Evaluation of environmental controls at a homeless shelter (City Rescue Mission-New Life Inn) associated with a tuberculosis outbreak - Florida / / Stephen B. Martin, Jr. [and three others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910709608503321
• Autore: Martin Stephen B., Jr.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Morgantown, WV : , : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (v, 32 pages) : color illustrations
• Collana: Report ; ; no. 2012-0155-3180
• Soggetti: Shelters for the homeless - Heating and ventilation - Florida - Duval County; Homeless persons - Florida - Duval County; Tuberculosis - Transmission - Florida - Duval County
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "July 2013."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 21-22).

Tap dancing America : a cultural history / / Constance Valis Hill

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910966046803321
• Autore: Hill Constance Valis
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, N.Y., : Oxford University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 9786612731112; 9780199745890; 0199745897; 9780190225384; 0190225386; 9781282731110; 1282731114; 9780199742189; 0199742189
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (612 p.)
• Disciplina: 792.7/8
• Soggetti: Tap dancing - United States - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-408) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Trickster Gods and rapparees (1650-1900) -- Buck-and-wing (turn of the century) -- Over-the-top and in-the-trenches (teens) -- Simply full of jazz (twenties) -- Swing time (thirties) -- Jumpin' jive (forties) -- Beat, bebop, birth of the cool (fifties) -- Tap happenings (sixties) -- Nostalgia, and all that tap (seventies) -- Black and blue (eighties) -- Noise and funk (nineties) -- Hoofing in heels (millennium).
• Sommario/riassunto: This is the first comprehensive, fully documented, intercultural history of tap dance, a uniquely American art form, that explores all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that evolved from Afro-Irish percussive step dances like the jig, gioube, buck-and-wing, and juba to the work of contemporary tap luminaries. Tap dance evolved from the oral traditions and expressive cultures of the West Africans and the Irish that converged and collided in America, and was perpetuated by such key features as the tap challenge—any competition or showdown in which dancers compete against each other before an audience of ; spectators or judges. The book begins with an account of a buck dance challenge between Bill (“Bojangles”) Robinson and Harry Swinton at Brooklyn’s Bijou Theatre, in 1900, and proceeds decade by decade through the twentieth century. Vividly described are tap’s musical styles and steps—from buck-and-wing and ragtime stepping at the turn of the century; jazz tapping to the rhythms of hot jazz, swing, and bebop in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s; to hip-hop-inflected hitting and hoofing in heels (high and low) from the 1990s up to today. Tap dancing has long been considered “a man’s game,” and this book is the first history to highlight such outstanding female artists as Ada Overton Walker, Kitty O’Neill, and Alice Whitman, at the turn of the twentieth century, as well as the pioneering women composers of the tap renaissance, in the 1970s and 1980s, and the hard-hitting rhythm-tapping women of the millennium.

The reader of gentlemen's mail : Herbert O. Yardley and the birth of American codebreaking / / David Kahn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910966717303321
• Autore: Kahn David <1930-2024.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2004
• ISBN: 1-281-72207-3; 9786611722074; 0-300-12988-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxi, 318 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 940.4/8673/092; B
• Soggetti: Cryptographers - United States; World War, 1914-1918 - Cryptography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-304) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Short Course in Codes and Ciphers -- How Yardley Wrote His Best-Seller -- 1. All-American Boy -- 2. His Life's Work -- 3. A History of American Intelligence before ; Yardley -- 4. A Rival -- 5. Staffers, Shorthand, and Secret Ink -- 6. The Executive -- 7. Morning in New York -- 8. Yardley's Triumph -- 9. The Fruits of His Victory -- 10. The Busy Suburbanite -- 11. End of a Dream -- 12. The Best-Seller -- 13. The Critics, the Effects -- 14. Grub Street -- 15. A Law Aimed at Yardley -- 16. Hollywood -- 17. China -- 18. Canada -- 19. A Restaurant of His Own -- 20. Playing Poker -- 21. The Measure of a Man -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: One of the most colorful and controversial figures in American intelligence, Herbert O. Yardley (1889-1958) gave America its best form of information, but his fame rests more on his indiscretions than on his achievements. In this highly readable biography, a premier historian of military intelligence tells Yardley's story and evaluates his impact on the American intelligence community. Yardley established the nation's first codebreaking agency in 1917, and his solutions helped the United States win a major diplomatic victory at the 1921 disarmament conference. But when his unit was closed in 1929 because "gentlemen do not read each other's mail," Yardley wrote a best-selling memoir that introduced-and disclosed-codemaking and codebreaking to the public. David Kahn de-scribes the vicissitudes of Yardley's career, including his work in China and Canada, offers a capsule history of American intelligence up to World War I, and gives a short course in classical codes and ciphers. He debunks the accusations that the publication of Yardley's book caused Japan to change its codes and ciphers and that Yardley traitorously sold his solutions to Japan. And he asserts that Yardley's disclosures not only did not hurt but actually helped American codebreaking during World War II.