Publication date: 1999
Price: $125.00
Review Pedant, Poet, gelehrter Narr: Swifts Freund, Dr. Thomas Sheridan, Schulmeister, Spassmacher, Spottfigur (Europaische Profile) / Edition Reichenberger:
Creator: Nicholas Tyrras
Publication date: 2000-04
Dewey code: 947.08
List Price: $129.95
Price: $129.95
Review Letters of Life in an Aristocratic Russian Household Before and After the Revolution (Studies in Russian History, 3) / Edwin Mellen Press:The letters of Amy Coles reflect a contemporary Englishwoman's perspective on life in a Russian household from 1879-1883. Four decades later, her pupil, Princess Vera, chronicled the ruin that had befallen her and her mother after the Russian revolution.
Publication date: 1974
Review My life: An autobiography / Arieli Press:
Publication date: 1972-06
Dewey code: 940.4147
Price: $30.95
Review The Japanese Thrust into Siberia, 1918 (Select Bibliographies Reprint Series) / Ayer Co Pub:
Publication date: 1986-03
Price: $15.95
Review Maurice Walsh, Storyteller / Brandon Books:
Creator: Dieter Mehl
Publication date: 2007-03-05
Dewey code: 823.912
List Price: $300.00
Price: $225.19
Review Reception of D. H. Lawrence in Europe (The Athlone Critical Traditions Series: the Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe) / Continuum:The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British and Irish writers in Europe cannot be assessed without reference to their 'European' fortunes. This collection of essays, prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, record how D. H. Lawrence's work has been received, translated and interpreted in most European countries with remarkable, though greatly varying, success. Among the topics discussed in this volume are questions arising from the personal and frequently controversial nature of much of Lawrence's writings and the various ways in which translators from across Europe coped with the specific problems that the often regional, but at the same time, cosmopolitan Lawrencean texts pose.
Publication date: 1842
Review "Black Jacob," a monument of grace: The life of Jacob Hodges, an African negro, who died in Canandaigua, N.Y., February 1842 / American Sunday-school union:
Publication date: 1997-08
Dewey code: 294.392
Price: $18.95
Review Yuki, Temple Dog: How a California Pound Dog Became Guardian of a Japanese Buddhist Temple / Buddhist Books Intl:
Publication date: 1985
Review East meets West / R.C. Huang:
Publication date: 2007-03-28
Dewey code: 942.031092
List Price: $124.95
Price: $120.95
Review Thomas Becket: Friends, Networks, Texts and Cult (Variorum Collected Studies Series: Cs877) / Ashgate:Becket's life was lived on a European stage, his cause was conducted in a European setting, and the cult of the new martyr spread with extraordinary rapidity to the furthest reaches of Latin Christendom before the end of the twelfth century. The fifteen studies collected here reflect not only the global reach of the subject but the diverse expertise of their author, whose edition and translation of the "Correspondence of Archbishop Thomas Becket" (2000) and acclaimed biography ("Thomas Becket", 2004) have established her place in Becket studies. Based on the critical examination of manuscripts and texts, this collection focuses first on the papal curia and Becket's household in exile. The following studies deal with Becket's letters and their authorship, the coronation of the young King Henry (1170), and Henry II's reconciliation at Avranches (1172). The final part traces the explosion of Becket's cult, the transmission of hagiographical and liturgical texts to France, Germany, and Portugal, and the role of diverse agencies of dissemination: Henry II's daughters, for example, in Saxony, Castile, and Sicily, and the Cistercian and Augustinian orders whose networks of houses embraced the whole of Europe.
Publication date: 1999-01
Dewey code: 920
Price: $34.95
Review The Prophet of Color: A Disciple's Reflections / Duncan & Duncan:
Creator: Margaret Gibson
Publication date: 1980-01-31
Dewey code: 942.0210924
List Price: $215.00
Price: $185.00
Review The Letters of Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury (Oxford Medieval Texts) / Oxford University Press, USA:Edited with a facing-page English translation from the Latin text by: Clover, Helen; Unknown function: Gibson, Margaret
Publication date: 2002-02
Dewey code: 355
Price: $26.99
Review The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1663 N.S (Diary of Samuel Pepys) / IndyPublish.com:
Creator: Urs App
Publication date: 1994-07
Dewey code: 294.3927092
Price: $27.50
Review Master Yunmen: From the Record of the Chan Master "Gate of the Clouds" (Classics of Zen) / Kodansha Amer Inc:Contains dialogues between one of the most famous Chinese founders of Zen and his students. The book reveals an unusual and dramatic spiritual teacher.
Publication date: 1995-01-01
Dewey code: 296.092
List Price: $191.00
Price: $125.17
Review Iberian Jewry from Twilight to Dawn: The World of Rabbi Abraham Saba (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, Vol. 10) (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, Vol. 10) / Brill Academic Publishers:The Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492. Those surviving the ordeals they encountered tried to rebuild their personal lives and to reconstruct Sefardic religious and cultural traditions in North Africa and in the East. This volume tries to depict the world of one of the refugees who formed part of the cultural bridge between Spain and the new havens of the Sefardim. Rabbi Abraham Saba of Zamora was a preacher, cabbalist, and biblical exegete. He attempted to settle in Portugal, suffered the persecutions instigated by the Crown with his coreligionists and was finally expelled to North Africa. His literary works and thought are put in the proper cultural context and are analyzed against the background of historical reality.
