Creator: Michael James
Publication date: 1993-07
Dewey code: 780
Price: $29.50
Review Django Reinhardt / Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation:No European jazz musician has so enchanted the word as Django Reinhardt, the gypsy guitarist whose recording with Stephane Grappelly and the Hot Club of France have meant "The Thirties" to several generations of listeners, influencing musicians as far afield as Larry Coryell, Leon Redbone, Eddy Lang, and Charlie Christian. This is the only full-length study of Django ever published in English, an unforgettable portrait of a wild and independent figure who never learned to read or write (friends forged his autographs), exasperated those people who lived by schedules, gambled away a week's salary in a night, but who played the guitar like no one before or since. The distinguished French critic Charles Delaunay, who knows more about Django than anyone alive, here provides not only the familiar outline of a life-the childhood travels in gypsy caravans, the fire that left Django with a crippled hand, the legendary temper and generosity-but he also collected scores of anecdotes about the sensitivity and musical gifts that were the basis for Django's appearance as a character in Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles. Who else but Django could charm his way out of a jail sentence by serenading the police officer with his guitar?The comprehensive discography at the back of the book completes Delaunay's picture of this "misrepresented and fantastic creature, at once so captivating and so divorced from the contentions of his age. ".
Publication date: 1998-03
Dewey code: 190
List Price: $360.00
Price: $360.00
Review Franz Overbeck-Heinrich Koselitz, Peter Gast Briefwechsel 1877-1905 (Supplementa Nietzscheana) / Walter de Gruyter:
Publication date: 1994-06
Dewey code: 759.2915
Price: $55.00
Review Sir John Lavery / Canongate Pub Ltd:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-02-27
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $365.00
Price: $364.85
Review Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie: Volume 09: Schlumberger - Thiersch / K.G. Saur:
Creator: C. Helen Brock
Publication date: 2007-12-20
Dewey code: 610.92
List Price: $395.00
Price: $334.10
Review Correspondence of Dr. William Hunter / Pickering & Chatto Publishers:The final work by the late historian Helen Brock, this definitive new edition makes the correspondence of Dr William Hunter (1718-83) available for the first time. Born in Scotland, William Hunter pursued an extensive medical education in Glasgow, Edinburgh, London and Paris. He settled in London where he made his name as an anatomist and obstetrician before being elected to the Royal Society in 1767. He was a knowledgeable collector. He bequeathed his anatomical and pathological preparations, natural history specimens, antiquities, paintings, and extensive library to the University of Glasgow where they now form the Hunterian Museum. Hunter's admiration for Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings in the Royal Collection sparked the eighteenth century fashion for collecting his works on paper. Hunter's prominent position in London's scientific and artistic circles, his extensive medical and connoisseurial contacts in Scotland and Europe, and his network of students, make his correspondence a unique record of the Enlightenment. This edition presents all of his known correspondence, drawing upon archives around the world. The letters are presented chronologically and interspersed with new editorial material to create a fascinating narrative about this important era of medical and scientific discovery.
Publication date: 2003-10
Dewey code: 940
Price: $32.95
Review Enemy Coast Ahead Uncensored -the Real Guy Gibson: The Real Guy Gibson / Crecy Publishing:
Authors
- Irvin D. Yalom
- Ginny Elkin
List Price: $10.75
Price: $374.51
Review Terapia a DOS Voces / Emece Editores:
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1999-12-21
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $365.00
Price: $365.00
Review Regents Of Nations: Part 1: Antiquity Worldwide (Regents of Nations) / K.G. Saur (An Impint of Walter de Gruyter):
Edition: 2
Publication date: 1999-05-31
Review Jungle Campaign: A Memoir of National Service in Malaya 1949-51 / Book Guild Ltd:
Creator: Patricia Routledge
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1996-04-25
Price: $16.95
Review UC BEATRIX POTTER: Artist, Storyteller, and Countrywoman (Penguin audiobooks) / Penguin Audio:This biography looks at the whole of Beatrix Potter's life from her birth in 1866, her years in Bolton Gardens, her paintings and drawings, her books, her friendship with the Warnes, her farming, her marriage, to her death in 1943.
