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Daniel Halkett Craigie,Inglis;Frederick,Keyser: The Golden Fleece Gazette: a weekly journal of narrative, science, adventure, and daily occurrences. Written by the passengers of the steam ship "Golden Fleece," during their homeward voyage from India, May-November, 1862. British Library, Historical Print Editions, Januar 2011, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 1240926413
bTitle:/b The Golden Fleece Gazette: a weekly journal of narrative, science, adventure, and daily occurrences. Written by the passengers of the steam ship Golden Fleece, during their homeward voyage from India, May-November, 1862. [Edited by D. H. C. I., F. G. Smith, and F. Keyser.]br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.br/br/The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. br/br/++++br/The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:br/++++br/br/b Source Library /b British Librarybr/b Contributors /b Inglis, Daniel Halkett Craigie; Keyser, Frederick; br/b Original Pub Date /b 1863.br/b Physical Description /b 4°.br/b Shelfmark /b 10027.i.5.br/

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Fontenelle, Bernard de. Suite des Eloges des Academiciens de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, morts depuis l'An MDCCXXII. Paris, Marc Bordelet, 1733. ; 1. Ed.
Scarce early separate edition of Fontenelle's eulogies, and the first biography of Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli to appear publicly outside of the Histoire de l'Academie des Sciences. The work introduces the public to 14 members of the Academie des Sciences deceased between 1725 and 1730, including Czar Peter, Isaac Newton, and Nicolas Hartsoeker. The present edition, however, contains 7 new eulogies which had only appeared previously in the annual journal of the Academie des Sciences: Camille d'Hostun de la Baume, duc de Tallard (Marshal of France); Pere Sebastien Truchet, active in mathematics, hydraulics, graphics, and typography; Francesco Bianchini, who worked on calendar reform for three successive popes; Giacomo Filippo Maraldi, astronomer and mathematician; Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour, official historiographer to Louis XIV; Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli, Ottoman traveller and Hapsburg cartographer; and Guichard Joseph Duverney, anatomist and author of one of the earliest comprehensive works on otology. - As one of the earliest examples of a popular publication of Fontenelle's eulogies (preceded only by a 1731 Hague printing), the work is an important symbol of what today is seen as Fontenelle's primary accomplishment: while history has smiled on men such as Marsigli and du Verney, it is often forgotten that it was due to works like Fontenelle's, which heavily publicised their achievements to a popular audience, that they are remembered and acknowledged today. "It was Bernard Bovier de Fontenelle (1657-1757) who by his eulogies of scientists first bridged the gap between the scientific communities and the world at large [...] the eloges of the old Academy of Sciences acquainted laymen with a discipline that was at once esoteric by its novelty and forbidding by its terminology and methodology. Hence the eloges, aside from the other functions they performed in the service of science, also served as a public relations organ in the same manner as journals, textbooks, public lectures, literary dialogues, scientific expositions, and cabinets de physique and d'histoire naturelle" (Paul, Science and immortality: the eloges of the Paris Academy of Sciences, pp. 1-2). - One corner and lower edge of cover slightly rubbed, otherwise a lovely copy, pages clean and fresh. - Cf. Charles B. Paul, Science and immortality: the eloges of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1980). For a bibliographical review of Fontenelle's eloges see Suzanne Delorme, "Contribution a la bibliographie de Fontenelle", pp. 303-307, Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications, Tome 10 n°4, pp. 300-309 (1957).

8vo. (8), 322 [but: 422] pp., (2 pp. publisher's catalogue). Bound in attractive and very well-preserved full contemporary calf with spine in six compartments, red and gilt title label, gilt florets.

