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Early Railway Chemistry and its Legacy

By: Colin A Russell,John Hudson

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Early Railway Chemistry and its Legacy

By: Colin A Russell,John Hudson

One of the most important parts of British heavy industry today is our railway system. Its constant appearances in news bulletins, its enormous appeal to fans or "enthusiasts", its permanent role in the lives of most of us, and its economic significance today, all underline its importance. Railway historians and enthusiasts will be surprised to learn that chemists played an important part in the development of the railway industry in Britain. Chemists themselves are well aware of the many and wide-ranging applications of their discipline, but the fact that their predecessors were involved in the technological development of railways will come as a surprise to many. This book is the first detailed study of this important interaction and covers the crucial role that chemistry played in the development of the British railway industry from its beginnings in the early 19th century up to the grouping of the railways of 1923 into GWR, SR, LNER, and LMSR. The book describes the vital relationship between chemistry and the railway industry, all very recently discovered. It shows that the railway system would simply have not been possible without chemical inputs, chiefly but by no means entirely analytical. This discovery about a huge revenue-earning industry in Britain came from rare documents recently unearthed and other archival material and the book contains many rare illustrations and vast amounts of previously unpublished material. For the historian, it is a classic case of where history of science and history of technology converge. A great many engineers contributed to the enormous technological development which occurred in the railway industry between 1830 and 1923, but working alongside the engineers were the chemists, and in certain critical areas their contribution to this development was vital. It is a contribution which up until now has not been adequately recognised, and this book puts the record straight. The book has an unusually wide appeal, being of interest to practising chemists, those interested in the history of chemistry and its role in society, historians of science and technology, mechanical engineers, and not least railway enthusiasts and railway historians. The chemist will be justly proud of the extreme importance of the subject for industry and the railway enthusiast will gain a wholly new picture of the development of the industry in Britain.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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1788018206

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9781788018203

The Palace

From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court

By: Gareth Russell

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The Palace

From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court

By: Gareth Russell

A “riotously readable…tender and affectionate” (Daily Mail, London) exploration of five hundred years of British history—from King Henry VIII to Queen Elizabeth II—as seen through the doorways of the exquisite Hampton Court Palace. Architecturally breathtaking and rich in splendid art and décor, Hampton Court Palace has been the stage of some of the most important events in British history, such as the commissioning of King James’s version of the Bible, the staging of many of Shakespeare’s plays, and Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation ball. The Palace takes us on “an entertaining journey into the past” (Kirkus Reviews) as it reveals the ups and downs of royal history and illustrates what was at play politically, socially, and economically at the time. An engaging and charming history book that is perfect for fans of Alison Weir, Philippa Gregory, and Andrew Lownie, The Palace makes you feel as if you were in the room as history was made.

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Simon and Schuster

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1982169087

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9781982169084

Modernist Literary Collaborations Between Women and Men

By: Russell McDonald

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Modernist Literary Collaborations Between Women and Men

By: Russell McDonald

This book examines literary collaborations between women and men, revealing how deeply imbued and valuable gender conflict was in modernism.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316512657

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Women and Dictionary-Making

Gender, Genre, and English Language Lexicography

By: Lindsay Rose Russell

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Women and Dictionary-Making

Gender, Genre, and English Language Lexicography

By: Lindsay Rose Russell

Dictionaries are a powerful genre, perceived as authoritative and objective records of the language, impervious to personal bias. But who makes dictionaries shapes both how they are constructed and how they are used. Tracing the craft of dictionary making from the fifteenth century to the present day, this book explores the vital but little-known significance of women and gender in the creation of English language dictionaries. Women worked as dictionary patrons, collaborators, readers, compilers, and critics, while gender ideologies served, at turns, to prevent, secure, and veil women's involvements and innovations in dictionary making. Combining historical, rhetorical, and feminist methods, this is a monumental recovery of six centuries of women's participation in dictionary making and a robust investigation of how the social life of the genre is influenced by the social expectations of gender.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316953548

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Random Wisdom

By: Russell Gerald Johnston

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Random Wisdom

By: Russell Gerald Johnston

Random Wisdom is a collection of thoughts and insights from some of the greatest minds of modern and ancient times, painstakingly collected and compiled by one man in his unquenchable thirst for knowledge. This collection of literary tidbits will educate, inspire, and entertain the reader with its wide range of subjects, wit, and timeless anecdotes. As the title suggests, the information presented is randomly organized and is meant to serve as an inspirational reference book. The thousands of entries are designed to inspire deeper thinking and inward reflection, with many offering a healthy dose of wit and humor as well.

