Publication date: 1996-09
Dewey code: 973.0496073022
Price: $53.00
Review Joy Cometh in the Morning: African-American Stories of Triumph over Adversity / Praeger Pub:
Publication date: 1999-04
Dewey code: 266.3092
List Price: $116.00
Price: $112.00
Review The Jewish Bishop and the Chinese Bible: S.I.J. Schereschewsky, 1831-1906 (Studies in Christian Mission) / Brill Academic Publishers:
Authors
- Alexandre Safran
- Jean Ancel
Dewey code: 940
List Price: $41.00
Price: $140.59
Review Resisting the Storm: Romania, 1940-1947 : Memoirs / Gefen Books:
Creator: Margaret Blakers
Publication date: 1986-05-21
Review A Useless Young Man? (Penguin Australian Library) / Penguin Books Australia Ltd:
Publication date: 1999
Review The hand of fate: Memoirs of George Gerzon / Odyssey Press:
Creator: Emmanuel S. Nelson
Publication date: 2000-01-30
Dewey code: 810.9896073
List Price: $145.00
Price: $116.00
Review African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook / Greenwood Press:There has been a dramatic resurgence of interest in early African American writing. Since the accidental rediscovery and republication of Harriet Wilson's Our Nig in 1983, the works of dozens of 19th and early 20th century black writers have been recovered and reprinted. There is now a significant revival of interest in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s; and in the last decade alone, several major assessments of 18th and 19th century African American literature have been published. Early African American literature builds on a strong oral tradition of songs, folktales, and sermons. Slave narratives began to appear during the late 18th and early 19th century, and later writers began to engage a variety of themes in diverse genres. A central objective of this reference book is to provide a wide-ranging introduction to the first 200 years of African American literature. Included are alphabetically arranged entries for 78 black writers active between 1745 and 1945. Among these writers are essayists, novelists, short story writers, poets, playwrights, and autobiographers. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, an overview of the author's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography.
Creator: Francis Ames-Lewis
Publication date: 1999-07
Dewey code: 332.092
List Price: $120.00
Price: $116.00
Review Sir Thomas Gresham and Gresham College: Studies in the Intellectual History of London in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Ashgate Publishing:In March 1997 the Society for Renaissance Studies and Gresham College together organized a conference to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Gresham College's foundation. The papers delivered at that conference and assembled in this book examine why Gresham College was established, and how its purposes and activities dovetailed with the socio-cultural life of Elizabeth and Stuart London. The first group of papers considers the social and mercantile career of Sir Thomas Gresham within the commercial centre of Elizabethan London; why he wished to establish Gresham College; and what functions he may have intended to serve. The second group sets the academic activities of the College and its professors within the broader context of contemporary intellectual life. Papers in this group consider in what ways early Gresham professors contributed in particular to developments in the more practical disciplines such as geometry and astronomy.
Creator: Andreas Lixl-Purcell
Publication date: 1988-06-24
Dewey code: 920.72089924043
List Price: $119.95
Price: $140.53
Review Women of Exile: German-Jewish Autobiographies Since 1933 (Contributions in Women's Studies) / Greenwood Press:Women's exile autobiographies, written usually for an audience of relatives and fellow travellers, are rarely made available to the public. This is particularly true for Jewish women who fled Germany after Hitler's rise to power in 1933. In this unusual volume, the memoirs, diaries, and letters of twenty-six of these extraordinary women are published together for the first time. Their recollections paint a provocative profile of exile life and cover a broad spectrum of emigre history on every continent. While each memoir voices an intensely personal explanation, their combined effect is to launch a radical reinterpretation of women's roles, fates, and destinies.
Creator: Randall K. Burkett
Publication date: 1991-01
Review Black Biography, 1790-1950: A Cumulative Index / Chadwyck-Healey:
Publication date: 1995-09
Dewey code: 920.009268
Price: $17.55
Review Contemporary American Success Stories: Famous People of Hispanic Heritage (Mitchell Lane Multicultural Biography) / Demco Media:Contains profiles of Selena Quintanilla Perez, Robert Rodriguez, Josefina Lopez, and Alfredo Estrada.
Publication date: 2006-04-30
Dewey code: 954.030202
List Price: $120.00
Price: $109.99
Review The History of British India: A Chronology / Praeger Publishers:This book is a history of British India from 1599 to 1947. It is divided into three parts addressing political history, topical studies, and a collection of four hundred biographies of noteworthy English men and women who played a role in the creation of British India. As the Elizabethan era approached its end, English life exuded a high sense of energy and optimism that drove men to the ends of the earth. The lure of wealth in the spices of the East Indies correlated well with English naval strengths. In London, the East India Company set the national vision of competition with the Portuguese, Dutch and French while in India it developed the ports of Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta. Britain dominated India's political landscape for over 300 years, yet in the twentieth century, the emergence of Gandhi and his use of civil disobedience shook the British government to its foundations. By March 1947, Lord Mountbatten had little more choice than to grant Indian independence or see it taken by Indians themselves.
