Publication date: 2003-07
Dewey code: 200
List Price: $33.95
Price: $380.14
Review Wolsey / Kessinger Publishing:1930. This study of Wolsey makes no pretense to detail. Its object is to establish character and motive in him and his contemporaries. To the particulars of his life no one can pretend to add much since the recent work of Professor Pollard. Our literature as a whole approves the relocation called The Reformation. The nation has long and rightly ascribed to the Reformation the qualities on which it prides itself. On this account the general bias has lain towards the better interpretation of motive in those who promoted the great change and the worse in those who impeded it. The just truth lying between the two distortions is often so novel as to sound paradoxical. It should be presented; and the author hopes the reader will agree that where he set down what may seem unusual, he has given his reasons for each conclusion.
Creator: C. J. Woods
Publication date: 2002-02-07
Dewey code: 941.507092
List Price: $450.00
Price: $258.45
Review The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98: Volume II: America, France, and Bantry Bay, August 1795 to December 1796 (Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98) / Oxford University Press, USA:Comprised mainly of correspondence, diaries, autobiography, pamphlets, public addresses, and miscellaneous memoranda, this collection includes all of the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone: barrister, United Irishman, agent of the Catholic Committee, and officer in the French revolutionary army. This is the second of three volumes and covers Tone's attempt to settle in America, the early days in France, his negotiations with the Directory, his entry into the French army, and the expedition to Bantry Bay.
Publication date: 1927
Review 43 bis;: War letters of an American V.A.D., / Priv. Print:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1966-05-20
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00
Review The Life of William Pitt, Volume 2: Earl of Chatham / Routledge:
Publication date: 1995-05
Dewey code: 900
Price: $50.00
Review Catherine of Braganza: Princess of Portugal Wife to Charles II / Howell Press Inc.:This is the first illustrated biography ever published about Catherine of Braganza, the seventeenth century Portugese princess and Queen of England, after whom New York City's borough of Queens is named. 76 color paintings and photos and 58 b&w engravings, drawings, and sketches.
Creator: Mary Seaton Dix
Publication date: 1989-04
Dewey code: 973.7130924
Price: $100.00
Review The Papers of Jefferson Davis: 1856-1860 (Papers of Jefferson Davis) / Louisiana State University Press:
Publication date: 1992-06
Dewey code: 550.9
Price: $60.50
Review James Hutton and the History of Geology / Cornell University Press:
Publication date: 2001-12-31
Review Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: A Tribute / Adam Publishers & Distributors, India:
Publication date: 2001
Review Taftville, Connecticut and the industrial revolution (The French-Canadians in New England) / R.L. Dugas, Sr:
Publication date: 2000-09
Dewey code: 940.541273
Price: $25.00
Review Hospital on the Move: Life With the 79th Hospital in World War II / Truman State University Press:A personal story of life in the first field hospital, quickly organized for General Patch's army during World War II, is told through letters, photos, and memories collected by Lt. Gilbert Kohlenberg's wife, Ens. Mary Jane Kohlenberg.
Creator: Jan Kofman
Edition: English-language Ed
Publication date: 2007-10-31
Dewey code: 920.040917170904
List Price: $289.00
Price: $202.29
Review Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century / M.E. Sharpe:Drawing on newly accessible archives as well as memoirs and other sources, this biographical dictionary documents the lives of some two thousand notable figures in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe. A unique compendium of information that is not currently available in any other single resource, the dictionary provides concise profiles of the region's most important historical and cultural actors, from Ivo Andric to King Zog. Coverage includes Albania, Belarus, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Moldova, Ukraine, and the countries that made up Yugoslavia.
Publication date: 2002-02-21
Dewey code: 937.06092
List Price: $244.99
Price: $188.30
Review Gibbon and the 'Watchmen of the Holy City': The Historian and his Reputation, 1776-1815 / Oxford University Press, USA:The subject of this book is the story of the conflict between Gibbon and those he mockingly dubbed the "Watchmen of the Holy City," and it explores the ramifications of an elusive aspect of authorship. By considering the sequence of interactions between the historian and his readership, Womersley makes possible a more intimate understanding of what might be called Gibbon's experience of himself. At the same time he deepens our knowledge of the conditions of English authorship during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Publication date: 1980
Review A giant in those days: A story about the life of John White Geary / Costal Printing:
Publication date: 1984-03
Dewey code: 937.070924
Price: $30.00
Review Suetonius: The Scholar and His Caesars / Yale Univ Pr:Seutonius, a Roman historian, was the author of "The Lives of the Caesars". This biography sets the historian's career and his method of dealing with his subject matter in the context of Roman society in the early Empire, and draws a picture of the coherence of Suetonius's life, appointments, scholarship and literary activities. Seutonius is presented as a man of learning, rather than as a failed narrative historian. This portrait takes account of recent evidence concerning his life and seeks to clarify the character of "The Lives of the Caesars" as a description of emperors and Roman imperial society by a scholarly biographer who himself was in the service of a scholarly Caesar - the Emperor Hadrian.
