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Book The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History written by David Dirck Van Tassel and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clevelanders are rediscovering the richness of their history, and the encyclopedia project has played a vital role in this process. -- Northwest Ohio Quarterly These two volumes clearly establish a standard for encyclopedias devoted to city history and biography. -- Choice Both volumes are interesting to read and are useful reference tools. -- American Reference Books Annual The first edition of this remarkable encyclopedia was published in 1987 to enthusiastic reviews. Out of print for several years, the Encyclopedia is now being reissued in an expanded, two-volume format to commemorate the bicentennial of Cleveland's founding. Volume One, The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, contains more than 2000 entries, 150 photographs, maps and charts. Volume Two, the Dictionary of Cleveland Biography, with over 1600 entries, is the first major biographical guide to Cleveland published since the 1920s.

Book Integrating the Inner City

Download or read book Integrating the Inner City written by Robert J. Chaskin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chicago Housing Authority s Plan for Transformation repudiated the city s large-scale housing projects and the paradigm that produced them. The Plan seeks to normalize public housing and its tenants, eliminating physical, social, and economic barriers among populations that have long been segregated from one another. But is the Plan an ambitious example of urban regeneration or a not-so-veiled effort at gentrification? Is it resulting in integration or displacement? What kinds of communities are emerging from it? Chaskin and Joseph s book is the most thorough examination of the Plan to date. Drawing on five years of field research, in-depth interviews, and data, Chaskin and Joseph examine the actors, strategies, and processes involved in the Plan. Most important, they illuminate the Plan s limitations which has implications for urban regeneration strategies nationwide."

Book A History of Western Reserve College

Download or read book A History of Western Reserve College written by Carroll Cutler and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How Knowledge Grows

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  • Author : Chris Haufe
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2022-11-01
  • ISBN : 026237160X
  • Pages : 347 pages

Download or read book How Knowledge Grows written by Chris Haufe and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that the development of scientific practice and growth of scientific knowledge are governed by Darwin’s evolutionary model of descent with modification. Although scientific investigation is influenced by our cognitive and moral failings as well as all of the factors impinging on human life, the historical development of scientific knowledge has trended toward an increasingly accurate picture of an increasing number of phenomena. Taking a fresh look at Thomas Kuhn’s 1962 work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, in How Knowledge Grows Chris Haufe uses evolutionary theory to explain both why scientific practice develops the way it does and how scientific knowledge expands. This evolutionary model, claims Haufe, helps to explain what is epistemically special about scientific knowledge: its tendency to grow in both depth and breadth. Kuhn showed how intellectual communities achieve consensus in part by discriminating against ideas that differ from their own and isolating themselves intellectually from other fields of inquiry and broader social concerns. These same characteristics, says Haufe, determine a biological population’s degree of susceptibility to modification by natural selection. He argues that scientific knowledge grows, even across generations of variable groups of scientists, precisely because its development is governed by Darwinian evolution. Indeed, he supports the claim that this susceptibility to modification through natural selection helps to explain the epistemic power of certain branches of modern science. In updating and expanding the evolutionary approach to scientific knowledge, Haufe provides a model for thinking about science that acknowledges the historical contingency of scientific thought while showing why we nevertheless should trust the results of scientific research when it is the product of certain kinds of scientific communities.

Book Italy by Way of India

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  • Author : Erin Benay
  • Publisher : Harvey Miller
  • Release : 2022-02-28
  • ISBN : 9781912554775
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book Italy by Way of India written by Erin Benay and published by Harvey Miller. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The return of a saint's body to its rightful resting place was an event of civic and spiritual significance retold in Medieval sources and substantiated by artistic commissions. Legends of Saint Thomas Apostle, for instance, claimed that the martyred saint had been miraculously transported from India to Italy during the thirteenth century. However, Saint Thomas's purported resting place in Ortona, Italy did not become a major stopping point on pilgrimage or exploration routes, nor did this event punctuate frescoed life cycles or become a subject for Renaissance altarpieces as one would expect. Instead, the site of the apostle's burial in Chennai, India has flourished as a terminus of religious pilgrimage, where a multifaceted visual tradition emerged, and where a vibrant local cult of 'Thomas Christians' remains to this day. An unlikely destination on the edge of the 'known' world thus became a surprising source of early modern Christian piety. By studying the art and texts associated with this little-known cult, this book disrupts assumptions about how knowledge of Asia took shape during the Renaissance and challenges art historical paradigms in which art was crafted by locals merely to be exported, collected, and consumed by curious European patrons. In so doing, Italy by Way of India proposes that we redefine the parameters of early modern visual culture to account for the ways that global mobility and the circulation of objects profoundly influence how cultures see and know each other as well as themselves.

