Bøker av Robert Brown

According to their critics, social scientists rarely ask the right questions and cannot provide satisfactory answers even to the questions they ask themselves

According to their critics, social scientists rarely ask the right questions and cannot provide satisfactory answers even to the questions they ask themselves

Summary of design history and careers with full details of class variations and modifications

The leaders in England of two schools of mythology, based mainly in the one case on Aryan linguistics and in the other on anthropology, have recently published their revised, and probably final, conclusions. The time, therefore, seems oportune for a statement of the principles of a third School, which, for present purposes, I may style the Aryo-Semitic. Its members, whilst paying every respect to the system of Aryan philology, and fully recognizing the vast results that have sprung from the scientific application of Aryan linguistics, are nevertheless of opinion that the Aryanists have been unable to explain Hellenic mythology and Hellenic archaic history as a whole, because they have almost wholly ignored or denied the existence of that great mass of Semitic influence, which the Aryo-Semitic School hold is to be found throughout the length and breadth of Hellas. This latter School, moreover, is in entire sympathy with the researches of anthropology in general, and of folklore in particular.

Reproduces a complete set of official Admiralty plans, all in full colour

The botanist and librarian Robert Brown (1773-1858) is regarded as one of the most significant figures in the advancement of plant science in the nineteenth century. This two-volume collection of his 'miscellaneous botanical works', edited by John J. Bennett, Brown's assistant, was published in 1866-7.

Provides a review of liver diseases and transplantation that is comprehensive enough to provide an intellectual basis for the data, yet simple enough to be read and assimilate into clinical practice rapidly. It is written with an intended flow and structure: the early chapters are summaries on topics such as early and late liver disease, workup and diagnosis, and pre- and post-transplant problems. The chapters that follow are liver disease-specific and cover the liver diseases physicians will encounter in their patients.

An inspiring, informative, and reflective volume of meditations on the core values of golf. Where golf has been and -- more importantly -- where it is going are the focus of these meditations, all mini-essays on such subjects as rules, traditions, sportsmanship, and stewardship of the game''s future.

This volume is a study of the development of the idea that human social behaviour is governed by laws comparable to the laws of natural science. The author sets out to provide a clear account of the arguments put forward from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries about the nature and possibility of social laws.

Analyzing Love is concerned with four basic and neglected problems concerning love.