Publication date: 2004-04
Dewey code: 920
Price: $16.95
Review Conscious Coma: Ten Years in an Iranian Prison / Dream Catcher Publishing Inc:In 1975, Mr. Rabhan traveled to Iran as a businessman, where he successfully produced infant formula and children’s clothing. One day in 1980 when he was driving to one of his factories in Tehran, he was arrested, accused of being a spy, and imprisoned without formal charges. His first years were spent largely in solitary confinement. The Iranian officials finally filed charges against Mr. Rabhan in 1988, and he was given a specific sentence for the false charge of being a spy. "In the beginning, bread was the stuff of my sanity. I ate it, I sculpted with it and bartered the sculptures," Mr. Rabhan says. "It kept me busy, and it kept me sane during the years I was in solitary. [+]Later, I used my survival skills to obtain pens, paints and brushes, which I used to sketch the prisoners I knew during my last five years in prison. " At the end, he was told all was a mistake. He was finally released in 1990. In August 1990, American David Rabhan walked away from Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran with an incredible story in his head and with two suitcases stuffed with more than 300 sketches of prisoners, who, like himself, were incarcerated for alleged "political" crimes against the Khomeini regime. Together, this story and the illustrations appearing in this book express the triumph of human dignity and spirit.
Publication date: 1987-12
Dewey code: 940.4144
Price: $38.00
Review General Sir Arthur Currie: A Military Biography (Canadian War Museum Historical Publication, No 22) / Univ of Toronto Pr:
Edition: 3rd
Publication date: 1860
Review Historical and biographical essays / John Murray:
Creator: Peter C. Herman
Publication date: 2002-06-01
Dewey code: 821.30992351
Price: $40.00
Review Reading Monarchs Writing: The Poetry of Henry VIII, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, and James VI/I / Mrts:
Creator: Robert J. Edwards
Publication date: 1993-07
Price: $281.78
Review Tigers in the Mud / Fedorowicz (J.J.),Canada:
Creator: Marshall Waingrow
Publication date: 2001-01-15
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $75.00
Price: $210.91
Review The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell (The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell) / Edinburgh University Press:This edition, expanded to include the text of letters unavailable at the time of the volume's first publication in 1969, records James Boswell's quest over a period of more than twenty years to amplify his knowledge of his major biographical subject, Samuel Johnson, through a detailed correspondence with a wide network of friends, informants, and other authorities. The volume, with revised and updated annotation, shows not just Boswell's struggles through his personal distresses to gather material for his Life of Johnson, but notes many of his revisions of his sources, changes made in manuscript and proof, and revisions of the first and second editions. It presents letters that illuminate the contemporary reception of his powerfully innovative, controversial, and influential biography (which appeared first in 1791), taking the story as far as exchanges in 1808 between Boswell's friend and editor, Edmond Malone, and his son, James Boswell the younger, about corrections for the sixth edition of 1811. Throughout, the annotation brings to life an extensive range of eighteenth-century figures, issues and topics. The Times Literary Supplement (23 July 1970) found the interest of this 'fascinating' volume threefold: 'It gives fresh evidence of Boswell's scrupulousness, ability and tact; it leads us to a fuller understanding of what people expected from biography, and what were eighteenth-century notions of propriety and accuracy; and it enables us perhaps to define more clearly the achievement of Boswell's masterpiece. ' This corrected and enlarged version (the first edition has been out of print for two decades) will serve as a valuable supplement and companion to the Yale manuscript edition of the Life of Johnson, upon which all future editions of Boswell's biography will need to draw.
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2005-08
Dewey code: 973.20922
Price: $70.00
Review Representative Americans: The Colonists (Representative Americans) / Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.:This updated volume of Representative Americans highlights three generations of colonial Americans-men and women who founded, shaped, and coined traditions of this country. This is a glimpse into a time of empire and frontier, religion, and science. The breadth of this experience is represented in the book's three sections.
Creator: Ann Woollcombe
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1989-05
Dewey code: 306.089933064
Price: $10.95
Review Mountains Forgotten by God: The Story of a Moroccan Berber Family (Three Continents Press) / Three Continents Pr:
Publication date: 1985-07
Dewey code: 920
Price: $25.50
Review The Genius of George Washington (George Rogers Clark Lecture, 3rd) / Univ Pr of Amer:More than any other single man, George Washington was responsible for bringing success to the American Revolution. But because of the heroic image in which we have cast him and which already enveloped him in his -own lifetime, Washington is and was a hard man to know. In this book Edmund S. Morgan pushes past the image to find the man. He argues that Washington's genius lay in his understanding of both military and political power. This understanding of power was unmatched by that of any of his contemporaries and showed itself at the simplest level in the ability to take command. Drawing on Washington's letters to his colleagues (many of which are included in this book), Morgan explores the particular genius of our first president and clearly demonstrates that Washington's mastery of power allowed America to win the Revolution and placed the new country on the way to achieving the international and domestic power that Washington himself had sought for it.
Publication date: 1999-03
Dewey code: 941.175
Price: $25.95
Review Eriskay Where I Was Born / Mercat Press:
Publication date: 1986-11
Dewey code: 941
Price: $79.00
Review Winston S. Churchill: The War Years : Finest Hour 1939-1941, Road to Victory 1945-1945/Volumes 6 and 7 / Houghton Mifflin (T):
Publication date: 1945
Review ... African trilogy,: Comprising Mediterranean front, A year of battle, The end in Africa; a personal account of the three years' struggle against the axis in the Middle East and North Africa, 1940-3 / H. Hamilton:
Publication date: 1986-06
Dewey code: 941
Price: $40.00
Review Winston Churchill: Road to Victory 1941-1945 / Houghton Mifflin (T):
Publication date: 1997-11
Price: $40.00
Review Queen of the Methodists: The Countess of Huntingdon and the Eighteenth-Century Crisis of Faith and Society / Durham Academic Press:This full-length biography of the Countess of Huntingdon is the first attempt to place one of the period''s most colourful and eccentric figures within the context of turbulent religious, social and political developments. '.
Creator: Harvey C. Mansfield
Publication date: 2000-05-15
Dewey code: 941.0730924
Price: $60.00
Review Selected Letters of Edmund Burke / University Of Chicago Press:Edmund Burke (1729-97) was a British statesman, a political philosopher, a literary critic, the grandfather of modern conservatism, and an elegant, prolific letter writer and prose stylist. His most important letters, filled with sparkling prose and profound insights, are gathered here for the first time in one volume. Arranged topically, the letters bring alive Burke's passionate views on such issues as party politics, reform and revolution, British relations with America, India, and Ireland, toleration and religion, and literary and philosophical concerns.
Publication date: 1916
Review With the Turks in Palestine, / Houghton Mifflin Co:"This book is merely the story of some of the personal experiences of one who has done less and suffered less than thousands of his comrades. " From 1916.
Publication date: 2009-03-31
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $205.00
Price: $205.00
Review Alexanders Geist / Alexander's Spirit (Beitrage Zur Altertumskunde) / Mouton de Gruyter:
Creator: Mhari Mackintosh
Publication date: 2004-09-04
List Price: $29.95
Price: $204.79
Review The Imagined City: A Literary History of Winnipeg / Turnstone Press:
Authors
- Robert Montesquiou-Fbezensac
Publication date: 1990-12
Price: $60.00
Review La Chauve-Souris Et Le Papillon Correspondance Montesquiou-Whistler / University of Glasgow:
Publication date: 1996-12
Dewey code: 709.2
Price: $50.00
Review Diaries 1946-1949: Caves of Ice & Midway on the Waves / John Murray Publishers:This is the second volume of Lees-Milne's diaries covering his time as the National Trust's youthful Country Houses Secretary. The success of his ability to persuade country house owners that the Trust - then a tiny organization - would be the saviour of their houses, is fully demonstrated here.
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Conscious Coma: Ten Years in an Iranian Prison, General Sir Arthur Currie: A Military Biography (Canadian War Museum Historical Publication, No 22), Historical and biographical essays, Reading Monarchs Writing: The Poetry of Henry VIII, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, and James VI/I, Tigers in the Mud, The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell (The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell), Representative Americans: The Colonists (Representative Americans), Mountains Forgotten by God: The Story of a Moroccan Berber Family (Three Continents Press), The Genius of George Washington (George Rogers Clark Lecture, 3rd), Eriskay Where I Was Born, Winston S. Churchill: The War Years : Finest Hour 1939-1941, Road to Victory 1945-1945/Volumes 6 and 7, ... African trilogy,: Comprising Mediterranean front, A year of battle, The end in Africa; a personal account of the three years' struggle against the axis in the Middle East and North Africa, 1940-3, Winston Churchill: Road to Victory 1941-1945, Queen of the Methodists: The Countess of Huntingdon and the Eighteenth-Century Crisis of Faith and Society, Selected Letters of Edmund Burke, With the Turks in Palestine,, Alexanders Geist / Alexander's Spirit (Beitrage Zur Altertumskunde), The Imagined City: A Literary History of Winnipeg, La Chauve-Souris Et Le Papillon Correspondance Montesquiou-Whistler, Diaries 1946-1949: Caves of Ice & Midway on the WavesTop headlines: Must-pack items from real travelers: These are just a few of the must-pack items that our travel-savvy readers bring when they go on a trip. 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