Author: Thomas Osborne
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
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A Catalogue of Thirty Thousand Volumes, with the Prices Printed, of Several Libraries... Prticularly... of W. Kynaston... J. Martin ... W. Glanvil, the Revd. Mr. Jackson, and Several Others...
Author: Thomas Osborne
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
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Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
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A Catalogue of Many Thousand Volumes of Books in All Languages and Sciences, Containing the Valuable Library of the Reverend Doctor Bland, Prebendary of Durham, and Several Other Curious Collections
Author: James Robson
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Category : Book catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Category : Book catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Six North Country Diaries
Author: John Crawford Hodgson
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Category : Diaries
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Category : Diaries
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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The Comic History of Rome
Author: Gilbert Abbott À Beckett
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Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Science for All
Author: Peter J. Bowler
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226068668
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Recent scholarship has revealed that pioneering Victorian scientists endeavored through voluminous writing to raise public interest in science and its implications. But it has generally been assumed that once science became a profession around the turn of the century, this new generation of scientists turned its collective back on public outreach. Science for All debunks this apocryphal notion. Peter J. Bowler surveys the books, serial works, magazines, and newspapers published between 1900 and the outbreak of World War II to show that practicing scientists were very active in writing about their work for a general readership. Science for All argues that the social environment of early twentieth-century Britain created a substantial market for science books and magazines aimed at those who had benefited from better secondary education but could not access higher learning. Scientists found it easy and profitable to write for this audience, Bowler reveals, and because their work was seen as educational, they faced no hostility from their peers. But when admission to colleges and universities became more accessible in the 1960s, this market diminished and professional scientists began to lose interest in writing at the nonspecialist level. Eagerly anticipated by scholars of scientific engagement throughout the ages, Science for All sheds light on our own era and the continuing tension between science and public understanding.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226068668
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Recent scholarship has revealed that pioneering Victorian scientists endeavored through voluminous writing to raise public interest in science and its implications. But it has generally been assumed that once science became a profession around the turn of the century, this new generation of scientists turned its collective back on public outreach. Science for All debunks this apocryphal notion. Peter J. Bowler surveys the books, serial works, magazines, and newspapers published between 1900 and the outbreak of World War II to show that practicing scientists were very active in writing about their work for a general readership. Science for All argues that the social environment of early twentieth-century Britain created a substantial market for science books and magazines aimed at those who had benefited from better secondary education but could not access higher learning. Scientists found it easy and profitable to write for this audience, Bowler reveals, and because their work was seen as educational, they faced no hostility from their peers. But when admission to colleges and universities became more accessible in the 1960s, this market diminished and professional scientists began to lose interest in writing at the nonspecialist level. Eagerly anticipated by scholars of scientific engagement throughout the ages, Science for All sheds light on our own era and the continuing tension between science and public understanding.
The Pedigree Register (Volume I)
Author: George Sherwood
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ISBN: 9789354033827
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9789354033827
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Nidderdale, from Nun Monkton to Whernside
Author: Harry Speight
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Category : Nidderdale (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Category : Nidderdale (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Vergil and the English Poets
Author: Elizabeth Nitchie
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Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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The Travels of Peter Mundy in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667
Author: Peter Mundy
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes
Author: Tom Sorell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521422444
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The most convenient, accessible guide to Hobbes available.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521422444
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The most convenient, accessible guide to Hobbes available.