Genesis of Neuroscience relates the evolution of ideas in neuroscience up to the end of the 19th century as told by A. Earl Walker, MD. During his lifetime, Dr. Walker began compiling material for a book combining his love and knowledge of neuroscience and the history of the neurosciences. After his death, his widow and two former colleagues gathered together the many notes, file cards, and photographs that he had left. The result is a narrative that medical students will find informative and all physicians will find enlightening.Genesis of Neuroscience covers a vast array of topics from the origins of neuroscience to the manifestation of cerebral disorders: headache, epilepsy, sleep disorders and cerebrovascular disease and infections and inflammatory involvement of the CNS. This book is a "must-have" for any physician interested in the genesis of neuroscience as told by one of the pioneers in the specialty.(Distributed by Thieme for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons)

Jack London And The Klondike: The Genesis Of An American Writer

Biographies & Memoirs

Walker, Franklin

Arts & Literature

The Huntington Library

<p>This book is the first comprehensive study of the basic principles that govern the editing of literary texts. The focus is on English and American literature, and discussion is illuminated by a multitude of examples from the Renaissance to the present time. It deals with the topics that are essential to all editorial work and conveys attitudes and approaches that should animate all literary scholarship.</p>

Principles of Textual Criticism

Literature & Fiction

James Thorpe

History & Criticism

<p>Lawes and Libertyes of Massachusets Edited with an Introduction by Thomas G. Barnes This facsimile edition is reproduced from the Huntington Library's unique 1648 copy of the first printed book of laws in the history of our country. Although it has obvious interest and value for any student of law or of colonial history, the subject matter of many of its statutes will give the lay-man a revealing glimpse of everyday life in colonial America. The laws range from matters as modern as highway construction and maintenance, and the administration of "Harvard Colledge in the County of Midlesex," to a regulation giving drovers permission to rest and refresh their cattle "if they be weak and hungry, or sick and lame," in any open space that is not "inclosed for some particular use." Another law standardizes the quality and dimensions of pipe staves and provides penalties for shipping any staves that have not been inspected and approved. Six hundred copies of the Lawes and Libertyes were printed, but so far as is known the only copy still extant is at the Huntington Library. The where-abouts of even this remaining copy remained a mystery for many years until, after intensive search, it was discovered in a small library in Rye, England, in 1906. It was then acquired by E. Dwight Church and came to the Huntington with the rest of the Church Collection in 1911. As Mr. Barnes explains in his introduction, the Lawes and Libertyes was the result of three years' continuous involvement by the General Court of Massachusetts, which, in turn, was based on over a decade of labor by "committees for the laws." He has provided a detailed table indicating the sources of the laws and including the early codification of law, the "Body of Liberties" of 1641. The book is a remarkable document, one that had direct influence on printed law in other English colonies in America. It is an important milestone in America's legal history.</p>

The book of the general lawes and libertyes concerning the inhabitants of the Massachusets: Reproduced in facsimile from the unique 1648 edition in the Huntington Library

Barnes, Thomas G.

Comical Spirit of Seventy-Six: The Humor of Francis Hopkinson

Humor & Entertainment

Francis Hopkinson

Humor

Green on green tinted pictorial textured wraps, 56 pages including index and sources. Illustrated with b/w reproductions throughout.

The City of the Angels and the City of the Saints

Edward Otho Cresap Ord

Travel

THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY, ART COLLECTIONS, AND BOTANICAL GARDENS CULTIVATING CURIOSITY

Susan Green

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