Drawing Conclusions on Henry Ford

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For years political cartoons have shaped the often unflattering popular view of public figures. One of the most-often-portrayed figures of the twentieth century was the automobile manufacturer Henry Ford. Through editorial drawings, a vivid picture of Ford was presented that became the source of myths that surrounded him and continue even to this day.

Drawing Conclusions on Henry Ford is the first and only collection that brings together in one volume these editorial cartoons. They date back as far as the time Ford introduced the Model T in 1908 and extend forward to the introduction of the Model A and subsequent V8 engines in the 1930s. They illustrate the emergence of many of the popular myths surrounding Henry Ford, as seen and understood by the average citizen during the opening decades of the twentieth century. With 150 illustrations, the reader is able to trace the evolving images of Ford from a time period when caricature images of public figures were a primary source of information about those persons. Sometimes funny, sometimes sharp and critical, these cartoons are entertaining in themselves. Viewed as a whole, they create anew view of the Henry Ford story.

Rudolph V. Alvarado is a freelance writer and museum consultant,as well as the former programs leader for the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. Sonya Y. Alvarado is an instructor of English, at Eastern Michigan University and a former adjunct faculty member, Wayne State University.

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Drawing Conclusions on Henry Ford
Rudolph; Alvarado, Sonya Alvarado
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Danish species of Alternaria and Stemphylium;: Taxonomy, parasitism, economical significance
Paul Neergaard
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Good-looking but hard to lug.......1997-05-19

Insight's City Guides combine stunning photography with literate text and a smattering of basic travel information. The Insight Venice guide is worth adding to your bookshelf, but its practical advice is getting a bit long in the tooth and its heft makes it less than ideal as a take-along guide. - Durant Imboden, Venice for Visitors, http://govenice.miningco.co

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Insight Guide Cairo (Cario, 1998)
John Rodenbeck
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Insight Guides Cairo (Insight Cityguides)

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Insight Pocket Guide the Nile: Cairo, Luxor, Aswan (Insight Pocket Guides Nile, Cairo, Luxor and Aswan)

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Insight Pocket Guide the Nile: Cairo, Luxor, Aswan (Insight Pocket Guides Nile, Cairo, Luxor and Aswan)
Sylvie Franquet
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Insight Pocket Guides deliver personal service in a sleek, portable format. Fun, colourful, informative, Insight Pocket Guides give you the inside scoop on you destination, making it ideal for long weekend getaways or for the traveler with limited time to spare. It's like having a tour guide in your pocket or purse. .Full-colour photos and pull-ou map .Tailor-made itineraries .Recommended excursions .Full listings on shopping, restaurants, nightlife and special events

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Cairo Insight Compact Guide

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Meet Biff: weird, wild-haired, recovering pinball addict. He's eighteen but looks more like fourteen, and it drives him crazy. He's never had a girlfriend, can't talk to girls without freezing up, and isn't quite sure about the human race in general. Biff's immediate concern, however, is Tommie, the girl he's had a crush on for the past twenty-three months. Maybe it's about time he got up the nerve to say more to her than "Hi."
Then Biff meets Heidi: beautiful, smart-mouthed, cigarette smoker. She's here visiting her aunt in Seattle because she's been suspended from her high school for who-knows-what reason. Biff has never found himself getting such a kick out of being with someone, even though she often drives him crazy.
This is the romantic, comic story of two quirky, imperfect people who couldn't possibly fit into each other's lives, but do, sort of.

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asi-asi.......2006-05-26

I liked this book because it was different and from a guys piont of view. It showed how much you should value certain relationships. If I was Heidi I would have never thought about taking the money because choosing money over family is just wrong. It was good for the way it showed how people judge before we get to know a person. The thing that I thought was bad about this book was that I was bored at some parts and I thought it dragged on, too.

yawn.......2005-08-11

I gave Is Kissing a Girl Who Smokes Like Licking an Ash Tray two stars because is like so many romance stories of its kind, boring and fluffy and it is highly predictable. It is a very basic because like I said it is like every other love story i.e. nerdy guy meets wild girl, he isn't sure he likes this girl because she is so wild, he spends some time with her and learns that she is actually a smart girl and not as wild as he thought. He likes her, and then like turns to love, then in the end he kisses her. A very simple pimple and blah and bland book.

