Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2001-12
Dewey code: 973.73
List Price: $29.95
Price: $125.00
Review General William Dorsey Pender: A Military Biography / Da Capo Press:The talented William Dorsey Pender is a prime example of the advantage held by the Confederacy in junior-level commanders during the opening months of the Civil War. The inability of the Southern forces to adequately replace Pender after his death at a young age also demonstrates the ultimate lack of depth that the Confederacy had at the command level. Pender was born in North Carolina and graduated in the top half of the West Point class of 1856. He was one of the first Southern-born officers to offer his services to the Confederacy and soon found himself a colonel, a rank he might not have attained during a full career in the pre-War army. Pender first came to prominence during the Seven Days' Battles, when a number of junior Confederate officers took bold action to counter the battlefield errors of some of their better-known superiors. Pender soon developed a reputation as Robert E. Lee's favorite brigade commander. After further capable work at Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Pender was raised to divisional command. Arriving at Gettysburg on the first day of the battle, Pender's troops from Georgia, South Carolina and his own North Carolina played a major role in driving the veteran Union I Corps from the town. Unfortunately, Pender sustained what at first seemed a minor wound later in the battle and died of complications after the Confederate retreat back to Virginia. [+]The inability of the less-populous Confederacy to replace key figures such as Pender was an important cause of the ultimate Southern defeat. Edward G. Longacre has previously done ground-breaking research for his acclaimed biographies of John Buford, George Armstrong Custer, and Joshua Chamberlain. His study of William Dorsey Pender is both a gripping narrative and a major contribution to our understanding of Civil War principles of command.
Creator: Cattell Jaques
Publication date: 1983-02
Dewey code: 509.22
Price: $125.00
Review American Men and Women of Science: Cumulative Index, 1-14 / R. R. Bowker:
Publication date: 1999-04-15
Dewey code: 510.92
List Price: $245.00
Price: $190.00
Review Mystic, Geometer, and Intuitionist: The Life of L. E. J. Brouwer Volume 1: The Dawning Revolution / Oxford University Press, USA:A remarkable and independent thinker, Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer was a leader in twentieth century mathematics and in Dutch cultural life, where he was the key figure in a number of controversial issues, including a campaign to reverse the boycott of German scientists. In mathematics, he was a founder of modern topology and the creator of intuitionism, one of the most important schools of thought on the philosophy of mathematics. This biography discusses his fascinating life and provides a detailed analysis of his work.
Creator: Gene Marshall
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-08
Dewey code: 920
Price: $20.99
Review The Memoirs of Jean Laffite / Xlibris Corporation:Jean Laffite, famous for aiding Andrew Jackson during the Battle of New Orleans, is largely a man of mystery before and after that event. His recollections of a raider's life before the War of 1812 and his adventures after his expulsion from Galveston, Texas, are now recounted in this English translation from the original French of the words of an old man living with his new, young family in St. Louis, Missouri, in the 1840's.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1993-12-22
Dewey code: 932.02092
List Price: $125.00
Price: $125.83
Review Ptolemy of Egypt / Routledge:Ptolemy was the ruler of the longest lasting of the Hellenistic kingdoms. He created a state whose cultural importance was unparalleled until the coming of Rome. He encouraged the erection of the Pharos Lighthouse, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and created a library which eventually contained the greatest collection of books until relatively recent times. This work, the first biography of Ptolemy in any language, charts his extraordinary achievements in and beyond Egypt in the context of the fragmentation of Alexander the Great's enormous empire and the creation of the Hellenistic state.
Publication date: 2006-01
Price: $64.36
Review Hilary Putnam (Philosophy Now) / Acumen Publishing:Putnam is one of the most influential philosophers of recent times, and his authority stretches far beyond the confines of the discipline. However, there is a considerable challenge in presenting his work both accurately and accessibly. This is due to the width and diversity of his published writings and to his frequent spells of radical re-thinking. But if we are to understand how and why philosophy is developing as it is, we need to attend to Putnam's whole career. He has had a dramatic influence on theories of meaning, semantic content, and the nature of mental phenomena, on interpretations of quantum mechanics, theory-change, logic and mathematics, and on what shape we should desire for future philosophy. By presenting the whole of his career within its historical context, de Gaynesford discovers a basic unity in his work, achieved through repeated engagements with a small set of hard problems. By foregrounding this integrity, the book offers an account of his philosophy that is both true to Putnam and helpful to readers of his work.
Publication date: 2003-10
Price: $97.99
Review The English Governess at the Siamese Court / IndyPublish.com:Anna Leonownes' memoir of her six year as a governess in the Royal Palace of Bangkok was the inspiration for the beloved Broadway musical The king and I, as well as two award-winning films. First published in 1870, Leonowens' memoir is the true story of a proper English governess who is hired by the King of Siam to tutor his many children. A delightful portrait of an unlikely friendship between two headstrong personalities, it is also a revealing peak at two very different cultures.
Creator: Arnulf Zweig
Publication date: 1999-05-26
Dewey code: 193
List Price: $160.00
Price: $133.62
Review Correspondence (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation) / Cambridge University Press:This is the most complete English edition of Kant's correspondence that has ever been compiled. The letters are concerned with philosophical and scientific topics but many also treat personal, historical, and cultural matters. On one level the letters chart Kant's philosophical development. On another level they expose quirks and foibles, and reveal a good deal about Kant's friendships and philosophical battles with some of the prominent thinkers of the time: Herder, Hamann, Mendelssohn, and Fichte.
Publication date: 1995-01
Price: $39.95
Review Tilman C. Cothran: Second Generation Sociologist / Wyndham Hall Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-12-01
Dewey code: 951.904248
Price: $30.99
Review Involuntary / Xlibris Corporation:On a sunny summer day in June 1950, America was jolted with the news of the North Korean invasion of South Korea. There was a group of men this news was to influence greatly. Within 16 days we were back on active duty, training to take our place in the Korean War. Not only were we training in an airplane most of us had hardly gotten used to. To compound that we found we were to be the first Light-Night Attack squadron in Air Force history. In addition to being in the first Reserve Wing to ever be recalled intact, this dubious distinction only added to our apprehension. From the moment of recall on August 10th, 1950 to the end of July, 1951, this group of Reservists was to write a thrilling saga of what can be accomplished by men who have the innate sense of patriotism to get the job done. Flying alone at night, at minimum altitudes over enemy territory is not conducive to longevity, but this group of air crewmen accomplished much more than could be expected in the light of circumstances. Sit back, fasten your seat belt and live the saga of the 731st Bomb Squadron,L-NA (Light-Night Attack).
Edition: German
Publication date: 1995-06
Dewey code: 509
Price: $42.95
Review Alan Turing, Enigma, Computerkulture, Bd 1 (German Edition) / Springer-Verlag:
Publication date: 2006-01
Price: $64.36
Review Nelson Goodman (Philosophy Now) / Acumen Publishing:Nelson Goodman's acceptance and critique of certain methods and tenets of positivism, his defence of nominalism and phenomenalism, his formulation of a new riddle of induction, his work on notational systems, and his analysis of the arts place him at the forefront of the history and development of American philosophy in the twentieth-century. However, outside of America, Goodman has been a rather neglected figure. In this first book-length introduction to his work Cohnitz and Rossberg assess Goodman's lasting contribution to philosophy and show that although some of his views may be now considered unfashionable or unorthodox, there is much in Goodman's work that is of significance today. The book begins with the "grue"-paradox, which exemplifies Goodman's way of dealing with philosophical problems. After this, the unifying features of Goodman's philosophy are presented - his constructivism, conventionalism and relativism - followed by an discussion of his central work, The Structure of Appearance and its significance in the analytic tradition. The following chapters present the technical apparatus that underlies his philosophy, his mereology and semiotics, which provides the background for discussion of Goodman's aesthetics. The final chapter examines in greater depth the presuppositions underlying his philosophy.
Authors
- Jeffrey L. Rodengen
- David A. Patten
Dewey code: 338.762382310973
Price: $39.95
Review The Legend of Bertram / Write Stuff Enterprises:In 1961, marine history was made when Dick Bertram introduced the Bertram 31. This all-fiberglass sportfisherman was based on a novel deep-vee hull design designed by C. Raymond Hunt and successfully raced by Dick Bertram in the early offshore powerboat races. Reaction to the boat was powerful, and the Bertram Yacht Company was founded. Since then, Bertram’s sportfisherman have achieved worldwide recognition. Their story is told through hundreds of colorful photographs and insightful interviews with the people who stuck with Bertram through good times and bad. The Legend of Bertram is a powerful addition to any marine library.
