Creator: Colin Smythe
Publication date: 1971
Review Coole (Dolmen editions, 10) / Dolmen Press:
Publication date: 1991-10
Price: $11.95
Review Stumbling Heavenward: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man, Peter Rempel / Hyperion Press:
Publication date: 1999-03
Dewey code: 709
Price: $1,195.00
Review African American Artists on Disc / G. K. Hall & Company:
Publication date: 1986-12
Price: $39.00
Review Beneath a Wandering Star / Hyperion Books:
Creator: Peter Alexander
Edition: 1772 Ed
Publication date: 1999-10-01
Dewey code: 101
Price: $1,200.00
Review Works of Robert Boyle (Thoemmes Press - Philosophy and Christian Thought in Britian 1700-1900) / Thoemmes Continuum:'almost every branch of modern science can trace phases of its origin in his writings. in the broad field of science Boyle made a greater number and variety of discoveries than one man is ever likely to make again'- John Fulton, Boyle's bibliographerRobert Boyle (1627-91) was one of the most influential scientists and philosophers of the seventeenth century. The founder of modern chemistry, he headed the movement that turned it from an occult science into a subject well-grounded in experiment, sound methodology and observation. His pioneering experiments on the properties of gases and his mechanistic theory of matter are the forerunners of the modern theories of chemical elements and atomic theory. He is best known for founding the renowned Boyle Lectures and for Boyle's Law that states that the pressure and volume of a gas are inversely proportional. A founding fellow of the Royal Society, three consecutive kings of England conversed familiarly with him. Philosophically, he wrote with sophistication on atheism, atomism, epistemology, miracles and natural laws. He influenced Berkeley, Spinoza, Henry More and especially John Locke, who relied on Boyle's theory of primary and secondary qualities in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding. [+]Boyle's circle of correspondents included Newton, Locke, Aubrey, Oldenburg and Hartlib, and his influence on both British and European scholars was enormous. He also took a lead part in examining the relation of science to theology. This is the standard edition of Boyle's works and the only complete collection currently available. First published in 1772, it brings together his many and varied writings in one comprehensive, fully-indexed source. Covering his work in chemistry, philosophy and theology, it includes a Life of Boyle by Thomas Birch. The Thoemmes reprint of the second and best English edition features a new introduction by Peter Alexander, one of the world authorities on Boyle. -includes a Life of Boyle by Thomas Birch -features letters to and from Boyle -this rare edition is the only complete collected edition currently available and the standard text to which literature on Boyle refers -engraved frontispieces and several fold-out illustrations.
Edition: Facsim.of 1842 Ed
Publication date: 1986-07-01
Review Zanoni / Society of Metaphysicians Ltd:
Publication date: 1994-01
Dewey code: 920.720882971
Price: $18.00
Review Women in Islamic Biographical Collections: From Ibn Sa'd to Who's Who / L. Rienner Publishers:A study of 40 bibliographical collections, dating from the 9th century to the present, investigating which type of woman Muslim scholars have deemed worthy of recording for posterity. The analysis clearly indicates that Muslim women have achieved prominence in certain fields at certain times.
Authors
- William G. Quinn
- Kathy Westmoreland
Dewey code: 784.5400924
Price: $19.95
Review Elvis and Kathy / Glendale House Pub:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-11-07
Dewey code: 330.155
List Price: $1,260.00
Price: $1,228.51
Review John A. Hobson: Critical Assessments of Leading Economists / Routledge:John Atkinson Hobson was a controversial figure in the history of economic thought. As an advocate of an apparently fallacious theory of over-saving, a critic of the orthodox theory of distribution, and a proponent of a theory of imperialism which was later taken up by Lenin, Hobson was generally condemned as a heretic by the rest of the economic establishment. His fortunes changed, rather belatedly, in 1936, when Keynes paid tribute to Hobson's work in The General Theory as anticipating his own theory that society can, under some circumstances, save too large a proportion of its income-thrift then being a vice, not a virtue. Hobson's influence was international and the impact of his writings was widespread. This collection reprints the essential scholarship on Hobson's economic, social and political thought, with helpful introductions which provide the reader with guidance and context.
