The Dorland Enigma Solved

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A comprehensive, well-documented genealogy of the descendants of Gerrit, Lambert, and Elias Dorland, early settlers of New Netherland/New York. In addition to the male-lines, descendants of daughters are traced, in some cases for many generations. These families migrated early in large numbers to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, California and Oregon, as well as Canada. Many errors in earlier accounts of the Dorlands are corrected.

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Genre : Reference
Author : Judith Smith Cassidy
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Release : 2007
File : 512 Pages
ISBN-13 : WISC:89082422213


The New York Genealogical And Biographical Record

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Genre : New York (State)
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Release : 2008
File : 806 Pages
ISBN-13 : WISC:89102191442


Canada S Best Features

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Long recognized for outstanding National Film Board documentaries and innovative animated movies, Canada has recently emerged from the considerable shadow of the Hollywood elephant with a series of feature films that have captured the attention of audiences around the world. This is the first anthology to focus on Canada's feature films - those acknowledged as its very best. With essays by senior academics and leading scholars from across the country as well as some fresh new voices, Canada's Best Features offers penetrating analyses of fifteen award-winning films. Internationally acclaimed directors David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Denys Arcand, and Claude Jutra are represented here. Noteworthy films include Mon oncle Antoine, often cited as Canada's number one film of all time, such Cannes Festival favourites as Le déclin de l'empire américain and Exotica, and cult films Careful by Guy Maddin and Masala by Srinivas Krishna. The essays offer the latest word on these films and filmmakers, done from a variety of perspectives. Some of the films have never been examined in-depth before. Complete filmographies and bibliographies accompany each essay. A contextualizing introduction by Professor Gene Walz provides the necessary overview. An annotated bibliography of books on the Canadian film industry completes this impressive package.

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Genre : Motion pictures
Author : Eugene P. Walz
Publisher : Rodopi
Release : 2002
File : 424 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9042015985


Against The Odds

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Racial separatism, gender discrimination, and white dominance have historically thwarted black Americans' occupational aspirations. Access to medical education has also been limited, and mobility within the profession, leading to unequal access to health care. There have, however, been notable triumphs. In "Against the Odds, "Wilbur Watson describes successful efforts by determined individuals and small groups of black Americans, since the early nineteenth century, to establish a strong black presence in the medical profession. Changes in medical education and hospital management, desegregation of the medical establishment, and the contemporary challenges of managed-care organizations all attest to their achievements. Watson analyzes sociocultural, political, and psychological factors associated with African-American medical practice; race and gender differences in medical education and professional development; and doctor-patient relationships during and since the period of racial separatism. He discusses the policy implications of physicians' viewpoints on issues such as folk practitioners as health care providers, medical care for the poor, abortion and euthanasia, the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, and the emergence of managed-care organizations. Through in-depth interviews with older physicians and comparative analyses of their situated techniques of coping with racial discrimination and segregation, we gain insight into the effects of separatism on the minds, selves, and social interactions of African-American physicians. Finally, Watson outlines current ethics, demographic changes since desegregation, the contemporary status of black physicians, and recent changes in the socioeconomic organization of the profession of medicine. "Against the Odds "is a unique study of the history, ethnography, and social psychology of blacks in medicine. Watson successfully debunks the myth that black physicians were less competent providers than their white counterparts: a myth that persists to this day. First-person accounts, from periods of socially and legally sanctioned racial separatism and the first three decades of desegregation in the United States, bring readers closer to the physicians' lived experiences than mere social or quantitative description. This engaging account will interest those in the fields of African-American studies, medicine, and sociology.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Wilbur H. Watson
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
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File : 218 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1412816653


Advances In Visual Computing

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The two volume set LNCS 10072 and LNCS 10073 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2016, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA in December 2016. The 102 revised full papers and 34 poster papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 220 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: Part I (LNCS 10072) comprises computational bioimaging; computer graphics; motion and tracking; segmentation; pattern recognition; visualization; 3D mapping; modeling and surface reconstruction; advancing autonomy for aerial robotics; medical imaging; virtual reality; computer vision as a service; visual perception and robotic systems; and biometrics. Part II (LNCS 9475): applications; visual surveillance; computer graphics; and virtual reality.

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Genre : Computers
Author : George Bebis
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2016-12-09
File : 659 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783319508320


Curtain Call

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Release : 1935
File : 212 Pages
ISBN-13 : NYPL:33433095950881


Books And Pamphlets Including Serials And Contributions To Periodicals

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Genre : American literature
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Release : 1968
File : 568 Pages
ISBN-13 : PSU:000052001260


Catalog Of Copyright Entries Third Series

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Genre : Copyright
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Release : 1968
File : 548 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105006357409


Forest And Stream

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Genre : Birds
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Release : 1894
File : 592 Pages
ISBN-13 : OSU:32435062356589


Chile Combined With Pan Am

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Genre : Chile
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Release : 1930
File : 580 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015070306355