Publication date: 1998-06-13
Dewey code: 509.4109033
Price: $70.00
Review Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution (New Studies in Economic and Social History) / Cambridge University Press:This book examines Sir Joseph Banks' role in promoting "imperial science," in the context of the consolidation of the British State during a time of extraordinary upheaval. Under pressure from the American, French and Industrial revolutions, the State became interested in the possible uses of science for economic and strategic gain. Banks became its principal adviser in scientific matters, and Gascoigne shows how he used personal networks and patronage to integrate scientific concerns into the complex machinery of government.
Creator: Margaret Smith
Publication date: 2000-06-22
Dewey code: 823.8
List Price: $210.00
Price: $190.69
Review The Letters of Charlotte Bronte: With a Selection of Letters by Family and Friends Volume II: 1848-1851 (Letters of Charlotte Bronte 1848-1851) / Oxford University Press, USA:This is the second volume in the critically acclaimed Letters of Charlotte Bronte. During the important four years covered in this volume, Charlotte witnessed the success of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, but also endured the deaths of Branwell Bronte and Emily, followed by Anne's in May 1849. Haunted by the fear that she also would succumb, Charlotte found salvation in writing Shirley, published in October 1849, and comfort in her friendship and correspondence with Ellen Nussey, with her publishers-especially George Smith-with Mrs. Gaskell, and (for a time) Harriet Martineau. She may also have received a proposal of marriage from Smith, Edler's manager, James Taylor. This volume is fully annotated and introduced by eminent Bronte scholar Margaret Smith.
Edition: 1a ed
Publication date: 1986
Review Ensayos de historia de la ciencia y la tecnologia en Mexico (Serie Historia de la ciencia y la tecnologia) / Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Investigaciones Historicas:
Publication date: 1989
Dewey code: 509'.44
Review Naissance d'un pouvoir: Sciences et savants en France, 1793-1824 (Bibliotheque historique Payot) / Payot:
Publication date: 1905
Review A southern girl in '61;: The war-time memories of a Confederate senator's daughter, / Doubleday, Page & Co:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1994-04
Dewey code: 809.89287
List Price: $135.00
Price: $135.00
Review The Name of The Mother: Writing Illegitimacy / Routledge:In this original and highly accomplished study, Marie Maclean studies the writings of social rebels and explores the relationship between their personal narratives and illegitimacy. The case studies which Maclean utilizes examines such issues as the formation of alternative family structures and "female genealogies;" the relationship between female illegitimacy and revolution; the issue of patrinymity and its disavowal; and the specter of genius which haunts the very society which excludes it. Skillfully interweaving feminist theory, French literary criticism, social and cultural history, deconstruction and psychoanalytic theory, Maclean traces the place of these personal narrratives of illegitimacy in history and theory, from Elizabeth I to Freud, from Sartre to Derrida.
Publication date: 1997-02-25
Dewey code: 792.8028092
List Price: $238.00
Price: $190.40
Review The Life and Ballets of Lev Ivanov: Choreographer of The Nutcracker and Swan Lake / Oxford University Press, USA:This is the first book-length study in any language about this Russian artist-Parius Petipa's colleague and Tchaikovsky's collaborator-who is widely celebrated and yet virtually unknown. It follows Ivanov from his infancy in a St Petersburg foundling home through to his career as a dancer, regisseur, and choreographer in the St Petersburg Imperial Ballet. Ivanov's artistic world is described, as is his legacy- some dozen works, including Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and the famous dances from Prince Igor-that inspired Mikhail Fokine in the next generation. The book is richly documented, including the first complete publication of Ivanov's memoirs and hundreds of citations, many published here for the first time, from state documents, reminiscences, and criticism.
Publication date: 2004-05-01
Dewey code: 948.03
List Price: $182.00
Price: $181.99
Review Queen Margrethe I, 1353-1412, and the Founding of the Nordic Union (Northern World, V. 9) (Northern World, V. 9) / Brill Academic Publishers:This book presents the fascinating story of Queen Margrete I and her rise to power in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Her political ambitions culminated in the founding of the Nordic Union in 1397, which had vital impact on the history of Scandinavia for the next centuries. The book analyses the most central sources and gives a vivid picture of medieval society in Denmark during the late Middle Ages. At the same time the book describes the character of this dynamic woman, who is considered as one of the most important rulers in the Middle Ages. Only a very small part of the literature concerning Scandinavian medieval history has been published in English, and this book gives for the first time foreign readers the opportunity to read about the background to the founding of the Nordic Union. The text is well illustrated.
Publication date: 1990-03
Price: $65.00
Review Ida B. Wells-Barnett: An Exploratory Study of an American Black Woman, 1893-1930 (Black Women in United States History , Vol 15) / Carlson Publishing:
Publication date: 1995-03
Dewey code: 929.20973
Price: $18.00
Review Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination / Verso Books:Annette Kuhn has earned a wide reputation as a theorist of culture, dissecting film and other images in books like Women's Pictures and The Power of the Image. In this compelling book, she turns her attention to the deconstruction of pictures closer to home—photographs from her own childhood and images from her shared ethnographic past—to trace a trajectory from personal to collective acts of memory.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1990-09-01
Dewey code: 016.944025092
Price: $10.00
Review Joan of Arc in History, Literature, and Film (Garland Medieval Bibliographies) / Garland Science:
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Publication date: 1991
Review Le Moyen Age et la science: Approche de quelques disciplines et personnalites scientifiques medievales : [colloque] (Collection Sapience) / Klincksieck:
Publication date: 1997-01
Price: $32.00
Review Hermann Helmholtz' Heidelberger Jahre (1858-1871) (Sonderveroffentlichungen Des Stadtarchivs Heidelberg) / Springer:
Publication date: 2003-12-01
Dewey code: 920
Price: $22.70
Review Vivienne Westwood: An Unfashionable Life / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:The biography of one of England's great eccentrics and leading fashion designers, reissued in an updated edition to coincide with a major exhibition of Westwood's work at the Victoria & Albert Museum. For more than two decades, Vivienne Westwood has been one of Britain's most consistently original, outrageous, eccentric and controversial designers. In that time she has evolved from an iconoclastic outsider to an internationally revered figure, with two British Designer of the Year awards, an OBE, her own successful fashion label and an unrivalled reputation for leading where other designers follow. Her lifestyle could scarcely be in greater contrast to the opulence which surrounds other leading designers: until recently she lived in a modest council flat in South London, and she travels around the capital by bicycle, dressed in her own flamboyant creations, with a plastic bag protecting her hair from the elements. How did an awkward girl from a conventional and provincial background become one of world fashion's most influential and respected designers? How has she managed to remain true to her own idiosyncratic vision, refusing to conform to the fashion industry's, and society's, expectations? Speaking to Westwood herself, her friends, lovers, colleagues, rivals, admirers and detractors, Jane Mulvagh has created a rich and surprising portrait.
Publication date: 1981
Review The land of Stevin and Huygens ; a sketch of science and technology in the Dutch Republic during the Golden Century (Studies in the history of modern science) / Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Boston:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-02-01
Dewey code: 305.26
Price: $115.00
Review The Older Woman: The Able Self (Garland Studies on the Elderly in America) / Routledge:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-11-30
Dewey code: 509
List Price: $256.00
Price: $236.72
Review Fact, Faith and Fiction in the Development of Science: The Gifford Lectures Given in the University of St. Andrews, 1976 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science) / Springer:In this posthumous book, the late Professor R. Hooykaas (1906-1994) conveys a lifetime of historical thought about modes of scientific advance over the centuries. In what variety of ways has the human mind, with all its subjectivity and its capacity for self-deception, but also its piercing gifts of discovery, managed to come to terms with `the whimsical tricks of nature'? Central to this erudite, penetrating, and widely ranging study is Hooykaas's distinction between facts (given by nature yet entirely subject to our mode of interpreting them), faith (broad conceptions like the idea of order, of simplicity, or of harmony), and fictions in the sense of those daring intellectual tools, such as theories and hypotheses and models, which reflect the scientist's creative imagination. Case studies drawn from the history of all branches of science (including chemistry and the earth sciences) and from Antiquity to the present day, serve to widen and to deepen the understanding of every reader (whether a historian of science or not) with a desire to learn more about the realities of the scientific pursuit.
