Creator: B. D. Henning
Publication date: 1983-01-01
Dewey code: 328.4107209032
List Price: $135.00
Price: $117.89
Review The History of Parliament: the House of Commons, 1660-1690 (3 vols) (History of Parliament) / Haynes Publishing:Here is the period from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the Revolution of 1688 and the Convention Parliament which followed it. These three volumes cover the period of constitutional reconstruction after the Interregnum and the political crises of the 1670s and early 1680s. The three volumes contain 2,040 biographical articles and 269 constituency articles. An Introductory Essay by Basil Duke Henning analyses information about the age, education, social background of the Members and their residential and electoral relationship with their constituencies. Questions concerning how far non-political factors influenced a Member's party political alignment are also examined.
Publication date: 2005-08-30
Dewey code: 220.95
List Price: $127.00
Price: $125.06
Review Calendar, Chronology And Worship: Studies in Ancient Judaism And Early Christianity (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity/Arbeiten Zur Geschichte Des ... Antiken Judentums Und Des Urchristentums) / Brill Academic Pub:This book takes as its theme the related issues of calendar, chronology and worship, as they were conceived and practised in ancient Jewish and early Christian times. After a general discussion of the way the three issues are related, there follow six chapters on the calendar, first the standard Jewish calendar, then the Qumran calendar (giving particular attention to the Book of Enoch and the Temple Scroll) and finally the Christian calendar - both the standard Christian calendar and that observed by the Montanists. Three chapters on chronology come next, one of them offering a chronological solution to a puzzling calendrical problem in the Dead Sea Scrolls, another relating Jewish eschatological expectations to New Testament teaching, and a third examining the chronological calculations of the Hellenistic Jew Demetrius, the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, and the Book of Jubilees. The three concluding chapters, on worship, include an investigation of the historical development of the Psalter and a careful survey of the relationship between ancient Jewish worship and early Christian. The book discusses a variety of issues that arise in modern biblical, intertestamental and patristic study, some neglected, some very controversial, and throws new light upon them.
Creator: Jr., J.L. Conyers
Publication date: 1999-08-01
Dewey code: 305.896073
List Price: $126.00
Price: $125.98
Review Black American Intellectualism and Culture: A Social Study of African American Social and Political Thought (Contemporary Studies in Sociology) (Contemporary ... (Contemporary Studies in Sociology) / JAI Press:Hardbound. This work pursues to critically probe Black American Intellectualism and Culture in the organizational construct of intellectual studies; cultural studies; literary studies; and social thought. Accent has been placed on an interdisciplinary focus of examining the ethos and memory of Africana people. The intangible view of Africana people is reported and illustrated from an African American prism. This study is an unconventional advance reviewing: history, narratives, biography, autobiography, and epistemology. As Africana scholars research society in the form of politics, business, social, education, political, and economic institutions - the retentive ideas of Africana values, mores, and folkways become imperative to examine events from an assembly of viewpoints. In fact, these variables provide a foundation for amassing query, that narrates and appraises Africana people.
Publication date: 1992-08
Dewey code: 941.037092
Price: $46.95
Review John of Gaunt / Longman Group United Kingdom:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1997
Review An informal history of Black families of the Warrensburg, Missouri, area / Mid-America Press:
Publication date: 1990-04
Dewey code: 920.0092924078719
Price: $11.95
Review Lest We Forget: Remembrances of Cheyenne's Jews / Aaron Mountain Pub:
Publication date: 1979
Review The handless wonder conquers the impossible / Nortex Press:
Authors
- James Constantine Pilling
Dewey code: 016.497
List Price: $125.00
Price: $125.00
Review Proof-Sheets of a Bibliography of the Languages of the North American Indians / Martino Publishing:Reprint. Hardbound. Oversized octavo. xl, 1135 p. illus. , facsims. 30 cm. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1885. This work was begun as a catalogue for the use of the members of the Bureau of Ethnology, and as a basis for a projected work by the Director of the Bureau on the classification of North American tribes by language. Over 5000 titles are described in Pilling's work, making this the most comprehensive bibliography on the subject in Besterman [350]. [+]This is much more than just a bibliography on languages. It covers most early contact with the Indians, such as Schoolcraft, Humbolt and Elliot, and all cultural contact with native-americans from the first contact. Frequent annotations are provided, as well as collations and cross references. The original is quite scarce, having been printed in an edition of only 100 copies. A fundamental work.
Publication date: 1990-09
Dewey code: 282.0924
Price: $49.50
Review Patrick Dorrian: Bishop of Down and Connor / Irish Academic Pr:
Creator: The China Weekly Review
Publication date: 1940
Review Who's Who in China: Biographies of Chinese Leaders (Supplement to the Fifth edition) / Shanghai:83 pp. , incl. picture portraits.
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: 1991-12
Dewey code: 941.084092
Price: $25.00
Review Churchill: Strategy and History / Lynne Rienner Publishers:Challenging assumptions about Churchill's role as a strategist and an historian, the author examines how Churchill's strategic conception and decisions were formulated, how those decisions affected the course of the two World Wars, and to what extent his books on the wars are reliable histories.
Publication date: 1997-04-03
Review Henry VIII (Yale English Monarchs) / Yale University Press:First published in 1968, Jack Scarisbrick's "Henry VIII" is a book which focuses on the personality of this flamboyant and forceful monarch, exploring an impulsive interventionist king whose impact on the government, society and religion of England is felt more than four centuries on.
