Clara Rust is interviewed by Neville Jacobs in October 1974 in Fairbanks, Alaska [sound recording].

Tanana Yukon Historical Society tapes

Categories--on the beauty of physics : essential physics concepts and their companions in art and literature

On the beauty of physics

Essential physics concepts and their companions in art and literature

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How to use this book -- Introductions -- Acceleration -- With an excerpt from Marshall McLuhan's Understanding media -- Edward Hopper's Nighthawks -- Suggested readings by Larry Gonick & Art Huffman, James Gleick, Daniel Keyes -- Angle -- With an excerpt from Hayden White's Tropics of discourse -- Paul Cézanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire -- Suggested reading by Calvin Clawson, Stan Gibilisco, Ian Stewart -- Angular velocity -- With an excerpt from Beowulf -- Alfred Stieglitz's Equivalent -- Suggested readings by Timothy Ferris, Kingfisher Publications, Scientific American -- Antimatter -- With excerpts from Gary Zukav's The dancing Wu Li masters and H.G. Wells' The war of the worlds -- Henri Matisse's Venus -- Suggested readings by Gordon Fraser, Brian Greene -- Suggested film by Joseph McMaster -- Chaos -- With an excerpt from Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn's The gulag archipelago -- Paolo Uccello's The battle of San Romano -- Suggested readings by James Gleick, Benoit Mandelbrot, John Briggs -- Color -- With an excerpt from Vincent Van Gogh's Dear Theo -- Raphael's Madonna del Granduca -- Suggested readings by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Margaret Livingston, Jeanne Heifetz --

Electricity -- g With an excerpt from Benjamin Franklin's The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin -- John Sloan's The city from Greenwich Village -- Suggested readings by Martin Uman, Paul Horowitz & Winfield Hill, Robert Becker & Gary Selden -- Energy -- With an excerpt from Daniel C. Dennett's Consciousness explained -- Gustav Klimt's The kiss -- Suggested readings by Helen Caldicott, Robert March -- Entropy -- With excerpts from Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote and Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" -- Leonardo Da Vinci's The last supper -- Suggested readings by Ian Stewart, Rudolf Arnheim, Richard Feynman, Robert Leighton, & Matthew Sands -- Equation -- With an excerpt from Aristotle's The categories : on interpretation : prior analytics -- Piet Mondrian's Composition in color B, 1917 -- Suggested readings by Richard Friedberg, Albrecht Fölsing, Martin Gardner -- Field -- With an excerpt from William Faulkner's The sound and the fury -- Helen Frankenthaler's Madame Matisse -- Suggested readings by Roger Penrose, Albert László Barabási, Fritjof Capra --

Force -- With an excerpt from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh -- Pablo Picasso's The tragedy -- Suggested readings by I. Bernard Cohen & Richard Westfall, Sir Isaac Newton, T.L. Heath -- Friction -- With an excerpt from Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the artists : volume 1 -- Paul Gauguin's Vairumati -- Suggested readings by Bertrand Russell, David Lind & Scott Sanders, Sandor Nagyszalanczy, Robert Ehrlich -- Gravity -- With an excerpt from Ernest Becker's The denial of death -- Giotto's The lamentation -- Suggested readings by Steven Weinberg, Alan Lightman, John Archibald Wheeler -- Heat -- With an excerpt from Henry David Thoreau's Walden and other writings -- Georges de la Tour's The repentant Magdalen - Suggested readings by Ross Gelbspan, Gino Segrè, Hans Christian Von Baeyer -- Image -- With excerpts from Trinh T. Minh-Ha's Woman, native, other and Edward O. Wilson's On human nature -- falling cow panel by Unknown -- Suggested readings by Faye Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, & Brian Larkin, Michel Foucault, John Berger -- Light -- With an excerpt from The letters of Abelard and Heloise -- Marc Chagall's An angel -- Suggested readings by James Burke, Richard Feynman -- Mass -- With an excerpt from Albert Einstein & Leopold Infeld's The evolution of physics -- Michaelangelo Buonarroti's Pieta -- Suggested readings by Lewis Mumford, Max Jammer -- Suggested film by MacGillivray Freeman films --

