Publication date: 1996-09-01
Dewey code: 920
Price: $45.00
Review Fourteen Friends / John Murray:In this sequence of sketches, the diarist brings to life 14 friends who, unknowingly, formed his values, framed his views, and added relish to his days. Among others, they include Robert Byron swimming in the Bay of Naples, and Rosamond Lehmann communing through a medium with dead loved ones.
Creator: Publicacoes Europa-America
Publication date: 2008
Price: $78.98
Review Manual do Líder - Aforismos / Publicacoes Europa-America:«Não existe um homem mais pusilânime que eu quando faço um plano militar; exagero todos os perigos e todos os males possíveis nessas circunstâncias; fico numa agitação penosa. Isso impede-me de parecer sereno perante as pessoas que me rodeiam; sou como uma rapariga que está a dar à luz. E quando uma resolução é tomada, tudo é esquecido, excepto o que a pode conduzir ao êxito. » Napoleão in Manual do Líder Com este Manual do Líder, através dos aforismos de Napoleão, fica a conhecer o pragmatismo do génio militar, a resposta rapidamente reflectida do estratega, a personalidade do líder, gestor de homens e de recursos, que deixou a sua marca indelével na História da Humanidade. Essencial para o ensino, para as áreas da economia, gestão, filosofia, história, sociologia, política e militar, na verdade, este livro de aforismos tem aplicação em quase todas as áreas, sobrando apenas excepções. Um pequeno livro que interessa a todos os aprendizes de donos do mundo ou que serve para meditar sobre a «avaliação» da política, da guerra, da economia e dos costumes. Para degustar quotidianamente.
Publication date: 2004-07-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $31.99
Price: $79.44
Review I Danced on the Sand: A Memoir of Child Abuse, Hope, and Promise / Xlibris Corporation:I Danced on the Sand is the true story of a woman’s childhood and adolescence that were wracked with unimaginable abuse. Her survival rested on her courage, tenacity, and a profound ability to create other parts of herself to help her through the awful moments of pain and betrayal she experienced. But, most of all, this is the story of her unshakeable belief that goodness survived within her and that one day it would take her away to a better life of freedom. Anne Lincoln’s resilient spirit, radiates through the pages of this book and leads the reader to a greater understanding of human resourcefulness and ingenuity. A quote from the book – "But summer faded into autumn. The weather turned inside out again. My life once more fell into the dark sea of winter with its endless days and nights of fear. The me who lived in summer was only a charade. If anyone had bothered to look closely they would have seen that I was hidden behind a carefully constructed façade of light and virtue. My dark parts laughed at the summertime me. [+]".
Authors
- Jefferson Davis
- James T. McIntosh
- Haskell M. Monroe
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 2003-11
Dewey code: 973.713092
List Price: $90.00
Price: $79.95
Review The Papers of Jefferson Davis: September 1864-May 1865 (Papers of Jefferson Davis) / Louisiana State University Press:
Edition: Twelve 90-minute cassettes
Publication date: 1995
Review Heart of the Lonely Exile (An Emerald Ballad #2) / NorthStar Audio Books:
Publication date: 1936
Review Willard Parker Butler, 1857-1935 / privately printed:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-11-30
Dewey code: 941
List Price: $79.95
Price: $79.95
Review Beyond Nab End / Chivers Audio Books:The second volume of William Woodruff's memoirs starts with him having arrived in Poplar in the early 1930s. On spec, he turns up at a steel foundry and luckily gets a job. Eventually he decides to "get some leernin" and his first white-collar job starts for the Water Board. Continuing to pursue his studies, he finally wins a place at Ruskin College, Oxford. How the ex-steel worker became an Oxford academic concludes this second volume.
Authors
- Percy Colson
- Marquis of Queensberry Francis Douglas
Publication date: 1950
Review Oscar Wilde et le Clan Douglas / Arts et Metiers Graphiques:A French Translation of the 1949 book, "Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas," by Francis Archibald Kelhead Douglas Queensberry, 10th Marquis of Queensberry.
Creator: Sandra Harbert Petrulionis
Publication date: 2002-05-06
Dewey code: 818.303
List Price: $99.50
Price: $79.51
Review The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 8: 1854. (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) / Princeton University Press:From 1837 to 1861, Thoreau kept a Journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the principal imaginative work of his career. The source of much of his published writing, the Journal is also a record of his interior life and of his monumental studies of the natural history of his native Concord, Massachusetts. Unlike earlier editions, the Princeton edition reproduces the Journal in its original and complete form, in a reading text free of editorial interpolations but keyed to a comprehensive scholarly apparatus. Journal 8: 1854 is edited from the 467-page notebook that Thoreau kept February 13-September 3, 1854. It reveals him as an increasingly confident taxonomist creating lists that distill his observations about plant leafing and seasonal birds. Two particularly significant public events took place in his life in the summer of 1854. On July 4, at an antislavery rally at Framingham, Massachusetts, Thoreau appeared for the first time in the company of prominent abolitionists, delivering as heated a statement against slavery as he had yet made. And on August 9, Ticknor and Fields published Walden, the book Thoreau had been working on since 1846. In Journal 8 Thoreau indicates that these public accomplishments, though satisfying, took a toll on his creative life and did not fully compensate him for the hours spent away from the woods.
