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Conversations with Samuel Wilson, Jr., Dean of Architectural Preservation in New Orleans

By: Samuel Wilson,Abbye A. Gorin

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Conversations with Samuel Wilson, Jr., Dean of Architectural Preservation in New Orleans

By: Samuel Wilson,Abbye A. Gorin

The venerable historian and scholar Samuel Wilson, Jr., who for six decades championed preservation of the architectural heritage of New Orleans,recounts specific restoration projects and his personal philosophy about architecture.

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Louisiana Landmarks Society

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1879714000

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9781879714007

Learning from Samuel Wilson, Jr

A Collection of Oral Histories, 1980-1989

By: Samuel Wilson,Abbye A. Gorin

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Learning from Samuel Wilson, Jr

A Collection of Oral Histories, 1980-1989

By: Samuel Wilson,Abbye A. Gorin

Unabridged transcripts from a pioneer in the New Orleans preservation scene.

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Pelican Publishing Company

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1879714035

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9781879714038

New Orleans Architecture

The Lower Garden District

By: Wilson, Jr., Samuel

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New Orleans Architecture

The Lower Garden District

By: Wilson, Jr., Samuel

Focuses on one of the most comprehensive 19th-century Greek Revival communities.

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Pelican Publishing

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1455609323

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9781455609321

Beyond Beta: Other Continuous Families Of Distributions With Bounded Support And Applications

By: Samuel Kotz,Johan Rene Van Dorp

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Beyond Beta: Other Continuous Families Of Distributions With Bounded Support And Applications

By: Samuel Kotz,Johan Rene Van Dorp

Statistical distributions are fundamental to Statistical Science and are a prime indispensable tool for its applications. This monograph is the first to examine an important but somewhat neglected field — univariate continuous distribution on a bounded domain, excluding the beta distribution. It provides an elementary but thorough discussion of “novel” contributions developed in recent years, such as the two-sided power, generalized trapezoidal and generalized Topp and Leone distributions, among others. It discusses a general framework for constructing two-sided distributions and some of its properties. It contains a comprehensive chapter on the triangular distribution as well as a chapter on earlier extensions not emphasized in existing literature. Special attention is given to estimation, in particular, non-standard maximum likelihood procedures. The applications are drawn mainly from the econometric and engineering domains.

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World Scientific

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9814481246

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9789814481243

Continuous Univariate Distributions, Volume 2

By: Norman L. Johnson,Samuel Kotz,Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan

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Continuous Univariate Distributions, Volume 2

By: Norman L. Johnson,Samuel Kotz,Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan

Comprehensive reference for statistical distributions Continuous Univariate Distributions, Volume 2 provides in-depth reference for anyone who applies statistical distributions in fields including engineering, business, economics, and the sciences. Covering a range of distributions, both common and uncommon, this book includes guidance toward extreme value, logistics, Laplace, beta, rectangular, noncentral distributions and more. Each distribution is presented individually for ease of reference, with clear explanations of methods of inference, tolerance limits, applications, characterizations, and other important aspects, including reference to other related distributions.

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747

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471584940

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9780471584940

Infectious Fear

Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation

By: Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr.

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Infectious Fear

Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation

By: Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr.

For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Often afflicting an entire family or large segments of a neighborhood, the plague of TB was as mysterious as it was fatal. Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. examines how individuals and institutions--black and white, public and private--responded to the challenges of tuberculosis in a segregated society. Reactionary white politicians and health officials promoted "racial hygiene" and sought to control TB through Jim Crow quarantines, Roberts explains. African Americans, in turn, protested the segregated, overcrowded housing that was the true root of the tuberculosis problem. Moderate white and black political leadership reconfigured definitions of health and citizenship, extending some rights while constraining others. Meanwhile, those who suffered with the disease--as its victims or as family and neighbors--made the daily adjustments required by the devastating effects of the "white plague." Exploring the politics of race, reform, and public health, Infectious Fear uses the tuberculosis crisis to illuminate the limits of racialized medicine and the roots of modern health disparities. Ultimately, it reveals a disturbing picture of the United States' health history while offering a vision of a more democratic future.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807894079

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9780807894071

Guide to Architecture of New Orleans, A

By: Samuel Wilson Jr.

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Guide to Architecture of New Orleans, A

By: Samuel Wilson Jr.

This extremely handy book lists more than 200 significant structures in and around the Crescent City, including both old and modern buildings, with separate sections on cemeteries and nearby plantation homes. It is a useful guide for both the scholar and the tourist.

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Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.

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1879714183

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9781879714182

The Cabildo on Jackson Square

By: Wilson, Jr., Samuel

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The Cabildo on Jackson Square

By: Wilson, Jr., Samuel

Originally written and published in 1970, the book is divided into two sections: one dealing with the Colonial Period (1723-1803), written by Samuel Wilson, Jr., and one on the American Period (1803-present), written by Leonard V. Huber.

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126

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Pelican Publishing

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1455601713

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9781455601714

The American Way of Life

A Cultural History

By: Lawrence R. Samuel

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The American Way of Life

A Cultural History

By: Lawrence R. Samuel

Telling the full story of the American Way of Life (or more simply the American Way) in the United States over the course of the last century reveals key insights that add to our understanding of American culture. Lawrence R. Samuel argues that since the term was popularized in the 1930s, the American Way has served as the primary guiding mythology or national ethos of the United States. More than that, however, this work shows that the American Way has represented many things to many people, making the mythology a useful device for anyone wishing to promote a particular agenda that serves his or her interests. A consumerist lifestyle supported by a system based in free enterprise has been the ideological backbone of the American Way, but the term has been attached to everything from farming to baseball to barbecue. There really is no single, identifiable American Way and never has been—it becomes clear after tracing its history—making it a kind of Zelig of belief systems. If our underlying philosophy or set of values is amorphous and nebulous, then so is our national identity and character, Samuel concludes, implying that the meaning of America is elastic and accommodating to many interpretations. This unique thesis sets off this work from other books and helps establish it as a seminal resource within the fields of American history and American studies.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1683930835

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9781683930839

Practical Fruit Grower

By: Samuel Taylor Maynard

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Practical Fruit Grower

By: Samuel Taylor Maynard

This concise 1894 handbook of fruit culture was designed to aid both the beginning farmer and the established farmer who hadn't the time for extensive research in successfully cultivating common fruits.

