Author: K. Halsey
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230316794
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
'Reading has a history. But how can we recover it?' This volume brings together original research essays focusing on the history of reading in the British Isles, using evidence ranging from library records to Mass Observation surveys to highlight the social factors that influence a seemingly private, individual activity.
The History of Reading, Volume 2
Author: K. Halsey
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230316794
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
'Reading has a history. But how can we recover it?' This volume brings together original research essays focusing on the history of reading in the British Isles, using evidence ranging from library records to Mass Observation surveys to highlight the social factors that influence a seemingly private, individual activity.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230316794
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
'Reading has a history. But how can we recover it?' This volume brings together original research essays focusing on the history of reading in the British Isles, using evidence ranging from library records to Mass Observation surveys to highlight the social factors that influence a seemingly private, individual activity.
A Budget of Paradoxes
Author: Augustus De Morgan
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1602063206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 809
Book Description
A Budget of Paradoxes, originally published in 1915, is mathematician Augustus De Morgan's most accessible and entertaining work. Well-known for his wit, De Morgan takes aim at those people he calls "paradoxers," which in modern terms would most closely resemble crackpots. Paradoxers, however, are not crazy, necessarily-rather, they hold views wildly outside the accepted sphere. If you believed the world was round when everyone else knew that it was flat, you would be a paradoxer. In this book, De Morgan reviews a number of books from his own library written by such "crackpots" who claim to have solved a great many of the puzzles of mathematics and science, including squaring a circle, creating perpetual motion, and overcoming gravity. Each is thoroughly put in his place in ways both entertaining and informative to readers. Skeptics, students of science, and anyone who likes pondering a puzzle will find this book a delightful read. British mathematician AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN (1806-1871) invented the term mathematical induction. Among his many published works is Trigonometry and Double Algebra (1849).
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1602063206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 809
Book Description
A Budget of Paradoxes, originally published in 1915, is mathematician Augustus De Morgan's most accessible and entertaining work. Well-known for his wit, De Morgan takes aim at those people he calls "paradoxers," which in modern terms would most closely resemble crackpots. Paradoxers, however, are not crazy, necessarily-rather, they hold views wildly outside the accepted sphere. If you believed the world was round when everyone else knew that it was flat, you would be a paradoxer. In this book, De Morgan reviews a number of books from his own library written by such "crackpots" who claim to have solved a great many of the puzzles of mathematics and science, including squaring a circle, creating perpetual motion, and overcoming gravity. Each is thoroughly put in his place in ways both entertaining and informative to readers. Skeptics, students of science, and anyone who likes pondering a puzzle will find this book a delightful read. British mathematician AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN (1806-1871) invented the term mathematical induction. Among his many published works is Trigonometry and Double Algebra (1849).
A Budget of Paradoxes
Author: Augustus De Morgan
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Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Pages : 424
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Writers, Readers, and Reputations
Author: Philip Waller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199541205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
Book Description
Philip Waller explores the literary world in which the modern best-seller first emerged, with writers promoted as stars and celebrities, advertising both products and themselves.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199541205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
Book Description
Philip Waller explores the literary world in which the modern best-seller first emerged, with writers promoted as stars and celebrities, advertising both products and themselves.
Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
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Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Pages : 380
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The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 1
Author: Joanne Shattock
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351220403
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351220403
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.
“The” Athenaeum
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Languages : en
Pages : 920
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Pages : 920
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Popular Educator
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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The Athenæum
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Pages : 584
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Pages : 584
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A Review of the Elementary Spelling Book
Author: Lyman Cobb
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Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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