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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Very Old Book
This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1892 edition by Whittaker and Co., London

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It is not surprising that the execution of a woman, by burning, so lately as when Shirley was governor,--a period when the province had greatly advanced in culture and refinement,--should seem to any one incredible. Indeed, even so critical and thorough a student of our provincial history as our late distinguished associate.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Publisher: London : Whittaker and CoPublication date: 1847Subjects: Latin language -- Dictionaries EnglishNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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The witness is gone, the testimony will stand
Read this for graduate American history course.There are a few rare instances in American history when a court case grips the passions of its citizens and serves to define people's political or social beliefs based on which side they believed was in the right.The Sacco and Vanzetti case of the 1920's, the Rosenberg espionage trials of the 1950's, and the O. J. Simpson case of the 1990's were to some extent examples of this phenomena.However, the Hiss perjury trials of 1949-50 were the epitome of this phenomenon, and helped to create a divide between liberals and conservatives in American politics that is still evident to this day.During the Cold War era, one could easily identify the political persuasion of a person simply by asking them whether Hiss or Chambers had told the truth.Simply put, the innocence of Alger Hiss was embraced by liberals.If Hiss, a well respected New Deal advocate and important Roosevelt administration member, had actually been an American Communistspying for the Soviets since the 1930's, then a whole mass ofconservative accusations would gain legitimacy, and all of FDR's New Deal programs and his foreign policy decisions at the Yalta Conference would become suspect.In addition, Hiss' guilt would call into question security breaches in the Truman administration, which was already being besieged by questions of "Who lost China."It is against this historical backdrop, that Whittaker Chambers wrote his autobiography Witness. His purpose was to make the first serious explanation of his life and motivations, he became one of America's most contentious figures in the last half of the twentieth-century, Whittaker Chambers.

Chambers' early life is an excellent insight into his psychological profile.Born Vivian Jay Chambers on April 1, 1901, (April Fools Day), he came from a middle-class family of meager means.Add to the mix a father who was bisexual and spent much time away from home, a mother who was paranoid, a grandmother who was insane, and his brother Richard who committed suicide, it is no wonder that you have the formula for a man who developed into a tormented soul and was generally estranged from the world and the people around him.In fact, throughout the book, Chambers illuminates his theme, which is to examine his tormented life at key junctures; such as, when he joined and left the Communist party, when he became a reluctant informer against Alger Hiss.Chambers, who attended Long Island's South Side High School, showed himself to be academically brilliant and an exceptional writer.His parents had big dreams for their son's future.Chambers had dreams too but they did not involve college.Being too young to fight in World War II, he decided to run away with a friend to see the world.They bummed around and worked their way to New Orleans--a city he fell in love with."Chambers had discovered life as Hugo described it, a kind of prison, harsh and cruel, but lit from within by tender sentiment and from without by sudden shafts of illumination."After a few months of life on the seedy side and running out of money, he returned home and changed his name to Charles Whittaker but went by Whittaker, and within six months entered Columbia University.

A new world was opened to Chambers at Columbia with which he became enamored.He took English composition with Mark Van Doren, who later in life became a Pulitzer Prize winning poet.Van Doren quickly saw in Chambers a very talented writer and later remarked that he was the best writer among his undergraduate students in the 1920's.Chambers especially enjoyed the friendship of fellow students, mostly Jewish, whom he found brilliant such as Lionel Trilling, Meyer Schapiro, and Mortimer J. Adler to name a few."It was the ernste Menschen" (serious men) "who shaped Chamber's idea, never altered, of the intellectual life."However, academic bliss was not to be for Chambers.He ran afoul of the school administration for a play that he wrote which was deemed profane, and thus became despondent and quit going to class--eventually dropping out and never finishing his university education.He tried to travel to the Soviet Union to help build a new nation on the advice of Van Doren, but he only made it to Germany before returning home.He took a job at the New York Public Library which fed his autodidactic nature, and he started to consort with many women.It is at this stage in Chambers' life in 1925, that he joined the 16,000 member Communist Party of the United States, (CPUSA)."So much the better.He was used to being outnumbered.He had at last found his church."

Chambers paints a portrait of a man who dove into his new life as a Communist with a religious fervor.Chambers became a much-respected writer for several party newspapers, which brought him to the attention of party apparatchiks in 1932.Chambers also met Esther Shemitz a Socialist, and they married in 1931.It was after his marriage that he accepted an assignment to go underground and actively spy for the Party.He was made the courier of the "Ware cell" in Washington D.C., whose mission was to pass sensitive information from Communist party members who had infiltrated various departments of the U. S. government to Boris Bykov, a Soviet intelligence agent.One of the best-placed spies in the "Ware cell" who provided information to Chambers, then using the alias George Crosley, was Alger Hiss.However, Chambers became so disillusioned by Stalin's purges and his nonaggression pact with Hitler, that in 1938, he quit the party.Fearing for his life and his family's safety, Chambers turned informer and confessed all of his activities to Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle, Jr., who forwarded his notes of the meeting to the FBI, which did not follow up on the case until several years later.In addition, an old friend recommended Chambers for a job at Time magazine, which he was elated to have since he was broke.Chambers' literary acumen and zeal for any new project he took on, propelled him to become one of Time's top editors in the 1940's.The magazine's owner Henry Luce said, "Chambers was the best writer Time ever employed."While a writer and editor at Time, Chambers became a most vociferous anti-Communist.

