Century Of Endeavour

Author : Peter Moore
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374715519

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Endeavour by Peter Moore Pdf

"An immense treasure trove of fact-filled and highly readable fun.” --Simon Winchester, The New York Times Book Review A Sunday Times (U.K.) Best Book of 2018 and Winner of the Mary Soames Award for History An unprecedented history of the storied ship that Darwin said helped add a hemisphere to the civilized world The Enlightenment was an age of endeavors, with Britain consumed by the impulse for grand projects undertaken at speed. Endeavour was also the name given to a collier bought by the Royal Navy in 1768. It was a commonplace coal-carrying vessel that no one could have guessed would go on to become the most significant ship in the chronicle of British exploration. The first history of its kind, Peter Moore’s Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World is a revealing and comprehensive account of the storied ship’s role in shaping the Western world. Endeavour famously carried James Cook on his first major voyage, charting for the first time New Zealand and the eastern coast of Australia. Yet it was a ship with many lives: During the battles for control of New York in 1776, she witnessed the bloody birth of the republic. As well as carrying botanists, a Polynesian priest, and the remains of the first kangaroo to arrive in Britain, she transported Newcastle coal and Hessian soldiers. NASA ultimately named a space shuttle in her honor. But to others she would be a toxic symbol of imperialism. Through careful research, Moore tells the story of one of history’s most important sailing ships, and in turn shines new light on the ambition and consequences of the Age of Enlightenment.

Author : Roy H. W. Johnston
Publisher : Academica Press,LLC
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781930901766

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Century of Endeavour by Roy H. W. Johnston Pdf

This work is the study of a family's century long involvement with Irish self rule and political freedom. Joe Johnston (1890-1972), from a Tyrone Presbyterian small-farm background, had 3 elder brothers who made their careers in the Indian Civil Service. The family were 'Home Rule within the Empire' supporters in the Ulster liberal tradition. After studying classics and ancient history in Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and then in Oxford, JJ became a Fellow of Trinity in 1913. He then published his anti-Carson book Civil War in Ulster, attacking the process which culminated in the 1914 Larne gun-running. He contributed significantly to the emergent national movement. He wrote critically about 1930s economic policies, and went on the serve in the Irish Senate/Sennad from 1939 to 1954. His son RJ (b.1929) was a pioneer of the student left in TCD in the 1940s, and was associated with the post-war attempt to bring European Marxist thinking into the Irish labour movement, with the foundation of the Irish Workers League in 1948. After a period in London in the early 1960s, he returned to Dublin, this time as a research scientist, and helped Cathal Goulding in his attempt to get the 1960s generation of republicans to go political, in a democratic left-wing mode, decoupling from the Stalinist incubus. He helped set the stage for the emergence of the Civil Rights approach to reform in Northern politics, as a means of opening up an all-Ireland perspective. His opponents in the Republican movement, the Provisionals, opted for violence . In the ensuing decades he participated in various politicising processes which may, in the end, show the counter-productive nature of the role of the gun in politics, in Ireland and elsewhere. Roy Johnston lives in Dublin and continues to be politically active. "An important addition to any library of 20th century Irish Studies" Professor J.Skelly

Author : A. E. Blight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Methodist Church
ISBN : OCLC:220304444

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Methodist Church, Hawthorn Road, East Brighton, Centenary Celebrations, November 25th - December 2nd 1945 by A. E. Blight Pdf

Author : Ralph Kern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0992907780

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Endeavour by Ralph Kern Pdf

Author : A. Reichwein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136204692

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China and Europe by A. Reichwein Pdf

Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up to date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and sociologists. This reprinted material is available as a set or in the following groupings: * Prehistory and Historical Ethnography Set of 12: 0-415-15611-4: £800.00 * Greek Civilization Set of 7: 0-415-15612-2: £450.00 * Roman Civilization Set of 6: 0-415-15613-0: £400.00 * Eastern Civilizations Set of 10: 0-415-15614-9: £650.00 * Judaeo-Christian Civilization Set of 4: 0-415-15615-7: £250.00 * European Civilization Set of 11: 0-415-15616-5: £700.00

Author : Lawrence M. Njoroge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Kenya
ISBN : 9966602585

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Beyond Century of Endeavour by Lawrence M. Njoroge Pdf

Author : Michael Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 1848890230

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Great Endeavour by Michael Smith Pdf

A powerful and compelling celebration of 200 years of Irish exploration in the Antarctic.

Author : Lawrence M. Njoroge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073498813

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A Century of Catholic Endeavour by Lawrence M. Njoroge Pdf

Author : John Selwyn Gilbert
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781291612882

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Endeavour at Cape Horn by John Selwyn Gilbert Pdf

This book is about a long journey by sea, from Fremantle, in Western Australia, to Whitby, in Yorkshire. It took 139 days and the author and his shipmates travelled 16,626 miles. They were crewing on board the Endeavour Replica, modelled on Captain Cook's ship, in which he completed a similar journey in the opposite direction in the eighteenth century. The journey is full of hazards and privations, like Cook's own journey, and the adventures and the vicissitudes are well described and well remembered. The author celebrated his 59th. birthday close to the spot on the earth's surface that is furthest from any land.

