Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-12-28
Dewey code: 973.8092
List Price: $95.00
Price: $94.11
Review Frederick Douglass and the Black Liberation Movement: The North Star of American Blacks (Studies in African American History and Culture) / Routledge:Frederick Douglass' Leadershop role in the anit-slavery struggle is well known. Even so, much about his life and his role in the black liberation movement is unknown. Wu Jin-Ping reevaluates Douglass' place in the history of the black liberation movement, paying particular attention to Doublass' impact on other black leaders, and to Douglass' Legitimate Reform Strategy.
Authors
- James W. Marchand
- Elmer H. Antonsen
Publication date: 1990-09
Dewey code: 430.922
List Price: $158.00
Price: $158.00
Review Grimm Brothers and the Germanic Past (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science Series III: Studies in the History of the Language Sciences) / John Benjamins Pub Co:
Publication date: 1997-09
List Price: $33.95
Price: $182.84
Review The Privateering Earl: George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, 1558-1605 (Biography, Letters & Diaries) / Alan Sutton Publishing, Ltd.:George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, was one of the most renowned and colourful of Queen Elizabeth's courtiers. The heir to the great Clifford estates of Westmorland and Yorkshire he was the father of the famous diarist Lady Anne Clifford. Dr Spence's attractive and scholarly study is the first biography for 75 years.
Authors
- Jeffrey Grey
- Peter Dennis
- Robin Prior
- Ewan Morris
Publication date: 1996-01-18
Dewey code: 355.00994
Price: $85.00
Review The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History / Oxford University Press, USA:This is a comprehensive guide to Australian military history, broadly conceived within a critical and analytical framework. Its 800 entries. extend beyond standard categories such as battles, campaigns, biographies, and weapons, and encompass the structures of various parts of the defense force organization and their evolution, military language and customs, literature dealing with military themes and treaties, alliances and acts of parliament that have had a significant impact on the military. Complete with 100 photographs and 32 maps, the result is a comprehensive work of reference, analysis and interest that will come to be regarded as the authoritative work in the field.
Publication date: 2006-10-01
Dewey code: 930
Price: $50.00
Review Stonehenge: The Biography of a Landscape / Tempus:There have been innumerable books about Stonehenge, but this is the first to look at the World Heritage Site not only in its wider setting but also through time, from 10,000 BC right down to the present day (with the bitter disputes about a possible new road network and visitor centre. Professor Tim Darvill is not only one of Britain's leading prehistorians, but he as been intimately involved with the development proposals for Stonehenge for 15 years. In 2002, he coordinated the production of a Research Framework for the Stonehenge World Heritage Site on behalf of English Heritage.
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 2007-09-01
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $150.00
Price: $155.44
Review English Breakfast (The Kegan Paul Library of Culinary History and Cookery) / Taylor and Francis:This is a biography of the English breakfast, a culinary detective story and a cookbook rolled into one. It tells the often-surprising tale of the English breakfast and presents authentic facsimile Victorian and Edwardian recipes and menus for forgotten breakfast and sideboard delights from the heyday of this best of all meals, by four celebrated culinary figures of the period - Georgiana Hill who catered for the grandest houses, the pukka colonial Colonel Kenney-Herbert, the galloping 'Major L' who rode to hounds and ran with the hunting set, and the bright and bustling Miss M. L. Allen, a paragon among housekeepers. Including six hundred and fifty recipes along with menu plans and instructions for breakfast table settings, this is a cracking good culinary read. Experienced cooks can use the recipes with little difficulty, inexperienced cooks can begin with the simpler recipes of which there are many, and those interested in social and culinary history can use the cookbooks as texts.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-06-01
Dewey code: 963.004924
List Price: $180.00
Price: $158.69
Review The Jews of Ethiopia: The Birth of an Elite (Routledgecurzon Jewish Studies Series) / RoutledgeCurzon:With a special focus on Europe and the role of German, English and Italian Jewish communities in creating a new Jewish Ethiopian identity, the book investigates the formation of a new Ethiopian Jewish elite.
Authors
- Phyllis Hamilton
- Paul Williams
Review Secret Love / Mainstream Publishing:
Publication date: 1988-09
Dewey code: 509
Price: $8.95
Review Black Inventors / Lion Books:
Publication date: 1953
Review Portraits etched in stone;: Early Jewish settlers, 1682-1831 / Columbia University Press:
Publication date: 1985-02-22
Dewey code: 956.940010924
Price: $64.95
Review Berl: The Biography of a Socialist Zionist: Berl Katznelson 1887-1944 / Cambridge University Press:For almost fifty years, the Zionist labour movement led the Jewish community in Palestine and later, in the State of Israel. Among the close-knit group of its founding fathers, Berl Katznelson was a unique figure. He was an intellectual, a politician, a man of letters, a statesman and the initiator of many of the social and economic institutions THAT shaped the face of the movement and in its wake, the character of the country as a whole. The biography of Berl is more than the biography of an individual: it is the story of a movement. The book traces Berl from a young Russian socialist and romantic pioneer on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, into the propounder of a work ethic and the founder of the central political current of the Israeli labour movement. The development of this movement is depicted against the background of the major political events of the period: Jewish-Arab relations, the European crisis of the thirties as it affected the Jewish people and the successes and failures of Zionist policy. It is required reading for anyone who wants to understand in depth the complexity of Israeli society today.
