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Collecting the World

Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum

By: James Delbourgo

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Collecting the World

Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum

By: James Delbourgo

In 1759 the British Museum opened its doors to the public—the first free national museum in the world. James Delbourgo recounts the story behind its creation through the life of Hans Sloane, a controversial luminary with an insatiable ambition to pit universal knowledge against superstition and few curbs on his passion for collecting the world.

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A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders

Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America

By: James Delbourgo

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A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders

Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America

By: James Delbourgo

The first book to situate early American experimental science in the context of a transatlantic public sphere, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders offers a view of the origins of American science and the cultural meaning of the American Enlightenment."--BOOK JACKET.

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Collecting the World

Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum

By: James Delbourgo

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Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum

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The Andean Wonder Drug

Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800

By: Matthew James Crawford

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The Andean Wonder Drug

Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800

By: Matthew James Crawford

In the eighteenth century, malaria was a prevalent and deadly disease, and the only effective treatment was found in the Andean forests of Spanish America: a medicinal bark harvested from cinchona trees that would later give rise to the antimalarial drug quinine. In 1751, the Spanish Crown asserted control over the production and distribution of this medicament by establishing a royal reserve of "fever trees" in Quito. Through this pilot project, the Crown pursued a new vision of imperialism informed by science and invigorated through commerce. But ultimately this project failed, much like the broader imperial reforms that it represented. Drawing on extensive archival research, Matthew Crawford explains why, showing how indigenous healers, laborers, merchants, colonial officials, and creole elites contested European science and thwarted imperial reform by asserting their authority to speak for the natural world. The Andean Wonder Drug uses the story of cinchona bark to demonstrate how the imperial politics of knowledge in the Spanish Atlantic ultimately undermined efforts to transform European science into a tool of empire.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822981394

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Materials of the Mind

Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920

By: James Poskett

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Materials of the Mind

Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920

By: James Poskett

Phrenology was the most popular mental science of the Victorian age. From American senators to Indian social reformers, this new mental science found supporters stretching around the globe. Materials of the Mind tells the story of how phrenology changed the world--and how the world changed phrenology. This is a story of skulls from the Arctic, plaster casts from Haiti, books from Bengal, and letters from the Pacific. Drawing on far-flung museum and archival collections, and addressing sources in six different languages, Materials of the Mind is the first substantial account of science in the nineteenth century as part of global history. It shows how the circulation of material culture underpinned the emergence of a new materialist philosophy of the mind, while also demonstrating how a global approach to history could help us reassess issues such as race, technology, and politics today.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226820645

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The Natural, Moral, and Political History of Jamaica, and the Territories thereon Depending

From the First Discovery of the Island by Christopher Columbus to the Year 1746

By: James Knight

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The Natural, Moral, and Political History of Jamaica, and the Territories thereon Depending

From the First Discovery of the Island by Christopher Columbus to the Year 1746

By: James Knight

Between 1737 and 1746, James Knight—a merchant, planter, and sometime Crown official and legislator in Jamaica—wrote a massive two-volume history of the island. The first volume provided a narrative of the colony’s development up to the mid-1740s, while the second offered a broad survey of most aspects of Jamaican life as it had developed by the third and fourth decades of the eighteenth century. Completed not long before his death in the winter of 1746–47 and held in the British Library, this work is now published for the first time. Well researched and intelligently critical, Knight’s work is not only the most comprehensive account of Jamaica’s ninety years as an English colony ever written; it is also one of the best representations of the provincial mentality as it had emerged in colonial British America between the founding of Virginia and 1750. Expertly edited and introduced by renowned scholar Jack Greene, this volume represents a colonial Caribbean history unique in its contemporary perspective, detail, and scope.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813945577

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Seeking the American Tropics

South Florida's Early Naturalists

By: James A. Kushlan

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Seeking the American Tropics

South Florida's Early Naturalists

By: James A. Kushlan

For centuries, the southernmost region of the Florida peninsula was seen by outsiders as wild and inaccessible, one of the last frontiers in the quest to understand and reveal the natural history of the continent. Seeking the American Tropics tells the stories of the explorers and adventurers who—for better and for worse—helped open the unique environment of South Florida to the world. Beginning with the arrival of Juan Ponce de León in 1513, James Kushlan describes how most of the famous Spanish explorers never made it to South Florida, leaving the area’s rich natural history out of scientific records for the next 250 years. It wasn’t until the British colonial and early American periods that the first surveyors were commissioned and the first naturalists—Titian Peale and John James Audubon—arrived to collect, draw, and report the subtropical flora and fauna that were so unique to North America. Moving into the railroad era, Kushlan illuminates the activities of scientists such as Henry Nehrling and Charles Torrey Simpson alongside the dabbling of wealthy amateur naturalists. He follows the story to the 1920s, when tourism was flourishing and signs of ecological damage were starting to show. Years of wildlife trade, resource extraction, invasive species introduction, and swamp drainage had taken their toll. And many of the naturalists who had been outspoken about protecting South Florida’s environment had also played a part in its destruction. Today the region is among one of the most thoroughly studied places on the planet—but at a cost. In this absorbing and cautionary tale, Kushlan illustrates how exploration has so often trumped conservation throughout history. He exposes how much of the natural world we have already lost in this vivid portrait of the Florida of yesterday.

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University Press of Florida

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0813065488

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The Chemistry and Technology of Coal, Third Edition

By: James G. Speight

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The Chemistry and Technology of Coal, Third Edition

By: James G. Speight

The demand for coal use (for electricity generation) and coal products, particularly liquid fuels and chemical feedstocks, is increasing throughout the world. Traditional markets such as North America and Europe are experiencing a steady increase in demand whereas emerging Asian markets, such as India and China, are witnessing a rapid surge in demand for clean liquid fuels. A detailed and comprehensive overview of the chemistry and technology of coal in the twenty-first century, The Chemistry and Technology of Coal, Third Edition also covers the relationship of coal industry processes with environmental regulations as well as the effects of combustion products on the atmosphere. Maintaining and enhancing the clarity of presentation that made the previous editions so popular, this book: Examines the effects of combustion products on the atmosphere Details practical elements of coal evaluation procedures Clarifies misconceptions concerning the organic structure of coal Discusses the physical, thermal, electrical, and mechanical properties of coal Analyzes the development and current status of combustion and gasification techniques In addition to two new chapters, Coal Use and the Environment and Coal and Energy Security, much of the material in this edition been rewritten to incorporate the latest developments in the coal industry. Citations from review articles, patents, other books, and technical articles with substantial introductory material are incorporated into the text for further reference. The Chemistry and Technology of Coal, Third Edition maintains its initial premise: to introduce the science of coal, beginning with its formation in the ground to the production of a wide variety of products and petrochemical intermediates in the twenty-first century. The book will prove useful for scientists and engineers already engaged in the coal and/or catalyst manufacturing industry looking for a general overview or update on the clean coal technology as well as professional researchers and students in chemistry and engineering.

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CRC Press

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1439836469

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The British Museum

By: James Hamilton

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The British Museum

By: James Hamilton

A concise history of one of the world's greatest and most comprehensive museum collections, from its founding in 1753. A product and symbol of the 18th-century Enlightenment, the British Museum is as iconic an expression of that cultural tendency as Johnson's Dictionary, the French Encyclopedie and Linnaean plant classification. Its collections embody the raw material of empiricism – the bringing together of things to enable the widest intellectual experiment to take place. James Hamilton explores the establishment of the Museum in the 1750s (from the bequest to the nation of the collections of Sir Hans Sloane); the chosen site of its location; the cultural context in which it came into being; the subsequent development, expansion and diversification of the Museum, both as a collection and as a building, from the early 19th to the 21st century; the controversy occasioned by some of its acquisitions; and the legacy and influence of the Museum nationally and globally.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786691825

