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The Lives of Dillon Ripley

Author : Roger D. Stone
Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 151260061X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book The Lives of Dillon Ripley written by Roger D. Stone and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Yale-educated Renaissance man, S. Dillon Ripley was a Òcourtly, determined, hugely ambitious, energetic, funny, and colorful ornithologist, conservationist, and cultural standard-bearerÓ who led the Smithsonian Institution for twenty years, during its greatest period of growth. During his watch, from 1964 to 1984, the SI added eight new museums and seven new research centers and began publication of the Smithsonian magazine. It was RipleyÕs vision that transformed Òthe nationÕs atticÓ from a dusty archive to a vibrant educational and cultural institution, just as he had transformed YaleÕs Peabody museum before it. Prior to his career at the SI, and running parallel with it for the rest of his life, was RipleyÕs work as an ornithologist, begun in New Guinea in the 1930s, continued through his PhD from Harvard in 1943, and culminating in his landmark thirty-year project documenting the bird life of India. His lifelong passion for ornithology led him to positions of leadership in worldwide nature conservation. In the midst of these endeavors he was recruited in 1944 to the Office of Strategic Services, a Yalie club at the outset that became the forerunner of the modern CIA. Posted to Ceylon, he recruited and ran agents who reported from and infiltrated Japanese-held Southeast Asia. Roger D. Stone worked with Ripley on the board of the World Wildlife Fund. He has access to the Ripley familyÕs archives and photos, as well as to the voluminous archives at the Smithsonian and the National Archives, and to over forty hours of transcribed interviews, conducted with Ripley at the Smithsonian.

The Lives of Dillon Ripley

Author : Roger D. Stone
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611686563
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book The Lives of Dillon Ripley written by Roger D. Stone and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the last Renaissance man

Music and the Making of Modern Science

Author : Peter Pesic
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262543907
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Music and the Making of Modern Science written by Peter Pesic and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging exploration of how music has influenced science through the ages, from fifteenth-century cosmology to twentieth-century string theory. In the natural science of ancient Greece, music formed the meeting place between numbers and perception; for the next two millennia, Pesic tells us in Music and the Making of Modern Science, “liberal education” connected music with arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy within a fourfold study, the quadrivium. Peter Pesic argues provocatively that music has had a formative effect on the development of modern science—that music has been not just a charming accompaniment to thought but a conceptual force in its own right. Pesic explores a series of episodes in which music influenced science, moments in which prior developments in music arguably affected subsequent aspects of natural science. He describes encounters between harmony and fifteenth-century cosmological controversies, between musical initiatives and irrational numbers, between vibrating bodies and the emergent electromagnetism. He offers lively accounts of how Newton applied the musical scale to define the colors in the spectrum; how Euler and others applied musical ideas to develop the wave theory of light; and how a harmonium prepared Max Planck to find a quantum theory that reengaged the mathematics of vibration. Taken together, these cases document the peculiar power of music—its autonomous force as a stream of experience, capable of stimulating insights different from those mediated by the verbal and the visual. An innovative e-book edition available for iOS devices will allow sound examples to be played by a touch and shows the score in a moving line.

The sacred grove

Author : Sidney Dillon Ripley
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1684941407
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book The sacred grove written by Sidney Dillon Ripley and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Capital Culture

Author : Neil Harris
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022606784X
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Capital Culture written by Neil Harris and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American art museums flourished in the late twentieth century, and the impresario leading much of this growth was J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 1969 to 1992. Along with S. Dillon Ripley, who served as Smithsonian secretary for much of this time, Brown reinvented the museum experience in ways that had important consequences for the cultural life of Washington and its visitors as well as for American museums in general. In Capital Culture, distinguished historian Neil Harris provides a wide-ranging look at Brown’s achievement and the growth of museum culture during this crucial period. Harris combines his in-depth knowledge of American history and culture with extensive archival research, and he has interviewed dozens of key players to reveal how Brown’s showmanship transformed the National Gallery. At the time of the Cold War, Washington itself was growing into a global destination, with Brown as its devoted booster. Harris describes Brown’s major role in the birth of blockbuster exhibitions, such as the King Tut show of the late 1970s and the National Gallery’s immensely successful Treasure Houses of Britain, which helped inspire similarly popular exhibitions around the country. He recounts Brown’s role in creating the award-winning East Building by architect I. M. Pei and the subsequent renovation of the West building. Harris also explores the politics of exhibition planning, describing Brown's courtship of corporate leaders, politicians, and international dignitaries. In this monumental book Harris brings to life this dynamic era and exposes the creation of Brown's impressive but costly legacy, one that changed the face of American museums forever.

