David Philip Miller: 8 books

Book cover of The Life and Legend of James Watt

The Life and Legend of James Watt

Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine

by David Philip Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019

***The Life and Legend of James Watt***offers a deeper understanding of the work and character of the great eighteenth-century engineer. Stripping away layers of legend built over generations, David Philip Miller finds behind the heroic engineer a conflicted man often diffident about his achievements...
Book cover of James Watt, Chemist

James Watt, Chemist

Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age

by David Philip Miller
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009

In the Victorian era, James Watt became an iconic engineer, but in his own time he was also an influential chemist. Miller examines Watt’s illustrious engineering career in light of his parallel interest in chemistry, arguing that Watt’s conception of steam engineering relied upon chemical understandings. Part...
Book cover of Discovering Water

Discovering Water

James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth-Century 'Water Controversy'

by David Philip Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

The 'water controversy' concerns one of the central discoveries of modern science, that water is not an element but rather a compound. The allocation of priority in this discovery was contentious in the 1780s and has occupied a number of 20th century historians. The matter is tied up with the larger...
Book cover of The Christian Therapist's Notebook

The Christian Therapist's Notebook

Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Christian Counseling

by Philip J. Henry, Lori Marie Figueroa, David R. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012

Provide professionally sound and principled therapy based on the truth of God Christians are faced with the same range of problems as everyone else. However, Christian therapists understand deeply the unique issues involved with their therapy. The Christian Therapist’s Notebook is a single...
Book cover of Zones of Control

Zones of Control

Perspectives on Wargaming

by Jon Peterson, John Curry, Tetsuya Nakamura
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
Book cover of Cognition Switch #4
by Scott Aaronson, James Q Whitman, Costica Bradatan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019

Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas Issue #4: March 2019 Featuring Ideas by: James Q Whitman, Costica Bradatan, Angela Kennedy, Matthew Francis, David Munns, Chris Kempes, Van Savage, Neil Levy, Stefani Engelstein, Walter Vannini, Tom Winterbottom, Lori Miller Kase, Matthew Karp, Philip Goff, and Scott Aaronson
Book cover of EXIT EARTH
by Duncan Abel, Virginia Ballesty, Erik Bergstrom
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017

From Trumpocalypse to Brexit Britain, brick by brick the walls are closing in. But don’t despair. Bulldoze the borders. Conquer freedom not fear. EXIT EARTH explores all life – past, present, or future – on, or off – this beautiful, yet fragile, world of ours. Final embraces beneath a sky...
Book cover of Studies in Victorian and Modern Literature

Studies in Victorian and Modern Literature

A Tribute to John Sutherland

by Rosemary Ashton, Tony Bareham, Michael Caines
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015

This book examines the vast range of human experience with British and American literature, from the publishing industry to film adaptations to literary puzzles. Our experience with literature is more than what we read; it is also how we read, how literature is produced and the eternal puzzles it creates.
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