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Nature and History in the Potomac Country

From Hunter-Gatherers to the Age of Jefferson

By: James D. Rice

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Nature and History in the Potomac Country

From Hunter-Gatherers to the Age of Jefferson

By: James D. Rice

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Coal-Fired Power Generation Handbook

By: James G. Speight

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Coal-Fired Power Generation Handbook

By: James G. Speight

Coal accounts for approximately one quarter of world energy consumption and of the coal produced worldwide approximately 65% is shipped to electricity producers and 33% to industrial consumers, with most of the remainder going to consumers in the residential and commercial sectors. The total share of total world energy consumption by coal is expected to increase to almost 30% in 2035. This book describes the challenges and steps by which electricity is produced form coal and deals with the challenges for removing the environmental objections to the use of coal in future power plants. New technologies are described that could virtually eliminate the sulfur, nitrogen, and mercury pollutants that are released when coal is burned for electricity generation. In addition, technologies for the capture greenhouse gases emitted from coal-fired power plants are described and the means of preventing such emissions from contributing to global warming concerns. Written by one of the world’s leading energy experts, this volume is a must-have for any engineer, scientist, or student working in this field, providing a valuable reference and guide in a quickly changing field.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119510120

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Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences

Shared Assumptions, 1820-58

By: James Elwick

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Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences

Shared Assumptions, 1820-58

By: James Elwick

Explores how the concept of 'compound individuality' brought together life scientists working in pre-Darwinian London. This book states that scientists conducting research in comparative anatomy, physiology, cellular microscopy, embryology and the neurosciences repeatedly stated that plants and animals were compounds of smaller independent units.

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Routledge

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1317314778

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Fire and Light

How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World

By: James MacGregor Burns

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Fire and Light

How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World

By: James MacGregor Burns

The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian explores history’s most daring and transformational intellectual movement, the European and American Enlightenment. In this engaging, provocative history, James MacGregor Burns illuminates the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, when audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Europe and the New World. They transformed thought, overturned governments, and inspired visionary political experiments. Fire and Light brings to life the revolutionary leaders who, armed with a new sense of human possibility, created the modern world. Burns traces the origins of a distinctive American Enlightenment to men like Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, and their early encounters with incendiary European ideas about liberty and equality. It was these thinker-activists who framed the United States as a grand and continuing experiment in Enlightenment principles. Today the same principles have taken on new urgency around the world: in the turmoil of the Arab world, in the former Soviet Union, and in China, as well as in the United States itself. What should a nation be? What should citizens expect from their government? Who should lead, and how can leadership be made both effective and accountable? What is happiness, and what can the state contribute to it? Burns’s exploration of the ideals and arguments that formed the bedrock of our modern world shines a new light on these ever-important questions. Praise for Fire and Light “With this profound and magnificent book, Burns takes us into the fire’s center. . . . Essential for deciphering the challenges of the world we will live in tomorrow.” —Michael Beschloss, New York Times–bestselling author of Presidential Courage “James MacGregor Burns is a national treasure, and Fire and Light is the elegiac capstone to a career devoted to understanding the seminal ideas that made America—for better and for worse—what it is.” —Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author of Revolutionary Summer “[A] captivating tale. . . . Briskly and beautifully told. . . . Superb.” —Publishers Weekly

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Macmillan

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1250024900

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Deserfest

A Celebration of the Life and Works of Stanley Deser : Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 3-5 April 2004

By: Stanley Deser,James T. Liu

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Deserfest

A Celebration of the Life and Works of Stanley Deser : Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 3-5 April 2004

