The Durham Difference

Author : Nigel Watson
Publisher : Third Millennium Information
ISBN 13 : 9781903942789
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Durham Difference written by Nigel Watson and published by Third Millennium Information. This book was released on 2007 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Durham Difference spans the birth, infancy and maturity of the country's third oldest university, from its roots as a monastic institution and the award of its Royal Charter in 1837 to become one of the most highly regarded universities in the country with an outstanding record both in teaching and research in science and a great many other subjects.The author, Nigel Watson, a graduate of the University, has thoroughly researched original records and drawn on hitherto untapped reminiscences of staff and students from various generations, which bring the book brilliantly to life. In his foreword, the Chancellor and world-famous author, Dr Bill Bryson, says: ''It is my private conviction that you can tell that you are in a good university town from the moment of arrival, in much the way you can often sense the presence of sea before you actually see it .... And nowhere that I know of is that happy air of productive, brainy toil more winningly offset by architectural glory than in Durham. What other universities, after all, can claim a castle and cathedral at their very heart ...... ''

Author : John G. Durham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Report and Despatches of the Durham written by John G. Durham and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Wilson
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Durham Miner's Association 1870-1904 written by John Wilson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A History of the Durham Miner's Association 1870-1904" by John Wilson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Stephen Burt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198870515
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Durham Weather and Climate Since 1841 written by Stephen Burt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British have always been obsessed by the weather. Astronomers at Durham Observatory began weather observations in 1841; weather records continue unbroken to this day, one of the longest continuous series of single-site weather records in Europe. Durham Weather and Climate since 1841 represents the first full publication of this newly digitised record of English weather, which will be of lasting appeal to interested readers and climate researchers alike. The book celebrates 180 years of weather in north-east England by describing how the records were (and are) made and the people who made them, examines monthly and seasonal weather patterns and extremes across two centuries, and considers long-term climate change. Local documentary sources and contemporary photographs bring the statistics to life, from the great flood of 1771 and skating on the frozen River Wear in February 1895 right up to Durham's hottest-ever day in July 2019 and its wettest winter in 2021. Extensive links are provided to full daily weather records back to 1843. This volume is a sister publication to Oxford Weather and Climate since 1767 by the same authors, published by Oxford University Press in 2019.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. District of Columbia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mallory and Durham Rules written by United States. Congress. Senate. District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. Cole Durham, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317067207
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, Pluralism, and Reconciling Difference written by W. Cole Durham, Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in an increasingly pluralized world. This sociological reality has become the irreversible destiny of humankind. Even once religiously homogeneous societies are becoming increasingly diverse. Religious freedom is modernity’s most profound if sometimes forgotten answer to the resulting social pressures, but the tide of pluralization threatens to overwhelm that freedom’s stabilizing force. Religion, Pluralism, and Reconciling Difference is aimed at exploring differing ways of grappling with the resulting tensions, and then asking, will the tensions ultimately yield poisonous polarization that erodes all hope of meaningful community? Or can the tradition and the institutions protecting freedom of religion or belief be developed and applied in ways that (still) foster productive interactions, stability, and peace? This volume brings together vital and thoughtful contributions treating aspects of these mounting worldwide tensions concerning the relationship between religious diversity and social harmony. The first section explores controversies surrounding religious pluralism from different starting points, including religious, political, and legal standpoints. The second section examines different geographical perspectives on pluralism. Experts from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East address these issues and suggest not only how social institutions can reduce tensions, but also how religious pluralism itself can bolster needed civil society.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mallory and Durham Rules, Investigative Arrests and Amendments to Criminal Statutes of D.C. written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on proposed modifications of investigative arrest and insanity plea restrictions. Also considers legislation concerning licensing violations for accounting and certain health care professions, and a draft bill on gun control. Includes LRS report "Compilation of D.C. and State Criminal Statutes Showing a Comparison of Mandatory Minimum and Maximum Sentences That Can Be Imposed in Connection with Certain Criminal Offenses," by Ruth H. Stromberg and Grover S. Williams, Jan. 27, 1964 (p. 713-764).

Author : Ged Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521085304
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Durham Report and British Policy written by Ged Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1972-11-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1838 Lord Melbourne's Whig government in Britain sent the radical Lord Durham to Canada as Governor-General to deal with a colony in the aftermath of a rebellion. Durham's vanity and arrogance made him a poor choice for the post, and he resigned a few months later after the government had been forced to overrule him for exceeding his powers. After his return to Britain he wrote his Report on the Affairs of British North America - and its unauthorized publication in the Times caused a sensation. This report - the famous 'Durham Report' - has been seen as the starting point of the British tradition of colonial self-rule leading through the Statute of Westminster of 1931 to the independent self-governing Commonwealth of today.

Author : Arturo Escobar
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822389436
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Territories of Difference written by Arturo Escobar and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-26 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of engagement with a group of Afro-Colombian activists of Colombia’s Pacific rainforest region, the Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN). Escobar offers a detailed ethnographic account of PCN’s visions, strategies, and practices, and he chronicles and analyzes the movement’s struggles for autonomy, territory, justice, and cultural recognition. Yet he also does much more. Consistently emphasizing the value of local activist knowledge for both understanding and social action and drawing on multiple strands of critical scholarship, Escobar proposes new ways for scholars and activists to examine and apprehend the momentous, complex processes engulfing regions such as the Colombian Pacific today. Escobar illuminates many interrelated dynamics, including the Colombian government’s policies of development and pluralism that created conditions for the emergence of black and indigenous social movements and those movements’ efforts to steer the region in particular directions. He examines attempts by capitalists to appropriate the rainforest and extract resources, by developers to set the region on the path of modernist progress, and by biologists and others to defend this incredibly rich biodiversity “hot-spot” from the most predatory activities of capitalists and developers. He also looks at the attempts of academics, activists, and intellectuals to understand all of these complicated processes. Territories of Difference is Escobar’s effort to think with Afro-Colombian intellectual-activists who aim to move beyond the limits of Eurocentric paradigms as they confront the ravages of neoliberal globalization and seek to defend their place-based cultures and territories.

Author : Jennifer A. VanLoon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geohydrology and Water Quality of the Durham Center Area, Durham, Connecticut written by Jennifer A. VanLoon and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: