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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Percival Wolfe
The Parochial Library Of The Eighteenth Century In Christ Church, Boston (1917)
Percival Merritt
KESSINGER PUBLISHING, LLC
2009
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Originally published in 1940, this book contains an expanded English translation of Books 8 and 9 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. These two books are devoted to a discussion on the nature of friendship and the role it played in Greek life, and Percival supplies an introduction with a background to the subject of ancient friendship prior to Aristotle's formulation. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in ancient friendship or the philosophy of Aristotle.
Insect Pests and Fungus Diseases of Fruit and Hops
Percival J. Fryer
Cambridge University Press
2015
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Originally published in 1920, this book was predominantly aimed at fruit growers and was one of the most comprehensive reference guides to pests and fungus diseases at this time. Part one of the book focuses on common insect pests such as the caterpillar, the winter moth and the beetle, discussing their features and environment, whilst part two of the book examines the myriad fungus diseases of fruit and hops and details the intrinsic traits of each disease. Part three goes on to discuss the diverse methods of spraying and deals with prevention, remedies and treatment. Additionally, the book contains multiple illustrations and historic photographs. This book is an important record of the most prevalent pests and fungus diseases in the early twentieth-century landscape and will be of particular value to anyone interested in the history of botany and agricultural science.
Johannes de Mirfeld of St Bartholomew's, Smithfield
Percival Horton-Smith Hartley; Harold Richard Aldridge
Cambridge University Press
2013
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Originally published in 1936, this book deals with the first writings of a medical nature known to be associated with any English hospital and their mysterious author, Johannes de Mirfeld. Hartley and Aldridge provide the original Latin text of all of Mirfeld's works, along with an English translation on each facing page. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in medical history.
Technical Handbook of Oils, Fats and Waxes: Volume 1, Chemical and General
Percival J. Fryer; Frank E. Weston
Cambridge University Press
2013
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First published in 1918, as the second edition of a 1917 original, this book forms part one of two volumes on the properties of oils, fats and waxes. The texts were designed to meet the needs of technical workers and chemists requiring guidance on the basic principles underlying the area. Volume one focuses on chemical and general properties; volume two concentrates on practical and analytical matters. Numerous illustrative figures are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in chemistry and the history of science.
First published in 1889, Land of the Dragon provides a lively account of William Spencer Percival's daily life as a British civil servant working in Shanghai at the end of the nineteenth century. An author of several travel books such as Twenty Years in the Far East (1905), Percival takes his 'sympathetic' British friends' prejudices about China as pretext to give a thorough account of his life in the East. He delights in relating his boating and hunting excursions in the Chinese countryside, and his adventures – camping out, shooting pigs, and towing through rapids – are packed with often extraordinary anecdotes about the land, the Chinese people, and other foreigners, including American and Roman Catholic missionaries. Part travel diary, part anthropological study, this book gives a valuable insight into the relationship between the British and the people of Qing dynasty China.
The Martyr's Return (1915)
Percival W. Wells; Percival Bartlett Cobb
KESSINGER PUBLISHING, LLC
2010
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First published in 1908, this volume explored Japanese culture and society for British readers in the wake of the Anglo-Japanese treaty of 1902. Japan’s recent victory over the Russian Empire in the Russo-Japanese war in 1904-5 had represented the first victory of an Asian power over its Western counterpart. Japan’s resulting parity is reflected both in the treaty and in the author’s conviction that Britain and Japan, though in many ways diametric opposites, could inform and enlighten one another. The two powers, Lowell argues, could work together to the benefit of both peoples. As the 1854 Convention of Kanagawa, in which Japan had abandoned isolation, remained recent, British awareness of Japan and its culture was still in its early stages. Percival Lowell sought to explore and communicate the culture of Britain’s new allies through areas such as its language, social structures, art and religion along with 32 illustrations.