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Bowman, John Stewart was born on May 30, 1931 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John Russell and Anne Marie (Stewart) Bowman.
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Biography is an endlessly fascinating subject for a wide variety of readers. The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography is the most up-to-date and comprehensive, single-volume, biographical reference of living and dead Americans available. The book contains 9,000 entries written for general readers in fluid narrative style. Each entry is self-contained and does not assume any historic or geographic knowledge. What sets this book apart is its breadth of coverage--living and dead, famous and forgotten American figures, of diverse careers, from colonial times to the present day--and its attention to women and minority groups. The Dictionary has been originally compiled--not derived from older work--with the help of over one-hundred consultants. It also contains two exceptionally useful indexes: one by occupation and the other by names mentioned in the entries (whether or not they are entries themselves). The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography is written for anyone interested in owning an eminently readable reference to living contemporaries and their achievements as well as to historically important figures. John Bowman, an accomplished author and editor, has been assisted by an editoral board of distinguished American scholars.
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Containing more information on Asian culture than any other English-language reference work, Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture is the first of its kind: a set of more than thirty chronologies for all the countries of Asia--East, South, Southeast, and Central--from the Paleolithic era through 1998. Each entry is clearly dated and, unlike most chronologies found in standard history texts, the entries are complete and detailed enough to provide virtually a sequential history of the vast and rich span of Asian cultures. The contributing writers and editors have ensured the book's usefulness to general readers by identifying individuals and groups, locating places and regions, explaining events and movements, and defining unfamiliar words and concepts. The thirty-two chronologies on individual countries, in conjunction with a detailed index, allow readers to find specific information quickly and efficiently, whether they seek the date for the invention of the iron plow or gunpowder, the fall of the Han Dynasty in China, or Ho Chi Minh's declarations of Vietnamese independence. This invaluable reference culminates with three appendices: "National/Independence Days," "Scientific-Technological Achievements in Asia," and "Asia: A Chronological Overview," which provides an accessible summary of key events and developments in various fields of activity throughout the continent. The Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture features: • three discrete chronologies on (1) Politics/History, (2) Art/Culture/Religion, and (3) Science/Economics/Everyday Life for each of Asia's three major cultures--China, India, and Japan--as well as a combined chronology for each of the other nations; • detailed entries of thousands of historical events as well as important milestones in religion, philosophy, literature, and the arts; • entries on technological developments and natural events (famines, floods, etc.) affecting the lives of ordinary people; and • authoritative and accessibly written entries by a team of Asian scholars from Columbia, Harvard, and other major research universities. Beyond its detailed accounting of Asia's political history, Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture also gives full recognition to religious, intellectual, artistic, and general cultural achievements, as well as to scientific, technological, industrial, agricultural, and economic developments. Concise yet complete, it will stand as an indispensable reference work in the field of Asian studies.
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Bowman, John Stewart was born on May 30, 1931 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John Russell and Anne Marie (Stewart) Bowman.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1953; postgraduate, Cambridge (England) University, 1953-1954; postgraduate, U. Munich, 1958-1960.
Associate editor Natural History Magazine, New York City, 1961, Book of Knowledge, New York City, 1962-1963. Visiting lecturer continuing education University Massachusetts, Amherst, 1978-1990. With United States Army, 1954-1956.
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("Exploration in the World of the Ancients, Revised Editio...)
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With United States Army, 1954-1956. Member National Association Science Writers, Society for American Baseball Research, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Sigma Lambda.
Married Marion Palmedo, December 17, 1957 (divorced September 1965). Married Francesca Maria DiPietro, February 11, 1967. Children: Michela Anne, Alexander Russell.