|
|
|
 The Writer's Journey: In the Footsteps of the Literary Greats (Journeys of Note) by Travis Elborough English | October 18th, 2022 | ISBN: 071126872X | 224 pages | True EPUB | 18.90 MB Follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous authors on the journeys which inspired their greatest works in this beautiful illustrated atlas.
 The Voyage of Verrazzano: A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America By Henry C. Murphy 2019 | 236 Pages | ISBN: 1330872223 | PDF | 15 MB Excerpt from The Voyage of Verrazzano: A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in AmericaThe following pages, intended to show the claim of discovery in America by Verrazzano to he without any real foundation, belong to a work, in hand, upon the earliest explorations of the coast which have led to the settlement of the United States by Europeans. They are now printed separately, with some additions and necessary changes, in consequence of the recent production of the map of Hieronimo de Verrazano, which professes to represent this discovery, and is therefore supposed to afford some proof of its authenticity; in which view it has been the subject of a learned and elaborate memoir by J. Carson Brevoort Esq.Certain important documents in relation to Verrazzano, procured from the archives of Spain and Portugal by the late Buckingham Smith, on a visit to those countries a year or two before his death, are appended. They were intended to accompany a second edition of his Inquiry, a purpose which has been interrupted by his decease. They were entrusted by him to the care of his friend, George H. Moore Esq., of New York, who has placed them at our disposal on the present occasion.The fragmentary and distorted form in which the letter aserihed to Verrazzano, appeared in the collection of Ramusio, and was thence universally admitted into history, rendered it, necessary that the letter should be here given complete, according to its original meaning. It is, therefore, annexed in the English translation of Dr. Cogswell, which though not entirely unexceptionable is, for all purposes, sufficiently accurate.  The Ultimate People Skills Handbook: Learn More About People Than You Do Your Products, and You Will Be Unusually Successful by Christina Richardson English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BFZF5LXW | 125 pages | EPUB | 2.09 Mb Is It Really Possible to Increase Profits & Productivity...While Having More Fun on the Job and Without Sacrificing Your Personal Life?  Meg Muckenhoupt, "The Truth about Baked Beans: An Edible History of New England " English | ISBN: 1479882763 | 2020 | 352 pages | PDF | 2 MB Forages through New England's most famous foods for the truth behind the region's culinary myths  Magdalen King-Hall, "The Story of the Nursery " English | ISBN: 1032367636 | 2022 | 306 pages | PDF | 19 MB Originally published in 1958, this reconstruction of the lives of young children of nursery age is an excursion into the past, from the Middle Ages to the opening years of the twentieth century. It tells of the methods, often extraordinary to our ideas, by which they were brought up from babyhood to about seven years old, their clothes, diet, the fearsome remedies that were inflicted on them in illness, their toys, games, books and first steps in education. It shows how the pristine simplicity of the child's nature, which hardly alters throughout the centuries, was moulded by the pressure of the adult society around them into some semblance of the accepted contemporary type.  Jennifer Reich, "The State of Families" English | ISBN: 0367027763 | 2020 | 446 pages | PDF | 5 MB The State of Families: Law, Policy, and the Meanings of Relationships collects essential readings on the family to examine the multiple forms of contemporary families, the many issues facing families, the policies that regulate families, and how families―and family life―have become politicized.  K. C. Yadav, "The Sovereign, Subject and Colonial Justice" English | ISBN: 0367723786 | 2022 | 436 pages | PDF | 39 MB This volume analyzes the trial of Bahadur Shah, a watershed moment in the 19th-century colonial history of India. The trial of Bahadur Shah raises the contentious issue of sovereignty - trial of Emperor Bahadur Shah, de jure power by de facto claimant to power, the English East India Company. There has been a lot of confusion and controversy over the trial ever since the proceedings began - its main architects could not define if it really was a juristic trial, a court of enquiry, a court-martial, or a general enquiry? This book sheds light on this event through the original, unprinted manuscript of the  David F Clapham, William Clark, Kenneth Gibb, "The SAGE Handbook of Housing Studies" English | 2012 | ISBN: 1847874304 | PDF | pages: 524 | 11.8 mb This Handbook elucidates and critically appraises the key issues within housing studies from a multi-disciplinary framework. It looks at ideas from a retrospective approach, but also analyzes the future directions of research and theory in the area demonstrating how the study of housing can contribute to wider debates in the social sciences. The book comes with a comprehensive introductory chapter and individual chapter introductions. It is divided into four parts: markets; approaches; context; and policy. With aninternational team of contributors, the Handbook is a stimulating, wide-ranging read that will be a useful source and reference for academics and researchers in geography, urban studies, sociology, social policy, economics, andpolitical science.  Yun Lee Too, "The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates: Text, Power, Pedagogy" English | 2009 | ISBN: 0521124522, 052147406X | PDF | pages: 284 | 3.6 mb The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates provides an interpretation of an important, but largely neglected and disregarded, fourth-century Athenian author to show how he uses writing to provide a model of political engagement that is distinct from his own contemporaries' (especially Plato's) and from our own notions of political involvement. It demonstrates that ancient rhetorical discourse raises issues of contemporary relevance, especially regarding the status of the written word and current debates on canon and curriculum in education.
 The Radical and Socialist Tradition in British Planning: From Puritan colonies to garden cities By Duncan Bowie 2016 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 1472479025 | PDF | 2 MB Focusing on the key period between the late 18th century and 1914, this book provides the first comprehensive narrative account of radical and socialist texts and organised movements for reform to land planning and housing policies in Britain. Beginning with the early colonial settlements in the puritan and enlightenment eras, it also covers Benthamite utilitarian planning, Owenite and utopian communitarianism, the Chartists, late Chartists and the First International, Christian socialists and positivists, working class and radical land reform campaigns in the late 19th century, Garden City pioneers and the institutionalisation of the planning profession. The book, in effect, presents a prehistory of land, planning and housing reform in the UK in contrast with most historiography which focuses on the immediate pre-World War I period. Providing an analysis of different intellectual traditions and contrasting middle class-led reform initiatives with those based on working class organisations, the book seeks to relate historical debates to contemporary themes, including utopianism and pragmatism, the role of the state, the balance between local initiatives and centrally driven reforms and the interdependence of land, housing and planning. |
: 