Publication date: 1997-06
Dewey code: 306.27097984
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Review Closing Down the American Base at Adak, Alaska: The Social and Psychological Trauma of Relocating Military Families / Mellen University Press:
Creator: to be announced (Narrator)
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2009-02-03
Dewey code: 920
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Review Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years (Library) / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:During Joseph P. Kennedys reign in Hollywood from 1926 to 1930, he changed the very nature of the business of moviemaking, creating the first modern entertainment empire. Cari Beauchamp tells how he made it all happen.
Authors
- Bernarr B. Coletta
- Paolo E. Coletta
Dewey code: 359.0092
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Review Admiral William A. Moffett and U.S. Naval Aviation (Studies in American History) / Edwin Mellen Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-10-04
Dewey code: 570.92
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Review Ornithology, Evolution, and Philosophy: The Life and Science of Ernst Mayr 1904-2005 / Springer:This book is the first detailed biography of Ernst Mayr. He was an ‘architect’ of the Synthetic Theory of Evolution, and the greatest evolutionary biologist since Charles Darwin, influential historian and philosopher of biology, outstanding taxonomist and ornithologist, and naturalist. He is one of the most widely known biologists of the 20th century. Mayr used the theories of natural selection and population thinking as theoretical models within the framework of historical biological studies. He suggested that various competing paradigms may exist side by side and more or less pronounced ’revolutions’ may occur in different fields from time to time. Changes of concepts have a much stronger effect on the development of biological sciences than the discovery of new facts. Mayr was the first to emphasize the role of biopopulations, thereby pointing out the basic difference between ’population thinking’ and typological essentialism. Population thinking takes into consideration the uniqueness of each individual and unlimited variation of populations which may lead to the development of new species. On the other hand, typologists assume that the unchanging essence of each species determines variation and fixed limits of variation preclude speciation from occurring except through saltation.
Publication date: 2000-03-30
Dewey code: 355.0092
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Review The Making of a Professional: Manton S. Eddy, USA (Contributions in Military Studies) / Greenwood Press:An examination of the life of General Manton S. Eddy, this study details his experiences in World War II as leader of the U. S. 9th Infantry Division through North Africa, Sicily and France, and subsequently, as commander of XII Corps, into the heart of Germany. While much has been written about the top military leaders of this era, there is little information about corps commanders whose missions were limited to doing battle and whose organizations were tailored exclusively for this task. Eddy's career provides a model for the Army's most ambitious officers, particularly those who, like Eddy, faced the challenge without family connections or the traditional West Point education. He devoted his life to the U. S. Army, enhancing his innate talents through the incorporation of a daily program of self-education. Eddy had an excellent grasp of the basic principles of military tactics and strategy. [+]He attained this art through home study and assiduous application at the Army's professional education institutions, in particular at the Command and General Staff College, where he served as an instructor for four years. He focused on people, quickly learning and applying basic skills to draw out their best efforts. He came to know what to expect from them in the chaos and under the pressure of combat. This facilitated his development of strong, mission-oriented subordinates. His personal goal was always to maximize all available power at the correct point for crushing his nation's enemies, and to this end, he was extraordinarily successful.
Publication date: 2004-04
Dewey code: 780.92
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Review The Music of American Composer Lejaren Hiller and an Examination of His Early Works Involving Technology (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music) / Edwin Mellen Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-07
Dewey code: 198.9
List Price: $350.00
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Review Kierkegaard: Arguments of the Philosophers, 37 Volume Set (Arguments of the Philosophers) / Routledge:This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.
Creator: Peter Weinberger
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-08-05
Dewey code: 530.092
List Price: $119.00
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Review Walter Kohn: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators / Springer:This is not a science book, nor even a book about science, although most of the contributors are scientists. It is a book of personal stories about Walter Kohn, a theoretical physicist and winner of half of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Walter Kohn originated and/or refined a number of very important theoretical approaches and concepts in solid-state physics. He is known in particular for Density-Functional Theory. This book represents a kind of "oral history" about him, gathered - in anticipation of his 80th birthday - from former students, collaborators, fellow-scientists, and friends.