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iUniverse

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1475917708

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9781475917703

Dust Explosion Dynamics

By: Russell A. Ogle

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Dust Explosion Dynamics

By: Russell A. Ogle

Dust Explosion Dynamics focuses on the combustion science that governs the behavior of the three primary hazards of combustible dust: dust explosions, flash fires, and smoldering. It explores the use of fundamental principles to evaluate the magnitude of combustible dust hazards in a variety of settings. Models are developed to describe dust combustion phenomena using the principles of thermodynamics, transport phenomena, and chemical kinetics. Simple, tractable models are described first and compared with experimental data, followed by more sophisticated models to help with future challenges. Dr. Ogle introduces the reader to just enough combustion science so that they may read, interpret, and use the scientific literature published on combustible dusts. This introductory text is intended to be a practical guide to the application of combustible dust models, suitable for both students and experienced engineers. It will help you to describe the dynamics of explosions and fires involving dust and evaluate their consequences which in turn will help you prevent damage to property, injury and loss of life from combustible dust accidents. - Demonstrates how the fundamental principles of combustion science can be applied to understand the ignition, propagation, and extinction of dust explosions - Explores fundamental concepts through model-building and comparisons with empirical data - Provides detailed examples to give a thorough insight into the hazards of combustible dust as well as an introduction to relevant scientific literature

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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0128038292

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Rural Rhythm

The Story of Old-Time Country Music in 78 Records

By: Tony Russell

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Rural Rhythm

The Story of Old-Time Country Music in 78 Records

By: Tony Russell

Blending musical and social history, music historian Tony Russell looks at a vast collection of recordings from the 1920s and 1930s as a window into the world of early country music. He uncovers a wealth of forgotten stories as he focuses not only on the songs and tunes themselves but also sheds light on how they came to be recorded, the musicians who played them, and their listeners.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190091185

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The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective MEGAPACK ®

25 Classic Tales of Detection

By: Arthur B. Reeve,R. Austin Freeman,John Russell Fearn,Cleveland Moffett,Samuel Hopkins Adams,Brander Matthews,Stacy Aumonier,C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne,L. T. Meade,Robert Eustace,Clifford Halifax

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The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective MEGAPACK ®

25 Classic Tales of Detection

By: Arthur B. Reeve,R. Austin Freeman,John Russell Fearn,Cleveland Moffett,Samuel Hopkins Adams,Brander Matthews,Stacy Aumonier,C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne,L. T. Meade,Robert Eustace,Clifford Halifax

The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective Megapack collects 25 novels and stories. 14 are Craig Kennedy tales, plus there is 1 additional story from the same author and 10 by contemporaries of Arthur B. Reeve. They all share the same spirit of detection. Included are: INTRODUCTION: ABOUT ARTHUR B. REEVE AND HIS CRAIG KENNEDY STORIES THE SILENT BULLET, by Arthur B. Reeve THE WAR TERROR, by Arthur B. Reeve THE TREASURE-TRAIN, by Arthur B. Reeve GUY GARRICK, by Arthur B. Reeve THE SOCIAL GANGSTER, by Arthur B. Reeve THE EXPLOITS OF ELAINE, by Arthur B. Reeve THE ROMANCE OF ELAINE, by Arthur B. Reeve THE POISONED PEN, by Arthur B. Reeve THE EAR IN THE WALL, by Arthur B. Reeve GOLD OF THE GODS, by Arthur B. Reeve THE DREAM DOCTOR, by Arthur B. Reeve THE FILM MYSTERY, by Arthur B. Reeve CONSTANCE DUNLAP, by Arthur B. Reeve THE MASTER MYSTERY, by Arthur B. Reeve THE CONSPIRATORS, by Arthur B. Reeve WITHOUT WITNESSES, by L. T. Meade and Clifford Halifax A MASTER OF MYSTERIES, by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace THE SECRET OF EMU PLAIN, by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace THE TRAGEDY OF A THIRD SMOKER, by C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne MISS BRACEGIRDLE DOES HER DUTY, by Stacy Aumonier THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, by Brander Matthews THE FLYING DEATH, by Samuel Hopkins Adams THROUGH THE WALL, by Cleveland Moffett THE COPPER BULLET, by John Russell Fearn JOHN THORNDYKE’S CASES, by R. Austin Freeman And don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for more entries in the Megapack series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, adventure, westerns, ghost stories, mysteries -- and much, much more!

