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Smithsonian at the Poles : contributions to International Polar Year Science

Obrazy
Autor
Igor Krupnik, Michael A. Lang, and Scott E. Miller editors
Miejsce wydania
Washington
Rok wydania
2009
Spis treści

FOREWORD . . ix
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . . xii
INTRODUCTION . . xiv

IPY HISTORIES AND LEGACIES
Advancing Polar Research and Communicating Its Wonders: Quests, Questions, and Capabilities of Weather and Climate Studies in International Polar Years . . 1
Cooperation at the Poles? Placing the First International Polar Year in the Context of Nineteenth-Century Scientific Exploration and Collaboration . . 13
The Policy Process and the International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958 . . 23
Preserving the Origins of the Space Age: The Material Legacy of the International Geophysical Year (1957-1958) at the National Air and Space Museum . . 35
From Ballooning in the Arctic to 10,000-Foot Runways in Antarctica: Lessons from Historic Archaeology . . 49

CULTURAL STUDIES
"Of No Ordinary Importance": Reversing Polarities in Smithsonian Arctic Studies . . 61
Yup'ik Eskimo Contributions to Arctic Research at the Smithsonian . . 79
Smithsonian Contributions to Alaskan Ethnography: The First IPY Expedition to Barrow, 1881-1883 . . 89
The Art of Inupiaq Whaling: Elders' Interpretations of International Polar Year Ethnological Collections . . 99
From Tent to Trading Post and Back Again: Smithsonian Anthropology in Nunavut, Nunavik, Nitassinan, and Nunatsiavut—The Changing IPY Agenda, 1882-2007 . . 115
"The Way We See It Coming": Building the Legacy of Indigenous Observations in IPY 2007-2008 . . 129

SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF POLAR ORGANISMS
Species Diversity and Distributions of Pelagic Calanoid Copepods from the Southern Ocean . . 143
Brooding in Species Diversity in the Southern Ocean: Selection for Brooders or Speciation within Brooding Clades? . . 181
Persistent Elevated Abundance of Octopods in an Overfished Antarctic Area . . 197
Cold Comfort: Systematics and Biology of Antarctic Bryozoans . . 205
Considerations of Anatomy, Morphology, Evolution, and Function for Narwhal Dentition . . 223

METHODS AND TECHNIQUES OF UNDER-ICE RESEARCH
Scientific Diving Under Ice: A 40-Year Bipolar Research Tool . . 241
Environmental and Molecular Mechanisms of Cold Adaptation in Polar Marine Invertebrates . . 253
Milestones in the Study of Diving Physiology: Antarctic Emperor Penguins and Weddell Seals . . 265
Interannual and Spatial Variability in Light Attenuation: Evidence from Three Decades of Growth in the Arctic Kelp,
Laminaria solidungula . . 271
Life under Antarctic Pack Ice: A Krill Perspective . . 285

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND POLAR MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
Inhibition of Phytoplankton and Bacterial Productivity by Solar Radiation in the Ross Sea Polynya . . 299
Southern Ocean Primary Productivity: Variability and a View to the Future . . 309
Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter Cycling during a Ross Sea Phaeocystis antarctica Bloom . . 319
Capital Expenditure and Income (Foraging) during Pinniped Lactation: The Example of the Weddell Seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) . . 335
Latitudinal Patterns of Biological Invasions in Marine Ecosystems: A Polar Perspective . . 347

POLAR ASTRONOMY: OBSERVATIONAL COSMOLOGY
Cosmology from Antarctica . . 359
Feeding the Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way: AST/RO Observations . . 370
HEAT: The High Elevation Antarctic Terahertz Telescope . . 373
Watching Star Birth from the Antarctic Plateau . . 381
Antarctic Meteorites: Exploring the Solar System from the Ice . . 387

