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Forgotten Brummies
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Author : Les Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-11-15
Forgotten Brummies written by Les Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-15 with categories.
The Forgotten Brummie
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Author : David Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-07-22
The Forgotten Brummie written by David Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-22 with categories.
This book is about the life and legacies of Sir Francis Galton. This Birmingham born Victorian polymath made important discoveries and inventions across a wide area of knowledge, including exploration, statistics, meteorology and fingerprinting. However, the main focus of his life's work was on the understanding of heredity, and its application to what he called 'eugenics', the science of good breeding. He suggested that the quality of a particular race - and by extension the whole human species - could be improved over several generations, by encouraging the procreation of the eminent, and discouraging the procreation of the less well-endowed. Unfortunately, these ideas were adapted by various groupings - notably the Nazis in Germany - in an inhuman way. Galton's name and achievements were tarred with the same brush and, as a consequence, were not to be mentioned in polite society. Fast forward to today, however, and we see how many important issues, from birth control through education, unemployment and racism to assisted dying - are rooted in eugenics. David Allen argues that it is time to re-examine what Galton actually said and, in the process, restore the reputation of this inspiring Brummie.
Birmingham S Forgotten Founders
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Author : Thomas E. Badham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06
Birmingham S Forgotten Founders written by Thomas E. Badham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06 with categories.
In Search Of Small Heath Alliance
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Author : David Ely
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
In Search Of Small Heath Alliance written by David Ely and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Soccer teams categories.
Remembrance Of The Forgotten
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Author : J. Johns
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1845*
Remembrance Of The Forgotten written by J. Johns and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1845* with Poverty categories.
A Century Of Birmingham Life Vol 2
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Author : John Alfred Langford
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-12-27
A Century Of Birmingham Life Vol 2 written by John Alfred Langford and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-27 with Reference categories.
Excerpt from A Century of Birmingham Life, Vol. 2: Or a Chronicle of Local Events, From 1741 HE success which has attended the publication of the first volume of this work has far exceeded my most sanguine expectations. The cordial manner in which the press has reviewed the book has greatly cheered and encouraged me in the preparation of the second volume. The life of Birmingham since the year 184o - the time at which these annals close - has been one of great activity and interest; which, at some future time, I hope to narrate. The relation of the modern life of the town would require a mode of treatment different from that which has been found so acceptable in the present work. It would not be necessary, nor desirable, to reproduce the reprints and extracts from the newspapers with the same copiousness; but to give the results in a consecutive and more compressed form. Should I live, it is my intention so to complete the story of Birmingham life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Forgotten Birmingham A Brief Record Of Early Sites Buildings And Activities In Central Birmingham
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Forgotten Birmingham A Brief Record Of Early Sites Buildings And Activities In Central Birmingham written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with categories.
Standing On The Shoulders Of Darwin And Mendel
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Author : David J. Galton
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2017-10-30
Standing On The Shoulders Of Darwin And Mendel written by David J. Galton and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-30 with Science categories.
Standing on the Shoulders of Darwin and Mendel: Early Views of Inheritance explores early theories about the mechanisms of inheritance. Beginning with Charles Darwin's now rejected Gemmule hypothesis, the book documents the reception of Gregor Mendel's work on peas and follows the work of early 20th century scholars. The research of Francis Galton, a cousin of Darwin, and the friction it caused between these two are a part of longer story of the development of genetics and an understanding of how offspring inherit the characteristics of their parents. Bateson, Garrod, de Vries, Tschermak and others are all characters in a scientific story of discovery, acrimony, cooperation and revelation.
The History Of Birmingham Classic Reprint
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Author : William Hutton
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-02-06
The History Of Birmingham Classic Reprint written by William Hutton and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-06 with Social Science categories.
Excerpt from The History of Birmingham A preface generally induces a man to speak of himself, which is deemed the worst sub ject upon which he can speak. In a History we become acquainted with things, but in a Preface with the author; and, for a man to treat of himself, may be the most difficult task of the two; for in history, facts are produced ready to the hand of the Historian, which give birth to thought, and it is easy to clothe that thought in words: but in a Preface, an author is obliged to forge from the brain, where he is sometimes known to forge without fire. In one case he only reduces a substance into form but in the other, he must create that substance. As I am not an author by profession, it is no wonder if I am unacquainted with the modes of authorship but I apprehend, the usual method of conducting the pen, is to polish up a sound ing title-page, dignified with scraps of Latin, and then to hammer up a work to fit it, as nearly as genius, or want of genius; will allow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Nagasaki The Forgotten Prisoners
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Author : John Willis
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-08-02
Nagasaki The Forgotten Prisoners written by John Willis and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-02 with History categories.
This is one of the most remarkable untold stories of the Second World war. At 11.02 am on an August morning in 1945 America dropped the world's most powerful atomic bomb on the Japanese port city of Nagasaki. The most European city in Japan was flattened to the ground 'as if it had been swept aside by a broom'. More than 70,000 Japanese were killed. At the time, hundreds of Allied prisoners of war were working close to the bomb's detonation point, as forced labourers in the shipyards and foundries of Nagasaki. These men, from the Dales of Yorkshire and the dusty outback of Australia, from the fields of Holland and the remote towns of Texas, had already endured an extraordinary lottery of life and death that had changed their lives forever. They had lived through nearly four years of malnutrition, disease, and brutality. Now their prison home was the target of America's second atomic bomb. In one of the greatest survival stories of the Second World War, we trace their astonishing experiences back to bloody battles in the Malayan jungle, before the dramatic fall of Fortress Singapore, the mighty symbol of the British Empire. This abject capitulation was followed by surrender in Java and elsewhere in the East, condemning the captives to years of cruel imprisonment by the Japanese. Their lives grew evermore perilous when thousands of prisoners were shipped off to build the infamous Thai-Burma Railway, including the Bridge on the River Kwai. If that was not harsh enough, POWs were then transported to Japan in the overcrowded holds of what were called hell ships. These rusty buckets were regularly sunk by Allied submarines, and thousands of prisoners lived through unimaginable horror, adrift on the ocean for days. Some still had to endure the final supreme test, the world's second atomic bomb. The prisoners in Nagasaki were eyewitnesses to one of the most significant events in modern history but writing notes or diaries in a Japanese prison camp was dangerous. To avoid detection, one Allied prisoner buried his notes in the grave of a fellow POW to be reclaimed after the war, another wrote his diary in Irish. Now, using unpublished and rarely seen notes, interviews, and memoirs, this unique book weaves together a powerful chorus of voices to paint a vivid picture of defeat, endurance, and survival against astonishing odds.