Author : Joseph Banks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108029162

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Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks Bart., K.B., P.R.S. by Joseph Banks Pdf

A fascinating account of the voyage of the Endeavour across the Pacific Ocean, by Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820).

Author : Charles Sherrington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107453784

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The Endeavour of Jean Fernel by Charles Sherrington Pdf

Originally published in 1946, this book examines the writing and controversy of Jean Fernel's The Natural Part of Medicine, the 1542 publication that attempted to replace Galen's treatise on physiology. Sherrington assesses Fernel's impact on the field of medical writing, and includes multiple plates illustrating early editions of Fernel's treatise and important figures of the day. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in medical history.

Author : Charles P. Chen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351953382

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Career Endeavour: Pursuing a Cross-Cultural Life Transition by Charles P. Chen Pdf

This book is concerned with trainee professionals and their search for meaning through the determined and creative pursuit of a cross-cultural career transition. Adopting a qualitative research framework, the book describes the career experience of professional trainees from non-Western cultures who have chosen to develop their careers in the West. It examines the process of the initial consideration of change, the exploring of options (including whether to emigrate) and how the many issues and challenges of adapting to the socio-cultural environment of the host country were met. In addition it examines how the process provided the trainee professionals involved with greater self-understanding and how as a result they were able to further consider their future career plans. The book then highlights the implications of these experiences for theory, research and practice.

Author : H.G. Koenigsberger,George L. Mosse,G.Q. Bowler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317875864

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Europe in the Sixteenth Century by H.G. Koenigsberger,George L. Mosse,G.Q. Bowler Pdf

This bestselling, seminal book - a general survey of Europe in the era of `Rennaisance and Reformation' - was originally published in Denys Hay's famous Series, `A General History of Europe'. It looks at sixteenth-century Europe as a complex but interconnected whole, rather than as a mosaic of separate states. The authors explore its different aspects through the various political structures of the age - empires, monarchies, city-republics - and how they functioned and related to one another. A strength of the book remains the space it devotes to the growing importance of town-life in the sixteenth century, and to the economic background of political change.

Author : David Andrews
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595355488

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Endeavour's Legacy by David Andrews Pdf

A challenging new assignment for business consultant Richard Scott-Revesby delivers him into a web of international intrigue and conspiracy that reaches back to the exploratory voyages of Captain James Cook. He unearths a stunning secret capable of dramatically altering peoples lives, which in turn leads him headlong into the machiavellian intrigues of a powerful secret society. Created by Kaiser Wilhelm II, the deadly Valkyrie is being torn asunder by a breakaway movement led by the ruthless Romana, a dominant and lethal beauty intent on achieving ultimate control by whatever means necessary. Through heart stopping challenges Richard struggles to survive the daunting challenge. He is aided by Jade Liau a clever and beautiful Tahitian girl seeking revenge for her fathers brutal murder. A journey that leads to her own astonishing self-discovery. Powerful European royal families react violently to protect their legacy as the plot hurtles towards the final climactic events in artic Norway and the barren splendours of the Austrian Tyrol. Weaving historical facts with modern day intrigue the story underlines the maxim that you only understand the future if you understand the past. Impossible to put down. "Another exciting, fast paced novel from the master storyteller David J Andrews. History comes alive, intertwined with mystery and political themes. Endeavour's Legacy is reminiscent of Dan Brown's popular fiction and with its ever increasing suspense, it is sure to keep readers guessing until the very end."-Mindy Gibbons Klein, Author of A Dance in the Desert. " the author reminds me of Jeffery Archer."-John Trenhaile, Author of The man called Kyril and Mahjong Spies etc

Author : Professor Christopher B Kaiser
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781409477662

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Toward a Theology of Scientific Endeavour by Professor Christopher B Kaiser Pdf

Foundations of science are specific conditions of the cosmos, of human intelligence, of cultural beliefs, and of technological structures that make the pursuit of modern science possible. Each of the four foundations of scientific endeavour can be studied as a topic on its own. The concurrent study of all four together reveals several tensions and interconnections among them that point the way to a greater unification of faith and science. This book explores four foundations of scientific endeavour and investigates some of the paradoxes each of them raises. Kaiser shows that the resolution of these paradoxes inevitably leads us into theological discourse and raises new challenges for theological endeavour. In order to address these challenges, Kaiser draws on the wider resources of the Judeo-Christian tradition and argues for a refocusing of contemporary theology from the perspective of natural science.