Publication date: 1985-06
Dewey code: 943.84
Price: $13.95
Review Breaking My Silence / Shengold Pub:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-03-22
Dewey code: 189
List Price: $130.00
Price: $125.90
Review Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers (Routledge Key Guides) / Routledge:Focusing on individuals whose ideas shaped intellectual life between 400 and 1500, Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers is an accessible introduction to those religious, philosophical and political concepts central to the medieval worldview. Including such diverse figures as Bede and Wyclif, each entry presents a biographical outline, a list of works and a summary of their main theories, alongside suggestions for further reading. Chronologically arranged, and with an introductory essay which presents important themes in context, this volume is an invaluable reference tool for all students of Medieval Europe.
Creator: Nicholas Peterson
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 2004-01-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $34.95
Price: $138.53
Review Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land / Melbourne University Publishing:This collection presents the personal writings of Donald Thomson, an Australian who became embroiled in a bitter legal battle that erupted in 1932 when a group of Japanese pearl fishermen raped a number of Aboriginal women. Arnhem Land Aboriginals retaliated by killing five of the Japanese and were subsequently sentenced to death. Thomson accepted a federal commission to investigate the case, and, by communicating with the Aboriginals, managed to defuse the situation and secure their liberation. The account of Thomson's first meeting with the Aboriginal leader Wongo tells of the electric exchange and eventual friendship that Thomson developed with Wongo, a partnership that enabled him to study local customs and language. Thomson's writing is unique in that it offers a full picture of Aboriginal peoples, presenting them as individuals and active agents in local history.
Publication date: 1817
Review Memoirs of the legal, literary, and political life of the late the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran, once master of the rolls in Ireland: Comprising ... contemporaries in the Senate and at the bar / Printed for James Harper ... and Richard Milliken ... Dublin:
Authors
- Emily J. Sano
- Kyotaro Nishikawa
Dewey code: 977.182
Price: $29.95
Review The Great Age of Japanese Buddhist Sculpture, Ad 600-1300 / Univ of Washington Pr:Catalog of the first exhibition of classic Japanese sculpture to tour the United States. The period represented, the seventh to the fourteenth centuries, was the definitive age in the history of this art form, encompassing its introduction from Korea, its assimilation, flourishing, and decline. The fifty-two pieces included in the show were drawn from active temples and major museum collections.
Publication date: 1991-11
Dewey code: 940.4144
Price: $52.95
Review Command on the Western Front: The Military Career of Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1914-18 / Blackwell Pub:This is a history of World War I, seen through the eyes of Sir Henry Rawlinson, a middle-ranking commander who frequently acted under General Haig. By examining Rawlinson's role in the War, the authors are able to follow the actual events of the battlefield and show how they related to the strategies of the High Command. Rawlinson kept a diary in which he recorded his views on tactics and the day-to-day events of the conflict. The authors use the content of the diary as the basis of detailed discussions on night attacks, poison gas, the introduction of the tank, hurricane bombardment and creeping barrages.
Creator: James Macintyre
Publication date: 1996-01-01
Dewey code: 759.2916
Price: $39.95
Review Three Men on an Island / Dufour Editions:
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The History of Parliament: the House of Commons, 1660-1690 (3 vols) (History of Parliament), Calendar, Chronology And Worship: Studies in Ancient Judaism And Early Christianity (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity/Arbeiten Zur Geschichte Des ... Antiken Judentums Und Des Urchristentums), Black American Intellectualism and Culture: A Social Study of African American Social and Political Thought (Contemporary Studies in Sociology) (Contemporary ... (Contemporary Studies in Sociology), John of Gaunt, An informal history of Black families of the Warrensburg, Missouri, area, Lest We Forget: Remembrances of Cheyenne's Jews, The handless wonder conquers the impossible, Proof-Sheets of a Bibliography of the Languages of the North American Indians, Patrick Dorrian: Bishop of Down and Connor, Who's Who in China: Biographies of Chinese Leaders (Supplement to the Fifth edition), Muse and Messiah - The Life, Imagination and Legacy of Bruno Schulz (Axis Series), Churchill: Strategy and History, Henry VIII (Yale English Monarchs), Breaking My Silence, Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers (Routledge Key Guides), Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land, Memoirs of the legal, literary, and political life of the late the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran, once master of the rolls in Ireland: Comprising ... contemporaries in the Senate and at the bar, The Great Age of Japanese Buddhist Sculpture, Ad 600-1300, Command on the Western Front: The Military Career of Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1914-18, Three Men on an IslandTop headlines: Ruling could mean end to saucy Bratz dolls: Pouty-lipped Bratz will stay on store shelves until after the holidays, but their fate after that was uncertain after a court ruling banning MGA from making the Barbie alternative. ›19:13 Cool Cars We Miss: Gone but not forgotten—a shortlist of cars we loved and still miss. ›07:00 18 Oct, Thu European, U.K. central banks cut rates: The European Central Bank has cut its benchmark interest rate to 2.5 percent, following similar moves by central banks across the continent. ›13:02 U.S. gives Mexico $197 million for drug war: The U.S. government finally released the first part of a $400 million aid package Wednesday to support Mexico's police and soldiers in their fight against drug cartels. ›10:45 Iraq: With U.S. Help, Warlords Gain New Power: ›21:49 6 Oct, Sat President, first lady buying home in Dallas: President Bush and first lady Laura Bush have bought a home in the Preston Hollow of Dallas where they will live after the president leaves office in January. ›18:04 Dutch drop murder case over late abortion: Prosecutors said Thursday they have dropped their murder investigation and will not press charges against a Dutch woman who had a late-term abortion in Spain. ›17:03 Editor: J.K Rowling 'fierce' but fair: J.K. 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