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Peer reviewedAquino, John – Music Educators Journal, 1979
In recognition of Rudolf Friml's centenary (1879-1979), his career as a composer of operettas, musical comedies, and musical satires and as a concert pianist is reviewed. (KC)
Descriptors: Biographies, Modern History, Musical Composition, Musicians
Peer reviewedCheek, William – Social Studies Review, 1982
Discusses the distinguishing features of a good biography, the problems of the biographer, and the limitations of biography. The author suggests that the essential duty of a biography is to illustrate what it has meant to be human and to live a life. (AM)
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewedWinch, Donald – American Scholar, 1981
A memoir of Jacob Viner, author and Princeton economics professor, by one of his students. (SJL)
Descriptors: Biographies, Economics, Higher Education, Professors
Lobel, Anita – Horn Book Magazine, 1981
Wife of the 1981 Caldecott Medal winner comments on life with her author-illustrator husband. (AEA)
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Childrens Literature, Imagination
Cosgrave, Mary Silva – Horn Book Magazine, 1980
Lists and annotates seven new adult books of interest to high school readers, including biographical and autobiographical works, fiction, and nonfiction. (GT)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Biographies, Books, Fiction
Peer reviewedBenjamin, Ludy T., Jr. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1980
The biographical material in book form, and especially that which exists in journals, is widely dispersed and difficult to locate systematically. Approximately 100 sources of biographical and autobiographical material on women who have contributed significantly to psychology are listed. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Biographies, Females, Literature Reviews
Salerno, Joan – Media and Methods, 1980
Annotates biographies about 12 heroic people, including Helen Keller, Indira Gandhi, Stevie Wonder, Hubert Humphrey, and Jesse Owens. (TJ)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Biographies, Role Models, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedGrugel, Lee E. – Journal of General Education, 1979
Critically analyzes Toynbee's "A Study of History" to determine this philosophy of history and its legacy, contributions, and flaws. Outlines events of his life and career as a standard for scholars. Presents Toynbee's view that the work of the historian is like that of the artist. (CAM)
Descriptors: Art, Artists, Biographies, Historiography
Peer reviewedMussulman, Joseph A. – Music Educators Journal, 1980
Presented is the life and philosophy of Alice Parker, a teacher of musical composition, who is in great demand as a speaker on college campuses and who composes on commission for a wide variety of organizations. (KC)
Descriptors: Biographies, Music Theory, Musical Composition, Musicians
Peer reviewedVendler, Helen – American Scholar, 1980
A personal appreciation of I. A. Richards as a teacher of poetry at Harvard in the 1950s, written by one of his students. (SJL)
Descriptors: Biographies, Higher Education, Poetry, Professors
Peer reviewedBarnouw, Victor – American Scholar, 1980
An appreciation of the work and teaching of anthropologist Ruth Benedict. The author was one of her students at Columbia University in the 1940s. (SJL)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Biographies, Higher Education, Professors
Peer reviewedShields, Allan – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 1979
Reviews the life and the aesthetic theories of Joseph Torrey of the University of Vermont. (SJL)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Appreciation, Biographies, Professors
Peer reviewedMatrix, Irving Joshua – Two-Year College Mathematics Journal, 1979
A biography of Martin Gardner is given, elaborating on how he developed his "Mathematical Games" column. (PK)
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Games, Mathematical Enrichment
Peer reviewedBerger, J. Joel – Science Teacher, 1977
Reviews the life of Sir Isaac Newton, stressing his contributions to science and society. (CS)
Descriptors: Biographies, History, Instructional Materials, Scientific Principles
Peer reviewedVidal, Fernando – Human Development, 1997
Instead of limiting himself to postulating two discontinuous types of thought, autistic and logical, Piaget studied transitional forms, thereby placing autistic and logical thought on a developmental continuum. Nevertheless, the discovery of transitional forms did not lessen the opposition between the two extremes of autistic and logical thought.…
Descriptors: Biographies, Developmental Stages, Intellectual Development, Logical Thinking