Measurement -- With an excerpt from Mircea Eliade's "Time and eternity in Indian thought" -- Canaletto's The grand canal from Carità to Bacino di S. Marco -- Suggested readings by Alex Hebra, David Bourg, Lee Smolin, Barry Zimmerman & David Zimmerman -- Momentum -- With excerpts from Lewis Hyde's The gift and Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America -- Panel with striding lion by Unknown -- Suggested readings by Noam Chomsky, Fritjof Capra -- Motion -- With an excerpt from Ayn Rand's Atlas shrugged -- Ludwig Van Beethoven's Ninth symphony -- Suggested readings by John Gribbin, Lewis Thomas, Howard Zinn, Sir James Jeans -- Orbit -- With excerpts from Bruno Bettelheim's The uses of enchantment and Fritjof Capra's The web of life -- Mary Cassatt's The bath -- Suggested readings by Leïla Haddad & Alan Cirou, Andrew Mishkin, Adrian Malone -- Particle -- With an excerpt from Marcel Proust's Swann's way -- Georges Seurat's A Sunday on la Grande Jatte -- Suggested readings by John Gribbin, Isaac Asimov, Toby E. Huff -- Position -- With excerpts from Pearl S. Buck's The good Earth and Mary Wollstonecraft's A vindication of the rights of woman -- Alberto Giacometti's Walking man II -- Suggested readings by Dava Sobel, David Rumsey & Edith M. Punt --

Power -- With excerpts from John Berger's Ways of seeing and Niccolò Machiavelli's The prince -- Rogier Van Der Weyden's Portrait of a lady -- Suggested readings by Rodney Brooks, Richard Rhodes, Frank Barron, Alfonso Montuori, & Anthea Barron -- Pressure -- With an excerpt from Lewis Mumford's The city in history -- Katsushika Hokusai's The great wave at Kanagawa -- Suggested readings by Craig Hogan, Rachel Carson, Jacques-Yves Cousteau & Frédéric Dumas -- Radiation -- With an excerpt from Albert Camus' The stranger -- Georgia O'Keeffe's Evening star no. VI -- Suggested readings by Nevil Shute, Erik Barnouw -- Suggested film by Daniel Goldberg -- Reflection -- With excerpts from Alice Miller's The drama of the gifted child and Sir James Jeans' Science & music -- Diego Velázquez's Las meninas -- Suggested readings by Walter Benjamin, Gary Waldman -- Refraction -- With an excerpt from Dylan Thomas' Under milk wood -- Annie Mae Young's Blocks and strips -- Suggested readings by Harald Falck-Yttr, Joseph Kasper & Steven Feller, John Alton -- Relativity -- With an excerpt from Pablo Picasso's "Picasso speaks" -- René Magritte's Two mysteries -- Suggested readings by Albert Einstein, George Gamow --

Space-time -- With an excerpt from Kahlil Gibran's The prophet and Pablo Picasso's Les demoiselles d'Avignon -- Suggested readings by Janna Levin, Michio Kaku -- Suggested film by Harold Ramis -- Spin -- With an excerpt from Antonio Carlo Jobim's Waters of March -- Vincent Van Gogh's Wheatfield with crows -- Suggested readings by Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann -- Torque -- With excerpts from W.E.B. Du Bois' The souls of black folk and Ernest Hemingway's The sun also rises -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's Jane Avril -- Suggested readings by Henry Petroski, Thomas Kuhn, K.C. Cole -- Uncertainty -- With an excerpt from William Shakespeare's Hamlet -- Maurice Denis' The green trees or Beech trees in Kerduel -- Suggested readings by F. David Peat, Douglas Hofstadter -- Vector -- With an excerpt from Homer's The odyssey -- Jacques-Louis David's The death of Marat -- Suggested reading by Julian Barbour, Henry Petroski, Steven Pinker -- Velocity -- With an excerpt from Clause Brown's Manchild in the promised land -- Robert Motherwell's No. 7 (from the Basque suit) -- Suggested readings by Edwin Abbott, Peter Hoffman -- Suggested film by Stacy Peralta --

Wave -- With an excerpt from Dziga Vertov's Kino eye -- Jacob Lawrence's The migration of the Negro, Panel 3 -- Suggested readings by Sir James Jeans, George Gamow -- Suggested film by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, & Joel Bakan -- Wave/particle duality -- With an excerpt from Gary Zukav's The dancing Wu Li masters -- Joan Miró's Une étoile caresse le sein d'une négresse (peinture-poème) -- Suggested readings by Roland Barthes, Ambrose Bierce, Lao Tzu -- Work -- With excerpts from John Ruskin's The lamp of beauty and Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the artists : volume 1 -- Emile Bernard's The buckwheat harvest -- Suggested readings by Studs Terkel, Charles Panati -- Appendices -- Index.

Women in abstraction

Elles font l'abstraction. English.

