Authors
- Beatrice Irene Gilman Proske
Review Castilian sculpture, Gothic to Renaissance (Hispanic notes & monographs; essays, studies, and brief biographies. Peninsular series) / [Hispanic Society of America]:
Edition: Facsimile of 1874 ed.
Publication date: 1968
Review The Chinese reader's manual;: A handbook of biographical, historical, mythological, and general literary reference / Gale Research:
Publication date: 1932
Review The memoirs of Diana Grisdale, M.F.H / Plimpton Press:
Creator: Sam Hamill
Edition: 1st. Ed
Publication date: 1999-03-30
Dewey code: 895.6132
Price: $25.00
Review The Essential Basho / Shambhala: Here is the most complete single-volume collection of writings by one of the great luminaries of Asian literature. Includes a masterful translation of Basho's most celebrated work, Narrow Road to the Interior, along with three less well-known works and over 250 of Basho's finest haiku. The translator has included an overview of Basho's life and an essay on the art of haiku.
Creator: Scott Bradbury
Publication date: 1996-10-24
Dewey code: 274.675202
List Price: $225.00
Price: $186.37
Review Severus of Minorca: Letter on the Conversion of the Jews (Oxford Early Christian Studies) / Oxford University Press, USA:This book provides an edited text, introduction, and translation of a central document in the history of religious coercion in late antiquity: Severus of Minorca's Letter on the Conversion of the Jews. The Letter describes the forced conversion of the Jews of Minorca to Christianity in AD 418. It offers a fascinating perspective on Jewish-Christian relations in a Mediterranean town, and on the motives for religious intolerance. In addition, its wealth of information about a diaspora Jewish community in the western empire makes it unique among surviving sources.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-11-01
Dewey code: 338.7613637509755451
List Price: $150.00
Price: $124.82
Review African American Entrepreneurship in Richmond, 1890-1940: The Funeral Industry and the Story of R.C. Scott (Studies in Entrepreneurship) / Routledge:The study provides a case study of the Richmond African American funeral home industry and its role in the African American community's economic system and power structure in the early 20th century, as well as assessing the history of funeral services in Europe and the US, a discussion of reasons w
Publication date: 1938
Review Ideals and adventures (The Negro American series) / Harlow Pub. Co:
Authors
- Bradley Robinson
- Matthew Henson
Publication date: 1997-10-15
Price: $24.95
Review Dark Companion: The Story of Matthew Henson / Widget Magic:Dark Companion is the only biography written with Matthew Henson, the legendary Arctic explorer who reached the North Pole with Peary in 1909. The author's son has republished it as a tribute to Henson - of whom his father said was "A great man" and his mother added - ". and a Great Spirit".
Authors
- A. O'Kelleher
- G. Schoepperle
Price: $100.00
Review Betha Colaim Chille / Life of Columcille / Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies:
Publication date: 1981-12-15
Dewey code: 335.830924
List Price: $119.95
Price: $119.95
Review Michael Bakunin: Roots of Apocalypse / Praeger Publishers:
Publication date: 1990-05-17
Dewey code: 941.075092
Price: $79.00
Review Lord Grey, 1764-1845 / Oxford University Press, USA:This is the only comprehensive and authoritative modern biography of Charles, second Earl Grey, a leading figure in the Whig party from the 1780s to the 1830s, and the Prime Minister who passed the Great Reform Act of 1832. Smith here portrays Grey as chiefly responsible for guiding the country through a period of threatened revolution and maintaining the continuity of its political institutions. Drawing on an extensive range of historical sources, some of them previously unpublished, this study re-evaluates Grey's career and achievements in light of modern scholarship, and provides a unique insight into his complex and troubled personality.
Publication date: 1985-12-05
Dewey code: 941.0730924
List Price: $250.00
Price: $162.34
Review Lord Grenville, 1759-1834 / Oxford University Press, USA:This is the first full-length biography of the man who, through a combination of industry and intellect, became one of the central figures in British politics from 1782 to 1817. Based on an extensive range of manuscript sources, the book follows Lord Grenville's stunning personal and political career as he rose in trun from Irish Secretary to Speaker of the House of Commons, Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Prime Minister and finally, Opposition leader from 1807 until his retirement from party politics in 1817. Lord Grenville's outstanding political achievements during these years were many. He played a vital supportive role to his cousin, the younger Pitt, from 1783 to 1791; he was the main author of the Renunciation Act of 1783 and the Canada Act of 1791, and was a major contributor to other specific measures, including the Union of Ireland; his views on foreign affairs decidedly shaped government policy. This engrossing study illuminates Grenville's pervasive influence not only during his 35-year career but in the subsequent course of British history.
Publication date: 1999-01-21
Dewey code: 942.020922
List Price: $145.00
Price: $138.07
Review Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166 I: Domesday Book / Boydell Press:This is the first of two volumes offering for the first time an authoritative and complete prosopography of post-Conquest England, 1066-1166. Based on extensive and wide-ranging research, the two volumes contain over eight thousand entries on persons occurring in the principal English administrative sources for the post-Conquest period - Domesday Book, the Pipe Rolls, and Cartae Baronum. Continental origin is a major focus of the entries, as well as the discussion of family and descent of fees which characterise the whole work; genealogical tables are included. An introduction discusses Domesday prosopography; an appendix gives the Latin texts of the Northamptonshire and Lindsey surveys. Post-Conquest genealogy and manorial history start with Domesday Book: genealogists will welcome this work. Dr KATHERINE KEATS-ROHAN was awarded the Prix Brant IV de Koskull 1998 by the Confederation Internationale de Genealogie et d'Heraldique for her work on Domesday People. She is Director of the Linacre Unit for Prosopographical Research.
