1999 Lectures And Memoirs

Author : British Academy
Publisher : British Academy
ISBN 13 : 9780197262306
Total Pages : 590 pages
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Download or read book 1999 Lectures and Memoirs written by British Academy and published by British Academy. This book was released on 2000 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 105 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 11 British Academy lectures and 15 obituaries of Fellows of the British Academy.

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Author : British Academy
Publisher : Proceedings of the British Aca
ISBN 13 : 9780197262597
Total Pages : 736 pages
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Download or read book 2000 Lectures and Memoirs written by British Academy and published by Proceedings of the British Aca. This book was released on 2001 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 111 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 12 British Academy lectures and 17 obituaries of Fellows of the British Academy.

Author : David Goodstein
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393078930
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feynman's Lost Lecture written by David Goodstein and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-11-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Glorious."—Wall Street Journal Rescued from obscurity, Feynman's Lost Lecture is a blessing for all Feynman followers. Most know Richard Feynman for the hilarious anecdotes and exploits in his best-selling books "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" But not always obvious in those stories was his brilliance as a pure scientist—one of the century's greatest physicists. With this book and CD, we hear the voice of the great Feynman in all his ingenuity, insight, and acumen for argument. This breathtaking lecture—"The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun"—uses nothing more advanced than high-school geometry to explain why the planets orbit the sun elliptically rather than in perfect circles, and conclusively demonstrates the astonishing fact that has mystified and intrigued thinkers since Newton: Nature obeys mathematics. David and Judith Goodstein give us a beautifully written short memoir of life with Feynman, provide meticulous commentary on the lecture itself, and relate the exciting story of their effort to chase down one of Feynman's most original and scintillating lectures.

Author : Stephen James
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781388385
Total Pages : 280 pages
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Download or read book Shades of Authority written by Stephen James and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between poetry and power? Should poetry be considered a mode of authority or an impotent medium? And why is it that the modern poets most commonly regarded as authoritative are precisely those whose works wrestle with a sense of artistic inadequacy? Such questions lie at the heart of this study, prompting fresh insights into three of the most important poets of recent decades: Robert Lowell, Geoffrey Hill and Seamus Heaney. Through attentive close reading and the tracing of dominant motifs in each writer’s works, James shows how their responsiveness to matters of political and cultural import lends weight to the idea of poetry as authoritative utterance, as a medium for speaking of and to the world in a persuasive, memorable manner. And yet, as James demonstrates, each poet is exercised by an awareness of his own cultural marginality, even by a sense of the limitations and liabilities of language itself.

Author : Martin Daunton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107320240
Total Pages : 426 pages
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Download or read book Just Taxes written by Martin Daunton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1914, taxation was about 10 per cent of GNP; by 1979, taxes had risen to almost half of the total national income, and contributed to the rise of Thatcher. Martin Daunton continues the story begun in Trusting Leviathan, offering an analysis of the politics of acceptance of huge tax rises after the First World War and asks why it did not provoke the same levels of discontent in Britain as it did on the continent. He further questions why acceptance gave way to hostility at the end of this period. Daunton views taxes as the central driving force for equity or efficiency. As such he provides a detailed discussion of their potential in providing revenue for the state, and their use in shaping the social structure and influencing economic growth. Just Taxes places taxation in its proper place, at the centre of modern British history.

Author : Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812240723
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medici Gardens written by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2008-05-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medici Gardens challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one client commissioned one architect or artist. The book suggests that in the case of the gardens in Florence garden making preceded its theoretical articulation.

Author : Brian S. Pullan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719062421
Total Pages : 352 pages
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Download or read book A History of the University of Manchester, 1973-90 written by Brian S. Pullan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of history of the University of Manchester since 1951. It spans 17 critical years in which public funding was contracting, student grants were diminishing, instructions from the government and the University Grants Commission were multiplying and universities feared for their reputations in the public eye. It provides a frank account of the University's struggle against these difficulties and its efforts to prove the value of university education to society and the economy. The volume describes and analyses not only academic developments and changes in the structure and finances of the University, but the opinions and social and political lives of the staff and their students as well. feminism, free speech, ethical investment, academic freedom and the quest for efficient management. The author draws on offical records, staff and student newspapers and personal interviews with people who experienced the University's very different ways. With its wide range of academic interests and large student population, the University of Manchester was the biggest unitary university in the country and its history illustrates the problems faced by almost all British universities. 1951-73, should appeal to past and present staff of the University and its alumni and to anyone interested in the debates surrounding higher education in the late 20th century.

Author : James Silk Buckingham
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Total Pages : 450 pages
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Download or read book Autobiography of James Silk Buckingham written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Taylor
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Total Pages : 384 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of Books written by John Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: