A Centennial History of the Ecological Society of America

A Centennial History of the Ecological Society of America

Author: Frank N. Egerton

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2015-05-20

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1498700705

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Celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2015, the Ecological Society of America (ESA) is the largest professional society devoted to the science of ecology. A Centennial History of the Ecological Society of America tells the story of ESA's humble beginnings, growing from approximately 100 founding members and a modest publication of a few pages to a m


Eagle Scouts

Eagle Scouts

Author: Robert Birkby

Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780756697716

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In a celebration of the most elite Boy Scout rank, this book combines original stories from current and past Eagle Scouts, as well as information on the history of the rank, its awards, and famous Eagle Scouts.


The Yale-China Association

The Yale-China Association

Author: Nancy E. Chapman

Publisher: Chinese University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9789629960186

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The Yale-China Association's long legacy of work in China places it among the premier American organizations engaged in international service. Founded in 1901, Yale-China built on a long tradition of Yale's graduates founding churches, schools, and colleges in far-flung places. In time, the organization evolved into a bicultural educational enterprise, reflecting a spirit of intellectual tolerance and openness that adapted itself to China's changing conditions and needs. From its earliest years at the close of the Qing dynasty through wars, revolutions, and the modern era of reform, Yale-China's history was interwoven with China's own turbulent journey to find its place in the modern world. At certain points in its history, Yale-China was ahead of its time; at others, the organization was overwhelmed by social and political forces beyond its control or comprehension. Yale-China's history thus provides intriguing insights into the vagaries and complexities of America's interaction with China in the twentieth century, as well as the profound ambivalence with which many Chinese viewed the United States--its representatives, educational models, and intentions toward China--in this period.


The Future of Identity

The Future of Identity

Author: Kenneth Hoover

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2004-06-15

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0739155415

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As the world bears witness to the terror and warfare provoked by people's sense of who they are, how they are regarded, and what they deserve, we have entered into the 'age of identity.' Erik Erikson (1902-1994) was the prophet of this new age. His lifetime of clinical and interdisciplinary work on human development focused on the formation and maintenance of identity among people of diverse backgrounds: black, white, and Native American; rich, middle class, and poor; male and female. In this volume scholars from various disciplines, some who knew, worked with, and became good friends of Erikson, discuss and assess his legacy, and investigate the challenges that identity brings to the contemporary world. Contributions to this volume frame the challenge identity poses to contemporary scholarship through Erikson's own work, research in empirical and clinical psychology, individual and rational choice theories, Marxism, democratic theories of political participation, fundamentalism, and globalization . Through the book's truly trans-disciplinary scope, Erikson and his scholarship beg to be revisited by psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and students of interdisciplinary social sciences and humanities.


Gordon Parks Centennial

Gordon Parks Centennial

Author: Patricia McDonnell

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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This book celebrates photographer, filmmaker, composer, and author Gordon Parks, drawing on photographs and archival material held at Wichita State University. Parks's legacy involves a delicate confluence of artistic traditions and the vernacular creative forces in modern American experience. John Wright explores the forms of vision Parks employed across artistic media to grapple with the culture of contradictions he observed in 20th-century America. John S. Wright is professor of African American studies and English and principal scholar for the Archie Givens Sr. Collection of African American Literature and Life at the University of Minnesota. He is a leading scholar on the Harlem Renaissance and author Ralph Ellison.


Middle Tennessee State University

Middle Tennessee State University

Author: Janice M. Leone

Publisher:

Published: 2011-10-01

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780984435463

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When Middle Tennessee State Normal School opened its doors on September 11, 1911, 125 eager students enrolled in a teacher training program. Today, the edgling teachers'school has grown into Middle Tennessee State University, the largest undergraduate universityin Tennessee. is collection of essays, a centennial tribute that is both celebratory andcritical, reveals the school's laudable successes along with its growing pains over the past onehundred years. ese are accounts of the erce competition generated by Tennessee townsthat sought to win the right to build the school, the ongoing e orts by countless students, administrators, and alumni to create an acceptable identity for their university, and the story ofcampus women and African Americans who carved out a place for themselves as students andeducators. In other instances, teachers became professors, sports teams reached Division I-Astatus, and PhD programs appeared, all against a backdrop of economic boom and bust times, decades of war and peace as well as social and civic upheaval. e Middle Tennessee StateUniversity story is sure to educate, enlighten, and entertain.


The Legacy of Norbert Wiener: A Centennial Symposium

The Legacy of Norbert Wiener: A Centennial Symposium

Author: Norbert Wiener

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 0821804154

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This book contains lectures presented at the MIT symposium on the 100th anniversary of Norbert Wiener's birth held in October 1994. The topics reflect Wiener's main interests while emphasizing current developments. In addition to lectures dealing directly with problems on which Wiener worked, such as potential theory, harmonic analysis, Wiener-Hopf theory, and Paley-Wiener theory, the book discusses the following topics: BLFourier integral operators with complex phase (a contemporary successor to the Paley-Wiener theory) BLstatistical aspects of quantum mechanics and of liquid crystals BLfinancial markets, including the new trading strategies for options based on Wiener processes BLstatistical methods of genetic research BLmodels of the nervous system, pattern recognition, and the nature of intelligence The volume includes reviews on Norbert Wiener's contributions from historical and current perspectives. This book gives mathematical researchers an overview of new mathematical problems presented by other areas and gives researchers in other fields a broad overview of the ways in which advanced mathematics might be useful to them.


The Legacy of the Civil War

The Legacy of the Civil War

Author: Robert Penn Warren

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2015-11

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13: 0803299273

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In this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred thousand men killed) and economic (beyond reckoning) but social and psychological. He touches on popular misconceptions, including some concerning Abraham Lincoln and the issue of slavery. The war in all its facets "grows in our consciousness," arousing complex emotions and leaving "a gallery of great human images for our contemplation."