Authors
- Octave Chanute
- Marvin Wilks McFarland
- Orville Wright
- Wilbur Wright
Dewey code: 629.130922
Review The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright: Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute / Mcgraw-Hill (Tx):
Publication date: 1997-01-01
Dewey code: 720.92
List Price: $85.00
Price: $654.15
Review Robert A. M. Stern Houses / Monacelli:In over thirty years of practice, Robert A. M. Stern has developed a distinctive architecture committed to the synthesis of tradition and innovation and, above all, to the creation and enhancement of a meaningful sense of place. Inspired by the great legacy of American architecture, the firm of Robert A. M. Stern Architects has produced a variety of building types in a range of stylistic vocabularies. The design of houses, for which the firm initially gained notice, remains a cornerstone of the practice. Beautifully illustrated in color, this major monograph - a companion volume to the best-selling Robert A. M. Stern: Buildings - thoroughly documents more than forty-five houses built over the course of thirty years. [+]These distinguished houses are located in diverse settings across the United States, from San Francisco's Russian Hill to the Rocky Mountains to the Long Island and New England coasts. In every case, Stern has emphasized the importance of context by exploring the nature of place through houses that embody the region's vernacular architectural heritage, as well as gracefully reflect each site's unique natural setting. Whether considering classical New York town houses, Shingle Style "cottages" by the sea, or Scandinavian log houses as reinterpreted on the American frontier, Stern has fostered a strong sense of architectural continuity and connection to the past by participating in the dialogue across time that he believes lies at the heart of architecture.
Publication date: 2007-02
Price: $475.00
Review Les Graveurs Du Xixe Siecle: Guide de L'Amateur D'Estampes Modernes / Martino Publishing:REPRINT 2007. Hardbound. Octavo. 12 volumes bound in three. French. Circa 3000 pages. Paris, L. Conquet, 1885-1892 This is one of the most comprehensive print catalogues for nineteenth century prints. Originally published in 12 volumes, this reprint edition formats the original 12 volumes into 3 stout volumes. Beraldi provides biographical information and a list of prints executed by each artist. [+]Over 3000 pages. Reprint does not reproduce the original illustrations that were contributed by living artists at the time. Hundreds of artists covered. Material is arranged alphabetically by artist, with the twelve volumes having the following content: I. Abbema-Belhatte. II. Bellangé-Bovinet. III. Bracquemond IV. Brascassat-Chéret. V. Cherrier-Dien VI. Doré-Gavard. VII. Gavarni-Guérard. VIII. Guérin-Lacoste IX. Laemlein-Mécou. X. Meissonier-Piguet XI. Pillement-Saint-Évre XII. Saint-Marcel-Zwinger.
Publication date: 2008-09
Dewey code: 791.443
Price: $30.00
Review Riding on the Ether Express: A Memoir of 1960s Los Angeles, the Rise of Freeform Underground Radio, and the Legendary Kppc-fm / Center for Louisiana Studies University Siana:
Creator: Mark C. Carnes
Publication date: 1999-06
Dewey code: 920.073
Review American National Biography / Oxford Univ Pr (T):Told more as stories than history lessons, the biographies in American National Biography Supplement I recount the tales of all the different people who shaped America-leaders, composers, entertainers, entrepreneurs, writers, scientists, and outlaws. Each one written by an expert in the field and masterfully woven together to present the most accurate and up-to-date information, the entries bring forth a powerful narrative of America's past and some of the most important figures that went into its formation. As the first in a series, ANB Supplement I extends the coverage from the original ANB to include notables who died prior to the end of 1999. This adds another four years of captivating history to the original 24-volume print edition's cutoff date of 1995. Among the biographies in the Supplement are articles first published in the ANB Online. The result is hour after absorbing hour spent exploring the dance of Gene Kelly and the music of Ella Fitzgerald along with the lives of Revolutionary War General Peter Gansevoort and literary scholar Fredson Bowers, among many, many others. With over 400 new listings, bibliographies after each entry, and a cumulative revised index of occupations and realms of renown, the Supplement continues the ANB tradition of bringing the people who have meant so much to this country to the forefront.
