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Contains over six hundred entries that provide biographical and bibliographical information about each of the world's Nobel Prize winners from 1901 through 1995; grouped in the categories of chemistry, medicine and physiology, economics, physics, literature, and peace, with name, education, nationality, and religion indexes.

Contains 541 biographical entries to prize winners from 1901 through 1985. Basic arrangement is under chemistry, economics, literature, medicine and physiology, peace, and physics. Each entry gives personal, educational, and professional information; selected publications; references to further information; and commentary. Indexes: name, education, nationality or citizenship, and religion.

Includes Nobel prize winners in chemistry, economics, literature, medicine and physiology, peace and physics.

Cultural Writing. Essays. ITALIAN CULTURAL STUDIES is a compilation of selected essays written by participants of the 3rd Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium of the Italian Cultural Studies Association. It examines the notion of cultural studies, both Italian and other. What is cultural studies? Why should we study it? How should we teach it? What is its relation to traditional language studies? Contributors to the volume include: Simone Bregni, Peter Carravetta, Melissa Anne Coburn, Thomas Cragin, Sante Matteo, Tullio Pagano, Gabriella Romani, Maria Galli Stampino, Michael Syrimis, Patrizia La Trecchia, Cesare Vespignani, and Robert Viscusi.

Winner of the 1926 Novel Prize for Literature After serving time in mainland Italy for a minor theft, Elias Portolu returns home to Nuoro, in rural Sardinia. Lonely and vulnerable after his prison exile, he falls in love with his brother's fiancée. But he finds himself trapped by social and religious strictures, his passion and guilt winding into a spiral of anguish and paralyzing indecision. For guidance he turns first to the village priest, who advises him to resist temptation; then he turns to the pagan "father of the woods," who recognizes the weakness of human will and urges him to declare his love before it is too late.

"Cosima" tells the story of an aspiring writer growing up in Nuoro, Sardinia during the last decades of the nineteenth century when formal education for women was rare and literary careers unheard-of. Based on Deledda's own life, the work describes a young woman's struggle against the dismay and disapproval of her family and friends at her creative ambitions. Yet it also reads like a charming fable with details of family life, rural traditions and wild bandits, and it is as much a novel of memory as of character or action. Deledda's characters are poor country folk driven by some predetermined force. Their loves are tragic, their lives as hard and as rigidly controlled as nature itself in the hills of Sardinia. Deledda creates memorable figures who play out their lives against this backdrop of mountains and bare plains, sheepfolds and vineyards. Shimmering in the distance is the sea and escape - for a few - to the Continent or America. In 1926 Grazia Deledda became the second woman and the second Italian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. She wrote thirty-three novels, including "Reeds in the Wind," and many books of short stories, almost all set on Sardinia. Her work has become well known to English-speaking readers through Martha King's translations for Italica Press.