Publication date: 1996-01
Price: $121.37
Review The Dissolution of the Lancastrian Kingship: Sir John Fortescue and the Crisis of Monarchy in Fifteenth-Century England (Paul Watkins Medieval Studies) / Paul Watkins:
Creator: H. C. G. Matthew
Publication date: 1994-10-20
Dewey code: 941
List Price: $264.00
Price: $192.72
Review The Gladstone Diaries: With Cabinet Minutes and Prime-Ministerial Correspondence Volume XII: 1887-1891 (Gladstone Diaries) / Oxford University Press, USA:Volumes XII and XIII, the final volumes of W. E. Gladstone's diaries, depict the extraordinary energy of a remarkable octogenarian. They focus on his pursuit of "justice for Ireland" through the successful passage of a Home Rule Bill. There is also a wealth of material on imperial, foreign, domestic, and religious politics contained in the daily diary entries, the minutes of the Cabinets of the 1892-4 government, and the five hundred letters which accompany the entries for the governmental period. With Volume XIV, Indexes, the publication of this magisterial work of scholarship is complete.
Publication date: 1989-11-01
Review W.B.Yeats, 1865-1939 / Palgrave Macmillan:This is a biographical account of Yeats' life detailing his early family life, his schooldays, his London years, his rise to literary fame, his relationships and marriage, his Oxford period and his career in public life. The author has also written "Bishop Berkeley", "The Life of George Moore", "The Moores of Moore Hall" and "Henry Tonks".
Publication date: 2007-08-03
Dewey code: 920.009296
List Price: $124.00
Price: $122.76
Review Contemporary Black Biography Volume 60 / Gale Cengage:
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1997-09
Dewey code: 941.5082
Price: $21.00
Review Who's Who in the Irish War of Independence & Civil / Lilliput Pr Ltd:This work deals with the personalities involved on both sides of the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, listing not only the main activists but many other combatants who played supporting but equally important roles in the conflict. The work draws on both public and private sources, including archives, records and journals of the Royal Irish Constabulary, Dublin Metropolitan Police, Royal Ulster Constabulary, Irish Defence Forces and the British Army. The book refers to interviews conducted by the author with celebrated people who took prominent parts on the national scene as well as minor participants in long-forgotten incidents. The former include Sean MacBride, Pedar O'Donnell, Todd Andrews, General Michael Brennan, Lt Gen M. J. Costello, Colonel Dan Bryan, Sheila Humphreys, Maire Comerford, Liam O'Flaherty, Sean Dowling and close relatives of Sean MacEoin and Ernie O'Malley, whose biographies the author has also written. Part One of the work is a revision of "Who's Who in the Irish War of Independence 1916-21" (Mercier, 1980). Part Two updates the earlier book by including the Civil War period. For each section there is a chronology of the main events, and appendices give casualties by category, executions, and so on.
