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Nature in chains : the effects of Thomas Jefferson’s rectangular survey on a Pacific Northwest landscape

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Schweickert, Tina K.

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Understanding the impact of humans on the environment has long been a topic of scholarly interest and debate. As environmental problems mount, accounts of historic ecological conditions and the factors of change become increasingly useful. This study considers competing schools of interpretation about human impacts on ecological landscapes and develops...

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Masters Thesis

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American Mind (1967), Donald Worster’s Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (1979), Carolyn
John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

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Christensen, Terry M.

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This dissertation has two objectives. The first objective is to determine where best to situate the study of mentoring (i.e. the 'making of scientists') on the landscape of the history of science and science studies. This task is accomplished by establishing mentoring studies as a link between the robust body...

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Dissertation

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this work to T. Sidney and Carolyn K. Cadwallader, my father and mother-in-law, who have been
Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

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Jolly, J. Christopher

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The public controversy over possible health hazards from radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing began in 1954, shortly after a thermonuclear test by the United States spread fallout world wide. In the dissertation, I address two of the fundamental questions of the fallout controversy: Was there a threshold of radiation...

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Dissertation

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, 2000). Carolyn Kopp, "The Origins of the American Scientific Debate over Fallout Hazards," Social