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On distant service
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ISBN: 1640123547 9781640123540 9781640121942 1640121943 Year: 2020 Publisher: [Lincoln, Nebraska]

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Circle of winners
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ISBN: 0252054415 9780252054419 9780252045097 9780252087226 Year: 2023 Publisher: Urbana

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"An essential high culture institution, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has both supported and molded American musical culture. Denise Von Glahn examines the Foundation and its immense influence from the organization's prehistory and origins through the onset of World War II. Funded by the Guggenheim mining fortune, the Foundation took early shape from the efforts of Carroll Wilson, Frank Aydelotte, and Henry Allen Moe--three Rhodes Scholars who initially struggled to envision and implement the organization's ambitious goals. Von Glahn also examines the career of the longtime musical advisor Thomas Whitney Surette while profiling early awardees Aaron Copland, Ruth Crawford Seeger, William Grant Still, Roger Sessions, George Antheil, and Carlos Chávez. She examines the processes behind their selection, their values and aesthetics, and their relationships with the insiders and others who championed their work"--


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Katharine Whitney Curtis
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ISBN: 1476638233 9781476638232 9781476664583 1476664587 Year: 2020 Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina

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""How do you invent an Olympic sport? For Katharine Whitney Curtis, it took the right idea, great talent, some good timing, and the determination to make it happen. The originator of synchronized swimming as we know it today, she even wrote the first book on the subject in 1936. But there was much more to her life and career. After the start of World War II, Curtis became a recreational director in the American Red Cross and followed the troops wherever the course of war took them, serving under Generals Patton and Eisenhower, before becoming a director of travel for the U.S. Army in Europe during the Cold War. Unbound by fear or the narrow expectations of society, this was a woman who lived ahead of her time, making things happen along the way. As her first biography, this book generously features Curtis's own words, selected from more than 2,000 pages of letters, and contextualized by her surviving friends and family members."--


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Destructive desires
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ISBN: 1978803613 9781978803619 9781978803596 9781978803589 1978803583 1978803591 9781978803596 1978803605 Year: 2019 Publisher: New Brunswick

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Despite rhythm and blues culture's undeniable role in molding, reflecting, and reshaping black cultural production, consciousness, and politics, it has yet to receive the serious scholarly examination it deserves. Destructive Desires corrects this omission by analyzing how post-Civil Rights era rhythm and blues culture articulates competing and conflicting political, social, familial, and economic desires within and for African American communities. As an important form of black cultural production, rhythm and blues music helps us to understand black political and cultural desires and longings in light of neo-liberalism's increased codification in America's racial politics and policies since the 1970's. Robert J. Patterson provides a thorough analysis of four artists-Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Adina Howard, Whitney Houston, and Toni Braxton-to examine black cultural longings by demonstrating how our reading of specific moments in their lives, careers, and performances serve as metacommentaries for broader issues in black culture and politics.


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Emmeline B. Wells
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ISBN: 1607815249 9781607815242 9781607815235 1607815230 Year: 2017 Publisher: Salt Lake City

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"Emmeline B. Wells was the most noted Utah Mormon woman of her time. Lauded nationally for her energetic support of the women's rights movement of the nineteenth century, she was a self-made woman who channeled her lifelong sense of destiny into ambitious altruism. Her public acclaim and activism belied the introspective, self-appraising, and emotional persona she expressed in the pages of her forty-seven extant diaries. After reconciling herself to the heartaches of plural marriage, she pursued a self-directed life in earnest and wrote, "I have risen triumphant." This new biography tells the story of the private Emmeline. The unusual circumstances of her several marriages, the complicated lives of her five daughters, the losses and disappointments interspersed with bright moments and achievements, all engendered the idea that her life was a romance, with the mysterious, tragic, and sentimental elements of that genre. This volume, drawing heavily on Emmeline Wells's own words, tells the complicated story of a woman of ambition, strength, tenderness, and faith"--Provided by publisher.

Militant mediator
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ISBN: 0813190819 0813148812 0813171067 9780813171067 0813120586 9780813120584 0813188571 9780813148816 9780813190815 Year: 1998 Publisher: Lexington, KY

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During the turbulent 1960's, civil rights leader Whitney M. Young Jr. devised a new and effective strategy to achieve equality for African Americans. Young blended interracial mediation with direct protest, demonstrating that these methods pursued together were the best tactics for achieving social, economic, and political change. Militant Mediator is a powerful reassessment of this key and controversial figure in the civil rights movement. It is the first biography to explore in depth the influence Young's father, a civil rights leader in Kentucky, had on his son. Dickerson traces Young's.