Publication date: 1985-06
Dewey code: 362.420880565
Price: $31.95
Review Mr Secretary Peel: The Life of Sir Robert Peel to 1830 / Longman Group United Kingdom:
Edition: 1st original ed
Publication date: 1995-07
Dewey code: 781.643092
Price: $15.00
Review Deep Down Hard Blues: Tribute to Lightnin / Brunswick Publishing Corporation:This is a biography of the life and music of Sam Lightnin' Hopkins. You will enjoy reading about the history of this great bluesman! Also includes poems based on Lightnin' and to him. The author fell in love with Lightnin' by listening to his songs which are an inspiration to her life. This book also expresses her deep love that she has for him. Includes photos.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1994-11-10
Dewey code: 951.058092
List Price: $190.00
Price: $138.70
Review Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese Revolution: A Political Biography (Routledge in Asia) / Routledge:To the outside world Deng Xiaoping represents a contradiction: he is both China's most successful moderniser, and the Butcher of Beijing', who must take responsibility for the events surrounding Tiananmen Square in June 1989. However, for Deng the polititian there is no such contradiction: only the Chinese Communist Party can bring modernisation to China. For Deng any threat to the Communist Party is a threat to the project of China's modernisation. This book reaches beyond the spectacular economic success of recent years to understand Deng's own particular role and the sources of his political power. Deng Xiaoping was involved with the Communist movement before there was even a Communist Party of China and his entire career has been shaped by both the party and the network of relationships and people within it. David Goodman explores the way in which Deng has survived being purged three times via his contacts with key politicians, Zhou Enlai in Paris in the early 1920s and Mao Zedong from 1933 to the early 1960s. His close relationship with the military from the Sino-Japanese War of 1937 through to the present day has also enabled him to survive difficult political periods. Indeed, Deng's wartime experience, in the Taihang Mountains, plays a central but often overlooked role in his later career, particularly as a source of political support. David Goodman has drawn on the substantial documentary sources that have become available from China since 1989 as well as the analysis of Deng's political life that has proliferated inside the People's Republic in recent years. In addition, the catalogue and analysis of the speeches and writings of Deng Xiaoping since 1938, which is included, will prove to be an invaluable reference aid to his years of influence and power. [+]The result is a balanced evaluation of Deng the politician that provides fresh insights into the career of one of the twentieth century's greatest political survivors.
Publication date: 1987-01
Dewey code: 973.30924
Price: $19.95
Review Jews and the American Revolution: Haym Salomon and Others / Mcfarland & Co Inc Pub:
Creator: Michael Taub
Publication date: 1997-07-30
Dewey code: 813.54098924003
List Price: $138.95
Price: $138.95
Review Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook / Greenwood Press:Since World War II, Jewish-American novelists have made numerous significant contributions to contemporary literature. Authors of earlier generations would frequently write about the troubles and successes of Jewish immigrants to America, and their works would reflect the world of European Jewish culture. But like other immigrant groups, Jewish-Americans have become increasingly assimilated into mainstream American culture. Many feel the loss of their heritage and long for something to replace the lost values of the old world. This reference book includes alphabetically arranged entries for more than 75 Jewish-American novelists whose major works were largely written after World War II. Included are entries for both well-known and relatively obscure novelists, many of whom are just becoming established as significant literary figures. While the volume profiles major canonical figures such as Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Bernard Malamud, it also aims to be more inclusive than other works on contemporary Jewish-American writers. Thus there are entries for gay and lesbian novelists such as Lev Raphael and Judith Katz, whose works challenge the more orthodox definitions of Jewish religious and cultural traditions; Art Speigelman, whose controversial Maus established a new genre by combining elements of the comic book and the conventional novel; and newcomers such as Steve Stern and Max Apple, who have become more prominent within the last decade. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes, an overview of the novelist's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. A thoughtful introduction summarizes Jewish-American fiction after World War II, and a selected, general bibliography lists additional sources for information.
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Pedant, Poet, gelehrter Narr: Swifts Freund, Dr. Thomas Sheridan, Schulmeister, Spassmacher, Spottfigur (Europaische Profile), Letters of Life in an Aristocratic Russian Household Before and After the Revolution (Studies in Russian History, 3), My life: An autobiography, The Japanese Thrust into Siberia, 1918 (Select Bibliographies Reprint Series), Maurice Walsh, Storyteller, Reception of D. H. Lawrence in Europe (The Athlone Critical Traditions Series: the Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe), "Black Jacob," a monument of grace: The life of Jacob Hodges, an African negro, who died in Canandaigua, N.Y., February 1842, Yuki, Temple Dog: How a California Pound Dog Became Guardian of a Japanese Buddhist Temple, East meets West, Thomas Becket: Friends, Networks, Texts and Cult (Variorum Collected Studies Series: Cs877), The Prophet of Color: A Disciple's Reflections, The Letters of Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury (Oxford Medieval Texts), The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1663 N.S (Diary of Samuel Pepys), Master Yunmen: From the Record of the Chan Master "Gate of the Clouds" (Classics of Zen), Iberian Jewry from Twilight to Dawn: The World of Rabbi Abraham Saba (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, Vol. 10) (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, Vol. 10), Mr Secretary Peel: The Life of Sir Robert Peel to 1830, Deep Down Hard Blues: Tribute to Lightnin, Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese Revolution: A Political Biography (Routledge in Asia), Jews and the American Revolution: Haym Salomon and Others, Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-Critical SourcebookTop headlines: Automakers pitch Congress anew on rescue: U.S. automakers drew fresh skepticism from lawmakers Thursday in a rocky confrontation over their pleas for an expanded $34 billion rescue package they say they need to survive. ›21:13 Who's the smartest person in TV?: Who says cartoons are for kids? 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