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The Poor Law of Lunacy

By: Peter Bartlett

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Most historians portray 19th-century county asylums as the exclusive realm of the asylum doctor, but Bartlett (law, U. of Nottingham) argues that they should be thought of as an aspect of English poor law, in which the medical superintendent had remarkably little power. He examines the place of the county asylum movement in the midcentury poor law debates and its legal and administrative regimes. Taking the Leicestershire asylum as a case study, he explores the role of poor law officers in admission processes, and relations between them and the staff and inspectors.

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0718501047

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9780718501044

Függetlenség és rögtönzés

Unabhängigkeit und Improvisation - Independence and Improvisation

By: Peter Herrmann,Juhani Laurinkari,Nelu Bradean-Ebinger

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Unabhängigkeit und Improvisation - Independence and Improvisation

By: Peter Herrmann,Juhani Laurinkari,Nelu Bradean-Ebinger

The Hungarian historian Professor Zoltán Tefner has a remarkable academic career. This book is a tribute to his versatile, energetically continuous work. At the same time, it is a collection of current texts in which Tefner's well-known students, colleagues and members of the international scientific community deal with historically and socially significant themes, such as the construction of the European territorial order, border policy and contractual civilization, the importance of jurisprudence in the search for the civilizing process, welfare economics, a systematic conception of human being, and Hungary's critical decades in the 19th and 20th centuries. The historical and geographical arc of the texts extends from the Carolingian Empire of the 8th century to the European Union of the 2020s. Tefner Zoltán magyar történész kiemelkedő tudományos pályafutással rendelkezik. Ez a könyv tisztelgés sokrétű, nyughatatlan folyamatos munkája előtt. Ugyanakkor aktuális szöveggyűjtemény, amelyben Tefner neves tanítványai, kollégái és a nemzetközi tudományos közösség tagjai történelmi és társadalmi szempontból is fontos témákkal foglalkoznak, mint a felségterület-elrendezések és határpolitikák Európában, az európai szerződéses civilizáció szerkezete, az igazságszolgáltatás jelentősége a civilizációs folyamat értelmének keresésében, a jóléti gazdaságtan, az emberiség szisztematikus szemlélete, valamint Magyarország kritikus évtizedei a 19. és a 20. században. A szövegek történelmi és földrajzi íve a 8. századi Karoling Birodalomtól a 2020-as évek Európai Úniójáig terjed. Der ungarische Historiker Professor Zoltán Tefner hat eine bemerkenswerte akademische Karriere. Dieses Buch ist eine Hommage an sein vielseitiges, dynamisch-kontinuierliches Werk. Zugleich handelt es sich um eine Sammlung aktueller Texte, in denen sich Tefners namhafte Studierende, Kollegen und Mitglieder der internationalen Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft mit historisch und gesellschaftlich bedeutsamen Themen auseinandersetzen; wie etwa den Territorialitätsordnungen und Grenzpolitiken in Europa, dem Aufbau der europäischen Vertragszivilisation, der Bedeutung der Rechtsprechung bei der Suche nach dem Sinn des Zivilisationsprozesses, der Wohlfahrtsökonomie, dem systematischen Menschenbild und den kritischen Jahrzehnten Ungarns im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Der historische und geografische Bogen der Texte reicht vom Karolingischen Kaiserreich des 8. Jahrhunderts bis hin zur Europäischen Union der 2020er Jahre.

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3990610309

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9783990610305

Abberline

The Man Who Hunted Jack the Ripper

By: Peter Thurgood

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Abberline

The Man Who Hunted Jack the Ripper

By: Peter Thurgood

The name Frederick George Abberline has become synonymous with that of Jack the Ripper, and he has been portrayed as everything from an alcoholic, a drug addict, a womaniser and a bully. In reality Abberline was none of these but instead was a devoted husband and a dedicated policeman in a time of rampant corruption. Furthermore, the Whitechapel murders were not the only notorious cases he worked on. From his humble origins as a clockmaker through to his rising through the ranks of the Metropolitan Police, Abberline tells the story of a man who lead some of the most infamous investigations in criminal history. Long before the Ripper, Abberline infiltrated an Irish terrorist group known as the Fenians, before he became embroiled in the Cleveland Street Scandal – an incident that almost brought the Government to its knees. When he retired from the police at the age of 49, Abberline had received eighty-four commendations and awards – a testament to his tenacity and ability.

