Authors
- Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2000-06-15
Dewey code: 848.609
List Price: $217.00
Price: $173.60
Review Madame de Stael: Selected Correspondence / Springer:In her letters Mme de Stael provides a panoramic historical outlook of the European literary, cultural and political scene between 1789 and 1817, i. e. the Revolution, the Napoleonic era and the Restoration. This edition, as its French original, includes rare contemporary illustrations never published before in this connection. For this book there is no specific level of readership.
Edition: Pamphlet
Publication date: 2000-08
Dewey code: 920
Price: $4.00
Review Jailbreak Out of History: The Re-Biography of Harriet Tubman / Not Avail:90pages of crucial revisionist history, firmly rerooting Harriet Tubman in the context of patriarchy, race, class, and armed struggle. A fascinating, and much needed examination of the woman and her times. Her juxtaposition vis a vis the pro-American patriarch John Brown in particular is a great read. At a time when violence against women of color is at the center of world politics, uncovering the censored story of one Amazon points to answers that have nothing to do with government programs, police, or patriarchal politics.
Publication date: 1985-01-01
Dewey code: 509.02
List Price: $99.95
Price: $203.48
Review Nicole Oresme and the Marvels of Nature (Studies and Texts) / PIMS:
Publication date: 1998
Review Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Osteuropa: Europa litterarum artiumque scientiam communicans (Multidisziplinare Veroffentlichungen) / Harrassowitz Verlag in Kommission:
Publication date: 1969
Dewey code: 509
Review Augustine to Galileo / Penguin:
Publication date: 1916
Review Encyclopedia of Biography of New York - A Life Record of Men and Women of the Past (Five Volume Set) / American Historical Society:
Publication date: 1992-07-31
Dewey code: 509.4109032
Price: $85.00
Review The Rise of Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660-1750 / Cambridge University Press:In The Rise of Public Science, Larry Stewart explores social attitudes towards the claims and the activities of the natural philosophers in Britain from the Restoration to the first stage of industrialisation. By examining the activities and the promotions in which Newton's disciples became involved, Stewart sheds new light on prevailing and practising attitudes to science and technology before the Industrial Revolution. Troubled by claims of social and political legitimacy, the Newtonian public lecturers took Newton's science far beyond the Royal Society into a world of projectors, patents, and some of the great entrepreneurial scandals of the early eighteenth century.
Publication date: 1897
Review Grace Darling, the heroine of the Farne Islands: Her life, and its lessons / Walter Scott:
Publication date: 1937
Review Lives of great men and women: Short biographies of some heroes and friends of cooperation, an entirely revised edition with additional lives / Co-operative Union Limited:
Publication date: 1993-02
Dewey code: 942.055092
Price: $55.00
Review With Faith and Physic: The Life of a Tudor Gentlewoman Lady Grace Mildmay 1552-1620 / Collins & Brown:Lady Grace Mildmay wrote the earliest extant complete autobiography written by a woman in English. The wife of a Northamptonshire landowner and daughter-in-law of Elizabeth I's Chancellor, she wrote about her home life, running a household and rearing children; on her spiritual life as a Protestant just after the Reformation; and about her advanced medical knowledge and care and treatment of the poor. Linda Pollock has edited Lady Grace's writings for this book to provide insights into the life of a Tudor gentlewoman, her eloquence and her interests.
Publication date: 1994
Review John Wesley Powell (Boise State University western writers series) / Boise State University:
Publication date: 2002-02-01
Dewey code: 364
Price: $29.99
Review Muscle / John Blake:Carlton Leach was a key member of the Essex Boys gang which ran riot in the 1980s and 90s, sparking a savage drugs war which saw three of his pals killed in the 1995 Range Rover massacre. Carlton was also a minder to boxer Nigel Benn throughout his glory years in the ring and tells of the blood, sweat, and tears of their special relationship. He also tells how he saved four of his firm from being tortured to death after a ten million pound heroin consignment went missing.
Publication date: 2001-02-28
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $186.95
Price: $175.00
Review The Mendelssohn Companion / Greenwood Press:The Mendelssohn Companion represents a collection of advanced scholarly research in Mendelssohn studies, that examines the composer's life and music. In recent decades, studies of his music manuscripts have discovered much previously overlooked work, and a reconsideration of his biography has permitted a more realistic portrayal of Mendelssohn. The first three chapters of this volume place the composer in his intellectual context and discuss his family and social circle and his professional activities. Later chapters examine the major areas of his compositional work, providing new analytical observations, contextual perspectives, and interpretations. Historical views and documents are included with each chapter and are all newly translated. The new material in this fully documented study will appeal to scholars, students, and music enthusiasts alike. An updated bibliographic list of Mendelssohn's works, which identifies the autograph manuscripts and the most important published editions will be of special interest.
