Publication date: 1997-07
Review Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: " A Thoroughly Ordinary Woman " / Aldeburgh Bookshop:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000
Dewey code: 016.82080358
List Price: $165.00
Price: $163.34
Review Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography / Routledge:This bibliography challenges the view that World War I was totally a masculine domain by listing and annotating hundreds of published and unpublished books, articles, memoirs, diaries and letters written by women during the war period. Included are: Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, GB Stern, Brenda Girvin, known and unknown autobiographers and diarists, writers of pro and anti-war propaganda, journal and magazine articles, and literary, cultural and historical criticism.
Publication date: 2000-10-28
Review My Vanished World: The True Story of a Shan Princess / Horseshoe Publications:
Publication date: 1999-07-29
Dewey code: 787.2092
List Price: $239.99
Price: $175.19
Review Arcangelo Corelli: "New Orpheus of Our Times" (Oxford Monographs on Music) / Oxford University Press, USA:The first full-length study for forty years, Arcangelo Corelli offers a much needed reassessment of the seminal composer's life and works. His current historical perspective is still largely conditioned by the opinions of Burney and Hawkins in the late 18th century who saw him as the consolidator of past trends rather than an instigator-a view fully endorsed in the two biographies of the present century. Neither of these writers was truly in a position to make such judgements if only because neither was aware of the contributions of the Roman School to which Corelli emphatically affirmed his allegiance. Extensive archival research over recent years now dispels much of the anecdote and hearsay accumulated over the centuries and makes possible a more balanced evaluation of Corelli's true status in the development of the prime instrumental genres, accounting for his phenomenal success both during his lifetime and in the creation of musical canon in the decades after his death.
Authors
- Alexander Siloti
- Arthur Friedheim
Price: $14.95
Review Remembering Franz Liszt: Life and Liszt AND My Memories of Liszt / Limelight Editions:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1938
Review Helen Keller's journal 1936-1937 / Doubleday, Doran & Co:
Edition: Bilingual
Publication date: 1992-09
Dewey code: 509
List Price: $144.95
Price: $144.94
Review Science Medievale D'Espagne Et D'Alentour (Collected Studies) / Variorum:The articles in this volume examine the contribution to our knowledge of the scientific and intellectual context of the great voyages of discovery in the 15th century, and illustrate the particularities of the development of science and medicine in medieval Spain - for example the medical school of Guadalupe. The author largely attributes these peculiarities to certain specific features of Spanish history: the important Muslim and Jewish presence; the relative weakness of the universities; and the early strength of the vernacular language. The volume opens with two surveys of science in the peninsula, and closes with a detailed analysis of the remarkable works of "Philippe Elephant". The text also contains a series of studies on the manuscript sources, fundamental research which has done much to open the field to others. Particular attention is given to the library established by Ferdinand Columbus, the son of Christopher, and to the relations between scientific learning and the arts of astronomy and navigation, notably as practised in Portugal.
Publication date: 2004-03-01
Dewey code: 780
Price: $24.95
Review The Judith Durham Story: Colours of My Life / Virgin Books:As lead singer of Australian pop and folk group The Seekers, Judith Durham was one of the most famous people in the music world in the mid 60’s. Through her solo career and lately the world tour of the reunited group, she maintains a sell out level of success as she enters her sixtieth year. Hey There Georgy Girl’ was a No 1 best seller in both the UK and the USA and The Seekers had four more massive hits in the UK with I’ll Never Find Another You, A World Of Our Own, The Carnival Is Over and Morningtown Ride. They were voted ‘Best New Group Of 1965’ by the readers of the New Musical Express, and Judith made national headlines when she left the group to go solo. More than a straightforward music biography, Judith tells the story of her ultimately tragic marriage to her fellow musician Ron Edgeworth and how amid the euphoria of her public life she lived with the knowledge that he was fatally ill with Motor Neurone Disease. Although Ron lost his battle against the disease in December 1994, he will always be, for Judith, a symbol of immense strength and courage. Since his death Judith has spent hours and days of her life dedicated to raising money to fight this illness and for this as much as her musical success she was rewarded in the Queen’s New Year Honours List of 1995. Meantime her career has gone from strength to strength both in the UK and in Australia.
