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Product Description: Through the lens of a history of material culture mediated by an object, Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy investigates aspects of women's lives, culture, ideas and the history of the book in early modern Italy...read more
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9781474270311 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 20, 2016, cover price $112.00 | About this edition: Through the lens of a history of material culture mediated by an object, Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy investigates aspects of women's lives, culture, ideas and the history of the book in early modern Italy.
Product Description: Food and Identity in England, 1540-1640 considers early modern food consumption in an important new way, connecting English consumption practices between the reigns of Henry VIII and Charles I with ideas of 'self' and 'otherness' in wider contexts of society and the class system...read more
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9781350002043 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 25, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Food and Identity in England, 1540-1640 considers early modern food consumption in an important new way, connecting English consumption practices between the reigns of Henry VIII and Charles I with ideas of 'self' and 'otherness' in wider contexts of society and the class system.
Product Description: The first social and cultural history of vagrancy between 1650 and 1750, this book combines sources from across England and the Atlantic world to describe the shifting and desperate experiences of the very poorest and most marginalized of people in early modernity; the outcasts, the wandering destitute, the disabled veteran, the aged labourer, the solitary pregnant woman on the road and those referred to as vagabonds and beggars are all explored in this comprehensive account of the subject...read more
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9781472589941 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, July 14, 2016, cover price $112.00 | About this edition: The first social and cultural history of vagrancy between 1650 and 1750, this book combines sources from across England and the Atlantic world to describe the shifting and desperate experiences of the very poorest and most marginalized of people in early modernity; the outcasts, the wandering destitute, the disabled veteran, the aged labourer, the solitary pregnant woman on the road and those referred to as vagabonds and beggars are all explored in this comprehensive account of the subject.
Product Description: This work offers a critical edition of original texts and documents necessary for understanding the trialâs significance. By consolidating all accounts of the trial, scholars are able to consult and compare these accounts in a readily accessible volume...read more
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9781444332230 | Blackwell Pub, November 5, 2012, cover price $50.95 | About this edition: This work offers a critical edition of original texts and documents necessary for understanding the trialâs significance.
Product Description: What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society...read more
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9780198592174, titled "Field Computation by Moment Methods" | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 1995), cover price $50.00 | also contains Field Computation by Moment Methods
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9780300171228 | Yale Univ Pr, February 22, 2011, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century?
Product Description: Building on the material learned by students in their first few years of study, this book presents an advanced level course on statistical and thermal physics. It begins with a review of the formal structure of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics considered from a unified viewpoint...read more
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9781860945649 | Imperial College Pr, November 30, 2005, cover price $86.00 | About this edition: Building on the material learned by students in their first few years of study, this book presents an advanced level course on statistical and thermal physics.
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9781860945694 | Imperial College Pr, November 30, 2005, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: âThis is an excellent graduate-level textbook that grew out of a largely online intercollegiate course given by the author to fourth-year students in the United Kingdom.
Product Description: The study of mechanics plays a central role in physics for a whole variety of reasons. It was one of the earliest of the quantitative sciences, and had immediate practical applications. These ranged from the study of the motion of projectiles in warfare to the motion of the planets, predicting the seasons, eclipses, etc...read more
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9780710202802 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, July 1, 1984, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The study of mechanics plays a central role in physics for a whole variety of reasons.
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