Willard Thorp, in his new book, American Writing In The Twentieth Century, observes, quite validly it seems: `` Certain subjects are conspicuously absent or have been only lightly touched.

She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny.

Russ is the subject of Farah Mendlesohn's book On Joanna Russ and Jeanne Cortiel's Demand My Writing: Joanna Russ, Feminism, Science Fiction.

But after finding that his book On Writing had more useful and observant things to say about the craft than any book since Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, I have gotten over my own snobbery.

In 2008, King's book On Writing was ranked 21st on Entertainment Weekly list of " The New Classics: The 100 Best Reads from 1983 to 2008 ".

Brian Moynahan, in his book God's Messenger: William Tyndale, Thomas More and the Writing of the English Bible, takes a similarly critical view of More, as does the American writer Michael Farris.

Writing of the " artist as prophet " in his book, Concerning the Spiritual In Art, Kandinsky created paintings in the years immediately preceding World War I showing a coming cataclysm which would alter individual and social reality.

Writing in 2000, David Roffe argued that the inquest ( the survey ) and the construction of the book were two distinct exercises ; the latter being completed, if not started, by William II following his assumption of the English throne and quashing of the rebellion that followed and based on, though not consequent on, the findings of the inquest.

Writing in The Times Literary Supplement Philip Stead was more generous to Dr. No, although he thought that Fleming was offering " too opulent a feast " with the book, although he manages to pull this off, where " a less accomplished writer, lacking Mr. Fleming's quick descriptive gift and his powers of making his characters talk with such lucid and natural style, would never have got away with this story.

Christopher Wise in his book Derrida, Africa, and the Middle East ( 2009 ) places Derrida's work in the historical context of his North African origins, an argument first briefly made by Robert J. C. Young in White Mythologies: Writing History and the West ( 1990 ) and extended in his Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction ( 2001 ) where Young surveys the writings of numerous theorists and situates the whole framework of Derrida's thinking in relation to the impact of growing up in the colonial conditions of French Algeria.

" In 1829, he published the first book about his system, Method of Writing Words, Music, and Plain Songs by Means of Dots, for Use by the Blind and Arranged for Them.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King, published in 2000, is a memoir of the prolific author's experiences as a writer, and also serves as a guide book for those who choose to enter the craft.

In the United Kingdom paperback version, a short story by Garret Adams entitled " Jumper " was included at the end of the book, which was the winner of the On Writing competition.

Writing in the Canadian Historical Review, David Stafford called the book " a classic example of a worthwhile investigation marred by polemic and overstatement.

Writing in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher – described by a Fleming biographer, John Pearson, as " throughout an avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man " – was damning in his review, saying that From Russia, with Love was Fleming's " longest and poorest book ".

Writing around 415CE, St. Augustine of Hippo in his book City of God refers to a man " double in his upper, but single in his lower half -- having two heads, two chests, four hands, but one body and two feet like an ordinary man.

Bright's book was followed by a number of others, including John Willis's Art of Stenography in 1602, Edmond Willis's An abbreviation of writing by character in 1618, and Thomas Shelton's Short Writing in 1626 ( later re-issued as Tachygraphy ).

It was popular, and under the two titles of Short Writing and Tachygraphy, Shelton's book ran to more than 20 editions between 1626 and 1710.

" In his book On Writing, Stephen King recounts his experience working for John Gould at the Lisbon Enterprise, a weekly newspaper that Gould published.

In An Apology for Writing So Much upon This Book, the poet compares her book to a child and compares the book / child and author / parent to birds.

Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam ( ISBN 0-15-500115-9 ) is a history book written by Alan I. Marcus in 1998.

Writing for the Spanish journal La Vanguardia, commentator Sergio Vila-Sanjuán described the first volume of Eliade's Autobiography ( covering the years 1907 to 1937 ) as " a great book ", while noting that the other main volume was " more conventional and insincere.

Department of English, where she delivered the Presidential Address on " New Trends in Contemporary Writing.

Classes offered to campers in 2012 were Astronomy, Chemistry, Chinese, Forensic Chemistry, Field Biology and Ecology, Genetics, Humanities, Mathematics, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, Physics, Presidential Politics, Rube Goldbergeneering, and Writing.

Writing in 1910, Peirce admits that " in almost everything I printed before the beginning of this century I more or less mixed up hypothesis and induction " and he traces the confusion of these two types of reasoning to logicians ' too " narrow and formalistic a conception of inference, as necessarily having formulated judgments from its premises.

* Greek Historical Writing, and Apollo: Two Lectures ( 1908 ) with Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff

Fritz Fischer ( March 5, 1908 – December 1, 1999 ) was a German historian best known for his analysis of the causes of World War I. Fischer has been described by The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing as the most important German historian of the 20th century.

Mood-Bridwell Hall, originally a men's dormitory, was completed in 1908 and currently houses classrooms, faculty offices, a computer lab, the Debbie Ellis Writing Center, and an indoor atrium.

ASL grammar was obscured for much of its history by the practice of glossing it rather than transcribing it ( see Writing systems below ), a practice which conveyed little of its grammar apart from word order.

He worked on such films as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ( 1944 ), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes ( 1945 ), and Kitty Foyle ( 1940 ), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay.

He co-wrote the script for Patton ( 1970 ), which won him an Academy Award for Best Writing ( Original Screenplay ).

It won three Academy Awards, including his second for Best Writing ( Adapted Screenplay ) ( with Puzo ), Best Picture and Best Actor ( for Brando ) and a nomination for Best Director and was instrumental in cementing his position as a prominent American film director.

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ), a large four-part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice, violin and ensemble.

* Writing to Vermeer ( 1997 – 99 ) ( libretto by Peter Greenaway ) Opera for 2 children's voices, 2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, female chorus, orchestra ( 7 winds, 2 horns, 2 trumpets + bass trumpet, 2 harps, 2 electric guitars, cimbalom, 2 pianos, on-stage harpsichord, 2 percussion, minimum 22 strings ), CD ( music by Michel van der Aa )

Writing during the reign of the Emperor Domitian ( AD 81 – 96 ), the Roman poet Martial expressed his admiration for Otho's choice to spare the Empire from civil war through sacrificing himself:

Writing in late antiquity, the Latin commentator Servius explains that Prometheus was so named because he was a man of great foresight ( vir prudentissimus ), possessing the abstract quality of providentia, the Latin equivalent of Greek promētheia ().

Writing out the prime numbers in base-six ( and using the subscript 6 to denote that these are senary numbers ), the first few primes are

** 5 Saturn Awards nominations Best International Film, Best Director, Best Writing, Best Supporting Actor ( Craig Warnock ), Best Special Effects

** 4 Academy Awards nominations Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Robin Williams ), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Music, Original Score, Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

** 6 Saturn Awards nominations Best Fantasy Film, Best Director, Best Actor ( Robin Williams ), Best Actor ( Jeff Bridges ), Best Writing, Best Costumes

** 4 Saturn Awards nominations "' Best Director, Best Actor "' ( Bruce Willis ), "' Best Actress "' ( Madeleine Stowe ), "' Best Writing "'

WarGames was nominated for three Academy Awards — Best Cinematography ( William A. Fraker ), Sound ( Michael J. Kohut, Carlos Delarios, Aaron Rochin, Willie D. Burton ), and Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen ( Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes ).

Writing in Rome and Milan in addition to Naples, Donizetti achieved some popular success in the 1820s ( although critics were often unimpressed ), but was not well known internationally until 1830, when his Anna Bolena was premiered in Milan.

* Cioc, Mark, Björn-Ola Linnér, and Matt Osborn, " Environmental History Writing in Northern Europe ," Environmental History, 5 ( 2000 ), pp. 396 – 406

* Bess, Michael, Mark Cioc, and James Sievert, " Environmental History Writing in Southern Europe ," Environmental History, 5 ( 2000 ), pp. 545 – 56 ;