Publication date: 1999-07
Dewey code: 910.91634
Price: $30.00
Review Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth / Johnson Books:When Margaret Tobin Brown arrived in New York City shortly after her perilous night in Titanic’s Lifeboat Six, a legend was born. Through magazines, books, a Broadway musical, and a Hollywood movie, she became "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," but in the process her life story was distorted beyond recognition. Even her name was changed—she was never known as Molly during her lifetime. Kristen Iversen’s "Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth" is the first full-length biography of this American icon, and the story it tells is of a passionate and outspoken crusader for the rights of women, children, mine workers, and others struggling for their voice in the early twentieth century. In the end, the real "Molly" Brown was far more fascinating than her myth, and Kristen Iversen has captured her in all her brilliance.
Publication date: 2002-05
Dewey code: 813
Price: $19.95
Review PI Harry Walker / PublishAmerica:Private Investigators are a unique breed, but PI Harry Walker takes sleuthing to a new plateau. He's Estelle McHenry and Father Carl Sheehan, disguises Walker creates to fool Mob Boss Alphonse 'Big Al' Infantino, while he snoops around seeking infidelity evidence for Big Al's wife Lititia. She offers Walker the US Mint if he succeeds. At one point, Lititia tries to dupe him, which provokes several heated confrontations between them. He helps Sophie, a waitress friend, learn of her blood parents. This commitment leads to a chilling and intriguing trip to Cincinnati. There, he learns his wife has been killed by the Mob, and he learns that Sophie could have inherited $3,000,000. After Cincinnati he flees to Paris because the Mob has fingered him. He changes his lifestyle and becomes a new man. Madame Pompadour, Walker's oversexed pussycat, is good for laughs and tears. [+]The flashback to London and Walker's involvement with British intelligence will touch your heart. And the second divorce trial is hysterical.
Creator: Martha Macintyre
Publication date: 1989-11-24
Dewey code: 306.8099
Price: $59.95
Review Family and Gender in the Pacific: Domestic Contradictions and the Colonial Impact / Cambridge University Press:The book raises a broad range of issues likely to interest anyone concerned with the peoples and history of the Pacific, the broader questions of colonialism and missionary endeavour, and the changing structure of the family.
Publication date: 2004-06-09
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $15.95
Price: $142.40
Review Against A White Sky: A Memoir Of Closets And Classrooms / Artemispress:In Against a White Sky, Laurie Stapleton reveals her experiences with honesty and humor as a gay high school teacher in an "All-American" city. Having spent most of her young adult life in Santa Cruz, California — a beach town accepting of its large lesbian community — Laurie relocates to the more conservative San Joaquin Valley to enroll in an accelerated teacher credentialing program. There, Laurie discovers that she is the only woman who regularly (well, always) wears slacks. She decides she’d better change the way she dresses, walks and talks to feel socially comfortable — and maybe even safe. Laurie becomes certified to teach public high school within a year. Mindful of recent bouts with poverty and low self-esteem, she accepts the first teaching offer she receives — a public high school deeper in the heart of the valley, in a city voted "All-American. " Her relocation doesn’t sit too well with Laurie’s girlfriend back in Santa Cruz, who says to Laurie, "You don’t look like you anymore. " Despite her struggle to sway students’ and teachers’ attention from her sexual identity, they seem to "know" anyway, as evidenced by homophobic slurs she hears in the school halls, and snickers from the student-athletes she coaches. Eventually she asks herself the hard questions: why did she choose to live and teach in a town in which she is at best ignored, and at worse harassed, because of her sexual orientation? What is the meaning behind the irony that, as she helps her students discover their voices, she is silencing her own?.
Edition: 2
Publication date: 1999-07-29
Dewey code: 509.38
List Price: $195.00
Price: $156.00
Review The Mathematics of Plato's Academy: A New Reconstruction / Oxford University Press, USA:This is an updated edition of a groundbreaking examination of early Greek mathematics. The author has revised parts of the text, updated the bibliography, and added a new Appendix where he takes a strong position in the continuing debate about the nature and range of classical mathematics. The first part presents several new interpretations of the idea of ratio in early Greek mathematics and illustrates these in detailed discussions of several texts. Part Two then focuses on the sources themselves and provides a critical look at our knowledge of Plato's Academy during his lifetime, at the source of our text of Euclid's Elements, and at our understanding of early Greek mathematics. The final part contrasts some of the evidence from early and late antiquity and then gives a historical account, beginning in the seventeenth century, of the modern theory of continued fractions, which underlies our reconstruction of early Greek mathematics.
