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The Chemistry Department at Imperial College London: A ...

Hannah Gay

She and Jocelyn Thorpe became coeditors of the fourth edition. After Jocelyn Thorpe died in 1940, Whiteley continued as sole editor, working on the Dictionary into her seventies with the help of an Assistant Editor, A. J. E. (John) Welch.156 ...

The History of Imperial College London, 1907-2007: Higher ...

Hannah Gay

J. C. Philip, who earlier had been appointed to boost physical chemistry in the department, was given a chair in 1914.44 At the same time, one of Thorpe's old students and namesake, Jocelyn Thorpe, was appointed professor of organic ...

Temagami's Tangled Wild: Race, Gender, and the Making of ...

Jocelyn Thorpe

Canadian wilderness seems a self-evident entity, yet, as this volume shows in vivid historical detail, wilderness is not what it seems.

Methodological Challenges in Nature-Culture and ...

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Jocelyn Thorpe, Stephanie Rutherford, L. Anders Sandberg. And I think other people have said one of the reasons we«re losing our language is because we« re too polite. You can have ten people speaking Mi«gmaq in a room and one ...

The Physics of the Universe

Sir James Hopwood Jeans

OINCE this section of the fourth edition was ^ sent to press one of the editors, Sir Jocelyn Thorpe, has died. It is sincerely to be hoped that the remaining editor will be able to continue the work on her own or will be able to find someone to help ...

Climate Change: Who's Carrying the Burden? : the Chilly ...

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She is currently teaching at Trent University in Peterborough. Jocelyn Thorpe holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from York University. She has held a post -doctoral fellowship in History at the University of British Columbia and is currently ...

Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater: The Story of McIntosh ...

Buddy Sullivan

Charles C. Thorpe of Lebanon plantation was one South Newport River planter who had a real brush with the effects of the Civil War, according to a story told years later by his granddaughter, Isabel Thorpe Mealing. C.C. Thorpe was captured ...

Temagami's Tangled Wild: Race, Gender, and the Making of ...

Jocelyn Thorpe

Co-Existence? Studies in OntarioFirst Nations Relations. Peterborough, ON: Frost Centre for Canadian Heritage and Development Studies, 1992. Hodgins, Bruce W., Ute Lischke, and DavidT. McNab, eds. Blockades and Resistance: Studies ...

Charles Thorpe of Georgia and His Descendants: The Harris ...

Isabel Thorpe Mealing

Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War

Helen Thorpe

What Thorpe accomplishes in Soldier Girls is something far greater than describing the experience of women in the military. The book is a solid chunk of American history...Thorpe triumphs” (The New York Times Book Review).

Journal of the Chemical Society

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"Dr. Ing." (Signed by) Jocelyn Thorpe, C. S. Gibson, N. V. Sidgwick. Smith, Charles Gordon, " Craigside," Higher Bebington, Cheshire. British. Chief Chemist to the Salt Union, Ltd. M.Sc., Birmingham. (Signed by) W. E. Gibbs, D. V. Plumbridge, ...

Jim Thorpe: A Biography

William A. Cook

A Biography William A. Cook. 8 Thorpe Loses His Olympic Meelals By early January 1913, the question of Jim Thorpe's amateur status was fast becoming a major media event. According to sports columnist Edward MOSS, the first article to be ...

Journal of the Royal Institute of Chemistry

Royal Institute of Chemistry

Jocelyn Thorpe, President of the Chemical Services Committee appointed by the Government of India, has presented the Institute with a copy of the Report of the Committee, dated from Simla, February 28th, 1920. The terms of reference to the ...

Fatal Identity

Joanne Fluke

Ashley Thorpe led her into the trailer. “You can leave us, Jolene. I'll bring Miss Calder to the set when we're ready.” As Marcie followed him to the couch, she was thoroughly awed. Ashley Thorpe was even more handsome in person than he ...

Would You

Marthe Jocelyn

An accident. Life changes in a heartbeat. In Would You, Marthe Jocelyn tells a haunting story of tragedy and loss, of how one day can shape the next and at the same time emphasize the magnitude of life. From the Hardcover edition.

Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen

Jocelyn Harris

Thoroughly researched and elegantly written, this new book by Jocelyn Harris contributes significantly to the growing literature about Austen’s worldiness by presenting a highly particularized web of facts, people, texts, and issues vital ...

I Fired God: My Life Inside---and Escape from---the Secret ...

Jocelyn Zichterman

In I Fired God, Jocelyn Zichterman systematically details the IFB's disturbing history, exposing a cult-like atmosphere of corruption, greed, and abuse.

Rinkagate: The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Thorpe

Barrie Penrose

At 2:34pm on Friday 22 June 1979, the jurors in what had been billed as "The Trial of the Century" filed into Number One Court at the Old Bailey to deliver the verdict on the Rt Hon Jeremy Thorpe, Privy Counsellor, the former MP for North ...

Women and Girls Rising: Progress and Resistance Around the World

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On IWY deliberations over women's subsistence labors, see Jocelyn Olcott, “The Battle within the Home: Development Strategies, Second-Wave Feminism, and the Commodification of Caring Labors at the 1975 30 Jocelyn Olcott.

Provincetown: From Pilgrim Landing to Gay Resort

Karen Christel Krahulik

I am grateful to Jocelyn Olcott for raising the term community of likeness. For an informed discussion of women and citizenship, see Jocelyn Olcott, Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, ...

RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX

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Terrence Fong, Charles Thorpe, and Charles Baur. Advanced interfaces for vehicle teleoperation: Collaborative control, sensor fusion displays, and remote driving tools. Autonomous Robots, 11(1), July 2001. Terrence Fong, Charles Thorpe, ...