Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Character
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Lectures and Biographical Sketches
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Character
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Biographical Lectures
Author: George DawsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Water
Author: Giulio BoccalettiPublisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 1524748234
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Spanning millennia and continents, a revealing history that “tackles the most important story of our time: our relationship with water in a world of looming scarcity” (Kelly McEvers, NPR Host). "Far more than a biography of its nominal subject ... The book stands as a compelling history of civilization itself." —The Wall Street Journal Book Review Writing with authority and brio, Giulio Boccaletti—honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford—shrewdly combines environmental and social history, beginning with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates Rivers. Even as he describes how these societies were made possible by sea-level changes from the last glacial melt, he incisively examines how this type of farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping, which, in turn, led to a population explosion and labor specialization. We see with clarity how irrigation’s structure informed social structure (inventions such as the calendar sprung from agricultural necessity); how in ancient Greece, the communal ownership of wells laid the groundwork for democracy; how the Greek and Roman experiences with water security resulted in systems of taxation; and how the modern world as we know it began with a legal framework for the development of water infrastructure. Extraordinary for its monumental scope and piercing insightfulness, Water: A Biography richly enlarges our understanding of our relationship to—and fundamental reliance on—the most elemental substance on earth.
Biographies of the Kings of Judah. Twelve Lectures
Author: James Augustus HESSEY (Archdeacon of Middlesex.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Biographical Lectures
Author: George DawsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781345506556
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
BIOGRAPHICAL LECTURES
Author: George 1821-1876 DawsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781360601762
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
The Last Lecture
Author: Randy PauschPublisher:
ISBN: 9780340978504
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Biographical Lectures
Author: Lectures and Biographical Sketches
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
CONTENTS Demonology Aristocracy Perpetual Forces Character Education The Superlative The Sovereignty of Ethics The Preacher The Man of Letters The Scholar Plutarch Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England Chardon Street Convention Ezra Ripley, D. D. Mary Moody Emerson Samuel Hoar Thoreau Carlyle George L. Stearns Notes
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson