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Cambridge.University.Press.Africans.The.History.of.a.Continent.Aug.2007.pdf

Cambridge.University.Press.Africans.The.History.of.a.Continent.Aug.2007.pdf

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... languages belonged to a third, Nilo-Saharan family, which may have originated in the broad Saharan region at least as early as Afroasiatic Nilo-Saharan may be distantly related to the fourth family, ... taken Carthage a decade later, and extended their power across the region sub-saharan africa Whether Carthage transmitted metalworking to sub-Saharan Africa is one of the mysteries of African ... religions, and alphabetic literacy that sub-Saharan Africa partially shared with the Eurasian core Partial isolation meant that cultural phenomena took distinctively African forms Partial integration...
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The History of a Mouthful docx

The History of a Mouthful docx

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... at all To see them at work, in what they call their laboratories, you would say that they were a set of madmen But at the end, it is found, some fine day, that they have changed the face of the ... closed at each end; at the upper one by the last ring of the _aesophagus_, and at the lower by another ring of the same kind, only stronger; the watchful guardian of the passage which leads to the ... nearly as possible, the same chyme as the charcoal-burner's black bread; and though the palate of the former may be better treated than that of the latter, the pylori can enjoy but one and the...
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Black: The History of a Color

Black: The History of a Color

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... England between the Anglo-Saxon king Alfred and Danish invaders, the invaders had a magic banner at their disposal In times of peace it was an immaculate white, but in times of war a black crow appeared ... realm of Erebus, son of Chaos and brother of Night All insist on the color black for the dwelling place of the dead 33 The Bear, a Wild Animal For the Romans, the bear was the strongest of all animals ... beginning and that the universe is eternal and infinite, a primal image of a world made of darkness asserts itself nonetheless—that is to say, a world made of a material that absorbs all the electromagnetic...
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A View of the History of Biochemical Engineering

A View of the History of Biochemical Engineering

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... Valley Authority (Farina 1991) and the U.S National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Wyman 1991) Recent work by ARKENOL in California, USA (Cuzen 1997) and APACE in New South Wales, Australia, have ... to other chemicals including acetic acid, lactic acid, glycerol, fumaric acid, citric acid, malic acid, succinic acid, aspartic acid, bacterial polysaccharides, acetone, butanol, butyric acid, ... hydrochloric acid first applied in the World War II era for conversion of cellulose to sugars was again investigated by Battelle-Geneva on a pilot plant basis, particularly of separation of the hydrochloric...
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A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised pdf

A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised pdf

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... the arrangement of the points of support, and hence the nature of the structural design A comparison, for example, of the plans of the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak (Fig 11, h) and of the Basilica ... the North and West, meanwhile, under the growing institutions of the papacy and of the monastic orders and the emergence of a feudal civilization out of the chaos of the Dark Ages, the constant ... Jugganat the name of the deity is Jagannath; the English name-form led to the word “juggernaut” Kantonnuggur Kantanagar the author seems not to have realized that this is the same place as Oudeypore...
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Confronting Images: Questioning the Ends of a Certain History of Art

Confronting Images: Questioning the Ends of a Certain History of Art

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... approximation to renounce the humanism of the history of art: death Resemblance as drama Two medieval treatises facing Vasari: the rent subject facing the man of humanism The history of art is a history ... of Vasarian academicism: triumphant ri` nascita recast in a certain notion of the history of art as rationalist humanism; the famous imitazione recast in a hierarchical table of the relations between ... mousetraps in the Merode Altarpiece.2 Thanks to Panofsky, we are aware that the very transparence of a window, in the context of an Annunciation, can serve as a vehicle for the most resistant of theological...
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THE CHEMICAL HISTORY OF A CANDLE A COURSE OF LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE A JUVENILE AUDIENCE AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION ppt

THE CHEMICAL HISTORY OF A CANDLE A COURSE OF LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE A JUVENILE AUDIENCE AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION ppt

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... illustrations of the general nature of a candle that I can possibly give The fuel provided, the means of bringing that fuel to the place of chemical action, the regular and gradual supply of air ... sketched many years ago by Hooker, when he made his investigations It is the drawing of the flame of a lamp, but it will apply to the flame of a candle The cup of the candle is the vessel or lamp, the ... from Japan, since we have forced an entrance into that out -of -the- way place a sort of wax which a kind friend has sent me, and which forms a new material for the manufacture of candles And how are...
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THE FIRST BANK OF THE UNITED STATES - A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF CENTRAL BANKING pdf

