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At which Oxford college does a trumpeter summon you to dinner? What
does the appearance of a rose bowl signify? How would you use a
grace cup as distinct from a sconce cup? The custom of dining in
formal hall at Oxford and Cambridge dates back to the earliest days
of college life. Before each dinner, according to ancient statutes,
grace must be spoken in Latin, and although the text and nature of
the grace for each college may have changed over the years, it is a
tradition which remains current to this day. Following a historical
introduction, the full Latin texts of the graces of the colleges of
Oxford and Cambridge are given in this book, accompanied by a
facing English translation. Special graces reserved for feast days
are also included, along with an explanation of some of the
traditions which accompany dining in college halls. From an
exploration of the twelfth-century monastic origins of the texts to
the creation of two-word graces in the nineteenth century and new
texts for the modern age, this meticulous collection reveals how
the tradition of the Latin grace has survived and evolved over the
centuries and offers a rare glimpse inside the private halls of
Oxbridge.
For the first six centuries from the institution's foundation,
Latin was the language spoken and written at the University of
Oxford. It's no surprise, then, to find that the inscriptions
carved into the monuments, colleges and municipal buildings of the
city are for the most part also in Latin. It is also a language
which lends itself to compression, so an inscription in Latin uses
fewer characters than English, for example, saving space and money.
But what do they all mean? For this book Reginald Adams has
assembled, translated and explained a wide selection of Oxford's
Latin inscriptions (and a few Greek ones). These can be found in
many accessible places in both city and university, dating from the
medieval period to the present day. Their purposes range from
tributes and memorials to decorations and witty commentaries on the
edifice that they adorn. The figures commemorated include Queen
Anne, Roger Bacon, Cardinal Wolsey, Cecil Rhodes, T. E. Lawrence
and a kind landlady who provided 'enormous breakfasts', as well as
other eminent scholars and generous benefactors. These evocative
mementos of the past bring insight to the informed observer of
their surroundings and also vividly illustrate the history of
Oxford.
This far-reaching and absorbing book is designed to help identify
and value woodwind instruments made in Europe and the United States
during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawing upon the
author's many years of research in the field, the book includes a
brief history of European woodwind instruments made during the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; biographies of important
makers; a glossary of terms that will be a welcome help for the
novice; a list of key systems; resources for obtaining further
information from books, museums, societies, and online; and most
importantly, information and nearly 300 images taken from over 20
trade catalogs printed between 1880 and 1930 in Europe and the
United States. Featured among these is a complete translation of
William Heckel's rare, circa 1930 catalog. This comprehensive
volume is an outstanding resource for beginning and advanced
collectors of musical instruments as well as for museum curators.
This is the story of the Rankins, a family that embodied the risk
and ambition that transformed America. John Rankin arrived in the
West chasing the adventure of gold mining but soon turned to
ranching and building in the new town of Missoula. There he met
Olive Pickering, who had left New Hampshire in 1878 to become a
teacher and seek a husband on the American frontier. John and
Olive's children continued to demonstrate their parent's ambition
and nerve. Their son became one of the biggest landowners in the
country, one of the first personal injury lawyers, and a crusader
against railroads and mining. Jeannette became the first woman in a
national legislature, voted against two world wars and led marches
protesting the Vietnam War. As a dean, Harriet helped develop the
modern co-educational university. Edna traveled the world
advocating for birth control. The Rankins faced both national
adulation and condemnation for the choices they made. Their family
story concerns independence and education, activism, the boundaries
created by gender, religious choices, and the changing meaning of
the West.
In 1935, the United States Congress began employing large numbers
of American artists through the Works Progress
Administration-fiction writers, dramatists, photographers, poster
artists, painters, sculptors, muralists, wood carvers, composers
and choreographers, as well as journalists, historians and
researchers. Secretary of Commerce and supervisor of the WPA Harry
Hopkins hailed it a ""renascence of the arts, if we can call it a
rebirth when it has no precedent in our history."" Women were
eminently involved, creating a wide variety of art and craft,
interweaving their own stories with those of other women whose
lives might not otherwise have been the subject of artistic
attention. This book takes a look at the thousands of women artists
who worked for the U.S. government, the historical and social
worlds they described and the collaborative depiction of womanhood
they created at a pivotal moment in American history.
This book examines the intersection and interplay between
Progressive-Era rhetoric regarding commercialized vice and the
realities of prostitution in early-twentieth-century Philadelphia.
Arguing that any study of commercial sexual vice in a historical
context is difficult given the paucity of evidence, this work
instead focuses on reformers' construction of a cultural view of
prostitution, which Adams argues was based more upon their
perceptions of the trade than on reality itself. Looking at the
urban core of the city, Progressive reformers saw vice, immorality,
and decay-but as they frequently had little face-to-face
interaction with prostitutes plying their trade, they were forced
to construct culturally fueled archetypes to explain what they
believed they saw. Ultimately, reformers in Philadelphia were
battling against a rhetorical creation of their own design, and any
study of anti-vice reform in the early twentieth century tells us
more about the relationship between activists and the government
than it does about vice itself.