Authors
- Line Vautrin
- Patrick Mauries
Dewey code: 739.27092
Price: $35.00
Review Line Vautrin: Sculptor, Jeweller, Magician / Thames & Hudson:
Edition: 6
Publication date: 2007-11-09
Dewey code: 920.7209051
List Price: $560.00
Price: $556.00
Review International Who's Who of Women 2008 (International Who's Who of Women) / Routledge:The most influential and distinguished women throughout the world are brought together in this unique single volume publication. Listing over 6,000 entries from a variety of backgrounds, this new fifth edition reflects the growing role of women in modern society. A one-stop research tool with extensive indexing, making reference quick and easy, recognizing established personalities as well as women who are rising to prominence. Key featuresEach entry includes: nationality, date and place of birth, education, family details, career, awards and publications, leisure interests, address and telephone numbers, and email and internet addresses where availableAlso indexed by professionComprehensive biographies of women from all occupational fields are included: politics, finance, business, academia, science, literature, the media, fashion, the arts, medicine, sports and many more.
Creator: Horst Hanusch
Publication date: 2000-05
Dewey code: 330.09
List Price: $465.00
Price: $461.00
Review The Legacy of Joseph A. Schumpeter (Intellectual Legacies in Modern Economic) / Edward Elgar Pub:
Creator: Michael Millgate
Publication date: 1990-05-31
Dewey code: 823.8
Price: $70.00
Review Selected Letters / Oxford University Press, USA:Thomas Hardy, born in rural obscurity in early Victorian Dorset, had become by the time of his death more than eighty years later the most famous writer in the English-speaking world. These fascinating letters provide an invaluable look into his life from the years as an unknown architect's assistant in London in the 1860s to the final period of amazing old-age productivity in the relative isolation of Max Gate. More than 300 letters, selected from the seven-volume Clarendon Press edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, emphasize his personal rather than his purely professional relationships. They include correspondence with his family, his two wives, and close friends Edmund Gosse and Florence Henniker, and address other notable figures, among them Walter de la Mare, Millicent Fawcett, Harley Granville Barker, Ezra Pound, Marie Stopes, Robert Louis Stevenson, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and Virginia Woolf. Millgate provides annotations and editorial commentaries to individual letters or sequences of letters to place them within the broader contexts of Hardy's life and literary career.
Creator: Steven G. Kellman
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 2006-09-15
Dewey code: 810.90003
List Price: $499.00
Price: $499.00
Review Magill's Survey of American Literature / Salem Press:This revised edition of "Magill's Survey of American Literature", originally published in 1991, with a 1994 supplement updates essays and adds many newones, covering 340 writers at the heart of literary studies. "Magill's Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition" offers profiles of major U. S. and Canadian writers accompanied by analyses of their significant works in fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction.
Creator: Leon Walras
Publication date: 2001-11-30
Dewey code: 330.157
List Price: $580.00
Price: $576.00
Review The Legacy of Leon Walras (Intellectual Legacies in Modern Economic) / Edward Elgar Publishing:This two-volume collection of over 60 published articles presents a major study of Leon Walras's intellectual legacy and reveals how Walras's ideas contributed significantly to the formation of the mainstream of modern microeconomic theory. The collection comprises two groups of writings. The first, consisting of interpretations of his ideas, discuss his contributions to the theory of general equilibrium, including his special models of capital and of money, his applications of theory to the formation of economic policies, and his use of it in connection with his concepts of economic justice and an ideal economy. The second group shows current uses of Walras's ideas, including models dealing with Walrasian equilibrium, Walras's law, Cournot-Walras models, Walrasian ideas in the context of game-theoretic analysis, the Walras correposndence, and WALRAS, an econometric model of the general equilibrium effects of agricultural policies.
Creator: Rick Tilman
Publication date: 2003-09
Dewey code: 330.092
List Price: $835.00
Price: $490.00
Review The Legacy of Thorstein Veblen (Intellectual Legacies in Modern Economic) / Edward Elgar Publishing:Veblen was an original thinker, responsible for introducing and popularising a host of important concepts and insights. He ignited controversy not only in economics, but also in sociology, history and political science. The number and quality of the responses to his work provide evidence of the novelty and explanatory power of his ideas. These comprehensive volumes should enable the reader to sample the broad spectrum of Veblen's thought and that of his critics and interpreters. They include critical appraisals of the corpus of his published work as well as reinterpretations of his life and influence on the social sciences particularly economics, political science and sociology. This authoritative collection includes reprints of materials previously published by leading scholars on nearly every aspect of Veblen's life and work. It should be invaluable to professional scholars and graduate students who wish to heighten their understanding of the alternatives to formalism in the social studies.
Publication date: 1996-11
Dewey code: 700.922
Review Lives and Works in the Arts: From the Renaissance to the 20th Century / M.E.Sharpe,U.S.:
Creator: Kenneth C. Wenzer
Publication date: 2003-05
Dewey code: 330.092
List Price: $496.95
Price: $483.28
Review Henry George: Collected Journalistic Writings / M.E. Sharpe:More than a century after his death in 1897, Henry George remains one of the most original and influential economic thinkers in American history. His revolutionary theory on land taxation gained a tremendous following, reshaped the nation's political and economic debate, and continues today to be a widely discussed and controversial subject throughout the world. George's seminal work was Progress and Poverty (1879), but as a reformer, economist, journalist, and political candidate he wrote scores of articles on a vast array of topics, including political thought, election reform, immigration, labor, Lincoln, presidential campaigns, private property, socialism, industrialization, Ireland, Australia, the Chinese in California, and his race for mayor of New York City. His writing shaped a generation of statesmen and intellectuals, including Winston Churchill, Robert La Follette, Clarence Darrow, George Bernard Shaw, and Milton Friedman. Despite his profound influence on economic thought and American reform, he remains understudied, in part because many of his writings appeared in obscure journals, long-defunct daily newspapers, and long out-of-print collections. This four-volume set rectifies this problem by gathering all of George's hard-to-find articles and essays in one comprehensive edition. It also includes the first biographical sketch of him, written in 1884 and never before republished, as well as numerous articles he wrote during his tour of Australia in 1890. Edited by noted George scholar Kenneth C. Wenzer, each article is reprinted in its original form with annotations. There is a general introduction to each volume. [+]A timeline of George's activities and travels is also included.
Publication date: 1985-11-15
Price: $75.00
Review Picabia / Rizzoli:
Publication date: 1949
Review Abraham Lincoln...The War Years..SIGNED BY SANDBURG / Harcourt Brace:
Creator: New England Historic Genealogical Societ
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1995-05
Dewey code: 929.20973
Price: $35.00
Review Ancestors of American Presidents: First Authoritative Edition / Carl Boyer 3rd:
Publication date: 1993-12
Dewey code: 709.22795
Price: $45.00
Review Artists of the Pacific Northwest: A Biographical Dictionary, 1600s -1970 / McFarland & Company:
Publication date: 1996-12
Dewey code: 759.9492
Price: $8.95
Review Vincent Van Gogh: Artist (Great Achievers (Chelsea House Publishers).) / Chelsea House Publications:Briefly examines the life of the renowned Dutch painter and traces the development of his art.
Publication date: 1997-12
Dewey code: 780.92
Price: $9.95
Review Ludwig Van Beethoven, Composer: Composer (Great Achievers (Chelsea House Publishers).) / Chelsea House Publications:
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The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright: Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute, Robert A. M. Stern Houses, Les Graveurs Du Xixe Siecle: Guide de L'Amateur D'Estampes Modernes, Riding on the Ether Express: A Memoir of 1960s Los Angeles, the Rise of Freeform Underground Radio, and the Legendary Kppc-fm, American National Biography, Line Vautrin: Sculptor, Jeweller, Magician, International Who's Who of Women 2008 (International Who's Who of Women), The Legacy of Joseph A. Schumpeter (Intellectual Legacies in Modern Economic), Selected Letters, Magill's Survey of American Literature, The Legacy of Leon Walras (Intellectual Legacies in Modern Economic), The Legacy of Thorstein Veblen (Intellectual Legacies in Modern Economic), Lives and Works in the Arts: From the Renaissance to the 20th Century, Henry George: Collected Journalistic Writings, Picabia, Abraham Lincoln...The War Years..SIGNED BY SANDBURG, Ancestors of American Presidents: First Authoritative Edition, Artists of the Pacific Northwest: A Biographical Dictionary, 1600s -1970, Vincent Van Gogh: Artist (Great Achievers (Chelsea House Publishers).), Ludwig Van Beethoven, Composer: Composer (Great Achievers (Chelsea House Publishers).)Top headlines: Saad Hariri on Lebanons Future: Saad Hariri takes up the mantle of his assassinated father, and argues for the world to isolate Syria. ›15:46 12 Oct, Fri Treasury weighs action on mortgage rates: Department considers plans to intervene directly to force down rates and stimulate the moribund housing market, according to sources. ›08:30 Experts offer range of ideas for Big Three: Auto industry experts have a wide range of ideas on how to fix the problems facing the Big Three, ranging from higher gas taxes to bankruptcy. 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