Discusses the small financial return most authors receive and criticizes teachers' and librarians' violation of authors' rights through use of copying machines. (RD)

Presents Alexander's acceptance remarks for the book award given to his book, "Westmark." (HOD)

Lists advantages of collaboration in writing a book, including coverage of more material, production of a technically better book, and the opportunity for an unpublished teacher to appear before the academic public. Lists such disadvantages as clashes between authors, loss of earnings to the originating author, and subordination of writers. (TJ)

Describes an agreement reached between CARL Corporation, operator of the UnCover database of magazine and journal articles, and the National Writers Union for the establishment of the first-ever transaction-based writers' royalty system in the new electronic media. It will operate at the Union's newly formed Publication Rights Clearinghouse.…

Examined individual eminence in counseling psychology through textbook citation analysis conducted on four current textbooks and three most recent Annual Review of Psychology chapters on counseling psychology. For 223 leading authors, data on individual research productivity in psychology and on subset of 8 journals of special importance for…

Naomi Shihab Nye focuses on connections in her writings and hopes to participate in books of a connecting spirit and kind. Naomi wants readers to know that appreciation of her work stating importance of its uniqueness is very exciting to her.

In this article, the life and writings of Antonia Forest, who died in 2003, are considered. An attempt is made to put her books into their literary, cultural and religious contexts, and to examine possible reasons for the critical reception of her books during the last 30 years of the twentieth century; from neglect and even disapproval to…

Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" was the crossover publishing sensation of 2003. It has been the subject of widespread critical and commercial acclaim and has won prestigious UK prizes including the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Guardian's Children's Fiction Prize. It is still enjoying considerable commercial…

A street is named after her. Back-to-back conferences celebrate her. New books champion her. Hannah Arendt has joined the small world of philosophical heroes. During her life, she received honorary degrees from Princeton, Smith, and other colleges and universities. Denmark awarded her its Sonning Prize for "commendable work that benefits European…

Studies suggest that co-authorship results in a higher quality article. This study looks for evidence of this in the literature of academic librarianship. Using citation counts to articles from two important journals over a ten-year period, no evidence is found to support the superiority of co-authored articles.

This article is based on a study of hundreds of children's bible storybooks available in the United States from 1850 to the present and focuses on the way the biblical stories of Noah and Jonah have been retold for children. These children's bible storybooks lend insight into the American church's changing assumptions about the purpose of the…

Known for her commitment to excellence in education, Sharon Draper was named National Teacher of the Year in 1997. In 1994 her first novel, "Tears of a Tiger", was published, and since then she has written more than fifteen books for middle and high school readers. "Tears of a Tiger" received the John Steptoe Award for New Talent, and her novels…

Very often science is taught in schools devoid of the people and events behind the research. Yet there is much that can be discovered about the nature of science when we examine the lives of scientists. Recently I read James Watson's "The Double Helix" and Brenda Maddox's biography of Rosalind Franklin, "Rosalind Franklin The Dark Lady of DNA." It…

The eighteenth century was characterised by a ferment of ideas and activities which have usually been portrayed as masculine. It is now increasingly perceived that such developments travelled further through society than hitherto generally recognised. Even women participated in "enlightened living", despite gendered limitations on…

Throughout the twentieth century, comparative education authors in the English-speaking world expressed a range of fears and desires about their field. Many of these authors were or are North American, or spent substantial parts of their careers on that continent. The research reported here systematically maps the discourses of fear and desire in…