She makes abstraction / Abstraction? Co-creation? / Women artists and abstract photography / Stand up against, right up against / Where was sisterhood? / Art, spiritualism, and theosophy / Georgiana Houghton / Alice Essington Nelson / Hilma af Klint / Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn / The pioneers of abstraction in dance / Loïe Fuller / Valentine de Saint-Point / Gret Palucca / Giannina Censi / Sonia Delaunay-Terk / Vanessa Bell / Women in vorticism / Helen Saunders / Women in the Russuan avant-garde / Olga Rozanova / Natalia Goncharova / Alexandra Exter / Liubov Popova / Varvara Stepanova / Sophie Taeuber-Arp / Women at the Bauhaus / Gunta Stölzl / Anni Albers / Gertrud Arndt / Benita Koch-Otte / Elsa Thiemann / Florence Henri / Katarzyna Kobro / Gremaine Dulac / Germaine Krull / Microphotography: pattern, decoration, abstraction / Laure Albin-Guillot / Lotte Jacobi / Georgia O'Keeffe / Barbara Hepworth / From Cercle et Carré to abstraction-création / Marlow Moss / Verena Loewensberg / 'Creative photography' at the Texas Woman's University / Carlotta Corpron / Ida Lansky / Barbara Maples / Mary Ellen Bute

The enduring legacies of Hilla Rebay and Peggy Guggenheim / Finished pictures, polish, candy: women artists of the New York School / Hedda Sterne / Janet Sobel / Lee Krasner / Eleaine de Kooning / Joan Mitchell / Helen Frankenthaler / Shirley Jaffe / Wook-Kyung Choi / Atsuko Tanaka / Maria Helena Vieira da Silva / Vera Pagava / Marta Pan / Alicia Penalba / Parvine Curie / Claire Falkenstein / Ruth Asawa / Saloua Raouda Choucair / Carmen Herrera / Fahrelnissa Zeid / Marcelle Cahn / Regina Cassolo Bracchi / Aurelie Nemours / Lygia Clark / Lygia Pape / Berenice Abbott / Marta Hoepffner / Martha Boto / Dadamaino / Běla Kolářová / Louise Nevelson / Bridget Riley / Carla Accardi / Marcia Hafif / Tess Jaray / Ilona Kesurü / Fibre art/Soft art / Magdalena Abakanowicz / Jagoda Buić / Aurèlia Muñoz / Lenore Tawney / Sheila Hicks / 'Eccentric abstraction' / Louise Bourgeois / Eva Hesse / Rosemarie Castoro / Lynda Benglis / Judy Chicago / Whose voice? Women film-makers and cinema history in the 1970s / Marie Menken / Bice Lazzari / Arpita Singh / Judit Reigl / Agnes Martin / Nasreen Mohamedi / Esther Ferrer / Gego / Lucinda Childs / Etel Adnan / Helen Khal / Virginia Jaramillo / Beyond boundaries: Black art in America, 1960-1980 / Alma Woodsey Thomas / Vera Molnár / Elena Asins / Lillian Schwartz / Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian / Dóra Maurer / Dorothea Rockburne / Mary Heilmann / Elizabeth Murray / Barbara Kasten / Howardena Pindell / The abstract concept of 'Woman': Griselda Pollock, Lucy R. Lippard, Linda Nochlin / Harmony Hammond / Zilia Sánchez / Huguette Caland / Trisha Brown / Irene Chou / Apy Art Centre Collective / Tania Mouraud / Jessica Stockholder