Publication date: 1981-10
Dewey code: 895.113
Price: $16.95
Review Wang Wei (Twayne's World Authors Series, Twas 606 : China) / Twayne Pub:
Edition: Rev Sub
Publication date: 1998-12
Dewey code: 730.092
Price: $45.00
Review Bill Reid / University of Washington Press:In his long career Bill Reid (1920-1998) embraced many art forms and was driven by a passion for the well-crafted object. In addition to creating jewelry, he wrote and illustrated books, pioneered the development of silk-screen art prints among the Indians of the Northwest Coast, among other endeavors. This revised biography includes a new chapter by the author. 193 illustrations, 49 in color.
Creator: Mary Young
Publication date: 2001-05-30
Dewey code: 305.8960730092
List Price: $125.00
Price: $100.00
Review W.E.B. Du Bois: An Encyclopedia / Greenwood Press:Carrying W. E. B. Du Bois from his birth in Massachusetts in 1868 to his death in Ghana in 1963, this concise encyclopedia covers all of the highlights of his life-his studying at Fisk, Harvard, and Berlin, his tiff with Booker T. Washington, his role with the NAACP and Pan-Africanism, his writings, his globe trotting, and his exile in Ghana. With contributions by leading scholars and a foreword by David Levering Lewis, the book provides a complete overview of Du Bois's life. Featuring the highlights of his life, the events and personalities that influenced him, his intellectual contributions, and his activism, this book provides a complete understanding of this highly influential intellectual activist. With the conclusion of the Cold War, there is the opportunity to obtain a fuller, more complete understanding of Du Bois' entire life. Providing full coverage of his latter crucial years-often ignored in earlier works-this book provides the latest scholarly insights, including a major entry by prizewinning scholar Brenda Gayle Plummer.
Creator: Gad Freudenthal
Publication date: 1993-03
Dewey code: 509.2
List Price: $143.00
Price: $143.00
Review Studies on Gersonides: A Fourteenth-Century Jewish Philosopher-Scientist (Collection De Travaux De L'academie Internationale D'histoire Des Sciences) / Brill Academic Publishers:R. Levi ben Gershom (Gersonides, 1288-1344) is one of the greatest and most original figures of Medieval Jewish thought. He wrote numerous works in philosophy, science and biblical exegesis. Some of his scientific works, most notably his highly innovative Astronomy, were translated from Hebrew into Latin and could thus reach non-Jewish scholars. The twelve studies collected in this bilingual volume (English and French in equal parts) offer for the first time a comprehensive overview and assessment of Gersonides' work in astronomy, mathematics, logic, natural science, and psychology. Gersonides' contributions are analyzed within the context of contemporary philosophy and science in Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin. New light is also shed on the reception of Gersonides' work within European science. The volume includes a very extensive bibliography of writings by and about Gersonides. From the contents: Part I: Gersonides' Astronomy: Bernard R. Goldstein, Jose Luis Mancha, Jose Chabas, Henri Hugonnard-Roche, Guy Beaujouan. [+]Part II: Gersonides' Work in Mathematics: Tony Levy, Karine Chemla, Serge Pahaut. Part III: Gersonides' Science in Its Relations to His Philosophy and Theology: Herbert A. Davidson, Tzvi Y. Langermann, Charles H. Manekin, Amos Funkenstein, Gad Freudenthal.
Publication date: 1968
Review Australian Dictionary of Biography, 12 Volumes / MELBOURNE UNIV PRESS:
Publication date: 1999-11
Review In Pursuit of Sir William Wallace / Alloway Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2002
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Castilian sculpture, Gothic to Renaissance (Hispanic notes & monographs; essays, studies, and brief biographies. Peninsular series), The Chinese reader's manual;: A handbook of biographical, historical, mythological, and general literary reference, The memoirs of Diana Grisdale, M.F.H, The Essential Basho, Severus of Minorca: Letter on the Conversion of the Jews (Oxford Early Christian Studies), African American Entrepreneurship in Richmond, 1890-1940: The Funeral Industry and the Story of R.C. Scott (Studies in Entrepreneurship), Ideals and adventures (The Negro American series), Dark Companion: The Story of Matthew Henson, Betha Colaim Chille / Life of Columcille, Michael Bakunin: Roots of Apocalypse, Lord Grey, 1764-1845, Lord Grenville, 1759-1834, Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166 I: Domesday Book, Wang Wei (Twayne's World Authors Series, Twas 606 : China), Bill Reid, W.E.B. Du Bois: An Encyclopedia, Studies on Gersonides: A Fourteenth-Century Jewish Philosopher-Scientist (Collection De Travaux De L'academie Internationale D'histoire Des Sciences), Australian Dictionary of Biography, 12 Volumes, In Pursuit of Sir William Wallace, SamTop headlines: Top 10 stupid gifts from chickens to toilet golf: Short of gift ideas for that person who really does have everything? 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