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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9781422372739
Total Pages : 122 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 144, no. 3, 2000) written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9781422372746
Total Pages : 164 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 144, no. 4, 2000) written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9781422372722
Total Pages : 120 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 144, no. 2, 2000) written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9781422372715
Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 144, no. 1, 2000) written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rae Katherine Eighmey
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588345998
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Stirring the Pot with Benjamin Franklin written by Rae Katherine Eighmey and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable work, Rae Katherine Eighmey presents Franklin's delight and experimentation with food throughout his life. At age sixteen, he began dabbling in vegetarianism. In his early twenties, citing the health benefits of water over alcohol, he convinced his printing-press colleagues to abandon their traditional breakfast of beer and bread for "water gruel," a kind of tasty porridge he enjoyed. Franklin is known for his scientific discoveries, including electricity and the lightning rod, and his curiosity and logical mind extended to the kitchen. He even conducted an electrical experiment to try to cook a turkey and installed a state-of-the-art oven for his beloved wife Deborah. Later in life, on his diplomatic missions--he lived fifteen years in England and nine in France--Franklin ate like a local. Eighmey discovers the meals served at his London home-away-from-home and analyzes his account books from Passy, France, for insights to his farm-to-fork diet there. Yet he also longed for American foods; Deborah, sent over favorites including cranberries, which amazed his London kitchen staff. He saw food as key to understanding the developing culture of the United States, penning essays presenting maize as the defining grain of America. Stirring the Pot with Benjamin Franklin conveys all of Franklin's culinary adventures, demonstrating that Franklin's love of food shaped not only his life but also the character of the young nation he helped build.
Author : James Srodes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1596982225
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)
Download or read book Franklin written by James Srodes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-24 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian and biographer James Srodes tells Benjamin Franklin's incredible life story, making full use of the previously neglected Franklin papers to provide the most riveting account yet of the journalist, scientist, polilician, and unlikely adventurer. From London, Paris, Philadelphia to his numerous romantic liaisons, Franklin's life becomes a panorama of dramatic history.
Author : Michael Scott
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (819 download)
Download or read book The Christian Literary Imagination written by Michael Scott and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the Christian literary imagination? That question was put to the writers who have contributed to this collection of essays. They were asked, in answering it, to choose and write about a work of literature that seemed to them to illustrate one of the varied ways in which the Christian imagination sees the world, to define by example the meaning of the term. A variety of beliefs (or indeed unbeliefs) are expressed by the contributors and authors they selected to discuss. But what the essays have in common is an inquiry into the nature of belief and the means by which the reader’s imagination can itself be stirred through the work of the author under discussion. The book is structured chronologically, with essays on literature ranging from Anglo-Saxon England to 21st-Century America, but the contributors show a freedom of movement and reference across the centuries in their essays, sometimes deliberately juxtaposing the historical with the contemporary. What emerges from the collection is a shared inquiry into the enduring Christian vision of God’s engagement with the world.
Author : Kai Bird
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307424731
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book American Prometheus written by Kai Bird and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER • "A riveting account of one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.”—Christopher Nolan #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this magisterial, acclaimed biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer’s life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War. This is biography and history at its finest, riveting and deeply informative. “A masterful account of Oppenheimer’s rise and fall, set in the context of the turbulent decades of America’s own transformation. It is a tour de force.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “A work of voluminous scholarship and lucid insight, unifying its multifaceted portrait with a keen grasp of Oppenheimer’s essential nature.... It succeeds in deeply fathoming his most damaging, self-contradictory behavior.” —The New York Times
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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9781422371473
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (714 download)
Download or read book Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 112, no. 3, 1968) written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raminder Kaur
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000084426
Total Pages : 233 pages
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Download or read book Atomic Mumbai written by Raminder Kaur and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atomic Mumbai offers an insightful historical and ethnographic account of how nuclear issues are represented in popular culture, print media, films, documentaries, advertising and superhero comics, driven by perceptions of those based in the city of Mumbai, a prime site of nuclear establishments in India since the mid-1940s. Based on long-term fieldwork, and including rare photographs, narratives and extensive interviews, the volume documents urban nuclear imaginaries, along with their terrifying association with genetic mutation and death.
Author : Richard Kluger
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307266982
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Seizing Destiny written by Richard Kluger and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Less than 100 years after its creation as a fragile republic, the United States more than quadrupled its size, making it the world's third largest nation. No other country or sovereign power had ever grown so big so fast or become so rich and so powerful. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Kluger chronicles this epic achievement in a compelling narrative, celebrating the energy, daring, and statecraft behind America's insatiable land hunger while exploring the moral lapses that accompanied it. Comprehensive and balanced, Seizing Destiny is a revelatory, often surprising reexamination of the nation's breathless expansion, dwelling on both great accomplishments and the American people's tendency to confuse opportunistic success with heaven-sent entitlement that came to be called manifest destiny.
