Excerpt from The New Towns: The Answer to Megalopolis
XVII East Kilbride XVIII Peterlee W'elwyn Garden City XX Hatfield XXI Glenrothes XXII Basildon XXIII Bracknell XXIV Cwmbran XXV Corby XXVI Cumbernauld XXVII Skelmersdale XXVIII Livingston XXIX Dawley XXX The Aesthetic Aspect of Urban Environment in New Towns I Some New Town Statistics II Housing in the New Towns to December 1962 III Progress of New Towns to December 1962 IV New Towns: Bala...
Excerpt from Second Chambers at Home Abroad: A Comparison and a Contrast
Much has been recently written and much more will be written about the House of Lords, its advantages and its shortcomings, its history and constitution and its re-constitution. But there is another aspect to this question of the composition and functions of an Upper Chamber, which has not been so much considered, and with regard to which accurate and adequate informatio...
Arabic script is one of the world's most widely used writing systems, for Arabic and non-Arabic languages alike. J. R. Osborn traces its evolution from the earliest inscriptions to digital fonts, from calligraphy to print and beyond. Students of communication, contemporary practitioners, and historians will find this narrative enlightening.
During the academic year 1987-1988 the University of Wisconsin in Madison hosted a Special Year of Lie Algebras. A Workshop on Lie Algebras, of which these are the proceedings, inaugurated the special year. The principal focus of the year and of the workshop was the long-standing problem of classifying the simple finite-dimensional Lie algebras over algebraically closed field of prime characteristic. However, other lectures at the workshop dea...
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Modesto's history is exciting and this book draws exclusively on primary written sources to document almost the whole of its first century. This synthesis was compiled by reading news accounts from 1868 onward. The author was particularly interested in traveler's accounts that appeared in long defunct newspapers in what are now backwater towns. Everything that was read was written for an audience that has vanished in time. The delightful exper...
Modesto's history is exciting and this book draws exclusively on primary written sources to document almost the whole of its first century. This synthesis was compiled by reading news accounts from 1868 onward. The author was particularly interested in traveler's accounts that appeared in long defunct newspapers in what are now backwater towns. Everything that was read was written for an audience that has vanished in time. The delightful exper...