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book and won
His book The World of Pooh won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958.
England won it against the odds, and Plum Warner, the England captain, wrote up his version of the tour in his book How We Recovered The Ashes.
The show won several Tony Awards: best musical, best actor, best supporting actor ( Burns ), best book, and best director.
The book itself won the 1997 British Book of the Year award.
His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.
* Philip K. Dick's novel The Man in the High Castle features a ( banned ) fictional work called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, which purports to describe how things might have transpired after World War II if the Allied side had won ( in the reality of the book, the Axis powers triumphed ).
The form book was rewritten in 1988 with the entry of the ambitious Reynard marque with a brand new chassis ; Reynard had won their first race in every formula they'd entered.
Agricola's dialogue Bermannus, sive de re metallica dialogus or a dialogue on metallurgy, ( 1530 ) the first attempt to reduce to scientific order the knowledge won by practical work, brought Agricola into notice ; it contained an approving letter from Erasmus at the beginning of the book.
The second Moroccan book came out last year and just won the James Beard Best International Cookbook of 2011.
The book won the following awards:
Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards, six for lyrics or book, and two as producer of the Best Musical ( South Pacific and The Sound of Music ).
Robert Nozick's 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia, which won a National Book Award, responded to Rawls from a libertarian perspective and gained academic respectability for libertarian viewpoints.
The first book in the series, Taliesin, won the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association's Gold Medallion Award for Fiction in 1988.
In 2008, the second book in the trilogy, Scarlet, won a Christy Award in the category of Visionary Fiction.
Like Ender's Game, the book won the Nebula Award in 1986 and the Hugo Award in 1987.
Edward J. Larson, a historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, notes: " Like so many archetypal American events, the trial itself began as a publicity stunt.
ME Games Ltd ( formerly Middle-earth Play-by-Mail ), which has won several Origin Awards, uses the Battle of Five Armies as an introductory scenario to the full game and includes characters and armies from the book.
The first edition of The Mismeasure of Man won the non-fiction award from the National Book Critics Circle ; the Outstanding Book Award for 1983 from the American Educational Research Association ; the Italian translation was awarded the Iglesias prize in 1991 ; and in 1998, the Modern Library ranked it as the 24th-best non-fiction book of all time.
The bid was won by John Fleming, a Manhattan book dealer.
The book won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1974, won both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1975, and received a nomination for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1975.
Its book won a Tony Award.
In 1925, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her book So Big, which was made into a silent film starring Colleen Moore that same year.
A year later she won first prize in the same competition with the children's book Pippi Långstrump ( Pippi Longstocking ), which has since become one of the most beloved children's books in the world.
Donwood and Yorke won a Grammy in 2002 for a special edition of Amnesiac packaged as a library book.

book and praise
Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.
The book of Habbakuk consists of five oracles about the Chaldeans ( Babylonians ) and a song of praise to God.
Wallace continued in praise: " Only Kafka's fragments get anywhere close to where Kosiński goes in this book, which is better than everything else he ever did combined.
Giorgio Vasari's opinions about the art of painting come through in his praise of fellow artists in the great book that lay behind this frontispiece: he believed that excellence in painting demanded refinement, richness of invention ( invenzione ), expressed through virtuoso technique ( maniera ), and wit and study that appeared in the finished work, all criteria that emphasized the artist's intellect and the patron's sensibility.
Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.
The book was financially profitable for Gosse, and " the reviews were full of praise " even though Gosse used natural science to point to the necessity of salvation through the blood of Christ.
He also contributed to evolutionary developmental biology, and has received wide praise for his book Ontogeny and Phylogeny.
After the book received unexpectedly good reviews and praise from President Reagan, the book became a bestseller.
Lavater later described Mendelssohn in his book on physiognomy, " Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe " ( 1775 – 1778 ), as " a companionable, brilliant soul, with piercing eyes, the body of an Aesop — a man of keen insight, exquisite taste and wide erudition [...] frank and open-hearted "— ending his public praise with the wish of Mendelssohn recognizing, " together with Plato and Moses ... the crucified glory of Christ ".
Dow included Latin distichs and quotations in praise of Byrd in his manuscript collection of music ( GB Och 984-8 ) while Baldwin included a long doggerel poem in his commonplace book ( GB Lbm Roy App 24 d 2 ) ranking Byrd at the head of the musicians of his day:
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 ".
In 2010, the company HarperCollins brought out a special 50th anniversary issue of the book, containing a new preface by Garner and praise from various other figures involved in children's literature, while 2011 saw BBC Radio 4 produce a radio adaptation.
" Proceeding with his praise for the book, he commented on " Garner's assured, poetic command of English ", with a writing style that is " more fleshy, more prolix than the pared-down economy of Garner's later style ".
Upon publication, Uncle Tom's Cabin ignited a firestorm of protest from defenders of slavery ( who created a number of books in response to the novel ) while the book elicited praise from abolitionists.
" The section of the book to have received the most praise throughout its critical history has been " Anna Livia Plurabelle " ( Book I, chapter 8 ), which Parrinder describes as being " widely recognized as one of the most beautiful prose-poems in English.
The book received widespread praise from contemporary critics.
The book had been intended in part as a satire, a tract against child labour, as well as a serious critique of the closed-minded approaches of many scientists of the day in their response to Charles Darwin's ideas on evolution, which Kingsley had been one of the first to praise.
Despite this lack of promotion, many critics did praise the book, and a large number of them seemed most affected by the character of Hurstwood, such as the New Haven Journal Courier, which proclaimed, “ One of the most affecting passages is where Hurstwood falls, ruined, disgraced ”.
" Responses to Part II, as the book transformed from reportage into a mix of politics, polemics, and selective autobiography, were more varied, ranging from praise to anger and indignation.
Arthur Calder-Marshall ’ s March 20, 1937 review in Time and Tide celebrates Orwell ’ s achievement, and can be summarized by its first line: “ Of Mr Orwell ’ s book, there is little to say except praise .”
In the book he expressed some frustration with the Flying Squad although he mostly had praise for individual officers.
The book Poem of the Man God received praise from Pope Pius XII's confessor ( Augustin Bea ), and was presented to Pius XII during a special audience in 1948 in which he reportedly approved it, and the Servite priests present signed an affidavit to that effect.
Roethke's breakthrough book, The Lost Son, also won him considerable praise.
In addition to the well-known greenhouse poems, the Poetry Foundation notes that Roethke also won praise " for his love poems which first appeared in The Waking and earned their own section in the new book ' were a distinct departure from the painful excavations of the monologues and in some respects a return to the strict stanzaic forms of the earliest work ,' to the poet Stanley Kunitz.

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