The Cambridge guide to African American history

Abbott, Robert S. -- Abele, Julian F. -- Affirmative Action -- Africa -- African Blood Brotherhood (ABB) -- Afro-American Studies -- Agriculture -- AIDS -- Ali, Muhammad -- Allen, Richard -- American Revolution -- Anderson, Marian -- Angelou, Maya -- Anticommunism -- Antilynching Campaign -- Antislavery Movement -- Antiterror Wars -- Apartheid -- Architecture -- Art -- Ashe, Arthur R. -- Associated Negro Press (ANP) -- Atlanta Compromise (1895) -- Back-to-Africa Movement -- Baker, Ella J. -- Baker v. Carr (1962) -- Bakke v. Board of Regents of California (1978) -- Baldwin, James -- Barnett, Claude A. -- Bates, Daisy L. -- Bethune, Mary McLeod -- Birth of a Nation, The (1915) -- Black Arts Movement -- Black Belt -- Black Bourgeoisie (1957) -- Black Manifesto (1969) -- Black Nationalism -- Black Panther Party (BPP) -- Black Power Movement -- Black Towns -- Bloody Sunday -- Bond, Horace M. -- Bond, Julian -- Bouchet, Edward A. -- Brooke, Edward W. -- Brooks, Gwendolyn E. -- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) -- Brown, Charlotte Hawkins -- Brown, James N. (Jim) -- Brown v. Board of Education (1954) -- Buchanan v. Warley (1917) -- Buffalo Soldiers -- Bunche, Ralph J. -- Business -- Caesar, Shirley -- Capitalism -- Carmichael, Stokely (Kwame Turé) -- Carver, George Washington -- Chesnutt, Charles W. -- Children's Defense Fund (CDF) -- Chisholm, Shirley A. -- Cities -- Civil Rights Act of 1957 -- Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- Civil Rights Act of 1968 -- Civil Rights Movement (CRM) -- Civil War -- Clark, Kenneth B. -- Clark, Septima P. -- Clubs -- Cold War -- Colonialism -- Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) -- Constitution, US (1789) -- Conventions, National Negro -- Convict-Lease System -- Cooper, Anna Julia -- Cosby, William H. (Bill) -- Dance -- Davis, Angela Y. -- Davis, W. Allison -- Death Penalty -- Delany, Martin R. -- DePriest, Oscar S. -- Desegregation -- Divine, Father (George Baker) -- Douglass, Frederick -- Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) -- Drew, Charles R. -- Du Bois, W.E.B. -- Durham Manifesto (1942) -- Education -- Ellison, Ralph -- Emancipation -- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) -- Evers, Medgar W. -- Executive Order 9981 (1948) -- Exodusters -- Family -- Farmer, James L. -- Farrakhan, Louis A. -- Feminism -- Film -- Fisher, Miles Mark -- Foreign Affairs -- "Forty Acres and a Mule" -- Four Freedoms -- Franklin, Aretha L. -- Franklin, John Hope -- Fraternal Orders and Lodges -- Fraternities -- Free African Society (FAS) -- Free Blacks -- Freedmen's Bank -- Freedmen's Bureau -- Freedom Rides -- Freedom Summer -- Freedom Train -- Fugitive Slave Act (1850) -- Garvey, Marcus M. -- Ghetto -- G.I. Bill (1944) -- Gibson, Althea -- Gospel of Freedom -- Graves, Earl G. -- Great Depression -- Great Migration -- Haitian Revolution -- Hall, Prince -- Hamer, Fannie Lou -- Hampton[—]Tuskegee Idea -- Hancock, Gordon B. -- Handy, William C. (W.C.) -- Harlem Renaissance -- Harris, Abram L. -- Hastie, William H. -- Height, Dorothy I. -- Higginbotham, H. Leon -- Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) -- Hope, John -- Home, Lena M. -- Houston, Charles H. -- Hughes, Langston -- Humphrey[—]Hawkins Bill (1976) -- Immigration -- Indentured Servitude -- Indian Wars -- Institute of the Black World (IBW) -- Interracial Relations -- Jackson, Jesse L. -- Jackson, Luther P. -- Jackson, Mahalia -- Jackson, Michael J. -- Jacobs, Harriet A. -- Jemison, Mae C. -- Jobs Campaigns -- John Brown's Raid -- John Henryism -- Johnson, John A. (Jack) -- Johnson, John H. -- Johnson, Sargent C. -- Jordan, Barbara C. -- Jordan, Michael J. -- Journalism -- Journey of Reconciliation (1947) -- Just, Ernest E. -- Justice, US Department of -- Katzenbach v. McClung (1964) -- Kerner Report -- King, Martin Luther, Jr. -- Korean War -- Ku Klux Klan (KKK) -- Kwanzaa -- Labor -- Law Enforcement -- Lawson, James M. -- Lee, Shelton J. (Spike) -- Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963) -- Lewis, Edmonia -- Lewis, John R. -- Lewis, Reginald F. -- "Lift Every Voice and Sing" -- Literature -- Little (X), Malcolm -- Little Rock Crisis -- Louis, Joe -- Loving v. Virginia (1967) -- Mandela, Nelson R. -- Manumission -- March on Washington (1963) -- March on Washington Movement (MOWM) -- Marshall, Thurgood -- Massive Resistance -- Mays, Benjamin E. -- McCoy, Elijah J. -- McKissick, Floyd B. -- McKissick v. Carmichael (1951) -- Medicine -- Micheaux, Oscar -- Military -- Milliken v. Bradley (1974) -- Minorities, Racial and Ethnic -- Miscegenation -- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) -- Mitchell, Clarence M. -- Montgomery Bus Boycott -- Moore, Harry T. -- Morgan v. Virginia (1946) -- Morrison, Toni -- Moseley-Braun, Carol -- Motley, Constance Baker -- Moynihan Report -- Muhammad, Elijah -- Multiculturalism -- Murray, Pauli -- Music -- Nation of Islam (NOI) -- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) -- National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW) -- National Association of Colored Women (NACW) -- National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) -- National Urban League (NUL) -- Negritude -- Negro History Movement -- New Left -- New Negro Movement -- Niagara Movement -- Norris v. Alabama (1935) -- Obama, Barack H. -- Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) -- Owens, James C. (Jesse) -- Pan-African Movement -- Parks, Gordon -- Parks, Rosa L. -- Persian Gulf War -- Philanthropy -- Photography -- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) -- Politics -- Port Chicago Mutiny (1944) -- Poverty -- Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. -- Powell, Colin L. -- Race Labels -- Race Man/Woman -- Randolph, A. Philip -- Reconstruction (1865-77) -- Redistricting -- Religion -- Resegregation -- Rice, Condoleeza -- Robeson, Paul -- Robinson, Jack R. (Jackie) -- Roots -- Rosenwald Schools -- Rustin, Bayard T. -- Scholarship -- Science -- Segregation -- Share Croppers' Union (SCU) -- Sharecropping -- Shaw v. Reno (1993) -- Sit-ins -- Slavery -- Smith v. Allwright (1944) -- Societies, Mutual Aid -- Sororities -- Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) -- Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC) -- Spanish-American War -- Spaulding, Charles C. -- Sports -- State Convention of Colored Men of Texas (1883) -- Student Activism -- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) -- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1971) -- Sweatt v. Painter (1950) -- Talented Tenth -- Technology -- Television -- Temperance Movement -- Terrell, Mary Church -- Theatre -- Thomas, Clarence -- Thurman, Howard -- TransAfrica -- Truth, Sojourner -- Tubman, Harriet R. -- Tuskegee Experiment -- Tuskegee Machine -- Underground Railroad -- United Negro College Fund (UNCF) -- Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) -- Vietnam War -- Violence, Racial -- Voter Education Project (VEP) -- Voting Rights Act of 1965 -- Wagner Act (1935) -- Walker, Alice -- Walker, David -- Walker, Madam C.J. -- Walker, Maggie Lena -- Washington, Booker T. -- Weaver, Robert C. -- Welfare -- Wells-Barnett, Ida B. -- Wheatley, Phillis -- White, Walter F. -- Wilder, L. Douglas -- Wilkins, Roy O. -- Williams, Robert F. -- Wilmington Ten -- Winfrey, Oprah G. -- Woods, Eldrick T. (Tiger) -- Woodson, Carter G. -- World War I -- World War II -- Wright, Richard -- Young, Andrew J. -- Young, Plummer B. -- Young, Whitney M.

