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Chautauqua Institution, 1874-1974

Author : Kathleen Crocker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738505459
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Chautauqua Institution, 1874-1974 written by Kathleen Crocker and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s is fondly remembered as the heyday of the Chautauqua Lake region in southwestern New York State. It was a wondrous era, when railroads, steamboats, and trolleys transported local residents as well as wealthy and socially prominent families from Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cincinnati, and St. Louis to their summertime destinations around Chautauqua Lake. Showcased in Chautauqua Lake Region are not only adjacent lakeside communities, industries, and occupations of the residents but also the exceptional natural beauty of the lake itself, its importance to early navigation, its recreational attributes, and its overall allure as a tourist mecca. This "pocket museum" focuses on the myriad attractions that once dotted the lake's forty-two-mile shoreline: hotels, parks, camps, picnic groves, rowing clubs, boat liveries, fish hatcheries, icehouses, railroad and trolley depots, and steamboat landings.

Smith's Story of the Mennonites

Author : C. Henry Smith
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597520268
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Smith's Story of the Mennonites written by C. Henry Smith and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-01-26 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exceptional Creativity in Science and Technology

Author : Andrew Robinson
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 1599474301
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Exceptional Creativity in Science and Technology written by Andrew Robinson and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the evolution of science and technology, laws governing exceptional creativity and innovation have yet to be discovered. In his influential study The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the historian Thomas Kuhn noted that the final stage in a scientific breakthrough such as Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity—the most crucial step—was “inscrutable.” The same is still true half a century later. Yet, there has been considerable progress in understanding many stages and facets of exceptional creativity and innovation. In Exceptional Creativity in Science and Technology, editor Andrew Robinson gathers diverse contributors to explore this progress. This new collection arises from a symposium with the same title held at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton. Organized by the John Templeton Foundation, the symposium had the late distinguished doctor and geneticist Baruch S. Blumberg as its chair. At the same time, its IAS host was the well-known physicist Freeman J. Dyson—both of whom have contributed chapters to the book. In addition to scientists, engineers, and an inventor, the book’s fifteen contributors include an economist, entrepreneurs, historians, and sociologists, all working at leading institutions, including Bell Laboratories, Microsoft Research, Oxford University, Princeton University, and Stanford University. Each contributor brings a unique perspective to the relationships between exceptional scientific creativity and innovation by individuals and institutions. The diverse list of disciplines covered, the high-profile contributors (including two Nobel laureates), and their fascinating insights into this overarching question—how exactly do we make breakthroughs?—will make this collection of interest to anyone involved with the creative process in any context. Still, it will especially appeal to readers in scientific and technological fields.

Chemistry was Their Life

Author : Marelene F. Rayner-Canham
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 186094986X
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Chemistry was Their Life written by Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British chemistry has traditionally been depicted as a solely male endeavour. However, this perspective is untrue: the allure of chemistry has attracted women since the earliest times. Despite the barriers placed in their path, women studied academic chemistry from the 1880s onwards and made interesting or significant contributions to their fields, yet they are virtually absent from historical records.Comprising a unique set of biographies of 141 of the 896 known women chemists from 1880 to 1949, this work attempts to address the imbalance by showcasing the determination of these women to survive and flourish in an environment dominated by men. Individual biographical accounts interspersed with contemporary quotes describe how women overcame the barriers of secondary and tertiary education, and of admission to professional societies. Although these women are lost to historical records, they are brought together here for the first time to show that a vibrant culture of female chemists did indeed exist in Britain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Use of Lead Shot for Hunting Migratory Birds in the United States

Author : U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Use of Lead Shot for Hunting Migratory Birds in the United States written by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

America Goes Hawaiian

Author : Geoff Alexander
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147666949X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book America Goes Hawaiian written by Geoff Alexander and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Hawaiian and Polynesian culture come to dramatically alter American music, fashion and decor, as well as ideas about race, in less than a century? It began with mainland hula and musical performances in the late 19th century, rose dramatically as millions shipped to Hawaii during the Pacific War, then made big leap with the advent of low-cost air travel. By the end of the 1950s, mainlanders were hosting tiki parties, listening to exotic music, lazing on rattan furniture in Hawaiian shirts and, of course, surfing. Increasingly, they were marrying people outside of their own racial groups as well. The author describes how this cultural conquest came about and the people and events that led to it.

