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As a civil engineer, Sir John Fowler (1817-98) devoted his life to the railways. His best-known achievements include the first railway bridge across the Thames in London, Manchester Central Station, the development of the London Underground and, (with Sir Benjamin Baker) the Forth Bridge...

Henry Grey, 3rd Earl Grey (1802-1894) served as Great Britain's Secretary of State for War and the Colonies during the 1846-1852 administration of Prime Minister Lord John Russell. Following his time in office, Grey composed the two-volume Colonial Policy (1853) as a means of...

John Wesley Judd (1840-1916) had a distinguished career, serving as both President of the Geological Society and Dean of the Royal College of Science. Before his retirement as Professor of Geology from Imperial College, he wrote this concise and accessible review of the beginnings...

In the mid-nineteenth century, as Jane Austen's fame grew, her family was under increasing pressure to provide details about her life and work. Her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh, who had known her personally, collected a series of reminiscences, letters and family documents and put...

Dreaming of a successful future in science? This practical guide for students, postdocs and professors offers a unique step-by-step approach to help you get the funding to start or consolidate your own research career. From preparing and writing effective career grant applications, to understanding...

Dive into the world of library science and bibliography with Richard Garnett's "Essays in Librarianship and Bibliography." This collection offers timeless reflections on the methodology of bibliography, the art of librarianship, and the profound significance of books. Garnett, a noted figure in the field,...

Originally published in 1801, this book is a fascinating look at the state of Europe at the turn of the 19th century. Authored by William Playfair, a pioneer in the field of statistics, it provides a wealth of information on the population, resources, and...

A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality: Theory and Practice is an introduction to the theory and practice of measuring poverty and inequality, as well as a user's guide for analyzing income or consumption distribution for any standard household dataset using the World...

CONTENTS - Part 1 - Introduction - Part 2 - Impurities present in water and their effects on industrial uses - Part 3 - Industrial waters and their quality requirements - Part 4 - Drinking and irrigation water - Part 5 - Impurities present...

This volume is the second of the three volume publication containing the proceedings of the 1989 International Symposium on the Mathemat- ical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS-89), which was held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 19-23, 1989 The International Symposia MTNS focus attention...

Author: Ralph L. Disney,Teunis J. OttISBN-10: 0817630937ISBN-13: 9780817630935Publisher: BirkhauserLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1982Pages: 500Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.04d

These two volumes are the Proceedings of the first special interest meeting instigated and organized by the joint Technical Section and College in Applied Probability of ORSA and THlS. This meeting, which took place January 5-7, 1981 at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton,...

Witchcraft and magical beliefs have captivated historians and artists for millennia, and stimulated an extraordinary amount of research among scholars in a wide range of disciplines. This new collection, from the editor of the highly acclaimed 1992 set, Articles on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology,...

This is a volume on the concepts, theories, models and social consequences of creativity. It contains articles by well-known cognitive scientists, economists, mathematicians, philosophers and psychologists.Author: Ake E. AnderssonISBN-10: 0792343468ISBN-13: 9780792343462Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/30/1996Pages: 152Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d

All work is work in progress. The ideas developed in this work could be (and probably will be) developed further, revised, and expanded. But it was time to write them down and send them out. Some of these ideas about linking had their origins...

The Pan American Games, second only to the Olympics as the biggest international sports competition in the world, are held every four years (during the year prior to the Summer Olympics) under the sponsorship of the International Olympic Committee. This book lists the results...

As the Civil War ended, the thoughts of many Northern soldiers turned to a game that some had learned about for the first time during the war--baseball. Their newfound interest in the sport, combined with the postwar economic boom and the resultant growth of...

This collection of newly commissioned critical essays reads across and between New Yorker departments, from sports writing to short stories, cartoons to reporters at large, poetry to annals of business.Author: Fiona M. GreenISBN-10: 074868249XISBN-13: 9780748682492Publisher: Edinburgh University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/20/2015Pages: 272Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.30h...

Your reading life is important to you. Preserve your impressions/record your journey/track your path through the library of your life. Included in this book you will find a place to: - List information on each book read - Express your impressions and questions- Record...

In this volume, a multidisciplinary group of acknowledged experts fully intergrate the physical, chemical, and biological sciences to provide a complete understanding of the interrelationships between snow structure and life. This volume opens a new perspecitve on snow cover as a habitat for organisms...

From the experts at Ernst & Young's world-renownedEntrepreneurial Services Group--a host of innovative strategies forfueling business growth! When most owners and entrepreneurs needgrowth capital, they think "bank." But with the explosive growth offinancial markets, there are now as many ways to raise capital asthere...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

We have attempted to provide a concise and up to date account of human viruses in the environment with attention to basic tools now available for monitoring viruses. We have aimed this introductory volume at young students, teachers and investigators in microbiology, virology, environmental...

Today and Tomorrow Volume 15 Society and the State reprints It Isn't Done: Taboo Among the British Islanders, Stentor, Or the Press of Today and Tomorrow, Nuntius, or Advertising and its Future, and Cato, Or the Future of Censorship. Among other things these titles...

of a Roman numeral, an alphabetic character and an Arabic numeral. This designation constitutes the classification symbol based on the system in Mineralogische Tabellen by Hugo Strunz (a summary is shown in Appendix A). The Roman numeral and alphabetical character divide the minerals into...

