Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil Rights Activist, Jennings Terry Catasъs, Stevens-Holsey Rosita
Автор: Swensen David Название: Pioneering Portfolio Management ISBN: 1416544690 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781416544692 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Рейтинг: Цена: 34490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A chief investment officer shows how he propelled Yale University`s endowment into the top one percent of institutional funds.
Автор: Diana Morrow Название: Kate Edger: The life of a pioneering feminist ISBN: 198859264X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781988592640 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 30030.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: In 1877, Kate Edger became the first woman to graduate from a New Zealand university. The New Zealand Herald enthusiastically hailed her achievement as 'the first rays of the rising sun of female intellectual advancement.' Edger went on to become a pioneer of women's education in New Zealand. She also worked tirelessly to mitigate violence against women and children and to fortify their rights through progressive legislation. She campaigned for women's suffrage and played a prominent role in the Women's Christian Temperance Union and in Wellington's Society for the Protection of Women and Children. Later in life she advocated international diplomacy and co-operation through her work for the League of Nations Union. Diana Morrow tells the story of this remarkable New Zealand woman's life and, in the process, provides valuable insights into the role of women social reformers in our history and Edger's place within a distinctive strand of Christian feminism.
'As I studied the maps, one thing about them captured my imagination - across this blank space was written one challenging word, "Unexplored"'
In 1937 two of the twentieth century's greatest explorers set off to explore an unknown area of the Himalaya, the breath-taking Shaksgam mountains. With a team of surveyors and Sherpas, Eric Shipton and H.W. Tilman located and mapped the land around K2, the second-highest mountain in the world. It was their greatest venture, and one that paved the way for all future mountaineering in that area of the Himalaya. For Shipton and Tilman, exploration was everything, with a summit a welcome bonus, and Blank on the Map is the book that best captures their spirit of adventure.
With an observant eye and keen sense of humour, Shipton tells how the expedition entered the unknown Shaksgam mountains, crossing impenetrable gorges, huge rivers and endless snow fields. There's a very human element to Shipton's dealings with his Sherpa friends, and with his Balti porters, some of whom were helpful, while some were less so. The expedition uncovers traces of ancient cultures and visits vibrant modern civilisations living during the last days of the British Empire. Only when all supplies are exhausted, their clothes in tatters and all equipment lost do the men finally return home. A mountain exploration classic.
Автор: Shipton Eric Название: That Untravelled World: The Autobiography of a Pioneering Mountaineer and Explorer ISBN: 1911342673 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911342670 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 19620.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: That Untravelled World is the autobiography of Eric Shipton, one of the greatest adventurers of the twentieth century. First published in 1969, it is the story of an adventurer who, inspired by Edward Whymper, travelled to feral landscapes across the globe, and has in turn inspired generations of climbers and mountaineers.
Автор: Port Ian S. Название: The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock `n` Roll ISBN: 1501141732 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501141737 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Рейтинг: Цена: 14550.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "A hot-rod joy ride through mid-20th-century American history" (The New York Times Book Review), this one-of-a-kind narrative masterfully recreates the rivalry between the two men who innovated the electric guitar's amplified sound--Leo Fender and Les Paul--and their intense competition to convince rock stars like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton to play the instruments they built. In the years after World War II, music was evolving from big-band jazz into rock 'n' roll--and these louder styles demanded revolutionary instruments. When Leo Fender's tiny firm marketed the first solid-body electric guitar, the Esquire, musicians immediately saw its appeal. Not to be out-maneuvered, Gibson, the largest guitar manufacturer, raced to build a competitive product. The company designed an "axe" that would make Fender's Esquire look cheap and convinced Les Paul--whose endorsement Leo Fender had sought--to put his name on it. Thus was born the guitar world's most heated rivalry: Gibson versus Fender, Les versus Leo. While Fender was a quiet, half-blind, self-taught radio repairman, Paul was a brilliant but headstrong pop star and guitarist who spent years toying with new musical technologies. Their contest turned into an arms race as the most inventive musicians of the 1950s and 1960s--including bluesman Muddy Waters, rocker Buddy Holly, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton--adopted one maker's guitar or another. By 1969 it was clear that these new electric instruments had launched music into a radical new age, empowering artists with a vibrancy and volume never before attainable. In "an excellent dual portrait" (TheWall Street Journal), Ian S. Port tells the full story in The Birth of Loud, offering "spot-on human characterizations, and erotic paeans to the bodies of guitars" (The Atlantic). "The story of these instruments is the story of America in the postwar era: loud, cocky, brash, aggressively new" (The Washington Post).
Автор: David M. Crane, Leila N. Sadat, Michael P. Scharf Название: The Founders: Four Pioneering Individuals Who Launched the First Modern-Era International Criminal Tribunals ISBN: 1108424163 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108424165 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 78150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Never before has a chief prosecutor written about their challenges setting up an international tribunal. The Founders focuses on the four individuals who created the world`s first international tribunals and courts and takes a candid look at how they sought justice for millions of victims.
Автор: Edward Miner Lamont Название: Ned Miner and His Pioneering Forebears ISBN: 1580463843 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781580463843 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 26390.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This biography is the story of Edward G. Miner, a successful businessman, civic leader, and one of Rochester, New York's most prominent citizens. It traces his roots back to the first Miner to reach America in 1629, a founder of Stonington, Connecticut, and later to the small town of Winchester, Illinois. His family lived there during the nineteenth century and was acquainted with Abraham Lincoln from nearby Springfield. In Rochester, Miner became president of the Pfaudler Company, the leading worldwide manufacturer of glass-lined tanks. During the first half of the twentieth century, Rochester benefited from the robust growth of technologically advanced companies whose executivesbacked the development of numerous community enterprises. Miner served as president of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce, chairman of the board of trustees of the University of Rochester, and in a number of other civic and cultural organizations.
Edward Miner Lamont was a banker for twenty-three years with the World Bank and J. P. Morgan & Co. He also worked for the Marshall Plan and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington DC. He is a former chairman of the Children's Aid Society in New York City and the author of The Ambassador from Wall Street: The Story of Thomas W. Lamont, J. P. Morgan's Chief Executive. Mr. Lamont is a grandson of Edward G. Miner. He and his wife, Camille, live in Laurel Hollow, Long Island, New York.
Автор: Paul Russell Cutright Название: Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists ISBN: 0252784227 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252784224 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 105600.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: On 26 April 1986, at 1.23am, a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. While officials tried to hush up the accident, the author spent years collecting testimonies from survivors. A chronicle of the past and a warning for our nuclear future, this book shows what it is like to remember in a world that wants you to forget.
Автор: Robert W. Boyd; Svetlana G. Lukishova; Victor N. Z Название: Quantum Photonics: Pioneering Advances and Emerging Applications ISBN: 3319984004 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319984001 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 204970.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book brings together reviews by internationally renowed experts on quantum optics and photonics. It describes novel experiments at the limit of single photons, and presents advances in this emerging research area. It also includes reprints and historical descriptions of some of the first pioneering experiments at a single-photon level and nonlinear optics, performed before the inception of lasers and modern light detectors, often with the human eye serving as a single-photon detector. The book comprises 19 chapters, 10 of which describe modern quantum photonics results, including single-photon sources, direct measurement of the photon's spatial wave function, nonlinear interactions and non-classical light, nanophotonics for room-temperature single-photon sources, time-multiplexed methods for optical quantum information processing, the role of photon statistics in visual perception, light-by-light coherent control using metamaterials, nonlinear nanoplasmonics, nonlinear polarization optics, and ultrafast nonlinear optics in the mid-infrared.
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