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Book Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot   apostle to the Indians   1598 1905

Download or read book Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot apostle to the Indians 1598 1905 written by Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Military History Volume 1

Download or read book American Military History Volume 1 written by Army Center of Military History and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.

Book Quantico

Download or read book Quantico written by Charles A. Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Judicial and Civil History of Connecticut

Download or read book The Judicial and Civil History of Connecticut written by Dwight Loomis and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Kuykendall Family

Download or read book History of the Kuykendall Family written by George Benson Kuykendall and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1919 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Genealogy as Found in Early Dutch Church Records, State and Government Documents, Together with Sketches of Colonial Times, Old Log Cabin Days, Indian Wars, Pioneer Hardships, Social Customs, Dress and Mode of Living of the Early Forefathers

Book The History of Winthrop  Massachusetts

Download or read book The History of Winthrop Massachusetts written by William H. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Popular Mechanics

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1942-10
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Popular Mechanics written by and published by . This book was released on 1942-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.

Book When Computers Were Human

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Alan Grier
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2013-11-01
  • ISBN : 1400849365
  • Pages : 423 pages

Download or read book When Computers Were Human written by David Alan Grier and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. When Computers Were Human represents the first in-depth account of this little-known, 200-year epoch in the history of science and technology. Beginning with the story of his own grandmother, who was trained as a human computer, David Alan Grier provides a poignant introduction to the wider world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. His grandmother's casual remark, "I wish I'd used my calculus," hinted at a career deferred and an education forgotten, a secret life unappreciated; like many highly educated women of her generation, she studied to become a human computer because nothing else would offer her a place in the scientific world. The book begins with the return of Halley's comet in 1758 and the effort of three French astronomers to compute its orbit. It ends four cycles later, with a UNIVAC electronic computer projecting the 1986 orbit. In between, Grier tells us about the surveyors of the French Revolution, describes the calculating machines of Charles Babbage, and guides the reader through the Great Depression to marvel at the giant computing room of the Works Progress Administration. When Computers Were Human is the sad but lyrical story of workers who gladly did the hard labor of research calculation in the hope that they might be part of the scientific community. In the end, they were rewarded by a new electronic machine that took the place and the name of those who were, once, the computers.

Book The Story of the 113th Seabees

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  • Author : Construction Battalion
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012-10-01
  • ISBN : 9781258505530
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book The Story of the 113th Seabees written by Construction Battalion and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Portrayal In Words And Pictures Of A Naval Construction Battalion At Work And Play, From August 5, 1943 To September 2, 1945.

Book Ancient  Curious  and Famous Wills

Download or read book Ancient Curious and Famous Wills written by Virgil M. Harris and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills" by Virgil M. Harris. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book In the Days of Poor Richard  Illustrated Edition

Download or read book In the Days of Poor Richard Illustrated Edition written by Irving Bacheller and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AM. Bound manuscript, heavily edited by Bacheller, of his novel set in the days prior to and during the American Revolution. The book was first published in 1922.

Book The Early Coins of America

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  • Author : Sylvester S. Crosby
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2023-11-20
  • ISBN : 3385232945
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book The Early Coins of America written by Sylvester S. Crosby and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Book Our Enemies in Blue

Download or read book Our Enemies in Blue written by Kristian Williams and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing. The police represent the most direct means by which the state imposes its will on the citizenry. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent. Using media reports alone, the Cato Institute's last annual study listed nearly seven thousand victims of police "misconduct" in the United States. But such stories of police brutality only scratch the surface of a national epidemic. Every year, tens of thousands are framed, blackmailed, beaten, sexually assaulted, or killed by cops. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on civil judgments and settlements annually. Individual lives, families, and communities are destroyed. In this extensively revised and updated edition of his seminal study of policing in the United States, Kristian Williams shows that police brutality isn't an anomaly, but is built into the very meaning of law enforcement in the United States. From antebellum slave patrols to today's unarmed youth being gunned down in the streets, "peace keepers" have always used force to shape behavior, repress dissent, and defend the powerful. Our Enemies in Blue is a well-researched page-turner that both makes historical sense of this legalized social pathology and maps out possible alternatives.

Book Passionate Curiosities

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  • Author : Lauren Elizabeth Talalay
  • Publisher : Kelsey Museum Publications
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 9780990662334
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Passionate Curiosities written by Lauren Elizabeth Talalay and published by Kelsey Museum Publications. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passionate Curiosities explores the collections held in the University of Michigan's Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through the lens of the people whose intellectual interests, financial backing, and social networks brought artifacts to Ann Arbor from the 1880s to the 1990s. Through purchases and expeditions, these individuals shaped the Museum's internationally recognized antiquities from the ancient civilizations of Greece, Rome, North Africa, Egypt, and the Near East, extensive photographic documentation of these regions from the early 1900s, and significant assemblages of early Christian and Islamic visual culture. An intriguing array of personalities--from archaeologists, missionaries, and diplomats to industrialists, bankrollers, and inventors--weave through these pages. They include Ernst Herzfeld, the eminent Orientalist who helped forge antiquities legislation in Iran; Luigi Cesnola, the rapacious harvester of Cypriot sites; Esther Van Deman, the pioneering feminist and scholar of Roman construction techniques; and Samuel Goudsmit, the renowned nuclear physicist and avid Egyptologist. World-famous dealers who established standards in antiquities connoisseurship likewise populate these sagas. Readers will encounter Edgar J. Banks, a swashbuckling purveyor of Mesopotamian antiquities and entrepreneur of biblical documentary films; Maurice Nahman, the "lion of Cairo"; and the colorful members of the Tano dealer dynasty in Egypt. This copiously illustrated book will interest general readers as well as scholars curious about the holdings of the Kelsey, early collectors and dealers, and the history of museums.

Book The Red Cross in Peace and War

Download or read book The Red Cross in Peace and War written by Clara Barton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies

Download or read book Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies written by Finn Enke and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lambda Literary Award for Best Book in Transgender Nonfiction, 2013 If feminist studies and transgender studies are so intimately connected, why are they not more deeply integrated? Offering multidisciplinary models for this assimilation, the vibrant essays in Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies suggest timely and necessary changes for institutions of higher learning. Responding to the more visible presence of transgender persons as well as gender theories, the contributing essayists focus on how gender is practiced in academia, health care, social services, and even national border patrols. Working from the premise that transgender is both material and cultural, the contributors address such aspects of the university as administration, sports, curriculum, pedagogy, and the appropriate location for transgender studies. Combining feminist theory, transgender studies, and activism centered on social diversity and justice, these essays examine how institutions as lived contexts shape everyday life.