the night Alaska died. While struggling to reconcile Alaska's death, Miles grapples with the last words of Simón Bolívar and the meaning of life, leaving the conclusion to these topics unresolved.

"Looking for Alaska" is a coming-of-age novel that touches on themes of meaning, grief, hope, and youth-adult relationships. The novel won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association, and led the association's list of most-challenged books in 2015 due to profanity and a sexually explicit scene. Schools in Kentucky, Tennessee, and several other states have attempted to place bans on the book. In 2005, Paramount Pictures received the rights to produce a film adaptation of "Looking for Alaska"; however, the film failed to reach production.<ref name=":9" /> "Looking for Alaska", a television miniseries, premiered as a Hulu Original on October 18, 2019.<ref name=":10" />

Robert Bauval

Robert Bauval

Robert Bauval (born 5 March 1948) is a Belgian author and lecturer, perhaps best known for the fringe Orion Correlation Theory regarding the Giza pyramid complex.

The Great Man (novel)

The Great Man is a 2007 novel by American author Kate Christensen. It won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, beating nearly 350 other submissions and earning Christensen the $15,000 top prize.

Gateway to the Great Books

A number of authors in the Great Books set – such as Plutarch, Epictetus, Tacitus, Dante, Herman Melville, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, John Stuart Mill, Francis Bacon, Charles Darwin and William James – were also represented by shorter works in the Gateway volumes. In addition, several Gateway readings discussed authors in the Great Books series. For instance, a selection from Henry Adams' Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres critiqued the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. Indeed, many writers in the Gateway set were eventually "promoted" to the second edition (1990) of the Great Books, such as Alexis de Tocqueville, Molière, Henry James, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Albert Einstein and John Dewey.

Great Books of the Western World

had feared; but, through that method, 50,000 sets were sold in 1961. In 1963 the editors published Gateway to the Great Books, a ten-volume set of readings meant to introduce the authors and the subjects of the Great Books. Each year, from 1961 to 1998, the editors published The Great Ideas Today, an annual updating about the applicability of the Great Books to contemporary life. According to Alex Beam, Great Books of the Western World eventually sold a million sets. The Internet and the E-book reader have made available some of the Great Books of the Western World in an on-line format.

Great Books of the Western World

The project for the Great Books of the Western World began at the University of Chicago, where the president, Robert Hutchins, collaborated with Mortimer Adler to develop a course there of a type which had been originated by John Erskine at Columbia University in 1921 with the innovation of a "round table"-type approach to reading and discussing great books among professors and undergraduates. —generally aimed at businessmen. The purposes they had in mind were for filling the gaps in their liberal education (notably including Hutchins' own self-confessed gaps) and to render the reader as an intellectually-rounded man or woman familiar with the Great Books of the Western canon and knowledgeable of the Great Ideas visited in the "Great Conversation" over the course of three millennia. An original student of

The Great World

The Great World is a 1990 Miles Franklin literary award-winning novel by the Australian author David Malouf. It is an epic novel telling the story of two Australians during the turmoil of World War I & II; and second and the imprisonment of Japanese during World War - II.

The Great Book-Collectors

The Great Book-Collectors was an 1893 book by British authors Charles Elton and Mary Augusta Elton. It deals with bibliophilia and bibliomania. The book is generally available online rather than in original in major collections.

Howard A. Rodman

The novel The Great Eastern by Howard A. Rodman was published on June 4, 2019, by Melville House Publishing. In March 2019, the film rights to The Great Eastern were acquired by the UK film company Great Point Media, and Rodman was commissioned to write the screen adaptation.

David Denby

Denby's Great Books (1996) is a non-fiction account of the Western canon-oriented Core Curriculum at his alma mater, Columbia University. Denby reenrolled after three decades, and the book operates as a kind of double portrait, as well as a sort of great-thinkers brush-up. In The New York Times, the writer Joyce Carol Oates called the book "a lively adventure of the mind," filled with "unqualified enthusiasm." Great Books was a New York Times bestseller. In The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th century, Peter Watson called "Great Books" the "most original response to the culture wars." The book has been published in 13 foreign editions. In 2004, Denby published American Sucker, a memoir which details his investment misadventures in

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is the task of every generation to reassess the tradition in which it lives, to discard what it cannot use, and to bring into context with the distant and intermediate past the most recent contributions to the Great Conversation."" Before and after the 1990 edition 20th-century-authors volumes were added, other additions to the Great Books main entries were published from 1953 to 2002 in the Great Ideas Today yearbook series volumes matching the styling of the set, like encyclopedia yearbooks. The first work from the modern era by a black author (some authors of the ancient world are of unknown race) chosen for these additions to the Great Books main entries was The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Dubois (1903).

