Le grand dictionnaire historique ou Le mélange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane ... : tome I [-VI] /

Contiene: Tome 1: A-BD. - Tome 2: BE-COP. - Tome 3: COR-G . - Tome 4: H-ME. - Tome 5: MI-R - Tome 6: S-Z.

Les pensées, maximes, et réflexions morales de François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld : avec des remarques & notes critiques, morales, politiques & historiques sur chacune de ces pensées /

Full mor. tooled & gilt, good condition.

Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de France et de Bourgogne : contenant un journal de Paris, sous les regnes de Charles VI. & de Charles VII., l'histoire du Meurtre de Jean sans peur, Duc de Bourgogne, avec les preuves; les tats des maisons & officiers des ducs de Bourgogne de la derniere race, enrichis de notes historiques très-interessantes pour un grand nombre de familles illustres Des lettres de Charles le Hardy, Duc de Bourgogne, au Sieur de Neuschastel du 'Fay, ... [Title continues in note]

Title continued: ... gouverneur du Luxembourg; & plusieurs autres monumens très-utiles pour l'éclaircissement de l'histoire du XIV. & XV. siecle. Avec une table des matieres, & des noms des familles les plus considerables dont il est fait mention dans l'ouvrage.

The works of Robert Louis Stevenson;

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The works of Robert Louis Stevenson;

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The novels and tales of Robert Louis Stevenson.

XVI. A child's garden of verses. Underwoods. Ballads.--XVII. Vailima letters: correspondence addressed to Sidney Colvin.--XVIII. Memoir of Fleming Jenkins. Records of a family of engineers.--XIX. In the South seas. A foot-note to history.--XX. Weir of Hermiston. The plays of W.E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson. Fables.--XXI. St. Ives: being the adventures of a French prisoner in England.--XXII. Sketches. Criticisms., etc.--XXIII-XXIV. Letters to his family and friends, selected and ed. ... by S. Colvin.-- ... XXV. New Letters, selected and ed. by S. Colvin.

The novels and tales of Robert Louis Stevenson ...

Criticisms, etc.--XXIII-XXIV. Letters to his family and friends, selected and ed. ... by S. Colvin.--XXV-XXVI. The life of Robert Louis Stevenson, by G. Balfour.--XXVII. New letters, selected and ed. by S. Colvin.

Louis Nowra, 'Radiance' (Sydney: Currency Press, 1993)

Louis Nowra wrote 'Radiance' especially for the three actors who performed it in the play’s premier season at Belvoir Street Theatre in September 1993. And the Currency Press playscript / programme produced for that season foregrounds these three performers – Rachael Maza, Lydia Miller and Rhoda Roberts – in such a way that the usual distinction between dramatis personae and the actors who play them is considerably diminished. Both the blurb on the back cover and Nowra’s introduction emphasise this special relationship between text and actors, but it is the front cover shot which particularly reflects the conjunction between the two. Rather than depicting a scene from performance, or a ‘graphic’ suggesting something of the play’s thematic content, the front cover of Radiance features the three actors in a posed promotional shot. Arms joined warmly, lovingly, about each other’s waist, bodies turned away from but faces towards the camera, it is the actors we see, not their characters. It’s a very joyful image; they’re positively beaming. Radiant. They look as if they could really be the three half-sisters they portray, except that such moments of blithe sorority are just about non-existent in the play.

'The black hole of our history' : a conversation with Louis Nowra

This is an edited version of an interview recorded for Canadian Theatre Review in 1992. By that time Nowra had established a reputation as one of Australia's foremost playwrights. Part of the generation which succeeded the New Wave of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Nowra became known for a stylistic inventiveness which placed him outside the tradition of realist playwriting in Australia. The international outlook in his early plays, and the fact that he was not exclusively preoccupied with Australian settings and subject matter, was often a focal point in critical accounts of his work. In this interview Nowra discusses his 'internationalism', and a range of topics including the playwriting process; the presence of landscape in his plays; and the autobiographical elements in his work.

Preparation and characterization of TiO2/acid leached serpentinite tailings composites and their photocatalytic reduction of Chromium(VI)

Composite TiO2/acid leached serpentine tailings (AST) were synthesized through the hydrolysis–deposition method and characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energydispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDS), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and surface area measurement (BET). The XRD analysis showed that TiO2 coated on the surface of acid leached serpentine tailings was mixed crystal phases of rutile and anatase, the grain size of which is 10–30 nm. SEM, TEM, and EDS analysis exhibited that nano-TiO2 particles were deposited on the surface and internal cavities of acid leaching serpentine tailings. The XPS and FT-IR analysis demonstrated that the coating process of TiO2 on AST was a physical adsorption process. The large specific surface area, porous structure, and plentiful surface hydroxyl group of TiO2/AST composite resulted in the high adsorption capacity of Cr(VI). The experimental results demonstrated that initial concentration of Cr(VI), the amount of the catalyst, and pH greatly influenced the removal efficiency of Cr(VI). The removal kinetics of Cr(VI) at a relative low initial concentration was fitted well with Langmuir–Hinshelwood kinetics model with R2 value of about unity. The asprepared composites exhibited strong adsorption and photocatalytic capacity for the removal of Cr(VI), and the possible photocatalytic reduction mechanism was studied. The photodecomposition of Cr(VI) was as high as 95% within 2 h, and the reusability of the photocatalysis was proven.

Fabrication of metal-nanoparticle-modified semiconducting copper--and silver--TCNQ materials as substrates for the reduction of chromium (VI) using thiosulfate ions at ambient temperature

The formation of readily recoverable and reusable organic semiconducting Cu- and AgTCNQ (TCNQ=7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane) microstructures decorated with Pt and Pd metallic nanoparticles is described for the effective reduction of CrVI ions in aqueous solution at room temperature using both formic acid and an environmentally friendly thiosulfate reductant. The M-TCNQ (M=metal) materials were formed by electrocrystallisation onto a glassy carbon surface followed by galvanic replacement in the presence of H2PtCl6 or PdCl2 to form the composite material. It was found that loading of the surface with nanoparticles could easily be controlled by changing the metal salt concentration. Significantly, the M-TCNQ substrates facilitated the formation of well-isolated metal nanoparticles on their surfaces under appropriate galvanic replacement conditions. The semiconductor–metal nanoparticle combination was also found to be critical to the catalyst performance, wherein the best-performing material was CuTCNQ modified by well-isolated Pt nanoparticles with both formic acid and thiosulfate ions as the reductant.

A new approach to prepare ZVI and its application in removal of Cr(VI) from aqueous solution

Zero valent iron (ZVI) was prepared by reducing natural goethite (NG-ZVI) and synthetic goethite (SG-ZVI) in hydrogen at 550 °C. XRD, TEM, FESEM/EDS and specific surface area (SSA) and pore analyser were used to characterize goethites and reduced goethites. Both NG-ZVI and SG-ZVI with a size of nanoscale to several hundreds of nanometers were obtained by reducing goethites at 550 °C. The reductive capacity of the ZVIs was assessed by removal of Cr(VI) at ambient temperature in comparison with that of commercial iron powder (CIP). The effect of contact time, initial concentration and reaction temperature on Cr(VI) removal was investigated. Furthermore, the uptake mechanism was discussed according to isotherms, thermodynamic analysis and the results of XPS. The results showed that SG-ZVI had the best reductive capacity to Cr(VI) and reduced Cr(VI) to Cr(III). The results suggest that hydrogen reduction is a good approach to prepare ZVI and this type of ZVI is potentially useful in remediating heavy metals as a material of permeable reaction barrier.

Effect of Structural Modification on the Quantum-Size Effect in II-VI Semiconducting Nanocrystals

The electronic structure of group II-VI semiconductors in the stable wurtzite form is analyzed using state-of-the-art ab initio approaches to extract a simple and chemically transparent tight-binding model. This model can be used to understand the variation in the bandgap with size, for nanoclusters of these compounds. Results complement similar information already available for same systems in the zinc blende structure. A comparison with all available experimental data on quantum size effects in group II-VI semiconductor nanoclusters establishes a remarkable agreement between theory and experiment in both structure types, thereby verifying the predictive ability of our approach. The significant dependence of the quantum size effect on the structure type suggests that the experimental bandgap change at a given size compared to the bulk bandgap, may be used to indicate the structural form of the nanoclusters, particularly in the small size limit, where broadening of diffraction features often make it difficult to unambiguously determine the structure.

Studio portrait of Louis Gottschalk.

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Portrait of Louis Gottschalk, Julia Rothschild, Henriette Rothschild und Jenny Rothschild looking at photo album.

From left to right: Julia Rothschild, Henriette Rothschild, Jenny Rothschild; Louis Gottschalk stanting