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The Politcal Theory of Montesquieu

By: Melvyn Richter

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The Politcal Theory of Montesquieu

By: Melvyn Richter

This volume makes available in an English translation the most significant part of Montesquieu's political, social and legal theory. About two-thirds of the volume has been translated from the Spirit of the Laws, not redone in English since the eighteenth century. That version was notoriously inadequate: Montesquieu's key terms were not rendered consistently; often his meaning was distorted by giving the nearest English eighteenth-century legal or institutional equivalent. Finally, English usage has changed so much that the eighteenth-century translation makes Montesquieu seem both quaint and obscure. This volume also includes substantial selections from the Persian Letters and the Considerations on the Causes of the Romans; Greatness and Decline. Although adequate translations of these works exist, it seemed advisable to maintain intellectual and stylistic consistency by providing English versions on the same principles as the Spirit of the Laws.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521211565

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9780521211567

Pure Intelligence

The Life of William Hyde Wollaston

By: Melvyn C. Usselman

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Pure Intelligence

The Life of William Hyde Wollaston

By: Melvyn C. Usselman

William Hyde Wollaston made an astonishing number of discoveries in an astonishingly varied number of fields: platinum metallurgy, the existence of ultraviolet radiation, the chemical elements palladium and rhodium, the amino acid cystine, and the physiology of binocular vision, among others. Along with his colleagues Humphry Davy and Thomas Young, he was widely recognized during his life as one of Britain’s leading scientific practitioners in the first part of the nineteenth century, and the deaths of all three within a six-month span, between 1828 and 1829, were seen by many as the end of a glorious period of British scientific supremacy. Unlike Davy and Young, however, Wollaston was not the subject of a contemporary biography, and his many impressive achievements have fallen into obscurity as a result. Pure Intelligence is the first book-length study of Wollaston, his science, and the environment in which he thrived. Drawing on previously-unstudied laboratory records as well as historical reconstructions of chemical experiments and discoveries, and written in a highly accessible style, Pure Intelligence will help to reinstate Wollaston in the history of science, and the pantheon of its great innovators.

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430

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University of Chicago Press

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022624587X

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9780226245874

Hard Work

The Making of Labor History

By: Melvyn Dubofsky

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Hard Work

The Making of Labor History

By: Melvyn Dubofsky

A career-spanning collection of writings by the legendary labor historian One of American labor history's most prominent scholars, Melvyn Dubofsky curated an accessible style and historical reach that have long marked his work as required reading for students and scholars. This collection juxtaposes Dubofsky's early writings with scholarship from the 1990s. Selections include work on western working-class radicalism, U.S. labor history in transnational and comparative settings, and the impact of technological change on American worker’s movements. Throughout, the writings provide an invaluable eyewitness perspective on the academic and political climate of the 1960s and 1970s while tracing the development of labor history as a discipline. An exploration of important themes in labor history, Hard Work combines essential scholarship with the story of how past and present interact in the work of historians.

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268

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University of Illinois Press

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0252056833

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9780252056833

Rich: The Life of Richard Burton

By: Melvyn Bragg

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Rich: The Life of Richard Burton

By: Melvyn Bragg

Richard Burton: star. The roaring boy from the Welsh coal valleys who came to sport on the banks of the old Nile, playing great Antony to Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra. From the West End to Hollywood, from Camelot to Shakespeare, he drank, dazzled and despaired, playing out his life on the public stage. But there was another, quieter, off-stage Richard Burton, a face hidden from the multitude. Melvyn Bragg, allowed free access to the never-before-revealed Burton private notebooks, and with the cooperation of friends who have never spoken about him before, has brought together the private and public sides for the first time. Rich is the complete Richard Burton: a revelation.

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Hodder & Stoughton

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1444758462

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9781444758467

Music and the Paranormal

An Encyclopedic Dictionary

By: Melvyn J. Willin

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Music and the Paranormal

An Encyclopedic Dictionary

By: Melvyn J. Willin

Exploring the paranormal through musical phenomena, this encyclopedia covers a range of anomalies, from musical mediumship to locations throughout the world where music has been heard with no obvious source. Other manifestations, such as the abilities of musical savants and the anesthetic use of music during surgical procedures, are included with a focus on paraphysical aspects. Entries describe examples from earliest history up to the present--interpretation is left to the reader. Broader themes and concepts are discussed in appendices, with additional references provided for further study.

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McFarland

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1476685983

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9781476685984

D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation

A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time

By: Melvyn Stokes

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D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation

A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time

By: Melvyn Stokes

In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie. By going back to the original archives, particularly the NAACP and D. W. Griffith Papers, Stokes explodes many of the myths surrounding The Birth of a Nation (1915). Yet the story that remains is fascinating: the longest American film of its time, Griffith's film incorporated many new features, including the first full musical score compiled for an American film. It was distributed and advertised by pioneering methods that would quickly become standard. Through the high prices charged for admission and the fact that it was shown, at first, only in "live" theaters with orchestral accompaniment, Birth played a major role in reconfiguring the American movie audience by attracting more middle-class patrons. But if the film was a milestone in the history of cinema, it was also undeniably racist. Stokes shows that the darker side of this classic movie has its origins in the racist ideas of Thomas Dixon, Jr. and Griffith's own Kentuckian background and earlier film career. The book reveals how, as the years went by, the campaign against the film became increasingly successful. In the 1920s, for example, the NAACP exploited the fact that the new Ku Klux Klan, which used Griffith's film as a recruiting and retention tool, was not just anti-black, but also anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish, as a way to mobilize new allies in opposition to the film. This crisply written book sheds light on both the film's racism and the aesthetic brilliance of Griffith's filmmaking. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the cinema.

