The Stranger's Vademecum; Or Liverpool Described
Author: David Purdie Thomson
Publisher:
Published: 1854
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13:
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Neighbours and strangers
Author: Bernhard Zeller
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2020-03-24
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1526139839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700–1050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constituted units of social organisation. It focuses on the interactions, interconnections and networks of people who lived side by side – neighbours. Drawing evidence from most of the current western European countries, the book plots and interrogates the very different practices of this wide range of regions in a systematically comparative framework. It considers the variety of local responses to the supra-local agents of landlords and rulers and the impact, such as it was, of those agents on the small-scale residential group. It also assesses the impact on local societies of the values, instructions and demands of the wider literate world of Christianity, as delivered by local priests.
The Cambridge History of Travel Writing
Author: Nandini Das
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-01-24
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 110861681X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together original contributions from scholars across the world, this volume traces the history of travel writing from antiquity to the Internet age. It examines travel texts of several national or linguistic traditions, introducing readers to the global contexts of the genre. From wilderness to the urban, from Nigeria to the polar regions, from mountains to rivers and the desert, this book explores some of the key places and physical features represented in travel writing. Chapters also consider the employment in travel writing of the diary, the letter, visual images, maps and poetry, as well as the relationship of travel writing to fiction, science, translation and tourism. Gender-based and ecocritical approaches are among those surveyed. Together, the thirty-seven chapters here underline the richness and complexity of this genre.
Reflections on Exile and Other Essays
Author: Edward W. Said
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13: 9780674003026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural essays offers evidence of how much the fully engaged critical mind can contribute to the reservoir of value, thought, and action essential to our lives and culture.
Cognition and Fact
Author: Robert S. Cohen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9400944985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWithin the last ten years, the interest of historians and philosophers of science in the epistemological writings of the Polish medical microbiologist Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961), who had up to then been almost completely unknown, has advanced with great strides. His main writings on epistemological questions were published in the mid-1930's, but they remained almost unnoticed. Today, however, one may rightly call Fleck a 'classical' figure both of episte mology and of the historical sociology of science, one whose works are comparable with Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery or Merton's pioneer ing study of the relations among economics, Puritanism, and natural science, both also originally published in the mid-1930's. The story of this book of 'materials on Ludwik Fleck' is also the story of the reception of Ludwik Fleck. In this volume, some essential materials which have been produced by that reception have been gathered together. We will sketch both the reception and the materials.
Diabetes Its Medical and Cultural History
Author: Dietrich v. Engelhardt
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 364248364X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiabetes. Its Medical and Cultural History covers the history of scientific inquiry into this affliction from antiquity to the discovery of insulin (1921) with concurrent consideration of the history of the patient and the cultural historical background. The reprints of medical historical studies discuss general relationships as well as specific details and exceptional research achievements of the past. Included in the bibliography of primary sources are the most important historical contributions in diabetic research and diabetic therapy with the author's name and information on the place of publication. The bibliography of secondary literature consolidates international studies from the past century to the present on the history of the theory of diabetes and therapeutic approaches. Illustrations and literary texts document cultural historical relationships. In index of persons and items facilitates use of this work which is intended to provide a stimulus for the physician, medical historian, medical student, general historian as well as diabetics themselves.
Vale of Tears
Author: James Murphy
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Published: 2012-07-31
Total Pages: 509
ISBN-13: 1620507781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWas Princess Diana's death accidental? The Vale of Tears seeks to answer that question. Set in England, America and France, the story is a clever and credible blend of fact and fiction, and is both a historical conspiracy and a modern-day chase thriller, so compelling and plausible that the reader will be left wondering if in fact it is the truth.
Systematic Indexing
Author: J. Kaiser
Publisher:
Published: 1911
Total Pages: 302
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval Ireland
Author: Clare Downham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-12-07
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 110854794X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval Ireland is often described as a backward-looking nation in which change only came about as a result of foreign invasions. By examining the wealth of under-explored evidence available, Downham challenges this popular notion and demonstrates what a culturally rich and diverse place medieval Ireland was. Starting in the fifth century, when St Patrick arrived on the island, and ending in the fifteenth century, with the efforts of the English government to defend the lands which it ruled directly around Dublin by building great ditches, this up-to-date and accessible survey charts the internal changes in the region. Chapters dispute the idea of an archaic society in a wide-range of areas, with a particular focus on land-use, economy, society, religion, politics and culture. This concise and accessible overview offers a fresh perspective on Ireland in the Middle Ages and overthrows many enduring stereotypes.