Publication date: 2000
Review Die historische Entwicklung von Wissenschaft und Technik in der Mongolei (Beitrage zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte) / Eurotrans:
Creator: Marian Wardle
Publication date: 2005-08-25
Dewey code: 709
Price: $68.00
Review American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945 / Rutgers University Press:Early American modernist art has been defined for decades by a narrow range of works by almost entirely male New York–based artists in the circles of Alfred Stieglitz and Walter Arensberg. Typically, Georgia O’Keeffe is the solitary acknowledged exception to these male-dominated modernist circles. But, Marian Wardle and the contributors to this long-overdue collection issue a powerful challenge to this narrow view. They reveal that scores of women artists of the period produced works that were significant, influential, and indubitably modern. All the women considered in this study were once the art students of the popular and perhaps most influential American art teacher of the twentieth century, Robert Henri (1865–1929). Henri encouraged an art that was expressive of personal emotions and experience and that was grounded in life. He preached equality among different media and approaches to art. Giving heed to his teachings, his women students engaged in a wide variety of artistic production. Collectively, the stunning variety and power of their work in painting, sculpture, printmaking, textiles, decorative arts, and furniture broadens our understanding of American modernism and illuminates the role of women artists in shaping it. Yet, these women have remained largely unstudied, and virtually unknown, even among art historians. [+]The seven new essays included in this volume move beyond the famed Ashcan School—the small group of Henri’s male students who worked in a narrow range of urban realist subjects—to recover the lesser known work of his women students. The contributors, who include well-known scholars of art history, American studies, and cultural studies demonstrate how these women participated in the "modernizing" of women’s roles during this era; how gender controlled their art, productivity, sales, and reception; how their many styles, media, and subjects enrich our understanding of modern American art; and how the work of modern women artists relates to women’s involvement in other areas of modern American society and culture, including labor and social reform, patronage, literature, dance, and music. Lavishly illustrated and complemented by short biographies of more than 400 of Henri’s students, this delightful collection adds a long-ignored but deserving dimension to an expanded story of American modernism and to women’s contributions to the arts. "Long overdue, this richly documented book restores the female presence in early twentieth-century American art, design, and craft. Brava to all the contributors for their mighty labors in the archives and museum collections. "—Wanda M. Corn, Robert and Ruth Halperin professor in art history, Stanford University "An interesting and important contribution to our understanding of the roles of Robert Henri’s women students in reshaping the meaning of the modern in American visual culture. "—Whitney Chadwick, Professor of Art History, San Francisco State University.
Publication date: 1985-06
Dewey code: 920
Price: $19.95
Review Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws / Amereon Ltd:1903. This is a wonderful little book which piques the interest of anyone who loves stories of the old west. Contents: Dodge; Texas as was; Estancia land grants; forgotten filibuster; Tom Horn; Helldorado; law west of the Pecos; Apache Kid; story of Beecher's Island; Bucky O'Neill; when the outlaw rode in Oklahoma; war for the range; carrying law into the mesquite; hunting of Harry Tracy; four sixes to beat.
Publication date: 1989-01-13
Dewey code: 790.20922
Price: $12.99
Review Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women / Random House Value Publishing:A cult classic and a work of remarkable scholarship restored to print. Ricky Jay is one of the world's great sleight-of-hand artists. He is also a most unusual and talented scholar, specializing in the bizarre, exotic, and fantastic side of the human species. The youngest magician to have appeared on television, Jay has become well known for his astonishing stage show as well as for his cameos in such movies as Glengarry Glen Ross and, most recently, Boogie Nights. Jay's unparalleled collection of books, posters, photographs, programs, broadsides, and, most important, data about unjustifiably forgotten entertainers all over the world made this unique book possible. An investigation into the inspired world of sideshows, circuses, and singularly talented performers, Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women is history of the most unusual-and irresistible-sort.
Publication date: 1982-06
Review Ordinary Life / Prentice Hall:
Publication date: 2004-02
Dewey code: 615
Price: $13.95
Review Rising from Hell / Creative Arts Book Company:"I was in a hospital with a severe brain injury. I was semi-paralyzed on my right side: I couldn't speak or eat. I had double vision. I couldn't walk. And I was strapped to a bed for my own protection. But I do remember that room in the rehabilitation hospital-it was like no other room. More things happened to me in that one small space than had happened to me in my entire life. " The victim of a devastating motorcycle accident, author John Kennedy Rizzo knows too well of the social, spiritual, and medical aspects of traumatic brain injury. Rising from Hell traces his path through partial paralysis, incapacitating depression, and terrifying panic attacks. On his long road to rehabilitation, Rizzo discovered ways to overcome impossible odds. [+]He speaks with compassion and wisdom as he encourages brain-injured people to find their way to the enabled life that may well lie within their grasp.
Creator: Lucy Townsend
Publication date: 2004-07
Review The Papers of Emma Hart Willard, 1787-1870 (Research Collections in Women's Studies) / LexisNexis:
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Madame de Stael: Selected Correspondence, Jailbreak Out of History: The Re-Biography of Harriet Tubman, Nicole Oresme and the Marvels of Nature (Studies and Texts), Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Osteuropa: Europa litterarum artiumque scientiam communicans (Multidisziplinare Veroffentlichungen), Augustine to Galileo, Encyclopedia of Biography of New York - A Life Record of Men and Women of the Past (Five Volume Set), The Rise of Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660-1750, Grace Darling, the heroine of the Farne Islands: Her life, and its lessons, Lives of great men and women: Short biographies of some heroes and friends of cooperation, an entirely revised edition with additional lives, With Faith and Physic: The Life of a Tudor Gentlewoman Lady Grace Mildmay 1552-1620, John Wesley Powell (Boise State University western writers series), Muscle, The Mendelssohn Companion, Die historische Entwicklung von Wissenschaft und Technik in der Mongolei (Beitrage zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte), American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945, Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws, Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women, Ordinary Life, Rising from Hell, The Papers of Emma Hart Willard, 1787-1870 (Research Collections in Women's Studies)Top headlines: 3 back from dead update their stories: Their lives were rudely interrupted in dramatically different ways, from a lightning bolt to a heart attack to an ATV accident. 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