Studies in indian grammarians. i. the method of descriptions reflected in the silvasutras

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Stationer’s voice

This volume provides a thorough analysis of the Company of Stationers, drawing heavily on unpublished Company records. Author Timothy Feist places the Stationer’s Co. in the context of the burgeoning “consumer society” of the 18th century & relates the almanacs’ content with the political dev...

Queen of sicily and gothic stained glass in mussy and tonnerre

Following the death of St. Louis, a new court fashion of ostentatious display was introduced into French stained glass with the advent of Queen Marie de Brabant, who in 1274 became the second wife of St. Louis's heir Philippe le hardi. Little stained glass in this new style survives, since the ve...

The carcasses of the mammoth and rhinoceros found in the frozen ground of siberia

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Ancient egyptian science, vol. ii

The 2nd of 3 vols. by Prof. Marshall Clagett on Ancient Egyptian Science. Contents: Part I: Intro. to Egyptian Calendars; Parker’s Account of the Old Lunar Calendar; The Later Lunar Calendar; The Origin of the Civil Calendar; Sothic Dates & the Ebers Calendar; The Night Hours; Decanal Clocks;...

Benjamin rush

This work examines the role Dr. Benjamin Rush, an American Revolution patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and volunteer wartime physician played in the genesis and ideology of the Early American Republic. Providing a scholarly analysis of rich and varied sources and supplementing...

Occitan translations of john xii and xiii-xvii from a fourteenth-century franciscan codex (assisi, chiesa nuova ms. 9)

Manuscript 9 of the Biblioteca Storico-Francescana of the Chiesa Nuova in Assisi is an anthology of Franciscan writings in the Occitan language. Since the appearance in 1955 of Ingrid Arthur’s ed. of the Occitan version of Bonaventure’s bio. of St. Francis, scholars have devoted increasing attent...

Idea of science in the french enlightenment

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Fish-shape paumanok

The bittersweet message of this volume is at once Robert Cushman Murphy’s celebration of the magnificent environment and history of Long Island that inspired him; a chronicle of man’s destructive tendencies as they found focus on this sandy strand; and a gentle warning to change our ways. Althoug...

Beginnings of shi’i studies in germany

Rudolf Strothmann (1877–1960) played a pioneering role in the scholarly exploration of Shīʿī Islam in Western, especially German, scholarship. Between 1910 and 1923, he published many pathbreaking studies on the Zaydiyya, a sub-sect of Shia Islam that emerged in the eighth century, consulting pri...

An unusual newly discovered archosaur from the upper triassic of virginia, u. s. a.

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Lord lothian and anglo-american relations, 1939-1940

This is a print on demand publication. Of all the British “amateur ambassadors” none was more distinguished than Philip Kerr, 11th Marquis of Lothian (1882-1940). His tenure of office was brief -- Aug. 1939 to Dec. 1940 -- but it coincided with a crucial period in British & U.S. history. Rece...

Sculpture of taras

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Patriot-improvers

When Benjamin Franklin adopted John Bartram's 1739 idea of bringing together the "virtuosi" of the colonies to promote inquiries into "natural secrets, arts and syances," the result was, in 1743, the founding of the American Philosophical Society (APS). In this “first systematic attempt to collec...

Proceedings in parliament 1614 (house of commons)

An edition of the extant manuscripts of proceedings in the Lower House of the English parliament of 1614, prefaced by a critical introduction to the texts and a description of source materials. The vol. includes 8 appendixes, one of which is a list of returns that reveals the full membership of t...

Architecture of the sanctuary of apollo hylates at kourion

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Antonius de carlenis, o.p.

Examines the theory of subalternation as it was developed by one of Paul of Venice’s readers shortly before the mid-15th cent., the archbishop of Amalfi, Antonius de Carlenis de Neapoli. Contents: Intro.; Observations on the Manuscripts; Antonius de Carlenis de Neapoli, “Questiones in IV libros S...

Flavius merobaudes

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A male hysteria

A history of diabetes science and the experience of diabetics in the nineteenth-century EnglandA Male Hysteria examines both the science of diabetes in nineteenth-century England and the testimony of Victorian diabetics. What could be known about diabetes given the science of the day? And what di...