Decolonising Schools in South Africa

Author : Pam Christie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000075931
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decolonising Schools in South Africa written by Pam Christie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the challenge of dismantling colonial schooling and how entangled power relations of the past have lingered in post-apartheid South Africa. It examines the ‘on the ground’ history of colonialism from the vantage point of a small town in the Karoo region, showing how patterns of possession and dispossession have played out in the municipality and schools. Using the strong political and ontological critique of decoloniality theories, the book demonstrates the ways in which government interventions over many years have allowed colonial relations and the construction of racialised differences to linger in new forms, including unequal access to schooling. Written in an accessible style, the book considers how the dream of decolonial schooling might be realised, from the vantage point of research on the margins. This Karoo region also offers an interesting case study as the site where the world’s largest radio telescope was recently located and highlights the contrasting logics of international ‘big science’ and local development needs. This book will be of interest to academics and scholars in the education field as well as to social geographers, sociologists, human geographers, historians and policy makers. Chapters 1 and 10 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Latinos and the New Immigrant Church

Author : David A. Badillo
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 080188893X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Latinos and the New Immigrant Church written by David A. Badillo and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-06-19 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin Americans make up the largest new immigrant population in the United States, and Latino Catholics are the fastest-growing sector of the Catholic Church in America. In this book, historian David A. Badillo offers a history of Latino Catholicism in the United States by looking at its growth in San Antonio, Chicago, New York, and Miami. Focusing on twentieth-century Latino urbanism, Badillo contrasts broad historic commonalities of Catholic religious tradition with variations of Latino ethnicity in various locales. He emphasizes the contours of day-to-day life as well as various aspects of institutional and lived Catholicism. The story of Catholicism goes beyond clergy and laity; it entails the entire urban experience of neighborhoods, downtown power seekers, archdiocesan movers and shakers, and a range of organizations and associations linked to parishes. Although parishes remain the key site for Latino efforts to build individual and cultural identities, Badillo argues that one must consider simultaneously the triad of parish, city, and ethnicity to fully comprehend the influence of various Latino populations on both Catholicism and the urban environment in the United States. By contrasting the development of three distinctive Latino communities—the Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans—Badillo challenges the popular concept of an overarching "Latino experience" and offers instead an integrative approach to understanding the scope, depth, and complexity of the Latino contribution to the character of America's urban landscapes.

British Sport - A Bibliography to 2000

Author : Richard Cox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135287422
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book British Sport - A Bibliography to 2000 written by Richard Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume two of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.

Geophysics, Realism, and Industry

Author : Aitor Anduaga
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191071382
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Geophysics, Realism, and Industry written by Aitor Anduaga and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did industry and commerce affect the concepts, values and epistemic foundations of different sciences? If so, how and to what extent? This book suggests that the most significant influence of industry on science in the two case studies treated here had to do with the issue of realism. Using wave propagation as the common thread, this is the first book to simultaneously analyse the emergence of realist attitudes towards the entities of the ionosphere and of the earth's crust. However, what led physicists and engineers to adopt realist attitudes? This book suggests that a new kind of realism —a realism of social and cultural origins- is the answer: a preliminary, entity realism responding to specific commercial and engineering interests, and a realism that was neither strictly instrumental nor exclusively operational. The book has two parts: while Part I focuses on the study of the ionosphere and how the British radio industry affected ionospheric physics, Part II focuses on the study of the Earth's crust and how the American oil industry affected crustal seismology.

Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), Wilderness Suitability

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), Wilderness Suitability written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imaging and Imagining the Fetus

Author : Malcolm Nicolson
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408244
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Imaging and Imagining the Fetus written by Malcolm Nicolson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How engineers and clinicians developed the ultrasound diagnostic scanner and how its use in obstetrics became controversial. To its proponents, the ultrasound scanner is a safe, reliable, and indispensable aid to diagnosis. Its detractors, on the other hand, argue that its development and use are driven by the technological enthusiasms of doctors and engineers (and the commercial interests of manufacturers) and not by concern to improve the clinical care of women. In some U.S. states, an ultrasound scan is now required by legislation before a woman can obtain an abortion, adding a new dimension to an already controversial practice. Imaging and Imagining the Fetus engages both the development of a modern medical technology and the concerted critique of that technology. Malcolm Nicolson and John Fleming relate the technical and social history of ultrasound imaging—from early experiments in Glasgow in 1956 through wide deployment in the British hospital system by 1975 to its ubiquitous use in maternity clinics throughout the developed world by the end of the twentieth century. Obstetrician Ian Donald and engineer Tom Brown created ultrasound technology in Glasgow, where their prototypes were based on the industrial flaw detector, an instrument readily available to them in the shipbuilding city. As a physician, Donald supported the use of ultrasound for clinical purposes, and as a devout High Anglican he imbued the images with moral significance. He opposed abortion—decisions about which were increasingly guided by the ultrasound technology he pioneered—and he occasionally used ultrasound images to convince pregnant women not to abort the fetuses they could now see. Imaging and Imagining the Fetus explores why earlier innovators failed where Donald and Brown succeeded. It also shows how ultrasound developed into a "black box" technology whose users can fully appreciate the images they produce but do not, and have no need to, understand the technology, any more than do users of computers. These "images of the fetus may be produced by machines," the authors write, "but they live vividly in the human imagination."

1894

Author : Hub Hermans
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051839319
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book 1894 written by Hub Hermans and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1996 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

La science et le monde moderne d'Alfred North Whitehead?

Author : François Beets
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110322080
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book La science et le monde moderne d'Alfred North Whitehead? written by François Beets and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second international Chromatiques whiteheadiennes conference was devoted exclusively to the exegesis and contextualization of Whitehead's Science and the Modern World (1925). In order to elucidate the meaning and significance of this epoch-making work, the Proceedings are designed to form "companion" volume. With one paper devoted to each of its thirteen chapters, the Proceedings aim, on the one hand, to identify the specific contribution of each chapter to Whitehead's own research program - that is to say, to put its categories into perspective by means of an internal analysis- and, on the other hand, to identify its global impact in the history of ideas.

Enigma

Author : Robert Ferguson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374520933
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Enigma written by Robert Ferguson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1988-05 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford History of Hinduism: Modern Hinduism

Author : Torkel Brekke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192508199
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford History of Hinduism: Modern Hinduism written by Torkel Brekke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of Hinduism: Modern Hinduism focuses on developments resulting from movements within the tradition as well as contact between India and the outside world through both colonialism and globalization. Divided into three parts, part one considers the historical background to modern conceptualizations of Hinduism. Moving away from the reforms of the 19th and early 20th century, part two includes five chapters each presenting key developments and changes in religious practice in modern Hinduism. Part three moves to issues of politics, ethics, and law. This section maps and explains the powerful legal and political contexts created by the modern state—first the colonial government and then the Indian Republic—which have shaped Hinduism in new ways. The last two chapters look at Hinduism outside India focusing on Hinduism in Nepal and the modern Hindu diaspora.

100 Fascinating Londoners

Author : Michael Baker
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 9781550288827
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book 100 Fascinating Londoners written by Michael Baker and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2005-11-07 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These brief biographies reflect a century and a half of London's history and reflect key events and fascinating adventures drawn from the lives of people from all walks of life who made a lasting impression on their hometown.