Publication date: 1977-06
Price: $30.95
Review Life of Horace Mann (Black Heritage Library Collection) / Books for Libraries:
Publication date: 2004-01
Price: $1,286.92
Review Edward Wilson's Nature Notebooks / Reardon Pub.:Edward Wilson is remembered as the artist of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-1912, led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott. The "Terra Nova" sailed via Madeira, South Trinidad, South Africa and Australia, to New Zealand; from where she set sail for the Antarctic on 24 January 1911. During the expedition Wilson studied and drew biological specimens, and made finished watercolours. The expedition reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912 after a journey of nearly a year. On the return journey the expedition hit unseasonably bad weather and Wilson died along with team members Scott and Bowers on 29 March. The specimens, diaries and sketchbooks were recovered by the search party the following Spring. It is probable that Edward Wilson's place in the history of art is as the last major painter of exploration art, an art form largely created by the fusion of science, cartography and art by William Hodges who had accompanied Captain Cook's second expedition from 1772-75. Hodges' work had been admired by Turner who was in turn admired by Wilson. With the death of Wilson, the major media for recording feats of exploration passed primarily to photography and film and the aesthetic technique and vision was subsumed. Edward Wilson drew all his life, collecting his drawings into indexed volumes he called his "stock in trade". [+]He used them as the basis for his illustrations of Barrett-Hamilton's "A History of British Mammals", and started to use them for illustrating W. Eagle Clarke's "A History of British Birds", a cancelled publication. After his death, his wife, Oriana, arranged the notebooks and distributed many of them amongst the family. Two books - the "Nature Notebooks" were given to his nephew, Michael Wilson, whose sons have edited this volume. It contains the bulk of Edward Wilson's non-Antarctic work - from the Notebooks and other sources - reproduced here in chronological order, showing his development as an artist. There is also a selection of quotations from the Notebooks' observations and annotations, in keeping with the scrapbook flavour of many of the pages. Additionally, there is a short biography at the start of each chapter, concentrating on his scientific and artistic progress, and a selection of the Antarctic work so the reader can see the continuous artistic and scientific development.
Authors
- Ralph Steadman
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Sean Penn (Introduction)
Publication date: 2005-04-30
Dewey code: 813
List Price: $200.00
Price: $1,275.99
Review The Curse of Lono / Taschen:Hunter S. Thompson’s most eccentric book in a new, limited edition. The Curse of Lono is to Hawaii what Fear and Loathing was to Las Vegas: the crazy tales of a journalist’s "coverage" of a news event that ends up being a wild ride to the dark side of Americana. Originally published in 1983, Curse features all of the zany, hallucinogenic wordplay and feral artwork for which the Hunter S. Thompson/Ralph Steadman duo have become known and loved. This curious book, considered an oddity among Hunter’s oeuvre, has been long out of print, prompting collectors to search high and low for an original copy.
Publication date: 1986-12
Price: $39.00
Review Beneath a Wandering Star / Hyperion Books:
Creator: Peter Alexander
Edition: 1772 Ed
Publication date: 1999-10-01
Dewey code: 101
Price: $1,200.00
Review Works of Robert Boyle (Thoemmes Press - Philosophy and Christian Thought in Britian 1700-1900) / Thoemmes Continuum:'almost every branch of modern science can trace phases of its origin in his writings. in the broad field of science Boyle made a greater number and variety of discoveries than one man is ever likely to make again' - John Fulton, Boyle's bibliographer Robert Boyle (1627-91) was one of the most influential scientists and philosophers of the seventeenth century. The founder of modern chemistry, he headed the movement that turned it from an occult science into a subject well-grounded in experiment, sound methodology and observation. His pioneering experiments on the properties of gases and his mechanistic theory of matter are the forerunners of the modern theories of chemical elements and atomic theory. He is best known for founding the renowned Boyle Lectures and for Boyle's Law that states that the pressure and volume of a gas are inversely proportional. A founding fellow of the Royal Society, three consecutive kings of England conversed familiarly with him. Philosophically, he wrote with sophistication on atheism, atomism, epistemology, miracles and natural laws. He influenced Berkeley, Spinoza, Henry More and especially John Locke, who relied on Boyle's theory of primary and secondary qualities in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding. [+]Boyle's circle of correspondents included Newton, Locke, Aubrey, Oldenburg and Hartlib, and his influence on both British and European scholars was enormous. He also took a lead part in examining the relation of science to theology. This is the standard edition of Boyle's works and the only complete collection currently available. First published in 1772, it brings together his many and varied writings in one comprehensive, fully-indexed source. Covering his work in chemistry, philosophy and theology, it includes a Life of Boyle by Thomas Birch. The Thoemmes reprint of the second and best English edition features a new introduction by Peter Alexander, one of the world authorities on Boyle.