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134

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Applewood Books

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1429014466

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9781429014465

Pitot House on Bayou St. John, The

By: Samuel Wilson Jr.

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Pitot House on Bayou St. John, The

By: Samuel Wilson Jr.

A detailed study of an architectural treasure, one of the only plantation houses surviving from Louisiana's Spanish colonial period.

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Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.

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1879714043

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9781879714045

Voices from the Confederacy

True Civil War Stories from the Men and Women of the Old South

By: Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.

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Voices from the Confederacy

True Civil War Stories from the Men and Women of the Old South

By: Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.

They say history is written by the victors. In the case of the Civil War, that’s largely true. But historian Samuel Mitcham brings the Southern point of view to life in Voices from the Confederacy. In it, you will read about the heroic, the scoundrels, the clever, the vanquished, and the hungry. Rich or poor, black or white, Voices from the Confederacy shares hundreds of poignant and revealing moments during the war between the states. From Voices from the Confederacy: Sara Pryor, the wife of Colonel Roger Pryor, the commander of the 3rd Virginia Infantry, heard the rumor that he was promoted to brigadier general. That day, Mrs. Pryor attended a reception at the Spotswood Hotel in Richmond, where she saw President Davis. “Is it true, Mr. President?” she asked. Had her husband been promoted? Mr. Davis smiled benevolently and replied, “I have no reason, Madam, to doubt it, except that I saw it this morning in the papers.” Robert E. Lee felt the same way as the president. He once sarcastically said to A. P. Hill: “We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers.”

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Knox Press

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1637585187

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9781637585184

Future

A Recent History

By: Lawrence R. Samuel

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Future

A Recent History

By: Lawrence R. Samuel

The history of our attitudes toward the possibilities of tomorrow:“A fascinating trek through American future visions from the 1920s to the present.” —Lori C. Walters, Ph.D., University of Central Florida The future is not a fixed idea but a highly variable one that reflects the values of those who are imagining it. By studying the ways that visionaries imagined the future—particularly that of America—in the past century, much can be learned about the cultural dynamics of the times. In this social history, Lawrence R. Samuel examines the future visions of intellectuals, artists, scientists, businesspeople, and others to tell a chronological story about the history of the future in the past century. He defines six separate eras of future narratives from 1920 to the present day, and argues that the milestones reached during these years—especially related to air and space travel, atomic and nuclear weapons, the women’s and civil rights movements, and the advent of biological and genetic engineering—sparked the possibilities of tomorrow in the public’s imagination, and helped make the twentieth century the first century to be significantly more about the future than the past. The idea of the future grew both in volume and importance as it rode the technological wave into the new millennium, and the author tracks the process by which most people, to some degree, have now become futurists as the need to anticipate tomorrow accelerates.

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University of Texas Press

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029277477X

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9780292774773

African American Theatre

An Historical and Critical Analysis

By: Samuel A. Hay

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African American Theatre

An Historical and Critical Analysis

By: Samuel A. Hay

This book traces the history of African American theatre from its beginnings to the present.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521465850

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9780521465854

Seventh-day Adventists and the Civil Rights Movement

By: Samuel G. London

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Seventh-day Adventists and the Civil Rights Movement

By: Samuel G. London

Seventh-day Adventists and the Civil Rights Movement is the first in-depth study of the denomination's participation in civil rights politics. It considers the extent to which the denomination's theology influenced how its members responded. This book explores why a brave few Adventists became social and political activists, and why a majority of the faithful eschewed the movement. Samuel G. London, Jr., provides a clear, yet critical understanding of the history and theology of the Seventh-day Adventist Church while highlighting the contributions of its members to political reform. Community awareness, the example of early Adventist pioneers, liberationist interpretations of the Bible, as well as various intellectual and theological justifications motivated the civil rights activities of some Adventists. For those who participated in the civil rights movement, these factors superseded the conservative ideology and theology that came to dominate the church after the passing of its founders. Covering the end of the 1800s through the 1970s, the book discusses how Christian fundamentalism, the curse of Ham, the philosophy of Booker T. Washington, pragmatism, the aversion to ecumenism and the Social Gospel, belief in the separation of church and state, and American individualism converged to impact Adventist sociopolitical thought.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1604732857

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9781604732856

Time: A Bibliographic Guide

By: Samuel L. Macey

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Time: A Bibliographic Guide

By: Samuel L. Macey

Originally published in 1991. A multidisciplinary guide in the form of a bibliography of selected time-related books and articles divided into 25 existing academic disciplines and about 100 subdisciplines which have a wide application to time studies.

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Routledge

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0429685149

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9780429685149

Introduction to Difference Equations

With Illustrative Examples from Economics, Psychology, and Sociology

By: Samuel Goldberg

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Introduction to Difference Equations

With Illustrative Examples from Economics, Psychology, and Sociology

By: Samuel Goldberg

Exceptionally clear exposition of an important mathematical discipline and its applications to sociology, economics, and psychology. Topics include calculus of finite differences, difference equations, matrix methods, and more. 1958 edition.

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Courier Corporation

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0486650847

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9780486650845

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