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Casement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Casement

This is one title in a series of short, illustrated biographies. They tellhe stories of those who have shaped our present and our past, from Beethoveno Dietrich and from Einstein to Churchill.;Roger Casement (1864-1916) isemembered in England as a "traitor", but passionately revered in Ireland as founding father of the Irish state. By 1913, with an internationaleputation as a saviour of the oppressed in Africa and South America, Siroger Casement resigned from the Foreign Office and devoted himself openly tohe cause of Irish independence. He was a founder of the Irish Volunteers andoon after the outbreak of World War I travelled to Germany to seeknternational guarantees for Irish independence. Returning to Ireland in 1916,e was arrested on the eve of the Easter Rising, given a state trial inondon and executed for high treason.

Yearbook
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 632

Yearbook

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1897
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Navigating the Polycrisis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 311

Navigating the Polycrisis

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-04-23
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

An innovative work of realism and utopianism that analyzes the possible futures of the world-system and helps us imagine how we might transition beyond capitalism. The world-system of which we are all a part faces multiple calamities: climate change and mass extinction, the economic and existential threat of AI, the chilling rise of far-right populism, and the invasion of Ukraine, to name only a few. In Navigating the Polycrisis, Michael Albert seeks to illuminate how the “planetary polycrisis” will disrupt the global community in the coming decades and how we can best meet these challenges. Albert argues that we must devote more attention to the study of possible futures and adopt trans...

2019年12月號 HOW IT WORKS 知識大圖解 中文版 NO.63
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 94

2019年12月號 HOW IT WORKS 知識大圖解 中文版 NO.63

HIW63目錄 08 全球瞭望 特別單元 22 腦力大解析 關於人腦,你究竟瞭解多少?一探不可不知的腦部之謎 科學新知 30 一窺長達100公里的原子對撞機內部 來看大型強子對撞機的巨型繼任者究竟有多厲害 34 味覺的原理 環境生態 36 致命植物 深入瞭解植物的毒性和捕獵絕技 40 探索地球荒野之最 44 一鯨死,萬物生 46 珊瑚礁如何形成? 太空探索 48 阿波羅11號 有哪些創新科技讓1969年的登月壯舉得以實現? 56 星系發生碰撞會怎樣? 57 讓地球免受陽光侵擾 58 怎麼前往火星? 交通運輸 60 混凝土攪拌車的運作 62 吸力超強的挖掘卡車 63 航海...

Jeremiah Bourne in Time
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 293

Jeremiah Bourne in Time

Jeremiah Bourne is in greater danger than he realises. As Jeremiah is swept from his crumbling home in Blackfriars in 2019, to the same house but in 1910, he suddenly faces two questions: how did he get here, and how can he get back to his own time? On his quest for answers, he encounters a cast of comic characters and situations: a coven of free-thinking spiritualists, a futuristic residents’ association, warring street gangs, eugenic scientists, aggressive domestic servants and a nudist magistrate. But his activities have alerted a community of time travellers from the future, who set out to capture and investigate him. Who can Jeremiah trust to help him? And could there be a link between his time-travelling gift and his mother’s sudden disappearance when he was only nine? Will he inadvertently lead the wrong people to her? This electrifying first instalment of Nigel Planer’s Time Shard Chronicles trilogy takes a new and original look at the possibility of time travel as it catapults you into a thrilling journey across London and through time.

Scotia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 382

Scotia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1910
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Roger Casement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 696

Roger Casement

Drawing on a trove of official and personal sources, the author shows how what began as an ordinary career in the British consular service for Roger Casement, became a singular crusade, on three continents, against exploitation, cruelty and injustice.

Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 291

Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines

‘Women have won their political independence. Now is the time for them to achieve their economic freedom too.’ This was the great rallying cry of the pioneers who, in 1919, created the Women’s Engineering Society. Spearheaded by Katharine and Rachel Parsons, a powerful mother and daughter duo, and Caroline Haslett, whose mission was to liberate women from domestic drudgery, it was the world’s first professional organisation dedicated to the campaign for women's rights. Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines tells the stories of the women at the heart of this group – from their success in fanning the flames of a social revolution to their significant achievements in engi...

Unfortunate Ends
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 130

Unfortunate Ends

Thomas, son of Henry Robekyn, died 1286 after cutting off his left foot and then his left hand in a frenzy. Henry Debordesle, died 1343. Long sick with diseases, smote himself in the belly with a knife worth one penny. On 11 August 1267, Henry Constentin is driving a horse-drawn cart of wheat through the field of Tweedscroft. His feet slip and he falls upon ‘a certain pole’ of his cart ‘so that it penetrate[s] into his fundament’. From the creator of Twitter's Medieval Death Bot comes Unfortunate Ends, an illuminating collection of in-depth looks at some of the most interesting cases from medieval coroners’ rolls. From the bizarre to the mundane, each death tells a tale from a dangerous time to be alive, and even to die. Coroners’ rolls list every inquest held for a death by misadventure – or accident – as well as grisly murders, some witnessed by others, some only coming to light when the hidden body was found. A handful of these deaths rise to the top, their tales too ridiculous or heartbreaking to not be spun again for the modern ear. Through death, Unfortunate Ends gives us a rare, first-hand look into everyday life for the common people of medieval England.

How to Have an Almost Perfect Marriage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

How to Have an Almost Perfect Marriage

Do you, Edna Constance Bathsheba, take Stephen John Elvis to be your lawfully wedded husband? I did. After many, many years of marriage and many, many children, I've decided it's only fair to share my unparalleled expertise and deepest secrets with you in my new book, How To Have an Almost Perfect Marriage. Of course, the 'him' to whom I refer is my current husband, Stephen. You may be aware of his numerous books, his countless television shows and his enormous intellect. You probably know he spends his time travelling endlessly, attending operas, meeting famous stars of stage and screen and visiting tribespeople in the remotest corners of the globe. That's if you read all that rubbish he wr...