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- Lois Ruppenthal Wethington
Price: $128.81
Review Visual poetry: My journey into Chinese painting / Wethington Artists LLP:
Publication date: 1999-06
Dewey code: 323.1196073
Price: $35.00
Review Partners to History: Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy and the Civil Rights Movement / Stoddart:The most fiercely intimate photo essay ever compiled in the civil rights movement, "Partner to History" is written by the daughter of Martin Luther King's longtime friend and partner, Reverend Ralph Abernathy, and presents firsthand accounts of the movement by its pivotal figures. Photos 7-city author tour. Targeted mailings.
Publication date: 2001-04
Dewey code: 782.0092
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Review A Biography of E. Azalia Smith Hackley, 1867-1922, African-American Singer and Social Activist (Black Studies, V. 14) / Edwin Mellen Press:Madame E. Azalia Hackley was an African-American classical singer, social worker, writer, philanthropist, and activist who championed the use of African-American spirituals among her own people as a tool for social change. Her efforts led to the use of spirituals as freedom songs during the Civil Rights Movement. This work uses newspaper accounts and archive studies documenting Madame Hackley's tours cross-coutry and abroad to rasie funds for African-American classical musicians. It shows Hackley's intense devotion to her African-American roots, as she easily could have passed for white. Nevertheless, she traveled throughout the South in "Jim Crow" railway cars by choice. This work also recovers several of her influential published works, including "A guide to voice culture" (1909); "The coloured girl beautiful" (1916), an etiquette book for African-American women desiring professional jobs; and "hints to young coloured artists" a series of acticles designed to help young African-American classical musicans succed.
Creator: Hearts of Down
Publication date: 2003-01
Review A Man Stepped Out for Death: Thomas Russell and County Down / Colourpoint Books:A profile of the life of Thomas Russell, a seminal figure in the history of the United Irishmen. He is now identified in the popular imagination of County Down and elsewhere as "The man from God-knows-where" from the ballad which recalls his efforts to raise the county in the rebellion of 1803.
Publication date: 1995
Review Toraigh Na Dtonn / Clo Iar-Chonnachta Teo:
Publication date: 1999-10
Review African American Reference Library: Biography / Gale Research.U.S.:
Publication date: 1991-01
List Price: $148.00
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Review Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, Major General, United States Army, Set (Black Heritage Library Collection) / Reprint Services Corporation:
Publication date: 1979-05-03
Dewey code: 942.060922
Price: $69.00
Review The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe / Oxford University Press, USA:
Publication date: 1987-10
Dewey code: 282.092
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Price: $129.95
Review Interreligious Dialogue in the Catholic Church Since Vatican II: An Historical and Theological Study (Toronto Studies in Theology) / Edwin Mellen Pr:
Creator: David Starkey
Publication date: 1998-12-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $168.00
Price: $142.80
Review The Inventory of King Henry VIII: Transcript of the Inventory (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 23) (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 23) / Harvey Miller:This vast catalogue of the possessions of the Henry VIII on his death in 1547 contains c. 18,000 entries; these range from the Crown jewels to bandages for the kings ulcerated leg! The Inventory provides a huge amount of information for historians on the material success of Henry and his forebears, as well as being of practical help in identifying surviving objects as the king's or otherwise. The transcript is accompanied by a historical introduction, notes on the transcription and an exhaustive index. It will be followed in the future by Volumes II and III, which will contains essays on the contents of the inventory.
Publication date: 1997-08-01
Dewey code: 222.11092
List Price: $150.00
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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: 1989-09
Review Ibn Gabirol (Jewish Thinkers) / Peter Halban Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 1991-01
Review Kuno Meyer, 1858-1919: A Biography / Geography Publications:
Creator: Susan Massotty
Publication date: 1995-09
Dewey code: 940.5318092
Price: $23.95
Review The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (G.K. Hall Large Print Perennial Bestseller Collection) / G. K. Hall & Company:The compelling diary of a young girl on the brink of maturity as her life draws to toward its tragic end - one of the most moving and vivid documents of the Jewish experience. Anne Frank's diaries have always been among the most moving and eloquent documents of the Holocaust. This new edition restores diary entries omitted from the original edition, revealing a new depth to Anne's dreams, irritations, hardships, and passions. Anne emerges as more real, more human, and more vital than ever. If you've never read this remarkable autobiography, do so. If you have read it, you owe it to yourself to read it again.
Publication date: 2002-12-26
Dewey code: 895.185109
List Price: $280.00
Price: $129.49
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.
