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Using R for Item Response Theory Model Applications

Using R for Item Response Theory Model Applications

Item response theory (IRT) is widely used in education and psychology and is expanding its applications to other social science areas medical research and business as well. Using R for Item Response Theory Model Applications is a practical guide for students instructors practitioners and applied researchers who want to learn how to properly use R IRT packages to perform IRT model calibrations with their own data. This book provides practical line-by-line descriptions of how to use R IRT packages for various IRT models. The scope and coverage of the modeling in the book covers almost all models used in practice and in popular research including: dichotomous response modeling polytomous response modeling mixed format data modeling concurrent multiple group modeling fixed item parameter calibration modelling with latent regression to include person-level covariate(s) simple structure or between-item multidimensional modeling cross-loading or within-item multidimensional modeling high-dimensional modeling bifactor modeling testlet modeling two-tier modeling For beginners this book provides a straightforward guide to learn how to use R for IRT applications. For more intermediate learners of IRT or users of R this book will serve as a great time-saving tool for learning how to create the proper syntax fit the various models evaluate the models and interpret the output using popular R IRT packages.

GBP 39.99
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J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) is widely regarded as one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His popularity began with the publication in 1937 of The Hobbit and was cemented by the appearance of The Lord of the Rings in the early 1950s. However engagement with his work was until relatively recently sidelined by literary and other scholars. Consequently many foundational analyses of his fiction and his work as a medievalist are dispersed in hard-to-find monographs and obscure journals (often produced by dedicated amateurs). In contrast over the last decade or so academic interest in Tolkien has risen dramatically. Indeed interpretative and critical commentary is now being generated on a bewildering scale in part aided by the continuing posthumous publication of his work (most recently his Beowulf translation which appeared in 2014). The dizzying quantity—and variable quality—of this later criticism makes it difficult to discriminate the useful from the tendentious superficial and otiose. Now in four volumes a new collection from Routledge’s Critical Assessments of Major Writers series meets the need for an authoritative reference work to collect early evaluations and to make sense of the more recent explosion in research output. Users are now able easily and rapidly to locate the best and most influential critical assessments. With material gathered into one easy-to-use set Tolkien researchers and students can now spend more of their time with the key journal articles book chapters and other pieces rather than on time-consuming (and sometimes fruitless) archival searches.

GBP 1150.00
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The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien

The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien

This volume analyzes the literary role played by history in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. It argues that the events of The Lord of the Rings are placed against the background of an already- existing history both in reality and in the fictional worlds of the books. History is unfolded in various ways both in explicitly archival annals and in stories told by characters on the road or on the fly and in which different visions of history emerge. In addition the history within the work can resemble or be patterned on histories in our world. These histories range from the deep past of prehistoric and ancient worlds to the early medieval era of the barbarian invasions and Byzantium to the modern worlds of urbane civility and a paradoxical longing for nature and finally to great power rivalries and global prospects. The book argues that Tolkien did not employ these histories indiscriminately or reductively. Rather he regarded them as aspects of aesthetic and representative figuration that are above all literary. While most criticism has concentrated on Tolkien’s use of historical traditions of Northern Europe this book argues that Tolkien also valued Southern and Mediterranean pasts and registered the Germanic and the Scandinavian pasts as they related to other histories as much as his vision of them included a primeval mythic aura. | The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien

GBP 130.00
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Applied Spatial Statistics and Econometrics Data Analysis in R

Applied Spatial Statistics and Econometrics Data Analysis in R

This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to applied spatial data analysis using R. Each chapter walks the reader through a different method explaining how to interpret the results and what conclusions can be drawn. The author team showcases key topics including unsupervised learning causal inference spatial weight matrices spatial econometrics heterogeneity and bootstrapping. It is accompanied by a suite of data and R code on Github to help readers practise techniques via replication and exercises. This text will be a valuable resource for advanced students of econometrics spatial planning and regional science. It will also be suitable for researchers and data scientists working with spatial data. | Applied Spatial Statistics and Econometrics Data Analysis in R