The Great and the Good

The Great and the Good (La Cour des grands) is a 1996 novel by the French writer Michel Déon. It tells the story of a Frenchman who is born to a poor widow, moves to the United States in the 1950s and becomes a wealthy stockbroker, before he returns to France. The book received the Grand prix Jean Giono.

Nathaniel Wanley

His first publication, ‘Vox Dei, or the Great Duty of Self-reflection upon a Man's own Wayes,’ 1658, was dedicated to Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland. He published ‘War and Peace Reconciled … two books,’ 1670 and 1672, a translation from the Latin of Justus Lipsius. Wanley's major work is ‘The Wonders of the Little World; or a General History of Man. In Six Books,’ 1678, dedicated (17 June 1677) to Sir Harbottle Grimston, 2nd Baronet. The work, which is meant to illustrate anecdotically the prodigies of human nature, shows wide reading but is credulous; authorities are fully given and referenced. Later editions include that of 1774, with revision, and index; and 1806–7, 2 vols., with additions by William Johnston who worked with John Aikin on the General Biography. Wanley also compiled a history of the Fielding family, which is printed in John Nichols's Leicestershire.

Great Books of the Western World

In 1945, Adler began writing the initial forms of the essays for the Great Ideas and six years and $940,000 more later, on April 15, 1952, the Great Books of the Western World were presented at a publication party in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, in New York City. In his speech, Hutchins said, "This is more than a set of books, and more than a liberal education. Great Books of the Western World is an act of piety. Here are the sources of our being. Here is our heritage. This is the West. This is its meaning for mankind." The first two sets

Gateway to the Great Books

The set included an index similar to the Great Books' Syntopicon, along with reading plans of increasing difficulty. Hutchins wrote an introduction with a more informal tone than he used in The Great Conversation, his preface to the Great Books, and that chiefly explained the relevance of most of the categories making up the set: "The Imagination of Man" (about fiction and drama), "Man and Society," "Science and Mathematics," and "Philosophy." The set contained biographical notes on the various authors, similar to those in the Great Books. However, the set also contained editorial introductions to the selections, which were generally not included in the Great Books. In another departure from the Great Books series, the set included black-and-white drawings of most of the authors by Chicago portraitist Fred Steffen, who also wrote brief notes describing the illustrations. Details from a number of these drawings were featured on the volume covers. Although the editors maintained that many selections were appropriate to readers as young as seventh-grade students, the set included a fair amount of material challenging for the most experienced reader. The Gateway volumes were single-column with large, readable type.

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within the College of Liberal Arts. Dharma Realm Buddhist University is the first Great Books school to offer curriculum combining Eastern and Western classics. Adler co-founded the Center for the Study of the Great Ideas in Chicago with Max Weismann to advance the Great Conversation found in the Great Books by providing Adler's guidance and resource materials through live and online seminars, educational and philosophical consultation, and access to the Center's library collection of books, essays, articles, journals and audio/video programs. Center programs are unique in that they do not replicate other existing programs either started or developed by Adler.

The Great Tradition

In his work, Leavis names Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James, and Joseph Conrad as the great English novelists. In all these eight, including Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, we have successors of Shakespeare. Leavis disparaged Dickens except for his novel Hard Times, as lacking the "mature standards and interests" found in the works of Henry James. There was a similar contrast on the aspect of using melodrama in the novels, as compared to Joseph Conrad. In one statement on page 19, Leavis places Dickens among classic writers, but not in the great tradition: "That Dickens was a great genius and is permanently among the classics is certain. But the genius was that of a great entertainer, and he had for the most part no profounder responsibility as a creative artist than this description suggests." Leavis held great sway over literary criticism of English literature until his death in 1978. Other views have emerged since then, in support of a greater number of authors.


