Author: American Surety Company of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Office buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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American Surety Company of New York
Author: American Surety Company of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Office buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Polk's Bankers Encyclopedia
Author: New England Chronology
Author: Alden BradfordPublisher: Boston, S. G. Simpkins
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Spectral Arctic
Author: Shane McCorristinePublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787352455
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships.
Alumni History of the University of North Carolina
Author: University of North Carolina (1793-1962)Publisher:
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Streets with a Story
Author: Eric A. WillatsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780951187104
Category : Islington (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Parochial History of Cornwall
Author: Davies GilbertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians
Author: Lucian Lamar KnightPublisher:
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Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Official Register of the United States
Author: Ramanujan
Author: Srinivasa Ramanujan AiyangarPublisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 9780821891254
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The letters that Ramanujan wrote to G. H. Hardy on January 16 and February 27, 1913, are two of the most famous letters in the history of mathematics. These and other letters introduced Ramanujan and his remarkable theorems to the world and stimulated much research, especially in the 1920s and 1930s. This book brings together many letters to, from, and about Ramanujan. The letters came from the National Archives in Delhi, the Archives in the State of Tamil Nadu, and a variety of other sources. Helping to orient the reader is the extensive commentary, both mathematical and cultural, by Berndt and Rankin; in particular, they discuss in detail the history, up to the present day, of each mathematical result in the letters. Containing many letters that have never been published before, this book will appeal to those interested in Ramanujan's mathematics as well as those wanting to learn more about the personal side of his life. Ramanujan: Letters and Commentary was selected for the CHOICE list of Outstanding Academic Books for 1996.