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Grrrrand congrès hosmoeopathique tenu dans la salle Franklin les 28, 29 et 30 août 1854
Author: 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.
The First Three Sections of Newton's Principia
Author: Isaac NewtonPublisher:
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Category : Curves, Plane
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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A Century of Dishonor
Author: Helen Hunt JacksonPublisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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The Subject of Modernity
Author: Anthony J. CascardiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521423786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The question of modernity has provoked a vigorous debate in the work of thinkers from Hegel to Habermas. Anthony J. Cascardi offers an historical account of the origins and transformations of the rational subject of self as it is represented in Descartes, Cervantes, Pascal, Hobbes and the Don Juan myth.
Helen Hunt Jackson
Author: Kate PhillipsPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520218048
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Ramona, continuously in print for over a century, has become a cultural icon, but Jackson's prolific career left us with much more, notably her achievements as a prose writer and her work as an early activist on behalf of Native Americans. This long-overdue biography of Jackson's remarkable life and times reintroduces a distinguished figure in American letters and restores Helen Hunt Jackson to her rightful place in history.".
The Search for Social Peace
Author: Judith F. StonePublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438421389
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
During the last one hundred years, programmatic social reform legislation has increasingly been accepted as an essential economic, social and political component of advanced capitalist nations. The Search for Social Peace investigates the reform movement in France—from its origins in the 1890s until the First World War—and details the struggle to end class conflict and achieve social peace. Who the reformers were, what they argued and how successful they were in fulfilling their promises are among the questions answered in The Search for Social Peace. Facing the pressures of an industrializing economy and the rise of an active, enfranchised working class, French reformers coalesced into a parliamentary force which, by 1910, could claim passage of a number of major reform laws. Judith Stone examines the results of this reform effort and demonstrates why legislation failed to alter deeply entrenched patterns in labor relations. Her study deepens our understanding of the social and political stalemate during the Third Republic. Social legislation, its cost and impact on the labor market and labor relations, is again the subject of intense debate. The current political climate makes all the more relevant the earlier reform effort, its supporters, their goals, their opponents—all of which are covered in this lucid work.
Divided Existence and Complex Society
Author: Jan Hendrik BergPublisher: Humanities Press International
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Families in Jeopardy
Author: Roddey ReidPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804722247
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This interdisciplinary study shows how a new commercial and learned print culture attempted to write and regulate individual and collective practices in terms of a master idiom of family, sexuality, and gender upon which a post-revolutionary national community would turn. Offering a radical new approach to family and textuality in the field of cultural and literary studies, the author argues that from its very inception this print culture - from domestic manuals to public health reports and, most notably, prose fiction - promoted new norms of behavior and selfhood, not through narratives of idealized family life, but instead by means of a rhetoric of danger, lack, and pathology. The book follows familial discourse as it assigns deficient or illicit behaviors to ever wider social groups, from the Old Regime nobility and the traditional bourgeoisie to the new middle classes, urban workers, and the peasants in the countryside to, finally, the new social elites of the late nineteenth century. The author describes how the lack of normative family and sexuality became the primary tactic for designating social others within the social body and for reworking social and gender identities so as to authorize new knowing practices and expertise and new objects of knowledge and discipline. Furthermore, through analyses of novels by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Sue, Balzac, Sand, Zola, and Gide, the author demonstrates that the peculiar force of the French novel resided in its power to reach wide, newly literate audiences and to inscribe new identities and desires through the reading process. Finally, the book proposes the provocative thesis that because of these tales of threatened or failed family life the domestic conjugal household has never "worked," even down to our time; it has always been in crisis, endangered by forces from without and within, and thus in constant "need" of protection and renewal.
The Country Parson ; The Temple
Author: George HerbertPublisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809122981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
George Herbert (1593-1633) was an Anglican priest, poet and essayist--truly one of the most profound spiritual masters in the English tradition. His spirituality was a synthesis of Evangelical and Catholic piety.