Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...
Excerpt from Fore and Aft: A Story of Actual Sea LifeHaving passed many pleasant hours in narrating remi niscences of fourteen months of ship life, I have pre pared this story because my friends thought that what they had enjoyed hearing, others might find interest in reading, and because so few true accounts have been given by persons who have themselves been sailors, and who write from actual experience. With the notable exception of Richard...
Excerpt from Treatise on Heat, Vol. 1: The Thermometer, Dilation, Change of State, And Laws of VapoursThe author cannot omit this opportunity of acknow ledging his obligations to Dr. Apjohn, Professor of Che mistry and Mineralogy to the School of Engineering, for much useful advice and many valuable suggestions kindly furnished by him during the progress of the fol lowing sheets through the Press. The author owes a similar acknowledgment to S....
This volume is an account of the stage and screen practice of Australian photographer and film maker Frank Hurley, in the context of early twentieth-century mass media.
The treatment of indigenous populations by more recent immigrant groups in Africa, Australasia, New Zealand, Europe and the Americas is examined in relation to their political subjugation, social discrimination and cultural rejuvenation.
This book examines the impact of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act on the market for terrorism insurance and analyzes program enhancements to improve the availability of insurance for nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological attacks.
Plant cell culture techniques are used increasingly in basic research for plant exploitation in industry, including for example, genetic engineering and micropropagation. The rapidly developing role of plant cell culture has necessitated this new edition of a widely acclaimed book. It covers a wide range of methods central to the exploitation of plant cell cultures in fundamental and applied research. This thoroughly revised work retains the c...
Stimulating, unique book explores mathematical drawing through compass constructions and computer graphics. Over 100 full-page drawings: five-point egg, golden ratio, plughole vortex, blancmange curve, more. Exercises. 1987 edition.
Jose Maria Figueres Olsen Former President Republic of Costa Rica The heated debate about global climate change continues. Some say it is the gravest calamity our species has ever encountered. Others deny its existence altogether. As with most caseS of human decision making, the truth is most likely somewhere in the middle. The challenge of this particular set of decisions is the overwhelming sense of uncertainty. Science cannot fully attribut...
This volume is an account of the stage and screen practice of Australian photographer and film maker Frank Hurley, in the context of early twentieth-century mass media.
Frank Hurley is best known today as a photographer and film maker. His major documentary films include 'The Home of the Blizzard', 'In the Grip of the Polar Pack Ice', 'Sir Ross Smith's Flight' and 'Pearls and Savages', while his photographs of Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition, Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and the two World Wars have been so widely exhibited and reproduced that in many cases they ar...
Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social developments of the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries.
