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The One Culture

By: William H. Davenport

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The One Culture focuses on the state of the American culture in the so-called Age of Technology. This book is composed of four chapters that consider the influence of humanities and social sciences in engineering education. The opening chapter focuses on the famous two cultures' assertion that art and science do not mix. This chapter deals with the problems of definition, semantics, image, and attitude in this assertion. The succeeding chapter examines the typical contemporary "confrontation between art, literature, and technology. A chapter describes the connecting link between the fields of humanities, social sciences, and engineering. The final chapter looks into the prospect of order, design, and unity as a counter-argument to a negative, self-destroying dualism. This book will prove useful to humanists, engineers, social scientists, and students who are interested in human culture.

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Elsevier

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1483279340

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Hawaiian Sculpture

Revised Edition

By: J. Halley Cox,William H. Davenport

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Hawaiian Sculpture

Revised Edition

By: J. Halley Cox,William H. Davenport

The first comprehensive study of Hawaiian sculptural tradition, Hawaiian Sculpture documents most known extant indigenous carvings of the human figure and identifies their location in public and private collections. More than 164 illustrations illuminate the wooden sculpture of artists whose names are unknown but who were brilliant by any standard. The revised (1988) edition adds recently discovered pieces and a new introduction. The first edition discussed 147 pieces; the revised edition presents 17 previously uncatalogued works, making the volume a valuable addition to the field of Oceanic art.

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241

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University of Hawaii Press

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082484307X

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9780824843076

Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and Its Social and Ritual Contexts

By: William H. Davenport

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Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and Its Social and Ritual Contexts

By: William H. Davenport

In this ethnographic study of traditional sculpture from Santa Cruz Island, near the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific the late anthropologist William H. Davenport presents a distinctive genre of figure sculpture produced for and used in traditional religious rituals and ceremonies. The body of the book discusses the history of Santa Cruz Island society since the first Europeans came to the area in 1595, the cultural meanings of its most conspicuous features, and descriptions of the main components of worship, the rituals. The book includes discoveries about the making and use of the figurines, as well as the iconography of the pieces. The latter information is derived from general ethnographic data collected in the course of field research between 1958 and 1976 on Santa Cruz Island and the adjacent islands of the Santa Cruz Group, where Davenport's many close friends included both his informants in the villages and officers of the British Colonial Service. A dual study of a tradition of so-called tribal art in its context and a study of Santa Cruz Island society, the book includes meticulous descriptions of the sacred objects, currency, dances, and social interactions. Davenport's records of 55 specimens of Santa Cruz sculpture from both private collections and museums—initial acquisition, subsequent ownership, and other detailed physical information—constitute the catalogue section of the book. An engaging and previously unrecorded transcription of information distilled from local informants of the oral myths, rituals, and ceremonies reveals how Santa Cruz believers distinguished, celebrated, and communicated with their deities. Davenport's own unique photographs—both black and white and color—illustrate rituals on the island and life as it was lived before independence in 1978. His work here is a record of a culture which is barely now either lived or remembered by the descendants of those who created it, and all figural sculpture discovered in the future must be judged against this corpus of authenticated originals. Audiences will include anthropologists interested in the tribal arts of Pacific peoples, libraries with Melanesian collections, art historians, contemporary historians interested in the difference between description and comparison, and the special political and economic situation of colonialism.

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249

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1934536423

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9781934536421

British Sport: Biographical studies of British sportsmen, sportswomen, and animals

By: Richard William Cox

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British Sport: Biographical studies of British sportsmen, sportswomen, and animals

By: Richard William Cox

Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.

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Psychology Press

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0714652520

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9780714652528

The First Code Talkers

Native American Communicators in World War I

By: William C. Meadows

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The First Code Talkers

Native American Communicators in World War I

By: William C. Meadows

Many Americans know something about the Navajo code talkers in World War II—but little else about the military service of Native Americans, who have served in our armed forces since the American Revolution, and still serve in larger numbers than any other ethnic group. But, as we learn in this splendid work of historical restitution, code talking originated in World War I among Native soldiers whose extraordinary service resulted, at long last, in U.S. citizenship for all Native Americans. The first full account of these forgotten soldiers in our nation’s military history, The First Code Talkers covers all known Native American code talkers of World War I—members of the Choctaw, Oklahoma Cherokee, Comanche, Osage, and Sioux nations, as well as the Eastern Band of Cherokee and Ho-Chunk, whose veterans have yet to receive congressional recognition. William C. Meadows, the foremost expert on the subject, describes how Native languages, which were essentially unknown outside tribal contexts and thus could be as effective as formal encrypted codes, came to be used for wartime communication. While more than thirty tribal groups were eventually involved in World Wars I and II, this volume focuses on Native Americans in the American Expeditionary Forces during the First World War. Drawing on nearly thirty years of research—in U.S. military and Native American archives, surviving accounts from code talkers and their commanding officers, family records, newspaper accounts, and fieldwork in descendant communities—the author explores the origins, use, and legacy of the code talkers. In the process, he highlights such noted decorated veterans as Otis Leader, Joseph Oklahombi, and Calvin Atchavit and scrutinizes numerous misconceptions and popular myths about code talking and the secrecy surrounding the practice. With appendixes that include a timeline of pertinent events, biographies of known code talkers, and related World War I data, this book is the first comprehensive work ever published on Native American code talkers in the Great War and their critical place in American military history.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806169648

