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Chapters: Alfred Binet, Arthur Jensen, Ruth Benedict, J. Philippe Rushton, Francis Galton, James R. Flynn, Robert Yerkes, Howard Gardner, Raymond Cattell, Richard Lynn, Cyril Burt, Hans Eysenck, Henry H. Goddard, Robert Sternberg, Andreas Demetriou, Lewis Terman, Ellis Paul Torrance, Linda Gottfredson, Leta Stetter Hollingworth, Anthony Gregorc, James Mckeen Cattell, John Bissell Carroll, Charles Spearman, Louis Leon Thurstone, Ronald K. Hoeflin, Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr., J. P. Guilford, Chris Brand, Cecil R. Reynolds, Helmuth Nyborg, Timothy Bates, Sandra Scarr, Richard J. Haier, David Wechsler, John Curtis Gowan, Lloyd Humphreys, Alan S. Kaufman, Douglas N. Jackson, William Stern, Seymour Itzkoff, R. Travis Osborne, Richard Herrnstein, John C. Loehlin, Lee A. Thompson, Douglas K. Detterman, Leon Kamin, Catharine Cox, Herman H. Spitz, Théodore Simon, Philip A. Vernon, Carl Brigham, Anne Anastasi, Robert A. Gordon. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 267. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ruth Benedict (born Ruth Fulton, June 5, 1887September 17, 1948) was an American anthropologist and folklorist. She was born in New York City, and attended Vassar College, graduating in 1909. She entered graduate studies at Columbia University in 1919, studying under Franz Boas, receiving her PhD and joining the faculty in 1923. Margaret Mead, with whom she may have shared a romantic relationship, and Marvin Opler were among her students and colleagues. Franz Boas, her teacher and mentor, has been called the father of American anthropology and his teachings and point of view are clearly evident in Benedict's work. Boas is author of many classic works including Race, Language, and Cultureperhaps the most potent anti-racist text to emerge from the academic world in his time. In it Boas attempts to prove t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=26542 ... Read more

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From the supplier: Eugenics, the concept of improving humans by selective breeding, was first used by the biologist Francis Galton in 1883, and William Morris would incorporate that concept into his book, 'News from Nowhere, or an Epoch of Rest: Being some Chapters from a Utopian Romance.' Utopias tend to combine mental satisfactions with physical beauty, and Morris's Nowhere reflected his concern for collecting data on places with attractive people.

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Title: Eugenics and Utopia: sexual selection from Galton to Morris. (Francis Galton, William Morris)
Author: Patrick Parrinder
Publication: Utopian Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1997
Publisher: Society for Utopian Studies
Volume: v8Issue: n2Page: p1(12)

