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From the 16th century African slave trade to the 20th century struggle for equality, The Routledge Atlas of African American History examines the geographical and historical context of the African American Experience. Focusing on issues and events that resonate to this day, topics include: slave revolts, black patriots, slave communities, the Civil War, African Americans in the armed services, the spread of Jim Crow, the Negro Baseball League, the Civil Rights Movement, the Voting Rights Act, the Harlem Renaissance, the expansion of the black middle class, and much more. Also inlcludes 50 color maps.
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AA History in a Book.......2007-01-04
The book is a comprehensive atlas of African American history. It is useful for quick facts, but for in-depth information it is not as helpful
Terrific Book.......2001-06-05
I truly enjoyed this book. An extremely accessible take on African American History, this book is a must read for the non-historian as well as the history buff; for the African American, but also for those of all decents. Kudos to Dr. Earle!
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THE ATLAS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND POLITICS consists of more than 150 originally produced maps which trace the African experience throughout the world and in America. The volume traces the complete history of African-Americans and their lives, employing artfully-conceived maps, and enhanced by sharply-written historic narratives, graphically reinforcing the facts. This work is appropriate for courses in African American history and American history where instructors would like to integrate African American history into their curricula.
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Great Too.......2007-03-14
The delivery came even before the due date and I think that was super-excellent. Keep it up.
Great Reference Guide.......2001-02-01
Excellent, informative reference guide. Clear and concise information. A must for your library!
At Last, a True African-American Atlas.......2001-01-27
This is the type of African-American history book I have been searching for! The Atlas of African-American History and Politics offers not only a detailed chronilogical narrative of the African-American's history from slavery to today, but also clean-crisp visuals to clarify. You will learn and see the actual routes that were taken during slave trades. Not only is this book great for African-American study courses, but every household in America should have a copy of this easy read, yet informative atlas.
At Last, a True African-American Atlas.......2001-01-27
This is the type of African-American history book I have been searching for! The Atlas of African-American History and Politics offers not only a detailed chronilogical narrative of the African-American's history from slavery to today, but also clean-crisp visuals to clarify. You will learn and see the actual routes that were taken during slave trades. Not only is this book great for African-American study courses, but every household in America should have a copy of this easy read, yet informative atlas.
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Using a wide arrangement of visual tools, this atlas offers a detailed overview of the experiences and important events surrounding Americans of African descent. The atlas provides a comprehensive historical overview of what is known as the African diaspora-the spread of African people and culture throughout the Americas. It is the perfect addition to any African-American studies collection. Photographs, line graphs, charts, chronologies, box features, and maps help explore the cultural, historical, political, and social history of African Americans. Coverage also profiles key events and issues in their homeland, especially those factors that influenced their movement to the United States.
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For any serious Afro-American reference book collection.......2001-09-12
This excellent atlas of facts should be in the holdings of any serious Afro-American reference book collection: Atlas Of African-American History uses black and white and color photos, almost seventy maps, and numerous graphs to provide a visual understanding of Afro-American history and events, both boxed highlighted topics making it easy to browse and read
about special topics. Highly recommended.
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A great pictorial record which chronicles important events in African-American history.
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Great, eye opening, keeps you interested........2005-09-24
A great book to read about the lives of American Indians. Two other books to recommend: Bury My Heart On Wounded Knee, & The Education of Little Tree.
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The colorful true stories of ten monumental feuds in the history of technology
The history of technology is full of heated disputes over who, exactly, invented what. In this encore to his international bestsellers Great Feuds in Science and Great Feuds in Medicine, Hal Hellman brings to life ten of technology's most celebrated quarrels. Whether illuminating the battles between Philo Farnsworth and RCA (television), and Samuel Morse and Joseph Henry (telegraph) or the feuds currently raging over nuclear submarines and genetically modified foods, Hellman clearly explains the technology involved while providing vivid portraits of the disputants and their times.
Hal Hellman (Leonia, NJ) is the author of numerous science books, including Great Feuds in Science (0-471-35066-4) and Great Feuds in Medicine (0-471-20833-7).
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Nice book.......2005-04-30
The book start from the Luddite and end into the current biotech world. There is a lesson that the author wanted to share in this book. That is the Luddite is not phoebe about technology. It is more about economy. The end of the chapter, chapter 10, however, has a deep meaning. It would, in my opinion, describe a true Luddite, phoebe about technology. The last chapter is about genetic modification.
I really like reading from chapter 2 to 7, but I don't like the rest of the chapter. I plan at first to give this book a 5 star, then after reading half of chapter 9, I began to sense this book has a deep meaning about technology. I don't like a very sad ending. So I subtract another star after I find out that, in my opinion, the other really good chapter about technology invention, the telegraphy, the television and other great invention is used as a tool by the author to show the true but sad ending.
I would still recommand that you buy and read this book.
Hal Hellman's Latest Feuds Book.......2004-04-19
Most of us accept as a fact that Morse invented the telegraph and the Wright Brothers the airplane. Great Feuds in Technology opens your eyes to how controversial credits for developing these and other technologies were in the past and how some of them have not been settled even today. It also tells about disputes, such as the long-lasting one that Henry Ford had over a patent on the automobile, that had an enormous effect on how the technology and industry developed. Another outcome could have made the world we live in today quite a different place. The book ranges from technologies that are now obsolete, such as the miners' safety lamp, through the electric power industry, television, and to the currently controversial topic of genetic engineering. I was sorry when I came to the end of it.
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Praise for Hal Hellman
Great Feuds in Mathematics
"Those who think that mathematicians are cold, mechanical proving machines will do well to read Hellman's book on conflicts in mathematics. The main characters are as excitable and touchy as the next man. But Hellman's stories also show how scientific fights bring out sharper formulations and better arguments."
-Professor Dirk van Dalen, Philosophy Department, Utrecht University
Great Feuds in Technology
"There's nothing like a good feud to grab your attention. And when it comes to describing the battle, Hal Hellman is a master."
-New Scientist
Great Feuds in Science
"Unusual insight into the development of science . . . I was excited by this book and enthusiastically recommend it to general as well as scientific audiences."
-American Scientist
"Hellman has assembled a series of entertaining tales . . . many fine examples of heady invective without parallel in our time."
-Nature
Great Feuds in Medicine
"This engaging book documents [the] reactions in ten of the most heated controversies and rivalries in medical history. . . . The disputes detailed are . . . fascinating. . . . It is delicious stuff here."
-The New York Times
"Stimulating."
-Journal of the American Medical Association
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David Foster Wallace's Righteous Twin.......2007-05-08
Wallace's seriously flawed Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Great Discoveries) made me wary of buying another pop math book by a non-mathematician, so I put off buying _Great Feuds_ for some time, but eventually I gave in, and I'm glad I did. Hellman's cautious approach contrasts nicely with Wallace's bombast, and, unlike Wallace, Hellman gets almost all of the details right, with a notable exception being his claim that having a smallest element (rather than each of its nonempty subsets having smallest elements) is what makes a set well-ordered.
There's a lot of quoting of the opinions of professional historians, which is probably appropriate for a book written by an outsider, but I found it a bit tiresome after a while (just as I did when Peter Ackroyd took a similar approach in Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination). Also, I felt that Hellman didn't make it as clear as he could have who ended up winning the war of which these feuds were battles. 21st century mathematics is overwhelmingly Cantorian, Zermeloian, and Hilbertian, in the sense that the existence of actual infinities and the appropriateness of using the Law of the Excluded Middle and the Axiom of Choice are all taken for granted by mainstream practitioners. There are respected researchers probing the effects of rejecting these principles, but they are few in number and those who do reject them are definitely working in the margins.
Don't let these quibbles or my 4-star rating keep you from buying this book. Within its genre, it's about as good as they come.
Readable Math.......2007-02-02
After seeing Mr. Hellman on CBS Sunday Morning News recently, I picked up his newest book, Great Feuds in Mathematics. A most enjoyable book. Although I am not a mathematician I was able to read "around" the few equations and enjoy the insight he brought to the math and its place in history. A good read.
Math is math.......2007-01-08
This book would be of most interest to advanced mathematicians and some philosophy initiates. I am a lay person with a large curiosity, however not being a math college major, limited my enjoyment of the "feuds."
Antonio Gonzalez
Fascinating Disputes But Beware The Challenging Arguments.......2006-10-30
This is an excellent book. The prose is clear and engaging and, despite the title, there are very few equations such that those who are equation-phobic have little to fear. However, many of the disputes center on nineteenth to twentieth century front-line research in pure mathematics - areas such as set theory, concepts of infinity, etc. These early ideas were prone to heated discussion and, in many cases, led to feuds. In order to allow the reader to understand the basis for these feuds, the author has included the essence of some of the key contentious mathematical arguments, often directly quoting members of each camp. I found that carefully following these arguments in detail could be difficult at times, but I certainly agree that pondering them is important if one is to clearly understand the position of each side. The final chapter poses the fascinating question: Are mathematical advances discoveries or inventions?" And here again, there are avid supporters of each side. I gave the book five stars because of the interesting subject matter and because I feel that the author has done a truly excellent job in presenting such a potentially difficult subject to as broad an audience as possible. Nevertheless, I still believe that I would benefit from reading some chapters a second time. Although anyone reading this book could learn much from it, I believe that it would be most enjoyed by serious math buffs.