Publication date: 2006-08-14
Price: $79.95
Review George W. Gardner in The Argonne Forest: France, 1917, Germany, 1918-1919 / Leathers Publishing:This is a history of the distinguished WWI service of George W. Gardner. The book is a tribute to his wartime service, with articles, documents and photographs gathered from family scrapbooks. The book includes the years 1917 in France and 1918-1919 in Germany with the 353rd Infantry, 9th Division.
Publication date: 2006-03-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $78.99
Price: $78.99
Review George Washington / IndyPublish.com:A pithy portrait that dismisses the 'mass of absurdities and deliberate false inventions' of some previous accounts.
Publication date: 1962
Review La Vie en Amérique: Et les moeurs curieuses, mais authentiques, des habitants de New York, avec les commentaires de Monsieur François Sincère Citoyen Français / Imprimerie A. Rey (Lyon, France):A look at a broad spectrum of American life, especially in New York City, from the point of view of a Frenchman, presented in the French language.
Edition: 1983
Publication date: 1983
Review Woorden Van Gandhi / Uitgeverij Sirius en Siderius:This is a 110 page paperback book about Gandhi with some nice photographs. It is written in Dutch, I think. or German.
Publication date: 1976-06
Dewey code: 200
List Price: $79.00
Price: $79.00
Review Annie Besant: An Autobiography / Scholarly Press:1893. The autobiography of the successor to Blavatsky in the Theosophist Society. Illustrated. Contents: Out of everywhere into the here; Early childhood; Girlhood; Marriage; Storm of doubt; Charles Bradlaugh; Atheism as I knew and taught it; At work; Knowlton pamphlet; At war all round; Mr. Bradlaugh's struggle; Still fighting; Socialism; Through storm to peace.
Publication date: 2006-06-15
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $80.00
Price: $79.99
Review Edvard Grieg in England / Boydell Press:When Edvard Grieg came to give his first concerts in London, he had the world at his feet. As the first composer to transmute the sights and sounds of his own spectacular country into music, he was held to be both prophet and pioneer, and English writers described him as the most popular of all living composers, commenting, when he returned to London the following year, on the 'Grieg fever' that raged in the capital. Between 1862 and 1906 Grieg spent some six months of his life in this country, for most of the time engaged in giving concerts of his own music as conductor, solo pianist and accompanist. Celebrated by his fellow musicians - among them Delius, Parry, Henry Wood and Grainger - Grieg was befriended by royalty, heaped with honours that included doctoral degrees from Cambridge and Oxford, pleaded in high quarters the cause of Norwegian independence, and found new friends who effected a profound change in his religious outlook. This book explores the impact he had on England as well as examining what the country meant to him, showing how England had a far greater influence on Grieg's life and career than has hitherto been recorded. It also offers an array of fascinating insights into the musical life and milieu of the time. LIONEL CARLEY is honorary archivist of the Delius Trust and respected author of many books about Delius.
Publication date: 1997
Review Life I Cherish (Volume 1 the first twenty-five years) / Brentwood Christian Press:Rare, sensitive account of the early years of a lifetime diarist of Shaftsbury Vermont.
Publication date: 2003-06
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $95.99
Price: $79.95
Review The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself / IndyPublish.com:INTRODUCTION BY HENRY MORLEY
Creator: Ronald Tompkins
Publication date: 1997
Review Reflections From the Known World: Explorer, Mapmaker, Giraffe Hunter / Tompkins:65 stories from the author's childhood. Lavishly illustrated with black and white drawings. "Enjoy stories from a time when everything was black and white. ".
Publication date: 2002-02-15
Dewey code: 814.52
List Price: $39.00
Price: $402.71
Review Memoirs of a Superfluous Man / Univ Pr of Amer:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-06-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $79.95
Price: $79.95
Review My Life On A Hillside Allotment / Isis:A heartwarming, delightful memoir from the man who has kept an allotment in Wales for over fifty years, and been adopted by The Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2.
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Fourteen Friends, Manual do Líder - Aforismos, I Danced on the Sand: A Memoir of Child Abuse, Hope, and Promise, The Papers of Jefferson Davis: September 1864-May 1865 (Papers of Jefferson Davis), Heart of the Lonely Exile (An Emerald Ballad #2), Willard Parker Butler, 1857-1935, Beyond Nab End, Oscar Wilde et le Clan Douglas, The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 8: 1854. (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau), George W. Gardner in The Argonne Forest: France, 1917, Germany, 1918-1919, George Washington, La Vie en Amérique: Et les moeurs curieuses, mais authentiques, des habitants de New York, avec les commentaires de Monsieur François Sincère Citoyen Français, Woorden Van Gandhi, Annie Besant: An Autobiography, Edvard Grieg in England, Life I Cherish (Volume 1 the first twenty-five years), The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself, Reflections From the Known World: Explorer, Mapmaker, Giraffe Hunter, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, My Life On A Hillside AllotmentTop headlines: Oil prices tumble below $50 a barrel: Oil prices tumbled below $50 a barrel Monday as National Bureau of Economic Research reported that the U.S. economy has been in a recession since December 2007. ›22:44 Feast on Fido? Dog meat a delicacy in Korea: Dog meat is eaten in Asia. 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