Diane Ackerman
Author, poet, naturalist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Diane Ackerman is an American poet, essayist, and naturalist known for her wide-ranging curiosity and poetic explorations of the natural world. Education and career Ackerman received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Arts, Master of Fine Arts and Ph.D. from Cornell University. Among the members of her dissertation committee was Carl Sagan, an astronomer and the creator of the Cosmos television series. She has taught at a number of universities, including Columbia and Cornell.
Diane Ackerman's Published Works
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- A Natural History of the Senses (1990) (249)
- A Natural History of Love (1994) (79)
- The Human Age (2014) (46)
- An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain (2004) (21)
- Song of π (1974) (11)
- Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden (2001) (10)
- Metaphors Be with You (2007) (10)
- The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (2007) (9)
- The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds (1995) (7)
- The Moon by Whale Light and Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians and Whales (1991) (5)
- The Bard on the Brain: Understanding the Mind Through the Art of Shakespeare and the Science of Brain Imaging (2003) (4)
- Food & Faith: Justice, Joy and Daily Bread (2002) (3)
- In the Memory Mines (2000) (1)
- One Beautiful Mind (2004) (1)
- Last refuge of the Monk Seal (1992) (1)
- On extended wings (1989) (1)
- A slender thread : rediscovering hope at the heart of crisis (1998) (1)
- A Slender Thread (1996) (1)
- Wood: The Universal Raw Material (1970) (0)
- Lines Written in a Pittsburgh Skyscraper (2005) (0)
- Mind and Memory: Explorations of Creativity in the Arts and Sciences (1996) (0)
- How We Think (2004) (0)
- In the theater of the dark (1995) (0)
- Just to Be Here Under the Sun (2023) (0)
- The white-crested British raconteur (1993) (0)
- The book of love (1998) (0)
- SAWMILLING IN SCANDINAVIA (1953) (0)
- Constructing with nonstandard bricks (2012) (0)
- ADVERSE TIMBER PUBLICITY (1952) (0)
- Panes of Glass (2005) (0)
- Of Albatrosses and Angels (2002) (0)
- This course invites students to think about the nature, purpose, and art of creative non-fiction by reading classics of the form, and works that have defined it and expanded it. The content might include the following: (2003) (0)
- Imagining the Divine (2002) (0)
- In praise of squirrels (1995) (0)
- The Experience of the Idea (1978) (0)
- Menslike Omgewing en die Bosbouer: Presidensiele Toespraak, Eerste Algemene Jaarvergadering ran Die Suid-Afrikaanse Instituut ran Boswese Pietermaritzburg, 19 Mei 1969 / Human Environment and the Forester: Presidential Address, First Annual General Meeting of The South African Institute of Forestry, (1969) (0)
- The Secret Places of Childhood (2000) (0)
- Tales from A Sonnetarium: III, Kismet (2008) (0)
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