THE FIRST BANK OF THE UNITED STATES - A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF CENTRAL BANKING pdf

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... Historical and Architectural Data,” Philadelphia: Independence National Historical Park, April 1981 The First Bank of the United States 11 rates and thus bank profits Without the restraining hand of ... PHILADELPHIA In 1789, he became assistant secretary of the Treasury THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA 1800, Adams left Philadelphia for the new capital city, the College of New Jersey (later Albert ... not only the largest financial institution in the new nation but also the largest corporation of any type by far The bank’s sale of shares was also the largest initial public Between 1800 and 1805,...
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A Different Story of the History of Western Music and the Aesthetic Project pdf

A Different Story of the History of Western Music and the Aesthetic Project pdf

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... witness the renaissance of the word ‘aesthetics’ We find that there was a gradual change in the nobleman’s ways of looking at art and of thinking and acting and that a bourgeois economic and rationally ... characterized by a hegemony of surface aesthetics where the prevalence of an “always-acting” aesthetic results in the “always-aesthetic experience” of aeV This has happened at the same time as ... or talked about what the aesthetics of Schlager (i.e popular songs in the TinPan-Alley-tradition) could mean, but Adorno had already started to complain in the late 1920s about the degenerate...
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A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar; A Contribution to the History of India doc

A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar; A Contribution to the History of India doc

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... is the portico of the palace of the RAI Above each bazaar is a lofty arcade with a magnificent gallery, but the audience-hall of the king's palace is elevated above all the rest The bazaars are ... Reign of Bukka I Kampa and Sangama? The Bahmani kingdom established, 1347 Death of Nagadeva of Warangal -Vijayanagar's first great war Massacres by Muhammad Bahmani Battle at Adoni, 1366 ... by the Brahman Madhava or Madhavacharya Vidyaranya, and by some means not stated became lords of that tract, afterwards founding the city of Vijayanagar.[29] Another states that the two brothers...
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The History of Banks: To Which Is Added, a Demonstration of the Advantages and Necessity of Free Competi- tion In the Business of Banking. Richard Hildreth doc

The History of Banks: To Which Is Added, a Demonstration of the Advantages and Necessity of Free Competi- tion In the Business of Banking. Richard Hildreth doc

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... branch of traffic As a natural consequence of the issue of all this paper the coin was rapidly leaving the kingdom; this circumstance alarmed the managers of the bank; and as the circulation of ... instantly fatal to the circulation of the notes Apart from the shock it gave to their credit, and as one edict had taken away half their value, another might take away the other half, it destroyed their ... Pennsylvania, then, as now, was divided into a bank party and an anti-bank party, and the struggle was severe In 1785, the anti-bank party prevailed in the legislature, and the bank charter was repealed;...
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The History of England A Study in Political Evolution ppt

The History of England A Study in Political Evolution ppt

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... would have neutralized the advantage England had secured in the possession of the Atlantic seaboard of North America, and have made the vast West a heritage of France Nevertheless, the wars of William ... England; and the agricultural organization of the township was dovetailed into the jurisdictional organization of the manor The lord became the lord of all the land on the manor, the owner of a ... of the islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and threatening South Africa, Australia, and the western shores of America No armaments and no treaties of arbitration can ward off their economic...
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The Chemical History Of A Candle, by Michael Faraday docx

The Chemical History Of A Candle, by Michael Faraday docx

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... regular and gradual supply of air to that place of action—heat and light—all produced by a little piece of wood of this kind, forming, in fact, a natural candle But we must speak of candles as they ... sketched many years ago by Hooker, when he made his investigations It is the drawing of the flame of a lamp, but it will apply to the flame of a candle The cup of the candle is the vessel or lamp, the ... sulphuric acid, which takes away the lime, and leaves the fat re-arranged as stearic acid, whilst a quantity of glycerin is produced at the same time Glycerin—absolutely a sugar, or a substance similar...
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A Short Account of the History of Mathematics, by W. W. Rouse Ball pot

