history | Scottish people | American Museum of Natural History | Natural History Museum | History | History (U.S. TV channel) | Scottish Gaelic | London, Midland and Scottish Railway | natural history | Scottish Premier League | Field Museum of Natural History | Scottish Parliament | Scottish Cup | Scottish Borders | Scottish National Party | History of China | National Museum of Natural History | The History Channel | Scottish Football League | Natural history | Member of the Scottish Parliament | Jewish history | Swedish Museum of Natural History | Natural History | National Museum of American History | London Scottish F.C. | Carnegie Museum of Natural History | Scottish Government | art history | AP United States History |
Thomas Carlyle in his book The French Revolution: A History describes a dramatic scene of "rain as of the days of Noah", roads turned into mud wallows, little food available except unripe grapes, a mountain called the Vache de Clermont showing sometimes through low clouds, lack of campfire because all wood was wet, and a third of the Prussian force in this invasion dead.
Congo: A History (original Dutch title: Congo. Een geschiedenis) is a 672 pages non-fiction book by David Van Reybrouck, first published in 2010.
Sullivan later also illustrated Carlyle's The French Revolution, though his work was far less varied than for Sartor Resartus.
Scottish Fairy Belief: A History, with Lizanne Henderson (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2001; Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2007) 242pp.
Her first book, Harry, A History was released in early November 2008 and debuted at #18 on the New York Times Best Seller List.
•
She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Harry, A History, which chronicles the Harry Potter phenomenon with exclusive interview material and a foreword written by Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling.
Under the rule of King Leopold II, the Belgian Congo was turned into a vast rubber plantation.
Research to improve these technologies ultimately led to our understanding the essentially digital nature of information, quantized down to the unit of the bit (or qubit).
•
Starting with the development of symbolic written language (and the eventual perceived need for a dictionary), Gleick examines the history of intellectual insights central to information theory, detailing the key figures responsible such as Claude Shannon, Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and John Archibald Wheeler.