Edition: 2
Publication date: 2004-08-26
Dewey code: 900
List Price: $95.00
Price: $94.96
Review Emperor Constantine (Lancaster Pamphlets in Ancient History) / Routledge:"Emperor Constantine" provides a convenient and concise introduction to one of the most important figures in ancient history. Taking into account the historiographical debates of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Hans A. Pohlsander: * describes the Roman world into which Constantine was born * assesses Constantine's ability as a soldier and statesman * emphasizes the significance of Constantine as Rome's first Christian emperor * discusses the importance of the establishment of the new capital of Byzantium * gives an even-handed assessment of Constantine's achievements. This second edition is updated throughout to take into account the latest research on the subject. Also included is a revised introduction and an enlarged bibliography.
Creator: John S. Minard
Publication date: 1992-09
Dewey code: 355
Price: $26.00
Review Sketches of Border Adventures in the Life and Times of Major Moses Van Campen / Zebrowski Historical Services:This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Creator: J. C. Yardley
Publication date: 2004-01-16
Dewey code: 938.07092
List Price: $110.95
Price: $110.95
Review Alexander the Great: Historical Sources in Translation (Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History) / Wiley-Blackwell:This source book presents new translations of the most important ancient writings on the life and legacy of Alexander the Great. Provides comprehensive coverage of Alexander, from his family background to his military conquests, death and legacy. Includes substantial extracts of texts written by historians, geographers, biographers and military writers. A general introduction and introductions to each chapter set the sources in context. Also includes a bibliography of modern works, visual sources and a map of Alexander'sexpedition.
Publication date: 2003-01
Price: $32.50
Review Journey Into Freedom (Reminiscence) / Ulverscroft Large Print:An authentic war-time story of the years 1939-1947 which finds the author in France at the outbreak of war. First interned as an 'Enemy Alien', then taken prisoner by the Germans after the invasion, he resolves to reach England, which takes him another three years. Conscripted into the Vichy Army he manages to escape after two and a half years, goes into hiding before crossing the Pyrenees, when the Germans had occupied the whole of France. Interned in Spain, he joins the American Quakers in Madrid on relief work, after they obtained his release from the 'Miranda' internment camp. On the last leg of his journey into freedom, arranged by the British Embassy, he leaves for Britain by convoy from Gibraltar to join HM Forces in 1943. Assigned to the Intelligence Corps, his story continues until his demobilisation in 1947.
Publication date: 2007-12
Dewey code: 812.52
List Price: $98.00
Price: $93.57
Review Robert E. Sherwood: The Playwright in Peace and War / University of Massachusetts Press:This is an insightful biography of a Pulitzer Prize - winning writer who struggled to reconcile his principles and his politics. One of the nation's first film critics, an acclaimed speechwriter on his own and for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a propagandist during World War II, and a leading producer on Broadway, Robert E. Sherwood scripted some of the most popular plays and films of his day, including "Waterloo Bridge", "The Best Years of Our Lives", "Idiot's Delight", "Abe Lincoln in Illinois", and "Rebecca". His work brought him four Pulitzer Prizes and an Oscar. In his personal life, however, he was driven by a deep conviction that war was a societal evil that must be eradicated and human rights a moral responsibility that all governments should protect. At times, his belief in pacifism and his commitment to defending freedom and justice came into conflict with each other, causing frustration and emotional trauma which found their way into his writings and actions. In this book, Harriet Hyman Alonso unravels Sherwood's inner struggle and portrays his political journey. Relying largely on his letters, diaries, plays, films, essays, and biography of Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins, she traces Sherwood's obsession with the world of politics and its effects on his life and art, from his experience as a soldier in World War I to the Cold War. She also describes his participation in the Algonquin Round Table, his friendships and working relationships with such notables as Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Edna Ferber, Spencer Tracy, Harry Hopkins, and Franklin D. [+]Roosevelt, his two marriages and uneasy relationship with his daughter, and his leadership role in the Broadway community. Alonso brings together history, theater and film studies, and peace studies in this interdisciplinary political biography. In the process, she illuminates major currents in U. S. foreign policy, society, and culture from 1896 to 1955 - the years of the remarkable life of Robert E. Sherwood.
