Creator: Richard B. Sher
Publication date: 1997-01-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $995.00
Price: $2,108.95
Review Lives of the Literati (Thoemmes Press - Scottish Thought and Culture, 1750-1850) / Thoemmes Continuum:At the heart of the Scottish Thought lay a few dozen literary and scientific figures who distinguished themselves in fields as diverse as medicine, belles-lettres, poetry, drama, philosophy, religion, political economy, and history. Some of the best biographies of these literati were published in the nineteenth century, often by personal friends who were prominent men of letters in their own right. This set collects together seven of the most important of those biographical accounts. Each title is extremely rare today, and most have never before been reprinted. Each includes a new introduction, specially commissioned for the series.
Edition: Limited ed.
Publication date: 2004-05
Dewey code: 796.83092
Price: $124.95
Review The Ageless Warrior: The Life of Boxing Legend Archie Moore / Sports Publishing LLC:This beautiful, limited-edition volume is hand-numbered and autographed by boxing legends Archie Moore and Jake "Raging Bull" LaMotta. Certificate of Authenticity included, only 125 copies printed! There was only one man who fought both Rocky Marciano and Muhammad Ali. There was only one man who recorded 141 professional Knock-Outs. There was only one man who trained both a young Ali and heavyweight champion George Forman. There was only one Archie Moore. With a seven-decade boxing career, including 27 years as a prize fighter, Moore's vast career and exploits are finally chronicled in The Ageless Warrior. Author Mike Fitzgerald spent months with Moore before the boxer's death in an effort to capture the full life story of one of the 20th Century's most colorful and accomplished athletes. And what a story it was. Moore's opponent list reads like a "who's who" of boxing; he fought nine world champions and seven Hall-of-Famers.
Edition: Enlarged 2nd
Publication date: 1837
Review Biographical sketches and interesting anecdotes of persons of colour: To which is added, a selection of pieces in poetry / M. Day:
Publication date: 1996-11
Dewey code: 759.2
Price: $53.95
Review William Henry Pyne & His Microcosm / Alan Sutton Publishing, Ltd.:
Authors
- Sean O Luing
- Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa
Dewey code: 941.5081092
Review Rossa's Recollections, 1838-1898: Memoirs of an Irish Revolutionary / Irish Academic Pr:
Edition: Limited Ed
Publication date: 1997-07-24
Price: $1,462.74
Review The Collected Speeches of Margaret Thatcher / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:By the time she stepped down in 1990, Margaret Thatcher had become one of her generation's outstanding political leaders, and perhaps the most powerful woman in the world. Possessing an iron will, she matched words with action in confronting the crises of the day in economic affairs, in the Falklands War, in Northern Ireland, in the great twilight struggle of the Cold War and finally in Europe. Under her leadership, Britain broke out of its decline and self-doubt to emerge once more as a major player on the international stage. Margaret Thatcher put intense effort into her major speeches. As a result, they are uniquely revealing of how she developed that clear vision which would transform Britain and help shape international politics in the late 20th century. They begin with the speeches she made as part of her campaign to mold the ideas of the Conservative Party in Opposition. They continue with the famous addresses in which she expressed her convictions as prime minister and include recent lectures in which she gives her current, and controversial, thoughts about the world today. This book of speeches is an essential companion volume to the two books of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs, as well as a masterly study of one of the great political figures of our time.
