Publication date: 2001-08
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $159.95
Price: $159.95
Review A Comprehensive Biography of Composer Gustav Holst: With Correspondence and Diary Excerpts Including His American Years (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music) / Edwin Mellen Press:Based upon and containing many of Holst's own personal letters, diaries and notebook entries, this study provides an intimate portrait of this larger-than-life personality. Many of Holst's innermost thoughts regarding musical composition, performance and music education are disclosed here. In addition, there is a significant amount of information concerning Holst's work ethics at all six of his places of employment. It also provides a view of the composer from this side of the Atlantic, shedding considerable light on Holst's plans and activities regarding his three American visits that is not found in the other biographies. A significant numbr of chapters are devoted to Holst's 1932 semester-long lectureship at Harvard University. The appendices include examples of Holst's manuscripts, thumbnail sketches of persons associated with his career, and (unique to this text) a chronological listing of his compositions.
Authors
- Brian (ed). An . Keith-Smith
Review Encyclopedia of German Women Writers 1900-1933: Biographies andBibliographies with Exemplary Readings, Volume 1. [Subtitle]: (GermanWomen Writers, Volume 1.) / Publisher Unknown:
Publication date: 2003-09
Dewey code: 920
Price: $26.85
Review Carson McCullers / Women's Press Ltd,The:"Writing is my occupation," Carson McCullers often said. "I must do it. I have done it for so long. " The beloved author of such classics as THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING, and REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE, McCullers began writing her first best-selling novel at the age of twenty. It was the start of a lifelong love affair with stories and language - and of the creation of a body of work that continues to draw new generations of readers. In CARSON MCCULLERS: A LIFE, Josyane Savigneau gives us at last a truly popular biography of one of America's greatest women novelists. Carson McCullers's life story rivals the plot of any of her novels. A brilliant, sensitive artist who had a painful small-town childhood in the South and early international success, she was crippled by a mysterious disease in early adulthood. A woman who composed the most romantic of letters, she struggled to find lasting happiness with her husband, Reeves, whom she married twice. Carson wrote often of the loneliness of the human condiiton, and yet she surrounded herself with a constellation of witty, always entertaining celebrities: Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Katherine Anne Porter, Richard Wright, John Huston, and Edward Albee, among others. [+]The first biographer to have the full cooperation of the McCullers esate, Josyane Savigneau has uncovered the private Carson McCullers, a woman who never really grew up yet was always seductive, a woman whose candor and immense emotional needs sometimes overshadowed her great charm, generosity, loyalty, humor, and deep intelligence. Above all, Carson was a life force, a person who needed to write and who did so despite great physical pain, up until the very end. Published to rave reviews in France, this passionate biography is one that "must [be] read. to measure the full extent of McCullers's torment and her determination to overcome her suffering" (L'EXPRESS).
Publication date: 1852
Review The Pioneer History of Illinois: Containing the Discovery, in 1673, and the history of the country to the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, when the state government was organized / N.A. Randall:
Publication date: 2005-09-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $105.00
Price: $162.58
Review Gustav Mahler: The Early Years, Songs and Symphonies, The Wunderhorn Years / Boydell Press:Study of the composers early life and music.
Publication date: 2000-08
Dewey code: 920
Price: $37.50
Review The Princess from St. Petersburg: The Life of Princess Catherine Radzwill / Book Guild Publishing:From the courts of Europe at the dawn of the 20th Century to the South Africa of Cecil Rhodes and the rooming houses of 1920s New York, this book covers a century of wars and revolutions and Catherine's personal story as she is married against her will, separated from her children and imprisoned in South Africa on dubious charges. Leda Farrant does full justice to the fascinating aristocrat who went everywhere, met everyone, did almost everything - and wrote it all down.
