Abstract: The Boltzmann distribution is one of the key equations of thermal physics andis widely used in machine learning as well. Here I derive a Boltzmanndistribution in a simple pedagogical example using only tools from a first-yearprobability course. The example is called 'coconuts and islanders' and wastaught to me by my father, Shoucheng Zhang (1963 - 2018), to whom these notesare dedicated. By focusing on this simple story, which can be easily simulatedon a computer, I aim to provide a more accessible and intuitive presentation ofthe Boltzmann distribution. Yet I hope this exposition also inspires deepthinking about statistical physics. For instance, I show that the coconuts andislanders story illuminates a connection between the 'fundamental assumption ofstatistical mechanics'---all microstates are equally probable---and thestatistical property of detailed balance.
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Islanders and Mainlanders
Author | : Jeffrey H. Altschul,Donn R. Grenda |
Publsiher | : Statistical Research |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2002 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : STANFORD:36105111889189 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
The southern California coast has been a favored place to live for nearly 12,000 years. Dotted with marshes, estuaries, cliffs, and open beaches, with islands and mountains lying nearby, the area is rich in resources. How humans have fit into this ecological diverse and ever-changing landscape is a constant theme in the prehistory of the region. Using comparative studies of island and coastal cultures from the Pacific, the authors show how the study of southern California's past can enlighten us about coastal adaptations worldwide. Drawing on sources from anthropology, ethnohistory, geoscience, and archaeology, their findings are presented in a readable fashion that will make Islanders and Mainlanders of interest not only to a wide range of scholars but to the general public as well. Jeffrey H. Altschul is President and Donn R. Grenda is Director of the California Office of Statistical Research, Inc., a cultural resource management consulting firm. Both have been extremely active in southern California archaeology, working on sites on the mainland and the Channel Islands.
Bounteous Bestowal
Author | : M. L. Treadgold |
Publsiher | : Conran Octopus |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 1988 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : UOM:39015056565701 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Selections from the Records of the Collector of South Canara
Author | : Madras (India : Presidency). Board of Revenue |
Publsiher | : Anonim |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 1898 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : UCD:31175021437846 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
The Praeger Handbook of Personality Across Cultures 3 volumes
Author | : A. Timothy Church Ph.D. |
Publsiher | : ABC-CLIO |
Total Pages | : 999 |
Release | : 2017-07-14 |
ISBN 10 | : 1440841047 |
ISBN 13 | : 9781440841040 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
This important multivolume work sheds light on current—and future—research on cultural universals and differences in personality in their evolutionary, ecological, and cultural contexts. • Uniquely brings together diverse topics and theoretical viewpoints related to personality across cultures, including cross-cultural, cultural, indigenous, evolutionary, and neuroscientific perspectives • Provides a thorough picture of current knowledge as well as directions for future research • Comprises 31 chapters by leading international researchers discussing their respective areas of expertise • Addresses personality broadly defined to include universal and indigenous traits, personality types, the self, emotion, motivation, values, beliefs, and life narratives • Draws on cultural samples from every continent except Antarctica
The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal
Author | : Marian Moser Jones |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2013-01-03 |
ISBN 10 | : 1421408236 |
ISBN 13 | : 9781421408231 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
In dark skirts and bloodied boots, Clara Barton fearlessly ventured on to Civil War battlefields to tend to wounded soldiers. She later worked with civilians in Europe during the Franco-Prussian War, lobbied legislators to ratify the Geneva conventions, and founded and ran the American Red Cross. The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal tells the story of the charitable organization from its start in 1881, through its humanitarian aid during wars, natural disasters, and the Depression, to its relief efforts of the 1930s. Marian Moser Jones illustrates the tension between the organization's founding principles of humanity and neutrality and the political, economic, and moral pressures that sometimes caused it to favor one group at the expense of another. This expansive book narrates the stories of: • U.S. natural disasters such as the Jacksonville yellow fever epidemic of 1888, the Sea Islands hurricane of 1893, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake • crises abroad, including the 1892 Russian famine and the Armenian massacres of 1895–96 • efforts to help civilians affected by the civil war in Cuba • power struggles within the American Red Cross leadership and subsequent alliances with the American government • the organization's expansion during World War I • race riots in East St. Louis, Chicago, and Tulsa between 1917 and 1921 • help for African American and white Southerners after the Mississippi flood of 1927 • relief projects during the Dust Bowl and after the New Deal An epilogue relates the history of the American Red Cross since the beginning of World War II and illuminates the organization's current practices as well as its international reputation.
