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European Thought and Culture
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This subject surveys main currents of European cultural and intellectual history in the modern period. Such a foundation course is central to the humanities in Europe. The curriculum introduces a set of ideas and arguments that have played a formative role in European cultural history, and acquaints them with some exemplars of critical thought. Among the topics to be considered: the critique of religion, the promise of independence, the advance of capitalism, the temptations of Marxism, the origins of totalitarianism, and the dialects of enlightenment. In addition to texts, we will also discuss pieces of art, incl. paintings and film.

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Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
History
Philosophy
Social Science
World Cultures
World History
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MIT
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Author:
Nolden, Thomas
Date Added:
02/01/2008
Evolution and Society
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This course provides a broad conceptual and historical introduction to scientific theories of evolution and their place in the wider culture. It embraces historical, scientific and anthropological/cultural perspectives grounded in relevant developments in the biological sciences since 1800 that are largely responsible for the development of the modern theory of evolution by natural selection. Students read key texts, analyze key debates (e.g. Darwinian debates in the 19th century, and the creation controversies in the 20th century) and give class presentations.

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Arts and Humanities
History
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Full Course
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MIT
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Author:
Durant, John
Thompson, Michaela
Wildman, Jeanne
Date Added:
02/01/2012
Evolution and impact: a history of the Institute of Information Scientists 1958-2002
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This is the first history of the Institute of Information Scientists, which was founded in 1958 and merged with the Library Association in 2002 to form the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. In the absence of a formal archive the history has been written by three former Presidents based on secondary sources and the memories of former members.

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The Institute of Information Scientists (IIS) was formally constituted in 1958. It merged with the Library Association to form the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in 2002. During 45 years of professional service and leadership, it defined and developed information science as a discipline; established and promoted education, training and research in the field; developed and vetted curricula in information science programmes; organised events and conferences; established the Journal of Information Science, and raised professional standards.

The archive of the Institute seems not to have survived the merger, and so this history, written by three former Presidents, is based on secondary sources (such as the Inform newsletter) and the memories of the authors (who all joined the Institute in 1974) and those of former members The book covers the formation of the Institute, its governance structure, membership grades, Special Interest Groups (including UKOLUG), professional development activities, publications, conferences and events, the Strix and Farradane Awards (which continue under CILIP) and a substantial chapter on the external activities of the Institute in the UK and across Europe. There are biographical profiles of all the Presidents and a chronology of important events and decisions.

Word Count: 60587

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Applied Science
Computer Science
History
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Date Added:
11/14/2022
Expanded Galileo Telescope Activity
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This OER explores the operation of a Telescope. It combines a lesson on lenses with a lesson using a Galileoscope. It also includes resources for further exploration. It is a product of the OU Academy of the Lynx, developed in conjunction with the Galileo's World Exhibition at the University of Oklahoma.

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Arts and Humanities
History
Mathematics
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Lecture Notes
Primary Source
Student Guide
Textbook
Date Added:
10/08/2015
Femmes savantes, femmes de science
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Tome 1

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Série de portraits de femmes savantes ou scientifiques de toutes les époques et de tous les continents, rédigés par un collectif d'auteures et d'auteurs.

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Ce livre propose une série de brefs portraits de femmes qui ont contribué de manière significative au patrimoine scientifique de l’humanité dans toutes les sciences, incluant les sciences sociales et humaines, ou qui, oeuvrant en science, ont contribué au bien commun grâce à un engagement social, politique ou éthique remarquable (ou les trois). Il accueille des portraits de femmes décédées ou qui ne sont plus actives en recherche scientifique, ainsi que des portraits de femmes encore actives en recherche, dont la contribution à la science ou au bien commun semble déjà significative. Ces femmes proviennent de tous les pays du monde.

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History
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Éditions science et bien commun
Date Added:
05/16/2014
A Few Words that Changed the World
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A Few Words that Changed the World brings together short texts - many less than one page long - that profoundly changed the world in which we live. In its initial form, the book's focus is on the growth and development of European empires, and the ways in which peoples responded to that expansion. Over time, we hope that this resource will grow to include other sources, such as songs, poems, and perhaps pieces of art.

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A word is dead When it is said, Some say.

I say it just Begins to live That day.

Emily Dickinson, A Word is Dead (1862)

Word Count: 41764

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History
Political Science
Social Science
World History
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Textbook
Date Added:
09/12/2022
A Few Words that Changed the World
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A Few Words that Changed the World brings together short texts - many less than one page long - that profoundly changed the world in which we live. In its initial form, the book's focus is on the growth and development of European empires, and the ways in which peoples responded to that expansion. Over time, we hope that this resource will grow to include other sources, such as songs, poems, and perhaps pieces of art.

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A word is dead When it is said, Some say.

