A Georgetown Life

Author : Grant Quertermous
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781647120412

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A Georgetown Life by Grant Quertermous Pdf

An invaluable primary resource for understanding nineteenth-century America. As a Georgetown resident for nearly a century, Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon (1815 – 1911) was close to the key political events of her time. Born into the prominent Peter family, Kennon came into contact with the many notable historical figures of the day who often visited Tudor Place, her home for over ninety years. Now published for the first time, the record of her experiences offers a unique insight into nineteenth-century American history. Housed in the Tudor Place archives, "The Reminiscences of Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon" is a collection of Kennon’s memories solicited and recorded by her grandchildren in the 1890s. The text includes Kennon’s recollections of her mother Martha Custis Peter and spending time at Mount Vernon with her grandparents George and Martha Washington. She also recounts her childhood in Georgetown, life during the Civil War, the people enslaved at Tudor Place, and daily life in Washington, DC. Readers will also find it an essential companion to the incredible collection of objects preserved at Tudor Place. Edited by Grant Quertermous, this richly illustrated and annotated edition gives readers a greater appreciation of life in early Georgetown. It includes a guide to the city's streets then and now, a detailed family tree, and an appendix of the many people Britannia encountered—a who's who of the period. Notable for both its breadth and level of detail, A Georgetown Life brings a new dimension to the study of nineteenth-century America.

Author : Timothy J. Jorgensen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691248158

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Spark by Timothy J. Jorgensen Pdf

A fresh look at electricity and its powerful role in life on Earth When we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lighting up our electronic devices—or perhaps we envision the lightning-streaked clouds of a stormy sky. But electricity is more than an external source of power, heat, or illumination. Life at its essence is nothing if not electrical. The story of how we came to understand electricity’s essential role in all life is rooted in our observations of its influences on the body—influences governed by the body’s central nervous system. Spark explains the science of electricity from this fresh, biological perspective. Through vivid tales of scientists and individuals—from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk—Timothy Jorgensen shows how our views of electricity and the nervous system evolved in tandem, and how progress in one area enabled advancements in the other. He explains how these developments have allowed us to understand—and replicate—the ways electricity enables the body’s essential functions of sight, hearing, touch, and movement itself. Throughout, Jorgensen examines our fascination with electricity and how it can help or harm us. He explores a broad range of topics and events, including the Nobel Prize–winning discoveries of the electron and neuron, the history of experimentation involving electricity’s effects on the body, and recent breakthroughs in the use of electricity to treat disease. Filled with gripping adventures in scientific exploration, Spark offers an indispensable look at electricity, how it works, and how it animates our lives from within and without.

Author : C. David Heymann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0743428579

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The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club by C. David Heymann Pdf

A portrait of the political and social life of Georgetown cites the influence of such women as Katharine Graham, Lorraine Cooper, and Sally Quinn, while offering insight into Washington life in the late twentieth century.

Author : Gregg Herken
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307456342

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The Georgetown Set by Gregg Herken Pdf

In the years after World War II, Georgetown’s leafy streets were home to an unlikely group of Cold Warriors who helped shape American strategy. This coterie of affluent, well-educated, and connected civilians guided the country, for better and worse, from the Marshall Plan through McCarthyism, Watergate, and Vietnam. The Georgetown set included Phil and Kay Graham, husband-and-wife publishers of The Washington Post; Joe and Stewart Alsop, odd-couple brothers who were among the country’s premier political pundits; Frank Wisner, a driven, manic-depressive lawyer in charge of CIA covert operations; and a host of other diplomats, spies, and scholars. Gregg Herken gives us intimate portraits of these dedicated and talented, if deeply flawed, individuals, who navigated the Cold War years (often over cocktails and dinner) with very real consequences reaching into the present day. Throughout, he illuminates the drama and fascination of that noble, congenial, curious old world,” in Joe Alsop’s words, bringing this remarkable roster of men and women not only out into the open but vividly to life.

Author : Madhavi Sunder
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300146714

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From Goods to a Good Life by Madhavi Sunder Pdf

A law professor draws from social and cultural theory to defend her idea that that intellectual property law affects the ability of citizens to live a good life and prohibits people from making and sharing culture.

Author : Derek Richmond,Andrew Wilson
Publisher : College Prowler, Inc
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 1596580542

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Georgetown University College Prowler Off the Record by Derek Richmond,Andrew Wilson Pdf

Provides a look at Georgetown University from the students' viewpoint.

Author : Tobin Hansen,María Engracia Robles Robles
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781647120849

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Voices of the Border by Tobin Hansen,María Engracia Robles Robles Pdf

Powerful personal accounts from migrants crossing the US-Mexico border provide an understanding of their experiences, as well as the consequences of public policy

Author : Robert McAlister
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625855725

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Georgetown's North Island by Robert McAlister Pdf

North Island has always been the beacon from the sea leading toward Georgetown, South Carolina. It was an island of exploration for the Spanish in 1526 and the first landing place of Lafayette, France's hero of the American Revolution, in 1777. It was a summer resort for aristocratic rice planters and their slaves from Georgetown and Waccamaw Neck until 1861. North Island's lighthouse, built in 1812, led thousands of sailing ships from all over the world past massive stone jetties and through Winyah Bay to Georgetown. Today, North Island is a sanctuary and laboratory for the study of nature's effects on this unique barrier island. Join historian Robert McAlister as he recounts the island's storied past.