Funny.......2000-09-20

Biff is a senior in high school who has never had a girlfriend. He has worshipped a girl named Tommie from afar for over a year, but just can't seem to get up the courage to call her. He is still enamored with Tommie when he meets a niece of a family friend and unexpectedly falls for her. I thought this book was funny and true to life -- I recommend it.

number one out of one hundred.......2000-04-27

Studying for my Masters degree in library science, had to review 100 ya books----this was my number one pick by a long shot! Brilliant character development.

Awesome!!.......1999-05-27

This book was really interesting. The author makes u think Biff is gonna go for Tommie (the girls he's had a crush on for 23 months) but he actuly goes for the other girl, its a really interesting book and i really enjoyed it!

Is Kissing a Girl Who Smokes Like Licking an Ashtray?

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Is Kissing a Girl Who Smokes Like Licking an Ashtray?

Manufacturer: Recorded Books
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Meet Biff, a weird, wild-haired high school senior with a couple of problems. Hes 18 but looks more like 14, which makes it hard for peopleespecially girlsto take him seriously. Hes too shy to say anything more than hi to Tommie, the girl hes had a crush on for two years. The way things are going, it doesnt look like Biff will ever find a girlfriend or get the chance to kiss a girl. That is, until he meets Heidi. A beautiful, brash cigarette smoker, shes the kind of dangerous girl Biff usually tries to avoid. But the more he gets to know her, the more he realizes Heidi may be the best friend hes ever had. If he trusts her, she might even teach him how to talk to Tommie. Randy Powell delivers an authentic and poignant look at the real-life anxieties of todays teenagers. Smart dialogue, sassy characters, and swiftly-paced prose make this ALA Best Book for Young Adults an exciting choice

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Is Kissing a Girl Who Smokes Like Licking an Ashtray?
Randy Powell
Manufacturer: Farrar Straus Giroux
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The First International Nitrogen Conference provided an opportunity for researchers and decision-makers to exchange information on environmental pollution by nitrogen compounds on three scales: global, continental/regional and local. The main topics were air, ground water and surface water pollution; emission sources, atmospheric chemistry, deposition processes and effects; disturbance of nitrogen cycles, critical loads and levels; assessments, policy development and evaluation; target groups and abatement techniques; and new approaches leading to an integrated abatement strategy.

The peer-reviewed papers from the Conference presented in this volume will provide readers with a comprehensive review of the transport, deposition and impact on ecosystems of nitrogen.

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Includes chapters 1-15 from Deweys Understanding Chemistry. It is designed for courses that go through acid-base chemistry, but do not cover kinetics, equilibrium, electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry, or organic/biochemistry.

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If you want to understand how something works, you can dismantle it and study its pieces. But what if the thing you're curious about is too small to see, even with the most powerful microscope? Brian Cathcart's The Fly in the Cathedral tells the intriguing story of how scientists were able to take atoms apart to reveal the secrets of their structures. To keep the story gripping, Cathcart focuses on a time (1932, the annus mirabilis of British physics), a place (Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory), and a few main characters (Ernest Rutherford, the "father of nuclear physics," and his protégés, John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton).

Rutherford and his team knew that the long-accepted atomic model was held together by nothing more than trumped-up math and hope. They hoped to find out what held oppositely charged protons and electrons together, and what strange particles shared the nucleus with protons. In a series of remarkable experiments done on homemade apparatus, these Cambridge scientists moved atomic science to within an inch of its ultimate goal. Finally, Cockcroft and Walton--competing furiously with their American and German peers--put together the machine that would forever change history by splitting an atom. The Fly in the Cathedral combines all the right elements for a great science history: historical context, gritty detail, wrenching failure, and of course, glorious victory. Although the miracles that occurred at Cambridge in 1932 were to result in the fearful, looming threat of atomic warfare, Cathcart allows readers to find unfiltered joy in the accomplishments of a few brilliant, ingenious scientists. --Therese Littleton

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"Cathcart tells this exhilarating story with both verve and precision" --The Sunday Telegraph

Re-creating the frustrations, excitements, and obsessions of 1932, the "miracle year" of British physics, Brian Cathcart reveals in rich detail the astonishing story behind the splitting of the atom. The most celebrated scientific experiment of its time, it would lead to one of mankind's most devastating inventions--the atomic bomb.

