Category: Nonfiction 3

By Nick Rennison

ISBN-10: 1904048641

ISBN-13: 9781904048640

Each day hundreds of thousands of individuals all over the world seek advice Roget's Thesaurus—yet Peter Mark Roget, some of the most striking males of the nineteenth century, didn't even commence the good paintings of class which bears his identify until eventually he was once 70. sooner than that, Roget had already made his personal contributions to wisdom in a dozen various fields corresponding to anatomy, arithmetic, schooling, and optics, together with papers on patience of imaginative and prescient which had later impression at the improvement of movies. From his involvement within the starting place of the collage of London to his books on magnetism, galvanism, and body structure, this biography finds the total tale of Roget's impression at the nice concerns and the good personalities of the nineteenth century, and recounts the forgotten existence at the back of probably the most well-known of all reference books.

By Kees W. Bolle

ISBN-10: 0585105839

ISBN-13: 9780585105833

ISBN-10: 0826512488

ISBN-13: 9780826512482

By Libanius, Richardus Foerster (ed.)

By Nobert Krapf

ISBN-10: 0585171211

ISBN-13: 9780585171210

ISBN-10: 0823211673

ISBN-13: 9780823211678

ISBN-10: 0823211681

ISBN-13: 9780823211685

Through the moment and 3rd quarters of the 19th century, William Cullen Bryant used to be one among America's pre-eminent poets. a guy of huge effect and pursuits, Bryant additionally completed renown as editor of the hot York night put up. on the time of his loss of life in 1878, he used to be greatly respected either at domestic and overseas as an outstanding guy. His lofty popularity has in view that receded, however it has no longer vanished. There are, certainly, indicators of renewed curiosity in restoring Bryant's position. between fresh reappraisals of Bryant, below Open Sky is notable for being written by means of modern American poets, together with the Poet Laureate, Richard Wilbur. The editor of and contributor to this ebook, Norbert Krapf, like Bryant, a poet of nature, invited twenty poets to mirror on Bryant and write aobut him in poetry or prose. This assortment is composed principally of items particularly written for this e-book. It additionally encompasses a few formerly released essays and poems. one in all fifty books selected for the 1987 AAUP ebook express via Hermann Zapf, world-renowned typographer. selected for 1987 AIGA Annual image layout united states. The participants: Richard Wilbur, Richard Eberhart, Philip Appleman, Jared Carter, Vince Clemente, Richare Elman, Paul Engle, William Heyen, John Hollander, Aaron Kramer, Norbert Krapf, Albert F. McLean, Peter Michelson, Robert Morgan, Linda Pastan, Reva Sharon, William Jay Smith, William Stafford, Robyn Supraner, and beauty Volick.

By Mitchel Whitington

ISBN-10: 0585227950

ISBN-13: 9780585227955

ISBN-10: 1556226950

ISBN-13: 9781556226953

It began while Uncle Bubba made up our minds to open a bird wing eating place within the tiny city of lower Plug, Texas. He notion it might be effortless, however it took a yr of Bubbamania earlier than issues got here jointly.

By Antonio Gramsci

ISBN-10: 0231139446

ISBN-13: 9780231139441

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is largely celebrated because the most unique political philosopher in Western Marxism and an all-around awesome highbrow determine. Arrested and imprisoned by way of the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died ahead of absolutely regaining his freedom. however, in his felony notebooks, he recorded millions of amazing reflections on a unprecedented diversity of matters, constructing a permanent highbrow legacy. Columbia college Press's multivolume legal Notebooks is the one entire severe version of Antonio Gramsci's seminal writings in English. The notebooks' crucial textual content provides readers direct entry not just to Gramsci's influential rules but additionally to the highbrow workshop the place these principles have been solid. wide notes advisor readers via Gramsci's amazing sequence of reflections on an encyclopedic variety of themes. quantity three includes notebooks 6, 7, and eight, within which Gramsci develops his recommendations of hegemony, civil society, and the kingdom; displays greatly at the Renaissance, the Reformation, and Machiavelli's political philosophy; and provides a trenchant critique of the cultural and political practices of fascism. a close research of positivism and idealism brings Gramsci's philosophy of praxis and perception of historic materialism into sharp aid. additionally integrated are the author's broad observations on articles and books learn in the course of his imprisonment.

By William Shakespeare, John Dover Wilson (editor)

ISBN-10: 1108005764

ISBN-13: 9781108005760

John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, released among 1921 and 1966, grew to become the vintage Cambridge variation of Shakespeare's performs and poems until eventually the Nineteen Eighties. The sequence, lengthy on the grounds that out-of-print, is now reissued. each one paintings is offered either separately and as a collection, and every includes a long and vigorous advent, major textual content, and monstrous notes and word list published on the again. The version, which all started with The Tempest and ended with The Sonnets, positioned into perform the recommendations and theories that had developed less than the 'New Bibliography'. Remarkably by way of brand new criteria, even though it took the simplest a part of part a century to supply, the recent Shakespeare concerned just a small band of editors in addition to Dover Wilson himself. because the volumes took form, a lot of Dover Wilson's textual tools got common attractiveness and have become a longtime a part of later editorial perform, for instance within the Arden and New Cambridge Shakespeares.

By Te Aue Davis

ISBN-10: 0477014623

ISBN-13: 9780477014625

By C. Imhoff, R. Sousa W. H. Inmon

ISBN-10: 0471399612

ISBN-13: 9780471399612

ISBN-10: 0471437506

ISBN-13: 9780471437505

The "father of knowledge warehousing" comprises the newest applied sciences into his blueprint for built-in selection aid systemsToday's company IT and knowledge warehouse managers are required to make a small military of applied sciences interact to make sure speedy and exact details for company managers. invoice Inmon created the company details manufacturing unit to unravel the desires of those managers. because the First variation, the layout of the manufacturing unit has grown and altered dramatically. This moment version, revised and extended through forty% with 5 new chapters, accommodates those alterations. This step by step consultant will let readers to attach their legacy platforms with the information warehouse and care for a number of latest and altering applied sciences, together with net entry mechanisms, e-commerce structures, ERP (Enterprise source making plans) platforms. The ebook additionally appears heavily at exploration and knowledge mining servers for reading buyer habit and departmental info marts for finance, revenues, and advertising.

By Douglas Preston

ISBN-10: 0446612766

ISBN-13: 9780446612760

A small Kansas city has become a killing flooring. Is it a serial killer, a guy with the necessity to smash? Or is it a darker strength, a curse upon the land? Amid golden cornfields, FBI distinct Agent Pendergast discovers evil within the blood of America's heartland.