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Wildside Press LLC

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1434448657

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9781434448651

Michael Faraday

Physics and Faith

By: Colin A. Russell

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Michael Faraday

Physics and Faith

By: Colin A. Russell

Michael Faraday (1791-1867), the son of a blacksmith, described his education as "little more than the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic at a common day-school." Yet from such basics, he became one of the most prolific and wide-ranging experimental scientists who ever lived. As a bookbinder's apprentice with a voracious appetite for learning, he read every book he got his hands on. In 1812 he attended a series of chemistry lectures by Sir Humphry Davy at London's prestigious Royal Institution. He took copious and careful notes, and, in the hopes of landing a scientific job, bound them and sent them to the lecturer. Davy was impressed enough to hire the 21-year-old as a laboratory assistant. In his first decade at the Institution, Faraday discovered benzene, isobutylene, and two chlorides of carbon. But despite these and other accomplishments in chemistry, he is chiefly remembered for his work in physics. In 1831 he proved that magnetism could generate an electric current, thereby establishing the field of electromagnetism and leading to the invention of the dynamo. In addition to his extraordinary scientific activities, Faraday was a leader in his church, whose faith and wish to serve guided him throughout his career. An engaging public speaker, he gave popular lectures on scientific subjects, and helped found a tradition of scientific education for children and laypeople that continues to this day. Oxford Portraits in Science is an ongoing series of scientific biographies for young adults. Written by top scholars and writers, each biography examines the personality of its subject as well as the thought process leading to his or her discoveries. These illustrated biographies combine accessible technical information with compelling personal stories to portray the scientists whose work has shaped our understanding of the natural world.

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Oxford University Press

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0190283556

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9780190283551

New York City Cartmen, 1667-1850

By: Graham Russell Gao Hodges

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New York City Cartmen, 1667-1850

By: Graham Russell Gao Hodges

The cartmen—unskilled workers who hauled goods on one horsecarts—were perhaps the most important labor group in early American cities. The forerunners of the Teamsters Union, these white-frocked laborers moved almost all of the nation’s possessions, touching the lives of virtually every American. New York City Cartmen, 1667–1850 tells the story of this vital group of laborers. Besides documenting the cartmen’s history, the book also demonstrates the tremendous impact of government intervention into the American economy via the creation of labor laws. The cartmen possessed a hard-nosed political awareness, and because they transported essential goods, they achieved a status in New York City far above their skills or financial worth. Civic support and discrimination helped the cartmen create a community all their own. The cartmen's culture and their relationship with New York's municipal government are the direct ancestors of the city's fabled taxicab drivers. But this book is about the city itself. It is a stirring street-level account of the growth of New York, growth made possible by the efforts of the cartmen and other unskilled laborers. Containing 23 black-and-white illustrations, New York City Cartmen is informative reading for social, urban, and labor historians.

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NYU Press

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1479800457

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9781479800452

Writing in the Academic Disciplines

A Curricular History

By: David R. Russell

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Writing in the Academic Disciplines

A Curricular History

By: David R. Russell

To understand the ways students learn to write, we must go beyond the small and all too often marginalized component of the curriculum that treats writing explicitly and look at the broader, though largely tacit traditions students encounter in the whole curriculum," explains David R. Russell, in the introduction to this singular study. The updated edition provides a comprehensive history of writing instruction outside general composition courses in American secondary and higher education, from the founding public secondary schools and research universities in the 1870s, through the spread of the writing-across-the-curriculum movement in the 1980s, through the WAC efforts in contemporary curriculums.

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SIU Press

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0809324679

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9780809324675

Carboranes

By: Russell N. Grimes

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Carboranes

By: Russell N. Grimes

Carboranes, Second Edition is designed as a comprehensive source of information in a field that has experienced enormous growth in both its fundamental and applied aspects in the four decades since the publication of Carboranes (1970). During this long period thousands of original research papers have appeared, along with many review articles and book chapters dealing with aspects of carborane chemistry. As carborane science has grown in complexity, and applications have advanced steadily in areas such as medicine, nanostructured and electroactive materials, catalysis, polymers, and others, the need for a monograph covering the entire area in a unified treatment has become increasingly apparent. This volume has two principal objectives, the first of which is to provide a readable and concise introduction to the basic principles underlying the synthesis, structures, reactivity, and applications of carboranes and metallacarboranes at a level suitable for readers in industry and academe who are not trained in boron chemistry but find themselves working with, or lecturing about carboranes. Secondly, the book furnishes a trove of detailed information for workers active in carborane science and associated technologies. To that end, it incorporates tables listing thousands of specific compounds keyed to literature references, together with more than 2,000 molecular structure drawings that illuminate the accompanying discussion. Thorough treatment of the synthesis, structures, and reactions of carboranes, heterocarboranes, and metallacarboranes in the first 13 chapters is followed by four chapters detailing advances in practical applications in polymer science, catalysis, medicine, and other areas. Includes over 2,000 molecular structure drawings throughout the text Features tables listing thousands of compounds with key literature references