Puerto Ricans
Author | : Diego L. Colón |
Publsiher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2010-03 |
ISBN 10 | : 145020435X |
ISBN 13 | : 9781450204354 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
The basic assumption of this study is that mainland and island schools reinforce a modality to achieve which stresses contrasting achievement values. For example, the value placed on competitive achievement in United States schools seems to contradict the value placed on cooperative achievement in Puerto Rican schools. In order to bridge the gap between the school policies and practices of these two different educational systems, in the sense that the school refl ects an understanding and acceptance of differences in the values underlying achievement potential, it was imperative to undertake empirical exploration of the relational value orientations and achievement modes of islander and mainlander Puerto Rican college students. Knowledge about these two areas facilitates an understanding of the relational value orientations and achievement potential learners bring into the school and any changes undergone as a result of the school s socializing function. The work of educators in pluralistic settings of the United States as well as in Puerto Rico, especially in the areas of curriculum and instruction, may be enhanced by a comprehension of the relational value orientations and modes of achievement potential prevalent among multicultural learners.
Land of Smoke and Mirrors
Author | : Vincent Brook |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-01-22 |
ISBN 10 | : 0813554586 |
ISBN 13 | : 9780813554587 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Unlike the more forthrightly mythic origins of other urban centers—think Rome via Romulus and Remus or Mexico City via the god Huitzilopochtli—Los Angeles emerged from a smoke-and-mirrors process that is simultaneously literal and figurative, real and imagined, material and metaphorical, physical and textual. Through penetrating analysis and personal engagement, Vincent Brook uncovers the many portraits of this ever-enticing, ever-ambivalent, and increasingly multicultural megalopolis. Divided into sections that probe Los Angeles's checkered history and reflect on Hollywood's own self-reflections, the book shows how the city, despite considerable remaining challenges, is finally blowing away some of the smoke of its not always proud past and rhetorically adjusting its rear-view mirrors. Part I is a review of the city's history through the early 1900s, focusing on the seminal 1884 novel Ramona and its immediate effect, but also exploring its ongoing impact through interviews with present-day Tongva Indians, attendance at the 88th annual Ramona pageant, and analysis of its feature film adaptations. Brook deals with Hollywood as geographical site, film production center, and frame of mind in Part II. He charts the events leading up to Hollywood's emergence as the world's movie capital and explores subsequent developments of the film industry from its golden age through the so-called New Hollywood, citing such self-reflexive films as Sunset Blvd., Singin' in the Rain, and The Truman Show. Part III considers LA noir, a subset of film noir that emerged alongside the classical noir cycle in the 1940s and 1950s and continues today. The city's status as a privileged noir site is analyzed in relation to its history and through discussions of such key LA noir novels and films as Double Indemnity, Chinatown, and Crash. In Part IV, Brook examines multicultural Los Angeles. Using media texts as signposts, he maps the history and contemporary situation of the city's major ethno-racial and other minority groups, looking at such films as Mi Familia (Latinos), Boyz N the Hood (African Americans), Charlotte Sometimes (Asians), Falling Down (Whites), and The Kids Are All Right (LGBT).
The English Historical Review
Author | : Mandell Creighton,Justin Winsor,Samuel Rawson Gardiner,Reginald Lane Poole,Sir John Goronwy Edwards |
Publsiher | : Anonim |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 1892 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : HARVARD:32044057445363 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Before California
Author | : Brian M. Fagan |
Publsiher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2004 |
ISBN 10 | : 9780759103740 |
ISBN 13 | : 0759103747 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
What did California look like before Hollywood? Before the Gold Rush? Before the missions? Brian Fagan, the best known popular archaeology writer in America, is your tour guide on a fascinating trip across the Golden State before the arrival of Europeans. Fagan tells of the first groups who drifted into the state over 13,000 years ago and how their descendants used the land and sea to survive in a fragile environment subject to earthquake, drought, and flood. On your tour, you will visit the shellmounds of San Francisco Bay, salmon trappers of the northern streams, acorn gatherers of the Central Valley, Chumash villages on the Santa Barbara coast, and shamans who painted mysterious figures on stone. Fagan shows how archaeologists scientifically reconstruct this lost history from fragments of bone, shell, and stone, from travellers' and scholars' descriptions of vanished peoples, and from the stories told by the tribal members themselves. Join a famous archaeologist on this captivating journey and find out what important lessons this story has for California's future.
