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Book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901  Main part

Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Main part written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Serial Titles

Download or read book New Serial Titles written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

Book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901  Place index

Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Place index written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901  Subject index

Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Subject index written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Register of Microform Masters

Download or read book National Register of Microform Masters written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Register of Microform Masters  1965 1975

Download or read book National Register of Microform Masters 1965 1975 written by Library of Congress. Catalog Publication Division and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Special List

Download or read book Special List written by Brick Row Book Shop, Inc., New York and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Priced items.

Book The Story of Cooperstown

Download or read book The Story of Cooperstown written by Ralph Birdsall and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Book Prices Current

Download or read book American Book Prices Current written by Katharine K. Leab and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Profession of Authorship in America  1800 1870

Download or read book The Profession of Authorship in America 1800 1870 written by William Charvat and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on the complex relations between author, publisher and contemporary reading public in 19th-century America; in particular, the emergence of Irving and Cooper as America's first successful literary entrepreneurs, how Poe's and Melville's successes and failures affected their writing, the popularization of poetry in the 1830s and 1840s, the role of the literary magazine in the 1840s and 1850s, and the beginnings of book promotion. It pays particular attention to the way social and economic forces helped to shape literary works.

Book The Anti Masonic Party in the United States

Download or read book The Anti Masonic Party in the United States written by William Preston Vaughn and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, for the first time in more than eighty years, is a detailed study of political Antimasonry on the national, state, and local levels, based on a survey of existing sources. The Antimasonic party, whose avowed goal was the destruction of the Masonic Lodge and other secret societies, was the first influential third party in the United States and introduced the device of the national presidential nominating convention in 1831. Vaughn focuses on the celebrated "Morgan Affair" of 1826, the alleged murder of a former Mason who exposed the fraternity's secrets. Thurlow Weed quickly transformed the crusading spirit aroused by this incident into an anti-Jackson party in New York. From New York, the party soon spread through the Northeast. To achieve success, the Antimasons in most states had to form alliances with the major parties, thus becoming the "flexible minority." After William Wirt's defeat by Andrew Jackson in the election of 1832, the party waned. Where it had been strong, Antimasonry became a reform-minded, anti-Clay faction of the new Whig party and helped to secure the presidential nominations of William Henry Harrison in 1836 and 1840. Vaughn concludes that although in many ways the Antimasonic Crusade was finally beneficial to the Masons, it was not until the 1850s that the fraternity regained its strength and influence.

Book Descendants of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield  Massachusetts

Download or read book Descendants of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield Massachusetts written by Benjamin Shurtleff and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Whiteside County  Illinois

Download or read book History of Whiteside County Illinois written by Charles Bent and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Walworth County  Wisconsin

Download or read book History of Walworth County Wisconsin written by Albert Clayton Beckwith and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Illustrated History of Kennebec County  Maine  1625 1799 1892

Download or read book Illustrated History of Kennebec County Maine 1625 1799 1892 written by Henry D. Kingsbury and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: