Benjamin Wells

The History of Taranaki. Benjamin Wells

Publisher Marketing: Title: The History of Taranaki. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & the PACIFIC collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection offers titles providing historical context for modern day Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and the Pacific Islands (collectively, Oceania). It includes studies of their relationship to British colonial heritage, Trans-Tasman history, resistance to colonization, and histories of sailors, traders, missionaries, and adventurers. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Wells, Benjamin; 1878. vii, 311 p.; 8 . 9781.b.8. Contributor Bio:  Wells, Benjamin Benjamin Wells, Ph. D., is currently a professor at the University of San Francisco where he teaches computer science and mathematics. He also serves as Faculty Scholar at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and is a visiting scholar at the University of California's Department of Mathematics in Berkeley. As one of the last students to study under the famed logician Alfred Tarski, Dr. Wells focuses his mathematical and scientific expertise on the academic boundaries shared by algebra, logic, and computing. His additional areas of research include hypercomputation, computer graphics, and historical computers. For the past decade, Dr. Wells has directed the Graduate Computer Science Program at the University of San Francisco, where he advises and coaches students interested in taking the GRE Computer Science Test.