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Hayek On Mill: The Mill-Taylor Friendship and Related Writings (The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek #16)
by Sandra J. PeartBest known for reviving the tradition of classical liberalism, F. A. Hayek was also a prominent scholar of the philosopher John Stuart Mill. One of his greatest undertakings was a collection of Mill’s extensive correspondence with his longstanding friend and later companion and wife, Harriet Taylor-Mill. Hayek first published the Mill-Taylor correspondence in 1951, and his edition soon became required reading for any study of the nineteenth-century foundations of liberalism. This latest addition to the Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series showcases the fascinating intersections between two of the most prominent thinkers from two successive centuries. Hayek situates Mill within the complex social and intellectual milieu of nineteenth-century Europe—as well as within twentieth-century debates on socialism and planning—and uncovers the influence of Taylor-Mill on Mill’s political economy. The volume features the Mill-Taylor correspondence and brings together for the first time Hayek’s related writings, which were widely credited with beginning a new era of Mill scholarship.
History of the Meteorological Office
by J. M. WalkerMalcolm Walker tells the story of the UK's national meteorological service from its formation in 1854 with a staff of four to its present position as a scientific and technological institution of national and international importance with a staff of nearly two thousand. The Met Office has long been at the forefront of research into atmospheric science and technology and is second to none in providing weather services to the general public and a wide range of customers around the world. The history of the Met Office is therefore largely a history of the development of international weather prediction research in general. In the modern era it is also at the forefront of the modelling of climate change. This volume will be of great interest to meteorologists, atmospheric scientists and historians of science, as well as amateur meteorologists and anyone interested generally in weather prediction.
The Complete Short Stories
by Edgar Allan PoeSurreal tales of suspense and imagination from an American masterThe Complete Short Stories is the ultimate collection of Edgar Allan Poe&’s tales of the macabre—from the world-famous classics &“The Tell-Tale Heart,&” &“The Pit and the Pendulum,&” and &“The Cask of the Amontillado&” to lesser-known masterpieces such as &“The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether&” and &“The Devil in the Belfry.&” Fans of Poe&’s Gothic tales of horror will thrill to discover his brilliant French detective, C. Auguste Dupin. Readers familiar with Poe&’s mysteries will find new pleasure in his dark comedy and early science fiction stories. Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most brilliant and influential authors in American history, and The Complete Short Stories is a must-have for every admirer of his work. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition (First Avenue Classics (tm) Ser.)
by Frances Hodgson Burnett Sandra M. GilbertThe Secret Garden is Frances Hodgson Burnett's magical and inspiring story of Mary, a selfish and unloved young girl, and her equally selfish invalid cousin, Colin, whose lives are transformed when they work together to save their secret garden.
Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land
by Walter R. BornemanThis panoramic chronicle of Alaska captures the grandeur of its geography, history, and many larger-than-life personalities: “Just plain terrific” (Bradford Washburn).The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches—and ever present are new people with competing views on how these valuable resources should be used. Here are the stories of Russians exploiting a fur empire; explorers checking rival advances; prospectors stampeding to the clarion call of “Gold!”; soldiers battling out a decisive chapter in WWII; oil wildcatters looking for a different kind of mineral wealth; and always at the core of these disputes is the question of how the land itself is to be used—and by whom.While some want Alaska to remain static, others are in the vanguard of change. Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land shows that there are no easy answers on either side of this perennial debate, and that Alaska will always be crossing the next frontier.