Authors
- Carlos Sommervogel
- Aloys De Backer
Dewey code: 629
List Price: $1,100.00
Price: $1,100.00
Review Bibliotheque De LA Compagnie De Jesus (9 Volume Set) / Martino Publishing:Reprint of the 1890-1916 edition (Bruxelles). Hardbound. Cloth. Octavo. NINE VOLUMES. 9,000pp. This massive nine volumes work is without doubt the most comprehensive bibliography of the Jesuit order. It is absolutely indispensable for antiquarian booksellers and librarians seeking precise identification of many thousand of published works and their authors. Besterman cities the work as having citations for 150,000 printed items. Besterman 3261.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1993-02-19
Dewey code: 301.092
List Price: $1,440.00
Price: $1,276.50
Review George Herbert Mead: Critical Assessments / Routledge:For a man who published relatively little during his lifetime (1862-1931), George Herbert Mead's prominence and influence is quite astoniishing. After his death, a virtual school of Meadian sociology-baptized symbolic interactionism by some of its adherents, and social behaviorism by others-developed, and has remained influential in American sociology ever since. At the same time, Mead's approach to central issues of socialization, identity and role-taking has constituted the starting point for akk later attempts to construct a micro-sociology. Mead is treated as one of the founding fathers of sociology. Whereas Marx, Weber, or Durkheim provide a set of central questions and concepts for understanding the social structure of modernity, Mead's stature is undoubted;y due to his role in the developent of the "Chicago School" of sociology. The articles in this work are arranged in four coherent sections covering Mead's life and the intellectual context of his work; his relationshipto sytmbolic interactionism; his influence in social behaviorism and his work on the theory of the mond. This Critical Assessment consists of the best scholarly writings on Mead's work.
Creator: Edgar Mertner
Publication date: 1976-12
Price: $148.19
Review Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries (Anglistica & Americana) / Georg Olms Publishers:
Authors
- Kathy Halbreich
- Neal Benezra
- Paul Schimmel
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1994-04
Dewey code: 700.92
Price: $110.00
Review Bruce Nauman: Exhibition Catalogue and Catalogue Raisonne / Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap):Bruce Nauman's art has ranged across a variety of media that includes drawings, sculpture, performance, photography, neon, film, video, holograms, texts, and large-scale mixed media installations. This book features a comprehensive catalogue raisonne with illustrated entries for more than five hundred works, including films, videos, performances, and photographic pieces.
Creator: Helen Hogan
Publication date: 1994
Review Renata's Journey: Ko Te Haerenga O Renata / Canterbury University Press:Probably the earliest surviving Maori writing of significant length, this is an account by Renata Kawepo Tamai Ki Hikurangi of an arduous journey undertaken in 1843-44. The book includes the Maori text in full with a parallel English translation, annotations and introduction.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1983-09-01
Dewey code: 031
List Price: $1,440.00
Price: $1,397.74
Review Adam Smith: Critical Assessments / Routledge:No online description is currently available. If you would like to receive information about this title, please email Routledge at info@routledge-ny. com.
