How to be a Texan by Michael Hicks
The motivation for us to conceive this series of volumes on regulation was mainly our belief that it would be fun, and at the same time productive, to approach the subject in a way that differs from that of other treatises. We thought it might be interesting and instructive- for both author and reader-to examine a particular area of investigation in a framework of many different problems. Cutting across the traditional boundaries that have separated the subjects in past volumes on regulation is not an easy thing to do-not because it is difficult to think of what interesting topics should replace the old ones, but because it is difficult to find authors who are willing to write about areas outside those pursued in their own laboratories. Anyone who takes on the task of reviewing a broad area of interest must weave together its various parts by picking up the threads from many different laboratories, and attempt to produce a fabric with a meaningful design. Finding persons who are likely to succeed in such a task was the most difficult part of our job. In the first volume of this treatise, most of the chapters dealt with the mechanisms of The second volume involved a somewhat regulation of gene expression in microorganisms. broader area, spanning the prokaryotic-eukaryotic border. Topics ranged from phage mor- phogenesis to the role of gradients in development. The last volume-Volume 3A-con- cerned hormones, as does this volume-Volume 3B.
Michael Hicks recently retired after thirty-five years as a professor of music at Brigham Young University. He is the author of five books in University of Illinois Press's Music in American Life series, including Mormonism and Music: A History, and The Mormon Tabernacle Choir: A Biography. His historical and analytical articles have appeared in books such as the Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World and the Oxford Handbook of Mormonism as well as journals that include Journal of the American Musicological Society and Journal of Aesthetic Education. He has twice won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award (1994 and 2003) for his writing about music and a third time as editor of the journal American Music, a post he held in 2007-10. He and his wife, Pam, are the parents of four children and grandparents of fourteen.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780932012210 |
| ISBN 10 | 0932012213 |
| Title | How to be a Texan |
| Author | Michael Hicks |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Butterworth-Heinemann |
| Year published | 1981-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 66 |
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