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Gifts of Reading
AvRobert Macfarlane,William Boydm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
130 kr
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With contributions by: William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Robert Macfarlane, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris, Sisonke Msimang, Dina Nayeri, Chigozie Obioma, Michael Ondaatje, David Pilling, Max Porter, Philip Pullman, Alice Pung, Jancis Robinson, S.F.Said, Madeleine Thien, Salley Vickers, John Wood and Markus Zusak'This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift. The gift, like so many gifts, was a book...' So begins the essay by Robert Macfarlane that inspired this collection.In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayists and poets.'You will see books taking flight in flocks, migrating around the world, landing in people's hearts and changing them for a day or a year or a lifetime.'You will see books sparking wonder or anger; throwing open windows into other languages, other cultures, other minds; causing people to fall in love or to fight for what is right.'And more than anything, over and over again, you will see books and words being given, received and read - and in turn prompting further generosity.'Published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of global literacy non-profit, Room to Read, The Gifts of Reading forms inspiring, unforgettable, irresistible proof of the power and necessity of books and reading.Inspired by Robert MacfarlaneCurated by Jennie Orchard
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
An Entrepreneur’s Quest to Educate the World’s Children
AvJohn Wood
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
148 kr
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In 1998 John Wood was a rising executive at Microsoft . Then a trip to Nepal inspired him to set up schools and libraries in the developing world.Fuelled by the same drive that made him a top executive, Wood took his business acumen into the charity sector and created Room to Read, a stunningly effective organisation that has created a network of more than 2,000 schools and libraries throughout Asia and Africa in only six years.Leaving Microsoft to Change the World chronicles John Wood's incredible journey, his first years at Microsoft, his life-changing decision to leave, and the adventure that followed. Wood shares the methods he uses to manage Room to Read, taken from the boardroom of one of the world's most influential companies and applied successfully in a very different setting. His story is an inspirational example of how to create success on your own terms and change your world.After earning an MBA at the Kellogg School of Management, John Wood joined Microsoft in 1991. He quickly ascended to become Microsoft's director of business development in China and the surrounding regions. In 1999, he founded Room to Read, a charity that promotes literacy throughout the developing world. He lives in San Francisco.
Leaving Microsoft To Change the World
AvJohn Wood
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
197 kr
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Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
An Entrepreneur''s Odyssey to Educate the World''s Children
AvJohn Wood
E-bok
Engelska, 2009
65 kr
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John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life''s work not at business school or helping lead Microsoft''s charge into Asia in the 1990s but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. He made the difficult decision to walk away from his lucrative career to create Room to Read, a nonprofit organization that promotes education across the developing world. By the end of 2007, the organization will have established over 5,000 libraries and 400 schools, and awarded long-term scholarships to more than 3,000 girls, giving more than one million children the lifelong gift of education.
If you have ever pondered abandoning your desk job for an adventure and an opportunity to give back, Wood''s story will inspire you. He offers a vivid, emotional, and absorbing tale of how to take the lessons learned at a hard-charging company like Microsoft and apply them to the world''s most pressing social problems.
Food Aid
The Challenge and the Opportunity
AvHans Singer,John Woodm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 1987
517 kr
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Food aid has played a key role in responding to the extreme poverty and disasters afflicting millions of people in the developing world. It is at the centre of much political discussion, both nationally and internationally, and there have been notable successes, yet there is doubt and criticism about the appropriateness of food aid, and confusion about the deep-rooted problems which perpetuate these calamities.This book is designed to give a wide public a clear insight into the key issues, presenting a balanced assessment of the uses and misuses of food aid, and relating these to the complex realities of the international economy.
Studio Reader – On the Space of Artists
AvMary Jane Jacob,Glenn Adamsonm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
375 kr
