Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron ActonPublisher: London : Longmans, Green
ISBN:
Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Selections from the Correspondence of the First Lord Acton
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron ActonPublisher: London : Longmans, Green
ISBN:
Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The System Of The World
Author: Neal StephensonPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446440443
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 917
Book Description
Neal Stephenson follows his highly-praised historical novels, Quicksilver and The Confusion, with the extraordinary third and final volume of the Baroque Cycle. The year is 1714. Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England, where he joins forces with his friend Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with 'Infernal Devices' - time bombs. As Daniel and Newton conspire, an increasingly vicious struggle is waged for England's Crown: who will take control when the ailing queen dies? Tories and Whigs clash as one faction jockeys to replace Queen Anne with 'The Pretender' James Stuart, and the other promotes the Hanoverian dynasty of Princess Caroline. Meanwhile, a long-simmering dispute between Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz comes to a head, with potentially cataclysmic consequences. Wildly inventive, brilliantly conceived, The System of the World is the final volume in Neal Stephenson's hugely ambitious and compelling saga. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters in a time of genius, discovery and change, the Baroque Cycle is a magnificent and unique achievement.
Engraved on Steel
Author: Basil HunnisettPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429859058
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
First published in 1998, Engraved on Steel focuses on engraving and engravers, exploring the use of steel engraving in both the decorative arts and in printing, Basil Hunnisett also describes the context of the steel engraver’s work. The processes by which steel engraving became one of the most widely used forms of printing in the 19th century are described in detail as the developments in the print industry, paper manufacture and publishing that determined its history. The activities of print publishers are also examined, including those of art unions.
The First Three Sections of Newton's Principia
Author: Isaac NewtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Curves, Plane
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Poems on Several Occasions
Author: Stephen DuckLiberalism in Nineteenth Century Europe
Author: Alan KahanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403937648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
'Votes should be weighed, not counted', Nineteenth-century liberals argued. This study analyzes parliamentary suffrage debates in England, France and Germany, showing that liberals throughout Europe used a distinctive political language, 'the discourse of capacity', to limit political participation. This language defined liberals, and they used it to define and limit full citizenship. The rise of consumer culture at the end of the century drove the discourse of capacity from politics, but it survives today in education and the professions.
Dictionnaire Napoleon
Author: Jean F. TulardPublisher:
ISBN: 9780828824910
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Great Historical Geographical and Poetical Dictionary
Author: Louis MoreriPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415200462
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
CRITICAL HISTORY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
Author: RICHARD. SIMONPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033286210
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Barefoot Through Mauretania
Author: Odette Du PuigaudeauPublisher: Hardinge Simpole Limited
ISBN: 9781843822011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Odette du Puigaudeau is best known for her major ethnographic work, Arts et Coutumes des Maures, a detailed study, in words and drawings, of the cultural world of the nomads of Mauretania. The present work explains how she came to write it. Barefoot Through Mauretania is an account of her first journey across the country by camel in 1933-4, with her life-long companion, Marion Senones. The book records the adventures of the two women during that year, often with a touch of humour. Above all, however, it presents a picture of a way of life that has, as they feared, almost vanished, and their determination that it should be recorded. Odette du Puigaudeau wrote a number of other books on different aspects of nomad life, such as the salt caravans and date markets, as well as articles on prehistoric rock-drawings, and a charming tribute to her pet leopard, Rachid."