The Teacup Ministry and Other Stories
Author | : Rhoda H. Halperin |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2001-03-15 |
ISBN 10 | : 9780292731431 |
ISBN 13 | : 0292731434 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
In the global world of the twenty-first century, class boundaries are subtle and permeable, though real nonetheless. Markers of identity, authenticity, and belonging can change with a gesture or a glance, making people feel they do or don't belong in certain places, with certain people, at certain times. In these powerfully written ethnographic stories, Rhoda Halperin maps the boundaries of class by examining three themes: crossing class boundaries, class creativity, and class vulnerability. In telling these stories, Halperin draws on a wealth of ethnographic experiences in this country and abroad. Her book challenges class stereotypes in ways that touch on universals across cultures and over time.
Angel Flight Mid Atlantic
Author | : Suzanne Rhodes |
Publsiher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2008-02-18 |
ISBN 10 | : 1439619433 |
ISBN 13 | : 9781439619438 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
In 1972, two pilots—one a federal career engineer, the other the pastor of a prominent church in Washington, D.C.—discovered a common passion for flying airplanes and serving people. One day over lunch, the men conceived a flight plan, one that would undergo many changes before becoming Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic, as it is known today. Ed Boyer of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Dr. Louis Evans, pastor of the National Presbyterian Church, discussed how to pool their interests and qualifications. From its beginnings as a charitable shuttle service for religious leaders and dignitaries, to full-scale charitable air ambulance operations, to Angel Flights for ambulatory patients, the initial vision has grown into a network of over 1,500 volunteer pilots in the Mid-Atlantic region who use their private planes to fly people in need to specialized treatment. Angel Flight coordinates missions of mercy from its offices in Virginia Beach, helping patients to find 'the shortest distance between home and hope.'
The Cat Who Came to Breakfast
Author | : Lilian Jackson Braun |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1995-03-01 |
ISBN 10 | : 110121421X |
ISBN 13 | : 9781101214213 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Qwilleran and the cats are visiting an island known by many names. Qwill has always called it Breakfast Island, but to the taciturn natives, it's Providence Island. To the rich summer residents it's Grand Island--and to the developers and tourists who are turning this once-peaceful place upside down, it's Pear Island. But when some odd 'accidents' occur, including a fatal boat explosion, Qwill suspects sabotage and sets out to investigate--because murder by any other name is just as deadly...
Mediterranean Voyages
Author | : Helen Dawson |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2016-07-01 |
ISBN 10 | : 1315424762 |
ISBN 13 | : 9781315424767 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Islands are ideal case studies for exploring social connectivity, episodes of colonisation, abandonment, and alternating phases of cultural interaction and isolation. Their societies display different attitudes toward the land and the sea, which in turn cast light on group identities. This volume advances theoretical discussions of island archaeology by offering a comparative study of the archaeology of colonisation, abandonment, and resettlement of the Mediterranean islands in prehistory. This comparative and thematic study encourages anthropological reflections on the archaeology of the islands, ultimately focusing on people rather than geographical units, and specifically on the relations between islanders, mainlanders, and the creation of islander identities. This volume has significance for scholars interested in Mediterranean archaeology, as well as those interested more broadly in colonisation and abandonment.
National Performances
Author | : Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2003-07-15 |
ISBN 10 | : 9780226703596 |
ISBN 13 | : 0226703592 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
In this book, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas explores how Puerto Ricans in Chicago construct and perform nationalism. Contrary to characterizations of nationalism as a primarily unifying force, Ramos-Zayas finds that it actually provides the vocabulary to highlight distinctions along class, gender, racial, and generational lines among Puerto Ricans, as well as between Puerto Ricans and other Latino, black, and white populations. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, Ramos-Zayas shows how the performance of Puerto Rican nationalism in Chicago serves as a critique of social inequality, colonialism, and imperialism, allowing barrio residents and others to challenge the notion that upward social mobility is equally available to all Americans—or all Puerto Ricans. Paradoxically, however, these activists' efforts also promote upward social mobility, overturning previous notions that resentment and marginalization are the main results of nationalist strategies. Ramos-Zayas's groundbreaking work allows her here to offer one of the most original and complex analyses of contemporary nationalism and Latino identity in the United States.
The Interior
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Anonim |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 1894 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : NYPL:33433003182668 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Issues for Jan 12, 1888-Jan. 1889 include monthly 'Magazine supplement'.
