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The Arabic language is very rich and old also it's one of the most complex languages. Without its grammar, there is no way to discover its beauty and unlock the mysteries of this powerful language.

It has been with me every step of my academic life here at UT.

This book has been a foundation of veterinary radiology and despite its relative rarity should be part of all libraries.

This book is the culmination of years of teaching and many more years of my own practice. Its purpose is to challenge and engage collegiate and professional musicians in a fun, collaborative setting.

Wonderful Life introduced me to the incredible diversity and complexity of the evolutionary history preserved in the fossil record while simultaneously explaining the importance of new ideas and new ways of thinking in the study of science. It has been a deeply impactful book for myself and also for many of the students that I have mentored.

"'The Year of Magical Thinking' was the most overtly personal of Didion's books," as one of her obituary writers suggested, "but in a sense all her journalistic writing was personal. Whether the subject was Nancy Reagan, Eldridge Cleaver, Death Valley or Los Angeles freeways, her sensibility - ironic, yearning and uneasy - guided her grapplings with the outside world. Her pieces exuded what the New York Times Book Review called 'her highly vulnerable sense of herself.'" And, now in our own, Year of Magical Thinking surrounding Didion's passing, we must reflect upon what Didion has meant to us. As Didion aptly acknowledged in January 2004, just some two or three days after the death of her husband, "Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." In the years since, these words have become radiant truths that we all have come to understand firsthand amid a global pandemic. In making sense of her husband's death, Didion shared the Episcopalian adage that "in the midst of life we are in death." Perhaps truer words were never written, but by returning to the work of Didion, perhaps we can make sense of our collective past and present moments and come to find again meaning in "the repeated rituals of life." As Didion once said, "we tell ourselves stories in order to live," and perhaps we can learn to truly live again by embracing these stories.

I chose this book because I feel that my mission as educator and researcher requires constant "flights of the mind" to grasp the ultimate sense of what I do and in what I believe. In order to be the best in what we do, we should recognize our talents and operate according to our beliefs and passions, as Leonardo Da Vinci did.

This book helped me to better understand how different we are from one another. We do things differently and the results matter. It's okay to take care of yourself first, it's okay to scarify for your goals, and it's okay to take a break too.

Since my tenure and promotion to associate professor, my research has shifted from comparative anatomy to using evolutionary quantitative genetics to understand vertebrate evolution. Few publications provide the essentials of quantitative genetics as lucidly and broadly as this volume. Scholars who want to learn about the theory and methods that underlie the evolution of complex traits are well-served to have a copy of this volume on hand. I learn something new every time I open it.

This was one of the first books that I read in graduate school during my MA in a teaching methods class. Many years later, I still find this book to be relevant and inspiring. I often assign it in the teaching methods class that I regularly teach and in other second language and applied linguistics courses that I've taught and my students also always enjoy learning from it. The book pushed me to think more deeply about my teaching and has inspired my research in various ways.

I chose this book because I use portions of it in my PLSC 233 The History and Impact of Turfgrasses course, and it has influenced how I teach that class heavily.