Author: Vernon Quinn
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Roots, Their Place in Life and Legend
Author: Vernon Quinn
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Life and Legend of James Watt
Author: David Philip Miller
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822986795
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
The Life and Legend of James Wattoffers a deeper understanding of the work and character of the great eighteenth-century engineer. Stripping away layers of legend built over generations, David Philip Miller finds behind the heroic engineer a conflicted man often diffident about his achievements but also ruthless in protecting his inventions and ideas, and determined in pursuit of money and fame. A skilled and creative engineer, Watt was also a compulsive experimentalist drawn to natural philosophical inquiry, and a chemistry of heat underlay much of his work, including his steam engineering. But Watt pursued the business of natural philosophy in a way characteristic of his roots in the Scottish “improving” tradition that was in tension with Enlightenment sensibilities. As Miller demonstrates, Watt’s accomplishments relied heavily on collaborations, not always acknowledged, with business partners, employees, philosophical friends, and, not least, his wives, children, and wider family. The legend created in his later years and “afterlife” claimed too much of nineteenth-century technology for Watt, but that legend was, and remains, a powerful cultural force.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822986795
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
The Life and Legend of James Wattoffers a deeper understanding of the work and character of the great eighteenth-century engineer. Stripping away layers of legend built over generations, David Philip Miller finds behind the heroic engineer a conflicted man often diffident about his achievements but also ruthless in protecting his inventions and ideas, and determined in pursuit of money and fame. A skilled and creative engineer, Watt was also a compulsive experimentalist drawn to natural philosophical inquiry, and a chemistry of heat underlay much of his work, including his steam engineering. But Watt pursued the business of natural philosophy in a way characteristic of his roots in the Scottish “improving” tradition that was in tension with Enlightenment sensibilities. As Miller demonstrates, Watt’s accomplishments relied heavily on collaborations, not always acknowledged, with business partners, employees, philosophical friends, and, not least, his wives, children, and wider family. The legend created in his later years and “afterlife” claimed too much of nineteenth-century technology for Watt, but that legend was, and remains, a powerful cultural force.
Wild Roots
Author: Doug Elliott
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892815388
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The author profiles roots, rhizomes, corms, and tubers that grow in fields, forests, and marshlands of North America.
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892815388
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The author profiles roots, rhizomes, corms, and tubers that grow in fields, forests, and marshlands of North America.
Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Wisconsin Library Bulletin
Author:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Roots
Author:
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Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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A Basic Book Collection for High Sschools, Complied by a Joint Committee of the American Library Association, National Education Associatin and National Council of Teachers of English. Jessie Boyd, Chairman
Author: Joint Committee of the American Library Association, National Education Association and National Council of Teachers of English
Publisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Shrubs in the Garden and Their Legends
Author: Vernon Quinn
Publisher:
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Category : Plant introduction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Plant introduction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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The Oxford Companion to Food
Author: Alan Davidson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191018252
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 1944
Book Description
The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson, first published in 1999, became, almost overnight, an immense success, winning prizes and accolades around the world. Its combination of serious food history, culinary expertise, and entertaining serendipity, with each page offering an infinity of perspectives, was recognized as unique. The study of food and food history is a new discipline, but one that has developed exponentially in the last twenty years. There are now university departments, international societies, learned journals, and a wide-ranging literature exploring the meaning of food in the daily lives of people around the world, and seeking to introduce food and the process of nourishment into our understanding of almost every compartment of human life, whether politics, high culture, street life, agriculture, or life and death issues such as conflict and war. The great quality of this Companion is the way it includes both an exhaustive catalogue of the foods that nourish humankind - whether they be fruit from tropical forests, mosses scraped from adamantine granite in Siberian wastes, or body parts such as eyeballs and testicles - and a richly allusive commentary on the culture of food, whether expressed in literature and cookery books, or as dishes peculiar to a country or community. The new edition has not sought to dim the brilliance of Davidson's prose. Rather, it has updated to keep ahead of a fast-moving area, and has taken the opportunity to alert readers to new avenues in food studies.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191018252
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 1944
Book Description
The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson, first published in 1999, became, almost overnight, an immense success, winning prizes and accolades around the world. Its combination of serious food history, culinary expertise, and entertaining serendipity, with each page offering an infinity of perspectives, was recognized as unique. The study of food and food history is a new discipline, but one that has developed exponentially in the last twenty years. There are now university departments, international societies, learned journals, and a wide-ranging literature exploring the meaning of food in the daily lives of people around the world, and seeking to introduce food and the process of nourishment into our understanding of almost every compartment of human life, whether politics, high culture, street life, agriculture, or life and death issues such as conflict and war. The great quality of this Companion is the way it includes both an exhaustive catalogue of the foods that nourish humankind - whether they be fruit from tropical forests, mosses scraped from adamantine granite in Siberian wastes, or body parts such as eyeballs and testicles - and a richly allusive commentary on the culture of food, whether expressed in literature and cookery books, or as dishes peculiar to a country or community. The new edition has not sought to dim the brilliance of Davidson's prose. Rather, it has updated to keep ahead of a fast-moving area, and has taken the opportunity to alert readers to new avenues in food studies.
Vegetables in the Garden and Their Legends
Author: Vernon Quinn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cookery (Vegetables)
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cookery (Vegetables)
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description