The American Past Presented

john steinbeck: friend of the american common man

in his last years of life americans had almost forgotton steinbeck, and those who had not, occasionally criticized him for supporting and praising the u. s. military intervention in the vietnam war. althought ateinbeck incorporates different themes into his works, each one bears many signs of his concern and sympathy for america and the american common people in particular. steinbecks to a god ...

The Future of the Past: Preservation in American Research Libraries

The Commission on Preservation and Access, a program of the Council on Library and Information Resources, supports the efforts of libraries and archives to save endangered portions of their paper-based collections and to meet the new preservation challenges of the digital environment. Working with institutions around the world, CLIR disseminates knowledge of best preservation practices and prom...

Draft The Past Hypothesis and the Knowledge Asymmetry Presented at the Rutgers’ Foundations of Statistical Mechanics

Why is our knowledge of the past so much more ‘expansive’ (to pick a suitably vague term) than our knowledge of the future, and what is the best way to capture the difference(s) (i.e., in what sense is knowledge of the past more ‘expansive’)? One could reasonably approach these questions by giving necessary conditions for different kinds of knowledge, and showing how some were satisfied by cert...

Publication bias in abstracts presented to the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

PURPOSE To examine possible causes of publication bias in the orthopaedic literature so as to avoid inappropriate clinical decisions based on reviews of the literature. METHODS Two reviewers independently reviewed abstracts presented to the 1999 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons annual meeting. Data pertaining to sample size, statistical significance, study setting, country of origin, ...

Understanding Past and Present Changes in Latin American Cities