Publication date: 2002-01-01
Dewey code: 940.53174972
Price: $22.95
Review Witness to Jasenovac's Hell / Dallas Publishing:The true story of a boys experiences in the Jasenovac concentration camp in World War IIs Nazi puppet state of Croatia. Hidden history, unknown to Western audiences, the Jasenovac concentration camp, the so-called Balkan Auschwitz, was a place of torture and death for hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies.
Publication date: 2005-03-05
Dewey code: 305
List Price: $499.00
Price: $499.00
Review Harriet Tubman- the Moses of Her People: Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman / Afchron.Com:
Publication date: 1989-06
Dewey code: 300
Price: $35.00
Review Journal of Stephen Reynolds / Peabody Essex Museum:
Publication date: 1991-09
Dewey code: 330.156
List Price: $550.00
Price: $697.56
Review John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946 (Pioneers in Economics) / Edward Elgar Publishing:
Publication date: 2001-09
Review Paris to the Moon / Random House:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-02-13
Dewey code: 338.092
List Price: $650.00
Price: $646.00
Review Alfred D. Chandler: Critical Evaluation (Critical Perspectives on Business and Management) / Routledge:Alfred D. Chandler (1918-2007) was the founder of modern business history. He was a critical early influence on strategic management and is famous for the dictum that `structure follows strategy'. This two-volume collection, a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Evaluations in Business and Management, gathers together the key journal articles and other vital research on Chandler to enable students and scholars to explore fully the impact of his ideas. Together with an extensive annotated bibliography and a full index, the collection has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and will be valued by scholars and students of business and management as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.
Creator: J.A. Ross
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1993-11-05
Price: $99.00
Review The Computer - My Life / Springer:Konrad Zuse is one of the great pioneers of the computer age. He created thefirst fully automated, program controlled, freely programmable computer using binary floating-point calculation. It was operational in 1941. He built his first machines in Berlin during the Second World War, with bombs falling all around, and after the war he built up a company that was taken over by Siemens in 1967. Zuse was an inventor in the traditional style, full of phantastic ideas, but also gifted with a powerful analytical mind. Single-handedly, he developed one of the first programming languages, the Plan Calculus, including features copied only decades later in other languages. He wrote numerousbooks and articles and won many honors and awards. This is his autobiography, written in an engagingly lively and pleasant style, full of anecdotes, reminiscences, and philosophical asides. It traces his life from his childhood in East Prussia, through tense wartime experiences and hard times building up his business after the war, to a ripe old age andwell-earned celebrity. Personal computers didn't appear until the 1970s, but as early as 1941, the first automated, program-controlled, and freely programmable computer was up and running. [+]The Computer- My Life is the story of Konrad Zuse and his revolutionary invention-the computer (or mechanical brain as he liked to call it), which Zuse built in his parents' living room. Zuse writes his autobiography simply and directly to be accessible to a wide audience of non-technophiles and includes hand-drawn diagrams of computer functions, as well as cartoons from his younger years when he dreamed of becoming an artist. The book also includes appendices with detailed technical information for the more technical reader.
Authors
- Thomas Horsfield
- John Bastin
Dewey code: 599.095982
List Price: $350.00
Price: $592.89
Review Zoological Researches in Java, and the Neighboring Islands (Oxford in Asia Hardback Reprints) / Oxford University Press, USA:Dr. Thomas Horsfield was the first American naturalist to study the flora, fauna, entomology, and geology of Java and the neighboring islands. This facsimile reprint of Horsfield's original volume, (published in 1824), is a splendid account of a pioneering naturalist. Included is a memoir of Horsfield's life by Dr. John Bastin, who painstakingly reconstructs Horsfield's travels during his period in Indonesia, and his subsequent activities in England. Zoological Researches in Java and the Neighboring Islands established Horsfield as one of the great natural historians. The text is a collector's item not only because of its stunning illustrations, but also because it was only the second book ever to be produced containing color lithographs of natural history subjects. Many of the illustrations were produced by William Daniell, the foremost aquatint engraver of Asian topography of his day.
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Creator: Helen Bynum
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-12-30
Dewey code: 610
List Price: $749.95
Price: $722.09
Review Dictionary of Medical Biography [Five Volumes] / Greenwood Press:Treating and preventing disease has always been one of the most important tasks in a society, and that task ultimately falls to one of the most respected and admired figures in any culture-the healer. This respect is understandable -medical practictioners ease pain, prolong life, and prevent disesase, making them among the most important figures in the daily lives of people everywhere. The Dictionary of Medical Biography provides authoritative biographical coverage of major medical practitioners in all times and cultures. While its emphasis is on practitioners within the Western medical tradition, it also covers practitioners of alternative medicines, as well as major figures within traditional Chinese, Indian, and Islamic medicine. In addition, special essays survey these medical traditions, which are more difficult to appreciate within a biographical framework. Overall, the Dictionary of Medical Biography concentrates on the nuances of medical practice, and the social context within which ideas of health, disease, and therapy exist. At almost 1. 25 million words, the Dictionary of Medical Biography provides a comprehensive biographical dictionary of medicine: BLAlmost 1100 entries on almost every important figure in medicine who ever lived, written by the leading scholars in the field BLAlmost 400 scholars, researchers, and physicians contributed to the work, including many leaders in their medical fields BLExtensive overview essays on the important medical traditions of the world-e. g. Chinese, Indian, Islamic BLOver 300 images that depict medical practictioners and medical practices from around the world BLBibliographies that provide students and researchers the next step in learning about these individuals and their work The most complete work of its kind, the Dictionary of Medical Biography is essential for any library that serves those who seek to understand the importance of medicine in the lives of people everywhere.
