Edition: 1ST
Publication date: 2002-04
Dewey code: 940.548173
List Price: $24.95
Price: $177.65
Review Always Look Back: A Jewish Combat Infantryman's Memoir / Vantage Pr:
Publication date: 2000-02
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $176.00
Price: $176.00
Review Concise Dictionary of World Literary Biography: African, Caribbean, and Latin American Writers (Concise Dictionary of World Literary Biography) / Gale Cengage:
Publication date: 1987
Review Joshua Johnson: Freeman and early American portrait painter / Maryland Historical Society:
Publication date: 2008-08
List Price: $175.00
Price: $175.00
Review Icons of Latino America: Latino Contributions to American Culture (Greenwood Icons) / Greenwood Press:Latinos have contributed a tremendous amount to American cultural heritage, injecting energy, a unique style, and piquant flavor. This set profiles the big names from this century and the last who represent the highest achievement in their field and who have inspired, led, educated, informed, and entertained us. A diverse representation from the world of sports, entertainment, education, music, journalism, literature, and labor is offered. Biographical essays engagingly tell the story behind the icon, with background including family and education, career trajectory and highlights, and contributions and circumstances that have led to icon status. Along with these famous figures, several essays on other types of Latino pop culture icons-iconic characters from cartoons and comics and film and even iconic Latino foods-are included. Entertaining side bars and classic photos complement the essays. Perfect for student reports and browsing, with more in-depth coverage than an encyclopedia entry but less than a full biography, there is something fascinating and informative here for everyone. Readers will find that that a number of the icons profiled were influenced by other icons profiled or have an important connection to one another. For example, Tito Puente and Celia Cruz performed together for many years. Actress Jennifer Lopez portrayed the singer Selena in a biopic. [+]Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta made the United Farm Workers union a reality. Furthermore, in telling the story of these icons, each essay relates so much of the historical and social issues of the times. Thus, together, these essays offer a good sense of recent Latino and Latin American history and progress. Icons include Desi Arnaz; Ruben Blades; Fabiola Cabeza de Baca; Cesar Chavez; Chiles, Tortillas, and the Mexican Food Explosion; Sandra Cisneros; Roberto Clemente; Celia Cruz; Placido Domingo; Jaime Escalante; Gordo, Speedy Gonzales, Dora the Explorer, Bondo, and La Cucaracha; Dolores Huerta; Jennifer Lopez; Rita Moreno; Edward James Olmos; Tito Puente; Ruben Salazar; Carlos Santana; Cristina Saralegui; Selena; Lee Trevino; Luis Valdez; Ritchie Valens; and Zorro.
Authors
- Cruickshanks
- Howard Erskine-Hill
Dewey code: 941.071
List Price: $89.95
Price: $117.78
Review The Atterbury Plot (Studies in Modern History) / Palgrave Macmillan:Robert Walpole foiled the Atterbury Plot by preventive arrests and holding those he suspected illegally without bail or trial. When Parliament met and the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended, he used show trials, decided by votes along party lines and depending on forged evidence, to curb the Tory party, to reunite the Whig party, and to consolidate his hold on power. Rich in new material, this book unravels for the first time the scale and international dimension of a plot which posed the most serious challenge to the Hanoverian regime before the '45 rebellion.
Publication date: 2000-05
Dewey code: 940.5481417
Review The Bacon Box / Minerva Press:
Publication date: 1994-01-28
Dewey code: 951.03
Price: $80.00
Review Shen Pao-chen and China's Modernization in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions) / Cambridge University Press:The Opium Wars ushered in an era of intensive Western imperialism in China, at a time when the Ch'ing dynasty was already in decline, forcing a small number of Chinese officials to come to the realisation that China must protect itself by adopting the same military technology that had brought it national humiliation. Shen Pao-chen was one such official. Abandoning the comfort of his successful career, Shen devoted his life to building China's first modern naval dockyard and academy. His successes and failures shed new light on the story of China's efforts at modernization - a story that has not come to a conclusion. As China engages in new rounds of economic and industrial modernization in the post-Mao era, many of these issues acquire new meanings and significance.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-03-16
Dewey code: 809.88924
List Price: $230.00
Price: $175.00
Review Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century / Taylor & Francis:Conceived as the first work to identify Jewish writers of the twentieth century worldwide, and examining in particular the Jewish themes in their work, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both an important reference resource and a springboard for further study. It contains some 330 entries on individuals, arranged alphabetically, as well as five introductory essays. The entries on individuals consist of an outline biography, a list of selected publications, suggestions for further reading, and a signed interpretive essay. The introductory essays provide an overview of Jewish writing in America, the emergence of Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing in the twentieth century, and the development of Hebrew literature, as well as an essay exploring Anglo-Jewish literature. The book amounts to a literary and social history of the Jewish people in the twentieth century.
Publication date: 1993-02
Dewey code: 942.055092
Price: $55.00
Review With Faith and Physic: The Life of a Tudor Gentlewoman Lady Grace Mildmay 1552-1620 / Collins & Brown:Lady Grace Mildmay wrote the earliest extant complete autobiography written by a woman in English. The wife of a Northamptonshire landowner and daughter-in-law of Elizabeth I's Chancellor, she wrote about her home life, running a household and rearing children; on her spiritual life as a Protestant just after the Reformation; and about her advanced medical knowledge and care and treatment of the poor. Linda Pollock has edited Lady Grace's writings for this book to provide insights into the life of a Tudor gentlewoman, her eloquence and her interests.
Publication date: 2002-12
Dewey code: 942.0408622
Price: $37.50
Review Origins of the English Gentleman: Heraldry, Chivalry and Gentility in Medieval England, 1300-1500 / Tempus Publishing, Limited:
Publication date: 1990-04
Dewey code: 941.105092
Price: $119.95
Review William Maitland of Lethington, 1528-1573: A Study of the Policy of Moderation in the Scottish Reformation (Studies in British History, Vol 17) / Edwin Mellen Press:
Publication date: 1982
Review The coal miner who came west / E. Moore:
Publication date: 1832
Review Memoirs of William Sampson: An Irish exile (Autobiographies : a collection of the most instructive and amusing lives ever published) / Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot:This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Publication date: 1990-11
Dewey code: 942.055092
List Price: $139.95
Price: $210.00
Review Lord Herbert of Chirbury 1582-1648: An Intellectual Biography (Studies in British History, V. 16) / Edwin Mellen Press:
Publication date: 1938
Review Juan Latino, slave and humanist, / Spinner Press, Inc:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2000-06
Dewey code: 949.8201092
Price: $39.95
Review Vlad III Dracula: The Life and Times of the Historical Dracula / Center for Romanian Studies:The fifteenth century Romanian Prince Vlad III Dracula, also known as Vlad the Impaler, is one of the most fascinating personalities of medieval history. He has been portrayed both as a bloody tyrant - who degenerated down throughout the centuries into the fictional vampire of the same name created by Bram Stoker at the end of the nineteenth century - and as a national and Christian hero who bravely fought to defend his native land and all of Europe against the invading Turkish infidels. Even in the twentieth century, the true history of Dracula has been obscured by communist and nationalist historiography. This book studies the life and times of this enigmatic figure of medieval history, providing the reader with a better understanding of his personality, as well as the times in which he lived. The author also discusses the development of the myth of Dracula.
Publication date: 1987-06
Dewey code: 016.296
List Price: $249.90
Price: $182.43
Review A Critical Bibliography of Writings on Judaism (Jewish Studies) / Edwin Mellen Press:
Creator: Demetrios Argyriades
Publication date: 2006-10-30
Dewey code: 940.5318092
Price: $22.95
Review 548 Days With Another Name: Salonika 1943 : A Child's Diary, An Adult's Memories of War / Bloch Publishing Company:
Publication date: 1991-06
Dewey code: 940.5318
Price: $45.00
Review The Persistence of Youth: Oral Testimonies of the Holocaust / K G Saur Verlag Gmbh & Co:This volume is a collection of fifteen first-person accounts of growing up during the Nazi era. The selections cover a broad range of personalities and circumstances. Included are testimonies from the daughter of an anti-Nazi German family, the son of a mixed marriage in Germany threatened with deportation, a German Gypsy who witnessed Mengele's experiments, a Polish Jewish girl saved by her teacher, a Prague teenager escaping to Denmark and Sweden, a Polish Jewish youth in communist Siberia, a partisan, an eleven-year-old in Auschwitz, a young Yiddish actress exiled to Tashkent, and a Polish Catholic child deported to work camps. Drawn from the Holocaust Oral History Archive of Gratz College, each testimony is a unique story of survival through defense, adaptation, and resilience. The introduction to the book, written by Professor Nora Levin, provides the historical background of the rise of fascism and Nazism in Germany and the social and political dislocations that ensued. Editor Josey Fisher integrates the testimonies into the framework of adolescent development in the preface. Brief introductions to each chapter set the historical framework and describe the unique set of obstacles challenging each child. "The youth of the Holocaust were caught in the time of their growing. Their external world had real enemies and unspeakable danger at the same time that their physical, psychological, and social development were propelling them toward adulthood. Internal intensity was intertwined with external threat. [+]" (from the preface). Persistence of Youth provides a unique perspective on child development and psychological issues and will be of value to researchers in these fields as well as historians and others concerned with the Holocaust.
Publication date: 1999-01
Price: $11.95
Review Tubman / Umbrella Press:
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