* A survey of and introduction to the current state of critical social theory is Craig Calhoun's Critical Social Theory: Culture, History, and the Challenge of Difference ( Blackwell, 1995 ) ISBN 1-55786-288-5

* Göran Therborn, Science, Class and Society ( critical survey of the relationship between sociology and historical materialism )

* Lemche, Neils Peter, " The Old Testament between theology and history: a critical survey " ( Westminster John Knox Press, 2008 )

T. Hall Caine, in 1883 survey of the original critical response to Christabel and Kubla Khan, praised the poem and declared: " It must surely be allowed that the adverse criticism on ' Christabel ' and ' Kubla Khan ' which is here quoted is outside all tolerant treatment, whether of raillery or of banter.

For a detailed and critical survey of the history of syntax in the last two centuries, see the monumental work by Giorgio Graffi ( 2001 ).

For example, the survey of corporate social responsibility, published January 2005, produced largely critical letters from Oxfam, the World Food Programme, United Nations Global Compact, the Chairman of BT Group, an ex-Director of Shell and the UK Institute of Directors.

Stone's legacy — of giving form to the aspirations of the emerging consumer culture and of reconciling Modernism with the dynamism of the age — is established in the critical survey, Edward Durell Stone: Modernism's Populist Architect by Mary Anne Hunting, PhD.

* 2001-The 2dfgrs galaxy redshift survey by an Australian / British team gave strong evidence that the matter density is near 25 % of critical density.

CFOs are increasingly playing a more critical role in shaping their company ’ s strategies today, especially in light of the highly uncertain macroeconomic environments, where managing financial volatilities is becoming a centerpiece for many company ’ s strategies, based on a survey held by Clariden Global .. CFOs are increasingly being relied upon as the owners of business information, reporting and financial data within organizations and assisting in decision support operations to enable the company to operate more effectively and efficiently.

For Frye, this kind of coherent, critical integrity involves claiming a body of knowledge for criticism that, while independent of literature, is yet constrained by it: " If criticism exists ," he declares, " it must be an examination of literature in terms of a conceptual framework derivable from an inductive survey of the literary field " itself ( Anatomy 7 ).

* from 1950 to 1960 he wrote the annual critical and bibliographical survey of Canadian poetry for Letters in Canada, University of Toronto Quarterly

In an extensive survey, Darling and colleagues claim support for the existence of ejaculation, while in a sharply critical response, Alzate states that direct experimentation fails to provide any evidence.

As part of the effort to secure this critical legacy of linguistic diversity, the Long Now Foundation plans a broad online survey and near-permanent physical archive of 1, 500 of the approximately 7, 000 human languages.

* John van Antwerp Fine, The Late Medieval Balkans: A critical survey from the late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman conquest, University of Michigan Press, 704 pages, ( 1994 ), ISBN 978-0-472-08260-5

* Introduction to Ethics, including a critical survey of moral systems ( Volume 1 )

Syntactic relations: A critical survey.

* Theories of Macrocosms and Microcosms in the History of Philosophy, G. P. Conger, NY, 1922, which includes a survey of critical discussions up to 1922.

Adequate questionnaire construction is critical to the success of a survey.

A sampling includes: medicine ( humoral immunity, sleep monitoring, radiation dosimetry ), physiology ( spatial orientation / performance changes during long duration flight ), epidemiology ( microbial surface sampling ), metallurgy ( determination of metal diffusion coefficients ), oceanography / geology / limnology / physical science ( photographic survey ( over 10, 000 photos ) of the planet ), space science ( flame propagation ), microgravity science ( behavior of fluids, critical angle determination ).

The task of analysing the historic and aesthetic relations of this type of ancient buildings led him further to undertake a historical and critical comparative survey of the whole subject of architecture in The Handbook of Architecture, a work which first appeared in 1855.

John O. Lyons, in an addendum to his 1962 survey " The College Novel in America: 1962-1974 " ( Critique, 1974 ), saw a tendency toward pranks and put-ons in Irving's early work ( a critical analysis Irving then dismissed as " nonsense " but now admits may have some merit ):

At the time, this was widely perceived as the most comprehensive and sophisticated critical survey of the entire science fiction field ever attempted.

The closest phrasing is found in his 1968 publication Man ’ s origin, man ’ s destiny: a critical survey of the principles of evolution and Christianity, which with its argument that the mammary glands in whales could not have arisen by chance mutations.

The LambdaCDM model then became the standard following the observations of accelerating expansion in 1998, and was quickly supported by other observations: in 2000, the BOOMERanG microwave background experiment measured the total ( matter + energy ) density to be close to 100 % of critical, while in 2001 the 2dfGRS galaxy survey measured the matter density to be near 25 %; the large difference between these supports a positive Λ or dark energy.

Her doctorate thesis " Development of the Urdu Novel and Short Story " was a critical survey of Urdu literature.

Among the loudest of those who insist the magazine is no longer funny are supporters of Harvey Kurtzman, who had the good critical fortune to leave Mad after just 28 issues, before his own formulaic tendencies might have become obtrusive.

It was such a commercial debacle and critical failure that Mad successfully arranged for all references to the magazine ( including a cameo by Alfred E. Neuman ) to be removed from future TV and video releases of the film, although those references were eventually restored on the DVD version.

The magazine reached its height of popularity and critical acclaim during the 1970s, when it had a far-reaching effect on American humor.

