Publication date: 2002-05
Dewey code: 940.5426666
List Price: $21.99
Price: $200.39
Review So Much Water, So Little Land: Life in World War Ii's Waterbug Navy / Xlibris Corporation:
Creator: Leo J. A. Lemay
Publication date: 1993-01
Dewey code: 973.3092
Price: $39.50
Review Reappraising Benjamin Franklin: A Bicentennial Perspective / University of Delaware Press:This work contains twenty-four essays by distinguished Franklin authorities. Illustrated.
Publication date: 1971-02-01
Dewey code: 355
Price: $31.95
Review Custer: The Life of General George Armstrong Custer / University of Nebraska Press:"The Custer literature is voluminous and most of it is highly controversial. Through the tangle of charges and countercharges Jay Monaghan cuts a clear path in his fresh account of Custer's whole career. Where possible, Monaghan relies on original sources, and he appraises them with the sound judgment of the practiced historian he is. He is sympathetic with Custer but does not hesitate to show the man's foibles and failures. He presents no attorney's brief and yet he disproves a number of ill-founded accusations. ".
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 1983-10
Dewey code: 616.99383
Price: $15.95
Review The True History of the Elephant Man / Not Applicable:Joseph Carey Merrick, born in England on August 5, 1952, is better known as The Elephant Man. Through horrible physical deformities which were almost impossible to describe, he spent much of his life exhibited as a fairground freak until even nineteenth-century sensibilities could take no more. Hounded, persecuted and starving, he ended up at London’s Liverpool Street Station where he was rescued, housed and fed by the distinguished surgeon Frederick Treves. To Treves’ surprise, he discovered during the course of their friendship that lurking beneath the mass of Merrick's corrupting flesh lived a spirit that was as courageous as it had been tortured, and a nature as gentle and dignified as it had been deprived and tormented. The subject of several books, a Broadway hit, and a film, Joseph Merrick has become part of popular mythology. Here, in this fully revised edition containing new details, are the true and unromantic facts of his life. This is an extraordinary and moving story, set among the brutal realities of the Victorian world, telling of a tragic individual and his survival against overwhelming odds.
Creator: Jonathan Harris
Publication date: 1999-02-18
Dewey code: 340
List Price: $399.00
Price: $210.12
Review Legislator of the World: Writings on Codification, Law, and Education (The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham) / Oxford University Press, USA:Bentham's central concern during the 1810s and 1820s was with the codification of the law. The materials presented in this volume constitute not only the basis for a biography of Bentham during these years, but also an important and illuminating account of his mature legal and political theory.
Publication date: 1998-12-03
Dewey code: 540.92
Price: $39.00
Review A Fifty-Year Love Affair with Organic Chemistry (Profiles, Pathways, and Dreams) / An American Chemical Society Publication:An autobiography by the chemist best known for total steroid synthesis and biogenetic-like cyclizations.
Publication date: 1996-02-01
Dewey code: 338
Price: $27.00
Review American Dreamers: The Wallaces And Reader's Digest: An Inside Story / Diane Pub Co:The fascinating, behind-the-scenes story of "Reader s Digest" (RD) & its founders, & how corporate lawyers & Wall St. wrested control from the men the founders chose to preserve their bus. "in the Wallace mode. " RD began in 1922 in N. Y. City. The founders, DeWitt & Lila Wallace, believed deeply in the American dream & saw their magazine as a way of spreading this belief to millions of their fellow citizens. They set the bus. up to be run like a family, built a plant in Pleasantville, NY, & lavished their fortune on their employees. But in the early 80s, when the Wallaces suddenly faltered, ambitious men began to scheme & maneuver for power. [+]This book reveals the attempts of greedy men to scavenge what these entrepreneurs created. Photos. Dewitt and Lila Wallace founded Reader's Digest in the 1930s to provide edifying articles for people who often read little else. Canning, a former Digest managing editor, has written an in-depth history of the Wallaces' project, which turned into a publishing phenomenon. While he shows due respect to the Wallaces for their early struggles, their generosity to staff and their philanthropy, the author reveals unDigest-like details of their unusual sex lives, and more tellingly documents considerable government interference with the magazine's content. In the 1940s and 50s the CIA fed articles to the Digest. During the Vietnam War it was stridently hawkish, and Richard Nixon's speeches formed the basis of editorials. While too many Digest stories have had the insipid flavor of packaged pieces of puffed-up positive thinking, Canning's history is stronger stuff.
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2003-07-03
Dewey code: 70
List Price: $299.00
Price: $299.00
Review The Horace Trail: Site License / Oxford University Press, USA:In The Horace Trail, well-known software author Julian Morgan documents Horace's travels in text and photographs. He covers Horace's early years; his voyages to the East and the campaign of Brutus at Philippi; his establishment as the leading poet of the Augustan Age; and the journey to Brindisi as described by Horace's Satires. Photographs of places visited by Horace in Italy, Greece, and Turkey accompany the text. The CD contains over 400 JPEG images.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-01-01
Dewey code: 977
Price: $36.95
Review In For The Long Haul: The Life of John Ruan / University Of Iowa Press:
Creator: Schulz-Torge
Publication date: 1990-12
Dewey code: 947.00922
List Price: $300.00
Price: $300.00
Review Who's Who in the Soviet Union Today: Political and Military Leaders / K. G. Saur:
Authors
- Lorenzo Favero
- Aurelio Levrini
Publication date: 2003-08
Dewey code: 617.64309
List Price: $198.00
Price: $197.98
Review The Masters of Functional Orthodontics / Quintessence Publishing (IL):Text is a translation of the Italian edition, Maestri dell'Ortodonzia Funzionale, c2003. Presents a comprehensive historical look of functional orthodontic therapy and biographies of its founding fathers. Features numerous archival photos and illustrations, many of them published for the first time.
