Author: Richard De Bury
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: bury, richard, philobiblon
Number of Pages: 60
Published: 2004-06
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1419177176
ISBN-13: 9781419177170
Since the degree of affection a thing deserves depends upon the degree of its value, and the previous chapter shows that the value of books is unspeakable, it is quite clear to the reader what is the probable conclusion from this. I say probable, for in moral science we do not insist upon demonstration.
Author: J. B. Bury
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: progress, idea
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1419167014
ISBN-13: 9781419167010
At the same time Pascal recognised that we are indebted to the ancients for our very superiority to them in the extent of our knowledge. "They reached a certain point, and the slightest effort enables us to mount higher; so that we find ourselves on a loftier plane with less trouble and less glory." The attitude of Descartes was very different. Aspiring to begin ab integro and reform the foundations of knowledge, he ignored or made little of what had been achieved in the past.
Author: J. B. Bury
Publisher: Echo Library
Keywords: progress, idea
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2010-01-18
List price: $17.90
ISBN-10: 1406894826
ISBN-13: 9781406894820
Bury was an Irish-born historian and scholar, who wrote on many European subjects, including the Roman Empire and Greece.
Author: J.P.T. Bury
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: france
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2003-07-22
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0415316006
ISBN-13: 9780415316002
France, 1814-1940 has a long-established reputation as a clear, accessible and authoritative account of this fascinating period. It describes the characteristics of France’s different regimes and their leading personalities and explains why during these years the people of France had to endure so many revolutions, wars and crises. This celebrated classic now includes a new introduction by Robert Tombs.
Author: Megan Abbott
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: novel, bury
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-07-07
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1416599096
ISBN-13: 9781416599098
In October 1931, a station agent found two large trunks abandoned in Los Angeles’s Southern Pacific Station. What he found inside ignited one of the most scandalous tabloid sensations of the decade.Inspired by this notorious true crime, Edgar®-winning author Megan Abbott’s novel Bury Me Deep is the story of Marion Seeley, a young woman abandoned in Phoenix by her doctor husband. At the medical clinic where she finds a job, Marion becomes fast friends with Louise, a vivacious nurse, and her roommate, Ginny, a tubercular blonde. Before long, the demure Marion is swept up in the exub
Author: J. B. Bury
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: barbarians, europe, invasion
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000-08-17
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0393003884
ISBN-13: 9780393003888
In print for more than thirty years, this book has long served as a standard text on the Germanic penetration of the Roman Empire. Bury’s history is indispensable to anyone who seeks to understand the connection between the barbarian migrations of the third to the ninth century and the framework of modern Europe.
Author: Karl Bury
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: engineering, distributions, statistical
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 1999-01-13
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0521635063
ISBN-13: 9780521635066
Engineers face numerous uncertainties in the design and development of products and processes. To deal with the uncertainties inherent in measured information, they make use of a variety of statistical techniques. This outstanding text presents single-variable statistical distributions that are useful in engineering design and analysis. It lists significant properties of these distributions and describes methods for estimating parameters and their standard errors, constructing confidence intervals, testing hypotheses, and plotting data. Each distribution is worked through typical applicatio
