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Author : Paul L. Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1969-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0384164102
Author : Paul Leicester Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Statesmen
ISBN : HARVARD:32044004433371
Author : Paul Leicester Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:01002428
Author : Paul Leicester Ford
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752362312
Reproduction of the original: The Honorable Peter Stirling by Paul Leicester Ford
Author : Leicester Paul Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 143787651X
Author : Paul Leicester Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:427555131
Author : Paul Ford
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1537058886
An excellent popular book for all
Author : Paul Leicester Ford
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0267212232
Excerpt from The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Peter was not good looking. He was not even, in a sense, attractive. In spite of his taking work so hardly and life so seriously, he was entirely too stout. This gave a heaviness to his face that neutralized his really pleasant brown eyes and thick brown hair, which were his best features. Manly the face was, but, except when speaking in unconscious moments, dull and unstriking. A fellow three inches shorter, and two-thirds his weight would have been called tall. Big was the favorite adjective used in describing Peter, and big he was. Had he gone through college ten years later, he might have won un stinted fame and admiration as the full-back on the team, or stroke on the crew. In his time, athletics were but just obtaining, and were not yet approved of either by faculties or families. Shakespeare speaks of a tide in the affairs of men. Had Peter been born ten years later the probabilities are that his name would have beeh in all the papers, that he would have weighed fifty p nuds less, have been cheered by thousands, have beer he idol Of his class, have been a hero, have married the first girl he loved (for heroes, curiously, either marry or die, but never remain bachelors) and would have but as this is a tale of fact, we must not give rein to imagination. To come back to realism, Peter was a hero to nobody but his mother. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Paul Leicester Ford
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530975239
Like most good talkers, Mr. Pierce was a tongue despot. Conversation must take his course, or he would none of it. Generally he controlled. If an upstart endeavored to turn the subject, Mr. Pierce waited till the intruder had done speaking, and then quietly, but firmly would remark: "Relative to the subject we were discussing a moment ago-" If any one ventured to speak, even sotto voce, before Mr. Pierce had finished all he had to say, he would at once cease his monologue, wait till the interloper had finished, and then resume his lecture just where he had been interrupted. Only once had Mr. Pierce found this method to fail in quelling even the sturdiest of rivals. The recollection of that day is still a mortification to him. It had happened on the deck of an ocean steamer. For thirty minutes he had fought his antagonist bravely. Then, humbled and vanquished, he had sought the smoking-room, to moisten his parched throat, and solace his wounded spirit, with a star cocktail. He had at last met his superior. He yielded the deck to the fog-horn. At the present moment Mr. Pierce was having things very much his own way. Seated in the standing-room of a small yacht, were some eight people. With a leaden sky overhead, and a leaden sea about it, the boat gently rose and fell with the ground swell. Three miles away could be seen the flash-light marking the entrance to the harbor. But though slowly gathering clouds told that wind was coming, the yacht now lay becalmed, drifting with the ebb tide. The pleasure-seekers had been together all day, and were decidedly talked out. For the last hour they had been singing songs-always omitting Mr. Pierce, who never so trifled with his vocal organs. During this time he had been restless. At one point he had attempted to deliver his opinion on the relation of verse to music, but an unfeeling member of the party had struck up "John Brown's Body," and his lecture had ended, in the usual serial style, at the most interesting point, without even the promise of a "continuation in our next." Finally, however, the singers had sung themselves hoarse in the damp night air, the last "Spanish Cavalier" had been safely restored to his inevitable true-love, and the sound of voices and banjo floated away over the water. Mr. Pierce's moment had come. Some one, and it is unnecessary to mention the sex, had given a sigh, and regretted that nineteenth century life was so prosaic and unromantic. Clearing his throat, quite as much to pre-empt the pause as to articulate the better, Mr. Pierce spoke
Author : Paul Leicester Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433062151471
Author : Peter Sterling
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262043304
An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level. Medical education centers on the venerable “no-fault” concept of homeostasis, whereby local mechanisms impose constancy by correcting errors, and the brain serves mainly for emergencies. Yet, it turns out that most parameters are not constant; moreover, despite the importance of local mechanisms, the brain is definitely in charge. In this book, the eminent neuroscientist Peter Sterling describes a broader concept: allostasis (coined by Sterling and Joseph Eyer in the 1980s), whereby the brain anticipates needs and efficiently mobilizes supplies to prevent errors. Allostasis evolved early, Sterling explains, to optimize energy efficiency, relying heavily on brain circuits that deliver a brief reward for each positive surprise. Modern life so reduces the opportunities for surprise that we are driven to seek it in consumption: bigger burgers, more opioids, and innumerable activities that involve higher carbon emissions. The consequences include addiction, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and climate change. Sterling concludes that solutions must go beyond the merely technical to restore possibilities for daily small rewards and revivify the capacities for egalitarianism that were hard-wired into our nature. Sterling explains that allostasis offers what is not found in any medical textbook: principled definitions of health and disease: health as the capacity for adaptive variation and disease as shrinkage of that capacity. Sterling argues that since health is optimal responsiveness, many significant conditions are best treated at the system level.
Author : Paul Leicester Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : American fiction
ISBN : CHI:22061947
Author : Paul Leicester Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCLA:31158013373922
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Education
ISBN : CHI:096025585
Author : Philip Alexander Bruce,William Glover Stanard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Virginia
ISBN : UCAL:B3624035
