Publication date: 1990-01
Price: $11.95
Review Sarich: The Man and His Engines / Rainbow Publishing:
Creator: Turner Publishing Company
Publication date: 2003-02-10
Dewey code: 355
Price: $24.95
Review Chopper Pilot / Turner Publishing Company (KY):
Publication date: 2002-07
Dewey code: 355
List Price: $92.99
Price: $92.99
Review Memoirs of General William T. Sherman / IndyPublish.com:
Creator: Frederick Burkhardt
Publication date: 2006-04-03
Dewey code: 575.0092
List Price: $155.00
Price: $130.72
Review The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 15, 1867 (The Correspondence of Charles Darwin) / Cambridge University Press:During 1867 Darwin intensified lines of research that were to result in two important publications, Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex and Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Darwin circulated a questionnaire on human expression, asking his established contacts to pass it on to their acquaintances, with the result that he began to receive letters from an even more diverse and far-flung network of correspondents than had previously been the case. Convinced that human descent was strongly influenced by sexual selection, he also started to ask his correspondents about sexual differences in animals and birds. At the same time, he was working on the proof-sheets of another major work, Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, while negotiating almost weekly with French, German, and Russian translators. For information on the Charles Darwin Correspondence Project, see http://www. lib. cam. ac. uk/Departments/Darwin.
Publication date: 1997-03-15
Dewey code: 362.196994190092
Price: $12.95
Review Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors / Holt Paperbacks:From the moment a doctor who looks like Richard Nixon informs him he has leukemia, Evan Handler sweeps us into the experience of his illness-and recovery-spinning a delicate balance of humor and wisdom, anger and hope, that redefines the literature on facing adversity. Evan Handler has played leading roles in seven broadway productions. This book is based on his hit off-Broadway play, which THE NEW YORK TIMES called "laceratingly funny and self-revealing. ".
Publication date: 2007-03-31
Dewey code: 378.768
List Price: $129.95
Price: $129.95
Review A Beginning of Collegiate Education West of the Appalachians, 1795-1833: The Achievement of Dr. Charles Coffin of Greeneville College and East Tennessee College / Edwin Mellen Press:In the transitional period between 18th century Enlightenment rationalism and 19th century romanticism, Charles Coffin set out in hopes of transplanting his native New England culture to the southwestern frontier, laboring to establish a Harvard-like college in Greeneville, East Tennessee. The educational theory of his institution assumed that the purpose of collegiate learning was to foster a class of gentlemen who would lead their communities by practicing their professions and occupying positions of political influence. Charting Coffin s successes and trials, this study illustrates the life of a man who sought to establish Atlantic seaboard culture and a classical collegiate curriculum in the American frontier.
Creator: Donald Rutherford
Publication date: 2008-01-22
Dewey code: 338
List Price: $234.00
Price: $129.00
Review Biographical Dictionary of British Economists / Thoemmes Press:
Edition: Tra
Publication date: 2006-07-30
Dewey code: 509
Price: $62.95
Review Kepler:Definitive biography by foremost scholar offers fascinating erudite picture of great mathematician's scientific accomplishments: formulation of laws of planetary motion, work with optics and calculus, much more. Also detailed chronicle of Kepler's public and personal life: childhood and youth, education, mother's trial as a witch, fear of religious persecution, more.
Authors
- Janet Ing Freeman
- Arthur Freeman
Dewey code: 822.33
List Price: $160.00
Price: $151.98
Review John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century / Yale University Press:John Payne Collier (1789-1883), one of the most controversial figures in the history of literary scholarship, pursued a double career. A prolific and highly influential writer on the drama, poetry, and popular prose of Shakespeare's age, Collier was at the same time the promulgator of a great body of forgeries and false evidence, seriously affecting the text and biography of Shakespeare and many others. This monumental two-volume work for the first time addresses the whole of Collier's activity, systematically sorting out his genuine achievements from his impostures.
Creator: Daniel J. Crawford
Publication date: 2005-06
Dewey code: 509
List Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00
Review Scientific Papers Of G. Ledyard Stebbins 1929-2000 / Lubrecht & Cramer Ltd:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-11
Dewey code: 194
List Price: $160.00
Price: $133.13
Review Sartre's Life, Times and Vision du Monde (Sartre and Existentialism: Philosophy, Politics, Ethics, the Psyche, Literature, and Aesthetics) / Routledge:William L. McBride Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, is co-founder of the North American Sartre Society, and the first chairperson of its executive board. His most recent publications include Social and Political Philosophy and Sartre's Political Theory. He was recently named Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the French Government, and has served as Chairperson of the Committee on International Cooperation of the American Philosophical Association and as President of the Societe Americaine de Philosophie de Langue Francaise.
Publication date: 2009-01-31
Dewey code: 940.541273092
List Price: $129.95
Price: $129.95
Review The Daily Life of an Ordinary American Soldier During World War II: The Letters of Wilbur C. Berget / Edwin Mellen Pr:
Publication date: 1997-08
Dewey code: 973.7468
Price: $16.45
Review Company Aytch: A Confederate's Memoir of the Civil War / Topeka Bindery:
Publication date: 2001-08
Dewey code: 370
Price: $30.99
Review The Loneliness of the Long Distance Teacher: A Memoir / Xlibris Corporation:An engaging, powerful, and emotionally penetrating memoir of what it takes a classroom teacher to survive in a large urban public school system. As he tells of being assaulted by an angry student during his first year of teaching, his effort at the end of his career to discipline a multihandicapped child, and his pain in dealing with a personal tragdy, Edward Joseph's humanity and honesty capture the reader's mind and emotions. Through vivid storytelling, the reader is with the author as he persists, and at times triumphs, during a long and intriguing career.
Publication date: 1998-03-15
Dewey code: 294.5092
Price: $85.00
Review Gandhi's Religion: A Homespun Shawl / Palgrave Macmillan:This is the first systematic study of Mohandas Gandhi's conception of religion and of his personal practices to be based on the ninety volumes of his Collected Works. With a constant awareness of chronology, this book focuses on Gandhi's own statements, revealing the considerable development of his ideas within a lasting and consistent ideological and moral framework. This biography of Gandhi as a Hindu discloses how he was influenced by, and reacted to, Hindu traditions, and why the Hindu establishment rejected him.
Creator: D. I. Demeyer
Publication date: 1993-05-01
Dewey code: 509
List Price: $130.00
Price: $128.26
Review Pork Quality: Genetic and Metabolic Factors (Cabi Publishing) / CABI:
Publication date: 1997-12
Dewey code: 355.0092
List Price: $75.00
Price: $149.50
Review The Life of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston: Embracing His Services in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States / State House Press:The Life of Albert Sidney Johnston, selected by John H. Jenkins III as one of the basic Texas books, reads like a litany of the important events in the life of the Texas Republic and early statehood through the Civil War. A native Kentuckian and 1826 graduate of West Point, and a veteran of the Black Hawk War, Johnston arrived in Texas in 1836 shortly after the battle of San Jacinto and enlisted as a private in the Texas Army. Soon discovered in the ranks, he was immediately appointed the army's adjutant general. His injury from a duel with Felix Huston later prevented his taking command of the army. In 1838 he was appointed Texas' Secretary of War, and later led the expedition against the Cherokee Indians in East Texas. He commanded the 1st Texas Rifle Volunteers dring the Mexican War and became a regular officer in the U. S. Army-one of the few Texas military men permitted to do so. At the beginning of the Civil War in 1861, Johnston was offered a position second in rank only to the aging Winfield Scott, but he refused the Federal government's offer and instead became commander of the Confederacy's Department No. [+]2, the Western Department. Keenly aware of the military weakness of the South, he issued a call for men at Bowling Green, Kentucky, and formed and drilled his army. On April 6, 1862, Johnston was killed at the battleof Shiloh. The author, Johnston's son, presents "a whole picture of the character of a difficult, generally taciturn man, and defends his actions in a balanced, scholarly manner. " The son, having access to all of his father's private correspondence and papers, including his complete Confederate archives, was able to provide anecdotes only a son could know, and was able to persuade many of his father's associates to submit memoirs about him. Never before reprinted since its last publication in 1878, this new volume is of inestimable value and interest to historians and to other readers of Civil War history and early Texas history. This edition contains a new introduction by Charles P. Roland, author of Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics, and Jefferson Davis's Greatest General: Albert Sidney Johnston (McWhiney Foundation Press, 2000).
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1985
Dewey code: 150.1952
Review Freud / Verso:
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1979-04
Dewey code: 192
Price: $59.00
Review Life of David Hume / Clarendon Pr:Mossner's Life of David Hume remains the standard biography of this great thinker and writer. First published in 1954, and updated in 1980, this excellent life story is now reissued in paperback, in response to an overwhelming interest in Hume's brilliant ideas. Containing more than a simple biography, this exemplary work is also a study of intellectual reaction in the eighteenth century. In this new edition are a detailed bibliography, index, and textual supplements, making it the perfect text for scholars and advanced students of Hume, epistemology, and the history of philosophy. It is also ideal for historians and literary scholars working on the eighteenth century, and for anyone with an interest in philosophy.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-06
Dewey code: 617.96092
List Price: $145.00
Price: $145.00
Review Tarnished Idol : William Thomas Green Morton and the (Norman Biography Series, No. 1; Norman Science-Technology) / Norman Pub.:Tarnished Idol is the first serious or scholarly biography of William T. G. Morton, the self-trained Boston dentist who is credited with demonstrating to the medical profession in 1846 the efficacy of sulfuric ether in allaying the pain of surgery. It is also the first detailed analysis of the "ether controversy," which grew out of Morton's association with the physician-chemist Charles T. Jackson, who claimed to have given the dentist the vital clues that led to his success. The controversy arose after Morton patented the discovery and attempted, over Jackson's protestations, to reap a fortune from the controlled use of ether in surgery and dentistry. As a result, Morton spent much of the remainder of his life unsuccessfully trying to convince Congress that he was the discoverer of anesthesia in the expectation of receiving a large cash reward. Of the four book-length biographies of Morton previously published, two, by Benjamin Perley Poore (1856) and Nathan P. Rice (1859), were undertaken with Morton's blessing and collaboration to help him justify his claim and cannot be considered as impartial and as much more than promotional literature. Two more recent ones, by Rachel Baker (1946) and Grace Steele Woodward (1962), are semi-fictional popular accounts that rely overly on the Rice biography for their orientation and facts. [+]Tarnished Idol does not depict Morton heroically, as the other accounts do. Through exhaustive research in genealogical and land registry records as well as unpublished correspondence and manuscript sources, by continual reference to the contemporary medical press, and through detailed examinations of Congressional testimony and debate, Mr. Wolfe presents a much different picture of Morton's life and involvement in the anesthesia story than previously reported. Such evidence has enabled him to clearly show that William T. G. Morton was little more than an opportunist with only slight scientific knowledge and possessed of a highly flawed character, whose main goal in life was the accumulation of money, no matter how gained. From his boyhood wanderings in the Midwest in pursuit of a business career that featured forging, swindling and thievery, crimes that on at least two occasions nearly resulted in his apprehension and imprisonment, on to the street-fighting tactics he employed during his several appeals to Congress, his mindset never changed. Tarnished Idol furnishes ample proof that Morton's personality and character deficiencies conditioned him to be totally unworthy and ill-prepared for the role he was to play when, by some odd twist of fate, he was chosen to help usher in one of the greatest advances in all of medicine; so that time and again his errors of judgment and ill-conceived decisions resulted in disappointment, heartbreak and ultimately tragedy for himself and for many of those with whom he interacted. In addition to examining Morton's claim and all of the counterclaims to the discovery of anesthesia (Horace Wells, Jackson, Crawford W. Long, etc. ), Tarnished Idol serves up a rich slice of American history in the antebellum era, savored by glimpses of many outstanding personalities who trod the American scene of that period: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Henry Dana, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Seward, Stephen Douglas, Edward Everett, Jefferson Davis, and more. It also raises some thought-provoking questions about the rewards of medical discovery and the ethics of attempting to profit too greatly from it. Much of the information in Tarnished Idol relating to Morton's life and the ether discovery and controversy appears here for the first time. This momentous work will surely stand as one of the most important analyses and chronicles of both a fascinating and controversial life and a significant episode in American history and achievement, arguably America's first great contribution to medicine.
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