The Comstocks Of Cornell The Definitive Autobiography

Author : Anna Botsford Comstock
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501716294

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The Comstocks of Cornell—The Definitive Autobiography by Anna Botsford Comstock Pdf

The Comstocks of Cornell is the autobiography written by the naturalist educator Anna Botsford Comstock about her life and that of her husband, the entomologist John Henry Comstock—both prominent figures in the scientific community and in Cornell University history. A first edition was published in 1953, but it omitted key Cornellians, historical anecdotes, and personal insights. In this twenty-first-century edition, Karen Penders St. Clair restores the author's voice by reconstructing the entire manuscript as Anna Comstock wrote it—and thereby preserves Comstock's memories of the personal and professional lives of the couple as she originally intended. The book includes an epilogue documenting the Comstocks' last years and fills in gaps from the 1953 edition. Described as serious legacy work, this book is an essential part of the history of both Cornell University and its press.

Author : Cynthia Barnett
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780393651454

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The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans by Cynthia Barnett Pdf

A Science Friday Best Science Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the Year A Tampa Bay Times Best Book of the Year A stunning history of seashells and the animals that make them that "will have you marveling at nature…Barnett’s account remarkably spirals out, appropriately, to become a much larger story about the sea, about global history and about environmental crises and preservation" (John Williams, New York Times Book Review). Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature’s creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before gems, art before canvas. In The Sound of the Sea, acclaimed environmental author Cynthia Barnett blends cultural history and science to trace our long love affair with seashells and the hidden lives of the mollusks that make them. Spiraling out from the great cities of shell that once rose in North America to the warming waters of the Maldives and the slave castles of Ghana, Barnett has created an unforgettable history of our world through an examination of the unassuming seashell. She begins with their childhood wonder, unwinds surprising histories like the origin of Shell Oil as a family business importing exotic shells, and charts what shells and the soft animals that build them are telling scientists about our warming, acidifying seas. From the eerie calls of early shell trumpets to the evolutionary miracle of spines and spires and the modern science of carbon capture inspired by shell, Barnett circles to her central point of listening to nature’s wisdom—and acting on what seashells have to say about taking care of each other and our world.

Author : Liberty Hyde Bailey
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781501772634

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The Nature-Study Idea by Liberty Hyde Bailey Pdf

In The Nature-Study Idea, Liberty Hyde Bailey articulated the essence of a social movement, led by ordinary public-school teachers, that lifted education out of the classroom and placed it into firsthand contact with the natural world. The aim was simple but revolutionary: sympathy with nature to increase the joy of living and foster stewardship of the earth. With this definitive edition, John Linstrom reintroduces The Nature-Study Idea as an environmental classic for our time. It provides historical context through a wealth of related writings, and introductory essays relate Bailey's vision to current work in education and the intersection of climate change and culture. In this period of planetary turmoil, Bailey's ambition to cultivate wonder (in adults as well as children) and lead readers back into the natural world is more important than ever.

Author : Lawrence B. Glickman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Economic policy
ISBN : 9780300238259

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Free Enterprise by Lawrence B. Glickman Pdf

An incisive look at the intellectual and cultural history of free enterprise and its influence on American politics Throughout the twentieth century, "free enterprise" has been a contested keyword in American politics, and the cornerstone of a conservative philosophy that seeks to limit government involvement into economic matters. Lawrence B. Glickman shows how the idea first gained traction in American discourse and was championed by opponents of the New Deal. Those politicians, believing free enterprise to be a fundamental American value, held it up as an antidote to a liberalism that they maintained would lead toward totalitarian statism. Tracing the use of the concept of free enterprise, Glickman shows how it has both constrained and transformed political dialogue. He presents a fascinating look into the complex history, and marketing, of an idea that forms the linchpin of the contemporary opposition to government regulation, taxation, and programs such as Medicare.

Author : Riché Richardson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478012504

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Emancipation's Daughters by Riché Richardson Pdf

In Emancipation's Daughters, Riché Richardson examines iconic black women leaders who have contested racial stereotypes and constructed new national narratives of black womanhood in the United States. Drawing on literary texts and cultural representations, Richardson shows how five emblematic black women—Mary McLeod Bethune, Rosa Parks, Condoleezza Rice, Michelle Obama, and Beyoncé—have challenged white-centered definitions of American identity. By using the rhetoric of motherhood and focusing on families and children, these leaders have defied racist images of black women, such as the mammy or the welfare queen, and rewritten scripts of femininity designed to exclude black women from civic participation. Richardson shows that these women's status as national icons was central to reconstructing black womanhood in ways that moved beyond dominant stereotypes. However, these formulations are often premised on heteronormativity and exclude black queer and trans women. Throughout Emancipation's Daughters, Richardson reveals new possibilities for inclusive models of blackness, national femininity, and democracy.

