The higher life in art : a series of lectures on the Barbizon school of France, inaugurating the Scammon course at the Art Institute of Chicago /

Includes index.

Endgame for the West in Afghanistan? : explaining the decline in support for the war in Afghanistan in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, France and Germany /

Analyses of the War in Afghanistan frequently mention the declining or shaky domestic support for the conflict in the United States and among several U.S. allies. This paper dates the beginning of this decline back to the resurgence of the Taliban in 2005-06 and suggests that the deteriorating course of the war on the ground in Afghanistan itself along with mounting casualties is the key reason behind this drop in domestic support for the war.

Histoire de la civilisation en France depuis la chute de l'empire romain jusqu'à 1789 /

A course of lectures delivered from 1829-1832.

The Ohio River; a course of empire,

I. Introductory: The River, its place and power.--II. Where France and England met.--III. The old French war in the West.--IV. One of the vanguard of the pioneers.--V. The "Monongahela country" and its metropolis.--VI. The Ohio in the revolution.--VII. The fighting Virginians.--VIII. Fort Washington and the "Bloody way."--IX. The reign of the rowdy and outlaw.--X. From keelboat to schooner.--XI. From Pittsburg to Louisville in 1806.--XII. Blennerhassett island.--XIII. Where Yankee and Virginian met.--XIV. When the steamboat was king.--XV. The workshop of the world.

Modern tariff history: Germany -- United States -- France,

"The first edition of this book, published in 1904, was based upon lectures delivered to the students of the London school of economics and political science, in the course of that year."--Pref. note.

Mémoire sur la vision des couleurs matérielles en mouvement de rotation : et des vitesses numériques de cercles dont une moitié diamétrale est colorée et l'autre blanche, vitesses correspondant à trois périodes de leur mouvement à partir de l'extreme vitesse jusqu'au repos. /

"Note de M. Becquerel," p. [363]-366.