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Edmund James Banfield Books (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-05-06
(обновлено 2011-05-06)

This book contain collection of 4 Books.

1. The Confessions of a Beachcomber [1908]
2. My Tropic Isle [1910]
3. Tropic Days [1918]
4. Last Leaves from Dunk Island [1925]

About the Author
Edmund James Banfield

BANFIELD, EDMUND JAMES (1852-1923), author and naturalist, was born on 4 September 1852 at Toxteth Park, Liverpool, England, son of Jabez Walter Banfield (1820-1899), printer, and his wife Sarah Ann, née Smith. Jabez had served his apprenticeship with a Liverpool printer, but migrated to Victoria in 1852 and followed the gold rushes. On 20 November 1854 his family sailed in the Indian Queen to join him. A founding partner in the Maryborough and Dunolly Advertiser, Jabez moved to Ararat in 1857 and started the Ararat Advertiser; it was owned by the family until the 1960s. He became a leading local citizen: treasurer to the borough council and the hospital board of management for some thirty-five years, magistrate, churchwarden and lay preacher, secretary to the cemetery trustees, and popular public reciter and reader of Dickens, Shakespeare and other classic authors.

Educated at an Ararat church-school, Edmund became a reporter and printer's assistant for his father, relaxing on weekend natural history trips in the Grampians. In the 1870s he worked on the Melbourne Age and the Sydney Daily Telegraph, and in 1882 became reporter and sub-editor with the Townsville Daily Bulletin in Queensland. In 1884, probably with the backing of Burns Philp & Co., he travelled to England; while there an eye injured in childhood was removed, and he met Bertha Golding, who migrated to Townsville to marry him on 3 August 1886 at St James' Anglican Church. He had published The Torres Straits Route from Queensland to England in Townsville in 1885.

Banfield reported Robert Philp on his first election campaign in 1886, and in 1890 organized fund-raising functions for the North Queensland separation movement. Although he took professional responsibilities seriously, he felt that he lacked 'those qualities which make for dutiful citizenship' and was enraged by political, professional and personal wrongs, real and imagined. He camped with friends on Dunk Island near Tully and in September 1896 applied for a thirty-year lease of part of the island. Diagnosed as tubercular and in nervous collapse, he resigned from the North Queensland Newspaper Co. and, partly blind, with a palsied hand and a deaf wife, settled on Dunk Island from 28 September 1897.

California Family Code (v. 2.0)

Pocket Topics опубликовал приложение 2011-05-06
(обновлено 2012-10-17)

** UPDATED TO INCLUDE 2013 CODES **

California Family Code by Pocket Topics is the only California Family Code reference software you need on your Android device. Designed for law enforcement personnel, lawyers, paralegals or anyone who needs quick access to California's Family Code. Use in in the patrol car or in the court room. All data is stored on your device so you never need an internet connection.

- Now with full text searching. Accurate and flexible search engine allows you to find exactly what you are looking for.
- Does not require an internet connection. All the data is stored locally.
- Automatic and free lifetime updates to the codes
- Easily bookmark code sections
- Install to SD card
- Compatible with tablets, including the Xoom
- Share codes via email, text messaging, etc.

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1.52
fixed a bug where the bookmark and search button did not work on the detail screen for tablets

1.51
fixed a bug where a search result with only one record caused a force close

1.50
- Compatible with tablets, Xoom included
- Search now includes full text
- User Interface completely updated
- Search results show snippets of the code sections
- Added "codes in this section" to improve navigation
- Browse through record set in section detail screen
- Improved navigation
- Added Analytics. Can be disabled in settings screen.
- Fixed several bugs (thanks Billy!! and others)

Honore de Balzac's Collection (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-05-06
(обновлено 2011-05-06)

This book contain colection of 45 books

1. Balzac, by Frederick Lawton
2. Honore de Balzac, by Albert Keim and Louis Lumet
3. At the Sign of the Cat and Racket (La Maison du chat-qui-pelote, 1830)
4. The Ball at Sceaux (Le bal de Sceaux, 1830)
5. The Purse (La bourse, 1832)
6. The Vendetta (La Vendetta, 1830)
7. Madame Firmiani [1832]
8. A Second Home (Une double famille, 1830)
9. Domestic Peace (La paix du ménage, 1830)
10. The Imaginary Mistress (La fausse maîtresse, 1842)
11. Study of a Woman (Étude de femme, 1835)
12. Another Study of a Woman (Autre étude de femme, 1842)
13. La Grand Breteche
14. Albert Savarus [1842]
15. Letters of Two Brides (Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées, 1842)
16. A Daughter of Eve (Une fille d'Ève, 1835)
17. A Woman of Thirty (La femme de trente ans, 1832)
18. The Deserted Woman (La femme abandonnée, 1834)
19. La Grenadière [1833]
20. The Message [1832]
21. Gobseck [1830]
22. A Marriage Contract (Le contrat de mariage, 1835)
23. A Start in Life (Un début dans la vie, 1844)
24. Modeste Mignon [1844]
25. Béatrix [1839]
26. Honorine [1845]
27. Le Colonel Chabert [1844]
28. The Atheist's Mass (La messe de l'athée, 1837)
29. The Commission in Lunacy (L'interdiction, 1836)
30. Pierre Grassou [1839]
31. Ursula (Ursule Mirouët, 1842)
32. Eugénie Grandet [1834]
33. Pierrette [1840]
34. The Vicar of Tours (Le Curé de Tours, 1832)
35. The Two Brothers (La Rabouilleuse, 1842)
36. The Illustrious Gaudissart (L'Illustre Gaudissart, 1834)
37. The Muse of the Department (La Muse du département, 1843)
38. An Old Maid (La Vieille Fille, 1837)
39. The Collection of Antiquities (Le Cabinet des Antiques, 1839)
40. Introduction by George Saintsbury
41. Two Poets
42. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
43. Eve and David
44. Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot, 1835)
45. The Magic Skin / The Wild Ass's Skin (La Peau de chagrin, 1831)

About the Author

Nineteenth-century French novelist, one of the creators of Realism in literature. His Human Comedy (La Comédie humaine), spanning more than 90 novels and short stories, is a broad, often satirical panorama of French society, particularly the petite bourgeoisie, in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte.

Along with Gustave Flaubert (whose work he influenced), Balzac is generally regarded as a founding father of realism in European literature. Balzac's novels, most of which are farcical comedies, feature a large cast of well-defined characters, and descriptions in exquisite detail of the scene of action.

The Unquiet Grave (v. 1.0)

tarzanapp опубликовал приложение 2011-05-06
(обновлено 2011-05-06)

"The Unquiet Grave" is an English folk song in which a young man mourns his dead love too hard and prevents her from obtaining peace. It is thought to date from 1400 and was collected in 1868 by Francis James Child, as Child Ballad number 78.[1]

Francis Bacon books Collection (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-05-06
(обновлено 2011-05-06)

This book contain collection of 7 Books

1. The Great Instauration
2. The Advancement of Learning
3. The New Organon
4. Preparative toward a Natural and Experimental History
5. The Essays
6. The New Atlantis
7. Valerius Terminus: of the Interpretation of Nature

About the Author
Francis Bacon

English philosopher, statesman, and essayist, best known as an advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. His philosophical works lay out a complex methodology for scientific inquiry which is often called the Baconian method

Philosopher and statesman, was the youngest son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper, by his second wife, a daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, whose sister married William Cecil, Lord Burghley, the great minister of Queen Elizabeth. He was born at York House in the Strand on Jan. 22, 1561, and in his 13th year was sent with his elder brother Anthony to Trinity College, Cambridge. Here he first met the Queen, who was impressed by his precocious intellect, and was accustomed to call him “the young Lord Keeper.” Here also he became dissatisfied with the Aristotelian philosophy as being unfruitful and leading only to resultless disputation. In 1576 he entered Gray’s Inn, and in the same year joined the embassy of Sir Amyas Paulet to France, where he remained until 1579. The death of his father in that year, before he had completed an intended provision for him, gave an adverse turn to his fortunes, and rendered it necessary that he should decide upon a profession. He accordingly returned to Gray’s Inn, and, after an unsuccessful attempt to induce Burghley to give him a post at court, and thus enable him to devote himself to a life of learning, he gave himself seriously to the study of law, and was called to the Bar in 1582. He did not, however, desert philosophy, and published a Latin tract, Temporis Partus Maximus (the Greatest Birth of Time), the first rough draft of his own system.

