Creator: Annemarie Pieper
Publication date: 1998-12
Dewey code: 109
List Price: $219.00
Price: $188.13
Review Nietzsche Briefwechsel: Kritische Gesamtausgabe / Walter De Gruyter Inc:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2000-02-15
Dewey code: 940.547243092
List Price: $14.95
Price: $149.99
Review Survival: Diary of an American Pow in World War II (Memories Series) / PSI Research:This is a story of an American POW taken from his memories, his fellow POW's recollections, and a secret diary that he kept in the margins of his Bible. It is a gut-renching tale of how these infantrymen kept hope alive through terror, lonliness, filth and the shattering of their pride. Years later, a package would arrive for Sam Higgins in the summer of 1955. It would be sent by a business associate who had recently visited Stalag IXB in the mountains near Bad Orb, Germany - the place Higgins had been taken as a POW in WW II. For him, the recollections, the pictures brought back were too much. The package would remain unexamined. Upon the insistence of his family, Higgins would eventually go back to this dark place. He was a Browning automatic rifleman in an infantry company overrun by a battle-hardened SS Waffen German division. With its sub-zero temperatures, winter in the Alsace Mountains of France was unbearable. After five days of fighting, the company would find itself surrounded without a way out. [+]Once captured, Higgins would be harassed, interrogated, and forced to walk for three days through the icy terrain to a 10 by 33 foot cattle car that would take him and 80 other POWs to the infamous Stalag IXB.
Authors
- Victoria E. Murray Pruitt
Price: $8.95
Review An Intimate Account: My Twenty-Five Year Battle Before and After the Diagnosis of Scleroderma and Periarthritis / Vantage Press:
Publication date: 2001-01
List Price: $63.95
Price: $151.99
Review Hermann J. Held (1890-1963) (Rechtshistorische Reihe,) / Peter Lang Publishing:
Authors
- Michael M. Hickey
- Ben T. Traywick
- Paul R. Taylor
Dewey code: 979.02092
Price: $44.95
Review John Ringo: The Final Hours / Talei Publishers:
Publication date: 1992-09
Dewey code: 891.7144
Price: $68.00
Review Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries / Palgrave Macmillan:Joseph Brodsky's greatness as a poet has to do with his expectation that life measure up to the demands of art and not vice versa. These conversations show that his friendship has an equally heightening and challenging effect upon his gifted contemporaries. Brodsky emerges as a kind of one-man ozone layer, protecting and enhancing the possibility of poetic life in our times. The conversations are really full of life and attest greatly to Joseph's high powers - to Joseph's high powers. This book is the first of its kind. It is a fascinating record of 20 conversations with poets of various nationalities about Joseph Brodsky, the 1987 Nobel Prize-winner for Literature. It combines biographical details with a new and authoritative interpretation of the poetics, style, and ideas of one of the most influential poets to emerge in post-Stalin Russia. As a poet, essayist, and playwright Brodsky is widely known and read in the English-speaking world: in 1991, he succeeded Mark Strand as Poet Laureate of the United States. This book is a superb guide to further study of Brodsky's work both for specialist scholars and general readers who are intoxicated by poetry. It is highly readable and contains well-researched, reliable source material. [+]It also includes Brodsky's views, some previously unpublished, on poetry and language. Every interviewed poet demonstrates an excellent knowledge of Brodsky's work and gives rich and imaginative interpretations of his major themes. Professor Polukhina sensitively contextualises this wide-ranging account of Brodsky's work. The second edition of this volume has been enlarged with two previously unpublished interviews.
Publication date: 2005-01
Review The Fellowship: The Story of a Revolution / Allen Lane:John Gribbin, bestselling author of In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, explores the defining decades of the seventeenth century's scientific revolution, when the Royal Society established what became the' scientific method, a way of doing and communicating science that set the tone for the three and a half centuries that followed. In The Fellowship he describes the origins of the Royal Society, which grew out of meetings held in Oxford during the Civil War, and latterly in London, among natural philosophers', especially through the efforts of three men: William Gilbert, Francis Bacon, and William Harvey. The extraordinary return in 1759 of a comet that, on the basis of Newton's theory of gravity, had been predicted by Edmond Halley, marked the triumph of this scientific revolution.
