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Gê GE MYTHOLOGY. Before Brazilian expansion diminished their territories, the widely scattered, generally independent and isolated groups that speak languages of the Ge family occupied a large expanse of the Brazilian interior, from approxima... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 11 pages (3,431 words) in 1 product

G force Astronauts and spacecraft are subject to both the force of gravity and "G forces." Although they are related, these forces are not necessarily the same thing. However, to understand G forces it helps to know something about g... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (592 words) in 1 product

G. A. Henty G. A. Henty once described himself as "a fierce and truculent Briton, ready to defy the whole world." It was an exaggerated yet appropriate description, given Henty's character and appearance. He was a tall, powerfully built man, with a la... Study Pack: 2 Biographies About 36 pages (10,771 words) in 2 products

G. D. H. Cole George Douglas Howard Cole (1889-1959) was an English historian, economist, and guild socialist. His teaching, writing, and commitment to political activism affected three generations of Englishmen. The son of a builder in West London, G. ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 7 pages (2,187 words) in 1 product

G. E. M. Anscombe   G. E. M. Anscombe was a wide-ranging analytic philosopher of the first rank, a close student and translator of major works of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and a Roman Catholic social activist and apologist. She was known for her keen and penetrati... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 2 Summaries About 32 pages (9,578 words) in 3 products

G. Evelyn Hutchinson Born January 30, 1903, in Cambridge, England, Hutchinson was the son of Arthur Hutchinson, a professor of mineralogy at Cambridge University, and Evaline Demeny Shipley Hutchinson, an ardent feminist. He demonstrated an early interest in f... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 7 pages (2,037 words) in 1 product

G. Gordon Liddy Admiration for those remaining silent about government secrets seems an archaic idea in this new millennium of instant news. However, in the late 1970s, one man, G. Gordon Liddy, gained such admiration for not revealing the inside workings... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 7 pages (2,088 words) in 1 product

G. H. Hardy   Godfrey Harold Hardy was one of the foremost mathematicians in England during the early part of the 20th century. He was primarily a pure mathematician, specializing in branches of mathematics that study the behavior of numbers (such as nu... Study Pack: 3 Biographies, 2 Summaries About 26 pages (7,674 words) in 5 products

G. Harry Stine American Engineer and Writer 1928-1997 Engineer, author, visionary, and hobbyist extraordinaire, G. Harry Stine is best known as the father of model rocketry for his efforts to bring science and safety to the building and launching of mode... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 3 pages (993 words) in 1 product

G. I. Gurdjieff GURDJIEFF, G. I. Georgii Ivanovich Gurdzhiv (1866–1949) was a spiritual teacher of esoteric knowledge who claimed to have discovered specific methods for developing the human consciousness toward a more awakened state. Gurdjieff was... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 5 Criticisms About 135 pages (40,488 words) in 6 products

G. K. Chesterton   Best known for his Father Brown detective stories, and most admired as a thinker for his fulllength books, of which he wrote almost fifty, G. K. Chesterton is numbered among the great essayists of the English language. His essays so far co... Study Pack: 10 Biographies, 21 Criticisms About 528 pages (158,500 words) in 31 products

G. Ledyard Stebbins Considered the founder of evolutionary botany, George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr., was the first scientist to apply modern synthetic evolutionary theory to the plant kingdom. Stebbins was one of the twentieth-century architects who developed the... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 17 pages (5,183 words) in 2 products

G. (novel) [In] so far as we are concerned with the overall style or structure of G, one notices that Mr Berger attempts to translate Cubism into literary terms by employing and rather overtaxing many of the devices used in recent years by Sarraute, S... Study Pack: 1 Criticism About 1 pages (350 words) in 1 product

George Sutherland Fraser Though G.S. Fraser is far better known as a critic and literary historian, it is as a poet that he wished to be remembered. A writer of published verse by age sixteen, Fraser turned to literary journalism and teaching in order to make a li... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 14 pages (4,105 words) in 1 product

G. Stanley Hall The American psychologist and educator Granville Stanley Hall (1844-1924) pioneered in developing psychology in the United States. His wide-ranging and prolific writings reveal a central theme best characterized as genetic psychology or ev... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 3 Summaries About 7 pages (2,166 words) in 4 products

G. W. A. Dummer English electrical engineer who first developed the concept of a microprocessor. In a paper written in the early 1950s, Dummer proposed a single, monolithic device that would contain a great number of circuits and electronic components. Th... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 0 pages (67 words) in 1 product

G. William Domhoff G. William Domhoff was born in Youngstown, Ohio, on August 6, 1936, the son of George William and Helen S. (Cornet) Domhoff. He married Judy Boman, a nursery school teacher, on August 28, 1961. They had four children: Lynne, Lori, William ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 4 pages (1,118 words) in 1 product

