Publication date: 1963
Review Courage Is the Price: The Biography of Amelia Earhart / McCormick-Armstrong:
Publication date: 2004
Price: $240.74
Review John Adams / Easton Press:Brand new! LEATHER BOUND book accented in 22kt gold!
Publication date: 2004
Price: $231.84
Review Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography - Library of the Presidents / Easton Press:Brand new LEATHER BOUND book accented in 22kt gold.
Publication date: 1804
Review The life of George Washington: Commander in chief of the American forces during the war which established the independence of his country, and first President ... English on the continent of North America / Printed for Richard Phillips:
Publication date: 2007-11-21
Dewey code: 973.7092
List Price: $300.00
Price: $237.65
Review The Papers of Abraham Lincoln, 4-volume set: Legal Documents and Cases / University of Virginia Press:Many in politics began their careers in the law; no one has cut such a distinguished path in this regard as Abraham Lincoln. Before his presidency, from 1836 to 1861, Lincoln practiced law in the courts of central Illinois. Part of an ambitious undertaking to collect and publish the surviving documentary record of Lincoln's life, this four-volume set addresses his quarter-century law career. Arranged chronologically, the four volumes present documents from more than fifty of Lincoln's most interesting, important, or representative cases, all of which are transcribed and annotated. The edition features illuminating essays on Lincoln's career as a lawyer and as a court official, as well as a biographical directory, an extensive legal glossary, and a cumulative index covering all four volumes. Lincoln first studied the law, through private reading, during an early stint in the state legislature. His passion was evident from the start-he felt that a reverence for the law should be "the political religion of the nation"-and he distinguished himself rapidly. By his early thirties, he was already considered one of the finest attorneys in Illinois. The move of the state capital to Springfield (a shift that Lincoln, as a legislator, helped effect) brought the state supreme court, as well as the U. S. [+]circuit and district courts, to Lincoln's hometown. This played an important role in his later political career; it also brings a useful federal dimension to the documents collected in this edition. Rather than specializing, Lincoln practiced general law, and so we see him taking on both civil and criminal cases, with breaches of contract and patent infringements sharing space with bootlegging, assault, even murder cases. Much of his work concerned debt collection, for which Lincoln was known well beyond Illinois, and these cases provide a unique window on nineteenth-century business. Lincoln also went out on the road twice yearly to try cases in the state's circuit courts; this edition documents some of these tours in detail. The cases represented paint a vivid picture of America in the decades leading up to the Civil War. The nation's surging expansion is reflected in cases over land speculation, property disputes, construction, and, of course, the railroads, whose interests are a consistent theme throughout. Other trials touch on domestic law, the Black Laws, even the California gold rush. This collection will appeal to all scholars and students of the law and its history, as well as to anyone interested in antebellum America or presidential biography. No understanding of Lincoln is complete without a look at the great career in law that preceded his remarkable presidency. Published in association with the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.
Publication date: 2004-01
Review W.B. Yeats a Life: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939: 2 / Oxford Univ Pr (T):
Publication date: 1991-10-11
Dewey code: 782.22
Price: $89.95
Review Tonal Allegory in the Vocal Music of J.S. Bach / University of California Press:With Tonal Allegory, Eric Chafe responds to the serious need for an interpretive study that takes into account the theological content of Bach's texts and his principles of setting them to music. He sets forth a principle called "tonal allegory" as a fundamental expression of the Baroque concept of music and its relationship to spiritual life. Chafe studies cantatas from all periods of Bach's life, the two Passions, the Christmas Oratorio, and selected secular works, all with a view towards delineating Bach's application of the principle of "tonal allegory. " One result is the recognition of many patterns of tonal planning and of four basic tonal-plan "types" that appear in many works. For more than three decades Bach scholarship has been dominated by source and editing questions, stimulated by work on the New Bach Edition (Neue Bach-Ausgabe). Here, Chafe hopes to encourage a move toward more interpretive studies, based on a combination of Baroque music theory, historical theology, and the documents of Bach's time. His work provides a secure basis for an analysis of the development of Bach's sacred music and thus a beginning for a comprehensive reassessment of one of our greatest musical geniuses.
Publication date: 1849
Review Biography of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, Formerly Major General in the Army of the United States / Silas &rus & Son:'Biography of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, Formerly Major General in the Army of the United States'' by Philo A. Goodwin. Hartford: Silas Andrus and Son: 1849. Biography of Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States and co-founder of the Democratic Party.
