The Lives Of Dillon Ripley

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The Lives Of Dillon Ripley

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Author : Roger D. Stone
language : en
Publisher: University Press of New England
Release Date : 2017-06-06

The Lives Of Dillon Ripley written by Roger D. Stone and has been published by University Press of New England this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

A Yale-educated Renaissance man, S. Dillon Ripley was a Òcourtly, determined, hugely ambitious, energetic, funny, and colorful ornithologist, conservationist, and cultural standard-bearerÓ who led the Smithsonian Institution for twenty years, during its greatest period of growth. During his watch, from 1964 to 1984, the SI added eight new museums and seven new research centers and began publication of the Smithsonian magazine. It was RipleyÕs vision that transformed Òthe nationÕs atticÓ from a dusty archive to a vibrant educational and cultural institution, just as he had transformed YaleÕs Peabody museum before it. Prior to his career at the SI, and running parallel with it for the rest of his life, was RipleyÕs work as an ornithologist, begun in New Guinea in the 1930s, continued through his PhD from Harvard in 1943, and culminating in his landmark thirty-year project documenting the bird life of India. His lifelong passion for ornithology led him to positions of leadership in worldwide nature conservation. In the midst of these endeavors he was recruited in 1944 to the Office of Strategic Services, a Yalie club at the outset that became the forerunner of the modern CIA. Posted to Ceylon, he recruited and ran agents who reported from and infiltrated Japanese-held Southeast Asia. Roger D. Stone worked with Ripley on the board of the World Wildlife Fund. He has access to the Ripley familyÕs archives and photos, as well as to the voluminous archives at the Smithsonian and the National Archives, and to over forty hours of transcribed interviews, conducted with Ripley at the Smithsonian.

The Land And Wild Life Of Tropical Asia By S Dillon Ripley And The Editors Of Life With Illustrations

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Author : Sidney Dillon Ripley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965

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The Ornithological Library Of The Late S Dillon Ripley

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

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Things We Ve Begun But Haven T Finished

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Author : Sidney Dillon Ripley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975

Things We Ve Begun But Haven T Finished written by Sidney Dillon Ripley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with categories.

Global Transformations In The Life Sciences 1945 1980

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Author : Patrick Manning
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2018-06-07

Global Transformations In The Life Sciences 1945 1980 written by Patrick Manning and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-07 with Science categories.

The second half of the twentieth century brought extraordinary transformations in knowledge and practice of the life sciences. In an era of decolonization, mass social welfare policies, and the formation of new international institutions such as UNESCO and the WHO, monumental advances were made in both theoretical and practical applications of the life sciences, including the discovery of life’s molecular processes and substantive improvements in global public health and medicine. Combining perspectives from the history of science and world history, this volume examines the impact of major world-historical processes of the postwar period on the evolution of the life sciences. Contributors consider the long-term evolution of scientific practice, research, and innovation across a range of fields and subfields in the life sciences, and in the context of Cold War anxieties and ambitions. Together, they examine how the formation of international organizations and global research programs allowed for transnational exchange and cooperation, but in a period rife with competition and nationalist interests, which influenced dramatic changes in the field as the postcolonial world order unfolded.

Smithsonian Stories

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Author : Wilton S. Dillon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05

Smithsonian Stories written by Wilton S. Dillon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Art categories.

Why is the Smithsonian more than the "Nation's Attic?" Or more than a museum complex? As Wilton S. Dillon shows, the Smithsonian came to be the institution we know today under the twenty-year leadership of "Sun King" S. Dillon Ripley.Ripley aspired to reinvent the Smithsonian as a great universitywith museums. Although little understood by the public at large, it began as a basic research center. The Smithsonian remains a key contributor to the world of higher learning and functions diplomatically as the ministry of culture for the United States. Dillon provides backstage insights into Ripley's quest for the wholeness of knowledge. He describes how he inspired its role as a "theater of ideas as well as artifacts." Under his tutelage, the National Mall became a playground for world intelligentsia, an "intellectual free trade zone" in the shadow of the nation's political capital.Dillon reminds us that interdisciplinary, international Smithsonian symposia foreshadowed twenty-first-century issues and trends. His descriptions of the educational rewards of balancing tradition with the avant-garde are inspiring. As Dillon reminds us, Ripley's twenty-year reign may well have helped spark the waning embers of the Enlightenment.

The Sacred Grove

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Author : Sidney Dillon Ripley
language : en
Publisher: Notion Press
Release Date : 1969

The Sacred Grove written by Sidney Dillon Ripley and has been published by Notion Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with categories.

Japan S Empire Of Birds

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Author : Annika A. Culver
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-03-24

Japan S Empire Of Birds written by Annika A. Culver and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-24 with History categories.

As a transnational history of science, Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology focuses on the political aspects of highly mobile Japanese explorer-scientists, or cosmopolitan gentlemen of science, circulating between Japanese and British/American spaces in the transwar period from the 1920s to 1950s. Annika A. Culver examines a network of zoologists united by their practice of ornithology and aristocratic status. She goes on to explore issues of masculinity and race related to this amidst the backdrop of imperial Japan's interwar period of peaceful internationalism, the rise of fascism, the Japanese takeover of Manchuria, and war in China and the Pacific. Culver concludes by investigating how these scientists repurposed their aims during Japan's Allied Occupation and the Cold War. Inspired by geographer Doreen Massey, themes covered in the volume include social space and place in these specific locations and how identities transform to garner social capital and scientific credibility in transnational associations and travel for non-white scientists.

Prominent Families Of New York

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Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898

Prominent Families Of New York written by Lyman Horace Weeks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with New York (N.Y.) categories.

Rails Of The World

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Author : Sidney Dillon Ripley
language : en
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Release Date : 1977

Rails Of The World written by Sidney Dillon Ripley and has been published by David R. Godine Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Rails (Birds) categories.