Servicemen's Readjustment Act (USA) In 1944, social and economic concerns, higher education, veterans' issues, and federal legislation merged in a way never before experienced in the history of the United States with the passage of the Servicemen's Readjustment... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 16 pages (4,674 words) in 2 products

G.I. Jane SOURCE: Shargel, Raphael. “Gender and Genre Bending.” New Leader 80, no. 15 (22 September 1997): 20-1. In the following review, Shargel faults G.I. Jane for paying lip-service to a strong female protagonist, while the film's overall ton... Study Pack: 2 Criticisms About 13 pages (3,825 words) in 2 products

G.I. Joe The GI Joe action figure, a plastic doll twelve inches tall and dressed as a military man, was the first action figure and the first exclusively boy's doll, disguised as a war toy. Extremely popular, it was at the same time controve... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 22 pages (6,569 words) in 1 product

G.M. Trevelyan The English historian George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876-1962) is known for his defense and illustration of history as a literary art. George Macaulay Trevelyan was born at Welcombe near Stratford-on-Avon on Feb. 16, 1876, the son of Sir Geor... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 2 pages (634 words) in 1 product

Gabelle Salt is exuded in perspiration and other body excretions and must be replaced; therefore salt is absolutely necessary for human beings. Salt is also useful for preserving and flavoring food, but it is not evenly distributed throughout the ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 4 pages (1,188 words) in 1 product

Gabon   Gabonese Republic République Gabonaise CAPITAL: Libreville FLAG: The flag is a tricolor of green, golden yellow, and royal blue horizontal stripes. ANTHEM: La Concorde (Harmony). MONETARY UNIT: The Communauté Financièr... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 59 pages (17,609 words) in 3 products

Gabriel Andral 1797-1876 French physician who pioneered the field of blood pathology and wrote the first textbook on internal medicine. Andral studied the blood of both animals and humans, and was the first to describe the proportions of the constituents... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (409 words) in 1 product

Gabriel Biel Biel, Gabriel(C. 1410–1495) Gabriel Biel, the Ockhamist philosopher and theologian, was born at Speyer, Germany, and died at Einsiedel (Schönbuch). He studied philosophy and theology at Heidelberg and Erfurt, joined the Breth... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 5 pages (1,591 words) in 1 product

Gabriel Cramer Gabriel Cramer labored in the shadow of his more well-known mathematical contemporaries. Cramer added to mathematical knowledge in the areas of analysis, determinants, and geometry. Both Cramer's ruleand Cramer's paradox, discussed below, ... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 4 pages (1,328 words) in 2 products

Gabriel Fahrenheit The German instrument maker Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) made the first reliable thermometers. The temperature scale he originated is named after him. Born in Danzig on May 14, 1686, Gabriel Fahrenheit was the son of a well-to-do ... Study Pack: 4 Biographies, 3 Summaries About 13 pages (3,829 words) in 7 products

Gabriel Fauré The French composer Gabriel Urbain Fauré (1845-1924) is best known for his songs and his typically French exquisiteness of taste. Gabriel Fauré was born on May 12, 1845, in the provincial town of Pamiers, where his father was... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 7 pages (2,104 words) in 1 product

Gabriel García Moreno Gabriel García Moreno (1821-1875) was an Ecuadorian political leader whose dynamic leadership brought stability and improvement to his country. Though mostly governing as a dictator, he broke the power of the military and raised the... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 7 pages (2,169 words) in 1 product

Gabriel García Márquez   The work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez owes much of its popularity to the seemingly easy access it offers to readers and to the way it departs from the highly intellectualized, self-reflective mode that characterizes other Latin-American ficti... Study Pack: 5 Biographies, 60 Criticisms About 649 pages (194,616 words) in 65 products

Gabriel Harvey Broad-minded, ambitious, well-read, and socially inept, Gabriel Harvey was probably one of the most visible literary personalities of his day. Out of a prosperous middle-class background, he carved a multiform personal and public career. H... Study Pack: 3 Biographies, 13 Criticisms About 380 pages (114,050 words) in 16 products

Gabriel Josipovici SOURCE: A review of The Book of God: A Response to the Bible, in Dalhousie Review, Vol. 68, No. 4, Winter, 1988, pp. 531–34. In the following review of The Book of God: A Response to the Bible, Shankman asserts that although Josipovici's ... Study Pack: 17 Criticisms About 82 pages (24,633 words) in 17 products

Gabriel Lamé 1795-1870 French mathematician who made important contributions in the areas of differential geometry and number theory. Lamé also worked on Fermat's Last Theorem, engineering mathematics, and elasticity, as well as studying th... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (582 words) in 1 product

Gabriel Lippmann Gabriel Lippmann had a distinguished career as an inventor, theoretician and academic. At the Faculty of Sciences, a laboratory in Paris, France, he became professor of mathematical physics in 1883, a professor of experimental physics in 1... Study Pack: 2 Biographies About 6 pages (1,903 words) in 2 products

Gabriel Marcel   French philosopher Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973) described man's place in the world in terms of such fundamental human experiences as relationships, love, fidelity, hope, and faith. His brand of existentialism was said to be largely unknown i... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary, 3 Criticisms About 40 pages (11,860 words) in 5 products

Gabriel Okara Gabriel Okara is the first significant English-language black African poet, the first African poet to write in a modern style, and the first Nigerian writer to publish in and join the editorial staff of the influential literary journal Bla... Study Pack: 2 Biographies About 55 pages (16,449 words) in 2 products

Gabriel (rebel)   Gabriel Prosser (ca. 1775-1800) was the African American slave leader of an unsuccessful revolt in Richmond, Va., during the summer of 1800. Gabriel Prosser, the slave of Thomas H. Prosser, was about 25 years old when he came to the attent... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 10 pages (2,937 words) in 2 products

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado Born on a cacao plantation in 1912, Jorge Amado was the son of well-to-do landowners in the city of Ilh... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 21 pages (6,275 words) in 1 product

Gabriela Mistral   Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) was a Chilean poet and educator. Her poetry earned her the Nobel Prize for literature in 1945. Gabriela Mistral was born Lucila Godoy Alcaya on April 6, 1889, at Vicuña, a small town in northern Chile. H... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 11 Criticisms About 226 pages (67,918 words) in 13 products

Gabriele D'Annunzio The Italian poet and patriot Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938) was one of the last major representatives of fin-de-siècle decadence in European literature. Gabriele D'Annunzio was born on March 12, 1863, at Pescara of well-to-do paren... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 2 pages (449 words) in 1 product

Gabriele De Zerbis 1445-1505 Italian physician, anatomist, and medical philosopher, also known as Gabriele Zerbi or Gabriello Zerbus. He wrote the first printed book on geriatrics (Gerontocomia, 1489), the first on medical ethics (De cautelis medicorum, c. 1... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 0 pages (78 words) in 1 product

Gabriele Falloppio Born in Modena, Falloppio was a famous doctor and surgeon, an academic, and an author. The uterine tubes were named after him (fallopian tubes) for his work in describing them. With Andreas Vesalius and Bartolemeo Eustachio, Falloppio is c... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 1 Summary About 7 pages (2,048 words) in 3 products

Gabrielle Reece Beach volleyball star Gabrielle Reece likes to stay busy. In addition to a full season of play in the Women's Beach Volleyball League (WBVL), she models, works on television, and has written a book. On the sand, Reece led her league in kil... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 11 pages (3,164 words) in 1 product

Gabrielle Roy In 1945 novelist Gabrielle Roy helped create a new direction for francophone literature in Canada with Bonheur d'occasion (translated as The Tin Flute, 1947), a frank and uncompromising examination of urban misery. Her subsequent works of ... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 9 Criticisms About 63 pages (18,902 words) in 10 products

Gabrielle-Emilie Le Tonnelier De Breteuil, Marquise Du Châtelet 1706-1749 French Mathematician, Chemist and Physicist Despite her many achievements as a scientist and mathematician, Gabrielle-Emilie, marquise du Châtelet is most famous for being the lover of François Marie Arouet, who is best... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (369 words) in 1 product

Gacela of the Dark Death by Federico García Lorca Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 3 Biographies About 91 pages (27,192 words) in 4 products

Leslie Gadallah Leslie Gadallah's work first appeared on science-fiction bookshelves in the late 1980s, when Canadian science-fiction writers were just beginning to make their presence known both in Canada and in the all-important American market. After a... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 12 pages (3,625 words) in 1 product

Gadjeri GADJERI. The name Gadjeri (Gadjari, Kadjeri) is known over a wide area of northern Australia. It means "old woman," implying status and not necessarily age. Gadjeri is also the "sacred mother," or "mother... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 8 pages (2,251 words) in 1 product

Gadolinium Gadolinium is a rare earth element, one of the elements that occurs in Row 6 of the periodic table between barium (atomic number 56) and hafnium (atomic number 72). Its atomic number is 64, its atomic mass is 157.25, and its chemical symbo... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 13 pages (3,923 words) in 3 products

Gael Turnbull Gael Turnbull is a British poet of considerable and various achievement, a friend of poets and a small publisher. His poetry is experimental and adventurous in style, yet it speaks with a clear, consistently recognizable, and always poetic... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 10 pages (3,127 words) in 1 product