The book served as Confucianism's seminal textbook for Chinese women for two millennia, but cementing the " cult of chastity " as an exemplar of Chinese superiority also condemned many widows to lives of " poverty and loneliness.

Particularly important for establishing him in the field was his seminal book Language ( 1921 ), which was a layman's introduction to the discipline of linguistics as Sapir envisioned it.

" We'd be oversimplifying things in calling film noir oneiric, strange, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel ": this set of attributes constitutes the first of many attempts to define film noir made by French critics Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton in their 1955 book Panorama du film noir américain 1941 – 1953 ( A Panorama of American Film Noir ), the original and seminal extended treatment of the subject.

Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. ( born April 19, 1931 ) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System / 360 family of computers and the OS / 360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month.

" as a test message was influenced by an example program in the seminal book The C Programming Language.

Together they wrote an influential 1995 book The Major Transitions in Evolution, a seminal work which continues to contribute to ongoing issues in evolutionary biology.

Literate Programming by Donald Knuth is the seminal book on literate programming

This is notable because the book, consisting of a seminal essay called " On Fairy-Stories " and " Leaf by Niggle ," offers the underlying philosophy ( Creation and Sub-Creation, see below ) of much of Tolkien's fantastical writings.

Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell attempted to complete, or at least greatly facilitate, this program with their seminal book Principia Mathematica, which purported to build a logically consistent set theory on which to found mathematics.

In 1956, he edited an important book on the subject, La grève de l ' amiante, which argued that the strike was a seminal event in Quebec's history, marking the beginning of resistance to the conservative, Francophone clerical establishment and Anglophone business class that had long ruled the province.

Jung's seminal 1921 book on the subject is available in English as Psychological Types.

The sociologist Durkheim, in his seminal book The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, defined religion as a " unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things ".

Her seminal book The Psycho-Analysis of Children, based on lectures given to the British Psychoanalytic Society in the 1920s, was published in 1932.

In his seminal book The Theatre and Its Double ( 1938 ), Artaud described theatre as " la réalité virtuelle ", a virtual reality in which, in Erik Davis's words, " characters, objects, and images take on the phantasmagoric force of alchemy's visionary internal dramas ".

In the " Definitions " chapter of Jung's seminal work Psychological Types, under the definition of " collective " Jung references representations collectives, a term coined by Lucien Lévy-Bruhl in his 1910 book How Natives Think.

The prize " recognizes an outstanding research book that makes a seminal contribution to the research literature ".

One seminal book on the process of working together from a distance is Virtual Teams by Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps.

* Thinking Forth Project includes the seminal ( but out of print ) book Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie published in 1984.

Luten has said that although the book is often seen as a seminal work in the field, the Population Bomb is actually best understood as " climaxing and in a sense terminating the debate of the 1950s and 1960s .” Ehrlich has said that he traced his own Malthusian beliefs to a lecture he heard Vogt give when he was attending university in the early 1950s.

Turner eventually received praise in a seminal Atlantic Monthly article in 1861 by Thomas Higginson, who called him a man " who knew no book but the Bible, and that by heart -- who devoted himself soul and body to the cause of his race ".

* The work of the scholar of political communication Murray Edelman ( 1919 – 2001 ), starting with his seminal book The Symbolic Uses of Politics ( 1964 ), continuing with Politics as symbolic action: mass arousal and quiescience ( 1971 ), Political Language: Words that succeed and policies that fail ( 1977 ), Constructing the Political Spectacle ( 1988 ) and ending with his last book The Politics of Misinformation ( 2001 ) can be viewed as an exploration of the deliberate manipulation and obfuscation of the map-territory distinction for political purposes.

This doomed poet's Les Chants de Maldoror became the seminal work for the Parisian Surrealists of Modigliani's generation, and the book became Modigliani's favourite to the extent that he learnt it by heart.

In his seminal book Peasants into Frenchmen: the Modernization of Rural France, 1880 – 1914 ( 1976 ), historian Eugen Weber traced the modernization of French villages and argued that rural France went from backward and isolated to modern and possessing a sense of French nationhood during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The most powerful effect of this particular Name of God stems from the Jewish mystical book the Zohar, the seminal document of Kabbalah that emerged in 13th century Spain.

Claude E. Shannon first used the word bit in his seminal 1948 paper A Mathematical Theory of Communication.

Product ciphers were suggested and analyzed by Claude Shannon in his seminal 1949 publication Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems as a means to effectively improve security by combining simple operations such as substitutions and permutations.

Information theory is generally considered to have been founded in 1948 by Claude Shannon in his seminal work, " A Mathematical Theory of Communication ".

His seminal paper, The Complexity of Theorem Proving Procedures, presented at the 1971 ACM SIGACT Symposium on the Theory of Computing, laid the foundations for the theory of NP-Completeness.

Theory behind DSL, like many other forms of communication, can be traced back to Claude Shannon's seminal 1948 paper: A Mathematical Theory of Communication.

For sound waves, Lord Rayleigh published a full mathematical analysis of propagation modes in his seminal work, “ The Theory of Sound ”.

Draper's most enduring legacy is likely to be his five-volume magnum opus Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution ( Monthly Review Press, 1977-1990 ), a seminal re-evaluation of the whole of Marx's political theory, based on an exhaustive survey of the writings of both Marx and Engels.

* 1976 – Polish mathematical physicist Roman Stanisław Ingarden publishes a seminal paper entitled " Quantum Information Theory " in Reports on Mathematical Physics, vol.

The paper " Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk " has been called a " seminal paper in behavioral economics ".

Tenney wrote the seminal Meta (+) Hodos ( one of, if not the, earliest applications of gestalt theory and cognitive science to music ), the later Hierarchical temporal gestalt perception in music: a metric space model with Larry Polansky, John Cage and the Theory of Harmony ( 1983, the fullest exposition of his theories of harmonic space ), and other works.

A fundamental link among these fields was proposed by Edwin Jaynes in two seminal 1957 papers .< ref > Jaynes, E. T., 1957, " Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics ," Phys.

He explained the concept in the important essay " Art as Technique " ( also translated as " Art as Device ") which comprised the first chapter of his seminal Theory of Prose, first published in 1925.

Biederman, a proponent of the " Broken Windows Theory " expounded by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling in a seminal 1982 article in Atlantic Monthly, instituted a rigorous program to clean the park, remove graffiti and repair the broken physical plant.

Stix performed seminal work in plasma physics, and wrote the first mathematical treatment of the field in 1962's The Theory of Plasma Waves.

His most important contributions are presented in the seminal book Boundary Layer Theory by Hermann Schlichting.

In 1926 he published a seminal paper, An Aerodynamic Theory of Turbine Design.

Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life () is a 1951 book by Theodor W. Adorno and a seminal text in Critical Theory.

As noted in a seminal publication by Leblond, " the reappearance at each cycle of a new dormant cell which acts as the stem cell of spermatocytes is described as the ' Stem Cell Renewal Theory '".

His attempts to explore the nature of the self and the potential for the individual, particularly in his seminal work Naibu seimei ron (" Theory of Inner Life "), are regarded by some as the starting point of modern Japanese literature.