Creator: Meredith D. Dodge
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1998-06-01
Dewey code: 978.902092
List Price: $120.00
Price: $120.00
Review Blood on the Boulders: The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, 1694-1697 (Journals of Don Diego De Vargas) / University of New Mexico Press:Having retaken Santa Fe by force of arms late in 1693, Diego de Vargas faces unrelenting challenges, waging active warfare against defiant Pueblo Indian resisters while maintaining peace with Pueblo allies; providing homes, food, and supplies for 1,500 unsure colonists; and bidding unceasingly for greater support from viceregal authorities in Mexico City. At the head of combined units of Spanish and Pueblo fighting men, the governor in 1694 leads repeated assaults on castle-like fortified sites. Through combat, prisoner exchange, and negotiation, he reestablishes the kingdom. Franciscans reopen some of the missions. Vargas founds the villa of Santa Cruz de la Cañada. Pueblos north and west of Santa Fe rebel again in 1696; wearily, Vargas reports more blood on the boulders. Through The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, translated from official and private correspondence, we are drawn back, through conflict and compromise, into New Mexico's formative era.
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2001-03-08
Dewey code: 270.60922
List Price: $39.95
Price: $105.82
Review Reformers in the Wings: From Geiler von Kaysersberg to Theodore Beza / Oxford University Press, USA:This book provides brief and accessible portraits of twenty of the secondary theologians of the Reformation period. In addition to describing a particular theologian, each portrait explores one problem in 16th-century Christian thought. Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, and Radical thinkers are all represented in this volume, which serves as both an introduction to the field and a handy reference for scholars.
Publication date: 1994-11
Dewey code: 941.084092
Price: $19.50
Review Churchill: A Member for Woodford / Intl Specialized Book Service Inc:For nearly forty years 'among the glades of Epping Forest' Churchill found a base for his distinguished parliamentary life: it sustained him during his ten years in the political wilderness and during the fierce ordeals of tragedy and triumph in the war years. This book relates with anecdotal and archival evidence the attempt to unseat him after what many supporters thought an injudicious Munich speech. However Churchill was persuaded to stay on by loyal friends, thus ensuring his availability for a Cabinet post a few months later at the outbreak of war.
Publication date: 1998-12
Dewey code: 968
Price: $25.50
Review Painting the Map Red: Canada and the South African War, 1899-1902 (Adulphe Delegorgue's Travels in Southern Africa) / University of Natal Press:For almost 3 years, the Canadian public was mesmerized by the war. It affected trade, industry, transportation, fashion, discourse, literature, graphics, and music. By the time the Anglo-Boer War ended in May 1902, 7368 young soldiers and 16 nurses had sailed from Canada for South Africa. About 270 died there, killed in battle or disease. The author explains why men volunteered for service in this distant conflict despite the rancorous pre-war debate on the wisdom of Canadian participation. He examines the difficulties of leading citizen soldiers, and compares the differing styles of leadership. He also reveals how the soldiers' experiences in the field, and the public's perceptions of the war altered Canadian opinion, politics, and military development.
Edition: Ed. de luxe
Publication date: 1904
Review Sir Frederick Haldimand (The makers of Canada) / Morang & Co:
Authors
- Nancy J. Nielsen
- Lora Polack Oberle
- Cory Gideon Gunderson
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $143.58
Price: $104.81
Review Let Freedom Ring: Civil War Biographies (Let Freedom Ring Civil War Biographies) / Capstone Press:
Publication date: 2005-10-21
Dewey code: 941.099
List Price: $210.00
Price: $110.00
Review Compendium of British Office Holders / Palgrave Macmillan:The Compendiunm of British Office Holders provides a comprehensive guide to holders of British, Political, Administrative, Military and Ecclesiastical offices since the Roman conquest, giving names, dates and the length offices were held for governmental positions. It is the first such collection of this type of research data since Hayon's Dictionary of Dates was published back in 1894 and will provide the reader with quick and easy access to specific factual information for research.
Creator: Sarah Hamilton
Publication date: 2006-09-21
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $105.00
Price: $104.99
Review Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250: Essays in Honour of Frank Barlow / Boydell Press:Biography is one of the oldest, most popular and most tenacious of literary forms. Perhaps the best attested narrative form of the Middle Ages, it continues to draw modern historians of the medieval period to its peculiar challenge to explicate the general through the particular: the biographer's decisions to impose or to resist the imposition of order on biographical remnants raise issues which go to the heart of historical method. This collection, compiled in honour of a distinguished modern exponent of the art of biography, contains sixteen essays by leading scholars which examine the limits and possibilities of the genre for the period between 750AD and 1250AD. Ranging from pivotal figures such as Charlemagne, William the Conqueror and St Bernard, to the anonymous female skeleton in an Anglo-Saxon grave, from kings and queens to clerks and saints, and from individual to the collective biographies, this collection investigates both medieval biographical writings, and the issues surrounding the writing of medieval lives. Professor DAVID BATES is Director of the Institute of Historical Research; Dr JULIA CRICK and Dr SARAH HAMILTON teach in the Department of History at the University of Exeter. Contributors: JANET L. NELSON, ROBIN FLEMING, BARBARA YORKE, RICHARD ABELS, SIMON KEYNES, PAULINE STAFFORD, ELISABETH VAN HOUTS, DAVID BATES, JANE MARTINDALE, CHRISTOPHER HOLDSWORTH, LINDY GRANT, MARJORIE CHIBNALL, EDMUND KING, JOHN GILLINGHAM, DAVID CROUCH, NICHOLAS VINCENT.
Authors
- Edward A. Bloom
- Hester Lynch Piozzi
- Lillian D. Bloom
Dewey code: 828.609
Price: $75.00
Review The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821/1784-1791 (Piozzi Letters) / Univ of Delaware Pr:
Creator: Richard Taylor
Publication date: 2006-08-21
Dewey code: 791
List Price: $110.00
Price: $104.80
Review Vsevolod Pudovkin: Selected Essays / Seagull Books:Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893-1953) was one of the leading Soviet film directors in the "golden age" of silent cinema in the 1920s. His films - especially The Mother, The End of St Petersburg and Storm over Asia - are classics of silent cinema. Like Eisenstein, Pudovkin was also a major theorist of film. This new translation of Pudovkin's seminal writings brings together his most important essays from his two key books, Film Technique and Film Acting. The essays highlight the development of Pudovkin's revolutionary thinking on scripts, directing, time, sound, and acting.
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2001-01-11
Dewey code: 943.086092
List Price: $105.00
Price: $104.99
Review Hitler: Profile of a Dictator / Routledge:Hitler: Profile of a Dictator is a fascinating exploration of Hitler and his role in the Third Reich. The book unravels the complex debate surrounding this notorious figure by examining his personality, his ideas and the nature of his power. Hitler surveys Hitler's career chronologically and includes coverage of:* the young idealogue * the Fuhrer State * Hitler's role in the outbreak of the Second World War * Hitler's involvement in the Holocaust. This second edition brings the continuing debate up to date in light of the most recent reseach, and speculates on the implications of the Irving trial.
Publication date: 2006-01
Price: $105.02
Review Rain in My Heart: Memories of Children and War in South Vietnam / Lothian Books:
Authors
- Robert Galois
- James Colnett
Dewey code: 917.111041
List Price: $104.95
Price: $104.95
Review Voyage to the Northwest Side of America: The Journals of James Colnett, 1786-89 / UBC Press:The journal of James Colnett is an account of the early maritime fur trade on the Northwest Coast. Focusing on the expedition's remarkable encounters with Native peoples, Galois' introductory essay also addresses the geopolitical and intellectual context of the voyage.
