Publication date: 1999-02-18
Dewey code: 530.092
List Price: $235.50
Price: $208.57
Review Isaac Newton: Eighteenth-century Perspectives / Oxford University Press, USA:For the first time, the early eighteenth century biographical notices of Sir Isaac Newton have been compiled into one convenient volume. Eminent Newtonian scholar Rupert Hall brings together the five biographies on Newton from this period and includes commentary on each translation. The centerpiece of the volume is a new translation of Paolo Frisi's 1778 biography, which was the first such work on Newton ever published. This comprehensive work also includes the biographies of Newton by Fontenelle (1727), Thomas Birch (1738), Charles Hutton (1795), and John Conduitt, as well as a bibliography of Newton's works. This book is a valuable addition to the works on Newton and will be of extreme interest to historians of science, Newtonian scholars, and general readers with an interest in the history of one of the world's greatest scientific geniuses.
Creator: Bernhard Hurch
Publication date: 2006-09-30
Dewey code: 609
List Price: $189.00
Price: $159.52
Review Leo Spitzers Briefe An Hugo Schuchardt / Walter de Gruyter:This volume contains the letters written by the Austrian Romance scholar Leo Spitzer (1887-1960) to the Romance scholar and linguist Hugo Schuchardt (1842-1927). Apart from specialist discussions on matters pertaining to Romance Studies and linguistics, the letters provide a stylistically eloquent insight into the human, cultural and political aspects of the life of a Viennese Jewish intellectual from 1912 to 1925 who saw himself facing increasing academic difficulties, first in Austria, and then in Germany.
Publication date: 1997-11
Dewey code: 355
List Price: $15.00
Price: $156.70
Review Weep for Me Comrade / Minerva Press Ltd.:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2000-10-13
Dewey code: 509.22
List Price: $160.00
Price: $160.00
Review Concise Dictionary of Scientific Biography Edition 2. / Charles Scribner's Sons:This is the first new edition of the acclaimed Dartmouth Medal-winning Dictionary since 1981. It integrates the 5,100 biographies from the base set with the 400 biographies found in the Supplement, and includes photos and portraits of the most-studied scientists. Most important, the Concise Dictionary of Scientific Biography is comprehensively indexed by theme and subject for the first time, making it a true historical resource, and more than a compendium of biographies. (20010601).
Publication date: 2006-03-30
Dewey code: 320
List Price: $119.95
Price: $152.23
Review Political Journalism by Mexican Women During the Age of Revolution 1876-1940 / Edwin Mellen Press:This work is the only comprehensive, bilingual reference work on the period from the beginnings to 1940. It combines the features of a reference tool with those of a textbook. There are short primary source excerpts in Spanish and English throughout the book. For the first time, this material is accessible to interdisciplinary women's studies scholars and students who lack adequate Spanish reading proficiency and must rely on English translations.
Authors
- David E. Sklare
- Samuel Ben Hophni
Dewey code: 296.092
List Price: $161.00
Price: $159.39
Review Samuel Ben Hofni Gaon and His Cultural World: Texts and Studies (Etudes Sur Le Judaisme Medieval , No 18) / Brill Academic Publishers:Samuel ben Hofni Gaon was head of the Yeshiva of Sura in Baghdad during the cultural renaissance which characterized the Buyid period. His writings reflect the impact of Arabic literature on Jewish intellectuals at this time. The first part of this volume presents the known details of his life and extensive writings and describes the dynamics of contemporary, tenth-century Jewish culture: the decline and temporary restoration of the yeshivot and the intellectual activity outside of them. Additionally, some of the basic concepts of his thought, strongly influenced by Mubtazilite Kalam, are explained. The book provides the Judeo-Arabic text and annotated English translation of two of his works on legal theory, his Treatise on the Commandments and Ten Questions, reconstructed from manuscript fragments from the Cairo Geniza.
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2001-02-01
Dewey code: 530.15092
List Price: $86.00
Price: $159.12
Review George Green: Mathematician and Physicist 1793-1841: The Background to His Life and Work / Society for Industrial Mathematics:Mathematicians and lay people alike will enjoy this fascinating book that details the life of George Green, a pioneer in the application of mathematics to physical problems. Green was a mathematical physicist who spent most of the first 40 years of his life working not as a physicist but as a miller in his father's grain mill. Green received only four terms of formal schooling, and at the age of nine he had surpassed his teachers. Green studied mathematics in his spare time and in 1828 published his most famous work, An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism. It was in this essay that the famous Green's Theorem and Green's functions first appeared. Although this work was largely ignored during his lifetime, it is now considered of major importance in modern physics.
Publication date: 1997-01
Dewey code: 320.5312092
List Price: $99.95
Price: $152.88
Review Anthony Crosland: The Mixed Economy / Palgrave Macmillan:
Publication date: 1995-01-01
Dewey code: 330.156
Price: $25.00
Review John Maynard Keynes: Volume 2: The Economist as Savior, 1920-1937 / Penguin (Non-Classics):The second volume of the acclaimed biography of economist John Maynard Keynes takes his story from the controversial publication of The Economic Consequences of the Peace, through the reception of The General Theory in 1937. Reprint. NYT.
Creator: Robert Birnbaum
Publication date: 1991-09
Price: $16.95
Review Faculty in Governance: The Role of Senates and Joint Committees in Academic Decision Making (New Directions for Higher Education) / Jossey-Bass Inc Pub:
Creator: Abe Sklar
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1994-06-30
Dewey code: 510.94361309042
List Price: $176.00
Price: $162.85
Review Reminiscences of the Vienna Circle and the Mathematical Colloquium (Vienna Circle Collection) / Springer:Karl Menger (1902-1985), a pure mathematician of distinction, also took an active interest in both philosophy and economics. In this memoir, which he was composing at the time of his death, he relates how all these subjects developed and flourished against the Viennese background (itself described in depth and with affection), and did so despite the political developments of the '20s and '30s, which depressed but did not silence him. He continued his work in the United States. The memoir describes his membership of the Vienna Circle (the scientifically minded philosophers that gathered around Moritz Schlick) for whom he was an invaluable intermediary, bringing them into contact with Brouwer's intuitionism, with the work of the Polish logicians, especially that of Tarski, but more generally with rigorous mathematical thinking. Indeed, the other Viennese group described here is the Mathematical Colloquium, which he founded, whose Proceedings (still read) show it to have been a powerhouse of ideas. There are also valuable chapters on philosophy and mathematics in the Poland of the '20s and '30s and the U. S. of the '30s and '40s. The memoir devotes particular attention to Wittgenstein (with whose family Menger was acquainted) and to Godel, whom he was instrumental in bringing to America. The genesis of Menger's own writings on philosophy is also described and the work abounds in mathematical examples lucidly applied to that subject. [+]This volume (which can now be placed beside the two by Menger already published in the Vienna Circle Collection) gives an unequalled impression of the fruitful interdisciplinarity of the tradition to which he partly belonged and partly created. It testifies both to Menger's power to inspire and to the critical eye he always turned on even the philosophers he most approved of. A brief account of his life is given in an Introduction by the Editors (all of whom knew him personally), and his important contribution to the social sciences - only touched on in the text - is elucidated by Professor Lionello Punzo.
Publication date: 1988-09
Dewey code: 509
Price: $8.95
Review Black Inventors / Lion Books:
Creator: Elizabeth S. Radcliffe
Publication date: 2008-05-02
Dewey code: 192
List Price: $199.95
Price: $154.92
Review A Companion to Hume (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) / Wiley-Blackwell:Comprised of twenty-nine newly commissioned essays, A Companion to Hume examines the depth of the philosophies and influence of the legacies attributed to one of history's most remarkable thinkers.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1991-11-07
Dewey code: 301.092
List Price: $160.00
Price: $157.90
Review Erving Goffman / Routledge:Few sociologists have commanded a larger readership than Erving Goffman. From his first book, The Presentation of Self In Everyday Life (1956), to his last, Forms of Talk (1981), his publications were eagerly awaited and his ideas widely discussed. In 1982 when he died at the age of 60, the response was that a figure of outstanding importance had left the stage of modern sociology. In this powerful study, Tom Burns provides a meticulous and incomparable examination of Erving Goffman's work. Burn's arranges Goffman's writings into a series of themes such as Social Order', Acting Out', normalisation', abnormalisation', grading and discrimination' and realms of being'. This is a useful device because it brings out the richness and diversity of Goffman's preoccupations. This richness and diversity is often lost in secondary accounts which insist on labelling Goffman as a micro-sociologist' or symbolic interactionist'. In a painstaking and accurate discussion Burns shows the meaning and application of Goffman's key concepts. He also guides the reader in the direct influences upon Goffman's thought. He shows more clearly than anyone else how Goffman was influenced by Durkheim, Simmel, the Chicago School, animal ethology and linguistic philosophy. [+]The book ends with a crisp and incisive critical assessment of Goffman's sociology.