Publication date: 2002-07
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $93.99
Price: $93.99
Review Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte / IndyPublish.com:
Publication date: 2008-10-10
Dewey code: 355
List Price: $94.99
Price: $94.99
Review Observations of a Retired Veteran / IndyPublish:
Publication date: 1995-12
Dewey code: 973.3092
List Price: $39.95
Price: $93.62
Review Benjamin Lincoln and the American Revolution / Univ of South Carolina Pr:The first modern biography of an American Revolutionary War hero.
Dewey code: 181.06
List Price: $94.00
Price: $94.00
Review Leo Strauss / Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.:In this book, 19 prominent representatives of each side in the basic division among Strauss's followers explore his contribution to political philosophy and Jewish thought.
Publication date: 2008-09-11
List Price: $94.99
Price: $94.99
Review Thomas Hariot / IndyPublish:Thomas Hariot was the author of ' Briefe and true report of the new foundland of Virginia. London, 1588, 4.
Creator: Turner Publishing Company
Publication date: 2004-06-28
Dewey code: 355
List Price: $52.50
Price: $94.38
Review USS America CVA/CV-66 / Turner Publishing Company (KY):
Creator: Neal Johnson
Publication date: 2008-02-28
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $119.95
Price: $94.95
Review The Russian Life of R.-Aloys Mooser, Music Critic to the Tsars: Memoirs and Selected Writings / Edwin Mellen Press:This book presents a primary source in music history, the memoirs of the Swiss music critic and scholar of Russian music, Robert Aloys Mooser. The memoir includes Mooser's description of music and musical life in Geneva and St. Petersburg in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His first-hand account of musical figures and events, seen through the eyes of a Protestant Genevan, introduce the reader to the main cultural currents of the time.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1971-07-31
List Price: $164.00
Price: $110.00
Review Correspondance de Jacques Dupuy et de Nicolas Heinsius (1646-1656) (International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées) / Springer:
Publication date: 1997-10
Dewey code: 940.547252095991
Price: $29.95
Review My Time in Hell: Memoir of an American Soldier Imprisoned by the Japanese in World War II / McFarland & Company:Within seven weeks of his enlistment in 1941, Private Carson was shipped to the Philippines-no boot camp, no training, no drill. Captured by the Japanese less than a year later, he endured the Cabanatuan prison camps, nearly died, and then was put aboard a Japanese hellship bound for Japan.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-01-01
Dewey code: 851.1
List Price: $95.00
Price: $95.00
Review A New Life Of Dante / University of Exeter Press:
Edition: Limited
Publication date: 1993-04
Dewey code: 973.8092
Price: $60.00
Review Bad Hand: A Biography of General Ranald S. MacKenzie / State House Pr:A Civil War hero, victorious Indian fighter and eventual madman, General Ranald S. Mackenzie's fascinating life, his brilliant accomplishments, and his descent into madness are brought to life in a complete and thoroughly researched biography that reestablishes his importance in the history of Texas and the United States. Foreword by Stan Hoig.
Publication date: 2000-09-15
Dewey code: 509
Price: $20.95
Review Richard Trevithick The Man and his Machine / Aurum Press:Two hundred years ago, Richard Trevithick invented the "Cornish engine," the world's first self-propelled steam vehicle. Yet fame and fortune obstinately eluded this great engineer whose reckless, headstrong nature often made him his own worst enemy. But although he died in poverty and relative obscurity, he is now recognized as one of the most remarkable figures of the Industrial Revolution, and his extraordinary career, which took him from his native Cornwall to London and then on to 17 years of adventuring in South America, makes for wonderfully lively reading in this biography.