Publication date: 2003-09
Dewey code: 355
Price: $24.95
Review An Eye For An Eye And His Blood For My Tears / PublishAmerica:Minus one eye, and a promising military career in ruin after being brutally assaulted by my elder brother, I strayed to the verge of insanity. Fearing a bloody reprisal would tarnish my father’s reputable business name, I was conveniently exiled from the family home in England out of the way, to a life of self-reliance in Africa. Without friends or relatives at the end of the line, trade papers or a job, and little money, the future looked bleak. After thirteen adventurous years steeped in mystery, suspense, and a peppering of steamy sexual encounters, failing eyesight forced me back to England. Believing I’d returned to even the score with my brother, several family members embarked upon a damning witch-hunt to destroy me before it could happen. But after five miserable years of hell on earth, trapped beneath a persecuting shadow of prolonged rejection and emotional torture, I emerged from a cocoon of mental madness to become their worst ever nightmare.
Publication date: 1980-02
Dewey code: 941.062092
Price: $22.75
Review Montrose: A History / Greenwood Pub Group:MONTROSE A History BY JOHN BUCHAN WITH POBTEAITS AND MAPS BOSTON AND NEW TOBK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY COPYRIGHT, IpaS, BY JOHN BUCIIAN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CAMBRIDGE PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. 3 3 770U7 FKATRI DILECTISSIMO W, H. B. When we were little wandering boys And every hill was blue and high, On ballad ways and martial joys We fed our fancies , you and I. With Bruce we crouched in bracken shade 9 With Douglas charged the Paynivn foes A. nd oft in moorland noons I played Colkitto to your grave Montrose. The obliterating seasons flow They cannot kill our boyish game. Though creeds may change and kings may go, Yet burns undimmed the ancient flame. [+]While young men in their pride make haste The wrong to right 9 the bond to free A. nd plant a garden in the waste Still rides our Scottish chivalry. Another end had held your dream To die fulfilled of hope and might To pass in one swift rapturous gleam From mortal to immortal light. But through long hours of labouring breath You watched the world grow small and far A. nd met the constant eyes of Death A. nd haply knew how kind they are. One boon the Fates relenting gave. Not where the scented hill-wind blows From cedar thickets lies your grave, Nor mid the steep Himalayan snows. Night calls the stragglers to the nest A. nd at long last y tis home indeed For your far-wandering feet to rest Forever by the crooks of Tweed. In perfect honour amp gt, perfect truth, A. nd gentleness to all mankind You trod the golden paths of youth Then left the world and youth quot behind. VI FRATBI DILECTISSIMO Ah no Tis we who fade and fail And you, from Time s daw torments free, Shall pass from strength to strength and The steeps of immortality. Dear heart, in that svrener air, If blessed souls may backward gaze, Some slender nook of memory pnr For our old happy moorland days. I sit alone, and musing fills My breast with pain that shall not die Till once again o er greener hills We ride together you and Sedulo curavi humanas actiones non ridere, now lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere. SPINOZA PREFACE IN September, 1913, 1 published a short sketch of Montrose, which dealt chiefly with his campaigns. The book went out of print very soon, and it was not reissued because I cher ished the hope of making it the basis of a larger work, in which the background of seventeenth-century politics and religion should be more fully portrayed. I also felt that many of the judgments in the sketch were exaggerated and hasty. During the last fifteen years I have been collecting material for the understanding of a career which must rank among the marvels of our history, and of a mind and character which seem to me in a high degree worthy of the attention of the modern reader. The manuscript sources have already been diligently explored by others, and I have been unable to glean from them much that is new but I have attempted to supplement them by a study of the voluminous pamphlet literature of the time. My aim has been to present a great figure in its appropriate setting In a domain where the dust of controversy has not yet been laid, I cannot hope to find for my views universal acceptance, but they have not been reached without an earnest attempt to discover the truth, J. B. ELSFTEJLB MANOR, OXFORD June, 1928 CONTENTS INTRODUCTOKT THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 3 BOOK I PREPARATION I. YOUTH 1612-86 19 IL THE STRIFE IN SCOTLAND 1636-38 29 III. THE FIRST COVENANT WARS 1638-39 60 IV. MONTROSE AND ARGYLL 1639-42 86 V. THE RUBICON 1642-44 114 BOOK II ACTION VI. THE CURTAIN RISES MARCH, 1644-AuGusT, 1644 143 VII. TIPPERMUIR SEPTEMBER, 1644 154 VIII. ABERDEEN AND FYVIE SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER, 1644 173 IX. INVERLOCHY DECEMBER, 1644-FEBRUARY, 1645 187 X. THE RETREAT FROM DUNDEE FEBRUARY-APRIL, 1645 202 r XI. - AULDEARN AND ALFORD ApRIL-JULY, 1645 213 XII. KlLSYTH JULY-AUGUST, 1645 232 XIII. THE , WAR ON THE BORDER AUGUST-SEPTEMBER, 1645 243 XIV, AFTER PHIUPHAUGH SEPTEMBER, 1645-SEPTEMBER, 1646 260 BOOK III PASSION XV.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2007-07-02
Dewey code: 370.92
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Review Peerless Educator: The Life and Work of Isaac Leon Kandel (History of Schools and Schooling) / Peter Lang Publishing:Isaac Leon Kandel (1881 1965) was a major figure in educational philosophy and comparative education in the twentieth century. As a professor of education at Columbia University s Teachers College, Kandel almost single-handedly developed the field of comparative education, and was an early critic of Progressive educational philosophy. As the definitive biography of one of the twentieth century s most brilliant writers on education, this book presents Kandel as a democratic traditionalist who tirelessly advocated the ideal of liberal education for all. This book tells the story of Kandel s life and the many obstacles that he faced because of his faith and political views. The philosophy of democratic schooling that Kandel embodies is crucial to the reconstruction of American education today. Peerless Educator will be of interest not only to scholars of education, but also to practitioners who want to improve education in the twenty-first century.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-11-01
Dewey code: 509
List Price: $170.00
Price: $124.10
Review Science, Cold War and the American State: Lloyd V. Berkner and the Balance of Professional Ideals (Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Series) / Routledge:This non-traditional biography sheds light on the career of Lloyd V. Berkner and the role he played as mediator between the American science community and United States government agencies responsible for planning and executing national security during the Cold War. The book illuminates how Berkner became a model that produced the scientist/advisor/policymaker that helped build postwar America. It does so by providing a detailed account of the personal and professional beliefs of one of the most influential figures in the American scientific community; a figure that helped define the political and social climates that existed in the United States during the Cold War.
Publication date: 1999-06
Dewey code: 973.8092
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Review The Life and Works of General Charles King 1844-1933: Martial Spirit (Studies in World Peace) / Edwin Mellen Press:
Publication date: 2005-03-10
Dewey code: 355
List Price: $432.00
Price: $431.99
Review Cumulative Bibliography Of Medieval Military History And Technology / Brill Academic Pub:There is perhaps no other more lively area for study in medieval history than medieval military history, with its attendant and complementary field, the history of medieval military technology. In the past twenty years, it seems that more major scholarly inroads have been made in this field than in any other historical genre of medieval studies or chronological period of military history. What this has meant is that it is now more difficult to keep up with all of the trends and sources in the field than ever before. Hence the need for a reference work which covers what has previously been written and which, in turn, can assist the scholar, both the more experienced academic and the beginner, to improve his or her work in medieval military history or the history of medieval military technology. Utilizing library catalogues, bibliographies, and footnotes, this bibliography has compiled the most complete list of secondary references to works in medieval military history and the history of military technology. It keeps fairly strictly to a geography which centers on conventional medieval boundaries-Europe, Byzantium, and the Middle East. However, the chronology does differ from the conventional medieval dates. Because of its influence on the early Middle Ages, references to Late Antiquity, especially to the military history and technology of the third- and fourth-century Roman Empire have been included. For the opposite reason, the influence of the Middle Ages on the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, references to military history and technology up to 1648 have been included as well. This is especially important in the study of the Ottoman Turkish Wars and Arms and Armor, where the end of the fifteenth century as a chronological terminus makes little sense.
Publication date: 1997-08-30
Dewey code: 973.3449
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Review General William Maxwell and the New Jersey Continentals (Contributions in Military Studies) / Greenwood Press:The first biography of one of George Washington's most able and controversial generals examines the military career of William Maxwell from British army commissary to commander of the New Jersey Continental troops in major northern battles and campaigns and numerous confrontations with British incursionary forces into New Jersey. As Washington's first commander of the light infantry troops, Maxwell had crucial roles in the battles of Cooch's Bridge (Iron Hill), Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, and Springfield, and led the New Jersey brigade in the Sullivan Indian expedition. Maxwell and his brigade frequently served as a probing arm for Washington's army. This book addresses the role of Maxwell as commander and describes the participation and ordeals of his New Jersey brigade. It offers insights into the quality of leadership both of Washington and the officer corps in general, giving a rare view of the Revolutionary War at the brigade level and the politics of command.