Accounts of european science, technology, and medicine written by american travelers abroad, 1735-1860, in the collections of the american philosophical society

This is a print on demand publication. Contents: Part One: Preliminary Observations & Suggestions for Further Study; & Part Two: An Annotated Bibliography of Printed & Manuscript Holdings at the American Philosophical Society (APS) Library.

Transactions of the american philosophical society, old series, vol 1, 1769-1771 (corrected edition)

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Old Series, Vol. 1-6, 1769-1809

Alhacen on image-formation and distortion in mirrors

Ch. 1; Ch. 2; Ch. 3: Analysis of Plane Mirrors: Proposition 1; Ch. 4: Analysis of Convex Spherical Mirrors: Propositions 2-15; Ch. 5: Analysis of Convex Cylindrical Mirrors: Propositions 16-19; Ch. 6: Analysis of Convex Conical Mirrors: Propositions 20-22; Ch. 7: Analysis of Concave Spherical Mir...

History of alexander the great

Flora Kimmich has translated J.G. Droysen’s classic study into English for the first time. Through her masterly rendering she brings this foundational work of modern historiography of the ancient world to a new audience. Based entirely on ancient sources, this is an exhaustive, beautifully narrat...

Neolithic age in eastern siberia

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Michelangelo's medici chapel

There are no surviving documents that explain Michelangelo’s complex sculptural program for the Medici Chapel. The work as we have it is no more than an unfinished, fragmentary realization of the artist’s original conception. Here, Balas contends that the artist deliberately veiled his meaning in...

Virginia law books

Contents: State codes; Municipal & County Codes; Rules of Court; Reports of Cases; Official Court Records in Print; Accounts of Trials; Indexes, Digests, & Encyclopedias; Form Books; Law Treatises Printed Before 1950; Criminal Law Books; 19th-Century Law Journals; 20th-Century Legal Perio...

Literature and political change

This is a print on demand publication. A study of the Nyugat movement in the late Austro-Hungarian Empire, one of the organizers of which was the father of author Mario D. Fenyo. The objective purpose of this study is twofold. First, it is an attempt to formulate a methodology, a theory of the po...

Geology of the coastal plain of north carolina

Deals with the geology of the Coastal Plain of North Carolina, which covers the area east of the “Fall Line” or, approx., east of a line through Roanoke Rapids, Raleigh, Southern Pines, and Rockingham. Covers all the formations of the Coastal Plain from the Cretaceous to the Recent. The major par...

Order microsauria

This volume discusses in particular the suggested relationship of microsaurs with reptiles and the determination of the ancestry of the various groups of living amphibians. Twenty-five general of microsaurs are recognized in this work. Contents: History of the Microsaur Concept; Definition of Mic...

Supplement to the tuckerman tables

This is a supplement to the planetary, lunar and solar tables produced by Bryant Tuckerman (1962, 1964). These tables have proved an invaluable aid to historians of astronomy. An important usage is the dating of ancient and medieval astronomical observations, but the tables also have wide applica...

Transactions of the american philosophical society, old series, vol 2, 1786

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Old Series, Vol. 1-6, 1769-1809

Evolution of the plio-pleistocene african suidae

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Beth shean studies

Scythopolis, or Nysa-Scythopolis, as Beth Shean was called during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, is located on the western bank of the Jordan River. Ancient historians Pliny and Solinus record that the site was founded by Dionysos when he stopped there to bury his nursemaid, the nymph Nysa. A...

18th century climate of jamaica derived from the journals of thomas thistlewood, 1750-1786

Thomas Thistlewood is known for his daily records of life on a slave plantation in eighteenth-century Jamaica. Thistlewood's previously unexamined weather journal is shown here to be the most important written record from the Earth's tropical regions available. His observation methods are superi...

Henry adams and his world

Contents: Introduction, by David R. Contosta & Robert Muccigrosso; Lies, Silence, & Truth in the Writings of Henry Adams, by Edward Chalfant; Henry Adams & Politics, by Ari Hoogenboom; Henry Adams & the American Century, by David R. Contosta; Religion as Culture: Henry Adams’s ‘Mo...

Natural philosophy of chu hsi (1130-1200)

Chu Hsi (1130-1200) exerted a lasting influence on the thought and life of the Chinese in subsequent cent. The core of his synthesis was moral and social philosophy, but it also included knowledge about the natural world. His doctrine of ke-wu (invest. of things) made him mindful of the specializ...