Publication date: 1988
Review My early life: A roving commission / Macmillan Pub. Co:When we think of Churchill, a picture comes to mind of a defiant bulldog, well along in years, cigar firmly clenched, brandy at hand, the famous "V for Victory" salute. At the height of his powers in WW II, Churchill was in his sixties. But once upon a time he was young and in this immensely absorbing story, written when he was barely 30, we learn first hand what it means to be driven by destiny. His actions were always a little larger than life and his escapades, mainly fighting, were wild and reckless. He loved the glory of war, and after every campaign wrote a book. The result was that by the time he was 25 he was rich and famous. He was also filled with purpose (politics) and ambition (the top). This is the story of how he began.
Publication date: 2004-10-01
Price: $149.88
Review Remembering Singalong Jubilee / Formac:A book that relives the folksong era of the Sixties and Seventies, including acclaimed Canadian performers Anne Murray, Catherine McKinnon, Shirley Eikhard and many more. One of the most popular television shows ever aired by CBC television was produced in Halifax and relied on amateur local talent. From its first broadcast in 1961, Singalong Jubilee was an immediate success. Internationally renowned singer Anne Murray made her debut on Singalong, as did Shirley Eikhard, Catherine McKinnon and Clary Croft. This illustrated book includes first-person accounts from more than 20 people who were involved in the production of the show. From their stories we learn about all the people who performed and assisted in the show. Photographs of the cast and the support staff offer a glimpse back to the early days of television production. Songs that have become folk music icons were first heard on Singalong including Gene MacLellan's "Put Your Hand in the Hand" and the Anne Murray signature song, "Snowbird. "Remembering Singalong Jubilee is the first book to capture the personal memories of the early days in the eastcoast music scene from some of Canada's best loved professionals.
Authors
- William Charles Henry Wood
Review The winning of Canada;: A chronicle of Wolfe, (Chronicles of Canada series ... ed. by G. M. Wrong and H. H. Langton. [v. 11]) / Brook & company:The Winning of Canada a Chronicle of Wolf is volume 11 in a 15 volume set of books written by various authors covering Canadian history. William Wood was a 19th century historian and author. In the author's note to this volume Wood writes: "Any life of Wolfe can be artificially simplified by treating his purely military work as something complete in itself and not as a part of a greater whole. But, since such treatment gives a totally false idea of his achievement, this little sketch, drawn straight from original sources, tries to show him as he really was, a co-worker with the British fleet in a war based entirely on naval strategy and inseparably connected with international affairs of world-wide significance. The only simplification attempted here is that of arrangement and expression. ".
Publication date: 2000-08
Dewey code: 920
Price: $39.95
Review Interesting Times: Uganda Diaries 1955-1986 / Book Guild Publishing:This is a unique account of a Briton's astonishing survival in the Uganda Judiciary during the insane eight-year despotism of Idi Amin in the 1970s and its violent aftermath. Allen's diaries of his three decades in Uganda catalog Amin's rise to power and detail the dictator's horrific excesses.
Edition: Rev Sub
Publication date: 1997-11
Dewey code: 828.91209
Price: $34.00
Review T.E. Lawrence Revised (Twayne's English Authors Series) / Twayne Publishers:Twaynes English Authors SeriesSeries Editors: Frank Day, Clemson University Joseph M. Flora, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Pattie Cowell, Colorado State University Ruth K. MacDonald A volume in Twaynes Authors Series of literary criticism offers a critical introduction to the life and work of a particular writer, to the history and influence of a literary movement, or to the development of a literary genre. Primarily devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, the study not only takes account of major literary trends and important contributions in scholarship and criticism but also provides new critical insights and an original point of view. Authors Series volumes are rooted in the original works themselves and address readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writers work. A reader new to the work under examination will, after reading the Authors Series study, be compelled to turn to the originals, bringing to the reading a basic knowledge and fresh critical perspectives. Lawrence of Arabia was not only a brilliant adventurer, but a brilliant writer. His Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the finest British autobiographies of the twentieth century, and this book attempts to show the reader why. T. [+]E. Lawrence looks carefully at Lawrences painful search for a cultural and sexual identity, as well as for an artistic form in which to encapsulate his experiences in Arabia. It also discusses what his R. A. F. memoir The Mint reveals and conceals about his life in the postwar period. It tackles the controversy about his truthfulness, and it probes his search for mystical transcendence. But most of all, T. E. Lawrence explains why Lawrence is studied; because he had a style at once personal and epic, because his characterization of himself and others remains both sharply etched and teasingly obscure, and because he discusses the problems of life, sexuality, politics, and art in a perennially modern way.
Publication date: 1966-09
Dewey code: 942.0730924
Price: $47.50
Review The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham / Octagon Books:
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Wolsey, The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98: Volume II: America, France, and Bantry Bay, August 1795 to December 1796 (Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98), 43 bis;: War letters of an American V.A.D.,, The Life of William Pitt, Volume 2: Earl of Chatham, Catherine of Braganza: Princess of Portugal Wife to Charles II, The Papers of Jefferson Davis: 1856-1860 (Papers of Jefferson Davis), James Hutton and the History of Geology, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: A Tribute, Taftville, Connecticut and the industrial revolution (The French-Canadians in New England), Hospital on the Move: Life With the 79th Hospital in World War II, Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century, Gibbon and the 'Watchmen of the Holy City': The Historian and his Reputation, 1776-1815, A giant in those days: A story about the life of John White Geary, Suetonius: The Scholar and His Caesars, My early life: A roving commission, Remembering Singalong Jubilee, The winning of Canada;: A chronicle of Wolfe, (Chronicles of Canada series ... ed. by G. 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