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The History Press

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0752492772

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Representation and Inequality in Late Nineteenth-Century America

The Politics of Apportionment

By: Peter H. Argersinger

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Representation and Inequality in Late Nineteenth-Century America

The Politics of Apportionment

By: Peter H. Argersinger

This book demonstrates that apportionment, although long overlooked by scholars, dominated state politics in late nineteenth-century America, setting the boundaries not only for legislative districts but for the nature of representative democracy. The book examines the fierce struggles over apportionment in the Midwest, where a distinctive constitutional and electoral context shaped their course with momentous consequences. As the major parties alternated in effectively disenfranchising their opponents through gerrymanders, growing tensions challenged established patterns of political behaviour and precipitated intense and even dangerous disputes. Unprecedented judicial intervention overturned gerrymanders in stunning decisions that electrified the public but intensified rather than resolved political conflict and uncertainty. Ultimately, America's political ideal of representative democracy was frustrated by its own political institutions, including the courts, because their decisions against gerrymandering in the 1890s helped parties and legislatures entrench the practice as a basic and profoundly undemocratic feature of American politics in the twentieth century.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139789600

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9781139789608

Whitechapel

By: Peter Bunnett

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Whitechapel

By: Peter Bunnett

Martin Reid was a criminal psychologist, studying the behaviour of criminals. He was employed by the Metropolitan Police which allowed him to visit New Scotland Yard, his sole purpose for these visits was to go to the Crime Museum within the building, and there he fed his obsession, his strange interest with the crimes of Jack the Ripper. On one visit he met George Saunders, an ex-police officer who also had an interest in Jack. After a short conversation they agreed to meet at a public house in Whitechapel, there George would give Martin the opportunity of a lifetime, to go back in time to Victorian London, to try to identify Jack before he committed his first murder. The journey back is mixed with horror and excitement, both men knowing where Jack would strike, waiting to catch a glimpse of the most notorious of serial killers, this is their story.

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New Generation Publishing

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1785075977

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9781785075971

Pearl S. Buck

A Cultural Biography

By: Peter Conn,Peter J. Conn

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Pearl S. Buck

A Cultural Biography

By: Peter Conn,Peter J. Conn

One of the most popular novelists of the twentieth century, winner of a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize for Literature and an active social and political campaigner, particularly in the field of women's issues and Asian-American relations, Pearl Buck has, until now, remained 'hidden in public view'. Best known, perhaps, as the prolific author of The Good Earth, Buck led a career which extended well beyond her eighty works of fiction and non-fiction and deep into the public sphere. In this critically acclaimed biography, Peter Conn retrieves Pearl Buck from the footnotes of literary and cultural history and reinstates her as a figure of compelling and uncommon significance in twentieth-century literary, cultural and political history.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521639891

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Owls, Caves and Fossils

Predation, Preservation and Accumulation of Small Mammal Bones in Caves, with an Analysis of the Pleistocene Cave Faunas From Westbury-Sub-Mendip, Somerset, U.K.

By: Peter Andrews

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Owls, Caves and Fossils

Predation, Preservation and Accumulation of Small Mammal Bones in Caves, with an Analysis of the Pleistocene Cave Faunas From Westbury-Sub-Mendip, Somerset, U.K.

By: Peter Andrews

Owls, Caves, and Fossils is the first comprehensive, fully illustrated account of small mammal taphonomy. The study of small mammal remains has previously been neglected in favor of such large mammals as elephants, bovids, and carnivores, and Andrews remedies this deficiency by analyzing the taphonomic processes significant in the preservation of small mammal fauna in caves.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226020371

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9780226020372

Transportation

By: Peter Mellett,Connie Novis,John Miles

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Transportation

By: Peter Mellett,Connie Novis,John Miles

Discusses the importance of transportation and describes different types of vehicles and their uses.

