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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 52 pages. R Palme Dutt "50 Years Of World Revolution" /Len Squire "Hands Off The Unions!" (1) / Ben Birnbaum "Hands off The Unions! (2)" / Ken Gill "Hands Off The Unions! (3)" / M P Naicker "Eduardo Mondlane" / Quaestor "Wilson's Bonn Visit" / Dr Yusuf Dadoo "The Khartoum Conference - A Landmark" / Enid Lakeman "Immigrants And The Vote" / Tawfiq Toubi "Middle East: The Path To Peace".

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. 14 pages, with UK list of books. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

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Condizione: Good. Glossy Black & White Photograph, 8 x 10 inches, Very Good.

Condizione: Good. Glossy Black & White Photograph, 8 x 10 inches, Very Good.

Condizione: Good. Glossy Black & White Photograph, 8 x 10 inches, Very Good.

Condizione: Good. Glossy Black & White Photograph, 8 x 10 inches, Very Good.

Condizione: Good. Glossy Black & White Photograph, 8 x 10 inches, Very Good.

Condizione: Good. Glossy Black & White Photograph, 8 x 10 inches, Very Good.

Condizione: Good. Glossy Black & White Photograph, 8 x 10 inches, Very Good.

Condizione: New.

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Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. 4 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 20 cms. Category: Annual Register; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hartree, Douglas R. "The ENIAC, an Electronic Computing Machine." Macmillan & Co., London, 1946. In "Nature", Vol 158. July - December, 1946. (52), 956pp, illustrations throughout the text, with the Hartree on pp 500-506, illustrated with three photos including the famous one appearing on page 501showing most of the machine. First printing of the "first paper on an electronic digital computer published in a large-circulation international scientific journal ["Nature"]."--Jeremy Norman's Origins of Cyberspace, 648. [++] The volume is fresh and clean though there are two binding semi-minor issues: first, the cloth boards are a bit thin for a book this size so the front board is slightly bowed. Second, the hinges are starting to break, though it is at this point the paper of the pastedowns and free endpapers that are broken (see pic). Overall, I'd say that this was still a Very Good copy (6/10) [++] The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer built 1943-45) was the first large-scale, fully electronic, general-purpose digital computer to operate successfully. It was a decimal non-specific general purpose numerical machine, programmable by physical configuration (via plugboards, switch settings, cable routing). [++] Hartree writes a great introduction to the machine and then proceeds in explaining it to the advanced-general reader. The subheads include "two main classes f computing equipment"; "arithmetical processes, memory, and organisation"; general construction of the ENIAC"; accumulator"; "multiplier"; "divider and square rooter"; "function tables, input and output equipment"; "master programmer"; "set-up and use"; "examples". This is a very well organized and highly readable and important paper.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. FOOTE, (Eunice Newton) Abstract of her revolutionary but unrecognized work later referred to as "The Greenhouse Effect" at an AAAS meeting in Albany and published in 1856, appearing here in the "Jahresbericht Über die Fortschritte der reinen, pharmaceeutischen und technischen Chemie, Physik, Mineralogie und Geologie" edited by Justus Liebig and Hermann Kopp. Giessen, J. Ricker'sche Buchhandlug, published in 1857; 957pp on, with the Foote on page 62-3 in a section titled "Wärmelehre." Foote was the first to measure the Greenhouse Effects of water vapor and CO2, writing that temperatures in the past could have been affected by the changes in CO2 levels. [++] Decorated paper spine and boards. There are four old ownership rubberstamps: once on the front free endpapers, two on the title page, and the last on the following page. GOOD/VG copy, sturdy, crisp text; there's a bit of scuffing to the spine, showing some age of the book, but, still attractive. [++] Eunice (Newton) Foote (1819-1888) was an American scientist, inventor, and women's rights campaigner (see Richardson, Sarah, "Suffragist Scientist", "American History," 2/2020) who made an important discovery that was historically and not surprisingly underappreciated and undervalued (see "Eunice Newton Foote's nearly forgotten discovery" 2021, "Physics Today", Vol. 2021, Issue 4, p. 823). In her research she established a pioneering understanding of the Earth's climate and the role greenhouse gases in global warming. In 1856 Foote ("the first woman in climate science", see "TIME", "Where Credit is Due," 194/4, 2019, pg 20) presented her experimental findings on the effects of different gases on the Earth's temperature--most significantly on the heat-absorbing properties of CO2 and its warming effect on the Earth's atmosphere--at the AAAS meeting in Albany, New York. She was the first scientist to conclude that certain gases warmed when exposed to sunlight, and that rising carbon dioxide levels would change atmospheric temperature and could affect climate, a phenomenon now referred to as the Greenhouse Effect. [++] "Eunice Foote, who in 1856 discovered the absorption of thermal radiation by carbon dioxide and water vapour. That was three years before John Tyndall, who is generally credited with this important discovery a cornerstone of our current understanding of the greenhouse effect, climate change, weather and meteorology."--Roland Jackson, "Eunice Foote, John Tyndall and a Question of Priority in Notes and Records," (2020), 74, 105-118. [++] The first presentation of the Foote paper at the AAAS meeting (read/presented by Joseph Henry) appeared over a page-and-a-half in the November 1856 issue of "The American Journal of Science and Arts" after having been read to the meeting on Aug. 23, 1856. The work offered is a summary of that November 1856 paper which was published just a few short months later. [++] See: "Eunice Newton Foote's nearly forgotten discovery" 2021, Physics Today, Vol. 2021, Issue 4, p. 823. Also see: "August 1856: Eunice Foote Concludes That Carbon Dioxide Could Warm the Atmosphere, Three Years Before John Tyndall Did," July/August 2023 (Volume 32, Number 7), "This Month in Physics History" APS News.

