The Boy Inventor: A Memoir of Matthew Edwards, Mathematical-instrument MakerWalker, Wise & Company, 1860 - 109 páginas At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media attention. In this deeply reported book, Jason Stearns vividly tells the story of this misunderstood conflict through the experiences of those who engineered and perpetrated it. He depicts village pastors who survived massacres, the child soldier assassin of President Kabila, a female Hutu activist who relives the hunting and methodical extermination of fellow refugees, and key architects of the war that became as great a disaster as- and was a direct consequence of - the genocide in neighboring Rwanda. Through their stories, he tries to understand why such mass violence made sense, and why stability has been so elusive. Through their voices, and an astonishing wealth of knowledge and research, Stearns chronicles the political, social, and moral decay of the Congolese State. - Publisher description. |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
50 cents acquaintance amusement apprentice ball Barrington black ground Boston brass called Cambridge carry circle College colors conversation delight Derby desire devoted dollars early Edwards's Electrotyped England enjoyed Eton College EUSTIS expression fellow-boarders felt French Revolution gave Gazette gentleman grammar happiness Harvard College impres impression IMPROVED THEODOLITE indenture inquired instru instrument instrument approached jaws JOHN DAVIS kind King's Chapel labor Latin learned lesson letters leucographic graduation LEVELLING APPARATUS levelling screws light live look lower graduated Master MATHEMATICAL-INSTRUMENT MAKER Matthew Edwards Matthew found Matthew thought Matthew took Matthew's improve means MEMOIR ment method mind mode of printing Natural Theology never object Optician parents Philadelphia pleasure Profes Professor retina shillings and sixpence sixpence per week story taste thew things tion told turned upper plate Warren Hastings Washington Street young
Pasajes populares
Página 81 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
Página 83 - PRINTER to learn his Art and with him after the Manner of an Apprentice to serve...
Página 85 - And for the true performance of all and every the said Covenants and agreements either of the said Parties bindeth himself unto the other by these presents...
Página 81 - Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears: "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Página 85 - ... in the year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...
Página 60 - Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy ; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame.