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Book Synopsis America by the Numbers by : Emmanuel Didier
Download or read book America by the Numbers written by Emmanuel Didier and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How new techniques of quantification shaped the New Deal and American democracy. When the Great Depression struck, the US government lacked tools to assess the situation; there was no reliable way to gauge the unemployment rate, the number of unemployed, or how many families had abandoned their farms to become migrants. In America by the Numbers, Emmanuel Didier examines the development in the 1930s of one such tool: representative sampling. Didier describes and analyzes the work of New Deal agricultural economists and statisticians who traveled from farm to farm, in search of information that would be useful for planning by farmers and government agencies. Didier shows that their methods were not just simple enumeration; these new techniques of quantification shaped the New Deal and American democracy even as the New Deal shaped the evolution of statistical surveys. Didier explains how statisticians had to become detectives and anthropologists, searching for elements that would help them portray America as a whole. Representative surveys were one of the most effective instruments for their task. He examines pre-Depression survey techniques; the invention of the random sampling method and the development of the Master Sample; and the application of random sampling by employment experts to develop the “Trial Census of Unemployment.”
Book Synopsis Natural Numbers by : Michael Shoulders
Download or read book Natural Numbers written by Michael Shoulders and published by Count Your Way Across the U.S.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Arkansas facts, symbols, geography, and famous places are introduced using numbers. Learn about 1 Pivot Rock, 3 ivory-bill woodpeckers, 8 square dancers, 20 pine trees, and more. Each topic is introduced with a poem, followed by detailed side-bar text"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis America by the Numbers by : William H. Frey
Download or read book America by the Numbers written by William H. Frey and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the makeup of the U.S. population covering such issues as race, immigration, language, wealth, and sexuality.
Download or read book One Nation 2000 written by and published by . This book was released on 1992* with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Count on Us written by Michael Shoulders and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fun colorful, and superbly informative book teaches children about numbers using recognizable places, events, and facts from the state of Tennessee.
Book Synopsis Darwinism Comes to America by : Ronald L. Numbers
Download or read book Darwinism Comes to America written by Ronald L. Numbers and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on crucial aspects of the history of Darwinism in America, Numbers gets to the heart of American resistance to Darwin's ideas. He provides a much-needed historical perspective on today's quarrels about creationism and evolution--and illuminates the specifically American nature of this struggle.
Book Synopsis Yankee Doodle Numbers by : Elissa D. Grodin
Download or read book Yankee Doodle Numbers written by Elissa D. Grodin and published by Count Your Way Across the U.S.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Using numbers as its backdrop, this book gives a travelogue of the state's historic moments, symbols, landmarks, and famous people. Included are topics such as lighthouses, railway cars, one-room schoolhouses, and geographic areas"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis Numbers from Nowhere by : David P. Henige
Download or read book Numbers from Nowhere written by David P. Henige and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past forty years an entirely new paradigm has developed regarding the contact population of the New World. Proponents of this new theory argue that the American Indian population in 1492 was ten, even twenty, times greater than previous estimates. In Numbers From Nowhere David Henige argues that the data on which these high counts are based are meager and often demonstrably wrong. Drawing on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, Henige illustrates the use and abuse of numerical data throughout history. He shows that extrapolation of numbers is entirely subjective, however masked it may be by arithmetic, and he questions what constitutes valid evidence in historical and scientific scholarship.
Download or read book Black Stats written by Monique W. Morris and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Stats—a comprehensive guide filled with contemporary facts and figures on African Americans—is an essential reference for anyone attempting to fathom the complex state of our nation. With fascinating and often surprising information on everything from incarceration rates, lending practices, and the arts to marriage, voting habits, and green jobs, the contextualized material in this book will better attune readers to telling trends while challenging commonly held, yet often misguided, perceptions. A compilation that at once highlights measures of incredible progress and enumerates the disparate impacts of social policies and practices, this book is a critical tool for advocates, educators, and policy makers. Black Stats offers indispensable information that is sure to enlighten discussions and provoke debates about the quality of Black life in the United States today—and help chart the path to a better future. There are less than a quarter-million Black public school teachers in the U.S.—representing just 7 percent of all teachers in public schools. Approximately half of the Black population in the United States lives in neighborhoods that have no White residents. In the five years before the Great Recession, the number of Black-owned businesses in the United States increased by 61 percent. A 2010 study found that 41 percent of Black youth feel that rap music videos should be more political. There are no Black owners or presidents of an NFL franchise team. 78 percent of Black Americans live within 30 miles of a coal-fired power plant, compared with 56 percent of White Americans.
