Author: Frank Burchard Smith (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Smith Family Odyssey
Author: Frank Burchard Smith (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
A Smith Family Odyssey
Author: Arthur R. SederPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Benning family
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Smith's Odyssey
Author: Gwenda Dalton HookerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
An Epidemiological Odyssey
Author: George PollockPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400739974
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
This book attempts to set communicable diseases and the efforts to control them in a social and historical context. The primary focus is on England with its particular history, culture and traditions. The timescale covered is extensive and ambitious, and the many strands that came together in the nineteenth century to form the English public health service are clearly highlighted. However the main emphasis of the narrative is on developments from the Second World War onwards, in some of which the author has had a degree of personal involvement as a schoolchild, medical student, hospital doctor, Army doctor and public health physician. The work as a whole reveals the persisting nature of communicable diseases throughout history and strongly argues that, although the relevant importance of individual infections may vary over time, man’s struggle against the microbiological world can never be relaxed. How England has been affected is described in detail and evidence is put forward to suggest that complacency (or at least misjudgement) concerning the ever-present risks of emerging and re-emerging infections, led unwisely to the dismantling in 1974 of its established arrangements for their control, along with the subsequent need, frequently repeated, to create new structures for this purpose. This book will appeal strongly to all students and practitioners of public health along with those interested in English social history.
A Smith Family Odyssey
Author: Authur Raymond SederPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
James Smith was born in about 1725. He married Mary in about 1750. They had nine children. They lived in Wilkes County, Georgia. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Georgia, Virginia and Texas.
A Black Intellectual's Odyssey
Author: Martin KilsonPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478021519
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
In 1969, Martin Kilson became the first tenured African American professor at Harvard University, where he taught African and African American politics for over thirty years. In A Black Intellectual's Odyssey, Kilson takes readers on a fascinating journey from his upbringing in the small Pennsylvania milltown of Ambler to his experiences attending Lincoln University—the country's oldest HBCU—to pursuing graduate study at Harvard before spending his entire career there as a faculty member. This is as much a story of his travels from the racist margins of twentieth-century America to one of the nation's most prestigious institutions as it is a portrait of the places that shaped him. He gives a sweeping sociological tour of Ambler as a multiethnic, working-class company town while sketching the social, economic, and racial elements that marked everyday life. From narrating the area's history of persistent racism and the racial politics in the integrated schools to describing the Black church's role in buttressing the town's small Black community, Kilson vividly renders his experience of northern small-town life during the 1930s and 1940s. At Lincoln University, Kilson's liberal political views coalesced as he became active in the local NAACP chapter. While at Lincoln and during his graduate work at Harvard, Kilson observed how class, political, and racial dynamics influenced his peers' political engagement, diverse career paths, and relationships with white people. As a young professor, Kilson made a point of assisting Harvard's African American students in adapting to life at a white institution. Throughout his career, Kilson engaged in pioneering scholarship while mentoring countless students. A Black Intellectual's Odyssey features contributions from three of his students: a foreword by Cornel West and an afterword by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten.
The Odyssey of an African Slave
Author: SitikiPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813047951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Recently discovered as a hand-written document in the Buckingham Smith Collection at the New York Historical Society, this remarkable first-person narrative traces the life of Sitiki, whose name was changed to Jack Smith after his enslavement in America. Captured and sold into slavery in Africa as a five-year-old, Sitiki traveled to America as a cabin boy. Eventually sold by the ship's captain to Josiah Smith of Savannah, Georgia, he lived there and in Connecticut with his new master. Captured by the British during the War of 1812, he was returned to the Smiths, to be freed only after the Civil War. He went on to become the first black Methodist minister in St. Augustine, Florida, where he established his own church. Patricia Griffin does not leave the story at the conclusion of the slave narrative, but explores Sitiki's experiences and places them in clear and valuable context. She presents the narrative unencumbered, allowing Sitiki’s authority, compassion, and personality to speak for itself.
A Renner Family Odyssey
Author: Odyssey
Author: Aaron M. SmithPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452022488
Category : Football players
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The journey to the sporting world's grandest stage - the Super Bowl - is often wrought with overwhelming obstacles, personal challenges, and a workload that would make most men cringe. No one understands this more than Marc Edwards, whose winding road from blue collar Norwood, Ohio to the NFL and ultimately the Super Bowl was littered with derailing pot holes. How Marc became a successful family man and an old-school battering ram of a Super Bowl champion should no longer be a mystery. Odyssey: From Blue Collar, Ohio to Super Bowl Champion chronicles Marc's personal quest for something great and how a cast of family members and behind-the-scenes family friends helped to keep him on track. Freelance writer and former award-winning newspaper sports editor Aaron M. Smith takes the reader on an intriguing ride through the rigors and joys of transforming from a third-grader with a dream to a captain at legendary Notre Dame and eventually to the starting backfield for the world champion New England Patriots. Marc's struggles and eventual triumph will serve as inspiration and offer proof that you most certainly can do anything you want if you simply put in the effort.
Ellwood’s Odyssey
Author: Marshall GarveyPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1669801543
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Ellwood’s Odyssey is a unique historical fiction drama centered around people and families who face oppression and overcome it with success. The book begins with a man, Ellwood Washington, growing up in Los Angeles. Inspired by his father, he seeks greatness. His skills on the baseball field take him to the battlefield of the Korean War. His talents are required by his commanders to lead a perilous mission and capture a South Korean spy. These life events eventually lead to another hero that must overcome his uncertainties. His travels take him across the globe as he tries to answer questions about his family and capabilities. As it turns out, his odyssey of self-discovery is just beginning.