Report of a Survey of the University of Arizona (Classic Reprint)

2017-12-12 Business & Economics

Author : Bureau Of Education
Release : 2017-12-12
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book Report of a Survey of the University of Arizona (Classic Reprint) written by Bureau Of Education. This book was released on 2017-12-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of a Survey of the University of Arizona After a preliminary study of the situation from such data as were available, the committee proceeded to the University of Ari zona to pursue its investigation. The committee was met by a committee representing the board of regents and was informed that a survey of the general educational and financial efficiency of the university was desired, with emphasis on the business and financial condition and administration of the institution. It was requested that special attention be given to the budget for the ensuing year. Meanwhile a special session of the State legislature had been called to consider a peculiar financial condition. An act of the State legislature in 1921 provided a mill tax for the support of the university, but it later developed that the income therefrom did not synchronize with the expenditures of the university. T o relieve this condition the State legislature was called into extra session. Straightway an economy program was put forward, and the State legislature sent a committee to the university to ascertain the financial needs of the institution. This committee met with the board of regents on February 25. The survey committee. At the request of the board of regents, prepared a statement and was present at the meeting to assist in the investigation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

To the Last Smoke

2020-04-21 Nature

Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Release : 2020-04-21
Genre : Nature
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Download or read book To the Last Smoke written by Stephen J. Pyne. This book was released on 2020-04-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From boreal Alaska to subtropical Florida, from the chaparral of California to the pitch pine of New Jersey, America boasts nearly a billion burnable acres. In nine previous volumes, Stephen J. Pyne has explored the fascinating variety of flame region by region. In To the Last Smoke: An Anthology, he selects a sampling of the best from each. To the Last Smoke offers a unique and sweeping view of the nation’s fire scene by distilling observations on Florida, California, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, the Southwest, the Interior West, the Northeast, Alaska, the oak woodlands, and the Pacific Northwest into a single, readable volume. The anthology functions as a color-commentary companion to the play-by-play narrative offered in Pyne’s Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America. The series is Pyne’s way of “keeping with it to the end,” encompassing the directive from his rookie season to stay with every fire “to the last smoke.”

The Changing Mile

1965 Nature

Author : James Rodney Hastings
Release : 1965
Genre : Nature
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Download or read book The Changing Mile written by James Rodney Hastings. This book was released on 1965. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using materials drawn from a variety of disciplines, this book explores the repective parts played by man and climate in altering the face of the arid Southwest of the United States and the arid Northwest of Mexico.

Archaeology at El Perú-Waka'

2015-08-15 Social Science

Author : Olivia C. Navarro-Farr
Release : 2015-08-15
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Archaeology at El Perú-Waka' written by Olivia C. Navarro-Farr. This book was released on 2015-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeology at El Perú-Waka’ is the first book to summarize long-term research at this major Maya site. The results of fieldwork and subsequent analyses conducted by members of the El Perú-Waka’ Regional Archaeological Project are coupled with theoretical approaches treating the topics of ritual, memory, and power as deciphered through material remains discovered at Waka’. The book is site-centered, yet the fifteen wide-ranging contributions offer readers greater insight to the richness and complexity of Classic-period Maya culture, as well as to the ways in which archaeologists believe ancient peoples negotiated their ritual lives and comprehended their own pasts. El Perú-Waka’ is an ancient Maya city located in present-day northwestern Petén, Guatemala. Rediscovered by petroleum exploration workers in the mid-1960s, it is the largest known archaeological site in the Laguna del Tigre National Park in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve. The El Perú-Waka’ Regional Archaeological Project initiated scientific investigations in 2003, and through excavation and survey, researchers established that Waka’ was a key political and economic center well integrated into Classic-period lowland Maya civilization, and reconstructed many aspects of Maya life and ritual activity in this ancient community. The research detailed in this volume provides a wealth of new, substantive, and scientifically excavated data, which contributors approach with fresh theoretical insights. In the process, they lay out sound strategies for understanding the ritual manipulation of monuments, landscapes, buildings, objects, and memories, as well as related topics encompassing the performance and negotiation of power throughout the city’s extensive sociopolitical history.

Divination and Healing

2004-09 Social Science

Author : Michael Winkelman
Release : 2004-09
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Divination and Healing written by Michael Winkelman. This book was released on 2004-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divination is an important feature of cultures all over the world. While some may still question the efficacy of divination systems, they continue to serve their communities by diagnosing ailments, prescribing healing treatments, and solving problems. Yet despite their universality, there are relatively few comprehensive studies of divination systems. This volume seeks to fill this gap regarding the use of divination in healing. Here some of the worldÕs leading authorities draw on their own fieldwork and participation in ritual to present detailed case studies, demonstrating that divination rituals can have therapeutic effects. As the contributors examine the systems of knowledge that divination articulates and survey the varieties of divinatory experience, they seek to analyze divination as an epistemological system, as a social process, and as a therapeutic endeavor. While some of their findings reinforce traditional assumptions about the importance of social control, spirit relations, and community support in the divination process, the authors place these considerations within new epistemological frameworks that emphasize the use of alternative modes of knowing. In this wide-ranging volume, readers will find coverage of classic Ifa systems; Buddhist-influenced shamanic practices in the former Soviet Union; the reconciliation of Muslim beliefs and divinatory practices in Thailand; Native American divination used in diagnosis; Maya calendrical divination in Guatemala; mediumistic and chicken oracle divination among the Sukuma of Tanzania; Ndembu divination, focusing on the process of collective healing; and divination among the Samburu (Maasai) of Kenya, featuring dialogues from actual healing sessions. Together, these contributions argue for new perspectives on the study of divination that emphasize not only the epistemological roots of these systems but also their multifaceted therapeutic functions. Divination and Healing is a rich source of both data and insight for scholars of ritual, religion, medical anthropology, and the psychology of altered states of consciousness.

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