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Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 96
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Author: Herbert J. Brinks
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 70
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Palladian Revival
Author: John Harris
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780300059830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1726, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, built an addition to his modest country house on the river Thames at Chiswick. The structure was a free standing villa, which is the subject of this book. The author explores the villa's architectural inspiration and the evolution of its design.
The Canadian Coast Guard, 1962-2002
Author: Charles Douglas Maginley
Publisher: St. Catharines, Ont. : Vanwell Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781551250755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a maritime nation Canada has supported marine services since colonial times to safeguard its waterways. The present Coast Guard established in 1962 grew out of the need for a national maritime organization to protect Canadian sovereignty, ensure marine safety and promote national interests in the nautical field. The Coast Guard plays an active role in navigation and communication, northern development and research, environmental protection and response, and regulation of fisheries and underwater resources. Its fleet consists of specialized vessels large and small in their distinctive red and white colours.This book commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Coast Guard. It describes the organization of the marine service, its tasks and mandates, and uses brief operational activities of some of its ships to illustrate the history of the service since its inception.
Practical Sanitation; A Handbook for Sanitary Inspectors and Others Interested in Sanitation
Author: George Reid
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Published: 2012-05-15
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781235933400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...which have to be disinfected or cleansed should always be disinfected or cleansed without delay. The influence of exposure to sunlight and fresh air in the destruction of infection should be borne in mind. "10. Special precautions of cleanliness and disinfection are necessary with regard to infective matters discharged from the bodies of the sick. Among discharges which it is proper to treat as infective are those which come in cases of small-pox and scarlatina from the affected skin; in cases of cholera and enteric fever from the intestinal canal; in enteric fever also the urine; in cases of diphtheria and scarlatina from the nose and throat; likewise, in cases of any eruptive or other epidemic fever, the general exhalations of the sick. The caution which is necessary with regard to such matters must, of course, extend to whatever is imbued with them; care must be taken that bedding, clothing, towels, handkerchiefs, and other articles which have been in use by the sick may not become sources of mischief, either in the house to which they belong or in houses to which they are conveyed. So far as articles of this class can be replaced by rags or things of small value, it is best to use such things and burn them when they are soiled. Otherwise clothing and infected articles should be subjected to the disinfectant of the sick room before washing or be removed for disinfection by steam heat. "In enteric fever and cholera the evacuations should be regarded as capable of communicating an infectious quality to any nightsoil with which they are mingled in privies, drains, or cesspools; and after such disinfection of them as is practicable, they should be disposed of without delay and under the safest conditions that local circumstances permit. They should...
The Danish Poor Relief System
Author: Edith Sellers
Publisher: London, P.S. King
Published: 1904
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPalladian Style
Author: Steven Parissien
Publisher: Phaidon
Published: 2000-01-10
Total Pages: 254
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the Palladian style, inspired by the Classicism of Italian architect Palladio.
Reading the Scottish Enlightenment
Author: Mark Towsey
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-09-24
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9004193510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt has become commonplace in recent decades for scholars to identify in the books of the Scottish Enlightenment the intellectual origins of the modern world, but little attention has yet been paid to its impact on contemporary readers. Drawing on a range of innovatory methodologies associated with the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of the history of reading, this book explores the reception of books by David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson and Thomas Reid (amongst many others), assessing their impact on the lives, beliefs and habits of mind of readers across the social scale. In the process, the book offers a fascinating new perspective on the fundamental importance of personal reading experiences to the social history of the Enlightenment.
The Glasgow Enlightenment
Author: Andrew Hook
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 1788854845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Glasgow Enlightenment is widely regarded as the first book to explore the nature and accomplishments of the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Glasgow in a comprehensive manner. In addition to a general introduction by the editors, there are seven chapters devoted to Glasgow University professors, such as Adam Smith, Francis Hutcheson, Thomas Reid, John Millar, William Leechman, and John Anderson. At a time when the Glasgow economy was booming in the strength of its trade with America, these and other Glasgow men of science and learning were making major contributions to the European world of philosophy, law, political economy, natural philosophy, medicine, and religious toleration. There are also five chapters on other individuals and topics, including the physician and author John Moore, James Boswell during his student days, images of Glasgow in popular poetry, and Popular party clergymen who challenged the dominant views of the academic Enlightenment with an alternative vision of liberty and piety. This edition features a new bibliographical preface by Richard B. Sher that discusses the substantial secondary literature on eighteenth-century Glasgow and the Glasgow Enlightenment since the original publication of this book more than a quarter of a century ago.
Making British Culture
Author: David Allan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-05-09
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1135895031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaking British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture. Specifically, it examines the experiences of English readers between around 1707 and 1830 as they grappled, in a variety of circumstances, with the great effusion of Scottish authorship – including the hard-edged intellectual achievements of David Hume, Adam Smith and William Robertson as well as the more accessible contributions of poets like Robert Burns and Walter Scott – that distinguished the age of the Enlightenment.
