Creator: Brian Harrison
Publication date: 2004-09-23
Dewey code: 920.041
List Price: $6,500.00
Price: $2,077.00
Review Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Plus Index of Contributors (60 Volumes) / Oxford University Press, USA:The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of men and women who have shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000, from the ancient (explorer Pytheas of the 4th Century BC) to the modern (Princess Diana). For this new edition, all 36,000 lives from the first edition have been completely rewritten or revised-with over 13,500 new biographies added representing all historical periods and including 3,000 new entries on women.
Publication date: 1999-08-23
Dewey code: 621.3092
List Price: $56.95
Price: $679.60
Review The Inventor of Stereo: The Life and Works of Alan Dower Blumlein / Butterworth-Heinemann:This book is the definitive study of the life and works of one of Britain's most important inventors who, due to a cruel set of circumstances, has all but been overlooked by history.
Publication date: 1898
Review History of the Orphan Brigade ([Kentucky culture series]) / N. Thompson:
Publication date: 1900
Review New history of the 99th Indiana Infantry: Containing official reports, anecdotes, incidents, biographies and complete rolls / s.n.]:
Creator: William Hodges
Edition: Limited Ed
Publication date: 1981-09
Price: $460.00
Review James Cook's Journal of HMS Resolution, 1772-75 / Genesis Publications (AZ):
Creator: Robert F. Gorman
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-09-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $795.00
Price: $795.00
Review The 20th Century, 1901-2000 (Great Lives from History) / Salem Press:
Publication date: 1867
Review The war with the South: A history of the great American rebellion : with biographical sketches of leading statesmen and distinguished naval and military commanders, etc / Virtue & Yorston:
Creator: John Henrik Clarke
Publication date: 1987-07-23
Dewey code: 813.54
Price: $83.95
Review William Styron's Nat Turner : Ten Black Writers Respond / Greenwood Press Reprint:
Creator: J.C. Beaglehole
Publication date: 1999-11-26
Dewey code: 910.45
List Price: $1,990.00
Price: $1,990.00
Review The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery: Edited from the Original Manuscripts: Four Volumes and a Portfolio (Extra Series (Hakluyt Society), No. 34-37.) / Boydell Press:This classic set of three volumes in four books plus portfolio, edited from the original manuscripts, provides for the first time a complete, reliable and authoritative text of Cook's account of his voyages of discovery. Published over many years, complete sets of previous edition shave been hard to come by. This reissue makes more widely available to historians a vast range of material relating to all aspects of 18th-century scientific advances. The volumes contain Cook's accounts of his three great voyages in the Endeavour and the Resolution; introductions and detailed notes accompany the texts, and extracts from the journals of Cook's shipmates are printed as appendices. A separate portfolio contains the manuscript charts and views drawn by Cook and his officers, which he regarded as an essential complement to his Journals. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS (All 234 x 156 unless stated)I. The Voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-1771: 21 maps, 26 b/w illustrations, cclxxxiv + 696ppII. The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, 1772-1775: Col. frontis. , 20 maps, 62 b/w illustrations, clxx + 1028ppIII. [+]The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780i. Col. frontis. , 16 maps, 65 b/w illustrations, ccxxiv + 720pp;ii. 2 maps, 11 b/w illustrations, viii + 928ppPortfolio: Charts and Views Drawn by Cook and his Officers: 68 charts and views, viii + 68pp, 377 x 248.
Publication date: 1998-11-15
Dewey code: 941.083092
Price: $75.00
Review Lloyd George (British History in Perspective) / Palgrave Macmillan:One of the most charismatic and controversial of British politicians, David Lloyd George had a profound impact on the country, as a Welsh radical, as an Edwardian social reformer, and as "the man who won the war. " This study assesses his successes and failures and uses a close examination of the political circumstances in which he operated to explain the many twists and turns of his remarkable career. It also puts his actions in the context of his complicated relationship with Liberalism and the Liberal Party in an attempt to understand his underlying approach to politics. He was centrally involved in all the major national issues of the early 20th century, and in the aftermath of World War I he played a crucial role at the Versailles peace conference and on the world scene of the early 1920s. His life is fascinating in itself and highly valuable as a means to understanding a crucial era in British history.
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:Norbert Elias (1897-1990) is now widely regarded as one of the greatest sociologists of the 20th century. The challenge and profundity of his work are still being assimilated. Some have suggested that in time, he will be regarded as the Copernicus or Darwin of sociology, the man who set the subject on its scientific course. These four volumes provide a comprehensive and penetrating survey of Elias's life and work. They pinpoint the main fields of research which Elias and his followers have explored: the civilizing process; state-formation; knowledge, religion and science; informalization; power; established-outsider figurations in fields such as class, gender and race; the sociology of the body; the sociology of the emotions; the sociology of leisure, sport and the arts; the sociology of the professions; medicine and psychoanalysis; crime and punishment; drug use and abuse. The collection also explores the various critiques of Elias's `figurational' or `process' sociology and counter-critiques by Elias's followers. The volumes successfully locate the work of Elias and his followers in the context of modern sociology, especially in relation to writers such as Mannheim, Adorno, Parsons, Goffman, Foucault and Bourdieu. In the penetrating, original and informative Introduction, Eric Dunning and Stephen Mennell elucidate Elias's sociological contributions and the bearing his life experiences had on his work. The collection is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the sociological contribution of Norbert Elias. The collection is organized in the following 4 volumes: Volume 1 Focuses on Elias's work in the context of his life and career, and reviews his place in the contemporary social sciences, especially in relation to such figures as Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu. [+]Also discussed in this volume are Elias's pathbreaking contributions to such issues as: the 'agency-structure' dilemma; habitus; power; involvement and detachment; knowledge and the sciences; time; and the relations between history and sociology. Volume 2 Addresses Elias's major empiricallybased contributions to sociological theory, especially the theories of the civilizing process, state formation and established-outsider figurations. Also discussed are informalization and de-civilizing processes, and the applications of the established-outsider theory to such fields as race, gender and sexuality. Volume 3 Examines figurational contributions to special areas of sociology such as: the sociology of the body; the sociology of the emotions; the sociology of everyday life, sport, leisure, lifestyles, taste, music and the arts; deviance and crime; the sociology of health and illness; psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and psychology; death and dying; and drugs and tobacco use. Volume 4 Focuses on criticisms of Elias's work and the responses of Elias and his sociological followers. Key themes are: civilization and the Holocaust; sports violence, especially soccer hooliganism; the meanings and value of concepts like 'development', 'evolution' and 'change'; and the relative merits of long-term and short-term approaches. The end of the volume returns to the issue of Elias's place in contemporary sociology and the growing worldwide recognition of the significance of his contribution. Eric Dunning is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leicester; Stephen Mennell is Professor of Sociology, University College Dublin.
Publication date: 2007-11-25
Dewey code: 938
Price: $9.95
Review The Way of Alexander the Great (Adventures in History) / IBooks, Inc.:Throughout the centuries Alexander the Great has fascinated all manner of men all over the world. Handsome, youthful, he conquered the entire known world, then suddenly died at the age of thirty-two. The Way of Alexander the Great is an extraordinary book that in one volume pulls together the scattered images of Alexander and his life. Throughout the centuries Alexander the Great has fascinated all manner of men all over the world. Handsome, youthful, he conquered the entire known world, then suddenly died at the age of thirty-two. The Way of Alexander the Great is an extraordinary book that in one volume pulls together the scattered images of Alexander and his life.