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Oxford University Press

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0199887519

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9780199887514

Additive Number Theory: Inverse Problems and the Geometry of Sumsets

By: Melvyn B. Nathanson

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Additive Number Theory: Inverse Problems and the Geometry of Sumsets

By: Melvyn B. Nathanson

Many classical problems in additive number theory are direct problems, in which one starts with a set A of natural numbers and an integer H -> 2, and tries to describe the structure of the sumset hA consisting of all sums of h elements of A. By contrast, in an inverse problem, one starts with a sumset hA, and attempts to describe the structure of the underlying set A. In recent years there has been ramrkable progress in the study of inverse problems for finite sets of integers. In particular, there are important and beautiful inverse theorems due to Freiman, Kneser, Plünnecke, Vosper, and others. This volume includes their results, and culminates with an elegant proof by Ruzsa of the deep theorem of Freiman that a finite set of integers with a small sumset must be a large subset of an n-dimensional arithmetic progression.

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320

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387946551

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9780387946559

Psychiatry and Heart Disease

The Mind, Brain, and Heart

By: Michelle Riba,Lawson Wulsin,Melvyn Rubenfire,Divy Ravindranath

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Psychiatry and Heart Disease

The Mind, Brain, and Heart

By: Michelle Riba,Lawson Wulsin,Melvyn Rubenfire,Divy Ravindranath

This unique book will help psychiatrists to understand better the risks of cardiovascular illness and cardiologists to appreciate possible pathophysiological links with psychiatric conditions. It describes the common psychiatric conditions, their key features and how they may influence cardiovascular disease, outcomes, and quality of life. It also considers the cardiovascular complications that may arise as a result of mental illness. In an exciting, collaborative approach, psychiatrists and cardiologists combine their expertise throughout the book to provide guidance on the best way to manage such patients, considering the patient as a whole, not the individual conditions.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118307968

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9781118307960

The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan

By: Melvyn C. Goldstein

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The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan

By: Melvyn C. Goldstein

This most current Tibetan-English dictionary surpasses existing dictionaries in both scope and comprehensiveness.

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Univ of California Press

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0520204379

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9780520204379

Origins of the Cold War

An International History

By: Melvyn P. Leffler

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Origins of the Cold War

An International History

By: Melvyn P. Leffler

This second edition brings the collection up to date, including the newest research from the Communist side of the Cold War and the most recent debates on culture, race and intelligence.

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Psychology Press

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0415341094

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9780415341097

Anatomy and Physiology for Midwives,with Pageburst online access,3

Anatomy and Physiology for Midwives

By: Jane Coad,Melvyn Dunstall

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Anatomy and Physiology for Midwives,with Pageburst online access,3

Anatomy and Physiology for Midwives

By: Jane Coad,Melvyn Dunstall

Printed book plus PageburstT access. You will receive a printed book and access to the complete book content electronically. PageburstT enhances learning not only by bringing world class content to your fingertips but also by letting you add to it, annotate it, and categorize it in a way that suits you. PageburstT frees you to spend more time learning and less time searching. Anatomy & Physiology for Midwives 3rd edition builds on the success of the first two editions with electronic ancillaries, more accessible, woman-centred language and strengthened links with good practice. The book provides a thorough review of anatomy and physiology applicable to midwifery, from first principles through to current research, utilizing case studies for reflection. A comprehensive and well-illustrated textbook that is an essential purchase for all students of midwifery.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702034894

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9780702034893

The Sword and the Miracle

A Novel

By: Melvyn Bragg

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The Sword and the Miracle

A Novel

By: Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg's acclaimed epic novel is set at the tumultuous dawn of Christianity in Britain and Ireland. It is a stunning story of adventure and spirituality, war and romance, but it is deeply rooted in Bragg's historical studies of the Dark Ages, and it throws into question our modern-day conceptions of faith, hope, and true love. Two people destined to be lovers sacrifice themselves for what they believe to be a greater destiny. For the warrior Padric, a charismatic British prince, it is the salvation of his people and homeland from warring Northumbrian overlords; for Bega, a bewitching Irish princess, it is carrying out her self-imposed commitment to spread the word of God. She, bearing a fragment of the true cross, is gifted with miraculous powers; he is a swordsman without peer. Their disparate missions send them apart as they travel throughout the frigid wilderness of a primitive England beset by terror and villainy. Faith is pitched against doubt, spiritual fulfillment against physical desire, romantic ideals against political expediency and pragmatism against theory. The Sword and the Miracle rose quickly to the top of the British bestseller lists, heralded by critics as an absorbing, wonderfully evocative work, several cuts above contemporary attempts at historical fiction. The reader will find an exciting narrative informed by insight, knowledge and understanding.

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Random House (NY)

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0375500030

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9780375500039

The Politcal Theory of Montesquieu

By: Melvyn Richter

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The Politcal Theory of Montesquieu

By: Melvyn Richter

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The Politcal Theory of Montesquieu

The Politcal Theory of Montesquieu

Pure Intelligence

Pure Intelligence

Hard Work

Hard Work

Rich: The Life of Richard Burton

Rich: The Life of Richard Burton

Music and the Paranormal

Music and the Paranormal

D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation

D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation

Additive Number Theory: Inverse Problems and the Geometry of Sumsets

Additive Number Theory: Inverse Problems and the Geometry of Sumsets

Psychiatry and Heart Disease

Psychiatry and Heart Disease

The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan

The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan

Origins of the Cold War

Origins of the Cold War

Anatomy and Physiology for Midwives,with Pageburst online access,3

Anatomy and Physiology for Midwives,with Pageburst online access,3

The Sword and the Miracle

The Sword and the Miracle

The Politcal Theory of Montesquieu

The Politcal Theory of Montesquieu

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