GBP 52.99
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Statistics for Linguists: An Introduction Using R

Statistics for Linguists: An Introduction Using R

Statistics for Linguists: An Introduction Using R is the first statistics textbook on linear models for linguistics. The book covers simple uses of linear models through generalized models to more advanced approaches maintaining its focus on conceptual issues and avoiding excessive mathematical details. It contains many applied examples using the R statistical programming environment. Written in an accessible tone and style this text is the ideal main resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate students of Linguistics statistics courses as well as those in other fields including Psychology Cognitive Science and Data Science.

GBP 42.99
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Couple Sexuality After 60 Intimate Pleasurable and Satisfying

Couple Sexuality After 60 Intimate Pleasurable and Satisfying

Confronting taboos and misunderstandings about sexuality and aging Couple Sexuality After 60: Intimate Pleasurable and Satisfying motivates couples to embrace sex and sexuality in their 60s 70s and 80s. The book busts two extreme myths—that people over 60 cannot and should not be sexual and that the best way to be sexual is to emphasize eroticism using sex toys and kinky sex. Using a variable flexible approach to couple sexuality based on the Good Enough Sex (GES) model this book places the essence of sexuality in pleasure-oriented touching not individual sex performance. Barry and Emily McCarthy introduce a new sexual mantra of desire/pleasure/eroticism/satisfaction with the goal of presenting a healthy model of sexuality to replace the traditional double standard that couples learn in young adulthood. Specific chapters focus on important areas like coming to terms with the new normal female–male sexual equity satisfaction being about more than intercourse and orgasm valuing synchronous and asynchronous sexuality psychobiosocial approaches to sexuality and more. In addition to aging heterosexual couples single individuals and queer couples will find this book interesting. Additionally sexual health clinicians and sex therapists with clients over the age of 60 will find this a fascinating read. | Couple Sexuality After 60 Intimate Pleasurable and Satisfying

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Network Psychometrics with R A Guide for Behavioral and Social Scientists

Network Psychometrics with R A Guide for Behavioral and Social Scientists

A systematic innovative introduction to the field of network analysis Network Psychometrics with R: A Guide for Behavioral and Social Scientists provides a comprehensive overview of and guide to both the theoretical foundations of network psychometrics as well as modelling techniques developed from this perspective. Written by pioneers in the field this textbook showcases cutting-edge methods in an easily accessible format accompanied by problem sets and code. After working through this book readers will be able to understand the theoretical foundations behind network modelling infer network topology and estimate network parameters from different sources of data. This book features an introduction on the statistical programming language R that guides readers on how to analyse network structures and their stability using R. While Network Psychometrics with R is written in the context of social and behavioral science the methods introduced in this book are widely applicable to data sets from related fields of study. Additionally while the text is written in a non-technical manner technical content is highlighted in textboxes for the interested reader. Network Psychometrics with R is ideal for instructors and students of undergraduate and graduate level courses and workshops in the field of network psychometrics as well as established researchers looking to master new methods. This book is accompanied by a companion website with resources for both students and lecturers. | Network Psychometrics with R A Guide for Behavioral and Social Scientists

GBP 48.99
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The Management Thought of Louis R. Pondy Reclaiming the Enthinkment Path

The Management Thought of Louis R. Pondy Reclaiming the Enthinkment Path

Louis R. Pondy was a leading management and organizational studies scholar whose work on open systems helped launch and define the future of the field. This book offers an assessment of Pondy’s contribution through critical reflection on what happened to the relationship between conflict theory and “beyond open systems. ” Exploring the ways in which Louis R. Pondy theorizes conflict and systems and how he challenged the status quo paradigms this book offers a historical analysis on Pondy’s work and the relation to contemporary management theory. The author develops a Triple Loop framework building on Pondy’s theories as well as the work of Gregory Batesom to demonstrate a beyond-open-systems approach and existing single- or double-loop systems. Demonstrating the value and legacy of Louis R. Pondy this book will have international appeal to researchers academics and students across management disciplines and organizational studies including systems thinking and conflict resolution. | The Management Thought of Louis R. Pondy Reclaiming the Enthinkment Path

