"A biography of gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny. From a young Harvard- and Cambridge-trained historian, the secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii, received a summons to report immediately to Washington, D.C. The Pentagon had reason to believe he was a homosexual, and after a series of humiliating interviews, Kameny,...

"This second edition of "GIS" is thoroughly rewritten and adds two new chapters to respond to today's students' demand for critical engagement with technologies that address relevant issues across several disciplines, and prepares them for higher-level work in geotechnologies. Chapters are arranged to build competence in fundamental skills, explore applications of higher-level managerial and analytical functions that are called upon in public, non-profit,...

A child of immigrants, Abdul El-Sayed grew up feeling a responsibility to help others. He threw himself into the study of medicine and excelled--winning a Rhodes Scholarship, earning two advanced degrees, and landing a tenure-track position at Columbia University. At age thirty, he became the youngest city health official in America, tasked with rebuilding Detroit's health department after years of austerity policies. But El-Sayed found himself disillusioned....

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