Bøger af James Wilson

James Graham Wilson takes a long view of the end of the Cold War, from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 to Operation Desert Storm in January 1991.

Fascinating insight into Hitler's obsession with and use of the Berchtesgadener region as his Southern HQ. Superb, new and, for the most part, previously unseen images coupled with informative captions and additional text.

'This is a book begun, but not finished. I could not finish it. Many times I have come close to destroying it, thinking I should have no rest while it remained to reproach me. I could not bring myself to do it. I have therefore given instructions that it should be sealed in a box, which is to remain unopened until I, my wife Laura, our sister Marion Halcombe, and all our children are dead.'So begins James Wilson's brilliant imaginative recreation of the Victorian sensation novel as the characters from Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White - Walter Hartright and Marion Halcombe - are involved in another dramatic and dangerous conspiracy. Walter is commissioned to write a biography of the greatest of English painters, JMW Turner, whose life was shrouded in mystery. His researches take him to the dark secret at the centre of Turner's work and involve him and Marion in confronting crimes and human degradation that threaten their sanity and their lives.The Dark Clue takes us into Victorian England in all its staggering extremes; of poverty and wealth, of slums and stately homes, of public morality and private vice in an unforgettable tale of suspense.

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James Wilson wrote his Dictionary of Astrology in 1819. Based in large measure on a close study of the works of Ptolemy and Placidus (among many others), it is a quirky, highly personal view of the ancient science. It has been acclaimed the finest of all astrological dictionaries. Wilson's goal was to force the student to think about some of the basic assumptions in astrology. In the Preface, he writes: If I had any motive more prominent than the rest (beyond promoting the cause of truth, which, I trust, will always be the principal) for publishing this work, it was a desire to injure those harpies who gather together scarce books of science, and hide them from the perusal of mankind, merely for the sake of gain, which, after all, can be but trifling: men like these are the enemies of knowledge, and ought to be severely punished in every civilized nation. This treatise will render most of their hoards comparatively useless, for I have been careful to insert the substance of all they contain relating to astrology, whether true or false, adding occasionally some remarks of my own to distinguish the latter as far as I am able, that every student may be enabled to found his own conviction on his own experience. Rather than the short, arid articles typical of specialized dictionaries, Wilson offers extensive entries on (Primary) Directions, Faces, Figures, Forms of the Body, Horary Astrology, Marriage, Part of Fortune, Weather, the judgment of Revolutions, Progressions, Ingresses, Riches, Promittors, as well as many more. A few years after this book, the author published his translation of Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos, one of only a handful of men to have done so. The Dictionary of Astrology is a book of surprises. It will repay study.

Court and Bowled examines a number of stories where cricket or cricketers gave rise to a legal dispute. All of the stories demonstrated something common to both cricket matches and court cases: behind the intrigue, entertainment and theatrics of both there are always real people and real human stories.

This reference book is a complete dictionary of astrology in which every technical and abstruse term belonging to the science is minutely and correctly explained, and the various systems and opinions of the most approved authors carefully and accurately defined, comprising the only rational method of calculating nativities, and the doctrine of horary questions, completely divested of their extravagance, contradictions, and absurdities.

Provides the systematic description of the linguistic accommodation of Moravian migrants in Bohemia. This book combines a quantitative analysis of six linguistic variables with an ethnographic study of informants' linguistic and social behaviour. It identifies the impact of various social criteria on informants' acquisition of Common Czech forms.

Estuaries are the interface between man and the sea. The estuary should always be regarded as a resource. The objective of this book is to explore the uses to which estuaries are put and the means by which the performance of the system under load may be assessed.

50 stories of notable court cases spanning more than a century. There are great ethical dilemmas, great Victorian scandals, then there are more topical cases, and the cases that can only be described as absurd. Written in an accessible style, the book will be of interest to lawyers and non-lawyers alike.

"I recommend this book to the President, Attorney General, Congress, police, judges, correctional administrators, and the general public for a succinct review of what our major crime problems are and what the potential solutions may be to deterrence, prevention, law enforcement, and sentencing."-New York Times Book Review

This two-volume set brings together a collection of writings and speeches of James Wilson, one of only six signers of both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, and one of the most influential members of the federal Constitutional Convention in 1787. Wilson's writings and speeches had a significant impact on the deliberations that produced the cornerstone documents of our democracy. Wilson's signal contribution to the founding of our national government was his advocacy for both a strong national government and an open and democratic political system, a position that set him apart from both Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. James Wilson (1742-1798) emigrated from Scotland in 1765 and was one of the major architects of the American judicial system. Kermit L. Hall (1944-2006) was the President of the State University of New York at Albany as well as Professor of History at the same institution. Mark David Hall is Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Political Science at George Fox University. Maynard Garrison is a retired attorney. He received his law degree from Stanford University.

A rich, thought-provoking exploration of America's quintessential values, institutions, and challenges, by the nation's top scholars

Now available in paperback, "The Earth Shall Weep" is a groundbreaking, critically acclaimed history of the Native American peoples which combines traditional historical sources with new research.

A leading expert explains what government bureaucracies do and why they behave the way they do.