Download or read book Edward Willis and Ellen Browning Scripps written by Charles Preece and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalism's flamboyant bad boy owned more newspapers than Hearst, founded United Press, hated advertisers, carried a gun. Sister/surrogate mother Ellen pioneered women's rights, was the soul of Scripps-Howard newspapers, first columnist, first foreign correspondent. First Scripps biography since 1960's.
Download or read book Ellen Browning Scripps written by Molly McClain and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molly McClain tells the remarkable story of Ellen Browning Scripps (1836–1932), an American newspaperwoman, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, and social reformer. She used her fortune to support women’s education, the labor movement, and public access to science, the arts, and education. Born in London, Scripps grew up in rural poverty on the Illinois prairie. She went from rags to riches, living out that cherished American story in which people pull themselves up by their bootstraps with audacity, hard work, and luck. She and her brother, E. W. Scripps, built America’s largest chain of newspapers, linking midwestern industrial cities with booming towns in the West. Less well known today than the papers started by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, Scripps newspapers transformed their owners into millionaires almost overnight. By the 1920s Scripps was worth an estimated $30 million, most of which she gave away. She established the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and appeared on the cover of Time magazine after founding Scripps College in Claremont, California. She also provided major financial support to organizations worldwide that promised to advance democratic principles and public education. In Ellen Browning Scripps, McClain brings to life an extraordinary woman who played a vital role in the history of women, California, and the American West.
Download or read book Science on the Air written by Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Wizard’s World. Bill Nye the Science Guy. NPR’s Science Friday. These popular television and radio programs broadcast science into the homes of millions of viewers and listeners. But these modern series owe much of their success to the pioneering efforts of early-twentieth-century science shows like Adventures in Science and “Our Friend the Atom.” Science on the Air is the fascinating history of the evolution of popular science in the first decades of the broadcasting era. Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette transports readers to the early days of radio, when the new medium allowed innovative and optimistic scientists the opportunity to broadcast serious and dignified presentations over the airwaves. But the exponential growth of listenership in the 1920s, from thousands to millions, and the networks’ recognition that each listener represented a potential consumer, turned science on the radio into an opportunity to entertain, not just educate. Science on the Air chronicles the efforts of science popularizers, from 1923 until the mid-1950s, as they negotiated topic, content, and tone in order to gain precious time on the air. Offering a new perspective on the collision between science’s idealistic and elitist view of public communication and the unbending economics of broadcasting, LaFollette rewrites the history of the public reception of science in the twentieth century and the role that scientists and their institutions have played in both encouraging and inhibiting popularization. By looking at the broadcasting of the past, Science on the Air raises issues of concern to all those who seek to cultivate a scientifically literate society today.
Download or read book The Astonishing Mr Scripps written by Vance H. Trimble and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1992 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Empire Builder written by Sandra E. Bonura and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-12 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empire Builder is the previously untold story of John D. Spreckels, the pioneer who almost singlehandedly built San Diego after creating empires in sugar, shipping, transportation, and building development up and down the coast of California and across the Pacific.
Download or read book The Environmental Legacy of the UC Natural Reserve System written by Peggy L. Fiedler and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of how a few forward-thinking UC faculty, who'd had their research plots and teaching spots destroyed by development and habitat degradation, devised a way to save representative examples of many of California's major ecosystems.
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Download or read book Notable Twentieth century Scientists written by Emily J. McMurray and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfabetisk ordnet opslagsværk over naturvidenskabsmænd og -kvinder fra hele verden; med angivelse af egne værker og værker om
Download or read book Ellen Browning Scripps written by Edward Dessau Clarkson and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Science with a Human Face written by Robert Dorfman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October of 1992, the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies sponsored the Roger Revelle Memorial Symposium on Population and Environment. Two dozen eminent scientists who were Roger Revelle's friends, colleagues, and students presented papers that reflected the remarkable scope of Roger Revelle's professional and academic contributions during his lifetime. This volume is a selection of the papers presented at the symposium.
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Download or read book In Memoriam written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
