Authors
- Office of the Home Secretary
- National Academy of Sciences
Dewey code: 509
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Review Biographical Memoirs: V.74 (Biographical Memoirs: A Series) / National Academies Press:A series of volumes containing the life histories and work of our most distinguished leaders in the sciences , as witnessed and interpreted by their colleagues and peers.
Authors
- Lauralee Hill Clayton
- Wiltshire Clark Clayton
Dewey code: 940.48173092
Price: $79.35
Review Front Lines The World War I Memoirs of Capt. Wiltshire Clark Clayton / Penobscot Press:
Publication date: 2005-10-14
Dewey code: 371.01097526
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Review Education As My Agenda: Gertrude Williams, Race, and the Baltimore Public Schools (Palgrave Studies in Oral History) / Palgrave Macmillan:When Gertrude Williams retired in 1998, after forty-nine years in the Baltimore public schools, The Baltimore Sun called her "the most powerful of principals" who "tangled with two superintendents and beat them both. " In this oral memoir, Williams identifies the essential elements of sound education and describes the battles she waged to secure those elements, first as teacher, then a counselor, and, for twenty-five years, as principal. She also described her own education - growing up black in largely white Germantown, Pennsylvania; studying black history and culture for the first time at Cheyney State Teachers College; and meeting the rigorous demands of the program which she graduated from in 1949. In retracing her career, Williams examines the highs and lows of urban public education since World War II. She is at once an outspoken critic and spirited advocate of the system to which she devoted her life.
Publication date: 1998-02
Dewey code: 355
List Price: $70.00
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Review Cockburn and the British Navy in Transition: Admiral Sir George Cockburn, 1772-1853 (Exeter Maritime Studies) / University of Exeter Press:How one British admiral changed the course of naval history.
Publication date: 2007-09-15
Dewey code: 509
List Price: $99.00
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Review Recreating Newton: Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century) / Pickering & Chatto Publishers:Higgitt examines Isaac Newton's changing legacy during the nineteenth century. She focuses on 1820-70, a period that saw the creation of the specialized and secularized role of the 'scientist'. At the same time, researchers gained better access to Newton's archives. These were used both by those who wished to undermine the traditional, idealised depiction of scientific genius and those who felt obliged to defend Newtonian hagiography. Higgitt shows how debates about Newton's character stimulated historical scholarship and led to the development of a new expertise in the history of science.
Creator: George Guidall
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-05-17
Dewey code: 520.92
List Price: $39.95
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Review Galileo's Daughter / Random House Audio:Galileo Galilei was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left Italy, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world. His telescopes allowed him to reveal the heavens and enforce the astounding argument that the earth moves around the sun. For this belief, he was brought before the Holy Office of the Inquisition, accused of heresy, and forced to spend his last years under house arrest. Galileo's oldest child was thirteen when he placed her in a convent near him in Florence, where she took the most appropriate name of Suor Maria Celeste. Her support was her father's greatest source of strength. Her presence, through letters which Sobel has translated from Italian and masterfully woven into the narrative, graces her father's life now as it did then. GALILEO'S DAUGHTER dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion. Moving between Galileo's public life and Maria Celeste's sequestered world, Sobel illuminates the Florence of the Medicis and the papal court in Rome during an era when humanity's perception of its place in the cosmos was overturned. With all the human drama and scientific adventure that distinguished Latitude, GALILEO'S DAUGHTER is an unforgettable story. [+]Everyone knows that Galileo Galilei dropped cannonballs off the leaning tower of Pisa, developed the first reliable telescope, and was convicted by the Inquisition for holding a heretical belief-that the earth revolved around the sun. But did you know he had a daughter? In Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel (author of the bestselling Longitude) tells the story of the famous scientist and his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste. Sobel bases her book on 124 surviving letters to the scientist from the nun, whom Galileo described as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and tenderly attached to me. " Their loving correspondence revealed much about their world: the agonies of the bubonic plague, the hardships of monastic life, even Galileo's occasional forgetfulness ("The little basket, which I sent you recently with several pastries, is not mine, and therefore I wish you to return it to me"). While Galileo tangled with the Church, Maria Celeste-whose adopted name was a tribute to her father's fascination with the heavens-provided moral and emotional support with her frequent letters, approving of his work because she knew the depth of his faith. As Sobel notes, "It is difficult today. to see the Earth at the center of the Universe. Yet that is where Galileo found it. " With her fluid prose and graceful turn of phrase, Sobel breathes life into Galileo, his daughter, and the earth-centered world in which they lived. -Sunny Delaney.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-02-21
Dewey code: 306.85072
List Price: $95.00
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Review Pioneering Paths in the Study of Families: The Lives and Careers of Family Scholars / Routledge:
Publication date: 2002-02-28
Dewey code: 070.92
List Price: $98.95
Price: $79.16
Review The Controversialist: An Intellectual Life of Goldwin Smith / Praeger Publishers:Goldwin Smith (1823-1910) was a celebrated, transatlantic writer on current events, politics, religion, history, and literature. While he made his academic mark teaching at Oxford, Cornell, and later as a resident guru at Toronto, his facile pen earned him a far greater reputation with general readers throughout the English-speaking world. Determined to rouse concern over issues that he deemed to be important to the advancement of humanity, Smith was deemed the "controversialist" by the Dictionary of National Biography. A study of his life and his writings provides new insight into liberalism, anti-semitism, the role of the journalist, and other aspects of life in late 19th century North America and Britain. As a public intellectual, Goldwin Smith spoke out on a variety of issues, frequently provoking intense debate. Phillips argues that the core of Smith's thought and the driving force behind his role as a controversialist lay in his moral philosophy, which provided a sense of direction to Smith's many and sometimes disparate writings and activities. This study will also probe the serious dilemma posed by Smith's path to agnosticism in the last decades of his life. By moving to a position of virtual unbelief, Smith risked damage not only to his carefully-crafted public persona, but also to a life's work as an impassioned moralist.