Publication date: 2005-01
Dewey code: 362.196994092
Price: $14.95
Review Battling Death: A Different Life / Pentland Press (NC):Serious illness can be devastating. Imagine what it takes to overcome it - to overcome the devastation to the body, to be robbed of one’s identity, confidence or independence, to face death, to persevere through the horrors required to hold it at bay and, finally, to rebuild a life that will never be the same. Now imagine having to do it over and over and over again. That is exactly what Dr. Marie Kirchner Stone had to do, and she shares her experiences in her striking new memoir, "Battling Death: A Different Life. " Diagnosed at age twenty with Hodgkin’s Disease, Dr. Stone did not know as she entered treatment that her health would never return to her. Throughout the following forty years, she faced the Hodgkin’s Disease, breast cancer, thyroid cancer, cervical cancer, endometriosis, open-heart surgery, a debilitating stroke and skin cancer; some were the result of her radiation treatments for the Hodgkin’s, others were not. Yet her tale is not a simple litany of diseases and treatments, but rather an inspiring and motivational triumph of the spirit over adversity, as she never once let the diseases that riddled her keep her from living a full and productive life. Dedicated to teaching, she was repeatedly forced to start anew, yet she never let go of her determination to teach and help the children realize the best in themselves. [+]To Dr. Stone, "[t]eaching promoted a symbiotic, constructive, and mutually beneficial mind-body outcome both for the students and me. " A shining example of what it means never to quit, Dr. Stone’s extraordinary tale shows that while "Battling Death" may indeed lead to a different kind of life, it can be a life well lived.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-12-06
Dewey code: 301.0922
List Price: $100.00
Price: $93.40
Review Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists (Routledge Key Guides) / Routledge:Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists covers the life, work, ideas and impact of some of the most important thinkers in this discipline. Concentrating on figures writing predominantly in the second half of the twentieth century, such as Zygmunt Bauman, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Michel Foucault and Claude Lévi-Strauss, each entry includes: · full cross-referencing· a further reading section· biographical data· key works and ideas· critical assessment. Clearly presented in an easy-to-navigate A-Z format, this accessible reference guide is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students of sociology, cultural studies and general studies, as well as other readers interested in this fascinating field.
Creator: Larry R. Squire
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-04-25
Dewey code: 573
List Price: $93.95
Price: $93.95
Review The History of Neuroscience In Autobiography, Volume 5 (History of Neuroscience in Autobiography) / Academic Press:This fifth book of autobiographical essays by distinguished senior neuroscientists includes contributions by Samuel H. Barondes, Joseph E. Bogen, Alan Cowey, David R. Curtis, Ennio De Renzi, John S. Edwards, Mitchell Glickstein, Carlton C. Hunt, Lynn T. Landmesser, Rodolfo Llinas, Alan Peters, Martin Raff, Wilfred Rall, Mark R. Rosenzweig, Arnold Bernard Scheibel, and Gerald Westheimer. This collection of fascinating essays should inform and inspire students and working scientists alike. The general reader interested in science may also find the essays absorbing, as they are essentially human stories about commitment and the pursuit of knowledge.
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Emperor Constantine (Lancaster Pamphlets in Ancient History), Sketches of Border Adventures in the Life and Times of Major Moses Van Campen, Alexander the Great: Historical Sources in Translation (Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History), Journey Into Freedom (Reminiscence), Robert E. Sherwood: The Playwright in Peace and War, Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Observations of a Retired Veteran, Benjamin Lincoln and the American Revolution, Leo Strauss, Thomas Hariot, USS America CVA/CV-66, The Russian Life of R.-Aloys Mooser, Music Critic to the Tsars: Memoirs and Selected Writings, Correspondance de Jacques Dupuy et de Nicolas Heinsius (1646-1656) (International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées), My Time in Hell: Memoir of an American Soldier Imprisoned by the Japanese in World War II, A New Life Of Dante, Bad Hand: A Biography of General Ranald S. 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