Author: Davidson College. Class of 1952Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Quips and Cranks, 1952, 25th Anniversary Edition
Author: Davidson College. Class of 1952Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
25th Anniversary Edition, 1952 Quips & Cranks
Author: Davidson College. Class of 1952Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Women in Congress, 1917-2006
Author: Matthew Andrew WasniewskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Contains profiles, contextual essays, historical images, and appendices that provide information about the 229 women who have served in Congress from 1917 through 2006.
The Generals--Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee
Author: Nancy Scott AndersonPublisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Basing their narrative largely on eyewitness accounts, diaries and memoirs, the Andersons vividly portray the Civil War years and provide a fascinating dual biography of the two most celebrated generals in American history.
From Wright Field, Ohio, to Hokkaido, Japan
Author: Benjamin Paul HegiPublisher:
ISBN: 9781680400014
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In 1942, Colonel Curtis E. LeMay and his 305th Bomb Group left Syracuse, New York, bound for England, where they joined the Eighth Air Force and Royal Air Force in war against Germany and her allies. Over the next three years LeMay led American air forces in Europe, India, China, and the Pacific against the Axis powers. His efforts yielded advancement through the chain of command to the rank of Major General in command of the XXIst Bomber Command, the most effective strategic bombing force of the war.LeMay's activities in World War II are well-documented, but his personal history is less thoroughly recorded. Throughout the war he wrote hundreds of letters to his wife, Helen, and daughter, Jane. They are published for the first time in this volume, weaved together with meticulously researched narrative essays buttressed by both official and unofficial sources and supplemented with extensive footnotes. History remembers "LeMay, the Commander" well. From Wright Field, Ohio, to Hokkaido, Japan, will yield a better understanding of "LeMay, the Man."
The Computer Contradictionary
Author: Stan Kelly-BootlePublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262611121
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Ascertain the meaning before consulting this dictionary, warns the author of this collection of deliberately satirical misdefinitions. New computer cultures and their jargons have burgeoned since this book's progenitor, The Devil's DP Dictionary, was published in 1981. This updated version of Stan Kelly-Bootle's romp through the data processing lexicon is a response to the Unix pandemic that has swept academia and government, to the endlessly hyped panaceas offered to the MIS, and to the PC explosion that has brought computer terminology to a hugely bewildered, lay audience.' The original dictionary, a pastiche of Ambrose Bierce's famous work, parried chiefly the mainframe and mini-folklore of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. This revision adds over 550 new entries and enhances many of the original definitions. Key targets are a host of new follies crying out for cynical lexicography including: the GUI-Phooey iconoclasts, object orienteering and the piping of BLObs down the Clinton-Gore InfoPike.
Folklore in Motion
Author: Kenneth L. UntiedtPublisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574412388
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The adventurous spirit of Texans has led to much travel lore, from stories of how ancestors first came to the state to reflections of how technology has affected the customs, language, and stories of life "on the go." This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society features articles from beloved storytellers like John O. West, Kenneth W. Davis, and F. E. Abernethy as well as new voices like Janet Simonds. Chapters contain traditional "Gone to Texas" accounts and articles about people or methods of travel from days gone by. Others are dedicated to trains and cars and the lore associated with two-wheeled machines, machines that fly, and machines that scream across the land at dangerous speeds. The volume concludes with articles that consider how we fuel our machines and ourselves, and the rituals we engage in when we're on our way from here to there.
The Mighty Music Box
Author: Thomas A. DeLongPublisher: Sasco Associates
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Popular Music and Public Diplomacy
Author: Mario DunkelPublisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 383944358X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In the early years of the Cold War, Western nations increasingly adopted strategies of public diplomacy involving popular music. While the diplomatic use of popular music was initially limited to such genres as jazz, the second half of the 20th century saw a growing presence of various popular genres in diplomatic contexts, including rock, pop, bluegrass, flamenco, funk, disco, and hip-hop, among others. This volume illuminates the interrelation of popular music and public diplomacy from a transnational and transdisciplinary angle. The contributions argue that, as popular music has been a crucial factor in international relations, its diplomatic use has substantially impacted the global musical landscape of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Sense and Nonsense
Author: Kevin N. LalandPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199586969
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This book asks whether evolution can help us to understand human behaviour and explores diverse evolutionary methods and arguments. It provides a short, readable introduction to the science behind the works of Dawkins, Dennett, Wilson and Pinker. It is widely used in undergraduate courses around the world.