Question: Who is the author of The Universe Around Us?

Answer: James Hopwood Jeans

Answer: James Jeans

Answer: Sir James Jeans

Answer: Sir James Hopwood Jeans

Dan Hooper

Hooper is the author of two books published by Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins. The first, Dark Cosmos: In Search of our Universe’s Missing Mass and Energy (2006) was named a notable book by Seed Magazine. His second book, Nature’s Blueprint: Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force (2008), was called "essential reading" by New Scientist. Hooper's third book is At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe's First Seconds (2019), published by Princeton University Press.

Andrew Fraknoi

Fraknoi is the author or co-author of 14 books in the field of astronomy. He was the lead author of Voyages through the Universe, an introductory college astronomy textbook published by Brooks-Cole, which went through three editions. In the 1980s, he co-edited with Byron Preiss two collections of science articles and science fiction stories, "The Universe" and "The Planets." With Sidney Wolff, Fraknoi founded and was co-editor of the first on-line journal devoted to astronomy education, "Astronomy Education Review". He edited two collections of resources for K-12 teachers, The Universe at Your Fingertips and More Universe at Your Fingertips published through the Astronomical Society of

The Stars Around Us

The Stars Around Us is a 1970 paperback original anthology of previously published science fiction stories.

Lincoln Barnett

Lincoln Kinnear Barnett (1909–1979) was an editor and author, most notably at Life Magazine for many years. Lincoln Barnett wrote a number of books, including "The Universe and Doctor Einstein", "The World We Live In", and "The Treasure of Our Tongue". The Universe and Doctor Einstein is a layman's introduction to the theory of relativity. It includes a foreword by Albert Einstein, and has been reprinted several times. His work popularizing science subjects included consulting work on the film Journey to the Center of the Earth.

The Universe Maker

The Universe Maker is a science fiction novel by American author A.E. van Vogt, published in 1953 by Ace Books as an Ace Double with The World of Null-A. It is based on the author's "The Shadow Men" (Startling Stories, 1950). Set 400 years into the future, the main character is Morton Cargill, a U.S. Army officer who served in the Korean War.

The Universe Around Us

The Universe Around Us

The Universe Around Us is a science book written by English astrophysicist Sir James Jeans, first published in 1929 by the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press.

Natural science

Natural science

Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer review and repeatability of findings are used to try to ensure the validity of scientific advances.

Natural science can be divided into two main branches: life science and physical science. Life science is alternatively known as biology, and physical science is subdivided into branches: physics, chemistry, earth science, and astronomy. These branches of natural science may be further divided into more specialized branches (also known as fields). As empirical sciences, natural sciences use tools from the formal sciences, such as mathematics and logic, converting information about nature into measurements which can be explained as clear statements of the "laws of nature".

Modern natural science succeeded more classical approaches to natural philosophy, usually traced to Taoists traditions in Asia and in the West to ancient Greece. Galileo, Descartes, Bacon, and Newton debated the benefits of using approaches which were more mathematical and more experimental in a methodical way. Still, philosophical perspectives, conjectures, and presuppositions, often overlooked, remain necessary in natural science. Systematic data collection, including discovery science, succeeded natural history, which emerged in the 16th century by describing and classifying plants, animals, minerals, and so on. Today, "natural history" suggests observational descriptions aimed at popular audiences.

James Jeans

James Jeans

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Across the Universe

Across the Universe

"Across the Universe" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. It was written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The song first appeared on the 1969 various artists' charity compilation album "No One's Gonna Change Our World" and later, in a different form, on their 1970 album "Let It Be", the group's final released album. The original version featured on two different albums both titled "Rarities": a 1978 British release and a 1980 US release. It was also included on their 1988 album "Past Masters, Volume Two".
The song has been covered by many artists, including David Bowie on his 1975 album "Young Americans", which featured contributions from Lennon.