GBP 130.00
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W. R. Bion’s Theories of Mind A Contemporary Introduction

W. R. Bion’s Theories of Mind A Contemporary Introduction

Annie Reiner’s introduction to Wilfred Bion’s theories of mind presents Bion’s intricate ideas in an accessible original way without compromising their complexity. Reiner uses comparisons to painting literature and philosophy and detailed clinical examples to provide an experience of Bion’s work that can be felt as well as thought. The book explores many of Bion’s theoretical and clinical innovations and examines the controversy surrounding his concept of O. Reiner provides evidence of a continuity between Bion’s early ideas and his later more esoteric work. W. R. Bion’s Theories of Mind will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic candidates as well as students of psychoanalytic and psychological history and anyone looking for a readable introduction to Bion’s work. | W. R. Bion’s Theories of Mind A Contemporary Introduction

GBP 19.99
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Factor Analysis and Dimension Reduction in R A Social Scientist's Toolkit

Factor Analysis and Dimension Reduction in R A Social Scientist's Toolkit

Factor Analysis and Dimension Reduction in R provides coverage with worked examples of a large number of dimension reduction procedures along with model performance metrics to compare them. Factor analysis in the form of principal components analysis (PCA) or principal factor analysis (PFA) is familiar to most social scientists. However what is less familiar is understanding that factor analysis is a subset of the more general statistical family of dimension reduction methods. The social scientist's toolkit for factor analysis problems can be expanded to include the range of solutions this book presents. In addition to covering FA and PCA with orthogonal and oblique rotation this book’s coverage includes higher-order factor models bifactor models models based on binary and ordinal data models based on mixed data generalized low-rank models cluster analysis with GLRM models involving supplemental variables or observations Bayesian factor analysis regularized factor analysis testing for unidimensionality and prediction with factor scores. The second half of the book deals with other procedures for dimension reduction. These include coverage of kernel PCA factor analysis with multidimensional scaling locally linear embedding models Laplacian eigenmaps diffusion maps force directed methods t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding independent component analysis (ICA) dimensionality reduction via regression (DRR) non-negative matrix factorization (NNMF) Isomap Autoencoder uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP) models neural network models and longitudinal factor analysis models. In addition a special chapter covers metrics for comparing model performance. Features of this book include: Numerous worked examples with replicable R code Explicit comprehensive coverage of data assumptions Adaptation of factor methods to binary ordinal and categorical data Residual and outlier analysis Visualization of factor results Final chapters that treat integration of factor analysis with neural network and time series methods Presented in color with R code and introduction to R and RStudio this book will be suitable for graduate-level and optional module courses for social scientists and on quantitative methods and multivariate statistics courses. | Factor Analysis and Dimension Reduction in R A Social Scientist's Toolkit

GBP 64.99
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The Clinical Thinking of W. R. Bion in Brazil Supervisions and Commentaries

The Clinical Thinking of W. R. Bion in Brazil Supervisions and Commentaries

The Clinical Thinking of W. R. Bion in Brazil is comprised of thirteen transcriptions of supervisions Wilfred Bion conducted during his three teaching and speaking tours of Brazil. During these tours Bion conducted over 130 public supervisions of analytic cases in English in which he explained his theories and illustrated their clinical application. Following on from the first volume Bion in Brazil: Supervisions and Commentaries (2017) this book presents each supervision in full with an accompanying commentary written by a senior Brazilian psychoanalyst and Bionian scholar. Arguably no psychoanalyst has had as much impact on psychoanalytic development in Brazil than Bion and this collection of his seminars presented here for the first time acts as a historical document and testament to his legacy in contemporary analysis. The Clinical Thinking of W. R. Bion in Brazil provides a unique opportunity for contemporary psychoanalysts candidates and students to hear the distinctive ‘voice’ of Bion observe how he listens in conversation and learn how he would intervene in and interpret a clinical situation. | The Clinical Thinking of W. R. Bion in Brazil Supervisions and Commentaries

GBP 29.99
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Exploratory Factor Analysis with R and RStudio

A Step-by-Step Guide to Exploratory Factor Analysis with R and RStudio

This is a concise easy to use step-by-step guide for applied researchers conducting exploratory factor analysis (EFA) using the open source software R. In this book Dr. Watkins systematically reviews each decision step in EFA with screen shots of R and RStudio code and recommends evidence-based best practice procedures. This is an eminently applied practical approach with few or no formulas and is aimed at readers with little to no mathematical background. Dr. Watkins maintains an accessible tone throughout and uses minimal jargon and formula to help facilitate grasp of the key issues users will face while applying EFA along with how to implement interpret and report results. Copious scholarly references and quotations are included to support the reader in responding to editorial reviews. This is a valuable resource for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as for more experienced researchers undertaking multivariate or structure equation modeling courses across the behavioral medical and social sciences. | A Step-by-Step Guide to Exploratory Factor Analysis with R and RStudio

GBP 42.99
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Intelligence Race And Genetics Conversations With Arthur R. Jensen

Intelligence Race And Genetics Conversations With Arthur R. Jensen

In a series of provocative conversations with Skeptic magazine Ssenior editor Frank Miele renowned University of California-Berkeley psychologist Arthur R. Jensen details the evolution of his thoughts on the nature of intelligence tracing an intellectual odyssey that leads from the programs of the Great Society to the Bell Curve Wars and beyond. Miele cross-examines Jensen's views on general intelligence (the g factor) racial differences in IQ cultural bias in IQ tests and whether differences in IQ are due primarily to heredity or to remediable factors such as poverty and discrimination. With characteristic frankness Jensen also presents his view of the proper role of scientific facts in establishing public policy such as Affirmative Action. 'Jensenism' the assertion that heredity plays an undeniably greater role than environmental factors in racial (and other) IQ differences has entered the dictionary and also made Jensen a bitterly controversial figure. Nevertheless Intelligence Race and Genetics carefully underscores the dedicated lifetime of scrupulously scientific research that supports Jensen's conclusions. | Intelligence Race And Genetics Conversations With Arthur R. Jensen

GBP 130.00
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The Quest for a Science of Accounting An Anthology of the Research of Robert R. Sterling

The Quest for a Science of Accounting An Anthology of the Research of Robert R. Sterling

Originally published in 1997 the principal object of the editors in compiling this collection of Robert R. Sterling’s work was to make more of his publications accessible in a convenient form to the academic and professional accounting communities and to current and future generations of accounting students. While it is not a complete portfolio of his published work to date this anthology contains all of Sterling’s major articles. Through his long-term quest for a science of accounting Sterling sought to bring together accounting educators practitioners regulators and researchers in order to identify credible advancements in accounting knowledge authoritative changes to accounting practice and transforming improvements to accounting education. | The Quest for a Science of Accounting An Anthology of the Research of Robert R. Sterling

GBP 200.00
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Psychoanalysis with Wilfred R. Bion Contemporary Approaches Actuality and The Future of Psychoanalytic Practice

Psychoanalysis with Wilfred R. Bion Contemporary Approaches Actuality and The Future of Psychoanalytic Practice

