Publication date: 1997-06
Dewey code: 370.922
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Review Oral Life Histories of One-Room Schoolhouse Teachers: Voices from the Recitation Bench / Edwin Mellen Press:
Creator: Michael Jones
Publication date: 2004-11
Dewey code: 944.025092
List Price: $130.00
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Review Letters, Orders and Musters of Bertrand du Guesclin, 1357-1380 / Boydell Press:Bertrand du Guesclin (d. 1380) was the most famous French soldier of his generation. He made his name as a guerrilla leader in the Breton War of Succession (1341-64) and, as Constable from 1370-80, played a major role in the recovery of France under Charles V. Captured on at least three occasions, but also victorious in several important battles, his valour and dominant personality allowed him to exercise remarkable influence over fellow soldiers, many of whom loyally served him for many years. He twice led important expeditions to Spain where he was rewarded with lands and titles by the kings of Aragon and Castile. The subject of a contemporary chivalric verse-life that lies at the base of all subsequent biographies, this book brings together for the first time the wealth of archival evidence relating to his outstanding career. It places this on a secure foundation by making available the full range of diplomatic, administrative and financial evidence for his p! ublic and private life found in more than fifty archives in western Europe. It offers a corrective to views on Du Guesclin that have traditionally been derived too exclusively and, often, uncritically from literary sources.
Authors
- Anita P. Davis
- Katharine S. Preston
Dewey code: 609
Price: $14.95
Review Discoveries: Significant Contributions of Deaf Women and Men / Butte Publications:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-12-01
Dewey code: 301.092
List Price: $130.00
Price: $108.15
Review Caroline Bartlett Crane and Progressive Reform: Social Housekeeping As Sociology (Garland Reference Library of Social Science) / Routledge:Popularly known as "America's Housekeeper" for her social work and as a pioneer for women's inclusion in public affairs, Caroline Bartlett Crane (1858-1935) was active in many aspects of Progressive Era social reform. This volume, written by a sociologist whose background is not provided, analyzes the relationship between that era of reform and the origins of American sociology with a view to women's contributions in these endeavors.
Publication date: 1995-01
Dewey code: 973.9092
Price: $14.95
Review The Soul School: Confessions of a Passenger on Planet Earth / Fithian Pr:
Creator: Rob Stones
Edition: Second Edition
Publication date: 2007-11-27
Dewey code: 301.0922
List Price: $99.95
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Review Key Sociological Thinkers: Second Edition / Palgrave Macmillan:This second edition of a popular and successful text offers an easily understood introduction to the theorists who have made a key contribution to the discipline of sociology. Its carefully formulated structure places the writers' passions in their social and intellectual context, summarises the central issues dealt with in their work and sketches out the intellectual legacy they have left behind them. With four new chapters on Theodor Adorno, Michael Mann, Dorothy Smith and Zygmunt Bauman, in addition to updated references and substantial new contextual material analysing the legacies of the theorists covered, this new edition has much to offer for students seeking to broaden their understanding of social theory.
Publication date: 2007-03-29
Dewey code: 956.053
List Price: $85.00
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Review Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: The Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience / Pluto Press:The tragedies of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians are never far from the pages of the mainstream press. Yet it is rare to hear about the reality of life on the ground, and it is rarer still when these voices belong to women. This book records the intimate journey of a Jewish-American physician travelling and working within Israel and the Occupied Territories. Alice Rothchild grew up in a family grounded by the traumas of the Holocaust and passionately devoted to Israel. This book recounts her experiences as she grapples with the reality of life in Israel, the complexity of Jewish Israeli attitudes, and the hardships of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza. Through her work with a medical and human rights project, Rothchild is able to offer a unique personal insight into the conflict. Based on interviews with a number of different women, she examines their diverse perspectives and the complexities of Jewish Israeli identity. Rothchild's memorable account brings to life the voices of people mutually entwined in trauma, and explores individual examples of resilience and resistance. Ultimately, the book raises troubling questions regarding U. S. [+]policy and the insistence of the mainstream Jewish community on giving unquestioning support to all Israeli policy. Alice Rothchild, M. D. , serves on the steering committee of Jewish Voice for Peace, Boston. She has worked with medical delegations to Israel and the Occupied Territories with the JVP Health and Human Rights Project. A Boston-based physician, she has sought to build alliances between Israelis and Palestinians in opposition to Israeli policies of occupation and to promote a more honest dialogue within the Jewish community in the United States. Visit the author's website at www. brokenpromisesbrokendreams. com.
