ALAN ROSS

In 1960, against most predictions, the England cricket team won their first ever series in the West Indies. Even against a home side boasting Hall and Watson, Worrell, Sobers and Ramadhin, the visitors - fuelled by the bowling of Trueman and Statham and a batting order including Dexter, Barrington and Subba Row - emerged triumphant over five tests.Alan Ross describes the action in graphic detail, including some violent scenes at Port-of-Spain. And as always he paints vivid pictures in words of all that he saw outside of the cricket grounds, from Spanish Town, Jamaica, to Nelsons dockyard in Antigua, and the carnival in Trinidad.Alan Ross has established himself as one of the most graceful and cultured of cricket writers.Times

This valedictory volume is the quintessence of [Alan] Ross, a deft and deceptively airy set of literary wanderings through a part of the Mediterranean - the islands of the south-western coast of Italy - he had known since being demobilised from the Royal Navy at the end of the Second World War... Rosss memoir is a showcase for a supremely poetic sensibility, and a naturally gifted writer with an unerring eye for detail, reporting on his experience with an infectiously joyous lyricism. Eldon King, ObserverA fund of associative literary information that could only have been amassed by a passionate reader. Gorky, Ibsen, Rilke, DH Lawrence, Walter Benjamin, Pablo Neruda and scores more wrote in or near Ischia; Ross describes their books and their lives with detailed succinctness, en route dipping in and out of his own thoughts and travel observations. Helen Simpson, Guardian

Alan Ross (1922-2001) - distinguished poet, travel writer, and editor of London Magazine - also managed to excel in the role of cricket correspondent for the Observer, in which capacity he followed England/MCC on tours of Australia, South Africa and the West Indies. In the book-length accounts he published of these tours, his lifelong love of the game found glorious expression. Australia 55 offers Rosss perspectives on the battle for the Ashes, the visiting side led by Len Hutton, and Rosss own vivid first impressions of the host country.The massive fluctuations of the series - England, overwhelmed in Brisbane, won in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide to retain the Ashes - engaged [Rosss] interest; his fascination with Len Hutton, a lonely figure struck down by as many disasters as any overworked hero in Greek mythology, deepened... Gideon Haigh, Cricinfo

Every so often a Test match offers such high drama as to transcend the series of which it was part. Such a battle was the second Test between England and West Indies at Lords in June 1963. Wisden called it one of the most dramatic played in England. Alan Rosss eyewitness account amply evokes its excitement.Lords was packed with supporters of both sides, and the two teams, led by Ted Dexter and Frank Worrell, were very strong. West Indies had Garry Sobers and the pace attack of Wes Hall and Charlie Griffith, against whom Dexters first innings 70 was noteworthy. Fred Trueman took 11 wickets for England, though he could not stop a colossal century by Basil Butcher. But Englands final innings run-chase would be distinguished by one courageous knock from Brian Close, and a commensurately brave effort by Colin Cowdrey.

Alan Ross (1922-2001) - distinguished poet, travel writer, and editor of London Magazine - also managed to excel in the role of cricket correspondent for the Observer, in which capacity he followed England/MCC on tours of Australia, South Africa and the West Indies. In the book-length accounts he published of these tours, his lifelong love of the game found glorious expression. Australia 63 offers Rosss account of an Ashes series that pitted the England XI led by Ted Dexter against Richie Benauds host side. On paper England had talent to spare, including the recall to the team of ordained minister David Sheppard, and the renowned bowling attack of Fred Trueman and Brian Statham. But Benauds Australian side had strength in depth too. Both captains were expressly committed to playing entertaining cricket. The reality, however, did not quite live up to the billing.

Alan Ross (1922-2001) - distinguished poet, travel writer, and editor of London Magazine - also managed to excel in the role of cricket correspondent for the Observer, in which capacity he followed England/MCC on tours of Australia, South Africa and the West Indies. In the book-length accounts he published of these tours, his lifelong love of the game found glorious expression. Cape Summer and the Australians in England (1957) treats the 1956 Ashes series, memorable above all for the bowling performance of Jim Laker; and the following winters MCC tour to apartheid South Africa, where one of Englands strongest ever sides had an unexpectedly tough contest and where, as ever, Rosss discerning eye and finessing pen were alive to dimensions of the game beyond the boundary rope.