When it becomes possible for a people to describe as ‘ postmodern ’ the décor of a room, the design of a building, the diegesis of a film, the construction of a record, or a ‘ scratch ’ video, a television commercial, or an arts documentary, or the ‘ intertextual ’ relations between them, the layout of a page in a fashion magazine or critical journal, an anti-teleological tendency within epistemology, the attack on the ‘ metaphysics of presence ’, a general attenuation of feeling, the collective chagrin and morbid projections of a post-War generation of baby boomers confronting disillusioned middle-age, the ‘ predicament ’ of reflexivity, a group of rhetorical tropes, a proliferation of surfaces, a new phase in commodity fetishism, a fascination for images, codes and styles, a process of cultural, political or existential fragmentation and / or crisis, the ‘ de-centring ’ of the subject, an ‘ incredulity towards metanarratives ’, the replacement of unitary power axes by a plurality of power / discourse formations, the ‘ implosion of meaning ’, the collapse of cultural hierarchies, the dread engendered by the threat of nuclear self-destruction, the decline of the university, the functioning and effects of the new miniaturised technologies, broad societal and economic shifts into a ‘ media ’, ‘ consumer ’ or ‘ multinational ’ phase, a sense ( depending on who you read ) of ‘ placelessness ’ or the abandonment of placelessness (‘ critical regionalism ’) or ( even ) a generalised substitution of spatial for temporal coordinates-when it becomes possible to describe all these things as ‘ Postmodern ’ ( or more simply using a current abbreviation as ‘ post ’ or ‘ very post ’) then it ’ s clear we are in the presence of a buzzword.

The Nicaraguan based magazine Revista Envio, which describes its stance as one of " critical support for the Sandinistas ", refers to the report: " The CPDH: Can It Be Trusted?

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted the Rolling Stone's, noting that " critical acclaim and popular consensus has accorded them the title of the “ World ’ s Greatest Rock and Roll Band .” Rolling Stone magazine ranked them 4th on their " 100 Greatest Artists of All Time " list, and their album sales are estimated to have been more than 200 million worldwide.

The critic for Time magazine acknowledged the critical storm around Fleming and Dr. No, but was broadly welcoming of the book, writing that whilst " not all readers will agree that Dr. No ... is magnificent writing, ... pages of it, at least, qualify for Ezra Pound's classic comment on Tropic of Cancer: ' At last, an unprintable book that is readable '.

In April 1999, an article critical of Falun Gong was published in Tianjin Normal University's Youth Reader magazine.

Just over four years later, his first novel, A Man from the North, was published to critical acclaim and he became editor of the magazine.

The title of a Life magazine article in 1964 asked, “ Is He the Worst Artist in the U. S .?” Lichtenstein responded to such claims by offering responses such as the following: " The closer my work is to the original, the more threatening and critical the content.

As a consequence of these lacklustre performers, the satirical British fortnightly magazine Private Eye has been critical of Branson and his companies ( see Private Eye image caption ).

Writing in A. R. Orage's magazine The New Age, the poet and critic F. S. Flint ( a champion of free verse and modern French poetry ) was highly critical of the club and its publications.

* Willa Cather and Georgine Milmine The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science ( 1993 ) began as a famous magazine series 1907 – 08 and critical book in 1909.

He launched yet another magazine, The Enemy ( three issues, 1927 – 29 ), largely written by himself and declaring its belligerent critical stance in its title.

The magazine, and the theoretical and critical works he published between 1926 and 1929, mark his deliberate separation from the avant-garde and his previous associates.

The Man with the Golden Arm earned $ 4, 100, 000 at the North American box office and the critical reception was just as strong, with Variety magazine stating: " Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm is a feature that focuses on addiction to narcotics.

Initially published from 1970 to 1973 by the magazine Pif gadget, it brought him much popular and critical success.

While the majority of news reports echoed these official declarations, there were others which opined that Western critics should " suspend judgment for a time ," and despite its generally critical stance on South Africa's policies, Time magazine wrote that Bophuthatswana had " considerable economic potential " with an expected $ 30 million a year coming from mining revenues.

* Accusations of sexual abuse and false miracles performed by Sathya Sai Baba that resulted in a front page article in the magazine India Today, questions in the British and European parliaments, and critical TV documentaries produced by the BBC and Danish Radio that were aired in the United Kingdom, Canada, Denmark and Australia.

In October 1974, the popular Bungei Shunju magazine wrote a critical article of Tanaka's business practices, which inspired his LDP rivals to open a public inquiry in the Diet.

Barnaby received much critical praise when it first appeared, and it has been reprinted in Barnaby Quarterly ( three issues, 1940s ), by Henry Holt and Company ( two hardcover books, with strips redrawn ), Dover books ( reprinting the first hardcover, 1960s ), Ballantine Books ( six paperbacks, 1980s ) and in Comics Revue magazine.

With the breakthrough of alternative rock in the early 1990s, In on the Kill Taker ; released on June 30, 1993, became the group's first record to enter the Billboard album charts, received critical praise from Spin, TIME magazine and Rolling Stone, sold 180, 000 copies in its first week of release and subsequently became the band's breakthrough album.

The magazine was hugely successful, and many of the writers, such as Hugh B. Cave, who appeared in its pages went onto greater commercial and critical success.

Despite Black Mask's critical and commercial popularity, Shaw was eventually fired from the magazine.