Creator: Stephen J Mennell
Edition: Four-Volume Set
Publication date: 2003-06-06
Dewey code: 301.092
List Price: $1,056.00
Price: $1,056.00
Review Norbert Elias (SAGE Masters in Modern Social Thought series) / Sage Publications Ltd:Text provides a biographical overview of sociologist Norbert Elias' life and work.
Publication date: 2007-06-29
Review World Beyond Tears: The Ongoing Story of Father Chris / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd:
Creator: Harmeet Kaur
Publication date: 2004-08-15
Price: $1,050.96
Review Encyclopaedic Biography of Great Mathematicians / Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd:All scientific and technical developments and achievements we see now in the field of srtronomy, physics, chemistry, engineering and technology, medicine are the outcome of mathematical computation.
Creator: David Roden
Edition: Four-Volume Set
Publication date: 2002-12-26
Dewey code: 301
List Price: $1,056.00
Price: $1,056.00
Review Jacques Derrida (SAGE Masters in Modern Social Thought series) / Sage Publications Ltd:A comprehensive, thematically organized review of the key secondary literature on Derrida's writing. Provides a systematic overview of the core conceptual vocabulary informing Deconstruction, identifying published works that most clearly and significantly discuss Derrida's thought. Four volume set.
Creator: Alan Malachowski
Edition: Four-Volume Set
Publication date: 2002-08-15
Dewey code: 191
List Price: $1,056.00
Price: $1,051.99
Review Richard Rorty, 4 Volume Set / Sage Publications Ltd:Divided into four volumes: Philosophy, PostAnalytic Pragmatism, Politics, Irony and Solidarity, and Culture, Interpretation and Conversations. This collection will be the standard reference work on one of the canonical theorists of the late 20th century. Set.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1993-06-24
Dewey code: 305
List Price: $1,440.00
Price: $1,425.52
Review Sources of British Feminism / Routledge:These documents record the uneven progress made in the area of women's rights from the late 17th century up until the early decades of the 20th century. Contents:A Serious Proposal to the Ladies for the Advancement of their True and Greater Interest, Part 1 [1694] Mary Astell 116 pp An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex [1696] Anon 170 pp Woman not Inferior to Man [1739] ``Sophia'' 64 pp English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century [1854] Caroline Norton 192 pp A Brief Summary, in Plain Language, of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women: Together with a Few Observations Thereon [1854] Barbara Bodichon 46 pp The Non-Existence of Women [1855] Caroline Norton 27 pp Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors. Is the Classification Sound?: A discussion on the Laws Concerning the Property of Married Women [1868] Frances Power Cobbe 26 pp Women's Industrial Independence (Apostle and Chronicle of the Communist Church,.
Publication date: 1988-12
Dewey code: 920
Price: $130.00
Review Life of Napoleon Bonaparte / Ams Pr Inc:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-03-11
Dewey code: 100
List Price: $1,440.00
Price: $1,051.20
Review Thomas Paine: Life and Works / Routledge/Thoemmes P:This set included Paine's complete writings. The Life of Thomas Paine includes what were hitherto unpublished documents such as sketch of Paine by William Cobbett.
Creator: Norman Kelvin
Publication date: 1996-01-22
Dewey code: 821.8
Price: $60.00
Review The Collected Letters of William Morris, Vol.4 1893-1896 / Princeton University Press:The second of two volumes of letters from writer/designer William Morris to his colleagues-including the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti-and loved ones. At one time or another, Morris was also an architect, a painter, a poet, a businessman, an interior decorator, a book illuminator, a furniture maker, a lecturer, a weaver, a magazine editor, a novelist, a Socialist campaigner, a translator, an essayist, a printer and a publisher. Known for his propensity to create beautiful objects and his inability to relax, let alone sit still, Morris' contributions to design and literature rank him in an English tradition with Blake and Dickens.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1983-09-01
Dewey code: 031
List Price: $1,440.00
Price: $1,389.76
Review Adam Smith: Critical Assessments / Routledge:No online description is currently available. If you would like to receive information about this title, please email Routledge at info@routledge-ny. com.
