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Candid Science V: Conversations with Famous Scientists contains 36 interviews with well-known scientists, including 19 Nobel laureates, Wolf Prize winners, and other luminaries. These in-depth conversations provide a glimpse into some of the greatest achievements in science during the past few decades, featuring stories...

Sir Charles Dilke's claim to a leading place in the pantheon of Victorian radicalism, with Cobden, Bright and Chamberlain, has been overshadowed by the sensational divorce case in 1886 that ruined his career. Yet his political abilities were great and his career a most...

William Duane is most famous as the editor of "The Aurora", the Philadelphia-based paper which vigorously supported Thomas Jefferson in his 1800 presidential election campaign. Based on archival research, this biography of Duane studies his American career in light of his formative years in...

Existing accounts of Fielding's political ideas are insufficiently aware of the structure of politics in the first half of the eighteenth century, and of the ways in which Whig political ideology developed following the Revolution of 1688. This political biography explains and illustrates what...

This work offers an insightful guide to the global struggle for human rights, the problems and shortcomings of the international human rights regime, and the resources essential to human rights studies. From royal decrees in the ancient kingdoms of Persia and Babylon to the...

This is a political, cultural and intellectual biography of the neglected but important figure, Henry Redhead Yorke. A West Indian of African/British descent, born into a slave society but educated in Georgian England, he developed a complex identity to which politics was key. The...

Beginning with their first meeting in 1956 and ending with Maxwell Jones' death in 1990, A Life Well Lived follows the growth of a friendship between two key figures in social psychiatry and tracks the evolution of therapeutic communities from their experimental beginnings to...

Giovanni Battista Buonamente was among the most original and inventive Italian composers of the seventeenth century. Peter Allsop reveals his importance as part of a tradition that stands in direct antithesis to that of the Corellian sonata today regarded as the 'norm'. This development...

This book is about the experiences of a young man who always wanted to find the meaning of life and find his purpose in it. His great desire is to write a book that allows other people to understand life much better. During his...

R. H. Tawney was the most influential theorist and exponent of socialism in Britain in the 20th century and also a leading historian. Based on papers deposited at the London School of Economics including a collection of personal material previously held by his family,...

Anthony 'Harry' Moffitt spent more than 20 years in the SAS. His decades of service and his multiple tours in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan made him one of the regiment's most experienced and respected figures. Alongside the SAS, Harry's other lifetime love is...

Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness, An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark...

One of the National League's charter franchises, the Chicago Cubs have been in existence since 1876, when they were first known as the White Stockings. The winners of 17 National League pennants and three World Series, the Cubs have featured several truly exceptional players...

The editors intended for this volume to provide queer and ally athletes a space to have a voice and share the experiences that have been significant in their identity as an athletic member of the LGBT+ community. To that end, this book is a...

Author: Samuel WilberforceISBN-10: 1666705578ISBN-13: 9781666705577Publisher: Wipf & Stock PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/08/2021Pages: 398Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d

An enthralling book on monkeys and apes of the rainforests. Fascinating facts about several primate species are reflected and appealingly narrated from experiential encounters in the wilderness of Borneo. The author brilliantly takes readers through the evolution of man by selectively highlighting the physical...

As a youth, Zhong Da was strong-armed into joining the Communist Party of China. Under Mao Zedong, he suffered extreme persecution due to his honesty and sense of justice. Yet he still remained a pure and dignified person. In A Painful Reminiscence of a...

Many years ago, God called me to write to inmates. My husband and son both went to jail. My husband would read some of my letters out loud and the other inmates would ask, "Do you think she'd write to me?" That is how...

George H. Liddle has been writing down stories from his life for years. In recent times, he became motivated by his grandchildren and his future descendants who may find his life stories to be interesting. Hoping to share some knowledge of his family to...

Book Synopsis: Stories from my experiences.Autobiography: Retired engineer. Ph.D. Living in Florida.Author: Jan Laszlow PorterISBN-10: 1639454098ISBN-13: 9781639454099Publisher: Writers Branding LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2022Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.68d

This is the first full-length study of the medical ministries of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu, who graduated from the medical school at the University of Michigan in 1896 and then ran dispensaries, hospitals, and nursing schools in China from the 1890s to the...

Invalid teenager Leroy Wiley Gresham left a seven-volume diary spanning the years of secession and the Civil War (1860-1865). He was just 12 when he began and he died at 17, just weeks after the war ended. His remarkable account, recently published as The...

From 1865 to 1945, a number of prominent marriages united American heiresses and members of the British aristocracy. In Informal Ambassadors, author Dana Cooper examines the lives and marriages of the American-born, British-wed Lady Jennie Jerome Churchill, Mary Endicott Chamberlain, Vicereine Mary Leiter Curzon,...

Gripping re-examination of the rendition of Anthony Burns On June 2, 1854, crowds lined the streets of Boston, hissing and shouting at federal authorities as they escorted the fugitive slave Anthony Burns to the ship that would return him to his slaveholders in Virginia....

Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for...

George William Russell, better known as (1867-1935), mystic, poet, painter, journalist, editor, and practical rural economist, was a pivotal figure in the Irish literary revival and in the emergence of modern Ireland. From the beginning of the twentieth century he formed life-long friendships with...

