Author: Robert Hooke File Type: pdf The prime impetus for the spread of microscopy during the 18th century, this classic moves gracefully among its topics, including the structure of molds, visual apparatus of the fly, cellular structure of cork, and life cycle of the mosquito. No scientific background is necessary to appreciate its ideas, inspirations, and insights. httpwww.archive.orgdetailsmobot31753000817897

Author: Kathleen D. Morrison File Type: pdf Specialized forager-traders have lived alongside and in exchange relationships with agriculturalists for many thousands of years in South and Southeast Asia. Here is a series of representative case-studies that pertain to a current archaeological debate. The issue concerns the extent to which historical foraging populations are to be understood as specialized adaptations to a complex economically diverse environment, rather than as throw-backs to a Paleolithic way of life.ReviewAn excellent overview of the prehistory of South and Southeast Asia and the long history of contact between foragers and agriculturalists in these areas...the general themes of long-term histories and changing adaptations in this volume are very relevant from a global perspective including North american Prehistory. Canadian Journal of Archaeology Book DescriptionSpecialised forager-traders have lived alongside and in exchange relationships with agriculturalists for many thousands of years in South and Southeast Asia. The book offers a series of representative case-studies, and will be of particular interest in light of a current debate about the extent to which historical foraging populations must be understood as specialised adaptations to a complex economically diverse environment rather than as a throw-back to a Palaeolithic way of life.

Author: Cheryl Lynne Shanks File Type: pdf What does it mean to be an American? The United States defines itself by its legal freedoms it cannot tell its citizens who to be. Nevertheless, where possible, it must separate citizen from alien. In so doing, it defines the desirable characteristics of its citizens in immigration policy, spelling out how many and, most importantly, what sorts of persons can enter the country with the option of becoming citizens.Over the past century, the U.S. Congress argued first that prospective citizens should be judged in terms of race, then in terms of politics, then of ideology, then of wealth and skills. Each argument arose in direct response to a perceived foreign threat--a threat that was, in the governments eyes, racial, political, ideological, or economic. Immigration and the Politics of American Sovereignty traces how and why public arguments about immigrants changed over time, how some arguments came to predominate and shape policy, and what impact these arguments have had on how the United States defines and defends its sovereignty.Cheryl Shanks offers readers an explanation for immigration policy that is more distinctly political than the usual economic and cultural ones. Her study, enriched by the insights of international relations theory, adds much to our understanding of the notion of sovereignty and as such will be of interest to scholars of international relations, American politics, sociology, and American history.Cheryl Shanks is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Williams College.

