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Chosen as a BOOK OF THE YEAR in The Times, The Spectator, Prospect,
Sunday Times, Economist, New Statesman, Telegraph, Financial Times,
TLS, New York Times, and Washington Post. 'This is ridiculous. No
book about German philosophy has any right to be this fun. This
witty, gossipy, sparkling history . . . fizzed with creative
energy' The Times, Book of the Year Magnificent Rebels is - well -
magnificent. This is how such books should be written, with
clarity, passion and delight. A thrilling intellectual adventure'
JOHN BANVILLE, Book of the Year 'History writing at its best' The
Spectator, Book of the Year 'A thrilling page-turner, by turns
comical & tragic... My book of the year so far' TOM HOLLAND In
the 1790s an extraordinary group of friends changed the world.
Disappointed by the French Revolution's rapid collapse into
tyranny, what they wanted was nothing less than a revolution of the
mind. The rulers of Europe had ordered their peoples how to think
and act for too long. Based in the small German town of Jena,
through poetry, drama, philosophy and science, they transformed the
way we think about ourselves and the world around us. They were the
first Romantics. Their way of understanding the world still frames
our lives and being.We're still empowered by their daring leap into
the self. We still think with their minds, see with their
imagination and feel with their emotions. We also still walk the
same tightrope between meaningful self-fulfilment and destructive
narcissism, between the rights of the individual and our role as a
member of our community and our responsibilities towards future
generations who will inhabit this planet. This extraordinary group
of friends changed our world. It is impossible to imagine our
lives, thoughts and understanding without the foundation of their
ground-breaking ideas.
In the 1790s an extraordinary group of friends changed the world.
Disappointed by the French Revolution's rapid collapse into
tyranny, what they wanted was nothing less than a revolution of the
mind. The rulers of Europe had ordered their peoples how to think
and act for too long. Based in the small German town of Jena,
through poetry, drama, philosophy and science, they transformed the
way we think about ourselves and the world around us. They were the
first Romantics. Their way of understanding the world still frames
our lives and being.We're still empowered by their daring leap into
the self. We still think with their minds, see with their
imagination and feel with their emotions. We also still walk the
same tightrope between meaningful self-fulfilment and destructive
narcissism, between the rights of the individual and our role as a
member of our community and our responsibilities towards future
generations who will inhabit this planet. This extraordinary group
of friends changed our world. It is impossible to imagine our
lives, thoughts and understanding without the foundation of their
ground-breaking ideas.
WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE ROYAL
SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016 'A thrilling adventure story' Bill
Bryson 'Dazzling' Literary Review 'Brilliant' Sunday Express
'Extraordinary and gripping' New Scientist 'A superb biography' The
Economist 'An exhilarating armchair voyage' GILES MILTON, Mail on
Sunday Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost
scientist - more things are named after him than anyone else. There
are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs
along the South American coast, there's a penguin, a giant squid -
even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. His colourful adventures
read like something out of a Boy's Own story: Humboldt explored
deep into the rainforest, climbed the world's highest volcanoes and
inspired princes and presidents, scientists and poets alike.
Napoleon was jealous of him; Simon Bolivar's revolution was fuelled
by his ideas; Darwin set sail on the Beagle because of Humboldt;
and Jules Verne's Captain Nemo owned all his many books. He simply
was, as one contemporary put it, 'the greatest man since the
Deluge'. Taking us on a fantastic voyage in his footsteps - racing
across anthrax-infected Russia or mapping tropical rivers alive
with crocodiles - Andrea Wulf shows why his life and ideas remain
so important today. Humboldt predicted human-induced climate change
as early as 1800, and The Invention of Nature traces his ideas as
they go on to revolutionize and shape science, conservation, nature
writing, politics, art and the theory of evolution. He wanted to
know and understand everything and his way of thinking was so far
ahead of his time that it's only coming into its own now. Alexander
von Humboldt really did invent the way we see nature.
'A witty, gossipy, sparkling history, full of bright jewels of
anecdote... Magnificent Rebels is a triumph' THE TIMES, Book of the
Week 'Extraordinary... A thrilling intellectual history that reads
like a racy, intelligent novel, with a cast of unforgettable
characters' SUNDAY TIMES 'Magnificent Rebels is a magnificent book:
a revelation which could easily become an obsession' SPECTATOR 'A
thrilling page-turner, by turns comical & tragic... My book of
the year so far' TOM HOLLAND 'Elegantly written, deeply researched
and totally gripping' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE In the 1790s an
extraordinary group of friends changed the world. Disappointed by
the French Revolution's rapid collapse into tyranny, what they
wanted was nothing less than a revolution of the mind. The rulers
of Europe had ordered their peoples how to think and act for too
long. Based in the small German town of Jena, through poetry,
drama, philosophy and science, they transformed the way we think
about ourselves and the world around us. They were the first
Romantics. Their way of understanding the world still frames our
lives and being.We're still empowered by their daring leap into the
self. We still think with their minds, see with their imagination
and feel with their emotions. We also still walk the same tightrope
between meaningful self-fulfilment and destructive narcissism,
between the rights of the individual and our role as a member of
our community and our responsibilities towards future generations
who will inhabit this planet. This extraordinary group of friends
changed our world. It is impossible to imagine our lives, thoughts
and understanding without the foundation of their ground-breaking
ideas.