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0836801342

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Learn Abtflight

By: Peter Mellett

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Learn Abtflight

By: Peter Mellett

Explains the concepts of flight and aeronautics while also suggesting experiments which further illustrate the information presented. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

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Inventions and Discoveries

By: Peter Harrison,Peter Mellett

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Inventions and Discoveries

By: Peter Harrison,Peter Mellett

Investigates the impact of inventions on everyday life and offers ideas for projects which explain the science of how things work.

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Lorenz Books

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0754802132

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Mammal Teeth

Origin, Evolution, and Diversity

By: Peter S. Ungar

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Mammal Teeth

Origin, Evolution, and Diversity

By: Peter S. Ungar

Winner, 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in the Biological Sciences. Professional and Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers In this unique book, Peter S. Ungar tells the story of mammalian teeth from their origin through their evolution to their current diversity. Mammal Teeth traces the evolutionary history of teeth, beginning with the very first mineralized vertebrate structures half a billion years ago. Ungar describes how the simple conical tooth of early vertebrates became the molars, incisors, and other forms we see in mammals today. Evolutionary adaptations changed pointy teeth into flatter ones, with specialized shapes designed to complement the corresponding jaw. Ungar explains tooth structure and function in the context of nutritional needs. The myriad tooth shapes produced by evolution offer different solutions to the fundamental problem of how to squeeze as many nutrients as possible out of foods. The book also highlights Ungar's own path-breaking studies that show how microwear analysis can help us understand ancient diets. The final part of the book provides an in-depth examination of mammalian teeth today, surveying all orders in the class, family by family. Ungar describes some of the more bizarre teeth, such as tusks, and the mammal diversity that accompanies these morphological wonders. Mammal Teeth captures the evolution of mammals, including humans, through the prism of dental change. Synthesizing decades of research, Ungar reveals the interconnections among mammal diet, dentition, and evolution. His book is a must-read for paleontologists, mammalogists, and anthropologists.

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JHU Press

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0801899516

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9780801899515

Reading Life with Gwich'in

An Educational Approach

By: Jan Peter Laurens Loovers

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Reading Life with Gwich'in

An Educational Approach

By: Jan Peter Laurens Loovers

This book is based upon more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork and personal experiences with the Teetł’it Gwich’in community in northern Canada. The author provides insight into Gwich’in understandings of life as well as into historical and political processes that have taken place in the North. He outlines the development of an educational approach towards conducting ethnography and writing anthropological literature, starting with the premise ‘you have to live it’. The book focuses on ways of knowing and collaboration through learning and being taught by interlocutors. Building on the work of Tim Ingold, Loovers investigates the notion of reading life - land, water and weather as well as texts – and analyses the reading of texts as acts of conversations or correspondences.

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Routledge

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0429868049

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9780429868047

The Tantric Alchemist

Thomas Vaughan and the Indian Tantric Tradition

By: Peter Levenda

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The Tantric Alchemist

Thomas Vaughan and the Indian Tantric Tradition

By: Peter Levenda

The Tantric Alchemist is a work on alchemy as decoded by Tantra and a work on Tantra as understood by alchemists. It uncovers works by Thomas Vaughan and suggests how he and his wife—a 17th-century Welsh couple unique in the history of western alchemy—met their fate when dealing with forces they knew only too well, but which were stronger than their ability to control them. Using the works of Vaughan as his text, Levenda applies the “twilight language” of Tantra to the surreal prose of the alchemist and in the process lays bare the lineaments of the arcane tradition that gave rise to the legend of Christian Rosenkreutz, the reputed founder of Rosicrucianism who learned his art in the East; and to the 19th- and 20th-century occult movements lead by such luminaries as P.B. Randolph, Theodore Reuss, Helena Blavatsky, and Aleister Crowley who also sought (and discovered) this technology in the religions and cultures of Asia. Readers will find that the many disparate threads of an authentic spiritual tradition are woven together here in a startling tapestry that reveals—without pretense or euphemism—the psycho-sexual technique that is at the root of both Tantra and alchemy: that is to say, of both Asian and European forms of esoteric praxis.

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Nicolas-Hays, Inc.