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9780806169644

A Higher-Dimensional Sieve Method

With Procedures for Computing Sieve Functions

By: Harold G. Diamond,H. Halberstam,William F. Galway

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A Higher-Dimensional Sieve Method

With Procedures for Computing Sieve Functions

By: Harold G. Diamond,H. Halberstam,William F. Galway

Nearly a hundred years have passed since Viggo Brun invented his famous sieve, and the use of sieve methods is constantly evolving. As probability and combinatorics have penetrated the fabric of mathematical activity, sieve methods have become more versatile and sophisticated and in recent years have played a part in some of the most spectacular mathematical discoveries. Many arithmetical investigations encounter a combinatorial problem that requires a sieving argument, and this tract offers a modern and reliable guide in such situations. The theory of higher dimensional sieves is thoroughly explored, and examples are provided throughout. A Mathematica® software package for sieve-theoretical calculations is provided on the authors' website. To further benefit readers, the Appendix describes methods for computing sieve functions. These methods are generally applicable to the computation of other functions used in analytic number theory. The appendix also illustrates features of Mathematica® which aid in the computation of such functions.

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266

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Cambridge University Press

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113947491X

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9781139474917

Amazing Ware Made in the East Liverpool Pottery District

By: William Gray,Donna Gray

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Amazing Ware Made in the East Liverpool Pottery District

By: William Gray,Donna Gray

Amazing Ware Made in the East Liverpool Pottery District By: William and Donna Gray

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458

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Dorrance Publishing

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1685370411

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9781685370411

Generators and Relations for Discrete Groups

By: Harold S.M. Coxeter,William O. J. Moser

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Generators and Relations for Discrete Groups

By: Harold S.M. Coxeter,William O. J. Moser

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3662219433

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9783662219430

Generators and Relations for Discrete Groups

By: Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter,William O. J. Moser

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Generators and Relations for Discrete Groups

By: Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter,William O. J. Moser

When we began to consider the scope of this book, we envisaged a catalogue supplying at least one abstract definition for any finitely generated group that the reader might propose. But we soon realized that more or less arbitrary restrictions are necessary, because interesting groups are so numerous. For permutation groups of degree 8 or less (i. e., subgroups of e ), the reader cannot do better than consult the 8 tables of JosEPHINE BuRNS (1915), while keeping an eye open for misprints. Our own tables (on pages 134-143) deal with groups of low order, finiteandinfinite groups of congruent transformations, symmetric and alternating groups, linear fractional groups, and groups generated by reflections in real Euclidean space of any number of dimensions. The best substitute foramoreextensive catalogue is the description (in Chapter 2) of a method whereby the reader can easily work out his own abstract definition for almost any given finite group. This method is sufficiently mechanical for the use of an electronic computer. There is also a topological method (Chapter 3), suitable not only for groups of low order but also for some infinite groups. This involves choosing a set of generators, constructing a certain graph (the Cayley diagram or DEHNsehe Gruppenbild), and embedding the graph into a surface. Cases in which the surface is a sphere or a plane are described in Chapter 4, where we obtain algebraically, and verify topologically, an abstract definition for each of the 17 space groups of two-dimensional crystallography.

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The One Culture

The One Culture

Hawaiian Sculpture

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Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and Its Social and Ritual Contexts

Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and Its Social and Ritual Contexts

British Sport: Biographical studies of British sportsmen, sportswomen, and animals

British Sport: Biographical studies of British sportsmen, sportswomen, and animals

The First Code Talkers

The First Code Talkers

A Higher-Dimensional Sieve Method

A Higher-Dimensional Sieve Method

Amazing Ware Made in the East Liverpool Pottery District

Amazing Ware Made in the East Liverpool Pottery District

Generators and Relations for Discrete Groups

Generators and Relations for Discrete Groups

Generators and Relations for Discrete Groups

Generators and Relations for Discrete Groups

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