Publication date: 2001-05
Dewey code: 330.092
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Review Veblen in Perspective: His Life and Thought (Studies in Institutional Economics) / M.E. Sharpe:This unique work combines an authoritative account of Veblen's life with a thoughtful appraisal of his interdisciplinary analysis of the origins, nature, and persistence of industrial capitalism. The book goes beyond the myth of Veblen's alleged marginality, and advances an original interpretation of his life's work, with special reference to his ethnicity and to evolutionism. In the process, the author considers the intellectual sources and impact of Veblen's critical social thought, and its continued relevance to understanding the economic and cultural dimensions of global capitalism.
Publication date: 2000-09
Dewey code: 355
Price: $14.95
Review Home From the War : Memoir of a "Walking Dead" Survivor / Writers Club Press:Home From The War gives a voice to Vietnam veterans. Thomas P. Evans was promoted to sergeant as a 19-year-old infantryman and put in charge of a 15-man mortar section. Just before his tour ended a mortar accident killed a Marine and dashed Evans' hopes of making the Marine Corps his career. When he returned home he wanted to put the war behind him and make something of himself. He describes the depression that first began when the My Lai story broke and eventually put him in the hospital. He explains the fear of fathering a child when he thought he might have been exposed to Agent Orange. He tells how he felt walking down the hallways of the Colt Firearms Company, knowing it produced a defective rifle that killed several Marines in his battalion. He documents his search for a wartime photo that led to a reunion with his Vietnam comrades. He describes a two-decade split with a friend who opposed the war. [+]And he writes of the letters his newspaper articles elicited from the loved ones of Marines killed years earlier. Evans does a great job of putting the reader inside the head of a Vietnam veteran.
Authors
- National Academy of Sciences
- Office of the Home Secretary
Dewey code: 509
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Review Biographical Memoirs: V.73 (Biographical Memoirs: A Series) / National Academies Press:
Creator: Sally Miedema
Publication date: 2005-09-26
Dewey code: 500.2092
List Price: $112.00
Price: $93.21
Review Huygens: The Man Behind the Principle / Cambridge University Press:This biography on Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) describes in detail how he arrived at discoveries and inventions often wrongly ascribed to Newton. The great seventeenth-century Dutch mathematician and physicist played a key role in the 'scientific revolution' and the Huygens Principle on the wave theory of light helped establish his reputation. Moreover, the discovery of Saturn's rings and the invention of the pendulum clock made him so famous that he was invited to be the first director of the French Academy of Science.
Creator: Inga Hedberg
Publication date: 2004-12-31
Dewey code: 509
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Review Contributions to Lichen Taxonomy & Biogeography: Dedicated to Leif Tibell (Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses 34:1) / Uppsala Universitet:This volume is a "Festschrift" in honor of Leif Tibell on the occasion of his 60th birthday on 16 November 2004. Leif has been a member of the staff at the Department of Systematic Botany, Uppsala University, for his entire professional career. It is therefore appropriate to present him with a volume of Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses, a serie published by the Department. The volume contains a considerable number of contributions by former students, friends and colleagues in different parts of the world. It is mainly focused on lichen taxonomy and biogeography, but also other aspects of lichenology that are relevant to Leif's own work are represented.
Publication date: 1995-01-28
Dewey code: 355.0092273
Price: $148.00
Review On the Trail of the Buffalo Soldier: Biographies of African Americans in the U.S. Army, 1866-1917 / The Scarecrow Press, Inc.:On the Trail of the Buffalo Soldier presents carefully documented biographical information on thousands of black servicemen, giving the researcher not only glimpses of individual lives but also documentation of the variety of African-American experiences within and outside the army.