Publication date: 2002-03
Review The Murdoch Mission: The Digital Transformation of a Media Empire / John Wiley & Sons:
Publication date: 2007-01
Review Icons of Business: An Encyclopedia of Mavericks, Movers, and Shakers / Greenwood Press:The huge popularity of The Apprentice reflects the degree to which business has emerged as a primary force in popular culture. Not suprisingly, what it takes to succeed in the cutthroat corporate environment is not unlike show business-strong ego, ability to withstand rejection, creativity, and risktaking, to name a few of the requisite qualities. Moreover, business figures are increasingly spotlighted in the popular press, either lauded as exemplars of vision, drive, and service to the community or vilified as monsters of greed. For the millions of students pursuing degrees related to business, would-be entrepreneurs dreaming of launching their own enterprises, and frontline employees and managers on their way up the corporate ladder, learning by example is a powerful tool, and the leaders who exemplify business success serve as models. Icons of Business presents 24 entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and mavericks whose influence extends beyond business into society at large. From Martha Stewart to Ben and Jerry, Bill Gates to Anita Roddick, Icons of Business offers indepth profiles of the business leaders whose names and products have become household words. Each profile includes discussion of the subject's background, career, accomplishments, supporters and detractors, and lasting influence. Special features include timelines, sidebars, quotations by and about the subject, photos, company information, publication lists, and print and electronic references. Cross-referenced and indexed, Icons of Business is an essential introduction to the people who mean business.
Publication date: 1972-01
Dewey code: 629.1308
List Price: $160.00
Price: $475.44
Review The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute (2 Volume Set) / Ayer Co Pub:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-07-31
Dewey code: 581.94496
List Price: $229.00
Price: $152.48
Review The Letters of Dominique Chaix, Botanist-Curé (International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées) / Springer:This is the first publication of the 170 letters written by the Abbé Dominique Chaix to Dr. Dominique Villars between 1772 and 1799, when they were collaborating on the publication of the first flora for the old province of Dauphiné. The letters reveal the uncertainties of plant classification in the late 18th century, but, more generally, the penetration of the Enlightenment into a remote, alpine region of France. Both botanists were of recent peasant origin, invading, albeit deferentially, an intellectual field, traditionally the monopoly of their social betters. The letters also document the enthusiasms, anxieties, and perils of rural clerical life during the French Revolution, and give occasional evidence about the deforestation of the mountains.
Publication date: 1988-06
Dewey code: 109
Price: $70.00
Review Joseph De Maistre: An Intellectual Militant / McGill-Queen's University Press:
Edition: 2 Sub
Publication date: 2000-10
Dewey code: 610.92
Price: $45.00
Review Albert Schweitzer: A Biography (The Albert Schweitzer Library) / Syracuse University Press:The second edition of this biography of humanitarian Albert Schweitzer has been updated to include documents discovered since the work was originally written, including the letters between Schweitzer and Helene Bresslau written during the ten years before their marriage. This correspondence tells of a complicated love story and throws a completely new light on Schweitzer's personality and the genesis of his decision to go to Africa. The author's ongoing research has also included more recently released documents from the State Department regarding Schweitzer's battle with the United States Atomic Energy Commission to halt H-bomb tests.
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