The Modernization of Easter Island
Author | : John Douglas Porteous,University of Victoria (B.C.). Department of Geography |
Publsiher | : University of Victoria |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1981 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : UVA:X000833175 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Parliamentary Papers
Author | : Queensland. Parliament. Legislative Assembly |
Publsiher | : Anonim |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 1959 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : STANFORD:36105015385441 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Bounteous Bestowal
Author | : M. L. Treadgold |
Publsiher | : Conran Octopus |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 1988 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : UOM:39015056565701 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Selections from the Records of the Collector of South Canara
Author | : Madras (India : Presidency). Board of Revenue |
Publsiher | : Anonim |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 1898 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : UCD:31175021437846 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
The Praeger Handbook of Personality Across Cultures 3 volumes
Author | : A. Timothy Church Ph.D. |
Publsiher | : ABC-CLIO |
Total Pages | : 999 |
Release | : 2017-07-14 |
ISBN 10 | : 1440841047 |
ISBN 13 | : 9781440841040 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
This important multivolume work sheds light on current—and future—research on cultural universals and differences in personality in their evolutionary, ecological, and cultural contexts. • Uniquely brings together diverse topics and theoretical viewpoints related to personality across cultures, including cross-cultural, cultural, indigenous, evolutionary, and neuroscientific perspectives • Provides a thorough picture of current knowledge as well as directions for future research • Comprises 31 chapters by leading international researchers discussing their respective areas of expertise • Addresses personality broadly defined to include universal and indigenous traits, personality types, the self, emotion, motivation, values, beliefs, and life narratives • Draws on cultural samples from every continent except Antarctica
The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal
Author | : Marian Moser Jones |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2013-01-03 |
ISBN 10 | : 1421408236 |
ISBN 13 | : 9781421408231 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
In dark skirts and bloodied boots, Clara Barton fearlessly ventured on to Civil War battlefields to tend to wounded soldiers. She later worked with civilians in Europe during the Franco-Prussian War, lobbied legislators to ratify the Geneva conventions, and founded and ran the American Red Cross. The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal tells the story of the charitable organization from its start in 1881, through its humanitarian aid during wars, natural disasters, and the Depression, to its relief efforts of the 1930s. Marian Moser Jones illustrates the tension between the organization's founding principles of humanity and neutrality and the political, economic, and moral pressures that sometimes caused it to favor one group at the expense of another. This expansive book narrates the stories of: • U.S. natural disasters such as the Jacksonville yellow fever epidemic of 1888, the Sea Islands hurricane of 1893, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake • crises abroad, including the 1892 Russian famine and the Armenian massacres of 1895–96 • efforts to help civilians affected by the civil war in Cuba • power struggles within the American Red Cross leadership and subsequent alliances with the American government • the organization's expansion during World War I • race riots in East St. Louis, Chicago, and Tulsa between 1917 and 1921 • help for African American and white Southerners after the Mississippi flood of 1927 • relief projects during the Dust Bowl and after the New Deal An epilogue relates the history of the American Red Cross since the beginning of World War II and illuminates the organization's current practices as well as its international reputation.
Puerto Ricans
Author | : Diego L. Colón |
Publsiher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2010-03 |
ISBN 10 | : 145020435X |
ISBN 13 | : 9781450204354 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
The basic assumption of this study is that mainland and island schools reinforce a modality to achieve which stresses contrasting achievement values. For example, the value placed on competitive achievement in United States schools seems to contradict the value placed on cooperative achievement in Puerto Rican schools. In order to bridge the gap between the school policies and practices of these two different educational systems, in the sense that the school refl ects an understanding and acceptance of differences in the values underlying achievement potential, it was imperative to undertake empirical exploration of the relational value orientations and achievement modes of islander and mainlander Puerto Rican college students. Knowledge about these two areas facilitates an understanding of the relational value orientations and achievement potential learners bring into the school and any changes undergone as a result of the school s socializing function. The work of educators in pluralistic settings of the United States as well as in Puerto Rico, especially in the areas of curriculum and instruction, may be enhanced by a comprehension of the relational value orientations and modes of achievement potential prevalent among multicultural learners.
Land of Smoke and Mirrors
Author | : Vincent Brook |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-01-22 |
ISBN 10 | : 0813554586 |
ISBN 13 | : 9780813554587 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Unlike the more forthrightly mythic origins of other urban centers—think Rome via Romulus and Remus or Mexico City via the god Huitzilopochtli—Los Angeles emerged from a smoke-and-mirrors process that is simultaneously literal and figurative, real and imagined, material and metaphorical, physical and textual. Through penetrating analysis and personal engagement, Vincent Brook uncovers the many portraits of this ever-enticing, ever-ambivalent, and increasingly multicultural megalopolis. Divided into sections that probe Los Angeles's checkered history and reflect on Hollywood's own self-reflections, the book shows how the city, despite considerable remaining challenges, is finally blowing away some of the smoke of its not always proud past and rhetorically adjusting its rear-view mirrors. Part I is a review of the city's history through the early 1900s, focusing on the seminal 1884 novel Ramona and its immediate effect, but also exploring its ongoing impact through interviews with present-day Tongva Indians, attendance at the 88th annual Ramona pageant, and analysis of its feature film adaptations. Brook deals with Hollywood as geographical site, film production center, and frame of mind in Part II. He charts the events leading up to Hollywood's emergence as the world's movie capital and explores subsequent developments of the film industry from its golden age through the so-called New Hollywood, citing such self-reflexive films as Sunset Blvd., Singin' in the Rain, and The Truman Show. Part III considers LA noir, a subset of film noir that emerged alongside the classical noir cycle in the 1940s and 1950s and continues today. The city's status as a privileged noir site is analyzed in relation to its history and through discussions of such key LA noir novels and films as Double Indemnity, Chinatown, and Crash. In Part IV, Brook examines multicultural Los Angeles. Using media texts as signposts, he maps the history and contemporary situation of the city's major ethno-racial and other minority groups, looking at such films as Mi Familia (Latinos), Boyz N the Hood (African Americans), Charlotte Sometimes (Asians), Falling Down (Whites), and The Kids Are All Right (LGBT).
The English Historical Review
Author | : Mandell Creighton,Justin Winsor,Samuel Rawson Gardiner,Reginald Lane Poole,Sir John Goronwy Edwards |
Publsiher | : Anonim |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 1892 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : HARVARD:32044057445363 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Before California
Author | : Brian M. Fagan |
Publsiher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2004 |
ISBN 10 | : 9780759103740 |
ISBN 13 | : 0759103747 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
What did California look like before Hollywood? Before the Gold Rush? Before the missions? Brian Fagan, the best known popular archaeology writer in America, is your tour guide on a fascinating trip across the Golden State before the arrival of Europeans. Fagan tells of the first groups who drifted into the state over 13,000 years ago and how their descendants used the land and sea to survive in a fragile environment subject to earthquake, drought, and flood. On your tour, you will visit the shellmounds of San Francisco Bay, salmon trappers of the northern streams, acorn gatherers of the Central Valley, Chumash villages on the Santa Barbara coast, and shamans who painted mysterious figures on stone. Fagan shows how archaeologists scientifically reconstruct this lost history from fragments of bone, shell, and stone, from travellers' and scholars' descriptions of vanished peoples, and from the stories told by the tribal members themselves. Join a famous archaeologist on this captivating journey and find out what important lessons this story has for California's future.
The Teacup Ministry and Other Stories
Author | : Rhoda H. Halperin |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2001-03-15 |
ISBN 10 | : 9780292731431 |
ISBN 13 | : 0292731434 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
In the global world of the twenty-first century, class boundaries are subtle and permeable, though real nonetheless. Markers of identity, authenticity, and belonging can change with a gesture or a glance, making people feel they do or don't belong in certain places, with certain people, at certain times. In these powerfully written ethnographic stories, Rhoda Halperin maps the boundaries of class by examining three themes: crossing class boundaries, class creativity, and class vulnerability. In telling these stories, Halperin draws on a wealth of ethnographic experiences in this country and abroad. Her book challenges class stereotypes in ways that touch on universals across cultures and over time.
Angel Flight Mid Atlantic
Author | : Suzanne Rhodes |
Publsiher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2008-02-18 |
ISBN 10 | : 1439619433 |
ISBN 13 | : 9781439619438 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
In 1972, two pilots—one a federal career engineer, the other the pastor of a prominent church in Washington, D.C.—discovered a common passion for flying airplanes and serving people. One day over lunch, the men conceived a flight plan, one that would undergo many changes before becoming Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic, as it is known today. Ed Boyer of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Dr. Louis Evans, pastor of the National Presbyterian Church, discussed how to pool their interests and qualifications. From its beginnings as a charitable shuttle service for religious leaders and dignitaries, to full-scale charitable air ambulance operations, to Angel Flights for ambulatory patients, the initial vision has grown into a network of over 1,500 volunteer pilots in the Mid-Atlantic region who use their private planes to fly people in need to specialized treatment. Angel Flight coordinates missions of mercy from its offices in Virginia Beach, helping patients to find 'the shortest distance between home and hope.'
The Cat Who Came to Breakfast
Author | : Lilian Jackson Braun |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1995-03-01 |
ISBN 10 | : 110121421X |
ISBN 13 | : 9781101214213 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Qwilleran and the cats are visiting an island known by many names. Qwill has always called it Breakfast Island, but to the taciturn natives, it's Providence Island. To the rich summer residents it's Grand Island--and to the developers and tourists who are turning this once-peaceful place upside down, it's Pear Island. But when some odd 'accidents' occur, including a fatal boat explosion, Qwill suspects sabotage and sets out to investigate--because murder by any other name is just as deadly...
Mediterranean Voyages
Author | : Helen Dawson |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2016-07-01 |
ISBN 10 | : 1315424762 |
ISBN 13 | : 9781315424767 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Islands are ideal case studies for exploring social connectivity, episodes of colonisation, abandonment, and alternating phases of cultural interaction and isolation. Their societies display different attitudes toward the land and the sea, which in turn cast light on group identities. This volume advances theoretical discussions of island archaeology by offering a comparative study of the archaeology of colonisation, abandonment, and resettlement of the Mediterranean islands in prehistory. This comparative and thematic study encourages anthropological reflections on the archaeology of the islands, ultimately focusing on people rather than geographical units, and specifically on the relations between islanders, mainlanders, and the creation of islander identities. This volume has significance for scholars interested in Mediterranean archaeology, as well as those interested more broadly in colonisation and abandonment.
National Performances
Author | : Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2003-07-15 |
ISBN 10 | : 9780226703596 |
ISBN 13 | : 0226703592 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
In this book, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas explores how Puerto Ricans in Chicago construct and perform nationalism. Contrary to characterizations of nationalism as a primarily unifying force, Ramos-Zayas finds that it actually provides the vocabulary to highlight distinctions along class, gender, racial, and generational lines among Puerto Ricans, as well as between Puerto Ricans and other Latino, black, and white populations. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, Ramos-Zayas shows how the performance of Puerto Rican nationalism in Chicago serves as a critique of social inequality, colonialism, and imperialism, allowing barrio residents and others to challenge the notion that upward social mobility is equally available to all Americans—or all Puerto Ricans. Paradoxically, however, these activists' efforts also promote upward social mobility, overturning previous notions that resentment and marginalization are the main results of nationalist strategies. Ramos-Zayas's groundbreaking work allows her here to offer one of the most original and complex analyses of contemporary nationalism and Latino identity in the United States.
The Interior
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Anonim |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 1894 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : NYPL:33433003182668 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Issues for Jan 12, 1888-Jan. 1889 include monthly 'Magazine supplement'.
The Modernization of Easter Island
Author | : John Douglas Porteous,University of Victoria (B.C.). Department of Geography |
Publsiher | : University of Victoria |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1981 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : UVA:X000833175 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Parliamentary Papers
Author | : Queensland. Parliament. Legislative Assembly |
Publsiher | : Anonim |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 1959 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : STANFORD:36105015385441 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Troubling Nationhood in U S Latina Literature
Author | : Maya Socolovsky |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-06-26 |
ISBN 10 | : 0813561191 |
ISBN 13 | : 9780813561196 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
This book examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national identity. It explores a group of feminist texts that are representative of the U.S. Latina literary boom of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, when an emerging group of writers gained prominence in mainstream and academic circles. Through close readings of select contemporary Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American works, Maya Socolovsky argues that these narratives are 'remapping' the United States so that it is fully integrated within a larger, hemispheric Americas. Looking at such concerns as nation, place, trauma, and storytelling, writers Denise Chavez, Sandra Cisneros, Esmeralda Santiago, Ana Castillo, Himilce Novas, and Judith Ortiz Cofer challenge popular views of Latino cultural 'unbelonging' and make strong cases for the legitimate presence of Latinas/os within the United States. In this way, they also counter much of today's anti-immigration rhetoric. Imagining the U.S. as part of a broader 'Americas,' these writings trouble imperialist notions of nationhood, in which political borders and a long history of intervention and colonization beyond those borders have come to shape and determine the dominant culture's writing and the defining of all Latinos as 'other' to the nation.
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Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Anonim |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 1920 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : CHI:78273862 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Imperialism and Racism in the South Pacific
Author | : W. Ross Johnston |
Publsiher | : Anonim |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 1983 |
ISBN 10 | : |
ISBN 13 | : UOM:39015011056358 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |