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A Spirit Of Service - Purdue University And The United States Military

de John Norberg

~~36,49€~~ 32,84€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 A richly illustrated, comprehensive look at the intersection of this great land-grant university and the US military since classes first began in 1874. This book examines how Purdue Boilermakers have played a consequential role in defending democracy, freedom, and independence in times of war and great duress.
A Spirit Of Service - Purdue University And The United States Military

de John Norberg

~~48,67€~~ 43,80€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 A richly illustrated, comprehensive look at the intersection of this great land-grant university and the US military since classes first began in 1874. This book examines how Purdue Boilermakers have played a consequential role in defending democracy, freedom, and independence in times of war and great duress.
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Spirit Of Service - Purdue University And The United States Military

de John Norberg

~~46,36€~~ 41,72€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 A richly illustrated, comprehensive look at the intersection of this great land-grant university and the US military since classes first began in 1874. This book examines how Purdue Boilermakers have played a consequential role in defending democracy, freedom, and independence in times of war and great duress.
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Boiler Up - A University President In The Public Square

de Mitch Daniels

~~46,36€~~ 37,09€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 When former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels was named Purdue University’s twelfth president, he became one of a small handful of nationally renowned figures to lead an institution of higher education. In an era when university presidents had largely abandoned the role of public intellectual, Daniels immediately captured broad attention for his willingness to take a thoughtful stand on America’s most pressing challenges—in academia and far beyond.Boiler Up: A University President in the Public Square offers readers a fascinating compendium of commencement addresses, published columns, and transcripts of speeches and hosted events spanning ten years of insights and insightful interactions that put Mitch Daniels front and center among American thought leaders. Throughout the book, Daniels’s sharp intellect, incisive analysis, and delightful sense of humor reign supreme. Via embedded QR codes, readers can "attend" recorded content, including evenings with Condoleezza Rice, Garry Kasparov, Walter Isaacson, and other fascinating people. Whether the reader seeks lessons on leadership or immersion in engaging ideas, Boiler Up is a tour de force of transformative thinking.Proceeds from the sales of Boiler Up support the scholarship fund at Purdue Polytechnic High Schools.
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Rocket Lab - Maurice Zucrow, Purdue University, And America’S Race To Space

de Michael G. Smith

~~46,36€~~ 37,09€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 Focuses on the golden era of space exploration between 1946 and 1966, specifically the life and times of Purdue Universityâ€™s Dr Maurice J. Zucrow, a pioneering teacher and researcher in aerospace engineering. This book elevates Zucrow and the central role he played in getting the United States to space.
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Edward Charles Elliott, Educator

de Frank K. Burrin

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 A study of the 50-year career of Edward Charles Elliott is a study of the development of American education. Elliott had experience as a high school and college teacher, school system superintendent, state college system chancellor, and president of a Big Ten university, all during a period of change in American education.
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The Dean - A Biography Of A.A. Potter

de Robert B. Eckles

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 More than 20,000 engineering students at Purdue University have been touched in some way by the ides or the warm personality of Andrey A. Potter, who served for 33 years as dean of the Schools of Engineering at Purdue, the world's largest engineering institution.
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The Hovde Years - A Biography Of Frederick L. Hovde

de Robert W. Topping

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 This biography details Hovde's life and times from his birth at Erie, Pennsylvania, through his boyhood at Devils Lake, North Dakota, and includes his student days at the University of Minnesota and in England and Europe as a Rhodes scholar. In addition, it outlines his career from the time he returned to the United States in 1932.
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Wbaa - 100 Years As The Voice Of Purdue

de Angie Klink

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 Documents the fascinating history of WBAA, Indianaâ€™s first radio station founded at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, on April 4, 1922. Richly illustrated with more than 150 photos, the book chronicles the stationâ€™s evolution over the years, while highlighting the staff, students, and volunteers significant to WBAAâ€™s success.
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Pledge And Promise - Celebrating The Bond And Heritage Of Fraternity, Sorority, And Cooperative Life At Purdue University

de Angie Klink

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 Documents the important historical significance of fraternity, sorority, and cooperative life at Purdue University. Featuring more than 250 photos, this pictorial volume tells the fascinating stories of how Greek and cooperative organizations have evolved, while honoring their core values since 1875.
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Purdue At 150 - A Visual History Of Student Life

de Adriana Harmeyer, David M. Hovde, Neal Harmeyer e Sammie L. Morris

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 Tells Purdue's story through rare images, artifacts, and words. Authors culled decades of student papers, from scrapbooks, yearbooks, letters, and newspapers to historical photographs and memorabilia preserved in the Purdue University Libraries Virginia Archives. Many of the images and artifacts included have never been published.
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Scattering The Seeds Of Knowledge - The Words And Works Of Indiana''S Pioneer County Extension Agents

de Frederick Whitford

~~60,94€~~ 48,75€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 Chronicles the tales of the first county Extension agents, from 1912 to 1939. Their story brings readers back to a day when Extension was little more than words on paper, when county agents traveled the muddy back roads, stopping at each farm, introducing themselves to the farmer and his family.
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Scattering The Seeds Of Knowledge - The Words And Works Of Indianaâ€™S Pioneer County Extension Agents

de Frederick Whitford

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 Chronicles the tales of the first county Extension agents, from 1912 to 1939. Their story brings readers back to a day when Extension was little more than words on paper, when county agents traveled the muddy back roads, stopping at each farm, introducing themselves to the farmer and his family.
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A Purdue Icon - Creation, Life, And Legacy

