Author: United States. Weather BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmosphere
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Proceedings of the Third Convention of Weather Bureau Officials Held at Peoria, Ill., September 20, 21, 22, 1904
Author: United States. Weather BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmosphere
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Proceedings of the First-third Convention of Weather Bureau Officials, 1898, 1901, 1904
Author: United States. Weather BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Proceedings of the ... Convention of Weather Bureau Officials
Author: Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture for the Fiscal Year Ended ...
Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Annual reports of the Department of Agriculture. 1905
Author: The American Naturalist
Author: Looking Forward
Author: Jamie L. PietruskaPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022650915X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
In the decades after the Civil War, the world experienced monumental changes in industry, trade, and governance. As Americans faced this uncertain future, public debate sprang up over the accuracy and value of predictions, asking whether it was possible to look into the future with any degree of certainty. In Looking Forward, Jamie L. Pietruska uncovers a culture of prediction in the modern era, where forecasts became commonplace as crop forecasters, “weather prophets,” business forecasters, utopian novelists, and fortune-tellers produced and sold their visions of the future. Private and government forecasters competed for authority—as well as for an audience—and a single prediction could make or break a forecaster’s reputation. Pietruska argues that this late nineteenth-century quest for future certainty had an especially ironic consequence: it led Americans to accept uncertainty as an inescapable part of both forecasting and twentieth-century economic and cultural life. Drawing together histories of science, technology, capitalism, environment, and culture, Looking Forward explores how forecasts functioned as new forms of knowledge and risk management tools that sometimes mitigated, but at other times exacerbated, the very uncertainties they were designed to conquer. Ultimately Pietruska shows how Americans came to understand the future itself as predictable, yet still uncertain.
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
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Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1592
Book Description
George Washington University Bulletin
Author: Annual Report of the Public Printer ...
Author: United States. Government Printing OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description