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Coyle, Diane: The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters, Princeton University Press, ISBN: 0691136238
leichte Lagerspuren Editorial Reviews\n\nReview\nThe book is well written, copiously referenced and generous in its acknowledgement of the relationships between economics and other social sciences. . . . [T]he general reader . . . will find much to think about.\n(David Throsby Times Literary Supplement )\n\nCoyle's style is very accessible, and this book is an excellent survey of the frontiers of economics for the general reader. Students of economics at all levels will benefit, as the work's academic credentials are strong, with more than 300 references to leading books and articles. Overall, The Soulful Science can be recommended highly.\n(Paul Ormerod Times Higher Education Supplement )\n\nThe best thing about [this book] is a deft mapping of the developments in economic thought. Coyle describes brilliantly the intellectual geography of her subject.\n(Frances Cairncross Nature )\n\nMost of The Soulful Science is devoted to a grand whirlwind tour of modern economics, with fascinating vignettes of individual economists. It's a trip worth taking, because what economists do has changed considerably in the past two decades, and the textbooks haven't kept up. Coyle, who is both a journalist and a Harvard-trained economist, is ideally suited to the role of tour guide: She understands economists as only a fellow economist can, and she can write, as most economists cannot.\n(David Colander American Scientist )\n\nThis is an astonishing book: beautifully written. . . . [I]t is also beautifully edited; it is the first book I have read in a long time that is equally at home on either side of the Atlantic--which is not an easy trick to pull off.\n(Andrew Hilton Financial World )\n\nFluently written with the balance of a good novel, the result is a tour de force.\n(Donald Anderson Business Economist )\n\nCoyle shows how contemporary economists are bringing theory out of the classroom as they adopt a more pragmatic, humanistic approach to such problems as poverty and pollution.\n(Edward Nawotka Bloomberg News )\n\nThe simple aim of The Soulful Science is to describe what economists do, how the field has changed in the past 10 years or so, and why you should care. It succeeds admirably.\n(Financial Times )\n\nCoyle cares about these issues not only as an economist (once the economics editor at this newspaper), nor because she sits on the Competition Commission, applying theory to curb monopolistic tendencies, but also because she feels economists, and their work, are often misunderstood.\n(Salil Tripathi The Independent )\n\nAuthor of Sex, Drugs, and Economics and other popular volumes, economist Coyle offers compelling arguments for why economics--and economists--matter. She skillfully and objectively treats the theories, current controversies, and frontiers of the discipline...For thoughtful, insightful, interesting narrative, Coyle is hard to top.\n(A.R. Sanderson Choice )\n\nPolicy-oriented economic developers and researchers have much to gain from Coyle's summaries of a wide variety of contemporary economic research, which she presents with exceptional grace and more humor than is usually expected from a practitioner of the 'dismal science.'\n(James Held Applied Research in Economic Development )\n\nRegardless of how one views current developments in the mainstream, this is a most worthwhile read. Diane Coyle makes her case in a clear, accessible fashion, and lays out the particulars in a well-organized format. Readers, both supportive and critical of these developments, will find themselves better armed to make their respective case.\n(John F. Henry Journal of Economic Issues )\n\nThe audience for this book includes anyone . . . who is interested in the implications of economics on policy making. The book is useful as an update to what is happening in modern economics. Teachers in the field can borrow ideas to tune their courses to the state-of-the-art research conducted in the di , ISBN-13: 9780691136233

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Gupta, Barun Shankar; Laborie, Marie-Pierre G: Best ways for surface modifications of wood fiber composites (WPCs) Coating adhesion on wood thermoplastic composites, LAP LAMBERT ACADEMIC PUBLISHING, September 2011, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3845478926
Barun Shankar Gupta's art of writing and presenting theories on wood properties have been widely appreciated. Years of experiences in 'Wood world' has made him an expert in the field of wood science. His contribution has been on wood surfaces behaviours at the micro level. With an emphasis on adhesion theories and literary analysis, he has presented in numerous national and regional conferences, that have appeared in industrial publications, short technical notes and websites. He is also a reviewer of an international engineering journal. His affection with wood science research has brought him many recognition. He has worked in laboratoires in U.S.A., India, Canada, France and Norway. He is a member of various professional organisations including wood anatomy, chemistry and civil engineering. In this book, in co-operation with Dr. Marie-Pierre G. Laborie, he xplains several possibilites to modify wood surfaces to increase adhesion of coatings.

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