First published in 1954 as South to Sardinia, this account of a summer journey in the early 1950s sees Alan Ross alternating the past and present of a strange island whose interior, especially, had been only rarely visited at that point. His descriptions of the landscape and local customs and mores (including billiards, one of the great Sardinian occupations) are interspersed with tales of a cast of characters who might have come out of Boccaccio, adding up to a memorable evocation.An alert and sensitive travel book... Alan Ross has an exceptional descriptive gift.ListenerSo closely packed with good writing that it requires to be read slowly, as Mr Ross travelled.Time and TideHe is a specialist in the vin triste... a delightful offbeat. Cyril Connolly, Sunday TimesAn exceptionally good book by any standard.TLSA work of art and imagination.Times

Indian prince, Sussex and England cricketer, K.S. Ranjitsinhji was unique in many ways. W.G. Grace predicted that there would not be another batsman like Ranji for a hundred years; arguably we are still waiting. His prodigious run-scoring ability alone assured his place in the annals of cricket, but his talents transcended statistics. His batting married subtlety and strength in a way that was quite new to the game, and he was a character and crowd-pleaser from his century-making test debut in 1896 to his withdrawal from cricket in 1907 after he was installed as Jam Saheb of Nawanagar. A splendid memorial... In Alan Ross, Ranji is perfectly matched with one of the best writers the game ever attracted.GuardianA gem of a book.Yorkshire Post

This is Alan Rosss fourth volume of autobiography (following on from Blindfold Games, Coastwise Lights, and After Pusan)... Winter Sea, like his previous volumes, is an intriguing mix of memoir, poetry, and travel writing.PN ReviewFragmentary and delightfully idiosyncratic... [Winter Sea] has a distinctly maritime flavour, and the wartime memories recalled after 50 years mostly concern North Sea or Baltic cities... The smell of the Baltic, Ross writes, is a fusion of salt, sand dunes, pine trees and tar... Wherever Ross travels, he has a book in his pocket, and more often than not his reading is by way of homage to a native poet or writer... The symphonic quality of this wistful and, at times, very moving collection is maintained with a final section of 15 new poems, mostly relating to the authors more recent travels. Winter Sea is a book to savour; Alan Ross brings history to life as only a poet can. Euan Cameron, Independent

To describe Alan Ross as a polymath does scant justice to the eclecticism of an extraordinary man . . . Ross was a war hero, poet, bon viveur, travel writer, incorrigible gossip, racehorse owner and brilliant magazine editor. Richard Whitehead, Observer After Pusan, first published in 1995, is the third panel (alongside Blindfold Games and Coastwise Lights, also in Faber Finds) of a triptych of memoirs by Alan Ross. Inspired by Rosss visit in 1986 to the South Korean coastal city of Pusan, like its predecessors it gracefully entwines poetry and prose. After Pusan opens with a thirty-page prose memoir of [Rosss] visit, economically and self-effacingly told, deft in its detail and tireless in its curiosity... This memoir is more than merely an adjunct to Rosss other travel writings, though, and more than only a prelude to the poems which fill the rest of these hundred pages. After Pusan breaks a long silence in his life as a poet; and it was that visit to Korea... that suggested to him that if poetry was ever going to come again it might do so now.PN Review

Esta edición combina una amplia cobertura de la investigación y pone de relieve las aplicaciones prácticas.

Históricamente se ha obligado a los alumnos de las clases de histología a dibujar la imagen vista a través del microscopio a fin de proveer al instructor de histología una oportunidad para comentar el dibujo y correlacionarlo con los conocimientos del estudiante. Sin embargo, en esta era de avances rapidos en biologia celular y molecular, genetica, tecnologias educativas nuevas, curriculos integrados de progreso acelerado e interacciones docente-alumno reducidas, esto se ha convertido en una practica olvidada. En forma repetida nos encontramos con estudiantes que tienen problemas con la sobrecarga de informacion: es entonces cuando la visualizacion se torna cada vez mas importante.Es bien sabido que la cognicion, de acuerdo con la teoria de la codificacion dual, comprende la actividad de dos sistemas bien definidos: un sistema verbal, correspondiente a aportaciones textuales o auditivas, y un sistema no verbal (aportaciones de imagenes). Cuando estas aportaciones se procesan en forma simultanea tienen un efecto aditivo sobre el aprendizaje o el recuerdo de la informacion aprendida.La idea de vincular imagenes histologicas (hoy en dia obtenidas con el microscopio o un ordenador, mediante el uso de sistemas de microscopia virtual) con una interpretacion sencilla justifico la creacion del Atlas de Histologia Descr...

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