Author: Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1142
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House documents
Author: Reports of Committees
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
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My Southern Home
Author: William Wells BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Spaces of Experience
Author: Charlotte KlonkPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300151961
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This fascinating study of art gallery interiors examines the changing ideals and practices of galleries in Europe and North America from the 18th to the late 20th century. It offers a detailed account of the different displays that have been created—the colors of the background walls, lighting, furnishings, the height and density of the art works on show—and it traces the different scientific, political and commercial influences that lay behind their development. Charlotte Klonk shows that scientists like Hermann von Helmholtz and Wilhelm Wundt advanced theories of perception that played a significant role in justifying new modes of exhibiting. Equally important for the changing modes of exhibition in art galleries was what Michael Baxandall has called “the period eye,” a way of seeing informed by the impact of new fashions in interior decoration and by department store and shop window displays. The history of museum interiors, she argues, should be appreciated as a revealing chapter in the broader history of experience.
Statistics in Medical Research
Author: E.A. GehanPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461525187
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In 1890, General Francis A. Walker, president of both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the American Statistical Association, wrote There is reason to wish that all citizens, from the highest to the lowest, might undergo so much of training in statistics as should enable them to detect the errors lurking in quantitative statements regarding social and economic matters which may ... be ad dressed to them as voters or as critics of public policies. [E A. Walker, 1890; reprinted in Noether, 1989] It has been more than a century since Walker stated his wish, but progress has been slow, just as advancement in the establishment of statistical principles and methodology has been laborious and difficult over the centuries. We have tried to describe the milestones in this development and how each generation of scientists built on the heritage and foundations laid by their predecessors. Many historians dismiss the "great man theory," which alleges that giant "leaps of human knowledge are made by great thinkers who transcend the boundaries of their times; great scientists don't leap outside their time, but somewhere else in their own time" (Hevly, 1990). We found this to be the case in the history of statistics. Even the innovative writings of Karl Pearson and Sir Ronald Fisher that became the foundation of modern mathematical statistics were the outcome of two centuries of antecedent ideas and information.
The Gas Turbine Handbook
Author: Tony GiampaoloPublisher:
ISBN: 0881734144
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens
Author: A. T. McKelveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Belmont County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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The American Plague
Author: Molly Caldwell CrosbyPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425217757
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In this account, a journalist traces the course of the infectious disease known as yellow fever, “vividly [evoking] the Faulkner-meets-Dawn of the Dead horrors” (The New York Times Book Review) of this killer virus. Over the course of history, yellow fever has paralyzed governments, halted commerce, quarantined cities, moved the U.S. capital, and altered the outcome of wars. During a single summer in Memphis alone, it cost more lives than the Chicago fire, the San Francisco earthquake, and the Johnstown flood combined. In 1900, the U.S. sent three doctors to Cuba to discover how yellow fever was spread. There, they launched one of history's most controversial human studies. Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country—and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year. With “arresting tales of heroism,” (Publishers Weekly) it is a story as much about the nature of human beings as it is about the nature of disease.
History of McHenry County, Illinois
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : McHenry County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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The Architecture of Country Houses
Author: Andrew Jackson DowningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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