Publication date: 2004-11-08
Dewey code: 609
Price: $18.00
Review Dr. Mary: The Story of Dr. Mary Fulstone, a Nevada Pioneer / Jack Bacon & Company:In an age when women doctors are about to outnumber male doctors, Dixie Westergard's account of the life and times of Dr. Mary Fulstone poignantly brings to life the character and strength of this medical pioneer. Dr. Mary – The Story of Mary Hill Fulstone is a unique portrayal of the struggles, perseverance and love of Dr. Mary as she cared for her patients in rural Nevada during a sixty-five-year career which began in 1920.
Publication date: 1999-08-23
Dewey code: 621.3092
List Price: $56.95
Price: $611.96
Review The Inventor of Stereo: The Life and Works of Alan Dower Blumlein / Butterworth-Heinemann:This book is the definitive study of the life and works of one of Britain's most important inventors who, due to a cruel set of circumstances, has all but been overlooked by history.
Creator: Luc Foisneau
Publication date: 2008-12
Dewey code: 194.03
List Price: $775.00
Price: $565.81
Review Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers / Continuum:This major new publication is the most comprehensive reference source ever on seventeenth-century French authors who have contributed to the invention, spreading or discussion of philosophical ideas and issues. Featuring authors having published at least a book, or written a manuscript, between 1601 and 1700, the period beginning with Pierre Charron and ending with Fontenelle, the Dictionary uses the word 'philosophical' in a wide, seventeenth-century sense. It includes many scholastic figures, having taught metaphysics, logic and theology in Parisian colleges, in the Sorbonne and in the provinces, but also authors who have been involved in the many intellectual debates of the time, for or against Cartesianism, Jansenism, Free-thinking and the new science, many of whom were not philosophers. This wide approach to philosophy explains why the Dictionary includes not only metaphysics and logic, but science, ethics, aesthetics, education, politics, rhetoric, medicine, chemistry, alchemy and theology, and why many of the authors may more usually be called divines, scientists, mathematicians, or even alchemists, cabbalists and playwrights. In addition to short, but well documented, biographies of the writers, there are detailed expositions and analyses of their doctrines and ideas, bibliographies of their writings (including sometimes manuscripts) and suggestions for further reading. All the major seventeenth-century French philosophers are featured, but the most valuable characteristic of the Dictionary is its representation of a huge range of less well-known - and sometimes completely unknown - writers. In many cases the Dictionary offers the first scholarly treatment of the life and work of authors. This book will be an indispensable reference work for scholars working on almost any aspect of seventeenth-century French studies.
Publication date: 1984-06
Dewey code: 947.0841
Price: $85.00
Review The Russian Revolution, 1917 / Princeton Univ Pr:
Publication date: 2003-09-09
Dewey code: 530.11
Price: $19.95
Review Anticipations of Einstein in the General Theory of Relativity / XTX Inc.:In 1997, amid much fanfare, Leo Corry announced to the world that he had uncovered proof that Albert Einstein arrived at the generally covariant field equations of gravitation, before David Hilbert. Leo Corry joined with Juergen Renn and John Stachel and published an article in the journal "Science" arguing against Hilbert's priority. Their claims were largely based on a set of printer's proofs of David Hilbert's 20 November 1915 Goettingen lecture, which Corry had uncovered. However, in this 1997 article, "Belated Decision in the Hilbert-Einstein Priority Dispute," Corry, Renn and Stachel failed to disclose the fact that these printer's proofs were mutilated, and are missing a critical part. Full disclosure of the facts reveals that even in their mutilated state, these proofs prove that Hilbert had a generally covariant theory of gravitation before Einstein, and that Einstein plagiarized these equations from Hilbert. The author of "Albert Einstein: The Incorrigible Plagiarist" focuses in on the general theory of relativity and discredits the baseless historical revisionism of Leo Corry, Juergen Renn and John Stachel. The direct comparison of primary source material demonstrates that Albert Einstein did not originate the theory of relativity. Formal mathematical proofs explain how Einstein was forced to fudge his equations in order to derive the results Paul Gerber and Johann Georg von Soldner had published long before him. Einstein did not yet have the benefit of plagiarizing David Hilbert's generally covariant field equations of gravitation and was operating under an erroneous assumption. An extensive history of the principle of equivalence proves that Einstein plagiarized this idea. [+]The book reprints the relevant papers by Einstein, Soldner, Gerber, and Hilbert, as well as the remainder of David Hilbert's mutilated printer's proofs of his article "The Foundations of Physics". While the book presents the mathematical proofs needed to justify its claims, the non-mathematical reader will find it rich in prose and will be able to follow the arguments and the history presented.
