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  • The Ibis, journal of the British Ornithologists' Union : a pre-synthesis portrait

    Creator:
    Johnson, Kristin Renee
    Abstract:
    In 1959 the British Ornithological journal, The Ibis, published a centenary commemorative volume on the history of ornithology in Britain. Over the previous few decades, the contributors to this volume had helped focus the attention of ornithologists on the methods, priorities, and problems of modem biology, specifically the theory ofevolution...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    . Paul Salaman provided the insights of an ornithologist. In England Max Nicholson, Linda Birch, Andy

  • Applegate Community Wildfire Protection Plan

    Creator:
    Applegate Partnership, Shaffer, Sandy, Shipley, Jack, and Coogle, Diana
    Abstract:
    The Applegate Fire Plan is a collaborative effort, hatched from an idea that was developed jointly by local citizens and federal agency folks in the Spring of 2001. Due to wide-spread participation throughout the Applegate Valley, general project coordination was organized by the Applegate Partnership, a non-profit communitybased group founded...
    Resource Type:
    Working Paper

  • The great fires : Indian burning and catastrophic forest fire patterns of the Oregon Coast Range, 1491-1951

    Creator:
    Zybach, Bob
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between land management practices of Indian communities prior to contact with Europeans and the nature or character of subsequent catastrophic forest fires in the Oregon Coast Range. The research focus is spatial and temporal patterns of Indian burning across the...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Karl Jordan : a life in systematics

    Creator:
    Johnson, Kristin Renee
    Abstract:
    Karl Jordan (1861-1959) was an extraordinarily productive entomologist who influenced the development of systematics, entomology, and naturalists' theoretical framework as well as their practice. He has been a figure in existing accounts of the naturalist tradition between 1890 and 1940 that have defended the relative contribution of naturalists to the...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Space and movement : dance, art, and the poetry of William Carlos Williams

    Creator:
    Hoch, Jamie
    Abstract:
    The Modern era, roughly the time between 1860-1930, brought about a significant restructuring of artistic mediums. From the canvas to the page, artists of the twentieth century turned towards collaboration as a means by which they could reconfigure their works. Painters, writers, and dancers, borrowed aesthetic techniques from one another...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Imagining Kenya in Ngugi's fiction

    Creator:
    Prasansak, Ram
    Abstract:
    The relationship between literature and nation-building has been one of the most crucial issues in postcolonial studies. The novel in particular is regarded as a means by which writers forge national consciousness among the colonized during the time of colonization. Many African writers themselves, for example, conceive of their work...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    movements, is rendered the object of history. 2 The denial of African history is also expressed by Hugh

  • John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

    Creator:
    Christensen, Terry M.
    Abstract:
    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...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation