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- American reformers : an H.W. Wilson biographical dictionary / by Whitman, Alden,1913-1990.(CARDINAL)146657;
Includes bibliographies.Grace Abbot -- Jane Addams -- Felix Adler -- Elizabeth Agassiz -- Amos Bronson Alcott -- William Andrus Alcott -- Saul Alinsky -- Richard Allen -- John Peter Altgeld -- Oscar Ameringer -- Jessie Daniel Ames -- Elizabeth Preston Anderson -- Fannie Andrews -- John Bertram Andrews -- Stephen Andrews -- Mathilde Anneke -- Susan B Anthony -- Samuel Chapman Armstrong -- Edward Atkinson -- Rachel Avery -- Albion Fellows Bacon -- Sarah George Bagley -- Ray Stannard Baker -- Sara Baker -- Emily Balch -- Roger Baldwin -- Adin Ballou -- Wharton Barker -- Kate Barnard -- Gertrude Barnum -- Janie Porter Barrett -- Samuel Barrows -- Leonora Barry -- Clara Barton -- Mary Ritter Beard -- Catharine Beecher -- Henry Ward Beecher -- Lyman Beecher -- Edward Bellamy -- Dorothy Bellanca -- Alva Belmont -- Victor L. Berger -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- John Bigelow -- James G. Birney -- James Black -- Alice Blackwell -- Antoinette Blackwell -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Emily Blackwell -- Harriot Stanton Blatch -- William Bliss -- Amelia Bloomer -- Ella ("Mother Bloor") Bloor -- Inez Boissevain -- Edward Bok -- Charles Joseph Bonaparte -- Mary Bonney -- Gertrude Bonnin -- Maud Booth -- Henry Ingersoll Bowditch -- Charles Brace -- Myra Bradwell -- Louis D. Brandeis -- Madeline Breckinridge -- Sophonisba Breckinridge -- Margaret Brent -- Cyril Briggs -- Lloyd Vernon Briggs -- Albert Brisbane -- Heywood Broun -- John Brown -- Martha McClellan Brown -- Olympia Brown -- Orestes Brownson -- William J. Bryan -- Frank Burkitt -- Elihu Burritt -- Etienne Cabet -- Richard Clarke Cabot -- Helen Stuart Campbell -- Edward Carmack -- Matilda Carse -- Rachel Carson -- George Washington Carver -- Carrie Chapman Catt -- Elizabeth Chace -- Lucinda Chandler -- William Ellery Channing -- Maria Chapman -- Ednah Cheney -- David Lee Child -- Lydia Maria Child -- Richard Childs -- Tennessee Claflin -- Cassius Marcellus Clay -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens -- Levi Coffin -- Stanton Coit -- Clara Colby -- Ellen Collins -- Julia Colman -- Katharine Coman -- John R. Commons -- Anthony Comstock -- Victor Considerant -- Harriet Converse -- Jacob Coxey -- Prudence Crandall -- Caroline Crane -- David Croly -- Herbert Croly -- Jane Cunningham ("Jennie June") Croly -- Ernest Crosby -- Howard Crosby -- Kate Richards O'Hare Cunningham -- George Curtis -- Caroline Dall -- Richard Henry Dana Jr. -- Richard Henry Dana 3d -- Clarence Darrow -- Andrew Jackson Davis -- Katharine Davis -- Paulina Davis -- Dorothy Day -- Eugene Debs -- Voltairine De Cleyre -- Martin Delany -- Daniel De Leon -- William Jennings Demorest -- Mary Ware Dennett -- John Dewey -- Melvil Dewey -- Anna Dickinson -- Annie LePorte Diggs -- Samuel Dike -- Major ("Father") Divine -- Dorothea Dix -- David Low Dodge -- Ignatius Donnelly -- Thomas Wilson Dorr -- Frank Doster -- Frederick Douglass -- Sarah Douglass -- Neal Dow -- W. E. B. Du Bois -- Abigail Duniway -- Crystal Eastman -- Max Eastman -- Mary