Publication date: 1993-10-09
Dewey code: 509
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Review John Von Neumann / Random House Value Publishing:A biography of the man regarded as the greatest scientist since Einstein moves from the laboratory to the highest levels of government, showing how von Neumann's theories provided the building blocks for the modern computer, the atom bomb, radar, artificial intelligence, and more.
Publication date: 2005-10-11
Review The Icarus Factor / Anchor Canada:In June 2000, Edgar Bronfman Jr. sold Seagram Co. to French media giant Vivendi in a $34-billion deal. Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Edgar Jr. seemed finally to have silenced the detractors who for fifteen years had scorned him, calling him a naïve dilettante and “the star-struck whisky king. ”As the third-generation president and CEO of a family dynasty in the booze business, Edgar Jr. had made controversial corporate decisions. In 1995 he sold Seagram’s holding in the secure but boring DuPont to buy Hollywood studio MCA. In 1998, he acquired PolyGram, thereby creating the world’s largest record company. In 2000, when convergence was the corporate mantra, he merged Seagram with Vivendi. [+]At fifteen, Edgar Jr. had been designated by his grandfather, Sam Bronfman, Seagram’s legendary founder, to eventually head the business Mr. Sam had built as a bootlegger during Prohibition. For Edgar Jr. , that choice turned into a curse as he agonized over Mr. Sam’s prescient 1966 warning: “Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations. I’m worried about the third generation. Empires have come and gone. ”In 1994 when Edgar Jr. succeeded his father, he announced: “I’m not going down in history as the one Bronfman who pissed away the family fortune. ” Despite all his efforts, Edgar Jr. could not avoid his destiny. The value of the Bronfman family holdings in Seagram – swapped for shares in Vivendi – fell by almost three-quarters from $8. 2 billion to $2. 2 billion between 2000 and 2002. Business Week featured Edgar Jr. on its “Worst Managers List,” calling him the “most desperate billionaire around. ”In this unauthorized biography, acclaimed and award-winning business writer Rod McQueen tells the gripping story of an empire’s demise. Based on 150 revealing interviews with high school friends, associates from his Hollywood and Broadway days, as well as former colleagues, officers and directors at Seagram and Vivendi, The Icarus Factor tracks Edgar Jr. on his meteoric rise and spectacular fall. In addition to Edgar Jr. himself, McQueen interviewed many powerful media and entertainment leaders including Frank Biondi Jr. , Jack Valenti, Barry Diller, Ron Meyer, Doug Morris, and Herbert Allen Jr. What emerges is a compelling and intimate portrait of a man who wrestled with his own fervent dreams and family responsibilities. This is a story about duty and destiny, passion and performance, family and failure. Above all, it is a cautionary tale about the complex relationship between a father and a son with catastrophic consequences. From the Hardcover edition.
Creator: Tomasz P. Jannson
Publication date: 2004-12-23
Dewey code: 535
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Price: $99.00
Review Tribute to Emil Wolf: Science and Engineering Legacy of Physical Optics (SPIE Press Monograph Vol. PM139) / SPIE Publications:An icon in the world of optics, Emil Wolf laid the foundations of contemporary physical optics by documenting the concept of spatial coherence before lasers were introduced. This powerful concept has influenced many areas of optical science and engineering, several of which are discussed in this book and are intended to pay homage to one of the great minds of physical optics. The material is presented by major experts in the field, many of them closely connected to Emil Wolf's Institute of Optics at University of Rochester.
Publication date: 2008-06-20
Dewey code: 338
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Price: $98.79
Review Stock Market Development in Africa / VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K.:
Publication date: 2000-10
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Review Thomas Alva Edison / MESTAS:La biografía.
Publication date: 1990-02-23
Dewey code: 070.922438
List Price: $130.00
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Review Poland's Journalists: Professionalism and Politics (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies) / Cambridge University Press:Poland's Journalists: Professionalism and Politics examines the position of journalists and journalism in Poland from the beginning of the country's trauma and revolts in 1948 until the disappointments of Solidarity and its repression by martial law in the 1980s. The author explores journalists' responses-both professionally and politically-to their country's crises, and convincingly argues that they shared common interests and values; that they developed formal and informal organizations and that their self-identification as a professional group is comparable with their journalistic counterparts in the West. This book draws on a variety of published sources, on some 249 interviews with journalists and on surveys. It provides a unique case study of Polish journalists and is a major contribution to the sociological study of professionalism under communism.
Creator: Laura Tilling
Publication date: 1976-07-30
List Price: $125.00
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Review The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 6, 1713-1718 / Cambridge University Press:As Newton had by now entered his eighth decade, it can be no surprise that the correspondence in this sixth volume shows a marked decline in his activity and intellectual vigour. While the number of extant letters written by him on other that Mint business is relatively small, the majority of them are devoted to his controversy with Leibniz - Newton's dominant interest during this period. The correspondence of Newton shades gradually into the correspondence of the Newtonians. Thus notably Keill, De Moivre, Chamberlayne, Brook Taylor, the Abbe Conti and Des Maizeaux interested themselves in the calculus dispute, all of them (except the first) having frequent opportunities for personal conversation with Newton.
Creator: Martin L. Maehr
Publication date: 1984-06
Dewey code: 153.8
Price: $82.50
Review Advances in Motivation and Achievement: Women in Science (Advances in Motivation and Achievement) / JAI Press:
Publication date: 1996-07-26
Dewey code: 540.92
List Price: $190.00
Price: $158.58
Review Edward Frankland: Chemistry, Controversy and Conspiracy in Victorian England / Cambridge University Press:This is the first scientific biography of Edward Frankland, probably the most eminent chemist of nineteenth century Britain. Frankland discovered the chemical bond and founded the science of organometallic chemistry. Recently, Professor Russell gained access to a vast collection of Frankland's private papers. This authoritative account discloses, among much else, a conspiracy of silence in the scientific community surrounding Frankland's origins as an illegitimate child. It will be of great interest to professional chemists, historians of science, and general readers concerned with the social fabric of Victorian England.