From the author of the acclaimed "The Brother Gardeners, "a
fascinating look at the founding fathers from the unique and
intimate perspective of their lives as gardeners, plantsmen, and
farmers.
For the founding fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were
elemental passions, as deeply ingrained in their characters as
their belief in liberty for the nation they were creating. Andrea
Wulf reveals for the first time this aspect of the revolutionary
generation. She describes how, even as British ships gathered off
Staten Island, George Washington wrote his estate manager about the
garden at Mount Vernon; how a tour of English gardens renewed
Thomas Jefferson's and John Adams's faith in their fledgling
nation; how a trip to the great botanist John Bartram's garden
helped the delegates of the Constitutional Congress break their
deadlock; and why James Madison is the forgotten father of American
environmentalism. These and other stories reveal a guiding but
previously overlooked ideology of the American Revolution."
Founding Gardeners" adds depth and nuance to our understanding of
the American experiment and provides us with a portrait of the
founding fathers as they've never before been seen.
This is the fascinating story of a small group of
eighteenth-century naturalists who made Britain a nation of
gardeners and the epicenter of horticultural and botanical
expertise. It's the story of a garden revolution that began in
America.
In 1733, the American farmer John Bartram dispatched two boxes of
plants and seeds from the American colonies, addressed to the
London cloth merchant Peter Collinson. Most of these plants had
never before been grown in British soil, but in time the
magnificent and colorful American trees, evergreens, and shrubs
would transform the English landscape and garden forever. During
the next forty years, Collinson and a handful of botany enthusiasts
cultivated hundreds of American species. "The Brother Gardeners
"follows the lives of six of these men, whose shared passion for
plants gave rise to the English love affair with gardens. In
addition to Collinson and Bartram, who forged an extraordinary
friendship, here are Philip Miller, author of the best-selling
"Gardeners Dictionary"; the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, whose
standardized nomenclature helped bring botany to the middle
classes; and Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, who explored the
strange flora of Brazil, Tahiti, New Zealand, and Australia on the
greatest voyage of discovery of their time, aboard Captain Cook's
"Endeavour."
From the exotic blooms in Botany Bay to the royal gardens at Kew,
from the streets of London to the vistas of the Appalachian
Mountains, "The Brother Gardeners" paints a vivid portrait of an
emerging world of knowledge and of gardening as we know it today.
It is a delightful and beautifully told narrative history.
"From the Hardcover edition."
One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried
down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just
arrived from John Bartram, his new contact in the American
colonies. But it was not reels of wool or bales of cotton that
awaited him, but plants and seeds...
Over the next forty years, Bartram would send hundreds of American
species to England, where Collinson was one of a handful of men who
would foster a national obsession and change the gardens of Britain
forever, introducing lustrous evergreens, fiery autumn foliage and
colourful shrubs. They were men of wealth and taste but also of
knowledge and experience like Philip Miller, author of the
bestselling Gardeners Dictionary," "and the""Swede Carl Linnaeus,
whose standardised botanical nomenclature popularised botany as a
genteel pastime for the middle-classes; and the botanist-adventurer
Joseph Banks and his colleague Daniel Solander who both explored
the strange flora of Tahiti and Australia on the greatest voyage of
discovery of modern times, Captain Cook's "Endeavou"r.
This""is the story of these men - friends, rivals, enemies, united
by a passion for plants - whose correspondence, collaborations and
squabbles make for a riveting human tale which is set against the
backdrop of the emerging empire, the uncharted world beyond and
London as the capital of science. From the scent of the exotic
blooms in Tahiti and Botany Bay to the gardens at Chelsea and Kew,
and from the sounds and colours of the streets of the City to the
staggering vistas of the Appalachian mountains, The Brother
Gardeners""tells the story how Britain became a nation of
gardeners.
"From the Hardcover edition."
On two days in 1761 and 1769 hundreds of astronomers pointed their
telescopes towards the skies to observe a rare astronomical event:
the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. United by this
momentous occasion, scientists from around the globe came together
to answer the essential question: how can the universe be measured?
In Chasing Venus Andrea Wulf paints a vivid portrait of the
rivalries, triumphs and misfortunes that befell these men, along
with their passion and determination to succeed. This extraordinary
book tells their story and how one single event prompted the first
international scientific collaboration.