Creator: Patrick J. Speelman
Publication date: 2005-06
Dewey code: 940.2534
List Price: $285.00
Price: $255.00
Review War, Society and Enlightenment: The Works of General Lloyd (History of Warfare 32) (History of Warfare,) / Brill Academic Pub:Collected in this volume are all the known works of General Henry Lloyd, an eighteenth-century 'philosophe', who crafted a modern critical approach to military thinking. These six works serve as an introduction to and reflection on the theory of war produced during the Age of the Enlightenment. Republished from the originals, this is the first compilation and only modern edition of his political, economic and historical treatises. With introductory essays and annotations by the Editor, this volume provides both depth and context to the study of this long-neglected and misunderstood figure.
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1988-06
Price: $45.00
Review The Life and Work of Rudolf Steiner: From the Turn of the Century to His Death (Life & Work of Rudolf Steiner) / Garber Communications:
Publication date: 2006-11-30
Dewey code: 941.073092
List Price: $149.95
Price: $149.95
Review A Life of John Julius Angerstein, 1735-1823: Widening Circles in Finance, Philanthropy and the Arts in Eighteenth Century London / Edwin Mellen Press:This is the first full-length biography of John Julius Angerstein, who was a considerable figure in the City of London and far beyond during the period 1770-1820. With increasing wealth and influence, he supported and founded charities, collected art, and was later a shipowner who raised the long-term finance which helped the British Government fund the Napoleonic Wars. With no successors to carry on his business, his achievements and his friendships with well known figures have been mostly forgotten.
Publication date: 2003-12
Dewey code: 355
Price: $30.35
Review Danger Close / Topeka Bindery:Anyone who has felt overwhelmed by insurmountable obstacles-and who has not?-may find this book a source of inspiration and reassurance. Danger Close is neither the ordinary compilation of "uplifting" stories, nor an amoral manual on "How to Prevail by Applying Ten Tactics of Highly Successful Terrorists. " Though Yon does not hesitate to express his views-forcefully and sometimes controversially-this story is not a sermon. It is, mistakes, misadventures, and all, an object lesson in the value of fortitude, determination, and simple human justice. Danger Close is the sometimes funny, sometimes moving, but always compelling account of a seemingly typical small boy becoming an exceptional young man. It ranges through the ordinary to the appalling, the grim and the joyous, the universally shared and the nearly unimaginable, all held together by the increasingly perceptive insights of the author. In 1982, one month after graduating from high school, Florida native Mike Yon joined the Army to earn tuition money for college. At that time, President Reagan had begun channeling massive amounts of funds into Special Operations units such as the Navy SEALS, Army Rangers, and Special Forces in response to the calamitous failure of a U. S. Special Ops attempt to rescue American hostages in Iran. [+]For a brief time, writes Yon, "the Army allowed kids straight out of their initial military training to try out for Special Forces"-and Yon jumped at the chance. By July of 1983, at the remarkable age of 19, Yon had survived rounds of grueling training and graduated into the Green Berets. One day later, a bizarre encounter in a Maryland bar landed Yon in jail, accused of murdering a fellow patron with his bare hands. At first glance, Danger Close reads like an adventure story, one that begins with the fateful bar scene, flashes back through a guts-and-glory retelling of what it takes to be accepted into one of the country's elite unconventional warfare units, and ends with Yon's acquittal of the charges. Yet Yon's self-published memoir simultaneously proves to be a coming-of-age story of a fiercely unique sort. Yon's mother died when he was only seven, and that irreparable loss, combined with the neglect that he later suffered at the hands of his father and the refuge he found with his grandparents and his friends, creates the emotional anchor of the book. Yon handles such a complex combination of subject matter in a free-form, associative style, juxtaposing scenes of intensive weapons training, for example, with stories of life lessons he learned from his grandfather. The result is winningly rough around the edges: Danger Close is exuberant and thoughtful, tender and violent, and, for the most part, it works. Writing, for Yon, like joining the Army, was about having "demons to slay. Big, mean demons that haunted and chased me. I was going to kill them. " -Svenja Soldovieri.
Publication date: 1987
Review MAIJU LASSILA Kodin Suuret Klassikot / Weilin+Goosin:
Publication date: 1999-04-15
Dewey code: 739
Price: $18.95
Review Harry Winston (Universe of Fashion) / The Vendome Press for Universe:The international jewelry firm of Harry Winston has long been considered the King of diamonds. This illustrated history recounts the fascinating story of its founder, a man with a flawless sense of quality, whose charm convinced princes and tycoons to spend millions on his designs. Full-color photographs celebrate Winston's finest creations and the gorgeous gems he cut so ingeniously. The acquisition of perfect stones was Winston's highest priority and he too astounding risks to outbid his competitors. At once an adventurer, financier, promoter, and showman, Winston revolutionized the art of great jewelry and adorned the rich and famous around the world.
Publication date: 1993-08
Dewey code: 940.544973
Price: $14.50
Review Dead Engine Kids : World War II Diary of John J. Briol, B-17 Ball Turret Gunner / Silver Wings Aviation:
Creator: Rowena Wildin
Publication date: 2000-02
Dewey code: 109
List Price: $331.00
Price: $150.00
Review World Philosophers and Their Works / Salem Press:This masterwork covers 231 alphabetically arranged philosophers with biographical detail and representative works, from ancient Greek and Chinese thinkers to contemporary philosophers such as Elie Wiesel. These philosphers and works are most frequently taught at the secondary and undergraduate levels, and considered to be among the most influential of all time.
Creator: W. Glyn Jones
Publication date: 2003-10
Dewey code: 327.4890730904
List Price: $78.95
Price: $151.37
Review Defiant Diplomacy: Henrik Kauffmann, Denmark, and the United States in World War II and Cold War, 1939-1958 (Studies in Modern European History, Vol. 54) / Peter Lang Publishing:Defiant Diplomacy analyzes the relationship between the United States and Denmark as allies in World War II and the Cold War. Cast as a biography of Henrik Kauffmann (1888–1963), a Danish diplomat serving in Washington (1939–1958), the book reveals how the Roosevelt Administration’s policy toward occupied Denmark was forced to address questions of paramount importance, particularly to Great Britain and Canada, regarding the general attitude of the neutral United States toward the war in Europe. The dramatic climax was President Roosevelt’s secret decision in early 1941 to establish military bases in Greenland, the Danish colony that became a crucial steppingstone between the United States and Europe during World War II and a strategic focal point in the nuclear strategies of the Cold War.
Publication date: 1995-06-30
Dewey code: 520.92
Price: $140.00
Review The Immortal Fire Within: The Life and Work of Edward Emerson Barnard / Cambridge University Press:This first full-length biography of Edward Emerson Barnard tells the remarkable tale of endurance and achievement of one of the leading astronomers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. As "a man who was never known to sleep", Barnard scoured the heavens endlessly, leaving an astonishing legacy of observations that make him one of the greatest observers of all time. This book traces Barnard's life from impoverished origins to status as an internationally recognized astronomer. His success as a professional astronomer unfolds in 1842 as he discovers the fifth satellite of Jupiter (the first since Galileo) and pioneers wide-angle photography of the Milky Way, which leads to the recognition of dark nebulae-clouds of dust on the galactic plane. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book provides a complete history of Barnard's fascinating life and work, based largely on previously unpublished archival material, that will be of interest to astronomers and historians of science.
Publication date: 1994-01
Price: $249.95
Review Who's Who in Science & Engineering, 1994-1995 (Who's Who in Science & Engineering) / Marquis Who's Who:
Creator: Jeremiah M. G. Hackett
Publication date: 1997-08
Dewey code: 509.2
List Price: $150.00
Price: $146.00
Review Roger Bacon and the Sciences: Commemorative Essays (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters) / Brill Academic Publishers:This volume deals with the philosophy and thought of Roger Bacon. It is an effort to bring Roger Bacon studies up to date. Attention is given to a wide range of topics: Bacon's life and works, Bacon's contribution to the trivium (language studies) and the quadrivium (scientific-mathematical studies), his notion of a science, his moral philosophy, Bacon's contribution to medicine, alchemy, astrology, Bacon's positions in physics and metaphysics, an up dated bibliography of Bacon studies and a review of the state of Bacon Manuscripts. The volume situates Roger Bacon in the context of 13th century philosophy and thought, as well as demonstrating his importance for later thinkers. It is expected that it will be a major new contribution to Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Authors
- Richard D. Ling
- John O'Shea
Dewey code: 355
Price: $22.95
Review The Beast Within: Vietnam--The Cause and Effect of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder / Vantage Press:
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