Anar de debò: Els catalans i Espanya
by Borja de Riquer i PermanyerL'historiador Borja de Riquer tracta en aquest llibre el nacionalisme català, un moviment polític que té el seu origen en la relació entre Espanya i Catalunya en els segles XIX i XX i que, avui en dia, és el principal tema de debat historiogràfic i polític. Fa cinc anys que els catalans vivim una situació política tan excepcional com inesperada: estem davant d'una cruïlla històrica de gran transcendència, com feia segles. Un moment tan apassionat i embrollat que provoca, lògicament, perplexitats, dubtes i pors, però l'anàlisi històrica pot ajudar a comprendre els orígens i la natura d'aquests llarg enfrontament entre la ciutadania catalana i les institucions polítiques. Anar de debó. Els catalans i Espanya reuneix escrits del professor Borja de Riquer publicats al llarg d'una dècada que, d'una banda estudien etapes històriques dels segles XIX y XX i que, a grans trets, es centren en l'anàlisi del lloc i del paper dels catalans en la política espanyola contemporània i del sorgiment i l'actuació del moviment catalanista, i d'una altra d'articles publicats a la premsa que analitzen situacions del temps present, del segle XXI. «Espero que el conjunt d'aquests textos serveixi als lectors per a disposar de més elements d'informació per a tenir una millor comprensió del que ha passat a Catalunya i com hem arribat a on som.»Borja de Riquer
Antes de que llegaras
by Lisa WingateEl libro que ha arrasado por sorpresa en las listas de Estados Unidos, basado en el impactante caso de niños robados que conmocionó al país. Aunque la vida nos lleve por diferentes caminos,el corazón siempre recuerda a dónde pertenece. Memphis, 1939 Rill Foss y sus cuatro hermanos pequeños disfrutan de una infancia mágica en su casa-barco en el Misisipi. Hasta que una noche de tormenta sus padres tienen que correr al hospital y unos desconocidos llegan para llevárselos a la fuerza al orfanato. Aunque les aseguran que su estancia allí será solo temporal, Rill pronto se dará cuenta de la terrible verdad. Y de que tendrá que luchar con todas sus fuerzas para mantener juntos a sus hermanos en un mundo de crueldad e incertidumbre. Aiken, Carolina del Sur, en la actualidad Avery Stafford ha vivido una vida de riqueza y privilegio, tiene una exitosa carrera política y pronto va a casarse con su encantador prometido. Pero un encuentro fortuito suscita dolorosas preguntas que la empujan a investigar en la historia oculta de su familia... y a destapar secretos que pueden llevarla a la destrucción o la redención. Una conmovedora novela inspirada en el escándalo real de la organización de adopciones que durante treinta años secuestró y vendió niños desfavorecidos a familias acomodadas por todo el país. ** En los primeros puestos de USA Today, Amazon y The New York Times. ** Mejor novela histórica del año para los lectores de Goodreads. Han dicho...«Uno de los mejores libros del año... Es imposible no dejarte atrapar por esta novela prácticamente perfecta. Se lleva tu corazón desde la primera página.»The Huffington Post «Una novela fantástica.»Publishers Weekly «La historia de una familia perdida y encontrada... Un relato cautivador y muy emotivo sobre el amor fraternal y el peso de los secretos.»People «Con seguridad este va a ser uno de los libros más apasionantes de este año... Wingate es una maestra en el arte de contar historias.»Parade «Una historia sincera y genuina.»Historical Novels Review «De cuando en cuando encuentro una novela que me enamora, y Antes de que llegaras de Lisa Wingate es uno de esos libros... Tomen nota: esta puede ser la mejor novela del año.»Shreveport Times «Una historia compleja y que invita a pensar sobre dos familias separadas por dos generaciones... Basada en un famoso escándalo real.»Library Journal
Chinese Ghost Stories
by Lafcadio Hearn Victoria CassChinese Ghost Stories is selection of the most entertaining traditional Chinese tales of the strange and fantastic. The perfect companion for readers seeking insights into the traditional Chinese world of ghosts, goblins and demons as well as anyone who just wants to feel a chill run down their spine on a dark, lonely night.
Chinese Ghost Stories
by Lafcadio Hearn Victoria CassChinese Ghost Stories is Lafcadio Hearn's personal selection of the most entertaining Chinese traditional tales of the strange and fantastic. Hearn had a great affinity for the traditional ghost stories of China, and these stories clearly inspired him as he penned subsequent works. Set in richly atmospheric locales, these tales speak of heroic sacrifice, chilling horror, eerie beauty and otherworldly intervention.This completely reset and pinyin-converted edition of Hearn's classic work contains a new foreword by Victoria Cass, which places the stories, their author, and his love for the strange and mysterious into perspective. If you're seeking insights into the traditional Chinese world of ghosts, goblins and demons--or just want to feel a chill run down your spine on a dark and lonely night--then this book is the perfect companion.Stories include:The Soul of the Great BellThe Story of Ming YiThe Legend of Zhi NuThe Return of Yan ZhenjingThe Tradition of the Tea PlantThe Tale of the Porcelain God
Chinese Ghost Stories
by Lafcadio Hearn Victoria CassChinese Ghost Stories is selection of the most entertaining traditional Chinese tales of the strange and fantastic. The perfect companion for readers seeking insights into the traditional Chinese world of ghosts, goblins and demons as well as anyone who just wants to feel a chill run down their spine on a dark, lonely night.
Cymbeline: Aus: [dramatische Werke] [shakspeare's Dramatische Werke], [bd. 32] (The Pelican Shakespeare)
by William Shakespeare Stephen Orgel Peter Holland A. R. Braunmuller"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart)The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged.Each volume features:* Authoritative, reliable texts* High quality introductions and notes* New, more readable trade trim size* An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts
Feminist Review: Issue 46
by The Feminist The Feminist Review CollectiveA unique combination of the activist and the academic, Feminist Review has an acclaimed place within women's studies courses and the women's movement. Feminist Review is produced by a London-based editorial collective and publishes and reviews work by women; featuring articles on feminist theory, race, class and sexuality, women's history, cultural studies, Black and Third World feminism, poetry, photography, letters and much more. Feminist Review is available both on annual subscription and from bookstores. For a Free Sample Copy or for further subscription details please contact: Trevina Johnson, Routledge Subscriptions, ITPS Ltd, Cheriton House, North Way, Andover SP10 5BE. UK.
Five Minutes to a Healthier You: A Wellness Journal
by Hannah EbelthiteCan you spare five minutes? From simple stretches when you wake up in the morning to five minutes of mindfulness in the evening, the exercises and prompts in this guided journal show how adding small moments of health to your day can make a big difference.Writing down your healthy goals and achievements also means that any positive changes you observe are more likely to last. This journal is an easy-to-use wellbeing tool that will help you harness your inner health and find vitality in every day. It's the perfect solution for anyone who feels there isn't enough time in the day!Discover more than 70 ways to a healthier you...in just five minutes.
Five Minutes to a Healthier You: A Wellness Journal
by Hannah EbelthiteCan you spare five minutes? From simple stretches when you wake up in the morning to five minutes of mindfulness in the evening, the exercises and prompts in this guided journal show how adding small moments of health to your day can make a big difference.Writing down your healthy goals and achievements also means that any positive changes you observe are more likely to last. This journal is an easy-to-use wellbeing tool that will help you harness your inner health and find vitality in every day. It's the perfect solution for anyone who feels there isn't enough time in the day!Discover more than 70 ways to a healthier you...in just five minutes.
Great American Poets: New Hampshire, Tender Buttons, Select Poems, and Selected Poems
by Emily Dickinson Robert Frost Gertrude Stein T. S. EliotThese four timeless poetry collections showcase the pioneering work of some of America&’s most beloved and influential poets. New Hampshire by Robert Frost: This Pulitzer Prize–winning collection features some of Frost&’s most enduring works, all inspired by the cold and wild New Hampshire winter. Along with the title poem, this volume includes &“Fire and Ice,&” &“Nothing Gold Can Stay,&” and &“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,&” which Frost himself called &“my best bid for remembrance.&” Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein: Stein&’s first published work of poetry, this avant-garde meditation on ordinary living is presented in three sections: &“Objects,&” &“Food,&” and &“Rooms.&” Emphasizing rhythm and sonority over traditional grammar, Stein&’s wordplay has garnered praise from readers and critics alike. Selected Poems by T. S. Eliot: This twenty-four poem volume is a rich collection of Eliot&’s greatest works—including &“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,&” &“Gerontion,&” &“Sweeny Among the Nightingales,&” and others—all of which expertly explore the desires, grievances, failures, and heart of modern humanity. Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson: This collection of poems by &“one of America&’s greatest and most original poets of all time&” includes some of Dickinson&’s best-known works, reflecting her thoughts on nature, life, death, the mind, and the spirit (Poetry Foundation).
Immigration, Incorporation and Transnationalism
by Elliott R. BarkanImmigration, Incorporation and Transition is an intriguing collection of articles and essays. It was developed to commemorate the twenty-fi fth anniversary of The Journal of American Ethnic History. Its purpose, like that of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, is to integrate interdisciplinary perspectives and exciting new scholarship on important themes and issues related to immigration and ethnic history.
