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Alchemy Tried in the Fire

Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry

By: William R. Newman,Lawrence M. Principe

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Alchemy Tried in the Fire

Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry

By: William R. Newman,Lawrence M. Principe

Winner of the 2005 Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society. What actually took place in the private laboratory of a mid-seventeenth century alchemist? How did he direct his quest after the secrets of Nature? What instruments and theoretical principles did he employ? Using, as their guide, the previously misunderstood interactions between Robert Boyle, widely known as "the father of chemistry," and George Starkey, an alchemist and the most prominent American scientific writer before Benjamin Franklin as their guide, Newman and Principe reveal the hitherto hidden laboratory operations of a famous alchemist and argue that many of the principles and practices characteristic of modern chemistry derive from alchemy. By analyzing Starkey's extraordinary laboratory notebooks, the authors show how this American "chymist" translated the wildly figurative writings of traditional alchemy into quantitative, carefully reasoned laboratory practice—and then encoded his own work in allegorical, secretive treatises under the name of Eirenaeus Philalethes. The intriguing "mystic" Joan Baptista Van Helmont—a favorite of Starkey, Boyle, and even of Lavoisier—emerges from this study as a surprisingly central figure in seventeenth-century "chymistry." A common emphasis on quantification, material production, and analysis/synthesis, the authors argue, illustrates a continuity of goals and practices from late medieval alchemy down to and beyond the Chemical Revolution. For anyone who wants to understand how alchemy was actually practiced during the Scientific Revolution and what it contributed to the development of modern chemistry, Alchemy Tried in the Fire will be a veritable philosopher's stone.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226577058

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9780226577050

Invisible Nation

How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East

By: Quil Lawrence

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Invisible Nation

How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East

By: Quil Lawrence

The American invasion of Iraq has been a success - for the Kurds. Kurdistan is an invisible nation, and the Kurds the largest ethnic group on Earth without a homeland, comprising some 25 million moderate Sunni Muslims living in the area around the borders of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Through a history dating back to biblical times, they have endured persecution and betrayal, surviving only through stubborn compromise with greater powers. They have always desired their own state, and now, accidentally, the United States may have helped them take a huge step toward that goal. As Quil Lawrence relates in his fascinating and timely study of the Iraqi Kurds, while their ambition and determination grow apace, their future will be largely dependent on whether America values a budding democracy in the region, or decides to yet again sacrifice the Kurds in the name of political expediency. Either way, the Kurdish north may well prove to be the defining battleground in Iraq, as the country struggles to hold itself together. At this extraordinary moment in the saga of Kurdistan, informed by his deep knowledge of the people and region, Lawrence's intimate and unflinching portrait of the Kurds and their heretofore quixotic quest offers a vital and original lens through which to contemplate the future of Iraq and the surrounding Middle East.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0802718817

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9780802718815

The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, 1636-1691

By: Lawrence M Principe

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The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, 1636-1691

By: Lawrence M Principe

Robert Boyle (1627-1691) was one of the most influential scientific and theological thinkers of his time. This is the first edition of his correspondence, transcribed from the original manuscripts. It is fully annotated, with an introduction and general index and is a set of 6 volumes covering the period of 1636 to 1691

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Taylor & Francis

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100053121X

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9781000531213

The Speculation Economy

How Finance Triumphed Over Industry

By: Lawrence E. Mitchell

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The Speculation Economy

How Finance Triumphed Over Industry

By: Lawrence E. Mitchell

American companies once focused exclusively on providing the best products and services. But today, most corporations are obsessed with maximizing their stock prices, resulting in short-term thinking and the kind of cook-the-books corruption seen in the Enron and WorldCom scandals. How did this happen? In this groundbreaking book, Lawrence E. Mitchell traces the origins of the problem to the first decade of the 20th century, when industrialists and bankers began merging existing companies into huge “combines”—today's giant corporations—so they could profit by manufacturing and selling stock in these new entities. He describes and analyzes the legal changes that made this possible, the federal regulatory efforts that missed the significance of this transforming development, and the changes in American society and culture that led more and more Americans to enter the market, turning from relatively safe bonds to riskier common stock in the hopes of becoming rich. Financiers and the corporations they controlled encouraged this trend, but as stock ownership expanded and businesses were increasingly forced to cater to stockholders' “get rich quick” expectations, a subtle but revolutionary shift in the nature of the American economy occurred: finance no longer served industry; instead, industry began to serve finance. The Speculation Economy analyzes the history behind the opening of this economic Pandora's box, the root cause of so many modern acts of corporate malfeasance.

