In 2004, Benderson's lengthy erotic memoir Autobiographie érotique, about a nine-month sojourn in Romania, won the prestigious French literary prize, the Prix de Flore.

" The year 2007 also saw the publication in French ( Editions Payot & Rivages ) of a new novel by Benderson called " Pacific Agony ," a caustic satire of life in America's Pacific Northwest, as well as Benderson's personal illustrated encyclopedia of the 60s and 70s, " Concentré de contreculture " ( Editions Scali ), published in French only.

Benderson's book-length essay, Toward the New Degeneracy ( 1997 ), looks at New York ’ s Times Square, where rich and poor once mixed in a lively atmosphere of drugs, sex, and commerce.

These essays, along with " Sexe et Solitude " and " Toward the New Degeneracy ," were printed in America in a nonfiction anthology of Benderson's writings entitled " Sex and Isolation " ( University of Wisconsin Press, 2007 ), which was cited as one of the 10 best university press books of the year by the magazine " Foreword.

Of John's literary output we know only the Κλίμαξ () or Ladder of Divine Ascent, composed at the request of John, Abbot of Raithu, a monastery situated on the shores of the Red Sea, and a shorter work To the Pastor ( Latin: Liber ad Pastorem ), most likely a sort of appendix to the Ladder.

The older style zarzuela fell out of fashion, but popular Spanish tradition continued to manifest itself in shorter works, such as the single-scene tonadilla ( or intermezzo ) of which the finest literary exponent was Ramón de la Cruz.

The scholar David Havird describes the rest of Tate's publication history in poetry as follows: By 1937, when he published his first Selected Poems, Tate had written all of the shorter poems upon which his literary reputation came to rest.

The distinction between a novelette and other literary forms is usually based upon word count, with a novelette being longer than a short story, but shorter than a novella.

) is a literary technique that sometimes serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, whereby an introductory or main narrative is presented, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories.

As an alternative to this more literary approach for these two grades, entirely new texts were published with shorter, simpler readings with the titles of Parades and More Parades for the seventh grade and Panoramas and More Panoramas for the eighth grade.

Wells reprised his Outline in 1922 with a much shorter popular work, A Short History of the World, and two long efforts, The Science of Life ( 1930 ) and The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind ( 1931 ).

In order to equalize the efforts in order to not burn some riders off too early, the weaker riders take shorter pulls and stronger riders take longer pulls, all at the same speed to minimize the change in pace.

While humans and other organisms generally place less value on future costs / benefits as compared to those in the present, some have shorter time horizons than others and these people tend to be less cooperative.

They usually have long hind limbs that fold underneath them, shorter forelimbs, webbed toes with no claws, no tails, large eyes and glandular moist skin.

Whereas the United States enjoys a long season that generally runs from March to November, other areas often have much shorter seasons.

Southern Interior valleys have shorter winters with brief bouts of cold.

They have six stamens, four of which are longer ( as long as the petals, so relatively short in fact ) and are arranged in a cross like the petals and the other two are shorter ( tetradynamous flower ).

They have fewer teeth and shorter skulls, with much more specialized carnassials meant for shearing meat.

The use of data coding for data compression predates the computer era ; an early example is the telegraph Morse code where more-frequently used characters have shorter representations.

Two airports are more than 3, 047 meters in length, nine are 2, 438 – 3, 047 meters, 39 are 1, 524 – 2, 437 meters, 38 are 914 – 1, 523 meters, 12 are shorter than 914 meters, and 880 have unpaved runways.

Road bikes tend to have a more upright shape and a shorter wheelbase, which make the bike more mobile but harder to ride slowly.

Urban populations of coyotes have been known to actively hunt cats, and to leap shorter fences to take small dogs.

With the exception of sighthounds, most dogs of similar weight to coyotes have a slightly shorter stride.

North American wolves are generally the same size as European wolves, but have shorter legs, larger, rounder heads, broader, more obtuse muzzles, and a sensible depression at the union of nose and forehead, which is more arched and broad.

Their ears are shorter and have a more conical form.

They have long and comparatively fine fur, mixed with a shorter wooly hair, and are more robust.

