Publication date: 2009-01-10
Dewey code: 920
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Review CHEMISTRY WAS THEIR LIFE: Pioneering British Women Chemists, 1880-1950 / Imperial College Press:British chemistry has traditionally been depicted as a solely male endeavor. However, this perspective is untrue: the allure of chemistry has attracted women since the earliest times. Despite the barriers placed in their path, women studied academic chemistry from the 1880s onwards and made interesting or significant contributions to their fields, yet they are virtually absent from historical records. Comprising a unique set of biographies of 100 of the 900 known women chemists from 1880 to 1949, this work attempts to address the imbalance by showcasing the determination of these women to survive and flourish in an environment dominated by men. Individual biographical accounts interspersed with contemporary quotes describe how women overcame the barriers of secondary and tertiary education, and of admission to professional societies. Although these women are lost to historical records, they are brought together here for the first time to show that a vibrant culture of female chemists did indeed exist in Britain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Creator: Stephen Kalberg
Publication date: 2005-02-18
Dewey code: 301.092
List Price: $109.95
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Review Max Weber: Readings And Commentary On Modernity (Modernity and Society) / Wiley-Blackwell:More than 80 years after his death, Max Weber and his sociology continue to fuel intense interest, controversy, and debate. This unique volume gathers Weber’s writings on a broad array of themes, from the nature of work, to the political culture of democracy, to the uniqueness of the West, to the character of the family and race relations, to the role of science and the fate of ethical action in the modern world. One central aspect of the Weberian legacy – the questions of "How do we live?" and "How can we live in the industrial society?" – has been rejuvenated here as a pivotal theme that makes Weber even more accessible to current and future generations. Organized by topic, Max Weber includes numerous readings from contemporary sociologists that demonstrate how Weber’s ideas have influenced recent scholarship. Editorial introductions and further reading lists help to place Weber in the history of ideas and sociological theory. Students, scholars, and all interested in Weber's views on the modern world will want this insightful and outstanding collection.
Creator: Daniel Balestrini
Publication date: 2008-05-15
Dewey code: 370.92
List Price: $120.00
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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.
Publication date: 1997-06
Dewey code: 370.922
List Price: $119.95
Price: $82.06
Review Oral Life Histories of One-Room Schoolhouse Teachers: Voices from the Recitation Bench / Edwin Mellen Press:
Publication date: 1998-07
Dewey code: 300
Price: $40.50
Review Freud and Modern Society: An Outline and Analysis of Freud's Sociology (Open University Set Book) / Chapman & Hall:
Publication date: 1983-07-29
Dewey code: 945.31
List Price: $69.95
Price: $117.58
Review Paolo Sarpi: Between Renaissance and Enlightenment / Cambridge University Press:Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623) is remembered as the defender of Venice against the Papal Interdict of 1606 and as the first, and greatest, historian of the Counter-Reformation. The sources of his undoubted hostility to clerical authority have always been a matter of controversy; many contemporaries claimed that Sarpi was an 'atheist', while to others his anticlericalism suggested that he was in secret a Protestant. In the present book David Wootton argues that Sarpi's public opinions must be assessed in the light of the views expressed in his private papers. Starting from the Pensiere, in which Sarpi formulated a series of philosophical and historical arguments against Christianity, Mr Wootton seeks to reinterpret Sarpi's life work as being the expression, not of a love of intellectual liberty, nor of a commitment to Protestantism, but of a carefully thought out hostility to doctrinal religion. This interpretation of Sarpi serves to cast new light on the man and his work. But it also throws new light on the intellectual history of his age. Historians such as Lucien Febvre and R. H. Popkin have sought to deny the existence of systematic unbelief in Sarpi's day. Others, such as Christopher Hill and Carlo Ginzburg, have found evidence of a radical, popular tradition of unbelief. [+]This book seeks, through its account of Sarpi's beliefs, to penetrate the hypocrisy which contemporaries agreed characterised the age, and to lay the foundations for a new understanding of the intellectual origins of unbelief.
