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Rotters (novel)
Rotter or Rotters may refer to: People Surname *Ariel Rotter (born 1973), Argentine film director and screenwriter *Elizabeth Neff Walker, a pen name of Elizabeth Rotter, American writer of romance novels *Emília Rotter (1906-2003), Hungarian pairs figure skater *Jeffrey Rotter, American writer *Jerzy Rzedowski Rotter (born 1926), Polish-born Mexican botanist *Julian Rotter (1916-2014), American psychologist *Lajos Rotter (1901-1983), Hungarian engineer, pilot and aircraft designer - see Rotter Karakán *Oscar Rotter (1865-?), German-born New York physician and proponent of free love and contraception *Rudy Rotter (1913–2001), American artist *Stephen A. Rotter, film editor Stage name *Faris Badwan (born 1986), also known as Faris Rotter, English musician, former member of the pseudo-punk band The Rotters Fictional characters *Junior Rotter, from the British comic strips ''Whizzer and Chips'' and ''Buster'' *Mr. Rotter, a character from ''Wheel Squad'' *Rotter, a recurring cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariel Rotter
Ariel Rotter (born 1973 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a film director and screenplay writer. He works in the cinema of Argentina. Filmography * '' Sólo por hoy'' (2001) ''Just for Today'' * ''The Other In phenomenology, the terms the Other and the Constitutive Other identify the other human being, in their differences from the Self, as being a cumulative, constituting factor in the self-image of a person; as acknowledgement of being real; he ...'' (2007) a.k.a. ''El Otro'' * '' Incident Light'' (2015) Awards Wins * Bogota Film Festival: Silver Precolumbian Circle; for ''Sólo por hoy''; 2001. * Fribourg International Film Festival: E-Changer Award - Special Mention; for ''Sólo por hoy''; 2001. * Toulouse Latin America Film Festival: Audience Award; for ''Sólo por hoy''; 2001. * Berlin International Film Festival: Silver Bear, The Jury ''Grand Prix''; 2007. References External links * 1973 births Argentine film directors Argentine screenwriters Artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Neff Walker
Elizabeth Rotter is an American author of romance novels. She has been published under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Walker, Elizabeth Neff Walker, and Laura Matthews. As Laura Matthews, she has released more than 30 Regency romance novels. Under her other pseudonyms, she writes mainstream women's fiction or contemporary romances, most of them revolving around people working at a hospital. Books As Elizabeth Neff Walker * ''Nomad Harp'' (1980) * ''Curious Courting'' (1980) * ''Lady Next Door'' (1981) * ''In My Lady's Chamber'' (1981) * ''Antique Affair'' (1984) * ''That Other Woman'' (1984) * ''Paternity'' (1985) * ''The Healing Touch'' (1995) * ''Fever Pitch'' (1995) * ''The Best Medicine'' (1996) * ''An Abundant Woman'' (1998) * ''Emotional Ties'' (1999) * ''And One to Grow on'' (2000) As Elizabeth Walker * ''Paper Tiger'' (1983) * ''Dark Sunrise'' (1984) * ''Summer Frost'' (1984) * ''Voyage'' (1987) * ''Wild Honey'' (1987) * ''Rowan's Mill'' (1989) * ''The Loving Seasons'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emília Rotter
Emília Rotter (8 September 1906 in Budapest, Hungary – 28 January 2003) was a Hungarian pair skater. With partner László Szollás she won the World Figure Skating Championship The World Figure Skating Championships (''"Worlds"'') is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded in the categories of men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Gen ... four times in five years (1931, 1933, 1934, and 1935), and were the 1932 World silver medalists. They were the 1934 European Champions and 1930 & 1931 silver medalists. They represented Hungary at the 1932 Winter Olympics and at the 1936 Winter Olympics, winning two bronze medals. Rotter was Jewish, and was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1995. International Jewish Spo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Rotter
Jeffrey Rotter is a writer. He has written for numerous publications, including '' The New York Times'', '' Spin magazine'', ESPN, ''McSweeney's'', '' The Literary Review'' and '' The New York Observer''. In 2006 he completed his MFA in fiction at Hunter College Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also admi ..., where he studied under Peter Carey, Colson Whitehead, Colum McCann, and Andrew Sean Greer. At Hunter he was awarded a Hertog Fellowship to perform research for Jennifer Egan. A longtime Brooklyn resident, he lives with his wife and their son, Felix. His first novel, ''The Unknown Knowns'', was published by Scribner on March 17, 2009. The book is about a guy called Jim Rath who dreams of building a museum based on The Aquatic Ape Theory of human evolution while being chas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerzy Rzedowski
Jerzy Rzedowski Rotter (born December 27, 1926) is a Mexican botanist. His focus is on Mexican floristics, taxonomy, and ecology. Education and personal life He was born in Lwów, Poland (now in Ukraine) to Arnold and Ernestyna (nee Rotter) Rzedowski. When he was young the family was imprisoned in a concentration camp until World War II ended, when he and his father were liberated by the Allies. They then travelled to Mexico in 1946 for a new life. He studied for a bachelor's degree in Biology at the Instituto Politecnico Nacional, starting in 1949, and a PhD in Botany at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México awarded in 1961. His bachelor's thesis, on the Flora of the Pedregal de San Angel, (''Vegetación del Pedregal de San Angel, Distrito Federal, Mexico'') and doctoral thesis (''Vegetación del Estado de San Luis Potosi'') led to his scientific research career. In 1954 Rzedowski married Graciela Calderón Díaz-Barriga. Career He worked at Syntex in 1953. From 1954 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Rotter
Julian B. Rotter (October 22, 1916 – January 6, 2014) was an American psychologist known for developing social learning theory and research into locus of control. He was a faculty member at Ohio State University and then the University of Connecticut. A '' Review of General Psychology'' survey, published in 2002, ranked Rotter as the 64th most eminent and 18th most widely cited psychologist of the 20th century. A 2014 study published in 2014 placed at #54 among psychologists whose careers spanned the post-World War II era. Background Rotter was born in 1916 in Brooklyn, New York, United States, as the third son of Jewish immigrant parents.Millon (2004), p. 353 As a schoolboy he became interested with psychology and philosophy through readings. Rotter attended Brooklyn College in 1933, where he earned his undergraduate degree. He majored in chemistry even though he found psychology to be more fascinating because chemistry seemed more remunerative. While studying in Brook ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lajos Rotter
Lajos () is a Hungarian masculine given name, cognate to the English Louis. People named Lajos include: Hungarian monarchs: * Lajos I, 1326-1382 (ruled 1342-1382) * Lajos II, 1506-1526 (ruled 1516-1526) In Hungarian politics: * Lajos Aulich, second Minister of War of Hungary * Lajos Batthyány, first Prime Minister of Hungary * Count Lajos Batthyány de Németújvár, county head of Győr and Governor of Fiume * Lajos Dinnyés, Prime Minister of Hungary from 1947 to 1948 * Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer, politician and Regent of Hungary In football: * Lajos Baróti, coach of the Hungary national football team * Lajos Czeizler, Hungarian football coach * Lajos Détári, retired Hungarian football player * Lajos Sătmăreanu, former Romanian football player * Lajos Tichy, Hungarian footballer In art: * Lajos Csordák, Hungarian/Slovak painter * Lajos Markos, Hungarian American painter * Lajos Koltai, Hungarian cinematographer and film director In Hungarian litera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotter Karakán
The Rotter Karakán or just the Karakán was a high performance Hungarian single seat sailplane. Two were built and set many national gliding records in the years before World War II. Design Like several other glider designers of the early 1930s, Lajos Rotter was impressed by Alexander Lippisch's Wien of 1929 and his high performance, single seat Karakán bears its influence. Like the Wien, the Karakán was a high aspect ratio sailplane with a two-piece high wing with a rectangular plan centre section and long, straight tapered outer panels. Both had thick section wings at the root which became progressively thinner over the outer panels. On both designs, ailerons occupied the whole trailing edge of these outer panels. Structurally, the wings were similar, with two spars of unequal strength; the forward spar beams were part of plywood covered D-boxes around the leading edges and the rear spar was a lighter simple beam. The wings were fabric covered behind the main spar, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Rotter