Baker Eddy -- Thomas Eddy -- John Elliott -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Sarah Emery -- Elizabeth Glendower Evans -- George Henry Evans -- Eliza Farnham -- Rebecca Felton -- David Field -- Edward Filene -- Charles Finney -- John Fitzpatrick -- Alice Cunningham Fletcher -- Abraham Flexner -- Benjamin Flower -- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn -- Charles Follen -- Martin Foran -- Patrick Ford -- James Forten -- Timothy Thomas Fortune -- Abigail Foster -- William Z. Foster -- Lydia Folger Fowler -- Orson Fowler -- Felix Frankfurter -- Lynn Frazier -- Margaret Fuller -- Isaac Funk -- Andrew Furuseth -- Frances Dana Barker Gage -- Matilda Gage -- Joseph Gales -- Helen Hamilton Gardener -- Henry Garnet -- William Lloyd Garrison -- Marcus Garvey -- Ernest B. Gaston -- Henry George -- Abigail Gibbons -- Linda Gilbert -- Mabel Gillespie -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Edwin Godkin -- Parke Godwin -- Emma Goldman -- Samuel Gompers -- Anna Adams Gordon -- Isabella Graham -- Sylvester Graham -- Rebecca Gratz -- Horace Greeley -- Isaac Newton Gresham -- Josephine Griffing -- Goldsborough Griffith -- Angelina Grimke -- Charlotte Forten Grimke -- Sarah Grimke -- Laurence Gronlund -- Luther H. Jr. Gulick -- Emanuel Haldeman-Julius -- Edward Everett Hale -- Emma Hall -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Alice Hamilton -- Hutchins Hapgood -- Norman Hapgood -- John Marshall Harlan -- Ida Harper -- Thomas Harris -- Hubert H. Harrison -- Hastings Hart -- William Harvey -- Lydia Hasbrouck -- Ella Haskell -- John Henry Hawkins -- Mary Garrett Hay -- Arthur Garfield Hays -- William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood -- Thomas Hazard -- Hinton Helper -- Alice Henry -- Josephine Herbst -- Caroline Hewins -- Angela Heywood -- Ezra Heywood -- Elias Hicks -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- Joe Hill -- Patty Hill -- Morris Hillquit -- Jessie Hodder -- Josiah Holbrook -- Isabella Beecher Hooker -- Harry Hopkins -- Isaac Tatem Hopper -- Eugenio Maria de Hostos y Bonilla -- Milford Howard -- Frederic Howe -- Julia Ward Howe -- Samuel Gridley Howe -- William Dean Howells -- Harriot Hunt -- Grace Hutchins -- Anne Hutchinson -- Robert Green Ingersoll -- Martin Irons -- William Mills Ivins -- Gardner Jackson -- Helen Jackson -- William Jay -- Thomas Jefferson -- Ellen Cheney Johnson -- Magnus Johnson -- Tom Johnson -- Mary Harris ("Mother Jones") Jones -- George Washington Julian -- Mary Kehew -- Florence Kelley -- Oliver Kelley -- Edward Kellogg -- John Kellogg -- Paul Kellogg -- Florence Kelly -- Dan King -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- Abner Kneeland -- William Ladd -- Robert M La Follette -- Harry W Laidler -- William Langer -- Julia Lathrop -- Lewis E Lawes -- Benjamin Lay -- Mary Elizabeth Lease -- Joshua Leavitt -- Ann Lee -- William Lemke -- Benjamin Lindsey -- Mary Livermore -- Henry Demarest Lloyd -- Belva Ann Lockwood -- George Loftus -- Jack London -- Meyer London -- Huey P. Long -- Henry Loucks -- Elijah Lovejoy -- Josephine Lowell -- Clemence Lozier -- Benjmain Lundy -- Seth Luther -- Mary Lyon -- Alfred McCann -- Charles McCarthy -- Samuel