Creator: Donald A. Crosby
Publication date: 2008-12-05
Dewey code: 191
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Review An Intellectual Biography of David Atwood Wassson, (1828-1887): An American Transcendentalist Thinker / Edwin Mellen Press:This is the only work on Wasson's contribution to American thought in the context of his support for a religion of humanity and a republican form of democracy. David Atwood Wasson (1823-1887) graduated from Bangor Theological Seminary a Transcendentalist. Fired from his first pastorate for denouncing Calvinism, he organized an independent society and continued his support of the Free Church Movement. Students of American social history, religious, and intellectual history will find a broader perspective of Transcendentalism in "Wasson's Free Religion"; view of nature and its basic laws; commitment to the scientific method and evolution; war for the sake of vindication of justice; true socialization based on reason, conscience and reverence for other persons; objection to the New Testament being used as an encyclopedia of moral and religious truth; and a radical who rejected the notion of faith as an arrested natural faculty. Wasson favored the notion of faith as a spontaneous energy emerging from the human spirit.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-09-29
Dewey code: 301.092
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Review Zygmunt Bauman (Key Sociologists) / Routledge:This timely book provides a concise but critical introduction to the work of a sociological phenomenon. After introducing the man, his major influences, and his special way of "thinking sociologically", Blackshaw traces the development of Bauman's project by identifying and explaining the two major shifts of emphasis in his work-the postmodern "turn" and the subsequent refocusing on "liquid" modernity. He also offers a clear and accessible guide to the key conceptual hinges that move the reader from one to the other, taking in the ideas of legislators and interpreters, ambivalence, seduction and repression, contingency, and fragmentation.
Authors
- Iurii Druzhnikov
- Yuri Druzhnikov
Dewey code: 891.713
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Review The Life And Death of Alexander Pushkin: A Genius at Odds with Himself / Edwin Mellen Press:In this book, the author constructs a new scholarly version of Pushkin as an artist profoundly at odds not only with his society, but also with himself. While investigating the last and unhappy period of Pushkin's biography (1830-1837), e. g. 'the end of Pushkin's life,' the author restores paradoxical circumstances that eventually led to the poet's death.
Publication date: 1996-12-20
Dewey code: 920
Price: $20.00
Review From Kessab to Watertown: A Modern Saga / Ohan Pr:The autobiography of a teacher and writer from Kessab, Turkey (then Syria), who taught in various schools in Alexandretta such as St. Paul's Institute and the School of Religion in Athens and Beirut. Other detailed writings are added on the geography and history of the region, facts about Kessab and genealogies of his family and his wife's family. This is a translation by Hagop Sarkissian from the original Armenian.
Creator: Frank A. J. L. James
Publication date: 1993-12
Dewey code: 530.092
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Review The Correspondence of Michael Faraday: 1832-December 1840 : Letters 525-1333 (Correspondence of Michael Faraday, 1811-1831) / Institution of Electrical Engineers:Michael Faraday was one of the most important scientists of the 19th century, helping to lay the foundations of the modern electricity industry. This second volume of his correspondence covers the 1830s, a period when Faraday pursued the consequences of his discovery of electromagnetic induction and revised the theories of electrochemistry and the nature of electricity. His correspondents include scientists, artists, politicians and military men.
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Berkner and the Balance of Professional Ideals (Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Series), The Life and Works of General Charles King 1844-1933: Martial Spirit (Studies in World Peace), Cumulative Bibliography Of Medieval Military History And Technology, General William Maxwell and the New Jersey Continentals (Contributions in Military Studies), An Intellectual Biography of David Atwood Wassson, (1828-1887): An American Transcendentalist Thinker, Zygmunt Bauman (Key Sociologists), The Life And Death of Alexander Pushkin: A Genius at Odds with Himself, From Kessab to Watertown: A Modern Saga, The Correspondence of Michael Faraday: 1832-December 1840 : Letters 525-1333 (Correspondence of Michael Faraday, 1811-1831)Top headlines: Drugs: Meet Mexicos Suspected Queenpin: Sexy, stylish and female. 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