Author : Scott A. Trudell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192571699
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Unwritten Poetry written by Scott A. Trudell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vocal music was at the heart of English Renaissance poetry and drama. Virtuosic actor-singers redefined the theatrical culture of William Shakespeare and his peers. Composers including William Byrd and Henry Lawes shaped the transmission of Renaissance lyric verse. Poets from Philip Sidney to John Milton were fascinated by the disorienting influx of musical performance into their works. Musical performance was a driving force behind the period's theatrical and poetic movements, yet its importance to literary history has long been ignored or effaced. This book reveals the impact of vocalists and composers upon the poetic culture of early modern England by studying the media through which—and by whom—its songs were made. In a literary field that was never confined to writing, media were not limited to material texts. Scott Trudell argues that the media of Renaissance poetry can be conceived as any node of transmission from singer's larynx to actor's body. Through his study of song, Trudell outlines a new approach to Renaissance poetry and drama that is grounded not simply in performance history or book history but in a more synthetic media history.
Author : Anton Howes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691201900
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Arts and Minds written by Anton Howes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the extraordinary society that has touched all aspects of British life From its beginnings in a coffee house in the mid-eighteenth century, the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce has tried to improve British life in every way imaginable. It has sought to influence how Britons work, how they are educated, the music they listen to, the food they eat, the items in their homes, and even how they remember their own history. Arts and Minds is the remarkable story of an institution unlike any other—a society for the improvement of everything and anything. Drawing on exclusive access to a wealth of rare papers and artefacts from the Society's own archives, Anton Howes shows how this vibrant and singularly ambitious organisation has evolved and adapted, constantly having to reinvent itself to keep in step with changing times. The Society has served as a platform for Victorian utilitarian reformers, purchased and restored an entire village, encouraged the planting of more than sixty million trees, and sought technological alternatives to child labour. But this is more than just a story about unusual public initiatives. It is an engaging and authoritative history of almost three centuries of social reform and competing visions of a better world—the Society's members have been drawn from across the political spectrum, including Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Karl Marx. Informative and entertaining, Arts and Minds reveals how a society of public-spirited individuals tried to make their country a better place, and draws vital lessons from their triumphs and failures for all would-be reformers today.
Author : Brian K. Chappell
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030598012
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book State Responses to Nuclear Proliferation written by Brian K. Chappell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary fears of rogue state nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism pose unique challenges for the global community. This book offers a unique approach by examining why states that have the military capability to severely damage a proliferating state’s nuclear program instead choose to pursue coercive diplomacy. The author argues cognitive psychological influences, including the trauma derived from national tragedies like the September 11th attacks and the Holocaust, and a history of armed conflict increase the threat perceptions of foreign policy decision-makers when confronting a state perceived to be challenging the existing power structure by pursuing a nuclear weapon. The powerful state’s degree of perceived threat, combined with its national security policies, military power projection capabilities, and public support then influence whether it will take no action, use coercive diplomacy/sanctions, or employ military force to address the weaker state’s nuclear ambitions.
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1606180886
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (61 download)
Download or read book written by and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Birns
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498599532
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book The Hyperlocal in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literary Space written by Nicholas Birns and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines literary representations of hyperlocal spaces that subvert the idea of grounded and organic spatial identities. Figures such as the pond, the scientific particle, and Wedgwood creamware often go unnoticed, but they exemplify important shifts in culture and aesthetics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Hyperlocal in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literary Space argues that these objects, as well as locations such as alcoves in remote shires, city inns, and mountain retreats, were portrayed by writers in the late eighteenth and early-to-mid nineteenth centuries as gambits that challenged cultural hegemonies. It shows that the hyperlocal space or object, though particular, reaches beyond itself, affording an elasticity that can allow those things that seem beneath notice to reveal broader cultural significance.
Author : Sharon E. Kingsland
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801881718
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (817 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000 written by Sharon E. Kingsland and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1890s, several initiatives in American botany converged. The creation of new institutions, such as the New York Botanical Garden, coincided with radical reforms in taxonomic practice and the emergence of an experimental program of research on evolutionary problems. Sharon Kingsland explores how these changes gave impetus to the new field of ecology that was defined at exactly this time. She argues that the creation of institutions and research laboratories, coupled with new intellectual directions in science, were crucial to the development of ecology as a discipline in the United States. The main concern of ecology - the relationship between organisms and environment - was central to scientific studies aimed at understanding and controlling the evolutionary process. Kingsland considers the evolutionary context in which ecology arose, especially neo-Lamarckian ideas and the new mutation theory, and explores the relationship between scientific research and broader theories about social progress and the evolution of human civilization. By midcentury, American ecologists were leading the rapid development of ecosystem ecology. and society in the postwar context, foreshadowing the environmental critiques of the 1960s. As the ecosystem concept evolved, so too did debates about how human ecology should be incorporated into the biological sciences. Kingsland concludes with an examination of ecology in the modern urban environment, reflecting on how scientists are now being challenged to produce innovative responses to pressing problems. The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000 offers an innovative study not only of the scientific landscape in turn-of-the-century America, but of current questions in ecological science.
