Publication date: 1981-10-15
Dewey code: 347.73504
List Price: $232.00
Price: $169.36
Review Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton / Columbia University Press:
Publication date: 1990-04
Dewey code: 782.42166092
List Price: $19.95
Price: $350.00
Review Elvis Encore Performance / J a T Pub:
Edition: 2 Rev Sub
Publication date: 1989-12-30
Dewey code: 973.9110924
Price: $156.95
Review Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia: Revised Second Edition / Greenwood Press:A revision of the 1941 edition, it includes a new introduction, bibliography, chronology of Theodore Roosevelt's life, and a history of the Theodore Roosevelt Association. The main body of the book is a compendium of his statements and writings, classified by subject, from war to fox-hunting, and is the only compilation of his ideas thus arranged.
Creator: John Powell
Publication date: 1999-08
Dewey code: 920.00904
Review Biographical Encyclopedia of 20Th-Century World Leaders / Marshall Cavendish Corp:
Publication date: 2003-04-23
Dewey code: 900
Price: $18.10
Review Martin Luther King (Leading Lives) / Heinemann Library:One of a series on key leaders in history, which explores their lives and achievements. Each book examines the person's early years, studies and interests, professional life, low points, and their legacy. An underlying theme is whether an individual can change the course of history.
Creator: Magicweb
Publication date: 1997-10
Price: $19.99
Review John Lennon: Between the Lines / Magic Web:
Publication date: 1984-01-01
Price: $73.00
Review Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Ronald Reagan, 1983, Book 1: January 1 to July 1, 1983 / US Government Printing Office:Public Papers of the Presidents, Ronald Reagan, 1983, by the Office of the Federal Register, contains official public messages, statements, speeches, and news conferences of the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, released by the White House from January 1 through July 1, 1983. The documents contained within this handsome hardbound edition of the Public Papers are arranged in chronological order. Included in this handsome edition is an index and appendices. .
Publication date: 1857
Review The Magic Staff: An Autobiography / Colby & Rich:
Publication date: 2002-05-05
Review Rechungpa: A Biography of Milarepa's Disciple / Namo Buddha Publications:Milarepa, Tibet's greatest saint, had two major disciples: Gampopa, who established the monastic foundation of the Kagyu lineage and Rechungpa, who traveled to India and brought back profound teachings which were absorbed into several Kagyu lineages. Rechungpa's biography stand out because of the unorthodox unfolding of his realization. Rechungpa's pride and arrogance caused him to go against Milarepa's advice three times, putting his practice at risk. Even with this obstacle, Rechungpa's undying devotion to Milarepa served as the cause for enlightenment as evidenced by Rechungpa's achievement of rainbow body at his death.
Publication date: 1976-11
Dewey code: 796.3420924
Price: $3.95
Review Arthur Ashe: Alone in the Crowd (Black American Athletes) / Emc Pub:A biography of the first black man to win at Wimbledon.
Publication date: 1991-04
Price: $90.00
Review John Adams: A Biography (Meckler's Bibliographies of the Presidents of the United States, 1789-1989, No 2) / Mecklermedia:
Edition: Limited
Publication date: 1997-11
Dewey code: 920
Price: $150.00
Review George Herbert Walker Bush: A Photographic Profile / Texas A&M University Press:"George Herbert Walker Bush: A Photographic Profile" chronicles Bush's life and career, beginning with his childhood, military service, marriage, and early postings in government service, Valdez presents in colorful and dramatic detail a behind-the-scenes look at life in the White House and offers intriguing glimpses into the personal side of Bush's presidency. 249 photos, 207 in color.
Publication date: 2000-06
Price: $22.00
Review The Religious Ethics of Martin Luther King, Jr. & Malcolm X / Lakeshore Communications:
Edition: Collector's ed
Publication date: 1994
Review Truman / Easton Press:Huge, ambitious, and perfectly realized, Truman is an American masterpiece about the most American of Americans, a man who confounded the nation and the world by achieving a greatness all his own after coming to the presidency in FDR's giant shadow. An extraordinary and deeply moving biography, at once spare in its style yet rich in emotion and in detail. 48 pages of photographs. This warm biography of Harry Truman is both an historical evaluation of his presidency and a paean to the man's rock-solid American values. Truman was a compromise candidate for vice president, almost an accidental president after Roosevelt's death 12 weeks into his fourth term. Truman's stunning come-from-behind victory in the 1948 election showed how his personal qualities of integrity and straightforwardness were appreciated by ordinary Americans, perhaps, as McCullough notes, because he was one himself. His presidency was dominated by enormously controversial issues: he dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, established anti-Communism as the bedrock of American foreign policy, and sent U. S. troops into the Korean War. In this winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize, McCullough argues that history has validated most of Truman's war-time and Cold War decisions.