Astronomy in the maya codices

The Precolumbian Maya were closely attuned to the movements of the Sun and the Moon, the stars and the planets. Their rituals and daily tasks were performed according to a timetable established by these celestial bodies, a timetable based on a highly complex calendar system. Agriculture provided ...

The feeding habits of pseudomyrmine and other ants

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Capital problem

Explores the history, application, and accrued meanings of the attic order in America, beginning with Benjamin Henry Latrobe, who employed the order. The author traces the genealogy of the architectural influence as it passes from Latrobe to his disciples to their disciples. Latrobe saw “a singul...

Alexander von humboldt

Presents the 250 texts Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), known as the “father of environmentalism,” wrote in English, unabridged in their original formAlexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), German geographer and naturalist, is well-known for his explorations of the Americas and of Russia, for his ...

Figuring history

In the past half-century the writing of history has been the object of much critical scrutiny by literary scholars, philosophers, and historians. History painting has traditionally been an important topic in art history. The illustration of history books, in contrast, has not attracted much atten...

Tertiary vertebrate faunas of the north coalinga region of california. a contribution to the study of palæontologic correlation in the great basin and pacific coast provinces

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The peccary

Three living species of peccary inhabit a vast area of the New World, between roughly 35 degrees of latitude north and south of the equator. They are primarily forest or woodland animals, but two species (one of them only recently discovered) have adapted to scrub-dominated ecosystems, both natur...

Edward shaw of boston

This is the first in-depth study of the career of an important antebellum American architect and author. It is a contribution to the history of architecture and the history of the book. In the quarter century after 1830, Edward Shaw designed dozens of town houses in Boston, including the landmark...

Alhacen on refraction

Alhacen’s treatment of light and sight in the “De aspectibus” culminates with the analysis of refraction in book 7. Far briefer than his account of reflection, which occupies three books, Alhacen’s study of refraction follows essentially the same pattern of analysis, starting with various experim...

Paleolithic cultures of singhbhum

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Foreign aid allocation, governance, and economic growth

Kamiljon T. Akramov investigates the effectiveness of foreign aid to developing countries by comparing the results of aid allocated to a recipient's production sectors, economic infrastructure, or social sectors.

Jennie gerhardt

The quest of the silver fleece

The widowing of mrs. holroyd

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, written immediately after Sons and Lovers, is one of D. H. Lawrence's most significant early works. The play, Lawrence's first, is the alter ego of the story "Odour of Chrysanthemums" and, like the short story, deals with a catastrophe in the lives of a coal mining f...

Lost face

At his peak, about the time this collection was first published in 1910, Jack London was the highest-paid and perhaps the most popular living American writer. Lost Face consists of seven short works, including the title story and his finest and best-known short story, "To Build a Fire." Now in pa...

Food and agriculture in ethiopia

In this volume, policy experts provide empirical evidence to shed light on the complexities of agricultural and food policy in today's Ethiopia, highlight major policies and interventions of the past decade, and provide insights into building resilience to natural disasters and food crises.

The sheik

Diana Mayo is young, beautiful, wealthy—and independent. Bored by the eligible bachelors and endless parties of the English aristocracy, she arranges for a horseback trek through the Algerian desert. Two days into her adventure, Diana is kidnapped by the powerful Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, who force...

German students' war letters

Originally appearing at the same time as the pacifist novel All Quiet on the Western Front, this powerful collection provides a glimpse into the hearts and minds of an enemy that had been thoroughly demonized by the Allied press. Composed by German students who had left their university studies i...

Tales of the jazz age

Though most widely known for the novella The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald gained a major source of income as a professional writer from the sale of short stories. Over the course of his career, Fitzgerald published more than 160 stories in the period's most popular magazines. His second shor...

"in the days of serfdom" and other stories

"In the Days of Serfdom" and Other Stories, originally published in 1911, presents in miniature themes developed in Tolstoy's longer works War and Peace and Anna Karenina. The compelling stories in this collection have largely been ignored by contemporary scholars and teachers because of their ge...

