Authors
- Crosbie Smith
- M. Norton Wise
Dewey code: 530.0924
Price: $260.00
Review Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin / Cambridge University Press:This study of Lord Kelvin, the most famous mathematical physicist of 19th-century Britain, delivers on a speculation long entertained by historians of science that Victorian physics expressed in its very content the industrial society that produced it.
Authors
- Michael Roe
- Marcus Clarke
- Elizabeth Webby
Publication date: 2001-12
Dewey code: 920
Price: $175.00
Review His Natural Life (The Academy Editions of Australian Literature) / Univ of Queensland Pr:One of the greatest 19th-century Australian novels and the grand epic of the transportation system, this novel charts the misfortune of Richard Divine, falsely accused of murder, through the worst Australian penal settlements, while retaining his humanity and spiritual dignity. So powerful is Clarke's representation of the brutality of transportation that more than a century later historians still struggle to disentangle fact from tragic fiction.
Creator: Edgar Mertner
Publication date: 1976-12
Price: $148.19
Review Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries (Anglistica & Americana) / Georg Olms Publishers:
Publication date: 1999-01-15
Dewey code: 700
Price: $75.00
Review Edward Paul Giddings Art and Architecture 0f Passion / Giddings Publishing:Coffe table book about Architect and Artist Edward Giddings. Story of his work and life and times.
Publication date: 1989-12
Dewey code: 759.9492
Price: $160.00
Review Judith Leyster: A Woman Painter in Holland's Golden Age (Aetas Aurea, 9.) / Davaco Publishers:
Publication date: 2004-08-15
Price: $653.63
Review Encyclopaedia of World Great Scientists / Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd:
Authors
- Kamal Srivastava
- Sangeeta Srivastava
Price: $1,026.49
Review Encyclopaedia of the World Biography / APH Publishing Corporation:
Edition: English Ed
Publication date: 1997-10-24
Dewey code: 759.5
Price: $95.00
Review Giorgione / Flammarion:This magisterial volume based on the life and art of Venetian painter Giorgione, examines new sources and scientific analysis to reinterpret his work while presenting essential pieces in beautiful detail. Includes a catalogue raisonne.
Publication date: 1997-09
Dewey code: 828
Price: $13.95
Review Grapefruit / St Martins Pr:Regarded as poetry, thought bombs, metaphysical metrics, and Kodachrome luminescences, a long out-of-print collection of Yoko Ono's synthesis of the Fluxus art movement and the written word is an original work reflecting her restless creative spirit.
Creator: Deirdre Wright
Publication date: 2000-03
Dewey code: 920
Price: $37.50
Review East Germany: What Happened to the Silesians in 1945? / Book Guild Ltd:The agricultural province of Silesia had been in German hands for over 700 years, but as part of the reparations for Germany's defeat in World War II it was ceded to Poland in 1945. With that began a sequence of events chillingly familiar in the late 20th Century occupation, expulsion and forced repatriation. This is the true story of the people affected by this, an account of their suffering and a warning of the dangers of nationalism.
Publication date: 2008-10-15
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $642.50
Price: $642.50
Review What's So Great About...? Set (What's So Great About...?) (What's So Great About...?) / Mitchell Lane Publishers:
Publication date: 1975-01-01
Dewey code: 821.3
Price: $45.00
Review The Poetry of George Herbert / Harvard University Press:
Publication date: 2006-09-01
Dewey code: 809.1031
List Price: $717.00
Price: $717.00
Review Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook / Walter de Gruyter:Petrarch's revival of the ancient practice of laureation in 1341 led to the laurel being conferred on poets throughout Europe in the later Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Within the Holy Roman Empire, Maximilian I conferred the title of Imperial Poet Laureate especially frequently, and later it was bestowed with unbridled liberality by Counts Palatine and university rectors too. This handbook identifies more than 1300 poets laureated within the Empire and adjacent territories between 1355 and 1804, giving (wherever possible) a sketch of their lives, a list of their published works, and a note of relevant scholarly literature. The introduction and various indexes provide a detailed account of a now largely forgotten but once significant literary-sociological phenomenon and illuminate literary networks in the Early Modern period.
Authors
- Red Schoendienst
- Rob Rains
Publication date: 1998-08
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $19.95
Price: $649.85
Review Red: A Baseball Life / Sagamore Publishing:In Red: A Baseball Life, Red Schoendiest details all of the events that shaped his life, on and off the field, as he moved from the playing field to the managers office to his currant position as a special assistant to the general man- ager of the St. Louis Cardinals. Schoendiest played, coached and managed in nine World Series. He played 10 All-Star games and managed the National League squad in two. In 1989 he was inducted into baseballs Hall of Fame. -This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title.
Creator: Paul Starkey
Publication date: 1998-05
Dewey code: 892.70903
Price: $629.59
Review Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature / Routledge:From classical Persian texts to modern Islamic newspapers, the 1,300 alphabetically organized entries in this comprehensive work provide authoritative and up-to-date information on the major figures and trends in Arabic literature from the classical period to the twentieth century. Combining traditional studies with the latest research by internationally renowned experts in the field, the entries discuss the principal authors, works, genres, key terms, concepts and issues in the Arabic literary tradition and cover a broad geographical scope, including Africa, Arabia, Spain and Turkey. Special reference features include: * diacritical marks * extensive cross-referencing * bibliographies at the end of each entry * information on translations as well as original publications by authors featured in biographical entries * thorough index * glossary of Arabic terms * appendix listing the dates of each dynasty. Contents include: * Autobiography * Beirut (modern) * Dialect in literature * Epic poetry * Grammar and grammarians * al-Hilal * Humour * Idris, Suhayl * Koran * Legends of the Elders * Literature and the visual arts * Mahfuz, Najib * Mirrors for princes * Mukhannathun * Newspapers * Poetic contests * Printing and publishing * Qasida * al-Samman, Ghada * Satire * Sufism * Yemen * Ziyada, Mayy.
Publication date: 1996-11
Dewey code: 759.2
Price: $53.95
Review William Henry Pyne & His Microcosm / Alan Sutton Publishing, Ltd.:The Microcosm is invaluable for the light it sheds on late 18th century and early 19th century country life. This biography will appeal to students of art and social history, to costume and art historians, and to anyone interested in how the people of England lived and worked before the age of machines and power.
Publication date: 1994-05
Dewey code: 943.086092
Price: $47.50
Review The Kersten Memoirs: 1940-1945 / Howard Fertig:
Publication date: 1991-02
Dewey code: 910.091631
Review Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea / Houghton Mifflin:
Creator: Robert J. Elster
Edition: 72nd
Publication date: 2008-06-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $690.00
Price: $644.82
Review The International Who's Who 2009 / Europa Publications:Published annually since 1935, "The International Who's Who" is now in its seventy-second edition. Providing hard-to-find biographical details for over 22,000 of the world's most prominent and influential personalities, this outstanding reference work records the lives and achievements of men and women from almost every profession and activity - from heads of state to sporting greats. The editorial team aims to include all those who have risen to the top of their field or profession - from the headline makers to the unsung experts whose achievements and talents guarantee their inclusion. Entries are taken from across the world and from a broad sweep of professions, to include the leading figures from the worlds of science, medicine, business, finance, politics, international affairs, diplomacy, law, art, music, entertainment and fashion, to name but a few. In this work, there is also a separate section that details reigning royal families.
Creator: Ross B. Emmett
Publication date: 2006-08
Dewey code: 330.092273
List Price: $1,020.00
Price: $688.61
Review The Biographical Dictionary of American Economists / Thoemmes Press:The Dictionary covers American and Canadian economists and writers/thinkers with views on economics from the pre-Revolutionary period to the 1950s. All the major schools of American economic thought are represented, ranging from the Constitutional school to the Keynesian and the Chicago School. A significant number of the subjects are female, including figures such as Anna Schwartz, Mabel Timlin, Mabel Newcomer, Margaret Gilpin Reid, Rose Friedman and Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter, highlighting the role that women have played in the development of American economic thought. More generally, the dictionary includes many minor but important figures who have contributed to that development, ranging from William Penn and Cotton Mather to Augustus M. Kelley and Leon Marshall. Individually, the entries capture important and often overlooked contributions to the development of economic thought in America; collectively, they encapsulate the rich diversity of that thought and the influences that have been at play on American economic thinking over four centuries.
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Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin, His Natural Life (The Academy Editions of Australian Literature), Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries (Anglistica & Americana), Edward Paul Giddings Art and Architecture 0f Passion, Judith Leyster: A Woman Painter in Holland's Golden Age (Aetas Aurea, 9.), Encyclopaedia of World Great Scientists, Encyclopaedia of the World Biography, Giorgione, Grapefruit, East Germany: What Happened to the Silesians in 1945?, What's So Great About...? Set (What's So Great About...?) (What's So Great About...?), The Poetry of George Herbert, Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook, Red: A Baseball Life, Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, William Henry Pyne & His Microcosm, The Kersten Memoirs: 1940-1945, Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea, The International Who's Who 2009, The Biographical Dictionary of American EconomistsTop headlines: Young doctors graduate in Somalia: On Thursday, 20 men and women accomplished something that nobody in Somalia has done in nearly two decades: They graduated from medical school. ›23:35 Q&A: Policing School Shootings: A disturbed 14-year-old wounds four before killing himself in Clevelandjust another spasm of violence in another bloody year for Americas schools. 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