Most people either say that they agree with Bernard Shaw or that they do not understand him. I am the only person who understands him, and I do not agree with him. Gilbert H. ChestertonAuthor: H. Chesterton Gilbert H. Chesterton,Gilbert H. ChestertonISBN-10: 1594628238ISBN-13: 9781594628238Publisher:...

"Thomas Scheff demonstrates why Goffman remains such a key figure for social scientists. Goffman may have been cautious about recognizing the role of emotions in social life, but Scheff boldly and creatively shows why the sociological and the psychological are necessarily intertwined. This is...

Not long after co-authoring The Port Huron Statement, the charter document of sixties activism, Tom Hayden completed, at the University of Michigan, an intellectual biography of eminent scholar C. Wright Mills. It is published here for the first time, along with newly written essays...

George C. Homans: History, Theory, and Method offers original essays written by scholars from the fields of sociology, history, anthropology, and literature with the aim of assessing Homans's rich and diverse intellectual contributions. It is the first volume in over thirty years to offer...

This is a reprint of a previously published doctoral dissertation. It describes and analyzes the reformist experimentations undertaken by Capitalists from 1886 to 1960.Author: Kim McQuaidISBN-10: 1587982064ISBN-13: 9781587982064Publisher: Beard BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2003Pages: 332Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.44w x 0.85dReview Citation(s): Reference and Research...

Emphasises on sports that are popular in North America. This book also covers sports and athletes from other parts of the world. This book contains articles each of which is divided into four sections that cover the athlete's life and achievements chronologically.Author: Salem PressISBN-10:...

The Caribbean region is described variously as enchanting, seductive, spectacularly beautiful, even heavenly. Such descriptions stereotype the Caribbean as the sun, sand, and sea paradise for which it is world famous. However, there exists another side to this tropical paradise that author Standhope Williams...

Author: Thomas MartinezISBN-10: 1583485805ISBN-13: 9781583485804Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1999Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.72w x 0.68d

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: Horace NewcombISBN-10: 1579584136ISBN-13: 9781579584139Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1997Pages: 612Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.75lbs

In the April, 1971, issue of Southwestern Historical Quarterly, historian Llerena Friend wrote that there was a "need for a new editing of Houston correspondence" to complement the eight-volume collection compiled in the 1930s by Eugene C. Barker and Amelia Williams. When author Madge...

DescriptionA unique combination of history, biography, bibliography, and statistics, the widely acclaimed first edition of Outstanding Women Athletes has now been updated to reflect the many significant changes that have taken place in women's sports in America in recent years. Now added are the...

The Violent Years, a companion volume to author Paul Kavieff's best-selling book, The Purple Gang, is the story of Prohibition-era Detroit, a place of tremendous wealth and brutal violence. For those found with new prosperity after World War I ended, it became a status...

Reactions to children's artwork have varied throughout different times and places. Donna Darling Kelly is calling for a more joyful appreciation of our youngest artists. She presents the dichotomy of the Mirror and Window paradigms. First, she explains the Mirror paradigm, which art educators,...

This work studies of the career of Bolshevik Party leader G.K. Ordzhonikidze, using it as a starting point to answer such questions as the role of top Party leaders in Stalin's decision-making, and what different approaches to the "basic party line" represented.Author: Oleg V....

Neil F. Denison is a fourth generation farmer who retired from full-time dairy farming in 1996. He purchased the family farm from his father R.Blake Denison who had purchased the farm from his parents Frank and Myrtle Denison. Frank had had the farm passed...

Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) was an Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who made important contributions to mechanics, optics, and algebra. As a teenager, he mastered parts of Newton's Principia and studied Laplace's celestial mechanics treatise. When barely 22, Hamilton became a professor of...

Of all the problems which America faces on the land and on the seas, no one is so important as that of making regenerates out of degenerates. The massing of people in large cities, the incoming of vast multitudes from the impoverished masses of...

Cinnia's Story is the true story of a girl whose life was full of unexpected events. From a very young age, she found herself in a war zone, losing her home and having to live day to day in fear for her own life...

What can you do if youve been traumatized? How can you get back to a normal life? How long before your pain goes away? Are you becoming addicted to the painkillers and medication that are being given to you as part of treatment? Are...

This is a reproduction (Facsimile) Of the original book published in 1874.The spectacle of human beings suffering for the truth is the sublimest sight that can be witnessed on earth. In the providence of God this has been the means of strengthening and spreading...

Richmond Son is a snapshot of the life and times of a boy during the 1950s. He lives in Richmond, an old and tired suburb on the doorstep of Melbourne. Peter attends St James, North Richmond, a Catholic primary school were the pupils are...

This is a true story of this man full of adventures and unusual encounters that are highly interesting to read.Author: Richard T. ChengISBN-10: 1524535427ISBN-13: 9781524535421Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/19/2016Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d

Author: James SadlerISBN-10: 1524509698ISBN-13: 9781524509699Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/17/2016Pages: 106Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

A fascinating tale of seduction, murder, fraud, coercion--and the trial of the "Minneapolis Monster" On a winter night in 1894, a young woman's body was found in the middle of a road near Lake Calhoun on the outskirts of Minneapolis. She had been shot...