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0892546298

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9780892546299

Eyewitnessing

The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence

By: Peter Burke

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Eyewitnessing

The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence

By: Peter Burke

Eyewitnessing evaluates the place of images among other kinds of historical evidence. By reviewing the many varieties of images by region, period and medium, and looking at the pragmatic uses of images (e.g. the Bayeux Tapestry, an engraving of a printing press, a reconstruction of a building), Peter Burke sheds light on our assumption that these practical uses are 'reflections' of specific historical meanings and influences. He also shows how this assumption can be problematic. Traditional art historians have depended on two types of analysis when dealing with visual imagery: iconography and iconology. Burke describes and evaluates these approaches, concluding that they are insufficient. Focusing instead on the medium as message and on the social contexts and uses of images, he discusses both religious images and political ones, also looking at images in advertising and as commodities. Ultimately, Burke's purpose is to show how iconographic and post-iconographic methods – psychoanalysis, semiotics, viewer response, deconstruction – are both useful and problematic to contemporary historians.

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Reaktion Books

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1861898282

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9781861898289

Illustrated Science Encyclopedia

Transport

By: Peter Harrison

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Illustrated Science Encyclopedia

Transport

By: Peter Harrison

A Journey of discovery that explores how humans have developed ways of traveling on the sea, on land and in the air.

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184477208X

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9781844772087

Heat and Cold

By: Peter Lafferty

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Heat and Cold

By: Peter Lafferty

Investigates the effects of heat and how these effects can be used. Includes suggestions for experiments with heat and temperature.

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Cavendish Square Publishing

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0761400338

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9780761400332

Solving a Crime

By: Peter Mellett

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Solving a Crime

By: Peter Mellett

Follow the police as they investigate the theft of a Toltec mask from a museum, describing the activities and security measures of the museum, the theft, the search for and analysis of clues, the questioning of a suspect, the reconstruction of the crime, the trial, and the outcome.

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Heinemann Educational Books

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157572782X

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Trees

By: Peter Mellett

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Trees

By: Peter Mellett

Provides an overview of trees, their component parts, how they grow, varieties of trees, and how we use trees and their products. Includes related experiments and projects.

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Gareth Stevens Publishing

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0836820878

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Madness

Ideas About Insanity

By: Peter Morrall

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Madness

Ideas About Insanity

By: Peter Morrall

This book is an introduction to the uncertainties and incongruities about madness. It is aimed at all of those who are curious about this subject whether out of general inquisitiveness or because it is part of a formal course of study. Using case studies of real people in order to explain, humanise, and bring to life the subject, Peter Morrall critically analyses how madness has been and is understood, or perhaps misunderstood. By contrasting past and present people who have been perceived as mad and/or perceive themselves as mad, Morrall presents core ideas about madness and critiques their would-be robustness in explaining the specific madness of the person in question, as well as their general relevance to madness overall. Unlike many of its contemporaries, the book does not adhere to a perspective, but rather remains skeptical about the ideas of all who profess to understand madness, whether these emanate from sociology, psychology, psychotherapy, anthropology, ‘anti’ psychiatry, or the biological sciences of contemporary ‘scientific-psychiatry’. This book will inform and stimulate the thinking of the reader, and challenge those with preconceived ideas about madness.

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Routledge

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1317444116

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9781317444114

Quarantined

Life and Death at William Head Station, 1872-1959

By: Peter Wilton Johnson

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Quarantined

Life and Death at William Head Station, 1872-1959

By: Peter Wilton Johnson

A look at the William Head Quarantine Station in British Columbia and the thousands of immigrants who were housed there upon their arrival in Canada.

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Heritage House Publishing Co

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1927527317

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9781927527313

Transport

By: Peter Mellett

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Transport

By: Peter Mellett

Discusses the importance of transportation and describes different types of vehicles and their uses.

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185400087X

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Launching a Satellite

By: Peter Mellett

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Launching a Satellite

By: Peter Mellett

Describes the launching of a satellite, covering such aspects as the crew, training, construction, testing, loading, take-off, activities in space, landing, and debriefing.

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0431021686

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