Author: Dowell's (Edinburgh).Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Auction catalogue, books of Hendersyde Park Library, 27 to 28 February 1939
Author: Dowell's (Edinburgh).Henry James in Cambridge
Author: Geoffrey KeynesPublisher:
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Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Library of Natural History
Author: Richard LydekkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
A Bibliography of Lucretius
Author: Cosmo Alexander GordonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The Great European Rip-off
Author: David CraigPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409061353
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In this EU referendum year, it's time for people across Europe to look at what really goes on in Brussels in our name. It has been estimated that the EU costs us around £1,000 billion a year - an incredible £2000 for every man, woman and child in Europe. So what do we get for our money? Politicians and administrators selflessly working to bring us efficient government? Well-targeted regulations that promote economic prosperity? A safe and free society? A well-protected environment? Help for people in poorer countries? Or is our money being squandered by a self-serving euro-elite of unaccountable politicians and incompetent bureaucrats, or else devoured in a feeding frenzy of fraud and corruption where a few lucky insiders become unimaginably rich at our expense? And is the tsunami of regulation pouring out of Brussels in reality strangling industry, destroying jobs, restricting personal freedom, desecrating the environment and further impoverishing the developing world? Using their extensive network of insider sources, David Craig and Matthew Elliott smash through the secrecy and disinformation that are the Brussels hallmark to reveal what our European rulers are really getting up to. The result is a horrifying story of bureaucracy, hypocrisy and kleptocracy - and how we are all suffering as a result.
Transactions of the Bibliographical Society
Author: Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Accounting
Languages : la
Pages : 264
Book Description
List of members in v. 1.
The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius
Author: Stuart GillespiePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827529
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the Nature of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of Epicurus, and one of the most powerful poetic texts of antiquity. After its rediscovery in 1417 it became a controversial and seminal work in successive phases of literary history, the history of science, and the Enlightenment. In this 2007 Cambridge Companion experts in the history of literature, philosophy and science discuss the poem in its ancient contexts and in its reception both as a literary text and as a vehicle for progressive ideas. The Companion is designed both as an accessible handbook for the general reader who wishes to learn about Lucretius, and as a series of stimulating essays for students of classical antiquity and its reception. It is completely accessible to the reader who has only read Lucretius in translation.
The World of the Elseviers, 1580–1712
Author: David William DaviesPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 940151061X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
IN the following pages an attempt has been made to give the essential facts of the history of the Elsevier family, and to show the relations of the printers to the world around them. Printing and publishing history is sometimes written as personal reminiscence, as aesthetic or technical criticism, or as a guide for book collectors. There is something to be said for treating it as a phase of economic or social history, and this treatment has been attempted here. There are difficulties inherent in the task which are not at first apparent. Printers are in touch on the one hand with the world of manufacturing and commerce, and on the other hand with the world of literature and scholarship - with not merely one phase of literature and learning but with a great many. As a result the innocent enthusiast who attempts to follow the activities of a publisher as he moves in the various milieux will constant ly find himself in strange regions he knows nothing about. He will probably wish he had never entered them, and his learned readers will probably wish so, too. So much assistance from friends has been sought and given that the story presented is a mosaic of the learning of others. The writer has reserved for himself only the special province of errors and omissions, and hereby lays claim to all such as may be found.
The Library of Edward Gibbon
Author: Paul Louis BADERThe White Shadow
Author: Andrea EamesPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1846555698
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Tinashe is a young Shona boy living in a small village in rural Rhodesia. The guerilla war of the late 1960s haunts the bushlands, but it only infrequently affects his quiet life; school, swimming in the river, playing with the other kids on the kopje. When his younger sister, Hazvinei, is born, Tinashe knows at once that there is something special about her. Their life in the village, once disturbed only by the occasional visits of his successful uncle and city cousin, Abel, now becomes entangled with the dual forces of the Shona spirit world and the political turmoil of the nation. As Tinashe, Hazvinei and Abel grow older, their destinies entangle in ways they never expected. Tinashe is prepared to follow his sister anywhere - but how far can he go to keep her safe when the forces threatening her are so much darker and more sinister than he suspected?Andrea Eames weaves together folklore and suspense in this compelling tale of a boy struggling to do the right thing in an unpredictable world.