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Published: 27 December 2013
... of a general discontent on the part of well known nebular observers outside the Rosse project. But even in the new procedures it remained a challenge to find new ways to coordinate the eyes and hands of many assistants. drawing drawing techniques of Elements of Drawing The Ruskin observation Ruskin John...
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Published: 22 November 2012
..., in relation to books, speaks of mood and voice; but to an eighteenth-century reader such as William Empson, might be a mode of being that is someway fundamentally conveyed as a by-product of meaning. John Wilkins’ atmospheric writing takes a somewhat literal approach, but also captures the inevitably mediated...
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Published: 22 November 2012
...This chapter examines the works of Robert Boyle and John Milton in an exploration of the definition of literary atmosphere. A closer study of Paradise Lost reveals that Adam and Eve’s loss of Eden also resulted in a loss of “pure” air. Satan is portrayed as having experienced Eve’s...
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Published: 22 September 2015
... Mill John Stuart Newtonian science ontology Quesnay Francois rules Searle John R Smith Adam Veblen Thorstein B cognition division of labor labor Akerlof George A Birchall Johnston Bonin John P cooperatives Doucouliagos Chris employment contracts firms Gagliardi Francesca Hubbick...
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Published: 10 February 2007
...Classical pragmatists such as Charles S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey rarely took up the question of white supremacy in their philosophical writings. For them, race and racism remained marginal intellectual categories despite the long, looming shadow of slavery that framed...
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Published: 01 May 2007
...According to John Lincoln, the senior pastor of Faith Lutheran Church, his congregation has been struggling to preserve the essentials of the Lutheran tradition while searching for a language, style of worship, and theology that transcend Lutheranism and resonate with an increasing number...
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Published: 25 September 2015
... by the US government as a tool of empire building during the pre-development era through an examination of the life and work of John L. (“Jack”) Savage. Fresh from pioneering efforts as Chief Design Engineer on the Hoover Dam in the western United States, Savage served in his later career as an engineering...
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Published: 10 December 2012
... on. The book also mentions some of the most eloquent seismic commentators in the period, including Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Ernst Mach, John Muir, Gertrude Atherton, and William James. earthquakes Alaska 1964 Kraus Karl Nietzsche Friedrich citizen science...
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Published: 15 June 2013
..., the Reverend John A. Ryan and the Reverend John Montgomery Cooper. While the Catholic members tended to concur with the pronatalist elements of positive eugenics, they disagreed on negative eugenics policies, such as the dissemination of birth control for the poor, immigration restriction based on national...
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Published: 30 June 2014
... Pierre Hobbes Thomas Kendall Willmoore Locke John modernity natural law Spinoza Strauss Leo works The Argument and the Action of Plato’s “Laws ” Thoughts on Machiavelli Aquinas Hooker Richard Carneades natural right Aristotle on Sigmund Paul nature as beneficent war philosophy...
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Published: 01 February 2008
...Focusing on Cure for a Cuckold (1624), this chapter examines the question of jurisdictional complexity internal to English law by tracking how the sea's disruptive energies implode, claustrophobically, into the space of London. Written by John Webster, William Rowley, and John...
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Published: 10 January 2012
...This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume which is about the early modern English experimental philosophers' views about the cure and perfecting of the human mind, focusing on the works and views of Robert Boyle and John Locke who are considered as the key proponents...
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Published: 15 June 2013
...This chapter discusses how John Wanamaker, a great advertising expert and retail businessman, introduced a diary for the new century. Although it looked like a common diary of its time, this modern diary sported advertisements of items available at Wanamaker's stores. Just like a catalog, users...
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Published: 19 January 2017
...The second chapter focuses solely on the outsized role child development experts played in transforming the teen bedroom into a must-have feature of the modern family home during the early decades of the 20th century. The ideas of G. Stanley Hall, Sigmund Freud, John Watson, and other prominent...
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Published: 15 November 2013
... on the earlier work of John Locke and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, it discusses Hegel’s analysis of reflection. It considers Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre or Doctrine of Science (1794), with emphasis on his interpretation of the three laws of thought: identity, difference...
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Published: 20 January 2017
... colonialism US colonialism Worcester Dean C Aguinaldo Emilio Internal Revenue Law of 1904 Kramer Paul Marx Karl primitive accumulation Sidel John Wilson Woodrow capitalism Harrison Francis Burton Lodge Henry Cabot Organic Act of 1902 Owen Norman United States Ilocano people Rodriguez Robyn...
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Published: 06 March 2015
... presidencies showed that incentives require presidents to be strong even when the party’s political theory resists. John Tyler’s decision to assume the full powers of the presidency when he succeeded to office set another enduring precedent. James Polk promoted Manifest Destiny with strong executive actions...
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Published: 06 March 2015
...President John Kennedy addressed two foreign policy crises unilaterally, with different results. At the Bay of Pigs, he endorsed a covert scheme that failed; in the Cuban Missile Crisis, he averted nuclear war with a quarantine and a secret deal with the Soviet Union. In both cases, he struggled...
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Published: 26 August 2013
... of the fractured political geographies of the Holy Roman Empire, especially in the wake of the Peace of Westphalia. In distinguishing between the majesty of the Emperor and the territorial supremacy of the princes, Leibniz provides a strikingly modern definition. Hooker Richard Reformation territory John Agnew...
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Published: 19 December 2014
...Authored by Nikki Sullivan, this chapter examines John Money’s claim that the brain is the site of the unification of “biological and social determinism,” where schemas of gender identification and complementation become locked in, and from whence they function as “templates in the governance...