Slater John: 14 books

A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh is a collection of essays based on presentations at the Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference at Hertford College, Oxford, in 2003. There are twelve different essays by authors from various countries, including Australia, Canada, Russia, the United Kingdom,...

I bought this book as I was starting into book collecting. Is is very well written and engaging. If you are starting at a slower pace than I did or if you are just thinking about becoming a book collector this is a fine place to start. It has chapter-length overviews of all the important realms and activities...

Architecture: Classic And Early Christian by T. Roger Smith & John Slater.

Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” courses throughout the United States. When the American philosopher William James (1842 – 1910) find...

Over a decade ago the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an academic discipline with journals and professional societies,...

Clearly developed from first principles, this introductory study supplies basic material on electrostatics and magnetostatics, then concentrates on electromagnetic theory — the authors are both leading men in the field. The book ranges freely over many areas of electromagnetic theory with some concern...

The New York Times described this 1899 volume as containing “a large amount of fascinating material about book auctions, book catalogues, lucky finds, hunting grounds, vagaries of collectors, comparisons of pricing, rules of the chase, glamour of bindings, and the auction block.” An authoritative yet gossipy discussion on the topic of book collecting.

Exam board: Pearson Edexcel Level: GCSE (9-1) Subject: History First teaching: September 2016 First exams: Summer 2018 Target success in Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision. Key content coverage is combined with exam-style questions,...

Early modern Spain was a global empire in which a startling variety of medical cultures came into contact, and occasionally conflict, with one another. Spanish soldiers, ambassadors, missionaries, sailors, and emigrants of all sorts carried with them to the farthest reaches of the monarchy their own...

This 1905 volume is aimed at novice book collectors, preemptively answering their questions about the practice.  The twelve sections include "Hints to Beginners," "Some Practical Details," "Manuscripts," "Papers and Paper Marks," and "On Bookbinding."

This is a special 50th year anniversary volume of Advances in the Study of Behavior with contributions from past and present editors and authors of the serial. Initiated 50 years ago, Advances in the Study of Behavior strives to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal...

A huge collection of papers on scientific analysis in archaeology from a conference held in Liverpool in 1995. Papers are grouped under ten headings: Scientific analysis of Petrology ( 3 papers ); of Glass ( five papers ); of Ceramics ( 7 papers ); Metallurgy ( 9 papers ); Chronological Studies (...

THE Bibliophile, as he is somewhat pedantically termed, probably dates his existence from the time when books began to be multiplied in sufficient quantities to render the acquisition of duplicate copies by the public a matter of possibility, but his opportunities of amassing a large number of volumes...

There has been growing concern that both intensive agriculture in the developed world and rapid expansion of crop cultivation in developing countries is damaging the health of soils which are the foundation of farming. At the same time we are discovering much more about how complex soils are as living...