Download or read book Buzzing with Questions written by Janice N. Harrington and published by Thinkingdom. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NSTA/CBC Best STEM Book The curiosity of the first African American entomologist Charles Henry Turner--a scientist who studied bugs--shines in this nonfiction picture book, which showcases his ideas and discoveries about ants, bees, and other insects. Charles Henry Turner's mind itched with questions. Fascinated by animals, bugs, and crustaceans, Turner studied their lives. When books didn't answer his questions, he researched, experimented, and looked for answers on his own, even when faced with racial prejudice. Author Janice Harrington and artist Theodore Taylor III capture the life of this scientist and educator, highlighting his unstoppable curiosity and his passion for insects and biology. The extensive back matter includes an author's note, timeline, bibliography, source notes, and archival images.
Download or read book Investigating Sociological Theory written by Charles Turner and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ′This book is not an encyclopaedic survey of the most influential or important sociological theories of the 20th century; nor is it an institutional history of sociological theory; it is not a textbook, a distillation of the accumulated knowledge of a particular discipline; nor is it a crib, a set of ready-made and easily-remembered answers to imagined examination questions. It is more of a reader′s guide, a series of hints and suggestions for those who, whether students or teachers, believe that sociology is a profession and a discipline but also something more...′ - Charles Turner in the introduction to ′Investigating Sociological Theory′ This is an accessible, enlivening introductory book that provides a shot in the arm for all those who maintain the relevance of sociology for understanding the modern world. It will inspire discussion in classes, and provide teachers with an opportunity to discuss the big questions in theory, history, social order and social change. Turner provides a wealth of concrete examples which demonstrate what a sociological perspective can do to unpack and illuminate everyday life. The book allows students to understand sociological theory from the inside. It moves effortlessly beyond the mere parade of great names and core ideas to introduce concepts that can be used to understand the social world in which we live, where this world has come from and where it might be heading. Original, informed, and deftly written with the needs of students in mind this book is an antidote to arid theorising and the dull recitation of the grand sociological tradition.
Download or read book The Turtle and the Moon written by Charles Turner and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lonely turtle makes friends with the moon.
Download or read book The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton written by James C. Turner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1999. James Turner's biography offers the first modern account of Norton's life and its significance, following him from his perilous travels across India as a young merchant to his role as his country's preeminent cultural critic. Turner shows how Norton developed the key ideas that still underlie the humanities—historicism and culture—and how his influence endures in America's colleges and universities because of institutions he developed and models he devised.
Download or read book Bug Watching with Charles Henry Turner written by Michael Elsohn Ross and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusses on Charles Henry Turner and his study of insects and their behavior
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities written by Charles Russell Coulter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the divine is the history of human thought. For as long as men and women have pondered the mysteries of their existence, they have answered their own questions with stories of gods and goddesses. Belief in these deities shaped whole civilizations, yet today many of their names and images lie buried. The Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities makes those names available to the general reader as well as the scholar. This reference work lists all the known gods through recorded history. Alphabetically arranged entries provide the name of each deity (with alternate spellings), as well as notes on names that may be linguistically or functionally related. The tribe or culture that worshiped the deity is identified, and the god's origins and functions are explained. An extensive bibliography provides opportunities for further research and an exhaustive index provides access to the entries through virtually all names, forms and kinds of deities.
Download or read book Clemency written by Charles G. Turner III and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every man is a man in trouble, and Drew Saint, Peter Simons, and Jim Major are not exception. Hundreds of miles out to sea in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic, stories begin to change, facts begin to blur and emerge, and tempers begin to flare. What they thought would be a difficult but fairly routine mission becomes twisted with lies and perils, as the three unsuspecting friends find themselves deliberately drawn into a complex, high seas, high stakes historical take of betrayal, revenge, greed, and murder.
Download or read book Selected Papers and Biography of Charles Henry Turner 1867 1923 written by Charles Henry Turner and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turner discovered new species; contributed several of the early anatomical studies of crayfish and bird brains; developed new methodologies, several of which are still used; clarified several behavioral and methodological issues in tropisms, memory, and behavioral ecology; and was the first to provide experimental evidence that certain insects can hear airborne sounds. He accomplished much of his scientific work when he was a high school biology teacher, and several of the 27 papers assembled here focus on his devotion to civil rights and conviction that education was the key to equality. The biographical section includes obituaries and remembrances by family and colleagues. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book Secularization written by Charles Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Secularization’ sounds simple, a decline in the power of religion. Yet, the history of the term is controversial and multi-faceted; it has been useful to both religious believers and non-believers and has been deployed by scholars to make sense of a variety of aspects of cultural and social change. This book will introduce the reader to this variety and show how secularization bears on the contemporary politics of religion. Secularization addresses the sociological classics’ ambivalent accounts of the future of religion, later and more robust sociological claims about religious decline, and the most influential philosophical secularization thesis, which says that the dominant ideas of modern thought are in fact religious ones in a secularized form. The book outlines some shortcomings of these accounts in the light of historical inquiry and comparative sociology; examines claims that some religions are ‘resistant to secularization’; and analyzes controversies in the politics of religion, in particular over the relationship between Christianity and Islam and over the implicitly religious character of some modern political movements. By giving equal attention to both sociological and philosophical accounts of secularization, and equal weight to ideas, institutions, and practices, this book introduces complicated ideas in a digestible format. It will appeal to students and scholars interested in making unusual connections within sociology, anthropology, philosophy, theology, and political theory.
