Publication date: 1997-10-19
Dewey code: 828
Price: $34.95
Review Barbara Hanrahan Diaries / Univ of Queensland Pr:
Publication date: 2008-03-15
Dewey code: 296.3092
List Price: $164.00
Price: $157.76
Review Seeing with Both Eyes: Ephraim Luntshitz and the Polish-jewish Renaissance (Supplements to the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy) (Supplements to the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy) / Brill Academic Publishers:This is an integrated study of the revival of philosophical studies in 16th-century central-European Jewry focusing on seven major thinkers and especially on the intellectual development of Ephraim Luntshitz (1550-1619). Preoccupation with philosophy is traced through Moses Isserles, Solomon Luria, Mordecai Jaffe, Abraham Horowitz, Eliezer Ashkenazi, Maharal of Prague, and Ephraim Luntshitz. Analysis of these thinkers' intellectual affiliations is based on close analysis of their primary texts, of which a generous selection is provided in translation for the first time. This work advances the scholarly study of 16th-century Polish-Jewish culture, the Polish Jewish Renaissance, the philosophical interests of Ashkenazic Jewry, Jewish responses to Renaissance humanism and the Reformation, and the early-modern background for the 18th-century Jewish Enlightenment.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-12-13
Dewey code: 330.08996073
List Price: $220.00
Price: $183.04
Review A Different Vision: African American Economic Thought (African American economic thought) / Routledge:A Different Vision brings together for the first time the ideas, philosophies, and interpretations of North America's leading African-American economists. Each of the thirty-five chapters presented in these two volumes focuses on various aspects of the social and economic experiences of African-Americans, past and present. These volumes dramatically illustrate that African-American economists do have "a different vision," as it offers the hard, incontrovertible evidence-as no other book has before-that when it comes to economics, race matters, and that economic inequality caused by race has had and continues to have an immense impact in every sphere of African-American life.
Publication date: 1986
Review Wen T'ien-hsiang: A biographical study of a Sung patriot (Asian library series) / Chinese Materials Center:
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Creator: Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu
Publication date: 2006-04-30
Dewey code: 810.9928796073
List Price: $199.95
Price: $159.95
Review Writing African American Women [Two Volumes]: An Encyclopedia of Literature by and about Women of Color / Greenwood Press:African American culture is enormously diverse, and the experience of women in African American society is especially complex. Women were among the first African American writers, and works by black women writers are popular among students and general readers alike. At the same time, African American women have been oppressed, and texts by black male authors represent women in a variety of ways. The first of its kind, this encyclopedia approaches African American literature from a Women's Studies perspective, and thus significantly illuminates the African American cultural experience through literary works. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries, written by numerous expert contributors. In addition to covering male and female African American authors, the encyclopedia also discusses themes, major works and characters, genres, periods, historical events, places, and other topics. Included are entries on such authors as: Maya Angelou James Baldwin Frederick Douglass Nikki Giovanni June Jordan Claude McKay Ishmael Reed Sojourner Truth Phillis Wheatley And many others. In addition, the many works discussed include: Beloved Blanche on the Lam Iknow Why the Caged Bird Sings The Men of Brewster Place Quicksand The Street Waiting to Exhale And many more. The many topical entries cover: Black Feminism Black Nationalism Conjuring Children's and Young Adult Literature Detective Fiction Epistolary Novel Motherhood Sexuality Spirituality Stereotypes And many others. Entries relate their topics to the experience of African American women and cite works for further reading. [+]Features and Benefits: Includes hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries. Draws on the work of numerous expert contributors. Includes a selected, general bibliography. Offers a range of finding aids, such as a list of entries, a guide to related topics, and an extensive index. Supports the literature curriculum by helping students analyze major writers and works. Supports the social studies curriculum by helping students use literature to understand the experience of African American women. Covers the full chronological range of African American literature. Fosters a respect for cultural diversity. Develops research skills by directing students to additional sources of information. Builds bridges between African American history, literature, and Women's Studies.
Publication date: 2004-10
Dewey code: 978.004973540092
Price: $45.00
Review Tell Me, Grandmother: Traditions, Stories, And Cultures Of Arapaho People (Women's West) / University Press of Colorado:Tell Me, Grandmother is at once the biography of Goes-in-Lodge, a traditional Arapaho woman of the nineteenth century, and the autobiography of her descendant, Virginia Sutter, a modern Arapaho woman with a PhD in public administration. Sutter adeptly weaves her own story with that of Goes-in-Lodge - who, in addition to being Sutter's great-grandmother, was first wife of Sharpnose, the last chief of the Northern Arapaho nation. Writing in a question-and-answer format between twentieth-century granddaughter and matriarchal ancestor, Sutter discusses four generations of home life, including details about child rearing, education, courtship, marriage, birthing, and burial. Sutter's portrait of Goes-in-Lodge is based on tribal history and interviews with tribal members. Goes-in-Lodge speaks of social and ceremonial gatherings, the Sun Dance, the sweat lodges, and the changes that took place on the Great Plains throughout her lifetime. Sutter details her own life as a child born in a teepee to a white mother and Indian father and the discrimination and injustice she faced struggling to make her way in an increasingly Euro-American world.
Publication date: 2004-08
Dewey code: 973.04960730092
List Price: $25.70
Price: $248.65
Review Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance / Topeka Bindery:Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voices in American politics, Barack Obama published this lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. Dreams from My Father tells the story of Obama’s struggle to understand the forces that shaped him as the son of a black African father and white American mother—a struggle that takes him from the American heartland to the ancestral home of his great-aunt in the tiny African village of Alego. Obama opens his story in New York, where he hears that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has died in a car accident. The news triggers a chain of memories as Barack retraces his family’s unusual history: the migration of his mother’s family from small-town Kansas to the Hawaiian islands; the love that develops between his mother and a promising young Kenyan student, a love nurtured by youthful innocence and the integrationist spirit of the early sixties; his father’s departure from Hawaii when Barack was two, as the realities of race and power reassert themselves; and Barack’s own awakening to the fears and doubts that exist not just between the larger black and white worlds but within himself. Propelled by a desire to understand both the forces that shaped him and his father’s legacy, Barack moves to Chicago to work as a community organizer. There, against the backdrop of tumultuous political and racial conflict, he works to turn back the mounting despair of the inner city. His story becomes one with those of the people he works with as he learns about the value of community, the necessity of healing old wounds, and the possibility of faith in the midst of adversity. Barack’s journey comes full circle in Kenya, where he finally meets the African side of his family and confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life. Traveling through a country racked by brutal poverty and tribal conflict, but whose people are sustained by a spirit of endurance and hope, Barack discovers that he is inescapably bound to brothers and sisters living an ocean away—and that by embracing their common struggles he can finally reconcile his divided inheritance. A searching meditation on the meaning of identity in America, Dreams from My Father might be the most revealing portrait we have of a major American leader—a man who is playing, and will play, an increasingly prominent role in healing a fractious and fragmented nation.
Publication date: 1999-10-25
Dewey code: 914
Price: $16.95
Review The London Blue Plaque Guide / Sutton Publishing:A guide to London's distinctive Blue Plaques which commemorate remarkable men and women who have lived in the capital. Its biographical portraits, listed in alphabetical order, provide informative and sometimes irreverent anecdotes about many of the famous and some not-so-famous lives. The Guide describes the careers of more then 700 individuals; well-known names such as Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, Jimi Hendrix and Florence Nightingale are featured as well as fascinating accounts of the antics and achievements of less familiar figures whose lives have also been commemorated by a Blue Plaque. The text includes maps showing the location of plaques in Central London, indexes by area and profession, and illustrations of some of the most remarkable individuals.
Publication date: 1998-09
Dewey code: 282.092
Price: $55.00
Review Politics, Interdenominational Relations and Education in the Public Ministry of Bishop James Doyle of Kildare and Leighlin, 1786-1834 / Four Courts Press:
Authors
- Edward Berger
- James Patrick
- Morroe Berger
Publication date: 2002-09
Dewey code: 781.65092
List Price: $159.50
Price: $147.36
Review Benny Carter : A Life in American Music (Studies in Jazz, 2 Volume Set) / The Scarecrow Press, Inc.:This extraordinary two-volume work presents the career of Benny Carter, one of the most important and versatile figures in jazz, and treats a number of social and musicological aspects of jazz and popular music with an interdisciplinary approach unique in jazz literature. The authors draw upon hundreds of interviews with Carter and many other important figures in the music industry. Carter's musical development is traced through transcriptions and analyses of representative solos and arrangements from the 1920s to the 70s. The accompanying discography is one of the most comprehensive ever devoted to the work of a single musician. Generously illustrated.
Publication date: 1955
Review Big Bill blues,: William Broonzy's story as told to Yannick Bruynoghe / Cassell:
Publication date: 2003-06-30
Dewey code: 940.5425991
Price: $21.95
Review The Rescue Of Santo Tomas: Manila, Wwii / Turner Publishing Company (KY):
Edition: 1st Ed.
Publication date: 1950
Review AUTOBIOGRAPHY (Japanese Poetry) [1st Ed.] / Yoshikazu Kubo:Autobiography in poetry format.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1982-08-01
Dewey code: 016.9730496073
Price: $66.00
Review EARLY BLACK BIBLIOGRAPHIES (Critical Studies on Black Life and Culture, V. 25) / Scholarly Title:
Creator: Augustus J. C. Hare
Publication date: 1994-06
Dewey code: 823.7
Price: $46.95
Review The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth / Ayer Co Pub:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1992-12-22
Dewey code: 266.25209031
List Price: $190.00
Price: $147.93
Review The Japanese and the Jesuits: Alessandro Valignano in Sixteenth Century Japan / Routledge:The Japanese and the Jesuits examines the attempt by sixteenth-century Jesuits to convert Japan to Christianity. Directing the Jesuits was the Italian Alessandro Valignano, whose own magisterial writings, many of them not previously translated or published, are the principal source material for this account of one of the most remarkable of all meetings between East and West.
Publication date: 1999-03-19
Dewey code: 031
Price: $5.95
Review Treasury of Wizard of Oz Trivia / Great Feats Pr:BOOK NOT AVAILABLE
Creator: Milton Okun
Publication date: 1994-06
Dewey code: 920
Price: $14.95
Review Lenny Kravitz, Are You Gonna Go My Way / Cherry Lane Music:
Creator: Shula Marks
Publication date: 1989-02
Price: $59.95
Review Africa and Empire: W.M. Macmillan, Historian and Social Critic (Commonwealth Papers, 25) / Gower Pub Co:
Creator: Lou Klepac
Publication date: 2001-03-01
Dewey code: 709
Price: $75.00
Review Australian Painters of the Twentieth Century / Beagle Press:
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