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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。

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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
http://www.genpaku.org/sugitalist01.html

この電子書籍アプリケーションは「シャーロックホームズの帰還『プライオリ学校』」 英日対照版 です。
元データは、日本語の部分(プロジェクト杉田玄白)のみ あるいは 英語部分のみ(プロジェクトグーテンベルク)であれば 無料となるべき データを使用しています。

昔、誰もが親しんだ古典的名作を原文と併せてもう一度、或いはお子様とご一緒にまた愉しんでみてはいかがでしょう。教材として、無味乾燥なテキストでは無く-
知的興奮を約束された生きた英語を味わう機会でもあります。是非一度お試し下さい。

Confessions of Saint Augustine (v. 0.2)

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

About the Book

The Confessions of Saint Augustine / translated by Edward Bouverie Pusey

But those poles were not far distant from one another, with vast uncharted territory between. Rather, they were elements of an intimate personal relationship destined for permanent and indissoluble union. To treat God and self as two different things is to introduce the fatal distinction that the serpent taught to Eve. The relation between creator and creature is totally different from that which obtains between any two created things in the material world. Each created object participates in a complex world of material objects from which God seems far away. But the creator is equidistant from all creatures--equally close to all.

Theologians write about God dispassionately and objectively, in serene detachment, but in doing so avail themselves of a compendious device that runs the risk of negating the truth of all they say. Christian theology only succeeds when the believer sees that the story of all creation ("macrotheology") and the private history of the soul ("microtheology") are identical. Differences between the two are flaws of perception, not defects inherent in things.

Saints do not have to be taught this identity, for theology realized is holiness. But even saints, when they are theologians, often find it hard to embody their intuition in their works. For Augustine, the crisis came early in life. Despite his reputation as a self-revelatory writer, he left behind little direct testimony about the condition of his soul at different times, but we can see that the first years of his episcopacy were a time of trial. He had managed the transformation from virtual pagan to devout Christian with reasonable equanimity. The map for that conversion was clear enough and commonly followed. Even his elevation to the priesthood in the church of Hippo had brought with it few fresh anxieties

About the Author
Augustine of Hippo

One of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity. In his early years he was heavily influenced by Manichaeism and afterwards by the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus, but after his conversion and baptism (387), he developed his own approach to philosophy and theology accommodating a variety of methods and different perspectives. He framed the concepts of original sin and just war. When the Roman Empire in the West was starting to disintegrate, Augustine developed the concept of the Church as a spiritual City of God (in a book of the same name) distinct from the material City of Man. His thought profoundly influenced the medieval worldview. Augustine's City of God was closely identified with the church, and was the community which worshipped God.

孤独な自転車乗り (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
http://www.genpaku.org/sugitalist01.html

この電子書籍アプリケーションは「シャーロックホームズの帰還『孤独な自転車乗り』」 英日対照版 です。
元データは、日本語の部分(プロジェクト杉田玄白)のみ あるいは 英語部分のみ(プロジェクトグーテンベルク)であれば 無料となるべき データを使用しています。

昔、誰もが親しんだ古典的名作を原文と併せてもう一度、或いはお子様とご一緒にまた愉しんでみてはいかがでしょう。教材として、無味乾燥なテキストでは無く-
知的興奮を約束された生きた英語を味わう機会でもあります。是非一度お試し下さい。

ノーウッドの建築業者 (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
http://www.genpaku.org/sugitalist01.html

この電子書籍アプリケーションは「シャーロックホームズの帰還『ノーウッドの建築業者』」 英日対照版 です。
元データは、日本語の部分(プロジェクト杉田玄白)のみ あるいは 英語部分のみ(プロジェクトグーテンベルク)であれば 無料となるべき データを使用しています。

昔、誰もが親しんだ古典的名作を原文と併せてもう一度、或いはお子様とご一緒にまた愉しんでみてはいかがでしょう。教材として、無味乾燥なテキストでは無く-
知的興奮を約束された生きた英語を味わう機会でもあります。是非一度お試し下さい。

WDW News Today (v. 1.0)

Wizzard Media опубликовал приложение 2011-05-05
(обновлено 2011-05-05)

News, information, and fun centered around the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. Filled with trip planning information, attraction history, current events, listener interaction, entertaining discussions, and plenty of comedy. Get instant access, + great features like star your favorites & contact the show!