As the scope of the CHOGM has expanded beyond the meetings of the heads of governments themselves, the CHOGMs have become progressively shorter, and their business more compacted into less time.

Many of the existence proofs and some of the uniqueness proofs for the sporadic groups originally used computer calculations, most of which have since been replaced by shorter hand proofs.

In practice, some domain registries may have shorter limits.

In rare instances, such as Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock, John Cassavetes's The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Blake Edwards ' Darling Lili, scenes have been deleted instead of added, creating a shorter, more compact cut.

Lower frequencies have longer wavelengths, and higher frequencies have shorter wavelengths, and are associated with photons of higher energy.

All the remaining radioactive isotopes have half-lives shorter than 4. 7612 years, and the majority of these have half-lives shorter than 12. 2 seconds.

An electron microscope ( EM ) has greater resolving power than a light-powered optical microscope because electrons have wavelengths about 100, 000 times shorter than visible light ( photons ).

The sense of perspective has been created by designing the length of the columns so that those at the far end of the colonnade are much shorter than those in front.

Like the Finnsburg Fragment and several shorter surviving poems, Beowulf has consequently been used as a source of information about Scandinavian personalities such as Eadgils and Hygelac, and about continental Germanic personalities such as Offa, king of the continental Angles.

In the decades following World War I, the standard battle rifle used by armies around the world had been growing shorter, either by redesign or by the general issue of carbine versions instead of full-length rifles.

Inspection of the formulae above shows that the ( ideally constant ) unit of ephemeris time such as the ephemeris second has been for the whole of the twentieth century very slightly shorter than the corresponding ( but not precisely constant ) unit of mean solar time ( which besides its irregular fluctuations tends gradually to increase ), consistently also with the modern results of Morrison and Stephenson ( see article ΔT ).

Several shorter films have been produced since.

Wells has argued against the authenticity of the Testimonium, stating that the passage is noticeably shorter and more cursory than such notices generally used by Josephus in the Antiquities, and that had it been authentic, it would have included more details and a longer introduction.

Research by the legal historian Professor R. Probert of Warwick University has since shown that the actual history of the broomstick wedding, at least in the United Kingdom, has a much shorter history than has been claimed.

By early 1894 a total of 11 fascicles had been published, or about one per year: four for A – B, five for C, and two for E. Of these, eight were 352 pages long, while the last one in each group was shorter to end at the letter break ( which would eventually become a volume break ).

The name reflects the rule that in the match each team bowls a set maximum number of overs, usually between 20 and 50, although shorter and longer forms of limited overs cricket have been played.

One of the evolutionary paths of lithography has been the use of shorter wavelengths.

In the 16 U. S. recessions since 1919, the average length has been 13 months, although the recent recessions have been shorter.

A much shorter RNA molecule has been synthesized in the laboratory with the ability to form peptide bonds, and it has been suggested that rRNA has evolved from a similar molecule.

Fluency shaping approaches are often taught in intensive group therapy programs, which may take two to three weeks to complete, but more recently the Camperdown program, using a much shorter schedule, has been shown to be effective.

The source of Wordsworth's philosophical allegiances as articulated in The Prelude and in such shorter works as " Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey " has been the source of much critical debate.

There has been questioning about people who cohabit living a shorter life because their partner is not going to remind them about doctor's appointments or speak up about unhealthy behaviors or risks.

It is normally required to be present for at least 6 months to be diagnosed ; cognitive dysfunction that has been seen only over shorter times, in particular less than weeks, must be termed delirium.

From a very early date, British coins have been inscribed with the name of the ruler of the kingdom in which they were produced, and a longer or shorter title, always in Latin ; among the earliest distinctive English coins are the silver pennies of Offa of Mercia, which were inscribed with the legend " King Offa ".

This distance, which is slightly shorter than the typically assumed distance of 50 kpc, has been confirmed by other authors.

In addition, since the Tenth Edition of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, a shorter reference guide, Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised In Brief, has been published to coincide with the main edition.

In the new law, the age of 18 ( solar year ) would be for both genders considered and juvenile offenders will be sentenced on a separate law than of adults .” Based on the Islamic law which now seems to have been revised, girls at the age of 9 and boys at 15 of lunar year ( 11 days shorter than a solar year ) were fully responsible for their crimes.