Creator: Frank Northen Magill
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-09-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $795.00
Price: $779.99
Review The 20th Century, 1901-2000 (Great Lives from History) / Salem Press:This title presents in-depth critical essays on important women and men in all areas of achievement, and from around the world, who flourished between 1901 and 2000. "Great Lives from History: The 20th Century, 1901-2000" is a remarkable reference set, covering a century in truly global fashion. It is also the eighth installment in the revised and expanded "Great Lives" series, which provides in-depth critical essays on important men and women in all areas of achievement. This brand new, ten-volume set offers more than 1,300 extensive biographies of major personages in world history from 1901-2000. This set is broad in scope, both geographically and in terms of the individuals' areas of achievement. The personages covered are identified with several different regions, including Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and South America. The coverage is broad in areas of achievement as well as geography, and includes those persons recognized for shaping history, coverage that is essential in any liberal arts curriculum. Major world leaders appear here, as well as religious leaders, philosophers, educators, and theologians who left their imprint on political and spiritual institutions. The set also includes figures who have received little attention in the past, particularly women and people of color who also had significant achievements throughout the century. Each essay ranges from 1,500 to 3,000 words in length (3 to 5 pages) and displays standard ready-reference top matter offering easy access to biographical information including the individual's name, nationality, occupation, area of achievement, and dates of birth and death. [+]Also included is a summary paragraph highlighting the individual's historical importance and indicating why the person is studied today. The body of each essay is divided into three major sections: "Early Life" provides facts about the individual's upbringing and the environment in which he or she was reared. "Life's Work," the heart of the essay, consists of a straightforward, generally chronological account of the period during which the individual's most significant achievements were accomplished. Lastly, "Significance" provides an overview of the individual's place in history. The front matter includes a complete list of contents, a pronunciation key, lists of maps and sidebars, and a section of maps displaying major regions of the world during the twentieth century. Several appendixes and indexes can be found at the end of Volume 10, including a table of Rulers and Heads of State, a chronological list of personages, and 4 complete indexes.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-07-25
Dewey code: 330.092
List Price: $700.00
Price: $692.18
Review Sir John Hicks: Critical Assessments: Second Series (Critical Assessments of Contemporary Economists) / Routledge:Sir John Hicks is one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. Awarded the Nobel Prize for economics in 1972, he has made contributions across a wide range of economic theory, writing some twenty books. Arguably the most important of these, Value and Capital, is seen as the roots of modern microeconomics and general equilibrium theory. Hicks possessed an unusual ability to synthesise the ideas of other economists – something that is evident in his invention of the ‘IS-LM’ diagram to expound Keynes’ General Theory, and is perhaps what he is best known to present day economists for. This two volume set is the second collection on Hicks in this series and includes new assessments of his contributions, covering the last fifteen years. With a new introduction by the editor, this comprehensive and scholarly collection provides students and scholars immediate access to Sir John Hicks’ contributions.
Creator: R. Tanner
Publication date: 1994
Review Robin Tanner and the Old Stile Press / Old Stile Press:
Authors
- Peter Blundell Jones
- Hans Scharoun
- Peter Blundell-Jones
Dewey code: 720.92
Price: $75.00
Review Hans Scharoun / Phaidon Press:Hans Scharoun (1893-1972) was the most significant German architectural Modernist of the 1920's, staying in the country during the Third Reich to re-emerge during the 1950's. Achieving recognition with his controversial house for the Stuttgart Weissenhofsiedlung in 1927, his experiments with free planning and dynamic interior space continued throughout the wartime years. Post-war he emerged with a consolidated architectural philosophy exemplified by the Philarmonie concert hall in Berlin (1956-63) which remains the most sucessful 20th century model for this building type. This monographic overview of Scharoun's life and work explores his theoretical stance in relation to his contemporaries.