A follow-up to Andrea Wulf's award-winning and critically acclaimed
history of British gardening, this is the story of how George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison's
passion for nature, plants, agriculture and gardens shaped the
birth of America. Through a series of vignettes spanning the
Declaration of Independence to the death of Adams and Jefferson
exactly fifty years to the day afterwards, these stories that weave
the political, the personal and the botanical and are in turns
funny, fascinating and moving. The Founding Gardeners shows that it
is impossible to understand these visionary men and the American
nation without considering their love of gardening.
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Selected Writings (Hardcover)
Alexander Von Humboldt; Introduction by Andrea Wulf; Edited by Andrea Wulf
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Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous
scientist of his age. His life was packed with adventure and
discovery, whether climbing volcanoes in the Andes, swimming with
crocodiles, racing through anthrax-infected Siberia, or publishing
groundbreaking bestsellers. Ahead of his time, he recognized nature
as an interdependent whole and he saw before anyone else that
humankind was on a path to destroy it. He was one of the first
European to study the Inca, Aztec and Mayan cultures and his epic
five-year expedition to Latin America (1799-1804) prompted him to
denounce slavery as 'the greatest evil ever to have afflicted
humanity'. To Humboldt, the melody of his prose was as important as
its content, and this selection from his most famous works - the
Personal Narrative of his travels to Latin America, Cosmos, Views
of Nature, Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous
Peoples of the Americas, The Geography of Plants and his
anti-slavery essay in Political Essay of the Island of Cuba -
allows us the pleasure of reading his own accounts of his daring
explorations and new concept of nature. Humboldt's writings
profoundly influenced naturalists and poets including Darwin,
Thoreau, Muir, Goethe, Wordsworth, and Whitman. The Selected
Writings is not only a tribute to Humboldt's important role in
environmental history and science, but also to his ability to
fashion powerfully poetic narratives out of scientific
observations.
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Jura - Zivilrecht /
Handelsrecht, Gesellschaftsrecht, Kartellrecht, Wirtschaftsrecht,
Note: 1,7, Hochschule Osnabruck, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die
vorliegende Bachelorarbeit Vergleichende Untersuchung der
Gesellschaftsformen GmbH, UG und Ltd." beinhaltet eine
gesellschaftsrechtliche Betrachtung der Rechtsformen GmbH,
Unternehmergesellschaft (haftungsbeschrankt) und der englischen
private limited company by shares. Ziel ist es, die rechtlichen
Eigenarten der deutschen Gesellschaften mit denen englischer
Rechtsformen, insbesondere mit der Limited, vergleichend
gegenuberzustellen. Schwerpunktmassig wird dafur auf die Merkmale
Grundung, Kapitalverfassung sowie Haftung und Organisation
eingegangen. Einfuhrend wird das MoMiG betrachtet, um einen
Uberblick uber die aktuellen rechtlichen Gegebenheiten der GmbH zu
erhalten. Hier wird namentlich auf die mit dem MoMiG einhergehenden
Grundungserleichterungen und die Veranderungen beim Verwaltungssitz
sowie bei der Geschaftsanschrift eingegangen. Daruber hinaus
erfolgt eine Begutachtung der Kapitalaufbringung und
Kapitalerhaltung nach dem neuen GmbH-Recht. Abschliessend werden
die Veranderungen hinsichtlich der Insolvenz und der
Insolvenzantragsplicht in Augenschein genommen. Im Rahmen der
Ausarbeitung zur Unternehmergesellschaft (haftungsbeschrankt)
werden die wichtigsten Eigenschaften dieser Rechtsform erlautert.
Einleitend wird insoweit auf die Grundung einer
Unternehmergesellschaft (haftungsbeschrankt) eingegangen und die
Besonderheiten beim Stammkapital dargestellt. Weitere
Charakteristika dieser Gesellschaftsform sind eine besondere
Firmenbezeichnung sowie eine gesetzliche Thesaurierungspflicht. Im
Anschluss daran beschaftigt sich die Ausarbeitung mit der
englischen private limited company by shares. Diese Rechtsform gilt
als die beliebteste auslandische Rechtsform in Deutschland, obwohl
sie grundsatzlich nach englischem Recht zu fuhren ist. Jedoch ist,
speziell bei G
For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany
were elemental passions: a conjoined interest as deeply ingrained
in their characters as the battle for liberty and a belief in the
greatness of their new nation.
"Founding Gardeners" is an exploration of that obsession, telling
the story of the revolutionary generation from the unique
perspective of their lives as gardeners, plant hobbyists, and
farmers. Acclaimed historian Andrea Wulf describes how George
Washington wrote letters to his estate manager even as British
warships gathered off Staten Island; how a tour of English gardens
renewed Thomas Jefferson's and John Adams's faith in their
fledgling nation; and why James Madison is the forgotten father of
environmentalism. Through these and other stories, Wulf reveals a
fresh, nuanced portrait of the men who created our nation.
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