Bøger af Robert Chambers

""A Picture of Stirling"" is a book written by John Gellatly and published in 1830. The book is a series of eight views of the Scottish city of Stirling, accompanied by historical and descriptive notices. The illustrations are finely detailed and depict various landmarks and landscapes in and around Stirling, including the castle, the bridge, and the surrounding hills. The historical and descriptive notices provide context and information about the landmarks and their significance in the history of Stirling. The book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history and culture of Stirling, as well as for those interested in the art of illustration and book design in the early 19th century.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

The middle earth sea kept as streight a line vpon the west side of the countrie, so that Reuben beeing seated without the riuer Iordan, vpon the South, and halfe the tribe of Manasse vppon the North, and Gad in the middle betwixt them, the rest of the twelue tribes or familyes (for so were the people distinguished) tooke their portions in this sort betweene the riuer Iordan, and the middle earth sea, Iudah and Simeon, had the farthest south partes, next vnto whome were Beniamin and Dan, Nephtalim and Aser, were placed in the farthest North partes, and Zabulon bordered vpon them, the other halfe tribe of Manasse enioyed the middle of the land, and was neighboured on the south by Ephraim.

Volume 3 of a 3 volume set. A history, critical and biographical, of British and American authors, with specimens of their writings. A chronological series of extracts from our national authors. Partial Contents: Various Theologians, Metaphysical and Scientific Writers: John Locke; Sir Isaac Newton, Critical and Miscellaneous Writers: James Howell, James Howell, Sir Thomas Herbret, John Earle, Lady Fanshawe, Poets: Joseph Addison, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Scottish Poets: Francis Sempill, Allan Ramsay, Various Dramatists: William Congreve, Sir John Vanbrugh, Prose Literature: R. Steele, Eustace Budgell, Various Theologians and Metaphysicians: Richard Bentley, John Norris, Miscellaneous Writers: Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Poets: Matthew Green, John Dyer, James Thomson. Volume 1 ISBN 0766183874, Volume 2 ISBN 0766184056.

Volume 2 of a 3 volume set. A history, critical and biographical, of British and American authors, with specimens of their writings. A chronological series of extracts from our national authors. Partial Contents: Lord Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Knox, John Milton, John Dryden, George Fox, Miscellaneous Poems, Various Dramatists, Prose Literature, Various Historians, Various Theologians. Volume 1 ISBN 0766183874, Volume 3 ISBN 0766184064

Explodes the near-universal belief that parody is a copycat genre or that it consists of a collection of trivial and derivative forms. This title is defined in terms of three major variations that bang, bind, and blend artistic conventions into contrasting pairings, the results of which are upheavals of existing conventions.

Challenging the Professions questions the dominant approaches of professions, disciplines and bureaucracies concerned with rural development. The theme is that ''we'', who call ourselves professionals, are much of the problem, and to do better requires reversals of much that we regard as normal. The challenge is to upend our thinking, to turn values on their heads, to invent and adopt new methods, and to behave differently. The frontiers are personal and professional, requiring changes which are radical but quite surprisingly practicable: to question our values; to be self critically aware; to see simple as often optimal; to offset our spatial and seasonal biases; to help rural people do their own analyses; to stay in villages and learn from and with rural people; to test and use participatory approaches, methods and procedures; to encourage decentralization and diversity; to put people before things, and poor people first of all.

Originally published anonymously in 1844, "Vestiges" was the first attempt to connect the natural sciences to a history of creation. This volume includes Chambers's earliest works on cosmology, an essay on Darwin and an autobiographical essay. It also features a new introduction by James Secord.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was published anonymously in 1844. Starting with the genesis of the solar system, it progresses systematically through such topics as the formation of the earth, the origins of marine life, the emergence of reptiles, birds and other life forms, and the evolution of human life. Drawing widely upon contemporary ideas from astronomy, biology, geology, linguistics, and anthropology, it seeks to establish the 'hypothesis of an organic creation by natural law'. Preceding Darwin's Origin of Species by fifteen years, Vestiges ignited a storm of controversy by pitting natural law and its role in what would soon come to be known as 'evolution' against the generally accepted Victorian belief that the universe was created by God. In 1884, it was revealed that the author was the British publisher Robert Chambers. This fifth edition of the work also contains its 1845 sequel, Explanations.

The money invested in canal irrigation has had disappointing results. This book aims to show that the policy and practice behind the vast sums spent during the 1980s especially were based on misleading research and misdiagnosis, analyzing possible improvements in performance.

Our world seems entangled in systems increasingly dominated by power, greed, ignorance, self-deception and denial, with spiralling inequity and injustice. This book peels apart and analyses aspects of development that have been neglected or misunderstood.

Suitable for those who work with others on participatory learning and change, this title covers topics such as getting started, seating arrangements, forming groups, managing large numbers, helping each other learn, analysis and feedback, dealing with dominators, evaluation and ending, coping with horrors, and common mistakes.