All matter is made mostly of empty space. Each of the billions of atoms that comprise it is hollow, its true mass concentrated in a tiny nucleus that, if the atom were a cathedral, would be no bigger than a fly. Discovering its existence three quarters of a century ago was Lord Rutherford's greatest scientific achievement, but even he caught only a glimpse. Almost at the point of despair, John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, two young researchers in a grubby basement room at the famous Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, grappled with the challenge. Racing against their American and German counterparts-a colorful cast of Nobel Prize winners--they would change everything. With paper-and-pencil calculations, a handmade apparatus, the odd lump of plasticine, and some revolutionary physics, Cockroft and Walton raised the curtain on the atomic age.

The Fly in the Cathedral is a riveting and erudite narrative inspired by the dreams that lead the last true gentlemen scientists to the very essence of the universe: the heart of matter.

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nothing special.......2007-05-15

Noticing that I make an occasional foray into popular science writing, a physicist friend of mine thrust this book on me, claiming I wouldn't be able to put it down.

Not the case. Although for him the book was supremely interesting and matchlessly well-wrought, I found it a passable but unexceptional bit of science narrative.

The subject matter concerns the efforts and discoveries of a pioneering group of atomic physicists working at Cambridge in the 1920's.

Although certainly not technical, the material, I feel, requires a fairly solid grounding in elementary physics and chemistry to follow the "action," not to mention appreciate the magnitude of the breakthroughs the author recounts.

The author assures us he has taken pains to insure this is not the case, but I differ.

Splitting the Atom.......2007-03-16

In my school days, I had come across the names of Rutherford, J.J.Thomson and Chadwick but not the two protagonists of this book - John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton. Cockcroft and Walton were the first physicists who successfully 'split' or disintegrated the nucleus.

What is interesting about this book is that it manages to provide us with a feel of the excitement and challenges experienced by physicists at the Cavendish Lab during the 1920s-1930s. Most general history of physics tend to focus on ideas and theories but not the nitty gritty aspects of building apparatus and conducting experiments. Instead of taking the former route, this book emphasizes on the importance of empirical physics and its interactions with theoretical physics. At the center of this story is how Cockcroft and Walton raced to build a particle accelerator that is used to bombard the Nucleas.

But machines are not the central element of the book. The author devotes a great deal of space to building a human aspect of the story. Aside from Cockcroft and Walton, we are are fed with vignettes of Rutherford (who provided crucial leadership at Cavendish) as well as others like Chadwick, Gamow, and the Bohr brothers.

A particularly interesting aspect of the book is the competition between the different groups of scientists in different countries (UK, USA, France) working on the same problem. This is more intense given the winner-take-all nature of breakthrough discoveries in term of academic (and public) fame.

This book should be of great interest to readers who enjoy reading about the general history of physics. Lack of knowledge or memory of physics would not be an obstacle to the enjoyment of this very readable book. Highly recommended.

Peering Into Atom.......2007-01-14

Thumbs up for Brian Cathcart. Well done. What a good find and thank you University of Chicago Bookstore!

Though it would greatly help to grasp the significance of the events described in the book if the reader had a scientific background, it is a great read regardless. Even more remarkable is the fact that the author does not claim any formal technical training or background. It took me one weekend to go cover to cover.

Basically the scientific research in the glorious Cavendish Labs during 20s and early 30s is described, work which led to the complete understanding of the classic picture of the atom. It was a time when British science was at its peak. Incredible amount of detail of the personal lives of the scientists and their apparatus, construction and engineering methods, the social and moral norms that guided the group and society at the time have been presented. The research is impeccable.

