Creator: John C. Fredriksen
Publication date: 1997-01-30
Dewey code: 016.97352
List Price: $112.95
Price: $112.95
Review War of 1812 Eyewitness Accounts: An Annotated Bibliography (Bibliographies and Indexes in Military Studies) / Greenwood Press:Once regarded as a backwoods frontier skirmish, the War of 1812 has become an object of increasing historical scrutiny. A new consensus is emerging among scholars which views the Second War with England as a defining moment in the history of North America. This reference tool enables users to view this important conflict from a variety of American, British, and Canadian perspectives. Compiled by a recognized authority, this bibliography describes over 850 printed primary sources, including letters, diaries, journals, and memoirs. In addition to the usual army and navy accounts, the book also includes narratives by women, clergy, politicians, diplomats, merchants, and Native Americans. This volume is specifically designed to direct users to select historical data quickly and easily. Topically, it consists of three sections, covering military, naval, and civilian narratives. Each entry has detailed annotation, discussing bibliographic information, names and dates of the author, the time period covered, the writer's rank, organization, or social position, and the historical places and events mentioned in passing. Inclusive in scope and highly detailed, this bibliography is a valuable addition to any historical collection.
Publication date: 1954
Review Mach one / A. Wingate:
Authors
- Charles Wileford; Charles Willeford
Review The Collected Memoirs of C. Willeford : I Was Looking for a Street & Something / Disc Us Books Inc:
Publication date: 1996-04-26
Dewey code: 942.034
List Price: $160.00
Price: $133.13
Review Peter des Roches: An Alien in English Politics, 1205-1238 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series) / Cambridge University Press:This is the first biography of one of the wealthiest and most influential bishops of medieval Europe, who for a period of over thirty years exercised a degree of power over the thirteenth-century Plantagenet court second only to that of the king. The career of Peter des Roches and the activities of his fellow aliens are fundamental to an understanding of the process by which England and France developed as two separate kingdoms. The book also sheds new light on such hotly-debated issues as the role of aliens in English politics, the reception of Magna Carta, the loss of Normandy, and the constitutional and administrative developments of the reign of Henry III.
Publication date: 2000-03
List Price: $12.95
Price: $114.98
Review Memoir of Colonel Seth Warner / Essence of Vermont:Seth Warner was born in Woodbury,Conn. in 1743. He moved to Vermont in 1763, and was noted for his great hunting skills. Warner was a cousin of Ethan Allen, and both, nephews of Remember Baker. Together the three opposed all who got in the way of what was to become the Independent State of Vermont.
Publication date: 2001-03
Dewey code: 920.068
Price: $23.95
Review They Shaped Our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century / Human & Rosseau:
Publication date: 2005-04-30
Dewey code: 359.0092
List Price: $119.95
Price: $115.19
Review Kommentiete Transkription Der Tagelbuecher Von Hermann Ludwig Von Lewenstern 1777-1836: 1803-1806: Die Erste Russsische Weltumsegelung (Studies in German Language and Literature) / Edwin Mellen Press:The transcription of Hermann Ludwig von Lowenstern's uncensored diaries (1793-1815) gives the modern reader a rare insight into the life of a Baltic German Russian naval officer at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries. Lowenstern traveled the world from the Baltic to the Mediterranean and Black Seas, from Reval to Paris and back by way of Berlin (1793-1801), and from Kronstadt to Copenhagen, Falmouth, Tenerife, Brazil, Nuka Hiva, Kamchatka, Nagasaki, Canton, St. Helena, Scotland and back to Kronstadt (1803-1806), and finally to Archangelsk and the Crimea (1806-1815) before retiring to marry and run three estates in Estonia. Every human endeavor engaged his attention: a sailor's revolt in England; Russians rescuing Turkish sailors during race riots in Palermo; elegant balls attended by Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton; Napoleon reviewing troops in Paris; Abbe Sicard lecturing at the Institute for the Deaf and Dumb; Japanese playing psychological games on the Russian Ambassador, Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov; "fresh meat" being secretly ferried to foreign ships in Canton; the bathhouses in Istanbul; the unbearable life in the swampy hellhole of Archangelsk; and the Crimean sect practicing castration. These diaries are also a treasure trove for students of languages since Lowenstern wrote as he spoke, that is, Baltic German with admixtures of other languages from around the world.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1994-10
Dewey code: 782.42162110092
Price: $22.95
Review I Never Sold My Saddle / Gibbs Smith:
Edition: 0
Publication date: 2001-03
Dewey code: 973.41092
List Price: $55.00
Price: $112.01
Review George Washington Reconsidered / University Press of Virginia:George Washington, heroic general of the Revolution, master of Mount Vemon, and first president of the United States, remains the most enigmatic figure of the founding generation, with historians and the public at large still arguing over the strengths of his character and the nature of his intellectual and political contributions to the early republic. Representing the finest recent scholarship on Washington, these thirteen essays by the leading scholars in the field strike a balance in their focus between Washington's personal life and character and his public life as a soldier and political figure. Editor Don Higginbotham provides an introduction about Washington and his treatment by historians and an afterword devoted to how the American people have viewed Washington, including the 1999 commemorations of the bicentennial of his death. With three essays written specifically for this volume, George Washington Reconsidered is the first collection of its kind to be published in over thirty years.
Publication date: 1982-12
Review Oswald Mosley / Sussex Publications:
Creator: Conan Kennedy
Publication date: 2005-10-01
Review The Diaries of Mary Hayden: 1878-1883 v. 1 / Morrigan Book Co:
Edition: 16th
Publication date: 2001-01
Dewey code: 025
List Price: $176.00
Price: $176.00
Review Who's Who in Lebanon 2001-2002 (Who's Who in Lebanon, 2001-2002) / Thomson Gale:
Publication date: 2001-12-06
Review Hitler: Nemesis/Hubris / Penguin Books Ltd:
Authors
- J. C. Santamarina
- Dante Fratta
Dewey code: 621.3822
List Price: $150.00
Price: $114.94
Review Discrete Signals and Inverse Problems: An Introduction for Engineers and Scientists / Wiley:Discrete Signals and Inverse Problems examines fundamental concepts necessary to engineers and scientists working with discrete signal processing and inverse problem solving, and places emphasis on the clear understanding of algorithms within the context of application needs. Based on the original ‘Introduction to Discrete Signals and Inverse Problems in Civil Engineering’, this expanded and enriched version: combines discrete signal processing and inverse problem solving in one book covers the most versatile tools that are needed to process engineering and scientific data presents step-by-step ‘implementation procedures’ for the most relevant algorithms provides instructive figures, solved examples and insightful exercises Discrete Signals and Inverse Problems is essential reading for experimental researchers and practicing engineers in civil, mechanical and electrical engineering, non-destructive testing and instrumentation. This book is also an excellent reference for advanced undergraduate students and graduate students in engineering and science.
Publication date: 1995-01
Review Gerald Massey: Chartist, Poet, Radical, and Freethinker / Buckland Publications:
Publication date: 2006-07-12
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $87.99
Price: $87.99
Review Blackbeard Or The Pirate of the Roanoke / IndyPublish:
Authors
- Mary Percy Jackson
- Janice P. Dickin McGinnis
Dewey code: 305
Price: $55.00
Review Suitable for the Wilds: Letters from Northern Alberta, 1929-1931 / University of Toronto Press:Born in England in 1905, Mary Percy Jackson graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1927 with degrees in medicine and surgery. Responding to an advert in a medical journal recruiting doctors to work in Alberta, she moved there in 1929, settling in the Peace River area. Assigned to a territory of nearly 400 square miles, Jackson travelled mostly on horseback through mainly unmarked trails ministering to her patients. Vigilant about nutrition and vaccination, she promoted good health for five generations of Metis, Native and homesteader populations. In 1975 she was named 'Woman of the Year' by the Voice of Native Women for her tireless devotion and years of dedicated service. This book offers readers a new opportunity to discover this true trailblazer through her fascinating letters and correspondence that demonstrate clearly her profound impact on Alberta's social development in the early 20th century.
Publication date: 2003-09
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $125.00
Price: $125.00
Review Tauchnitz International Editions in English, 1841-1955: A Bibliographical History / Oak Knoll Pr:Reprint of the 1988 first edition. This encyclopedic account of the Tauchnitz firm documents and substantiates its major role as an "international institution" in spreading Anglo-American culture throughout the world. The history describes the main Tauchnitz series (1841-1943) of 5370 volumes, respresenting 783 English and American authors. It is based upon the collection of 46 libraries as well as relevant manuscipt archives; some 56,000 widely variant copies of the editions have been taken into account. Beginning with the issues of Bulwer Lytton, James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving, the bibliography lists numerous first editions of Dickens and other popular Victorian novelists. Some of the editions listed actually precede the recommended first editions of many of the works. Co-published with The Britiah Library.
Creator: Simon Keynes
Publication date: 1998-09-28
Dewey code: 942.019092
List Price: $70.00
Price: $115.00
Review Encomium Emmae Reginae (Camden Classic Reprints) / Cambridge University Press:The Encomium Emmae Reginae is, as its title suggests, a political tract in praise of Queen Emma, daughter of Duke Richard I of Normandy, wife of King Ethelred the Unready from 1002 to 1016, and wife of the Danish conqueror King Cnut from 1017 to 1035. It is an important primary source that transports us into the heart of eleventh-century politics. This edition contains a new introduction that places the Encomium in the historical context in which it was written, and traces the career of Emma, a woman who was twice queen and who sought to preserve her position of power as queen-mother.
Publication date: 1996-12
Dewey code: 828.91403
List Price: $45.00
Price: $199.99
Review A Mingled Measure Diaries 1953-1972: Diaries, 1953-72. / John Murray Publishers Ltd:This text continues the sequence that established James Lees-Milne as a well-known 20th-century diarist. The author has ceased to work full-time for the National Trust and we now see him in kaleidoscopically varied company, including Colette, Oswald Mosley and John Betjeman.
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Willeford : I Was Looking for a Street & Something, Peter des Roches: An Alien in English Politics, 1205-1238 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series), Memoir of Colonel Seth Warner, They Shaped Our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century, Kommentiete Transkription Der Tagelbuecher Von Hermann Ludwig Von Lewenstern 1777-1836: 1803-1806: Die Erste Russsische Weltumsegelung (Studies in German Language and Literature), I Never Sold My Saddle, George Washington Reconsidered, Oswald Mosley, The Diaries of Mary Hayden: 1878-1883 v. 1, Who's Who in Lebanon 2001-2002 (Who's Who in Lebanon, 2001-2002), Hitler: Nemesis/Hubris, Discrete Signals and Inverse Problems: An Introduction for Engineers and Scientists, Gerald Massey: Chartist, Poet, Radical, and Freethinker, Blackbeard Or The Pirate of the Roanoke, Suitable for the Wilds: Letters from Northern Alberta, 1929-1931, Tauchnitz International Editions in English, 1841-1955: A Bibliographical History, Encomium Emmae Reginae (Camden Classic Reprints), A Mingled Measure Diaries 1953-1972: Diaries, 1953-72.Top headlines: U.N. climate chief hails Obama pledge: The recent commitments on global warming by U.S. President-elect Barack Obama mark a new beginning for world negotiations, the head of the U.N.'s climate change body said Wednesday. ›23:26 19 Nov, Wed Churches: Chocolate Jesus is 'tasteless': Frank Oynhausen set up his "Sweet Lord" chocolate Jesus-making business saying he wanted to restore some traditional religious values to Christmas in Germany. ›19:39 25 Nov, Tue Toddler OK after key lodged in his eye: The CAT scan of little Nicholas Holdermans head shows the car key he fell on stuck to the hilt in his eye, penetrating his brain. 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