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Alan L. Berger (born November 16, 1939) is an American scholar, writer and professor of Judaic Studies and Holocaust studies at the Florida Atlantic University. He occupies the Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair in Holocaust Studies at Florida Atlantic University and is director of the Center for the Study of Values and Violence After Auschwitz.
Andrew Scott Berg (born December 4, 1949) is an American biographer. After graduating from Princeton University in 1971, Berg expanded his senior thesis on editor Maxwell Perkins into a full-length biography, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (1978), which won a National Book Award.
This is a list of American comics creators. Although comics have different formats, this list covers creators of comic books , graphic novels and comic strips , along with early innovators. The list presents authors with the United States as their country of origin, although they may have published or now be resident in other countries.
Alan Harrison Berg (January 1934 – June 18, 1984) was an American talk radio show host in Denver, Colorado.Born to a Jewish family, he had outspoken atheistic and liberal views and a confrontational interview style.
Hans Berger (1873–1941), Germany – first human EEG and its development; Friedrich Bergius (1884–1949), Germany – Bergius process (synthetic fuel from coal) Emile Berliner (1851–1929), Germany and U.S. – the disc record gramophone; Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955), UK – with Robert Cailliau, the World Wide Web
Little Big Man is a 1964 novel by American author Thomas Berger. Often described as a satire or parody of the western genre, the book is a modern example of picaresque fiction. Berger made use of a large volume of overlooked first-person primary materials, such as diaries, letters, and memoirs, to fashion a wide-ranging and entertaining tale ...
In Berger's studies, religion was found to be increasingly marginalized by the increased influence of the trend of secularization. Berger identified secularization as happening not so much to social institutions, such as churches, due to the increase of the separation of church and state, but applying to "processes inside the human mind" producing "a secularization of consciousness."
Beside the two Greenaway Medals, Janet Ahlberg was a "Commended" runner up three times, for Burglar Bill (1977), The Baby's Catalogue (1982), and The Jolly Postman (1986). [19] [b] According to Allan, their daughter Jessica inspired the latter two, and his own "Burglar Bill" book is autobiographical, The Boyhood of Burglar Bill (Puffin, 2007). [2]