Publication date: 1988-06
Dewey code: 920
Price: $19.50
Review Personal Impressions / Peter Smith Pub Inc:This remarkable collection contains Isaiah Berlin's appreciations of seventeen people of unusual distinction in the intellectual or political world, sometimes both. The names of many of them are familiar: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein, and others. With the exception of Roosevelt, he met them all and knew many of them well. For this expanded edition, four new portraits have been added, including those of Virginia Woolf and Edmund Wilson. This volume also contains a vivid and moving account of Berlin's meetings in Russia with Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova in 1945 and 1956. Perhaps the most fascinating of these "personal impressions" is found in the epilogue, where Berlin describes the three strands in his own personality: Russian, English, and Jewish.
Creator: Edward W. Hanson
Publication date: 2005-08-31
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $50.00
Price: $97.55
Review The Papers of Robert Treat Paine: 1774-1777 (Papers of Robert Treat Paine) / University of Virginia Press:Volume 3 of this series traces the national phase of Robert Treat Paine's public career as well as the start of his state service in Massachusetts. One of the prosecutors in the Boston Massacre trials of 1770, Paine was already well known in the province. His selection as a delegate to the First Continental Congress in 1774, where he served steadily for more than two years, consequently came as no surprise. The highlight of this period was the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, of which Paine was a signer. The documents in this volume, however, are more important for the insights they provide into the workings of the Continental Congress. Paine devoted most of his efforts to munitions, and his correspondence provides an especially detailed account of the Continental Congress's efforts to supply the American army with cannon and gunpowder. Long periods away from his family produced marital tensions, which his correspondence with his wife reveals. By the end of 1776 he was home; the following year, he began his extended tenure as the first selected attorney general of Massachusetts.
Publication date: 2005-11-01
Dewey code: 951.050922
List Price: $98.00
Price: $97.99
Review Pioneers of Modern China: Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese / World Scientific Publishing Company:Amongst the Chinese exists great cultural variety and diversity. The Cantonese care more for profit than face and are good businessmen, whereas Fujian Rén are frank, blunt and outspoken but daring and generous. Beijing Rén are more aristocratic and well-mannered, having stayed in a city ruled by emperors of different dynasties. Shanghai Rén are more enterprising, adventurous and materialistic but less aristocratic, having been at the center of pre-war gangsterism. Hainan Rén are straightforward, blunt and stubborn. Hunan Rén are more warlike and have produced more marshals and generals than any other province. Pioneers of Modern China is a fascinating book that paints a vivid picture of the unique cultural characteristics and behavior of the Chinese in the various provinces. Using leaders in the modern history of China, such as Sun Yat Sen, Chiang Kai Shek, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao as representatives, it offers an in-depth look into the psyche of the Chinese people. It also pays tribute to writers, painters and kungfu experts, who have helped to develop the country socially and artistically.
Authors
- Anelle Trumbull O'Neil
- Robert Samuel Trumbull
Dewey code: 929.20973
Price: $97.83
Review From Dear Friends to Marriage: The Letters of Mattie Piggott and Robert Trumbull, 1902-1908 / Wedgestone Pr:
Publication date: 2008-05-15
Dewey code: 639.29092
List Price: $98.00
Price: $98.00
Review Captain Alex Maclean: Jack London's Sea Wolf / University of British Columbia Press:Alex MacLean was a sailor and sealer, originally from Cape Breton, who was the inspiration for the title character Wolf Larsen in Jack London's best-selling novel, "The Sea-Wolf". When he was just 21, MacLean sailed to the Pacific side of North America, where he operated for 35 years. He was a skilful sailor and a colourful individual whose achievements and escapades while in the Victoria pelagic fleet in the 1880s laid the foundation for his status as a folk hero. "Captain Alex MacLean: Jack London's Sea Wolf" is not only the story of this fascinating character but also the construction of his legend. MacLean's biography opens a new window into the complex world of pelagic sealing in the North Pacific. The sealing dispute brought the United States and Britain to the brink of war, with Canadian sealing interests frequently enmeshed in webs of espionage, scientific debate, diplomatic negotiations, and vexing questions of maritime and environmental law. MacLean's story will appeal to maritime historians, historians of the Pacific Northwest, and readers interested in the history of sealing, international relations, and environmental politics. It will also appeal to readers interested in this fascinating character, both in his own right and as mythologized by Jack London.
Publication date: 2007-05-13
Dewey code: 823.8
List Price: $108.00
Price: $103.83
Review Charles Dickens (Writers Lives) / Continuum:This work provides concise, accessible introductions to major writers focusing equally on their life and works. Written in a lively style to appeal to both students and readers, books in the series are ideal guides to authors and their writing. Charles Dickens is without doubt a literary giant. The most widely read author of his own generation, his works remain incredibly popular and important today. Often seen as the quintessential Victorian novelist, his texts convey perhaps better than any others the drive for wealth and progress and the social contrasts that characterised the Victorian era. His works are widely studied throughout the world both as literary masterpieces and as classic examples of the nineteenth century novel. Donald Hawes book will provide a short, lively but sophisticated introduction to Dickens's work and the personal and social context in which it was written.
Publication date: 1998-09
Dewey code: 790
Price: $25.00
Review The Winter Queen: The Life of Elizabeth of Bohemia 1596-1662 / National Galleries of Scotland:
Creator: Jim Leeke
Publication date: 1998-10
Dewey code: 973.7472
List Price: $14.95
Price: $97.98
Review Smoke, Sound & Fury: The Civil War Memoirs of Major-General Lew Wallace, U.S. Volunteers / Strawberry Hill Pr:Remembered today as the author of Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace was first an Indiana lawyer whose leadership and talent for action won him fame in the Civil War. Brash, handsome and charismatic, he quickly rose from colonel of a volunteer regiment to major-general of a division. A popular hero in wester Virginia and the capture of Fort Donelson, he later saw his military carreer nearly runied at Shiloh, where a series of disastrous miscommunications delayed his divisions's arrival of the field. Drawn from Lew Wallace: An Autobiography,published posthumously in 1906, this book offers the sights and sounds of the Civil War filtered through the memory of a keen-eyed romantic. Wallace emerges here in all of his compelling complexity.
Publication date: 1992-08-14
Dewey code: 937.08092
Price: $26.95
Review Julian: An Intellectual Biography (Classical Lives) / Routledge:"Julian" tells the story of the transformation of a reclusive and scholarly adolescent into a successful general and an audacious social reformer. The author traces the sequence of the Emperor Julian's responses to inner and outward challenges and dwells on the tensions and conflicts that each new choice created for him. Julian knew how to cope both with success and with those misfortunes for which he was not personally responsible, but he was not able to face failure. The shock of realizing a few months before his premature death that as a statesman he had indeed failed caused him to withdraw into a private world of visions and illusions, and rendered him incapable of sustaining any longer his contact with reality.
Publication date: 2000-09
Dewey code: 809
Price: $16.95
Review Las Anecdotas De Grecia / Planeta Pub Corp:
Authors
- Newcastle City Libraries
- Joe Hind
Review A Shieldfield Childhood / Newcastle Libraries & Information Service:
Publication date: 2004-03-24
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $97.99
Price: $97.99
Review The Life Of Cicero / IndyPublish.com:I am conscious of a certain audacity in thus attempting to give a further life of Cicero which I feel I may probably fail in justifying by any new information; and on this account the enterprise though it has been long considered has been postponed so that it may be left for those who come after me to burn or publish as they may think proper; or should it appear during my life I may have become callous through age to criticism.
Creator: Patricia Crimmin
Publication date: 2007-10-30
Dewey code: 382.09420509033
List Price: $139.95
Price: $97.97
Review The East India Company and the Provinces in the Eighteenth Century: Captains, Agents, and Servants, a Gallery of East India Company Portraits (Studies in British History) / Edwin Mellen Press:This volume is the first attempt to examine the East India Company's activities and importance at a provincial level in the eighteenth century through the lives and experiences of those who were employed by this powerful and multi-faceted business concern. Drawing on manuscripts from twenty-seven different archive repositories and an array of printed primary and secondary sources, it sets out to fill a major gap in the knowledge of the East India Company and its multifarious activities.
Publication date: 1946
Review Pathfinders, / Jarrolds, limited:
Creator: Lisette Lecat
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-01
Price: $119.75
Review Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England / Recorded Books:Isabella arrived in London in 1308, the spirited twelve-year-old daughter of King Philip IV of France. Her marriage to the heir to England’s throne was designed to heal old political wounds between the two countries, and in the years that followed, she would become an important figure, a determined and clever woman whose influence would come to last centuries. But Queen Isabella’s political machinations led generations of historians to malign her, earning her a reputation as a ruthless schemer and an odious nickname, “the She-Wolf of France. ”Now the acclaimed author of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Alison Weir, reexamines the life of Isabella of England, history’s other notorious and charismatic medieval queen. Praised for her fair looks, the newly wed Isabella was denied the attentions of Edward II, a weak, sexually ambiguous monarch with scant taste for his royal duties. As their marriage progressed, Isabella was neglected by her dissolute husband and slighted by his favored male courtiers. Humiliated and deprived of her income, her children, and her liberty, Isabella escaped to France, where she entered into a passionate affair with Edward II’s mortal enemy, Roger Mortimer. Together, Isabella and Mortimer led the only successful invasion of English soil since the Norman Conquest of 1066, deposing Edward and ruling in his stead as co-regents for Isabella’s young son, Edward III. Fate, however, was soon to catch up with Isabella and her lover. Many mysteries and legends have been woven around Isabella’s story. [+]She was long condemned as an accessory to Edward II’s brutal murder in 1327, but recent research has cast doubt on whether that murder even took place. Isabella’s reputation, then, rests largely on the prejudices of monkish chroniclers and prudish Victorian scholars. Here Alison Weir gives a startling, groundbreaking new perspective on Isabella, in this first full biography in more than 150 years. In a work of extraordinary original research, Weir effectively strips away centuries of propaganda, legend, and romantic myth, and reveals a truly remarkable woman who had a profound influence upon the age in which she lived and the history of western Europe. Engaging, vibrant, alive with breathtaking detail and unforgettable characters, Queen Isabella is biographical history at its finest.
Publication date: 2001-08-04
Price: $97.13
Review Not Born to be Drowned: An Orkney Soldier in the Napoleonic Wars / Bellavista Publications:
Publication date: 1968-02
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $95.00
Price: $97.56
Review Jay Cooke: Financier of the Civil War / Augustus M Kelley Pubs:
Publication date: 2005-06-21
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $4.95
Price: $97.08
Review Einstein (Obra Esencial) / Critica:
Publication date: 2007-04-30
Dewey code: 968.05092
List Price: $99.00
Price: $99.00
Review Between Empire and Revolution: A Life of Sidney Bunting, 1873-1936 (Empires in Perspective) / Pickering & Chatto Publishers:This is the first scholarly biography of Sidney Bunting. His life offers a unique perspective on the British Empire, illustrating the complex social networks and values that were carried across the world in the name of empire. The lawyer son of renowned Wesleyan social activists, Bunting was radicalised in South Africa. He was a founding member of the Communist Party and campaigned for black emancipation. Allison Drew draws on archival material which has only recently become available, including the Bunting family papers, records of Bunting's Oxford years, trial transcripts from Bunting's legal and political career, and the Comintern archives.
Publication date: 2006-06-01
Review Circuses, Beats and Blenheims: Memoirs of a WWII Bomber Pilot / Woodfield Publishing:
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