Publication date: 1985-12
Price: $16.00
Review Vitruvius: Architect and Engineer (Inside the Ancient World) / Duckworth Publishing:
Publication date: 2000-04-24
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $25.00
Price: $109.99
Review Louis Moreau Gottschalk (Music in American Life) / University of Illinois Press:
Publication date: 1997-07
Dewey code: 942.0190922
Price: $44.95
Review Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh-Century England / Blackwell Publishers:This is the first full-scale biography of two early English queens: Emma, queen first to Aethelread and then to Cnut, and Edith, queen to Edward the Confessor. Through detailed study of these women the author demonstrates the integral place of royal queens in the rule of the English kingdom and in the process of unification by which England was made. The careers of Emma and Edith span the troubled decades of eleventh-century English history, and the book reassesses their role in the story of foreign conquests, succession dispute and political murder. Their biography is illuminated by a detailed study of the structures of tenth- and eleventh-century English Queenship - motherhood, marriage, inheritance and succession, the royal household and patronage, consecrated and holy Queenship. It moves from the partial stories told of them by others, and the unique narrative worlds they themselves commissioned, to a new and detailed biography in which Emma especially emerges as one of the most significant political actors of her day and in which both women are shown as both imprisoned by but contesting the inexorable female lifecycle. The book is an important contribution to our understanding of eleventh- and twelfth-century rule but also of medieval England in general, and, crucially, the role of women within that world.
Publication date: 1999-04
Dewey code: 940
Price: $17.95
Review A School in the Hills / Mercat Press:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 1969-01-31
List Price: $105.00
Price: $105.00
Review The Mendelssohn Family 1729-1847: Set From Letters and Journals / Greenwood Press Reprint:
Publication date: 1997-09-10
Review Framing Winslow: a Firefighter's Tale / Keith Askham Publishing:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 1998-09-11
Dewey code: 192
List Price: $115.00
Price: $104.73
Review Autobiography / Routledge:"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither. over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. " - Bertrand Russell Champion of intellectual, social and sexual freedom, campaigner for peace and for civil and human rights, Bertrand Russell remains one of the greatest and most complex and controversial figures of the twentieth century. His childhood was bitterly lonely but rich in experience. His adulthood was spent grappling with both his own beliefs and the problems of the universe and mankind, and the pursuit of love and permanent happiness which resulted in five marriages. This new edition of Russell's Autobiography, available for the first time in one volume, shares a life of incredible variety, and is told with vigor, charm and total frankness.
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Blood on the Boulders: The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, 1694-1697 (Journals of Don Diego De Vargas), Reformers in the Wings: From Geiler von Kaysersberg to Theodore Beza, Churchill: A Member for Woodford, Painting the Map Red: Canada and the South African War, 1899-1902 (Adulphe Delegorgue's Travels in Southern Africa), Sir Frederick Haldimand (The makers of Canada), Let Freedom Ring: Civil War Biographies (Let Freedom Ring Civil War Biographies), Compendium of British Office Holders, Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250: Essays in Honour of Frank Barlow, The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821/1784-1791 (Piozzi Letters), Vsevolod Pudovkin: Selected Essays, Hitler: Profile of a Dictator, Rain in My Heart: Memories of Children and War in South Vietnam, Voyage to the Northwest Side of America: The Journals of James Colnett, 1786-89, Vitruvius: Architect and Engineer (Inside the Ancient World), Louis Moreau Gottschalk (Music in American Life), Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh-Century England, A School in the Hills, The Mendelssohn Family 1729-1847: Set From Letters and Journals, Framing Winslow: a Firefighter's Tale, AutobiographyTop headlines: Floods leave Venice underwater: Residents and tourists in Venice waded through knee-deep water Monday as they navigated the city's narrow streets and alleys, and its historic St. Mark's Square was inundated. ›20:11 NATO convoy struck in Pakistan: Militants in northwestern Pakistan attacked trucks ferrying supplies to NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Monday, killing two people and destroying a dozen vehicles, witnesses and police said. ›16:16 It's official: U.S. is in recession: A panel of the National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday that the U.S. economy fell into a recession last year. ›19:46 Cell phones more distracting than passengers: Mobile phone calls distract drivers far more than even the chattiest passenger, causing drivers to follow too closely and miss exits, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. ›15:46 Bush set to relax rules protecting species: Animals in danger of becoming extinct could lose the protection of government experts who make sure that dams and other projects don't pose a threat, under a regulation the Bush administration is set to put in place. ›16:13 20 Nov, Thu Col. 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