Publication date: 2006-02-28
Dewey code: 609
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Review Paul Faber, Surgeon / IndyPublish.com:The rector sat on the box of his carriage driving his horses toward his church the grand old abbey-church of Glaston. His wife was inside and an old woman¿he had stopped on the road to take her up¿sat with her basket on the foot-board behind. His coachman sat beside him; he never took the reins when his master was there. Mr. Bevis drove like a gentleman in an easy informal yet thoroughly business-like way.
Publication date: 2002-05
Dewey code: 370
List Price: $92.99
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Review Historical Lecturers and Essays / IndyPublish.com:
Publication date: 1995-05-26
Dewey code: 340.092
List Price: $110.00
Price: $103.42
Review Sir Matthew Hale, 1609-1676: Law, Religion and Natural Philosophy (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) / Cambridge University Press:Sir Matthew Hale (1609-76) was the best-known judge of the Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell, but he nonetheless rose to be Lord Chief Justice under King Charles II. His constitutional ideas are of interest both to lawyers and to historians of political thought; but he also wrote extensively on scientific and religious questions, in ways that illustrate the birth of early Enlightenment attitudes to both. This book surveys all aspects of Hale's work, and supplies fresh perspectives on revolutionary developments in science and religion, as well as politics.
Publication date: 1998-05-30
Dewey code: 940.5423092
List Price: $91.95
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Review Darlan: Admiral and Statesman of France, 1881-1942 / Praeger Publishers:Admiral Jean Francois Darlan's Western legacy is that of an opportunist, a fascist collaborator, or, at worst, a traitor during France's struggle for survival in the early years of World War II. This study, however, based upon new research from French, English, and German archival sources, paints a different picture. With a career beginning during the height of France's imperial power and lasting until the nation's rapid wartime decline, Darlan was a pragmatic statesman, a guardian of naval preparedness, a stout opponent of fascism, an earnest patron of the Anglo-French Alliance, and an advocate of combined naval power in the Mediterranean. He defended French naval and colonial interests against all foreign powers before and during the war, and his success in this area eventually resulted in his assassination. Darlan's career was characterized by his loyal service to his government and nation. One of the first to recognize the German threat, he openly favored naval rearmament in the early 1930s. He was also instrumental in the success of the 1937 Nyon Conference on Mediterranean security, which was the only prewar military effort against fascist aggression. During the occupation, Darlan pursued diplomacy to ease the burdens of the French people. Yet, these very negotiations with the Germans, along with his bitter reaction to Britain's surprise attack against the French fleet at Mers el-Kebir, would result in his reputation as an opportunist and a collaborator with the fascists. This examination of the man whose murder would ease the way for Charles de Gaulle will captivate anyone interested in the political intrigues of World War II.
Publication date: 1976-01-20
List Price: $96.95
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Review Autobiography / Greenwood Press Reprint:"Autobiography" was first published in 1947 and was described by J. B. Priestley as 'one of the best pieces of writing that ever found a way to our Book Society. He is a writer who has learned how to write and the result is glorious. ' Sir Neville Cardus is best remembered as a writer on both cricket and music and during his lifetime achieved an unparalleled reputation as one of England's greatest journalists on these two very different subjects. Born in Rusholme in Manchester Cardus carved out an international reputation for himself by his own ability, efforts and imagination and created, as his biographer Christopher Brookes put it, 'a beguiling personal legend in the course of a career which extended over fifty years. ' 'This is a very, very good book. Cricket and music - how he makes both these worlds pulsate, life comic as well as life magnificent' - Robert Lynd. 'A superb work by a master of English' - Wilfred Pickles.
