Publication date: 1982-11
Review Baltimore / Rowman & Littlefield Publishers:
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).
Authors
- Lois Ruppenthal Wethington
Price: $128.78
Review Visual poetry: My journey into Chinese painting / Wethington Artists LLP:
Creator: Anita Weston
Publication date: 1999-11-15
Dewey code: 809.933822
List Price: $158.00
Price: $126.40
Review The Bible and Its Rewritings / Oxford University Press, USA:This book examines the Bible and its medieval and modern rewritings. It looks at some of the most beautiful and intriguing scenes from the Old and New Testament and the direct or indirect Re-Scriptures of these by writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, and T. S. Eliot as well as by ancient exegesis, catacomb frescoes, and church paintings.
Publication date: 1997-07-21
Review The Younger Pitt / Constable:This is the concluding volume of a three-volume, widely acclaimed biography of William Pitt the Younger, who was Prime Minister of England from 1783 to 1801 and from 1804 to his death in 1806. The present volume covers the years from 1797 to his death, a period filled with momentous events.
Creator: John M. Robson
Publication date: 1988-12
List Price: $145.00
Price: $127.96
Review Public and Parliamentary Speeches (Mill, John Stuart//Collected Works of John Stuart Mill) / University of Toronto Press:Mill's interests and activities were so wide-ranging that even the varied subjects of thirty previously published volumes of Collected Works cannot encompass them all. This volume brings together diverse and interesting instances of his polymathic career, none before republished and some previously unpublished. Neatly framing Mill's writing career are his editorial prefaces and extensive notes to Bentham's Rationale of Judicial Evidence (1827) and James Mill's Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind (1869). Both demonstrate his extraordinary powers of mind and diligence. His abiding passion, field botany, is shown in his botanical writings, which open a window on an almost unknown activity that sustained and delighted him. Brief comments on two medical works hint at another interest. Two co-authored articles demonstrate his work as editor of the London and Westminster Review , and a calendar of his contributions to the Political Economy Club provides yet another glimpse into his chosen activities and concerns. Published for the first time are Mill's English and French wills, providing still further biographical detail.
Authors
- Josephine F. Pacheco
- Philip S. Foner
Dewey code: 370.8996073
Price: $51.95
Review Three Who Dared: Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, Myrtilla Miner--Champions of Antebellum Black Education (Contributions in Women's Studies) / Greenwood Press:Against a pre-Civil War backdrop of violence and antagonism, three courageous women, in different parts of the country, undertook to teach black children. Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, and Myrtilla Miner lived, respectively, in Connecticut, Virginia, and Washington, D. C. : they each found that racial prejudice is not limited by geography and that people will go to great lengths to prevent the teaching of blacks. Of the three schools they established, only one-in the nation's capitol-proved more or less permanent, but all three had a significant impact on American life. Because they chose to teach black children, Miner, Douglass, and Crandall all endured persecution and hardship. Foner and Pacheco's important biographical study portrays three women of unusual courage who deserve to take their places with the many brave women of nineteenth-century America.
Creator: Adam Jones
Publication date: 1987-12-31
Dewey code: 966.701
Price: $89.00
Review Description and Historical Account of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea (1602) (Fontes Historiae Africanae Series Varia) / Oxford University Press, USA:Pieter de Marees' history of Guinea-originally published in 1602-is one of the earliest detailed European descriptions of West African society and an essential reference for anyone interested in the precolonial period. De Marees wrote primarily about the Gold Coast (Ghana), but his work also covers Cape Verde (Senegal), Benin (Nigeria), and Cape Lopez (Gabon). This new translation includes full annotation and the original engravings.
Authors
- Hans-Joachim Roll
- Rainer Busch
Publication date: 1999-04
Dewey code: 940.545943
Price: $49.95
Review German U-Boat Commanders of World War II: A Biographical Dictionary / Naval Institute Press:The service records of the 1,411 officers of the German Kriegsmarine known to have commanded a U-boat between the commissioning of U-1 in June 1935 and the final surrender of U-977 to Argentina in August 1945 are detailed in this important biographical dictionary. Each officer's date of birth, the highest rank he attained, details of any decorations he received, his service record, and his ultimate fate are all provided.
Publication date: 2005-04-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $26.95
Price: $141.24
Review Somerled: And the Emergence of Gaelic Scotland / Tuckwell Press, Ltd.:Through most of eight hundred years, Somerled of Argyll has been variously denounced as an intractable rebel against his rightful king and esteemed as the honoured ancestor of the later medieval Lord of the Isles, but he can be recognised now as a much more complex figure of major prominence in twelfth-century Scotland and of truly landmark significance in the long history of the Gael. In this book individual chapters investigate his emergence in the forefront of the Gaelic-Norse aristocracy of the western seaboard, his part in Gaeldom’s challenge to the Canmore kings of Scots, his war on the Manx king of the Isles, his importance for the church on Iona, and his extraordinary invasion of the Clyde which was cut short by his violent death at Renfrew in 1164. Perhaps most impressive is the book’s demonstration of how almost everything that is known of or has been claimed for Somerled reflects the same characteristic fusion of Norse and Celt which binds the cultural roots of Gaeldom. It is this recognition which has led its author to his proposal of Somerled’s wider historical importance as the personality who most represents the first fully-fledged emergence of the medieval Celtic-Scandinavian cultural province from which is directly descended the Gaelic Scotland of today.
Publication date: 1971
Review The Rise of the Chinese Communist Party 1921-1927: Volume One of the Autobiography of Chang Kuo-t'ao / The University Press of Kansas:
Publication date: 2002-12
Dewey code: 305.420922415
List Price: $55.00
Price: $133.68
Review Genteel Revolutionaries: Anna and Thomas Haslam and the Irish Women's Movement / Cork University Press:Quakers Anna and Thomas Haslam campaigned for social reform in the late 19th-century, and played a central role in the formation of an early Irish feminist agenda in the early 20th-century. They were born in the decade before Victoria ascended to the throne, both into Quaker families. The ethos of Quakerism was evident in all aspects of their lives. The couple married in 1854 and lived well into the 20th century. This book is both an exploration of their lives and a history of the first 40 years of feminist activism in Ireland. Thomas, an example of a Victorian polymath, wrote on birth control as early as 1868 and, in the 1870s, on prostitution and sexual morality. He published a journal on female suffrage in 1874 and continued to write on the subject until his death in 1917 at the age of 92. "Genteel Revolutionaries" traces the Haslams' work for women's suffrage from their founding of the Dublin Women's Suffrage Association in 1876 to the granting of the franchise in 1918. It looks at the campaign for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts in the 1870s, a campaign regarded at the time as disgraceful because "ladies" discussed prostitution and venereal disease, subjects they should have known nothing about. Anna was active in the movement for the education of women and was also instrumental in winning for women the right to stand as candidates in local elections. [+]She was a member of the International Council of Women from the 1880s. The Haslams corresponded with leading English intellectuals, including John Stuart Mill, and with activists such as Marie Stopes. "Genteel Revolutionaries" explores a world in which a coterie of like-minded people strove for reform in a law-abiding manner. It reveals an Ireland where people with religious and political differences worked together for a common cause and whose conservative demeanor belied their radical ideals.
Publication date: 2004-09
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $19.95
Price: $129.95
Review Tsuchino: My Japanese War Bride / American Classic Books:
Publication date: 1949
Review Carlow in '98;: The autobiography of William Farrell of Carlow / Browne and Nolan:
Publication date: 2006-12-12
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $26.95
Price: $126.16
Review Muse and Messiah - The Life, Imagination and Legacy of Bruno Schulz (Axis Series) / Exposure Publishing:Muse & Messiah is the first full comparative study of the Polish-Jewish writer and artist Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), based on the latest materials, including new interviews with ex-students and biographers, Polish texts, plus all worldwide English studies and influenced works. Rare photographs, detailed chronology, and recent images are included for comparison. Schulz's life and themes are examined with detailed Polish and European influences. New, first-hand corrected information about his home region adds a new dimension to his creative world within contemporary Polish-Jewish tensions. Controversial international debates about his last works are brought up to date in a work that seeks to place his poetic-artistic achievement more centrally to highlight an original, modernist and yet universal vision. Reviews: 'An interdisciplinary study of dazzling scholarship, Muse & Messiah with its wide-ranging references, allusions, associations, and citations is a true compendium of learning and speculation. By placing Schulz in the many different contexts that shaped his life and work Banks is able to find links, parallels, analogues and interconnections that are often unexpected and surprising, and always rich in complex meaning. Yet, Banks argues in his horizon-broadening interpretation, Schulz cannot be confined to any set of contexts, and, like Blake and Yeats, is ultimately a poet who exists in his own self-created mythic world. ' Professor Daniel Gerould (The Graduate Center, CUNY) 'Fans of lost Mitteleuropa, take note: InkerMen Press continues its Hoffmannesque list with an ambitious study of Bruno Schulz's life and work that teases out some universal literary threads from the Polish Jewish writer's private and idiosyncratic cosmos. ' Victoria Nelson, author of The Secret Life of Puppets 'Brian Banks, in his new book, shows us a Bruno Schulz that was not known before. [+]He reveals the unknown details of the writer's life with a true detective's passion. The rare ability of detailed interpretation and author's erudition lets us discover the mystery of Schulz's hermetic fiction. It will be enjoyed by both devoted Schulz's readers and those who have yet to encounter his work. This book will be a great source of information for everyone interested in the life and work of the author of Cinnamon Shops. ' Tomasz Mackiewicz (Warsaw University) About the Author: Brian R. Banks began writing as a prelude to living on the London streets, in the Francis Thompson rather than Orwellian mode. Huysmans' A Rebours focused a five-year study of that author's life at the British Museum aided by transcripted notebooks and the generous help of Professor Colin Burns. Occasional articles, reviews and two private poetry collections were published, then The Image of J. -K. Huysmans (1990, New York). This period coincided with the finding of a true muse and running a bookshop. A few years later Muse & Messiah: The Life, Imagination & Legacy of Bruno Schulz was written, in tandem with a book of essays, aided not by grants but personal assistance given without financial interest in Poland, Ukraine, and Czech Republic. The author currently lives somewhere in Central Europe.
Publication date: 1996-10-31
Review Liffey in Dublin / Gill & Macmillan Ltd:
Publication date: 1953
Review Biography of Su Ch'o [Chou shu, chüan 23] (Institute of East Asiatic Studies, University of California. Chinese dynastic histories translations) / University of California Press:
Creator: Clara Wing-Chung Ho
Publication date: 1999-12-31
Review Biographical Dictionary Of Chinese Women: The Qing Period, 1644-1911 (University of Hong Kong Libraries Publications) / Hong Kong University Press:The first biographical dictionary in any Western language devoted solely to Chinese women, this reference is the product of years of research, translation, and writing by a team of over 60 China scholars from around the world. Compiled from a wide array of original sources, these detailed biographies present the lives, work, and significance of more than 200 Chinese women from many different backgrounds and areas of interest.
Creator: Rose Agnes Whitley
Publication date: 2006-01-30
Dewey code: 497.943
List Price: $137.95
Price: $137.95
Review When I Was Small-i Wan Kwikws: A Grammatical Analysis of St'at'imc Oral Narratives (First Nations Language Series) / Univ of British Columbia Pr:This book is a collection of the personal life histories of four female St'at'imc elders: Beverley Frank, Gertrude (Gertie) Ned, Laura Thevarge, and Rose Agnes Whitley. These elders are among the last remaining fluent speakers of St'at'imcets, (also known as Lillooet), a severely endangered Northern interior Salish language spoken in the southwest interior of British Columbia. Their stories are presented in the original St'at'imcets as well as in English translation. In addition, a morpheme-by-morpheme gloss is provided for the purposes of linguistic analysis. These texts are among the longest annotated oral narratives for any Salish language. They are also almost unique among First Nations narratives in consisting of personal memories rather than of myths or legends. The stories contain historical information about events in the Lillooet area, the traditional St'at'imc way of life, and the consequences of contact with Western culture. They provide first-hand accounts of what it was like to be a female child growing up in the 1930s and 1940s within St'at'imc communities and in residential schools. "When I Was Small - I Wan Kwikws" will be of interest to members of St'at'imc communities, including teachers and curriculum developers, and to linguists, anthropologists, and others studying the St'at'imc, their culture, and their language.
Publication date: 1970
Review A compendium of Irish biography: Comprising sketches of distinguished Irishmen and of eminent persons connected with Ireland by office or by their writings / Lemma Pub. Corp:
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Chinese dynastic histories translations), Biographical Dictionary Of Chinese Women: The Qing Period, 1644-1911 (University of Hong Kong Libraries Publications), When I Was Small-i Wan Kwikws: A Grammatical Analysis of St'at'imc Oral Narratives (First Nations Language Series), A compendium of Irish biography: Comprising sketches of distinguished Irishmen and of eminent persons connected with Ireland by office or by their writingsTop headlines: 49 detained over 'satanic' clothes: Police have arrested 49 people this week in a northern Iranian city during a crackdown on "satanic" clothes, IRNA news agency reported Thursday. ›20:46 Bernanke urges more action on foreclosures: Fed chief Ben Bernanke called on the government to ramp up efforts to stem soaring home foreclosures, which are feeding into the countrys deep economic troubles. ›17:14 I'll drink to that: Prohibition repeal turns 75: With wraiths of the 1930s seemingly lurking around every corner Stock panic! Bank failures! 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