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The image of a tortured genius working in near isolation has long dominated our conceptions of the artist's studio. Examples are abound: think Jackson Pollock dripping resin on a cicada carcass in his shed in the Hamptons. But times have changed; ever since Andy Warhol declared his art space a 'factory', artists have begun to envision themselves as the leaders of production teams, and their sense of what it means to be in the studio has altered just as dramatically as their practices. "The Studio Reader" pulls back the curtain from the art world to reveal the real activities behind artistic production. What does it mean to be in the studio? What is the space of the studio in the artist's practice? How do studios help artists envision their agency and, beyond that, their own lives? This forward-thinking anthology features an all-star array of contributors, ranging from Svetlana Alpers, Bruce Nauman, and Robert Storr to Daniel Buren, Carolee Schneemann, and Buzz Spector, each of whom locates the studio both spatially and conceptually - at the center of an art world that careens across institutions, markets, and disciplines.A companion for anyone engaged with the spectacular sites of art at its making, "The Studio Reader" reconsiders this crucial space as an actual way of being that illuminates our understanding of both artists and the world they inhabit.
Russia, the Asymmetric Threat to the United States
A Potent Mixture of Energy and Missiles
AvJohn Wood
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
710 kr
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Exploring themes critical to understanding the current world order, this book lays bare the reality of the new Russia that emerged under Vladimir Putin.Russia holds the world’s largest natural gas reserves, the second largest coal and uranium reserves, and the eighth largest oil reserves. Europe is dependent on Russia for 25 percent of its oil and gas. Russia is also positioning itself to play a similar role with respect to China. The key to this strategy is a network of new oil and natural gas pipelines that Russia is in the process of constructing, which will by-pass the problematic Ukraine, Georgia, Poland and the Baltic States in the West, and lock-in the enormous potential of China in the East. Further, as the Western economies including the USA begin themselves to recover, their growing energy dependence will come back into the forefront, and therefore the need to ensure that Russia does not fail in its opening up of new energy resources in the Arctic and Eastern Siberia.Russia is no longer a superpower, in the Cold War sense of the word, because its military is significantly weaker, and as such is incapable of conducting a regional let alone global war against either the United States or NATO. It is precisely because of its military weakness that Putin has been forced to adopt an asymmetric approach. Thus, the pipeline spigot and the proliferation of missiles and aircraft have become Russia's weapons of choice, along with an ever growing reliance on its strategic nuclear forces to provide it with the necessary deterrent to foreign aggression. In addition, Putin and Medvedev have no interest in an arms race with the United States, it is too costly and detracts from their priority, which is economic reform.From Putin’s perspective, America is in the process of imposing “absolute security” or as Joint Vision 2020 put it: “full spectrum dominance” over the world. As the sole remaining superpower, the United States enjoys a massive strategic imbalance in its favor, which it has used first to contain, but now with the intent to control the world. How? NATO expansion lays the groundwork for a U.S. global missile defense system to contain perceived adversaries, such as Russia, which in turn secures the dominance of America through its Prompt Global Strike (PGS) capability – the ability to strike anywhere on the planet with impunity within 90 minutes of the order being given by The President. Thus, PGS will be to the 21st Century, what British Gun Boat Diplomacy was to the 19th Century. In such a context, Russia is forced to respond asymmetrically.
Russia, the Asymmetric Threat to the United States
A Potent Mixture of Energy and Missiles
AvJohn Wood
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2009
755 kr
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Exploring themes critical to understanding the current world order, this book lays bare the reality of the new Russia that emerged under Vladimir Putin.Russia holds the world''s largest natural gas reserves, the second largest coal and uranium reserves, and the eighth largest oil reserves. Europe is dependent on Russia for 25 percent of its oil and gas. Russia is also positioning itself to play a similar role with respect to China. The key to this strategy is a network of new oil and natural gas pipelines that Russia is in the process of constructing, which will by-pass the problematic Ukraine, Georgia, Poland and the Baltic States in the West, and lock-in the enormous potential of China in the East. Further, as the Western economies including the USA begin themselves to recover, their growing energy dependence will come back into the forefront, and therefore the need to ensure that Russia does not fail in its opening up of new energy resources in the Arctic and Eastern Siberia.Russia is no longer a superpower, in the Cold War sense of the word, because its military is significantly weaker, and as such is incapable of conducting a regional let alone global war against either the United States or NATO. It is precisely because of its military weakness that Putin has been forced to adopt an asymmetric approach. Thus, the pipeline spigot and the proliferation of missiles and aircraft have become Russia's weapons of choice, along with an ever growing reliance on its strategic nuclear forces to provide it with the necessary deterrent to foreign aggression. In addition, Putin and Medvedev have no interest in an arms race with the United States, it is too costly and detracts from their priority, which is economic reform.From Putin''s perspective, America is in the process of imposing "absolute security" or as Joint Vision 2020 put it: "full spectrum dominance" over the world. As the sole remaining superpower, the United States enjoys a massive strategic imbalance in its favor, which it has used first to contain, but now with the intent to control the world. How? NATO expansion lays the groundwork for a U.S. global missile defense system to contain perceived adversaries, such as Russia, which in turn secures the dominance of America through its Prompt Global Strike (PGS) capability – the ability to strike anywhere on the planet with impunity within 90 minutes of the order being given by The President. Thus, PGS will be to the 21st Century, what British Gun Boat Diplomacy was to the 19th Century. In such a context, Russia is forced to respond asymmetrically.
Central Banking in a Democracy
The Federal Reserve and its Alternatives
AvJohn Wood
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
705 kr
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The Federal Reserve System, which has been Congress’s agent for the control of money since 1913, has a mixed reputation. Its errors have been huge. It was the principal cause of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the inflation of the 1970s, and participated in the massive bailouts of financial institutions at taxpayers' expense during the recent Great Recession.This book is a study of the causes of the Fed’s errors, with lessons for an improved monetary authority, beginning with an examination of the history of central banks, in which it is found that their performance depended on their incentives, as is to be expected of economic agents. An implication of these findings is that the Fed’s failings must be traced to its institutional independence, particularly of the public welfare. Consequently, its policies have been dictated by special interests: financial institutions who desire public support without meaningful regulation, as well as presidents and those portions of Congress desiring growing government financed by inflation. Monetary stability (which used to be thought the primary purpose of central banks) requires responsibility, meaning punishment for failure, instead of a remote and irresponsible (to the public) agency such as the Fed. It requires either private money motivated by profit or Congress disciplined by the electoral system as before 1913. Change involving the least disturbance to the system suggests the latter.
Virtual Embodied
Practice, Presence, Technology
AvJohn Wood
Häftad, Engelska, 1998
685 kr
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The Virtual Embodied is intended to inform, provoke and delight. It explores the ideas of embodiment, knowledge, space, virtue and virtuality to address fundamental questions about technology and human presence. It juxtaposes cutting-edge theories, polemics, and creative practices to uncover ethical, aesthetic and ecological implications of why, how and in particular where, human actions, observations and insights take place. In The Virtual Embodied, many of the authors, artists, performers and designers apply their interdisciplinary passions to questions of embodied knowledge and virtual space. In doing so it chooses to acknowledge the limitations of the conventional linear book and uses them creatively to challenge existing genres of multi-media and networked consumerism.
Modeling and Characterization of RF and Microwave Power FETs
AvPeter Aaen,Jaime A. Plám. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
1 095 kr
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This book is a comprehensive exposition of FET modeling, and is a must-have resource for seasoned professionals and new graduates in the RF and microwave power amplifier design and modeling community. In it, you will find descriptions of characterization and measurement techniques, analysis methods, and the simulator implementation, model verification and validation procedures that are needed to produce a transistor model that can be used with confidence by the circuit designer. Written by semiconductor industry professionals with many years' device modeling experience in LDMOS and III-V technologies, this was the first book to address the modeling requirements specific to high-power RF transistors. A technology-independent approach is described, addressing thermal effects, scaling issues, nonlinear modeling, and in-package matching networks. These are illustrated using the current market-leading high-power RF technology, LDMOS, as well as with III-V power devices.
Modeling and Characterization of RF and Microwave Power FETs
AvPeter Aaen,Jaime A. Plám. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
1 728 kr
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This book is a comprehensive exposition of FET modeling, and is a must-have resource for seasoned professionals and new graduates in the RF and microwave power amplifier design and modeling community. In it, you will find descriptions of characterization and measurement techniques, analysis methods, and the simulator implementation, model verification and validation procedures that are needed to produce a transistor model that can be used with confidence by the circuit designer. Written by semiconductor industry professionals with many years' device modeling experience in LDMOS and III-V technologies, this was the first book to address the modeling requirements specific to high-power RF transistors. A technology-independent approach is described, addressing thermal effects, scaling issues, nonlinear modeling, and in-package matching networks. These are illustrated using the current market-leading high-power RF technology, LDMOS, as well as with III-V power devices.
A2 Core Mathematics for Edexcel
Pearson Education
2004
702 kr