Reader gets a chance to peer over the shoulders of the scientists, one can almost hear the pumps rattling, corona crackling and scintillation counters glowing in the poorly lit labs. Engineering detail is superb.

This was also the time of international brotherhood in physics. They were one big family, ignorant of politics and other boundries. An innocence lost with the WWII.

Some of the personalities lived on till 80s. What an adventure! Starting in strictly Victorian era settings, discovering electron and other subatomic particles and then they got to witness the comupter and information age.

very engaging story.......2007-01-06

I enjoyed this book very much and finished it in two days (it's quite rare for me to do this as I'm not a fast reader). I felt as though I was watching over the shoulders of Cockcroft and Walton as they built the first accelerator while working at the Cavendish under Rutherford. I think that Brian Cathcart is an excellent author and I hope that he decides to write a few more books about the history of science. This is definitely one of my favorites in this category. I think modern day experimental physicists must look at this period in the development of their subject with longing. Cockcroft and Walton built their own accelerator on a minimal budget. Nowadays it takes billions of dollars and the cooperation of hundreds of people and organizations from many countries to build a new accelerator. All that a current physicist can hope for is his/her slice of time to run some experiments.

A tour of atomic physics in the 1920's.......2006-01-01

The universe is full of empty space. By that I don't mean intergalactic space, but space all around us. Most of everything is simply empty, even so-called solids. The scale of the emptiness within atoms has been likened to a fly within (the space of) a cathedral, and hence the title of the book.

After the title, there follows a well-written detective story of which we know the answer. The reader knows the answer, because it is written on the jacket, and, yes, EVERYBODY knows the answer as we have come across the topic before. The story is well told, nevertheless. There is a web of personalities involved, with many interconnectins between the multinational characters. From the people, two distinct points emerge.

Firstly, there is the public reaction of what had been achieved in the Cavendish laboratory in Cambridge in the 1920's and early 1930's. The subject matter captured the public imagination, although much of the initial coverage was sensationalist. This was not helped because the one `tame journalist' was not available when the story broke. Headlines about `splitting the atom' were run, and although the author veers away from such terms (as in effect, this had been achieved as early as 1909), the book itself has `won the race to split the atom' as part of its sub-title!

Secondly, it very discovery of splitting the nucleus was a very chancy event. The Cavendish laboratory between the wars was not what we would recognise now as `a research establishment'. Everything stopped for tea at 16:00, and there was no work done with equiptment after 18:00. How and why didn't the Americans (with their four centres of research) achieve the desired result first? Many people (if not all concerned) believed that much larger voltages of electricity were required to accelerate particles to `crash' into the nucleus.

The final breakthrough was achieved by accident, with a variety of equiptment built up over a number of years, and the operators had to perform gymnastic contortions to avoid electrocution. The equiptment was truly worthy of William Heath Robinson.

Brian Cathcard manages to weave an intriguing story, covering a time of intense activity in the nacient science of particle physics. Like many stories of its kind, it raises plenty of questions. It is hard to look at the events of over 70 years ago without realising what has come out of this research. To his credit, the author does not dwell unduly on this. He does quite rightly mention that a number of the people involved did play a part in the development of the atomic bomb.

My most endearing memory is of those engaged in research at the Cavendish. I can picture them at work in my mind's eye. A volume that achieves that deserves high praise.

Peter Morgan, Bath, UK (morganp@supanet.com)

THE FLY IN THE CATHEDRAL: How a Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the International Race to Split the Atom

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THE FLY IN THE CATHEDRAL: How a Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the International Race to Split the Atom
Brian Cathcart
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Probing the nucleus.(The Fly in the Cathedral: How a Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the International Race to Split the Atom)(Book Review) : An article from: American Scientist

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The Bedford Anthology of World Literature Book 5: The Nineteenth Century, 1800-1900
Paul Davis , Gary Harrison , David M. Johnson , Patricia Clark Smith , and John F. Crawford
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