INDEX . . 395

Reader's guide to British history. Vol. 1, A to L

Obrazy
Autor
David Loades, ed.
Miejsce wydania
New York
Rok wydania
2003
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Board of Advisers . . ii
Editor's Note . . vii
Alphabetical List of Entries . . ix
Thematic List of Entries . . xix

Reader's Guide to British History . . 1

Notes on Contributors . . 1413
Booklist Index . . 1441
General Index . . 1537

The Smithsonian Institution African Mammal Project (1961-1972) : an annotated gazetteer of collecting localities and summary of its taxonomic and geographic scope

Obrazy
Autor
David S. Schmidt, Craig A. Ludwig, Michael D. Carleton
Miejsce wydania
Washington
Rok wydania
2008
Spis treści

LIST OF MAPS . . v
LIST OF TABLES . . vii
FRONTISPIECE . . viii
INTRODUCTION . . 1
Materials and Methods . . 3
Acknowledgments . . 8

HENRY W. SETZER AND THE AFRICAN MAMMAL PROJECT . . 11
Genesis and Scientific Goals of the AMP . . 11
AMP Collecting Tools, Survey Methods, and Field Procedures . . 18
Taxonomic and Geographic Summary . . 28

ANNOTATED GAZETTEER OF THE AFRICAN MAMMAL PROJECT . . 44
Northern Africa . . 45
Western Africa . . 105
Southern Africa . . 206

APPENDIX: CARTOGRAPHIC SOURCES . . 299
REFERENCES . . 303
INDEX OF GEOGRAPHIC NAMES . . 309

Seria
(Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology ; Nr. 628)

A history of the university in Europe. Vol. 1, Universities in the Middle Ages

Obrazy
Autor
ed. Hilde de Ridder-Symoens
Miejsce wydania
Cambridge
Rok wydania
2003
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List of maps . . XI
Contributors and editors . . XII
Reader's guide . . XV
Bibliographical abbreviations used in notes . . XVI
FOREWORD . . XIX

PART I: THEMES AND PATTERNS
CHAPTER 1: THEMES . . 3
CHAPTER2: PATTERNS . . 35

PART II: STRUCTURES
CHAPTER 3: RELATIONS WITH AUTHORITY . . 77
CHAPTER 4: MANAGEMENT AND RESOURCES . . 108
CHAPTER 5: TEACHERS . . 144

PART III: STUDENTS
CHAPTER 6: ADMISSION . . 171
CHAPTER 7: STUDENT EDUCATION, STUDENT LIFE . . 195
CHAPTER 8: CAREERS OF GRADUATES . . 244
CHAPTER 9: MOBILITY . . 280

PART IV: LEARNING
CHAPTER 10: THE FACULTY OF ARTS . . 307
CHAPTER 11: THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE . . 360
CHAPTER 12: THE FACULTIES OF LAW . . 388
CHAPTER 13: THE FACULTY OF THEOLOGY . . 409

EPILOGUE . . 442

Editors' note on the indexes . . 469
Name index . . 470
Geographical and subject index . . 485

The skeptical environmentalist : measuring the real state of the world

Obrazy
Autor
Bøjrn Lomborg
Miejsce wydania
Cambridge
Rok wydania
2001
Spis treści

Part I: The Litany . . 3
Part II: Human welfare . . 45
Part III: Can human prosperity continue? . . 91
Part IV: Pollution: does it undercut human prosperity? . . 163
Part V: Tomorrow's problems . . 215
Part VI: The Real State of the World . . 327

Transatlantic exchanges : the American South in Europe - Europe in the American South

Obrazy
Autor
Richard Gray and Waldemar Zacharasiewicz (eds.)
Miejsce wydania
Wien
Rok wydania
2007
Spis treści

Acknowledgements . . 9
Introduction . . 11

FAULKNER AND WOLFE
European Culture in Southern Literature: Thomas Wolfe and William Faulkner . . 33
The French Faulkner: Visibility, Absence, and Sanctuary's "Lake of Ink' . . 51
Modernist Novellas: European Reflections on Thomas Wolfe's Short Novels . . 69