Creator: Eva Paulino Bueno
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-12-10
Dewey code: 860.9928709803
List Price: $220.00
Price: $189.00
Review Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia / Routledge:Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia presents the lives and critical works of over 170 women writers in Latin America between the 16th and 20th centuries. This Encyclopedia features thematic entries as well as biographies of female writers whose works were originally published in Spanish or Portuguese, and who have had an impact on literary, political, and social studies. Focusing on drama, poetry, and fiction, this work includes authors who have published at least three literary texts that have had a significant impact on Latin American literature and culture. Each entry is followed by extensive bibliographic references, including primary and secondary sources. Coverage consists of critical appreciation and analysis of the writers' works. Brief biographical data is included, but the main focus is on the meanings and contexts of the works as well as their cultural and political impact. In addition to author entries, other themes are explored, such as humor in contemporary Latin American fiction, lesbian literature in Latin America, magic, realism, or mother images in Latin American literature. The aim is to provide a unique, thorough, scholarly survey of women writers and their works in Latin America. This Encyclopedia will be of interest to both to the student of literature as well as to any reader interested in understanding more about Latin American culture, literature, and how women have represented gender and national issues throughout the centuries.
Creator: Margaret O'Brien
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 2001-09-11
Dewey code: 920
Price: $26.00
Review Judy Garland: The Golden Years / Great Feats Press:Note: Also available in HARDCOVER from Amazon. com “I’ve had a very happy life. really, I have!” - Judy Garland Unfortunately, from the many projects produced about Judy, you would never know it. While a number of biographies have been published detailing Judy’s life, most all have concentrated on her later years and have provided an inaccurate and distorted image of the star, her life and her career. In fact, previous Judy Garland biographies are far more interesting for the information that they leave out, rather than for that which they put in! No one can deny the very real sadness and struggle that Judy faced at distinct points in her life, yet that same life was also full of much joy and happiness. Judy Garland, The Golden Years captures that joy and happiness and stands in sharp contrast to both past and present Garland works in a variety of ways: • Provides an honest, factual account of Judy’s early life and MGM career that is loving, sensitive, respectful and appropriate for all readers. • Features a foreword and a chapter written by Margaret O’Brien, beloved child star who starred with Judy in Meet Me in St. Louis. [+]This is the one and only Judy book to which she has ever personally contributed. •Includes family photos, documents, letters and diaries dating from 1727, as well as a detailed family history and family tree. There are also first time contributions from family members who have never contributed to any Judy project before. • Includes a complete MGM filmography, a DECCA discography, a film music history, a detailed recap of Judy’s radio appearances through this period, an early publicity photo section, a headlines section, as well as separate chapters on The Wizard of Oz and Meet Me in St. Louis. • Is illustrated with over 600 new, original, most previously unpublished, photos from Judy’s life that show the light in her eyes, the dazzle in her smile and the joy in her being. • Contains unique, original collectibles including personal documents and letters as well as vintage posters, novelties, advertising and other memorabilia. Whether you first met Judy Garland as Andy Hardy's sidekick while sitting through a Saturday matinee, fell in love with her at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair or traveled down the yellow brick road with her while sitting in front of your family's television set, Judy Garland, The Golden Years will provide you with the story of the real Judy Garland, a woman who was good and kind, honest and sincere, who was a devoted daughter, sister, wife, friend and mother, who did the best she could in all situations, who, time and time again, would not allow herself to be defeated, who picked herself up and started over, who loved her children more than anything else and always tried to do the best by and for them and who, most of all, will always be remembered for bringing joy to millions of people the world over. What more could anyone ask from a life - and a definite happy one at that.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-11-14
Dewey code: 952.0310922
List Price: $190.00
Price: $185.99
Review Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series) / Routledge:Through examination of the careers and writings of two women convicted of conspiring to assassinate the Japanese emperor, this text offers insight into the women's interpretations of their lives and imminent deaths.
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