Book Synopsis Husker Numbers by : Rajean Luebs Shepherd
Download or read book Husker Numbers written by Rajean Luebs Shepherd and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about Nebraska in this counting book.
Book Synopsis Running the Numbers by : Matthew Vaz
Download or read book Running the Numbers written by Matthew Vaz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day in the United States, people test their luck in numerous lotteries, from state-run games to massive programs like Powerball and Mega Millions. Yet few are aware that the origins of today’s lotteries can be found in an African American gambling economy that flourished in urban communities in the mid-twentieth century. In Running the Numbers, Matthew Vaz reveals how the politics of gambling became enmeshed in disputes over racial justice and police legitimacy. As Vaz highlights, early urban gamblers favored low-stakes games built around combinations of winning numbers. When these games became one of the largest economic engines in nonwhite areas like Harlem and Chicago’s south side, police took notice of the illegal business—and took advantage of new opportunities to benefit from graft and other corrupt practices. Eventually, governments found an unusual solution to the problems of illicit gambling and abusive police tactics: coopting the market through legal state-run lotteries, which could offer larger jackpots than any underground game. By tracing this process and the tensions and conflicts that propelled it, Vaz brilliantly calls attention to the fact that, much like education and housing in twentieth-century America, the gambling economy has also been a form of disputed terrain upon which racial power has been expressed, resisted, and reworked.
Book Synopsis Cardinal Numbers by : Marcia Schonberg
Download or read book Cardinal Numbers written by Marcia Schonberg and published by Count Your Way Across the U.S.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents short rhymes about numbers of objects from one through fourteen and provides information about the Ohio natural history and social studies topics that the objects represent. Also includes a set of open-ended counting problems.
Book Synopsis One Kansas Farmer by : Devin Scillian
Download or read book One Kansas Farmer written by Devin Scillian and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the success of S is for Sunflower: A Kansas Alphabet, husbandand- wife author team Devin and Corey Scillian join illustrator Doug Bowles in another rousing state tribute. One Kansas Farmer: A Kansas Number Book "counts out" an entertaining and educational travelogue of the state's history, geography, famous people, and places. Topics include the dancing prairie chickens and the invention of the microchip. Corey and Devin Scillian are graduates of the University of Kansas. They now live in Michigan where Devin anchors the news for WDIV-TV in Detroit. Devin's other children's books include the bestselling A is for America: An American Alphabet and Brewster the Rooster. Doug Bowles enjoys working with a wide range of clients in advertising, corporate, and editorial jobs, as well as in the children's book market. He also enjoys working on fine art collections and shows frequently in galleries around Kansas. Doug lives in Leawood, Kansas.
Download or read book Net Numbers written by Carol Crane and published by Count Your Way Across the U.S.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Using numbers, many of South Carolina's state symbols, historic landmarks, and famous people are introduced. Topics include Boykin Spaniels, Four Holes Swamp, and Carolina Mantids"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book One for All written by Trinka Hakes Noble and published by Count Your Way Across the U.S.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Using numbers many of Pennsylvania's state symbols, history, landscapes, and famous people are introduced. Topics include the Liberty Bell, fireflies, Gettysburg, Betsy Ross, and coal miners"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis 1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi by : Michael Shoulders
Download or read book 1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi written by Michael Shoulders and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a children's counting picture book in poetry and prose based upon the history, heritage, and industry of Mississippi.
Download or read book Show Me the Number written by Judy Young and published by Count Your Way Across the U.S.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Using numbers many of Missouri's state symbols, history, and landmarks, are introduced. Topics include trout, flags, Riverbluff Cave, and the Missouri Fox Trotting Horse"--Provided by publisher.