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Chapters: J. R. R. Tolkien, Bill Oddie, Enoch Powell, Francis Galton, Edward White Benson, Jonathan Coe, Richard Borcherds, Edward Burne-Jones, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, Maurice Wilkins, Kenneth Tynan, Brooke Foss Westcott, John Hemming, David Willetts, Alexander Lyle-Samuel, Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Tony Miles, David Rudkin, Alan Haselhurst, Conel Hugh O'donel Alexander, Henry Mccardie, J. A. Chatwin, Alan Nunn May, Herbert Tudor Buckland, Henry Vollam Morton, Alan Smith, John Compton, John Robert Vane, Percival Perry, 1st Baron Perry, Colin Figures, Max Carlish, Sir Alfred Hickman, 1st Baronet, Peter Singer, John de Courcy Ling, Miles Benjamin, Harrison Oxley, Alfred Hazel, Godfrey Winn, Harry Boot, E. V. Knox, Anselm Genders, Mark Wagh, Alfred Bird, John Deathridge, Dave Haslam, Laurence Henry Woolmer, Anurag Singh, Charles Keith Kipling Prosser, Revd. Canon Thomas Henry Davis, Ivor Colin Docker, Robert Martineau, Nathan Bodington, Edward Parkes, William Percy Gilpin, Ian Plenderleith, Robin Duval. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 324. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (3 January 1892 2 September 1973), whose surname is pronounced (in General American also ), was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature there from 1945 to 1959. He was a close friend of C. S. Lewisthey were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings. Tolkien was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Eliza...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15872 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Lewis Fry Richardson, Francis Galton, J. Philippe Rushton, Raymond Cattell, David Hartley, Richard Lynn, Tony Buzan, George John Romanes, Timothy Bright, Hans Eysenck, Barbara Hannah, Charles Spearman, Alan Baddeley, Ernesto Spinelli. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Lewis Fry Richardson est un mathématicien, météorologiste et psychologue britannique (1881-1953). Au cours des années 1916-1918, il imagina de prévoir le temps à partir des équations primitives atmosphériques, les lois de la mécanique des fluides qui régissent les mouvements de l'air. Richardson est né le 11 octobre 1881 à Newcastle-upon-Tyne, un port industriel du nord de l'Angleterre dans une famille de quakers. On l'envoya à l'école de Bootham, ayant cette affiliation, comme pensionnaire, et il y développa son goût pour la science et l'histoire naturelle. À 19 ans, il entra au King's College (Cambridge) où il obtint un baccalauréat en sciences naturelles. Il eut comme directeur Joseph John Thomson, Prix Nobel de physique, pour sa spécialisation en physique et mathématique. Il entra au British National Physical Laboratory après ses études et enseigna au University College d'Aberystwyth (Pays de Galles). Il travailla également pour l'industrie et enseigna plus tard au Manchester College of Technology. Durant les dix premières années après ses études, il développa des techniques mathématiques pour approximer la résolution analytique des équations différentielles complexes. Il les appliqua au problème de la résolution des équations de la physique de l'atmosphère en espérant en tirer une méthode pratique. En 1913, Richardson déménagea au Eskdalemuir Observatory en Écosse et devint superintendant de l'observatoire de météorologie et d...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: English Cartographers, James Cook, David Thompson, Francis Galton, John Speed, Matthew Paris, William Camden, Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton, Emery Molyneux, Edward Wright, Robert Hues, John Dee, Arthur Robert Hinks, Lewis Fry Richardson, Matthew Flinders, Robert Dudley, Styled Earl of Warwick, Ron Martin, Halford Mackinder, St. George Littledale, William Vincent, James Rennell, John Walter Gregory, Peter Perez Burdett, Michael Watts, J. F. Horrabin, Andrew Goudie, Alexander Thomas Emeric Vidal, David R. Harris, Richard Chorley, Henry James, Phyllis Pearsall, Frederick William Beechey, Clement Adams, Henry Mangles Denham, John Norden, Samuel Lewis, Peter Haggett, Edward William Brayley, Charles Tilstone Beke, Laurence Nowell, Frank Debenham, Kenneth Mason, Alan Wilson, Robin Medforth-Mills, Benjamin Cole, William Lambton, Colin Mcevedy, John Arrowsmith, Thomas Jefferys, John Antony Cramer, Thomas Holdich, Aaron Arrowsmith, John Adams, John Rocque, Tim Robinson, Edward Stanford, Charles William Wilson, John Cossins, Ernst Georg Ravenstein, John Cary, Thomas Sandby, Robert Morden, Christopher Saxton, George Trebeck, Peter Dicken, John Heap, Thomas Moule, John Rudd, George Allan, Roy Bradshaw, John Tallis, Sidney Hall, William Gordon East, George Chisholm, Robert Wilkinson, William Morgan. Excerpt:Aaron Arrowsmith (1750 1823) was an English cartographer , engraver and publisher and founding member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers. He moved to Soho Square , London from Winston, County Durham when about twenty years of age, and was employed by John Cary , the engraver and William Faden. He became Hydrographer to the Prince of Wales ca. 1810 and subsequently to the King in 1820. In January 1790 he made himself famous by his large chart of the world on Mercator projecti... ... Read more