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"The facts, even the theories, are history. It is the process that is the living science; that's what makes the activity exciting to those who practice it," science writer Hal Hellman observes. "Often, however, the process of scientific discovery is charged with emotion.... Holders of an earlier idea may not give it up gladly." Hellman describes some of the most emotional, dramatic, and personal debates in scientific history. He rounds up the usual suspects--Galileo versus the pope, Newton versus Leibniz, Cope versus Marsh, evolution versus Creation--but also includes less well known, but no less interesting, conflicts: Wallis versus Hobbes on squaring the circle, Voltaire versus Needham on embryos. And he boldly includes two conflicts in which (some) of the combatants are still alive: Don Johanson versus the Leakeys on human origins and Derek Freeman versus the ghost of Margaret Mead on Samoa. Never a dull moment. --Mary Ellen Curtin
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The dramatic stories of ten historic feuds: How they altered the course of discovery-and shaped the modern world
Hall Hellman tells the lively stories of ten of the most outrageous and intriguing disputes from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Bringing the cataclysmic clash of ideas and personalities to colorful life, Hellman explores both the science and the spirit of the times. Along the way, he reveals that scientific feuds are fueled not only by the purest of intellectual disagreements, but also by intransigence, ambition, jealousy, politics, faith, and the irresistible human urge to be right.
Unusual insight into the development of science . . . I was excited by this book and enthusiastically recommend it to general as well as scientific audiences. -American Scientist
Hellman has assembled a series of entertaining tales. . . . many fine examples of heady invective without parallel in our time. -Nature
An entertaining and informative account of the unusual personalities and sometimes bitter rivalries of some of the world's greatest scientific minds. -Publishers Weekly
A fascinating new book which details some of the most famous disputes of the ages.-Courier Mail
Dry science history turns into entertaining reading without sacrificing historical accuracy. -The Christchurch Press
Great Feuds in Science is wonderful history, as the reader learns how scientists had to fight with religious leaders and other scientists to get their work recognized, accepted, and even get the credit for it! -Bookviews
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Light on Science, plenty of Emotion.......2003-10-31
I had mixed emotions about this book. There wasn't that much deep insight into the underlying science or philosophy under debate, so it was sometimes hard to decide whose side I might have been on?
It did focus on showing the emotional side of the combatants, which makes them all too human, but also disappoints because it showed how emotions & personality got in the way of the facts, and as Scientists one always thinks that the 'facts' will transcend mere human frailties? But this book shows them all too plainly.
A new approach to popularizing science.......2000-09-24
I suppose it is an eternal effort to try to bring science to the public in an interesting way. Hellman, who according to the blurb has written 26 other popular science books, takes the tack of presenting various controversies in science, of which there are a depressing number.
Hellman picks ten, most of which are fairly well-known: Galileo vs. the Church, Newton vs. Leibniz, and so on. He springboards off of these to various extents to present the science behind the controversies or at least the history thereof. In particular, he takes the Darwinism vs. creationism issue up to the present day, even mentioning Behe and Darwin's Black Box. Other controversies are inherently recent: Donald Johanson vs. Richard Leakey on mankind's family tree and Derek Freeman's issues with Margaret Mead. (I have to side with Mead on the latter, at least as the situation is presented here. Freeman comes across as an opportunist looking for a way to gain publicity more than as a seeker after truth.)
It's lightweight if sometime saddening reading, particularly in such cases as Lord Kelvin, whose successes were undeniable but whose lack of flexibility hindered the progress of science at times.
Great zeitgeist, thin science.......2000-08-01
Hellman has an excellent ability to describe the personalities, the scenes, the zeitgeist, but unfortunately he is not too good in science. He never really gets into the heart of the matter, he never discusses any details, he usually relies on second hand sources, he leaves the story in the air just when starts to get exciting. If you know history of science, this book does not contain anything new or startling. But it is fun reading for the uninitiated.
How great science REALLY gets done.......2000-05-19
Scientists are human, too. They have pride, turf, and overbearing egoes. This little book, with its chapters relating disagreements and outright feuds between scientific luminaries, shows how the March of Science rarely proceeds in lockstep. The fur flies the thickest in Newton versus Leibniz, concerning the invention and popularization of calculus. This is a good "sidebar" book, to go along with a more conventional history of science. The human drama within provides a couple of nights of good reading.