The magic image : the genius of photography from 1839 to the present day

Appendices -- Commercial Photographers of the Victorian and Edwardian Eras -- Commercial Photographers of the 1920s and 1930s -- Architectural Photographers -- Fashion Photographers -- Press Photographers -- Theatre Photographers -- Ballet Photographers -- Glossary -- Index.

Great true stories of crime, mystery & detection

Reader's digest.

Murder at Harvard / Four months in a haunted house / The shadow of a doubt / How we trapped Capone / Counsel assigned / The man who sold the Eiffel Tower / The case of Lord Dufferin / Detective's holiday / A stranger in the car / The great Portuguese bank-note swindle / Love and the lie detector / "They swore my life away" / Clifford Shephard, as told to W.W. Ward -- A housewife who confounded two countries / The state of Tennessee versus Uncle Joe / Secrets of a Soviet assassin / The Count of Gramercy park / Almost the perfect detective / The global war on narcotics / Bond of reunion / The trial that rocked the nation / The amazing Mr. Means / A killer is loose / One Alaska night / Life and death of a twisted genius / The capture of Adolf Eichmann / The Abraham Lincoln murder mystery / Slaughter by airplane / The Archer-Shee case / Mr. Hard-to-Catch / Why the choir was late / The letter the birds wrote / Tillie scrubbed on / The curse of Amen-ra / The killer, the mother and the boy / Ghost dog of sunnybank / The great armored-car robbery / Celebrated scamp / Portrait of Harry / Fortune in the grave / Ship of sleepless men / Miracle on the gallows / The unmasking of Paul "The waiter" Ricca / No clues / Baker Street episode / A girl named Lavender / The Reader's Digest murder case / "A mistake doesn't have to be final" / Britain's most baffling crime / The blaster / Things I can't explain / Death in the Arctic / Impersonator extraordinary / Bluebeard of paris / Our travels with Ho-tei / Who killed Les Wilson? / Seeds of treason / Evidence of the unseen / The manufactured clue / The Millvale apparition / Ponzi's monumental swindle