Author: James Haldane STEWART
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Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Priest Upon His Throne: Being Lectures Delivered During Lent 1849, by Twelve Clergymen of the Church of England at St. George's, Bloomsbury. With a Preface by J. H. S. [one of the Lecturers.]
Author: James Haldane STEWART
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues [2 volumes]
Author: Joseph P. Byrne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1573569593
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 917
Book Description
Editor Joseph P. Byrne, together with an advisory board of specialists and over 100 scholars, research scientists, and medical practitioners from 13 countries, has produced a uniquely interdisciplinary treatment of the ways in which diseases pestilence, and plagues have affected human life. From the Athenian flu pandemic to the Black Death to AIDS, this extensive two-volume set offers a sociocultural, historical, and medical look at infectious diseases and their place in human history from Neolithic times to the present. Nearly 300 entries cover individual diseases (such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola, and SARS); major epidemics (such as the Black Death, 16th-century syphilis, cholera in the nineteenth century, and the Spanish Flu of 1918-19); environmental factors (such as ecology, travel, poverty, wealth, slavery, and war); and historical and cultural effects of disease (such as the relationship of Romanticism to Tuberculosis, the closing of London theaters during plague epidemics, and the effect of venereal disease on social reform). Primary source sidebars, over 70 illustrations, a glossary, and an extensive print and nonprint bibliography round out the work.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1573569593
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 917
Book Description
Editor Joseph P. Byrne, together with an advisory board of specialists and over 100 scholars, research scientists, and medical practitioners from 13 countries, has produced a uniquely interdisciplinary treatment of the ways in which diseases pestilence, and plagues have affected human life. From the Athenian flu pandemic to the Black Death to AIDS, this extensive two-volume set offers a sociocultural, historical, and medical look at infectious diseases and their place in human history from Neolithic times to the present. Nearly 300 entries cover individual diseases (such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola, and SARS); major epidemics (such as the Black Death, 16th-century syphilis, cholera in the nineteenth century, and the Spanish Flu of 1918-19); environmental factors (such as ecology, travel, poverty, wealth, slavery, and war); and historical and cultural effects of disease (such as the relationship of Romanticism to Tuberculosis, the closing of London theaters during plague epidemics, and the effect of venereal disease on social reform). Primary source sidebars, over 70 illustrations, a glossary, and an extensive print and nonprint bibliography round out the work.
Annals of the Church and Parish of Almondbury, Yorkshire
Author: Charles Augustus Hulbert
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Category : Almondbury (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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Category : Almondbury (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Japanese Students at Cambridge University in the Meiji Era, 1868-1912
Author: Noboru Koyama
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781411612563
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
(Paperback). CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY 800th ANNIVERSARY EDITION. This well-researched history, first written by Noboru Koyama and published in 1999 in Tokyo, has been translated by Ian Ruxton. This fascinating case study is centred on the first Japanese graduate of Cambridge University, mathematician and academic Kikuchi Dairoku (1855-1917). Others who went on to distinguished careers include the scholar and statesman Suematsu Kencho (1855-1920) and the scholar-diplomat Inagaki Manjiro (1861-1908). This story, told for the first time in English, should interest all students of the Meiji era. The book includes nine black & white images, an introduction, a preface, seven appendices, an expanded bibliography and an improved index. Hardcover and download are also available on lulu.com. (KINDLE EDITION NOW ON AMAZON.COM)"...[T]his is of interest to historians and Cambridge graduates alike." (Kansai Time Out, June 2006, p. 24)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781411612563
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
(Paperback). CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY 800th ANNIVERSARY EDITION. This well-researched history, first written by Noboru Koyama and published in 1999 in Tokyo, has been translated by Ian Ruxton. This fascinating case study is centred on the first Japanese graduate of Cambridge University, mathematician and academic Kikuchi Dairoku (1855-1917). Others who went on to distinguished careers include the scholar and statesman Suematsu Kencho (1855-1920) and the scholar-diplomat Inagaki Manjiro (1861-1908). This story, told for the first time in English, should interest all students of the Meiji era. The book includes nine black & white images, an introduction, a preface, seven appendices, an expanded bibliography and an improved index. Hardcover and download are also available on lulu.com. (KINDLE EDITION NOW ON AMAZON.COM)"...[T]his is of interest to historians and Cambridge graduates alike." (Kansai Time Out, June 2006, p. 24)
Pan-African History
Author: Hakim Adi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134689330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of he last two-hundred years.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134689330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of he last two-hundred years.
The Complete Pocket-guide to Europe
Author: Edmund Clarence Stedman
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Sexual Sabotage
Author: Judith A. Reisman
Publisher: Wnd Books
ISBN: 9781935071853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Claims that "During World War II and the decades that followed, Kinsey and his Indiana cohorts sabotaged our nation by entering our libraries and schools as 'sex educators' -- ridiculing marriage, fidelity, and chastity. They preached widespread sexual experimentation, succeeded in nationwide fraud campaigns, and gutted the tough laws that kept pornography and predators at bay.' The author suggests countermeasures.
Publisher: Wnd Books
ISBN: 9781935071853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Claims that "During World War II and the decades that followed, Kinsey and his Indiana cohorts sabotaged our nation by entering our libraries and schools as 'sex educators' -- ridiculing marriage, fidelity, and chastity. They preached widespread sexual experimentation, succeeded in nationwide fraud campaigns, and gutted the tough laws that kept pornography and predators at bay.' The author suggests countermeasures.
The Labour Movement and the Church
Author: John Moran Cochran Wilson
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Category : Christian socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Category : Christian socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Minutes and Correspondence
Author: New York (State). Committee on Canals
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Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Haileybury Register, 1862-1910
Author: Haileybury College, England
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 902
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Publisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 902
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