S. McClure -- Frances McDougall -- Mary Eliza McDowell -- Edward McGlynn -- Stephen McLallin -- William Maclure -- George McNeill -- Charles William Macune -- Malcolm X -- Horace Mann -- Vito Marcantonio -- Herbert Marcuse -- Helen Marot -- John Marsh -- Sarah Martyn -- Emma Marwedel -- Lewis Masquerier -- Peter Maurin -- Samuel Joseph May -- Christian Metz -- Elizabeth Smith Miller -- John Mitchel -- Robert Moses -- Johann Joseph Most -- Lucretia Mott -- Ellen Mussey -- A. J. Muste -- Thomas Nast -- Carry Nation -- Clarina Nichols -- Mary Nichols -- George W. Norris -- John Humphrey Noyes -- Thomas Nugent -- Gerald P Nye -- Fremont Older -- Floyd Olson -- Leonora O'Reilly -- Charles Osborn -- Thomas Osborne -- Mary O'Sullivan -- Robert Owen -- Elizabeth Packard -- Thomas Paine -- Elihu Palmer -- Theodore Parker -- Charles Parkhurst -- Albert Parsons -- Elsie Parsons -- Alice Paul -- Elizabeth Peabody -- William Penn -- Frances Perkins -- Wendell Phillips -- Parker Pillsbury -- Amos Pinchot -- Gifford Pinchot -- Hazen Pingree -- Leonidas Lafayette Polk -- Louis Freeland Post -- Terence V Powderly -- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. -- Joseph Priestley -- Josiah Quincy -- Amelia Quinton -- A. Philip Randolph -- Jeannette Rankin -- Robert Rantoul -- Walter Rauschenbusch -- James Redpath -- John Reed -- Agnes Regan -- Sarah Remond -- Milo Reno -- Jacob Riis -- George Ripley -- Sophia Ripley -- Margaret Robins -- Harriet Robinson -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Ernestine Rose -- William Round -- Benjamin Rush -- Charles Russell -- Howard Hyde Russell -- John Ryan -- Franklin Benjamin Sanborn -- Elizabeth Sanders -- Margaret Sanger -- Solomon Schindler -- Rose Schneiderman -- Hannah Kent Schoff -- Carl Schurz -- Rosika Schwimmer -- Vida Scudder -- Caroline Severance -- Anna Howard Shaw -- Daniel Shays -- Mary E. Simkhovitch -- Jeremiah Simpson -- Upton Sinclair -- Thomas Skidmore -- Abby Smith -- Gerrit Smith -- Julia Smith -- Hannah Smith -- J. E. Spingarn -- Lysander Spooner -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Lincoln Steffens -- Uriah Stephens -- Alzina Stevens -- Lillian Stevens -- Thaddeus Stevens -- Ira Steward -- Alvan Stewart -- Eliza Daniel ("Mother Stewart") Stewart -- Gustav Stickley -- William Still -- Cora Frances Stoddard -- Isaac Stokes -- Rose Pastor Stokes -- Lucy Stone -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Charles Sumner -- Eliza Sunderland -- John Swinton -- Jane Swisshelm -- William H. Sylvis -- Arthur Tappan -- Lewis Tappan -- Ida M.Tarbell -- John Thomas -- Martha Carey Thomas -- Norman Thomas -- Henry David Thoreau -- Thomas Tibbles -- Marion Todd -- William Howe Tolman -- Albion Tourgee -- Arthur Townley -- Francis Townsend -- Augusta Troup -- Benjamin Franklin Trueblood -- Sojourner Truth -- Harriet Tubman -- Benjamin Tucker -- Harriet Taylor Upton -- William U'Ren -- Marie Louise Van Vorst -- Thorstein Veblen -- Helen Frances ("Fanny") Villard -- Oswald Villard -- Henry Vincent -- Mary Heaton Vorse -- Lillian D Wald -- Mary Walker -- Zerelda Wallace -- William English Walling -- Lester Ward -- Earl Warren -- Josiah Warren -- Booker T. Washington -- Thomas Watson -- Julius