Davy, renowned chemist and accomplished poet,who is famous primarilly for his role in the isolation of iodine and discovery of the Davy Lamp. Throughout his life he used poetry to express his emotional landscape, demonstrating a romantic spirit that was evident in his vision of science as well. Davy acquired his taste for experimental science as a youth , mainly due to his mentor, a Quaker named Robert Dunkin, a saddler and a man of original mind and of the most varied accomplishments. SECONDHAND BOOK in good condition, I think bought from us and returned unread.
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An Imperfect Offering Humanitarian Action For The Twenty First Century
Hy Brasil
BY MARGARET ELPHINSTONE Sidony Redruth is a young English woman who, after fraudulently winning a writing competition, is sent by her editor to write the first-ever travel book on Hy Brasil, a near mythical island somewhere in the Atlantic whose very existence has been a matter of debate as late as the nineteenth century. Elphinstone's plot takes the island location as its starting point, throws in some old-fashioned priracy, a lost treasure, modern-day drug smuggling, political intrigue, an active volcano and a tragic love affair. Told through Sidony's notes for her book, Hy Brasil is a compelling and magical adventure story. The author is a British friend.
McArthur 2002 438 PP. Paper
BY JAMES ORBINSKI, M.D. An Imperfect Offering is a deeply personal, deeply political book. With unstinting candor, Orbinski explores the nature of humanitarian action in the twenty-first century, and asserts the fundamental imperative of seeing as human those whose political systems have most brutally failed. He insists that in responding to the suffering of others, we must never lose sight of the dignity of those being helped or deny them the right to act as agents in their own lives. He takes readers on a journey to some of the darkest places of our history but finds there unimaginable acts of courage and empathy. Here he is doctor as witness; calling on others to meet their responsibility.
Walker Publishing 2009 448 PP. Paper $5.00 (in stock) Buy
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