Across the Universe (film)

Across the Universe (film)

Across the Universe is a 2007 jukebox musical romantic drama film directed by Julie Taymor, centered on songs by the Beatles. The script is based on an original story credited to Taymor, Dick Clement, and Ian La Frenais, and based on the song of the same name by Lennon–McCartney. It incorporates 34 compositions originally written by members of the Beatles. The film stars Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson and T.V. Carpio, and introduces Dana Fuchs and Martin Luther McCoy as actors. Cameo appearances are made by Bono, Eddie Izzard, Joe Cocker, and Salma Hayek, among others.

"Across the Universe" premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 14, 2007, and was theatrically released in the United States on October 12 by Columbia Pictures. The film received mixed reviews from critics, with many praising the visuals, cast and singing performances, though criticized the plot and direction. The film was a major box-office bomb, failing to earn even half of its total production budget at the box office. The film received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and an Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design. Two members of the supporting cast, Carol Woods and Timothy T. Mitchum, performed as part of a special Beatles tribute at the 50th Grammy Awards.

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch

This is the third book written by astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell, his first book, Life in the Universe: A Beginner's Guide, was published in 2007. His second book, an illustrated children's book called My Tourist's Guide to the Solar System and Beyond, was published in 2012. After achieving a first class degree in Biology from the University of Oxford, he went on to complete a PhD in the field of astrobiology from the University College London.

John Hands (author)

John Hands is a British author who has been published in 9 countries. Trained as a scientist, he has written three novels, plus non-fiction books, most recently Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe, which spans scientific disciplines from cosmology to neuroscience, and Housing Co-operatives.

Michael Lemonick

The Light at the Edge of the Universe: Leading Cosmologists on the Brink of a Scientific Revolution (May 11, 1993) ; Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe (May 14, 1998) ; Echo of the Big Bang (2003); 2nd edition (Apr 24, 2005) ; The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos (Great Discoveries) (Dec 14, 2009) ; Mirror Earth: The Search for Our Planet's Twin (Oct 29, 2013); 2012 ebook ; The Light at the Edge of the Universe: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Cosmology (Princeton Legacy Library) (July 14, 2014) ; The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love (Feb 7, 2017)

Across the Universe (novel)

Across the Universe is a trilogy of young adult science fiction novels written by American author Beth Revis. Chronicling the life of Amy Martin aboard a generation ship hundreds of years in the future, Across the Universe, the first novel published in 2011 by Penguin Books, received a starred Kirkus review and made the New York Bestseller List for Children's Chapter Books.

Laura Mersini-Houghton

Laura Mersini-Houghton (née Mersini) is an Albanian-American cosmologist and theoretical physicist, and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a proponent of the multiverse hypothesis and the author of a theory for the origin of the universe that holds that our universe is one of many selected by quantum gravitational dynamics of matter and energy. Predictions of her theory have been successfully tested by astrophysical data. She argues that anomalies in the current structure of the universe are best explained as the gravitational tug exerted by other universes.

A Universe from Nothing

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing is a non-fiction book by the physicist Lawrence M. Krauss, initially published on January 10, 2012 by Free Press. It discusses modern cosmogony and its implications for the debate about the existence of God. The main theme of the book is how "we have discovered that all signs suggest a universe that could and plausibly did arise from a deeper nothing—involving the absence of space itself and—which may one day return to nothing via processes that may not only be comprehensible but also processes that do not require any external control or direction."

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The book ends with an afterword by Richard Dawkins in which he compares the book to On the Origin of Species — a comparison that Krauss himself called "pretentious". Christopher Hitchens had agreed to write a foreword for the book prior to his death but was too ill to complete it. To write the book, Krauss expanded material from a lecture on the cosmological implications of a flat expanding universe he gave to the Richard Dawkins Foundation at the 2009 Atheist Alliance International conference. The book appeared on The New York Times bestseller list on January 29, 2012.

