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Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines

By: Bernard Lightman,Bennett Zon

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Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines

By: Bernard Lightman,Bennett Zon

Current studies in disciplinarity range widely across philosophical and literary contexts, producing heated debate and entrenched divergences. Yet, despite their manifest significance for us today seldom have those studies engaged with the Victorian origins of modern disciplinarity. Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines adds a crucial missing link in that history by asking and answering a series of deceptively simple questions: how did Victorians define a discipline; what factors impinged upon that definition; and how did they respond to disciplinary understanding? Structured around sections on professionalization, university curriculums, society journals, literary genres and interdisciplinarity, Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines addresses the tangled bank of disciplinarity in the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences including musicology, dance, literature, and art history; classics, history, archaeology, and theology; anthropology, psychology; and biology, mathematics and physics. Chapters examine the generative forces driving disciplinary formation, and gauge its success or failure against social, cultural, political, and economic environmental pressures. No other volume has focused specifically on the origin of Victorian disciplines in order to track the birth, death, and growth of the units into which knowledge was divided in this period, and no other volume has placed such a wide array of Victorian disciplines in their cultural context.

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Routledge

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1000124177

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9781000124170

Biochemical And Genetic Mechanisms Used By Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria

By: Bernard R Glick,G Holguin,C L Patten,Donna M Penrose

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Biochemical And Genetic Mechanisms Used By Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria

By: Bernard R Glick,G Holguin,C L Patten,Donna M Penrose

This book is intended for a wide range of individuals, including scientists, students and informed laypersons who are interested in agricultural biotechnology, alternative agriculture, bioremediation of the environment and decreasing our reliance on pesticides and fungicides. It will deal primarily with understanding, at a biochemical and molecular biological level, how certain free living bacteria are able to promote plant growth; symbiotic bacteria such as Rhizobia will be mentioned only briefly. The assumption underlying the entire endeavour will be that a more profound understanding of these fundamental mechanisms will eventually permit scientists to manipulate these bacteria and use them more efficiently as a regular component of agricultural and/or horticultural practice. Therefore, while all the topics are discussed in as comprehensive a manner as possible, the book emphasizes a critical overview of the field rather than a mere compendium of data.

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280

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World Scientific

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1783262133

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9781783262137

Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain

The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

By: Bernard Lightman

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Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain

The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

By: Bernard Lightman

Scholars have tended to portray T.H. Huxley, John Tyndall, and their allies as the dominant cultural authority in the second half of the 19th century. Defenders of Darwin and his theory of evolution, these men of science are often seen as a potent force for the secularization of British intellectual and social life. In this collection of essays Bernard Lightman argues that historians have exaggerated the power of scientific naturalism to undermine the role of religion in middle and late-Victorian Britain. The essays deal with the evolutionary naturalists, especially the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, the physicist John Tyndall, and the philosopher of evolution, Herbert Spencer. But they look also at those who criticized this influential group of elite intellectuals, including aristocratic spokesman A. J Balfour, the novelist Samuel Butler, and the popularizer of science Frank Buckland. Focusing on the theme of the limitations of the cultural power of evolutionary naturalism, the volume points to the enduring strength of religion in Britain in the latter half of the 19th century.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000948315

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9781000948318

The Heraldic Register

By: J. Bernard Burke

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The Heraldic Register

By: J. Bernard Burke

The Heraldic Register 1849 - 1850 by J Bernard Burke Esq. First Published in 1850 The Heraldic Register, 1849-1850 with an introductory essay on heraldry, and an annotated obituary by Burke, Bernard, Sir, 1814-1892. Then Book is a Clean original facsimile of the original, not an OCR copy. The book is in casewrap-hardback with 266 pages with numerous black and whiter illustrations. Reproduced by facsimile from the original volume and is 6in wide x 9in tall (13.29cm wide x 22.23cm tall)

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Lulu.com

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0995724652

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9780995724655

Bernard Shaw's Book Reviews: 1884-1950

By: Bernard Shaw,Brian Tyson

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Bernard Shaw's Book Reviews: 1884-1950

By: Bernard Shaw,Brian Tyson

This new volume of Bernard Shaw's book reviews is a companion to Brian Tyson's previously edited collection of Shaw's earlier book reviews. Here Tyson collects seventy-three of the best remaining literary book reviews written by Shaw throughout his lifetime. Two-thirds of the reviews appear in book form for the first time, the originals residing in the archives of newspaper libraries, and only three of the remainder have been reprinted within the last twenty years. Politics feature largely in the works that Shaw reviewed: there are books of socialist theory and its practical appearance in the Soviet Union, as well as books on the individualism of J. H. Levy, the anti-socialism of Thomas McKay, and the economics of E. C. K. Gonner and Philip Wicksteed. There is often an immediacy about the books reviewed, too: discussion of books on World War I, the Soviet Revolution, women's suffrage, the British General Strike of 1926, and World War II all take place concurrently with the events. Many of the works reviewed are biographies, which give Shaw the opportunity to reveal his personal acquaintance with their subjects, including Samuel Butler, William Morris, and Dean Inge. This widely varied collection sparkles with wit and wisdom, taking us briskly through Shaw's own writing life, beginning when he was relatively unknown and concluding when he was a legend.

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608

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Penn State Press

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0271015489

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9780271015484

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland

By: John Burke,Bernard Burke

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A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland

By: John Burke,Bernard Burke

Tracing the history of Maronets of the British Isles who left no descendants.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806307390

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9780806307398

Book's by Bernard Picton

Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines

Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines

Biochemical And Genetic Mechanisms Used By Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria

Biochemical And Genetic Mechanisms Used By Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria

Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain

Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain

The Heraldic Register

The Heraldic Register

Bernard Shaw's Book Reviews: 1884-1950

Bernard Shaw's Book Reviews: 1884-1950

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland

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