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Rosa Franklin
Author | : Tamiko Nimura |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-12-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780982754122 |
Biography of former Washington State Senator Rosa Franklin
The Antiquities of Wisconsin
Author | : Increase Allen Lapham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
A Geography Of Time
Author | : Robert N. Levine |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2008-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0786722533 |
In this engaging and spirited book, eminent social psychologist Robert Levine asks us to explore a dimension of our experience that we take for granted—our perception of time. When we travel to a different country, or even a different city in the United States, we assume that a certain amount of cultural adjustment will be required, whether it's getting used to new food or negotiating a foreign language, adapting to a different standard of living or another currency. In fact, what contributes most to our sense of disorientation is having to adapt to another culture's sense of time.Levine, who has devoted his career to studying time and the pace of life, takes us on an enchanting tour of time through the ages and around the world. As he recounts his unique experiences with humor and deep insight, we travel with him to Brazil, where to be three hours late is perfectly acceptable, and to Japan, where he finds a sense of the long-term that is unheard of in the West. We visit communities in the United States and find that population size affects the pace of life—and even the pace of walking. We travel back in time to ancient Greece to examine early clocks and sundials, then move forward through the centuries to the beginnings of ”clock time” during the Industrial Revolution. We learn that there are places in the world today where people still live according to ”nature time,” the rhythm of the sun and the seasons, and ”event time,” the structuring of time around happenings(when you want to make a late appointment in Burundi, you say, ”I'll see you when the cows come in”).Levine raises some fascinating questions. How do we use our time? Are we being ruled by the clock? What is this doing to our cities? To our relationships? To our own bodies and psyches? Are there decisions we have made without conscious choice? Alternative tempos we might prefer? Perhaps, Levine argues, our goal should be to try to live in a ”multitemporal” society, one in which we learn to move back and forth among nature time, event time, and clock time. In other words, each of us must chart our own geography of time. If we can do that, we will have achieved temporal prosperity.
Maryland Historical Magazine
Author | : William Hand Browne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Maryland |
ISBN | : |
Includes the proceedings of the Society.
Changing the World
Author | : Jeffrey L. Rodengen |
Publisher | : Write Stuff Syndicate |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Polytechnic University, the second oldest private engineering and science institution in the United States, has for over 150 years provided the academic crucible and talent to advance the principles and frontiers of engineering and technology which have improved the lives of the vast majority of the world's inhabitants. Its students and professors have been honored for groundbreaking discoveries in numerous areas, including microwave technology, aeronautics, barcode technology, polymer science, and telecommunications. Noted author Jeffrey L. Rodengen details the rich and colorful history of this distinguished institution, ranked in the top 10 percent of all U.S. colleges and universities by The Princeton Review. Foreword by Wm. A. Wulf, PhD, president of the National Academy of Engineering.
A Troublesome Inheritance
Author | : Nicholas Wade |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2014-05-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0698163796 |
Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For this understandable reason, the idea has been banished from polite academic conversation. Arguing that race is more than just a social construct can get a scholar run out of town, or at least off campus, on a rail. Human evolution, the consensus view insists, ended in prehistory. Inconveniently, as Nicholas Wade argues in A Troublesome Inheritance, the consensus view cannot be right. And in fact, we know that populations have changed in the past few thousand years—to be lactose tolerant, for example, and to survive at high altitudes. Race is not a bright-line distinction; by definition it means that the more human populations are kept apart, the more they evolve their own distinct traits under the selective pressure known as Darwinian evolution. For many thousands of years, most human populations stayed where they were and grew distinct, not just in outward appearance but in deeper senses as well. Wade, the longtime journalist covering genetic advances for The New York Times, draws widely on the work of scientists who have made crucial breakthroughs in establishing the reality of recent human evolution. The most provocative claims in this book involve the genetic basis of human social habits. What we might call middle-class social traits—thrift, docility, nonviolence—have been slowly but surely inculcated genetically within agrarian societies, Wade argues. These “values” obviously had a strong cultural component, but Wade points to evidence that agrarian societies evolved away from hunter-gatherer societies in some crucial respects. Also controversial are his findings regarding the genetic basis of traits we associate with intelligence, such as literacy and numeracy, in certain ethnic populations, including the Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews. Wade believes deeply in the fundamental equality of all human peoples. He also believes that science is best served by pursuing the truth without fear, and if his mission to arrive at a coherent summa of what the new genetic science does and does not tell us about race and human history leads straight into a minefield, then so be it. This will not be the last word on the subject, but it will begin a powerful and overdue conversation.
Arresting Images
Author | : Steven C. Dubin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1135214603 |
Although contemporary art may sometimes shock us, more alarming are recent attempts to regulate its display. Drawing upon extensive interviews, a broad sampling of media accounts, legal documents and his own observations of important events, sociologist Steven Dubin surveys the recent trend in censorship of the visual arts, photography and film, as well as artistic upstarts such as video and performance art. He examines the dual meaning of arresting images--both the nature of art work which disarms its viewers and the social reaction to it. Arresting Images examines the battles which erupt when artists address such controversial issues as racial polarization, AIDS, gay-bashing and sexual inequality in their work.
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Author | : Karen Fields |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2012-10-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1844679942 |
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Statia Silhouettes
Author | : Julia G. Crane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Sociale geschiedenis van het 19e en 20e eeuwse St. Eustatius aan de hand van levensgeschiedenissen verteld door een aantal 'Statianen'.