Creator: Ganesha Publishing
Edition: Facsimile Ed
Publication date: 1997-01-01
Dewey code: 031
List Price: $1,225.00
Price: $1,225.00
Review Great British Book Collectors and their Libraries (Bookcollecting & Bibliomania) / Thoemmes Continuum:It was Dibdin who gave us the word bibliomania, and so it is fitting to build this collection around him. His Bibliomania, here reprinted from a revised edition, is an affectionate personal history of book-collecting through the ages. Bibliographical descriptions are complemented and expanded in The Library Companion, a book full of detail designed to bring out the book-collector in every educated person. Merryweather, Burton, Elton, Fletcher and Hazlitt relate their own and other collectors' passions through the ages, both in Britain and abroad. Together they form an extraordinary biographical dictionary of pioneers in the accumulation of culture and learning. Without these book-collectors' devotion of time, money, knowledge and taste, and the subsequent wholesale bequest or sale of their collections, public libraries as we know them would be greatly impoverished. -Informative accounts of British bibliophiles -Valuable biographical and bibliographical documentation on the British book trade.
Creator: Lori Williamson
Edition: Facsimile Ed
Publication date: 1999-09
Dewey code: 609
List Price: $790.00
Price: $1,209.81
Review Florence Nightingale and the Birth of Professional Nursing (Western Influence on Japan) / Thoemmes Continuum:This is a new six-volume set of writings by Nightingale and her contemporaries on nursing and health care in nineteenth-century England. Topics include hospital nursing, district nursing and education, all of which underwent a transformation from the mid-nineteenth century onwards as nursing became professionalized and began to enjoy increased prestige, thanks in large part to the reforming efforts of Florence Nightingale. Nightingale's thoughts are supplemented by those of Elizabeth Garrett on hospital nursing, J. Clarke Jervoise on infection, Arthur Cotton on conditions in India, and Mrs Dacre Craven and William Rathbone on district nursing. Historically, Nightingale is an important figure in nursing and sanitary reform; she published copiously in these areas, using her own experiences in England and the Crimea as a basis for her critique of medicine and medical care and for her recommendations for improvement; she promoted the professionalization of nursing; she sought to improve the conditions of hospitals by actively promoting principles of sanitation; and she was elevated to the status of national heroine during the Crimean War. Nightingale was prominent as a critic, commentator and reformer of hospitals and nursing. Her writings address the relevant issues confronted by individuals who sought to elevate nursing to a respected profession, and they offer insight into what was perceived to be a woman's special role in the healing art, the often fraught nature of the nurse's relationship to medicine, and the sanitary conditions in hospitals and homes where people lived, died and nursed the ill. This major set is edited and introduced by Dr Lori Williamson, and will be of interest for academics in the history of medicine, nursing, sanitation, social welfare, and gender studies.
Edition: Limited Ed
Publication date: 2005-12-01
Review Memoir / Faber and Faber:
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1886
Review A Texas Cowboy or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony - Taken From Real Life / Rand McNally & Co.:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-04
Review Akbar: The Great Moghul / Deep & Deep Publications:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1994-11-01
Dewey code: 306
List Price: $1,790.00
Price: $1,774.94
Review Perspectives on the History of British Feminism / Routledge/Thoemmes P:This set contains primary source material on British feminism from 1730 through 1934, providing the backdrop against which contemporary feminist debate continues today. These volumes give an overview of topics such as:*The Radicals: Revolutionary Women *The Wives: The Rights of Married Women *The Mothers: Controversies of Motherhood *The Campaigners: Women and Sexuality *The Militants: Suffragette Activismthrough provocative articles such as:*On the Dangers of Marraige *The Married Woman: Is She a Person? *Prostitution:Governmental Experiments in Controlling It *Chastity and the Health of Men *Fed By Force: How the Government Treats Political Opponents in Prison *Pages From a Diary of a Militant Suffragist.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-01-07
Dewey code: 192
List Price: $1,440.00
Price: $1,432.26
Review Karl Popper: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers / Routledge:This collection is a timely assessment of the reactions to and abiding influence of Popper's work, and controversy it caused across many academic and political fields.