Nigel Calder

mission to the Comets—author, for Presswork and Springer ; 1993 Hubble Space Telescope: The Harvest So Far—author, for European Space Agency ; 1994 Comets: Speculations and Science—reissue by Dover of The Comet is Coming! ; 1995 Beyond This World—author, for European Space Agency ; 1997 The Manic Sun—author, for Pilkington Press etc. ; 1999 Success Story: 30 Discoveries—compiler, for European Space Agency ; 2003 Magic Universe: The Oxford Guide to Modern Science—author, for Oxford UP, etc. ; 2005 Einstein’s Universe (updated for Einstein Year) – author, for Penguin UK & US, etc. ; 2005 Albert Einstein: Relativity – introduction to a Penguin Classic, Penguin US ; 2007 The Chilling Stars – joint author with Henrik Svensmark for Icon Books, etc.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe (book)

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake is a 2018 book written by Steven Novella and co-authored by the other current co-hosts of The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast—Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella, and Evan Bernstein. It also contains posthumous material from former co-host Perry DeAngelis. The book is meant to be an all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking. In an interview with The European Skeptics Podcast, Jay Novella describes their approach to writing the book from the "point of view of an alien species observing the earth from a skeptical perspective using critical thinking," reminiscent of the book's namesake The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

Reporting the Universe

Reporting the Universe is a collection of essays by the acclaimed American novelist E. L. Doctorow. The work includes autobiography, political commentary, and literary criticism, and ranges from topics such as Doctorow’s memories as a young writer to post-9/11 American identity. It was originally published by Harvard University Press in 2004 as Book 13 of The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization. The book received favorable comments from reviewers at Financial Times, Booklist, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Review of Books, and Newsday. Publishers Weekly wrote in a review, “Whether he’s contemplating the irony of our ‘God-soaked country’ being officially secular, or his father’s love of Edgar Allan Poe, ‘our greatest bad writer’ (for whom he was named Edgar), or deriding the ‘mendacity’ of politicians, Doctorow is here, as in his fiction, a wordsmith of the first order. It’s a pleasure to read these essays—some autobiographical, some literary, some dealing with issues of the day—full of memorable phrases and evocative images, as well as incisive ideas.”

Charles Liu

In 1998, Liu joined the scientific staff of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, where he helped design and develop the exhibitry and scientific content of the Rose Center for Earth and Space. During this time, with co-authors Neil deGrasse Tyson and Robert W. Irion, Liu wrote "One Universe: At Home In The Cosmos (2000)", for which Tyson, Irion, and Liu were awarded the 2001 Science Writing Award (scientist category) of the American Institute of Physics. In 2003, Liu joined the faculty of the CUNY College of Staten Island (CSI). He was subsequently appointed to the consortial faculty of the physics doctoral program of the CUNY Graduate Center. His book, The Handy Astronomy Answer Book (Visible Ink Press), was published in 2004. In 2008, Liu became director of The Verrazano School Honors Program at

Andrew Fraknoi

Pacific. Additionally, he is the lead author of the 2016 college textbook "Astronomy", published by OpenStax as a free book for college students around the world, part of a project at Rice University (supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation) to make college more affordable. He also authored multiple resources for young people. He is the co-author of the richly illustrated 2017 children's book about eclipses "When the Sun Goes Dark", that came out just ahead of the North American solar eclipse in August 2017. In 2007, his first children's book "Wonderful World of Space" was published

You Are the Universe (book)

You Are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters is a new-age philosophy book co-written by Deepak Chopra and Menas Kafatos. The book delves into questions pertaining to existence, human existence, consciousness, reality and perception. It was published on February 7, 2017 and became a New York Times best-seller.

Danny Wallace (humorist)

Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe, was published in 2006. It is linked with World Book Day which in 2006 was on Thursday 2 March. It tells the story of Wallace's trip to Idaho, to visit a manhole cover in a small town, whose residents have proclaimed it the centre of the universe. The cover identifies it as a "Quick Read"; the price and length of the book have been curbed to encourage people who may not often read books to purchase it.

San Francisco Writers Grotto

Jenny Bitner, author of Here Is a Game We Can Play (out 2021) ; Tonya M Foster, author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna, 2015) ; Zara Stone, author of The Future of Science Is Female (Mango Press, 2020) ; Sophia Raday, author of Love in Condition Yellow (Beacon Press, 2009) ; Saila Kariat, film director and writer, The Valley, 2017 ; Raina J. Leon, poet and author of Profeta Without Refuge (Nomadic Press, 2016) All board members have an extensive background with narrative writing. Recent directives include establishing a virtual writers' grotto during the pandemic, online zoom teaching classes, and Rooted and Written, a workshop that encourages and mentors diverse black and brown writers.