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Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope
by Sarah Bakewell***AS READ ON RADIO 4***The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores 700 years of writers, thinkers, scientists and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly human.'I can't imagine a better history' PHILIP PULLMAN * 'Fascinating, moving, funny' OLIVER BURKEMANIf you are reading this, it's likely you already have some affinity with humanism, even if you don't think of yourself in those terms. You may be drawn to literature and the humanities. You may prefer to base your moral choices on fellow-feeling and responsibility to others rather than on religious commandments. Or you may simply believe that individual lives are more important than grand political visions or dogmas.If any of these apply, you are part of a long tradition of humanist thought, and you share that tradition with many extraordinary individuals through history who have put rational enquiry, cultural richness, freedom of thought and a sense of hope at the heart of their lives.Humanly Possible introduces us to some of these people, as it asks what humanism is and why it has flourished for so long, despite opposition from fanatics, mystics and tyrants. It is a book brimming with ideas, personalities and experiments in living - from Erasmus to Esperanto, from anatomists to agnostics, from Christine de Pizan to Bertrand Russell to Zora Neale Hurston. It joyfully celebrates open-mindedness, optimism, freedom and the power of the here and now - humanist values which have helped steer us through dark times in the past, and which are just as urgently needed in our world today.PRAISE FOR SARAH BAKEWELL'S BOOKS'Quirky, funny, clear and passionate . . . Few writers are as good as Bakewell at explaining complicated ideas' Mail on Sunday'A wonderfully readable combination of biography, philosophy, history, cultural analysis and personal reflection' Independent'Splendidly conceived and exquisitely written' Sunday Times'A rare achievement' Evening Standard
Samen, Früchte und Keimlinge der in Deutschland heimischen oder eingeführten forstlichen Culturpflanzen: Ein Leitfaden zum Gebrauche bei Vorlesungen und Uebungen der Forstbotanik, zum Bestimmen und Nachschlagen für Botaniker, studirende und ausübende Forstleute, Gärtner und andere Pflanzenzüchter
by Karl Tubeuf
Deutsch-Ostafrika: Das Land und seine Bewohner, seine politische und wirtschaftliche Entwickelung
by Paul Reichard
Jahresbericht über die Beobachtungs-Ergebnisse: der von den forstlichen Versuchsanstalten des Königreichs Preussen, des Herzogthums Braunschweig, der thüringischen Staaten, der Reichslande und dem Landesdirectorium der Provinz Hannover eingerichteten forstlich-meteorologischen Stationen Sechzehnter Jahrgang
by A. Müttrich
The History of the Rochdale Pioneers (Routledge Library Editions: The History of Social Welfare)
by George Jacob HolyoakeFirst published in 1893, this tenth edition of The History of the Rochdale Pioneers, is an example of the nineteenth-century tradition of self-help manuals. It describes the origins and the development of the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society, the problems faced by the Rochdale Pioneers through economically tough times and how the collective were able to overcome these difficulties. This book will be of interest to those studying the history of social welfare, class and economics, as well as the Co-operative Movement.
The History of the Rochdale Pioneers (Routledge Library Editions: The History of Social Welfare)
by George Jacob HolyoakeFirst published in 1893, this tenth edition of The History of the Rochdale Pioneers, is an example of the nineteenth-century tradition of self-help manuals. It describes the origins and the development of the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society, the problems faced by the Rochdale Pioneers through economically tough times and how the collective were able to overcome these difficulties. This book will be of interest to those studying the history of social welfare, class and economics, as well as the Co-operative Movement.
Hilfsbuch für Zoll- und Steuerbeamte zum Verständniß des amtlichen Waarenverzeichnisses und der amtlichen Abfertigungen
by B. Weinstein
Anleitung zum Mischen von Branntweinen nach Maaß und Gewicht: Mit dem Volumen- und dem Gewichts-Alkoholometer. Zum praktischen Gebrauch für Branntwein-Brenner und Händler, Destillateure, Gastwirthe, Gewerbetreibende und Aichungsbehörden
by NA Plato
Anschluss der Normale der deutschen Maasse und Gewichte an die neuen Prototype des Meter und des Kilogramm (Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Normal-Aichungs-Kommision #1)
by Kaiserlichen Normal-Aichungs-Kommission
The Greek Myths: Vol.2
by Robert GravesRobert Graves, classicist, poet and unorthodox critic, retells the Greek legends of gods and heroes for a modern audience.He demonstrates with a dazzling display of relevant knowledge that Greek mythology is ‘no more mysterious in content than are modern election cartoons’. All the scattered elements of each myth are assembled into a harmonious narrative, and many variants are recorded which may help to determine its ritual or historical meaning. Full indexes and references to the classical sources make the book as valuable to the scholar as the general reader. And a full commentary on each myth interprets the classical version in the light of contemporary archaeological and anthropological knowledge.
The Greek Myths: Vol. 1
by Robert GravesEndymion, Pelops, Daedalus, Pygmalion – what are the stories behind these and the hundreds of other familiar names from Greek mythology – names that recur throughout the history of European culture?In a two-volume work that has become a classic reference book for both the serious scholar and the casual inquirer, Robert Graves retells the adventures of the important gods and heroes worshipped by the ancient Greeks.Drawing on an enormous range of sources, he has brought together all the elements of every myth in simple narrative form, supplying detailed cross-references and indexes. Each entry has a full commentary which examines problems of interpretation in both historical and anthropological terms, and in the light of contemporary research.
Neuere Untersuchungen über Wachsthum und Ertrag normaler Kiefernbestände in der norddeutschen Tiefebene: Nach den Aufnahmen der Preussischen Hauptstation des forstlichen Versuchswesens
by Adam Schwappach
Erstes Dezennium der Helfenberger Annalen 1886/1895 / Helfenberger Annalen 1896: Eine Zusammenstellung der Werte, Methoden und Studien / Erster Band des zweiten Dezenniums
by Eugen Dieterich
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
by Jody RosenA panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world.'The real feat of this book is that it takes us on a ride-across the centuries and around the globe, through startling history and vivid first-person reporting.' - Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of PainThe bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly out of pace with our age of smartphones and ridesharing apps and driverless cars. Yet across the world, more people travel by bicycle than by any other form of transportation. Almost anyone can learn to ride a bike - and nearly everyone does.In Two Wheels Good, writer and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force in humanity's life and dreamlife, and a flashpoint in culture wars for more for than two hundred years. Combining history, reportage, travelogue, and memoir, Rosen unfolds the bicycle's saga from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a 'green machine' in a world afflicted by pandemic and climate change.Readers meet unforgettable characters: feminist rebels who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station.Two Wheels Good examines the bicycle's past and peers into its future, challenging myths and clichés, while uncovering cycling's connection to colonial conquest and the gentrification of cities. But the book is also a love letter: a reflection on the sensual and spiritual pleasures of bike riding and an ode to an engineering marvel - a wondrous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine.'Love for two-wheeled transport runs through every sentence in the book' - Economist'The best thing I've ever read on a single subject' - Lauren Collins, author of When in French'This is social history as it ought to be written: funny, precise, surprising, anti-dogmatic and unafraid of following a story' - Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the Moon
The Book of the Art of Cennino Cennini: A contemporary practical treatise on Quattrocento painting (Routledge Revivals)
by Cennino CenniniA Translated version of the Art of Cennino Cennini. A contemporary practical treatise on Quattrocento Painting, including notes on medieval methods, and early explanations of oil painting and other techniques.