Creator: Mark Goldie
Publication date: 2009-03-19
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $1,250.00
Price: $1,250.00
Review The Entring Book of Roger Morrice (1677-1691): Complete set with Index / Boydell Press:Compiled between the years 1677 and 1691, the Entring Book is 900,000 words long, with many sensitive passages written in a secret shorthand that has only recently been decoded. This remarkable chronicle of public affairs has remained for nearly three centuries, secure but little known, in Dr Williams's Library, London. The Entring Book fits no simple definition. It is not just a political diary, nor is it only the newsletter it sometimes resembles. It's possible that it could have been the material for a history of Morrice's own times, or it may have been a letterbook, recording correspondence to an unnamed recipient. Writing in great detail, with meticulous regularity, Morrice may have been passing on all he knew to senior figures in the opposition to Charles II and James II. The Entring Book's enormous scope means it also covers publishing, plays, business, military and religious matters, foreign affairs, public opinion and London life, making it an essential resource. Through it we can trace the transformation of puritanism into Whiggery and Dissent. This seven volume set includes an introductory and an index volume as well as a biographical encyclopedia of names.
Publication date: 1987-11
Dewey code: 739.2092242
Price: $350.00
Review The Directory of Gold and Silversmiths: Jewellers and Allied Traders 1838-1914 / Antique Collectors' Club:
Authors
- Princess Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiary
Publication date: 1992-06-25
Review Palace of Solitude / Quartet Books:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-03-19
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $1,117.00
Price: $1,117.00
Review Arab-Islamic Biographical Index / K.G. Saur:
Authors
- S.P. Korolev Space Corporation Energia
Review From First Satellite to Energia-buran and Mir (Russian & English texts):Texts in Russian and English
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-05-25
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $1,520.00
Price: $1,519.99
Review Charles Dickens Family History (Family Histories) / Routledge:Essential for students, researchers and fans, this unique set brings together a wide range of hard-to-find writings by relatives and friends of Charles Dickens. Contents include pieces such as Memoirs of My Father by Henry F. Dickens K. C. ; A Child's Memoir of Gad's Hill by M. A. Dickens; Personal Reminiscences of My Father by Charles Dickens the Younger; and much more.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-11-07
Dewey code: 330.155
List Price: $1,260.00
Price: $1,228.24
Review John A. Hobson: Critical Assessments of Leading Economists / Routledge:John Atkinson Hobson was a controversial figure in the history of economic thought. As an advocate of an apparently fallacious theory of over-saving, a critic of the orthodox theory of distribution, and a proponent of a theory of imperialism which was later taken up by Lenin, Hobson was generally condemned as a heretic by the rest of the economic establishment. His fortunes changed, rather belatedly, in 1936, when Keynes paid tribute to Hobson's work in The General Theory as anticipating his own theory that society can, under some circumstances, save too large a proportion of its income-thrift then being a vice, not a virtue. Hobson's influence was international and the impact of his writings was widespread. This collection reprints the essential scholarship on Hobson's economic, social and political thought, with helpful introductions which provide the reader with guidance and context.
Creator: Larry D. Ball
Edition: Collectors
Publication date: 2002-01
Dewey code: 979.03092
List Price: $35.00
Price: $1,321.76
Review Tom Horn: Blood on the Moon : Dark History of the Murderous Cattle Detective / High Plains Press:
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Life of Horace Mann (Black Heritage Library Collection), Edward Wilson's Nature Notebooks, The Curse of Lono, Beneath a Wandering Star, Works of Robert Boyle (Thoemmes Press - Philosophy and Christian Thought in Britian 1700-1900), Great British Book Collectors and their Libraries (Bookcollecting & Bibliomania), Florence Nightingale and the Birth of Professional Nursing (Western Influence on Japan), Memoir, A Texas Cowboy or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony - Taken From Real Life, Akbar: The Great Moghul, Perspectives on the History of British Feminism, Karl Popper: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, The Entring Book of Roger Morrice (1677-1691): Complete set with Index, The Directory of Gold and Silversmiths: Jewellers and Allied Traders 1838-1914, Palace of Solitude, Arab-Islamic Biographical Index, From First Satellite to Energia-buran and Mir (Russian & English texts), Charles Dickens Family History (Family Histories), John A. 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