Sanctuary

Kate Orme is a young woman whose illusions of marital bliss are shattered when she comes face to face with the dark secret harbored by her fiance, the wealthy and deceptively ebullient Denis. Kate decides to go ahead and marry Denis, however, as a selfless gesture to protect any child he may conc...

Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction

This volume examines how collective bargaining and property rights, separately and together, influence the well-being of the rural poor in Africa and Asia and how they can be strengthened to improve livelihoods.

Terminations

Choosing selection

Describes the hypothesis that Darwin’s “natural selection,” reformulated by R.A. Fisher, J.B.S. Haldane, and S. Wright in the light of Mendelian genetics, is the exclusive mechanism for biological evolution. During the 1930s, alternatives such as Lamarchism, macromutations, and orthogenesis were ...

The diplomacy of independence

Presenting more than seventy documents from Spanish archives that provide a rare glimpse into Benjamin Franklin’s connection to SpainAlthough Benjamin Franklin never set foot in Spain, from 1774 until his death in 1790 he maintained contact and correspondence with a wide range of Spanish official...

1769: transit of venus

The ToV occurs when Venus’s orbit causes the planet to speed past the slower moving Earth and visibly cross the Sun, partially obscuring it. The ToV occur in pairs that are 8 years apart and tend to be separated in time by just over a century. The first person to predict and observe the ToV was J...

Royal funding of the parisian academie royale des sciences during the 1690s

The scientific revolution of the 17th century engendered diverse & prolific offspring, among which were the scientific societies. The French Academie Royale des Sciences, founded in 1666 by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s minister of finance, was the beneficiary of the most generous patron...

Chicago lawyer arthur jerome eddy and his eclectic art collection

Arthur Jerome Eddy, the Chicago lawyer, author, and art collector, was a legend in his lifetime (1859-1920). He was the first person to buy radically modern paintings by Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia at the 1913 Army Show, the first American collector to purchase works by Vasily Kandinsky an...

Leon abbett's new jersey

Following in the succession of his 25 predecessors, Leon Abbett twice served as governor of New Jersey in the late 19nth century. A lifelong Democrat, he was a dynamic and visionary party leader who guided the citizens of New Jersey into a new urban industrial age. While he was a machine politici...

Supplement to a guide to manuscripts relating to the american indian in the library of the american philosophical society

A supplement to “A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in the Library of the APS,” published by the Society in 1966. In only a dozen years since the pub. of the “Guide,” substantial additions to the collection reached the point where a revision or supplement to the “Guide” was de...

Evidence

Based on a symposium hosted by the American Philosophical Society, Evidence: The Use and Misuse of Data brings together essays from scholars representing a host of disciplines from statistics through psychology and anthropology to examine the question of evidence and what it means.Contributors ex...

Ianula

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Physical health and psychiatric disorder in nigeria

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Moses maimonides’ glossary of drug names

The ten authentic medical treatises of Moses Maimonides lay dormant in manuscript form for many centuries. In the mid-1900s, Hebrew editions of these works were published under the editorship of the late Suessman Muntner of Jerusalem. The pub. of several of these works in English followed, incl. ...

German center party 1890-1906

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From latin to spanish

This volume was written to fill the need for a synthesis of the research that has illuminated much of the phonetic and morphological development of Spanish. Contents: On the Nature of Linguistic Change: Sound Change and Sound Laws, The Spread of a Sound Change, Causes of Sound Change, and Morphol...

John haygarth, frs

An excellent biography of John Haygarth, an important 18th-century physician who is most well known for his visionary plan to eliminate smallpox from Great Britain through the careful practice of inoculation & isolation. Haygarth made many more innovative & far-reaching contributions to m...

Maistre nicole oresme

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Preliminary archaeological investigations in the sierra de tamaulipas, mexico

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Beyond price

Man has been intrigued by the origin of pearls, sensitive to their beauty, and convinced of their medicinal value for at least 5 cent. A mixture of folklore and observation preceded the earliest scientific inquiries. Fishing and trade commenced in S. Asia, between India and Sri Lanka and around t...

Crisis of the weimar republic

Contents: The Uncompleted World of the Revolution & the Origins of the Dispute Over the Princes’ Properties; The First Stages of the Controversy, Nov. 1925 to Jan. 1926: The Communists Set the Pace; The Social Democratic Party Astride Two Horses: The SPD’s Decision to Support the Referendum, ...