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Shooting Polaris

A Personal Survey in the American West

By: John Hales

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Shooting Polaris

A Personal Survey in the American West

By: John Hales

Shooting Polaris is John Hales’s fascinating and far-reaching account of working as a government surveyor in the southern Utah desert. In it, he describes his search for a place in the natural world, beginning with an afternoon spent tracking down a lost crew member who cracked up on the job and concluding with his supervising a group of at-risk teenagers on a backpacking trip in the Escalante wilderness. In between, he depicts a range of experiences in and outside nature, including hostile barroom encounters between surveyors and tourists, weekends spent climbing Navajo Mountain and floating what remains of Glen Canyon, and late-night arguments concerning the meaning and purpose of nature with the eccentric polygamist who ran the town in which the surveyors parked their bunk trailers. Although this work is autobiographical, Shooting Polaris is so much more. It is a reflection on man’s relationship to nature and work, American history and the movement into the West, the desire to impose order and the contrary impulse for unmediated experience, the idealistic legacy of the sixties, the influence of the Mormon Church, and the often-antagonistic relationship of American capitalism to sound ecological management. Along the way, Hales introduces engaging characters and reveals the art, science, and history of surveying, an endeavor that turns out to be surprisingly profound.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826264956

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9780826264954

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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660

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806307390

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9780806307398

Essays on the History of Respiratory Physiology

By: John B. West

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Essays on the History of Respiratory Physiology

By: John B. West

This book consists of 23 essays about prominent people and events in the history of respiratory physiology. It provides a first-hand chronicle of the advancements made in respiratory physiology starting with Galen and the beginnings of Western physiology. The volume covers every aspect of the evolution of this important area of knowledge: pulmonary circulation, Boyle’s Law, pulmonary capillaries and alveoli, morphology, gas exchange and blood flow, mechanics, control of ventilation, and comparative physiology. The book emphasizes societal and philosophical aspects of the history of science. Although it concentrates on physiology, it also describes how cultural movements, such as The Enlightenment, shaped the researchers discussed. This book is published on behalf of the American Physiological Society by Springer. Access to APS books published with Springer is free to APS members.

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349

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Springer

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1493923625

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9781493923625

Tell-Trothes New Yeares Gift and The Passionate Morrice

By: Frederick James Furnivall,John Lane,Thomas Powell

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Tell-Trothes New Yeares Gift and The Passionate Morrice

By: Frederick James Furnivall,John Lane,Thomas Powell

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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246

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385516072

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9783385516076

Encyclopedia of Tudor England [3 volumes]

[3 volumes]

By: John A. Wagner,Susan Walters Schmid Ph.D.

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Encyclopedia of Tudor England [3 volumes]

[3 volumes]

By: John A. Wagner,Susan Walters Schmid Ph.D.

Authority and accessibility combine to bring the history and the drama of Tudor England to life. Almost 900 engaging entries cover the life and times of Henry VIII, Mary I, Elizabeth I, William Shakespeare, and much, much more. Written for high school students, college undergraduates, and public library patrons—indeed, for anyone interested in this important and colorful period—the three-volume Encyclopedia of Tudor England illuminates the era's most important people, events, ideas, movements, institutions, and publications. Concise, yet in-depth entries offer comprehensive coverage and an engaging mix of accessibility and authority. Chronologically, the encyclopedia spans the period from the accession of Henry VII in 1485 to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. It also examines pre-Tudor people and topics that shaped the Tudor period, as well as individuals and events whose influence extended into the Jacobean period after 1603. Geographically, the encyclopedia covers England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and also Russia, Asia, America, and important states in continental Europe. Topics include: the English Reformation; the development of Parliament; the expansion of foreign trade; the beginnings of American exploration; the evolution of the nuclear family; and the flowering of English theater and poetry, culminating in the works of William Shakespeare.

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1467

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1598842994

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9781598842999

Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War

By: John Stubbs

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Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War

By: John Stubbs

“Stubbs [has] a storyteller’s gift for atmosphere and drama.”—Wall Street Journal From disastrous foreign forays to syphilitic poets, from political intrigues to ambitious young playwrights keen to curry favor with the king, John Stubbs brings alive the vibrant cast of characters that was at the center of the English Civil War. In Reprobates, the acclaimed biographer John Stubbs finds his new subject in England’s turbulent decades of the mid-seventeenth century. With conflict between the monarchy and Parliament threatening to explode, a group of courtiers and army officers known as the Cavaliers emerged to defend the king. They were jeeringly labeled “Cavaliers”—then a term for a gallant or a rogue—by their opponents on the streets of London. Their movement was soon memorialized by poets such as Robert Herrick, whose poem “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”—which begins, “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may”—later became a carpe diem anthem for their lost cause. Often imagined as elegant gentlemen, chivalrous and dandified, the Cavaliers were also originally to be found in the form of the gambler and poet Sir John Suckling or his syphilitic friend William Davenant. Stubbs sheds new light on this groundbreaking group of men, on their world and their journeys through it, in peace and war, from the Blackfriars Playhouse to the battlefields of King Charles’s kingdoms.

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561

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393243303

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9780393243307

Searching for a Mechanism

A History of Cell Bioenergetics

By: John N. Prebble

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A History of Cell Bioenergetics

By: John N. Prebble

Traces the history of cell bioenergetics from the early notions of science in the Enlightenment through to the end of the twentieth century.

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0190866144

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Shooting Polaris

Shooting Polaris

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

Essays on the History of Respiratory Physiology

Essays on the History of Respiratory Physiology

Tell-Trothes New Yeares Gift and The Passionate Morrice

Tell-Trothes New Yeares Gift and The Passionate Morrice

Encyclopedia of Tudor England [3 volumes]

Encyclopedia of Tudor England [3 volumes]

Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War

Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War

Searching for a Mechanism

Searching for a Mechanism

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