Publication date: 1996
Review Sadakazu Hori Teacher - Sadakazu Hori Biography Japanese Language Book:
Publication date: 1992-06
Review Six Aces: Australian Fighter Pilots, 1939-45 / Banner Books:
Publication date: 1997-09-12
Price: $103.13
Review Christopher Sandison of Eshaness (1781-1870) / Shetland Times Ltd:
Publication date: 1991-06
Price: $23.00
Review I Have a Dream: Twenty-Four Writings and Speeches That Changed the World / Borgo Press:
Publication date: 2003-08
Dewey code: 782.1092
List Price: $120.00
Price: $103.00
Review Michael William Balfe: His Life and His English Operas (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain) (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain) (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain) / Ashgate Publishing:Michael William Balfe (1808-1870) was one of the most successful composers of English opera in the mid-nineteenth century. During his lifetime he enjoyed an international reputation and worked with some of the leading singers of the time, including Jenny Lind, Malibran and Grisi. Drawing on previously unused source materials such as letters, legal documents and playbills, this biography of Balfe and study of his English operas overturns many of the previously accepted 'facts' of the composer's lifestyle. Using London as his base, Dublin-born Balfe spent long periods in Paris and travelled widely in Europe. William Tyldesley discusses the continental influences evident in Balfe's operas and offers suggestions as to the draw that Paris held for the composer. Far from leading a fairly prosperous and unexceptional life, Balfe is shown to have found himself in financial straits on more than one occasion, and to have employed possibly unethical means of extracting himself from them.
Creator: Kevin Theakston
Publication date: 2004-09-15
Dewey code: 320.9410904
Price: $36.95
Review Winston Churchill and the British Constitution / Politicos:A detailed account of Churchill's constitutional thinking and of his impact on the British constitution during the longest and most extraordinary political career in 20th-century Britain.
Publication date: 2002-07
Dewey code: 973.8092
List Price: $121.00
Price: $102.85
Review Liberian Politics: The Portrait by African American Diplomat J. Milton Turner / Lexington Books:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-10-06
Dewey code: 305.89607304
List Price: $120.00
Price: $103.44
Review Blackening Europe: The African American Presence (Crosscurrents in African American History) / Routledge:This collection explores the social products and meaning of Europe's fascination with African America. After a historiographical review, the volume divides into three parts. Part I examines early, classic influences (jazz, Josephine Baker, Katherine Dunham) through an Afro-centric perspective. Part II looks at contemporary cross-fertilizations like Finnish Pop and Hungarian Rap to mark the development of cultural relations. Lastly, through essays that question the Enlightenment's silence on slavery, the growth an anti-immigrant politics, and the integration of gypsies in Romania, Part III submits a theory of Europe's blackening, a draft model of how race and ethnicity can be understood in a unavoidably multicultural Europe.
Creator: Timothy Reuter
Publication date: 2003-07
Dewey code: 942.0164092
List Price: $130.00
Price: $102.92
Review Alfred the Great: Papers from the Eleventh-Centenary Conferences (Studies in Early Medieval Britain) / Ashgate Publishing:In 1999, the 1100th anniversary of the death of Alfred the Great, two international conferences were held to re-evaluate and contextualise Alfred's achievements and the developments of his reign. This volume includes papers given at both events and provides substantial assessments, by leading scholars, of issues of source-criticism, of the large corpus of Old English literature associated with Alfred and of developments in government and society in late 9th century England. It also explores how Alfred and his kingdom related to the wider geo-political and cultural situation in the British Isles and continental Europe, and closes with a substantial survey of the uses and shifts in Alfred's reputation in the centuries following his death.
Edition: 1. ed
Publication date: 1979
Review Conocer Beckett y su obra (Coleccion Conocer) / DOPESA:
Publication date: 1985-11
Dewey code: 994.00492402
Price: $6.95
Review Not So Fabulous 50s: Images of a Migrant Childhood / Intl Specialized Book Service Inc:
Publication date: 1998-06
Dewey code: 495
List Price: $40.00
Price: $207.69
Review Aru Yogi No Jijoden/Autobiography of a Yogi / Self Realization Fellowship Pub:
Publication date: 1982-01
Price: $9.95
Review Pictorial Biography of Lu Zun / China Books & Periodicals:
Publication date: 2002-04
Dewey code: 323.119607300923034
List Price: $46.00
Price: $102.84
Review Refusing Racism: White Allies and the Struggle for Civil Rights (Teaching for Social Justice, 8) / Teachers College Press:Why and how have whites joined the fight against white supr
Publication date: 1988-12
Price: $28.00
Review Liddell Hart and the Weight of History / Elsevier:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-01-30
Dewey code: 296.0922
List Price: $105.00
Price: $103.95
Review Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers / Routledge:This panoramic survey provides a first point of entry into the fascinating richness and complexity of the Jewish philosophical, theological and Kabbalistic tradition. Beginning in the first century with the Hellenistic philosopher Philo, Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers traces the major intellectual events of the last two thousand years, including the growth of Medieval Jewish philosophy, the early modern mystics, the radicals, the Hasidic leaders, the Enlightenment and secular and religious Zionism. From Maimonides to Martin Buber, and from Baruch Spinoza to Elie Wiesel, this volume carries the standard found in Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers (Routledge, 1994) and is ideally suited for anyone interested in Jewish thought or history.
Publication date: 1992-06
Dewey code: 861
Price: $9.95
Review Pablo Neruda (Hispanics of Achievement) / Chelsea House Publications:Describes the life and times of the Chilean poet and diplomat.
Publication date: 1997-05-15
Dewey code: 274.20810922
Price: $156.00
Review Domestic Biography: The Legacy of Evangelicalism in Four Nineteenth-Century Families (Oxford Historical Monographs) / Oxford University Press, USA:This is a fascinating account of the influence of evangelicalism upon eminent Victorians. Recording family life was an important ritual in Victorian households, and out of this habit grew a new literary genre, the domestic biography, extolling individual piety and domestic virtue. Using documents from the archives of the Macaulay, Stephen, Wilberforce, and Thornton families, Dr Tolley analyzes the biographical tradition and its lasting effects upon "family values. ".
Publication date: 1998-01
Review The Lordly Ones: A History of the Neville Family and Their Part in the Wars of the Roses / Baildon:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-09-01
Dewey code: 914.30484
List Price: $170.00
Price: $121.82
Review PRELUDE TO EASTER RISING: SIR ROGER CASEMENT IN IMPERIAL GERMANY (New Directions in Irish History) / Routledge:Prelude to the Easter Rising casts light upon the clandestine activities of Sir Roger Casement in Imperial Germany from 1914 to 1916. German military intelligence and the Imperial Foreign Office had far-reaching plans to use the Irish in the war against Britain. Radical Irish-American leaders were behind Casement's mission to Berlin. It took some time for the highly sensitive and idealistic Casement to realize that neither the German General Staff nor the Imperial Chancellor was able or willing to lend full military support to the Irish. When Casement began to see that the rising would be a bloody massacre, he left for Ireland to halt the fatal development and, if necessary, sacrifice his own honour and life. The carefully edited documents contained in this volume, mostly from the German Foreign Office archives in Bonn, present a full record of Casement's activities prior to Easter 1916. Over eighty years later, these papers have lost none of their emotional intimacy.
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Milton Turner, Blackening Europe: The African American Presence (Crosscurrents in African American History), Alfred the Great: Papers from the Eleventh-Centenary Conferences (Studies in Early Medieval Britain), Conocer Beckett y su obra (Coleccion Conocer), Not So Fabulous 50s: Images of a Migrant Childhood, Aru Yogi No Jijoden/Autobiography of a Yogi, Pictorial Biography of Lu Zun, Refusing Racism: White Allies and the Struggle for Civil Rights (Teaching for Social Justice, 8), Liddell Hart and the Weight of History, Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers, Pablo Neruda (Hispanics of Achievement), Domestic Biography: The Legacy of Evangelicalism in Four Nineteenth-Century Families (Oxford Historical Monographs), The Lordly Ones: A History of the Neville Family and Their Part in the Wars of the Roses, PRELUDE TO EASTER RISING: SIR ROGER CASEMENT IN IMPERIAL GERMANY (New Directions in Irish History)Top headlines: What's next for Schwarzenegger?: With Arnold Schwarzenegger's governorship entering its final years and his ability to attract the spotlight intact, one question is arising more frequently: What will Arnold do? ›11:57 First Drive: 2008 Cadillac CTS: With style in spades, Cadillac's second-generation sport sedan adds performance and refinement. ›07:00 15 Oct, Mon Whale songs drowned out by humans: The songs that whales and dolphins use to communicate, orient themselves and find mates are being drowned out by human-made noises in the world's oceans, U.N. officials and environmental groups said Wednesday. ›22:39 3 Dec, Wed Delta lays out new frequent flier rules: Delta Air Lines said on Thursday it will adopt a popular feature of Northwest Airlines' frequent-flier program, as it aims to merge the two reward systems by the end of 2009. ›18:41 Road salt shortage vexes states: Some U.S. cities are paying as much as $170 a ton as road salt prices nationwide soar because of shipping problems and surging demand. ›17:39 2 Dec, Tue Mortgage applications surge by record: Mortgage applications surged by the largest amount on record last week as a new Federal Reserve program pushed interest rates down to their lowest level in more than 3 years. ›18:36 3 Dec, Wed Just a number: Elderly feel 13 years younger: Older people tend to feel about 13 years younger than their chronological age, a new study finds. ›19:43 The phone that feels the flu before you do: Did your parents tell you to remember your scarf when you went out, so you wouldn't catch a cold? 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