Authors:Monica Storrs, Vera Fast,
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Keywords: monica, storrs, letters, diaries, peace, companions
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1999-06-26
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0802082548
ISBN-13: 9780802082541
In 1929 a cultured English gentlewoman arrived in the barely settled wilderness of northern British Columbia as an Anglican missionary, intending to assuage her sense of duty by staying for one year. She stayed for twenty-one. The years covered by Monica Storrs’ journal entries (1931 - 1939) were at times unbearably hard, the depression compounding what was already a demanding existence. She and the group of women she lived with, the Companions of the Peace, were sent out as ’missionaries of empire.’ As the journals progress, Storrs’ droll British wit persists but he
Authors:Christopher Storrs, Christopher Storrs,
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: century, europe, eighteenth, state, military, fiscal
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2009-02-27
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754658147
ISBN-13: 9780754658146
In recent decades, historians of early-modern Europe, and above all those who study the eighteenth century, have elaborated the concept of what has been called the ’fiscal-military state’. This is a state whose international effectiveness was founded upon the development of large armed forces, whose performance and supply necessitated both further administrative development and the provision of large sums, the raising of which involved unprecedented levels of taxation and borrowing by governments. The present collection of essays, by leading authorities in their individual fields,
Author: Ronald Storrs
Publisher: Ayer Co Pub
Keywords: national, international, viewpoints, affairs, world, sir, ronald, storrs, memoirs
Number of Pages: 563
Published: 1972-10
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 040504593X
ISBN-13: 9780405045936
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
Author: Sir Ronald Storrs
Publisher: Freeman Press
Keywords: storrs, ronald, sir, memoirs
Number of Pages: 620
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 1443725498
ISBN-13: 9781443725491
The Memoirs Of Sir Ronald Storrs. PREFACE: THIS has not been been an easy book to write. My books and papers were destroyed by fire with the rest of my property in 1931, so that of material, consciously prepared or preserved as such, I have none. I had, however, the habit ever since leaving England in 1904 of writing weekly to my mother, and of enclosing briefly minuted items I thought might entertain her. All these documents she kept with my letters, including a few diaries of special missions or journeys during the Wan In the longest of these, describing Baghdad in 1917, she inked over my pe
Author: J. Storrs Hall
Publisher: Prometheus Book
Keywords: machine, conscience, creating
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2007-05-30
List price: $28.98
ISBN-10: 1591025117
ISBN-13: 9781591025115
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now advancing at such a rapid clip that it has the potential to transform our world in ways both exciting and disturbing. Computers have already been designed that are capable of driving cars, playing soccer, and finding and organizing information on the Web in ways that no human could. With each new gain in processing power, will scientists soon be able to create supercomputers that can read a newspaper with understanding, or write a news story, or create novels, or even formulate laws? And if machine intelligence advances beyond human intelligence, will we nee
Author: J. Storrs Hall
Publisher: Prometheus Book
Keywords: nanotechnology, nanofuture
Number of Pages: 333
Published: 2005-05-06
List price: $29.98
ISBN-10: 1591022878
ISBN-13: 9781591022879
Flying cars, space travel for everyone, the elimination of poverty and hunger, and powerful new tools to combat disease, and even aging. These are some of the amazing predicted developments of nanotechnology, the coming science of designing and building machines at the molecular and atomic levels. Will this new scientific revolution be for better or worse? Some commentators have described utopias; others have prophesied disaster. Find out the likely reality from an expert, Dr. J. Storrs Hall, in this absorbing insiders guide to the near future. Dr. Halla leading researcher on the frontiers
Author: Lon L. Fuller
Publisher: Yale University Pre
Keywords: lectures, series, storrs, revised, law, morality
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 1969-01-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0300010702
ISBN-13: 9780300010701
