National Book Award

Carson remained at her Job with the Bureau of Fisheries (later renamed the Fish and Wildlife Service), where she eventually became chief editor of the agency. Fler experience with Under the Sea Wind, however, had convinced her to try her luck with another book on the topic of marine science. That book. The Sea around Us, was published in 1951 and achieved much greater success. It was chosen as an alternative selection by the Book of the Month Club and remained on the New York Times best-seller list for 86 weeks. The book also won Carson a National Book Award and honorary doctoral degrees from Chatham College and Oberlin College. Perhaps most important, the financial success of The Sea around Us allowed Carson to retire from government service and write full-time. 

A.R. Ammons won his second National Book Award in 1993 for his book-length poem. Garbage, in which he writes... 

Bruce Catton, an authority on the Civil War, won both the Pulitzer Prize for historical work and the National Book Award in 1955. He wrote numerous books, including Mr. Lincoln s Army (1951), A Stillness at Appomattox (1953), Never Call Retreat (1966), and Gettysburg The Final Fury (1974). This essay is a chapter of The American Story (1956), a collection of essays by noted historians. 

The myth entered popular culture as well. In 1954, William March published a novel called The Bad Seed,ss about a young mother who discovers her 8-year-old daughter is a murderer. The mother also discovers that she herself is the daughter of a serial killer. By this time the 8-year-old has killed three people. The mother decides to poison the child and commit suicide. The mother kills herself but the child survives. The novel was a great commercial and critical success and was nominated for the 1955 National Book Award. This novelistic trumpeting of hereditary criminality also became a successful film, a long-run Broadway play, and in 1985, a successful television play. 

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD /INNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD... 

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Award Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award... 

PHILLIP MANNING is the author of four other books and 150 or so magazine and newspaper articles. His most recent book. Islands of Hope, won the 1999 National Outdoor Book Award for nature and the environment. Manning has a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His Web site (www.scibooks.org) offers a weekly list of new books of science and science book reviews. 

Biochemistry in Vienna, and, for this, he was honored by a citation from the Austrian government. He was a member of the American Society of Biological Chemists, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Pi Mu Epsilon, and Alpha Chi Sigma. He was a member of the National Committee of Ae Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science from 1961 to 1963, and served as its chairman in 1963. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the New York Academy of Science, the Ohio Academy of Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and The Chemical Society (London). In 1959, he was an invited lecturer in the Biochemistry Department at Tufts University Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. 

Mr. Nolan has received numerous of safety awards and is a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers, National Fire Protection Association, Society of Petroleum Engineers, and Society of Fire Protection Engineers. He is the author of the book "Application of HAZOP and What-If Safety Reviews to the Petroleum, Petrochemical and Chemical Industries," which is widely referred to within the petroleum and chemical industries. Mr. Nolan has also been listed in "Who s Who in California" for the last ten years and has been elected to appear in the 1996 International Edition of "Who s Who of Science and Engineering."... 

Dr. Mark is acknowledged throughout the scientific community as the father of polymer science. He received the National Medal of Science in 1980, the 1978 Senior U.S. Scientist Award, 29 other medals and awards from various international organizations, and 17 honorary degrees. In 1977, he was appointed as an Honorable Member of the Japan Chemical Society. He has published over 500 original and review articles and some 20 books on topics related to polymer chemistry. Dr. Mark is founder and first editor of the Journal of Polymer Science, the definitive publication in its field, and is currently editor of the Journal of Applied Science and associate editor of the Textile Research Journal. In addition to these duties he serves as Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology. 

Nelson has also been given two awards from the United Nations, the Environmental LeadershipAward in 1982 and the"Only One Earth"award in 1992. His native state has honored him by establishing the Gaylord Nelson State Park in Madison. Nelson has written two books about the environment, America s Last Chance (1970) and Children s Letters to Senator Gaylord Nelson about the Environment 97 ). He died at his home in Kensington, Maryland, on July 3,2005. 

He is the author of 63 books and monographs, 28 bulletins, 304 chapters in books, 615 journal articles, 309 abstracts, and 137 editorials, book reviews, and congressional testimonies. Cairns has been awarded a number of honors, including election to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Linnean Society of London. He has been awarded the United Stations Environmental Programme Medal, the B. Y. Morrison Medal of the American Chemical Society, the Life Achievement Award in Science of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the Superior Achievement Award of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 

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