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Resultaten voor 'vernon l kellogg'
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Evolution
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Evolution
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Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France (Volume 1) (Edition1)
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Herbert Hoover: The Man and His Work
Vernon L. Kellogg's Herbert Hoover: The Man and His Work is an admiring yet documentary portrait of Hoover before the presidency, presenting him as engineer, organizer, and humanitarian administrator. Written in a lucid Progressive Era prose, the book emphasizes practical intelligence, moral efficiency, and public service, tracing Hoover's rise from mining engineer to leader of Belgian relief and American food conservation during the First World War. Its literary context is the early twentieth-century civic biography: less a private life than an account of character proven through public action. Kellogg was unusually well placed to write such a study. A distinguished Stanford biologist, educator, and public intellectual, he shared with Hoover both institutional connections and wartime administrative experience. His service in relief and food organizations gave him direct knowledge of the immense logistical and ethical pressures surrounding famine prevention, wartime scarcity, and international aid. These experiences shape the book's tone: informed, earnest, and convinced that competent organization could become a form of moral leadership. This volume is recommended to readers interested in Hoover before his later political controversies, as well as students of humanitarianism, Progressive reform, and wartime administration. It offers a valuable contemporary view of how Hoover's reputation was constructed around discipline, efficiency, and service.
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Inheritance in Silkworms
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Inheritance in Silkworms
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... Mallophaga From Birds
€ 31,95 -
... Mallophaga From Birds
€ 14,95 -
Nuova; or, The New Bee
€ 16,50 -
Insect Stories
€ 32,95 -
Elementary Zoology
€ 44,50 -
The Kansas University Quarterly
€ 14,95