Francis Galton's Art of Travel (1872).
Author: Francis Galton
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 400
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Author: Francis Galton
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 400
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 366
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Published: 1855
Total Pages: 246
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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-11-22
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 337517389X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1856.
Author: Francis Galton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-07-28
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 3752360186
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original: Inquiries Into Human Faculty and Its Development by Francis Galton
Author: Francis Galton
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Published: 1889
Total Pages: 406
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alain De Botton
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2008-11-19
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 0307481662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wise and utterly original book of travel essays from an international bestselling author that will “give one an expansive sense of wonder” (The Baltimore Sun). Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing everything from a seascape in Barbados to the takeoffs at Heathrow. Even as de Botton takes the reader along on his own peregrinations, he also cites such distinguished fellow-travelers as Baudelaire, Wordsworth, Van Gogh, the biologist Alexander von Humboldt, and the 18th-century eccentric Xavier de Maistre, who catalogued the wonders of his bedroom. The Art of Travel is a “refreshing and profoundly readable" book (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Don’t leave home without it.
Author: Francis Galton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-07
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0429665105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edition first published in 1970. Francis Galton has been honoured as the founder of biostatics and one of the creators of modern psychology. His principal aim was to establish a body of statistical knowledge about mental heredity which would result in a new pattern of behaviour for society. The relationship between outstanding men had led him to conclude that mental traits are inherited, and that an ideal society would take advantage of this "fact". In this particular work, which he termed a "Natural History of the English Men of Science of the present day", he examined at great length the antecedents, environment, education and hereditary features of the most prominent men of science in order to establish certain laws relating to heredity. It is a landmark in the transition from introspective to objective methods in biological and psychological research, and the author’s statistical, nonanecdotal approach was to prove immensely fruitful for the development of psychology. Indeed the questionnaire included in the work is probably the earliest in existence. As Professor Cowan points out in her introduction, historians as well as scientists intent upon a deeper understanding of the Victorian mind will find much of interest in this remarkable book.
Author: Keith Breckenridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-02
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1107077842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA groundbreaking study of South Africa's role as a site for global experiments in biometric identification throughout the twentieth century.
Author: John Hannavy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 1630
ISBN-13: 1135873267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of world photography up to the beginning of the twentieth century. It sets out to be the standard, definitive reference work on the subject for years to come. Its coverage is global – an important ‘first’ in that authorities from all over the world have contributed their expertise and scholarship towards making this a truly comprehensive publication. The Encyclopedia presents new and ground-breaking research alongside accounts of the major established figures in the nineteenth century arena. Coverage includes all the key people, processes, equipment, movements, styles, debates and groupings which helped photography develop from being ‘a solution in search of a problem’ when first invented, to the essential communication tool, creative medium, and recorder of everyday life which it had become by the dawn of the twentieth century. The sheer breadth of coverage in the 1200 essays makes the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography an essential reference source for academics, students, researchers and libraries worldwide.