Murder for Pleasure

Murder for Pleasure
Author: Howard Haycraft
Publisher: Dover Publications
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2019-02-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0486829308

"Genuinely fascinating reading."—The New York Times Book Review "Diverting and patently authoritative."—The New Yorker "Grand and fascinating … a history, a compendium and a critical study all in one, and all first rate."—Rex Stout "A landmark … a brilliant study written with charm and authority."—Ellery Queen "This book is of permanent value. It should be on the shelf of every reader of detective stories."—Erle Stanley Gardner Author Howard Haycraft, an expert in detective fiction, traces the genre's development from the 1840s through the 1940s. Along the way, he charts the innovations of Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as the modern influence of George Simenon, Josephine Tey, and others. Additional topics include a survey of the critical literature, a detective story quiz, and a Who's Who in Detection.

The Spiritans

The Spiritans
Author: Henry J. Koren
Publisher:
Total Pages: 746
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781258498672

Duquesne Studies, Spiritan Series, No. 1.

Bode’s Law and the Discovery of Juno

Bode’s Law and the Discovery of Juno
Author: Clifford J. Cunningham
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2017-06-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319328751

Johann Bode developed a so-called law of planetary distances best known as Bode’s Law. The story of the discovery of Juno in 1804 by Karl Harding tells how Juno fit into that scheme and is examined as it relates to the philosopher Georg Hegel’s 1801 thesis that there could be no planets between Mars and Jupiter. By 1804 that gap was not only filled but had three residents: Ceres, Pallas and Juno! When Juno was discovered no one could have imagined its study would call into question Newton’s law of gravity, or be the impetus for developing the mathematics of the fast Fourier transform by Carl Gauss. Clifford Cunningham, a dedicated scholar, opens to scrutiny this critical moment of astronomical discovery, continuing the story of asteroid begun in earlier volumes of this series. The fascinating issues raised by the discovery of Juno take us on an extraordinary journey. The revelation of the existence of this new class of celestial bodies transformed our understanding of the Solar System, the implications of which are thoroughly discussed in terms of Romantic Era science, philosophy, poetry, mathematics and astronomy. The account given here is based on both English and foreign correspondence and scientific papers, most of which are translated for the first time.

Portraits by Ingres

Portraits by Ingres
Author: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 610
Release: 1999
Genre: Drawing, French
ISBN: 0870998919

Om portrætter af den franske maler Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)

Financial Stability Monitoring

Financial Stability Monitoring
Author: Tobias Adrian
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre:
ISBN:

In a recently released New York Fed staff report, we present a forward-looking monitoring program to identify and track time-varying sources of systemic risk.

Hellenistic Astronomy

Hellenistic Astronomy
Author: Alan C. Bowen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 783
Release: 2020-02-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004400567

In Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts, renowned scholars address questions about what the ancient science of the heavens was and the numerous contexts in which it was pursued.

News from Mars

News from Mars
Author: Joshua Nall
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2019-08-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0822986612

Mass media in the late nineteenth century was full of news from Mars. In the wake of Giovanni Schiaparelli’s 1877 discovery of enigmatic dark, straight lines on the red planet, astronomers and the public at large vigorously debated the possibility that it might be inhabited. As rivalling scientific practitioners looked to marshal allies and sway public opinion—through newspapers, periodicals, popular books, exhibitions, and encyclopaedias—they exposed disagreements over how the discipline of astronomy should be organized and how it should establish acceptable conventions of discourse. News from Mars provides a new account of this extraordinary episode in the history of astronomy, revealing how major transformations in astronomical practice across Britain and America were inextricably tied up with popular scientific culture and a transatlantic news economy that enabled knowledge to travel. As Joshua Nall argues, astronomers were journalists, too, eliding practice with communication in consequential ways. As writers and editors, they played a pivotal role in the emergence of a “new astronomy” dedicated to the study of the physical constitution and life history of celestial objects, blurring harsh distinctions between those who produced esoteric knowledge and those who disseminated it.