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The 1702 Chair of Chemistry at Cambridge - Transformation and Change - Bok - Häftad

The University of Cambridge's 1702 chair of chemistry is the oldest continuously occupied chair of chemistry in Britain. The lives and work of the 1702 chairholders over the past three hundred years paint a vivid picture of chemistry slowly transforming from the handmaiden of alchemists into a major academic discipline.

SEK 1040.00

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The Study of American History - Being the Inaugural Lecture of the Sir George Watson Chair of American History, Literature and Institutions - Bok av J

First published in 1921 and originally delivered as the inaugural lecture of the Sir George Watson Chair of American History, Literature and Institutions, this book discusses the study of American history in Britain. Viscount Bryce also suggests alternative paths that American history could have taken if certain key historical events had been different.

SEK 330.00

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Forever Young: Why Cambridge has a Professor of Greek Culture - An A. G. Leventis Inaugural Lecture Given in the University of Cambridge, 16 February

The text of this inaugural lecture proposes that the newly established A. G. Leventis Professorship of Greek Culture is a new kind of chair: a chair not only for research but also for outreach, for the advancement of the public understanding of ancient Greek culture.

SEK 410.00

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The Astronomer as Natural Philosopher - Bok av A. H. Cook - Häftad

This is the full text of the inaugural lecture for the Jacksonian Chair at the University of Cambridge, given by A. H. Cook in 1973, with the subject of the Astronomer as Natural Philosopher.

SEK 390.00

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The Historian and Character - And Other Essays - Bok av Dom David Knowles - Häftad

This collection of essays and articles by Dom David Knowles was presented to him by his colleagues, friends and pupils on his retirement from the Regius Chair of Modern History at Cambridge in the summer of 1963.

SEK 646.00

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Reshaping National Intelligence for an Age of Information - Bok av Gregory F. (RAND Corporation Treverton - Inbunden

Gregory Treverton, former Vice Chair of the National Intelligence Council and Senate investigator, offers his views on how intelligence gathering and analysis must change. He suggests why intelligence needs to be both contrarian and attentive to the longer term.

SEK 1160.00

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Reshaping National Intelligence for an Age of Information - Bok av Gregory F. (RAND Corporation Treverton - Häftad

Gregory Treverton, former Vice Chair of the National Intelligence Council and Senate investigator, offers his views on how intelligence gathering and analysis must change. He suggests why intelligence needs to be both contrarian and attentive to the longer term.

SEK 476.00

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From Newton to Hawking - A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics - Bok - Häftad

Cambridge University's Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics is one of the world's most celebrated academic positions. This informative work offers interesting perspectives on the world-famous scientists who have held the chair, including Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, Paul Dirac and Stephen Hawking.

SEK 546.00

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From Newton to Hawking - A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics - Bok - Inbunden

Cambridge University's Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics is one of the world's most celebrated academic positions. This informative work offers interesting perspectives on the world-famous scientists who have held the chair, including Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, Paul Dirac and Stephen Hawking.

SEK 1520.00

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England and America - Rivals in the American Revolution - Bok av Claude H. van Tyne - Häftad

First published in 1923 and delivered as the Watson Chair Lectures to various British universities in the previous year, this book addresses the ways in which the English and American people opposed or helped each other during the American Revolution and in the following century.

SEK 466.00

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J. William Fulbright, Vietnam, and the Search for a Cold War Foreign Policy - Bok av Randall Bennett (University of Arkansas) Woods - Häftad

J. William Fulbright was the longest serving and most powerful chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This abridgement of Woods' prize-winning biography of Fulbright presents the full story of his role as one of the leading congressional opponents of the Vietnam War.

SEK 426.00

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J. William Fulbright, Vietnam, and the Search for a Cold War Foreign Policy - Bok av Randall Bennett (University of Arkansas) Woods - Inbunden

J. William Fulbright was the longest serving and most powerful chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This abridgement of Woods' prize-winning biography of Fulbright presents the full story of his role as one of the leading congressional opponents of the Vietnam War.

SEK 1160.00

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Economic Problems of Democracy - Bok av Arthur Twining Hadley - Häftad

First published in 1923 and delivered as the Watson Chair Lectures to various British universities in the previous year, this book examines democracy from an economic viewpoint in order to underline the similarities between the British and American systems of government through the industrial problems each face.

SEK 496.00

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The Content of Indian and Iranian Studies - An Inaugural Lecture Delivered on 2 May 1938 - Bok av H. W. Bailey - Häftad

Originally published in 1938, this book presents the content of Sir Harold Walter Bailey's inaugural lecture upon taking up the position of Chair of Sanskrit at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in linguistics and the history of Sanskrit.

SEK 196.00

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The Science and Art of Medicine - Bok av Lionel Whitby - Häftad

Originally published in 1946, this book presents the content of Sir Lionel Whitby's inaugural lecture upon taking up the position of Regius Chair of Physic at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the development of medicine and the history of science.

SEK 146.00

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Leadership and Negotiation in the European Union - Bok av Jonas (Stockholms Universitet) Tallberg - Inbunden

Why do some international negotiations succeed while others collapse, and why do some states gain more than others from multilateral cooperation? This 2006 book analyses the role of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union and how the institutional properties of the chair impact on negotiations.

SEK 1376.00

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Adversaria - Bok av Peter Paul Dobree - Häftad

The notes of English classical scholar Peter Paul Dobree (1782-1825) are collected in this two-volume edition of Adversaria. Volume 1 (1831) includes the praelection which gained Dobree the Regius chair of Greek at Cambridge, as well as his notes on Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, and numerous other subjects.

SEK 816.00

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The Art of Medicine in Relation to the Progress of Thought - Bok av A. E. Clark-Kennedy - Häftad

Originally published in 1946, this book presents the content of Sir Lionel Whitby's inaugural lecture upon taking up the position of Regius Chair of Physic at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the development of medicine and the history of science.

SEK 186.00

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Leadership and Negotiation in the European Union - Bok av Jonas (Stockholms Universitet) Tallberg - Häftad

Why do some international negotiations succeed while others collapse, and why do some states gain more than others from multilateral cooperation? This 2006 book analyses the role of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union and how the institutional properties of the chair impact on negotiations.

SEK 530.00

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Knowledge and Evidence - Bok av Paul K. (Professor and Chair of Philosophy Moser - Häftad

Paul Moser's book defends what has been an unfashionable view in recent epistemology: the foundationalist account of knowledge and justification. In challenging prominent sceptical claims that we have no justified beliefs about the external world, the book outlines a theory of rational belief.

SEK 600.00

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Lady Margaret Beaufort and her Professors of Divinity at Cambridge - 1502 to 1649 - Bok av Patrick (University of Cambridge) Collinson - Häftad

This book (delivered as lectures at an event in March 2002 to celebrate the five-hundredth anniversary of the Lady Margaret's Professorship of Divinity at Cambridge) offers an account of the establishment of the Chair and examines the involvement of early holders in the religious and political turmoil of the times.

SEK 626.00

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Industrial Relations in Conditions of Full Employment - An Inaugural Lecture Delivered at Cambridge on 16 October 1945 - Bok av H. S. Kirkaldy - Häfta

Originally published in 1945, this book presents the content of Harold Stewart Kirkaldy's inaugural lecture upon taking up the position of Montague Burton Chair of Industrial Relations at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of industrial relations, trade unions and economics.

SEK 286.00

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Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge: Volume 4 - Proceedings of the International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, London, 1965 - Bok - Häfta

This volume arose out of a symposium on Kuhn's work, with Popper in the chair, at an international colloquium held in London in 1965. It will interest senior undergraduates and graduate students of the philosophy and history of science, as well as professional philosophers, philosophically inclined scientists, and some psychologists and sociologists.

SEK 420.00

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Genocide in Jewish Thought - Bok av David (Hillel Feinberg Chair in Holocaust Studies Patterson - Häftad

Exploring issues such as how we understand the soul, the use of torture, and the prevalence of hunger, this book argues that one means of preventing genocide is to think concretely about our flesh-and-blood relations to fellow human beings. It also shows how Jewish thought promotes ways of thinking that may preclude genocide.