Creator: Seymour Chatman
Publication date: 1996-07-26
Dewey code: 332.6092
Price: $27.95
Review Benjamin Graham: The Memoirs of the Dean of Wall Street / Mcgraw-Hill:When Benjamin Graham died at 82, he was one of the great legends of Wall Street: brilliant, succesful, ethical-the man who invented the discipline of security analysis. Time has only enhanced his reputation, with disciples such as billionaire investor Warren Buffet's continuing to praise Graham and crediting his work in their own successes. Now, 20 years after his death, his memoirs are reaching the public at last. Graham's story is a hugely satisfying chronicle of one of the richest and most eventful lives of the century. Here is a life that will captivate Wall Streeters and history buffs alike. Graham recounts his immigrant childhood in old New York-his excellent education in the city's public schools and on scholarship at Columbia University-the first crucial deal in his professional life-the devastating effects of the Crash of '29-and the tactics that helped him and his clients survive the Depression. Graham's fascinating account also encompasses his bold efforts at currency reform-his involvement with such towering figures as FDR, Churchill, Eisenhower, and Baruch-and looks at how success took its toll on his marriage and family life.
Publication date: 2006-08-01
Dewey code: 630.92
List Price: $24.95
Price: $428.73
Review The Man Who Fed the World: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug and His Battle to End World Hunger / Durban House:The Man Who Fed the World provides a loving and respectful portrait of one of America's greatest heroes. Nobel Peace Prize recipient for averting hunger and famine, Dr. Norman Borlang is credited with saving hundreds of millions of lives from starvation-more than any other person in history? Loved by millions around the world, Dr. Borlang is recognized as one of the most influential men of the twentieth century.
Creator: Elizabeth M. Berkeley
Edition: 0
Publication date: 2001-03
Dewey code: 109
List Price: $90.00
Price: $84.85
Review The Correspondence of William James: Volume 9, July 1899-1901 / University of Virginia Press:This ninth volume of a projected twelve continues the series of William James's correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues that was begun in volume 4. Consisting of some 470 letters, with as many more calendared, it offers a complete accounting of James's known correspondence from July 1899 through 1901. Volume 9 covers the period of James's great collapse, of his years of exile in Europe in search of health, and of the beginning of his withdrawal from full-time teaching at Harvard. In spite of his heart troubles, nervous prostration, and often-proclaimed inability to work, James wrote and successfully delivered his Gifford Lectures, which in 1902 were published as The Varieties of Religious Experience, probably his most widely read work. In Europe, James develops a profound ambivalence toward America. He comes to realize how strong his attachment is to his home, but at the same time he becomes more and more dismayed by the emergence of the United States as an imperial power with the consequent loss of what he perceives to be his country's moral purity. James's views on religion are expressed in various fragments and asides. While creeds and churches continue to make no claims upon him, he believes that religious experience places us in touch with a deeper stratum of reality. Because of his intimate association during these months with the dying Frederic Myers, problems of psychical research are also prominent. He corresponds with leading women in the emerging field of social work, including Frances Morse, Elizabeth Evans, and the Goldmark sisters, Pauline and Susan, and prominent intellectuals such as Theodore Flournoy, Wincenty Lutoslawski, Carl Stumpf, FerdinandSchiller, Henry Sidgwick, Hugo Munsterberg, Josiah Royce, George Herbert Palmer, Charles William Eliot, James Mark Baldwin, and Edwin Godkin. [+]His daughter, Margaret Mary, and his youngest son, Alexander Robertson, receive fatherly advice and encouragement from a distance during the crucial years of their young lives.
Publication date: 1999-01-13
Dewey code: 540.92
List Price: $110.00
Price: $89.00
Review Walther Nernst and the Transition to Modern Physical Science / Cambridge University Press:One of Germany's most important, productive and often controversial scientists, Walther H. Nernst (1864-1941) was at once the first "modern" physical chemist, an able scientific organizer and a savvy entrepreneur. The winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Nernst was a key figure in the transition to modern physical science with his contributions to the study of solutions, of chemical equilibria, and of the behavior of matter at the extremes of the temperature range. This volume provides a scientific biography of the man who was a director of major research institutes, the rector of the Berlin University, and the inventor of a new electric lamp. It also addresses the work of many prominent scientists, such as Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Wilhelm Ostwald and Svante Arrhenius. A wealth of new archival material and recent scholarship reveals how Nernst's career exemplified the increasing connection between the German technical industry and academic science, between theory and experiment, between concepts and practice, providing a rich portrait of the history of science in the period preceding the Second World War. This book also details a set of specific scientific problems that evolved at the intersection of physics, chemistry and technology during one of the most revolutionary periods of modern physical science.
Publication date: 2006-12-22
Dewey code: 181.6
List Price: $125.00
Price: $95.56
Review Al-Kindi (Great Medieval Thinkers) / Oxford University Press, USA:Al-Kindi was the first philosopher of the Islamic world. He lived in Iraq and studied in Baghdad, where he became attached to the caliphal court. In due course he would become an important figure at court: a tutor to the caliph's son, and a central figure in the translation movement of the ninth century, which rendered much of Greek philosophy, science, and medicine into Arabic. Al-Kindi's wide-ranging intellectual interests included not only philosophy but also music, astronomy, mathematics, and medicine. Through deep engagement with Greek tradition al-Kindi developed original theories on key issues in the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, physical science, and ethics. He is especially known for his arguments against the world's eternity, and his innovative use of Greek ideas to explore the idea of God's unity and transcendence. Despite al-Kindi's historical and philosophical importance no book has presented a complete, in-depth look at his thought until now. In this accessible introduction to al-Kindi's works, Peter Adamson surveys what is known of his life and examines his method and his attitude towards the Greek tradition, as well as his subtle relationship with the Muslim intellectual culture of his day. Above all the book focuses on explaining and evaluating the ideas found in al-Kindi's wide-ranging philosophical corpus, including works devoted to science and mathematics. Throughout, Adamson writes in language that is both serious and engaging, academic and approachable. [+]This book will be of interest to experts in the field, but it requires no knowledge of Greek or Arabic, and is also aimed at non-experts who are simply interested in one of the greatest of Islamic philosophers.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1987-01-01
Dewey code: 302.3
List Price: $20.00
Price: $89.00
Review MODELS OF MAN (Continuity in Administrative Science. Ancestral Books in the Management of Organizations) / Facsimiles-Garl:
Creator: Melvin I. Urofsky
Publication date: 2006-06-01
Dewey code: 347.732634
List Price: $99.00
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Review Biographical Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court / CQ Press:Biographical Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court includes signed essays profiling the men and women who have served and are serving on the U. S. Supreme Court. This one-of-a-kind reference includes not only important biographical information, but also in-depth details of the legal contributions made by the men and women of the nation s highest bench. Keeping up with the recent changes to the Court, this volume includes all current justices. New essays profile Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito. Justices are arranged in an easy-to-use alphabetical format. Each essay is prefaced with key biographical information for each justice.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-04-25
Dewey code: 941.084092
List Price: $95.00
Price: $84.72
Review Churchill (Questions and Analysis in History) / Routledge:Examining the influential career of Winston Churchill, this new book discusses his career from Secretary of State for War and Air, to British Prime Minster during the Second World War and from 1951-55.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1993-07
Price: $9.00
Review Letters Home: Diary of a Green Beret / Aegina Press:
Creator: Daniel Balestrini
Publication date: 2008-05-15
Dewey code: 370.92
List Price: $120.00
Price: $84.64
Review Rudolf Steiner (Continuum Library of Educational Thought) / Continuum:Rudolf Steiner is indisputably a major thinker in education. Heiner Ullrich's volume offers the most coherent account of Steiner's educational thought. This work is divided into: Intellectual biography; Critical exposition of Steiner's work; The reception and influence of Steiner's work; and, The relevance of the work today. This is a major international reference series providing comprehensive accounts of the work of seminal educational thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions. It is the most ambitious and prestigious such project ever published - a definitive resource for at least a generation. The thinkers include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Bourdieu, Bruner, Dewey, Foucault, Freire, Holt, Kant, Locke, Montessori, Neill, Newman, Owen, Peters, Piaget, Plato, Rousseau, Steiner, Vygotsky, West and Wollstonecraft.
Creator: Society Of Nursing Professionals
Edition: 5th/Clssc
Publication date: 1993-03
List Price: $139.00
Price: $138.99
Review Who's Who in American Nursing 1993-1994 (Who's Who in American Nursing) / Marquis Who's Who:
Creator: Paul Wood
Publication date: 2003-01
Dewey code: 192
List Price: $113.00
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Review The Correspondence of Thomas Reid (Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid) / Pennsylvania State University Press:Thomas Reid (1710-1796) is now recognized as one of the towering figures of the Englightenment. Best known for his published writings on epistemology and moral theory, he was also an accomplished mathematician and natural philosopher, as an earlier volume of his manuscripts edited by Paul Wood for the Edinburgh Reid Edition, Thomas Reid on the Animate Creation, has shown. The Correspondence of Thomas Reid collects all of the known letters to and from Reid in a fully annotated form. Letters already published by Sir William Hamilton and others have been reedited, and roughly half of the letters included appear in print for the first time. Writing in 1802, Reid's disciple and biographer Dugald Stewart doubted that Reid's correspondence "would be generally interesting. " This collection proves otherwise, for the letters illuminate virtually every aspect of Reid's life and career and, in some instances, provide us with invaluable evidence about activities otherwise undocumented in his manuscripts or published works. Through his correspondence we can trace Reid's relations with contemporaries such as David Hume and his colleagues at both King's College, Aberdeen, and the University of Glasgow, as well as his engagement with the most controversial philosophical, scientific, and political issues of his day. If anything, the letters assembled here serve as the starting point for understanding Reid and his place in the Englightenment.
Creator: John K. Whitaker
Publication date: 1996-01-26
Dewey code: 330.157
List Price: $130.00
Price: $84.64
Review The Correspondence of Alfred Marshall, Economist / Cambridge University Press:This is the second of a three-volume work constituting a comprehensive, scholarly edition of the correspondence of the English economist, Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), one of the leading figures in the development of economics and the founder of the Cambridge School of Economics. The edition fills a long-standing gap in the history of economic thought with hitherto unpublished material. Students will find it a basic resource for understanding the development of economics and other social sciences in the period since 1870. In particular, it provides much new information about Marshall's views on economic, social and political issues, his struggles to promote the teaching of economics at the University of Cambridge, and his relations with colleagues in Cambridge and elsewhere. Marshall's letters are notable for their frankness and spontaneity.
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Ancestral Books in the Management of Organizations), Biographical Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court, Churchill (Questions and Analysis in History), Letters Home: Diary of a Green Beret, Rudolf Steiner (Continuum Library of Educational Thought), Who's Who in American Nursing 1993-1994 (Who's Who in American Nursing), The Correspondence of Thomas Reid (Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid), The Correspondence of Alfred Marshall, EconomistTop headlines: Why Democrats gave Big Three a reprieve: A look at the political reasoning behind the decision by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to give the Big Three auto makers another shot at a $25 billion loan. ›21:49 Where bottom of the market is isnt clear: Economists, money managers and traders who watch the markets closely say you can't assume previous bear market measures mean much. ›23:50 Glazer has details on Ocho Cinco suspension: Tonight's Bengals-Steelers game (LIVE) didn't have much drama attached. 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