Creator: Ganesha Publishing
Edition: Facsimile Ed
Publication date: 1997-01-01
Dewey code: 031
List Price: $1,225.00
Price: $1,225.00
Review Great British Book Collectors and their Libraries (Bookcollecting & Bibliomania) / Thoemmes Continuum:It was Dibdin who gave us the word bibliomania, and so it is fitting to build this collection around him. His Bibliomania, here reprinted from a revised edition, is an affectionate personal history of book-collecting through the ages. Bibliographical descriptions are complemented and expanded in The Library Companion, a book full of detail designed to bring out the book-collector in every educated person. Merryweather, Burton, Elton, Fletcher and Hazlitt relate their own and other collectors' passions through the ages, both in Britain and abroad. Together they form an extraordinary biographical dictionary of pioneers in the accumulation of culture and learning. Without these book-collectors' devotion of time, money, knowledge and taste, and the subsequent wholesale bequest or sale of their collections, public libraries as we know them would be greatly impoverished. -Informative accounts of British bibliophiles -Valuable biographical and bibliographical documentation on the British book trade.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-01-08
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $1,240.00
Price: $1,227.52
Review Autobiography (Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies) / Routledge:The analysis of life-writing as a distinct and specialized project emerged only in the second half of the twentieth century. That it has achieved both academic respectability and critical cachet over the last twenty-five years is the result of a number of trends. Politically 'progressive' tendencies, from the civil rights, workers' educational and second-wave women's movements, to the establishment of sociology, social history and interdisciplinary women's and 'race' studies, have appealed to 'experience', via the production and dissemination of personal testimony, life-narratives, autobiographical manifestos, as the basis for consciousness-raising and as a challenge to dominant accounts of the social world. At the same time, paradoxically, neo-conservative celebrations of individual choice, personal entitlement, consumer power, have reinstated the 'unique' self and its representation at the heart of many late-capitalist cultures. This collection covers all of these schools of thought and brings together both 'mainstream' and 'dissident' theorists, authors and texts. With a new introduction by the editor, an index and a chronological table of contents, this collection will be a unique and unrivalled research resource for both student and scholar.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-03-19
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $1,117.00
Price: $1,117.00
Review Arab-Islamic Biographical Index / K.G. Saur:
Creator: Norman Kelvin
Publication date: 1996-01-22
Dewey code: 821.8
Price: $60.00
Review The Collected Letters of William Morris, Vol.4 1893-1896 / Princeton University Press:The second of two volumes of letters from writer/designer William Morris to his colleagues-including the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti-and loved ones. At one time or another, Morris was also an architect, a painter, a poet, a businessman, an interior decorator, a book illuminator, a furniture maker, a lecturer, a weaver, a magazine editor, a novelist, a Socialist campaigner, a translator, an essayist, a printer and a publisher. Known for his propensity to create beautiful objects and his inability to relax, let alone sit still, Morris' contributions to design and literature rank him in an English tradition with Blake and Dickens.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1992-08-14
Dewey code: 301.092
List Price: $1,520.00
Price: $1,289.50
Review Talcott Parsons: Critical Assessments (Critical assessments) / Routledge:Talcott Parsons (1904-79) is widely regarded as one of the most important sociologists of the twentieth century. His work has been influential both inside and outside the United States. He made major contributions to the history of sociology, the sociology of knowledge, medical sociology, and sociology of social institutions. His theoretical writing, although still the subject of much controversy, is recognized as reformulating the grounds of debate by giving a new direction to sociological inquiry. The ninety-five articles assembled here are organized into eighty-five chapters, covering each of the major theoretical debates in which Parsons was involved. The work is divided into major sections beginning with the intellectual background to Parsons' distinctive contribution to functionalism, and ending with the work of the last twenty years of his life, in which his interests in expanding his theories across all domains of human action produced a wide range of important and influential ideas. These volumes provide an indispensable collection for Parsonian scholars and anyone interested in 20th century sociology.
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Coole (Dolmen editions, 10), Stumbling Heavenward: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man, Peter Rempel, African American Artists on Disc, Beneath a Wandering Star, Works of Robert Boyle (Thoemmes Press - Philosophy and Christian Thought in Britian 1700-1900), Zanoni, Women in Islamic Biographical Collections: From Ibn Sa'd to Who's Who, Elvis and Kathy, John A. Hobson: Critical Assessments of Leading Economists, Bibliotheque De LA Compagnie De Jesus (9 Volume Set), George Herbert Mead: Critical Assessments, Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries (Anglistica & Americana), Bruce Nauman: Exhibition Catalogue and Catalogue Raisonne, Renata's Journey: Ko Te Haerenga O Renata, Adam Smith: Critical Assessments, Great British Book Collectors and their Libraries (Bookcollecting & Bibliomania), Autobiography (Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies), Arab-Islamic Biographical Index, The Collected Letters of William Morris, Vol.4 1893-1896, Talcott Parsons: Critical Assessments (Critical assessments)Top headlines: Opinion: Cancer's not the only smoking risk: Cancer is the disease most often associated with cigarettes. 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