Publication date: 2001-02
Dewey code: 306.766
Price: $29.65
Review Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography / Replica Books:"My work has had nothing to do with gay liberation," Michel Foucault reportedly told an admirer in 1975. And indeed there is scarcely more than a passing mention of homosexuality in Foucault's scholarly writings. So why has Foucault, who died of AIDS in 1984, become a powerful source of both personal and political inspiration to an entire generation of gay activists? And why have his political philosophy and his personal life recently come under such withering, normalizing scrutiny by commentators as diverse as Camille Paglia, Richard Mohr, Bruce Bawer, Roger Kimball, and biographer James Miller? David M. Halperin's Saint Foucault is an uncompromising and impassioned defense of the late French philosopher and historian as a galvanizing thinker whose career as a theorist and activist will continue to serve as a model for other gay intellectuals, activists, and scholars. A close reading of both Foucault and the increasing attacks on his life and work, it explains why straight liberals so often find in Foucault only counsels of despair on the subject of politics, whereas gay activists look to him not only for intellectual inspiration but also for a compelling example of political resistance. Halperin rescues Foucault from the endless nature-versus-nurture debate over the origins of homosexuality ("On this question I have absolutely nothing to say," Foucault himself once remarked) and argues that Foucault's decision to treat sexuality not as a biological or psychological drive but as an effect of discourse, as the product of modern systems of knowledge and power, represents a crucial political breakthrough for lesbians and gay men. Halperin explains how Foucault's radical vision of homosexuality as a strategic opportunity for self-transformation anticipated the new anti-assimilationist, anti-essentialist brand of sexual identity politics practiced by contemporary direct-action groups such as ACT UP. Halperin also offers the first synthetic account of Foucault's thinking about gay sex and the future of the lesbian and gay movement, as well as an up-to-the-minute summary of the most recent work in queer theory. "Where there is power, there is resistance," Michel Foucault wrote in The History of Sexuality, Volume I. Erudite, biting, and surprisingly moving, Saint Foucault represents Halperin's own resistance to what he views as the blatant and systematic misrepresentation of a crucial intellectual figure, a misrepresentation he sees as dramatic evidence of the continuing personal, professional, and scholarly vulnerability of all gay activists and intellectuals in the age of AIDS.
Creator: Allan Stanistreet
Publication date: 1986-12
Price: $50.00
Review Against All Disaster: Gallant Deeds Above and Beyond the Call of Duty / Hyperion Books:
Edition: 1882
Publication date: 2007-12-01
Dewey code: 300
List Price: $98.00
Price: $98.00
Review Records of Later Life - CD-ROM Edition / Reprint Services Corp:
Publication date: 2003-06-30
Dewey code: 070
List Price: $135.00
Price: $98.55
Review William Caxton 1424-1491: Bound with: Robert Wyer, Printer and Bookseller (Thoemmes Press- Thoemmes Library of Printing and the Book Trade) / Thoemmes Continuum:
Publication date: 2007-03-30
Dewey code: 109
Price: $11.00
Review Rama Tirtha: Scientist and Mahatma-An Account of His Life and Translations from His Writings / Sun Pub Co:
Authors
- Ata-Malik Juvaini
- David O. Morgan
Publication date: 1997-08
Dewey code: 950
List Price: $40.00
Price: $245.00
Review Genghis Khan: The History of the World-Conqueror / Univ of Washington Pr:
Edition: 6
Publication date: 2003-12
Dewey code: 370
List Price: $235.00
Price: $98.98
Review Who's Who in American Education 2004-2005 (Who's Who in American Education) / Marquis:
Creator: Michael J. Crowe
Publication date: 1998-10-28
Dewey code: 520.92
Price: $150.00
Review A Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel / Cambridge University Press:This volume provides for the first time summaries, descriptions, and documentation for 14,815 letters written by or sent to Sir John Herschel (1792-1871). Herschel's numerous contributions to astronomy as well as to mathematics, physics, chemistry (especially photochemistry and photography), meteorology, philosophy of science, and scientific organization, led his British contemporaries to regard him as the most prominent scientist of his era. Because Herschel corresponded on a remarkable array of topics and with leading figures both in Britain and beyond, this volume gives scholars access to a wealth of revealing new information. The many new uses of the volume are enhanced by its Biographical Register, which indentifies about 1500 of Herschel's correspondents, and its Index, which supplies 30,000 references. This volume is far and away the most extensive source of information on John Herschel ever published. Also included are bibliographies of Herschel's publications and of publications on him.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-12-05
Dewey code: 330.157
List Price: $180.00
Price: $143.76
Review The Economics of W. S. Jevons (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics, 9) / Routledge:William Stanley Jevons occupies a pivotal position in the history of economic thought, spanning the transition from classical to neo-classical economics and playing a key role in the Marginal Revolution. The breadth of Jevons's work is examined here, including a detailed consideration of a wide range of his work-policy, theoretical, methodological, applied and empirical. It relies on textual exegis, and takes account of a wide range of secondary sources. The text emphasises the link between poverty and economics, and focuses on the nature and meaning of rationality in Jevonian economics.
Publication date: 2002-08
Dewey code: 070.92
List Price: $19.85
Price: $98.96
Review Diane Sawyer / Topeka Bindery:- Profiles the lives and careers of women whose accomplishments have contributed to our society - Fully illustrated with photographs and paintings
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-02-01
List Price: $63.95
Price: $98.39
Review Francois Simiand (1873-1935): Sociologie / Other:
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