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Chapters: Ronald Fisher, Francis Galton, Karl Pearson, Julian Huxley, Cyril Burt, Helena Rosa Wright, Havelock Ellis, C. D. Darlington, Leonard Darwin, Charles Galton Darwin, Alexander Carr-Saunders. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 110. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS (22 June 1887 14 February 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis. He was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London (19351942), the first Director of UNESCO, and a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund. Huxley was well-known for his presentation of science in books and articles, and on radio and television. He was awarded UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for the popularisation of science in 1953, the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1956, and the DarwinWallace Medal of the Linnaean Society in 1958. He was also knighted in that same year, 1958, a hundred years after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace announced the theory of evolution by natural selection. In 1959 he received a Special Award of the Lasker Foundation in the category Planned Parenthood World Population. Huxley was a prominent member of the British Eugenics Society, and its President from 19591962. Huxley came from the distinguished Huxley family. His brother was the writer Aldous Huxley, and his half-brother a fellow biologist and Nobel laureate, Andrew Huxley; his father was writer and editor Leonard Huxley; and his paternal grandfather was Thomas Henry Huxley, a friend and supporter of Charles Darwin and proponent of evolution. His maternal grandfather was the academic Tom Arnold, great-uncle poet Matthew Arnold and great-grandfather Thomas Arnold of Rugby School. Fa...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=145837 ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Francis Galton," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Francis Galton in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Francis Galton when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Francis Galton, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Francis Galton, Anticyclone, High-Pressure Area, Subtropical Ridge, Anticyclonic Tornado, 2006 European Cold Wave, Block, Azores High, North American High, Siberian High, Anticyclonic Storm, Siberian Express, South Atlantic High, Pacific High. Excerpt:The 2006 European cold wave was an unusual cold wave which resulted in abnormal winter conditions over much of Europe. This marked a period of unusual weather over much of Europe where southern Europe saw cold and snow while places in northern Norway saw abnormally mild conditions. The phenomenon started on January 20 in Russia with temperatures below -40°C and extended to Central Europe. Parts of Poland , Slovakia , and Austria saw temperatures drop below -30°C. The cold had resulted in the deaths of up to 50 people in Russia and a significant death toll in both in most of Eastern Europe including Moldova and Romania. A final death toll may be in the region of around 200 deaths in Europe. The abnormal conditions gradually abated towards the end of the month. Temperatures recorded during the cold snap Near freezing temperatures were also noted in the Balearic Islands , Western North Africa , and in extreme southern Spain. Snow in southern Europe The anticyclone responsible for the cold temperatures in Central Europe brought snow to much of southern Europe. Algiers saw their first snow in over forty years and the snow had brought about icy and slippery conditions on the roads catching many off guard. Much of Greece also saw snow and Athens had a significant fall of snow and the snow had cut off more remote outlying areas and the island of Limnos also saw measurable snow. The Balearic Islands saw snow and freezing temperatures which resulted in closure of the airport on Majorca . On January 29th, snow fell in Lisbon for the first t... ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Chapters: Francis Galton, Mark Koltko-Rivera, Cyril Burt, Steve Blinkhorn, Donald Rubin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 46. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Francis Galton FRS (16 February 1822 17 January 1911), cousin of Sir Douglas Galton, half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician. He was knighted in 1909. Galton had a prolific intellect, and produced over 340 papers and books throughout his lifetime. He also created the statistical concept of correlation and widely promoted regression toward the mean. He was the first to apply statistical methods to the study of human differences and inheritance of intelligence, and introduced the use of questionnaires and surveys for collecting data on human communities, which he needed for genealogical and biographical works and for his anthropometric studies. He was a pioneer in eugenics, coining the very term itself and the phrase "nature versus nurture." His book, Hereditary Genius (1869), was the first social scientific attempt to study genius and greatness. As an investigator of the human mind, he founded psychometrics (the science of measuring mental faculties) and differential psychology. He devised a method for classifying fingerprints that proved useful in forensic science. As the initiator of scientific meteorology, he devised the first weather map, proposed a theory of anticyclones, and was the first to establish a complete record of short-term climatic phenomena on a European scale. He also invented the Galton Whistle for testing differential hearing ability. He was born at "The Larches", a large house in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, built on the site ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=49072 ... Read more

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1907. Galton, an explorer and anthropologist, is known for his pioneering studies of human intelligence. Influenced by the work of his cousin Charles Darwin, he coined the term eugenics (from the Greek eugenes or wellborn) and devoted the latter part of life to applying Darwinian science to develop theories about heredity and good or noble birth. This book combines his various memoirs into a single volume the object of which he explains in the Introduction: My general object has been to take note of the varied hereditary faculties of different men, and of the great differences in different families and races, to learn how far history may have shown the practicability of supplanting inefficient human stock by better strains, and to consider whether it might not be our duty to do so by such efforts as may be reasonable, thus exerting ourselves to further the ends of evolution more rapidly and with less distress than if events were left to their own course. ... Read more