Publication date: 2008-05-15
Dewey code: 370.1
List Price: $144.00
Price: $84.00
Review Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Continuum Library of Educational Thought) / Continuum:Jean-Jacques Rousseau is indisputably a major thinker in education. Jurgen Oelkers' volume offers the most coherent account of Rousseau's educational thought. This work is divided into: Intellectual biography; Critical exposition of Rousseau's work; The reception and influence of Rousseau's; 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: Gosta Ekspong
Edition: 2001-2005
Publication date: 2008-06-30
Dewey code: 530
List Price: $88.00
Price: $84.00
Review Nobel Lectures In Physics 2001-2005 (Nobel Lectures) / World Scientific Publishing Company:This volume is a collection of the Nobel lectures delivered by the prizewinners, together with their biographies and the presentation speeches for the period 2001 2005. Each Nobel lecture is based on the work for which the laureate was awarded the prize. This volume of inspiring lectures by outstanding physicists should be on the bookshelf of every keen student, teacher and professor of physics as well as of those in related fields. Below is a list of the prizewinners during the period 2001 2005 with a description of the works which won them their prizes. (2001) Eric A Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle & Carl E Wieman - for the achievement of Bose Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates; (2002) Raymond Davis Jr, Masatoshi Koshiba - for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos & Riccardo Giacconi - for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources; (2003) Alexei A Abrikosov, Vitaly L Ginzburg & Anthony J Leggett - for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids; (2004) David J Gross, H David Politzer & Frank Wilczek - for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction; (2005) Roy J Glauber, John L Hall & Theodor W Hänsch - for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique.
Creator: John K. Whitaker
Publication date: 1996-01-26
Dewey code: 330.157
List Price: $130.00
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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.
Publication date: 2008-05
Dewey code: 070.92
List Price: $119.95
Price: $82.00
Review The Political Life of a German Journalist, 1911-1948: A Personal Account / Edwin Mellen Press:Offers an account of modern German cultural history.
Publication date: 2004-09
Dewey code: 920
Price: $14.95
Review Next to Hughes / New Millennium Press:Howard Hughes's right-hand man reveals how he helped the enigmatic billionaire break the mafia's stranglehold on Las Vegas and arrange the covert relationship between the CIA and mob that led to the Bay of Pigs invasion. Reprint.
Publication date: 2007-04-12
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Review The Judge / IndyPublish:It was not because life was not good enough that Ellen Melville was crying as she sat by the window.
Publication date: 1985-12
Price: $15.95
Review Sri Aurobindo on Himself / Auromere Books:This material has been compiled and presented in a systematic arrangement in part one of this volume. This has been done with the specific intention of providing authentic information about Sri Aurobindo's life so as to leave no room for anyone to make doubtful or misleading statements about him. This has become particularly necessary in view of the fact that many of the books and articles that have been published about him are, even when written by well-intentioned persons, often inaccurate in their facts and misguiding in their interpretations.
Publication date: 1999-09
Dewey code: 973.785092
List Price: $40.00
Price: $82.15
Review Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse and Spy: A Woman's Adventures in the Union Army / Northern Illinois University Press:Among the hundreds of women who, in disguise, enlisted to serve as men in the Union army, only Sarah Edmonds is known to have written a memoir recounting her experiences. As "Franklin Thompson" she joined the 2nd Michigan Infantry Regiment in 1861, then fought in and witnessed some of the bloodiest struggles of the Civil War - from Blackburn's Ford and First Bull Run, through the Peninsula campaign with McClellan's Army of the Potomac, the battle of Fredericksburg, and then to the Kentucky campaign in 1863. When need arose, this woman embarked upon dangerous missions into Confederate territory to gather information and to survey enemy positions, sometimes in the guise of an Irish washerwoman or slave. As an infantry soldier and "male nurse", Sarah Edmonds chronicles the horrors of Civil War hospitals and the simple pastimes of camp life. Throughout her memoirs, this storyteller reveals her courage, dedication to the Union, and resourcefulness in sustaining her complicated masquerade.
Authors
- Steven Ruskin
- John F. W. Herschel
Dewey code: 520.92
List Price: $120.00
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Review John Herschel's Cape Voyage: Private Science, Public Imagination and the Ambitions of Empire (Science, Technology, and Culture, 1700-1945) / Ashgate Publishing:Demonstrates the reason for Herschel's renown was due to the notion that his voyage was aligned with imperial ambition. It is the purpose of this book to make a case for the scientific, cultural and political singificance of his voyage and observations, as a means of demonstrating the relationship of science to imperial culture.
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