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A portrait of Irish author J. M. Synge covers his youth under the influences of evangelical Protestantism, interest in the occult, musical inclinations, and literary achievements, including such plays as Riders to the Sea and The Playboy of the Western World. ... Read more

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A brief but probing critical essay on Synge's life and major works, one of the earliest to appear after his death.

THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY:Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. ... Read more

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'This authoritative edition adds a dimension to our understanding of John Millington Synge...annotated in generous detail.' British Book News

'it is good to have all this material brought together, splendidly elucidated by Professor Saddlemyer's notes.' London Review of Books

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PRINCIPLES OF MECHANICS PRINCIPLES of MECHANICS BY JOHN L. SYNGE Professor of Mathematics Carnegie Institute of Technology AND BYRON A. GRIFFITH Assistant Professor of Mathematics University of Toronto SECOND EDITION NEW YORK TORONTO LONDON McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC. 1949 PRINCIPLES OF MECHANICS Copyright, 1942, 1040, by the McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. Printed in the United States of America. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission of the publishers. PRINTED BY THE MAPLE PRESS COMPANY, YORK, PA. Le savant doit ordonner on fait la science avec des faits commc uno maison avcc des pierrcs, inais une accumulation de faits nest pas plus une science quun tas de picrres nest une maison. HKNRI POINCARE PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION This edition differs in no essential way from the first. The principal revision occurs in Chap XIII, where the account of the motion of a particle in an electromagnetic field has been completely rewritten. The treatment of principal axes of inertia in Chap XI has been amplified, and some revisions have been made in the treatments of Foucaults pendulum, the spinning projectile, and the gyrocompass. The emphasis on units and dimensions has been increased by the inclusion in the earlier part of the book of a few short paragraphs, with references to the Appendix, where these matters are discussed in detail. A few additional exercises have been inserted, and numerous minor corrections have been made. We wish to thank all those readers who have contributed to the improvement of this second edition by their suggestions, arid, in particular, Professors L. Infeld, A. E. Sehild, and A. Weinstein. JOHN L. SYNGE BYRON A. GRIFFITH PITTSBURGH, PA. TORONTO, ONT. July, 1948 PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION In a sense this is a book for the beginner in mechanics, but in another sense it is not. From the time we make our first move ments, crude ideas on force, mass, and motion take shape in our minds. This body of ideas might be reduced to some order at high school as crude ideas of geometry are reduced to order, but that is not the educational practice in North America. There is rather an accumulation of miscellaneous facts bearing on mechanics, some mathematical and some experimental, until a state is reached where the student is in danger of being repelled by the subject, as a chaotic jumble which is neither mathematics nor physics. This book is intended primarily for students at this stage. The authors ambition is to reveal mechanics as an orderly self contained subject. It may not be quite so logically clear as pure mathematics, but it stands out as a model of clarity among all the theories of deductive science. The art of teaching consists largely in isolating difficulties and overcoming them one by one, without losing sight of the main problem while attending to the details. In mechanics, the main problem is the problem of equilibrium or motion under given forces the details are such things as the vector notation, the kinematics of a rigid body, or the theory of moments of inertia. If we rush straight at the main problem, we become entangled in the details and have to retrace our steps in order to deal with them. If, on the other hand, we decide to settle all details first, we are apt to find them uninteresting because we do not see their connection with the main problem. A compro mise is necessary, and in this book the compromise consists of the division into Plane Mechanics Part I and Mechanics in Space Part II. These titles must, however, be regarded only as rough indications of the contents... ... Read more

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"A travelogue of rural Ireland at the turn of the 19th Century." (Quote from sacred-texts.com)

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Publisher's Preface; The Vagrants Of Wicklow; The Oppression Of The Hills; On The Road; The People Of The Glens; At A Wicklow Fair; A Landlord's Garden In County Wicklow; Glencree; In West Kerry

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pleased to receive used copy in good condition of this rare paperback
an valuable addition to the Synge library encopassing quotes from Synge's The Aran Islands
with practical information re: visiting the Islands. ... Read more

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MICHAEL. A poor way only, Sarah Casey, for it's the divil's job making a ring, and you'll be having my hands destroyed in a short while the way I'll not be able to make a tin can at all maybe at the dawn of day. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more