Creator: Lisa Hopkins
Publication date: 2008-05-27
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $74.95
Price: $74.87
Review Goddesses and Queens: The Iconography of Elizabeth I / Manchester University Press:The visual images of Queen Elizabeth I displayed in contemporary portraits and perpetuated in more recent media such as film and television make her one of the most familiar and popular of all British monarchs. This collection of essays examines the diversity of the queen’s extensive iconographical repertoire, focusing on both visual and textual representations of Elizabeth, not only in portraiture and literature, but also in contemporary sermons, speeches, and alchemical treatises. The collection broadens critical thinking about Elizabeth. Each essay contributes to the debate about the queen’s developing iconicity not simply as a celebratory mode, but also as encoded criticism of her. Each of these essays explains the ways in which the varied representations of Elizabeth reflect the political and cultural anxieties of her subjects.
Publication date: 1947
Review Napoleon / Editions Fernand Nathan:
Creator: Michael Dolzani
Publication date: 2002-07-06
Dewey code: 801.95092
List Price: $87.00
Price: $73.95
Review The 'Third Book' Notebooks of Northrop Frye, 1964-1972: The Critical Comedy (Collected Works of Northrop Frye) / University of Toronto Press:In the early 1960s, Northrop Frye began keeping notebooks with the aim of creating a critical epic that he referred to as the 'Third Book', a project intended as his third major work following Fearful Symmetry and Anatomy of Criticism. As described by Michael Dolzani, Frye's ambition for the 'Third Book' was for it to become no less than a "symbolic guide to the entire universe". The work he envisioned contemplated the ways in which myth and metaphor are the keys to all verbal structures: how they reach beyond the hypothetical realm of literature to inform, organize, and control historical, conceptual, political, and perhaps scientific thought. Although ultimately abandoned, the 'Third Book' remains both an essential component of the larger Collected Works of Northrop Frye and an intriguing text in its own right. Michael Dolzani provides an eloquent introduction that adds an essential unifying frame to the fragmented and complex critical musings which comprise this enormous volume of work. Further, he has incorporated much useful background material and cross-referencing, enhancing the value of this volume as an indispensable research tool.
Publication date: 1987-01
Dewey code: 193
Price: $21.95
Review Nietzsche: The Will to Power As Knowledge and As Metaphysics / HarperCollins:
Publication date: 2004-09-04
Dewey code: 823.912
List Price: $105.00
Price: $103.95
Review A James Joyce Chronology (Author Chronologies) / Palgrave Macmillan:The Author Chronologies Series aims to provide a means whereby the precise chronological facts of an author's life and career can be seen at a glance. This chronology provides a synopsis of Joyce's first years in Dublin and, from 1900, a more detailed account of his life there and attempts to become established as a writer when living mainly in Trieste and Zurich; and finally (when he became world-famous) Paris, concluding with his death in 1941.
Publication date: 1987-05-21
Review Passion of Ayn Rand: A Biography / W.H. Allen / Virgin Books:
Publication date: 2008-10-10
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $74.99
Price: $74.99
Review The Life of George Washington, Volume I / IndyPublish:
Publication date: 1987
Review John Quincy Adams and the Union (The library of the presidents) / Easton Press:
Publication date: 2007-01-01
Price: $48.00
Review History of Alexander the Great / New Library Press:
Publication date: 2000-01
Dewey code: 920.00904
Price: $52.00
Review World Leaders of the Twentieth Century: William Lyon Mackenzie King-Boris Yeltsin, 419-838 (Magill's Choice) / Salem Pr Inc:
Creator: Gottfried Wagner
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2007-09-18
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $75.00
Price: $74.74
Review Richard Wagner for the New Millennium: Essays in Music and Culture (Studies in European Culture and History) / Palgrave Macmillan:This is the first truly interdisciplinary collection devoted to the legacy of Richard Wagner to merge insights from Musicology and Music Theory with explorations of the composer’s vast socio-cultural impact from such fields as History, German, and Disability Studies. The wide ranging topics include Glenn Gould’s piano transcriptions, the value of naming musical themes in the music dramas, the status of Wagner in Israel, and the assignment of “Jewish” characteristics in both Wagner’s music and polemics and, in recent years, to his descendant, musicologist Gottfried Wagner. Contributors include Robert Gauldin, Warren Darcy, Marc Weiner, and Paul Rose.
Publication date: 2005
Price: $74.92
Review Heaven and Earth : the Diary of Sarah Fishkin / YIVO Institute for Jewish Research:In the diary of Sarah Fishkin, a Jewish girl from the Dzerzhinsk area who was later shot by the Nazi Germans, describes what she heard from survivors five days after the massacre. Very similar to the better known 'Diary of Anne Frank".
Authors
- Philipp Gassert
- Daniel S. Mattern
Dewey code: 016.026943086
List Price: $145.00
Price: $145.00
Review The Hitler Library: A Bibliography (Bibliographies and Indexes in World History) / Greenwood Press:Making a unique collection accessible to scholars, The Hitler Library is a complete bibliography of Hitler's books currently in the Rare Book Reading Room of the Library of Congress. Pointing to seldom used sources in social and political history, including photo albums, honorary citizenship diplomas, and festschriften, as well as trade books given to Hitler, the volume offers a very private view of one of history's most evil figures. A scholarly introduction, a commentary, and transcriptions of the many handwritten dedications in the books, providing fascinating insights into the cult of the Fuhrer and the social history of the Third Reich are included. Although the Hitler collection in the Library of Congress is fragmentary, including an unknown yet substantial percentage of the books Hitler must have owned, the collection offers fresh insight into the social and political history of the Third Reich. Presented by friends, admirers, and ordinary Germans, these books, many with handwritten dedications, help us to comprehend the role of Hitler in German society.
