Author: John Pringle NICHOL (Professor of Practical Astronomy in the University of Glasgow.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Views of Astronomy. Seven lectures, etc
Author: John Pringle NICHOL (Professor of Practical Astronomy in the University of Glasgow.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The American Naturalist
Author: Seveneves
Author: Neal StephensonPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062190415
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic—a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years. What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . . Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth. A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.
Modern cookery ... Seventh edition, etc
Author: Eliza ActonThe National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Minnesota Historical Society
Author: Minnesota Historical Society. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
The Missionary Herald
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Vols. for 1828-1934 contain the Proceedings at large of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The Men of the Time, Etc. Seventh Edition, ... Brought Down to the Present Time. Edited by G. H. Townsend
Author: Healing the Republic
Author: Joan BurbickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521454346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In this study Joan Burbick interprets nineteenth-century narratives of health written by physicians, social reformers, lay healers, and literary artists in order to expose the conflicts underlying the creation of a national culture in America. These "fictions" of health include annual reports of mental asylums, home physician manuals, social reform books, and novels consumed by the middle class that functioned as cautionary tales of well-being. Read together these writings engage in a counterpoint of voices at once constructing and debating the hegemonic values of the emerging American nation. That political values flow from the daily exigencies of survival and enjoyment is one of the claims advanced by theorists of cultural hegemony. Broadening this assumption, the narratives of health presented here address the demands and desires of everyday life and construct a national discourse with directives on control, authority, and subordination. They articulate the wish for a healthy citizenry, freed of pain and saturated with well-being, and they insist upon specific ideologies and knowledges of the body in order to achieve this radiance of health. Divided into two parts, the work first examines the structures of authority found in health narratives and then studies the topology of the body found in a cross section of writings. The first part examines how the authority of "common sense" is pitted against that of physiological law and its transcendent "constitution" for the body. The second analyzes how specific knowledges about the brain, heart, nerves, and eye provide individual "keys" to health, indices that reveal the conflicts inherent in American nationalism. In studying thesenarratives of health, Healing the Republic confronts what Burbick sees as a certain fundamental uneasiness about democracy in America. Fearing the political freedom they hoped to embrace. Americans designed ways to control the body in the effort to create, impose, or encompass social order in a corporeal politics whose influences are felt to this day.