Two years later, in 1584, he entered the House of Commons as member for Melcombe, sitting subsequently for Taunton [1586], Liverpool [1589], Middlesex [1593], and Southampton [1597]. In the Parliament of 1586 he took a prominent part in urging the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. About this time he seems again to have approached his powerful uncle, the result of which may possibly be traced in his rapid progress at the Bar, and in his receiving, in 1589, the reversion to the Clerkship of the Star Chamber, a valuable appointment, into the enjoyment of which, however, he did not enter until 1608.

About 1591 he formed a friendship with the Earl of Essex, from whom he received many tokens of kindness ill requited. In 1593 the offices of Attorney-general, and subsequently of Solicitor-general became vacant, and Essex used his influence on Bacon’s behalf, but unsuccessfully, the former being given to Coke, the famous lawyer. These disappointments may have been owing to a speech made by Bacon on a question of subsidies. To console him for them Essex presented him with a property at Twickenham, which he subsequently sold for £1800, equivalent to a much larger sum now.

Singular, though of course futile, attempts, supported sometimes with much ingenuity, have been made to claim for Bacon the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays, and have indeed been extended so as to include those of Marlowe, and even the Essays of Montaigne.

Little Women (v. 1.0)

tarzanapp опубликовал приложение 2011-05-06
(обновлено 2011-05-06)

Little Women or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (commonly known as Little Women) is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). The book was written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts. It was published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. The novel follows the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The first volume Little Women was an immediate commercial and critical success, prompting the composition of the book's second volume titled Good Wives, which was successful as well. The publication of the book as a single volume first occurred in 1880 and was titled Little Woman. Alcott followed Little Women with two sequels, also featuring the March sisters, Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886).

Flatland By: Edwin A Abbott (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-05-05
(обновлено 2011-05-05)

About the Author
Edwin A. Abbott

English schoolmaster and theologian, best known as the author of the mathematical satire and religious allegory Flatland.

He was educated at the City of London School and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took the highest honors in classics, mathematics and theology, and became fellow of his college. He succeeded G. F. Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London School in 1865 at the early age of twenty-six. He retired in 1889, and devoted himself to literary and theological pursuits. Dr. Abbott's liberal inclinations in theology were prominent both in his educational views and in his books. His Shakespearian Grammar (1870) is a permanent contribution to English philology. In 1885 he published a life of Francis Bacon. His theological writings include three anonymously published religious romances - Philochristus (1878), Onesimus (1882), and Sitanus (1906).

Written under the pseudonym "a square", Flatland offered pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions; in a foreword to one of the many publications of the novella, noted science writer Isaac Asimov described Flatland as "The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions." As such, the novella is still popular amongst mathematics, physics and computer science students.

About the Book-
Flatland: a romance of many dimensions

Unless you're a mathematician, the chances of you reading any novels about geometry are probably slender. But if you read only two in your life, these are the ones. Taken together, they form a couple of accessible and charming explanations of geometry and physics for the curious non-mathematician. Flatland, which is also available under separate cover, was published in 1880 and imagines a two-dimensional world inhabited by sentient geometric shapes who think their planar world is all there is. But one Flatlander, a Square, discovers the existence of a third dimension and the limits of his world's assumptions about reality and comes to understand the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on society and class distinctions of Victorian England. The further mathematical fantasy, Sphereland, published 60 years later, revisits the world of Flatland in time to explore the mind-bending theories created by Albert Einstein, whose work so completely altered the scientific understanding of space, time, and matter. Among Einstein's many challenges to common sense were the ideas of curved space, an expanding universe and the fact that light does not travel in a straight line. Without use of the mathematical formulae that bar most non-scientists from an understanding of Einstein's theories, Sphereland gives lay readers ways to start comprehending these confusing but fundamental questions of our reality.

Jane Austen's Books Collection (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-05-05
(обновлено 2011-05-05)

This Book contain collection of 7 Books.

1. Lady Susan [1794]
2. Northanger Abbey [1798, published 1817]
3. Sense and Sensibility [1811]
4. Pride and Prejudice [1813]
5. Mansfield Park [1814]
6. Emma [1816]
7. Persuasion [1817]

About the Author
Jane Austen

Novelist, daughter of a clergyman, was born at the rectory of Steventon near Basingstoke. She received an education superior to that generally given to girls of her time, and took early to writing, her first tale being begun in 1798. Her life was a singularly uneventful one, and, but for a disappointment in love, tranquil and happy. In 1801 the family went to Bath, the scene of many episodes in her writings, and after the death of her father in 1805 to Southampton, and later to Chawton, a village in Hants, where most of her novels were written. A tendency to consumption having manifested itself, she removed in May, 1817, to Winchester for the advantage of skilled medical attendance, but so rapid was the progress of her malady that she died there two months later.

Of her six novels, four — Sense and Sensibility [1811], Pride and Prejudice [1813], Mansfield Park [1814] and Emma [1816] — were published anonymously during her life-time; and the others, Northanger Abbey — written in 1798 — and Persuasion, finished in 1816, appeared a few months after her death, when the name of the authoress was divulged.

Although her novels were from the first well received, it is only of comparatively late years that her genius has gained the wide appreciation which it deserves. Her strength lies in the delineation of character, especially of persons of her own sex, by a number of minute and delicate touches arising out of the most natural and everyday incidents in the life of the middle and upper classes, from which her subjects are generally taken. Her characters, though of quite ordinary types, are drawn with such wonderful firmness and precision, and with such significant detail as to retain their individuality absolutely intact through their entire development, and they are never coloured by her own personality. Her view of life is genial in the main, with a strong dash of gentle but keen satire: she appeals rarely and slightly to the deeper feelings; and the enforcement of the excellent lessons she teaches is left altogether to the story, without a word of formal moralising. Among her admirers was Sir W. Scott, who said, “That young lady has a talent for describing the involvements of feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with;” others were Macaulay (who thought that in the world there were no compositions which approached nearer to perfection), Coleridge, Southey, Sydney Smith, and E. FitzGerald.

草木塔 (v. 1.0.3)

Extreme Inc. опубликовал приложение 2011-05-05
(обновлено 2011-05-05)

草木塔とは
  草木塔（そうもくとう）とは、山形県が発祥とされる石碑です。
　草木塔、草木供養塔、草木供養経、山川草木悉皆成仏　などという碑文が刻まれています。
　素材は石で、部分的に研磨するなどの手を加えたものもありますが、ほとんどが採石された状態のままの自然石です。
　国内に１６０基以上の存在が確認されていますが、建立されている地域は本州の一部に限局しております。
　さらに草木塔の約９割は山形県内に分布し、４つの地方に分かれる山形県内でも、特に、置賜地方と呼ばれる地域に集中して存在する独特な石造物文化遺産です。

建立の背景
　道路が整備され自動車などが使用出来るようになるまで、山から切り出した用材は「木流し」という方法を利用して運んでいました。
　水の浮力と河川の流れを利用し、山奥の伐採地から中継基地、さらには里（米沢城下）まで、木材を水に浮かべて運ぶ方法です。
　山で切り出した用材は、冬期間に雪の斜面を滑らせて川辺の基地まで搬出しておきます。
　そして、春、雪解けで増水した流れを利用して下流の中継基地まで流し、積み上げておきます。
　水かさの増す十月末が木流しの本番で、中継基地から最終目的地まで、流れる木を追って走り、本流から外れた木があれば、水中に飛び込んで本流に戻してやる非常に危険で過酷な作業でした。
　江戸時代、置賜地方に建立された草木塔の多くは、木流しの拠点に沿って分布していることが特徴の一つです。
　木流し衆が、作業の安全を祈願する対象として草木塔を建立したことが考えられます。

こういった謂れのある草木塔の情報をアプリケーションとしてまとめました。

草木塔詳細資料
・草木塔の塔の写真
・詳細資料（碑名、建立年月日、住所、サイズ等）
・位置情報（緯度経度）

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プライオリ学校 (v. 2.0.0)

TotalMediaLaboratory опубликовал приложение 2011-05-05
(обновлено 2011-05-05)

著者 アーサーコナンドイル
編集者 荒尾和史

© 2000 山形浩生 プロジェクト杉田玄白
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