Publication date: 1999-08
Dewey code: 782.42164092
Review Joni Mitchell Companion: Four Decades of Commentary / Music Sales Ltd:
Publication date: 1849
Review Pioneer history of the Holland purchase of western New York: Embracing some account of the ancient remains ... and a history of pioneer settlement under ... of the Erie canal, etc., etc., etc / Jewett, Thomas & co:
Authors
- Mary Spongberg
- Barbara Caine
- Ann Curthoys
Dewey code: 828.08
List Price: $185.00
Price: $165.00
Review Companion to Women's Historical Writing / Palgrave Macmillan:This A-Z reference work provides the first comprehensive reference guide to the wide range of women's historical writing, particularly since the Renaissance. The Companion covers biographical writing, travelogue and historical fictions, broadening the concept of history to include the forms of writing with which women have historically engaged. The focus is on women writing in English internationally, but historical and historiographical traditions from beyond the English-speaking world are also examined. Brief biographies of individual writers are included.
Edition: 1. ed
Publication date: 2000
Review Exilio espanol y ciencia mexicana: Genesis del Instituto de Quimica y del Laboratorio de Estudios Medicos y Biologicos de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (1939-1945) (Coleccion Testimonios) / Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico:
Creator: Peter J. Chelkowski
Publication date: 1975-01-01
Price: $28.50
Review The Scholar and the Saint / New York University Press:
Authors
- Samuel Taylor Moore
- Boyden Sparkes
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1930-01-01
Review Hetty Green: A Woman Who Loved Money / Doubleday, Doran & Co, Inc, Garden City:
Publication date: 1837-01-01
Review THE ROMANCE OF BIOGRAPHY Or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets from the days of the Troubadours to the present age. / Publisher Unknown:
Publication date: 1971
Review Latter-Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Vol.3 / Western Epics:In the preface to the first volume Jensen writes, "On the rolls of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are found the names of a host of men and women of worth - heroes and heroines of a higher type - who have been and are willing to sacrifice fortune and life for the sake of their religion. It is for the purpose of perpetuating the memory of these, and to place on record deeds worthy of imitation, that [this set] makes its appearance. " With over 5000 biographical entries of "heroes and heroines" complete with over 2000 photographs the L. D. S. Biographical Encyclopedia is an essential reference for study of early church history. Nearly anyone with pioneer heritage will find exciting and interesting history about ancestors in these volumes.
Publication date: 1991-03
Dewey code: 509.17671
List Price: $124.95
Price: $159.40
Review Science and Medicine in Islam: A Collection of Essays (Collected Studies Series, Cs330) / Variorum:The achievements of medieval Muslim scholars in the fields of philosophy, science and medicine are now well recognized, and Franz Rosenthal's work has been instrumental in helping us to understand these. In this third collection of his articles, he demonstrates the information to be gained from tracing the Greek roots of the science and medicine of the Islamic world in the Middle Ages. Of particular concern here are the Hellenistic or late Hellenistic authors such as Galen, Hippocrates or Ptolemy. These articles show how Muslim writers have preserved much that has been lost in the Greek and played a vital part in ensuring the continuity of the classical tradition, and examine some of the specific ways in which they reacted to and developed it. They also deal with questions such as the place of the physician in society and the medical attitude towards homosexuality. As previously, the opportunity has been taken to add extra notes, and there is further included, published for the first time, a complete bibliography of the author's works.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-11-30
Dewey code: 305.42
List Price: $170.00
Price: $160.71
Review Feminism and Autobiography: Texts, Theories, Methods (Transformations) / Routledge:This book features essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines on the latest developments in autobiographical studies. The collection is structured around the inter-linked concepts of genre, inter-subjectivity, and memory. Whilst exemplifying the very different levels of autobiographical activity going on in feminist studies, the contributions chart a movement from autobiography as genre to autobiography as cultural practice, and from the analysis of autobiographical texts to a preoccupation with autobiography as method.
Publication date: 1980-06
Dewey code: 813.4
Price: $20.00
Review Kate Chopin: A Critical Biography (Publications of the American Institute, University of Oslo.) / Octagon Books:Kate Chopin was a nationally acclaimed short story artist of the local-color school when, in 1899 she shocked the American reading public with THE AWAKENING, a novel that much resembles MADAME BOVARY. Though the critics praised the artistic excellence of the book, it was generally condemned for its objective treatment of the sensuous, independent heroine. Deeply hurt by the censure, Mrs. Chopin wrote little more and became largely forgotten. For decades, the few critics who did remember her concentrated on the regional aspects of her work. In the LITERERY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, where Chopin is highly praised as a local colorist, THE AWAKENING is not even mentioned. In the 70s, however, a few critics began giving new attention to the novel, emphasizing its courageous realism. In KATE CHOPIN: A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY, Mr. Seyersted uses her total oeuvre to present an extensive re-examination of both the life and work of the author, including previously unknown stories, letters, and a diary. Chopin was a much more ambitious and purposeful writer than previously thought. [+]From the beginning, her special theme was female self-assertion. As each new success increased her self-confidence, she grew more and more daring in her descriptions of emancipated women wanting to dictate their own lives. Mr. Seyersted traces the author's growth as an artist and as a penetrating interpreter of the female condition, and shows how her career culminated in THE AWAKENING and the unknown story "The Storm. " With these works, which were decades ahead of their time, Kate Chopin takes her place among the important American realist writers of the 1890's.
Creator: Nathan Sivin
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1977-06
Dewey code: 509.5
Price: $15.00
Review Science and Technology in East Asia (History of science : Selections from Isis) / Watson Pub Intl:
Creator: Joanna Moody
Publication date: 1998-07
Dewey code: 942.055092
Price: $35.95
Review The Private Life of an Elizabethan Lady: The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby 1599-1605 / Alan Sutton Publishing,:Lady Margaret was the only daughter and heiress of a wealthy landowner. She was married first to Walter Devereus, brother of Robert, Earl of Essex (favourite of Elizabeth I) then to Thomas Sidney, brother of the great Renaissance poet and courtier Sir Philip Sidney, and finally to the Puritan Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby. This diary covers the period 1599-1605, when she lived on her estate in North Yorkshire, and records Lady Margaret's spiritual endeavours, the life of her househould and such great events as the legal case in Star Chamber which took the Hobys to London. Lady Margaret's diary is thought to be the earliest of its kind, and it is one of the most significant in what became a dominant genre for women in the 17th century, the meditative autobiographical journal. The appeal of the diary is on the one hand the account of Lady Margaret's spiritual life and on the other its picture of her domestic affairs and daily routine. In her introduction, Joanna Moody presents the personal history of a gentlewoman of wide talents, interests and acquaintance.
Publication date: 1989
Review Les Sciences en Alsace: 1538-1988 / Oberlin:
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[Subtitle]: (GermanWomen Writers, Volume 1.), Carson McCullers, The Pioneer History of Illinois: Containing the Discovery, in 1673, and the history of the country to the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, when the state government was organized, Gustav Mahler: The Early Years, Songs and Symphonies, The Wunderhorn Years, The Princess from St. Petersburg: The Life of Princess Catherine Radzwill, Joni Mitchell Companion: Four Decades of Commentary, Pioneer history of the Holland purchase of western New York: Embracing some account of the ancient remains ... and a history of pioneer settlement under ... of the Erie canal, etc., etc., etc, Companion to Women's Historical Writing, Exilio espanol y ciencia mexicana: Genesis del Instituto de Quimica y del Laboratorio de Estudios Medicos y Biologicos de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (1939-1945) (Coleccion Testimonios), The Scholar and the Saint, Hetty Green: A Woman Who Loved Money, THE ROMANCE OF BIOGRAPHY Or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets from the days of the Troubadours to the present age., Latter-Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Vol.3, Science and Medicine in Islam: A Collection of Essays (Collected Studies Series, Cs330), Feminism and Autobiography: Texts, Theories, Methods (Transformations), Kate Chopin: A Critical Biography (Publications of the American Institute, University of Oslo.), Science and Technology in East Asia (History of science : Selections from Isis), The Private Life of an Elizabethan Lady: The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby 1599-1605, Les Sciences en Alsace: 1538-1988Top headlines: Dine-and-dash gang nabbed via Facebook: An restaurateur left holding a hefty unpaid bill when five young diners bolted used the popular social networking Web site Facebook to track them down and they got their just desserts. ›09:45 27 Nov, Thu Thai protesters reinforce airports: Protesters trying to force the prime minister's resignation brought in thousands of reinforcements to occupy Bangkok's two besieged airports Monday. ›19:45 Could Nobel Win Push Gore Into 08 Race?: Thousands of activists are hoping to convince Al Gore to run for president. 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