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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 3, Agro-Industries and Forestry

By: Joseph Needham,Christian Daniels,Nicholas K. Menzies

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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 3, Agro-Industries and Forestry

By: Joseph Needham,Christian Daniels,Nicholas K. Menzies

Contains two separate works. The first, by Christian Daniels, is a comprehensive history of Chinese sugar cane technology from ancient times to the early twentieth century. Dr Daniels includes an account of the contribution of Chinese techniques and machinery to the development of world sugar technology in the pre-modern period, devoting special attention to the transfer of this technology to the countries of South-East and East Asia in the period after the sixteenth century. The second, by Nicholas K. Menzies, is a history of forestry in China. A final section compares China's history of deforestation with the cases of Europe and Japan.

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934

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Cambridge University Press

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0521419999

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9780521419994

A Treatise on the Law of Watercourses. With an Appendix, Containing Statutes of Flowing, and Forms of Declarations

By: Jonathan Cogswell Perkins,Joseph Kinnicut Angell

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A Treatise on the Law of Watercourses. With an Appendix, Containing Statutes of Flowing, and Forms of Declarations

By: Jonathan Cogswell Perkins,Joseph Kinnicut Angell

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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882

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3385541166

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9783385541160

John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control

By: Joseph Hamburger

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John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control

By: Joseph Hamburger

John Stuart Mill is one of the hallowed figures of the liberal tradition, revered for his defense of liberal principles and expansive personal liberty. By examining Mill's arguments in On Liberty in light of his other writings, however, Joseph Hamburger reveals a Mill very different from the "saint of rationalism" so central to liberal thought. He shows that Mill, far from being an advocate of a maximum degree of liberty, was an advocate of liberty and control--indeed a degree of control ultimately incompatible with liberal ideals. Hamburger offers this powerful challenge to conventional scholarship by presenting Mill's views on liberty in the context of his ideas about, in particular, religion and historical development. The book draws on the whole range of Mill's philosophical writings and on his correspondence with, among others, Harriet Taylor Mill, Auguste Comte, and Alexander Bain to show that Mill's underlying goal was to replace the traditional religious basis of society with a form of secular religion that would rest on moral authority, individual restraint, and social control. Hamburger argues that Mill was not self-contradictory in thus championing both control and liberty. Rather, liberty and control worked together in Mill's thought as part of a balanced, coherent program of social and moral reform that was neither liberal nor authoritarian. Based on a lifetime's study of nineteenth-century political thought, this clearly written and forcefully argued book is a major reinterpretation of Mill's ideas and intellectual legacy.

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260

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Princeton University Press

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1400823242

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9781400823246

Science and Civilisation in China, Part 2, Mechanical Engineering

By: Joseph Needham

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Science and Civilisation in China, Part 2, Mechanical Engineering

By: Joseph Needham

As Dr Needham's immense undertaking gathers momentum it has been found necessary to subdivide volumes into parts, each to be bound and published separately. The first part of Volume 4, already published, deals with the physical sciences; the second with the diverse applications of physics in the many branches of mechanical engineering; and the third will deal with civil and hydraulic engineering and nautical technology. With this part of Volume 4, then, we come to the application by the Chinese of physical principles in the control of forces and in the use of power; we cross the frontier separating tools from the machine. We have already noticed that the ancient Chinese concept of chhi (somewhat similar to the pneuma of the Greeks) asserted itself prominently in acoustics; but we discover here that the Chinese tendency to think pneumatically was also responsible for a whole range of brilliant technological achievements, for example, the double-acting piston-bellows, the rotary winnowing-fan, and the water-powered metallurgical blowing-machine (ancestor of the steam-engine); as well as for some extraordinary insights and predictions in aeronautics.

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1022

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Cambridge University Press

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0521058031

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9780521058032

Free-Market Socialists

European Émigrés Who Made Capitalist Culture in America, 1918–1968

By: Joseph Malherek

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Free-Market Socialists

European Émigrés Who Made Capitalist Culture in America, 1918–1968

By: Joseph Malherek

The Hungarian artist-designer László Moholy-Nagy, the Austrian sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld, and his fellow Viennese Victor Gruen—an architect and urban planner—made careers in different fields. Yet they shared common socialist politics, Jewish backgrounds, and experience as refugees from the Nazis. This book tells the story of their intellectual migration from Central Europe to the United States, beginning with the collapse of the Habsburg Empire, and moving through the heady years of newly independent social-democratic republics before the descent into fascism. It follows their experience of exile and adaptation in a new country, and culminates with a surprising outcome of socialist thinking: the opening of the first fully enclosed, air-conditioned suburban shopping center in the United States. Although the American culture they encountered ostensibly celebrated entrepreneurial individualism and capitalistic “free enterprise,” Moholy-Nagy, Lazarsfeld, and Gruen arrived at a time of the progressive economic reforms of the New Deal and an extraordinary open-mindedness about social democracy. This period of unprecedented economic experimentation nurtured a business climate that, for the most part, did not stifle the émigrés’ socialist idealism but rather channeled it as the source of creative solutions to the practical problems of industrial design, urban planning, and consumer behavior. Based on a vast array of original sources, Malherek interweaves the biographies of these three remarkable personalities and those of their wives, colleagues, and friends with whom they collaborated on innovative projects that would shape the material environment and consumer culture of their adopted home. The result is a narrative of immigration and adaptation that challenges the crude binary of capitalism and socialism with a story of creative economic hybridization.

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Central European University Press

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9633864488

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9789633864487

Learning Mastercam Mill Step by Step

By: James Valentino,Joseph Goldenberg

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Learning Mastercam Mill Step by Step

By: James Valentino,Joseph Goldenberg

Demonstrates how to install and operate the latest version of the software program, using illustrations and step-by-step instructions.

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Industrial Press Inc.

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0831131772

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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 3, Agro-Industries and Forestry

Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 3, Agro-Industries and Forestry

A Treatise on the Law of Watercourses. With an Appendix, Containing Statutes of Flowing, and Forms of Declarations

A Treatise on the Law of Watercourses. With an Appendix, Containing Statutes of Flowing, and Forms of Declarations

John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control

John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control

Science and Civilisation in China, Part 2, Mechanical Engineering

Science and Civilisation in China, Part 2, Mechanical Engineering

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Free-Market Socialists

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