Publication date: 1992-06
Price: $27.50
Review Malvina Hoffman / Ams Pr Inc:
Publication date: 1970-01
Review Life, Letters, and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart. / Gregg International:
Authors
- Ismaila A. Tsiga
- Sheikh Abubakar Gumi
Review Where I Stand / African Books Collective:
Publication date: 1939-06
Dewey code: 920
Price: $42.50
Review Ruth st Denis: An Unfinished Life / Ams Pr Inc:
Creator: Barry Smith
Publication date: 2005-04
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $375.00
Price: $371.00
Review The Collected Letters of Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine), 4-Volume Set / Boydell Press:The composer Philip Heseltine (1894-1930), better known by his pseudonym 'Peter Warlock', is one of the most fascinating characters in twentieth-century English music. Educated at Eton and Oxford, yet musically largely self-taught, he is considered by many to be one of the great English song-writers. But besides being a composer, he was also an important pioneer editor of early music as well as the author of a number of books and numerous articles for newspapers and journals. His eccentric life-style, his outspoken comments and writings about music, as well as the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death, have all ensured that the 'Warlock legend' has not lost its fascination over the years. During his short life he was a prolific and highly articulate letter writer and some thousand of his letters have survived. These, Warlock scholar and authority Barry Smith, has edited with copious annotations and footnotes as well as providing generous background material. Besides giving new insights into Warlock's mercurial character, these letters illuminate the first thirty years of the twentieth century with fascinating glimpses of some of the great names in the world of music, art, and literature.
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2003-05-28
Dewey code: 351.00310202
List Price: $365.00
Price: $365.00
Review Regents Of Nations: Part 3: Asia and Pacific Oceania (Regents of Nations) / K.G. Saur (An Impint of Walter de Gruyter):
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2003-12-17
Dewey code: 920.72094103
List Price: $360.00
Price: $356.00
Review A Historical Dictionary of British Women / Europa Publications:Containing biographies of more than 1,000 notable British women from Boudicca to Barbara Castle, this new reference is an absorbing record of female achievement over the past 2,000 years in Britain. Offering invaluable information on the evolution of the female role in British society, this one-stop reference covers women whose work brought them before the public and who therefore played a direct and important role in broadening the horizons for women in Britain, as well as women who influenced events in a more indirect way, such as the wives of kings and politicians, mistresses, ladies in waiting, and society hostesses. Originally published as The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women, this completely revised and updated edition includes key figures from the last 20 years, such as the Queen Mother, Baroness Ryder of Warsaw, Elizabeth Jennings, and Christina Foyle.
Authors
- Michael R Pitts
- James Robert Parish
Publication date: 2003-07
Dewey code: 790
Price: $225.00
Review Hollywood Songsters: Singers Who Act and Actors Who Sing, Set / Routledge:For fans of musicals, singing, Hollywood history, and the lives of stars, no other work equals this new three-volume reference to the on- and off-camera careers of more than 100 performers who made major contributions to the American screen musical. From June Allyson to Mae West, Hollwood Songsters provides a detailed narrative-ranging from 2,000 to 5000 words each-of the lives and careers of stars forever etched in our memories. Each description is informative, engaging, and fun, yet the scrupulous attention to detail and accuracy ensures that even the most knowledgeable scholar will learn something new. Each entry includes a filmography, discography (of both albums and CDs), Broadway appearances, radio work, television appearances and series,and a full-page photo of the subject. A complete index of names of performers, films, and songs rounds out the work. This is the ideal reference work for everyone one from the mildly curious to the hard-core fan.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-02-01
Dewey code: 907.2022
List Price: $395.00
Price: $391.00
Review Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writers / Routledge:The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing contains over 800 entries ranging from Lord Acton and Anna Comnena to Howard Zinn and from Herodotus to Simon Schama. Over 300 contributors from around the world have composed critical assessments of historians from the beginning of historical writing to the present day, including individuals from related disciplines like Jürgen Habermas and Clifford Geertz, whose theoretical contributions have informed historical debate. Additionally, the Encyclopedia includes some 200 essays treating the development of national, regional and topical historiographies, from the Ancient Near East to the history of sexuality. In addition to the Western tradition, it includes substantial assessments of African, Asian, and Latin American historians and debates on gender and subaltern studies.
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2005-12-20
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $365.00
Price: $365.00
Review Regents of Nations. Part 4/2. Eastern, Northern and Central Europe Annex. / K.G. Saur (An Impint of Walter de Gruyter):
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Django Reinhardt, Franz Overbeck-Heinrich Koselitz, Peter Gast Briefwechsel 1877-1905 (Supplementa Nietzscheana), Sir John Lavery, Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie: Volume 09: Schlumberger - Thiersch, Correspondence of Dr. William Hunter, Enemy Coast Ahead Uncensored -the Real Guy Gibson: The Real Guy Gibson, Terapia a DOS Voces, Regents Of Nations: Part 1: Antiquity Worldwide (Regents of Nations), Jungle Campaign: A Memoir of National Service in Malaya 1949-51, UC BEATRIX POTTER: Artist, Storyteller, and Countrywoman (Penguin audiobooks), Malvina Hoffman, Life, Letters, and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., Where I Stand, Ruth st Denis: An Unfinished Life, The Collected Letters of Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine), 4-Volume Set, Regents Of Nations: Part 3: Asia and Pacific Oceania (Regents of Nations), A Historical Dictionary of British Women, Hollywood Songsters: Singers Who Act and Actors Who Sing, Set, Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writers, Regents of Nations. 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