Jr John Janovy

Ginkgo: An Intellectual and Visionary Coming-of-Age (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Ginkgo explores the clash between tradition and creativity. A girl from a western ranch-symbolizing tradition-comes to a large university and writes four highly personal and creative papers about a single tree. In the process, she produces a sobering vision of America a thousand years into the future, the day her chosen tree dies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Distributed via Smashwords
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781465747761
• Artikelnr.: 45453895

Autorenporträt

About the author: John Janovy, Jr. (PhD, University of Oklahoma, 1965) is the author of seventeen books and over ninety scientific papers and book chapters. These books range from textbooks to science fiction to essays on athletics. He is now retired, but when an active faculty member held the Paula and D. B. Varner Distinguished Professorship in Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research interest is parasitology. He has been Director of UNL¿s Cedar Point Biological Station, Interim Director of the University of Nebraska State Museum, Assistant Dean of Arts and Sciences, and secretary-treasurer of the American Society of Parasitologists. His teaching experiences include large-enrollment freshman biology courses, Field Parasitology at the Cedar Point Biological Station, Invertebrate Zoology, Parasitology, Organismic Biology, and numerous honors seminars. He has supervised thirty-two graduate students, and approximately 50 undergraduate researchers, including ten Howard Hughes scholars. His honors include the University of Nebraska Distinguished Teaching Award, University Honors Program Master Lecturer, American Health Magazine book award (for Fields of Friendly Strife), State of Nebraska Pioneer Award, University of Nebraska Outstanding Research and Creativity Award, The Nature Conservancy Hero recognition, Nebraska Library Association Mari Sandoz Award, UNL Library Friend¿s Hartley Burr Alexander Award, and the American Society of Parasitologists Clark P. Read Mentorship Award.