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"A few years ago, as I listened one night to my mother telling
incidents of her life pioneering in the semi-arid region of Western
Kansas, it occurred to me that the picture of that early time was
worth drawing and preserving for the future, and that, if this were
ever to be done, it must be done soon, before all of the old
settlers were gone. This book is the result-an effort to picture
that life truly and realistically. It is the story of an energetic
and capable girl, the child of German immigrant parents, who at the
age of seventeen married a young German farmer, and moved to a
homestead on the wind-swept plains of Kansas, where she reared
eleven of her twelve children, and remembering regretfully her own
half-day in school, sent nine of them through college. It is a
story of grim and tenacious devotion in the face of hardships and
disappointments, devotion that never flagged until the long, hard
task of near a lifetime was done."--John Ise (from the preface)
Deeply moved by his mother's memories of a waning era and
rapidly disappearing lifestyle, John Ise painstakingly recorded the
adventures and adversities of his family and boyhood neighbors--the
early homesteaders of Osborne County, Kansas. First published in
1936, his "nonfiction novel" Sod and Stubble has since become a
widely read and much loved classic. In the original, Ise changed
some identities and time sequences but accurately retained the
uplifting and disheartening realities of prairie life. Von
Rothenberger brings us a new annotated and expanded edition that
greatly enhances Ise's timeless tale. He includes the entire first
edition-replete with Ise's charm, wit, and veracity, restores four
of Ise's original chapters that have never been published, and adds
photographs of many of the key characters. In his notes,
Rothenberger reveals the true identity of Ise's family and
neighbors, provides background on their lives, and places events
within a wider historical and geographical context.
Ushering us through a dynamic period of pioneering history, from
the 1870s to the turn of the century, "Sod and Stubble" abounds
with the events and issues--fires and droughts, parties and
picnics, insect infestations and bumper crops, prosperity and
poverty, divisiveness and generosity, births and deaths--that
shaped the lives and destinies of Henry and Rosa Ise, their family,
and their community.
One hundred and twenty-five years after Osborne County was
organized and Henry Ise homesteaded his claim, a corner of
nineteenth-century Kansas social history remains safeguarded thanks
to the tenacity of John Ise and the insight of Von Rotheberger, who
enlivens Ise's story with revealing detail.
1. 1 Macroionic Systems and the Scope of the Book
Inthepresentmonograph,wewilldiscussionicpolymersolutionsandcolloidal
dispersions. When these substances are dissolved into a solvent,
they produce ionicspecies havinglargemolecularweightsandtheir
counterions. We knowa variety of naturally occurring ionic polymers
and chemically synthesizedc- pounds. Examples of the former are
nucleic acids and some proteins, which
playanimportantroleinbiologicalsystems. Examplesofsyntheticionicpo-
mers are polyacrylic acid (PAA), polystyrenesulfonic acid (PSS) and
poly- lylamine (PAAm).
PAAisahighpolymer,inwhichmacrylicacidmoleculesCH =CH(COOH) 2
arelinearlypolymerizedby covalent bonds. Thenumber mis calledthe
degree 3 of polymerization and is usually of the order of 10 . When
PAA is dissolved in a dissociating solvent like water, anionic
macroions and counterions are produced. In the following scheme,
the counterions are protons but they may + be metal cations such as
Na : ? ? ? ? ?CH ? CH? ?CH ? CH? 2 2 + ? ? ? ? | ? | + mH ? COOH
COO m m PAA PAA anion Counterions. PAAm is a cationic polymer and
dissociates into PAAm cations and anionic counterions as shown
below: ? ? ? ? ?CH ? CH? ?CH ? CH? 2 2 ? ? ? ? ? | +mHCl ? | +mCl +
CH ?NH CH ?NH 2 2 2 3 m m PAAm PAAm cation Counterions. 2 1
Introduction + ? In the case of NaCl, it dissociates into Na and Cl
, which both have low molecular weights. On the other hand, PAA
anions and PAAm cations have 3 highmolecularweights. Ifmis10
,onepolymerion(macroion)hasananalyt- 3 + icalchargenumberZ of10
,whichisexceedinglylargerthan1forNa .
Financial (unofficial) dollarization is widely seen as a critical
source of financial fragility in both developing and emerging
economies. This volume provides a rigorous and balanced perspective
on the causes and implications of dollarization, and the basic
policies and options to deal with it: the adaptation of the
monetary and prudential frameworks, the development of
local-currency substitutes, and the scope for limiting
dollarization through administrative restrictions.
This book presents a new degree theory for maps which commute with
a group of symmetries. This degree is no longer a single integer
but an element of the group of equivariant homotopy classes of maps
between two spheres and depends on the orbit types of the spaces.
The authors develop completely the theory and applications of this
degree in a self-contained presentation starting with only
elementary facts. The first chapter explains the basic tools of
representation theory, homotopy theory and differential equations
needed in the text. Then the degree is defined and its main
abstract properties are derived. The next part is devoted to the
study of equivariant homotopy groups of spheres and to the
classification of equivariant maps in the case of abelian actions.
These groups are explicitely computed and the effects of symmetry
breaking, products and composition are thorougly studied. The last
part deals with computations of the equivariant index of an
isolated orbit and of an isolated loop of stationary points. Here
differential equations in a variety of situations are considered:
symmetry breaking, forcing, period doubling, twisted orbits, first
integrals, gradients etc. Periodic solutions of Hamiltonian
systems, in particular spring-pendulum systems, are studied as well
as Hopf bifurcation for all these situations.
Howard Ruede was twenty-two years old in March of 1877 when he rode
on a freight wagon into Osborne City, a community in west-central
Kansas. A young man of courage, common sense, and independence,
Ruede was filled with the optimism and determination typical of the
men and women who took up the challenge of homesteading on the
prairie.
Brought together by economist John Ise and first published in
1937, "Sod-House Days" is a collection of the letters Ruede wrote
to his family in Pennsylvania chronicling his first year in Kansas.
In minute detail these letters show the hard, wearying work faced
by homesteaders in the 1870s, their almost unbelievable poverty,
the hardships of poor food, inadequate clothing, crowding,
unsanitary conditions, the lack of decent drinking water, the
bedbugs and fleas, flies and mosquitoes. We see Ruede struggling to
stay out of debt, walking miles to pick up the mail or to visit a
neighbor, working until his bare feet are rubbed raw by the wheat
stubble of the fields, going without meat because he hasn't been
able to kill a jackrabbit, cooking biscuits in a kettle over his
sod fireplace. Taken together, his observations constitute a
careful and graphic picture of the pioneer community in which he
lived, one that joins recent studies such as Sandra Myres's
Westering Women and the Frontier Experience in presenting an
accurate, if brutal, picture of life on the western frontier.
In a perceptive new foreword, sociologist Scott G. McNall
considers the context within which the story of Howard Ruede
unfolded. He delineates the forces and factors that contributed to
the rapid settlement of the Great Plains. He reads the dominant
themes that run through Ruede's letters: an almost religious faith
in progress and hard work, and a tremendous concern for the idea of
community. He also addresses a central question: What made these
people stay? McNall writes, "The value of these materials has been
not at all reduced by the passage of time. . . . This] is the story
of an ordinary person with heroic dimensions. Reading these
letters, we see what values people had which allowed them to try,
and then try again, after they had seen their efforts destroyed by
drought, grasshoppers, prairie fires, and other disasters. . . . It
is a story of struggle with the environment, of creative adaption
to circumstance, of people as active participants in creating the
society around them."
This book examines Thomas De Quincey's notion of the unconscious in
the light of modern cognitive science and nineteenth-century
science. It challenges Freudian theories as the default methodology
in order to understand De Quincey's oeuvre and the unconscious in
literature more generally.
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1. 1 Macroionic Systems and the Scope of the Book
Inthepresentmonograph,wewilldiscussionicpolymersolutionsandcolloidal
dispersions. When these substances are dissolved into a solvent,
they produce ionicspecies havinglargemolecularweightsandtheir
counterions. We knowa variety of naturally occurring ionic polymers
and chemically synthesizedc- pounds. Examples of the former are
nucleic acids and some proteins, which
playanimportantroleinbiologicalsystems. Examplesofsyntheticionicpo-
mers are polyacrylic acid (PAA), polystyrenesulfonic acid (PSS) and
poly- lylamine (PAAm).
PAAisahighpolymer,inwhichmacrylicacidmoleculesCH =CH(COOH) 2
arelinearlypolymerizedby covalent bonds. Thenumber mis calledthe
degree 3 of polymerization and is usually of the order of 10 . When
PAA is dissolved in a dissociating solvent like water, anionic
macroions and counterions are produced. In the following scheme,
the counterions are protons but they may + be metal cations such as
Na : ? ? ? ? ?CH ? CH? ?CH ? CH? 2 2 + ? ? ? ? | ? | + mH ? COOH
COO m m PAA PAA anion Counterions. PAAm is a cationic polymer and
dissociates into PAAm cations and anionic counterions as shown
below: ? ? ? ? ?CH ? CH? ?CH ? CH? 2 2 ? ? ? ? ? | +mHCl ? | +mCl +
CH ?NH CH ?NH 2 2 2 3 m m PAAm PAAm cation Counterions. 2 1
Introduction + ? In the case of NaCl, it dissociates into Na and Cl
, which both have low molecular weights. On the other hand, PAA
anions and PAAm cations have 3 highmolecularweights. Ifmis10
,onepolymerion(macroion)hasananalyt- 3 + icalchargenumberZ of10
,whichisexceedinglylargerthan1forNa .
This volume provides a rigorous and balanced perspective on the
causes and implications of dollarization, and the basic policies
and options to deal with it: the adaptation of the monetary and
prudential frameworks, the development of local-currency
substitutes, and the scope for limiting dollarization through
administrative restrictions.
"A few years ago, as I listened one night to my mother telling
incidents of her life pioneering in the semi-arid region of Western
Kansas, it occurred to me that the picture of that early time was
worth drawing and preserving for the future, and that, if this were
ever to be done, it must be done soon, before all of the old
settlers were gone. This book is the result-an effort to picture
that life truly and realistically. It is the story of an energetic
and capable girl, the child of German immigrant parents, who at the
age of seventeen married a young German farmer, and moved to a
homestead on the wind-swept plains of Kansas, where she reared
eleven of her twelve children, and remembering regretfully her own
half-day in school, sent nine of them through college. It is a
story of grim and tenacious devotion in the face of hardships and
disappointments, devotion that never flagged until the long, hard
task of near a lifetime was done."--John Ise (from the preface)
Deeply moved by his mother's memories of a waning era and
rapidly disappearing lifestyle, John Ise painstakingly recorded the
adventures and adversities of his family and boyhood neighbors--the
early homesteaders of Osborne County, Kansas. First published in
1936, his "nonfiction novel" Sod and Stubble has since become a
widely read and much loved classic. In the original, Ise changed
some identities and time sequences but accurately retained the
uplifting and disheartening realities of prairie life. Von
Rothenberger brings us a new annotated and expanded edition that
greatly enhances Ise's timeless tale. He includes the entire first
edition-replete with Ise's charm, wit, and veracity, restores four
of Ise's original chapters that have never been published, and adds
photographs of many of the key characters. In his notes,
Rothenberger reveals the true identity of Ise's family and
neighbors, provides background on their lives, and places events
within a wider historical and geographical context.
Ushering us through a dynamic period of pioneering history, from
the 1870s to the turn of the century, "Sod and Stubble" abounds
with the events and issues--fires and droughts, parties and
picnics, insect infestations and bumper crops, prosperity and
poverty, divisiveness and generosity, births and deaths--that
shaped the lives and destinies of Henry and Rosa Ise, their family,
and their community.
One hundred and twenty-five years after Osborne County was
organized and Henry Ise homesteaded his claim, a corner of
nineteenth-century Kansas social history remains safeguarded thanks
to the tenacity of John Ise and the insight of Von Rotheberger, who
enlivens Ise's story with revealing detail.
The beginning of the new millennium was characterized by company
scandals in accounting around the world. A transparent and fair
presentation of financial statements is beneficial for capital
market participants. Especially around initial public offerings
different incentives of these players exist to influence financial
statements in diverse aspects. Therefore, studies of earnings
management try to identify abnormal behavior. Peter Ising covers
additional aspects to shed light on substantial drivers of
discretionary reporting behavior around going public. Factors like
influence on real activities, industry affiliation, and specific
years in the IPO process add further insight to this theoretical
and practical topic. The dependence on these factors is high and
confirms that company specifics are important for interpretation of
financial results.
"Not only a just appraisal of the campaigns waged by Marines in
World War II; it is a documentation of the Marine struggle to prove
the feasibility of amphibious warfare...Relentlessly accurate and
impartial." --N.Y. Times. Originally published in 1951. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
"Not only a just appraisal of the campaigns waged by Marines in
World War II; it is a documentation of the Marine struggle to prove
the feasibility of amphibious warfare...Relentlessly accurate and
impartial." --N.Y. Times. Originally published in 1951. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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