Wayland -- Noah Webster -- Theodore Weld -- Ida Wells-Barnett -- Wayne Wheeler -- Henry Whipple -- Alfred Tredway White -- Ellen White -- Walt Whitman -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Harvey Washington Wiley -- Roy Wilkins -- Jemima Wilkinson -- Emma Willard -- Frances Willard -- Aubrey Williams -- Elizabeth Williams -- Roger Williams -- Gaylord Wilshire -- Isaac Wise -- Edith Wood -- Victoria Woodhull -- John Granville Woolley -- John Woolman -- Abby Woolsey -- Georgeanna Woolsey -- Jane Woolsey -- Noah Worcester -- Elizur Wright -- Frances ("Fanny") Wright -- Henry Wright -- Whitney Young -- Marie Zakrzrewska -- John Peter Zenger.Contains biographies of 508 men and women who were the principal architects of reform in America from the seventeenth century to modern times.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Dictionaries.; Reformers; Social reformers;
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- Revive us again : vision and action in moral organizing / by Theoharis, Liz,contributor.(CARDINAL)787222; Lowery, R. H.(Richard H.),contributor.(CARDINAL)783413; Barber, William J.,II,1963-Works.Selections.(CARDINAL)783412;
The prophetic word is political / Rev. Rick Lowery -- Blessed are the rejected for they shall lead the revival / Rev. Liz Theoharis -- Organizing and shaping a moral vision for justice in the public square / Rev. William Barber -- When the stones come together / Rev. William Barber -- Response : the door to life's defining moments / Rev. Dr. Nancy Petty -- Moral march on Raleigh / Rev. William Barber -- Response : we are not afraid / Al McSurely -- The call to be positioned as powerful prisoners of prophetic hope -- Response : blues, gospel, and jazz visions for God's own prisoner of hope / Dr. Timothy Tyson -- Moral action on climate change / Rev. William Barber -- Response : rekindle in us a fire : William Barber's moral call to climate action / Karenna Gore -- Wish you a mourning Christmas / Rev. William Barber -- Response : a call to mourning: wish and warning / Rev. Dr. James Forbes Jr. -- The danger of misdiagnosing terrorism / Rev. William Barber -- Response : growing a local peace economy / Jodie Evans -- You have a right to fight for a living wage / Rev. William Barber -- Response : fighting together for $15 and a union / Mary Kay Henry -- Bothered and baptized by the blood / Rev. William Barber -- Response : cheating to win elections is a sin / Penda Hair -- Standing down is not an option / Rev. William Barber -- Response : a moral agenda for mercy and justice / Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson -- The need to know who we are in times like these / Rev. William Barber -- Response : lyrical connections : the music and message of the movement / Yara Allen -- We shall not be moved / Rev. William Barber -- Response : listening to the heart and hurt of the people / Charmeine Fletcher."Centered on sermons and lectures by the Rev. Dr. William Barber, leader of the Moral Monday, Forward Together Movement in North Carolina, this book advocates a broad-based moral movement for economic and social justice, rooted in the fundamental American values of freedom, justice, and equality for all."
