Rooted in Dust: Surviving Drought and Depression in Southwestern Kansas (Rural America)

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Fontell Littrell's grandmother was a devout Latter-Day Saint. But when Fontell's father turned to bootlegging and poker to support an extended family of ten during the dirty thirties, her grandmother took it in stride. "The Lord works in mysterious ways, his miracles to perform," she rationalized.

The Litrells' story and those of thousands of others who rode out the dust bowl in southwest Kansas are the focus of Pamela Riney-Kehrberg's study of survival in a drought-ridden decade. Unlike other historians, who have dwelt on those who fled hardship, Riney-Kehrberg concentrates on the majority--three-quarters of the population--who endured.

Examining the social impact of drought and depression, she illustrates how both farm and town families dealt with the deprivation by finding odd jobs, working in government programs, or depending on federal and private assistance. Years of tribulation, she shows, affected standards of living, family relationships, city and county finances, land ownership, farm prices and production, population shifts, and politics (traditionally staunchly Republican, southwest Kansas twice voted for Roosevelt). Looking also at the environmental impact, Riney-Kehrberg presents both the negative and positive sides of farming practices and governmental intervention.

Most Kansans persevered for nearly ten years, Riney-Kehrberg emphasizes, and how they adapted indelibly altered their outlook and plans for the future More than fifty years later, the devastating dust storms continue to affect agricultural practices and policy and the population of southwest Kansas.

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A highly portable condensed version of Oran's Dictionary of the Law, that contains all the core legal words common to introductory law and paralegal courses. It is also a good self-contained way to learn about key legal concepts, starting with the "Basic 50 Words" list.

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Good, But Unnecessary for Most Readers.......2001-07-15

Oran and Tosti do a nice job of defining legal terms for the nonlawyer. As a professional who needs to understand legal terminology, however, I have found this book unnecessary. I bought "Law Dictionary for Nonlawyers" before I acquired "Black's Law Dictionary." The latter is so complete and has such clear definitions that I rarely even bother to use "Law Dictionary for Nonlawyers."

I strongly recommend that the layman buy and use "Black's Law Dictionary," rather than this or other legal dictionaries designed for laypersons.

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Law Dictionary for Nonlawyers, Third Edition
Daniel and Mark Tosti Oran
Manufacturer: West Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTUA4S

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Law Dictionary for Nonlawyers
Daniel Oran
Manufacturer: Delmar
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTQBR8

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Here is a how-to-do-it book for local historians, whether beginners or seasoned veterans. It leads the local historian through the major sources and suggests appropriate techniques for researching and writing the history of a nearby farm. It discusses the value of oral history and photographs, notes the importance of farm architecture, and evaluates the importance of technological change, among other topics. This study also provides helpful suggestions for conducting research at libraries and state historical societies, as well as for writing the history of a farm. It will prove essential for all professional, as well as nonprofessional, historians.

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The main focus of this book is the study of environmental dynamics in the Arctic, coupled with ecosystem dynamics. Particular emphasis is placed on problems of the composition of the Arctic atmosphere, including minor gases, aerosols and clouds, as well as changes in the composition due to impacts of human activity. Analysis of observational data and numerical modelling results, which characterize the Arctic basin pollution dynamics, and its impact on ecosystems is also provided. Other topics covered include problems of general circulation in the atmosphere and oceans - beginning with the 1930s when the Arctic was regarded as the kitchen of global weather and climate and concluding with the situation today when modern observational data and numerical modelling make for a more balanced view.

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Arctic Sea Ice Ecosystem
Alexander Melnikov
Manufacturer: CRC
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ASIN: 2919875043

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This book is dedicated to the study of the composition, structure and dynamics of the Artic sea ice ecosystem. It considers the permanent Artic sea ice cover as an integral steady-state ecological system. Detailed descriptions are given of time-scale characteristics, physical and chemical ice properties, and the species composition of sea-ice-bio data. The ecological mechanisms which govern the ecosystem on both the vertical and lateral scales are discussed, including the function of microcommunities during sea ice evolution.
The Arctic Ocean is a major component of the world's atmosphere ocean system and within this ocean, sea ice is the key dominant environmental feature. This 3 to 5-meter thick perenial sea ice cover affects the magnitude of both heat and matter fluxes from the atmosphere and supports a unique and tightly coupled biological community; the Artic sea ice ecosystem.

OCEANUS VOLUME 29 #1 SPRING, 1986 THE ARCTIC OCEAN GLACIOLOGY MARINE ECOSYSTEMS SEA ICE

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OCEANUS VOLUME 29 #1 SPRING, 1986 THE ARCTIC OCEAN GLACIOLOGY MARINE ECOSYSTEMS SEA ICE

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ASIN: B000TYIVU8

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THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE OF MARINE SCIENCE AND POLICY

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Chemistry: Concepts and Applications is a conceptual approach to the presentation of chemistry. It has a clear and comprehensive narrative of chemistry concepts with just the right amount of math. Two of many in-text lab options include Launch Labs and Try at Home Labs, the latter of which are unique to Glencoe. The program's media/technology support diverse classroom instruction.

Chemistry: Concepts And Applications, Student Edition 2002

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Chemistry: Concepts And Applications, Student Edition 2002
McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
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ASIN: 0078258707

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Chemistry: Concepts and Applications is a comprehensive chemistry program that provides an intuitive conceptual approach to developed core concepts for a first year high school chemistry curriculum.

The use of quantitative ideas is appropriate to enable students to practice and master to understand the full application of chemistry. The text design is student friendly that utilizes vivid visuals and clear narrative that incorporates everyday analogies related to student's interest.

Hand-on experiences are abundant with opportunities for ChemLabs, and MiniLabs that are incorporated within the chapter's presentation. CBL's are available in the classroom resource material.

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A great variety of complex phenomena in many scientific fields exhibit power-law behavior, reflecting a hierarchical or fractal structure. Many of these phenomena seem to be susceptible to description using approaches drawn from thermodynamics or statistical mechanics, particularly approaches
involving the maximization of entropy and of Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical mechanics and standard laws in a natural way. The book addresses the interdisciplinary applications of these ideas, and also on various phenomena that could possibly be quantitatively describable in terms of these
ideas.

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Much ado ..........2007-01-25

.. about a student-t like distribution. Too much ado. There is no generalization of entropy (see the comment by Nauenberg and Balian in 2005 Europhysics News, e.g.) and no 'generalized thermostatistics. In fact, there is nothing but a postulated distribution that (as do student-ts typically) has a Gaussian limit. So what?

The claim of 'nonlinear Fokker-Planck" and "nonlinear Markov processes" was quite easy to explode: There is no such thing as a 'nonlinear Markov process'. There is no such thing as a 'nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation' for a conditional probability. A conditional probability with initial state memory is nonMarkovian. A conditional probability with initial state memory is not guaranteed to obey a Chapman-Kolmogorov equation and usually doesn't. A Chapman-Kolmogorov equation is a necessary but not sufficient condition for a Markov process. A Fokker-Planck equation with memory of an initial state in its drift and/or diffusion coefficients does not generate a Markov process. A nonlinear diffusion equation does not define any stochastic process at all, in fact a diffusion equation for a 1-point density defines no stochastic process at all. A 1-point density cannot be used to identify/define a stochastic process, both scaling Markov processes and strongly nonMarkov processes like fractional Brownian motion have exactly the same 1-point density, with widely differing conditional densities. For detailed explanations see cond-mat/0701589 and references therein.

It would be of interest to psychologists and sociologists to study and analyze how such 'movements', based on claims hanging in thin air, gain a multitude of followers and hangers-on, as this movement has. The literature over the last 10 years is riddled with wrong and empty papers on such stuff.

Nonextensive Entropy: Interdisciplinary Applications

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Nonextensive Entropy: Interdisciplinary Applications
Constantino Tsallis Murray Gell-Mann
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKAK1A

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Although the term "greatest disaster stories" sounds like a front-rank qualifier for an oxymoron, the title aptly describes the intent of this anthology: to bring together in a single volume the most interesting, readable, and compassionate accounts of events so catastrophic they will never be forgotten.

In the disaster accounts presented here, the events described run the gamut from shipwrecks to industrial catastrophe. There are plane crashes, floods, volcanic eruptions, storms, and raging fires. And, of course, the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001 are covered in heart-wrenching detail.

This book contains true accounts of such monumental disasters as:

The 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York; the sinkings of the Titanic and the Lusitania; the Johnstown, Pennsylvania flood; the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens; the destruction of Galveston, Texas by the deadliest hurricane in American history; the B-25 bomber crash into the Empire State Building; the sinking of the USS Indianapolis; the runway collision between Pan Am and KLM 747s that resulted in 578 deaths; the 1996 explosion of TWA Flight 800; the Bhopal, India toxic chemical leak, which claimed 2,500 lives; the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy; the Hartford Circus fire; the Chicago Orphanage fire; the New York Triangle fire; and more.

