Publication date: 2001-08
Dewey code: 338
Price: $16.95
Review Japanese Wshisky, Scotch Blend / Scottish Cultural Press:
Authors
- Carol Podedworny
- Bob Boyer
- Daphne Odjig
Publication date: 2001-06-15
Dewey code: 759.11
Price: $29.95
Review Odjig: The Art of Daphne Odjig, 1960-2000 / Key Porter Books:Odjig: The Art of Daphne Odjig, 1960-2000 is a graceful blend of biography, essay, and critique which illuminates the importance of this gifted artist to the Canadian artistic community and provides art lovers with a rare glimpse into the extraordinary heart of this painter. Odjig confronts the themes of the aboriginal experience, her family dynamic, and her spiritual beliefs in her paintings, which are extremely personal. Collectors of her works are awed by her innovative use of traditional aboriginal symbols, which transcend the specific culture from which they come. In the early 1960s, her development of a recognizable "Odjig style" garnered her enough attention to make possible her first solo show in 1967. Odjig's reputation as an artist was growing internationally and her commissioned painting Earth Mother was displayed at EXPO '70 in Japan. Odjig's importance as a Canadian artist is immeasurable. Bob Boyer, a renowned Metis artist and lecturer, absorbingly explores in his preface the place of Native art in the broader spectrum of Canadian culture, in order to provide a more in-depth perspective on Odjig's significance. Pamela Krueger, an award-winning appreciator of Canadian art, discusses in the introduction the course of Odjig's life and career and places her art into its cultural context.
Publication date: 1915
Review The story of Yone Noguchi,:
Creator: James Boswell
Publication date: 1997-01
Price: $261.26
Review The General Correspondence of James Boswell (Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels) / Edinburgh University Press:The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1996
Review A Genius for War. A Life of General George S. Patton / HarpeCollins:
Publication date: 2008-06
Review Afro-Mexicans: Discourse of Race and Identity on the African Diaspora / Africa World Press:
Publication date: 2003-12-01
Dewey code: 338.7677110922416
Price: $53.99
Review Linen Houses of the Lagan Valley: The Story of Their Families / Ulster Historical Foundation:By the late 19th century, Belfast had developed into one of the great industrial cities of the Empire. Much of this new-found wealth was based on the manufacture of linen. The opulent lifestyle that came to be so characteristic of the great linen barons is reflected perhaps best of all in the houses they built. Many travelled from their imposing mansions in the Lagan Valley into the city on the new Great Northern Railway. Others lived in equally resplendent houses near the linen works they had already established on the River Lagan. This book provides an illustrated and informed commentary on the major linen families and the magnificent houses they built along the Lagan Valley. The images—exterior views of the actual houses, interior scenes of the stately rooms and portraits of the families themselves—present tantalising and poignant glimpses of a bygone age, when Belfast was justifiable know as "Linenopolis. ".
Edition: Largeprint
Publication date: 1985-10
Dewey code: 917.309749
Price: $13.95
Review I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / G K Hall & Co:The first of five autobiographical volumes, evoking the author's childhood with her grandmother in the American South of the thirties, and recounting her experience of discrimination as a black, and the terrible trauma of rape by her grandfather. First published in 1984. In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California-where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant. ".
Publication date: 2001-01
Dewey code: 796.35
Price: $19.95
Review Flashbacks: A Half Century of Cork Hurling (Flashbacks) / Collins Press:
Creator: John W. Blassingame
Publication date: 1979-09-10
Dewey code: 322.440924
Price: $160.00
Review The Frederick Douglass Papers: Volume 1, Series One: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, 1841-1846 (The Frederick Douglass Papers Series) / Yale University Press:Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Douglass into the international spotlight as the foremost spokesman for American blacks, both freed and slave. Written during his celebrated career as a speaker and newspaper editor, My Bondage and My Freedom reveals the author of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) grown more mature, forceful, analytical, and complex with a deepened commitment to the fight for equal rights and liberties. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by John David Smith.
Authors
- Herbert C. Dupree
- Sherry Sherrod Dupree
Dewey code: 782.25
Price: $19.95
Review African-American Good News (Gospel Music) / Middle Atlantic Regional Pr:Presents biographical sketches and photographs of black gospel singers, composers, and instrumentalists.
