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A mathematics book with six authors is perhaps a rare enough
occurrence to make a reader ask how such a collaboration came
about. We begin, therefore, with a few words on how we were brought
to the subject over a ten-year period, during part of which time we
did not all know each other. We do not intend to write here the
history of continuous lattices but rather to explain our own
personal involvement. History in a more proper sense is provided by
the bibliography and the notes following the sections of the book,
as well as by many remarks in the text. A coherent discussion of
the content and motivation of the whole study is reserved for the
introduction. In October of 1969 Dana Scott was lead by problems of
semantics for computer languages to consider more closely partially
ordered structures of function spaces. The idea of using partial
orderings to correspond to spaces of partially defined functions
and functionals had appeared several times earlier in recursive
function theory; however, there had not been very sustained
interest in structures of continuous functionals. These were the
ones Scott saw that he needed. His first insight was to see that -
in more modern terminology - the category of algebraic lattices and
the (so-called) Scott-continuous functions is cartesian closed.
Information content and programming semantics are just two of the applications of the mathematical concepts of order, continuity and domains. This authoritative and comprehensive account of the subject will be an essential handbook for all those working in the area. An extensive index and bibliography make this an ideal sourcebook for all those working in domain theory.
On an unusually cold January night in 1943, Martha James was
murdered on a train in rural Oregon, near the Willamette Valley
town of Albany. She was white, southern, and newly-married to a
Navy pilot. Despite inconsistent and contradictory eyewitness
accounts, a young black cook by the name of Robert Folkes, a
trainman from South Central Los Angeles, was charged with the
crime. The ensuing investigation and sensational murder trial
captured national attention during a period of intense wartime
fervor and extensive black domestic migration. Folkes's trial and
controversial conviction-resulting in his execution by the state of
Oregon-reshaped how Oregonians and others in the West thought about
race, class, and privilege. In this deeply researched and detailed
account, Geier explores the attitudes of local town-folk, law
officers, and courtroom jurors toward black trainmen on the West
Coast, at a time when militarization skewed perceptions of virtue,
status, and authority. He delves into the working conditions and
experiences of unionized black trainmen in their "home and away"
lives in Los Angeles and Portland, while illuminating the different
ways that they, and other residents of Oregon and southern
California, responded to sensationalized reports of "Oregon's
murdered war bride." Prosecutors, police, and reporters colluded,
in Wartime, to stage the trial as a moralizing ritual for a public
purpose that had little to do with justice. The investigation,
trial, and conviction of Robert Folkes galvanized civil rights
activists, labor organizers, and community leaders into challenging
the flawed judicial process and ultimately the death penalty in
Oregon, serving as a catalyst for civil rights activism that
bridged rural and urban divides. The Color of Night will appeal to
"true crime" aficionados, and to anyone interested in the history
of race and labor relations, working conditions, community
priorities, and attitudes toward the death penalty in the first
half of the 20th century.
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