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 An edited volume that speaks to the history of the Purdue Power Plant, from the initial need for increased power and heat to meet a growing campus and its Romanesque, to the people who worked to bring heat and power to the campus by keeping the boilers up and the students who experienced the principles and applications of mechanical engineering through active learning.
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The Deans' Bible - Five Purdue Women And Their Quest For Equality

de Angie Klink

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 Like pearls threaded one-by-one to form a necklace, five women successively nurtured students on the Purdue University campus in Americaâ€™s heartland from the 1930s to the 1990s. Individually, each became a legendary dean of women or dean of students. The Deansâ€™ Bible serves as a guidebook, brimming with stories of these courageous women who led by example and lived their convictions.
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Enriching The Hoosier Farm Family - A Photo History Of Indiana'S Early County Extension Agents

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 Compiled from original county agent records discovered in Purdue Universityâ€™s Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center, Enriching Hoosier Farms and Families includes hundreds of rare, never-before-published photographs and anecdotal information about how county agents overcame their constituentsâ€™ reluctance to change.
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Ross-Ade - Their Purdue Stories, Stadium, And Legacies

de Robert C. Kriebel

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 Dave Ross (1871-1943) and George Ade (1866-1944) were trustees, distinguished alumni and benefactors of Purdue University. Their friendship began in 1922 and led to their giving land and money for 1924 construction of Ross-Ade Stadium, a 70,000 seat athletic landmark on the West Lafayette campus.
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An Enduring Quest - The Story Of Purdue Industrial Engineers

de Ferdinand F. Leimkuhler

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 Describes how industrial engineering evolved by developing methods and principles for the planning, design, and control of production and service systems. This book focuses on the growth of the discipline at Purdue University where it helped shape the university itself and made substantial contributions to the industrialization of America.
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For The Good Of The Farmer - A Biography Of John Harrison Skinner, Dean Of Purdue Agriculture

de Frederick Whitford

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 The key role that farming plays in the economy of Indiana today owes much to the work of John Harrison Skinner. Skinner was a pioneering educator and administrator who transformed the study of agriculture at Purdue University during the first decades of the twentieth century. From humble origins, occupying one building and 150 acres at the start of his career, the agriculture program grew to spread over ten buildings and 1,000 acres by the end of his tenure as its first dean.
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Bridges And More - Celebrating 125 Years Of Civil Engineering At Purdue

de Angie Klink

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 Takes the reader from the early years of civil engineering when Purdue's campus consisted of a smattering of red brick buildings surrounded by grassy meadows and roads flanked by white, wooden fences, to today's state-of-the-art facilities such as the Bowen Laboratory for Large-Scale Civil Engineering Research.
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The Heartbeat Of The University - 125 Years Of Purdue Bands

de John Norberg

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 Celebrating 125 years of Purdue Bands, this beautifully-illustrated book (which includes a musical CD) traces the history of Purdue Universityâ€™s Department of Bands from its humble origins as a drum unit for the student army training corps to the 2010 appearance of the All-American Marching Band as leader of the Macyâ€™s Day Parade in New York.
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Divided Paths, Common Ground - The Story Of Mary Matthews And Lella Gaddis, Pioneering Purdue Women Who Introduced Science Into The Home

de Angie Klink

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 Based on extensive oral history and archival research, this sheds new light on the important role female staff and faculty at Purdue University played in improving the quality of life for rural women during the first half of the twentieth century. It is also a fascinating story, engagingly told, of two very different personalities united in a common goal.
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Uncle - My Journey With John Purdue

de Irena Mccammon Scott

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 Describes Purdue's travels to diverse places where she lived in order to learn about the mysterious relative known in her family as Uncle. This book examines her beginning among illiterate, immigrant, Pennsylvania mountain-hollow folks. It describes the destitute family's journey into Ohio and her ascent from local entrepreneur to national figure.
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Grand Old Man Of Purdue University And Indiana Agriculture - A Biography Of William Carol Latte

de Andrew G. Martin e Frederick Whitford

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 William Carol Latta became the driving force behind Purdue's world-famous School of Agriculture and initiated extension services that have lasted for more than a century. In 1890, he laid out the first permanent soil fertility field experiments, inaugurating a system of research considered one of the best in the country at that time.
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