Author: Samantha Allen File Type: epub A transgender reporters narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states, offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America. Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now shes a senior Daily Beast reporter happily married to another woman. A lot in her life has changed, but what hasnt changed is her deep love of Red State America, and of queer people who stay in so-called flyover country rather than moving to the liberal coasts. In Real Queer America, Allen takes us on a cross-country road-trip stretching all the way from Provo, Utah to the Rio Grande Valley to the Bible Belt to the Deep South. Her motto for the trip Something gay every day. Making pit stops at drag shows, political rallies, and hubs of queer life across the heartland, she introduces us to scores of extraordinary LGBT people working for change, from the first openly transgender mayor in Texas history to the manager of the only queer night club in Bloomington, Indiana, and many more. Capturing profound cultural shifts underway in unexpected places and revealing a national network of chosen family fighting for a better world, Real Queer America is a treasure trove of uplifting stories and a much-needed source of hope and inspiration in these divided times. **ReviewReal Queer America is a book necessary for anyone in -- or allied with -- the queer community, especially those of us who see the bad news day after day. [Allen is] sharing the beauty of the spaces that LGBTQ+ people have carved out for themselves, and shes giving credit where credit is very much overdue, because its the queer folk who live and stay in red states -- whether by choice or due to a lack of options -- who have to survive there and work to make them better.*Los Angeles Times* Samantha Allens America is filled with buoyant queer people in supposedly red states living their lives with resilience and joy. This moving journey starts out in Utah--but Allens road ultimately takes the reader to the center of her heart. Surprising, inspiring, and thoughtful.Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of SHES NOT THERE and LONG BLACK VEIL** Its kind of like a trans Travels with Charley in Search of America, but without Steinbecks lightly misogynist depictions of women and meandering, stream of consciousness. As Samantha Allen travels across the countrys reddest states and perhaps the most unsafe for queer people, she unearths a humanity that the midwest and south are rarely afforded. Queer people exist everywhere, not just cities, and this book is a fierce testament to that.*Out Magazine* Allen argues that queerness thrives everywhere, perhaps even more so in states like Indiana, Texas, and Tennessee, precisely because theres still so much advocacy work to do. Allens openness about her personal story--including growing up Mormon, living an angst-filled double life in Provo, coming out as transgendered, meeting her wife in an elevator at the Kinsey Institute, and undergoing surgery to get a vagina--invites respect. She writes with loving curiosity about other people in the LGBTQ community and blends this with national-level reporting on political and historical LGBTQ issues.*Booklist (Starred Review)* I love Samantha Allen! Her voice is an essential part of the movement and a new brand of queer hero for these dark times. In the face of the alt-right and crypto fascists, I say- Queeros Assemble!Lilly Wachowski, co-writer and co-director of The Matrix trilogy and co-creator of the GLAAD Award winning Netflix series Sense8** In this clever combination of easy travelogue and thoughtful exploration of queerness in America, journalist Allen retraces her transformation from a Mormon missionary in Utah to a transgender woman living happily in rural Florida...Queer readers will nod knowingly at the descriptions of finding gay-friendly hangouts and questioning whether public hand-holding is safe in a new area, and readers without that experience will still enjoy Allens charming, humorous recounting of the ultimate road trip through rainbow-colored America.*Publishers Weekly* Real Queer America is a delight to read...an engrossing journey full of humor, vulnerability, insight, and joy. What results is a beautiful tapestry of, well, the real queer America... Real Queer America is well-written and well-researched, and its a blast to read, but perhaps its most essential question is that of how complicit blue state LGBTQ people are in dismissing red states as scary places for queers. The whole world is scary, for queers and for everyone. Perhaps *Real Queer America *will inspire the reader to be more involved in fighting discrimination everywhere.Rewire**** Samantha Allen doesnt just have her finger on the pulse of queer and trans America--the pulse runs through her fingers and onto the screen and page. I am always amazed at her capacity to get the story, convey the facts, and yet leave no doubt as to what really matters behind the buzzwords and slogans real people with real lives youll be grateful to have encountered.Jay Michaelson, author of GOD VS. GAY?** In her generous, clear-eyed reporting, Samantha Allen invites us to see ourselves for who we really are a country of queer possibility. Her work proves these American stories are too powerful to ever be kept in their place.Melissa Gira Grant, author of PLAYING THE WHORE** Allen is smart-as-hell, but inclusive and impassioned. Hers might not be the book all the gay boys are talking about in an exclusive NYC salon, but it is the book the rest of us can read aloud at the kitchen table with our queer family and our blood family, with our chosen sisters and our yet-to-be-educated uncles...So many wonderful books get written for the NYC and San Francisco LGBTQ community. Im glad Samantha Allen wrote Real Queer America for the rest of us.Lambda LiteraryAbout the Author Samantha Allen is a GLAAD Award-winning journalist and the author of Love & Estrogen (Amazon Original Stories). She is a senior reporter for The Daily Beast covering LGBT issues and a former Sex + Life reporter for Fusion. She received her Ph.D. in Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University in 2015 and was the 2013 recipient of the Kinsey Institutes John Money Fellowship for Scholars of Sexology. She has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, and NPRs On the Media. She met her wife in a Kinsey Institute elevator--a true queer love story.