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good launching pad for further study.......2005-12-29

I discovered this book last fall. I was only interested in one story, but I got engrossed in the book and read the entire thing in a couple of nights. What especially sticks out is the excerpt on the Our Lady of the Angels fire. I had only a vague idea of this terrible fire, which happened in 1958, two years before I was born. After reading an excerpt from To Sleep with the Angels I quickly went out and bought that book. I have greatest disaster stories 4 stars, as I agree that Underwood could have added more about the aftermath, but it's still worth reading-- you can do further research on your own if you find a particularly interesting.

Don't read this book on an airplane.......2005-07-13

This is not a good book for those of us who like to read about catastrophes from a comfortable psychological distance. The editor, Lamar Underwood has selected seventeen harrowing excerpts from books and articles grouped under the titles, "Terrorist Attacks," "The Crucible of Fire: Tragedy, Escape, and Remembrance," "Natural Causes: When Time and Luck Run Out," "Disaster at Sea: Victims, Heroes, and Doomed Voyages," and "The Hand of Man: Of Failure and Catastrophe." He does a masterful job of bringing you in, up close and personal. I don't think you'll be able to shield yourself from the horror of the victims' plights, most especially in last section of this book: "Flights that Failed: Aviation's Darkest Hours."

It was not a good idea to read this book a week before I plan to fly to London. I most especially recommend that you do NOT read "The Greatest Disaster Stories Ever Told" while actually seated on a plane.

I had already read a couple of the books that Underwood used as sources, and so I can personally testify that he did a tremendous job of selecting the most frightening, heart-wrenching parts of "Isaac's Storm" and "The Johnstown Flood" to include in his anthology.

Don't be surprised if you find yourself searching out the editor's original book selections, in order to discover the ultimate fate of the victims. I need to find Arthur Weingarten's book, "The Sky is Falling" (1977 - Grosset & Dunlap), excerpted here, to learn the outcome of a day in New York City in 1945 that foreshadowed 9/11--the day that a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building.

Weingarten's account of an elevator operator who hurtled 76 stories down into the basement of the Empire State Building, after the six braided steel cables of her elevator were sliced through by the B-25's engine, which then broke through the elevator's roof, is especially terrifying (Claustrophobes, do not read this story!): "Out of the corner of her eye she caught sight of the red lights flashing on the panel indicator. 76...75...74...The numbers were running into a vertical blur...she flung herself across the car, raising her hands above her head to ward off the flaming debris that poured through the hole in the roof."

What provisions were made for the victims of the Bhopal Catastrophe?

What was the ultimate fate of the survivors of the 'Lusitania' and the 'U.S.S. Indianapolis'?

Did Betty, the elevator operator survive her crushing, fiery descent?

This book raises many more questions than it answers.

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Needs updating.......2007-02-03

This book was published in 1978. Though the new Hippocrene printing (2000) is billed as an update, there have in fact been no changes made to the text. An "index of names" is appended; that is all.
Though the work still has considerable value (it is, after all, a history of a group who have been deeply involved in the United States since before the rebellion against Great Britain) it takes no account of the relation of the Poles to America since the rise of Solidarity and the demise of Communism and the superstate that imposed that perverse system on Poland. Readers will have to look elsewhere for an assessment of the effect of Polish independence on American migration and how both may have been influenced by globalization generally.

A must read for people with a Polish heritage.......2000-07-26

I am thrilled that I discovered this book! While I am only halfway through it, I am sure the second half will be equally as interesting. The Poles came to America with the first Europeans. This book factually lists all the contributions they made in the development of America. You will be amazed and proud! Kuniczak has a pleasant style of writing that makes this book easy to read. I am buying more copies to give as gifts to my children and to my friends of Polish descent.