Publication date: 1894
Review Abraham Lincoln (Famous epoch-makers: authentic biographies of the world's greatest characters) / Fred DeFau & Company:
Publication date: 1855
Review Life and public services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States;: Including the most important of his state papers / Miller, Orton & Mulligan:
Creator: John C. Wood
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-12-06
Dewey code: 338.76292092
List Price: $770.00
Price: $769.99
Review Henry Ford: Critical Evaluations in Business and Management / Routledge:This collection features articles on the contributions made by Henry Ford to American management practices. An eccentric, yet enlightened thinker, Ford helped to turn F. W. Taylor's ideas of scientific management into a "system of production" characterized by highly efficient, high-volume, vertically integrated production, with high wages and low prices. This set reprints in one place the essential articles on the methods and management ideas that made the motorcar the defining product of the twentieth century.
Publication date: 2001-11
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $248.00
Price: $248.00
Review Der Junge Luther Und Aristoteles: Eine-Historisch-Systematische Untersuchung Zum Verhaltnis Van Theologie Und Philosophie (Theologische Bibliotek Topelmann) / Walter De Gruyter Inc:This study deals with the young Luther's critique and appropriation of Aristotle in his scholastic interpretation. The author is concerned with questions of how the young Luther appropriated Aristotle. Which Aristotle did the young Luther mean in his various comments on "Aristotle"? What is their exact content? How does Luther argue in dealing with Aristotle, and what problems evolve from this? What are the various forms this appropriation took? The author analyzes the problems for systematic theology which evolve here in regard to their historical sites.
Publication date: 1990
Review Higher than hope: Mandela : the biography of Nelson Mandela / Madiba Publishers:
Publication date: 1995-03
Dewey code: 942.055092
Price: $55.00
Review Virgin Mother, Maiden Queen: Elizabeth I and the Cult of the Virgin Mary / Palgrave Macmillan:
Publication date: 1987
Review John Quincy Adams and the foundations of American foreign policy (The library of the presidents) / Easton Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-12-21
Dewey code: 150.1952092
List Price: $300.00
Price: $240.00
Review The Freud Encyclopedia: Theory, Therapy and Culture / Routledge:This new reference work is the first in-depth encyclopedia on the life, work, and theories of Sigmund Freud. Coverage includes the most recent debates on such topics as the theory of dreams and the Oedipus complex, as well as biographical sketches of leading figures in the Freudian movement, such as Melanie Klein, Karl Abraham, and Otto Rank. Other articles discuss philosophers who anticipated or influenced Freud, such as Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, and the many movements that have been influenced by his work, from the early twentieth-century Surrealists to the present day. Featuring contributions from specialists in some 25 countries, the entries include: * Agoraphobia * Anna Freud (Daughter) * Anna O. * Birth Trauma * Bloomsbury Group * Breastfeeding * Cathartic Method * Couch, Psychoanalytic * Dream-work * Free Will * Freud's Atheism * Frustration-Regression * Guilt * Lacan and Freudian Theory * Literary Criticism * Marxism and Freudianism * Oral Stage * Penis Envy * Suggestion * Surrealism * Thematic Apperception Test * Wolf Man * and many more.
Publication date: 2006
Review Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography (Leather Bound):
Publication date: 1996-11-30
Dewey code: 940.5421
Price: $125.00
Review Eisenhower Versus Montgomery: The Continuing Debate / Praeger Publishers:This book examines the postwar memoir fight over the broad front versus the single thrust strategy, the Allied advance on the Rhine, and the British call for a ground-forces commander other than General Eisenhower. It traces the argument in the postwar memoirs from 1946 through 1968 as well as the official histories of the United States, Britain, and Canada to see what the documents really said. What were men willing to say, what did they feel that they had to cover up? Field Marshal Montgomery was deeply chagrined that he had only one army group to command when he thought himself the most professional commander in Northwest Europe. Montgomery had little grasp of the intricacies of politics and could not understand that American public opinion made it impossible for Eisenhower to name him ground-forces commander. During the Battle of the Bulge the U. S. President and Chief of Staff settled the issue in Eisenhower's favor.
Creator: George F. Henderson
Publication date: 1998-12-12
Dewey code: 971
Price: $103.00
Review W.L. Mackenzie King: A Bibliography and Research Guide / University of Toronto Press:
Creator: Thomas Thornton
Publication date: 2001
Review Hitler's Vienna: A Dictator's Apprenticeship / Oxford Paperbacks:
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