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1762). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1757". Pp. 52-86 and 7 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. First edition of this landmark paper in geological literature, for it appeared eighty years before Murchison's Silurian System made known the sequence and abundant organic remains of the Silurian rocks of Wales."Guettard was the first to recognize trilobites in the Silurian slates of Angers. In some specimens which had been sent up to the Academy from the quarries of that district, he observed numerous impressions of organic remains, which he referred to seaweeds and Crustacea. The latter he sagaciously compared 25 to modern crabs and prawns." (Archibald Geikie).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1757.

(Paris, Bachelier, 1851). 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 33, No 8. Pp. (217-) 252 (entire issue offered). Pasteur's paper: pp. 217-221. Clean and fine. First printing of this landmark paper in which Pasteur discloses his discovery of the optical activity of amino acids."The optical activity of amino acids accurring in nature was discovered by pasteur (1851, the paper offered), who reported in a paper, which followed the publication of his work on tartaric acid, that asparagine and the aspartic acid derived from it rotate polarized light to the left and right, respectively."(Advanced Protein Chemistry, Vol. IV).

Very good. Backed on fresh linen. Custom slipcase. Size 63 x 59 Inches. Magnificently huge, this is Thomas Devine's 1857 large-scale map of Canada west of the Hudson Bay. It is the first map of the West published and issued in Canada, and as such, it can be considered an essential document of the Canadian westward expansion. A Closer Look The map's very possessive title communicates its purpose: to promote ownership over and settlement of the 'North West Part of CANADA.' Its coverage extends from James Bay and the Great Lakes westward to the Pacific and from the high Arctic as far south as Chicago and the Columbia River. The whole is richly colorized and annotated to promote the region's unexploited richness and potential wealth. A Map to Promote Westward Migration By 1856, Canada had asserted tenuous claims to its northwestern territories, but little was known of their potential. Instead, the western part of Canada was controlled by the secretive Hudson Bay Company, whose governor, Sir George Simpson, testified that the region was inadequate for settlement and offered a paucity of resources. On the other side of the argument were the Expansionists, who were eager to migrate westward and saw the Canadian prairies as an attainable Eden. To address this question, the Commissioner of Crown Lands for Canada, then Joseph-Édouard Cauchon, a dedicated expansionist with business interests in Manitoba, ordered his chief surveyor Thomas Devine to compile a grand map assessing the region. R. Douglas Francis, in his book The Prairie West as Promised Land , describes Devine's map as One of the best examples of the changing perspective on the land a product of the expansionist impulse. Cartographically, Devine derives his map from the works of Aaron Arrowsmith, but with significant expansion and annotation intended to promote his mission of westward migration. Devine draws his glowing reviews of the region from several sources, all carefully cited, including Alexander Mackenzie, Lieutenant Saxon, Sir George Simpson, Ballantyne, Captain Pope, Governor Stevens, and others. Some of the descriptions are wildly glowing: Capt. Pope says, 'The Red River Valley is an unbroken level of rich prairie, intersected by well-timbered tributaries. Elm, oak, maple, ash, etc. From richness of soil uniform surface, and wood and water it is among the finest wheat growing countries in the world. All the cereals and vegetables grow in abundance. Climate Salubrious.' In addition, the map addresses the terrain and mineralogical resources, identifying copper deposits along Lake Superior and a coal belt running from Great Bear Lake to the Canada-US boundary. Soil types and other geological formations are noted using color coding to distinguish regions. The map also includes some detail within the United States, including the Gov. Stevens route for the Northern Pacific Railroad, John Jacob Astor's fur trading post at Astoria, and manned border fortifications. The British North American Exploring Expedition In the same year this map was issued, the British North American Exploring Expedition, under John Palliser, set off. The expedition investigated the geography, climate, and ecology of western Canada. This was the first detailed and scientific survey of the region from Lake Superior to the southern passes of the Rocky Mountains. Until the publication of the Palliser map in 1865, the present map was the finest and most detailed large-scale map of this region. Publication History and Census This map appears in two editions. One edition was published as one of 8 maps included with a supplement to the 1857 Report of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, in this case Joseph-Édouard Cauchon. That example is on thin paper, typically uncolored, and was issued by S. Derbishire and G. Desbarats. The other example (as offered here) is a richly colored, dissected, separate issue published privately by Maclear and Company. It is of note that Cauchon, who ordered this map produce.

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Gebunden. Condizione: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Daniel Miller is Associate Professor of Religion and Social Thought and Chair of the Department of Liberal Studies at Landmark College. His research interests include religion, political theory and American politics, gender and embodimen.