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics, by W. W. Rouse Ball pot

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... Graecia Magna, had been brought before the Athenians on various occasions Anaxagoras Amongst the most important of the philosophers who resided at Athens and prepared the way for the Athenian ... that of mathematics under Greek influence, that of the mathematics of the middle ages and of the renaissance, and lastly that of modern mathematics The next four chapters (chapters ii, iii, iv and ... 412–485 Damascius Eutocius Roman Mathematics Nature and extent of the mathematics read at Rome Contrast between the conditions at Rome and at Alexandria End of the Second Alexandrian School...
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A Companion to the History of Economic Thought - Overview ppt

A Companion to the History of Economic Thought - Overview ppt

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... Associate Professor in the history and methodology of economics at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands He specializes in the history and methodology of Marx’s and Marxian theory, and dialectical ... thought, monetary theory, and regional finance Ross B Emmett is John P Tandberg Chair and Associate Professor of Economics at Augustana University College, Camrose, Alberta, Canada He specializes in ... Professor of Economics at the University of Victoria, Canada He specializes in the history of economics, institutional economics, and the history of American economics Warren J Samuels is Professor...
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A Companion to the History of Economic Thought - Chapter 1 pot

A Companion to the History of Economic Thought - Chapter 1 pot

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... economic profession and the processes that govern the transmission and acceptance of ideas has also motivated much of the work on the transmission of ideas across international boundaries, work that ... unheeded, and several of the part II essays describe and survey the results of alternative approaches Whereas the modal research approach in the history of economics has implicitly begun with the concept ... contemporary philosophical system The argument that a particular interpretation of an ambiguous passage would represent a similar parallel can then be offered as evidence for that interpretation Or, if...
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A Companion to the History of Economic Thought - Chapter 2 ppt

A Companion to the History of Economic Thought - Chapter 2 ppt

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... the core It was partially salvaged by Eudoxus’ importation from Chaldea of a dialectical approach to irrationals that became a mathematical image for judicial, legislative, and bargaining processes, ... of the animals divides the meat into four piles The lion chooses the first share as the King of Beasts,” the second as leader of the hunt, the third as a participant, and, finally, he places a ... significance and limits of mathematics in their disciplines Plato was basically elaborating the ideas of the secret Pythagorean societies They held that the world was a rational entity built by the...
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A Companion to the History of Economic Thought - Chapter 3 pptx

A Companion to the History of Economic Thought - Chapter 3 pptx

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... Abbasid Caliph Maamoun ordered Syrian Christians at Baghdad to translate the works of the Greeks into Arabic These translations gave rise to a great deal of philosophic activity and some of the ... Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al Nadwaa —— 1927: Kitab Tahafut al, Falasafah (The Incoherence of Philosophers) Beirut, Lebanon Ghazanfar, S M 1991: Scholastic economics and Arab scholars: the Great Gap thesis ... the language of theology, the Prophet and the Caliphs until the Ottoman days, and the medieval international language of Muslims from Spain to the Far East, should not make one Arab Although the...
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A Companion to the History of Economic Thought - Chapter 4 ppsx

A Companion to the History of Economic Thought - Chapter 4 ppsx

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... with the importance of trade and payment balances, defined either as a positive balance of trade theory or as a positive balance of labor theory However, what they mainly shared was a preoccupation ... Heckscher’s synthesis was aimed at propagating liberal and free trade ideas against protectionism, and against the economic nationalism that was so characteristic of the interwar period Although Hecksher’s ... transformed into a negative balance of trade They argued that it was this negative balance that had made English exchange rates less favorable and caused a general crisis In this context, we are not concerned...
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A Companion to the History of Economic Thought - Chapter 5 ppsx

A Companion to the History of Economic Thought - Chapter 5 ppsx

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... political economy Empirical accuracy and rhetorical advantage were important aims, but Quesnay added a theoretical one to his approach as far as his economic table was concerned In the final remark ... be a general overview of the subject, while also claiming to have examined in detail the formation and the working of capital and the interest rate As a matter of fact, while the physiocrats ... original: it contains the basic principles of the theory of price and profits that were lacking in Quesnay’s approach It also reveals that Turgot was in full command of the principle of spatial arbitrage...
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