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A patch of iridescent film appears on a river far from tankers and motorboats. An oil spill? Not likely, as readers discover in They Breathe Iron: Artistic and Scientific Encounters with an Ancient Life Form. With text and photographs They Breathe Iron takes readers on a journey to discover what makes rust on a riverbed and the look of rainbows in a river. Science meets art in this first-person narrative about the iron-breathing bacteria that inhabit bodies of water all over the world. Focusing on Ohio's Vermilion River, the book explains how these bacteria live and why we should care about them. Linda Grashoff wrote They Breathe Iron from the viewpoint of a curious artist, incorporating scientific authority from two consultants: Eleanora Robbins, a biogeologist retired from the U.S. Geological Survey, and David H. Benzing, emeritus Robert S. Danforth professor of biology at Oberlin College. David W. Orr, a leading thinker in the environmental movement, wrote the forward. Intended for a general audience, They Breathe Iron can be savored for its photographs alone--many of which have appeared in galleries as well as in juried and curated shows in the South and Midwest. But the text will appeal to readers who, confronted with natural beauty, seek to understand how that beauty occurs. Others will appreciate the revelation of one artist's orientation to the physical world and the impact of that stance on her art. The fourteen short chapters are: * Colors in the Water * Geological Beginnings and Biological Developments * Iron Bacteria in the River * When and Where You'll See Them, When and Where You Won't * Leptothrix discophora: A Multiplicity of Appearances * Variety in Rusty Deposits * Other Bacterially Transformed Substances in the Vermilion River * How the Iron Bacteria Compare with Other Living Things * Redox Cycles of the Iron Bacteria * The Importance of Iron Bacteria * My Photography * The River * More Than Photography * Larger Issues of Place and Time Included are an appendix, endnotes, a glossary, and an index.
A richly illustrated volume presenting a comprehensive history of the education of African American students at Oberlin College.
After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's government encouraged substantial American investment in education and aid. It was argued that Turkey needed the technical skills and wealth offered by American education, and so a series of American schools was set up across the country to educate the Turkish youth. Here, Ali Erken, in the first study of its kind, argues that these organizations had a huge impact on political and economic thought in Turkey - acting as a form of `soft power' for US national interests throughout the 20th Century. Robert College, originally a missionary school founded by US benefactors, has been responsible for educating two Turkish Prime Ministers, writers such as Orhan Pamuk and a huge number of influential economists, politicians and journalists. The end result of these American philanthropic efforts, Erken argues, was a consensus in the 1970s that the country must `westernize'. This mindset, and the opposition viewpoint it engendered, has come to define political struggle in modern Turkey - torn between a capitalist `modern' West and an Islamic `Ottoman' East. The book also reveals how and why the Rockefeller and Ford foundations funneled large amounts of money into Turkey post-1945, and undertook activities in support of `Western' candidates in Turkey as a bulwark against the Soviet Union. This is an essential contribution to the history of US-Turkish relations, and the influence of the West in Turkish political thought.
Spanning a historical period that begins with women’s exclusion from university debates and continues through their participation in coeducational intercollegiate competitions, Debating Women highlights the crucial role that debating organizations played as women sought to access the fruits of higher education in the United States and United Kingdom. Despite various obstacles, women transformed forests, parlors, dining rooms, ocean liners, classrooms, auditoriums, and prisons into vibrant spaces for ritual argument. There, they not only learned to speak eloquently and argue persuasively but also used debate to establish a legacy, explore difference, engage in intercultural encounter, and articulate themselves as citizens. These debaters engaged with the issues of the day, often performing, questioning, and occasionally refining norms of gender, race, class, and nation. In tracing their involvement in an activity at the heart of civic culture, Woods demonstrates that debating women have much to teach us about the ongoing potential for debate to move arguments, ideas, and people to new spaces.
Claes Oldenburg’s commitment to familiar objects has shaped accounts of his career, but his associations with Pop art and postwar consumerism have overshadowed another crucial aspect of his work. In this revealing reassessment, Katherine Smith traces Oldenburg’s profound responses to shifting urban conditions, framing his enduring relationship with the city as a critical perspective and conceiving his art as urban theory. Smith argues that Oldenburg adapted lessons of context, gleaned from New York’s changing cityscape in the late 1950s, to large-scale objects and architectural plans. By examining disparate projects from New York to Los Angeles, she situates Oldenburg’s innovations in local geographies and national debates. In doing so, Smith illuminates patterns of urbanization through the important contributions of one of the leading artists in the United States.
Beginning 19 - each bulletin contains details of curricula, course description, college rules, etc., for one of the schools or colleges at Western Reserve University.