Creator: Wei Wu
Publication date: 1998-01
Dewey code: 070.50922
List Price: $89.50
Price: $89.50
Review The Global Journalist: News People Around the World (Iamcr Book Series) / Hampton Press:This volume includes reports of systematic surveys of journalists in 21 countries. It takes a global perspective on the demographics, education, socialization, professionalization, and working conditions of journalists in these countries.
Publication date: 2002-08
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $98.99
Price: $98.99
Review The Memoirs of General the Baron De Marbot / IndyPublish.com:
Publication date: 1997-02-15
Dewey code: 943.087092
List Price: $89.95
Price: $89.95
Review Willy Brandt: A Political Biography (St. Antony's) / Palgrave Macmillan:Willy Brandt, the first Social Democratic Chancellor of West Germany (1969-1974) was perhaps the most charismatic German leader since Hitler. His life reflects German 20th-century history from the Weimar Republic to the new Germany as a result of unification with the GDR. He was mayor of Berlin when the Wall was built (1961) and as Chancellor he initiated Ostpolitik which indirectly contributed to the fall of the Iron Curtain. As Chairman of the North-South Commission he drew the world's attention to the plight of the Third World. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.
Publication date: 2001-11-17
Dewey code: 370.92
List Price: $115.00
Price: $115.00
Review Yukichi Fukuzawa, 1835-1901: The Spirit of Enterprise in Modern Japan / Palgrave Macmillan:Yukichi Fukuzawa was one of the most effective business entrepreneurs in early modern Japan. He was the inspiration for the Yokohama Specie Bank, without which the Japanese could not have set up a sound banking system. He began the bookstore chain Maruzen. He was adviser to the newly founded shipbuilding and mining giant Mitsubishi and helped bring the house of Mitsui into the modern age. This is both the story of his life and his transforming impact on Japan's economy.
Publication date: 1991-12
Dewey code: 509
List Price: $12.00
Price: $89.99
Review Not Much of an Engineer: An Autobiography/R 12 / SAE International:
Publication date: 2005-05-30
Dewey code: 813
List Price: $89.99
Price: $89.99
Review The Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton / IndyPublish.com:Illustrating Some of the most Remarkable TRANSACTIONS both by Sea and Land during the Reigns of King Charles and King James II hitherto unobserved by all the Writers of those times.
Creator: Ron Kaye / Connie L. Schmidt
Edition: The 60th Anniversary
Publication date: 2007-07-02
Dewey code: 001.942
List Price: $15.00
Price: $349.95
Review The Roswell Legacy / BigSky Press:My focus in this book will be to present the reader with a clearer picture of the man who was - and remains - at the center of the Roswell controversy; my father, Jesse Marcel, Sr. While I must acknowledge that my own account carries within its own bias, I realize that my duty to my father is to present him as the man he was, as accurately as possible, lest I fall into the same trap as those who have allowed their own biases and agendas to paint a portrait that is not as much the man as what he represents to them and their goals. As such, I feel I am the only living person truly qualified to wield the brush. I hope I serve his memory well.
Publication date: 1997-12
Dewey code: 610.92
List Price: $109.95
Price: $109.95
Review An Autobiography and Personal Philosophy of a Retired Physician (Mellen Lives, No 7) / Edwin Mellen Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-08-30
Dewey code: 609
Price: $14.95
Review Brock Chisholm: Doctor to the World (Canadian Medical Lives) / Fitzhenry and Whiteside:Brock Chisholm (1896-1971), born in Oakville, Ontario and trained in medicine and psychiatry, rose to international prominence as the first Director-General of the World Health Organization. When he accepted this position in 1948 he assumed responsibility for the largest practice any doctor had ever had, over 3 billion people. A few years earlier in 1945 Canadians had been rocked when Chisholm declared that children should not be taught thought-crippling myths such as a belief in Santa Claus. National howls of outrage followed, particularly since at the time he was Canada's Deputy Minister of Health and his statements were seen as inappropriate for a high ranking civil servant. The Santa Claus uproar cemented his reputation for creating a hubbub almost every time he spoke publicly - and there were many such occasions. He was once called "Canada's most famously articulate angry man. " During the two decades following the Second World War, Chisholm was one of the most controversial figures in Canada. Newspaper editorials either reviled him or praised his attitudes as those of an enlightened modern humanist. Chisholm had many careers: medical doctor, psychiatrist, soldier, military administrator, civil servant, world health pioneer, peace activist, and environmentalist. His contemporaries honoured him for his enormous contributions to world health although subsequent generations have lost sight of his significance. [+]This biography recognizes his deserved place in Canadian history.
Publication date: 1998-01-13
Dewey code: 355.0096209034
List Price: $140.00
Price: $120.07
Review All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, his Army and the Making of Modern Egypt (Cambridge Middle East Studies) / Cambridge University Press:Khaled Fahmy offers a new interpretation of modern Egyptian history and the rise of Egyptian nationalism in a theoretically informed study. Basing his work on previously neglected archival material, the author demonstrates how Mehmed Ali built up the Egyptian army to further his own ambitions rather than as a means of gaining Egyptian independence. In this way, the book challenges traditionally held views about early nineteenth-century Egypt and the role of Mehmed Ali as the founder of modern Egypt. The book will be essential reading for students of the Middle East, Ottomanists, military historians and those interested in the construction of the modern nation state.
Creator: Peter Kirkpatrick
Publication date: 1998-10
Dewey code: 828.91209
List Price: $29.95
Price: $247.31
Review The Queen of Bohemia: The Autobiography of Dulcie Deamer / University of Queensland Pr (Australia):
Creator: Russell W. Burns
Publication date: 1999-12-16
Dewey code: 621.3092
List Price: $95.00
Price: $89.59
Review The Life and Times of A D Blumlein (Iee History of Technology Series, 24) / INSPEC, Inc.:Burns, a physicist retired to a second career in the history of electrical engineering, presents the second biography of Blumlein (1903-42) this year. He describes how the British electronics engineer contributed enormously to the fields of telephony and electrical measurements, monophonic and stereophonic recording and reproduction, high definition television, electronics, antennas and cables, and radar systems of various types. Because the policy of the company he worked for discouraged publishing, only two learned society papers exist, there is no collection of personal letters, and most his friends and coworkers are dead, Burns has had to draw heavily on the 128 patents granted him between 1927 and 1942, but relegates the technical material to chapter-end notes for the sake of those who just want a good story.
Publication date: 1982-06
Dewey code: 355
List Price: $102.00
Price: $102.00
Review Admiral Von Hipper: The Inconvenient Hero / Br Gruner Pub Co:
Creator: Gillian Holmes
Edition: 21st
Publication date: 2001-03-09
Dewey code: 650
List Price: $192.95
Price: $192.95
Review Who's Who in Canadian Business 2001 (Who's Who in Canadian Business) / University of Toronto Press:Who's Who in Canadian Business, now in its 21st year, is a comprehensive and independent guide to Canada's business elite. Listing over 5,000 corporate and entrepreneurial leaders, each with a detailed biography and contact information, this directory is an excellent resource for anyone needing information on Canada's business world. Biographies include such information as current employment, address, education, career history, publications, favourite charities, and honours. Those listed are included because of the positions they hold in Canadian business and industry, or because of the contributions they have made to business in Canada. The directory is updated annually; new and updated biographies are marked for easy reference. All biographies are indexed by company name. Included in this edition is the PROFIT 100 / Next 100 listing of Canada's fastest-growing companies, as well as a list of professional associations, each with full address, contact names, and a brief description.
Publication date: 1974-06
Dewey code: 940.547247
Price: $29.75
Review World Apart / Greenwood Pub Group:In 1940, Gustav Herling was arrested after he joined an underground Polish army that fell into Russian hands. He was sent to a northern Russian labour camp, where he spent the two most horrible years of his life. In this book, he tells of the people he was imprisoned with, the hardships they endured, and the indomitable spirit and will that allowed them to survive. Above all, he creates a portrait of how people - deprived of food, clothing, proper medical care, and forced to work at hard labour - can come together to form a community that offers hope in the face of hopelessness, that offers life when even the living have no life left.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-12-16
Dewey code: 945.091092
List Price: $90.00
Price: $89.64
Review Mussolini (Routledge Historical Biographies) / Routledge:Was Mussolini really the power-crazed cynic that many see him as? Was he a true revolutionary? Both ruthless and opportunistic, Benito Mussolini was driven by ideology and his desire to make Italy great. But conservative forces in the Italian establishment and factional warfare in his own Fascist party were stumbling blocks to his policy, and ultimately Italy never became as fascist as Mussolini would have liked. Peter Neville presents a new assessment of the life and times of the famous leader. This study places the fascist movement in its historical context and assesses its theoretical base. He examines the formative influence of the young Mussolini, his turn away from socialism by 1914, his regime and foreign policy as a leader, and his historical legacy. Clear and engaging, this survey is key to the understanding of one of the most fascinating of twentieth-century European dictators.