Psychoanalysis with Wilfred R. Bion is the product of François Lévy’s efforts over a period of twenty years to represent clearly the classical elements and the innovatory propositions of the thought and work of Bion who offers both new and modified ways of practising and thinking about the psychoanalytic experience. Bion’s thought methodical and intuitive gave rise to profound modifications in the approach to the psychology of groups clinical work with psychoses and the conception of the genesis of thought. Some of his original notions – psychic growth processes of thinking transformations alpha function maternal reverie – constitute valuable tools for rethinking psychoanalytic practice. This book places Bion’s thought within a filiation that is faithful to those of Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein. It shows the parallels that exist between Bion’s formalisations and those of Lacan. It also lays emphasis on the mechanisms of thought arising from the negative (André Green) from logic (Lewis Carroll) from causalist philosophy (David Hume) from literature (Milton Blanchot) and from the physical sciences (Stephen Hawking). Finally Lévy underlines the importance of placing individuals within the collective from which they have originated. Psychoanalysis with Wilfred R. Bion will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists looking to draw on the ideas of one of the most important and influential figures in the history of psychoanalysis. | Psychoanalysis with Wilfred R. Bion Contemporary Approaches Actuality and The Future of Psychoanalytic Practice

GBP 36.99
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The Second 'R' Writing Development in the Junior School

The Second 'R' Writing Development in the Junior School

Originally published in 1976. How do children learn to write? What stages to they pass through in mastering this skill? What part can teachers play in aiding their development? These are some of the questions that this book sets out to answer. This book offers a perspective on writing which places children's language resources and their development at its centre. It discusses the purpose of writing ways of classifying its variety providing contexts for writing its treatment in schools and methods for helping children to overcome difficulties. A section explores the arguments for a writing policy or programme in schools and offering guidance on considerations that shape policy making. | The Second 'R' Writing Development in the Junior School

GBP 31.99
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Technology Business and the Market From R&D to Desirable Products

Technology Business and the Market From R&D to Desirable Products

John Sheldrake’s long experience of teaching business and management to engineers has highlighted a gap in the knowledge of students and practitioners alike between their grasp of developments in science and technology and how these developments lead to the creation of successful products. Using case studies Technology Business and the Market explores the impact of new materials techniques and technologies and looks at the links between innovation entrepreneurship business (including finance) design manufacturing branding and marketing. The author examines the ways in which scientific endeavour is conditioned and even distorted by contextual issues such as finance and fashion. This demonstration of the synthesis of technology business and the market has relevance for students practitioners and policy makers in established and emerging markets. | Technology Business and the Market From R&D to Desirable Products

GBP 31.99
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On Loving Hating and Living Well The Public Psychoanalytic Lectures of Ralph R. Greenson

On Loving Hating and Living Well The Public Psychoanalytic Lectures of Ralph R. Greenson

The author was perhaps psychoanalysis's most gifted and eloquent spokesperson. In this volume the author is presented in one of the roles he enjoyed most: communicating to a lay audience his understanding of people and life and his insights into the science and art of psychoanalysis. These important talks profoundly influenced countless professional workers and lay people. The twenty-four public lectures in this remarkable collection are each a gem of wisdom and humor. With deep psychoanalytic wisdom the author addresses such timeless and universal human concerns as love and emotional development; hate aggression and war; masculinity femininity and sexuality; jealousy envy and possessiveness; and the vicissitudes of child rearing and family development. Reading these entertaining public talks of the author now is like reading a chronicle of the great psychosocial issues of the past half-century. One is impressed with not only the wisdom they offer for our current concerns but also with how revolutionary original and prophetic was his thinking. | On Loving Hating and Living Well The Public Psychoanalytic Lectures of Ralph R. Greenson

GBP 130.00
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Peasants Capitalism and the Work of Eric R. Wolf Reviving Critical Agrarian Studies

Peasants Capitalism and the Work of Eric R. Wolf Reviving Critical Agrarian Studies