Creator: Donald M. Lewis
Publication date: 1995-12
Dewey code: 269.2092
List Price: $250.00
Price: $723.10
Review The Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography 1730-1860: 1730-1860 / Blackwell Pub:
Authors
- Alma Flor Ada
- F. Isabel Campoy
List Price: $5.95
Price: $5.95
Review Mis Recuerdos: journal c / My Memories (Puertas al Sol) / Santillana USA Publishing Company:
Creator: David Stack
Publication date: 2007-10-30
Dewey code: 941.5081
List Price: $595.00
Price: $625.00
Review Lives of Victorian Political Figures II (Lives of Victorian Political Figures) / Pickering & Chatto Publishers:
Creator: James Wills
Edition: Facsimile
Publication date: 1997-03-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $725.00
Price: $691.34
Review Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen (Biographical Dictionaries) / Ganesha Publishing:This is an authoritative and easy-to-use biographical dictionary covering over nineteen centuries of Irish lives. From Ollamh Fodhla, six hundred years bc, through Jonathan Swift up until the mid-Victorian era with the death of Whitley Stokes in 1845, this important reference work was first published in 1839-47. Ireland has always had a very personal history and its heroes appear in every field of human endeavour including philosophers, theologians, historians, statesmen, physicians, writers, and scientists; names include St Patrick, Niall of the Nine Hostages, Brendan, Edmund Spenser, James Butler, James Usher, Jeremy Taylor, Jonathan Swift, George Berkeley, Robert Boyle, Sir Richard Steele, Sir Hans Sloane, Edmund Burke, Henry Grattan, John Philpot Curran, Thomas Percy, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Elizabeth Hamilton, Mary Tighe, George Canning, and Oliver Goldsmith. Five hundred and thirteen biographies are printed using a wide range of source materials, making this the most comprehensive and extensive biographical history of Ireland attempted. The text is arranged into six historical periods, each with a historical introduction. Within each period, the lives are presented chronologically within three disciplines - literary, political and ecclesiastical. In addition, the volumes are illustrated with a selection of portraits and views. This detailed sourcebook is an invaluable biographical reference tool for libraries and students in all disciplines.
Creator: Wilbur Cortez Abbott
Publication date: 1989-04-20
List Price: $160.00
Price: $872.43
Review The Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell: With an Introduction, Notes and an Account of His Life Volume III The Protectorate 1653-1655 / Oxford University Press, USA:This third volume on Oliver Cromwell covers the years 1653 to 1655, and traces Cromwell's emergence as the ruler of his country, and as an international statesman. In December 1653, after the collapse of Barebone's parliament, a short-lived experiment in radical Puritan rule, Cromwell became Lord Protector under a new constitution designed by the army, the Instrument of the Government. The volume traces the failure of Cromwell's attempt to win assent for that constitution from the parliament of 1654, and describes the royalist plotting which led to the rising under Colonel Pe nruddock in March 1655. The insurrection prompted Cromwell to entrust the government of the regions to his Major-Generals, in whose rule the military character of the Protectorate was at its most obvious. Abroad, a series of hard-won treaties, with France and with Protestant powers, paved the way for the war with Spain which began in the autumn of 1655. The volume ends at a point when Cromwell perhaps enjoyed greatest power, but the least support.
Authors
- Michael Roe
- Marcus Clarke
- Elizabeth Webby
Publication date: 2001-12
Dewey code: 920
Price: $175.00
Review His Natural Life (The Academy Editions of Australian Literature) / Univ of Queensland Pr:One of the greatest 19th-century Australian novels and the grand epic of the transportation system, this novel charts the misfortune of Richard Divine, falsely accused of murder, through the worst Australian penal settlements, while retaining his humanity and spiritual dignity. So powerful is Clarke's representation of the brutality of transportation that more than a century later historians still struggle to disentangle fact from tragic fiction.
Creator: Benedikt Taschen
Edition: Champ's ed.
Publication date: 2004-04-01
Dewey code: 770
Price: $15,000.00
Review Goat: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali (Greatest of All Time) / Taschen:The Champ's Edition: No. 1-1,000- The "Champ's Edition" has a white silk cover with pink lettering. - Limited to 1,000 individually numbered copies, each one signed by Muhammad Ali and Jeff Koons. - Four gallery-quality silver gelatin prints signed by photographer Howard L. Bingham and Muhammad Ali. Jeff Koons has created an original art piece for the "Champ's Edition. "- Over 3,000 images - photographs, art and memorabilia, much of it published for the first time - from over 150 photographers and artists. Original essays and the best interviews and writings on the Champ of the last five decades, from hundreds of writers, totaling nearly 600,000 words. - XXL Format: 792 pages, including two gatefold sequences measuring 200 cm x 50 cm (80" x 20") and nine gold-metallic double-page spreads printed in silkscreen, opening each chapter. Measuring 50 cm x 50 cm (20" x 20"), GOAT tips the scales at 34 kgs (75 lbs). [+]- Each copy comes in a silk-covered box illustrated with Neil Leifer's iconic 1966 photo, "Ali vs Williams. "- Bound by the official bindery for the Vatican, in pink leather, the color of Ali's first Cadillac. The bindery specializing in the most elaborate and oversized editions of the Koran and the Bible enforces the strictest standards of quality control and only several hundred copies can be assembled per week. - Utilizing state-of-the-art digital technology, no expense has been spared to restore the original photographic materials to the highest possible standards. The results of this effort create unparalleled intensity and range in the colors, and exquisite tone and density within the duotone images. - Eight-color printing on Galaxi Keramik 200gsm semi-matte paper with gloss varnish on all images.
Authors
- Robert Boyle
- Lawrence Principe
Publication date: 2001-10
Dewey code: 509.2
List Price: $1,181.73
Price: $1,181.72
Review The Correspondence of Robert Boyle (The Pickering Masters) / Pickering & Chatto Ltd:
Creator: John Henrik Clarke
Publication date: 1987-07-23
Dewey code: 813.54
Price: $83.95
Review William Styron's Nat Turner : Ten Black Writers Respond / Greenwood Press Reprint:
Publication date: 1990-11
Dewey code: 977.311004924
Price: $64.95
Review History of the Jews of Chicago / Chicago Jewish Historical Society:
Publication date: 1978-01-17
Dewey code: 305.56
List Price: $997.95
Price: $997.95
Review The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, Supplement, Series 1: Set Vol. (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) / Greenwood Press:
Publication date: 1980-01-02
Dewey code: 301.45196073
List Price: $818.95
Price: $879.17
Review The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, Supplement, Series 2: Set Vol. (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) / Greenwood Press:With the publication of the ten-volume Supplement, Series 2, this important reference source is completed. On publication of earlier volumes, Choice has commented; "As a source for the study of slavery from the bottom up, the narratives are invaluable. ".
Creator: Bernhard Fabian
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1973-12
Price: $1,092.00
Review Biographia Britannica, or the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons Who Have Flourished in Great Britain & Ireland, Set (Anglistica & Americana) / Georg Olms Publishers:
Publication date: 2000
Review Night diary: A pilgrimage of two brothers / M. Herson:
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Lives of the Literati (Thoemmes Press - Scottish Thought and Culture, 1750-1850), The Ageless Warrior: The Life of Boxing Legend Archie Moore, Biographical sketches and interesting anecdotes of persons of colour: To which is added, a selection of pieces in poetry, William Henry Pyne & His Microcosm, Rossa's Recollections, 1838-1898: Memoirs of an Irish Revolutionary, The Collected Speeches of Margaret Thatcher, The Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography 1730-1860: 1730-1860, Mis Recuerdos: journal c / My Memories (Puertas al Sol), Lives of Victorian Political Figures II (Lives of Victorian Political Figures), Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen (Biographical Dictionaries), The Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell: With an Introduction, Notes and an Account of His Life Volume III The Protectorate 1653-1655, His Natural Life (The Academy Editions of Australian Literature), Goat: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali (Greatest of All Time), The Correspondence of Robert Boyle (The Pickering Masters), William Styron's Nat Turner : Ten Black Writers Respond, History of the Jews of Chicago, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, Supplement, Series 1: Set Vol. (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies), The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, Supplement, Series 2: Set Vol. (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies), Biographia Britannica, or the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons Who Have Flourished in Great Britain & Ireland, Set (Anglistica & Americana), Night diary: A pilgrimage of two brothersTop headlines: Warming wreaks havoc, islanders say: Climate change is wreaking havoc in the small island states of the South Pacific and assistance is needed for those already hit by rising seawater and severe storms, an islands leader said. ›19:25 20 Aug, Wed Steroid abuse scars a young muscle man for life: For one 21-year-old muscle man, the quest to build a perfect body ended in grotesque, lifelong scars. ›23:57 26 Aug, Tue Report: Oxygen bottle burst on Qantas jet: Air safety investigators confirmed Friday that an exploding oxygen cylinder ripped a gaping hole in a Qantas jet's fuselage mid-flight last month, but said they were no closer to solving the mystery of why the tank failed. ›15:47 29 Aug, Fri Consumer outlook up more than expected: Americans became more optimistic in the economy amid declining gas prices in August, marking the biggest jump in two years. ›16:30 29 Aug, Fri Indian villagers desperate as floods spread: Villagers were eating uncooked rice and flour mixed with polluted water in an eastern Indian state, officials said Friday, as hunger and diseases accompanied the worst floods in 50 years. ›16:32 29 Aug, Fri Alaska voters decide mining over fish: Alaskans were given an option when voting for an initiative in their primary election: mining or fish. ›23:56 28 Aug, Thu Live to 43 or 86? 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