Author: United States. Weather Bureau
Publisher:
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Category : Climatology
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Proceedings of the Second Convention of Weather Bureau Officials Held at Milwaukee, Wis., August 27, 28, 29, 1901
Author: United States. Weather Bureau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climatology
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climatology
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Proceedings of the ... Convention of Weather Bureau Officials
Author: United States. Weather Bureau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Proceedings of the ... Convention of Weather Bureau Officials
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Looking Forward
Author: Jamie L. Pietruska
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022650915X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
In the decades after the Civil War, the world experienced monumental changes in industry, trade, and governance. As Americans faced this uncertain future, public debate sprang up over the accuracy and value of predictions, asking whether it was possible to look into the future with any degree of certainty. In Looking Forward, Jamie L. Pietruska uncovers a culture of prediction in the modern era, where forecasts became commonplace as crop forecasters, “weather prophets,” business forecasters, utopian novelists, and fortune-tellers produced and sold their visions of the future. Private and government forecasters competed for authority—as well as for an audience—and a single prediction could make or break a forecaster’s reputation. Pietruska argues that this late nineteenth-century quest for future certainty had an especially ironic consequence: it led Americans to accept uncertainty as an inescapable part of both forecasting and twentieth-century economic and cultural life. Drawing together histories of science, technology, capitalism, environment, and culture, Looking Forward explores how forecasts functioned as new forms of knowledge and risk management tools that sometimes mitigated, but at other times exacerbated, the very uncertainties they were designed to conquer. Ultimately Pietruska shows how Americans came to understand the future itself as predictable, yet still uncertain.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022650915X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
In the decades after the Civil War, the world experienced monumental changes in industry, trade, and governance. As Americans faced this uncertain future, public debate sprang up over the accuracy and value of predictions, asking whether it was possible to look into the future with any degree of certainty. In Looking Forward, Jamie L. Pietruska uncovers a culture of prediction in the modern era, where forecasts became commonplace as crop forecasters, “weather prophets,” business forecasters, utopian novelists, and fortune-tellers produced and sold their visions of the future. Private and government forecasters competed for authority—as well as for an audience—and a single prediction could make or break a forecaster’s reputation. Pietruska argues that this late nineteenth-century quest for future certainty had an especially ironic consequence: it led Americans to accept uncertainty as an inescapable part of both forecasting and twentieth-century economic and cultural life. Drawing together histories of science, technology, capitalism, environment, and culture, Looking Forward explores how forecasts functioned as new forms of knowledge and risk management tools that sometimes mitigated, but at other times exacerbated, the very uncertainties they were designed to conquer. Ultimately Pietruska shows how Americans came to understand the future itself as predictable, yet still uncertain.
Monthly List of Publications
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Division of Publications
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Report of Congressional Printing Investigation Commission Created by the Act Approved March 3, 1905, Making Appropriations to Supply Deficiencies, Etc
Author: United States. Printing investigation commission
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1422
Book Description
Report of Congressional Printing Investigation Commission Created by the Act Approved March 3, 1905, Making Appropriations to Supply Deficiencies, Etc: Appendix and Preliminary report: Letter of inquiry to executive departments; Replies of departments; Surplus copies of departmental editions of government publications; Preliminary report of Printing investigation commission (59th Cong., 1st sess. Senate rpt. 2153); Regulations of Joint committee on printing; Index
Author:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Appendix and Preliminary report: Letter of inquiry to executive departments; Replies of departments; Surplus copies of departmental editions of government publications; Preliminary report of Printing investigation commission (59th Cong., 1st sess. Senate rpt. 2153); Regulations of Joint committee on printing; Index
Author: United States. Printing Investigation Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Bulletin
Author:
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Category : Meteorology, Agricultural
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology, Agricultural
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Symons's Meteorological Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description