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Equations from God

Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith

By: Daniel J. Cohen

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Equations from God

Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith

By: Daniel J. Cohen

Throughout history, application rather than abstraction has been the prominent driving force in mathematics. From the compass and sextant to partial differential equations, mathematical advances were spurred by the desire for better navigation tools, weaponry, and construction methods. But the religious upheaval in Victorian England and the fledgling United States opened the way for the rediscovery of pure mathematics, a tradition rooted in Ancient Greece. In Equations from God, Daniel J. Cohen captures the origins of the rebirth of abstract mathematics in the intellectual quest to rise above common existence and touch the mind of the deity. Using an array of published and private sources, Cohen shows how philosophers and mathematicians seized upon the beautiful simplicity inherent in mathematical laws to reconnect with the divine and traces the route by which the divinely inspired mathematics of the Victorian era begot later secular philosophies.

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JHU Press

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0801885531

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9780801885532

Joseph Reddeford Walker and the Arizona Adventure

By: Daniel Ellis Conner

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Joseph Reddeford Walker and the Arizona Adventure

By: Daniel Ellis Conner

Joseph Reddeford Walker looms large in the lore of the early West. From the Missouri to the San Joaquin, from the Gila to the Yellowstone, Walker spent more than thirty years—from the 1830s to the Civil War—trapping beaver in the Rockies, bartering with the Crow, Ute, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, and Shoshone Indians, droving cattle and horses, and guiding emigrants and explorers. Walker was associated with Captain Bonneville in the fur trade from 1832 to 1835, but we have only an incomplete account these years in Washington Irving’s, The Adventures of Captain Bonneville and Zenas Leonards, Narrative. But the twist of fate that threw Daniel Ellis Conner into Walker’s party, en route from Colorado to explore Arizona in 1861, affords us several hundred manuscript pages, Conner’s four-year travel diary, relating his hair-raising adventures with this great mountain man. Joseph Reddeford Walker and the Arizona Adventure offers a superb chapter in the history of the West. Included are tales of the early Apache wars in New Mexico and Arizona; “The Betrayal of Mangas Coloradas,” with Conner’s eyewitness account of the Apache chief’s death; the emigrant trains to California; early settlement; mining operations, in “The Perils of Prospecting,” and countless episodes of action and violence that make fictional accounts pale in comparison.

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403

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806154071

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9780806154077

America's Film Legacy

The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry

By: Daniel Eagan

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America's Film Legacy

The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry

By: Daniel Eagan

Collection of the five hundred films that have been selected, to date, for preservation by the National Film Preservation Board, and are thereby listed in the National Film Registry.

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848

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A&C Black

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0826429777

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9780826429773

A History of Philadelphia

By: Daniel Bowen

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A History of Philadelphia

By: Daniel Bowen

Also, The State Of Society, In Relation To Science, Religion, And Morals: With A Historical Account Of The Military Operations Of The Late War, Including The Names Of Over Two Thousand Patriotic Officers, And Citizen Soldiers, In 1812, 1813, And 1814.

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226

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Applewood Books

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1429022183

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9781429022187

Forty Years for Christ. An Historical Sermon

By: Silas Leroy Blake,Daniel James Noyes

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Forty Years for Christ. An Historical Sermon

By: Silas Leroy Blake,Daniel James Noyes

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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118

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385552699

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9783385552692

Legal Executions in Georgia

A Comprehensive Registry, 1866-1964

By: Daniel Allen Hearn

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Legal Executions in Georgia

A Comprehensive Registry, 1866-1964

By: Daniel Allen Hearn

In the state of Georgia, 1025 men and women are known to have been hanged or electrocuted for capital crimes in the century after the Civil War. Based on more than twenty years of investigative research, this chronological record of these legal executions was pieced together from diverse sources in and outside of the state, with many details never before made public. The author documents the facts as they occurred without delving into the politics of capital punishment.

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McFarland

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1476620008

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9781476620008

Our Family Dreams

The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America

By: Daniel Blake Smith

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Our Family Dreams

The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America

By: Daniel Blake Smith

In the early years after the Revolution, Americans were on the move, seeking to establish a new way of life. And, more than the church or the school or the courthouse, it was the family that nurtured the American Dream. In this novel-like narrative, Daniel Blake Smith vividly brings to life the Fletchers, a family of loving, ambitious, at times insecure pioneers who scattered across the vast expanse of post-revolutionary America but kept in touch through letters despite their wildly different life paths. On a hard scrabble farm in Vermont, the patriarch, Jesse Fletcher, struggled with debt and depression but managed to educate his children, especially his son Elijah, a Yankee who moved to Virginia, shocked by the horrors of slavery but then seduced by the plantation lifestyle. Another son, Calvin, left at age 17 for Indianapolis to become a self-made lawyer, banker, and a prominent citizen and passionate abolitionist. The grandchildren include Indiana, a women's education activist who donated her home to create Sweet Briar College; black sheep Lucian, who went to California to join in the gold rush; and physician Billy captured as a spy during the Civil War. Through letters and diaries, we find in Our Family Dreams that the Fletchers appear surprisingly similar to us; they dream, fret, fight, and love. Despite numerous heartaches and setbacks, their spirit of enterprise, sacrifice, mobility, and education endures as American values to this day.

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Macmillan

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1137279818

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9781137279811

Every Promise Fulfilled

Contesting Plots in Joshua

By: L. Daniel Hawk

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Every Promise Fulfilled

Contesting Plots in Joshua

By: L. Daniel Hawk

The book of Joshua has many inconsistencies and tensions. The author's analysis of the two plots in the book of Joshua challenges the reader to consider the tensions between dogma and life as it was experienced when the book was written. L. Daniel Hawk draws upon contemporary theories of plot (Kermode, Ricoeur, and especially Brooks) to understand Joshua. He pays special attention to the dynamic quality of the text and of the act of reading. He uncovers patterns of coherence and dissonance that work through and develop the primary concerns of Joshua: the obedience of Israel and the integrity of its land and people. In this valuable book, new ground is broken in the study of the book of Joshua.

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171

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1606085956

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9781606085950

When Movements Anchor Parties

Electoral Alignments in American History

By: Daniel Schlozman

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When Movements Anchor Parties

Electoral Alignments in American History

By: Daniel Schlozman

Throughout American history, some social movements, such as organized labor and the Christian Right, have forged influential alliances with political parties, while others, such as the antiwar movement, have not. When Movements Anchor Parties provides a bold new interpretation of American electoral history by examining five prominent movements and their relationships with political parties. Taking readers from the Civil War to today, Daniel Schlozman shows how two powerful alliances—those of organized labor and Democrats in the New Deal, and the Christian Right and Republicans since the 1970s—have defined the basic priorities of parties and shaped the available alternatives in national politics. He traces how they diverged sharply from three other major social movements that failed to establish a place inside political parties—the abolitionists following the Civil War, the Populists in the 1890s, and the antiwar movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Moving beyond a view of political parties simply as collections of groups vying for preeminence, Schlozman explores how would-be influencers gain influence—or do not. He reveals how movements join with parties only when the alliance is beneficial to parties, and how alliance exacts a high price from movements. Their sweeping visions give way to compromise and partial victories. Yet as Schlozman demonstrates, it is well worth paying the price as movements reorient parties' priorities. Timely and compelling, When Movements Anchor Parties demonstrates how alliances have transformed American political parties.

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Princeton University Press

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1400873835

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9781400873838

Fuck Yeah, Video Games

The Life and Extra Lives of a Professional Nerd

By: Daniel Hardcastle

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Fuck Yeah, Video Games

The Life and Extra Lives of a Professional Nerd

By: Daniel Hardcastle

A labour of undiluted love and enthusiasm' Daily Telegraph As Daniel Hardcastle careers towards thirty, he looks back on what has really made him happy in life: the friends, the romances... the video games. Told through encounters with the most remarkable – and the most mind-boggling – games of the last thirty-odd years, Fuck Yeah, Video Games is also a love letter to the greatest hobby in the world. From God of War to Tomb Raider, Pokémon to The Sims, Daniel relives each game with countless in-jokes, obscure references and his signature wit, as well as intricate, original illustrations by Rebecca Maughan. Alongside this march of merriment are chapters dedicated to the hardware behind the games: a veritable history of Sony, Nintendo, Sega and Atari consoles. Joyous, absurd, personal and at times sweary, Daniel's memoir is a celebration of the sheer brilliance of video games.

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Unbound Publishing

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1783527897

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9781783527892

The Mathematics of Politics

By: E. Arthur Robinson,Daniel H. Ullman

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The Mathematics of Politics

By: E. Arthur Robinson,Daniel H. Ullman

It is because mathematics is often misunderstood, it is commonly believed it has nothing to say about politics. The high school experience with mathematics, for so many the lasting impression of the subject, suggests that mathematics is the study of numbers, operations, formulas, and manipulations of symbols. Those believing this is the extent of mathematics might conclude mathematics has no relevance to politics. This book counters this impression. The second edition of this popular book focuses on mathematical reasoning about politics. In the search for ideal ways to make certain kinds of decisions, a lot of wasted effort can be averted if mathematics can determine that finding such an ideal is actually impossible in the first place. In the first three parts of this book, we address the following three political questions: (1) Is there a good way to choose winners of elections? (2) Is there a good way to apportion congressional seats? (3) Is there a good way to make decisions in situations of conflict and uncertainty? In the fourth and final part of this book, we examine the Electoral College system that is used in the United States to select a president. There we bring together ideas that are introduced in each of the three earlier parts of the book.

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CRC Press

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1498798888

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9781498798884

The Laws and the Land

The Settler Colonial Invasion of Kahnawà:ke in Nineteenth-Century Canada

By: Daniel Rück

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The Laws and the Land

The Settler Colonial Invasion of Kahnawà:ke in Nineteenth-Century Canada

By: Daniel Rück

As the settler state of Canada expanded into Indigenous lands, settlers dispossessed Indigenous people and undermined their sovereignty as nations. One site of invasion was Kahnawà:ke, a Kanien’kehá:ka community and part of the Rotinonhsiónni confederacy. The Laws and the Land delineates the establishment of a settler colonial relationship from early contact ways of sharing land; land practices under Kahnawà:ke law; the establishment of modern Kahnawà:ke in the context of French imperial claims; intensifying colonial invasions under British rule; and ultimately the Canadian invasion in the guise of the Indian Act, private property, and coercive pressure to assimilate. What Daniel Rück describes is an invasion spearheaded by bureaucrats, Indian agents, politicians, surveyors, and entrepreneurs. This original, meticulously researched book is deeply connected to larger issues of human relations with environments, communal and individual ways of relating to land, legal pluralism, historical racism and inequality, and Indigenous resurgence.

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UBC Press

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0774867469

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9780774867467

A Mathematical Look at Politics

By: E. Arthur Robinson Jr.,Daniel H. Ullman

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A Mathematical Look at Politics

By: E. Arthur Robinson Jr.,Daniel H. Ullman

What Ralph Nader's spoiler role in the 2000 presidential election tells us about the American political system. Why Montana went to court to switch the 1990 apportionment to Dean's method. How the US tried to use game theory to win the Cold War, and why it didn't work. When students realize that mathematical thinking can address these sorts of pres

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1439891176

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Book's by Daniel Joseph Hill

Equations from God

Equations from God

Joseph Reddeford Walker and the Arizona Adventure

Joseph Reddeford Walker and the Arizona Adventure

America's Film Legacy

America's Film Legacy

A History of Philadelphia

A History of Philadelphia

Forty Years for Christ. An Historical Sermon

Forty Years for Christ. An Historical Sermon

Legal Executions in Georgia

Legal Executions in Georgia

Our Family Dreams

Our Family Dreams

Every Promise Fulfilled

Every Promise Fulfilled

When Movements Anchor Parties

When Movements Anchor Parties

Fuck Yeah, Video Games

Fuck Yeah, Video Games

The Mathematics of Politics

The Mathematics of Politics

The Laws and the Land

The Laws and the Land

A Mathematical Look at Politics

A Mathematical Look at Politics

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