Lillis Remington and George Thomas Brooks in Mid-Century Utah - Brooks, Dean
25,99 €
inkl. MwSt.
Versandkostenfrei*
Versandfertig in über 4 Wochen
  • Gebundenes Buch

Lillis Remington and George Thomas Brooks in Mid-Century Utah is a book which chronicles two people who were eyewitnesses and participants in many of the transformations of the twentieth century. It begins with Lillis's childhood in a remote and primitive mining camp in Uintah County in the 1920s. It follows her to Albuquerque, where she may have unwittingly witnessed the Trinity Nuclear test. She worked as a nurse who treated soldiers after the war returning from prison camps with tuberculosis. She went on to work in a company hospital on a sugar plantation in Hawaii, where she witnessed the…mehr

Andere Kunden interessierten sich auch für
Produktbeschreibung
Lillis Remington and George Thomas Brooks in Mid-Century Utah is a book which chronicles two people who were eyewitnesses and participants in many of the transformations of the twentieth century. It begins with Lillis's childhood in a remote and primitive mining camp in Uintah County in the 1920s. It follows her to Albuquerque, where she may have unwittingly witnessed the Trinity Nuclear test. She worked as a nurse who treated soldiers after the war returning from prison camps with tuberculosis. She went on to work in a company hospital on a sugar plantation in Hawaii, where she witnessed the Sugar Strike of 1946 and the cynical importation of labor from the Philippines. After George and Lillis married, Lillis volunteered her child for the polio vaccine trials as she operated the iron lungs at St. Benedict's Hospital in Ogden. The book also describes George's childhood in Sugar House on the periphery of Salt Lake City, and the bitter-cold winter battlefields in Germany in 1945. George taught elementary students at the well-intentioned Intermountain Indian School in Brigham City, and rose to serve as the Superintendent of Schools in Salt Lake City. He and Lillis were active in local politics, their church, and with social issues such as the refugees fleeing war in Southeast Asia. While serving as missionaries in Zimbabwe, George was killed in a traffic accident, which forced Lillis to come to terms with his early death and her own life-altering injuries. There are many foils and backdrops to their story: the eccentricities of Mormon culture, the advance of medicine, the slow acknowledgement of racial injustice in the US, the construction of the Interstate Highway System, and the many people who crossed their paths. Their stories have been pieced together from letters, journals, newspapers, and interviews. They are presented here dispassionately with very little interpretation so that those who knew Lillis and George will recognize them in these pages.
Autorenporträt
Dean Brooks is Canadian. He holds a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Physics, and has worked as a technical writer explaining complex subjects to busy people for three decades. In the late 1990s he first came upon a remarkably simple set of curves that can model how long a political dynasty (or a comic book series) will last, how fast a religion (or an epidemic) will spread, how many new stores WalMart or Burger King will open in the next decade, the growth of the human fetus, the distribution of competing species in an ecosystem, and countless other phenomena. It turned out that these curves had already been observed and given dozens of names in different fields. But how could such simple patterns apply to such a fantastic diversity of phenomena? And why had no one else written about the similarities until now? The search for a unifying explanation led the author to a new view of basic probability, using multiple overlapping Bayesian reference frames and the maximum entropy principle. Based on concepts from physicist Edwin Jaynes, and the mathematician George Spencer-Brown, Dean Brooks has produced a scientific and philosophical manifesto -- a radically new way of looking at the world.