Creator: John V. Price
Publication date: 1999-01-04
Dewey code: 192
List Price: $550.00
Price: $195.00
Review Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century British Philosophers / Thoemmes Continuum:This major new publication is the most comprehensive reference source ever on eighteenth-century authors writing in the English language about philosophical ideas and issues. Featuring authors taken from 1689 through to the middle of the nineteenth century, the period beginning with John Locke and ending with Dugald Stewart, the word 'philosophical' is used in a wide, eighteenth-century sense. Thus the Dictionary includes epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, education, politics, rhetoric, science, medicine, biology, geology, chemistry and theology, and many of the authors may more usually be called divines, scientists, doctors, mathematicians, or even poets. In addition to short biographies of the writers, there are detailed expositions and analyses of their doctrines and ideas, bibliographies of their writings and suggestions for further reading. There are also mini-entries on extremely obscure figures and appendices listing anonymous tracts. All the major eighteenth-century philosophers are featured, but the most valuable feature of the Dictionary is its representation of a huge range of less well-known writers. In many cases the Dictionary offers the first scholarly treatment of the life and work of certain writers. This book will be an indispensable reference work for scholars working on almost any aspect of eighteenth-century studies. KEY FEATURES OF THE DICTIONARY:-the first reference work dedicated to 18th-century philosophers -more than 600 entries, including all the main figures and a huge variety of less well-known writers -a broad-ranging treatment of 'philosophy' that includes scientific figures, theologians, politicians and poets -the first biographical source available on many 18th-century figures -bibliographies of authors including suggestions for further reading; lists of anonymous tracts and mini- entries on extremely obscure authors; entries alphabetically arranged, comprehensively indexed and cross-referenced -illustrious editorial team: 8 Supervising Editors and 95 contributors, including the most respected international scholars in the field -contributors include: Richard Popkin, Roy Porter, David Berman, G. A. [+]J. Rogers, John W. Yolton, Hiroshi Mizuta, Peter Alexander, Godfrey Vesey, M. A. Stewart, Stuart Brown, Sarah Hutton, David Knight, Robert Wokler, Knud Haakonssen, Richard B. Sher, D. O. Thomas and Roy Harris.
Edition: 5
Publication date: 1993-08
Price: $585.00
Review Medical Sciences International Who's Who / Longman Pub Group:
Publication date: 1998-05
Dewey code: 947.0842092
Price: $18.95
Review Child of the Kulaks / International Specialized Book Services:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-01
Dewey code: 616.120092
List Price: $85.00
Price: $189.81
Review Sir Thomas Lewis: Pioneer Cardiologist and Clinical Scientist / Springer-Verlag Telos:University College Hospital, London, U. K. Biography of Sir Thomas Lewis, regarded as a pioneer in electrocardiography. Presents both his scientific and clinical accomplishments. DNLM: Lewis, Thomas, Sir, 1881-1945.
Publication date: 1997-05
Dewey code: 940.545973092
List Price: $139.95
Price: $199.00
Review Admiral Marc A. Mitscher and U.S. Naval Aviation: Bald Eagle (Studies in American History) / Edwin Mellen Press:
Edition: 1882
Publication date: 2007-11-30
Dewey code: 300
List Price: $190.00
Price: $190.00
Review Records of Later Life - Leather Bound / Reprint Services Corp:
Authors
- John Lee Berkley
- Ormond Hupp
Dewey code: 973.7472092
Price: $17.95
Review In the Defense of This Flag: The Civil War Diary of Pvt. Ormond Hupp, 5th Indiana Light Artillery / McGuinn & McGuire Pub.:
Edition: Large Print edition
Publication date: 2003-01
Price: $21.99
Review Enemy Coast Ahead / Ulverscroft Large Print:First published in 1944, Guy Gibson's Enemy Coast Ahead quickly became regarded as the classic Bomber Command book, following Gibson's RAF career from flying the Hampden and Manchester at the beginning of WWII to the triumphant return home of the Lancasters from the famous 1943 Dambuster raid which Gibson led and for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. Enemy Coast Ahead is also the inside story of life in Bomber Command throughout the first five years of WW2, culminating in breath-holding drama as the RAF planned, practiced and strove towards breaching the dams on that famous night in May 1943.
Publication date: 1988-04
Price: $14.00
Review British and German Deserters, Dischargees and Prisoners of War Who May Have Remained in Canada & the United St. (British & German Deserters, Dischargees & Prisoners of War W) / Westland Publications:
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