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In Defense of Intuitions
A New Rationalist Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
A reply to contemporary skepticism about intuitions and a priori knowledge, and a defense of neo-rationalism from a contemporary Kantian standpoint, focusing on the theory of rational intuitions and on solving the two core problems of justifying and explaining them.
Place Matters
Criminology for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the distribution of crime and other antisocial behavior at lower levels of geography. The focus on micro geography and its contribution to the understanding and prevention of crime has been called the 'criminology of place'. It pushes...
History of the two Tartar Conquerors of China, including the two Journeys into Tartary of Father Ferdinand Verbiest in the Suite of the Emperor Kang-hi
From the French of Père Pierre Joseph d'Orléans, of the Company of Jesus. To which is added Father Pereira's Journey into Tartary in the Suite of the same Emperor, From the Dutch of Nicholaas Witsen
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The first part is translated from the 1688, Paris, edition; the narrative of Father Pereira's journey and the text of two letters by Father Verbiest are from the 1692, Amsterdam, edition. The supplementary material consists of the 1854 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1854.
Paleomagnetism
Continents and Oceans
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 1999
Paleomagnetism is the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks. It has been paramount in determining that the continents have drifted over the surface of the Earth throughout geological time. The fossil magnetism preserved in the ocean floor has demonstrated how continental drift takes place through...
by R H N Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
The LNER Class A3 Pacific locomotive No. 4472 'Flying Scotsman' is one of the world's most iconic steam engines. It was built in 1923 for the London and North Eastern Railway at Doncaster Works to a design by Nigel Gresley. Taking its name from the London to Edinburgh non-stop service on which it...
by R H N Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This fascinating pocket book draws on numerous primary sources from the early days of the rail network through to the Big Four, British Railways and beyond to present a unique guide to the knowledge and skills required for locomotive drivers, engineers and firemen. Beginning with an introduction to steam...
by Sabine Rheinhold, Anni Wollrath, Joachim Frank
Language: German
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: German
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Am schönsten ist eine Weihnachtsgeschichte, wenn sie vorgelesen wird! Wenn die Christbaumkugeln im Kerzenlicht funkeln und der Blick aus dem Fenster auf die weiße Winterlandschaft fällt, dann ist der Moment gekommen, sich im Kreise der Lieben zusammenzufinden. Nichts ist dabei herrlicher, als gemeinsam...
Robin Bolt
And the Secret of the Numbered Map
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Adventure-Mystery This book is the story of a young 15 year old adventurer, Robin Bolt . A tale of mystery and adventure set in Central and South America. Travel across the jungles and plains in a quest to discover hidden treasures and solve the riddles of the numbered map. On what starts out as a...
Regional Economic Development
Analysis and Planning Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Regional economic development has attracted the interest of economists, geographers, planners and regional scientists for a long time. And, of course, it is a field that has developed a large practitioner cohort in government and business agencies from the national down to the state and local levels....
Innovations in Higher Education
Igniting the Spark for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...
by P. H. Kritzinger & R. D. McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Several excellent works have already been written about the Anglo-Boer War of the beginning of the twentieth century; but the field of operations was so extensive, the duration of the war so long, and the leaders, on the Boer side, were necessarily so independent of one another in the operations that...
Twentieth-Century Suburbs
A Morphological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Garden suburbs were the almost universal form of urban growth in the English-speaking world for most of the twentieth century. Their introduction was probably the most fundamental process of transformation in the physical form of the Western city since the Middle Ages.
This book describes the ways...
by H.A.R. Gibb
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Originally published in 1962, this book presents important studies on the history, literature and religion of the Islamic peoples as well as an appraisal of contemporary intellectual currents in the Middle East.
Part I interprets the basic political and cultural development in medieval Islam,...
by Jeannette R. Murphy, Francis H. Jenks
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
"Several years from now, when every vestige of slavery has disappeared, and even its existence has become a fading memory, America, and probably Europe, will suddenly awake to the sad fact that we have irrevocably lost a veritable mine of wealth through our failure to appreciate and study from...