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  • A Fairly Honourable Defeat

    by Iris Murdoch ...
    An exploration of love and its excesses, missteps, and modest triumphs, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The SeaIn a dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties. As puppet ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Recession Thriving: Beat the Recession with these proven Tactics to Help You to Thrive in a Recession, Here's what to do

    by Peter Reed ...
    - Ways to Recession-Proof Your Career- Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Recession, Budget Crisis, What It Means to Your Financial Planning- What to do if you're laid off in the recession- Why Social Applications Will Thrive In A Recession- The Best Recession-Proof Jobs- Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy- Marketing Your Way Through a RecessionLiving in a recession can be a scary time for ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Henry Enfield Roscoe

    The Campaigning Chemist

    by Peter J.T. Morris, Peter Reed ...
    Little known today, Henry Enfield Roscoe was one of the most prominent chemists and educational reformers in Victorian Britain. Having studied in Heidelberg, he worked to transform English education by using Germany as a model. He made Owens College, Manchester, viable and converted it into Victoria University (now the University of Manchester). He then campaigned for the reform of technical ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America

    Revolution, Race and Popular Performance

    by Peter Reed ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
    American culture maintained a complicated relationship with Haiti from its revolutionary beginnings onward. In this study, Peter P. Reed reveals how Americans embodied and re-enacted their connections to Haiti through a wide array of performance forms. In the wake of Haiti's slave revolts in the 1790s, generations of actors, theatre professionals, spectators, and commentators looked to Haiti as a ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Philosophical Dialogues

    Arne Naess and the Progress of Philosophy

    by Peder Anker, Per Ariansen, Alfred J. Ayer, Murray Bookchin, Baird Callicott, John Clark, Fons Elders, Paul Feyerabend, Warwick Fox, William C. French, Harold Glasser, Ramachandra Guha, Patsy Hallen, Stephan Harding, Andrew Mclaughlin, Ivar Mysterud, Arne Naess, Bryan Norton, Val Plumwood, Peter Reed, Kirkpatrick Sale, Karen Warren, Richard A. Watson, Jon Wetlesen, Bill Devall, Ariel Salleh, Genevieve Lloyd, Michael E. Zimmerman ...
    The volume documents, and makes an original contribution to, an astonishing period in twentieth-century philosophy-the progress of Arne Naess's ecophilosophy from its inception to the present. It includes Naess's most crucial polemics with leading thinkers, drawn from sources as diverse as scholarly articles, correspondence, TV interviews and unpublished exchanges. The book testifies to the ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Entrepreneurial Ventures in Chemistry

    The Muspratts of Liverpool, 1793-1934

    by Peter Reed ...
    Series series Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
    The Muspratt family form a fascinating dynasty in the history of British commerce and manufacturing. Associated principally with the development of the chemical industry in Liverpool - James Muspratt (1793-1884) was the first person to make alkali on a large scale using the Leblanc Process - the three generations of the family also contributed to wider Victorian and Edwardian culture through their ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Acid Rain and the Rise of the Environmental Chemist in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    The Life and Work of Robert Angus Smith

    by Peter Reed ...
    Series series Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
    Robert Angus Smith (1817-1884) was a Scottish chemist and a leading investigator into what came to be known as 'acid rain'. This study of his working life, contextualized through discussion of his childhood, education, beliefs, family, interests and influences sheds light on the evolving understanding of sanitary science during the nineteenth century. Born in Glasgow and initially trained for a ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    "Fallout" is the strange but true story of a celebrated Australian scientist's involvement in the 1956 British atomic bomb tests. Hedley Marston, an idol with his own feet of clay, was determined not only to reveal official lies and chicanery, but to expose as charlatans the Australian scientists who were appointed to protect the nation from any possible harm. Contrary to official pronouncements, ... Read more

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  • Chemistry Department At Imperial College London, The: A History, 1845-2000

    by Hannah Gay, William Griffith ...
    This is the first comprehensive history of the chemistry department at Imperial College London. Based on archival records, oral testimony, published papers, published and unpublished memoirs, the book tells the story of this world-famous department from its foundation as the Royal College of Chemistry in 1845 to the large department it had become by the year 2000.The book covers research, teaching ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Iron, Steam & Money

    The Making of the Industrial Revolution

    by Roger Osborne ...
    In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery and the factory, and thereby changed the whole of human society, bringing into being new methods of social and economic organisation, new social classes, and new political forces. The Industrial ... Read more

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  • Iron Men

    How One London Factory Powered the Industrial Revolution and Shaped the Modern World

    by David Waller ...
    In the early nineteenth century, Henry Maudslay, an engineer from a humble background, opened a factory in Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth, a stone’s throw from the Thames. Maudslay invented precision engineering, which made the industrial revolution possible, helping Great Britain become the workshop of the world.He developed mass production, interchangeable components, and built the world’s ... Read more

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  • Industrial Derbyshire - Heavy Industry

    by Michael E. Smith ...
    Michael Smith tells the fascinating story of the inventors, entrepreneurs and artisans who contributed to the Industrial revolution in Derbyshire as well as later developments in aviation and chemical and nuclear engineering. In this ebook you will find the industries of:Coal, Iron and Steel, Lead Mining, The Chemical and Nuclear Industries, Engineering All of the content has been taken from Mike ... Read more

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