Search for the Spiny Babbler

Author : Sidney Dillon Ripley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Search for the Spiny Babbler written by Sidney Dillon Ripley and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin

Author : Rachel Corbett
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393245063
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin written by Rachel Corbett and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Marfield Prize In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke—then a struggling poet in Germany—went to Paris to research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rilke in his twenties, delicate and unknown; Rodin in his sixties, carnal and revered. Yet they fell into an instantaneous friendship. Transporting readers to early twentieth-century Paris, Rachel Corbett’s You Must Change Your Life is a vibrant portrait of Rilke and Rodin and their circle, revealing how deeply Rodin’s ideas about art and creativity influenced Rilke’s classic Letters to a Young Poet.

The New York Supplement

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1288 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New York Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New York Supplement

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book New York Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes decisions of the Supreme Court and various intermediate and lower courts of record; May/Aug. 1888-Sept../Dec. 1895, Superior Court of New York City; Mar./Apr. 1926-Dec. 1937/Jan. 1938, Court of Appeals.

Unseen

Author : Dana Canedy
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN 13 : 0316552976
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Unseen written by Dana Canedy and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of stunning images from Black history have been buried in the New York Times photo archives for decades. Four Times staff members unearth these overlooked photographs and investigate the stories behind them in this remarkable collection. New York Times photo editor Darcy Eveleigh made an unwitting discovery when she found dozens of never-before-published photographs from Black history in the crowded bins of the Times archives in 2016. She and three colleagues, Dana Canedy, Damien Cave, and Rachel L. Swarns, began exploring the often untold stories behind the images and chronicling them in a series entitled “Unpublished Black History” that was later published by the newspaper. Unseen showcases those photographs and digs even deeper into the Times’s archives to include 175 photographs and the stories behind them in this extraordinary collection. Among the entries is a 27-year-old Jesse Jackson leading an anti-discrimination rally in Chicago; Rosa Parks arriving at a Montgomery courthouse in Alabama; a candid shot of Aretha Franklin backstage at the Apollo Theater; Ralph Ellison on the streets of his Manhattan neighborhood; the firebombed home of Malcolm X; and a series by Don Hogan Charles, the first black photographer hired by the Times, capturing life in Harlem in the 1960s. Why were these striking photographs not published? Did the images not arrive in time to make the deadline? Were they pushed aside by the biases of editors, whether intentional or unintentional? Unseen dives deep into the Times’s archives to showcase this rare collection of photographs and stories for the very first time.

New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.

Author : New York (State). Court of Appeals.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs. written by New York (State). Court of Appeals. and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume contains: 194 NY 508 (Matter of Lewis) 194 NY 508 (Matter of Haggerty) 194 NY 549 (Matter of Benoit) 194 NY 548 (Matter of Wells) 194 NY 546 (Matter of Hastings) 194 NY 547 (Matter of Voelbel)

Supreme Court

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
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Download or read book Supreme Court written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wallis in Love

Author : Andrew Morton
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1782437231
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Wallis in Love written by Andrew Morton and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Wallis in Love is a vivid, fresh and frankly amazing portrait of Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor. Morton draws on interviews, secret letters, diaries and never before seen or heard primary sources.

The Miscellaneous Reports

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miscellaneous Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Surrogate's Courts of the State of New York

Author : New York (State). Surrogates' Courts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Surrogate's Courts of the State of New York written by New York (State). Surrogates' Courts and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Global Transformations in the Life Sciences, 1945–1980

Author : Patrick Manning
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822986051
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Global Transformations in the Life Sciences, 1945–1980 written by Patrick Manning and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second half of the twentieth century brought extraordinary transformations in knowledge and practice of the life sciences. In an era of decolonization, mass social welfare policies, and the formation of new international institutions such as UNESCO and the WHO, monumental advances were made in both theoretical and practical applications of the life sciences, including the discovery of life’s molecular processes and substantive improvements in global public health and medicine. Combining perspectives from the history of science and world history, this volume examines the impact of major world-historical processes of the postwar period on the evolution of the life sciences. Contributors consider the long-term evolution of scientific practice, research, and innovation across a range of fields and subfields in the life sciences, and in the context of Cold War anxieties and ambitions. Together, they examine how the formation of international organizations and global research programs allowed for transnational exchange and cooperation, but in a period rife with competition and nationalist interests, which influenced dramatic changes in the field as the postcolonial world order unfolded.

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Surrogates' Courts of the State of New York

Author : New York (State). Surrogate's Court (New York County)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
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Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Surrogates' Courts of the State of New York written by New York (State). Surrogate's Court (New York County) and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: