Author: Prescott RowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Where to Live Round London (southern Side).
Author: Prescott RowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Gravesend, the Water-gate of London
Author: Alexander John PhilipPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gravesend (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Hints to Householders
Author: Alfred BowyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Habitations
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Semi-Detached London
Author: Alan A JacksonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351175130
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Originally published in 1973, Semi-Detached London looks at the great suburban expansion of London between the two world wars. The book covers all aspects of urban history, presenting an authoritative and balanced account of the Great Suburban Age, and the final uninhibited forty years before the Green Belt and Development Plan. The roles of the speculative builder, the estate developer and the local authorities receive careful attention and the author’s special knowledge of London’s transport systems ensures that the leading part they played is fully developed. Students of social, urban and transport history will find this book a valuable source of reference.
British Books
Author: The Literary Year-book
Author: I Died for Beauty
Author: Marjorie SenechalPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199910839
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
In the vein of A Beautiful Mind, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, and Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, this volume tells the poignant story of the brilliant, colorful, controversial mathematician named Dorothy Wrinch. Drawing on her own personal and professional relationship with Wrinch and archives in the United States, Canada, and England, Marjorie Senechal explores the life and work of this provocative, scintillating mind. Senechal portrays a woman who was learned, restless, imperious, exacting, critical, witty, and kind. A young disciple of Bertrand Russell while at Cambridge, the first women to receive a doctor of science degree from Oxford University, Wrinch's contributions to mathematical physics, philosophy, probability theory, genetics, protein structure, and crystallography were anything but inconsequential. But Wrinch, a complicated and ultimately tragic figure, is remembered today for her much publicized feud with Linus Pauling over the molecular architecture of proteins. Pauling ultimately won that bitter battle. Yet, Senechal reminds us, some of the giants of mid-century science--including Niels Bohr, Irving Langmuir, D'Arcy Thompson, Harold Urey, and David Harker--took Wrinch's side in the feud. What accounts for her vast if now-forgotten influence? What did these renowned thinkers, in such different fields, hope her model might explain? Senechal presents a sympathetic portrait of the life and work of a luminous but tragically flawed character. At the same time, she illuminates the subtler prejudices Wrinch faced as a feisty woman, profound culture clashes between scientific disciplines, ever-changing notions of symmetry and pattern in science, and the puzzling roles of beauty and truth.
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description