The documentary conscience: a casebook in film making
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ISBN: 0520039327 0520040228 Year: 1980 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press


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Gendering radicalism
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ISBN: 0803278624 9780803278622 080325475X 9780803254756 9780803254756 9780803278615 9780803278608 0803278608 0700618082 0803278616 Year: 2015 Publisher: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press

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"In 1919 Charlotte Anita Whitney, a wealthy white woman, received one of the first Communist Labor Party membership cards for the charter group of the northern California Communist Labor Party. Less than a decade later in Berkeley, California, a Jewish woman named Dorothy Ray Healey became a card-carrying member of the Young Communist League. Nearly forty years later, in 1966, Kendra Claire Harris Alexander, a mixed-race woman, enlisted with the Los Angeles branch of the Communist Party, determined to promote class equality. In Gendering Radicalism, Beth Slutsky examines how American leftist radicalism was experienced through the lives of these three women who led the California branches of the Communist Party from its founding in 1919 to its near dissolution in 1992. Separately, each woman represents a generation of the membership and activism of the party. Collectively, Slutsky argues, their individual histories tell the story of one of the most infamous organizations this country has ever known and in a broader sense represent the story of all women who have devoted their lives to radicalism in America. Slutsky considers how gender politics, California's political climate, coalitions with other activist groups and local communities, and generational dynamics created a grassroots Communist movement distinct from the Communist parties in the Soviet Union and Europe. An ambitious comparative study, Gendering Radicalism demonstrates the continuity and changes of the party both within and among three generations of its female leaders' lives"--

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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY). --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism. --- Intergenerational relations --- Sex role --- Women political activists --- Women radicals --- Women communists --- Intergenerational relationships --- Relations, Intergenerational --- Relationships, Intergenerational --- Interpersonal relations --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Political activists --- Radicals --- Communists --- Political aspects --- History --- Alexander, Kendra, --- Healey, Dorothy, --- Whitney, Anita, --- Communist Party of the United States of America (Calif.) --- Communist Party of California --- California Communist Party --- History. --- California --- Alta California (Province) --- CA --- Cal. --- Cali. --- Calif. --- Californias (Province) --- CF --- Chia-chou --- Departamento de Californias --- Kʻaellipʻonia --- Kʻaellipʻonia-ju --- Kʻaellipʻoniaju --- Kalifornii --- Kalifornii︠a︡ --- Kalifornija --- Ḳalifornyah --- Ḳalifornye --- Kālīfūrniyā --- Kaliphornia --- Karapōnia --- Kariforunia --- Kariforunia-shū --- Medinat Ḳalifornyah --- Politeia tēs Kaliphornias --- Provincia de Californias --- Shtat Kalifornii︠a︡ --- State of California --- Upper California --- Πολιτεία της Καλιφόρνιας --- Καλιφόρνια --- Штат Каліфорнія --- Калифорния --- Калифорнија --- Калифорнии --- Каліфорнія --- קאליפארניע --- קליפורניה --- מדינת קליפורניה --- كاليفورنيا --- カリフォルニア --- カリフォルニア州 --- 캘리포니아 --- 캘리포니아 주 --- 캘리포니아주 --- Politics and government --- Whitney, Charlotte Anita, --- Rosenblum, Dorothy Harriet, --- Alexander, Kendra --- Harris, Kendra Claire, --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles

Characteristic classes
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ISBN: 0691081220 9780691081229 140088182X Year: 1974 Volume: 76 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press,

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The theory of characteristic classes provides a meeting ground for the various disciplines of differential topology, differential and algebraic geometry, cohomology, and fiber bundle theory. As such, it is a fundamental and an essential tool in the study of differentiable manifolds.In this volume, the authors provide a thorough introduction to characteristic classes, with detailed studies of Stiefel-Whitney classes, Chern classes, Pontrjagin classes, and the Euler class. Three appendices cover the basics of cohomology theory and the differential forms approach to characteristic classes, and provide an account of Bernoulli numbers.Based on lecture notes of John Milnor, which first appeared at Princeton University in 1957 and have been widely studied by graduate students of topology ever since, this published version has been completely revised and corrected.

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Algebraic topology --- Characteristic classes --- Classes caractéristiques --- 515.16 --- #WWIS:d.d. Prof. L. Bouckaert/ALTO --- Classes, Characteristic --- Differential topology --- Topology of manifolds --- Characteristic classes. --- 515.16 Topology of manifolds --- Classes caractéristiques --- Additive group. --- Axiom. --- Basis (linear algebra). --- Boundary (topology). --- Bundle map. --- CW complex. --- Canonical map. --- Cap product. --- Cartesian product. --- Characteristic class. --- Charles Ehresmann. --- Chern class. --- Classifying space. --- Coefficient. --- Cohomology ring. --- Cohomology. --- Compact space. --- Complex dimension. --- Complex manifold. --- Complex vector bundle. --- Complexification. --- Computation. --- Conformal geometry. --- Continuous function. --- Coordinate space. --- Cross product. --- De Rham cohomology. --- Diffeomorphism. --- Differentiable manifold. --- Differential form. --- Differential operator. --- Dimension (vector space). --- Dimension. --- Direct sum. --- Directional derivative. --- Eilenberg–Steenrod axioms. --- Embedding. --- Equivalence class. --- Euler class. --- Euler number. --- Existence theorem. --- Existential quantification. --- Exterior (topology). --- Fiber bundle. --- Fundamental class. --- Fundamental group. --- General linear group. --- Grassmannian. --- Gysin sequence. --- Hausdorff space. --- Homeomorphism. --- Homology (mathematics). --- Homotopy. --- Identity element. --- Integer. --- Interior (topology). --- Isomorphism class. --- J-homomorphism. --- K-theory. --- Leibniz integral rule. --- Levi-Civita connection. --- Limit of a sequence. --- Linear map. --- Metric space. --- Natural number. --- Natural topology. --- Neighbourhood (mathematics). --- Normal bundle. --- Open set. --- Orthogonal complement. --- Orthogonal group. --- Orthonormal basis. --- Partition of unity. --- Permutation. --- Polynomial. --- Power series. --- Principal ideal domain. --- Projection (mathematics). --- Representation ring. --- Riemannian manifold. --- Sequence. --- Singular homology. --- Smoothness. --- Special case. --- Steenrod algebra. --- Stiefel–Whitney class. --- Subgroup. --- Subset. --- Symmetric function. --- Tangent bundle. --- Tensor product. --- Theorem. --- Thom space. --- Topological space. --- Topology. --- Unit disk. --- Unit vector. --- Variable (mathematics). --- Vector bundle. --- Vector space. --- Topologie differentielle --- Classes caracteristiques --- Classes et nombres caracteristiques

Surveys on surgery theory.
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ISBN: 0691049386 0691088152 1322055211 1400865190 0691049378 1322063281 1400865212 0691088144 9781400865192 9780691049380 9780691049373 9781400865215 9780691088150 9780691088150 9780691088143 Year: 2001 Volume: 145,149 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey Oxfordshire, England

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Surgery theory, the basis for the classification theory of manifolds, is now about forty years old. There have been some extraordinary accomplishments in that time, which have led to enormously varied interactions with algebra, analysis, and geometry. Workers in many of these areas have often lamented the lack of a single source that surveys surgery theory and its applications. Indeed, no one person could write such a survey. The sixtieth birthday of C. T. C. Wall, one of the leaders of the founding generation of surgery theory, provided an opportunity to rectify the situation and produce a comprehensive book on the subject. Experts have written state-of-the-art reports that will be of broad interest to all those interested in topology, not only graduate students and mathematicians, but mathematical physicists as well. Contributors include J. Milnor, S. Novikov, W. Browder, T. Lance, E. Brown, M. Kreck, J. Klein, M. Davis, J. Davis, I. Hambleton, L. Taylor, C. Stark, E. Pedersen, W. Mio, J. Levine, K. Orr, J. Roe, J. Milgram, and C. Thomas.

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Chirurgie (Topologie) --- Heelkunde (Topologie) --- Surgery (Topology) --- Differential topology --- Homotopy equivalences --- Manifolds (Mathematics) --- Topology --- Algebraic topology (object). --- Algebraic topology. --- Ambient isotopy. --- Assembly map. --- Atiyah–Hirzebruch spectral sequence. --- Atiyah–Singer index theorem. --- Automorphism. --- Banach algebra. --- Borsuk–Ulam theorem. --- C*-algebra. --- CW complex. --- Calculation. --- Category of manifolds. --- Characterization (mathematics). --- Chern class. --- Cobordism. --- Codimension. --- Cohomology. --- Compactification (mathematics). --- Conjecture. --- Contact geometry. --- Degeneracy (mathematics). --- Diagram (category theory). --- Diffeomorphism. --- Differentiable manifold. --- Differential geometry. --- Dirac operator. --- Disk (mathematics). --- Donaldson theory. --- Duality (mathematics). --- Embedding. --- Epimorphism. --- Excision theorem. --- Exponential map (Riemannian geometry). --- Fiber bundle. --- Fibration. --- Fundamental group. --- Group action. --- Group homomorphism. --- H-cobordism. --- Handle decomposition. --- Handlebody. --- Homeomorphism group. --- Homeomorphism. --- Homology (mathematics). --- Homomorphism. --- Homotopy extension property. --- Homotopy fiber. --- Homotopy group. --- Homotopy. --- Hypersurface. --- Intersection form (4-manifold). --- Intersection homology. --- Isomorphism class. --- K3 surface. --- L-theory. --- Limit (category theory). --- Manifold. --- Mapping cone (homological algebra). --- Mapping cylinder. --- Mostow rigidity theorem. --- Orthonormal basis. --- Parallelizable manifold. --- Poincaré conjecture. --- Product metric. --- Projection (linear algebra). --- Pushout (category theory). --- Quaternionic projective space. --- Quotient space (topology). --- Resolution of singularities. --- Ricci curvature. --- Riemann surface. --- Riemannian geometry. --- Riemannian manifold. --- Ring homomorphism. --- Scalar curvature. --- Semisimple algebra. --- Sheaf (mathematics). --- Sign (mathematics). --- Special case. --- Sub"ient. --- Subgroup. --- Submanifold. --- Support (mathematics). --- Surgery exact sequence. --- Surgery obstruction. --- Surgery theory. --- Symplectic geometry. --- Symplectic vector space. --- Theorem. --- Topological conjugacy. --- Topological manifold. --- Topology. --- Transversality (mathematics). --- Transversality theorem. --- Vector bundle. --- Waldhausen category. --- Whitehead torsion. --- Whitney embedding theorem. --- Yamabe invariant.

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