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2005-06-01
Dewey code: 016.8238
List Price: $125.00
Price: $125.00
Review G.A. Henty, 1832-1902: A Bibliographical Study of His British Editions, with Short Accounts of His Publishers, Illustrators, and Designers, a (Polyglot ... Press Literary Bibliographies Series) / Polyglot Press:From 1947 Peter Newbolt spent over ten years in charge of production for a London bookpublisher, and set out to gain serious practical experience of printing, binding, process engraving, typefounding, paper-making, photography, gilding, tanning, and other relevant skills. During this period his book-designs were regularly seen in the Annual Exhibitions at the National Book League. In 1957 he was appointed Adviser to one of the largest printing groups in Europe, and consulted by London publishers, the Clarendon and Oxford University Presses, and publishers in Canada. He worked for the Royal Opera House, and planned the series format of the catalogues raisonnés of the Rothschild Collections at Waddesdon Manor, under their general editor, Sir Anthony Blunt. Following an industrial merger ten years later that appointment ended. Forming his own Company, Newbolt continued much of his earlier work. For twenty years he designed and compiled all UK editions of their international catalogues of recorded music for CBS. He embarked on a photographic survey of mediaeval church buildings in Norfolk. Since 1970 he has been restoring antiquarian books for leading international dealers and collectors, and in that year began this study of Henty's work. At the start of the Crimean War G. [+]A. Henty left Cambridge before taking a degree, and was commissioned in the army. Letters he wrote on active service were shown by his father to a London editor, who published a number, including Henty's account of Florence Nightingale’s arrival at Scutari. From 1865, as war correspondent of the Standard, a leading London daily, he covered many of the minor Victorian campaigns. From 1860 he was one of the most prolific of writers. Of his 120 books the best known are his novels for boys. The first appeared in 1870 and several were still being reprinted in 1970. In this genre Henty developed a new and individual style, combining adventure that appealed to Edwardian prep-school boys, with history whose accuracy met with the approval of parents and educationalists alike. The pictorial bindings of his books from Blackie are known to dealers and collectors as the best examples of their kind. His dozen-or-so novels for adults, for long generally written-off as failures, are now shown to have included remarkable successes. Some, first published as three-deckers, were later re-issued as boys’ books. Indeed, most of Henty’s fiction was popular with readers of all ages. Listings and illustrations given here include over 500 editions and issues of all his books up to the end of the 1920s, his work in newspapers and periodicals, and, for the first time, examples of Henty’s own drawings, sent from Abyssinia in 1868 and printed in the London press. Peter Newbolt gives accounts of Henty’s main publishers, all important in their day, though some, including the eccentric William Tinsley, a character in whom Dickens would have delighted, are now little-known. There are notes on over 100 artists, and essays on the printing, binding, and illustration processes used for Henty’s books. This important contribution to the history of book-publishing will be invaluable to collectors of all authors of the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth! centuries.
Publication date: 1997-12
List Price: $17.00
Price: $124.99
Review Isis & Beyond: The Biography of Cecil E. Nixon / B U a Productions:
Authors
- Muir
- Lieut Murray. Sgts R H Morris
- Matthew Hall
- Hall. Matthew.
Dewey code: 609
Price: $24.95
Review A Doctor at War / Opal Books:
Creator: Noretta Koertge
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2007-12-07
Dewey code: 509.22
List Price: $995.00
Price: $700.00
Review New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Dictionary of Scientific Biography (8 Vols)) / Gale Cengage:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2009-07-31
Dewey code: 355.0092
List Price: $140.00
Price: $126.65
Review Helmuth Von Moltke: A Modern Biography (Military History and Policyß) / Routledge:This detailed and comprehensive book offers the first modern biography of Helmuth Von Moltke, a major progenitor of the processes modern great powers use to engage in large-scale warfare. Drawing upon the author's own previously published works, "Moltke, Schlieffen and Prussian War Planning" and "Moltke and the German Wars, 1864-1871", it also contains original research. The volume suggests that the General Staff was a pioneer of what became known in the twentieth century as 'operations research', establishing some of the framework for the modern economics of transportation. However, Moltke was much more than just a Prussian soldier and strategist. He was a best-selling author (travel writings, love letters), pioneer cartographer (Asia Minor, Rome, Silesia), dedicated lover and devoted husband, legislator, linguist, family leader, music lover, and spa devotee. "Helmuth Von Moltke" will appeal to students of military history and strategy, as well as historians of nineteenth century Germany.
Creator: John K. Whitaker
Publication date: 1996-02-23
Dewey code: 330
List Price: $275.00
Price: $275.00
Review The Correspondence of Alfred Marshall, Economist 3 volume hardback set / Cambridge University Press:This three-volume work constitutes a comprehensive scholarly edition of the correspondence of the English economist, Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), one of the leading figures in the development of economics and the founder of the Cambridge School of Economics. The edition fills a long-standing gap in the history of economic thought with hitherto unpublished material. Students will find it a basic resource for understanding the development of economics and other social sciences in the period since 1870. In particular, it provides much new information about Marshall's views on economic, social and political issues, his struggles to promote the teaching of economics at the University of Cambridge, and his relations with colleagues in Cambridge and elsewhere. Marshall's letters are notable for their frankness and spontaneity.
Creator: Edward Manson
Publication date: 1997-09-30
Dewey code: 340.0922
List Price: $125.00
Price: $125.00
Review Great Jurists of the World (Continental Legal History Series) / Lawbook Exchange:MacDonell, Sir John and Edward Manson. Great Jurists of the World. Edited by Sir John MacDonell and Edward Manson. With an Introduction by Van Vechten Veeder. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1914. Illustrated. xxxii, 607 pp. Reprinted 1997 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 97-8298. ISBN 1-886363-28-5. [+]Cloth. $95. Originally published under the auspices of the Association of American Law Schools in the Continental Legal History Series. (1914). Ranging over a period of two thousand years, the work covers the lives and chief works of selected eminent jurists such as Gaius, Papinian, Domitius Ulpian, Bartolus, Andrea Alciati and his Predecessors, Jacques Cujas, Albericus Gentilis, Francis Bacon, Hugo Grotius, John Selden, Thomas Hobbes, Richard Zouche, Jean Baptiste Colbert, Gottfried Wilhelm von Liebnitz, Samuel von Puffendorf, Giovanni Battista Vico, Cornelius van Bynkershoek, Charles Louis de Secondat, Robert Joseph Pothier, Emerich de Vattel, Caesar Bonesana, William Scott, Jeremy Bentham, Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier, Freidrich Carl von Savigny, and Rudolph von Jhering.
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General William Dorsey Pender: A Military Biography, American Men and Women of Science: Cumulative Index, 1-14, Mystic, Geometer, and Intuitionist: The Life of L. E. J. Brouwer Volume 1: The Dawning Revolution, The Memoirs of Jean Laffite, Ptolemy of Egypt, Hilary Putnam (Philosophy Now), The English Governess at the Siamese Court, Correspondence (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation), Tilman C. Cothran: Second Generation Sociologist, Involuntary, Alan Turing, Enigma, Computerkulture, Bd 1 (German Edition), Nelson Goodman (Philosophy Now), The Legend of Bertram, G.A. Henty, 1832-1902: A Bibliographical Study of His British Editions, with Short Accounts of His Publishers, Illustrators, and Designers, a (Polyglot ... Press Literary Bibliographies Series), Isis & Beyond: The Biography of Cecil E. Nixon, A Doctor at War, New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Dictionary of Scientific Biography (8 Vols)), Helmuth Von Moltke: A Modern Biography (Military History and Policyß), The Correspondence of Alfred Marshall, Economist 3 volume hardback set, Great Jurists of the World (Continental Legal History Series)Top headlines: Walter: Obama unscathed in Georgia: Little ventured, nothing lost for cautious president-elect; Chambliss' victory, decisive as it was, maintained the status quo for Republicans. ›17:48 China forces AIDS activist to return home: Escalating aggression from a group of extremist Israeli youths holed up in one of the West Bank's most explosive flash points a disputed house in Hebron approached a boiling point Wednesday. ›20:11 Russian warship to cross Panama Canal: Serirat Prasutanond has perhaps the least enviable job in Thailand right now. "We are doing our best, really," he told me. 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