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Paul B. Sears: Through a Daughter’s Eyes
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of English, State University of New YorkPaul B. Sears was most at ease with his three children in any outdoor setting. There he pointed out the details of the landscape and the damage done by humans. He encouraged them to explore and deal with challenges. These interactions gave the children a sense of connection with their father that was often otherwise lacking. They also shared experiences on the family farm with Sears’ parents, which provided insight into his childhood. As his career developed, both his extensive academic duties and his popularity as a lecturer and speaker at meetings, which entailed extensive travel, often kept him away from his family. Throughout his life, Sears pursued many interests and learned new skills; his sketches were used to illustrate his books, and he later took up watercolor painting and calligraphy. In his final years, he seemed to be haunted by doubts about personal issues and to be more pessimistic about the future of our ecosystem. However, he left his children with an appreciation of the natural world
as he saw it and respect for his life’s work
Paul B. Sears: Professor
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Anthropology & Department of Geological Sciences, University of MichiganAs a professor at Oberlin College and Yale University, Paul B. Sears taught principles that influenced his students throughout their careers. These included the obligation to disseminate knowledge to others. However, he also believed that no one could teach another all that he or she knew and, rather, should impart an attitude, an approach. He advised students that they must be respected in a specific area of expertise before they could pursue broader interests. The Conservation Program that Sears
established at Yale was innovative by accepting students from varied and nontraditional backgrounds, in accepting women (the author was the first) and in allowing students to take courses in other colleges and schools at the university. Thirty-six years later, the first graduates of the program were able to have reunion at Sears’ home in Taos and realized that they had been privileged to study with a great man
Charles B. Sears
No full textCharles B. Sears, one of the first settlers in Brown\u27s Park. He was a foreman at the Two Bar Ranch for many years. He is standing with a hoe over his shoulder
Apparel Prices 1914-93 and the Hulten/Brueghel Paradox
No full textBackcasting upward bias in price index over long periods of time yields levels of real consumption two or four centuries ago that are implausibly low, raising the possibility that price index bias for important products may have been zero or even negative at some point in the past. This paper studies apparel prices over the long period 1914-93, developing new price indexes based on more than 16,000 data observations from the Sears catalog for that interval. The basic conclusion is that hedonic price indexes for womens' dresses exhibit a rate of increase of many orders of magnitude faster than either the Sears Matched-model index developed from the same source data or as compared to the CPI. The results provided here offer a complement to past research on computer prices, which also found that price changes were contemporaneous with model changes. Just as hedonic price indexes for computers almost always drop faster than matched-model indexes for computers, we have found the opposite relationship for apparel prices, although presumably for the same reason. The Sears matched-model indexes do not exhibit a consistent negative or positive drift relative to the CPI. For womens' apparel the drift is always negative but for mens' apparel there is a turnaround, from negative before 1965 to positive thereafter. Both the matched- model indexes and the CPI rise less rapidly for womens' apparel than for mens' apparel, which would be consistent with the hypothesis that price changes accompanying model changes (and thus linked out of both the Sears matched-model index and of the CPI but not in the hedonic index) are more frequent for womens' apparel, since models change more frequently.
Bibliography of Publications by Paul B. Sears (1891-1990)
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Biology, Denison universityAuthor Institution: Department of Pathology, The Ohio State UniversityPaul B. Sears authored or coauthored more than 550 publications from 1914 to 1988. They included journal articles, abstracts or complete papers presented at meetings, book chapters, books, magazine articles, letters, many book reviews and editorials. Subjects discussed ranged from entomology and cytology to palynology/paleoecology to many aspects of ecology, conservation and conservation education. Numbers of publications peaked in several years of the 1950s, ranging from 20 to 30 per year. This bibliography is largely complete, but items may well have been missed because Sears was so prolific. This listing
was current circa 2005
Paul B. Sears: The Generalist as Teacher
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Botany, Duke UniversityPaul B. Sears’ early ecological interests continued to expand over 70 years into such areas as vegetation mapping, paleoecology, climate change and conservation. Few ecologists saw and understood the interactions of the earth’s biosphere in space and time as broadly as he did. He wrote that the laws of human society and those of nature often are not in harmony, and
something must be done to ensure that the biosphere remains sustainable. His teaching started with his children; continued in the classroom and in one-to-one sessions with graduate students; and extended to his colleagues and the general public through his work in organizations, his lectures and his writing. Sears set an example for ecologists to act as citizens and teachers, as well as investigators
Paul B. Sears: Lessons in Classroom, Field and Living Room
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Biology, University of New MexicoPaul B. Sears was kind and humble. He disliked false pretense and always was appreciative of the common man. He noted that the goal of teaching was to help students along the road so they could surpass the achievements of the teacher. Sears taught that a permanently balanced relationship with the environment was possible by prudent and skillful use of resources to
obtain the maximum good for the longest time. His skills as a speaker, writer and artist enhanced his teaching and publications. A major goal of his teaching was to help students reconstruct the past, appreciate and understand the complexities and interactions of the present and thus knowledgeably predict the futures. Sears was active and still eager to learn and to interact with students even in the last years of his life
Industrial fabrics; a handbook for engineers, purchasing agents and salesmen.
No full textCover-title: Handbook of industrial fabrics. On spine: Wellington Sears fabric handbook.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet
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