Creator: Joan Algar
Publication date: 1991-01-01
Dewey code: 621.3072042
List Price: $130.00
Price: $122.93
Review A Scientist's War: The diary of Sir Clifford Paterson 1939-45 (I E E History of Technology Series) / IET:This book contains the diary he kept from 1939 until 1945, recording work in the laboratories and his own wider role in the planning and organisation of the scientific war effort, against the background of the progress of the war problems of members of his staff. A recurring theme is the development and production in the laboratories of more than 300,000 thermionic valves of 45 new types.
Publication date: 1974
Price: $115.25
Review Der junge Sean O'Casey: Eine Studie zum Verhaltnis von Kunst und Gesellschaft (Europaische Hochschulschriften : Reihe 14, Angelsachsische Sprache und Literatur : Bd. 22) / Peter Lang:
Publication date: 1996-03
Dewey code: 340.1150947
List Price: $103.95
Price: $115.70
Review Striving for Law in a Lawless Land: Memoirs of a Russian Reformer / M.E. Sharpe:An insider account of the struggle to reform the Soviet/Russian legal system and create a law-based society. This text situates the formal commitment to democratic politics, and the creation of a legal and constitutional order within the context of Russian history and tradition.
Publication date: 1986-09
Dewey code: 410.924
List Price: $158.00
Price: $115.34
Review William Bathe, S.J., 1564-1614: A Pioneer in Linguistics (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science Series III: Studies in the History of the Language Sciences) / John Benjamins Pub Co:
Authors
- Sara Pendergast
- Tom Pendergast
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $124.00
Price: $124.00
Review Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community (Contemporary Black Biography) / Gale Cengage:
Publication date: 1991-01
Review A Japanese Artist in London / In Print Publishing (UK):
Publication date: 1992-12
Price: $10.00
Review Scotch-Irish Family Research Made Simple / Ye Olde Genalogie Shoppe:
Publication date: 2008-06-15
Dewey code: 300
List Price: $123.18
Price: $123.18
Review White Lines Black Lives: The Biography of Australian Footballs Krakouer Brothers / VDM Verlag:This book investigates the issue of racism in sport to understand how racism is manifested in Australian daily life. In doing this, it considers Indigenous history, social justice and equity, government policy, the media, everyday life, football culture and the emergence of Indigenous players in the game of Australian Football. It does this by drawing on a variety of social, cultural and historical themes and arrives at a greater understanding of what it means to be an Indigenous person living in Australia for the last 220 years. These social issues are explored through the genre of biography and the story of the Noongar footballers, Jim and Phillip Krakouer, who played for Claremont and North Melbourne in the late 1970s and 1980s. This book, in looking at Jim and Phillip Krakouers careers, engages with other Indigenous footballers contributions prior to the AFL introducing Racial and Religious Vilification Laws in 1995. This book offers a way of reading cultural texts and difference to understand Indigenous and non-Indigenous relationships in an Australian context.
Authors
- Tom Pendergast
- Sara Pendergast
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $124.00
Price: $124.00
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(Penguin Australian Library), The hand of fate: Memoirs of George Gerzon, African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Sir Thomas Gresham and Gresham College: Studies in the Intellectual History of London in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Women of Exile: German-Jewish Autobiographies Since 1933 (Contributions in Women's Studies), Black Biography, 1790-1950: A Cumulative Index, Contemporary American Success Stories: Famous People of Hispanic Heritage (Mitchell Lane Multicultural Biography), The History of British India: A Chronology, A Scientist's War: The diary of Sir Clifford Paterson 1939-45 (I E E History of Technology Series), Der junge Sean O'Casey: Eine Studie zum Verhaltnis von Kunst und Gesellschaft (Europaische Hochschulschriften : Reihe 14, Angelsachsische Sprache und Literatur : Bd. 22), Striving for Law in a Lawless Land: Memoirs of a Russian Reformer, William Bathe, S.J., 1564-1614: A Pioneer in Linguistics (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science Series III: Studies in the History of the Language Sciences), Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community (Contemporary Black Biography), A Japanese Artist in London, Scotch-Irish Family Research Made Simple, White Lines Black Lives: The Biography of Australian Footballs Krakouer Brothers, Contemporary Black BiographyTop headlines: Quiz: Which Hanks role did Travolta turn down?: Test your red-carpet savvy with our weekly quiz ›16:33 26 Nov, Wed Larry Craig, Hall of Famer: Not even a sex-sting arrest and an on-again, off-again guilty plea can keep Idahos senior senator from induction into the pantheon of Gem State greats. ›17:40 12 Oct, Fri 'War and Peace': New Versions Worth the Read: 'War and Peace' has been the Everest of literature for more than 150 years. 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