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Longman Advanced Mathematics is a new series of comprehensive texts, with books for each of the new Edexcel main courses starting in September 2004. The series develops core mathematical skills through an abundance of clear worked examples and progressive exercises, backed up by focused exam question practise and sample module papers. The CD-ROM included with every book, contains full worked solutions to exam-style papers using Live Authoring, plus additional questions and support for lower and higher attaining students.
Covers all the A2 Core Modules C1 and C2 in one affordable, coherent book Thousands of questions and clear worked examples support a variety of teaching styles and ability ranges Aids revision with practise papers, model answers and 'live-authored' solutions on the student CD-ROM Additional support for teachers available on the teacher CD-ROM
AS Core Mathematics for Edexcel
Pearson Education
2004
865 kr
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Longman Advanced Mathematics is a new series of comprehensive texts, with books for each of the new Edexcel main courses starting in September 2004. The series develops core mathematical skills through an abundance of clear worked examples and progressive exercises, backed up by focused exam question practise and sample module papers. The CD-ROM included with every book, contains full worked solutions to exam-style papers using Live Authoring, plus additional questions and support for lower and higher attaining students.
Covers all the AS Core Modules C1 and C2 in one affordable, coherent book Thousands of questions and clear worked examples support a variety of teaching styles and ability ranges Aids revision with practise papers, model answers and 'live-authored' solutions on the student CD-ROM Additional support for teachers available on the teacher CD-ROM
A2 Core Mathematics for AQA
Pearson Education
2005
796 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
Longman Advanced Mathematics is a series of comprehensive texts, with books for each of the AQA main courses that started in September 2004. The series develops core mathematical skills through an abundance of clear worked examples and progressive exercises, backed up by focused exam question practise and sample module papers. The CD-ROM included with every book, contains full worked solutions to exam-style papers using Live Authoring, plus additional questions and support for lower and higher attaining students.
Covers all the A2 Core Modules C1 and C2 in one affordable, coherent book Thousands of questions and clear worked examples support a variety of teaching styles and ability ranges Aids revision with practise papers, model answers and 'live-authored' solutions on the student CD-ROM Additional support for teachers available on the teacher CD-ROM
Come to Beautiful Ruston: A Wonderful Place to Live
AvJohn Wood
Häftad, Engelska
197 kr
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Deserted Villages
AvTrevor Rowley,John Wood
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
113 kr
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Villages have been abandoned throughout history, and in every part of the British Isles. Some of them are former towns; others were only ever small hamlets. Many still await discovery. This book explains how villages have become deserted – often the result of disease and shrinking populations – and describes how the archaeologist recovers and interprets the evidence and shows how everyone can become involved in discovering and recording sites. Some good examples of sites worth visiting are included.
Design for Micro-Utopias
Making the Unthinkable Possible
AvJohn Wood
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
2 487 kr
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Everyone is already painfully aware of our predicament - ecological extinctions, dwindling fossil fuel reserves and economic chaos. The solutions are less obvious, despite the many opportunities that surround us. We have never had more access to resources, knowledge and technology but this is not the problem. What we lack most is creative thinking, fuelled by collective optimism. In a pragmatic world run by careerist experts this is hardly surprising. As voters and consumers we are trained to choose and complain, but not how to envisage what we really, really want. How can we design a better world unless we revive the art of dreaming? For without dreams we are lost. Perhaps it should be the duty of all citizens to imagine alternative futures; in effect, to think more like designers. After all, designers have always been dreamers, and have often found ways to realize their dreams. Design for Micro-Utopias does not advocate a single, monolithic Utopia. Rather, it invites readers to embrace a more pluralized and mercurial version of Thomas More's famous 1516 novel of the same name. It therefore encourages the proliferation of many 'micro-utopias' rather than one 'Utopia'. This requires a less negative, critical and rational approach. Referencing a wide range of philosophical thinking from Aristotle to the present day, western and eastern spiritual ideals, and scientific, biological and systems theory, John Wood offers remedies for our excessively individualistic, mechanistic and disconnected thinking, and asks whether a metadesign approach might bring about a new mode of governance. This is a daring idea. Ultimately, he reminds us that if we believe that we will never be able to design miracles we make it more likely that this is so. The first step is to turn the 'impossible' into the 'thinkable'.
Relationships and Consent
AvJohn Wood
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
380 kr
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Activism and Volunteering
AvJohn Wood
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
380 kr
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Metadesigning Designing in the Anthropocene
AvJohn Wood
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2022
