<p>As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)</p>

Elizabethan Drama Volume II

DEKKER

BEAUMONT

Jonson

History

BiblioLife

FLETCHER

Covers the atomic interpretation of dielectric, magnetic, and conductive properties of materials. Emphasis is on clear presentation of basic physical processes responsible for the properties of materials. Extensive background information, numerous line drawings, graphs and tables, supplement the text. Table of contents atoms and aggregates of atoms. Dielectric properties of insulators in static fields. Behavior of dielectrics in alternating fields. Magnetic properties of materials. The conductivity of metals. The mechanism of conduction in semiconductors. Junction rectifiers and transistors. Answers to problems. Index.

Electrical Engineering Materials

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

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