Book Stop Kiss

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  • Author : Diana Son
  • Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780822217312
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book Stop Kiss written by Diana Son and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2000 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: A poignant and funny play about the ways, both sudden and slow, that lives can change irrevocably, says Variety . After Callie meets Sara, the two unexpectedly fall in love. Their first kiss provokes a violent attack that transfo

Book Ballots and Bullets

Download or read book Ballots and Bullets written by James D. Robenalt and published by Lawrence Hill Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 23, 1968, police in Cleveland battled with black nationalists in a night of terror that saw 6 people killed and at least 15 wounded. The gun battle touched off days of heavy rioting. The question was whether the shootings were the result of a planned attack on white police, or a matter of self-defense by the nationalists. Mystery still surrounds how the urban warfare started and the role the FBI might have played in its origin. The confrontation was surprising given that Cleveland had just elected Carl Stokes, the first black mayor of a major US city, who just four months earlier had kept peace in Cleveland the night that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Now his credibility and reputation lay in tatters--the leader of the black nationalists, Fred Ahmed Evans, had used Cleveland NOW! public funds to buy the rifles and ammunition used in the shootout. Ballots and Bullets looks at the roots of the violence and its political aftermath in Cleveland, a uniquely important city in the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Cleveland to raise money during his 1963 Birmingham campaign. A year later, Malcolm X appeared in the same east side church to deliver his most important speech: "The Ballot or the Bullet." Dr. King represented integration, nonviolence and his Christian heritage; Malcolm X represented racial separation, armed self-defense and the Black Muslims. Fifty years later, the specter of race violence and police brutality still haunts the United States. The War on Poverty gave way to mass incarceration, and recently the Black Lives Matter revolution has been met by the alt-right counterrevolution. Answers are needed.

Book Cleveland

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  • Author : William Ganson Rose
  • Publisher : Kent State University Press
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780873384285
  • Pages : 1380 pages

Download or read book Cleveland written by William Ganson Rose and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the Ohio city from its days as a frontier settlement, through the coming of industrialization, to 1950.

Book Early History of Cleveland  Ohio

Download or read book Early History of Cleveland Ohio written by Charles Whittlesey and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Captives and Corsairs

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  • Author : Gillian Weiss
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2011-03-11
  • ISBN : 0804777845
  • Pages : 606 pages

Download or read book Captives and Corsairs written by Gillian Weiss and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captives and Corsairs uncovers a forgotten story in the history of relations between the West and Islam: three centuries of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousands of French subjects and citizens in North Africa. Through an analysis of archival materials, writings, and images produced by contemporaries, the book fundamentally revises our picture of France's emergence as a nation and a colonial power, presenting the Mediterranean as an essential vantage point for studying the rise of France. It reveals how efforts to liberate slaves from North Africa shaped France's perceptions of the Muslim world and of their own "Frenchness". From around 1550 to 1830, freeing these captives evolved from an expression of Christian charity to a method of state building and, eventually, to a rationale for imperial expansion. Captives and Corsairs thus advances new arguments about the fluid nature of slavery and firmly links captive redemption to state formation—and in turn to the still vital ideology of liberatory conquest.

Book The School of Library Science  Catalogue

Download or read book The School of Library Science Catalogue written by Western Reserve University. School of Library Science and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Before Mestizaje

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  • Author : Ben Vinson III
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 1107026431
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book Before Mestizaje written by Ben Vinson III and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deepens our understanding of race and the implications of racial mixture by examining the history of caste in colonial Mexico.

Book Dissection

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  • Author : John Harley Warner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Dissection written by John Harley Warner and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a startling window into the education of American doctors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries-on both a visceral level and for its revealing cultural record. Cringe-worthy shots of medical students-bare-handed gentlemen and a few ladies in street clothes show off their scalpels, saws and textbooks-while their cadavers, mostly poor and black, are awkwardly posed, and exposed. In one stunning shot, a black woman looks out from behind the young students. "What are we to make of an African-American woman, standing, broom handle in hand, behind the dissection table, her gaze fixed on the camera?" the authors ask. More importantly, they conclude, the photo is now drawn "out of the shadows of history" where "we can at least bear witness." A blood-soaked dissection table makes you want to look away and the dark humor of students playing pranks with skeletons are both hilarious and horrible. Postcards sent to family and friends must have caused shock and awe for postmen and recipient alike. Here, a difficult glance into medicine's "uncomfortable past" offers a grand opportunity to understand the legacy doctors and patients live with, and benefit from, today. Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Book The Heart of Cleveland

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  • Author : Scott Kraynak
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-07-21
  • ISBN : 9780996871785
  • Pages : 154 pages

Download or read book The Heart of Cleveland written by Scott Kraynak and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An celebration of Cleveland artists past and present.

Book Born on Groundhog Day

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  • Author : Karen Fults Kaler
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-11-07
  • ISBN : 9781729357613
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book Born on Groundhog Day written by Karen Fults Kaler and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born on Groundhog Day takes you inside a hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to help you understand some of the complications that may occur when a baby is born too soon. Ethan Oliver was born on Groundhog Day, 14 weeks before his due date, weighing just 17 ounces. He went home from the hospital on Halloween. As Ethan's cousin Malia follows his journey home, she learns about the passage of time and learns how to wait.This book is for all ages. While the story is appropriate for reading to young children, there is a lot of additional information included that can educate adults. There are tips for supporting parents of premature babies, as well as advice for parents from Ethan's parents.

Book Honoring Their Memory

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  • Author : Lauren R. Pacini
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-07-04
  • ISBN : 9780578480367
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Honoring Their Memory written by Lauren R. Pacini and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in celebration of the 125th Anniversary of the dedication of the Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Honoring their Memory tells the story of the struggles and achievements experienced in the creation of the Monument, designed and constructed by Architect, Sculptor, and Civil War Veteran Levi T. Scofield to honor more than 9,000 from Cuyahoga County who served in the War of the Rebellion. Through contemporary photography and the inclusion of vintage text, the story is told in the context of the architect's life and his broader body of work, as seen through ten extant projects.

Book Western Reserve University Bulletin

Download or read book Western Reserve University Bulletin written by Western Reserve University and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning 19 - each bulletin contains details of curricula, course description, college rules, etc., for one of the schools or colleges at Western Reserve University.