This item pertains to a 494-page first draft manuscript for a general-science textbook entitled From Above the Web: A New Look at Physics and its Extensions, copyright 1975 by the Vancouver BC authors: Stephen Arthur, James Atkins, Mark Termes, and Lorne Whitehead. Funded by an OFY ’75 grant. 

The proposal for the grant originated with UBC second-year undergraduate student Stephen Arthur (ne Stephen Arthur Bowlsby), who envisioned a supplementary science book for higher education that would use flowcharts to show how the major ideas in science develop from one another. Each node of the flowcharts corresponded to an explanatory essay.

As this manuscript has never been available to archive researchers, the originator and co-author, Stephen Arthur (ne Bowlsby), has posted parts of it here as fair use to memorialize, preserve, and rescue the experience and cultural phenomenon.

The grant:

 “ In the early seventies Canada was the first western industrialized country to increase spending on short-term job creation programs. In contrast to the policy legacy of short-term public works projects, programs such as Opportunities for Youth and the Local Initiatives Program stressed the participation of the unemployed on projects that would promote "meaningful work" and "community betterment". The direction of job creation policy changed dramatically in the mid-seventies. In the context of stagflation and rising unemployment, there was less funding for job creation and the emphasis of the program shifted to "real work" on infrastructure projects and private sector initiatives." -- MAKING WORK: FEDERAL JOB CREATION POLICIES IN THE 1970s by Jennifer Marguerite Keck, Doctor of Philosophy 1995, Graduate Department of Social Work, University of Toronto 

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