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
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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
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE BMA PRESIDENT’S AWARD 2017
An incredible memoir from one of the world’s most eminent heart surgeons, recallin……続きを見る
This collection of articles traces the evolution over the 1980s of budget policy and tax reform by an architect of the Bradley tax reform bill. The articles present a chronological analysis of tax c……続きを見る
著者:A N Wilson
出版社: John Murray Press
発売日: 2017年09月07日
'Hugely enjoyable' - Spectator
'A lucid, elegantly written and thought-provoking social and intellectual history' - Evening Standard
'As a historian trying to put Darwin in the context of his time, ……続きを見る
Knowledge means nothing if it is not shared with other people to help them better understand their respective circumstances and how to attend to the attendant problems. With this understanding of wh……続きを見る
著者:David Hamilton
出版社: World Scientific Publishing Company
発売日: 2016年09月14日
This is a new account, of how, in the early 1900s, the French-born surgeon Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) set the groundwork for the later success in human organ transplantation, and gained America's fir……続きを見る
At the end of the Second World War, Britain had the highest incidence of lung cancer in the world. For the first time lung cancer deaths exceeded those from tuberculosis - and no one knew why. On 30……続きを見る
Using a trajectory of 20th century Anglican approaches to mission in rural Africa, the book tells the story of the development of an educational institution by tracing the faith journey of Eelin Bea……続きを見る
She Stayed. He Tried. God Restored.
A Story of Faith, Determination, Healing and Hope.
Are you frustrated and careworn striving to make sense of a family member's battles with addiction, bipolar dis……続きを見る
Notre ouvrage se propose d'évoquer ces femmes qui, depuis la fin du 19ème siècle, ont, par leur voix, laissé une trace dans l'Histoire de la chanson française. Entendons-nous bien, il ne s'agit null……続きを見る
Новая книга известного российского ученого-обществоведа И.С.Кона представляет собой род интеллектуальной автобиографии. Игорь Кон всю жизнь работал на стыке разных общественных и гуманитарных наук: ……続きを見る
The father of modern-day electricity and considered by some to be the ultimate “mad scientist,” Nikola Tesla filed nearly 300 patents in his lifetime. Many of these patents resulted in functioning i……続きを見る
The Agile Teams have proven to be promising alternatives to traditional software development team structures. However, when the big enterprises tried to apply agile frameworks such as Scrum and Extr……続きを見る
In Monk’s Tale: Way Stations on the Journey, Father Malloy carries forward the story of his professional life from when he joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1974 to his election as president of Notre……続きを見る
THE TEXAS ALMANAC 2016–2017 includes these new feature articles:
• A history of Texas’ various food regionsーfrom Tex-Mex to barbecueーwritten by Dotty Griffith, longtime food writer for The Dallas ……続きを見る
Le monde de l'enseignement vu de l'intérieur.
Jean-Baptiste, jeune professeur fraîchement rentré d’Angleterre, revient à Paris à la recherche d’un emploi. Après quelques expériences malheureuses, il……続きを見る
Die Autorin dieses Buches kam mit einem angeborenen Herzfehler zur Welt. Mangels geeigneter Operationsverfahren gaben ihr die Kinderkardiologen nur wenige Monate Zeit. Doch der Überlebenswille der j……続きを見る
Rosa Louise McCauley didn't exactly get to enjoy all the more finer things of what we hyenas and other African species up to the current generation now deem the simple life or in new generation slan……続きを見る
Martijn van Calmthout dook in de onlangs vrijgegeven archieven van wetenschapper Sam Goudsmit en schreef een biografie die leest als een spannend jongensboek
Aan het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog……続きを見る
Dieses eBook: "Das Haus - Eine Familiengeschichte vom Ende des vorigen Jahrhunderts" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. In……続きを見る
Histoire contemporaine est le titre générique d'un ensemble d'articles d'Anatole France, parus dans l'Écho de Paris en 1896, et qui désignera plus tard une série de quatre romans publiés chez Calman……続きを見る
Berlijn, 1915. Middenin oorlogstijd ontwikkelt Albert Einstein een magnifieke zwaartekrachttheorie, waarin hij beweert dat het universum uitzet. Maar collega-astronomen weten Einstein ervan te overt……続きを見る
著者:Ralph Snyderman
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2016年10月13日
During his fifteen years as chancellor, Dr. Ralph Snyderman helped create new paradigms for academic medicine while guiding the Duke University Medical Center through periods of great challenge and ……続きを見る
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ー Mais non, personne ne le lit plus, et l’on parle de lui comme d’une chose établie, indiscutable, éternelle, comme on parle de la rotation de la terre ! Je vous dis que le génie et la gl……続きを見る