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415

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1605093866

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9781605093864

Beyond Patriarchy

Jewish Fathers and Families

By: Lawrence H. Fuchs

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Beyond Patriarchy

Jewish Fathers and Families

By: Lawrence H. Fuchs

In this timely work, Fuchs imagines a new paradigm of fatherhood for a post-patriarchal age, one inspired by the history of Jewish patriarchy. Fuchs argues that the Jewish story sets the precedent for change in the nature of patriarchy today, breaking the evolutionary connection between male dominance and incentives for fatherhood.

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240

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UPNE

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0874519411

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9780874519419

At His Convenience Bundle

An Anthology

By: Penny Jordan,Kim Lawrence,Maggie Cox

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At His Convenience Bundle

An Anthology

By: Penny Jordan,Kim Lawrence,Maggie Cox

In these compelling, sexually charged stories by top-selling Harlequin Presents authors, three independent women enter into relationships with wealthy, devastatingly attractive men...but it's all a sham. For the sake of expediency, they've agreed to loveless, businesslike liaisons. However, their determined pragmatism doesn't prepare these couples for the insistent demands of desire...or the irresistible power of love. Bundle includes Mistress of Convenience by Penny Jordan, A Convenient Husband by Kim Lawrence and A Convenient Marriage by Maggie Cox.

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Harlequin

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1426817479

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9781426817472

Reading Madeleine L’Engle

Ecopsychology in Children’s and Adolescent Literature

By: Heidi A. Lawrence

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Reading Madeleine L’Engle

Ecopsychology in Children’s and Adolescent Literature

By: Heidi A. Lawrence

Using a critical lens derived from ecopsychology and its praxis, ecotherapy, this book explores the relationships Madeleine L’Engle develops for her characters in a selection of the novels from her three Time, Austin family, and O’Keefe family series as those relationships develop along a human-nonhuman kinship continuum. This is accomplished through an examination both of pairs of novels from the fantastic and the realistic series, and of single novels which stand out as slightly different from the most prominent genre in a given series. Thus, this examination also shows L’Engle’s fluid movement along a fantasy-reality continuum and demonstrates the integration of the three series with each other. Importantly, through examining these relationships and this movement along continuums in these novels, the project demonstrates how ecopsychology and ecotherapy provide strong and important – and as-yet virtually unexplored – intersections with children’s literature.

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209

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Taylor & Francis

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100098785X

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9781000987850

The Scandals of Translation

Towards an Ethics of Difference

By: Lawrence Venuti

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The Scandals of Translation

Towards an Ethics of Difference

By: Lawrence Venuti

Translation is stigmatized as a form of writing, discouraged by copyright law, deprecated by the academy, exploited by publishers and corporations, governments and religious organizations. Lawrence Venuti exposes what he refers to as the 'scandals of translation' by looking at the relationship between translation and those bodies - corporations, governments, religious organizations, publishers - who need the work of the translator yet marginalize it when it threatens their cultural values. Venuti illustrates his arguments with a wealth of translations from The Bible, the works of Homer, Plato and Wittgenstein, Japanese and West African novels, advertisements and business journalism.

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Routledge

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1134740638

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9781134740635

Storytime

Young Children's Literary Understanding in the Classroom

By: Lawrence R. Sipe

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Storytime

Young Children's Literary Understanding in the Classroom

By: Lawrence R. Sipe

Presents a comprehensive, theoretically grounded model of children’s understanding of picture storybooks—the first to focus specifically on young children. Relevant to contemporary young children from a wide variety of ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds, this dynamic volume includes a wealth of examples of children’s responses to literature and how teachers scaffold their interpretation of stories. “The highest recommendation I can make is that I learned so much. . . . You will too!” —From the Foreword by P. David Pearson, University of California, Berkeley “The single most important book on this topic since Applebee’s The Child’s Concept of Story . . . it is also a pleasure to read.” —Lee Galda, University of Minnesota “Sipe provides a comprehensive theory of literary understanding specific to contemporary young children’s interactions with picture books. Storytime is grounded in well-documented research, an in-depth knowledge of literary theory, and enlivened by insightful commentary.” —Glenna Sloan, Professor Emerita, Queens College of the City University of New York “As a working illustrator who spends most days drawing or painting or dreaming about children's picturebooks, I sometimes wonder, ‘Is there really any point to all of this?’ In this book, Larry Sipe shows me clearly, wittily, and thoroughly that there is.” —Chris Raschka, Caldecott Medal–winning children's book author and illustrator “Those of us who work with children, picturebooks, and teachers could have no more insightful guide to their interactions than Larry Sipe himself.” —Nancy L. Roser, University of Texas, Austin

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Teachers College Press

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0807775932

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9780807775936

The Eclipse of Humanity

Heschel’s Critique of Heidegger

By: Lawrence Perlman

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The Eclipse of Humanity

Heschel’s Critique of Heidegger

By: Lawrence Perlman

It has been widely assumed that Heschel's writings are poetic inspirations devoid of philosophical analysis and unresponsive to the evil of the Holocaust. Who Is Man? (1965) contains a detailed phenomenological analyis of man and being which is directed at the main work of Martin Heidegger found primarily in Being and Time (1927) and Letter on Humanism (1946). When the analysis of Who Is Man? is unapacked in the light of these associations it is clear that Heschel rejected poetry and metaphor as a means of theological elucidation, that he offered a profound examination of the Holocaust and that the major thrust of his thinking eschews Heidegerrian deconstruction and the postmodernism that ensued in its phenomenological wake. Who Is Man? contains direct and indirect criticisms of Heidegger's notions of 'Dasein', 'thrownness', 'facticity' and 'submission' to name a few essential Heideggerian concepts. In using his ontological connective method in opposition to Heidegger's 'ontological difference', Heschel makes the argument that the biblical notion of Adam as a being open to transcendence stands in oppostion to the philosophical tradition from Parmenides to Heidegger and is the only basis for a redemptive view of humanity.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110434180

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9783110434187

A Convenient Husband

By: Kim Lawrence

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A Convenient Husband

By: Kim Lawrence

Marriage—for love, sex or convenience? Tess is about to lose custody of her precious baby nephew, so it's only natural for her to cry on her best friend's shoulder—Rafe Farrar. To the rest of the female population, he's sex on legs. So Tess is shocked when he suggests they marry to guarantee custody! Instantly, their friendship becomes more intimate. But how will they relate to each other as husband and wife? One place they seem to communicate perfectly is the bedroom…

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Harlequin

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1459200349

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9781459200340

Looking for Longleaf

The Fall and Rise of an American Forest

By: Lawrence S. Earley

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Looking for Longleaf

The Fall and Rise of an American Forest

By: Lawrence S. Earley

Covering 92 million acres from Virginia to Texas, the longleaf pine ecosystem was, in its prime, one of the most extensive and biologically diverse ecosystems in North America. Today these magnificent forests have declined to a fraction of their original extent, threatening such species as the gopher tortoise, the red-cockaded woodpecker, and the Venus fly-trap. Conservationists have proclaimed longleaf restoration a major goal, but has it come too late? In Looking for Longleaf, Lawrence S. Earley explores the history of these forests and the astonishing biodiversity of the longleaf ecosystem, drawing on extensive research and telling the story through first-person travel accounts and interviews with foresters, ecologists, biologists, botanists, and landowners. For centuries, these vast grass-covered forests provided pasture for large cattle herds, in addition to serving as the world's greatest source of naval stores. They sustained the exploitative turpentine and lumber industries until nearly all of the virgin longleaf had vanished. Looking for Longleaf demonstrates how, in the twentieth century, forest managers and ecologists struggled to understand the special demands of longleaf and to halt its overall decline. The compelling story Earley tells here offers hope that with continued human commitment, the longleaf pine might not just survive, but once again thrive.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807875783

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Book's by LAWRENCE FARRAR

Alchemy Tried in the Fire

Alchemy Tried in the Fire

Invisible Nation

Invisible Nation

The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, 1636-1691

The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, 1636-1691

The Speculation Economy

The Speculation Economy

Beyond Patriarchy

Beyond Patriarchy

At His Convenience Bundle

At His Convenience Bundle

Reading Madeleine L’Engle

Reading Madeleine L’Engle

The Scandals of Translation

The Scandals of Translation

Storytime

Storytime

The Eclipse of Humanity

The Eclipse of Humanity

A Convenient Husband

A Convenient Husband

Looking for Longleaf

Looking for Longleaf

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