Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lawren Greene
Page : 1035 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781607022824
Diary of a Waterman
Anonim
Diary Of A Waterman
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Science, Cold War and the American State
Allan A. Needell
Author : Allan A. Needell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135852795
Science, Cold War and the American State by Allan A. Needell Pdf
This book illuminates how Berkner became a model that produced the scientist/advisor/policymaker that helped build post-war America. It does so by providing a detailed account of the personal and professional beliefs of one of the most influential figures in the American scientific community; a figure that helped define the political and social climates that existed in the United States during the Cold War.
The Waterman's Song
David S. Cecelski
Author : David S. Cecelski
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807869727
The Waterman's Song by David S. Cecelski Pdf
The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman's Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to the upper reaches of tidewater rivers. Demonstrating the vitality and significance of this local African American maritime culture, David Cecelski also reveals its connections to the Afro-Caribbean, the relatively egalitarian work culture of seafaring men who visited nearby ports, and the revolutionary political tides that coursed throughout the black Atlantic. Black maritime laborers played an essential role in local abolitionist activity, slave insurrections, and other antislavery activism. They also boatlifted thousands of slaves to freedom during the Civil War. But most important, Cecelski says, they carried an insurgent, democratic vision born in the maritime districts of the slave South into the political maelstrom of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Shaping Biology
Toby A. Appel
Author : Toby A. Appel
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780801873478
Shaping Biology by Toby A. Appel Pdf
Historians of the postwar transformation of science have focused largely on the physical sciences, especially the relation of science to the military funding agencies. In Shaping Biology, Toby A. Appel brings attention to the National Science Foundation and federal patronage of the biological sciences. Scientists by training, NSF biologists hoped in the 1950s that the new agency would become the federal government's chief patron for basic research in biology, the only agency to fund the entire range of biology—from molecules to natural history museums—for its own sake. Appel traces how this vision emerged and developed over the next two and a half decades, from the activities of NSF's Division of Biological and Medical Sciences, founded in 1952, through the cold war expansion of the 1950s and 1960s and the constraints of the Vietnam War era, to its reorganization out of existence in 1975. This history of NSF highlights fundamental tensions in science policy that remain relevant today: the pull between basic and applied science; funding individuals versus funding departments or institutions; elitism versus distributive policies of funding; issues of red tape and accountability. In this NSF-funded study, Appel explores how the agency developed, how it worked, and what difference it made in shaping modern biology in the United States. Based on formerly untapped archival sources as well as on interviews of participants, and building upon prior historical literature, Shaping Biology covers new ground and raises significant issues for further research on postwar biology and on federal funding of science in general.
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness
Adina Hoffman
Author : Adina Hoffman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300155808
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness by Adina Hoffman Pdf
This first biography of a Palestinian writer also provides a moving account of the ways “ordinary” individuals are swept up by the floodtides of both war and peace Beautifully written, and composed with a novelist’s eye for detail, this book tells the story of an exceptional man and the culture from which he emerged.Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriyya and was forced to flee during the war in 1948. He traveled on foot to Lebanon and returned a year later to find his village destroyed. An autodidact, he has since run a souvenir shop in Nazareth, at the same time evolving into what National Book Critics Circle Award–winner Eliot Weinberger has dubbed “perhaps the most accessible and delightful poet alive today.”As it places Muhammad Ali’s life in the context of the lives of his predecessors and peers, My Happiness offers a sweeping depiction of a charged and fateful epoch. It is a work that Arabic scholar Michael Sells describes as “among the five ‘must read’ books on the Israel-Palestine tragedy.” In an era when talk of the “Clash of Civilizations” dominates, this biography offers something else entirely: a view of the people and culture of the Middle East that is rich, nuanced, and, above all else, deeply human.
Benton MacKaye
Larry Anderson
Author : Larry Anderson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-12-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801869021
Benton MacKaye by Larry Anderson Pdf
MacKaye's seminal ideas on outdoor recreation, wilderness protection, land-use planning, community development, and transportation have inspired generations of activists, professionals, and adventurers seeking to strike a harmonious balance between human need and the natural environment.".
Open Skies
Kenneth I. Kellermann,Ellen N. Bouton,Sierra S. Brandt
Author : Kenneth I. Kellermann,Ellen N. Bouton,Sierra S. Brandt
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : 9783030323455
Open Skies by Kenneth I. Kellermann,Ellen N. Bouton,Sierra S. Brandt Pdf
This open access book on the history of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory covers the scientific discoveries and technical innovations of late 20th century radio astronomy with particular attention to the people and institutions involved. The authors have made extensive use of the NRAO Archives, which contain an unparalleled collection of documents pertaining to the history of radio astronomy, including the institutional records of NRAO as well as the personal papers of many of the pioneers of U.S. radio astronomy. Technical details and extensive citations to original sources are given in notes for the more technical readers, but are not required for an understanding of the body of the book. This book is intended for an audience ranging from interested lay readers to professional researchers studying the scientific, technical, political, and cultural development of a new science, and how it changed the course of 20th century astronomy.
Translate this Darkness
Claire Douglas
Author : Claire Douglas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780691236964
Translate this Darkness by Claire Douglas Pdf
Christiana Morgan was an erotic muse who influenced twentieth-century psychology and inspired its male creators, including C. G. Jung, who saw in her the quintessential "anima woman." Here Claire Douglas offers the first biography of this remarkable woman, exploring how Morgan yearned to express her genius yet sublimated it to spark not only Jung but also her own lover Henry A. Murray, a psychologist who with her help invented the thematic apperception test (TAT). Douglas recounts Morgan's own contributions to the study of emotions and feelings at the Harvard Psychological Clinic and vividly describes the analyst's turbulent life: her girlhood in a prominent Boston family; her difficult marriage; her intellectual awakening in postwar New York; her impassioned analysis with Jung, including her "visions" of a woman's heroic quest, many of which furthered his work on archetypes; her love affairs and experiences with sexual experimentation; her alcoholism; and, finally, her tragic death.
Performing Peace and Friendship
Pia Koivunen
Author : Pia Koivunen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110761160
Performing Peace and Friendship by Pia Koivunen Pdf
Performing Peace and Friendship tells the story of how the Soviet Union succeeded in utilizing the World Festival of Youth and Students in its cultural diplomacy from late Stalinism through the early Khrushchev period. Pia Koivunen discusses the evolution of the youth gathering into a Soviet cultural product starting from the first festival held in Prague in 1947 and ending with the Moscow 1957 gathering, the latter becoming one of the most frequently referred moments of Khrushchev’s Thaw. By combining both institutional and grass-roots’ perspectives, the book widens our understanding of what Soviet cultural diplomacy was in practice, re-evaluates the agency of young people and provides new insights into the Soviet role in the cultural Cold War. Koivunen argues that rather than simply being orchestrated rallies by the Kremlin bureaucrats, the World Youth Festivals also became significant spaces of transnational encounters for young people, who found ways to employ the event for overcoming the various restrictions and boundaries of the Cold War world.
Leroy Waterman and the University of Michigan Excavations at Sepphoris, 1931
Elaine K. Gazda,Elise A. Friedland
Author : Elaine K. Gazda,Elise A. Friedland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : UOM:39015055584562
Leroy Waterman and the University of Michigan Excavations at Sepphoris, 1931 by Elaine K. Gazda,Elise A. Friedland Pdf
A Patron for Pure Science
James Merton England
Author : James Merton England
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Science
ISBN : UIUC:30112072095299
A Patron for Pure Science by James Merton England Pdf
Men of Letters
Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan
Author : Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458722874
Men of Letters by Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan Pdf
In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, the role of the citizen was seen as largely political. But as Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan reveals, some Americans believed that neither the nation nor they themselves could achieve virtue and happiness through politics alone. Imagining a different kind of citizenship, they founded periodicals, circulated manuscripts, and conversed about poetry, art, and the nature of man. They pondered William Godwin and Edmund Burke more carefully than they did candidates for local elections and insisted other Americans should do so as well. Kaplan looks at three groups in particular: the Friendly Club in New York City, which revolved around Elihu Hubbard Smith, with collaborators such as William Dunlap and Charles Brockden Brown; the circle around Joseph Dennie, editor of two highly successful periodicals; and the Anthologists of the Boston Athenaeum. Trough these groups, Kaplan demonstrates, an enduring and influential model of the man of letters emerged in the first decade of the nineteenth century.
A Minor Miracle
Milton Lomask
Author : Milton Lomask
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210023571076
A Minor Miracle by Milton Lomask Pdf
Men of Letters in the Early Republic
Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan
Author : Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838808
Men of Letters in the Early Republic by Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan Pdf
In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, after decades of intense upheaval and debate, the role of the citizen was seen as largely political. But as Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan reveals, some Americans saw a need for a realm of public men outside politics. They believed that neither the nation nor they themselves could achieve virtue and happiness through politics alone. Imagining a different kind of citizenship, they founded periodicals, circulated manuscripts, and conversed about poetry, art, and the nature of man. They pondered William Godwin and Edmund Burke more carefully than they did candidates for local elections and insisted other Americans should do so as well. Kaplan looks at three groups in particular: the Friendly Club in New York City, which revolved around Elihu Hubbard Smith, with collaborators such as William Dunlap and Charles Brockden Brown; the circle around Joseph Dennie, editor of two highly successful periodicals; and the Anthologists of the Boston Athenaeum. Through these groups, Kaplan demonstrates, an enduring and influential model of the man of letters emerged in the first decade of the nineteenth century.
AURA and Its US National Observatories
Frank K. Edmondson
Author : Frank K. Edmondson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521553458
AURA and Its US National Observatories by Frank K. Edmondson Pdf
A new source of funding for astronomy stemmed from the creation of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1950. Astronomers were quick to take advantage of the opportunity to found new observatories. The science and politics of the establishment ,funding, construction and operation of the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) by the Association of Universities for research in Astronomy, (AURA), are here, seen from the unique perspective of Frank K. Edmondson, a former member of the AURA board of directors.