EUROPEAN RECEPTION AND PERSPECTIVES
Thomas Jefferson's Conflicting Views of Europe . . 91
Southern Literature in Northlight: 20th Century Southern Writers in Norwegian Translation: Reception, Reputation, Affinities . . 103
Antecedents and Trajectories of Two Twentieth-Century Writers from Georgia in Europe . . 115
Hemispheric Parallax: Zora Neale Hurston and the Triangulation of Race . . 137
How Bigger Mutated: Richard Wright, Boris Vian. and "The bloody paths through which we push logic into dread" . . 149
Richard Wright's Pagan Spain: Reading Spain through the American South . . 167

REIMAGINING THE SOUTH FROM A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE
A Study in Scarlett O'Hara? The South in the Writings of Arthur Conan Doyle . . 181
'The Formidable Question": James's Transatlantic View of the South . . 207
A Southern Sheriff's Revenge: Bertrand Tavernier's Coup de Torchon . . 221

WELTY AND PERCY
A Narrative Room of One's Own: Eudora Welty's The Robber Bridegroom and European Fairy Tale . . 241
The Promiscuous Joy of Eudora Welty: Missing Bowen in Mississippi . . 257
Walker Percy and Eric Voegelin's Political Philosophy . . 277
City of Exiles: Unstable Narratives of New Orleans in George Washington Cable's Old Creole Days . . 293
Paris and New Orleans: The Transatlantic Cultural Legacy of Prostitution . . 309
France and the American South: Transatlantic Misreadings and Mythmaking . . 335

NINETEENTH-CENTURY RELATIONS
Don Quixote on the Mississippi: Twain's Modernities . . 349
Mark Twain Abroad . . 363
"Whatever the law permits": Hannah Crafts's The Bondwoman's Narrative . . 377

FAULKNER
"Les Amis Myriades et Anonymes a la France de Tout le Monde": Creolite and Empire, Difference and Indifference, in William
Faulkner's A Fable . . 397
War and Modernism in Faulkner's A Fable . . 409
William Faulkner, New Orleans, and Europe . . 419
CULTURAL AND CAPITAL EXCHANGE
Cavaliers and Capitalists: The Transatlantic South from Mercantilism to Mercedes . . 439
Old South/New Britain: Cotton, Capitalism, and Anglo-Southern Relations in the Civil War Era . . 455
European Influence on Pre-Civil War Southern Culture: The Case of South Carolina . . 473
The South in the Age of Nationalism . . 491

MOUNTAIN AND FOLK CULTURE
The Green, Green Hills of Home: Mining in the Fiction of Appalachia and Wales . . 503
Happily Ever After in the Marketplace: The Ballads of the Southern Mountains and the Escape from Old Europe . . 519
Transatlantic Folk Exchanges in 1959 - the Revival Year . . 533

POSTWAR FICTIONS
Slavery Old and New: Styron's Sophie's Choice . . 551
Black Girl in Paris: Shay Youngblood's Escape from "the last plantation" . . 563
Black South, Black Eurooe: William Demby . . 579

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Seria
(Sitzungsberichte. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse ; Bd. 761)

Teaching history at university : enhancing learning and understanding

Obrazy
Autor
Alan Booth
Miejsce wydania
London

Wydawca

Rok wydania
2003
Spis treści

Acknowledgements . . VI

1 Introduction . . 1
2 Learning history for understanding . . 14
3 History learning from the student perspective . . 30
4 Approaches to teaching history . . 50
5 Creating a context for learning . . 67
6 Strategies for active learning in the history classroom . . 87
7 Promoting independence in learning . . 110
8 Assessing for understanding . . 128
9 Developing understanding of teaching . . 149

References . . 172
Index . . 194

Die Qualifikationsstruktur der österreichischen Bevölkerung im Wandel : Analyse und Computersimulation des Schulsystems und der Qualifikationsstruktur der Bevölkerung 1971-2025