- Subjects: Social justice; Social justice;
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- What should we be worried about? : real scenarios that keep scientists up at night / by Brockman, John,1941-editor.(CARDINAL)282534; Dennett, D. C.(Daniel Clement).Living without the Internet for a couple of weeks.; Dyson, George,1953-Safe mode for the Internet.; Hannay, Timo.What is conscious?; Nesse, Randolph M.Fragility of complex systems.; Pinker, Steven,1954-Real risk factors for war.; Rees, Martin J.,1942-We are in denial about catastrophic risks.; Sterling, Bruce.Singularity.; Sumner, Seirian.Synthetic world.; Tegmark, Max.Will there be a singularity within our lifetime?; Vinge, Vernor.MADness.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-480) and index.Preface: The edge question / John Brockman -- The real risk factors for war / Steven Pinker -- MADness / Vernor Vinge -- We are in denial about catastrophic risks / Martin Rees -- Living without the Internet for a couple of weeks / Daniel C. Dennett -- Safe mode for the Internet / George Dyson -- The fragility of complex systems / Randolph Nesse -- A synthetic world / Seirian Sumner -- What is conscious? / Timo Hannay -- Will there be a singularity within our lifetime? / Max Tegmark -- "The singularity" : there's no there there / Bruce Sterling -- Capture / Charles Seife -- The triumph of the virtual / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- The patience deficit / Nicholas G. Carr -- The teenage brain / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore -- Who's afraid of the big bad words? / Benjamin Bergen -- The contest between engineers and druids / Paul Saffo -- "Smart" / Evgeny Morozov -- The stifling of technological progress / David Pizarro -- The rise of anti-intellectualism and the end of progress / Tim O'Reilly -- Armageddon / Timothy Taylor -- Superstition / Matt Ridley -- Rats in a spherical trap / Gregory Benford -- The danger from aliens / Seth Shostak -- Augmented reality / William Poundstone -- Too much coupling / Steven Strogatz -- Homogenization of the human experience / Scott Atran -- Are we homogenizing the global view of a normal mind? / P. Murali Doraiswamy -- Social media : the more together, the more alone / Marcel Kinsbourne -- Internet drivel / David Gelernter -- Objects of desire / Sherry Turkle -- Incompetent systems / John Naughton -- Democracy is like the appendix / Dylan Evans -- The is-ought fallacy of science and morality / Michael Shermer -- What is a good life? / David Christian -- A world without growth? / Satyajit Das -- Human population, prosperity growth : one I fear, one I don't / Laurence C. Smith -- The underpopulation bomb / Kevin Kelly -- The loss of lust / Tor Nørretranders -- Not enough robots / Rodney A. Brooks -- That we won't make use of the error catastrophe threshold / William McEwan -- A fearful asymmetry : the worrying world of a would-be science / Helena Cronin -- Misplaced worries / Dan Sperber -- There is nothing to worry about, and there never was / Virginia Heffernan -- Worries on the mystery of worry / Donald D. Hoffman -- The disconnect / Barbara Strauch -- Science by (social) media / Michael I. Norton -- Unfriendly physics, monsters from the id, and self-organizing collective delusions / John Tooby -- Myths about men / Helen Fisher -- The mating wars / David M. Buss -- We don't do politics / Brian Eno -- The black hole of finance / Seth Lloyd -- The opinions of search engines / W. Daniel Hillis -- Technology-generated fascism / David Bodanis -- Magic / Neil Gershenfeld -- Data disenfranchisement / David Rowan -- Big experiments won't happen / Lisa Randall -- The nightmare scenario for fundamental physics / Peter Woit -- No surprises from the LHC : no worries for theoretical physics / Amanda Gefter -- Crisis at the foundations of physics / Steve Giddings -- The end of fundamental science? / Mario Livio -- Quantum mechanics / Lee Smolin -- One universe / Lawrence M. Krauss -- The dangerous fascination of imagination / Carlo Rovelli -- What-- me worry? / J. Craig Venter -- Our increased medical know-how / Esther Dyson -- The promise of catharsis / Andrian Kreye -- I've given up worrying / Terry Gilliam -- Our blind spots / Daniel Goleman -- The anthropocebo effect / Jennifer Jacquet -- The relative obscurity of the writing of Édouard Glissant / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- The danger of inadvertently praising zygomatic arches / Robert Sapolsky -- The belief or lack of belief in free will is not a scientific matter / Howard Gardner -- Natural death / Antony Garrett Lisi -- The loss of death / Kate Jeffery -- Global