Geography epitomiz'd, or the London Gazetteer, being a Geographical and Historical Treatise of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, etc.] [The preface signed G. J.]
Author: G. J.
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Published: 1718
Total Pages: 286
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 718
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCorcoran Gallery of Art
Author: Corcoran Gallery of Art
Publisher: Lucia Marquand
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781555953614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
Fundamentals of Tree Ring Research
Author: James H. Speer
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0816526850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive text addresses all of the subjects that a reader who is new to the field will need to know and will be a welcome reference for practitioners at all levels. It includes a history of the discipline, biological and ecological background, principles of the field, basic scientific information on the structure and growth of trees, the complete range of dendrochronology methods, and a full description of each of the relevant subdisciplines.
Wine, Society, and Globalization
Author: G. Campbell
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-12-25
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0230609902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays comprises a number of case studies from key wine-growing regions and countries around the world. Contributors focus on the development of the wine business and its overall importance and impact in terms of the regional and domestic economy and the international economy
Viruses, Plagues, and History
Author: Michael B. A. Oldstone
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 0190056789
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Here, my previous edition of Viruses, Plagues, & History is updated to reflect both progress and disappointment since that publication. This edition describes newcomers to the range of human infections, specifically, plagues that play important roles in this 21st century. The first is Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), an infection related to Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). SARS was the first new-found plague of this century. Zika virus, which is similar to yellow fever virus in being transmitted by mosquitos, is another of the recent scourges. Zika appearing for the first time in the Americas is associated with birth defects and a paralytic condition in adults. Lastly, illness due to hepatitis viruses were observed prominently during the second World War initially associated with blood transfusions and vaccine inoculations. Since then, hepatitis virus infections have afflicted millions of individuals, in some leading to an acute fulminating liver disease or more often to a life-long persistent infection. A subset of those infected has developed liver cancer. However, in a triumph of medical treatments for infectious diseases, pharmaceuticals have been developed whose use virtually eliminates such maladies. For example, Hepatitis C virus infection has been eliminated from almost all (>97%) of its victims. This incredible result was the by-product of basic research in virology as well as cell and molecular biology during which intelligent drugs were designed to block events in the hepatitis virus life-cycle"--
Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150–1750
Author: Lorraine Daston
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1998-05
Total Pages: 520
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Values in Heritage Management
Author: Erica Avrami
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2019-12-03
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1606066188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together leading conservation scholars and professionals from around the world, this volume offers a timely look at values-based approaches to heritage management. Over the last fifty years, conservation professionals have confronted increasingly complex political, economic, and cultural dynamics. This volume, with contributions by leading international practitioners and scholars, reviews how values-based methods have come to influence conservation, takes stock of emerging approaches to values in heritage practice and policy, identifies common challenges and related spheres of knowledge, and proposes specific areas in which the development of new approaches and future research may help advance the field.
The Codification of Medical Morality
Author: R.B. Baker
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-08-26
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0585274444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLike many novel ideas, the idea for this volume and its predecessor arose over lunch in the cafeteria of the old Wellcome Institute. On an atternoon in Sept- ber 1988, Dorothy and Roy Porter, and I, sketched out a plan for a set of conf- ences in which scholars from a variety of disciplines would explore the emergence of modern medical ethics in the English-speaking world: from its pre-history in the quarrels that arose as gentlemanly codes of etiquette and honor broke down under the pressure of the eighteenth-century "sick trade," to the Enlightenment ethics of John Gregory and Thomas Percival, to the American appropriation process that culminated in the American Medical Association's 1847 Code of Ethics, and to the British turn to medical jurisprudence in the 1858 Medical Act. Roy Porter formally presented our idea as a plan for two back-to-back c- ferences to the Wellcome Trust, and I presented it to the editors of the PHI- LOSOPHY AND MEDICINE series, H. Tristram Engeihardt, Jr. and Stuart Spicker. The reception from both parties was enthusiastic and so, with the financial backing of the former and a commitment to publication from the latter, Roy Porter, ably assisted by Frieda Hauser and Steven Emberton, - ganized two conferences. The first was held at the Wellcome Institute in - cember 1989; the second was sponsored by the Wellcome, but was actually held in the National Hospital, in December 1990.
Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-03-20
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9004288058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia: A Longue Durée Perspective, eleven historians bring their knowledge and insights to bear on the long Braudelian sweep of Southeast Asian history. In doing so they seek both to debunk simplistic assumptions about fragile traditions and transformational modernities, and to identify real repeating patterns in Southeast Asia's past: clientelistic political structures, periodic tectonic and climatic disasters, ethnic occupational specializations, long cycles of economic globalization and deglobalization. Their contributions range across many centuries: from the Austronesian expansion to the Aceh tsunami, and from the Sanskrit cosmopolis to the Asian financial crisis. The book is inspired by, and dedicated to, Peter Boomgaard, a scholar whose work has embodied the Braudelian spirit in Southeast Asian historiography. This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access.
