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| | Victorian Biography and The Biographer’s Tale |
 | | The Biographer’s Tale is perhaps a consequence of the fact that he is himself a biographer and thus his life’s work comprised of compiling the lives of others. | | | The Biographer’s Tale, it is necessary to consider the position of biography in the Nineteenth century and the recent challenges that critical theory has posed to it. | | | The Biographer’s Tale engages with the post-structuralist notions of presence and absence in the connection it establishes between biography and death. |
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http://www.strath.ac.uk/ecloga/Hadley.htm
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| | Flak Magazine: Review of The Biographer's Tale, 3.1.01 |
| | "The Biographer's Tale" is less a story about Phineas and Destry-Scholes than it is about the very broad theme of the nature of truth as revealed (or hidden) by the creators of writings and images that are then interpreted by theorists, academics, writers and artists. | | | "The Biographer's Tale," an echoing, funhouse-like book crammed with big themes and obscure references, is not likely to dispel her academic reputation. | | | Even with such a weighty theme, "The Biographer's Tale" is not a dull read. |
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http://www.flakmag.com/books/biograph.html
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| | Books Mischief maker |
| | Alex Clark is romanced by AS Byatt's postmodern fairy tale, The Biographer's Tale | | | Possession was a particularly elaborate pastiche, and The Biographer's Tale, despite its comparative brevity, is hardly less cunningly contrived or skilfully executed. | | | But her exceptionally subtle understanding of these matters, combined with her densely patterned, beautifully weighted prose, make her a romancer we should be loath to do without. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4024896-99930,00.html
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| | Yale Review of Books: The Biographer's Tale |
| | Byatt is clearly an erudite and well-read author, but her book brims with an intellectualism that, at times, drowns her story. | | | At the start of The Biographer's Tale, Phineas is looking out the dirty window of his graduate school literature seminar. | | | Yet, the many small pleasures of The Biographer's Tale--often obscure details that Byatt culls from history and science books--never make up for an irritating, embarrassing flaw: Byatt has picked a worn theme and relentlessly hammered it home. |
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http://www.yale.edu/yrb/summer01/review08.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Biographer's Tale |
| | In its complexity, The Biographer's Tale is an investigation into contemporary intellectual currents and their relation to the philosophical and natural truths of nineteenth century thought. | | | The Biographer's Tale is about how a would-be biographer goes in pursuit of his subject, and inadvertently finds himself along the way. | | | As Phineas discovers, "There are very few human truths and infinite variations on them...Reading and writing extend--not infinitely, but violently, gut giddily--the variations we can perceive on the truths we discover." --Rachel Holmes --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/009928393X
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| | Bookreporter.com - THE BIOGRAPHER'S TALE by A.S. Byatt |
| | The man behind the man, the biographer behind the biography, is a distinctly significant choice for him. | | | Even though A.S. Byatt has made a fine literary career setting up stories about the men and women who choose a life of the mind over a life of physical pleasures, it is difficult to digest all the intricacies of the gray matters chronicled here. | | | In the end, I found THE BIOGRAPHER'S TALE an intricately woven tale. |
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http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews/0375411143.asp
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| | Amazon.com: Books: The Biographer's Tale |
| | The Biographer's Tale is rather about the present day of norms, attitudes, and what is considered permissible and what is not. | | | A.S. Byatt is the master of fiction that focuses on art and literature, like the "Matisse Stories" or "Possession." But in "Biographer's Tale" she misfires by hammering square pegs into round holes, despite a solidly engaging idea and some likable characters. | | | His research quickly leapfrogs beyond the biographer to his other subjects: scientist Carl Linnaeus, playwright Henrik Ibsen, and eugenicist Francis Galton, all of whom Destry-Scholes chronicled in three unpublished, unfinished, and, as it turns out, well-embroidered accounts. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375411143?v=glance
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| | MetroActive Books A.S. Byatt |
| | For the first time in her oeuvre, this academic self-consciousness (which is delightfully diffused throughout the romance and intrigue in her bestselling novel Possession) has become a form of paranoia in The Biographer's Tale. | | | THERE IS a tale longing to be told in A.S. Byatt's new novel, The Biographer's Tale (Knopf, cloth, $24). | | | When Phineas lights upon a project--a biography of another enigmatic biographer--he (and Byatt) appear to be on the path to stability, reality and an interesting plot line. |
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http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/03.14.01/byatt-0111.html
