Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description
Catalogue of the Technical Reference Library of Works on Printing and the Allied Arts
Author: St. Bride Foundation Institute. Technical Reference LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Augustus De Morgan, Polymath
Author: Karen AttarPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1805113291
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
When Augustus De Morgan died in 1871, he was described as ‘one of the profoundest mathematicians in the United Kingdom’ and even as ‘the greatest of our mathematicians’. But he was far more than just a mathematician. Because much of his voluminous written output on various subjects was scattered throughout journals and encyclopaedias, the breadth of his interests and contributions has been underappreciated by historians. Now, renewed interest in De Morgan’s life and work has coincided with the digitization of his extensive library, revealing the extent to which he pioneered and influenced the development of not merely mathematics but also logic, astronomy, the history of mathematics, education, and bibliography. This edited collection celebrates De Morgan as a polymath. Drawing together multiple elements of his activity from a range of publications and archives, its contributors re-assess his academic work, his place in his intellectual environment, and his legacy. The result offers new insight into De Morgan himself as well as the wider circles in which he moved, including his family life.
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1524733148
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Americanah gives us this powerful statement about feminism today—written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted to know how to raise her baby girl to be a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie’s letter of response: fifteen invaluable suggestions—direct, wryly funny, and perceptive—for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. Filled with compassionate guidance and advice, it gets right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century, and starts a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today. A Skimm Reads Pick ● An NPR Best Book of the Year
Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years ...
Author: British MuseumPublisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Developments in collection building in university libraries in Western Europe
Author: Willem R. H. KoopsPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111514544
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog
Author: Columbia University. Libraries. Library of the School of Library ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
The Los Angeles Central Library
Author: Kenneth A. BreischPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606064908
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
In the most comprehensive investigation of the Los Angeles Public Library’s early history and architectural genesis ever undertaken, Kenneth Breisch chronicles the institution’s first six decades, from its founding as a private library association in 1872 through the completion of the iconic Central Library building in 1933. During this time, the library evolved from an elite organization ensconced in two rooms in downtown LA into one of the largest public library systems in the United States—with architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue’s building, a beloved LA landmark, as its centerpiece. Goodhue developed a new style, fully integrating the building’s sculptural and epigraphic program with its architectural forms to express a complex iconography. Working closely with sculptor Lee Oskar Lawrie and philosopher Hartley Burr Alexander, he created a great civic monument that, combined with the library’s murals, embodies an overarching theme: the light of learning. “A building should read like a book, from its title entrance to its alley colophon,” wrote Alexander—a narrative approach to design that serves as a key to understanding Goodhue’s architectural gem. Breisch draws on a wealth of primary source material to tell the story of one of the most important American buildings of the twentieth century and illuminates the formation of an indispensible modern public institution: the American public library.
Author: British Library
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