Publication date: 2007-12-10
Dewey code: 942.055
List Price: $84.95
Price: $68.03
Review The Northern Rebellion of 1569: Faith, Politics and Protest in Elizabethan England / Palgrave Macmillan:The Northern Rebellion of 1569 offers the first full-length study of the only armed rebellion in Elizabethan England. Addressing recent scholarship on the Reformation and popular politics, it highlights the religious motivations of the rebel rank and file, the rebellion's afterlife in Scotland, and the deadly consequences suffered in its aftermath. An important and accessible analysis of the rebellion's role in key developments of the Elizabethan years.
Creator: Beverly H. Runge
Publication date: 2006-09-30
Dewey code: 973
List Price: $85.00
Price: $74.57
Review The Papers of George Washington: Revolutionary War Series, July-september, 1778 (Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series) / University of Virginia Press:The massive "Revolutionary War Series" (1775-1783) presents in documents and annotation the myriad military and political matters with which Washington dealt during the long war for American independence. Volume 16 documents a time of unusual optimism for Washington and his army. Following the great victory at the Battle of Monmouth, Washington received the welcome news that a French fleet had arrived in American waters. Understanding the advantages usually afforded to the British army by their control of the seas, Washington looked to deliver a decisive blow that might end the war.
Publication date: 1990-02
Dewey code: 973.460924
Price: $36.50
Review The Unfinished Revolution: Education and Politics in the Thought of Thomas Jefferson / Univ of Delaware Pr:
Creator: John Y Simon
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1998-10-15
Dewey code: 973.820924
List Price: $100.00
Price: $79.88
Review The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 21: November 1, 1870 - May 31, 1871 (U S Grant Papers) / Southern Illinois University Press:In the spring of 1871, Ulysses S. Grant wrote to an old friend that as president he was "the most persecuted individual on the Western Continent. " Grant had not sought the office, and halfway through his first term he chafed under its many burdens. Grant’s cherished project to annex Santo Domingo, begun early in his administration, entered a crucial period. Grant agreed to a tactical compromise: Rather than vote the controversial treaty down, Congress sent a commission to investigate the island. Grant’s message submitting the report, hammered out over labored drafts, bore a defensive tone and asked Congress to postpone any decision. Closer to home, Grant sought legislation to facilitate federal intervention in the persecution of blacks by white extremists across the South. After much acrimony and stinging accusations of executive tyranny, Congress passed an Enforcement Act, hailed by Grant as "a law of extraordinary public importance. "The greatest accomplishment of Grant’s first term came in foreign relations. After secret negotiations, the United States and Great Britain met in a Joint High Commission to settle long-standing grievances, from boundary and fishing questions to British complicity in the depredations of the Alabama and other Confederate raiders. [+]The resulting Treaty of Washington established an international tribunal in Geneva, Switzerland. At home, economic prosperity and consequent debt reduction meant that Grant could see "no reason why in a few short years the national taxgatherer may not disappear from the door of the citizen almost entirely. " His Indian policy, influenced by Eastern Quakers and often ridiculed for its benevolence, augured well. Despite continued clashes between Indians and settlers, Grant maintained that compassion rather than force would answer the Indian problem.
Publication date: 1999-06
Dewey code: 782.42166092
List Price: $48.50
Price: $99.24
Review Elvis Encore Performance III: Back to Chicago 1977 / Jat Productions:
Creator: Grover Gardner
Publication date: 2008-11
List Price: $79.99
Price: $79.98
Review Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Playaway Young Adult) / Playaway:
Creator: Nicola Zarday Jackson
Publication date: 1988-11-15
Dewey code: 616.89170924
List Price: $45.00
Price: $99.98
Review The Clinical Diary of Sándor Ferenczi / Harvard University Press:In the half-century since his death, the Hungarian analyst Sándor Ferenczi has amassed an influential following within the psychoanalytic community. During his lifetime Ferenczi, a respected associate and intimate of Freud, unleashed widely disputed ideas that influenced greatly the evolution of modern psychoanalytic technique and practice. In a sequence of short, condensed entries, Sándor Ferenczi's Diary records self-critical reflections on conventional theory-as well as criticisms of Ferenczi's own experiments with technique-and his obstinate struggle to divest himself and psychoanalysis of professional hypocrisy. From these pages emerges a hitherto unheard voice, speaking to his heirs with startling candor and forceful originality-a voice that still resonates in the continuing debates over the nature of the relationship in psychoanalytic practice.
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Goddesses and Queens: The Iconography of Elizabeth I, Napoleon, The 'Third Book' Notebooks of Northrop Frye, 1964-1972: The Critical Comedy (Collected Works of Northrop Frye), Nietzsche: The Will to Power As Knowledge and As Metaphysics, A James Joyce Chronology (Author Chronologies), Passion of Ayn Rand: A Biography, The Life of George Washington, Volume I, John Quincy Adams and the Union (The library of the presidents), History of Alexander the Great, World Leaders of the Twentieth Century: William Lyon Mackenzie King-Boris Yeltsin, 419-838 (Magill's Choice), Richard Wagner for the New Millennium: Essays in Music and Culture (Studies in European Culture and History), Heaven and Earth : the Diary of Sarah Fishkin, The Hitler Library: A Bibliography (Bibliographies and Indexes in World History), The Northern Rebellion of 1569: Faith, Politics and Protest in Elizabethan England, The Papers of George Washington: Revolutionary War Series, July-september, 1778 (Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series), The Unfinished Revolution: Education and Politics in the Thought of Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Ulysses S. 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