D.H. Lawrence: The Thinker as Poet addresses a particular body of language and thought within Lawrence's oeuvre where the metaphorical, the poetic and the philosophical are intricately enmeshed. Lawrence emerges as a writer who pulls metaphor away from its merely rhetorical moorings: his distinctive...

Yeats Annual is the leading international research-level journal devoted to the greatest twentieth-century poet in the English language. Its twelfth issue, That Accusing Eye: Yeats and His Irish Readers, is a special number devoted to one of the great realities of Yeats's writing, the...

Building the 'New Europe' is at the core of the new international economic and political initiatives leading the world through the nineties and toward the twenty-first century. This challenge rests on dual processes: on the one hand, the European Community-wide single market and monetary...

Author: A. JenningsISBN-10: 0333360192ISBN-13: 9780333360194Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/18/1985Pages: 227Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 8.82h x 5.72w x 0.96d

Author: Geraldine BeareISBN-10: 0313231222ISBN-13: 9780313231223Publisher: GreenwoodLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/24/1982Pages: 859Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.14lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.88d

An important contribution to the reference literature on China, this historical dictionary covers the entire revolutionary period in China. Although existing biographical dictionaries focus on the twentieth century, the Chinese revolutionary movements began in the early nineteenth century. China's defeat in the Opium War...

Banta draws upon essays in Vanity Fair by noted journalists, literary figures, and cultural critics in order to examine the manner by which major cultural and historical events in the Untied States and Britain led to the invention of previously non-existent words to express...

The practice of using lacquer to form Buddhist sculptures dates back several hundred years with the earliest known sculpture associated with the late sixth-century Sui dynasty (581-618 CE) shortly after Buddhism came to China. Very few of the often life-size or larger sculptures remain....

Extension worker is the key person in transfer of technology to social system. The social system is complex in nature. The farmers are differing in their sociological and cultural aspects namely settlement pattern, class, customs, conventions, rituals, norms, values, mores, taboos etc. The social...

This book provides comprehensive information on Cotton Breeding in one compact volume. Hope this book would be useful to the students, researchers, plant breeders and seed producers engaged with cotton crop.Author: Phundan Et Al SinghISBN-10: 9387057631ISBN-13: 9789387057630Publisher: Daya Pub. HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2018Pages: 176Format: HardcoverWeight:...

This book is a compilation of terms related to the science, production and various aspects of grapes. This book attempts to cover words and phrases from all aspects of grapes. The book at present encompasses meaning of more than 1000 terms related to grape...

The book is divided into two parts. Part I contains various recipes of bakery and confectionery products and part II contains various analytical methods for the quantification of various constituents of the prepared food and its raw ingredient. The book will be a very...

Author: Alberta QuigleyISBN-13: 9798218790516Publisher: Alberta Quigley MinistryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2025Pages: 54Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.11d

Author: Saquib NajmusISBN-10: 0985823267ISBN-13: 9780985823269Publisher: Innovation and Integration, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2025Pages: 694Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.01lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.53d

Author: Saquib NajmusISBN-10: 0985823259ISBN-13: 9780985823252Publisher: Innovation and Integration, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2025Pages: 694Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.69d

Spelling is explained as young or old learn to read English, in a sequenced, step by step fashion, from simple words to more complex. Spelling rules for decoding letters into words are provided at each step. The book's a huge resource because after each...

"Arthur Benjamin, May Brahe, Percy Grainger and Alfred Hill are writing their last compositions. Peggy Glanville-Hicks is gaining an international reputation while Don Banks and Ron Grainer escape penury by writing music for films and television in Britain. Back in Australia, the two most...

Greige goods refer to materials in their raw, unfinished state. Most people in the flooring industry start out as greige goods. Full of potential, but unfinished, unbranded, and unnoticed. The Little Greige Book is your finishing line. It's a guide to adding the layers...

"Show, don't tell"-you've heard it a million times. But what if that advice is holding your writing back?In this bold and practical craft guide, publishing veteran Mary Kole dismantles one of writing's most misunderstood commandments and shows you how to use both showing and...

You don't have to be a natural conversationalist to be the most interesting person in the room-you just need a few unforgettable facts.This fun and fascinating collection of trivia is your secret weapon for sparking memorable conversations, breaking the ice, and keeping people engaged......

"Aid to Survey Practice for Reference in Surveying, Levelling, and Setting Out" is a comprehensive guide intended for practitioners and students in the field of civil engineering and surveying. Originally published in 1880, this book offers detailed insights into the methods and techniques used...

"Zoological Classification: A Handy Book Of Reference With Tables Of The Subkingdoms, Classes, Orders ... Of The Animal Kingdom" by Francis P. Pascoe is a valuable resource for students, researchers, and anyone with an interest in the animal kingdom. This comprehensive guide provides a...

"The Grasses of Hawaii, Volume 1922" by A. S. Hitchcock offers a detailed study of the various grass species found in Hawaii. This comprehensive volume provides valuable insights into the botany and agricultural significance of these plants. Hitchcock's work serves as a foundational reference...

Discover How 7 Fitness Mindset Habits Can Transform Your Body & Mind by Helping You Train with Purpose, Overcome Mental Barriers, and Achieve Faster Results!Do you struggle to stick with a routine because it's not working - or is the real problem why you're...

This Easter adult coloring book contains 131 pages that will provide you relaxation and stress relief. The coloring patterns is a way to calm yourself during stressful days or when you need a little distraction. Exercise your mind with creativity and live your shit...