Obrazy
Autor
Frank Landler
Miejsce wydania
Wien
Rok wydania
2008
Spis treści

Vorwort . . 7
1 Einleitung . . 9
2 Vergleich der Prognose 1996 mit den Frfrebnissen der Volkszählung 2001 . .10
2.1 Einleitung . . 10
2.2 Die Abschätzung der Bevölkerungsentwicklung . . 10
2.3 Vergleich der Ergebnisse des Bildungsmodells . . 11
2.4 Vergleich der Entwicklung der Qualifikationsstruktur der Wohnbevölkerung und des Erwerbstätigenpotenzials . . 19
3 Beschreibung der Modellstruktur . . 34
3.1 Das Bevölkerungsmodell . . 34
3.2 Das Schulmodell . . 34
3.3 Der tertiäre Bildungsbereich . . 36
3.4 Das Qualifikationsstrukturmodell . . 42
4 Veränderungen der Bevölkerungsstruktur und deren Auswirkungen auf das Bildungssystem . . 47
4.1 Einleitung . . 47
4.2 Das Pflichtschulwesen . . 49
4.3 Der weiterführende Schulbereich . . 72
4.4 Die 12. bzw. 13. Schulstufe . . 109
4.5 Das tertiäre Bildungswesen  . . 119
5 Veränderungen der Qualifikationsstruktur der Wohnbevölkerung und der Erwerbstätigen . . 145
5.1 Einleitung . . 145
5.2 Die Qualifikationsstruktur der Wohnbevölkerung der Volkszählungsjahre 1971/81/91 und 2001 im Vergleich . . 145
5.3 Das Erwerbsverhalten nach höchster abgeschlossener Ausbildung im Vergleich . . 152
5.4 Abschätzung der Entwicklung der Qualifikationsstruktur Her österreichischen Wohnbevölkerung und des Arbeitskräfteangebots . . 162
5.5 Zusammenhänge zwischen erworbener Qualifikation Erwerbstätigkeit und Arbeitslosigkeit . . 172
6 Internationaler Vergleich . . 179
Zusammenfassung . . 185

Abkürzungs- und Zusammenfassungsverzeichnis . . 187
Grafiken- und Tabellenverzeichnis . . 204
Literaturverzeichnis . . 210
Statistische Materialien . . 212
Tabellenanhang . . 213

Seria
(Sitzungsberichte. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse ; Bd. 773)

Protecting minorities in the future Europe : between political interest and international law

Obrazy
Autor
Adrian Năstase [et al.]
Miejsce wydania
Bucureşti
Rok wydania
2002
Spis treści

Introduction . . 13
Chapter 1 National Minorities' Protection in the Contemporary European State . . 19
Chapter 2 National Minorities' Protection - a Shared Responsibility? Home-State versus Kin-State . . 39
Chanter 3 The Objective of the Protection - the Achievement of Equality of Treatment and Chances between Minority and Majority . . 53
Chapter 4 The Instruments of Minorities' Protection - the Prevalent Role of Agreements . . 85
Chapter 5 Unilateral Measures Taken by the Kin-States as Domestic Legal Acts . . 113
Chapter 6 The Issue of an Administrative Document by the KinState for National Minorities . . 135
Chapter 7 Contemporary Special Measures alias Positive Discrimination fhe Relationship between the Home-State and the Kin-State . . 159
Chapter 8 Shaping New Standards of Minorities' Protection: the Guidelines of the Venice Commission and of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities . . 175
Chapter 9 The Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Romania and the Government of the Republic of Hungary concerning the Law on Hungarians Living in Neighbouring Countries and Issues of Bilateral Co-operation, Signed in Budapest on the 22nd of December 2001 . . 193
Chapter 10 The Role of Minorities' Protection in the Future Europe . . 217

The Authors . . 229
Annexes . . 231