Creator: Christopher C. De Santis
Publication date: 2005-05-31
Dewey code: 818.5209
List Price: $254.00
Price: $173.79
Review Langston Hughes: A Documentary Volume (Dictionary of Literary Biography) / Gale Cengage:
Creator: Shlomo Zucker
Publication date: 1977
Review Uri Zevi Greenburg on His Eightieth Anniversary / Jewish National and University Library:
Authors
- John Mulvaney
- Neville Green
Dewey code: 994.02092
Price: $49.95
Review Commandant of Solitude: The Journals of Captain Collet Barker 1828-1831 / Melbourne University Publishing:
Creator: Marie-Louise Legg
Publication date: 1995-11
Review The Synge Letters: Bishop Edward Synge to His Daughter Alicia, Roscommon-Dublin, 1746-52 / The Lilliput Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-01
Review Mates: Images of the Kimberley / Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-09-07
Dewey code: 305.896073075509032
List Price: $99.95
Price: $153.84
Review Africans and Indians: An Afrocentric Analysis of Contacts Between Africans and American Indians in Colonial Virginia (Studies in African American History and Culture) / Routledge:This fascinating text examines the union of Africans and American Indians in Virginia during colonial times.
Publication date: 1993
Review Sowing Seeds of Understanding - The Autobiography of a Japanese Philanthropist:Translated into English by Donna Tamaki, color photos, originally published in Japanese under the title: "TANE O MAKU. ".
Publication date: 1981-11
Dewey code: 347.41503334
Price: $30.00
Review George Gavan Duffy 1882-1951 / Irish Academic Pr:
Creator: Robert F. Himmelberg
Publication date: 1996-12
Dewey code: 973.07202
Price: $29.95
Review Historians and Race: Autobiography and the Writing of History (Blacks in the Diaspora) / Indiana University Press:"It was most revealing to read what motivated these major historians. [This book] is an important inquiry into the craft of historical scholarship, how historians arrive at their subjects of investigation, and the influences on framing historical questions. I was struck by a consistent thread of serendipity in the evolution of their careers, in the way that they arrived at their research, and in the joy of working in uncharted territory. " N Robert L Harris, Jr. Troubled by the lack of knowledge of and interest in the continuing struggle for racial justice, the editors determined that many people now lack a proper context for understanding the current state of race relations. Their attempts to rekindle interest in the goals of the civil rights movement led them to approach a distinguished group of scholars. Armed with the belief that human interest generated by autobiography would be the most effective route to their goal, they asked these scholars to reflect upon their careers and how personal experiences have influenced their scholarship. Responding to this invitation were Dan T Carter, Eric Foner, Darlene Clark Hine, Jacqueline Jones, David Levering Lewis, Leon F Litwack, Mark D Naison, and George B Tindall.
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Frederick Douglass and the Black Liberation Movement: The North Star of American Blacks (Studies in African American History and Culture), Grimm Brothers and the Germanic Past (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science Series III: Studies in the History of the Language Sciences), The Privateering Earl: George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, 1558-1605 (Biography, Letters & Diaries), The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History, Stonehenge: The Biography of a Landscape, English Breakfast (The Kegan Paul Library of Culinary History and Cookery), The Jews of Ethiopia: The Birth of an Elite (Routledgecurzon Jewish Studies Series), Secret Love, Black Inventors, Portraits etched in stone;: Early Jewish settlers, 1682-1831, Berl: The Biography of a Socialist Zionist: Berl Katznelson 1887-1944, Langston Hughes: A Documentary Volume (Dictionary of Literary Biography), Uri Zevi Greenburg on His Eightieth Anniversary, Commandant of Solitude: The Journals of Captain Collet Barker 1828-1831, The Synge Letters: Bishop Edward Synge to His Daughter Alicia, Roscommon-Dublin, 1746-52, Mates: Images of the Kimberley, Africans and Indians: An Afrocentric Analysis of Contacts Between Africans and American Indians in Colonial Virginia (Studies in African American History and Culture), Sowing Seeds of Understanding - The Autobiography of a Japanese Philanthropist, George Gavan Duffy 1882-1951, Historians and Race: Autobiography and the Writing of History (Blacks in the Diaspora)Top headlines: Obama: Gov't must help homeowners, too: President-elect Barack Obama signaled a clear desire Wednesday to use a significant portion of $700 billion in financial bailout funds to stanch foreclosures. ›19:54 3 Dec, Wed Painting the desert red in the Wild West: Where else but in charmingly offbeat New Mexico can you find people living in "earthship" homes or a Wild West town where outlawsand ghostsare said to have roamed? ›15:38 Exercise helps heavy kids control their anger: Sedentary overweight children who start exercising after school become more fit and may also be less likely to express their anger in other aggressive ways, researchers report. ›23:27 3 Dec, Wed An inside look at female porn executive's life: Joy King has enjoyed her 24 years in the X-rated movie business, but thats not to say that it has always been an easy road, especially for her personal life. ›13:41 3 Dec, Wed NFL to broadcast first game in 3-D on Thursday: In broadcasting the worlds first live 3-D football game to theaters in Los Angeles, New York and Boston on Thursday evening, the NFL promises an up close, personal, visceral experience that could open a new revenue stream for the league. ›22:03 3 Dec, Wed New videogames lure players into the kitchen: A new crop of video games is encouraging fans to ignore their parents' advice and play with their food. ›15:33 Celebrities take aim at elephant exhibit: The Los Angeles Zoo has been working for years on its new "Pachyderm Forest," a $42 million exhibit designed to give elephants the space they need to beat the blues of captivity. ›21:40 3 Dec, Wed 10 wonders in a winter wonderland: Is it really true that no two snowflakes are alike? 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