By: Stanley Deser,James T. Liu

This volume comprises the contributions to the proceedings of Deserfest OCo a festschrift in honor of Stanley Deser. Many of Stanley Deser''s colleagues and longtime collaborators, including Richard Arnowitt and Charles Misner of OC ADMOCO fame, contribute insighted article. Ranging from lower dimensional gravity theories all the way to supergravity in eleven dimensions and M-theory, the papers highlight the wide impact that Deser has had in the field. Contents: Some Results in M-Theory Inspired Phenomenology (R Arnowitt et al.); A Non-Geometric Approach to 11-Dimensional Supergravity (L Brink); Generalized Holonomy in M-Theory (A Batrachenko et al.); Electric-Magnetic Duality in Gravity (M Henneaux & C Teitelboim); R 4 Terms in Supergravity and M-Theory (P Howe); Marriage of 4-Dimensional Gravity to the 3-Dimensional Chern-Simons Term (R Jackiw); Some Applications of the ADM Formalism (J E Nelson); The Main Postulates and Results of Loop Quantum Gravity (L Smolin); Milne and Torus Universes Meet (A Waldron); Diquarks as Inspiration and as Objects (F Wilczek); and other papers. Readership: Researchers in the field of high energy physics, gravitation and supersymmetry.

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World Scientific

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9812774807

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Infrared Spectroscopy in Conservation Science

By: Michele R. Derrick,Dusan Stulik,James M. Landry

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Infrared Spectroscopy in Conservation Science

By: Michele R. Derrick,Dusan Stulik,James M. Landry

This book provides practical information on the use of infrared (IR) spectroscopy for the analysis of materials found in cultural objects. Designed for scientists and students in the fields of archaeology, art conservation, microscopy, forensics, chemistry, and optics, the book discusses techniques for examining the microscopic amounts of complex, aged components in objects such as paintings, sculptures, and archaeological fragments. Chapters include the history of infrared spectroscopy, the basic parameters of infrared absorption theory, IR instrumentation, analysis methods, sample collection and preparation, and spectra interpretation. The authors cite several case studies, such as examinations of Chumash Indian paints and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Institute’s Tools for Conservation series provides practical scientific procedures and methodologies for the practice of conservation. The series is specifically directed to conservation scientists, conservators, and technical experts in related fields.

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Getty Publications

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0892364696

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Military Medicine and the Making of Race

Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795–1874

By: Tim Lockley,Timothy James Lockley

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Military Medicine and the Making of Race

Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795–1874

By: Tim Lockley,Timothy James Lockley

Demonstrates how Britain's black soldiers helped shape the very idea of race in the nineteenth century Atlantic world.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108495621

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9781108495622

Before the Raj

Writing Early Anglophone India

By: James Mulholland

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Before the Raj

Writing Early Anglophone India

By: James Mulholland

Introduction: Translocal Anglo-India -- A Cultural Company-State and the Colonial Public Sphere -- Newspapers and Reading Publics in Eighteenth-Century India -- The Vagrant Muse: Fashioning Reputation across Eurasia -- Undoing Britain in Bengal -- Tristram Shandy in Bombay -- Agonies of Empire: Captivity Narratives and the Mysore Wars, 1767-1799 -- Literary Culture of Colonial Outposts: Penang, Sumatra, Java, 1771-1816.

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JHU Press

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1421439611

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The Murder of King James I

By: Alastair James Bellany,Thomas Cogswell

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The Murder of King James I

By: Alastair James Bellany,Thomas Cogswell

A year after the death of James I in 1625, a sensational pamphlet accused the Duke of Buckingham of murdering the king. It was an allegation that would haunt English politics for nearly forty years. In this exhaustively researched new book, two leading scholars of the era, Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell, uncover the untold story of how a secret history of courtly poisoning shaped and reflected the political conflicts that would eventually plunge the British Isles into civil war and revolution. Illuminating many hitherto obscure aspects of early modern political culture, this eagerly anticipated work is both a fascinating story of political intrigue and a major exploration of the forces that destroyed the Stuart monarchy.

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Yale University Press

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0300214960

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9780300214963

Ancient Inventions

By: Peter J. James,Nick Thorpe,I. J. Thorpe

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Ancient Inventions

By: Peter J. James,Nick Thorpe,I. J. Thorpe

A guide to ancient accomplishments and inventions unearths the origins of modern creations, including computers in ancient Greece, plastic surgery in India in the first century B.C., and a postal service in medieval Baghdad

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Random House Digital, Inc.

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0345401026

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9780345401021

Little, Crazy Children

A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence

By: James Renner

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Little, Crazy Children

A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence

By: James Renner

A new true-crime book from the acclaimed author of TRUE CRIME ADDICT and creator/host of the podcasts True Crime This Week and The Philosophy of Crime! James Renner explores the unsolved murder of 16-year-old Lisa Pruett in the real-life town of the bestselling novel Little Fires Everywhere in a painstakingly researched account of a senseless and heartbreaking tragedy and the people who were pulled into its aftermath. In September of 1990, in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, sixteen-year-old Lisa Pruett, a poetry lover and member of a church youth group, was on her way to a midnight tryst with her boyfriend, when she was viciously stabbed to death only thirty feet from the boy’s home. The murder cast a palpable gloom over the upscale community and sparked accusations, theories, and rumors among Lisa’s friends and peers. Together they wove a damning narrative that circled back to a likely suspect: “weird” high school outcast Kevin Young. Without a shred of evidence the teen was arrested, charged, and tried for the crime. His eventual acquittal didn’t squelch the anger and outrage among those who believed that Kevin got away with murder. With a fresh perspective and painstaking research culled from police files, court records, transcripts, uncollected evidence, and new interviews, James Renner reconstructs the events leading up to and following that heartbreaking night. What emerges is a portrait of a community seething with dark undercurrents—its single-minded authorities, protective status-conscious parents, and the deeply peer-pressured teens within Lisa’s circle. Who had the capacity for such unchecked violence? What monsters still lurk in the dark? After more than thirty years, questions like these continue to fester among the community of Shaker Heights, Ohio, still deeply scarred by wounds that remain hidden, unspoken, and unhealed.

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Citadel Press

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0806542578

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Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand

Melancholy, Medicines, and the Information of the Soul

By: James Dougal Fleming

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Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand

Melancholy, Medicines, and the Information of the Soul

By: James Dougal Fleming

In Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand, J.D. Fleming brings together two areas of sixteenth-century intellectual history. One is the period emergence of artificial systems for verbatim shorthand notation—a crucial episode in the history of information. The other is the ancient medical discourse of melancholy humour, or black bile. Timothie Bright (1550–1615), physician and priest, prompts the juxtaposition. For he was the author, not only of the period’s original shorthand manual—Characterie (1588)—but also of the first book in English on the dark humour: The Treatise of Melancholy (1586). Bright’s account of melancholy involves a cybernetic phenomenology of the human. Essentially, we are psyches (souls or minds). We are sealed off from our bodies, operating them as automata across an interface. Psychological presence, for Bright, is illusion and pathology. Engrossing performances or representations therefore bring great danger, and so does the doctrine of predestination—less for its content than its typical delivery. Painful preaching was indispensable in sixteenth-century English Protestantism. But it falls foul of Bright’s proscriptions. These are followed by his publication of the first known system for verbatim shorthand notation since antiquity, its technique heavily inflected toward a vocabulary of the pulpit. The passionate, oral performance of the inspired preacher receives an unprecedented textual preservative—and prophylactic. Bright’s technology of information serves his phenomenology of alienation. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the early modern period, the tradition of melancholy, and the history of information—as theory, and technology.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040047327

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9781040047323

Salvaging Empire

Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic

By: James J. A. Blair

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Salvaging Empire

Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic

By: James J. A. Blair

Salvaging Empire probes the historical roots and current predicaments of a twenty-first century settler colony seeking to control an uncertain future through resource management and environmental science. Four decades after a violent 1982 war between the United Kingdom and Argentina reestablished British authority over the Falkland Islands (Las Malvinas in Spanish), a commercial fishing boom and offshore oil discoveries have intensified the sovereignty dispute over the South Atlantic archipelago. Scholarly literature on the South Atlantic focuses primarily on military history of the 1982 conflict. However, contested claims over natural resources have now made this disputed territory a critical site for examining the wider relationship between imperial sovereignty and environmental governance. James J. A. Blair argues that by claiming self-determination and consenting to British sovereignty, the Falkland Islanders have crafted a settler colonial protectorate to extract resources and extend empire in the South Atlantic. Responding to current debates in environmental anthropology, critical geography, Atlantic history, political ecology, and science and technology studies, Blair describes how settlers have asserted indigeneity in dynamic relation with the environment. Salvaging Empire uncovers the South Atlantic's outsized importance for understanding the broader implications of resource management and environmental science for the geopolitics of empire.

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Cornell University Press

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1501771191

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The Chemistry and Technology of Coal, Second Edition,

By: James G. Speight

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The Chemistry and Technology of Coal, Second Edition,

By: James G. Speight

Thoroughly rewritten and updated to reflect the latest advances in technology and highlighting the environmental aspects now being emphasized within the coal industry, this Second Edition of a highly acclaimed reference/text provides a comprehensive overview of coal science—covering topics ranging from the origins of coal to mining and contemporary uses. Maintaining and enhancing the clarity of presentation that made the first edition so popular, The Chemistry and Technology of Coal, Second Edition: Considers the implications of the Clean Air Act Examines the effects of combustion products on the atmosphere Details practical elements of coal evaluation procedures Clarifies misconceptions concerning the organic structure of coal Discusses the physical, thermal, electrical, and mechanical properties of coal Analyzes the development and current status of combustion and gasification techniques

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CRC Press

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0824792009

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9780824792008

A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders

Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America

By: James Delbourgo

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A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders

Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America

By: James Delbourgo

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Harvard University Press

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0674022998

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Partial Differential Equations and Fluid Mechanics

By: James C. Robinson

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Partial Differential Equations and Fluid Mechanics

By: James C. Robinson

Reviews and research articles summarizing a wide range of active research topics in fluid mechanics.

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Cambridge University Press

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052112512X

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Index of American Periodical Verse 2000

By: Rafael Català,James D. Anderson

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Index of American Periodical Verse 2000

By: Rafael Català,James D. Anderson

Packed into this volume are more than 7,000 entries for individual poets and translators and more than 21,000 entries for individual poems. A separate index provides access by title or first line.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810844672

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Unbearable Cost

Bush, Greenspan and the Economics of Empire

By: James K. Galbraith

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Unbearable Cost

Bush, Greenspan and the Economics of Empire

By: James K. Galbraith

This work contains James K. Galbraith's most influential recent writings on current affairs along with new commentary, and explores both the descent to disaster in Iraq and the ongoing transformation of the American economy under the steerage of Alan Greenspan.

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Springer

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0230236723

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9780230236721

The Reptile and the Rose

By: Dennis James Browne

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The Reptile and the Rose

By: Dennis James Browne

After the death of his daughter, Browne went on a long journey in search of scientific evidence that would either confirm or deny the existence of an afterlife. He reveals how a single electronic invention has for decades proven the existence of an afterlife and a Supreme Being.

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216

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St Michael Press

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ISBN 10

0981687407

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9780981687407

The Wartime Diaries of Lionel Robbins and James Meade, 1943–45

By: Lionel Robbins,James Meade

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The Wartime Diaries of Lionel Robbins and James Meade, 1943–45

By: Lionel Robbins,James Meade

Covering the period 1943-45, these diaries cover issues such as the Bretton Woods UN Monetary Conference in 1944 and loan negotiations and the ITO, as recorded by Meade and Robbins.

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268

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Springer

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1349108405

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9781349108404

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