Fifty years after the publication of Eric Wolf’s celebrated Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century and forty years after the publication of his path-breaking Europe and the People Without History this book offers a much-needed critical assessment and update of Wolf’s contribution to the study of the peasantry and its relationship to capitalism the state and imperialism. This book provides a comprehensive evaluation of Wolf’s premises methodology and understanding of the peasantry and its relationship to the rise of capitalism and the modern state. The authors analyse Wolf’s theoretical approach and by building on his work in Europe and the People Without History especially argue their own position concerning the dynamics of the peasantry in relation to capitalism state class and imperialism. Further the text aims to answer the agrarian question more widely focusing on agrarian society and the political role of the peasantry in contested transitions to capitalism and to modes beyond capitalism. This requires the authors argue an analysis of class struggle and of the resources material and discursive that different classes can bring to bear on this struggle. Based on well-founded theoretical premises the book focuses on the contested rise of capitalism in the global North the development of core–periphery relations in the global political economy and the place of the peasantry in these dynamics. The book presents case studies of transitions to agrarian capitalism in the British Isles France Germany Japan and the USA. The book will be of great interest to students and researchers in the areas of peasant studies rural politics agrarian studies development and political ecology. | Peasants Capitalism and the Work of Eric R. Wolf Reviving Critical Agrarian Studies

GBP 130.00
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Topical Issues of Rational Use of Natural Resources 2019 Volume 1 Proceedings of the XV International Forum-Contest of Students and Young R

Topical Issues of Rational Use of Natural Resources 2019 Volume 1 Proceedings of the XV International Forum-Contest of Students and Young R

Topical Issues of Rational Use of Natural Resources 2019 Vol. 1 contains the contributions in presented at the XV International Forum-Contest of Students and Young Researchers under the auspices of UNESCO (St. Petersburg Mining University Russia 13-17 May 2019). The Forum-Contest is a great opportunity for young researchers to present their work to the academics involved or interested the area of extraction and processing of natural resources. The topics of the book include: • Geotechnologies of resource extraction: current challenges and prospects • Cutting edge technologies of geological mapping search and prospecting of mineral deposits • Digital and energy saving technologies in mineral resource complex • Breakthrough technologies of integrated processing of mineral hydrocarbon and technogenic raw materials with further production of new generation materials • The latest management and financing solutions for the development of mineral resources sector • Environment protection and sustainable nature management • New approaches to resolving hydrocarbon sector-specific issues Topical Issues of Rational Use of Natural Resources 2019 Vol. 1 collects the best reports presented at the Forum-Contest and is of interest to academics and professionals involved in the extraction and processing of natural resources. | Topical Issues of Rational Use of Natural Resources 2019 Volume 1 Proceedings of the XV International Forum-Contest of Students and Young R

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The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden R. A. The Naturalist in H. M. S. Alert 1875-1876

The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden R. A. The Naturalist in H. M. S. Alert 1875-1876

The British Arctic Expedition of 1875–6 was the first major British naval expedition to the high Arctic where science was almost as important as geographical exploration. There were hopes that the expedition might find the hypothetical open polar sea and with it the longed-for Northwest Passage and it did reach the highest northern latitude to date. The Royal Society compiled instructions for the expedition and selected two full-time naturalists (an unusual naval concession to science) of whom one Henry Wemyss Feilden proved a worthy choice. Feilden was a soldier who fought in most of the wars in his lifetime including the American Civil War on the Confederate side. On board HMS Alert he kept a daily journal a record important for its scientific content but also as a view of the expedition as seen by a soldier revealing admiration and appreciation for his naval colleagues; he performed whatever tasks were given to him including the rescue of returning sledge parties stricken by scurvy. He also did a remarkably comprehensive job in mapping the geology of Smith Sound; some of his work on the Cape Rawson Beds was the most reliable until the 1950s. He was an all-round naturalist and a particularly fine geologist and ornithologist. He was not just a collector; he pondered the significance of his findings within the context of the best modern science of his day: in zoology Charles Darwin on evolution; in botany Hooker on phytogeography and in geology Charles Lyell’s system. He illustrated his journal with his own sketches and also enclosed the printed programmes of popular entertainments held on the ship and verses for birthdays and sledging (there was a printing press onboard). The journal gives a vigorous impression of a ship’s company well occupied through the winter then increasingly active in sledging and geographical discovery in spring before the scurvy-induced decision to head home in the summer of 1876. After his return Feilden had dealings with many scientists and their institutions finding homes for and meaning in his collections. | The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden R. A. The Naturalist in H. M. S. Alert 1875-1876

GBP 130.00
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