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Author: Philip Nel Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Book Review by Nano Khilnani The subjects of this work, the husband-and-wife team of cartoon creators Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss, produced 75 books between themselves, many of which became classics in children’s literature. Johnson, born in 1906 and Krauss, born in 1901, were married in 1939. They spent 36 years together until Crockett passed away in 1975. It’s not just the quantity of work in literature that matters of course; it is also its popularity and circulation. On that point, the most well-known comic strip of Johnson, Barnaby, developed in...

Author: Victor Leontovitsch. Translated by Parmen Leontovitsch. Foreword by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, the well-known dissident of Soviet state suppressive policies and actions against the people, was the winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature and author of The Gulag Archipelago, which exposed the Soviet Union’s forced labor camp system from 1918 to 1956. He was expelled by the government from the country in 1974 but returned 20 years later when the Soviet socialist system collapsed. In his Foreword to The History of Liberalism in Russia, Solzhenitsyn remarks...

Author: Mark Pittaway Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This book by Mark Pittaway was published posthumously in 2012, with the efforts of his friend Nigel Swain who has written the Foreword. It unearths new findings on the roles that labor unions and other working-class structures played to effect change in Hungary in the face of their suppression by the state and foreign forces in and around the 16-year period between 1944 and 1958. Pittaway was a historian of socialism in Eastern Europe, particularly on Hungary, until he passed away after a heart attack at...

Author: Glenn J. Myatt Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Book Review by: Nano Khilnani The process of taking raw data and converting it into meaningful information necessary to make decisions is the focus of this book. In many fields – such as biology, economics, engineering and marketing, to name a few important ones – organizations measure, gather and store data for specific purposes in electronic databases. They then tabulate and analyze that data to find distinct patterns which help them to solve problems or achieve their objectives. Each organization has a different objective. The data help a particular entity paint a picture...