Author : John Thompson
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250619365

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I Came As a Shadow by John Thompson Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University’s legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court throws America’s unresolved struggle with racial justice into sharp relief John Thompson was never just a basketball coach and I Came As a Shadow is categorically not just a basketball autobiography. After three decades at the center of race and sports in America, the first Black head coach to win an NCAA championship is ready to make the private public. Chockful of stories and moving beyond mere stats (and what stats! three Final Fours, four times national coach of the year, seven Big East championships, 97 percent graduation rate), Thompson’s book drives us through his childhood under Jim Crow segregation to our current moment of racial reckoning. We experience riding shotgun with Celtics icon Red Auerbach, and coaching NBA Hall of Famers like Patrick Ewing and Allen Iverson. How did he inspire the phrase “Hoya Paranoia”? You’ll see. And thawing his historically glacial stare, Thompson brings us into his negotiation with a DC drug kingpin in his players’ orbit in the 1980s, as well as behind the scenes on the Nike board today. Thompson’s mother was a teacher who couldn’t teach because she was Black. His father could not read or write, so the only way he could identify different cements at the factory where he worked was to taste them. Their son grew up to be a man with his own life-sized statue in a building that bears his family’s name on a campus once kept afloat by the selling of 272 enslaved people. This is a great American story, and John Thompson’s experience sheds light on many of the issues roiling our nation. In these pages, he proves himself to be the elder statesman college basketball and the country need to hear from now. I Came As A Shadow is not a swan song, but a bullhorn blast from one of America’s most prominent sons.

Author : Flynn Coleman
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781640094284

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A Human Algorithm by Flynn Coleman Pdf

A groundbreaking narrative on the urgency of ethically designed AI and a guidebook to reimagining life in the era of intelligent technology. The Age of Intelligent Machines is upon us, and we are at a reflection point. The proliferation of fast–moving technologies, including forms of artificial intelligence akin to a new species, will cause us to confront profound questions about ourselves. The era of human intellectual superiority is ending, and we need to plan for this monumental shift. A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are examines the immense impact intelligent technology will have on humanity. These machines, while challenging our personal beliefs and our socioeconomic world order, also have the potential to transform our health and well–being, alleviate poverty and suffering, and reveal the mysteries of intelligence and consciousness. International human rights attorney Flynn Coleman deftly argues that it is critical that we instill values, ethics, and morals into our robots, algorithms, and other forms of AI. Equally important, we need to develop and implement laws, policies, and oversight mechanisms to protect us from tech’s insidious threats. To realize AI’s transcendent potential, Coleman advocates for inviting a diverse group of voices to participate in designing our intelligent machines and using our moral imagination to ensure that human rights, empathy, and equity are core principles of emerging technologies. Ultimately, A Human Algorithm is a clarion call for building a more humane future and moving conscientiously into a new frontier of our own design. “[Coleman] argues that the algorithms of machine learning––if they are instilled with human ethics and values––could bring about a new era of enlightenment.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Author : David Mould,Missy Loewe
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781614235309

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Remembering Georgetown by David Mould,Missy Loewe Pdf

Before John and Jackie lent a touch of Camelot to the famous red-bricked rows and even before the founding of the nation’s capital, Georgetown was an influential port city. Men such as the charismatic Scot Ninian Beall came to the Potomac shores to capitalize on the riches of the New World. Beaver pelts, great hogsheads of tobacco, and slaves all crossed the wharves of George Town. Through a series of vignettes, Missy Loewe and David Mould chronicle the fascinating history of the nation’s oldest neighborhood. Discover the lost port city from the days of the Revolution and the terror of the War of 1812 to the founding of Georgetown University and the town’s incorporation in the District of Columbia.

Author : Adam Rothman,Elsa Barraza Mendoza
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781647120979

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Facing Georgetown's History by Adam Rothman,Elsa Barraza Mendoza Pdf

These essays, articles, and documents introduce readers to the history of Georgetown University’s involvement in slavery and recent efforts to confront its troubling past. It traces Georgetown’s “Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation Initiative” and the role of universities–uniquely situated to conduct that reckoning through research, teaching, and modeling thoughtful discussion–in this movement.

Author : Lucinda Mosher
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 9781647121631

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The Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies by Lucinda Mosher Pdf

The Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies provides fifty thought-provoking chapters on the history, priorities, challenges, pedagogies, and practical applications of this emerging field, written by an international roster of practitioners of or experts across diverse religious traditions.

Author : Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00004516

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The Life and Writings of Jared Sparks Comprising Selections from His Journals and Correspondence by Adams Pdf

Author : Rick Massimo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781442251083

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A Walking Tour of the Georgetown Set by Rick Massimo Pdf

This walking tour of the neighborhood where the Georgetown Set lived includes recent photos of each house, anecdotes of its inhabitants—from Phillip and Katharine Graham to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to the Kennedys—as well as a map to guide you down the historical brick sidewalks of Georgetown.