The Library Treasures of St John's College, Cambridge

The Library Treasures of St John's College, Cambridge

Author: Mark Nicholls

Publisher: Third Millennium Information

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781906507985

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The Old Library of St John's College, Cambridge is home to a hugely important collection of printed books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, furniture, busts, paintings and other artefacts, the work of writers, craftsmen and artists active across more than one thousand years.The Library Treasures of St John's College, Cambridge offers a lavishly illustrated introduction to the diversity and richness of that collection. It demonstrates something particularly important about St John's College Library, and about libraries in many other Cambridge Colleges: that besides meeting the academic needs of present-day Fellows and students, they also care for museum and archival collections of national and international importance: the essential primary materials and sources sought after by scholars across the world.


Compassionate Capitalism

Compassionate Capitalism

Author: Catherine Casson

Publisher: Bristol University Press

Published: 2020-04-01

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1529209250

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It may seem like a recent trend, but businesses have been practising compassionate capitalism for nearly a thousand years. Based on the newly discovered historical documents on Cambridge’s sophisticated urban property market during the Commercial Revolution in the thirteenth century, this book explores how successful entrepreneurs employed the wealth they had accumulated to the benefit of the community. Cutting across disciplines, from economic and business history to entrepreneurship, philanthropy and medieval studies, this outstanding volume presents an invaluable contribution to our knowledge of the early phases of capitalism. A companion book, The Cambridge Hundred Rolls Sources Volume, replacing the previous incomplete and inaccurate transcription by the Record Commission of 1818, is also available from Bristol University Press.


British librarianship and information work 2011-2015

British librarianship and information work 2011-2015

Author: J. H. Bowman

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-01-24

Total Pages: 563

ISBN-13: 1326820478

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This is the latest in an important series of reviews going back to 1928. The book contains 28 chapters, written by experts in their field, and reviews developments in the principal aspects of British librarianship and information work in the years 2011-2015.


Treasure Your Exceptions

Treasure Your Exceptions

Author: Alan Cock

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-10-31

Total Pages: 756

ISBN-13: 0387756884

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This biography provides an understanding of William Bateson as well as a reconciliation of diverging views (e.g. the hierarchical thinking of Gould and the genocentrism of George Williams and Richard Dawkins). Evolutionists may thus, at long last, present a unified front to their creationist opponents. The pressing need for this text is apparent from the high percentages reported not to believe in evolution and the growth of the so-called "intelligent design" movement.


Latin Literature and its Transmission

Latin Literature and its Transmission

Author: Richard Hunter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-11-26

Total Pages: 523

ISBN-13: 1316558762

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This is a series of innovative studies in the textual and literary criticism of Latin literature, exploring how these two branches of the discipline are mutually supportive. The contributors include many leading scholars in the field. Individual essays are devoted to Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus and Virgil, and there are also essays on the Renaissance reception of Virgil and on principles of editorial practice. The collection celebrates the extraordinary contribution which Michael Reeve has made and continues to make to Latin studies.