The history of British women's writing

Table of Contents: “…Wright -- Women, civil war, and empire: the politics of translation in Katherine Philips's Pompey and Horace / M. Suzuki -- English women's writing and Islamic empires, 1610-90 / B. …”


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The Civil War : the second year told by those who lived it

Table of Contents: “…Evacuating the peninsula, Washington D C, August 1862 / Henry W Halleck to George B McClellan (August 6, 1862) -- Fleeing slaves, Georgia, August 1862 / Memorial of a committee of citizens of Liberty County, Georgia, (August 5, 1862) -- Retaliation for arming slaves, Virginia, August 1862 / Confederate War Department (General Orders No 60, August 21,1862) -- Washington, D C, August 1862 / Abraham Lincoln, Address on colonization, (August 14, 1862) -- I would save the Union, Washington, DC, August 1862 / Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley (August 22, 1862) -- Slavery and the laws of war, Tennessee, August 1862 / William T Sherman to Thomas Hunton (August 24, 1862) -- Emancipation and diplomacy, Austria, August 1862 / John Lothrop Motley to William H Seward (August 26, 1862) -- Aiding contrabands, Washington, D C, Summer 1862 / Harriet Jacobs to William Lloyd Garrison (September 5, 1862) -- Second Manassas campaign, Virginia, August 1862 / Edward Porter Alexander, from Fighting for the Confederacy -- Treachery, Washington, DC, August 1862 / Charles Francis Adams Jr to Charles Francis Adams (August 27, 1862) -- These great operations, Virginia and Maryland, August-September, 1862 / John Hampden Chamberlayne to Martha Burwell Chamberlayne (September 6, 1862) -- Unsoldierly and dangerous conduct, Virginia, September 1862 / John Pope to Henry W Halleck (September 1, 1962) -- Aiding the wounded, Virginia and Washington, DC, August-September 1862 / Clara Barton to John Shaver (September 4, 1862) -- McClellan must go down, Washington, D C, August-September 1862 / Gideon Welles, Diary (August 31-September 1, 1862) -- We are whipped again, Washington, D C, September 1862 / John Hay, Diary (September 1, 1862) -- Prest was in deep distress, Washington, DC, September 1862 / Edward Bates, Remonstrance and notes on Cabinet meeting, (September 2, 1862) -- Series of failures, Washington, D C, September 1862 / Salmon P Chase, Journal (September 2, 1862) -- Restored to command, Washington, D C, September 1862 / George B McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan (September 2, 1862) -- Invading Maryland, Virginia, September 1862 / Robert E Lee to Jefferson Davis (September 3, 1862) -- State of nausea, New York, September 1862 / George Templeton Strong, Diary (September 3-4, 1862) -- Demoralized army, Washington, D C, September 1862 / William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Freeman Lusk (September 6, 1862) -- God wills this contest, Washington, DC, September 1862 / Abraham Lincoln, Meditation on the divine will, (c early September 1862) -- Britain considers mediation, September 1862 / Lord Palmerston and Lord Russell, Exchange (September 14, 17, and 23, 1862) -- Recognition of our independence, Maryland, September 1862 / Robert E Lee to Jefferson Davis (September 8, 1862) -- Dirty and repulsive army, Maryland, September 1862 / Lewis H Steiner, Diary (September 5-6, 1862) -- Confederate in Maryland, September 1862 / James Richmond Boulware, Diary (September 4-14, 1862) -- Lost order, Maryland, September 1862 / Alpheus S Williams to George B McClellan (September 13, 1862); Robert E Lee: Special Orders No 191 (September 9, 1862) -- Battle of Antietam, Maryland, September 1862 / George W Smalley, Narrative of Antietam (September 17, 1862) -- Fight for the cornfield, Maryland, September 1862 / Rufus R Dawes, from Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers -- Infernal music, Maryland, September 1862 / Alpheus S Williams to Irene and Mary Williams (September 22, 1862) -- Landscape turned red, Maryland, September 1862 / David L Thompson, With Burnside at Antietam -- After the battle, Maryland, September 1862 / Samuel W Fiske, to the Springfield Republican (September 20, 1862) -- Our men had won, Maryland, September 1862 / Clifton Johnson, From Battleground Adventures -- Noise, confusion, dust, Virginia, September 1862 / Mary Bedinger Mitchell, A woman's recollections of Antietam) -- Our victory was complete", Maryland, September 1862 / George B McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan (September 20, 1862) -- Battle of Iuka, Mississippi, September 1862 / Ephraim Anderson, from Memoirs: historical and personal -- Cause of emancipation, Washington, D C, September 1862 / Gideon Welles, Diary (September 22, 1862) -- Washington, DC, September 1862 / Abraham Lincoln, Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, (September 22, 1862) -- Proclamation suspending the writ of habeas corpus, (September 24, 1862) -- Air is thick with revolution, Washington, D C, September 1862 / L A Whitely to James Gordon Bennett (September 24,1862) -- Servile war and despotism, Maryland, September 1862 / George B McClellan to William H Aspinwall (September 26, 1862) -- That is not the game, Washington, D C, September 1862 / Abraham Lincoln, Record of dismissal of John J Key (September 26-27, 1862) -- Proclamations of a political coward, Maryland, September 1862 / Fitz John Porter to Manton Marble (September 30, 1862) -- Confederate invasion, Kentucky, September 1862 / Braxton Bragg, To the people of the Northwest (September 26, 1862) --…”


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Reading the American past : selected historical documents

Table of Contents: “…President Lincoln's war aims : Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862, The Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863, The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 ; A Former slave's war aims : Statement from an anonymous former slave, New Orleans, 1863 ; The New York Draft Riots : Report of the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People Suffering from the Late Riots in the City of New York, 1863 ; Susie King Taylor describes her wartime experiences : Reminiscences of my life in camp, 1902 ; General William T. …”


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Eyewitness to history

Table of Contents: “…Holwell -- The burial of George II, 13 November 1760 / Horace Walpole -- The King of Ethiopia expresses displeasure, 23 December 1770 / James Bruce -- Dr. …”


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Treasury of philosophy

Table of Contents: “…Jacobi, Friedrich Henrich (1743-1819) / 'Christianity and Paganism" -- Jamblicus (c. 270-330) / "The Promises of Philosophy" -- James, Henry, Sr. (1811-1882) / "Good and Evil Relative" -- James, William (1842-1910) / "Pragmatism" -- Jaspers, Karl (1883- ) / "Reason" -- Jeans, James Hopwood (1877-1946) / "Appearance and Reality" -- Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) / "Character of Washington," "The Passage of the Potomac Through the Blue Ridge," "The Influence and Doom of Slavery" -- Joad, Cyril E.M. (1891-1953) / "The Power of Thought" -- John of Salisbury (c. 1115-1180) / "On Dream Interpretation" -- Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784) / "The Critic," "The Universal Fallacy" -- Jonson, Ben (1573-1637) / "The Dignity of Speech" -- Joubert, Joseph (1754-1824) / "Plato," "The Use of Words" -- Jung, Carl Gustav (1875- ) / "The Human Psyche" -- Justin Martyr (c.110-165) / "The Eucharist" -- Kallen, Horace Mayer (1882- ) / "The Choice of Freedom" -- Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804) / "Judgments" -- Hierkegaard, Sören (1813-1855) / "Natural Sciences" -- Klages, Ludwig (1872- ) / "The Hysterical Person" -- Kropotkin, Prince Peter (1842-1921) / "Anarchism" -- Laird, John (1887-1946) / "Deism and Theism" -- Lalande, André (1867- ) / "Involution" -- Lamarck, Jean (1744-1829) / "Undeveloped Knowledge" -- Lamb, Charles (1775-1834) / "Morality" -- Lamennais, Robert Félicité de (1782-1854) / "Justice and Liberty" -- Lamettrie, Julien Offray de (1709-1751) / "Food and Temper" -- Lange, Friedrich Albert (1828-1875) / "Reality and the Ideal World" -- Laotse (Lao Tsu) (About 4th Century B.C.) / "Tao Te Ching" -- La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duke of (Prince de Marsillac) (1613-1680) / "Reflections" -- Lassalle, Ferdinand (1825-1864) / "The Law of Wages" -- Lavater, Johann Kaspar (1741-1801) / "Maxims" -- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1741-1801) / "Concerning Divine Perfection" -- Lenin, V.I. (1870-1924) / "The Three Sources of Marxism" -- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (1729-1781) / "Man's Future Perfection" -- Leucippus (c. 460 B.C.) / "On Atomism" -- Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien (1857)-1939) / "The Mind of the Primitive Man" -- Lewes, George Henry (1817-1878) / "Philosophy and Science" -- Lewis, Clarence Irving (1883- ) / "Evaluation" -- Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph (1742-1799) / "All Kinds of Thoughts" -- Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) / "The Perpetuity of the Union," "The Emancipation Proclamation," "The Gettysburg Address," "Malice Toward None -- Charity for All" -- Linnaeus, Carolus (1707-1778) / "The Study of Nature" -- Lipps, Theodor (1851-1914) / "The Science of Aesthetics" -- Locke, John (1632-1704) / "Ideas and Senses" -- Lombard, Peter (c. 110-1160) / "Trinity" -- Longinus, Cassius (Third Century A.D.) / "The Sublime in Homer and Moses" -- Lotze, Rudolph Hermann (1817-1881) / "Soul-Life" -- Lovejoy, Arthur Oncken (1873- ) / "The Complexity of Isms" -- Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) (98-55 B.C.) / "Atomic Materialism" -- Lully, Raymond (Raymondus Lullus) (1235-1315) / "On Love" -- Lu Wang (Lu Hsiang-Shan) (1139-1192) / "On Human Nature" -- Luzzatto, Moses Hayim (1707-1747) / "Understanding and Uprightness."…”


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The Chemistry of Food Additives and Preservatives. by Msagati, Titus A. M.

Table of Contents: “…Chemistry of Food Additives and Preservatives -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Antioxidants and Radical Scavengers -- 1.1 CHEMISTRY OF FREE RADICALS AND ANTIOXIDANTS -- 1.1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.2 The formation of ROS in living systems -- 1.1.3 Negative effects of oxidants in food processes and to food consumers -- 1.1.4 Reactive oxygen/nitrogen species and aging -- 1.2 TYPES OF ANTIOXIDANTS -- 1.2.1 Natural antioxidants of plant origin -- 1.2.2 Phenolic non-flavonoid antioxidant compounds from natural sources -- 1.2.3 Phenolic flavonoid antioxidant compounds from natural sources -- 1.2.4 Acidic functional groups responsible for antioxidant activity -- 1.3 EFFICACY OF DIFFERENT ANTIOXIDANTS -- 1.4 ACTION MECHANISMS OF ANTIOXIDANTS -- 1.4.1 Quenching -- 1.4.2 Hydrogen transfer -- 1.4.3 Charge transfer -- 1.4.4 Bond-breaking -- 1.5 STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP OF ANTIOXIDANTS -- 1.5.1 Polyphenol antioxidants -- 1.5.2 Flavonoid antioxidants -- 1.5.3 Mechanism of reactions of flavonoid antioxidants with radical scavengers -- 1.6 FACTORS AFFECTING ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY -- 1.6.1 Temperature -- 1.6.2 Activation energy and redox potential -- 1.6.3 Stability -- 1.7 QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF DIETARY ANTIOXIDANTS -- 1.7.1 Total radical trapping antioxidant parameter/oxygen radical absorbing capacity -- 1.7.2 Hydroxyl radical antioxidant capacity (HORAC) -- 1.7.3 DPPH -- 1.7.4 Ferric reducing antioxidant power -- 1.7.5 Trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity (TEAC) -- 1.7.6 ABTS -- 1.7.7 Copper (Cu2+) reduction -- 1.7.8 Photochemiluminescence (PCL) -- 1.7.9 Chemiluminescence -- 1.7.10 Fluorometric -- 1.7.11 N, N-dimethyl-p-phenylenediamine -- 1.7.12 Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) -- 1.7.13 Thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) -- 1.7.14 Brigg-Rauscher -- 1.7.15 Electrochemical -- 1.7.16 β-carotene bleaching.…”
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The Oxford book of English prose

Table of Contents: “…Henry Vaughan: Finis rerum (The mount of olives, man in darkness) -- Arthur Bingham Walkley: The national gallery (Still more prejudice) -- Horace Walpole: Strawberry Hill. Funeral of George II -- Izaak Walton: A milkmaid#x19;s song (The compleat angler). …”


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