Robert Rising (12 results)

Condition: Fair. Multiple Copies Available - COVER IS TATTERED WITH EXPOSED CARDBOARD - May have school stamp and/or student names - May have writing and highlighting - DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY CDs OR ACCESS CODES IF APPLICABLE.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Oversized.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book is in very nice condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wrappers have light handling wear. Address label on back of wrappers. ; Contents: Anderson, Family record-keeping: a rich and diverse heritage. Rising, Examining and analyzing the family Bible. Anderson, The family Bible of Abner Gay of Pownal and Dundas, Prince Edward Island. Smith, An old Littell family Bible. Smith and Hoff, Only dates, no names: the McCoon family record. Hatcher, Bible record of Daniel Harper of Meigs County, Ohio; Revolutionary War pension application files revisited. Hinchliff, A misleading Bible record: identifying David Mumper's mother. Bamberg, Taylor family record. Carmack, Looking for the family Bible: eleven places to check. Howells, The National Genealogical Society's digital Bible archivees project. Smith, Orphaned Bible and familyi record rescue project. Bible records (Folger family record: Nantucket to Ohio in 1812. Shinn-Reed-Green-Bible record of Columbus, New Jersey. James Easton's slaves, Newport, Rhode Island. Baker family Bible of Swansea, Massachusetts 1768-1900. Nathaniel Abraham Venable Henderson Bible of Texas. Avery-Sanborn Bible.) Annual table of contents. Annual index. ; 10.0" tall; 118 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The book is in as new condition. Someone has written 2015 on bottom of front free endpaper. The jacket is in near fine condition with very light edgewear. First Edition, First Printing.

Condition: New. 320.

Hardback. Condition: New. Climate change threatens the economy of the United States in myriad ways, including increased flooding and storm damage, altered crop yields, lost labor productivity, higher crime, reshaped public-health patterns, and strained energy systems, among many other effects. Combining the latest climate models, state-of-the-art econometric research on human responses to climate, and cutting-edge private-sector risk-assessment tools, Economic Risks of Climate Change: An American Prospectus crafts a game-changing profile of the economic risks of climate change in the United States. This prospectus is based on a critically acclaimed independent assessment of the economic risks posed by climate change commissioned by the Risky Business Project. With new contributions from Karen Fisher-Vanden, Michael Greenstone, Geoffrey Heal, Michael Oppenheimer, and Nicholas Stern and Bob Ward, as well as a foreword from Risky Business cochairs Michael Bloomberg, Henry Paulson, and Thomas Steyer, the book speaks to scientists, researchers, scholars, activists, and policy makers.It depicts the distribution of escalating climate-change risk across the country and assesses its effects on aspects of the economy as varied as hurricane damages and violent crime. Beautifully illustrated and accessibly written, this book is an essential tool for helping businesses and governments prepare for the future.

Original colour illustrated souvenir theatre programme. 7½'' x 5''. 4 printed pages. 6d seal broken and Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEATRE PROGRAMMES.

Hardback. Condition: New. Climate change threatens the economy of the United States in myriad ways, including increased flooding and storm damage, altered crop yields, lost labor productivity, higher crime, reshaped public-health patterns, and strained energy systems, among many other effects. Combining the latest climate models, state-of-the-art econometric research on human responses to climate, and cutting-edge private-sector risk-assessment tools, Economic Risks of Climate Change: An American Prospectus crafts a game-changing profile of the economic risks of climate change in the United States. This prospectus is based on a critically acclaimed independent assessment of the economic risks posed by climate change commissioned by the Risky Business Project. With new contributions from Karen Fisher-Vanden, Michael Greenstone, Geoffrey Heal, Michael Oppenheimer, and Nicholas Stern and Bob Ward, as well as a foreword from Risky Business cochairs Michael Bloomberg, Henry Paulson, and Thomas Steyer, the book speaks to scientists, researchers, scholars, activists, and policy makers.It depicts the distribution of escalating climate-change risk across the country and assesses its effects on aspects of the economy as varied as hurricane damages and violent crime. Beautifully illustrated and accessibly written, this book is an essential tool for helping businesses and governments prepare for the future.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Officer's log book of a merchant West Indiaman engaged in supplying horses and mules to the enslaved African and African-American servicemen of Britain's West India Regiments - and on the homeward journey bringing back a cargo of sugar manufactured by their enslaved cousins in the plantations of the Caribbean. Both Atlantic crossings were fraught with difficulty: the log records the frequent alarms caused to Mercury's convoy partners by enemy vessels during this early phase of the Napoleonic Wars; even on Christmas Day 1798 when 'the Commodore [set off] in chase of a strange sail'. Rising's ship the Mercury proved itself wholly unseaworthy, so that in the mid-Atlantic 'it blew excessive hard and we were obliged to heave to the ship' with all hands manning the pumps. In Scarborough port in Tobago fever raged among the crew members afflicting Rising himself who was taken ashore. Several crew members absconded; the African American ship's 'cook [was] in liquor' and 'the Steward ran away this Day after its being discovered that he had plundred the Wine and Porter' (5 March 1799). Rising's main preoccupation is with the voyage's commercial success and he provides valuable testimony about the operation of the sugar economy in the Caribbean with his 'Account of Negro and Seamen hire[d] to load the Ship Mercury in Tobago' as well as detailing the shipments brought from England for individual Tobago plantation owners and the arduous process of loading the barrels - or hogsheads - of sugar on board the Mercury, such as the 'taking of Sugars from ye Courland [Gilbert Francklyn's slave estate on Tobago by] 4 Negroes, two ditto & Steward at work, wet a Cask of Sugar a little in taking off there being so very much surf.' Only a decade after this ship's log was written the slave trade would become illegal across the British Empire and the enslaved members of the West India Regiment who received the Mercury's cargo of horses would be freed. However in its outward journey and the blood-stained sugar with which it returned to Britain it is hard not to read the log of the Mercury as slavery-adjacent or perhaps complicit without ever being directly involved in the trade in enslaved Africans. However Rising does have one more gift to the modern reader in his decision to reuse his manuscript some two decades later to sketch a catalogue of his library. And it is noteworthy that by 1820 the former mariner and author of this ship's log from the 1790s had become the owner of many notable works of travel and exploration, including Lewis and Clarke's Travels to the Source of the Missouri (probably one of the London editions) and John Pinkerton's Voyages and Travels in 17 volumes. Robert Rising, who states that his home was Great 'Yarmouth' seems likely to hail from the East Norfolk family of his name who lived in the villages of Horsey and West Somerton in east Norfolk and who numbered several Roberts during the late 18th century and certainly could have owned a library on the scale described in the manuscript. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: A homemade manuscript volume which alternates pages of a ship's log for the outward and homeward voyages written on pre-printed pages produced by the bookseller 'T Parnell' (1796 watermark) with blank sheets used for periods spent at anchor on the Thames and in Barbados and Tobago. These sections bear a Britannia watermark 'JC 1797'. Rising has handsewn his log into marbled wrappers which reuse a quire from Christopher Crambo's Liliputian Poetry published by W Tringham in the 1770s and '80s. The print of the first quire of the book is clearly visible through the faded, perhaps amateur, marbling over it. There is drying and chipping along the foreedge of the first few leaves; fingermarking and dog-earring throughout but the manuscript is complete as Rising left it. The author has written his name on the first flyleaf: 'Journal Book Rob.t Rising' and his journal proper starts on the recto of the second leaf after his later two.