Publication date: 2002-06
Dewey code: 920
Price: $26.98
Review Mabel Hubbard Bell / Protea Publishing Company:
Authors
- John Henry Cardinal Newman
Dewey code: 270
Price: $65.00
Review The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Cardinal Newman: Vol. V: Liberalism in Oxford, January 1835 to December 1836 / Oxford University Press, USA:John Henry Newman's influence on both the restoration of Roman Catholicism in England and the advance of Catholic ideas in the Church of England was profound. Volume VIII of the Letters and Diaries covers a turbulent period in his life with the publication of his Tract 90, his opposition to the establishment of the joint Anglo-Prussian Bishopric at Jerusalem, against a background of continuing acrimony in University affairs.
Publication date: 2007-06-30
Dewey code: 920
Price: $66.95
Review Alejandro Magno: Rey, General Y Estadista / Alianza:
Publication date: 2006-04-10
Dewey code: 709.2
List Price: $200.00
Price: $186.23
Review Lorenzo de'Medici, Collector of Antiquities: Collector and Antiquarian / Cambridge University Press:Lorenzo de'Medici was a passionate collector of objects from antiquity and the post-antiquity period as well as an important patron of the arts in fifteenth century Florence. His activities as a collector are documented in a group of 173 previously unknown letters included in this volume. As revealed in these letters, Lorenzo had a preference for small objects: coins, hardstone vases, and gems. This book reveals how such objects were studied, displayed, selected and valued by de'Medici and other collectors during this period.
Creator: Anne Commire
Publication date: 1994-02
Dewey code: 920.02
List Price: $295.00
Price: $295.00
Review Historic World Leaders / Gale Group:
Authors
- Sheila Eastman
- Timothy J. McGee
Dewey code: 780.924
Price: $27.50
Review Barbara Pentland (Records of Early English Drama) / University of Toronto Press:
Edition: 1884
Publication date: 1884
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $250.00
Price: $182.50
Review Peter the Great (Notable American Authors) (Notable American Authors) / Reprint Services Corp:Volume One of Two. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1417971436.
Publication date: 1997-07
Dewey code: 920
Price: $19.95
Review Staying Ahead / Christopher Pub House:
Publication date: 1992-09
Review Of Ploughs, Planes and Palliasses... / Woodfield Publishing:
Publication date: 1965
Review The big guns of Fayette / Von Boeckmann-Jones:
Publication date: 1993-01
List Price: $104.00
Price: $187.00
Review General James Longstreet / Books on Tape:The author of Mosby's Rangers shatters traditional views of the Gettysburg defeat in a revealing examination of the commander of the Confederacy's First Corps, featuring letters and unpublished Southern archive materials. This isn't the first biography to be written on Confederate General James Longstreet, but it's the best-and certainly the one that pays the most attention to Longstreet's performance as a military leader. Historian Jeffry D. Wert aims to rehabilitate Longstreet's reputation, which traditionally has suffered in comparison to those of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Some Southern partisans have blamed Longstreet unfairly for the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg; Wert corrects the record here. He is not uncritical of Longstreet's record, but he rightly suggests that if Lee had followed Longstreet's advice, the battle's outcome might have been different. The facts of history cannot be changed, however, and Wert musters them on these pages to advance a bold claim: "Longstreet, not Jackson, was the finest corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia; in fact, he was arguably the best corps commander in the conflict on either side. " Wert describes his subject as strategically aggressive, but tactically reserved. The bulk of the book appropriately focuses on the Civil War, but Wert also briefly delves into Longstreet's life before and after it. [+]Most interestingly, it was framed by a friendship with Ulysses S. Grant, formed at West Point and continuing into old age. Longstreet even served in the Grant administration-an act that called into question his loyalty to the Lost Cause, and explains in part why Wert's biography is a welcome antidote to much of what has been written about this controversial figure. -John J. Miller.
Publication date: 1998-08
Dewey code: 941.07092
List Price: $42.00
Price: $185.00
Review Henry Flood: Patriots and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Univ of Notre Dame Pr:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-03-21
Dewey code: 949.84092
List Price: $250.00
Price: $182.50
Review Autobiography Of Mikl+s Bethlen / Taylor and Francis:The Bethlen family was an ancient noble house of considerable wealth and influence in Transylvania. The earliest recorded member of the family is one who died while studying in Paris in 1184; such was the family's status even then that the king of Hungary was personally notified of the sad event. Over the years the Bethlens provided many a distinguished man in public life-Count István, Prime Minister of Hungary 1921-31, was the last Bethlen to hold high office-among them Privy Councillors, Chief Justices, Fôispáns, military commanders and Chancellors of Transylvania. Their most famous member, Gábor Bethlen (1580-1629), ruled as Prince of Transylvania from 1613 and was elected King of Hungary in 1620, although he was never crowned. The writer of this autobiography, Count Miklós (born 1642), was a general in 1682, Privy Councillor in 1689, Fôispán in 1690 and Chancellor in 1691, after an excellent education (including travel and study in western Europe) and a distinguished career in public life. He then clashed with General Rabutin, from 1696 the Austrian Commander in Chief in Transylvania, which led to his arrest and imprisonment on a charge of treason in 1703. His autobiography, one of the most extensive of the literary memoirs that came from Transylvania at this period (among them the Letters from Turkey of Kelemen Mikes and Metamorphosis Transylvaniae of Péter Apor, both published by Kegan Paul in Bernard Adams's English translation), was written in prison and under sentence of death in Hungary and Austria. Transferred to Viennese confinement in 1708 and pardoned by Emperor Charles III in 1712, Bethlen was never allowed to return to Transylvania, spent his last years in relative freedom in Vienna, and died in 1716.