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Academic Press

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012374170X

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9780123741707

Four Chancellors and a Funeral

How to Lose a Country in Ten Days

By: Russell Jones

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Four Chancellors and a Funeral

How to Lose a Country in Ten Days

By: Russell Jones

The sequel nobody wants. After a decade of the Tories, could it get any worse? Spoiler – it does. Towards the end of 2021, Britain had been frogmarched into an escalating series of surreal calamities. Brexit was a disaster, the NHS was in crisis, the government was bathed head-to-toe in impropriety, senior Tories were still acting as though the public purse was their personal feed-trough, and the air crackled with anger about PartyGate. All of which led to an inglorious start to 2022: the year the UK saw two monarchs, three prime ministers and four chancellors. From Boris Johnson, who trashed our international reputation and handed billions to his mates so they could ineptly fight a pandemic while he stayed at home, shagging and acting as a super-spreader; to Liz Truss, a drive-by prime minister who managed to kill off the queen and crash the economy in a single week. And now we’re led by Rishi Sunak, who doesn’t know how to use a credit card, drives a pretend car, and grinningly promises even more poverty. Four Chancellors and a Funeral delivers more of Russell Jones’s signature scathing wit, combining a detailed historical record of 2021 and 2022, with acerbic commentary, all of it leavened by jokes at the seemingly endless maelstrom of failures, nincompoops and hypocrisies.

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1800183097

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9781800183094

American Popular Music and Its Business

The First Four Hundred Years

By: the late Russell Sanjek

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American Popular Music and Its Business

The First Four Hundred Years

By: the late Russell Sanjek

Volume two concentrates exclusively on music activity in the United States in the nineteenth century. Among the topics discussed are how changing technology affected the printing of music, the development of sheet music publishing, the growth of the American musical theater, popular religious music, black music (including spirituals and ragtime), music during the Civil War, and finally "music in the era of monopoly," including such subjects as copyright, changing technology and distribution, invention of the phonograph, copyright revision, and the establishment of Tin Pan Alley.

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Oxford University Press

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0195364627

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The Island at the Center of the World

The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America

By: Russell Shorto

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The Island at the Center of the World

The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America

By: Russell Shorto

In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history. "Astonishing . . . A book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past." --The New York Times When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony of New Netherland was merely lost, not destroyed: 12,000 pages of its records–recently declared a national treasure–are now being translated. Russell Shorto draws on this remarkable archive in The Island at the Center of the World, which has been hailed by The New York Times as “a book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past.” The Dutch colony pre-dated the “original” thirteen colonies, yet it seems strikingly familiar. Its capital was cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic, and its citizens valued free trade, individual rights, and religious freedom. Their champion was a progressive, young lawyer named Adriaen van der Donck, who emerges in these pages as a forgotten American patriot and whose political vision brought him into conflict with Peter Stuyvesant, the autocratic director of the Dutch colony. The struggle between these two strong-willed men laid the foundation for New York City and helped shape American culture. The Island at the Center of the World uncovers a lost world and offers a surprising new perspective on our own.

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1400078679

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Book's by Russell Haswell

Early Railway Chemistry and its Legacy

Early Railway Chemistry and its Legacy

The Palace

The Palace

Modernist Literary Collaborations Between Women and Men

Modernist Literary Collaborations Between Women and Men

Women and Dictionary-Making

Women and Dictionary-Making

Random Wisdom

Random Wisdom

Dust Explosion Dynamics

Dust Explosion Dynamics

Rural Rhythm

Rural Rhythm

The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective MEGAPACK ®

The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective MEGAPACK ®

Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday

New York City Cartmen, 1667-1850

New York City Cartmen, 1667-1850

Writing in the Academic Disciplines

Writing in the Academic Disciplines

Carboranes

Carboranes

Four Chancellors and a Funeral

Four Chancellors and a Funeral

American Popular Music and Its Business

American Popular Music and Its Business

The Island at the Center of the World

The Island at the Center of the World

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