Author: David Pyke
Publisher: Royal College of Physicians
ISBN: 9781873240465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Pyke's Notes
Author: David Pyke
Publisher: Royal College of Physicians
ISBN: 9781873240465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher: Royal College of Physicians
ISBN: 9781873240465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Notes and Queries
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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The Ingenious Mr. Pyke
Author: Henry Hemming
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610395786
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
The untold story of an enigmatic genius who changed warfare forever In the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world's great minds -- to rank alongside Einstein. Pyke was an inventor, adventurer, polymath, and unlikely hero of both world wars. He earned a fortune on the stock market, founded an influential pre-school, wrote a bestseller, and came up with the idea for the US and Canadian Special Forces. In 1942, he convinced Winston Churchill to build an aircraft carrier out of reinforced ice. Pyke escaped from a German WWI prison camp, devised an ingenious plan to help the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, and launched a private attempt to avert the outbreak of the Second World War by sending into Nazi Germany a group of pollsters disguised as golfers. And he may have been a Russian spy. In 2009, long after Pyke's death, MI5 released a mass of material suggesting that Pyke was in fact a senior official in the Soviet Comintern. In 1951, papers relating to Pyke were found in the flat of "Cambridge Spy" Guy Burgess after his defection to Moscow. MI5 had "watchers" follow Pyke through the bombed-out streets of London, his letters were opened, and listening devices picked up clues to his real identity. Convinced he was a Soviet agent codenamed Professor P, MI5 helped to bring his career to an end. Henry Hemming is the first reporter to sift through this extraordinary new information and finally tell Pyke's astonishing story in full: his brilliance, his flaws, and his life of adventures, ideas, and secrets.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610395786
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
The untold story of an enigmatic genius who changed warfare forever In the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world's great minds -- to rank alongside Einstein. Pyke was an inventor, adventurer, polymath, and unlikely hero of both world wars. He earned a fortune on the stock market, founded an influential pre-school, wrote a bestseller, and came up with the idea for the US and Canadian Special Forces. In 1942, he convinced Winston Churchill to build an aircraft carrier out of reinforced ice. Pyke escaped from a German WWI prison camp, devised an ingenious plan to help the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, and launched a private attempt to avert the outbreak of the Second World War by sending into Nazi Germany a group of pollsters disguised as golfers. And he may have been a Russian spy. In 2009, long after Pyke's death, MI5 released a mass of material suggesting that Pyke was in fact a senior official in the Soviet Comintern. In 1951, papers relating to Pyke were found in the flat of "Cambridge Spy" Guy Burgess after his defection to Moscow. MI5 had "watchers" follow Pyke through the bombed-out streets of London, his letters were opened, and listening devices picked up clues to his real identity. Convinced he was a Soviet agent codenamed Professor P, MI5 helped to bring his career to an end. Henry Hemming is the first reporter to sift through this extraordinary new information and finally tell Pyke's astonishing story in full: his brilliance, his flaws, and his life of adventures, ideas, and secrets.
The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Pyke's Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench for the District of Quebec in the Province of Lower Canada
Author: George Pyke
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Philosophers
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199831866
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Steve Pyke, a photographer whose work is a regular feature of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, is known for his stunning portraits of prominent authors, artists, actors, and intellectuals. In this riveting collection, which he has been working on for twenty-five years, Pyke presents 100 black-and-white portraits of contemporary philosophers, photographed in his distinctive style. The effect of his technique can be startling but always revealing, showing insight into personality while shedding new light on the philosophical temperament. These fascinating portraits feature virtually every major philosopher working in the West, including Anthony Appiah, David Chalmers, Umberto Eco, Ruth Marcus, Richard Rorty, Roger Scruton, and Peter Singer, among others. The facing page of each portrait contains a brief piece written by the subject on the nature of philosophy and their place in it. For this volume, Arthur C. Danto has written a foreword and Jason Stanley has interviewed Pyke. Both a who's who of philosophy today and a stunning gallery of captivating images, this marvelous volume is the long-awaited sequel to Pyke's original collection, published in 1993.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199831866
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Steve Pyke, a photographer whose work is a regular feature of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, is known for his stunning portraits of prominent authors, artists, actors, and intellectuals. In this riveting collection, which he has been working on for twenty-five years, Pyke presents 100 black-and-white portraits of contemporary philosophers, photographed in his distinctive style. The effect of his technique can be startling but always revealing, showing insight into personality while shedding new light on the philosophical temperament. These fascinating portraits feature virtually every major philosopher working in the West, including Anthony Appiah, David Chalmers, Umberto Eco, Ruth Marcus, Richard Rorty, Roger Scruton, and Peter Singer, among others. The facing page of each portrait contains a brief piece written by the subject on the nature of philosophy and their place in it. For this volume, Arthur C. Danto has written a foreword and Jason Stanley has interviewed Pyke. Both a who's who of philosophy today and a stunning gallery of captivating images, this marvelous volume is the long-awaited sequel to Pyke's original collection, published in 1993.
Annual Plant Reviews, Plastids
Author: Simon Geir Moller
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405148047
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 13 Plastids are essential plant organelles, vital for life on earth. They are important not just as photosynthetic organelles (chloroplasts) but also as sites involved in many fundamental intermediary metabolic pathways. Over the last decade, plastid research has seen tremendous advances and an exciting new picture is emerging of how plastids develop and function inside plant cells. The recent and rapid progress in the field has been due largely to reverse genetic approaches and forward genetic screening programs, which have resulted in the dissection of numerous chloroplast protein-function relationships. This book provides an overview of the current state of the art. It is directed at researchers and professionals in plant physiology, cell biology, genetics, molecular biology and biochemistry.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405148047
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 13 Plastids are essential plant organelles, vital for life on earth. They are important not just as photosynthetic organelles (chloroplasts) but also as sites involved in many fundamental intermediary metabolic pathways. Over the last decade, plastid research has seen tremendous advances and an exciting new picture is emerging of how plastids develop and function inside plant cells. The recent and rapid progress in the field has been due largely to reverse genetic approaches and forward genetic screening programs, which have resulted in the dissection of numerous chloroplast protein-function relationships. This book provides an overview of the current state of the art. It is directed at researchers and professionals in plant physiology, cell biology, genetics, molecular biology and biochemistry.
Wake the Mirror
Author: Vincente Torboli
Publisher: Writers Republic LLC
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Peer into the mirror and experience the weight of being doomed. Stories and poems that exist to give insights on the dread that befalls us when our inevitable demise presents itself, while also exploring some of mankind’s more unfortunate flaws. From the terrors that men do to one another, to the unexplainable nightmares we conjure in our dreams, to the horrors of the incomprehensible expanse we call home. Through the mirror you will see what calamity awaits us all, and what catastrophe we can bring unto ourselves. Through these tales of doom, remember that death is not the only thing waiting for us beyond the black.
Publisher: Writers Republic LLC
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Peer into the mirror and experience the weight of being doomed. Stories and poems that exist to give insights on the dread that befalls us when our inevitable demise presents itself, while also exploring some of mankind’s more unfortunate flaws. From the terrors that men do to one another, to the unexplainable nightmares we conjure in our dreams, to the horrors of the incomprehensible expanse we call home. Through the mirror you will see what calamity awaits us all, and what catastrophe we can bring unto ourselves. Through these tales of doom, remember that death is not the only thing waiting for us beyond the black.
Publications
Author: Illinois State Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year ...
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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