Authors
- Marie-Noelle Bourguet
- Christian Licoppe
- H. Otto Sibum
Publication date: 2002-09-13
Dewey code: 509
List Price: $180.00
Price: $179.98
Review Instruments, Travel and Science: Itineraries of Precision from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century / Routledge:We are now accustomed to conceive of science as an instrumental activity, producing numbers, measurements and graphs by means of sophisticated devices. This book investigates the historical process that gave rise to this instrumental culture. The contributors trace the displacement of instruments across the globe, the spread of practices or precision and the circulation and appropriation of skills and knowledge. Through comparative and contextual approaches, the volume confronts the tension between the local and the global, examining the process of the universalization of science. Bringing together case studies ranging from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, contributors discuss French, German and British initiatives, as well as the knowledge and techniques of travelers in countries such as India, Africa, South East Asia and the Americas. Students and researchers interested in the history of science in both Western and non-Western cultures will find this book a valuable and thought-provoking read.
Publication date: 2001-06-01
Dewey code: 920.7208825
Price: $30.00
Review Memorable Women of the Puritan Times, Volume 2 / Soli Deo Gloria Ministries:1862. Volumes 1 and 2 of the original work. The Puritan times embrace the most interesting and instructive period in the annals of English history. Most of the eminent women commemorated in these volumes may be considered as historical characters. They may not have acted in any very conspicuous part in the public transactions of their time, or have given to it its mold and importance; but they stood closely connected by relationship or otherwise with the master spirits and prime actors. The incidents of their lives relate rather to the domestic, than to public events; for even when public history is touched upon, it is generally intermingled with or bearing upon domestic scenes.
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.
Publication date: 2002-08
Dewey code: 306.099611
Price: $65.00
Review Daughters of Tunis: Women, Family, and Networks in a Muslim City / Westview Press:Tea and Visits is an innovative ethnography that carefully weaves the words and intimate, personal stories of four Tunisian women and their families with a statistical analysis of women’s survival strategies in a rapidly urbanizing, industrializing Muslim nation. Delineating three distinct network strategies, Holmes-Eber demonstrates the “public” role of neighborhoods as informal social security systems, and the impact of women’s education, class and migration on women’s resources and networks. An engaging, warm, and oftentimes humorous portrait of Muslim women’s responses to development, Tea and Visits is an exciting new approach to ethnography: merging the historically disparate methods of both qualitative and quantitative analysis.
Publication date: 2002-06
Dewey code: 920
Price: $26.98
Review Mabel Hubbard Bell / Protea Publishing Company:
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.
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: 1997-01
Price: $32.00
Review Hermann Helmholtz' Heidelberger Jahre (1858-1871) (Sonderveroffentlichungen Des Stadtarchivs Heidelberg) / Springer:
Publication date: 1987-11-11
Dewey code: 811.409
List Price: $126.95
Price: $181.15
Review The Language of Exclusion: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti (Contributions in Women's Studies) / Greenwood Press:The Language of Exclusion is a pioneering feminist critical study of two of the most enigmatic 19th-century women poets-Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti. The authors take as their point of departure the spinster/recluse model, which they argue has characterized most biographies of 19th-century women poets written before 1960. Rejecting this model, they build instead on the rich tradition of feminist literary criticism exemplified by the work of writers like Elaine Showalter, Lillian Robinson, and Martha Vicinus. In The Language of Exclusion they focus on the shared historical experience of these two most "private" poets to reveal their public significance and demonstrate the inadequacy of the spinster/recluse model.
Publication date: 1905
Review A southern girl in '61;: The war-time memories of a Confederate senator's daughter, / Doubleday, Page & Co:
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: 1991
Review Great events from history II / Salem Press:
Publication date: 1996
Review Courageous voices: A curriculum unit on women and language arts / National Women's History Project:
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: 2004-10
Dewey code: 200
List Price: $29.95
Price: $181.04
Review Bernadette of Lourdes: Her Life, Death And Visions / Continuum Intl Pub Group:This biography draws upon many testimonies and archival sources that have never previously been published. Therese Taylor explains who Bernadette Soubirous was, and how she lived and died but takes no position on whether or not the visions were genuine. This story begins in Bernadette's native country of the Pyrenees, a mountain region haunted by tales of fairies, witches and miraculous groves and springs. It follows Bernadette's astonishing life story, from her family circle, to her years of fame, to her retirement at the convent of St Gildard at Nevers. Her difficult relationships with the historians of Lourdes and her lengthy terminal illness are also considered. This biography places Bernadette in the context of her time. She was born into a volatile family and her parent's lives were blighted by economic failure and alcoholism. At the age of 14, Bernadette was an illiterate child-servant, who suddenly experienced a series of visions of a White Lady in the Grotto of Massabielle. Townspeople, government officials, clergy and journalists were all drawn in, and sought out Bernadette in order to assess her story. A chain of events was set off which made her one of the most famous women in France. [+]Bernadette has to be understood not only in religious terms, but also with reference to themes such as tourism, commercialism, mass-representation and the exploitation of female celebrities.
Publication date: 2004-01
Price: $14.00
Review What Happens When Brothers Go To Prison and Leave Sisters Alone / Sister Publishing:This book is about incarcerated men and the families they leave behind. Told by a young woman after she went to court and watched her husband be sentenced to many years in prison. After she decides that she wants to stand by him and begin visiting the prisons she recounts her dealings with other women who were visiting also and what they were doing for these men. She opens the doors to a world many people don't know exist. The world of the families that incarcerated men leave behind. And all that they do in the name of love but also their own personal battles with their decisions to wait.
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: 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.
Publication date: 2003-02
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $13.95
Price: $176.69
Review One Extra Month / Authorhouse:
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:
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Instruments, Travel and Science: Itineraries of Precision from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, Memorable Women of the Puritan Times, Volume 2, Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia, Daughters of Tunis: Women, Family, and Networks in a Muslim City, Mabel Hubbard Bell, Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series), The Name of The Mother: Writing Illegitimacy, Hermann Helmholtz' Heidelberger Jahre (1858-1871) (Sonderveroffentlichungen Des Stadtarchivs Heidelberg), The Language of Exclusion: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti (Contributions in Women's Studies), A southern girl in '61;: The war-time memories of a Confederate senator's daughter,, Queen Margrethe I, 1353-1412, and the Founding of the Nordic Union (Northern World, V. 9) (Northern World, V. 9), Great events from history II, Courageous voices: A curriculum unit on women and language arts, Naissance d'un pouvoir: Sciences et savants en France, 1793-1824 (Bibliotheque historique Payot), Bernadette of Lourdes: Her Life, Death And Visions, What Happens When Brothers Go To Prison and Leave Sisters Alone, Judy Garland: The Golden Years, 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), One Extra Month, Ida B. 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