著者:Dirk Frankenberg
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2016年08月26日
For some years, The Nature of North Carolina’s Southern Coast has stood as an essential resource for all who treasure our coastal environment. In this book, Dirk Frankenberg describes the southern c……続きを見る
著者:Anna R. Hayes
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2016年08月26日
The first woman judge in the state of North Carolina and the first woman in the United States to be elected chief justice of a state supreme court, Susie Marshall Sharp (1907–1996) broke new ground ……続きを見る
著者:Bruce A. Sorrie
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2016年08月26日
Featuring over 600 wildflowers, flowering shrubs, and vines, this user-friendly field guide is the first to focus on the rare, fragile lands and species of the Sandhills region of the Carolinas and ……続きを見る
著者:Margot Liberty
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2016年07月21日
In 1953, Margot Pringle, newly graduated from Cornell University, took a job as a teacher in a one-room school in rural eastern Montana, sixty miles southeast of Miles City. “Miss Margot,” as her st……続きを見る
Extrait : "Ce sont les vacances !...S'il y a de la joie dans ce mot pour les enfants qui vont retrouver la maison paternelle, les réunions de famille, les caresses d'une mère, il y a pour l'institut……続きを見る
Extrait : "L'histoire de la Médecine ー pour répondre à l'état d'esprit actuel ー ne peut plus être le récit des systèmes éphémères qui ont tour à tour gouverné l'art médical et qui représentent plu……続きを見る
Extrait : "La savant La Condamine au cours de sa Relation abrégée d'un voyage fait dans l'intérieur de l'Amérique méridionale, signalait en ces termes, à la date de juillet 1743, les propriétés d'un……続きを見る
Extrait : "Les aérostats (ballons) ont été inventés par les frères Montgolfier en 1783, et perfectionnés par le physicien Charles et le savant Nicolas Conté. Pilâtre de Rozier et le marquis d'Arland……続きを見る
Les aventures d'un fauteuil roulant et de son utilisatrice.
Il fallait tomber sur lui, le fauteuil roulant narrateur des misères de sa « patronne » : il nomme ainsi la patiente qu’il transporte, une……続きを見る
In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called "Mexica……続きを見る
Personal letters reveal the quandary of a prominent German physicist during the Nazi years and the strength he shared with his loving wife Nobel Prize–winning physicist Werner Heisenberg lived far f……続きを見る
著者:Louis Rose
出版社: Yale University Press
発売日: 2016年09月01日
A vivid portrait of two remarkable twentieth-century thinkers and their landmark collaboration on the use and abuse of caricature and propaganda in the modern world In 1934, Viennese art historian a……続きを見る
著者:Anne Dagg
出版社: McGill-Queen's University Press
発売日: 2016年10月01日
When Anne Innis saw her first giraffe at the age of three, she was smitten. She knew she had to learn more about this marvellous animal. Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off alon……続きを見る
“It was nothing at first. Just a little twitch. My left ring finger was twitching, slowly, almost languidly, the way fishing line does when you’ve hooked something without any strength. Like a baby ……続きを見る
Parfaitement adapté pour une lecture sur Kindle. Extrait: Embarqué sur la corvette Primauguet, commandée par le capitaine de vaisseau Bochet, un digne, vaillant et infatigable officier que la marine……続きを見る
Originally published in 1936, this is an excellent manual on British animal tracks and tracking. The book is full of clear diagrams and natural history information and is still of much practical use……続きを見る
Isaac Newton is regularly given the title of greatest scientist of all time, and in this biography we delve into how one quiet, 'difficult' farmers son, revolutionized the way we look at the univers……続きを見る
Lorsque M. Guizot, en 1821, publia chez M. Ladvocat les œuvres complètes de Shakspeare traduites en français, M. Ladvocat expliqua dans une courte préface que la modestie seule du traducteur avait f……続きを見る
“What is a stroke?” This is the question that plagues Ron Smith as he emerges from the carpet bombing of his brain. The Defiant Mind: Living Inside a Stroke is a first-person account of a massive is……続きを見る
著者:Laura James
出版社: Pan Macmillan
発売日: 2017年04月06日
**A deeply personal memoir of late autism diagnosis.
What do you do when you wake up in your mid-forties and realize you've been living a lie your whole life? Do you tell? Or do you keep it to yours……続きを見る
A naturalist on Montana’s academic frontier, passionate conservationist Morton J. Elrod was instrumental in establishing the Department of Biology at the University of Montana, as well as Glacier Na……続きを見る
No English king is more famous-or infamous! than Henry VIII, popularly celebrated as the formidable and arrogant figure portrayed by Hans Holbein the Younger, the early Tudor stud who clocked up no ……続きを見る
This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
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This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
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Thurman Arnold (1891-1969) was a major iconoclast of American law and a great liberal of the 20th century. In this first biography of Arnold, Spencer Weber Waller traces Arnold's life from his birth……続きを見る
著者:H. G. Wells
出版社: Read Books Ltd.
発売日: 2016年09月14日
This is H. G. Wells' 1924 biography of Frederick William Sanderson, "The Story of a Great Schoolmaster". Frederick William Sanderson (1857 - 1922) was the headmaster at Oundle School between 1892-19……続きを見る
Sunday Times Bestseller
A breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking book accompanies the BBC One TV series, providing the deepest answers to the simplest questions.
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著者:Michael Copperman
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2016年08月25日
When Michael Copperman left Stanford University for the Mississippi Delta in 2002, he imagined he would lift underprivileged children from the narrow horizons of rural poverty. Well-meaning but naïv……続きを見る
Rose Elizabeth Bird was forty years old when in 1977 Governor Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown chose her to become California’s first female supreme court chief justice. Appointed to a court with a stellar r……続きを見る