Publication date: 2000-06-01
Price: $251.30
Review Shooting Star: The Life of Richard Seaman / Transport Bookman Publications:The story of Richard Seaman, the greatest British racing driver of the 1930s. It is an ultimately tragic tale of a handsome and gifted young man whose single-minded ambition propelled him to the very top of his profession. Beginning in 1934 with a little MG, Seaman progressed swiftly with an ERA in 1935 and then Earl Howe's Delage in 1936. With this 10-year-old car Dick stunned the motor racing world and won himself a place with Mercedes-Benz one of the most successful Grand Prix teams of all time. His first season was dogged by crashes, but in 1938 he came good, winning the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring - the first Englishman to win a Grand Prix since his hero, Sir Henry Segrave, had won the French in 1924. He followed this with a brilliant second place in the Swiss GP and finished third in the 1938 European Championship. That same year Dick fell in love with 18-year-old Erica Popp, whose father was Managing Director of BMW. It was a great romance, but one blighted by the violent opposition of Dick's mother, the formidable Mrs Lilian Beattie-Seaman who, with war between England and Germany fast approaching, had no time for a German daughter-in-law. Dick and Erica married against her wishes, but their happiness ended in tragedy with Dick's untimely death during the 1939 Belgian GP when he was leading the race. "Shooting Star" reveals much information from the two women in Dick's life, and includes many telling contributions from his school and university friends Tony Cliff and Ray Lewthwaite; fellow racing drivers Charlie Martin, Kenneth Evans, George Harvey-Noble and Mort Morris-Goodall; Mercedes team-mates Rudolf Uhlenhaut and Hermann Land; friends George Monkhouse and Rodney Walkerley; and mechanics Giulio Ramponi, Bill Rockell and Karl Bunz.
Creator: Martin Caird
Publication date: 2001-05-15
Price: $184.90
Review Green Gables: Lucy Maud Montgomery's Favourite Places / Formac:The landscape of Prince Edward Island set Lucy Maud Montgomery's imagination on fire. This book explores the places where she grew up and discovers the settings of her most famous works of fiction. Green Gables, once the home of Montgomery's relatives, is now furnished and decorated based on descriptions in her most famous novel. Nearby is the author's childhood home-her grandparents' farm-and at New London, her lovingly preserved birthplace. At Park Corner, visitors can enjoy one of her favourite places-Silver Bush, the home of her Campbell cousins. This book offers beautiful contemporary photographs and historical images of the sites. Author Deirdre Kessler provides detailed background on these places, putting them in the context of rural life on Prince Edward Island a century ago.
Publication date: 1988-10
Dewey code: 194
Price: $21.95
Review Simone Weil: Waiting on Truth (Berg Women's Series) / Berg Publishers:
Publication date: 2000
Review Captain Cook's World / Random House New Zealand Ltd:James Cook, sailor, surveyor, cartographer, and explorer, was born in 1728 in Yorkshire. In the course of his illustrious career, he sailed into every ocean and was one of the first, if not the first, British explorers to set foot on most of the world's major continents. He was also the first to cross both the Arctic and Antarctic Circles. Captain Cook's World is an atlas, chronology, and biography of the life and voyages of this celebrated explorer. A set of 128 specially drawn maps and accompanying text give a detailed overview of his life, including his early years in England, his time in the North Sea coal trade and with the Royal Navy in Canada, and his three great voyages around the world in HMB Endeavour and HMS Resolution. Included on the maps are locations visited, named, or surveyed by Cook; the routes of his voyages; and sites that have been marked in his honor, such as monuments. Based on meticulous scholarship but aimed at a general audience, Captain Cook's World is a fascinating and accessible record of Cook's life and travels.
Publication date: 2000-06-30
Dewey code: 338.762920922
Price: $5.00
Review The Fords in My Past / Society of Automotive Engineers Inc:
Publication date: 1999-07-05
Review Cash: The Autobiography / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
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