Publication date: 2000-08
Dewey code: 912
Price: $40.00
Review Captain Cook's World: Maps of the Life and Voyages of James Cook R. N. / University of Washington Press:James Cook, sailor, surveyor, cartographer, and explorer, was born in 1728 in Yorkshire. In the course of his illustrious career, he sailed into every ocean and was one of the first, if not the first, British explorers to set foot on most of the world's major continents. He was also the first to cross both the Arctic and Antarctic Circles. Captain Cook's World is an atlas, chronology, and biography of the life and voyages of this celebrated explorer. A set of 128 specially drawn maps and accompanying text give a detailed overview of his life, including his early years in England, his time in the North Sea coal trade and with the Royal Navy in Canada, and his three great voyages around the world in HMB Endeavour and HMS Resolution. Included on the maps are locations visited, named, or surveyed by Cook; the routes of his voyages; and sites that have been marked in his honor, such as monuments. Based on meticulous scholarship but aimed at a general audience, Captain Cook's World is a fascinating and accessible record of Cook's life and travels.
Creator: E. Agazzi
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1980-12-31
Dewey code: 509
List Price: $214.00
Price: $195.56
Review Theory Change, Ancient Axiomatics, and Galileo's Methodology: Volume I (Synthese Library) / Springer:
Creator: Steven John Livesey
Publication date: 1996-07-01
Dewey code: 509
List Price: $451.00
Price: $375.66
Review Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: Proceedings of Two Conferences on Pre-Modern Science Held at the University of Oklahoma (Collection De Travaux ... D'histiore Des Sciences, Tome 37) / Brill Academic Publishers:This volume is the outcome of two conferences held at the University of Oklahoma in 1992 and 1993 which dealt with issues of transmission and subsequent cultural transformations that occurred in the premodern histories of mathematics and science. Some twenty contributors explore transmission from a variety of perspectives, including the role of language and other facets of culture in the transmission process, the interaction of popular and elite science in transmission, successful and less than successful episodes of scientific appropriation and the role of institutions in this process. The volume uses the theme of transmission as a way to focus debate on the perennial issue of the continuity and discontinuity of ideas in the history of sciences.
Creator: Margaret Scott
Publication date: 1996-05-23
Dewey code: 823.912
List Price: $260.00
Price: $142.93
Review The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume Four: 1920-1921 (Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield) / Oxford University Press, USA:The letters in this volume cover the eighteen months Katherine Mansfield spent in England, France, and Switzerland from May 1920 to the end of 1921. It is the period of her finest stories, and when her life took its most decisive turn. The qualities of her earlier correspondence remain undiminished-the precision and directness, the intelligence and wit, the dark incisiveness and sheer fun. Above all, these letters attest to her considerable courage, against increasingly adverse odds, as she approached the final years of her life.
Publication date: 1981-05-01
Dewey code: 500
Price: $140.00
Review Public Science - Private View, / Taylor & Francis:
Edition: Largeprint
Publication date: 2000-06
Dewey code: 941.073092
Review Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (Windsor Selection) / Chivers:Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was one of the most flamboyant women of the eighteenth century. Foreman's biography of the great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales presents a picture of political and sexual intrigue and shows that Georgiana was a gambler, a drug addict, an adultress and the darling of the common people. Georgiana Spencer was, in a sense, an 18th-century It Girl. She came from one of England's richest and most landed families (the late Princess Diana was a Spencer too) and married into another. She was beautiful, sensitive, and extravagant-drugs, drink, high-profile love affairs, and even gambling counted among her favorite leisure-time activities. Nonetheless, she quickly moved from a world dominated by social parties to one focused on political parties. The duchess was an intimate of ministers and princes, and she canvassed assiduously for the Whig cause, most famously in the Westminster election of 1784. By turns she was caricatured and fawned on by the press, and she provided the inspiration for the character of Lady Teazle in Richard Sheridan's famous play The School for Scandal. But her weaknesses marked the last part of her life. By 1784, for one, Georgiana owed "many, many, many thousands," and her creditors dogged her until her death. [+]Biographer Amanda Foreman describes astutely the mess that surrounded the personal relationships of the aristocratic subculture (Georgiana and the duke engaged for many years in a ménage à trois with Lady Elizabeth Fraser, who inveigled her way into the duke's bed and the duchess's heart). Foreman is, by her own admission, a little in love with her subject, which can lead to occasional lapses of perspective, but generally it adds zest to a narrative built on, rather than burdened by, scholarship, that is at once accessible and learned. An impressive debut, in every sense. -David Vincent, Amazon. co. uk.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-07-01
Dewey code: 306.4'6
Price: $44.00
Review LA MISE EN MEMOIRE DE LA SCIENCE (Histoire Des Sciences, Des Techniques Et de la Medecine,) / Other:
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