Creator: Wendell D. Garrett
Publication date: 1961-06
Dewey code: 921
List Price: $230.00
Price: $1,096.92
Review Diary and Autobiography of John Adams: Volumes 1-4, Diary (1755-1804) and Autobiography (through 1780) (Adams Papers) / Belknap Press:These four volumes begin the publication of the Adams archives, a collection which Edward Everett Hale called a "manuscript history of America in the diaries and correspondence" of a single family. The Diary, partially published in the 1850's, has proved a quarry of information on the rise of Revolutionary resistance in New England, the debates in the early Continental Congresses, and the diplomacy and financing of the American Revolution; but it has remained unfamiliar to the wider public. "It is an American classic," Mr. Zoltán Haraszti said recently, about which Americans know next to nothing. " Actually the Diary's historical value may well prove secondary to its literary and human interest. Now that it is presented in full, we have for the first time a proper basis for comprehending John Adams-an extraordinary human being, a master of robust, idiomatic language, a diarist in the great tradition. From none of the other founders of the Republic do we have anything like a record at once so copious and so intimate. The Autobiography, intended for John Adams' family but never finished, consists of three large sections. The first records his boyhood, his legal and political career, and the movement that culminated in American independence. The second and third parts deal with his diplomatic experiences, and serve among other things as a retrospective commentary on the Diary: they are studded with sketches of Adams' associates which are as scintillating as they are prejudiced. [+]Parts and in some cases all of these sketches were omitted from Charles Francis Adams' nineteenth-century edition. In 1779 John Adams wrote, "I am but an ordinary Man. The Times alone have destined me to Fame-and even these have not been able to give me, much. " Then he added, "Yet some great Events, some cutting Expressions, some mean Hypocrisies, have at Times, thrown this Assemblage of Sloth, Sleep, and littleness into Rage a little like a Lion. " Both the ordinary Man and the Lion live on in these volumes.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1993-02-19
Dewey code: 301.092
List Price: $1,440.00
Price: $1,249.20
Review George Herbert Mead: Critical Assessments / Routledge:This Critical Assessment includes some of the best scholarly writings on the work of George Herbert Mead (1862-1931), one of the founding fathers of the ``Chicago school'' of sociology. The articles in this work are arranged in four coherent sections covering Mead's life and the intellectual context of his work; his relationship to symbolic interactionism; his influence in the field of social behaviorism and his work on the theory of the mind.
Creator: Wes Sharrock
Edition: Four-Volume Set
Publication date: 2004-06-15
Dewey code: 301
List Price: $1,056.00
Price: $1,056.00
Review Harold Garfinkel (4 Volume Set) / Sage Publications Ltd:Collection includes a large number of articles and empirical studies expanding upon concepts and topics introduced by Harold Garfinkel. Selection is organized around themes that are prominent in Garfinkel's work, including: indexicality, reflexivity, local order, and accountability.
Creator: Joachim Neugroschel
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1996-11-28
Review I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual / Basic Books Inc.,U.S.:
Creator: Peter Beilharz
Edition: Four-Volume Set
Publication date: 2002-07-15
Dewey code: 301
List Price: $1,056.00
Price: $1,056.00
Review Zygmunt Bauman, 4 Volume Set / Sage Publications Ltd:Xygmunt Bauman is widely acknowledged as the most interesting and consistent of postmodern sociologists. Yet his work is widely dispersed across a number of fields and his critical interpretation is scattered across a wide array of disciplines. Four-volume Set.
Creator: Katherine H. Nemeh
Edition: 24
Publication date: 2008-01
Dewey code: 509
List Price: $1,115.00
Price: $1,115.00
Review American Men & Women of Science (American Men and Women of Science) / Gale Cengage:
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:
Creator: Bociurkiw Michael
Publication date: 2003-10-10
Review Mahathir: 22 Years, 22 Voices / Melewar Apex Sdn Bhd& JF Publishing Sdn Bhd:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1993-07-08
Dewey code: 821.6
List Price: $1,150.00
Price: $1,137.29
Review Thomas Chatterton: Early Sources and Responses (Thomas Chatterton) / Routledge:Revived interest in medieval life and literature during the 18th century led to a fanatical search for antiquarian literary treasures-forgers such as Thomas Chatterton provided these to eager patrons. Chatterton wrote on scraps of old parchment and posed it as the work of Thomas Rowley and others. The publication of Thomas Tyrwhitt's first collection of Rowley poems in 1777 gave rise to a heated literary controversy regarding their authenticity. This is a collection of the major contemporary contributions to the Rowley controversy, all of which are extremely rare. Contents:First Collected Edition of the Rowley Poems [1777] Thomas Chatterton; Thomas Tyrwhitt (Ed) 336 pp The Life of Thomas Chatterton with Criticisms on his Genius and Writings and a Concise View of the Controversy Concerning Rowley's Poems [1789] George Gregory 272 pp The Life of Thomas Chatterton Including his Unpublished Poems and Correspondence [1837] John Dix 346 pp Cursory.
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.
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Norbert Elias (SAGE Masters in Modern Social Thought series), World Beyond Tears: The Ongoing Story of Father Chris, Encyclopaedic Biography of Great Mathematicians, Jacques Derrida (SAGE Masters in Modern Social Thought series), Richard Rorty, 4 Volume Set, Sources of British Feminism, Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Thomas Paine: Life and Works, The Collected Letters of William Morris, Vol.4 1893-1896, Adam Smith: Critical Assessments, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams: Volumes 1-4, Diary (1755-1804) and Autobiography (through 1780) (Adams Papers), George Herbert Mead: Critical Assessments, Harold Garfinkel (4 Volume Set), I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual, Zygmunt Bauman, 4 Volume Set, American Men & Women of Science (American Men and Women of Science), Arab-Islamic Biographical Index, Mahathir: 22 Years, 22 Voices, Thomas Chatterton: Early Sources and Responses (Thomas Chatterton), Works of Robert Boyle (Thoemmes Press - Philosophy and Christian Thought in Britian 1700-1900)Top headlines: 'War and Peace': New Versions Worth the Read: 'War and Peace' has been the Everest of literature for more than 150 years. 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