The public display of grief that accompanied the funeral of the late Princess of Wales drew attention to the many Britons who had found an affinity with Diana. Seeking an explanation for this affinity, Taylor argues that, during Diana's brief time in the world spotlight, Britain underwent a change in values and a shift in national identity from a system based almost exclusively on household and family values to one more accepting of individual autonomy and self-interest. Accustomed to royalty as symbols of national values and identity, persons of resentment (women, people of color, and homosexuals) found the divorced princess an apt symbol of their transvalued values. These groups declared ignoble the Queen, Prince Charles, and others who had previously been the patterns for nobility in British society, and they held up Diana as one truly noble.The British monarchy had come to symbolize household and family, but disaffected groups found themselves excluded from this model. While royal adultery and divorces were long characterized by a double standard, the Princess of Wales was able to win over considerable public sympathy to her plight. By the 1990s, British household size and structure had changed so dramatically that a challenge to a traditionally based family value system was well timed. Women, people of color, and homosexuals saw in Diana's life their own transformation in identity that now found greater acceptance in the larger society.

Diana, Self-Interest, and British National Identity

Biographies & Memoirs

Taylor, John A.

Historical

Praeger

Gregory King (1648-1712) was an engraver, herald, surveyor, and Secretary to the Commissioners for the Public Accounts, but he is best known for his 1696 estimates of the wealth and population of England. Writing in 1696, but calculating for the year 1688, he put the population at approximately 5.5 million. Historians have recently doubted the accuracy of these estimates. In this book, John A. Taylor argues that King was an honest compiler of statistics, and that his eccentric calculations based on the available 1696 data were motivated by the problems he faced. Because he used only empiricism and shop arithmetic, the 1696 estimates were probably as accurate as anyone in the 17th century could have made them.
Gregory King (1648-1712) was an engraver, herald, surveyor, and Secretary to the Commissioners for the Public Accounts, but he is best known for his 1696 estimates of the wealth and population of England. Writing in 1696, but calculating for the year 1688, he put the population at approximately 5.5 million. Historians have recently doubted the accuracy of these estimates. In this book, John A. Taylor argues that King was an honest compiler of data whose eccentric calculations of the 1696 data available to him were motivated by the problems he faced. Because he used only empiricism and shop arithmetic, the 1696 estimates were probably as accurate as anyone in the 17th century could have made them.
This first book-length study of King's work positions his successes and shortcomings as a statistician within the context of the whole ongoing failure of statisticians to construct a method of exact prediction about human society. In addition to this valuable commentary, Taylor also includes reprints of several scarce but very important documents by or about King, including King's 1696 estimates of national population and wealth, his autobiography, his essay on the naval trade of England, his letter on Queen Anne's Bounty, and the life of King written by George Chalmers.

British Empiricism and Early Political Economy: Gregory King's 1696 Estimates of National Wealth and Population (Contributions to the Study of World History)

Business & Money

Economics

First published in 1603, William Covel's work was intended to be an epitome of Richard Hooker's "Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity". The entire text is reprinted here, unabridged in Benjamin Hanbury's (Covel's 19th-century editor) version.

William Covel's a Just and Temperate Defence of the Five Books of Ecclesiastical Polity Written by Richard Hooker (Texts & Studies in Religion)

Religion & Spirituality

Covell, William

Christian Books & Bibles

Edwin Mellen Pr

Notes on an Unhurried Journey (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)

G.K.Hall & Co.

Notes on an Unhurried Journey

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Four Walls, Eight Windows

Addresses Delivered by John A. Taylor, in the Cases of Burroughs and Fuchs, Who Were Indicted and Tried for Murder at Oyer and Terminer of the Supreme Court Held in Kings County, N. Y.

Gale, Making of Modern Law

Principles of Aerostatics presents the complete theory of static lift for airships, aerostats and balloons. Concepts are laid out, and building on the derivation of temperature, pressure, density and humidity in the atmosphere and the gas laws, formulas for static lift are derived. The variation of lift with atmospheric and airship parameters, climb and descent, and flight above pressure height are then explored. Both SI and United States Customary Units are employed throughout, and worked examples and calculator programs are provided. The mathematical processes can followed by a reader with an understanding of high school algebra. "This is an excellent and unique work bringing the strands of basic theory together and rendering them into a workable series of mathematical expressions which can be used by any individual with a hand held scientific calculator. It is a most significant contribution to the LTA industry." - Dick Chadburn - Former Chairman, The Airship Association

Principles of Aerostatics: The Theory of Lighter-Than-Air Flight

Science & Math

Astronomy & Space Science

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Popular Literature and the Construction of British National Identity, 1707-1850

After the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, a group of Britons began to apply quantitative analysis to policy. This they called 'political arithmetic'. Applying mathematical method to the study of the practical problems of statecraft and commerce, they made extensive use of observed data and pioneered the use of actuarial tables. This study explores to what extent they owed their ideas to Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, etc; and whether they did indeed use Baconian method.

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

International Scholars Publications

After the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, a group of Britons began to apply quantitative analysis to policy. This they called 'political arithmetic'. Applying mathematical method to the study of the practical problems of statecraft and commerce, they made extensive use of observed data and pioneered the use of actuarial tables. This study explores to what extent they owed their ideas to Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, etc; and whether they did indeed use Baconian method.

That's All In It is a coming of age story of a young black man growing up in the mean streets of the turbulent 70s Philadelphia who overcomes tremendous adversity before realizing his true potential. Richard's story becomes the kaleidoscope through which we can gauge the impact of politics on America's inner city communities. Richard Garland is an inspiration to all who still believe that anything is possible in America.

That's All In It

Contemporary

Aventine Pr

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