Publication date: 1997-11
Dewey code: 944.08092
List Price: $143.80
Price: $191.23
Review Petain (Profiles in Power Series) / Addison Wesley Publishing Company:
Creator: Jahangir
Publication date: 1999-11-25
Dewey code: 954.0256092
List Price: $65.00
Price: $190.00
Review The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India / Oxford University Press, USA:Wheeler Thackstons lively new translation of The Jahangirnama, co-published with the Freer/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, presents an engaging portrait of an intriguing emperor and his flourishing empire. The Emperor Jahangir is probably best know in the West as being the father of Shahjahan, who built the Taj Mahal. His reign was one of great prosperity, and his passion for art and nature encouraged a flowering that some say rivaled European art during the rule of the Medicis. In penning his memoirs, Jahangir followed a tradition begun by his great-grandfather, the Emperor Babur. Jahangirs memoirs, however, provide not only the history of his reign, but also his reflections on art, politics, and private details about his familyincluding the suicide of one of his wivesand selections of poetry written by members of his harem. One of Jahangirs stories describes his astonishment at witnessing the fall of a meteorite, an event that so amazed him that he ordered that a dagger be made from its metal. This book includes a selection of exquisite full-color paintings, drawings, and objects that specifically illustrate the passages they accompany-including a photograph of the Emperors treasured dagger. A lover of jewels, nature, hunting, drinking, and opiates, Jahangir carried the Mughal empire to artistic and political heights. Refreshingly candid and frank, this splendidly illustrated edition of Jahangirs memoirs is a thoroughly absorbing profile of an emperor and the zenith of his empire.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-08-02
Dewey code: 330.09
List Price: $180.00
Price: $180.00
Review Joseph A. Schumpter Historian of Economic Thought: Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought / Routledge:Joseph A. Schumpter was one of the greates economists of the twentieth century. His History of Economic Analysis is perhaps the greatest contribution to the history of economics, providing a magisterial account of the development of the subject from Ancient Greece to the mid- twentieth century. This book analyses his contribution to the history of economics, considers its lasting significance and assesses the current state of the field. Contributors include: Mark Perlman, University of Pittsburgh; Roger E. Backhouse, Wesleyan University; Bette Polkinghorn, California State University at Sacramento; Spencer J. Pack, Connecticut College; Steven Pressman, Monmouth College; Antonia Callari, Franklin and Marshall College; Peter J. Boettke and David L. Pychitko, both at SUNY-Oswego.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-12-23
Dewey code: 359.1094109032
List Price: $180.00
Price: $179.99
Review The Diary of Henry Teonge: Chaplain on Board H.M's Ships Assistance, Bristol and Royal Oak 1675-1679 (Broadway Travellers) / Routledge:First published in 1927. This was the first complete published edition of Teonge's Diary. An intensely human document, enlivened with sketches of the people he met and places he visited, Teonge's Diary is one of the finest accounts of life on board ship in the seventeenth century. When not at sea, Henry Teonge's life was as a parson and this edition of his Diary includes a full inventory for his Parish, providing an excellent source of historical and social information on rural life in the late 1600s.
Authors
- Curt Madison
- Yvonne Yarber
Dewey code: 979.800497
Price: $10.00
Review Oscar Nictune Sr: A Biography (Alaska Alatna - Nictune, 2) / Hancock House Pub Ltd:A biography of an Alaskan Eskimo who raised a large family by himself after the death of his wife.
Publication date: 1985-07-01
Review Herbert Collins, 1885-1975 / Paul Cave Publications Ltd:
Creator: Marquis Who's Who
Edition: 16th
Publication date: 1999-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $379.95
Price: $379.95
Review Who's Who in the World 1999 (16th ed) / Marquis Who's Who:Annual reference contains biographical information on important individuals from 215 nations and territories and virtually every professional field. Includes sketches profiling more than 52,500 globally noteworthy persons.
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Mabel Hubbard Bell, The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Cardinal Newman: Vol. V: Liberalism in Oxford, January 1835 to December 1836, Alejandro Magno: Rey, General Y Estadista, Lorenzo de'Medici, Collector of Antiquities: Collector and Antiquarian, Historic World Leaders, Barbara Pentland (Records of Early English Drama), Peter the Great (Notable American Authors) (Notable American Authors), Staying Ahead, Of Ploughs, Planes and Palliasses..., The big guns of Fayette, General James Longstreet, Henry Flood: Patriots and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, Autobiography Of Mikl+s Bethlen, Petain (Profiles in Power Series), The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India, Joseph A. Schumpter Historian of Economic Thought: Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought, The Diary of Henry Teonge: Chaplain on Board H.M's Ships Assistance, Bristol and Royal Oak 1675-1679 (Broadway Travellers), Oscar Nictune Sr: A Biography (Alaska Alatna - Nictune, 2), Herbert Collins, 1885-1975, Who's Who in the World 1999 (16th ed)Top headlines: Video: The 'R' word, finally outed: Dec. 1: A panel of economists officially announced Monday that the U.S. fell into a recession in December 2007. CNBC's Maria Bartiromo reports.(Nightly News) ›23:41 'Biggest Loser': Blue team turns on Amy: On the 10th week of The Biggest Loser, the contestants learned how to make healthier versions of their Thanksgiving favorites from chef Rocco DiSpirito. 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