Edition: Facsimile
Publication date: 2000-01-01
Dewey code: 941
List Price: $240.00
Price: $141.43
Review Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland (Ganesha - Irish Library) / Ganesha Publishing:This early work of Lecky’s, originally published in 1861, was radically altered in 1871 and again in 1903. This last and best edition excised a chapter on Swift and vastly expanded the essay on Daniel O’Connell to occupy a second volume. Henry Flood and Henry Grattan are the subjects of the first volume, and these essays make up perhaps the best and most balanced account of its kind. It is a valuable companion to, and continuation of, Lecky’s History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century. —out of print and valuable to all Irish historians —best and final edition.
Publication date: 1999-05-20
Dewey code: 821.2
Price: $99.00
Review Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey: A Life / Oxford University Press, USA:The first comprehensive biography of Henry Howard, this book fills a major gap in the history of early modern British culture. Sessions's narrative combines historical scholarship with close readings of poetic texts and Tudor paintings to reveal the unique life of the first Renaissance courtier and a poet who wrote and created radically new forms (such as the English sonnet and blank verse).
Publication date: 2001-11
Review Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography / Gill & MacMillan:Seamus Heaney has coupled Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) with W. B. Yeats as the two most influential figures in twentieth century Irish poetry. Kavanagh was born in Co. Monaghan, the son of a cobbler-cum-small farmer. He left school at thirteen but continued to educate himself, reading and writing poetry in his spare time. In 1929 he began contributing verses to the Irish Statesman and was soon publishing in Irish and English journals. His first collection, Ploughman and Other Poems, appeared in 1936 and was followed by an autobiography, The Green Fool, in 1938. In 1939 he moved to Dublin where he spent the rest of his life as a freelance writer. He first emerged as an important literary voice with his long poem, The Great Hunger, in 1942. [+]Other collections appeared in the following decade to growing critical acclaim. Kavanagh's work was his life, but he was also part of social and literary Dublin for almost thirty years in the company of a gifted generation of writers, among them Flann O'Brien and Brendan Behan. His position in the history of Irish poetry is secure. Antoinette Quinn's biography will be the standard life for many years to come.
Publication date: 1988-08
Dewey code: 941
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Price: $129.95
Review John Wesley's London: A Guidebook (Texts and Studies in Religion) / Edwin Mellen Press:
Publication date: 2002-11
Dewey code: 941.061092
Review King James (British History in Perspective) / Palgrave MacMillan:Pauline Croft's clear and concise study provides a narrative of the reign of King James VI and I in his dominions of England, Ireland and Scotland, together with an authoritative analysis of his remarkable, though flawed, achievements. Croft emphasises the inter-relationships between domestic and foreign policy, religious tensions at home and abroad, finance and parliamentary politics, whilst also discussing the king's writings, his personal life and his approach to the problems posed by multiple monarchy. Ideal for both students and general readers, King James is the first account of the monarch to place him in the context of all his kingdoms.
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Visual poetry: My journey into Chinese painting, Partners to History: Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy and the Civil Rights Movement, A Biography of E. Azalia Smith Hackley, 1867-1922, African-American Singer and Social Activist (Black Studies, V. 14), A Man Stepped Out for Death: Thomas Russell and County Down, Toraigh Na Dtonn, African American Reference Library: Biography, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, Major General, United States Army, Set (Black Heritage Library Collection), The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, Interreligious Dialogue in the Catholic Church Since Vatican II: An Historical and Theological Study (Toronto Studies in Theology), The Inventory of King Henry VIII: Transcript of the Inventory (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 23) (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 23), 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), Ibn Gabirol (Jewish Thinkers), Kuno Meyer, 1858-1919: A Biography, The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (G.K. Hall Large Print Perennial Bestseller Collection), Love-Letters and Privacy in Modern China: The Intimate Lives of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping (Studies on Contemporary China), Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland (Ganesha - Irish Library), Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey: A Life, Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography, John Wesley's London: A Guidebook (Texts and Studies in Religion), King James (British History in Perspective)Top headlines: Cabbage batch kids: 2,200 Koreans make kimchi: In aprons and hairnets, 2,200 braved the cold outside City Hall in Seoul, Korea, in a bid to make the world's biggest batch of kimchi, from $58,000 heads of cabbage. ›16:58 Video: Demise of local car dealerships leaves a big dent: Nov. 19: Local car dealers have been entrenched in their local communities for close to a century, and the third-generation owners of Wolf Chevrolet in Belvadere, Ill., exemplify the role they play beyond selling cars. 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