graying / David Berreby -- All the T in China / Robert Kurzban -- Technology may endanger democracy / Haim Harari -- The fourth culture / Bruce Parker.Classic social sciences' failure to understand "modern" states shaped by crime / Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán -- Is the new public sphere ... public? / Andrew Lih -- Blown opportunities / Frank Wilczek -- The power of bad incentives / Sam Harris -- Science publishing / Marco Iacoboni -- Excellence / Eric R. Weinstein -- Unmitigated arrogance / Jessica L. Tracy -- The decline of the scientific hero / Roger Highfield -- Authoritarian submission / Michael Vassar -- Are we becoming too connected? / Gino Segre -- Stress / Ariana Huffington -- Putting our anxieties to work / Joseph LeDoux -- Science has not brought us close to understanding cancer / Xeni Jardin -- Society's parlous inability to reason about uncertainty / Aubrey De Grey -- The rise in genomic instability / Eric J. Topol -- Current sequencing strategies ignore the role of microorganisms in cancer / Azra Raza -- The failure of genomics for mental disorders / Terrence J. Sejnowski -- Exaggerated expectations / Stuart Firestein -- Losing our hands / Susan Blackmore -- Losing touch / Christine Finn -- The human/nature divide / Scott Sampson -- Power and the Internet / Bruce Schneier -- Close to the Edge / Kai Krause -- The paradox of material progress / Rolf Dobelli -- Close observation and description / Ursula Martin -- Impact / Bruce Hood -- The complex, consequential, not-so-easy decisions about our water resources / Giulio Boccaletti -- Children of Newton and modernity / Stuart A. Kauffman -- Where did you get that fact? / Victoria Stodden -- Is idiocracy looming? / Douglas T. Kenrick -- The disconnect between news and understanding / Gavin Schmidt -- Super-AIs won't rule the world (unless they get culture first) / Andy Clark -- Posthuman geography / David Dalrymple -- Being told that our destiny is among the stars / Ed Regis -- Communities of fate / Margaret Levi -- Working with others / Stephen M. Kosslyn and Robin S. Rosenberg -- Global cooperation is failing and we don't know why / Daniel Haun -- The behavior of normal people / Karl Sabbagh -- Metaworry / Brian Knutson -- Morbid anxiety / Joel Gold -- The loss of our collective cognition and awareness / Douglas Rushkoff -- Worrying about children / Alison Gopnik -- The death of mathematics / Keith Devlin -- Should we worry about being unable to understand everything? / Clifford Pickover -- The demise of the scholar / Daniel L. Everett -- Science is in danger of becoming the enemy of humankind / Colin Tudge -- Illusions of understanding and the loss of intellectual humility / Tania Lombrozo -- The end of hardship inoculation / Adam Alter -- Internet silos / Larry Sanger -- The new age of anxiety / Gary Klein -- Does the human species have the will to survive? / Dave Winer -- Neural data privacy rights / Melanie Swan -- Can they read my brain? / Stanislas Dehaene -- Losing completeness / Anton Zeilinger -- C.P. Snow's two cultures and the nature-nurture debate / Simon Baron-Cohen -- The unavoidable intrusion of sociopolitical forces into science / Nicholas A. Christakis -- The growing gap between the scientific elite and the vast "scientifically challenged" majority / Leo M. Chalupa -- Present-ism / Noga Arikha -- Do we understand the dynamics of our emerging global culture? / Kirsten Bomblies -- We worry too much about fictional violence / Jonathan Gottschall -- A world of cascading crises / Peter Schwartz -- Who gets to play in the science ballpark / Stephon H. Alexander -- An exploding number of new illegal drugs / Thomas Metzinger -- History and contingency / Paul Kedrosky -- Unknown unknowns / Gary Marcus -- Digital tats / Juan Enriquez -- Fast knowledge / Nicholas Humphrey -- Systematic thinking about how we package our worries / Mary Catherine Bateson -- Worrying about stupid / Roger Schank -- The cultural and cognitive consequences of electronics / Luca De Biase -- What we learn from firefighters : how fat are the fat tails? / Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- Lamplight probabilities / Bart Kosko -- The world as we know it / Richard Foreman -- Worrying-- the modern passion / James J. O'Donnell -- The gift of worry / Robert Provine.Posing the question "What should we be worried about?" to one hundred fifty of the world's greatest minds, this collection of responses reveals what about the present or the future worries each of them the most.
- Subjects: Essays.; Fear.; Science; Science; Social prediction.; Worry.;
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