Winifred Black worked in journalism from 1888 to 1936, often
writing under the pseudonym Annie Laurie. Her work appeared in the
Hearst papers - especially the San Francisco Examiner - and in
fifty additional newspapers weekly through syndication. Black wrote
10,000 short pieces, as well as three books, a nonfiction oeuvre
that combined quasi-autobiographical details with characters and
scenes to provide cultural analysis for a nationwide audience. She
wrote about the realities facing modern women - their work, their
marriages and divorces, the violence they endured, their need for
independence. Contemporary praise for Black named her ""the world's
most famous feature writer"" and ""one of the world's most
successful reporters,"" while her critics affixed the pejorative
labels ""stunt girl"" and ""sob sister."" This study covers her
influential career and gives the first serious attention to her
journalism and nonfiction.
This book provides police investigators and homicide detectives
with a practical method of analyzing 911 homicide calls to uncover
the truth. A structured analysis of 911 homicide calls can directly
aid in developing investigative leads, planning interviews and
solving cases. Case examples present proven, reliable methods as to
when a caller is telling the truth or not. This book lays out a
framework to analyze the call to determine truth from fiction.
Every member of the investigative team, from call-taker to first
responder, investigator, coroner's investigators, and prosecutor,
can contribute to the success of investigations through their
knowledge of 911 call analysis.
From 1880 to 1920, the first truly national visual culture
developed in the United States as a result of the completion of the
Pacific Railroad. At that time, a new level of invention,
reproduction, and distribution of all kinds of images was taking
shape. Women, especially young and beautiful ones, found new lives
shaped by their participation in that visual culture. This rapidly
evolving age left behind the cult of domesticity that reigned in
the nineteenth century to give rise to new types of women based on
a single feature--a type of hair, skin, dress, or prop--including
the Gibson Girl, the sob sister, the stunt girl, the hoochy-coochy
dancer, and the bearded lady. Exploring both high and low culture,
from the circus and film to newspapers and magazines, this
intriguing volume examines depictions of women at the dawn of mass
media, depictions that would remain influential throughout the
twentieth century.
Collecting antique brass musical instruments involves a fascinating
and wide range of subjects, including music history, art history,
political history, industrial history, and changing aesthetics.
Designed for musical instrument collectors and those who regularly
encounter antique brass musical instruments made before 1920, this
book features more than 100 original line drawings from musical
instrument catalogs as well as interesting new information
regarding these instruments. Readers with a background or interest
in music and musical instruments will find this book a valuable
resource for years to come and one that will enhance their
knowledge and collection. Antique Brass Wind Instruments also
includes a helpful value guide, a glossary of terms, a bibliography
of scholarly reference books, and several appendices of particular
interest to beginning collectors.
This authoritative guide on reconstructive techniques for
degenerative mitral valve disease presents step-by-step
instructions for each procedure pioneered by Alain Carpentier, MD,
PhD. More than 200 detailed anatomic drawings provide clear
depictions so that you can effectively apply the techniques of a
master. Apply the techniques and procedures of Dr. Alain
Carpentier-pioneer of mitral valve reconstruction-to your practice.
View more than 200 detailed anatomic drawings that depict
reconstruction procedures clearly. Master each procedure using
step-by-step instructions and a consistent chapter format. Grasp
the nuances of procedures thanks to "tips from the Master" and a
section of questions and answers. Tap into the knowledge and
experience of leaders in the field of mitral valve repair and
reconstruction.
The fall of 2018 saw an unprecedented number of women enter
Congress, changing estimates of how long it might take to achieve
equal representation. For the first time, women candidates employed
techniques honed by America's political families, which have helped
women enter the sphere of politics since as early as 1916. Drawing
on extensive research and conversations with successful women
politicians, this book offers a history and investigation of the
political opportunities provided to women through familial
connections. Family networks have a long history of enabling women
to run for political office, and have provided much for the latest
group of candidates to emulate.
In 1970, a group of young lawyers launched a new kind of
organisation and helped secure the country's bedrock environmental
laws. Ever since, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has
harnessed its legal and scientific expertise to become one of the
fiercest protectors of public health and the environment. In this
recounting of NRDC's 50-year history, cofounder John Adams tells
the ongoing story about fighting the world's most powerful
polluters and winning. Alongside archival photography and insider
accounts, Adams celebrates a half century of victories, everything
from saving whales to getting lead pipes out of Flint, Michigan, to
protecting treasured landscapes, like Alaska's Katmai National Park
& Preserve. But the book is also a road map for the future,
offering hard-won lessons on how to tackle problems that lie at the
intersection of science and society. Today, as humanity faces the
climate crisis, the stakes have never been higher nor the solutions
more complex which is why NRDC remains uniquely positioned as the
earth's best defense.
This book provides police investigators and homicide detectives
with a practical method of analyzing 911 homicide calls to uncover
the truth. A structured analysis of 911 homicide calls can directly
aid in developing investigative leads, planning interviews and
solving cases. Case examples present proven, reliable methods as to
when a caller is telling the truth or not. This book lays out a
framework to analyze the call to determine truth from fiction.
Every member of the investigative team, from call-taker to first
responder, investigator, coroner's investigators, and prosecutor,
can contribute to the success of investigations through their
knowledge of 911 call analysis.
From the author of the acclaimed biography of Harry Hopkins comes
this first full-scale portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt's top
military advisor, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy. The president's
personal chief of staff and chairman of the newly established Joint
Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Leahy was theâŻhighest-rankingâŻmilitary
officer in the nation and one of the most powerful men in
Washington during the war years. Along with Hopkins he enjoyed
Roosevelt's complete trust. But unlike his better-known White House
counterpart and the prominent military leaders of the day, Leahy
quietly performed his valuable services behind the
scenes.âŻConsequently, he never received the fame of his more
dynamic colleagues and soon after retirement faded into
history.âŻâŻ Henry H. Adams takes this forgotten figure out of
the shadows and places him beside the president he so brilliantly
and devotedly served. He shows how Leahy, as FDR's confidant,âŻhis
contributions to the war effort were so valuable that Adams credits
Leahy, along with Hopkins, as being chiefly responsible for the
smooth transfer of power to Truman upon Roosevelt's death.âŻâŻ
ThisâŻbiographyâŻis equallyâŻrevealing ofâŻLeahy'sâŻearlier
years of service to the governmentâŻasâŻchief of
navalâŻstartingâŻthe buildup of what would become a powerful
two-ocean navy. It describes his brief but important tenure as
governor of PuertoâŻRico andâŻhis later service as ambassador to
Vichy France.âŻâŻ Witness to Power ensures that Leahy, because of
the central role he played during one of America's most important
eras, will assume his rightful place on the historical stage.
This volume presents the findings of the largest campaign of
archaeological investigation yet undertaken along Liverpool's
historic waterfront, by Oxford Archaeology North and the National
Museums Liverpool Field Archaeology Unit. This work centred on the
areas of Mann Island, Pier Head, and the Central Docks, all places
that either fall within, or are directly adjacent to, the Liverpool
- Maritime Mercantile City World Heritage Site, and it formed a
prelude to the construction of a commercial development and the
Museum of Liverpool, and also the extension of the Leeds and
Liverpool Canal. The investigations uncovered numerous remains
relating to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century dock building and
land reclamation, as well as concomitant evidence for the use and
occupation of the waterfront, and the wider town, during these
periods. The archaeological evidence has been complemented by
detailed historical research, which together provide significant
insights into the dynamic and evolving system of dock and quayside
development, occurring between the early eighteenth and early
twentieth centuries. This development was integral to Liverpool's
wider history, and the archaeological remains reflect the port's
nascent post-medieval growth, commercial zenith during the
nineteenth century, and eventual twentieth-century decline, prior
to the extensive schemes of urban regeneration which now
characterise the present-day waterfront. Moreover, this extensive
campaign of investigation indicates how archaeology along the
waterfront represents an important technique for uncovering the
nuances of an area that was integral to the rise and success of
Liverpool, and which also continues to exert a significant sway on
Liverpool's cultural and economic identity.
In the years from 1880 to 1940, considered the glory days of the
American circus, between a third and a half of the cast members
were women, a large group of very visible American workers whose
story has never been told. In this book, drawing on diverse sources
such as diaries, autobiographies, newspaper accounts, films,
posters, and route books, the authors first consider the popular
media's presentation of these performers as unnatural and
scandalous--as well as romantic and thrilling. The book next moves
to the stories told by circus women, which contradict and
complicate other versions of their lives. Across America in those
years an array of acts featured women, such as tableaux, freak
shows, girlie shows, tiger acts, and aerial performance, all
involving special skills and means of communication with an
audience. By beginning with representations of women as circus
performers and then moving to the performances themselves, this
book offers a unique and fascinating view of what it meant to be an
American woman at work.
A chance find of Roman pottery in a garden at Irby, Wirral in the
1940s led in 1987 to the discovery of an important and long-lived
settlement site by archaeologists from National Museums &
Galleries on Merseyside (now National Musuems Liverpool).
Excavating from 1987 to 1996 in a series of suburban gardens, they
found evidence for a long sequence of occupation from the
mesolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Romano-British, early medieval
and later medieval periods. This book presents the evidence of the
structures, artefacts and plant remains from this long-lived
settlement. Key discoveries include regionally important buildings
from the middle Bronze Age and from the Viking period, as well as
extensive Roman and late medieval occupation, which contributes
significantly to our understanding of settlement and economy in
Wirral and the wider region during these periods.
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