768 kr
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Long-sighted, radical and provocative, this book offers a foundational framework of concepts, principles and methods (exemplified with selected tools) to enable metadesigners to manage and reinvent their practices.
The book reminds readers that designers are, albeit unwittingly, helping to shape the Anthropocene. Despite their willingness to deliver greener products and services, designers find themselves part of an industry that has become the go-to catalyst for dividends and profit. If our species is to achieve the rehabilitation and metamorphosis, we may need to design at the level of paradigms, genres, lifestyles and currencies. This would mean making design more integrated, comprehensive, adaptive, transdisciplinary, self-reflexive and relational. The book, therefore, advocates a shift of emphasis from designing ‘sustainable’ products, services and systems towards cultivating synergies that will induce regenerative lifestyles.
The book will be of interest to managers, designers, scholars and educators from a wide range of backgrounds, including design research, design history, design studies and environmental studies.
Metadesigning Designing in the Anthropocene
AvJohn Wood
E-bok
Engelska, 2022
768 kr
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Long-sighted, radical and provocative, this book offers a foundational framework of concepts, principles and methods (exemplified with selected tools) to enable metadesigners to manage and reinvent their practices.
The book reminds readers that designers are, albeit unwittingly, helping to shape the Anthropocene. Despite their willingness to deliver greener products and services, designers find themselves part of an industry that has become the go-to catalyst for dividends and profit. If our species is to achieve the rehabilitation and metamorphosis, we may need to design at the level of paradigms, genres, lifestyles and currencies. This would mean making design more integrated, comprehensive, adaptive, transdisciplinary, self-reflexive and relational. The book, therefore, advocates a shift of emphasis from designing ‘sustainable’ products, services and systems towards cultivating synergies that will induce regenerative lifestyles.
The book will be of interest to managers, designers, scholars and educators from a wide range of backgrounds, including design research, design history, design studies and environmental studies.
Series of Plans for Cottages or Habitations of the Labourer, Either in Husbandry, or the Mechanic Arts, Adapted as Well to Towns as to the Country
Engraved on Thirty Plates: to Which is Added an Introduction, Containing Many Useful Observations On...
AvJohn - Wood
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
201 kr
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Full Exposition of the Clintonian Faction and the Society of the Columbian Illuminati
With an Account of the Writer of the Narrative, and the Characters of His Certificate Men, as Also Remarks on Warren's Pamphlet
AvJohn ?- Wood
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
187 kr
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Clinical Lecture on the Application of Trusses to Herniae
Delivered at King's College Hospital
AvJohn Wood
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
173 kr
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Lectures on Hernia and Its Radical Cure
Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in June, 1885: With A Clinical Lecture on Trusses and Their Application to Ruptures, Delivered at King's College Hospital
AvJohn Wood
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
201 kr
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Memoir of Henry Wilkes, D.D., LL.D., His Life and Times [microform]
AvJohn Wood
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
279 kr
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Journey to the Source of the River Oxus
AvJohn Wood
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
417 kr
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Journey to the Source of the River Oxus
AvJohn Wood
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
299 kr
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Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers
AvJohn Wood
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
503 kr
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John Wood – författare

Gifts of Reading

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

Leaving Microsoft To Change the World

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

Food Aid

Studio Reader – On the Space of Artists

Russia, the Asymmetric Threat to the United States

Russia, the Asymmetric Threat to the United States

Central Banking in a Democracy

Virtual Embodied

Modeling and Characterization of RF and Microwave Power FETs

Modeling and Characterization of RF and Microwave Power FETs

A2 Core Mathematics for Edexcel

AS Core Mathematics for Edexcel

A2 Core Mathematics for AQA

Come to Beautiful Ruston: A Wonderful Place to Live

Deserted Villages

Design for Micro-Utopias

Relationships and Consent

Activism and Volunteering

Metadesigning Designing in the Anthropocene

Metadesigning Designing in the Anthropocene

Series of Plans for Cottages or Habitations of the Labourer, Either in Husbandry, or the Mechanic Arts, Adapted as Well to Towns as to the Country

Full Exposition of the Clintonian Faction and the Society of the Columbian Illuminati

Clinical Lecture on the Application of Trusses to Herniae

Lectures on Hernia and Its Radical Cure

Memoir of Henry Wilkes, D.D., LL.D., His Life and Times [microform]

Journey to the Source of the River Oxus

Journey to the Source of the River Oxus

Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers