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The Hidden Treasure of Glaston is a children's historical novel by Eleanore M. Jewett, first published in 1946. [1] Set in 1171 England, the story involves Hugh and Dickon the Oblate searching for the Holy Grail in an area associated with King Arthur. The novel won a Newbery Honor award in 1947. It has also been published as Hidden Treasure. [2]
The first chapter, Genetics & Genesis, gives a general overview of the themes that are explored in the book. The central theme is that the human genome provides a record of the human past, including what Wade calls the "two vanished periods" of human evolution and prehistory. [1]
Sarah Orne Jewett was born in South Berwick, Maine, on September 3, 1849.Her family had been residents of New England for many generations. [2]Jewett's father, Theodore Herman Jewett, was a doctor specializing in "obstetrics and diseases of women and children," [3] and Jewett often accompanied him on his rounds, becoming acquainted with the sights and sounds of her native land and its people. [4]
In contrast, Jewett and Lawrence define the American monomyth as: A community in a harmonious paradise is threatened by evil; normal institutions fail to contend with this threat; a selfless superhero emerges to renounce temptations and carry out the redemptive task; aided by fate, his decisive victory restores the community to its paradisiacal ...
Old Friends and New is a series of short stories written by Sarah Orne Jewett. It was published in The Atlantic Monthly in seven installments – one short story in each volume – in 1878. [1] In 1879, the short stories were compiled and published by Houghton, Osgood and Company. [2]
A 1966 revision of the first edition of Part I changed the title of the textbook to Physics. [ 1 ] It is widely used in colleges as part of the undergraduate physics courses, and has been well known to science and engineering students for decades as "the gold standard" of freshman -level physics texts.
Milo Parker Jewett (27 April 1808 – 9 June 1882) was an American author and college president. He was the first president of Vassar College and first president of Judson College , holding the office from 1861 to 1864, and 1838 to 1855, respectively.
University Physics, informally known as the Sears & Zemansky, is the name of a two-volume physics textbook written by Hugh Young and Roger Freedman. The first edition of University Physics was published by Mark Zemansky and Francis Sears in 1949. [2] [3] Hugh Young became a coauthor with Sears