Good, rather light, informative.......2000-04-25
More than a "popular science" book, GREAT FEUDS IN SCIENCE touches a number of disciplines, including philosophy, religion, politics, and sociology. Hence, this book has a fairly wide, if not universal, scope. While his writing is not what I would call distinguished, Hellman is skilled at cutting corners and providing reasonably accurate portraits of these feuding scientists and thinkers, as well as neat summaries of their hypotheses (and world views, biases, nasty streaks, and the like). This is easy reading; any reasonably intelligent 16-year old will get through the book with no problem, and they'll be better off, more informed, for having done so. So while this book may not be an important source for someone writing a paper for a physics dissertation, it will be helpful for anyone wanting a little more than an encyclopedia entry on why, say, Newton or Darwin, is important. Hellman wisely includes notes and a helpful bibliography for those who want more.
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"An exciting, well-researched work, which should appeal to anyone with an interest in the nature and progress of the human race."
—American Scientist
The cataclysmic clash of medical ideas and personalities comes to colorful life
In this follow-up to the critically acclaimed
Great Feuds in Science (Wiley: 0-471-16980-3), Hal Hellman tells the stories of the ten most heated and important disputes of medical science. Featuring a mix of famous and lesser-known stories,
Great Feuds in Medicine includes the fascinating accounts of William Harvey's battle with the medical establishment over his discovery of the circulation of blood; Louis Pasteur's fight over his theory of germs; and the nasty dispute between American Robert Gallo and French researcher Luc Montagnier over who discovered the HIV virus. An informative and insightful look at how such medical controversies are not only typical, but often necessary to the progress of the science.
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The history of medical science is fraught with controversies and rivalries between major researchers. In this follow-up to the critically acclaimed Great Feuds in Science, Harold Hellman tells the stories of the ten most heated and important of these disputes.
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Really well-written book about ridiculous feuds..........2005-04-15
Men. I can say that, because all of these feuds involved men, except for one concerning Rosalind Franklin and the DNA fiasco...with one of my least favorite scientists, Watson.
It never ceases to amaze me the amount of ego that gets involved in scientific and medical discoveries. It's humongous! Fights concerning rights of discoveries or inventions, fights concerning doing the right thing for the patient (rather than the doctor), etc. have existed since the beginning of time and are continuing today. The very last section of the book had to do with the discovery of the AIDS virus by Gallo (American) and Montagnier (French).
Some of the earlier feuds had to do with the discovery of how the body really works through doing dissections of both animals and human cadavers. This was frowned upon by the Church, which basically ran society during the middle ages and into the Renaissance, but some brave men like Harvey and Di Vinci went ahead and did what needed to be done. So when they actually published their findings, all hell often broke lose. This often put these physicians and scientists at risk for life, but their refusal to rely on ancient theories from Galen is what paved the way for modern medicine.
I enjoyed the way Hellman writes. He's a little bit of of a cynic and smart aleck, just my type...since I'm that way myself. The information is concise and interesting. I knew about some of the fights from previous medical histories, but Hellman often gave information that wasn't available in these books. The story concerning Semmelweis who discovered the real reasons behind women dying in childbirth from pueperal fever (exhange of germs from cadavers to women in labor by doctors not cleaning up prior to touching those women) is probably one of the saddest stories I have ever read, especially since he ended up being brutalized in an insane asylum, and it killed him at an early age.
This should be on a list of required readings for medical and research students. Perhaps if more of them realized how ridiculous these spats are, especially if they involve ego and money (which is a current huge problem thanks to the pharmaceutical companies and kickbacks to physicians), they would learn to allow ethics to govern more of their behavior.
People who enjoy medical history, and teachers can use this book to interest students in medicine and research, because these are areas of a good percent of the jobs today.
Karen Sadler
Science Education
Serious Fun.......2001-05-17
What a delightful page-turner this book turned out to be. I needed information, fast, and this sounded like a good buy. It sure was. The author makes very complex ideas and medical procedures understandable for lay people, but doesn't sacrifice the seriousness of his subject. His wry wit does not demean the eminent and not-so-eminent figures he writes about but, rather, brings them back to life. In fact, the author himself seems to be sitting in the room with you, relaxed and talking about some people you both know.
Engaging overview.......2001-03-01
A sprightly romp through three hundred years of medical history, focusing on ten major contretemps. Entertaining and educational, it's also a cautionary tale for would-be medical researchers: many of the "heroes" of these tales (Semmelweis, Bernard, Franklin) meet extremely unkind fates. If you enjoyed Hellman's previous outing on feuds in science, you'll find here more of the same.
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