In its original French La Forrnation du Radicalisme Philosophique en Angleterre appeared in three volumes between the years 1900 and 1903 (one volume dealing with the youth of Bentham from 1776 to 1789, another with the growth of the utilitarian doctrine from 1789 to 1815, and a third with the history of philosophic radicalism from 1815 to 1832): in the English translation it was published in 1928.
The Birth of Purgatory is concerned not with theological discussion but with the growth of an idea, with the relation between belief and society, with mental structures, and with the historical role of the imagination. Le Goff argues that the doctrine of Purgatory did not appear in the Latin theology of the West before the 12th century. He shows that the growth of a belief in an intermediate place between Heaven and Hell was closely bound up with profound changes in the social and intellectual reality of the Middle Ages.
Standard Handbook of Electronic Engineering,5 Edition
The Standard Handbook of Electronics Engineering has defined its field for over thirty years. Spun off in the 1960’s from Fink’s Standard Handbook of Electrical Engineering, the Christiansen book has seen its markets grow rapidly, as electronic engineering and microelectronics became the growth engine of digital computing.
The History of China, Volume 10, Late Ch'ing, 1800-1911, Part 1
This is the first of two volumes in this major history dealing with the decline of the Ch'ing empire. Modern China's history begins with the processes recorded here of economic growth, social change and the deterioration of central government.
Do intertidal organisms simply respond to the rise and fall of tides, or do they possess biological timing and navigation mechanisms that allow them to anticipate when conditions are most favourable? How are the patterns of growth, development and reproduction of some marine plants and animals related to changes in day-length or to phases of the moon?