Publication date: 1988-11-10
Dewey code: 759.81
Price: $295.00
Review Johan Christian Dahl 1788-1857: Life and Works Volumes 1-3 (cased set) (Scandinavian University Press Publication) / A Scandinavian University Press Publication:This three volume set represents a breakthrough in research on Johan Christian Dahl (1788-1857), the first Norwegian painter to achieve international renown. Volume 1 surveys his life and work, including a section of quotations from the artist's statements on art and excerpts from contemporary writings. Volumes 2 and 3 present a catalogue raisonne of Dahl's oil paintings, comprising 1300 entries, with full lists of doubtful attributions. This invaluable reference on Norwegian art is available as a cased set or in separate volumes.
Publication date: 1996-03
Price: $34.00
Review Everyday Life Philosophers: Modernity, Morality, & Autobiography in Norway / Scandinavian Univ Pr:
Creator: D. W. Hayton
Publication date: 2002-01-01
Dewey code: 328.44107209032
List Price: $575.00
Price: $571.00
Review The History of Parliament: the House of Commons, 1690-1715 (5 vols) (History of Parliament) / Cambridge University Press:The House of Commons 1690-1715 provides in its Introductory Survey (by David Hayton) a full statistical analysis of the background, careers and political affiliations of the Members of Parliament themselves, the political behavior of the electorate and the results of general elections, and, for the first time, the scope and nature of parliamentary business. Four further volumes, covering the Constituencies and Members, have been edited by Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley and David Hayton. They offer a vast wealth of essential information about all parliamentary aspects of the localities and about the lives and careers of thousands of Members throughout the period.
Publication date: 2008-12-05
Dewey code: 302
List Price: $252.00
Price: $252.00
Review African American Eras Library: Colonial and Revolutionary Times / UXL:
Creator: Harold Bloom
Publication date: 2002-11
Dewey code: 813.54
Price: $11.95
Review Toni Morrison (Bloom's Biocritiques) / Chelsea House Publications:- A biographical and critical review of the world's most important writers- Expert analysis by Harold Bloom- A wealth of information on the writers that are most commonly read in high schools, colleges, and universities
Publication date: 1965
Review An Irish boy and God: The biography of Robert Hare, Irish immigrant, pioneer preacher, and poet / Review and Herald Pub. Association:
Creator: Donald M. Lewis
Publication date: 1995-12
Dewey code: 269.2092
List Price: $250.00
Price: $249.98
Review The Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography 1730-1860: 1730-1860 / Blackwell Pub:
Publication date: 2004-12
Review Truth Crushed to the Earth Will Rise Again!: The East Organization and the Principles and Practice of Nationalist Development / Africa World Press:This book examines the historical, socio-political and cultural significance of "The East. " It explores the efforts of The East to build and sustain viable community and family-centered institutions in the context of nation(alist) building. Nation building is defined here as the conscious and focused application of African people’s collective resources, energies and knowledge to the task of liberating and developing the psychic and physical space that Africans identify as theirs. Nationalist is used here to properly situate The East experience in the context and continuum of Black nationalist thought and praxis and its efforts to build upon this tradition.
Publication date: 1992
Review Chronicle of the Tom Young family =: Tan Yang jia pu / K.S. Tom:
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Patton, Afro-Mexicans: Discourse of Race and Identity on the African Diaspora, Linen Houses of the Lagan Valley: The Story of Their Families, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Flashbacks: A Half Century of Cork Hurling (Flashbacks), The Frederick Douglass Papers: Volume 1, Series One: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, 1841-1846 (The Frederick Douglass Papers Series), African-American Good News (Gospel Music), Johan Christian Dahl 1788-1857: Life and Works Volumes 1-3 (cased set) (Scandinavian University Press Publication), Everyday Life Philosophers: Modernity, Morality, & Autobiography in Norway, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons, 1690-1715 (5 vols) (History of Parliament), African American Eras Library: Colonial and Revolutionary Times, Toni Morrison (Bloom's Biocritiques), An Irish boy and God: The biography of Robert Hare, Irish immigrant, pioneer preacher, and poet, The Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography 1730-1860: 1730-1860, Truth Crushed to the Earth Will Rise Again!: The East Organization and the Principles and Practice of Nationalist Development, Chronicle of the Tom Young family =: Tan Yang jia puTop headlines: Hirsh: Democracy's Strange Bedfellows: The champions of democracy often share an overly romantic view of how quickly it can flower in hostile soil. ›16:56 11 Oct, Thu Ex-FBI agent faces jail over slaying: A former FBI agent is looking at hard time in a Florida prison for the mob-related 1982 slaying of a Miami gambling executive. ›13:58 Hotels offer outrageous perks for your pets: Massages, happy hours, and monogrammed towelsfor pets. 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