Creator: Charles Coulston Gillispie
Publication date: 1981
Dewey code: 509.22
Review Dictionary of Scientific Biography:Volume 15&16 (Supplement 1 Biographies and Topical Essays/Index) / Charles Scribner:
Publication date: 1991-03-01
Dewey code: 510.922
Review Biographical Dictionary of Mathematicians / Charles Scribner's Sons:
Creator: Neri Salvadori
Publication date: 2003-08
Dewey code: 330.153
List Price: $760.00
Price: $595.00
Review The Legacy of Piero Sraffa (Intellectual Legacies in Modern Economic) / Edward Elgar Publishing:It is generally acknowledged that Piero Sraffa was one of the most original and important economic theorists of the 20th century. The significance of Sraffa's contributions lies in the fact that he elaborated an alternative to the marginalist theory of value and distribution rooted in the analyses of the classical political economists from Adam Smith to David Ricardo. This collection explores Piero Sraffa's contributions to economics. The volumes cover the discussions around Sraffa's criticism of the Marshallian partial equilibrium method; his attack on Hayek's monetary over-investment theory of the business cycle; his edition of Ricardo's works and correspondence and his clarification of the analytical structure of the classical theory of value and distribution; his reformation of the classical theory; and the role of his work in the debates about the theory of capital and income distribution.
Creator: Alan P. F. Sell
Publication date: 2000-09-01
Dewey code: 109
List Price: $795.00
Price: $791.00
Review Ethical and Theological Writings (Thoemmes Press - Philosophy and Christian Thought in Britian 1700-1900) / Thoemmes Continuum:These volumes provide an insight into the ethical and theological thought of Henry Grove (1684-1738), a leading Presbyterian of his day. Grove exemplifies the more intellectually and doctrinally tolerant of eighteenth-century divines. His position as tutor of the Dissenting academy in Taunton enabled him to exercise a formative influence upon many who were destined for the ministry. In his ethics he responds to the challenges posed by Hobbes and others, and in his academy curriculum he separated ethics from dogmatics - a significant departure. His theological writings acquaint us with the doctrinal position, pastoral concerns and piety of one who kept his head during a period of doctrinal turbulence frequently marked by wanton polemics. This collection of rare writings includes the 4-volume Works, containing Grove’s sermons, discourses and tracts published during his lifetime, and collected and republished posthumously by his pupil, assistant and successor at the Academy, Thomas Amory. In addition the set contains the scarce 2-volume System of Moral Philosophy,. The set provides valuable background to the writings of Hobbes, Locke and Newton and will be of interest to philosophers, theologians, and intellectual and church historians. -important for an understanding of the reception of Hobbes, Locke and others by eighteenth-century divines -reveal the responses of a significant Dissenting divine to the philosophical and theological trends of his day -demonstrates the breadth of interest of one of the more open-minded theological educators of the early eighteenth century.
Publication date: 1999-03
Dewey code: 920
Price: $30.00
Review Golden Phoenix: The Biography of Peter Munk / Key Porter Books:
Creator: Nancy Carfrae
Edition: 3rd
Publication date: 1999-07
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $640.00
Price: $640.00
Review Who's Who in International Organizations: A Biographical Encyclopedia of More Than 13,000 Leading Personalities (Who's Who in International Organizations, ed 3) / K. G. Saur:
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Chandler: Critical Evaluation (Critical Perspectives on Business and Management), The Computer - My Life, Zoological Researches in Java, and the Neighboring Islands (Oxford in Asia Hardback Reprints), Dictionary of Medical Biography [Five Volumes], Dr. Mary: The Story of Dr. Mary Fulstone, a Nevada Pioneer, The Inventor of Stereo: The Life and Works of Alan Dower Blumlein, Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers, The Russian Revolution, 1917, Anticipations of Einstein in the General Theory of Relativity, Dictionary of Scientific Biography:Volume 15&16 (Supplement 1 Biographies and Topical Essays/Index), Biographical Dictionary of Mathematicians, The Legacy of Piero Sraffa (Intellectual Legacies in Modern Economic), Ethical and Theological Writings (Thoemmes Press - Philosophy and Christian Thought in Britian 1700-1900), Golden Phoenix: The Biography of Peter Munk, Who's Who in International Organizations: A Biographical Encyclopedia of More Than 13,000 Leading Personalities (Who's Who in International Organizations, ed 3)Top headlines: Key to HIV shot may be bodys initial reaction: The body's initial response to contracting HIV could provide the answers scientists need to develop a vaccine for the AIDS-causing virus, a Nobel-winning expert said on Monday. ›19:34 1 Dec, Mon Alert over Web sites touting stem cell therapies: Consumers should be wary of Web sites from clinics that offer stem cell treatments, says a study that found a lack of firm medical evidence to back up their claims. ›21:07 Global AIDS crisis overblown? 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