Creator: Jeffrey Louis Decker
Publication date: 1991-02
List Price: $254.00
Price: $253.98
Review Dictionary of Literary Biography: Documentary Series : An Illustrated Chronicle (Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series) / Gale Cengage:
Publication date: 1971-01-01
Review John Wesley in Wales, 1739-90 / University of Wales Press:
Publication date: 1999-06
Dewey code: 942.7320049240092
Review Sir Sidney Hamburger and Manchester Jewry: Religion, City, and Community (Parkes-Wiener Series on Jewish Studies) / Vallentine Mitchell:
Publication date: 1986-07
Review Sir Robert Peel / Longman Higher Education:
Creator: William Zachs
Publication date: 1998-01-01
Dewey code: 941
List Price: $725.00
Price: $265.58
Review Edinburgh Magazine and Review 1773-1776 (Thoemmes Press - Scottish Thought and Culture, 1750-1850) / Thoemmes Continuum:The Edinburgh Magazine and Review is a critical journal of central importance to the Enlightenment. Many of the most influential historical and philosophical titles of the period are reviewed in its pages - among them Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Kames's Sketches of the History of Man and Monboddo's Origin of Language - and the most significant political development of the day, the unrest in the American colonies, is documented here in great detail. Divided into two sections, the 'Magazine' contains original political and historical articles, biographical memoirs, accounts of discoveries in medicine, science and agriculture, and original fiction and poetry by such well-known figures as Smollett and Beattie, and offers month by month accounts from the battlefields of Europe to the local politics and social activities of Edinburgh's polite (and not so polite) society. The innovative 'Review' section marks a departure from formulaic eighteenth-century literary criticism and pioneered a new and controversial kind of critique. In many instances the reviews became literature in their own right, both entertaining and instructing the reader. Critical accounts of no less than 175 works in every major genre are included. The two guiding intellectual forces behind the Edinburgh Magazine and Review were the historian Gilbert Stuart and the printer William Smellie. Other contributors include a cast of Enlightenment figures, among whom were believed to have been David Hume and Adam Smith. The new introduction to the set - describing, among other things, the infighting between the editors and their publisher, the lawsuits thrown at the editors, the importance of the work in the British critical tradition and the reason for its rather premature demise - puts this rich and diverse work in context and makes it more accessible to the modern reader. -very scarce work only found in a few library collections -a new index to the 5 volumes makes this set more accessible -new introduction describes the importance of this journal in the British critical tradition.
Publication date: 2008-06-20
Dewey code: 266.02341051092
List Price: $130.00
Price: $120.92
Review Robert Morrison and the Birth of Chinese Protestantism / T. & T. Clark Publishers:"Robert Morrison: The Birth of Chinese Protestantism" is a brief, accessible life of the pioneer Protestant missionary, Robert Morrison (1782-1834), who arrived in China in 1807. Morrison masterminded translation and production of the first Chinese Bible and a series of other Christian texts in Mandarin. A gifted linguist and educational strategist, he founded the Christian College in Malacca (the first Chinese tertiary educational establishment). With fellow missionaries William Milne and Walter Medhurst, Morrison formed a bridgehead for later missionary endeavour in China. Morrison's life has received comparatively little recent attention (see his wife Eliza's "Memoirs of the Life and Labours of Robert Morrison" (1839), "M. Broomhall Robert Morrison: A Master Builder" (1924), "W. J. Townsend Robert Morrison, The Pioneer of Chinese Missions" (1888), and essays in single volumes or dictionaries). Morrison conquered Chinese, though had to contend for residence in China (depending on US help when EIC policy barred missionaries). He fought loneliness and ill health, misunderstanding and mission society prejudice, as he engaged Chinese customs and local help. [+]His first wife died in childbirth, although his son John later continued his work. Morrison's linguistic ability and rugged self-discipline became the avenue for acceptance and respect in later life. On a visit to the UK in 1823-5, Morrison received a hero's welcome and official recognition, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1825. He died soon after returning to China and was buried in Macau, where his grave can still be seen.
Publication date: 1970-07
Dewey code: 920.073
Price: $12.50
Review Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive, and Rising (Ebony Classics) / Johnson Pub Co Inc:
Publication date: 1916
Review The life of Amanda Smith: The African sybil, the Christian saint / Cornish Bros:
Publication date: 1996-03
Dewey code: 271.7802
Price: $14.95
Review Edmund Rice 1762 1844 / Four Courts Press:
Publication date: 1995-04-03
Review Seafaring, 1939-45 as I Saw it / The Pentland Press:
Publication date: 1996-05-30
Dewey code: 296.832092273
List Price: $125.00
Price: $124.98
Review Orthodox Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook (Jewish Denominations in America) / Greenwood Press:The last in a series of three volumes edited by Marc Lee Raphael surveying some of the major rabbinic and lay personalities who have shaped Judaism in America for the past two centuries, this work focuses on Orthodox Judaism. Along with a basic description of the achievements of some of the most notable leaders, a bibliography of their writings and sources for further study is included as well as an essay on Orthodox rabbinic organizations and a survey of American Orthodox periodicals. Of interest to scholars, students, and lay persons alike, this volume will inform readers about the earliest communities of Jews who settled in America as they developed the institutions of Orthodox Jewish life and set a public standard of compliance with Jewish law. These early American Jews followed a Spanish-Dutch version of Sephardic customs and rites. Their synagogues used traditional prayer books, promoted the celebration of Jewish holidays, established mikvahs, acquired Passover provisions, and arranged for cemetery land and burial services. While many of these Sephardic immigrants did not maintain halakha in their daily regimen as did their European counterparts, they set a public standard of compliance with Jewish law, thus honoring Jewish tradition. Further immigration of thousands of Jews from Western and Central Europe in the middle of the 19th century brought a world of traditional piety and extensive Jewish learning to America, exemplified by Rabbi Abraham Rice, who served in Baltimore, and Yissachar Dov (Bernard) Illowy, who served communities from Philadelphia to New Orleans. Such men marked the beginning of a learned and scholarly rabbinate in America. This volume provides valuable biographical insights regarding some of the most notable religious leaders in American Orthodoxy.
Authors
- William Cheek
- Aimee Lee Cheek
Dewey code: 973.04960730092
Price: $39.95
Review John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65 (Blacks in the New World) / University of Illinois Press:
Creator: Margaretta Jolly
Publication date: 1997-01
Review Dear Laughing Motorbyke: Letters from Women Welders of the Second World War / Scarlet Press:
Edition: 1967
Publication date: 1967
Review Eminent Chinese of Ch'ing period (1644-1912) / Ch'eng-Wen Pub. Co:
Publication date: 1991-05-01
Dewey code: 920
Price: $16.00
Review The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender To #45472 / Penguin Global:On May 26, 1967, the spiraling career of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, then the top contender for the world middleweight boxing crown, came to a shuddering and tragic halt: he and a young fan were found guilty of murder of three white people in a New Jersey bar. The nightmare knew no bounds as Carter traded his superstar status for a prison number and the concrete walls of some of America's most horrific institutions. Originally published as an attempt by Carter to set the record straight and force a new trial, The Sixteenth Round is timeless. It is an eye-opening portrait of growing up black in America, a scathing indictment of the prison system Carter grew up in and out of, and a mesmerizing re-creation of his furious battles in the ring and in the courtroom set against the backdrop of the turbulent sixties. The liveliness of Carter's street language, its power and ironic humor, makes this an eloquent, soul-stirring account of a remarkable life not soon to be forgotten.
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The Dissolution of the Lancastrian Kingship: Sir John Fortescue and the Crisis of Monarchy in Fifteenth-Century England (Paul Watkins Medieval Studies), The Gladstone Diaries: With Cabinet Minutes and Prime-Ministerial Correspondence Volume XII: 1887-1891 (Gladstone Diaries), W.B.Yeats, 1865-1939, Contemporary Black Biography Volume 60, Who's Who in the Irish War of Independence & Civil, Dictionary of Literary Biography: Documentary Series : An Illustrated Chronicle (Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series), John Wesley in Wales, 1739-90, Sir Sidney Hamburger and Manchester Jewry: Religion, City, and Community (Parkes-Wiener Series on Jewish Studies), Sir Robert Peel, Edinburgh Magazine and Review 1773-1776 (Thoemmes Press - Scottish Thought and Culture, 1750-1850), Robert Morrison and the Birth of Chinese Protestantism, Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive, and Rising (Ebony Classics), The life of Amanda Smith: The African sybil, the Christian saint, Edmund Rice 1762 1844, Seafaring, 1939-45 as I Saw it, Orthodox Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook (Jewish Denominations in America), John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65 (Blacks in the New World), Dear Laughing Motorbyke: Letters from Women Welders of the Second World War, Eminent Chinese of Ch'ing period (1644-1912), The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender To #45472Top headlines: RFK auction offers star-studded experiences: For those hard-to-please people on your holiday gift list this year, consider some unusual presents: the chance to sing with Aretha Franklin or tour the Capitol with Nancy Pelosi. ›12:42 Second-tier jobs will have clout in Obama era: We know who the new secretary of state will be in president-elect Barack Obamas administration. 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