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Tract: A Behavioral Study Of Rural Modernization
The book, based on the research he conducted after his development work, concludes that government assistance “degraded” the life of the “community”—it hindered, rather than fostered, the manifestation of talents and realization of aspirations.
Tract: A Bibliography of English Etymology
Distinguished linguistics scholar Anatoly Liberman set out the frame for this volume in An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology. Here, Liberman's landmark scholarship lay the groundwork for his forthcoming multivolume analytic dictionary of the English language.
Tract: A Bibliography of Historical Economics to 1980
Historians and economists will find here what their fields have in common--the movement since the 1950s known variously as "cliometrics," "economic history," or "historical economics." A leading figure in the movement, Donald McCloskey, has compiled, with the help of George...
Tract: A Bibliography of Historical Economics to 1980
Historians and economists will find here what their fields have in common--the movement since the 1950s known variously as "cliometrics," "economic history," or "historical economics." A leading figure in the movement, Donald McCloskey, has compiled, with the help of George...
Tract: A Brief History of Ancient Times
From the smallest of the atoms to the grandest of galaxies, every thing in the universe has its history. The known history of civilized peoples on this planet is no different, and yet each of us can touch no more...
Tract: A Brief History of Archaeology
This short account of the discipline of archaeology tells of spectacular discoveries and the colorful lives of the archaeologists who made them, as well as of changing theories and current debates in the field.
Tract: A Brief History of Archaeology
This short account of the discipline of archaeology tells of spectacular discoveries and the colorful lives of the archaeologists who made them, as well as of changing theories and current debates in the field.
Tract: A Brief History of Crime
Crime is a political football - both left and right are terrified of seeming "soft" on the issue, but for all their efforts, or apparent efforts, crime rates continue to rise. Clearly something needs to be done. But what?
Tract: A Brief History of Stonehenge
Britain's leading expert on stone circles turns his attention to the greatest example of them all - Stonehenge. Every aspect of Stonehenge is re-considered in Aubrey Burl's new analysis. He explains for the first time how the outlying Heel Stone...
Tract: A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what...
Tract: A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what...
Tract: A calendar Of Rizaliana In The Vault Of The Philippine National Library
After completing the process of research and authentication that led to the publication of the drafts of Rizal’s hitherto unpublished third novel Makamisa, Ambeth Ocampo surveyed his field notes and discovered that he had completed an inventory of the precious...
Tract: A Calendar of Wisdom
This is the first-ever English-language edition of the book Leo Tolstoy considered to be his most important contribution to humanity, the work of his life's last years.
Tract: A Caribbean Mystery
As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened.
Tract: A Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations: Volume 1
This is the largest sample yet compiled of over 6,000 disturbed galaxies: observations of galaxies in collision, galaxies exploding or ejecting material, distorted galaxies, and galaxies in near collision with each other. Volume I contains positions in right ascension and...
Tract: A Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations: Volume 1
This is the largest sample yet compiled of over 6,000 disturbed galaxies: observations of galaxies in collision, galaxies exploding or ejecting material, distorted galaxies, and galaxies in near collision with each other. Volume I contains positions in right ascension and...
Tract: A Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations: Volume 2
Volume II reproduces the most spectacular examples from categories such as: Interacting doubles, triples, and quartets; Galaxies with loops and tails; M51-types with companions on arms; Galaxies with jets; and Peculiar spiral galaxies including one-armed and three-armed spirals. The 1,000...
Tract: A Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations: Volume 2
Volume II reproduces the most spectacular examples from categories such as: Interacting doubles, triples, and quartets; Galaxies with loops and tails; M51-types with companions on arms; Galaxies with jets; and Peculiar spiral galaxies including one-armed and three-armed spirals. The 1,000...
Tract: A Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations: Volume 2
Volume II reproduces the most spectacular examples from categories such as: Interacting doubles, triples, and quartets; Galaxies with loops and tails; M51-types with companions on arms; Galaxies with jets; and Peculiar spiral galaxies including one-armed and three-armed spirals. The 1,000...
Tract: A Catalogue of the Ancient Sculptures Preserved in the Municipal Collections of Rome
Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Ancient Sculptures Preserved in the Municipal Collections of Rome
There are 100 plates besides the title-page 103 are mentioned in the De Rossi Catalogue (p. 19) and 98 are now in the Regia Calco...
Tract: A Catalogue of the Ancient Sculptures Preserved in the Municipal Collections of Rome
Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Ancient Sculptures Preserved in the Municipal Collections of Rome
There are 100 plates besides the title-page 103 are mentioned in the De Rossi Catalogue (p. 19) and 98 are now in the Regia Calco...
Tract: A Catalogue of the Ancient Sculptures Preserved in the Municipal Collections of Rome
Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Ancient Sculptures Preserved in the Municipal Collections of Rome
There are 100 plates besides the title-page 103 are mentioned in the De Rossi Catalogue (p. 19) and 98 are now in the Regia Calco...
Tract: A Century Of Nature
Many of the scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century were first reported in the journal Nature.
Tract: A Century Of Nature
Many of the scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century were first reported in the journal Nature.
Tract: A Century Of Nature
Many of the scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century were first reported in the journal Nature.
Tract: A Change In The Cabinet
Excerpt from A Change in the Cabinet
It was not his first experience of office, but he had never stood so high in the Councils of the Nation, nor had his presence in the Cabinet ever more weighed with the...
Tract: A Collection of Supplements to all Editions of Lempriere's Classical dictionary
The reader is here presented with what has been long regarded as a great desideratum in English literature, — A Critical History of the Artists of Antiquity,—by one, whose learning, acuteness, judgment, taste, and scientific acquirements are competent alike to...
Tract: A Coloring Book of Tutankhamun
The pictures in this book are largely taken from the glorious scenes of the small shrine of Tutankhamun. There are earings and such to cut out, and the text is written by Cyril Aldred, the author of Akehenaten & Nefertil.
Tract: A Common Language for Electrical Engineering
The purpose of this book is to provide clarity for the electrical engineering community regarding the use of common terms for electrical units. The last attempt to standardize this language was made by Oliver Heaviside over 100 years ago and...
Tract: A Companion to Relativism
A Companion to Relativism presents original contributions from leading scholars that address the latest thinking on the role of relativism in the philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of science, logic, and metaphysics.
Tract: A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian
This concise dictionary of 'Middle Egyptian' - that phase of the Ancient Egyptian language which had the widest general application - contains 5400 carefully selected words most likely to be encountered by students and scholars in the course of their...
Tract: A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida
PREFACES, at this present day become such impertinent things that it is almost improper to offer one without an apology.
The many different reports which have prevailed in America, since the cession of the Floridas concerning their state, situation and...
Tract: A Confession
Despite having written War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, at the age of 51, looked back on his life and considered it a meaningless, regrettable failure. A Confession provides insight into the great Russian writer's movement from the...
Tract: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessential self-reliant New Englander who brings to King Arthur’s Age of Chivalry the “great and beneficent” miracles of nineteenth-century engineering and American ingenuity