Publication date: 1930
Review No hard feelings! / Cosmopolitan book corporation:
Publication date: 1945
Review Peleliu landing / C. Hertzog:
Publication date: 1991-09
Dewey code: 330.156
List Price: $550.00
Price: $697.42
Review John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946 (Pioneers in Economics) / Edward Elgar Publishing:
Creator: J.A. Underwood
Publication date: 1986-11-20
Review Bismarck / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:The name Bismarck sums up the entire political, social, economic, and intellectual development of central Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century and the internal and external shape that Germany then assumed. How much of all this was Bismarck's personal achievement? Was he, as many of his contemporaries believed, the key figure who made everything different? Was he the man who put the nation on the disastrously wrong course that reached its fateful culmination in 1933? Or did Bismarck in fact represent the prevailing forces of his time to a far greater degree than has often been thought? Was he successful precisely because he implemented policies for which the time was ripe - and did so in ways that were in harmony with the historical evolution of central Europe? These questions are discussed within this biography, making it suitable reading not only for students of Bismarck's life, but for all those interested in the fundamental problems of German and European history.
Creator: Max Bense
Publication date: 1996-12-01
Dewey code: 709.2
Price: $130.00
Review Anton Stankowski: Free and Applied 1925 - 1995 / John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Import):
Publication date: 1919
Review Fighting the flying circus / Lippincott ;:
Authors
- Bruce Weber
- Peter Lindbergh
- Michael Roberts
Edition: Slipcase
Publication date: 2002-09-15
Dewey code: 778
List Price: $120.00
Price: $800.00
Review Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue / Edition 7L:Grace Coddington's celebration of fashion has danced along its cutting edge for over 30 years. Abandoning a highly lucrative career as a leading model on the 60s London scene, alongside such swinging contemporaries as Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy, Coddington signed on in 1968 as a junior fashion editor at British Vogue. She quickly established herself on the other side of the camera, coordinating photo shoots with David Bailey, Cecil Beaton, Helmut Newton, Sarah Moon, and the eccentric Guy Bourdin. A close working relationship with royal photographer Norman Parkinson produced a series of startlingly vibrant location shoots that have come to be considered classics. At British Vogue, Coddington also introduced the sweeping narrative epic, a familiar feature of her work nowadays at American Vogue, where she has been creative director for the past 14 years. GRACE: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue is not only a collection of Coddington's greatest work, it is a visual reminiscence of her life in fashion.
Publication date: 1981-10-02
Price: $96.00
Review CHURCHILL COMP VOL 5 PT 2 / Houghton Mifflin:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1998-01
Dewey code: 791.43028092
Price: $24.95
Review Eleanor Powell: First Lady of Dance / Empire Publishing:
Edition: Premium
Publication date: 2001-10
Dewey code: 910
Price: $19.99
Review The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont / IndyPublish.com:So we started off into the unknown, with no more provision or equipment than if we were going for a stroll of a mile or so. Yamba carried her yam-stick and basket, and I had my usual weapons- -tomahawk and stiletto in my belt, and bow and arrows in my hand. I never dreamed when we started that to strike due south would take us into the unexplored heart of the continent.
Publication date: 1999-06
Dewey code: 780.92
Review Saint-Saens: A Critical Biography / Cygnus Arts:This book provides the fullest account yet to appear in English of the composer's long life and huge musical output. The struggle for recognition, the crucial role played in the formation of a French national school after 1871, his controversial views on such questions as modern music and the influence of Wagner, his character and outlook are extensively discussed, with analysis and comment on the principal compositions.
Creator: James Wills
Edition: Facsimile of 1839-47 ed
Publication date: 1997-03-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $725.00
Price: $676.04
Review Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen (Biographical dictionaries) / Ganesha Publishing:This is an authoritative and easy-to-use biographical dictionary covering over nineteen centuries of Irish lives. From Ollamh Fodhla, six hundred years bc, through Jonathan Swift up until the mid-Victorian era with the death of Whitley Stokes in 1845, this important reference work was first published in 1839-47. Ireland has always had a very personal history and its heroes appear in every field of human endeavour including philosophers, theologians, historians, statesmen, physicians, writers, and scientists; names include St Patrick, Niall of the Nine Hostages, Brendan, Edmund Spenser, James Butler, James Usher, Jeremy Taylor, Jonathan Swift, George Berkeley, Robert Boyle, Sir Richard Steele, Sir Hans Sloane, Edmund Burke, Henry Grattan, John Philpot Curran, Thomas Percy, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Elizabeth Hamilton, Mary Tighe, George Canning, and Oliver Goldsmith. Five hundred and thirteen biographies are printed using a wide range of source materials, making this the most comprehensive and extensive biographical history of Ireland attempted. The text is arranged into six historical periods, each with a historical introduction. Within each period, the lives are presented chronologically within three disciplines - literary, political and ecclesiastical. In addition, the volumes are illustrated with a selection of portraits and views. This detailed sourcebook is an invaluable biographical reference tool for libraries and students in all disciplines.
Creator: Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf
Edition: 2
Publication date: 1999-12-03
Dewey code: 810.9928703
Price: $540.00
Review American Women Writers Edition 2. / St. James Press:Offering up-to-date coverage of 1,300 writers (100 new to this edition) and spanning from colonial days to the present, American Women Writers offers biography, criticism, bibliography and much more. Look for essays from 400 to 5,000 words assessing each writer's works; basic biographies; complete bibliographies; comprehensive data on writers' names, including pseudonyms, aliases, parents' names and husbands' names; and more. This edition includes the best-known names: Rachel Blau DuPlessis; Sue Grafton; Donna Haraway; Lucy Lippard; Jane Smiley; Jacqueline Mitchard; Anne Waldman; etc. as well as updated or rewritten entries on outstanding writers from the fields of anthropology, religion, psychology and history: Ruth Benedict, Karen Horney, Margaret Mead, Barbara Tuchman, to name a few. This resource also includes hundreds of unjustly ignored writers who address themselves in journals, letters, stories, even hymns to their world and time. This edition of American Women Writers is enhanced with indexes and lists that make it possible to access data by author or title. It promises concise, up-to-date critical assessments for students and teachers of American literature; enhances the interests of young or seasoned feminists; and offers good reading for browsers and popular culture fans.
Publication date: 1937
Review "Stand to";: A diary of the trenches, 1915-18, / Hurst & Blackett:
Creator: Peter Sabor
Edition: Facsimile edition
Publication date: 1999-07
Dewey code: 828.609
List Price: $750.00
Price: $694.99
Review The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford / Pickering & Chatto Publishers:Walpole's novel The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story (1764), has long been hailed as one of the finest and earliest examples of the gothic novel. Its centrality to the genre is reflected by the number of paperback editions now available. The Castle of Otranto was the most popular of Walpole's works during his lifetime and has been published in well over a hundred editions since his death. Despite its brevity it changed the course of English fiction and inspired the Gothic novelists of the 1790s. However, during his lifetime, Walpole suppressed the majority of his works, limiting publication to small editions published by his own press. Only with his death and the publication of his Works in 1798 was the range of Walpole's oeuvre revealed to a wider public. In this facsimile edition of his Works, Walpole is revealed as a historian, dramatist, poet, essayist and literary critic, as well as showing his more widely known persona as novelist, correspondent and writer of political memoirs. Long out of print, the Works contains his iconoclastic theories on art, architecture and gardening, his polemical views on history and his own father, and his descriptions of his own gothic folly at Strawberry Hill and the remarkable collections it contained. Edited by Walpole's close friend, Mary Berry, the Complete Works includes a selection of Walpole's correspondence. While far from the comprehensive Yale edition of his correspondence, this collection is significant in being the result of Walpole's own selection and arrangement and that of his chosen editor. [+]This facsimile edition reproduces the copy held in the Lewis Walpole Library, which remained at Strawberry Hill until the sale of contents in 1842. This copy is unique in that it contains over 500 pages from the very rare 1770 Strawberry Hill edition of Fugitive Pieces in Verse and Prose (which was never completed and left unpublished). Walpole's Works is still the standard authoritative edition of his writings and this facsimile will fill a conspicuous absence in many libraries.
Authors
- Pauline Sutcliffe
- Kay Williams
Publication date: 1996-03-11
List Price: $410.00
Price: $705.94
Review Stuart, the Life and Art of Stuart Sutcliffe / Genesis Publications:
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