Science In The Pleasure Ground

Author : Ida Hay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science in the Pleasure Ground written by Ida Hay and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pioneering role of the Arnold Arboretum in blending botanical research with public recreation and aesthetic display is revealed in this first comprehensive history of one of Boston's most treasured outdoor spaces.

Author : Elizabeth F. Fideler
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666771937
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blanche Ames Ames (1878–1969) and Oakes Ames (1874–1950) written by Elizabeth F. Fideler and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blanche Ames Ames and Oakes Ames advanced women's suffrage, reproductive rights, artistic expression, and scientific knowledge, among other accomplishments, in the first half of the twentieth century. Blanche was part of women's history for nearly seven decades and deserved to be better known for that and other reasons. Oakes's contributions to the women's suffrage movement and his extraordinary scientific accomplishments might have received greater recognition had he not avoided the spotlight so successfully. Their story is one of mutual enabling. Believing in gender equality, even if outside the bounds of what was considered socially acceptable, they named their home "Borderland" to represent boundary pushing. One lasting influence is found in the social justice arena. The Harvard professor of botany and supervisor of the university's major botanical institutions and his sociable, highly independent wife were both active in the fight to secure the vote for women, with Blanche contributing original political cartoons to newspapers. Blanche led the Birth Control League of Massachusetts for nearly twenty years, then used her position and skills on behalf of the New England Hospital for Women and Children. Unity Church and Memorial Hall in Easton, Massachusetts, were family gifts, as was their home, now Borderland State Park.

Author : Jennet Conant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476767297
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tuxedo Park written by Jennet Conant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller! The untold story of the eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses who helped build the atomic bomb and defeat the Nazis—changing the course of history. Legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of the twentieth century—Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, and others—at his state-of-the-art laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York, in the late 1930s. He established a top-secret defense laboratory at MIT and personally bankrolled pioneering research into new, high-powered radar detection systems that helped defeat the German Air Force and U-boats. With Ernest Lawrence, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist, he pushed Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fund research in nuclear fission, which led to the development of the atomic bomb. Jennet Conant, the granddaughter of James Bryant Conant, one of the leading scientific advisers of World War II, enjoyed unprecedented access to Loomis’ papers, as well as to people intimately involved in his life and work. She pierces through Loomis’ obsessive secrecy and illuminates his role in assuring the Allied victory.

Author : Philip J. Pauly
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674026636
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fruits and Plains written by Philip J. Pauly and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The engineering of plants has a long history on this continent. Fields, forests, orchards, and prairies are the result of repeated campaigns by amateurs, tradesmen, and scientists to introduce desirable plants, both American and foreign, while preventing growth of alien riff-raff. These horticulturists coaxed plants along in new environments and, through grafting and hybridizing, created new varieties. Over the last 250 years, their activities transformed the American landscape. "Horticulture" may bring to mind white-glove garden clubs and genteel lectures about growing better roses. But Philip J. Pauly wants us to think of horticulturalists as pioneer "biotechnologists," hacking their plants to create a landscape that reflects their ambitions and ideals. Those standards have shaped the look of suburban neighborhoods, city parks, and the "native" produce available in our supermarkets. In telling the histories of Concord grapes and Japanese cherry trees, the problem of the prairie and the war on the Medfly, Pauly hopes to provide a new understanding of not only how horticulture shaped the vegetation around us, but how it influenced our experiences of the native, the naturalized, and the alien--and how better to manage the landscapes around us.

Author : Frederick Hanham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Manual for the Park written by Frederick Hanham and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip J. Pauly
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691186332
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biologists and the Promise of American Life written by Philip J. Pauly and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explorers, evolutionists, eugenicists, sexologists, and high school biology teachers--all have contributed to the prominence of the biological sciences in American life. In this book, Philip Pauly weaves their stories together into a fascinating history of biology in America over the last two hundred years. Beginning with the return of the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1806, botanists and zoologists identified science with national culture, linking their work to continental imperialism and the creation of an industrial republic. Pauly examines this nineteenth-century movement in local scientific communities with national reach: the partnership of Asa Gray and Louis Agassiz at Harvard University, the excitement of work at the Smithsonian Institution and the Geological Survey, and disputes at the Agriculture Department over the continent's future. He then describes the establishment of biology as an academic discipline in the late nineteenth century, and the retreat of life scientists from the problems of American nature. The early twentieth century, however, witnessed a new burst of public-oriented activity among biologists. Here Pauly chronicles such topics as the introduction of biology into high school curricula, the efforts of eugenicists to alter the "breeding" of Americans, and the influence of sexual biology on Americans' most private lives. Throughout much of American history, Pauly argues, life scientists linked their study of nature with a desire to culture--to use intelligence and craft to improve American plants, animals, and humans. They often disagreed and frequently overreached, but they sought to build a nation whose people would be prosperous, humane, secular, and liberal. Life scientists were significant participants in efforts to realize what Progressive Era oracle Herbert Croly called "the promise of American life." Pauly tells their story in its entirety and explains why now, in a society that is rapidly returning to a complex ethnic mix similar to the one that existed for a hundred years prior to the Cold War, it is important to reconnect with the progressive creators of American secular culture.

Author : Emily Jenkins
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
ISBN 13 : 0375987185
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water in the Park written by Emily Jenkins and published by Schwartz & Wade. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first orange glow on the water in the pond, to the last humans and animals running home from an evening rain shower, here is a day-in-the-life of a city park, and the playground within it. A rhythmic text and sweet, accessible images will immerse parents, toddlers, and young children in the summer season and the community within a park. Seasoned picture book readers may notice Emily Jenkins's classic inspirations for this book: Alvin Tresselt's Caldecott Medal-winning White Snow, Bright Snow, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin, and Charlotte Zolotow's The Park Book, illustrated by H. A. Rey.

Author : William Thomas Brande
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1452 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art written by William Thomas Brande and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 1452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Miodrag Mitrasinovic
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351878743
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Total Landscape, Theme Parks, Public Space written by Miodrag Mitrasinovic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing theme parks from the United States, Europe and Asia in a comparative, multidisciplinary framework, this fascinating book argues that these fantasy environments are an extreme example of the totalization of public space. By illuminating the relationship between theme parks and public space, this book offers critical insights into the ethos of total landscape. Illuminating the relationship between theme parks and public space, the book offers an insight into the ethos, design and expectations of public space in the twenty-first century.

Author : Dermot Hudson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244111545
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book VICTORY OF JUCHE KOREA IS A SCIENCE written by Dermot Hudson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has won victory after victory in confrontation with the US and world imperialism culminating in the DPRK being able to sit down and negotiate with the US as an equal partner . What is the secret of the DPRK's victories ? The victory of the DPRK is a science, This book is published to mark the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea .