Publication date: 1983-02-28
Dewey code: 509.24
Price: $54.95
Review The Mathematical Science of Christopher Wren / Cambridge University Press:Before he became a professional architect, Christopher Wren had a highly successful career as an astronomer - he was Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford University - and he was actively involved in many branches of the science or 'natural philosophy' of his day. This side of his career has, until now, been neglected by historians and biographers, and has been regarded as distinct and separate. This book contains the first detailed account of Wren's natural philosophy and, in addition, after showing that 'science' and 'architecture' were not then distinct in the way we understand them today, it presents a new perspective on Wren's architectural philosophy. The book will be of value to anyone interested in the history of science or of architecture.
Publication date: 1947
Review A short history of the Long-Islander: Founded by Walt Whitman 1838 / C.H. MacLachlan and C.J. McDermott:
Authors
- Scott A. Mills
- Victor L. Mapes
Dewey code: 940.5472522092
Price: $35.00
Review The Butchers, the Baker: The World War II Memoir of a United States Army Air Corps Soldier Captured by the Japanese in the Philippines / McFarland & Company:Twelve hours after Pearl Harbor, Clark Field in the Philippines was attacked by Japanese aircraft. Among the survivors was Private Victor L. Mapes, who spent the next three years fleeing from and then being imprisoned by the Japanese military machine. When the tide of battle in the Pacific turned against the Japanese, Mapes experienced more harrowing conditions than before. After his unmarked prison ship was torpedoed by an American submarine, the wounded author struggled in the water against the elements and the enemy, as the Japanese tried to kill the escaping POWs. Mapes' memoir chronicles a gruelling three-year ordeal that was punctuated by strange and often amusing encounters with fellow Americans, Japanese, Filipinos, and the fierce Moros of Mindanao Island. The memoir includes photographs and maps, as well as a bibliography and index.
Publication date: 1998-03-30
Dewey code: 940.3092
List Price: $119.95
Price: $121.17
Review Field Marshal Sir William Robertson: Chief of the Imperial General Staff in the Great War / Praeger Publishers:Sir William Robertson served as the professional head of the British army and as the constitutional military adviser to both Asquith and Lloyd George from December 1915 to February 1918. This account, based on many new sources, critically examines his leadership of the general staff as the burden of fighting the main body of the German army shifted to the British. This study sheds light on the origins and conduct of the Somme and Passchendaele offensives, and the efforts to coordinate the Allied war effort, especially the controversial effort to subordinate Haig to General Nivelle and the creation of the Supreme War Council with its inter-allied staff. The civil-military conflict over the conduct of the war, especially the growing divide between Robertson and Lloyd George, receives special attention. The previously unexplored tension between Robertson and Haig who formed the most important military partnership in British history is also examined. This account represents the untold story of the higher direction of the war in Britain.
Publication date: 2008-02-29
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $24.95
Price: $75.00
Review Northern Tigers: Building Ethical Canadian Corporate Champions / Key Porter Books:Northern Tigers: Building Ethical Canadian Corporate Champions is both a memoir by one of the most broadly experienced executives in Canadian business history and a personal manifesto from one of our most outspoken corporate leaders on the issues of business ethics and private philanthropy. Northern Tigers makes a compelling case for building great Canadian-run corporations that can compete in the international arena. But, he argues eloquently, they must be “great” not only in size and strength but also in their high ethical standards, good corporate governance, and in their open-hearted support of their communities in which they operate. In this book, co-written with veteran business author Paul Grescoe, Dick Haskayne filters all of his hard-won wisdom through the lens of his impressive life’s work.
Publication date: 1930
Review Fifty years on the Morning mercury, New Bedford, Mass: 1880-1930, a reminiscence / Reynolds Printing:
Publication date: 2008-07-28
Dewey code: 617.412059
List Price: $75.00
Price: $75.00
Review Pioneers of Cardiac Surgery / Vanderbilt University Press:Heart operations today are quite common and relatively low-risk, but in the beginning it was just the opposite. Cardiac operations were reserved for desperately ill patients. The author documents this dramatic transition with profiles of 38 surgeons, active between 1940 and 1985, who tell of the development of new techniques such as the "blue baby operation," the first heart-lung machine, the first artificial heart valve, and the first coronary bypass operation. They also tell the unusual life stories of the surgeons and allude to professional and institutional rivalries.
Publication date: 2004-12-09
Dewey code: 340.092
List Price: $145.00
Price: $112.89
Review Frederick Pollock and the English Juristic Tradition (Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History) / Oxford University Press, USA:Frederick Pollock and the English Juristic Tradition provides the first detailed historical account of one of England's great jurists. Drawing upon a vast array of sources, Neil Duxbury examines Pollock's career, jurisprudence, philosophy of the common law, treatise writing, and editorial initiatives, and shows that Pollock's contribution to the development of English law and juristic inquiry is both complex and crucial.
Creator: David Knight
Publication date: 1996-04-26
Dewey code: 520.92
Price: $59.95
Review Galileo: Decisive Innovator (Cambridge Science Biographies) / Cambridge University Press:In this entertaining and authoritative biography, first published in 1994, Michael Sharratt examines the flair, imagination, hard-headedness, clarity, combativeness and penetrating intelligence of Galileo Galilei. To follow Galileo's career as he exploited unforeseen opportunities to unseat established ways of comprehending nature is to understand a crucial stage of the Scientific Revolution. Galileo was a pathbreaker for the newly-invented telescope, the decoder of nature's mathematical language and a quite brilliant popularizer of science. Even his reluctant excursion into theology has at last been officially and handsomely recognized by the Church's "rehabilitation" of the Inquisition's most famous victim, fully discussed in the last chapter. This book makes his lasting contributions accessible to nonscientists and his mistakes are not overlooked. This is not a mythical story, but the biography of an innovator-one of the greatest ever known.
Publication date: 1891
Review The Afro-American press and its editors / Wiley:
Publication date: 1991-01
Review Henry Lawson: A Life / Angus & Robertson Publishers:
Publication date: 2007-08
Dewey code: 355
List Price: $85.00
Price: $75.00
Review The Slain Soldiers of Neb-Hepet-Re' Mentu-Hotpe / Martino Publishing:
Publication date: 1974-06
Dewey code: 813.4
List Price: $75.00
Price: $75.00
Review Blue Ghost: Lafcadio Hearn's Work / Haskell House Pub Ltd:A biographical and critical study of the great American interpreter of Japanese literature, life and culture.
Creator: Gordon C. Sauer
Publication date: 2003-06-30
Dewey code: 509
List Price: $85.00
Price: $75.00
Review John Gould the Bird Man: Correspondence 1852 Through 1857 / Martino Pub:Hardbound. Cloth. Octavo: 458 pages. Mansfield Centre, CT 2006. Martino Fine Books is pleased to announce the publication of the last volume of Dr. Sauer's compilation of the Correspondence of John Gould. Regrettably Dr. Sauer passed away after finishing the manuscript and this fifth volume comprises the last volume in the series. This series is a culmination of over fifty years of interest in this renowned British ornithologist, artist, publisher, and entrepreneur. The dates of the correspondence begin in 1838 and go through volume five or 1857. [+]Gould corresponded with all of the important naturalists and ornithologists of his time in England and in Europe, and later in Australia and America. There are over 4200 letters extant. Gould rose rapidly from modest beginnings to become the "bird stuffer" for the King of England, and for the newly formed Zoological Society of London. The first four volumes are also available from Martino Publishing.
Creator: Magdolna Hargittai
Publication date: 2003-03
Dewey code: 540.922
List Price: $98.00
Price: $75.14
Review Candid Science III: More Converstations With Famous Chemists (Candid Science) / Imperial College Press:In this invaluable book, 36 famous chemists, including 18 Nobel laureates, tell the reader about their lives in science, the beginnings of their careers, their aspirations, and their hardships and triumphs. The reader will learn about their seminal discoveries, and the conversations in the book bring out the humanity of these great scientists. Highlighted in the stories are the discovery of new elements and compounds, the VSEPR model, computational chemistry, organic synthesis, natural products, polysaccharides, supramolecular chemistry, peptide synthesis, combinatorial chemistry, X-ray crystallography, the reaction mechanism and kinetics, electron transfer in small and large systems, non-equilibrium systems, oscillating reactions, atmospheric chemistry, chirality, and the history of chemistry.
Publication date: 1992-05-14
Dewey code: 340.1
Price: $75.00
Review A Short History of Western Legal Theory / Oxford University Press, USA:This unique publication outlines the development of legal theory from pre-Roman times through the twentieth century. It relates the evolution of legal theory to parallel developments in political theory and history. This work also discusses the relevant contemporary events in politics, economics, and religion. Each chapter begins with a synopsis of related historical background for the period, going on to discuss how these events are related to political and legal theory as well as how they become an influence on one another. Avoiding the conventional approach of "traditions" or "schools" of thought, this work aims to anchor legal theory to contemporary general history.
Publication date: 1995-08
Price: $9.94
Review My Elusive Butterfly / Northwest Publishing:
Publication date: 1998-09
Dewey code: 940
List Price: $59.95
Price: $75.00
Review In Napoleon's Shadow: Being the First English Language Edition of the Complete Memoirs of Louis-Joseph Marchand, Valet and Friend of the Emperor, 1811-1821 / Proctor Jones Publication:
Creator: Salem Press
Publication date: 2005-01
Dewey code: 810.9928303
List Price: $75.00
Price: $75.00
Review Cyclopedia Of Young Adult Authors: C.s. Forester-joan Lowery Nixon / Salem Press:Authors always have written books that appealed to young adult readers, but it was not until the mid-twentieth century that a group of authors began to target young adults as the audience for their books. Since that time, a group of authors has emerged who write for the young adult reader. While all of this has been taking place, there remain classic novels written for adults that have found a permanent home in the school curriculum and continue to appeal to the interests of young adults. What has evolved is a body of literature written for young adults or appealing to young adults that has true literary merit. Cyclopedia of Young Adult Authors offers young adult readers a way to appreciate the lives and works of this special group of fiction writers. From the basic appreciation of 250 authors' lives and works, the editors have constructed a multifaceted reference book for young adults to use in the library. The addition of informative sidebars provides explanations of concepts, terms, awards, professions, places, and other topics readers encounter in the author essays. Adding 4-color photos, graphics, and other illustration in a colorful page design creates an interactive book that lends itself to class assignments, reference, or browsing.
Edition: 1882
Publication date: 2007-11-30
Dewey code: 300
List Price: $75.00
Price: $75.00
Review Records of Later Life - Paperbound / Reprint Services Corp:
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The Mathematical Science of Christopher Wren, A short history of the Long-Islander: Founded by Walt Whitman 1838, The Butchers, the Baker: The World War II Memoir of a United States Army Air Corps Soldier Captured by the Japanese in the Philippines, Field Marshal Sir William Robertson: Chief of the Imperial General Staff in the Great War, Northern Tigers: Building Ethical Canadian Corporate Champions, Fifty years on the Morning mercury, New Bedford, Mass: 1880-1930, a reminiscence, Pioneers of Cardiac Surgery, Frederick Pollock and the English Juristic Tradition (Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History), Galileo: Decisive Innovator (Cambridge Science Biographies), The Afro-American press and its editors, Henry Lawson: A Life, The Slain Soldiers of Neb-Hepet-Re' Mentu-Hotpe, Blue Ghost: Lafcadio Hearn's Work, John Gould the Bird Man: Correspondence 1852 Through 1857, Candid Science III: More Converstations With Famous Chemists (Candid Science), A Short History of Western Legal Theory, My Elusive Butterfly, In Napoleon's Shadow: Being the First English Language Edition of the Complete Memoirs of Louis-Joseph Marchand, Valet and Friend of the Emperor, 1811-1821, Cyclopedia Of Young Adult Authors: C.s. 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