Publication date: 2005-01-28
Price: $162.20
Review Will Smith (Livewire Real Lives) / Hodder Murray:
Publication date: 1999-10
Dewey code: 810
Price: $17.50
Review Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus and the `Cornfield Journalist: The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris / Carolina Academic Press:
Creator: Lisa Kumar
Publication date: 2008-10-17
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $162.00
Price: $162.00
Review Something About the Author: Facts and Pictures About Authors and Illustrators of Books for Young People / Gale Cengage:
Publication date: 1990-08
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $59.00
Price: $164.78
Review Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, Musician and Murderer / Reprint Services Corp:This account of Don Carlo fully illuminates his life as Prince of Venosa, as accused murderer, and as composer of extraordinary genius.
Publication date: 1992-12
Dewey code: 759.2915
Price: $29.95
Review Roderic O'Conor: A Biography With a Catalogue of His Work (Art & Architecture) / Irish Academic Press:
Publication date: 1987-01
Dewey code: 791.45028092
Price: $25.00
Review Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy / Borgo Pr:
Creator: Charles Ryskamp
Publication date: 1979-11-29
Dewey code: 821.6
List Price: $360.00
Price: $162.86
Review The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper: Volume 1: Adelphi and Letters 1750-1781 / Oxford University Press, USA:When completed, this edition will contain about 1300 letters, 1000 of which will be printed from the original MSS. About two-thirds of the letters will contian material that has hitherto been unpublished.
Creator: John Gouws
Publication date: 1986-04-10
Dewey code: 821.3
List Price: $263.00
Price: $164.66
Review The Prose Works of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (Oxford English Texts) / Oxford University Press, USA:Poet and playwright Sir Fulke Greville (1554-1628) was a great favorite at the court of Queen Elizabeth I. This volume includes A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney-written about his close friend and revealing much of the "human" side of Sidney-and the incomplete Letter to An Honourable Lady, previously available only in collections of Greville's writings. This edition is modernized to make it more accessible and includes a substantial commentary, a glossary, and an index.
Publication date: 1998-07-02
Dewey code: 581.0222
Price: $30.00
Review Maria Sibylla Merian: Artist And Naturalist / Hatje Cantz Publishers:Artwork by Maria Sibylla Merian.
Publication date: 1997-09-28
Dewey code: 813.3
Price: $56.50
Review Son of Sorrow: The Life Works and Influence of Colonel William C. Falkner 1825-1889 / International Scholars Publishers:
Publication date: 1937
Review Pencil portraits of concert celebrities, / Sir I. Pitman & sons, ltd:
Creator: Jeremy Johns
Publication date: 2000-07-13
Dewey code: 809
Price: $95.00
Review Bayt-al-Maqdis: Part II: Jerusalem and Early Islam (Oxford Studies in Islamic Art) / Oxford University Press, USA:At the end of the seventh century A. D. , the Muslims rebuilt the former Temple Mount and created one of the most potent religious sites in the world. The articles in these volumes look at the different aspects of the architecture and the intentions of the builders in establishing this complex.
Creator: Richard Bleiler
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2002-11-08
Dewey code: 809.38738
List Price: $265.00
Price: $173.95
Review Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror, Second Edition (2 Volume Set) / Charles Scribner's Sons:J. K. Rowling, Peter Straub, Anne McCaffrey - these are among the many widely-read authors in fantasy and horror genres covered in this single volume addition to Scribner's 1985 2-vol. set. Essays written by scholars - yet accessible to the general reader and student - treat both writers who have risen to prominence since the 1985 edition, and those whose careers have continued since original coverage, such as Stephen King, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Harlan Ellison. The index will cumulate the index from the first two volumes. (20030701).
Publication date: 2009-03-20
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $162.00
Price: $162.00
Review Something About the Author / Gacl:
Publication date: 1994-10
Dewey code: 781.643092
Price: $14.95
Review Rhythm and the Blues: A Life in American Music / St Martins Pr:Atlantic Records partner and producer, Wexler presided over the evolution of the modern music business and made prodigious contributions through to our cultural history. Wexler has worked with the entire range of American genius: Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and others. 75 photographs.
