Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by George O Smith: The Big Fix THE FOURTH "R" HIGHWAYS IN HIDING HISTORY REPEATS INSTINCT STOP LOOK AND DIG
At the turn of the century, England is enjoying unparalleled success as a world power. One blemish however is its involvement in the Boer War in South Africa. The unexpected death of a British army officer begins a chain of events that involves a young woman aristocrat in England and the ranch manager of a huge cattle ranch in Arizona, U.S.A. Lady Caroline is a beautiful, well educated woman about to become sole heir to a prosperous ranch and adjoining copper mine. But, Sir Geoffrey Morely’s will also gives Ken Battle, the ranch manager a significant portion of the property. Significant in that it contains the water source for the Morely ranch, and surrounding community. Lady Caroline has mulled over her father’s generosity to Mr. Battle as she prepares to visit America, but cannot come up with an answer to why he decided on this action. When the will is read in the lawyers office in Rock Springs, Ken Battle is equally surprised to learn of his good fortune. The gift of land, water and cattle is beyond his most optimistic expectations. Would he continue to work for Lady Caroline at the Triple R or would she bring in her own team from England? How is Sam Welton of the nearby Circle W ranch going to react to Ken being in control of water supply? He’s already an antagonistic neighbor.
The town of Wayback is fictional...unless you happen to live in eastern Montana, then that could change. Some of my people are real, only their names and descriptions have been changed to protect the guilty. A few of the events, in my stories, actually happened-REALLY, they did. Some, but not all, are purely from the messed-up mind of the author. Were they just dreams? Only I can answer that, and I won't. We'll leave that to your imagination. It's more fun that way. I was born on a small farm, outside a small town in northern Minnesota, during the blizzard of February 1933. At the age of six I started school in a one-room schoolhouse, and still remember my first grade teacher, Agnes Pelequin. Lovely woman and she still is. I went back to Minnesota just this year, rapped on her door and as she opened it, she paused, only for a moment, then exclaimed: "George Smith!" What a memory. It was during her teachings that I became interested in writing, remembering yet, my first words of poetry. "Little snowflakes/falling from the sky-
George Fisher seeks the moral roots of America's antidrug regime and challenges claims that early antidrug laws arose from racial animus. Those moral roots trace to early Christian sexual strictures, which later influenced Puritan condemnations of drunkenness, and ultimately shaped the early American drug war. Early laws against opium dens, cocaine, and cannabis rarely rose from racial strife, but sprang from the traditional moral censure of intoxication and perceived threats to respectable white women and youth. The book closes with an examination of cannabis legalization, driven in part by the movement for racial justice.
Between 1905 and 1913, French physicist Jean Perrin's experiments on Brownian motion ostensibly put a definitive end to the long debate regarding the real existence of molecules, proving the atomic theory of matter. While Perrin's results had a significant impact at the time, later examination of his experiments questioned whether he really gained experimental access to the molecular realm. The experiments were successful in determining the mean kinetic energy of the granules of Brownian motion; however, the values for molecular magnitudes Perrin inferred from them simply presupposed that the granule mean kinetic energy was the same as the mean molecular kinetic energy in the fluid in which the granules move. This stipulation became increasingly questionable in the years between 1908 and 1913, as significantly lower values for these magnitudes were obtained from other experimental results like alpha-particle emissions, ionization, and Planck's blackbody radiation equation. In this case study in the history and philosophy of science, George E. Smith and Raghav Seth here argue that despite doubts, Perrin's measurements were nevertheless exemplars of theory-mediated measurement-the practice of obtaining values for an inaccessible quantity by inferring them from an accessible proxy via theoretical relationships between them. They argue that it was actually Perrin more than any of his contemporaries who championed this approach during the years in question. The practice of theory-mediated measurement in physics had a long history before 1900, but the concerted efforts of Perrin, Rutherford, Millikan, Planck, and their colleagues led to the central role this form of evidence has had in microphysical research ever since. Seth and Smith's study thus replaces an untenable legend with an account that is not only tenable, but more instructive about what the evidence did and did not show.
Now with SAGE Publishing, and co-authored by one of the foremost authorities on sociological theory, the Eighth Edition of Modern Sociological Theory by George Ritzer and Jeffrey Stepnisky provides a comprehensive overview of the major theorists and theoretical schools, from the Structural Functionalism of early 20th century through the cutting-edge theories of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The integration of key theories with biographical sketches of theorists and the requisite historical and intellectual context helps students to better understand the original works of contemporary thinkers. New to this Edition A new chapter focuses theories of race, racism, and colonialism, as well as theories about indigenous peoples and theories from the “Global South” that challenge the work of scholars from Europe and North America. New material on colonialization, classical women theorists, and race, as well as new timelines in history chapters. The chapter on Symbolic Interactionism now discusses work on the sociology of emotions. The concluding chapter now discusses affect theory and theories of prosumption, one of the newest developments in consumer theory. The chapter on Contemporary Theories of Modernity includes new section on the work of Charles Taylor. New perspectives on the work of Immanuel Wallerstein have been added to the chapter on Neo-Marxian theories. The opening historical sketch chapters now include a discussion of colonialism as one of the forces that shaped modern society; new material on the historical significance of early women founders; and a section on theories of race.
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