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| | e.Peak (7/1/2002) arts: books: Details, details, details! |
| | Byatt's latest, The Biographer's Tale is much of the same. | | | If you liked Possession you'll like The Biographer's Tale, for it is basically a pared-down version of its predecessor. | | | The story follows a disaffected grad student named Phineas - a tribute to John Knowles' A Separate Peace or perhaps a reference to Greek mythology - who decides to track down the mysterious history of a literary figure named Scholes Destry-Scholes who apparently disappeared in the infamous maelstrom while researching a new book. |
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http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/2002-1/issue1/ar-biographer.html
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| | Salon.com Books "The Biographer's Tale" by A.S. Byatt |
| | Phineas' advisor persuades him to become the biographer's biographer, and Byatt's tale is set in motion. | | | "The Biographer's Tale" is as inventive, playful, brainy and wonderfully written as "Possession," perhaps even more so, but it's a bit like a plain, sardonic younger sister overshadowed by her sunny, beautiful older sibling; it's less charming, but more honest, and in its own way just as good company. | | | So perhaps it's fitting that "The Biographer's Tale" is about giving up not just literary criticism but literature itself; it's Byatt's most heartfelt paean to the natural sciences. |
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http://archive.salon.com/books/review/2001/01/11/byatt
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| | Fictitious biography about fictitious biography, A.S. Byatt and Anselm Atkins |
| | And we're continuously reminded of the fragmentary nature of history and the sparse and incomplete information on the basis of which biographers base their works -- the contrast between a life as lived and a life as retold by others, perhaps hundreds of years later, based on random clues that survived by chance. | | | Like Byatt's work, this book calls to mind Borges, Saramago, Nabokov (as lepidopterist, as author of Pnin, and as commentator of Pushkin's Onegin), and Douglas Hofstadter (whose monumental Godel, Escher, Bach is alluded to as if the author of this novel had actually written that work under a pseudonym). | | | I'm reminded of her earlier book, Possession: A Romance, in which we get a double story through the research of current literary scholars into the work of a Victorian writer. |
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| | Fictionwise eBooks: Biographer's Tale by A. S. Byatt |
| | Along the way he comes to rely on two women, one of whom may be the guide he needs out of the dizzying labyrinth of his research and back into his own life. | | | A tantalizing yarn of detection and desire, The Biographer's Tale is a provocative look at "truth" in biography and our perennial quest for certainty. | | | [The Biographer's Tale] is all written in Victorian narrative style, and it's all fascinating.... |
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http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook3364.htm
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| | The Biographer's Tale - A.S.Byatt |
| | Sir Elmer Bole is presented as a Richard Burton-like figure (the real, 19th century Richard Burton, not his modern actor namesake): a polyglot adventurer who travelled to the far reaches of the world, translated various pieces of exotic literature, and led a most unusual life. | | | Byatt presents these three accounts in full, odd little documents in which the subjects are identified only by their initials (CL, FG, and HI), though their identities are fairly easy to determine (as Nanson is quickly able to do). | | | Nanson turns to one of the heads of the department, Ormerod Goode (a taxonomist of place-names), and Goode has just the thing for a young man who isn't quite sure what to do next. |
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http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/byattas/bstale.htm
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| | Books Just get a life... |
| | But he can't find out anything about him, except that he is a magical story-teller and is supposed to have drowned in the Maelstrom off Norway. | | | His changed life, with his two loves, his travels and new interest in nature, begins rather to resemble that of - Elmer Bole. | | | But I found the book's playfulness laborious, its knowing erudition airless and its characters whimsical and unappetising. |
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| | Interview with: Donald Spoto - Biographer / Historian |
| | "Good biographers understand the necessity to give a human context to the mere facts of a person's life. | | | Since the late 1970s, it's been an interesting ride for the academician who brings his scholarship, tenacity, and dedication to each book project which, to date, have included such subjects as Marlene Dietrich, Tennessee Williams, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and many other stellar personalities. | | | Biographer and historian Donald Spoto believes the goal of the biographer is first and foremost to tell the truth. |
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| | BookPage Fiction Review: The Biographer's Tale |
| | Though Phineas often protests (too much): "I am not interested in myself," The Biographer's Tale ends up being wholly about him while simultaneously focusing on others in his life and research. | | | "We are held together by threads of dependence," writes A. Byatt's protagonist, Phineas G. Nanson, in her new novel The Biographer's Tale. | | | This idea, as it applies to the characters' interlaced lives, underscores both the structure and narrative trajectory of Byatt's spiraling plot. |
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http://www.bookpage.com/allencolibrary/0102bp/fiction/the_biographers_tale.html
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| | FindLaw's Writ - Cassel: Clarence Thomas Remains an Enigma |
| | According to his biographer, though, Aunt Maggie should be credited with laying the foundation for Clarence's love of learning. | | | According to the author, these refusals may be part of a deliberate strategy designed to avoid "dilution" of Thomas's "star power." After all, the rareness of Thomas appearances guarantees that the Justice garners more press attention when he does appear. | | | Unfortunately, biographer Peyton Thomas - perhaps due to his lack of access to Justice Thomas himself, and unwillingness to speculate - does not attempt to answer these questions. |
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http://writ.news.findlaw.com/books/reviews/20011214_cassel.html
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| | Interview with Bush Biographer J.H. Hatfield Who Died |
| | It’s just like having a regular job you don’t wanna go to work hating your job, you gotta like what you’re doing and I thought that would be a good book to work on and I also wanted to let the American people know a little bit about him. | | | Nobody knew anything about him except that he was very popular in Texas. | | | My in-laws are all from Texas, I go down there a lot and of course I used to live in Texas and a couple of places and he fascinated me from a biographer’s point of view, as a subject he was a fascinating person because of his history and who his father was. |
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http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/8-12-03/discussion.cgi.20.html
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| | [Becoming Palestinian:] A Good Career Move - article by Daniel Pipes |
| | But in fact, as two intrepid French biographers, Christophe Boltanski and Jihan El-Tahri revealed a few years, ago (in their 1997 book, Les sept vies de Yasser Arafat), "Mr. | | | How is it that three men raised in Egypt decided at various points in the twentieth century - the 1920s, 1950s, 1970s - to become Palestinians? | | | Like Said, Arafat presents himself as a victim of Zionism - someone who lost his wordly belongings and his place in the world due to Israel's coming into existence. |
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| | bookideas.com: The Biographer's Tale by A S Byatt |
| | Search Amazon for other books by or about A S Byatt. | | | bookideas.com: The Biographer's Tale by A S Byatt | | | Phineas was a post-graduate studying postmodern literary theory when he decided he would rather deal with 'real things'. |
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http://www.bookideas.com/reviews/index.cfm?fuseaction=displayReview&id=782
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| | Mark Bego, Star Biographer |
| | Mark Bego is the author of several best-selling books on rock and roll and show business. | | | Mark is now an Amazon.com Associate and has opened his own store right here online! | | | With 36 books published and over 10 million books in print, he is acknowledged as the best-selling biographer in the rock and pop music field. |
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| | washingtonpost.com: The Places Beyond A Biographer's Reach |
| | Along with his private thoughts, I knew there was material out of reach to contemporary historians, including leatherbound diaries that he kept for several years and filled front to back, as well as periodic oral interviews he conducted in the White House with his friend Taylor Branch, a first-class historian. | | | As a Clinton biographer, my essential question was whether his 957-page chronicle would provide a road map into his interior life, to the places I could not reach during the three years I researched my book on him. | | | What people do, where they go, whom they see, what they say, what they create, how they are shaped by the world around them and how they reshape that world -- all these parts of a life are known or can be known. |
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| | ABC News: Biographer says China missed chance to debunk Mao |
| | Chinese-born Chang, who wrote "Mao, the Unknown Story" with her English husband Jon Halliday, condemns Mao as a mass murderer and an egomaniac with a lust for power who caused incalculable damage to China. | | | The biography, published in English this year by Jonathan Cape, is banned in China. | | | China missed its chance to overturn the legacy of Communist leader Mao Zedong following his death 30 years ago and turn the country into a democratic and economic giant, his iconoclastic biographer Jung Chang said. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jean-Pierre Niceron |
| | His aim was to put together, in a logically arranged compendium, a series of biographical and bibliographical articles on the men who had distinguished themselves in literature and sciences since the time of the Renaissance. | | | In 1716 he went to Paris and devoted his time to literary work. | | | It required long research as well as great industry. |
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| | Reagan Biographer's Technique Raises Questions |
| | But that bold opinion has not stilled questions about whether readers can trust what they read in "Dutch" and whether this high-profile book from a publishing giant is lowering factual standards for biographies by authors striving for more entertaining books. | | | And Random House gave a generous advance to Morris because it was impressed by his subject and his access to the president, his papers, his friends and aides. | | | He had won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize for his first biography, "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt." He had been selected by the president and his advisers in 1985 to be Reagan's official biographer on the strength of his previous work. |
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| | Booklist--Byatt, A. S. The Biographer's Tale. |
| | Byatt, a Booker Prize—winning novelist with a love for fantasy as well as philosophy, is also a scholar and a critic, and she slyly explores the interface between the imagined and the factual, the felt and the reasoned, in this merrily satiric tale about a hesitant young man in search of a fuller life. | | | He devotes many hours to studying Destry-Scholes’ inconclusive notes about three unidentified gentlemen, who gradually come into focus as the Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus, the English scientist Sir Francis Galton, and the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, a trio Byatt uses brilliantly in an intriguing metaphysical inquiry into our mania for naming, categorizing, and ordering. | | | Bored with his postmodern literary-criticism courses, the physically diminutive Phineas Gilbert Nanson seeks a more tangible subject in biography, diligently reading a recommended three-volume life of a little-known polymath written by a forgotten biographer named Scholes Destry-Scholes. |
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http://archive.ala.org/booklist/v97/adult/no2/02byatt.html
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| | Imitation of Life |
| | At the end of the far less rigorous The Biographer's Tale, on the other hand, Phineas gets to have it all, happily (for him) alternating between Fulla and Vera, nature and culture, science and art. | | | In that story, the hero forsakes his fertile, beelike blonde wife for a dark, brooding, secretive artist (and who wouldn't leave Patsy Kensit for Kristin Scott Thomas?). | | | As Goode intends, Phineas becomes so obsessed with this mysterious figure that he embarks on what is, however great his disdain for contemporary critical practice, the ultimate postmodern literary project: a biography of the biographer. |
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http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/books/reviews/4359/index.html
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| | Leon Edel Quotes |
| | Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. | | | The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. | | | I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. |
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http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/leon_edel.html
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| | Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Martin Blumenson, at 86; historian, Patton biographer |
| | Blumenson had an unfinished manuscript on his desk -- a new book about Patton. | | | WASHINGTON -- Martin Blumenson, a leading historian of World War II who wrote the Army's official account of the D-Day invasion and was perhaps the foremost authority on the life of General George S. Patton Jr., died April 15 of cancer at his home in Washington. | | | Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Martin Blumenson, at 86; historian, Patton biographer |
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/04/18/martin_blumenson_at_86_historian_patton_biographer
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| | Worlds Within Worlds / Byatt's novel about a biographer's biographer explores more than one reality |
| | Her latest, "The Biographer's Tale," again takes us into more realities than one. | | | And his desire to become a real biographer leads him to a lot of self-scrutiny about the business of writing about other lives, and one's own. | | | In the middle of writing the story of his various quests, he explains that he's not out to write a memoir. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/01/28/RV123515.DTL
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| | GlucoWatch Biographer readings were found to be accurate (Zone A) or acceptable (Zone B) 94% of the time. | | | Biographer readings and finger-stick blood glucose readings differ most when your glucose levels are changing rapidly, such as after eating or when you are taking rapid-acting insulin. | | | This is because the Biographer has so far only been studied in adults. |
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http://www.glucowatch.com/us/pdfs/GlucoWatch_ITP_Brochure_Ver_1_0.doc
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| | NPR : Biographer Describes More Sophisticated 'Stalin' |
| | Josef Stalin in a detail from the cover of the book. | | | Biographer Robert Service says his latest subject's reputation for vulgarity was largely self-made. | | | Weekend Edition - Saturday, May 28, 2005 · Stalin, a biography by Oxford University historian Robert Service, adopts a new view of the Soviet leader. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4670963&sourceCode=RSS
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| | Biographer |
| | 1881 Emil Ludwig, German biographer, Diana, Son of Man | | | 1932 Antonia Fraser, biographer, Mary Queen of Scots | | | 1749 Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist/1st biographer of Bach |
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http://www.brainyhistory.com/topics/b/biographer.html
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| | Unsentimental Biographer :: Intro |
| | For nearly as long as he could remember, he wanted to teach English. | | | The UGA English professor discovered that biographical sketches of 19th century Southern writer Sherwood Bonner were meager and often erroneous. | | | Her story includes a remarkable circle of friends, a stint as secretary to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a divorce, hints of an affair and death at a young age. |
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| | Stanley Spencer, English artist, by his biographer Kenneth Pople |
| | If so, the only link between them was that each in his own way travelled the heavens. | | | Stanley Spencer, English artist, by his biographer Kenneth Pople | | | Stanley Spencer was born in a semi-detached Victorian villa then named Fernlea halfway along the High Street of the enchanting Thames-side village of Cookham, near Maidenhead, on June 30th 1891. |
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| | Bayerlein Philosophy, Biographer/Book Sales Contact Info |
| | These instances are discussed in his biography and throughly discussed and analyzed in his Denazification Trial, to be published in Book 3. | | | Bayerlein did not consider himself a Jew, as he didn't practice the faith; he was of Jewish ancestry, or as he explained post-war 'of non-Aryan descent'. | | | It is the biographer's belief, and research supports, that Bayerlein put himself and his family at risk in order to protect and stand up for others who were persecuted during this era of the Third Reich. |
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| | Dumas Malone: Jefferson Biographer |
| | Therefore, it seems fitting for your present historian to write about the preeminent authority on Jefferson, Dumas Malone, and his outstanding multi- volume biography, Jefferson and His Time. | | | His desire to write a comprehensive life of Jefferson dates from his early years as a professor at the University, where they speak of the Father of the University as though he were in the next room. | | | Malone, who prefers to call himself a historian, not a biographer, has spent almost thirty years of his professional life in Charlottesville with the University of Virginia. |
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| | GlucoWatch® G2™ Biographer Q&As |
| | This generates an electrical signal, which is converted into a glucose measurement. | | | This approval has involved several clinical studies on the accuracy of the GlucoWatch® Biographer, the first version of the device. | | | The device must also be calibrated against a finger prick blood test each time a new AutoSensor is used. |
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| | Glucowatch Biographer reported to improve diabetes control in children |
| | Study published in Pediatrics is first ever to demonstrate that | | | In conjunction with the report, the journal also published a commentary by Leslie P. Plotnick, M.D., pediatric endocrinologist and an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University. | | | She wrote as part of her conclusion, "The biographer appears to be a valuable tool and important step in diabetes management for the child and family, and for the diabetes management team." An estimated 17 million people in the United States suffer from diabetes, approximately 150,000 of whom are less than 20 years of age. |
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-04/hak-gbr042303.php
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| | Evaluation of the GlucoWatch biographer |
| | Overall performance was comparable in all environments as shown in the Table. | | | The biographer displays up to three readings per hour for as long as 12 hours, following a single glucose measurement taken with a traditional blood glucose meter three hours after application. | | | A number of blood glucose meters for both calibration and comparative blood measurements were utilized. |
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http://www.medforum.nl/reviews/evaluation_of_the_glucowatch_biographer.htm
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| | For Slave's Biographer, Truth Contains A Bit of Fiction |
| | A mystery, that is, involving a man of letters, one who made a very big splash back in '89 -- that would be 1789. | | | Other people's Equiano is more like a literary tape recorder: He says what he says." | | | For Slave's Biographer, Truth Contains A Bit of Fiction |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090902079_pf.html
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| | American Scholar: Leon Edel: the life of a biographer.@ HighBeam Research |
| | His life revolved in writing about the life and works of Henry James. | | | American Scholar; 9/22/1997; Powers, Lyall H. Leon Edel is a biographer who spent his life dealing with artists rather than being an academecian. | | | American Scholar: Leon Edel: the life of a biographer.@ HighBeam Research |
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| | Glucose Monitoring |
| | Is non-invasive, measuring glucose collected through the skin, not from blood. | | | The most notable enhancement is in the warm-up time, which has been reduced from three hours to two hours. | | | This enables patients, physicians and caregivers to print graphs, charts and statistics, change biographer settings, and send data via e-mail -- a convenient way to send glucose data before a scheduled office visit. |
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