Product Description: This book began with the aim of telling the almost forgotten story of Thomas Hancock, the rubber developer who in his own day was acknowledged as one of the great scientific pioneers of the Industrial Revolution. But as research progressed, it was clear that Thomas and his five brothers, the Hancocks of Marlborough, together constituted a unique family which made a tremendous yet virtually unknown contribution to nineteenth-century science and art...read more

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Product Description: hardback,272 pages. Jacket is very badly faded. There are marks on jacket and wear to edges of jacket.

Product Description: In this book, Francis James develops his theory that the English subjunctive has one meaning. Explaining how modality expresses the relation between a representation and what is represented, James compares the subjunctive to a 'blueprint,' a plan of what the architect intends the world to match, and the indicative to an artist's sketch of the same building, a 'record' to match the world...read more