Publication date: 2004-05-06
Review Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim / Little, Brown:
Publication date: 1993-11-22
Review Patrick Hamilton / Faber and Faber:
Publication date: 2001-09-15
Dewey code: 949.5013
Price: $74.95
Review Empresses and Power in Early Byzantium (Women, Power & Politics) / Continuum International Publishing Group:Examining the role and position of the Byzantine empress between the fourth and the eighth centuries, this work explores the nature of female imperial power and contrasts it with male power. Was there such a thing as the "office of emperor/empress", or did power depend on individual personalities? This text investigates five questions: who the empress is; how she is titled; how she is talked about; what she looks like; and what she does. The period under discussion takes the reader from the empress-mother Helena, the first overtly Christian empress, to the only "female" emperor in Byzantine history, Eirene, and encompasses the time of the transition from the Roman world to the medieval.
Publication date: 1995-03-23
Dewey code: 759.5
Price: $129.00
Review Antonio Pellegrini, 1675-1741 (Clarendon Studies in the History of Art) / Oxford University Press, USA:This is the first book to describe the brilliant career of the most sought-after Venetian history painter in early eighteenth-century Europe. It presents the existing documentation, discusses Pellegrini's major commissions and their patrons, offers an indication of his relationship with other contemporary painters, and provides a background against which the many smaller canvases can be considered.
Creator: P. M. Harman
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-11-11
Dewey code: 530.141
List Price: $419.00
Price: $340.61
Review The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: Volume 3, 1874-1879 (Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell) / Cambridge University Press:The final volume of James Clerk Maxwell's correspondence and manuscript papers covers the years 1874-1879, during Maxwell's Cambridge Professorship, his directing of the Cavendish Laboratory, and his work as writer and editor. His letters show his response to innovations in physical theory-by Boltzmann, Gibbs, Lorentz, and van der Waals-and further explorations in statistical physics and the kinetic theory of gases. His letters reflect his influence on the younger generation of physicists whose outlook was shaped by "Maxwellian physics". This edition is annotated with a full historical commentary.
Publication date: 2001-04
Review The Falkland Islands I Knew / Anthony Nelson Ltd:
Publication date: 2002-10-21
Price: $343.85
Review Rolling with the Stones / Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd:The Rolling Stones, commonly referred to as the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band, epitomize everything that's excessive, lavish, exciting, and powerful about rock music. Here, founding member and bass player Bill Wyman presents an honest and humorous account that serves as a backstage pass to the band's history, from drug busts, to tax exile, to solo careers. Straight from Wyman's huge personal archive, "Rolling with the Stones" features previously unreleased letters, photographs, memorabilia, and personal journals. With over 2000 photographs, more than 45 beautifully designed tour spreads, song lists from every show, and biographies on each band member. Of his own choosing, Bill Wyman's career as a founding member of the Rolling Stones has achieved a perspective that his legendary bandmates don't yet enjoy: a beginning, middle, and end. Indeed, the musicians once hailed as the greatest rock & roll band in the world have become more like the band that wouldn't die. But history can't be denied, and the man born William Perks of Lower Sydenham, London, has lovingly assembled this over-500-page book, equal parts memoir and lavishly illustrated coffee-table tome, with a winning mix of clear-eyed reportage (based on his own voluminous diaries) and an eye for colorful detail and ephemera worthy of a proud family scrapbook. Which, in many ways, Rolling with the Stones most resembles: family-and musical-trees are acknowledged, career moves dissected, deaths mourned, and triumphs and foibles alike are dispensed with equal candor. Wyman deflates the myth of the Stones as rock's preternatural bad boys (a conservative, sensationalist press made it all too easy to live down to expectations) yet allows the tragic legend of band founder Brian Jones to assume its proper perspective. A half-decade older than his bandmates, the retired Stone has few illusions about the band's true cultural impact and creative arc, devoting nearly three-quarters of the book to the Stones' first, turbulent decade. [+]What is more gratifying is that he avoids the myopic constraints of the similarly sized Beatles Anthology, generously weaving the recollections of band members, associates, family, reporters, and even fan letters into a narrative whose outline is epic, but whose viewpoint has a decidedly human scale. -Jerry McCulley.
Creator: Peggy Seeger
Publication date: 1990-08
Review Journeyman / Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd:
Publication date: 2002-05-31
Review Reflections of a Game Fisher / Robert Hale Ltd:
Publication date: 2002-10-21
Price: $343.85
Review Rolling with the Stones / Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd:The Rolling Stones, commonly referred to as the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band, epitomize everything that's excessive, lavish, exciting, and powerful about rock music. Here, founding member and bass player Bill Wyman presents an honest and humorous account that serves as a backstage pass to the band's history, from drug busts, to tax exile, to solo careers. Straight from Wyman's huge personal archive, "Rolling with the Stones" features previously unreleased letters, photographs, memorabilia, and personal journals. With over 2000 photographs, more than 45 beautifully designed tour spreads, song lists from every show, and biographies on each band member. Of his own choosing, Bill Wyman's career as a founding member of the Rolling Stones has achieved a perspective that his legendary bandmates don't yet enjoy: a beginning, middle, and end. Indeed, the musicians once hailed as the greatest rock & roll band in the world have become more like the band that wouldn't die. But history can't be denied, and the man born William Perks of Lower Sydenham, London, has lovingly assembled this over-500-page book, equal parts memoir and lavishly illustrated coffee-table tome, with a winning mix of clear-eyed reportage (based on his own voluminous diaries) and an eye for colorful detail and ephemera worthy of a proud family scrapbook. Which, in many ways, Rolling with the Stones most resembles: family-and musical-trees are acknowledged, career moves dissected, deaths mourned, and triumphs and foibles alike are dispensed with equal candor. Wyman deflates the myth of the Stones as rock's preternatural bad boys (a conservative, sensationalist press made it all too easy to live down to expectations) yet allows the tragic legend of band founder Brian Jones to assume its proper perspective. A half-decade older than his bandmates, the retired Stone has few illusions about the band's true cultural impact and creative arc, devoting nearly three-quarters of the book to the Stones' first, turbulent decade. [+]What is more gratifying is that he avoids the myopic constraints of the similarly sized Beatles Anthology, generously weaving the recollections of band members, associates, family, reporters, and even fan letters into a narrative whose outline is epic, but whose viewpoint has a decidedly human scale. -Jerry McCulley.
Creator: Peggy Seeger
Publication date: 1990-08
Review Journeyman / Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd:
Publication date: 1987-03-01
Dewey code: 938.9060924
Price: $65.00
Review Agesilaos and the Crisis of Sparta / The Johns Hopkins University Press:
Publication date: 2000-06
Review Call an Ambulance! / Woodfield Publishing:
Publication date: 2004-05-06
Review Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim / Little, Brown:
Authors
- Jean-Francois Champollion
Review Egyptian Diaries: How One Man's Passion for Codes Unveiled the Mysteries of the Nile / Gibson Square Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2001-04
Review The Falkland Islands I Knew / Anthony Nelson Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-04
Dewey code: 320.092
Review Francis Lieber: His Life and Political Philosophy / Lawbook Exchange Ltd:
Publication date: 1995-03-23
Dewey code: 759.5
Price: $129.00
Review Antonio Pellegrini, 1675-1741 (Clarendon Studies in the History of Art) / Oxford University Press, USA:This is the first book to describe the brilliant career of the most sought-after Venetian history painter in early eighteenth-century Europe. It presents the existing documentation, discusses Pellegrini's major commissions and their patrons, offers an indication of his relationship with other contemporary painters, and provides a background against which the many smaller canvases can be considered.
Authors
- with maginal comments and markings from a copy annotated by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi
- James Boswell
Publication date: 1993
Review The Life of Samuel Johnson + The Journal of A Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson (4 Volume Matched Set) / Easton Press:
Authors
- Jean-Francois Champollion
Review Egyptian Diaries: How One Man's Passion for Codes Unveiled the Mysteries of the Nile / Gibson Square Books Ltd:
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