Author : Alan Greenspan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0143114166

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The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan Pdf

From the bestselling author of The Map and the Territory and Capitalism in America The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan’s incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. Following the arc of his remarkable life’s journey through his more than eighteen-year tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board to the present, in the second half of The Age of Turbulence Dr. Greenspan embarks on a magnificent tour d’horizon of the global economy. The distillation of a life’s worth of wisdom and insight into an elegant expression of a coherent worldview, The Age of Turbulence will stand as Alan Greenspan’s personal and intellectual legacy.

Author : Benjamin Graham
Publisher : Harpercollins
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Investments.
ISBN : 0060155477

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The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham Pdf

Analyzes the principles of stock selection and various approaches to investing, and compares the patterns and behavior of specific securities under diverse economic conditions

Author : Chiara Formichi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107106123

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Islam and Asia by Chiara Formichi Pdf

An accessible, transregional exploration of how Islam and Asia have shaped each other's histories, societies and cultures from the seventh century to today.

Author : Elias Aboujaoude
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780393080759

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Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality by Elias Aboujaoude Pdf

"Instantly engaging and eminently accessible . . . . an enlightening and cautionary exploration of an increasingly intrusive aspect of modern society." —Booklist While the Internet can enhance well-being, Elias Aboujaoude has spent years treating patients whose lives have been profoundly disturbed by it. Part of the danger lies in how the Internet allows us to act with exaggerated confidence, sexiness, and charisma. Aboujaoude dubs this new self our “e-personality” and argues that its traits are too potent to be confined online. Offline, too, we’re becoming impatient, unfocused, and urge-driven. Virtually You draws from Aboujaoude’s personal and professional experience to highlight this new phenomenon. The first scrutiny of the virtual world’s transformative power on our psychology, Virtually You demonstrates how real life is being reconfigured in the image of a chat room, and how our identity increasingly resembles that of our avatar.

Author : Suzanne Slade
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781634723992

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Out of School and Into Nature by Suzanne Slade Pdf

This picture book biography examines the life and career of naturalist and artist Anna Comstock (1854-1930), who defied social conventions and pursued the study of science. From the time she was a young girl, Anna Comstock was fascinated by the natural world. She loved exploring outdoors, examining wildlife and learning nature's secrets. From watching the teamwork of marching ants to following the constellations in the sky, Anna observed it all. And her interest only increased as she grew older and went to college at Cornell University. There she continued her studies, pushing back against those social conventions that implied science was a man's pursuit. Eventually Anna became known as a nature expert, pioneering a movement to encourage schools to conduct science and nature classes for children outdoors, thereby increasing students' interest in nature. In following her passion, this remarkable woman blazed a trail for female scientists today.

Author : AQR Capital Management, LLC
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1532385382

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20 for Twenty by AQR Capital Management, LLC Pdf

Author : Ezra Pound,Ernest Fenollosa
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1505374464

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Instigations by Ezra Pound,Ernest Fenollosa Pdf

Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972) was an American poet and harsh critic following World War I. Pound was also a key contributor to the Modernist movement. One of Pound's most famous works is Instigations which is a series of essays critiquing a variety of writers and books.

Author : C. Edwin Baker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780195360028

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Human Liberty and Freedom of Speech by C. Edwin Baker Pdf

Although an inchoate liberty theory of freedom of speech has deep roots in Supreme Court decisions and political history, it has been overshadowed in judicial decisions and scholarly commentary by the marketplace of ideas theory. In this book, Baker critiques the assumptions required by the marketplace of ideas theory and develops the liberty theory, showing its philosophical soundness, persuasiveness, and ability to protect free speech. He argues that First Amendment liberty rights (as well as Fourteenth Amendment equality rights) required by political or moral theory are central to the possibility of progressive change. Problem areas are examined, including the question of whether individual political and civil rights can in principle be distinguished from property rights, freedom of the press, and the use of public spaces for expressive purposes.

Author : Naomi Sawelson-Gorse
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262692600

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Women in Dada by Naomi Sawelson-Gorse Pdf

his book is the first to make the case that women's changing role in European and American society was critical to Dada.

Author : David Elliston Allen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691036322

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The Naturalist in Britain by David Elliston Allen Pdf

At once a major resource for historians of science and an excellent introduction to natural history for the general reader, David Allen's The Naturalist in Britain established a precedent for investigating natural history as a social phenomenon. Here the author traces the evolution of natural history from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the "herbalizings" of apprentice apothecaries to the establishment of national reserves and international societies to the emergence of natural history as an organized discipline. Along the way he describes the role of scientific ideas, popular fashion, religious motivations, literary influences, the increase of leisure time and disposable income, and the tendency of like-minded persons to form clubs. His comprehensive and entertaining discussion creates a vibrant portrait of a scientific movement inextricably woven into a particular culture.