Oscar Rotter (b. 21 July, 1865), also with the German spelling Oskar Rotter, was a German-born New York physician and proponent of free love and contraception. Rotter's books included ''The Sexes and Love in Freedom'' and ''Jealousy, the Foe of Freedom'', and he published articles on free love, rebutting the views of Lucy Parsons. Rotter was also a driving force in the medico-economic movement, an early effort to address the economic pressures on the medical profession and pharmaceutical industry. Life and career Rotter was born in Landeck, Silesia, Germany. He was educated at the Royal St. Matthias Gymnasium in Breslau. After immigrating to the United States, he graduated from New York University Medical College in 1891 and earned a doctor of medicine degree. He was secretary of the Federation of the Medical Economic Leagues; chairman of the committee on Economic Research in Yorkville Medical Society; associate editor of ''The Medical Economist''; and local medical examiner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudy Rotter
Rudy Rotter (1913–2001) was an American outsider and self-taught artist residing in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Raised in Milwaukee, he moved to Manitowoc after the War in the late 1940s to set up a dental practice. After settling in and starting a family, he embarked on a simultaneous career as an artist. In the following decades he produced a prodigious volume of art. Upon retiring from dentistry in 1987, Rotter moved his artwork from the basement of his office to a large 100-year-old warehouse. As the warehouse filled with art, it was transformed into the self-designated Rudy Rotter Museum of Sculpture. Rotter created over 15,000 pieces of art over 45 years. Early life Rudy Rotter grew up on the south side of Milwaukee in an Eastern European immigrant neighborhood as the youngest of six children. The family arrived at the turn of the last century, moving into a Polish-speaking neighborhood. There they built up seven small businesses before the Crash of 1929. Despite a setback d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen A
Stephen Anthony Smith (born ) is an American sports television personality, sports radio host, and sports journalist. He is a commentator on ESPN's ''First Take'', where he appears with Molly Qerim. He also makes frequent appearances as an NBA analyst on '' SportsCenter''. Smith also is an NBA analyst for ESPN on ''NBA Countdown'' and NBA broadcasts on ESPN. He also hosted ''The Stephen A. Smith Show'' on ESPN Radio. Smith is a featured columnist for ESPNNY.com, ESPN.com, and ''The Philadelphia Inquirer''. Early life and education Stephen Anthony Smith was born in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. He was raised in the Hollis section of Queens. Smith is the fifth of six children. He has four older sisters and had a younger brother, Basil, who died in a car accident in 1992. He also has a half-brother on his father's side. Smith's parents were originally from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. His father managed a hardware store. Smith's maternal grandmother was white, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faris Badwan
Faris Adam Derar Badwan (born 21 September 1986) is an English musician, best known as the lead vocalist of the Horrors, and more recently as half of Cat's Eyes. Early life Born in Bexley, Kent on 21 September 1986 to a Palestinian father and English mother, Badwan grew up in Leamington Spa and Hillmorton, Rugby, Warwickshire, Rugby along with three brothers. Badwan attended the public school Arnold Lodge School in Leamington Spa before obtaining a scholarship in 1999 to the exclusive public school (England), public boarding school Rugby School, where he met future Horrors bassist and Synthesizer, synthesiser player Tom Cowan, also known as Tom Furse. When Badwan was 12 he became friends with future music producer Sophie (musician), Sophie. Continuing his education, Badwan moved to London to study illustration at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2004, eventually deferring from his studies to concentrate on his musical career with the band.Paphides, Pete (2006) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
