Author: University of Minnesota. College of Education. Bureau of Field Studies and SurveysPublisher:
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Category : Northfield (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Northfield Facing the Future
Author: University of Minnesota. College of Education. Bureau of Field Studies and SurveysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northfield (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Northfield
Author: ArLynn Leiber PresserPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439640912
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
In 1926, railroad and electric power tycoon Samuel Insull held a contest to name a station on the Skokie Valley Electric Line that the locals already called the Skokie Swamp. The winning name? Wau Bun, a Potawatomi word meaning dawn and also the name of a noted Potawatomi chief from the late 1700s. But the residents of Skokie Swamp hated the name and plotted their revenge. Three years later, as Insull was on a train pulling into the station, he was horrified to discover that vandals had taken it upon themselves to rename the station Hot Bun. Insull and the locals compromised, and the more neutral moniker of Northfield was adopted. The Skokie Valley Electric Line has long since been closed, and popular legend holds that Insull died penniless and alone in Paris. But the town of Northfield has survived and thrived. Once a loose affiliation of farms, Northfield is now a quiet suburb that has enviable schools, beautiful homes, and gorgeous landscapes.
The North American Student
Author: Elder Northfield's Home
Author: A. Jennie BartlettPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803274068
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The practice of plural marriage, commonly known as polygamy, stirred intense controversy in postbellum America until 1890, when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints first officially abolished the practice. Elder Northfield's Home, published by A. Jennie Bartlett in 1882, is both a staunchly antipolygamy novel and a call for the sentimental repatriation of polygamy's victims. Her book traces the fate of a virtuous and educated English immigrant woman, Marion Wescott, who marries a Mormon elder, Henry Northfield. Shocked when her husband violates his promise not to take a second wife, Marion attempts to flee during the night, toddler son in her arms and pulling her worldly possessions in his toy wagon. She returns to her husband, however, and the balance of the novel traces the effects of polygamy on Marion, Henry, and their children; their eventual rejection of plural marria≥ and their return to a normal and healthy family structure. Nicole Tonkovich's critical introduction includes both historical contextualization and comments on selected primary documents, providing a broader look at the general public's reception of the practice of polygamy in the nineteenth century.
Bion, Rickman, Foulkes, and the Northfield Experiments
Author: Tom HarrisonPublisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 9781853028373
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Northfield Experiments, conducted during the Second World War, mark an important moment in the development of the therapeutic community movement. This is the first book to record the experiments in detail. The book provides a fascinating account of a significant advance in psychiatry.
Elder Northfield's Home
Author: Jennie Bartlett SwitzerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mormons
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Because of Christ
Author: Carl E. BraatenPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 172524070X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Carl Braaten’s memoirs tell the story of his life as a theologian, from his early years as a missionary kid in Madagascar to his years of study at the universities of Paris, Harvard, Heidelberg, and Oxford to his decades of teaching. Throughout the book, he delves into the many theological movements, controversies, and personalities that shaped his thinking and writing. Braaten’s fight for the faith is reflected in his theological work―spoken and written―that tangles with the “isms” of the surrounding culture of American religion. Because of Christ is more than simply a biography; it is a chronicle of the chief theological conflicts of the twentieth century that put the integrity of the gospel to the test.
Northeastern U.S. Water Supply Study, Northfield Mt. and Millers River Diversion
Author: North America
Author: Thomas F. McIlwraithPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461639603
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North American regions from European exploration and colonization to the second half of the twentieth century. Collectively the contributors explore the key themes of acquisition of geographical knowledge, cultural transfer and acculturation, frontier expansion, spatial organization of society, resource exploitation, regional and national integration, and landscape change. With six new chapters, redrawn maps, a new introduction that explores scholarly trends in historical geography since publication of the first edition, and a new final chapter guiding students to the basic sources for historical geographic enquiry, North America will be an indispensable text in historical geography courses.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public WorksPublisher:
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Category : Environmental law
Languages : en
Pages : 1490
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