La luz que no puedes ver
by Anthony DoerrPremio Pulitzer de Ficción 2015. Un corazón puro puede brillar aun en la noche más oscura. Y en el más terrible de los tiempos. Marie-Laure vive con su padre en París, cerca del Museo de Historia Natural, donde él trabaja como responsable de sus mil cerraduras. Cuando, siendo muy niña, Marie-Laure se queda ciega, su padre le construye una perfecta miniatura de su barrio para que pueda memorizarla gracias al tacto y encontrar el camino a casa. A sus doce años, los nazis ocupan París y padre e hija tienen que huir a la ciudad amurallada de Saint-Malo. Con ellos se llevan la que podría ser la más preciada y peligrosa joya del museo. En una ciudad minera de Alemania, el joven huérfano Werner crece junto a su hermana pequeña, cautivado por una rudimentaria radio que ambos encuentran. Werner se convierte en un experto en construir y reparar estos aparatos cruciales para los nuevos tiempos, untalento que no pasa desapercibido a las Juventudes Hitlerianas. Siguiendo al ejército alemán, Werner deberá atravesar el corazón en guerra de Europa. Hasta que en la última noche antes de la liberación de Saint-Malo los caminos de Werner y Marie-Laure por fin se crucen. Y sus vidas cambien para siempre. N.º 1 en las listas de bestsellers en Estados Unidos.Finalista del National Book Award.Mejor novela de 2014 en iTunes.Entre los mejores diez libros del año para The New York Times.Nº. 1 de ficción histórica de 2014 en Goodreads.Premio 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal de novela de la American Library Association. «Estoy leyendo un libro maravilloso. Solo llevo la mitad así que no puedo hablar hasta el final, pero es un verdadero placer. Quería contároslo. Estilo impecable, personajes maravillosos y una vívida recreación de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. ¿Qué más se puede pedir?... ¿Y no es preciosa la cubierta?»Kate Morton Reseñas:«La luz que no puedes ver es un clásico instantáneo, y, además, para todos los públicos. Quien no se deje arrastrar por su trama lo hará por la emoción, y habrá quien quede embobado, simplemente, ante el lirismo de la prosa de Doerr. Una experiencia memorable.»Juan Manuel Freire, El Dominical «Uno de los puntos fuertes de esta novela es situar al lector en la época como alguien de la época, sin todo lo que hoy sabemos y no podemos olvidar.»Inocencia Newman, Qué Leer «Inolvidablemente hermoso.»The New York Times «No creo que este año vaya a leer un libro mejor que La luz que no puedes ver. »Washington Post «Una hermosa, valiente, desgarradora y extrañamente alegre novela.»The Seattle Times «Incandescente... Una luminosa obra de lucha y trascendencia.»O, the Oprah magazine «Magnífica.»The Guardian «Una obra de arte.»BBC
Lines of Vision: Irish Writers on Art
by Janet McleanMarking the 150th anniversary of the National Gallery of Ireland, celebrated Irish writers find inspiration in its magnificent collection In 1864 the National Gallery of Ireland opened to the public in Dublin. It then housed just 112 paintings. Today the gallery holds over 15,000 works of European art and is notable both for its extensive collection of Irish art and its Italian baroque and Dutch masters paintings. For this anthology, published to mark the 150th anniversary of the National Gallery of Ireland, fifty-six Irish writers have contributed short stories, essays, and poems inspired by pictures in the collection. These literary responses to art are by turns profound, playful, and insightful. Authors include acclaimed figures in contemporary Irish literature, such as Colm Tóibín, John Banville, John Boyne, Roddy Doyle, Colum McCann, Paula Meehan, Paul Muldoon, John Montague, and Seamus Heaney. The pictures that the writers have selected are intriguingly diverse. They range from old master paintings by Caravaggio, Rembrandt, El Greco, and Velázquez to works by Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists such as Claude Monet and Pierre Bonnard, as well as works by Irish artists such as Jack B. Yeats, John Lavery, Gerard Dillon, and Paul Henry. The book is organized alphabetically by writer and each text is illustrated with the chosen work in color. Edited with preface by Janet McLean, Curator of European Art 1850-1950 at the NGI.
Looking Backward: From 2000 To 1887 (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Edward BellamyFirst published in 1888, Looking Backward was one of the most popular novels of its day. Translated into more than 20 languages, its utopian fantasy influenced such thinkers as John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, Eugene V. Debs, and Norman Thomas. Writing from a 19th century perspective and poignantly critical of his own time, Bellamy advanced a remarkable vision of the future, including such daring predictions as the existence of radio, television, motion pictures, credit cards, and covered pedestrian malls.On the surface, the novel is the story of time-traveler Julian West, a young Bostonian who is put into a hypnotic sleep in the late 19th century, and awakens in the year 2000 in a socialist utopia. In conversations with the doctor who awakened him, he discovers a brilliantly realized vision of an ideal future, one that seemed unthinkable in his own century. Crime, war, personal animosity, and want are nonexistent. Equality of the sexes is a fact of life. In short, a messianic state of brotherly love is in effect.Entertaining, stimulating, and thought-provoking, Looking Backward, with its ingenious plot and appealing socialism, is a provocative study of human society as it is and as it might be.
Mahdish Faith & Sudanic Traditio
by KapteijnsFirst published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Othello: Le More De Venise... (Modern Library Classics)
by William Shakespeare Jonathan Bate Eric RasmussenThough this great tragedy of unsurpassed intensity and emotion is played out against Renaissance splendor, its story of the doomed marriage of a Venetian senator’s daughter, Desdemona, to a Moorish general, Othello, is especially relevant to modern audiences. The differences in race and background create an initial tension that allows the horrifyingly envious villain Iago methodically to promote the “green-eyed monster” jealousy, until, in one of the most deeply moving scenes in theatrical history, the noble Moor destroys the woman he loves–only to discover too late that she was innocent.Each Edition Includes:• Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English• Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography
Phantastica: A Classic Survey on the Use and Abuse of Mind-Altering Plants
by Louis LewinLong out of print, this is a landmark study on narcotic and psychedelic substances by a world-renowned pharmacologist and toxicologist • The first book to bring non-judgmental scientific insights to the use of drugs around the world• Provides detailed information on all major drugs of the time, including opium, cocaine, heroin, cannabis, peyote, fly agaric, henbane, datura, alcohol, kava, betel, coffee, tea, cocoa, and tobacco• A book credited with starting an era of ethnobotany that continues to the present dayThe publication of Louis Lewin's Phantastica in 1924 began an era of ethnobotany that is still flourishing today. Until Lewin, books on the use of drugs were purely works of anthropology, concerned with how people used these plants, rather than how the plants produced their famous effects. Lewin, a world-renowned pharmacologist and toxicologist, was fascinated by both, and Phantastica was the first book to bring scientific insights to a survey of the use of drugs around the world. Lewin traveled extensively and acquired an astonishing variety of knowledge, reflected in this book, which provides detailed information on all major drugs of the time, including opium, cocaine, heroin, cannabis, peyote, fly agaric, henbane, datura, alcohol, kava, betel, coffee, tea, cocoa, and, of course, tobacco. For thirty years ethnobotanists have bemoaned the fact that Phantastica has been impossible to find; now this landmark work is once again available.
Pilgrims and Pilgrimages as Peacemakers in Christianity, Judaism and Islam (Compostela International Studies in Pilgrimage History and Culture)
by Antón M. PazosPilgrimages can be analysed as acts of conflict - such as the Crusades - or also as platforms for relationship building and rapprochement between religions. With a set of contributions from leading experts in the field, this book explores the concept of pilgrimage in Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Some specific examples of pilgrimages that helped to strengthen links between different religions or civilisations are explored, ranging from Europe to Asia and from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Even though every pilgrimage that is investigated here has helped to link different worlds, the case studies show that this relationship rarely led to a better in inter-understanding. Nowadays, peaceful coexistence seems to be its greatest achievement.
States of Childhood: From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895-1945
by Jennifer S. LightHow "virtual adulthood"--children's role play in simulated cities, states, and nations--helped construct a new kind of "sheltered" childhood for American young people.A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of legislators, police officers, bankers, journalists, shopkeepers, and other adults. They performed real work--passing laws, growing food, and constructing buildings, among other tasks--inside virtual worlds. In this book, Jennifer Light examines the phenomena of "junior republics" and argues that they marked the transition to a new kind of "sheltered" childhood for American youth. Banished from the labor force and public life, children inhabited worlds that mirrored the one they had left.
The Fabric of Space
by Matthew GandyWater lies at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure, crossing between visible and invisible domains of urban space, in the tanks and buckets of the global South and the vast subterranean technological networks of the global North. In this book, Matthew Gandy considers the cultural and material significance of water through the experiences of six cities: Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London. Tracing the evolving relationships among modernity, nature, and the urban imagination, from different vantage points and through different periods, Gandy uses water as a lens through which to observe both the ambiguities and the limits of nature as conventionally understood. Gandy begins with the Parisian sewers of the nineteenth century, captured in the photographs of Nadar, and the reconstruction of subterranean Paris. He moves on to Weimar-era Berlin and its protection of public access to lakes for swimming, the culmination of efforts to reconnect the city with nature. He considers the threat of malaria in Lagos, where changing geopolitical circumstances led to large-scale swamp drainage in the 1940s. He shows how the dysfunctional water infrastructure of Mumbai offers a vivid expression of persistent social inequality in a postcolonial city. He explores the incongruous concrete landscapes of the Los Angeles River. Finally, Gandy uses the fictional scenario of a partially submerged London as the starting point for an investigation of the actual hydrological threats facing that city.