Authors
- Sándor Ferenczi
- Sigmund Freud
Publication date: 2000-10-15
Dewey code: 150
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Review The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, Volume 3, 1920-1933 (Freud, Sigmund//Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi) / Belknap Press:This third and final volume of the correspondence between the founder of psychoanalysis and one of his most colorful disciples brings to a close Sándor Ferenczi's life and the story of one of the most important friendships in the history of psychoanalysis. This volume spans a turbulent period, beginning with the controversy over Otto Rank's The Trauma of Birth and continuing through Ferenczi's lectures in New York and his involvement in a bitter controversy with American analysts over the practice of lay analysis. On his return from America, Ferenczi's relationship with Freud deteriorated, as Freud became increasingly critical of his theoretical and clinical innovations. Their troubled friendship was further complicated by ill health-Freud's cancer of the jaw and the pernicious anemia that finally killed Ferenczi in 1933. The controversies between Freud and Ferenczi continue to this day, as psychoanalysts reassess Ferenczi's innovations, and increasingly challenge the allegations of mental illness leveled against him after his death by Freud and Ernest Jones. The correspondence, now published in its entirety, will deepen understanding of these issues and of the history of psychoanalysis as a whole.
Publication date: 2008-09-30
Dewey code: 509
List Price: $95.00
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Review Sir James Lighthill and Modern Fluid Mechanics / Imperial College Press:This is perhaps the first book containing biographical information of Sir James Lighthill and his major scientific contributions to the different areas of fluid mechanics, applied mathematics, aerodynamics, linear and nonlinear waves in fluids, geophysical fluid dynamics, biofluiddynamics, aeroelasticity, boundary layer theory, generalized functions, and Fourier series and integrals. Special effort is made to present Lighthill's scientific work in a simple and concise manner, and generally intelligible to readers who have some introduction to fluid mechanics. The book also includes a list of Lighthill's significant papers. By providing detailed background information and knowledge, sufficient to start interdisciplinary research, it is intended to serve as a ready reference guide for readers interested in advanced study and research in modern fluid mechanics.
Edition: Expanded
Publication date: 2007-01
Dewey code: 301.092
List Price: $99.95
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Review Science, Values and Politics in Max Weber's Methodology (Rethinking Classical Sociology) (Rethinking Classical Sociology) / Ashgate Publishing:First published in 1972, this book on Weber's methodological writings is today regarded as a modern classic in its field. In this new expanded edition, the author has revised and updated the original text, and translated the numerous German quotations into English. He has also added a new introduction, where he discusses major issues raised in the relevant secondary literature since 1972. The author traces the relationship between values and science in Max Weber's methodology of its central aspects: value freedom, value relation (Wertbeziehung), value analysis, the ideal type and the special problems which pertain to the sphere of politics. Weber's thought is presented and discussed on the basis of a meticulous analysis of all available, published or unpublished, original material. The book is indispensable for all serious Weber scholars and provides the general student with a clear, accessible and authoritative exposition of major aspects of Weber's methodology.
Publication date: 1989-11
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Review The Heart of Burroughs Journal/the Works of John Burroughs / Reprint Services Corporation:
Publication date: 2000-09
Dewey code: 920
Price: $102.11
Review Diary of William Mackenzie: The 1st International Railway Contractor / Thomas Telford Services Ltd:History has not been kind to the memory of William Mackenzie. While the names of Telford and Stephenson continue to be well known today, that of William Mackenzie, one of the most important figures in the engineering world during the first half of the nineteenth century, has slipped from prominence. The Institution of Civil Engineers has now published The Diary of William Mackenzie, a fascinating new book which presents a unique record of this important figure and also of the Victorian world in which he lived, affording new insights for economic, social and engineering historians. Mackenzie's remarkable career was based on the business of building railways and canals. He was at the forefront of the export of Britain's technical expertise, for the development of Europe's infrastructure.
Creator: Neil Schlager
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-10-22
Dewey code: 338.0922
List Price: $475.00
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Review International Directory of Business Biographies Edition 1. / St. James Press:As the modern business world continues to expand, today's business researchers are in search of a more global perspective. Unlike many other directories, this four-volume set contains in-depth biographical narratives on more than 600 figures, nearly half profiling individuals outside the U. S. In addition to examining the career paths, business achievements, leadership styles, business strategies and industry impact of Fortune 500 and Global 500 corporate leaders, the International Directory of Business Biographies also covers entrepreneurs and other notable businesspeople. Also includes 350 photos, four indexes and helpful in-depth bibliographies designed to facilitate further research.
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