Download or read book The Discovery of Oxygen written by Joseph Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vision of J B Priestley written by Roger Fagge and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on private and published sources, Roger Fagge takes an in-depth look at J.B. Priestley's work, seeking to reclaim him as an important English thinker. Priestley grew up in Bradford, and served on the front line in the First World War, before attending Cambridge and embarking on a career as a writer. A committed radical, he wrote widely for the press, as well as producing autobiographies, social criticism and plays. This work revealed a growing interest in the meaning of Englishness and the start of a long-running relationship with America. Priestley achieved even greater influence during the early years of World War II via his popular BBC radio 'postscripts'. His later career, however, saw his faith in the people give way to a disillusionment with the spread of the Americanised mass society, although his critical response to the latter maintained a perceptive engagement with world. The Vision of J.B. Priestley charts the continuities, strengths and weaknesses in the author's long career, and his vision of an outward looking radical Englishness.
Download or read book The Life of Joseph Priestly written by John Corry and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Answer to Dr Priestley s Letters to a philosophical unbeliever written by William HAMMON (pseud? [i.e. William Turner?]) and published by . This book was released on 1782 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Answer to Dr Priestley s Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever written by Matthew Turner and published by . This book was released on 1782 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Priestley s Progress written by Mike Bullock and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first ever biography of Antarctic explorer Sir Raymond Priestley (1886-1974) covers his full (at times life-threatening) involvement with Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1907-1909 Nimrod Expedition and Robert Scott's 1910-1913 Terra Nova Expedition. Priestley's service with the British 46th Division during World War I won him the Military Cross for gallantry. After the war, he played a leading role in establishing the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge. He was later appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne and then of the University of Birmingham and also helped establish the University of the West Indies. He received a knighthood for his services to education. During retirement--a misnomer in his case--he went with the Duke of Edinburgh on the Royal Yacht Britannia as an Antarctic expert and joined the American Deep Freeze IV Expedition during his tenure directing the British Antarctic Survey. Despite the demands of his career, Priestley remained an involved family man throughout.
Download or read book Death and the Arrow written by Chris Priestley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In London in 1715 a serial killer is shooting arrows from the rooftops, and fifteen-year-old Tom Marlowe attempts to find the killer.
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Download or read book The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Volume 42 written by Thomas Jefferson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessing that he may be acting "with more boldness than wisdom," Jefferson in November 1803 drafts a bill to create Orleans Territory, which he entrusts to John Breckinridge for introduction in the Senate. The administration sends stock certificates to France in payment for Louisiana. Relieved that affairs in the Mediterranean have improved with the evaporation of a threat of war with Morocco, the president does not know yet that Tripoli has captured the frigate Philadelphia with its officers and crew. He deals with never-ending issues of appointment to office and quarreling in his own party, while hearing that some Federalists are "as Bitter as wormwood." He shares seeds of the Venus flytrap with Elizabeth Leathes Merry, the British minister's wife. She and her husband, however, create a diplomatic storm over seating arrangements at dinner parties. Having reached St. Louis, Meriwether Lewis reports on the progress of the western expedition. Congress passes the Twelfth Amendment, which will provide for the separate election of president and vice president. In detailed notes made after Aaron Burr calls on him in January, Jefferson records his long-standing distrust of the New Yorker. Less than a month later, a congressional caucus nominates Jefferson for a second term, with George Clinton to replace Burr as vice president. Jefferson makes his first trials of the "double penned writing box" called the polygraph.
Download or read book The Languages of Psyche written by G. S. Rousseau and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century," from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in a variety of Enlightenment contexts—science, medicine, philosophy, literature, and everyday society. No other recent book provides such an in-depth, suggestive resource for philosophers, literary critics, intellectual and social historians, and all who are interested in Enlightenment studies. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996. The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century," from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in
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Download or read book Consolations in Travel or the Last Days of a Philosopher written by Humphry Sir Davy and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "Consolations in Travel" believed that through science, all the questions of the universe could be answered. Sir Humphry Davy was a brilliant lecturer who pioneered electrochemistry, befriended the Romantic poets, invented a safety lamp for miners, and even wrote on angling. This book is an intriguing mixture of poetry, autobiographical sketches, descriptions of dreams, and philosophical musings on the afterlife.
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