Publication date: 1994-07-28
Dewey code: 952.03092
List Price: $40.00
Price: $89.95
Review The Autobiography of Shibusawa Eiichi: From Peasant to Entrepreneur / University of Tokyo Press:
Publication date: 2005-10-31
Dewey code: 818.5209
List Price: $110.00
Price: $107.06
Review Ella Hepworth Dixon: The Story of a Modern Woman (Nineteenth Century Series) / Ashgate Publishing:In a career that spanned over forty years, Elia Hepworth Dixon (1857-1932) was alternately journalist, critic, essayist, short story writer, novelist, editor of a women's magazine, dramatist, and autobiographer. After an initial popularity, however, Ella Hepworth Dixon's work, like that of the majority of her contemporaries, remained largely unread for decades. In her new study, Valerie Fehlbaum sheds light on Dixon's life and work, and provides profound insight not only into Dixon herself but into the multifaceted character of the 'New Woman' writer that Dixon typified. The figure of the New Woman as representing new-found intellectual, social, and political freedom came to the fore towards the end of the nineteenth century when the term 'woman' was being interrogated on every imaginable level. In heated debates about woman's nature, primary questions such as 'what is a woman?' and 'what does a woman want?' were accompanied by subsidiary controversies about the precise role she should play in society. Fehlbaum's re-evaluation of Dixon's varied literary output enhances our understanding of this period of radical change for women, and shows that Ella Hepworth Dixon's writing remains as lively and pertinent today as it was when it was first published.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-02-15
Dewey code: 818.309
List Price: $95.00
Price: $89.17
Review The Marketing of Edgar Allan Poe (Studies in American Popular History and Culture) / Routledge:Edgar Allan Poe is today considered one of the greatest masters and most fascinating figures of the American literary world. However, an examination of Poe's essays and criticism throughout his prose publishing career (1831-1849) reveals that the author himself played a vital role in the creation and manipulation of his own reputation. During his twenties and thirties, Poe promoted his writing to magazine editors in the United States and in Europe through several strategies. He painted a Romantic and patriotic self-portrait in his fiery literary reviews, even as he played up his own connections, both real and imaginary, to literary celebrities including Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, George Gordon Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Through recycling plots, atmosphere, and language (including his own) from American and British magazines, he built stories and essays which were linked in a complex network of references to each other and their author. Teachers and studentsalike will enjoy this single-volume treatment of Poe's self-promotional tales and criticism.
Publication date: 2008-12-15
Dewey code: 609
List Price: $89.95
Price: $89.95
Review Nathan Zuntz: His Life and Work in the Fields of High Altitude Physiology and Aviation Medicine / Academic Press:This book focuses on the life and work of Nathan Zuntz (1847-1920), a German physiologist, who made significant contributions to high altitude physiology and aviation medicine. * Focuses on Zuntz's contribution to high altitude physiology and aviation medicine* Discusses high altitude physiology and aviation.
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The Global Journalist: News People Around the World (Iamcr Book Series), The Memoirs of General the Baron De Marbot, Willy Brandt: A Political Biography (St. Antony's), Yukichi Fukuzawa, 1835-1901: The Spirit of Enterprise in Modern Japan, Not Much of an Engineer: An Autobiography/R 12, The Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton, The Roswell Legacy, An Autobiography and Personal Philosophy of a Retired Physician (Mellen Lives, No 7), Brock Chisholm: Doctor to the World (Canadian Medical Lives), All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, his Army and the Making of Modern Egypt (Cambridge Middle East Studies), The Queen of Bohemia: The Autobiography of Dulcie Deamer, The Life and Times of A D Blumlein (Iee History of Technology Series, 24), Admiral Von Hipper: The Inconvenient Hero, Who's Who in Canadian Business 2001 (Who's Who in Canadian Business), World Apart, Mussolini (Routledge Historical Biographies), The Autobiography of Shibusawa Eiichi: From Peasant to Entrepreneur, Ella Hepworth Dixon: The Story of a Modern Woman (Nineteenth Century Series), The Marketing of Edgar Allan Poe (Studies in American Popular History and Culture), Nathan Zuntz: His Life and Work in the Fields of High Altitude Physiology and Aviation MedicineTop headlines: Michigan shocks No. 4 UCLA: ›04:45 Did asteroid cause ancient N.Y. tsunami?: Long before New York City was the Big Apple, or even New Amsterdam, a giant tsunami crashed ashore. 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