Download or read book The Celebrant written by Charles Turner and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1878 Memphis was a city of death. Yellow fever was devastating the city, driving thousands of panic-stricken inhabitants in the countryside, or up North by Mississippi steamboat. At most ports the overcrowded steamers were met by mobs armed with clubs and shotguns. They were forced to continue up and down the river, looking for a landing that wouldn't drive them away. There wasn't much hope of the fever letting up until the first frost. No one knew what caused it, and no one knew how to stop it. Every hour brought the thunderous clap of a canon—a desperate attempt on the part of some local "expert" to dispel the poisonous spores of the disease. Death stalked those who remained in Memphis. By midsummer, seventy corpses a day were being rushed by wagon to the city's outskirts for a hasty burial. Louis Schuyler, a young Episcopal priest, believed that God wanted him to leave his church in New Jersey and minister to the sick, dying, and terrified residents of this subtropical hell. THE CELEBRANT, a historical novel, is the story of Louis' response to God's call and his struggles with its fearful implications. Did God really call him to Memphis? Louis himself grappled with doubts Wasn't Wasn't there spiritual pride in Louis' determination to risk his life? And what could a young clergyman, a lover of books, music, and liturgy, do in a city that cried out for doctors and nurses? How indeed could Louis, a Christian, understand the horror that assaulted his mind and sense on the streets of Memphis? "Could faith itself fall victim?" Louis wondered
Download or read book Journal of Charles Turner written by Charles Turner and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journals of Charles Turner (1827-1910). He helped settle Morgan, Utah and arrived there in 1860. He was a farmer and made lime and brick. He was the first bishop of the Morgan Ward in 1877 and served for 29 years. He was then made a patriarch. He served as the first stake tithing bishop and the first Indian agent for the county for a number of years. He served on the city council for a number of years as well as the Mayor. He was a polygamist and wrote of hiding from the federal agents. -- summary provided by his great-great-grandson.
Download or read book Charles Turner written by Alfred Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surveying Subjective Phenomena written by Charles Turner and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1985-06-14 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 1980 a panel of distinguished social scientists and statisticians assembled at the National Academy of Sciences to begin a thorough review of the uses, reliability, and validity of surveys purporting to measure such subjective phenomena as attitudes, opinions, beliefs, and preferences. This review was prompted not only by the widespread use of survey results in both academic and non-academic settings, but also by a proliferation of apparent discrepancies in allegedly equivalent measurements and by growing public concern over the value of such measurements. This two-volume report of the panel's findings is certain to become one of the standard works in the field of survey measurement. Volume I summarizes the state of the art of surveying subjective phenomena, evaluates contemporary measurement programs, examines the uses and abuses of such surveys, and candidly assesses the problems affecting them. The panel also offers strategies for improving the quality and usefulness of subjective survey data. In volume II, individual panel members and other experts explore in greater depth particular theoretical and empirical topics relevant to the panel's conclusions. For social scientists and policymakers who conduct, analyze, and rely on surveys of the national state of mind, this comprehensive and current review will be an invaluable resource.
Download or read book Prints by Charles Turner 1774 1857 written by Fitzwilliam Museum and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Radical Man written by Charles Hampden-Turner and published by . This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Turner to Aaron Hobart Discussing General Issues 14 February 1821 written by Charles Turner and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks Hobart for sending several papers and discusses a fishery bill. Mentions that Judge Thomas has died and Wilkes Wood has been appointed to succeed him. Asks Hobart to visit Edmund M. Blunt in New York and get him a copy of Nautical et Ornance for 1820, which he could not find in Boston.
Download or read book The Politics of Minor Concerns written by Charles C. Turner and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Minor Concerns lies at the intersection of scholarship on congressional behavior and studies of America Indian politics. The text argues that the conventional wisdom in each of these fields offers inadequate explanations for congressional action on American Indian legislation. This book challenges assumptions of bipartisanship and reelection concern and will be of interest to scholars, students, and anyone interested in American Indians, Congress, political minorities, or public policy.