I say it just Begins to live That day.

Emily Dickinson, A Word is Dead (1862)

Word Count: 33169

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History
Political Science
Social Science
World History
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Date Added:
01/01/2022
Fight No More
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Episodes of Conflict in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1862-1890

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Fight No More
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Episodes of Conflict in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1862-1890

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History
Material Type:
Textbook
Date Added:
01/26/2024
Film Music Appreciation
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This is a text by Dr. Christine Gengaro to be used primarily for film music appreciation courses. Some of the materials are applicable to music appreciation, cinema studies, film studies, music history, musicology, and media studies. It attempts to provide a methodology for studying and analyzing film music without requiring the specific study of a particular set of films. It is appropriate for those with musical backgrounds and those who simply love film music. Suggestions are made in the instructor materials for assignments and assessments that empower students to analyze films in multiple ways, drawing upon cultural context, emotional viewing experience, historical milieu, among other lenses.

Subject:
Film and Music Production
History
Performing Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Christine Gengaro
Date Added:
11/02/2023
Finance and Society
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This course provides students with a broad historical and social-scientific introduction to a central aspect of modern economic life: Finance. By drawing upon a variety of disciplinary perspectives from the humanities and social sciences, the course offers a multi-dimentional picture of finance, not only as an economic phenomenon, but as a political, cultural, intellectual, material, and technological one. The course offers an introduction to foundational financial concepts and technologies, and will help students understand finance as a complex and multifaceted phenomenon. This course also provides students with the opportunity to improve skills in written communication, and to learn tools for historical analysis and textual interpretation.

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Arts and Humanities
Business and Communication
Economics
Finance
History
Social Science
World History
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Deringer, William
Date Added:
02/01/2016
Finding the Invisibles: A True Story
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Book 3 "It's A Miracle We Survived This Far"

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First: Hold on to your sanity. I only ask you read, think, read, then think again. Connect the dots, if you will. Murdered for beliefs? Absolutely—and ongoing. Read on if you have the stomach for torture described in this edition but it may be too much for some readers.We are not supposed to know the real history.

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“I don’t know about you but I have plenty of paperback and hard covers,” says Trace Hentz, author of the book series “It’s A Miracle We Survived This Far.”

Her new book FINDING THE INVISIBLES is published in blog posts (and available as a pdf or epub.) https://www.findingtheinvisibles.com

“I am a researcher and historian, not an academic. I read more than I will ever write. I found something so remarkable and terrifying, it all came together in this new book.

“It was not what I had planned for my life but now I see it was a bigger plan to make this book and research part of my book series. I am as shocked as anyone. No, it’s not going to be on Amazon, who rejected (and blocked) an early draft. No, it’s not the normal way to publish a book but I am not normal,” Hentz said.

Hentz is the founder and publisher of BLUE HAND BOOKS (2011-2022) which publishes Native American writers and storytellers. Their website: www.bluehandbooks.org

“With the chaos of too many books and the expense of buying books, I reject and defy what is expected for any new book,” Hentz said. “If it’s good, it will travel. People who are meant to read it will.”

Hentz is the author or “Mental Midgets/Musqonichte” (2019) and “What Just Happened” (2021) in the It’s A Miracle… book series, for sale as paperbacks and ebooks with online booksellers. Her first book series “Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects” is also available online and at bookstores.

“What I found is so shocking, it needs to be formatted for easy reading, so the reader can digest and think, over a period of time.” “Yes, this is a departure from traditional publishing formats, and I think many others will do this, eventually. A website can be accessed easily by phone or computer. Each chapter can be read at your leisure, which is the whole point,” Hentz said.

For More Information: bluehandbooks@outlook.com

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Ancient History
History
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Textbook
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Blue Hand Books
Date Added:
05/01/2022
Food and Power in the Twentieth Century
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In this class, food serves as both the subject and the object of historical analysis. As a subject, food has been transformed over the last 100 years, largely as a result of ever more elaborate scientific and technological innovations. From a need to preserve surplus foods for leaner times grew an elaborate array of techniques – drying, freezing, canning, salting, etc – that changed not only what people ate, but how far they could/had to travel, the space in which they lived, their relations with neighbors and relatives, and most of all, their place in the economic order of things. The role of capitalism in supporting and extending food preservation and development was fundamental. As an object, food offers us a way into cultural, political, economic, and techno-scientific history. Long ignored by historians of science and technology, food offers a rich source for exploring, e.g., the creation and maintenance of mass-production techniques, industrial farming initiatives, the politics of consumption, vertical integration of business firms, globalization, changing race and gender identities, labor movements, and so forth. How is food different in these contexts, from other sorts of industrial goods? What does the trip from farm to table tell us about American culture and history?

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Arts and Humanities
Economics
History
Political Science
Social Science
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Full Course
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MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Fitzgerald, Deborah
Date Added:
02/01/2005
Food in American History
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This course will explore food in modern American history as a story of industrialization and globalization. Lectures, readings, and discussions will emphasize the historical dimensions of—and debates about—slave plantations and factory farm labor; industrial processing and technologies of food preservation; the political economy and ecology of global commodity chains; the vagaries of nutritional science; food restrictions and reform movements; food surpluses and famines; cooking traditions and innovations; the emergence of restaurants, supermarkets, fast food, and slow food. The core concern of the course will be to understand the increasingly pervasive influence of the American model of food production and consumption patterns.

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Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Atmospheric Science
Business and Communication
Career and Technical Education
Environmental Science
Environmental Studies
Health, Medicine and Nursing
History
Physical Science
U.S. History
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Zilberstein, Anya
Date Added:
09/01/2014
For Love and Money: Rethinking the Family
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Through investigating cross-cultural case studies, this course introduces students to the anthropological study of the social institutions and symbolic meanings of family, gender, and sexuality. We will explores the myriad forms that families and households take and considers their social, emotional, and economic dynamics.

Subject:
Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
Gender and Sexuality Studies
History
Social Science
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Paxson, Heather
Date Added:
02/01/2016
Foundations of Western Culture II
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Complementary to 21L.001. A broad survey of texts - literary, philosophical, and sociological - studied to trace the growth of secular humanism, the loss of a supernatural perspective upon human events, and changing conceptions of individual, social, and communal purpose. Stresses appreciation and analysis of texts that came to represent the common cultural possession of our time. Enrollment limited. HASS-D, CI.
Readings this semester ranging from political theory and oratory to autobiography, poetry, and science fiction reflect on war, motives for war, reconciliation and memory. The readings are largely organized around three historical moments: the Renaissance and first contacts between Europe and America (Machiavelli, Cortés, Sahagún); the European age of revolutions (Voltaire, Blake, Williams); the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery (Stowe, Whitman, Lincoln). Readings from the twentieth-century include poetry by Lowell and Walcott and fiction by Ondaatje and O.S. Card.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
History
Literature
Philosophy
Reading Literature
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Fuller, Mary
Date Added:
09/01/2002
Foundations of Western Culture: The Making of the Modern World
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This course comprises a broad survey of texts, literary and philosophical, which trace the development of the modern world from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Intrinsic to this development is the growth of individualism in a world no longer understood to be at the center of the universe. The texts chosen for study exemplify the emergence of a new humanism, at once troubled and dynamic in comparison to the old. The leading theme of this course is thus the question of the difference between the ancient and the modern world. Students who have taken Foundations of Western Culture I will obviously have an advantage in dealing with this question. Classroom discussion approaches this question mainly through consideration of action and characters, voice and form.

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Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
History
Literature
Philosophy
Reading Literature
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Full Course
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MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Eiland, Howard
Date Added:
02/01/2010
France, 1660-1815: Enlightenment, Revolution, Napoleon
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This course covers French politics, culture, and society from Louis XIV to Napoleon Bonaparte. Attention is given to the growth of the central state, the beginnings of a modern consumer society, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, including its origins, and the rise and fall of Napoleon.

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Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
History
Philosophy
Social Science
World History
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Full Course
Provider:
MIT
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Ravel, Jeffrey
Date Added:
02/01/2011
From Castles to Cactus, Volume 8
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Generation ID Index

Short Description:
An index of people in the Clounch/Claunch and Girlington families. Supports genealogical study of family groups.

Long Description:
A generational index of Claunch,Clounch, Girlington and related families. The Tapestry: Castles to Cactus describes the journey of one family from the European middle ages to the new world of the modern American west. Volume 8 indexes all the family members in the study, assigning a unique identifier to each person.

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History
World History
Material Type:
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Girlington Press
Date Added:
09/16/2022
From Print to Digital: Technologies of the Word, 1450-Present
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There has been much discussion in recent years, on this campus and elsewhere, about the death of the book. Digitization and various forms of electronic media, some critics say, are rendering the printed text as obsolete as the writing quill. In this subject, we will examine the claims for and against the demise of the book, but we will also supplement these arguments with an historical perspective they lack: we will examine texts, printing technologies, and reading communities from roughly 1450 to the present. We will begin with the theoretical and historical overviews of Walter Ong and Elizabeth Eisenstein, after which we will study specific cases such as English chapbooks, Inkan knotted and dyed strings, late nineteenth-century recording devices, and newspapers online today. We will also visit a rare book library and make a poster on a hand-set printing press.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Career and Technical Education
Graphic Arts
Graphic Design
History
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Ravel, Jeffrey
Date Added:
09/01/2005