Publication date: 2007-12-01
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $40.00
Price: $149.56
Review Notes from the Shed: A Journal / Macmillan Art Publishing:Hanna Kay describes her journal, begun in summer 2003, as a dialogue between one and oneself. She says: Keeping a journal is like meeting this person inside me head-on. And that person is an artist whose journal helps the reader understand something of the way an artist thinks. Both her journal and the paintings produced in her studio measure the passing of the seasons and the artists emotional empathy with the Australian landscape the and living things about her as she responds to the seasonal changes wrought by Nature. She says: The locals [in rural NSW] refer to my Studio as the shed. For me the 200 square metres framed by iron-bark posts and corrugated iron, is a sanctuary in which I dare to experiment, question, or be idle. The solid structure and the five acres that surround it protect me from the worlds follies. Her observations of the environment are recorded poetically, her own musing interspersed with references to world literature. The book is dedicated: To Nature, while shes still around.
Publication date: 1993-03-12
List Price: $152.28
Price: $148.28
Review John Strachey: An Intellectual Biography / Palgrave Macmillan:Studying John Strachey, an important 20th-century British Left intellectual, this book provides a detailed exposition of his intellectual evolution set in its historical context, thus highlighting the option, pressures, dilemmas and pitfalls besetting British socialists in the turbulent times of the inter- and post-war periods. The book makes use of unpublished manuscripts, letters and other material from Strachey's personal papers together with his considerable journalistic output. By the author of "The People's Science", "The Popular Political Economy of Exploitation and Crisis, 1816-34", "The Market and its Critics" and "Socialist Political Economy in 19th-Century Britain".
Publication date: 2002-12-26
Dewey code: 895.185109
List Price: $280.00
Price: $136.30
Review Love-Letters and Privacy in Modern China: The Intimate Lives of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping (Studies on Contemporary China) / Oxford University Press, USA:This book opens up three new topics in modern Chinese literary history: the intimate lives of modern China's most famous literary couple, Lu Xun and Xu Guangping; real and imagined love-letters in modern Chinese literature; and the contents, functions, and values of privacy held by one couple in twentieth-century China as shown by a comparison between the edited and unedited versions of their letters.
Creator: R.H.W. Dillard and Amanda Cockrell
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-10-02
Dewey code: 810.90054
List Price: $205.00
Price: $205.00
Review Twayne Companion to Contemporary Literature in English - From the Editors of The Hollins Critic / Twayne Publishers:The Twayne Companion to Literature in English is a reference anthology of valuable essays on literary criticism, with a focus on North American, British, and Irish poets and writers of fiction in the last quarter century. This title offers a unique collection of critical essays on writers of poetry and fiction of the past 25 years. This 2-vol. anthology provides detailed, updated entries on approximately 100 American, Canadian, British and Irish writers. Twayne Publishers is privileged to collaborate with the editors of The Hollins Critic, the journal based at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, which is internationally famous for its writers-in-residence program. The Hollins Critic, published five times a year, presents the first serious surveys of the whole bodies of contemporary writers' work, with complete checklists. Its focus is on the trans-Atlantic tradition, which includes the literature of the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Ireland. Subject entries include, among many others, Maya Angelou, John Ashbery, Margaret Atwood, Thomas Berger, Raymond Carver, Arthur C. Clarke, E. L. [+]Doctorow, Richard Elman, Thomas Flanagan, Mary Gaitskill, Elizabeth Hardwick, Ted Hughes, Robert Hass, Barbara Kingsolver, Alison Lurie, Cormac McCarthy, Czeslaw Milosz, Toni Morrison, Paul Muldoon, Tim O'Brien, Michael Ondaatje, Thomas Pynchon, Richard Powers, W. D. Snodgrass, Mark Strand, Lewis Turco, Anne Tyler, and John Williams. And more! (20030501).
Publication date: 1998-12-01
Price: $29.95
Review The Diary of Dawid Sierakowak / Jewish Heritage Project, Inc.:After the liberation of the Lodz Ghetto, Dawid Sierakowiak's notbooks were found stacked on a cookstove, ready to be burned for heat. Young Sierakowiak was one of more than 60,000 Jews who perished in that notorious urban slave camp, a man-made hell which was the longest surviving concentration of Jews in Nazi Europe. The diary comprises a remarkable legacy left to humanity by its teenage author. It is one of the most fastidiously detailed accounts ever rendered of modern life in human bondage. The luxury of life was never returned to David, but a new awareness of it richness can be our reward for reading the diary of this brilliantly and brutally deprived young human being.
Publication date: 1999-10
Dewey code: 364.106092
Price: $23.55
Review Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member / Rebound by Sagebrush:Writing from solitary confinement, a former member of Los Angeles's notorious gang, The Crips, recounts his baptism by violence into the gang at age eleven and his evolution behind bars into a militant black nationalist. Reprint.
