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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 11

19 January to 31 August 1817

By: Thomas Jefferson

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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 11

19 January to 31 August 1817

By: Thomas Jefferson

The 584 documents in this volume cover the period from 19 January to 31 August 1817, during which Jefferson devotes much time and energy to founding Central College, the predecessor of the University of Virginia. In May 1817, at its first official meeting, the college's Board of Visitors authorizes land purchases and a subscription campaign that eventually raises more than $44,000. Jefferson also prepares a legal brief for his chancery suit against the directors of the Rivanna Company. After years of disagreements and failed negotiations, he composes and revises a legal statement of his claim to the property in dispute. Although the complaint is submitted to the court in May 1817, the case is not settled until December 1819. In March 1817 Jefferson’s friend James Monroe begins his first term as president. During the summer Jefferson learns of the death of two friends, Madame de Staël Holstein and Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours. Late in the summer he visits Natural Bridge with two of his granddaughters. Jefferson continues to purchase books from Europe with the assistance of George Ticknor, and Stephen Cathalan helps him restock his wine cellar and pantry. Even though Jefferson answers his voluminous correspondence selectively, he still chafes under the burden.

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Princeton University Press

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0691185182

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The Living Bread

By: Thomas Merton

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The Living Bread

By: Thomas Merton

The whole problem of our time is the problem of love. How are we going to recover the ability to love ourselves and to love one another? We cannot be at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we cannot be at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. There is a distinction between a contrite sense of sin and a feeling of guilt. The former is a true and healthy thing, the latter tends to be false and pathological. The man who suffers from a sense of guilt does not want to feel guilty, but at the same time he does not want to be innocent. He wants to do what he thinks he must not do, without the pain of worrying about the consequences. The history of our time has been made by dictators whose characters, often transparently easy to read, have been full of repressed guilt. They have managed to enlist the support of masses of men moved by the same repressed drives as themselves. Modern dictatorships display everywhere a deliberate and calculated hatred for human nature as such. The technique of degradation used in concentration camps and in staged trials are all too familiar in our time. They have one purpose: to defile the human person.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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1429945281

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British Quakerism, 1860-1920

The Transformation of a Religious Community

By: Thomas C. Kennedy

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British Quakerism, 1860-1920

The Transformation of a Religious Community

By: Thomas C. Kennedy

Professor Kennedy's book chronicles the metamorphosis of the British Society of Friends from a tiny, self-isolated body of peculiar people into a theologically liberal, spiritually vital association of activists. Defined by a strong social commitment and enduring pacifist ethic British Quakersassumed an importance in society out of all proportion to their minuscule numbers. This transformation was, first and foremost, the product of a spiritual and intellectual struggle among Quaker factions-evangelical, conservative, and liberal-seeking to delineate the future path of their religiousSociety. Inspired by the leadership of a remarkable band of intellectually acute, theologically progressive, and spiritually committed men and women, London Yearly Meeting was both reformed and revitalised during the so-called Quaker Renaissance. Simultaneously embracing advanced modern ideas andreiterating their attachment to traditional Quaker principles, especially the egalitarian concept of the Inner Light of Christ and a revived peace testimony, liberal Quakers prepared the ground for their Society's dramatic confrontation with the Warrior State after 1914. Official Quaker resistance to the Great War not only fixed the image of the Society of Friends as Britain's most authentic and significant peace church, it also brought a group of talented and determined Quaker women into the front lines of the Society's struggle against war and conscription, aposition from which twentieth-century female Friends have never retreated. Quakerism emerged from the war as the religious body least tainted by spiritual compromise. Thus, when British Quakers hosted the first World Conference of All Friends in 1920, they could take satisfaction in their struggle to keep alive the voce of pacifist conscience and express renewed hope intheir enduring mission to create the Kingdom of God on earth.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198270356

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A Hardware Track-Trigger for CMS

at the High Luminosity LHC

By: Thomas Owen James

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A Hardware Track-Trigger for CMS

at the High Luminosity LHC

By: Thomas Owen James

The work described in this PhD thesis is a study of a real implementation of a track-finder system which could provide reconstructed high transverse momentum tracks to the first-level trigger of the High Luminosity LHC upgrade of the CMS experiment. This is vital for the future success of CMS, since otherwise it will be impossible to achieve the trigger selectivity needed to contain the very high event rates. The unique and extremely challenging requirement of the system is to utilise the enormous volume of tracker data within a few microseconds to arrive at a trigger decision. The track-finder demonstrator described proved unequivocally, using existing hardware, that a real-time track-finder could be built using present-generation FPGA-based technology which would meet the latency and performance requirements of the future tracker. This means that more advanced hardware customised for the new CMS tracker should be even more capable, and will deliver very significant gains for the future physics returns from the LHC.

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Springer Nature

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3030319342

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Colorado: The Highest State, Second Edition

The Highest State, Second Edition

By: Duane A. Smith,Thomas J. Noel

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Colorado: The Highest State, Second Edition

The Highest State, Second Edition

By: Duane A. Smith,Thomas J. Noel

Chronicling the people, places, and events of the state's colorful history, Colorado: The Highest State is the story of how Colorado grew up. Through booms and busts in farming and ranching, mining and railroading, and water and oil, Colorado's past is a cycle of ups and downs as high as the state's peaks and as low as its canyons. The second edition is the result of a major revision, with updates on all material, two new chapters, and ninety new photos. Each chapter is followed by questions, suggested activities, recommended reading, a "Did you know?" trivia section, and recommended websites, movies, and other multimedia that highlight the important concepts covered and lead the reader to more information. Additionally, the book is filled with photographs, making Colorado: The Highest State a fantastic text for middle and high school Colorado history courses.

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University Press of Colorado

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1457111659

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To Intermix with Our White Brothers

Indian Mixed Bloods in the United States from the Earliest Times to the Indian Removals

By: Thomas N. Ingersoll

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Indian Mixed Bloods in the United States from the Earliest Times to the Indian Removals

By: Thomas N. Ingersoll

The Native Americans of mixed ancestry in 1830 and why Andrew Jackson implemented a law to remove them.

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UNM Press

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0826332870

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The Sixth Scottish University

The Scots Colleges Abroad: 1575 to 1799

By: Thomas McInally

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The Sixth Scottish University

The Scots Colleges Abroad: 1575 to 1799

By: Thomas McInally

For more than two centuries in which Catholicism was illegal in Scotland, the Scots Colleges abroad operated as a sixth Scottish university. During this time the university’s alumni, individually and collectively, helped to ensure the survival of Catholicism in Scotland through political and military activity as well as missionary work. Earlier scholarship has treated the colleges individually and overlooked the degree to which the university corpus formed coherent networks which, over two centuries, made significant contributions to greater European cultural and intellectual movements. Through a number of examples, a picture is given of the hitherto little recognised Scottish Catholic contribution to developments in the Arts, Humanities and Sciences in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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BRILL

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9004214623

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The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay Vol 5

By: William Thomas

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The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay Vol 5

By: William Thomas

Presents the candid diary of Thomas Macaulay, Victorian statesman, historian and author of "The History of England". This work shows how, spanning the period 1838 to 1859, the journal is the longest work from Macaulay's pen. It states that these unique manuscripts held at Trinity College, Cambridge, are most revealing of all his writings. Volume 5 includes entries from 1 January 1857–23 December 1859 and an Index.

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Routledge

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1000419142

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Where They're Buried

A Directory Containing More Than Twenty Thousand Names of Notable Persons Buried in American Cemeteries, with Listings of Many Prominent People who Were Cremated

By: Thomas E. Spencer

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Where They're Buried

A Directory Containing More Than Twenty Thousand Names of Notable Persons Buried in American Cemeteries, with Listings of Many Prominent People who Were Cremated

By: Thomas E. Spencer

This volume invites readers to get up close and personal with one of the most respected and beloved writers of the last four decades. Carolyn J. Sharp has transcribed numerous table conversations between Walter Brueggemann and his colleagues and former students, in addition to several of his addresses and sermons from both academic and congregational settings. The result is the essential Brueggemann: readers will learn about his views on scholarship, faith, and the church; get insights into his "contagious charisma," grace, and charity; and appreciate the candid reflections on the fears, uncertainties, and difficulties he faced over the course of his career. Anyone interested in Brueggemann's work and thoughts will be gifted with thought-provoking, inspirational reading from within these pages.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806348232

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A Philosophical Introduction to Human Rights

By: Thomas Mertens

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A Philosophical Introduction to Human Rights

By: Thomas Mertens

Provides students with an introduction to legal philosophy, using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to reflect on human rights.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108416314

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Colorado

The Highest State, Second Edition

By: Thomas J. Noel,Duane A. Smith

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The Highest State, Second Edition

By: Thomas J. Noel,Duane A. Smith

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The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay

By: William Thomas

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By: William Thomas

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1040156134

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The BBC and national identity in Britain, 1922–53

By: Thomas Hajkowski

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The BBC and national identity in Britain, 1922–53

By: Thomas Hajkowski

Examining the ways in which the BBC constructed and disseminated British national identity during the second quarter of the twentieth century, this book is the first study that focuses in a comprehensive way on how the BBC, through its radio programs, tried to represent what it meant to be British. The BBC and national identity in Britain offers a revision of histories of regional broadcasting in Britain that interpret it as a form of cultural imperialism. The regional organization of the BBC, and the news and creative programming designed specifically for regional listeners, reinforced the cultural and historical distinctiveness of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The BBC anticipated, and perhaps encouraged, the development of the hybrid “dual identities” characteristic of contemporary Britain. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of nationalism and national identity, British imperialism, mass media and media history, and the “four nations” approach to British history.

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Manchester University Press

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1847797415

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Victorian Childhood

Themes and Variations

By: Thomas Edward Jordan

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Victorian Childhood

Themes and Variations

By: Thomas Edward Jordan

This book presents a broad range of original data on childhood in Victorian Britain. It combines a social science approach to data with historical context, resulting in a highly readable account based on sound historiography. Against a backdrop of the industrial revolution, an expanding economy, and a rising standard of living, Victorian Childhood explores life and death, child development, the family, work, education, social life, cities, crime, and advocacy and reform. Presenting data on the deteriorating health of children during the nineteenth century and on their increasing displacement of adults in the workplace, the author demonstrates that they did not share proportionately in the increased standard of living. Jordan's book is a unique piece of scholarship in its range, focus, and presentation. Original sources such as diaries and memoirs not previously cited elsewhere, literature from the period, and anecdotes from the children themselves animate the statistical background and provide vivid pictures of their lives.

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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 11

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 11

The Living Bread

The Living Bread

British Quakerism, 1860-1920

British Quakerism, 1860-1920

A Hardware Track-Trigger for CMS

A Hardware Track-Trigger for CMS

Colorado: The Highest State, Second Edition

Colorado: The Highest State, Second Edition

To Intermix with Our White Brothers

To Intermix with Our White Brothers

The Sixth Scottish University

The Sixth Scottish University

The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay Vol 5

The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay Vol 5

Where They're Buried

Where They're Buried

A Philosophical Introduction to Human Rights

A Philosophical Introduction to Human Rights

Colorado

Colorado

The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay

The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay

The BBC and national identity in Britain, 1922–53

The BBC and national identity in Britain, 1922–53

Victorian Childhood

Victorian Childhood

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