This second Uveitis volume provides the ophthalmologist with the most current understanding of the pathogenesis of the most frequent immune-mediated disorders of the eye and a practical approach to these diseases. It fills the gap between textbooks and original research publications and focuses on clinical aspects of inflammatory eye diseases. It covers a broad spectrum, including diseases affecting the conjunctiva, sclera and cornea, as well ...
R. F. Foster is Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. His books include Modern Ireland, 1600-1972, The Irish Story and W. B. Yeats: A Life.
Excerpt from The Intermediate Department
"Entering the years of mystery, " some one has characterized the beginning of the period when the boy emerges into early adolescence. It is a good phrase, they are years of mystery, and only that, for the boy, for it is a new way to him, full of new sensations, years of mystery, too, for many of his elders, for they have failed to become acquainted with the significance of the period.
Somewhere betwee...
Excerpt from Conventions and How to Care for Them
The suggestions in this hand-book are intended primarily for the many persons who have to do with the entertainment of conventions of a religious character. The plans suggested, however, may be made to fit any convention, from a local gathering of fifty to a national gathering of thousands. Modifications will be necessary, of course, but the principles governing the entertainment of a conventi...
Excerpt from A Treatise on Wooden Trestle Bridges: According to the Present Practice on American RailroadsUsing this as a basis of estimate, the 3030 miles of trestles and bridges in the United States should be distributed as follows.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses st...
Excerpt from The Elements of Mining and Quarrying
The care that was taken by the late Sir C. Le N eve Foster in preparing the first edition of this little book, as lately as November 1903, has made my duties in revising for the present edition very light.
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Excerpt from Lincoln Episcopal Records: In the Time of Thomas Cooper, S. T. P., Bishop of Lincoln, A. D. 1571 to A. D. 1584
Archdeaconry of Lincoln - the last leaf which contained six entries, as is shewn by the index (see page 33, n.
Archdeaconry of Leicester - leaves 58 and 59, containing twenty entries (see pages 39 and a leaf between 61 and 62, containing ten entries (see page and the last leaf containing two entries (see Page 45) Archde...
Excerpt from An Excursion Among the Poets
The incompatibility of the old notion of a par tial atonement with the present state of culture, moral and religious, among men, and the restless ness which a sense of that incompatibility produces in leading minds, - have been evinced in a marked manner of late in the publication of an ingenious work* by one of the foremost champions of the old theology, in which, in order to vindicate the ways of Go...
Excerpt from Foster's Comic History of Oklahoma
It was on the 22nd day of September, in the year 1880, in a little shack out on the western prairies in that part of the world known as Seward, Nebraska, that I first saw the light of day. I was very young and inexperienced, in fact I was in a destitute and helpless condition. My parents were very poor, but of a kind and loving disposition, and they being aware of my then helplessness proceeded ...
Excerpt from The Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln, Vol. 1A distinguished German scholar, Dr Walther Holtzmann, until lately a lecturer in the University of Berlin, and now professor of modern history in the University of Halle, has placed me deeply in his debt by reading the proofs of the papal bulls and mandates. Out of his extensive knowledge of the mediaeval papal chancery he has not only made many valuable suggest...
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