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Less than two decades ago, archaeologists considered lithic debitage, the flakes and debris left from the manufacture of stone tools, little more than uninformative waste. Since then, fieldworkers have increasingly recognized that stone flakes can provide information both singly and in aggregate.Many methods are now available for analyzing lithic debitage, yet no single method is entirely reliable as a vehicle to meaningful interpretation of p...

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In this 1565 work, edited in 1844 by Thomas Pettigrew, the surgeon John Hall describes his struggles against quacks.

Presents topical research in the field of light-emitting diodes and the systems, uses and efficiency of optoelectronics. This book discusses such topics as: fabricating high efficiency organic light-emitting diodes for flat panel displays and solid-state lighting, reliability estimation from the junction to the packaging of LED, and, more.

Excerpt from Proceedings of a Court of Inquiry: Convened at Aquia Landing, March 13th, 1863, to Examine Into Certain Changes Preferred Against Captain T. E. Hall, Assistant Quartermaster It is scarce necessary to apologize for publishing the proceedings of the "Court of Inquiry" in my case. It is an act of self-defence. I have a right - nay more, it is my duty - to vindicate myself before my friends and the public, by acquainting them with th...

Excerpt from Dulwich, History and Romance 967-1922: The Manor, College, Schools, Village and Picture Gallery, Edward Alleyn and the Elizabethan and Jacobean Theatres At the request and under the authority of the Estates Governors, the Author has undertaken this work, which is now published with the title of Dulwich History and Romance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more a...

Excerpt from Catalogue of the Charters, Deeds and Manuscripts: In the Public Reference Library at Sheffield I am anxious to call your attention to the importance of collecting for the Library, and arranging for convenient public reference, all Charters, Deeds, Acts of Parliament, Prints, Photographs, Manuscripts, and Records relating to the social, topographical, genealogical and architectural history of Sheffield, and with that object I have...

Excerpt from Shakspere's Plays: The Separate Editions of With the Alterations Done by Various Hands The immense popularity of the works of Shakspere is most clearly shown by the very great number of editions which have been brought out, numbering not less than 542 in his native language, and also by the multitudinous editions of his Plays which have been separately pub lished. The universality of knowledge contained in the dramas of Shakspere...

Excerpt from The Pedigree of the Devil Everything has a pedigree. Everything, whether animate or inanimate, whether a thing of sense or a creation of the mind, every idea whether based on fact or the growth of a delusion, every truth and every error, has its pedigree. A pedigree is a line of ancestors, a chain of causes and effects, each link first an effect and then a cause. Rarely, if ever, is an effect the result of an isolated cause, but...

Excerpt from Shaksperean Statistics: A New and Enlarged Edition In 1591, he is alluded to by Edmund Spencer, in his poem of T be T ears of tire Aliases, in the lines. And he, the man whom Nature's self had made To mock herself, and Truth to imitate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. ...

Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Ancient Charters: Belonging to the Twelve Capital Burgesses Common of the Town and Parish of Sheffield, Usually Known as the Church Burgesses, With Abstracts of All Sheffield Wills Proved at York Prior to 1554 Little is known of Sheffield and its inhabitants, prior to the middle of the sixteenth century, and with a view to throwing some light on that early period of our history, I have examined and catalogued, ...

Excerpt from The Chemical and Metallographic Examination of Iron, Steel and BrassThe authors wish to express their sincere appreciation to Messrs. Bauer and Deiss whose book on the Sampling and Analysis of Iron and Steel, translated by them in 1915 and published with many additions and modifications suggested the idea of combining chemical and metallographic. Inspection. A small portion of the translation is included in this book, notably seve...

Excerpt from The Spanish Main: Or Thirty Days on the Caribbean Was born in the City of New York, and spent nearly the whole of the early part of my life in that great metropolis. In my school-boy days it was my infinite delight to roam and linger along the docks and watch the stately Ships as they came and went, or as they lay at their piers discharging or taking in cargo. As I gazed at the tapering masts and spars and saw the sailors runnin...

Excerpt from A Flora of Liverpool The arrangement of the Genera in the following work is according to the Catalogue published by the Rev. Professor Henslow. The only alteration that 1 have made, is in the terminations of the orders, in which respect I have followed Professor Lindley, in making the orders, wherever practicable, to end in accte, and the sub-orders in ece, which plan I consider to be worthy of general adoption. The names of the ...

Excerpt from Lead Ores The Imperial Institute is a centre for the exhibition and investigation of minerals with a view to their commercial development, and for the supply of information respecting the sources, composition and value of minerals of all kinds. The Imperial Institute is provided with Research Laboratories for the investigation, analysis and assay of minerals, and undertakes reports on the composition and value of minerals for th...

Excerpt from Our Fifty Years: The Story of the Working Men's Club and Institute Union, Together With Brief Impressions of the Men of the Movement This little book is written at the direction of the Council of the Working Men's Club and Institute Union in order that some souvenir of the close of the Union's Fiftieth Year may exist, and some record be made of a society which has become, by reason of its 1, 500 constituent bodies and their half-...

Excerpt from Heroes of Our Revolution If I should ask you, Boy, to tell me what were the causes of the American Revolution, you would promptly answer The Stamp Act, Taxation Without Representation, and The Quartering of English Troops upon the Colonists. Your answer would be correct. These were the immediate causes. As a matter of fact, however, there were other, deeper and more important causes, and these were as old as the colonies themselv...

People like to keep certain distances between themselves and other people or thigns. And this invisible bubble of space that constitutes each person's "territory" is one of the key dimensions of modern society. Edward T. Hall, author of The Silent Language, introduced the science of proxemics to demonstrate how man's use of space can affect personal and business reltions, cross-cultural interactions, architecture, city planning, and urban rene...

Excerpt from Report of the Eight Meeting: Of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, Held at Melbourne, Victoria, 1900 Friday, 12th january, 1900. The In¿uence of the Elements on the Growth of Plants. By A. N. Pearson, f.c.s. The Composition of Natural Wines. By M. Raymond 4. Notes on Alluvial Gold in Gippsland. By Donald Clark, B. C. E. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and cla...

Excerpt from Sheffield and Its Environs 13th to 17th Century: A Descriptive Catalogue of Land Charters Other Documents, Forming the Brooke Taylor Collection, Relating the Outlying Districts of Sheffield, With 16 Genealogies and an Articles on HawksyardIt is only through the kindness and good nature of others, that a systematic search for local history can proceed and although contributions accumulate in small quantities, there is no more fruit...