Publication date: 1982
Dewey code: 822.912
Review Lady Gregory et la renaissance irlandaise / Diffusion, J. Laffitte:
Creator: Tom Griffiths with assistance from Alan Platt
Publication date: 1988-03-01
Review Life and Adventures of Edward Snell: The Illustrated Diary of an Artist, Engineer and Adventurer in the Australian Colonies, 1849-59 / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd:
Publication date: 1997-05
Review The Reluctant Volunteer: Five Years with the Australian Ninth Division (Military Memoirs History Series) / Australian Military History Publications:
Publication date: 1997-09
Dewey code: 770.92
Price: $29.95
Review Father Browne: A Life in Pictures / Irish American Book Company:
Publication date: 1997-08-01
Dewey code: 222.11092
List Price: $150.00
Price: $146.00
Review The Figure of Joseph in Post-Biblical Jewish Literature (Arbeiten Zur Geschichte Des Antiken Judentums Und Des Urchristentums, No 16) (Arbeiten Zur Geschichte ... Judentums Und Des Urchristentums, No 16) / Brill Academic Publishers:This book is a comparative study in the hermeneutics of the ancient interpretations of the biblical Joseph story. Assuming that every interpretation results from a creative encounter between the ultimately open text of Scripture and the specific thought world of the interpreter, it examines the particular way in which each exegete construes the biblical outline of Joseph's character. Paying special attention to the literary nature of the sources, the study begins with an analysis of the narrative methods and the hermeneutic potential of the biblical story, and then proceeds to the inter-testamental evidence. The central concern of this study is to compare the different interpretations of the philosopher Philo, the historian Josephus and the Midrash Genesis Rabbah. These sources do not only range over a considerable amount of time but significantly derive respectively from the Greek and Hebrew cultural realm. Consequently, their figures of Joseph fulfil distinctly different purposes, ranging from an idealisation of Joseph as a Hellenistic politician to autobiographical apologetics and religious instruction.
Publication date: 1994-11-10
Review The Heiresses of Buccleuch / Tuckwell Press Ltd:
Publication date: 1973-06
Dewey code: 320.53220924
Price: $6.95
Review Song of Ariran: A Korean Communist in the Chinese Revolution / Ramparts Pr:
Publication date: 2002-03-28
Dewey code: 509.2
List Price: $228.00
Price: $160.85
Review Henry Oldenburg: Shaping the Royal Society / Oxford University Press, USA:Henry Oldenburg, born in 1619 in Bremen, Germany, first came to England as a diplomat on a mission to see Oliver Cromwell. He stayed on in England and in 1662 became the Secretary of the Royal Society, and its best known member to the entire learned world of his time. Through his extensive correspondence, now published, he disseminated the Society's ideals and methods at home and abroad. He fostered and encouraged the talents of many scientists later to be far more famous than he, including Newton, Flamsteed, Malpighi, and Leeuwenhoek with whom, as with many others, he developed real friendship. He founded and edited the Philosophical Transactions, the world's oldest scientific journal. His career sheds new light on the intellectual world of his time, especially its scientific aspects, and on the development of the Royal Society; his private life expands our knowledge of social mobility, the urban society, and the religious views of his time.
Authors
- Gordon W. MacLennan
- Annie Bhan
Publication date: 1998-12
Dewey code: 398.209417
Price: $23.95
Review Seanchas Annie Bhan/the Lore of Annie Bhan / Roberts Rinehart Publishers:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-12-06
Dewey code: 956.9405092
List Price: $140.00
Price: $135.97
Review Ben-Gurion, Zionism and American Jewry: 1948-1963 (Israeli History, Politics and Society) / Routledge:Based on archival material, this intriguing book examines David Ben-Gurion's influence on the relationship between the state of Israel, the Zionist Organization and American Jewry between 1948 and 1963 when he served as Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. The author discusses how Ben-Gurion was largely instrumental in forming Israel's policies throughout the first two decades of the country's existence and, due to his position, personality and prestige, he was able to influence the fashioning of political structures as well as their content. The book discusses both the political motives of the leaders and the ideological discourse, in order to understand their dependency and to highlight their significance in the terms Diaspora and exile, the centrality of the State of Israel, and the role played by the Jews of America. As such, this will be of great interest to scholars of Middle East Studies, Jewish Studies, and ethnicity and nationalism.
Publication date: 2003-04
Dewey code: 921
Price: $13.59
Review At the Plate With... Ichiro (Athlete Biographies) / Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media:or seventeen years Ichiro played the sport he loved in his home country of Japan. In 2000, he left Japan to join the Seattle Mariners. Would Ichiro be able to succeed in the world's most challenging baseball league? He did so time and again, leading his team to its best season ever in his rookie year and collecting several awards along the way. Fans on both sides of the Pacific Ocean are looking forward to his performance in the 2003 season.
Publication date: 1994-02
Price: $30.00
Review Dictionary of Western Australians Vol. VI: Aborigines of the Albany Region 1821-1898 / International Specialized Book Services:
Publication date: 1998-06
Dewey code: 910.91634
Price: $15.95
Review Titanic: Belfast's Own / Wolfhound Press (IE):
Edition: Facsimile edition
Publication date: 1968-01
Review Bagus Umbara, Prince of Koripan: The Story of a Prince of Bali and a Princess of Java Illustrated on Palm Leaves by a Balinese Artist, / British Museum Press:
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Notes from the Shed: A Journal, John Strachey: An Intellectual Biography, Love-Letters and Privacy in Modern China: The Intimate Lives of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping (Studies on Contemporary China), Twayne Companion to Contemporary Literature in English - From the Editors of The Hollins Critic, The Diary of Dawid Sierakowak, Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member, Lady Gregory et la renaissance irlandaise, Life and Adventures of Edward Snell: The Illustrated Diary of an Artist, Engineer and Adventurer in the Australian Colonies, 1849-59, The Reluctant Volunteer: Five Years with the Australian Ninth Division (Military Memoirs History Series), Father Browne: A Life in Pictures, The Figure of Joseph in Post-Biblical Jewish Literature (Arbeiten Zur Geschichte Des Antiken Judentums Und Des Urchristentums, No 16) (Arbeiten Zur Geschichte ... 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