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A study of James Hay, a little known 17th-cent. Scotsman who was a key figure in the early Stuart era. Unlike the vast majority of Scots who entered England with James I, Hay absorbed the culture of England and tried to become a genuine part of it, in order to play an important role for his adopted country on both the nat. and internat. level. For more than three decades Hay was at the right hand of those who made the decisions, and advised th...

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. A significant although little known figure in the history of early American science is Anthony Lamb, a maker of mathematical instruments who was active in NY from 1730 to 1784. He had been trained in a skill which was rare in his time even in England, and it was one which was virtually unknown in the American colonies in the early 18th cent. English-born and transported to Maryla...

This is a print on demand publication. Contents: (I) Karl Schmid & His Critics: The Formation of Patrilineal Lineages, Georges Duby, Karl Leyser, Friedrich Prinz, Karl Bosl, Wilhelm Stormer, Patrilineal Lineages & the Investiture Conflict, The "Codex Falkensteinensis", (II) The Ancestors of Count Siboto IV, (III) Siboto IV's Knowledge of His Ancestry: Siboto's Own Presentation of His Genealogy, The Falkensteins' "Hantgemal", The Welfs' Knowled...

Covers colonial architecture in the two westernmost provinces of the Reino de Guatemala: Audiencia & Capitania General -- a region largely isolated from the rest of Central America & Mexico until recent times. The buildings of this region (known as Chiapas) reflect the soc. that produced them: the geographical setting, the conquest & Christianization of the natives, & the ethnic composition of the population. 47 buildings are discussed support...

The fourth of 4 vols. which trace the history of the later Crusades & papal relations with the Levant from the accession of Innocent III (in 1198) to the reign of Pius V & the Battle of Lepanto (1566-71). Contents of this vol.: The Murder of Martinuzzi, the Turks on Land & at Sea, the War of Siena, The Reign of Paul IV to the Outbreak of the War with Spain, Paul IV, the War with Spain & Jean de la Vigne at the Porte, The Election of Pius IV & ...

This is a print on demand publication. Contents: Introduction, (I) The Diversity of the Aristotelian Reaction, (II) The Basic Defense of Aristotelian Cosmology, (III) The Earth's Centrality: The Three Centers, & The Terraqueous Sphere, (IV) The Earth's Immobility: (A) Physical Arguments Based on the Common Motion: The Common Motion, Ships & the Common Motion, Cannon Balls to East & West, The Fall of Heavy & Light Bodies, & Miscellaneous Physic...

Concentrates on a single problem in medieval theology: the relationship between Christ's bodily presence in the Eucharist & the conversion of the Eucharistic elements, bread & wine, into Christ's body & blood. Traces discussion of this problem in the Franciscan order during the late 13th cent. from St. Bonaventure to John Duns Scotus. Contents: The Thomist-Bonaventuran Thesis, Eucharistic Thought in the 1240s: Albert the Great, Wm. of Militona...

Among the Clarendon papers held by the Bodleian Library and the Portland Manuscripts appear copies of a long and detailed letter of advice written to Charles II on the eve of the Restoration. The "Advice" was atributed to Edwad Hyde, Earl of Clarendon and Lord Chancellor during the early years of Charles's reign. In 1903, however, Arthur Strong found that the handwriting of the Welbeck copy was identifical to other documents written by William...

The Todas are a small community who live on the isolated Nilgiri plateau in S. India. They lived there in aboriginal days, i.e. prior to the early 19th cent., in coexist. with other jungle communities. The local social org. was a cast-like system in which the Todas were the top-ranking community. Their population is a minuscule group within the enormous population of India or of the Dravidian part of India. However, the Todas have attracted a ...

This is a print on demand publication. Contents: (I) Introduction: Phlebotomy in the Middle Ages, The Latin Treatise, Late Medieval English Medicine & Middle English Medical Texts, & The Middle English Text: Related Tracts, Date & Dialect, Manuscript, (II) "Tractatus magistri enrici de egritudinibus fleubotomandis"/"Of Phlebotomie", (III) Appendixes: (A) "Of Blode Lytting" (from Gonville & Caius College MS. 84/166, pp. 205-06), (B) Summary of ...

In an alternate America marked by volatile class warfare, Blake Maslin is traveling with his teenage twin daughters when their car is ambushed. Their attackers appear sickly yet possess inhuman strength, and they transport Blake's family to an isolated compound. There, the three captives discover that the compound's residents have a highly contagious alien disease that has mutated their DNA to make them powerful, dangerous, and compelled to in...

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This is a student workbook which is part of Mary Elizabeth Clark's excellent ear training course for music students of all ages, all levels of advancement, and all instruments -- including voice. It is meant to be used along with the Teacher's Book 1B of Now Hear This" in which all the instructions and dictations are given. This student book does not stand alone.

Five volumes on sanctification published under one cover, presenting biblical foundations and keys to spiritual growth in Christ. It includes 'Abide Above', 'The Green Letters', 'The Ground of Growth', 'The Principle of Position', and 'The Reckoning That Counts'.

The methodology used to construct tree structured rules is the focus of this monograph. Unlike many other statistical procedures, which moved from pencil and paper to calculators, this text's use of trees was unthinkable before computers. Both the practical and theoretical sides have been developed in the authors' study of tree methods. Classification and Regression Trees reflects these two sides, covering the use of trees as a data analysis m...

Die auf die 1819 vom Reichsfreiherrn Karl vom Stein gegründete ¿Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde¿ zurückgehenden Monumenta Germaniae Historica haben die Aufgabe, durch kritische Quellen-Ausgaben und -Studien der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung der mittelalterlichen Geschichte Deutschlands und Europas zu dienen. Dieses Ziel verfolgen sie dadurch, dass sie in ihren Editionsreihen mittelalterliche Textquellen der Forschung zugängli...

Chiefly papers presented at a symposium held Oct. 12-14, 1983, at the Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam.

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