Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Rosenberg was the author or co-author of nine books, including a major text on the work of Lucas Cranach, a 16th-century German artist...
Samuel S. Epstein, professor of occupational and environmental medicine at the University of Illinois and author of the recently published book, "The Politics of Cancer," said the government is hindered in its attempt to regulate carcinogens because industries have withheld data on worker exposure...
...tenth novel Author Thomas Berger claims squatter's rights to the plot of the beleaguered household. Earl Keese, middle-aged and overweight, lives with his wife Enid smack at the end of a cul-de-sac somewhere in exurbia. Their plans for a normal Friday night have been made without reckoning on Harry and Ramona, a younger couple newly ensconced in the only other house on the block. Ramona appears first, while Enid is in the kitchen seeing to supper, and makes some lewd advances toward Earl...
Those teachings soon overshadowed their God-struck author. John Knox carried Calvinism to Scotland, converting the rambunctious Catholic country with messages of doom. Puritan Jonathan Edwards shook the New World when he called the colonials "sinners in the hands of an angry God." Early in the 20th century, German Sociologist Max Weber found in Calvinism the seedbed of capitalism, a "Protestant ethic" that drove men to accumulate wealth as evidence of divine approval...
...Author Duncan Norton-Taylor re-creates the person behind these layers of history and ideology. The reader follows young John as he journeys to Paris to study theology, then law, at the expense of the Roman Catholic Church. Reformation is in the air at the Sorbonne; the student undergoes a profound conversion. His new Protestantism is anathema to both church and state and he flees to Switzerland. In Geneva, Calvin becomes the voice of a new moral order; in one dispute he walks off the altar at Easter and is expelled from the city. Moving to Strasbourg, he ministers...