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Interesting insights still not well developed

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Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
Ronald N. Giere
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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ASIN: 0226292061

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"This volume presents an attempt to construct a unified cognitive theory of science in relatively short compass. It confronts the strong program in sociology of science and the positions of various postpositivist philosophers of science, developing significant alternatives to each in a reeadily comprehensible sytle. It draws loosely on recent developments in cognitive science, without burdening the argument with detailed results from that source. . . . The book is thus a provocative one. Perhaps that is a measure of its value: it will lead scholars and serious student from a number of science studies disciplines into continued and sharpened debate over fundamental questions."—Richard Burian, Isis

"The writing is delightfully clear and accessible. On balance, few books advance our subject as well."—Paul Teller, Philosophy of Science

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Interesting insights still not well developed.......2000-08-05

Giere's "Explaining Science" is meant to give a naturalistic account of science. Traditional philosophy of science pursued the project of the foundation of science. Naturalists maintain that the only purpose of philosophy of science is to explain science. The title of Giere's book is, then, programmatic. The book is intended to cover a wide subject and throughout his sections handle with topics like the naturalization of philosophy of science, the scientific realism (where Giere defends a form of constructivistic realism) and scientific judgement (where the author suggests the use of bounded rationality models as a framework for the explanation of the scientific judgement). The book is very ambitious but the arguments in it are not always well developed and persuasive. For example, the use of bounded rationality models of decision in the philosophy of science can be a very interesting insight, but this requires a strong analysis of the social mechanisms that mediate the choices of the individuals (bounded rationality requires an organization). Giere arrest himself too frequently only on the surface of this problems. But often initiators are compelled to give only hints, and this is only the beginning of a beautiful friendship between philosophy of science and (cognitive)science that eventually will lead to the science of science so frequently proposed.

Interesting insights still not well developed.......2000-08-05

Giere's "Explaining Science" is meant to give a naturalistic account of science. Traditional philosophy of science pursued the project of the foundation of science. Naturalists maintain that the only purpose of philosophy of science is to explain science. The title of Giere's book is, then, programmatic. The book is intended to cover a wide subject and throughout his sections handle with topics like the naturalization of philosophy of science, the scientific realism (where Giere defends a form of constructivistic realism) and scientific judgement (where the author suggests the use of bounded rationality models as a framework for the explanation of the scientific judgement). The book is very ambitious but the arguments in it are not always well developed and persuasive. For example, the use of bounded rationality models of decision in the philosophy of science can be a very interesting insight, but this requires a strong analysis of the social mechanisms that mediate the choices of the individuals (bounded rationality requires an organization). Giere arrest himself too frequently only on the surface of this problems. But often initiators are compelled to give only hints, and this is only the beginning of a beautiful friendship between philosophy of science and science that eventually will lead to the science of science so frequently proposed.

Interesting insights still not well developed.......2000-08-05

Giere's "Explaining Science" is meant to give a naturalistic account of science. Traditional philosophy of science pursued the project of the foundation of science. Naturalists maintain that the only purpose of philosophy of science is to explain science. The title of Giere's book is, then, programmatic. The book is intended to cover a wide subject and throughout his sections handle with topics like the naturalization of philosophy of science, the scientific realism (where Giere defends a form of constructivistic realism) and scientific judgement (where the author suggests the use of bounded rationality models as a framework for the explanation of the scientific judgement). The book is very ambitious but the arguments in it are not always well developed and persuasive. For example, the use of bounded rationality models of decision in the philosophy of science can be a very interesting insight, but this requires a strong analysis of the social mechanisms that mediate the choices of the individuals (bounded rationality requires an organization). Giere arrest himself too frequently only on the surface of this problems. But often initiators are compelled to give only hints, and this is only the beginning of a beautiful friendship between philosophy of science and science that eventually will lead to the science of science so frequently proposed.

Explaining science: a cognitive approach

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Explaining science: a cognitive approach
Ronald N. Giere
Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press
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This is the first monograph to offer a general overview of the study and management of disease in wild animal populations. Written by an experienced researcher and teacher, the accessible text will serve as both an introduction to the field and a foundation for future discussion and supplementation.

Disease in Wild Animals: Investigation and Management

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Disease in Wild Animals: Investigation and Management
Gary A. Wobeser
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 3540489746

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Wildlife diseases have become increasingly important recently due to their effect upon human health, veterinary medicine, wildlife, and conservation biology.

Gary Wobeser's successful book from 1994 has been completely updated and enlarged in a new second edition. An in-depth overview of the available techniques for the investigation and management of disease in free-ranging animals is provided. The subjects are illustrated with examples drawn from around the world, with emphasis on the special requirements involved in working with wild animals. Techniques are assessed critically with regard to their efficacy and effectiveness. The book draws on the authorâ€™s training as a wildlife biologist and veterinarian and his experience over four decades with wildlife disease.

Investigation and Management of Disease in Wild Animals

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Investigation and Management of Disease in Wild Animals
Gary A. Wobeser
Manufacturer: Springer
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