Creator: Lisa Kumar
Publication date: 2008-07
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $162.00
Price: $162.00
Review Something About the Author: Facts and Pictures About Authors and Illustrators of Books for Young People / Gale Cengage:
Publication date: 1998-03
Dewey code: 790
Review Here I Stand / Cassell Academic:First published in 1958 and re-issued to mark the centenary of Robeson's birth, these memoirs paint a remarkable portrait of an amazing man - talented and successful worldwide as a singer and actor, and a passionate and outspoken critic of racism in American society. The most celebrated black American of his day, Robeson was blacklisted, silenced and had his US passport withheld because of his criticism of McCarthyism, his fascination with the Soviet Union and his strong support of African independence. He wrote Here I Stand as a bold answer to his accusers and it remains today a passionate and defiant challenge to the prevailing fear and racism that continues to characterize American society. '(Robeson's) nobility, his language, his encouragement and his praise put me forever in his debt because it inspired me fully to be like him, and to use my life as he had used his, to put into it the commitment of the liberation of his people and all people. ' Harry Belafonte in Restoring Hope 'Robeson's book is a perennial, first published in 1958, and now a voice from a different time. It anticipates for black persons the moral support of the American majority with an intensity that now seems evangelical. It's full of probably tragic hope. It should be read. ' The Boston Globe 'This amazing man, this great intellect, this magnificient genius with his overwhelming love of humanity is a devastating challenge to a society built on hypocrisy, greed and profit-seeking at the expense of common humanity. ' The New York Times No one had more to lose in following his political convictions than Paul Robeson. [+]Here I Stand, originally published in 1958, was Robeson's response to the questions about why his mission-to win the freedom of black people everywhere-incited so much hatred and fear in his country. Following Sterling Stuckey's 1988 introduction and Lloyd L. Brown's 1971 preface, both providing invaluable commentary, Robeson begins with his recollection of a Princeton boyhood. The roots of his world-view that would ultimately be his undoing were set down there. "Throughout his youth, Robeson's father [a pastor in the A. M. E. Zion Church] insisted on 'personal integrity,' which included the idea of 'maximum human fulfillment. '" Indeed, to list Robeson's achievements while attending university is to be in awe of a fabulously endowed man, bent on living out his father's edicts, and achieving his magnificent potential. As his fascination with the Soviet Union grew, he began to attract the notice of McCarthy's watchdogs. He had begun to draw parallels between the Soviet social "experiment," which brought a whole underclass into the 20th century, and the emerging nations of Africa. In the early '40s, he reached the height of his performing career ("Robeson's Othello was more authentic than that of any other actor of his time"), but soon thereafter, he would set aside his brilliant career and commit fiercely to the struggle for black liberation. In 1949, it would all come crashing down, and for a decade, an ugly, active campaign against Robeson reigned, stemming not from the growing radicalization of his beliefs, but from the turning tide of cold war politics. W. E. B. DuBois, also a victim of the Communist witch-hunts noted, "He is without doubt today, as a person, the best known American on earth, to the largest number of human beings. His voice is known in Europe, Asia and Africa, in the West Indies and South America and in the islands of the seas. Children on the streets of Peking and Moscow, Calcutta and Jakarta greet him and send him their love. Only in his native land is he without honor and rights. " Lloyd L. Brown helped Robeson write Here I Stand, and he crafted the tone, which is at once accessible and impassioned, originally aimed at the black religious community. Highly idealistic, passionately exhorting, deeply committed to the "common people," this Paul Robeson gem remains a vital challenge to the racism that still dogs American society. - Hollis Giammatteo.
Review All Saints: the Unofficial Biography (Pop Culture) / Popular Culture Ink.,U.S.:
Creator: Liza Ross
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-01
Review The Assassination of Marilyn Monroe / Soundings:This book is the fully documented story of Marilyn Monroe's death - a heart-stopping account of the events that led to the circumstances of 4th August 1962. To this day the Los Angeles Police Department and the District Attorney's office have perpetuated a cover up that was generated over 30 years ago. For the first time in over 80 books and acres of newsprint, the complete story of her demise, and why so many joined in the conspiracy of silence, is revealed. Marilyn's universe is where the glitzy world of Hollywood, the sinister world of the Mafia and the secret sub-cellars of Washington D. C. , newly released FBI files and the information of insiders who have maintained a thirty-year silence, collide. Don Wolfe's momentous book forbids us to look at one of the 20th century's cornerstone events in the same way again.
Publication date: 2003-10
Dewey code: 910
Price: $15.95
Review Where the Indus Is Young: Midwinter in Baltistan / John Murray Publishers:One winter, Dervla Murphy and her six-year-old daughter explored 'Little Tibet' high up in the Karakoram Mountains in the frozen heart of the Western Himalayas. For three months they travelled on foot and on pony along the perilous Indus Gorge and into nearby valleys. Even when beset by crumbling tracks over bottomless chasms, an assault by a lascivious Kashmiri, the unnerving melancholy of the Balts, and Rachel's continual probing questions, this formidable traveller retained her enthusiasm for her surroundings and her sense of humour. Hair-raising, gloriously subjective and with the quirky vitality of fiction, the resulting book is a classic of travel writing.
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