Soon after Stalin reneged on his Yalta Conference promises, a conference that Alger Hiss played a key role in for the State Department, the U. S. government finally moved to ferret out Communist infiltrators in the government.The FBI finally conducted extensive interviews with Chambers.This led to Chambers becoming a government informant in one of America's most dramatic congressional hearings and court cases of the twentieth-century.Chambers' denouncement of Alger Hiss was a stinging indictment of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, since it cast doubt on American liberals' willingness to conduct espionage investigations during the war years.The contrast between Hiss and Chambers could not be starker.Hiss was a Harvard graduate with impeccable looks and a sterling reputation as a government servant.He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.His character references included Justice Felix Frankfurter, and John Foster Dulles, who was to become Secretary of State in the Eisenhower administration.Chambers was an overweight plain looking man who did not dress well, a self-confessed Communist and government informant.Chambers does a good job of retelling the facts of the perjury case and his testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), as well as his extensive cooperation and long and friendly relationship with Richard Nixon.One finds that Chambers is very revealing of his own motivations in his critically acclaimed autobiography Witness, which was written in 1952 after the Hiss perjury trial.

John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, in their book Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials That Shaped American Politics, written in 2006, proved that their was a preponderance of evidence showing that Hiss was a Communist and did commit espionage against the U. S. government.Hiss was not charged with espionage because the statute of limitations protected him.The first Hiss perjury case ended in a hung jury.The second ended on January 20, 1950 with his conviction on two counts of perjury and a sentence to serve five years in jail--he only served forty-four months.Hiss went to his grave denying the charges against him.Haynes and Klehr wrote that he gained much sympathy with the political left again in the wake of the Watergate scandal claiming, "that a government conspiracy had forged evidence and coerced false testimony against him."

Although Chambers was vindicated by Hiss's conviction, he entered into a self-imposed exile on his farm in Maryland.However, for the rest of his life Chambers was visited by a small coterie of friends with whom he enjoyed lengthy discussions about world affairs."Still convinced he had left the winning side for the losing one, Chambers foretold a global Communist victory.Gloomy as his predictions sounded, he was not devoid of hope."He believed that the primary way the West could defeat Communism was with morality and religion and not militarily.Needing to earn money, Chambers went back to what he did best.He wrote his autobiography Witness, which occupied the top of the New York Times best seller list for several months in 1952, and gave him the financial security he desired.More importantly, Witness was an anti-Communist manifesto that for Chambers described, "a struggle between the force of two irreconcilable faiths--Communism and Christianity."Witness was a powerful exposé of Communist activity in America and changed the life of one future president, Ronald Reagan.Reagan remarked that Witness was his favorite book and pointed to, "Witness as the book that would shape his political outlook."In 1984, President Reagan posthumously awarded Chambers the Presidential Medal of Freedom.The other person of note that Witness made a huge impression on was William F. Buckley, Jr., who befriended Chambers and offered him the position of senior editor of his fledgling conservative magazine National Review.Both men maintained a very friendly relationship up to Chamber's death in 1961.Though Chambers would write articles for the National Review, he turned Buckley's offer down due to his poor health and his growing reluctance of the tactics that the political right was using--especially those of Senator Joseph McCarthy.Near the end of his life, Chambers became friendly with another former Communist and imminent writer, Arthur Koestler.Koestler wrote of Chambers upon receiving news of his death: "I always felt that Whittaker was the most misunderstood person of our time.When he testified he knowingly committed moral suicide to atone for the guilt of our generation.The witness is gone, the testimony will stand."

As a graduate student in philosophy and history, I recommended this book for anyone interested in American history, foreign policy, Cold War history.
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The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Environmental Change covers changes affecting the Earth over geological, intermediate and short timescales, including pre-Quaternary, Quaternary, Holocene, historical and current environmental changes. Recent climatic change is a major focus but other topics covered in detail relate to natural and human-induced changes to the lithosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and biosphere. Concepts, theories and issues relating to environmental change are included, as are the diverse sources of evidence of environmental change, the local, regional and global effects of environmental change from the poles to the tropics, and the approaches and techniques used for reconstructing, dating, monitoring, modelling and predicting change. This involves an interdisciplinary approach extending from the natural environmental sciences into relevant areas of the physical, earth, biological, archaeological and social sciences. The dictionary emphasises the science of environmental change but its social implications are not neglected. Entries range in level from short review articles of around 1,000 words which provide an up-to-date introduction to major topics, to concise one or two sentence definitions of terms likely to be encountered in this field. ... Read more

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What is a Geoindicator? What the heck is Geoconservation?
A must for researchers in quaternary geology, physical geography, and the like. Compiled by British geoscientists who like to throw an occasional a in front of the letter e (see title), but we can forgive them for this. Extensive bibliographies provided for most entries...for a change. If you're an earth scientist or student in need of the right words to describe 'the end of the world as we know it', then this one is your best bet. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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"Emergency Services: Law and Practice" is a comprehensive survey of the legal liabilities of the three main emergency services, written by a team of specialists in public authority liability claims. This new work sets out the legal and regulatory framework in which these services operate and the potential liabilities that arise from the performance of their statutory duties. It covers in detail the public liability of each service including liability for the negligent treatment of victims and negligent rescue. It deals with employer's liability in respect of the unique tasks carried out by employees of emergency services. Other issues specific to one or more of the services such as malfeasance, pensions and disciplinary proceedings are also covered in detail. "Emergency Services: Law and Practice" is essential reading for all lawyers dealing with general common law and public sector claims, risk managers and insurance industry professionals dealing with the public sector. ... Read more

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University of Pittsburgh, PA. Textbook/reference for critical care nurses on the treatment and understanding of the physiologic basis of critical care illnesses. Previous edition 1993. 86 U.S. contributors. DNLM: Critical Care - nurses' instruction. ... Read more