Creator: Larry D. Ball
Edition: Collectors
Publication date: 2002-01
Dewey code: 979.03092
List Price: $35.00
Price: $1,392.35
Review Tom Horn: Blood on the Moon : Dark History of the Murderous Cattle Detective / High Plains Press:
Creator: Dietrich Von Engelhardt
Publication date: 2005-12
Dewey code: 920.043
List Price: $3,437.00
Price: $3,437.00
Review Dictionary of German National Biography / K. G. Saur:
Creator: James Wills
Edition: Facsimile
Publication date: 1997-03-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $725.00
Price: $692.34
Review Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen (Biographical Dictionaries) / Ganesha Publishing:This is an authoritative and easy-to-use biographical dictionary covering over nineteen centuries of Irish lives. From Ollamh Fodhla, six hundred years bc, through Jonathan Swift up until the mid-Victorian era with the death of Whitley Stokes in 1845, this important reference work was first published in 1839-47. Ireland has always had a very personal history and its heroes appear in every field of human endeavour including philosophers, theologians, historians, statesmen, physicians, writers, and scientists; names include St Patrick, Niall of the Nine Hostages, Brendan, Edmund Spenser, James Butler, James Usher, Jeremy Taylor, Jonathan Swift, George Berkeley, Robert Boyle, Sir Richard Steele, Sir Hans Sloane, Edmund Burke, Henry Grattan, John Philpot Curran, Thomas Percy, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Elizabeth Hamilton, Mary Tighe, George Canning, and Oliver Goldsmith. Five hundred and thirteen biographies are printed using a wide range of source materials, making this the most comprehensive and extensive biographical history of Ireland attempted. The text is arranged into six historical periods, each with a historical introduction. Within each period, the lives are presented chronologically within three disciplines - literary, political and ecclesiastical. In addition, the volumes are illustrated with a selection of portraits and views. This detailed sourcebook is an invaluable biographical reference tool for libraries and students in all disciplines.
Creator: Peter Sabor
Edition: Facsimile Ed
Publication date: 1999-07
Dewey code: 828.609
List Price: $750.00
Price: $695.00
Review The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford / Pickering & Chatto Publishers:
Publication date: 1993-12-31
Review Blessed City / William Sessions Limited:
Edition: Facsimile Ed
Publication date: 2000-07-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $960.00
Price: $960.00
Review Life and Works of William Law / Thoemmes Continuum:'Both as an effective (and entertaining) critic of worldliness, and then as a forceful exponent of Christian mysticism, William Law played a unique role in eighteenth-century English life and thought. This complete edition of his unusually rich and hugely influential writings will need to be consulted by all serious students of the period. ' - Dr Brian Young, author of Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England (1998)William Law (1686-1761), controversialist, theologian and mystic, was (and is) considered one of the great intellectuals of his age. He took an anti-Lockean stance and came into confrontation with many of the leading theologians of his day. His works went through many editions, and he influenced, among others, Samuel Johnson, Edward Gibbon and John Wesley. His powerful and lucid writing style played a large part in this, the DNB describing it as 'transparently clear, vivid, and pungent,. his portraits remind us that he was a contemporary of Addison, and a keener satirist'. [+]He is most famous for A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, which sided him with Berkeley and Joseph Butler, was partly responsible for slowing the spread of deism, and which continues to enthrall evangelical Christians today. Indeed, his mysticism is perhaps more understood today than it was in his lifetime. Other famous works include his Three Letters to the Bishop of Bangor and Remarks upon a late Book entituled, the Fable of the Bees. This edition of Law's works, first published in 1892-3, features all his writings plus a memoir by G. B. Morgan. Added to these nine volumes is the first serious critical biography of Law, Overton's William Law, Nonjuror and Mystic. The 10-volume collection thus gives eighteenth century scholars a complete archive for the study of this important man. -the only modern edition of the complete works of William Law -includes Overton's celebrated biography -out of print and uncommon -very influential and highly respected theologian and intellectual, still read today.
Creator: Ramsay Cook
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-12-31
Dewey code: 971
List Price: $948.00
Price: $812.70
Review Dictionary of Canadian Biography, set 15 vol. (1-14 w/ cum index for vol. 1-12) (Dictionary of Canadian Biography) / University of Toronto Press:The Dictionary of Canadian Biography provides authoritative biographical information about significant figures of Canada's past, including both detailed arcticles on Canada's major historical figures, and short articles on minor personages who have hitherto found no place in reference works or general histories. The DCB was founded through the benefaction of the late James Nicholson, who bequeathed the residue of his estate as a permanent endowment for a Canadian biographical dictionary. The French-language edition, Dictionnaire biographique du Canada, is published simultaneously by Les Presses de l'universite Laval.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-03-11
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.
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