Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349066524
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
The Literary Notebooks of Thomas Hardy
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349066524
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349066524
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
The Experimental Fire
Author: Jennifer M. Rampling
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022671084X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
A 400-year history of the development of alchemy in England that brings to light the evolution of the practice. In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would not be amazed to see base metals turned into silver and gold, hard iron into soft water, and deadly poison into elixirs that could heal the human body? To defend such claims, alchemists turned to the past, scouring ancient books for evidence of a lost alchemical heritage and seeking to translate their secret language and obscure imagery into replicable, practical effects. Tracing the development of alchemy in England over four hundred years, from the beginning of the fourteenth century to the end of the seventeenth, Jennifer M. Rampling illuminates the role of alchemical reading and experimental practice in the broader context of national and scientific history. Using new manuscript sources, she shows how practitioners like George Ripley, John Dee, and Edward Kelley, as well as many previously unknown alchemists, devised new practical approaches to alchemy while seeking the support of English monarchs. By reconstructing their alchemical ideas, practices, and disputes, Rampling reveals how English alchemy was continually reinvented over the space of four centuries, resulting in changes to the science itself. In so doing, The Experimental Fire bridges the intellectual history of chemistry and the wider worlds of early modern patronage, medicine, and science.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022671084X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
A 400-year history of the development of alchemy in England that brings to light the evolution of the practice. In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would not be amazed to see base metals turned into silver and gold, hard iron into soft water, and deadly poison into elixirs that could heal the human body? To defend such claims, alchemists turned to the past, scouring ancient books for evidence of a lost alchemical heritage and seeking to translate their secret language and obscure imagery into replicable, practical effects. Tracing the development of alchemy in England over four hundred years, from the beginning of the fourteenth century to the end of the seventeenth, Jennifer M. Rampling illuminates the role of alchemical reading and experimental practice in the broader context of national and scientific history. Using new manuscript sources, she shows how practitioners like George Ripley, John Dee, and Edward Kelley, as well as many previously unknown alchemists, devised new practical approaches to alchemy while seeking the support of English monarchs. By reconstructing their alchemical ideas, practices, and disputes, Rampling reveals how English alchemy was continually reinvented over the space of four centuries, resulting in changes to the science itself. In so doing, The Experimental Fire bridges the intellectual history of chemistry and the wider worlds of early modern patronage, medicine, and science.
Phonetics, Theory and Application
Author: William R. Tiffany
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
You Don't Have to Be Buddhist to Know Nothing
Author: Joan Konner
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1615929738
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
In this sound-bite history of the concept of nothing, distinguished journalist Konner, author of the bestselling "The Atheist's Bible," has created a unique anthology devoted to, well, nothing.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1615929738
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
In this sound-bite history of the concept of nothing, distinguished journalist Konner, author of the bestselling "The Atheist's Bible," has created a unique anthology devoted to, well, nothing.
Amazon
Author: Adam Sutherland
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 1512405922
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Find out how Amazon became the world's largest online retailer. Discover how the company started by developing a unique way to sell books and grew into a giant of the e-commerce industry in a short span of time. This book unveils: ● The people behind Amazon's revolutionary retail and product development strategies. ● The technological innovation driven by Amazon, from the Kindle to the Fire Phone. ● What the future might hold for Amazon, from drone delivery to space travel! From the battle for e-books to Amazon's marketing savvy, this book examines the factors that led to amazing developments for the e-commerce industry as a whole.
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 1512405922
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Find out how Amazon became the world's largest online retailer. Discover how the company started by developing a unique way to sell books and grew into a giant of the e-commerce industry in a short span of time. This book unveils: ● The people behind Amazon's revolutionary retail and product development strategies. ● The technological innovation driven by Amazon, from the Kindle to the Fire Phone. ● What the future might hold for Amazon, from drone delivery to space travel! From the battle for e-books to Amazon's marketing savvy, this book examines the factors that led to amazing developments for the e-commerce industry as a whole.
The Panicosaurus
Author: K. I. Al-Ghani
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1849053561
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Offers age appropriate explanations and advice on anxiety in children and ways they can cope with it through the story of "Mabel and the Panicosaurus."
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1849053561
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Offers age appropriate explanations and advice on anxiety in children and ways they can cope with it through the story of "Mabel and the Panicosaurus."
Experiences of a Boy
Author: His Father's Son
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Germany and the Next War
Author: Friedrich von Bernhardi
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The content of this book is both unpleasant and fascinating at the same time. The views put forward by the author in the period just before the outbreak of WW1 are abhorrent to most people now but Bernhardi had not lived through a world war. Nonetheless, he sees war as 'A biological necessity' for a country's advancement.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The content of this book is both unpleasant and fascinating at the same time. The views put forward by the author in the period just before the outbreak of WW1 are abhorrent to most people now but Bernhardi had not lived through a world war. Nonetheless, he sees war as 'A biological necessity' for a country's advancement.
The Acharnians
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1625580681
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1625580681
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta.
Adonais
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Laudatory poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Laudatory poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description