Creator: Tim Carter
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1994-06-24
Dewey code: 782.0092
List Price: $135.00
Price: $132.01
Review Monteverdi / Cambridge University Press:Paolo Fabbri's Monteverdi, first published in Italian, is the leading study of the greatest composer of late Renaissance and early Baroque Italy, rightly called the "father of modern music. " A large number of contemporary documents, including some 130 of his own letters, offer rich insights into the composer and his times, also illuminating the many and varied contexts for music-making in the most important musical centers in Italy. This newly revised translation brings an indispensable text to a much broader readership.
Publication date: 1998-01-05
Price: $9.95
Review La escafandra y la mariposa / New Media Spanish Language:En 1995 un derrame cerebral sumió a Jean-Dominique Bauby en un coma profundo, del que despertó viente días más tarde con el cuerpo completamente paralizado pero con las facultades mentales intactas. Afectado de un síndrome de bloqueo interno sólo podía abrir el ojo izquierdo, su único medio de comunicación con el exterio era parpadeando. Giñaba una vez para asentir y dos para negar. Con su ojo retenía la atención del visitante en las letras del alfabeto que se le dictaban y componía palabras, frases, páginas enteras. Con su ojo escribió este libro. Con una ironia sutilísima, Bauby, quien antes de sufrir el derrame había triunfado profesionalmente en la revista Elle, deja constancia de sus memorias y reflexiones en un breve libro de sobrecogedora dimensión humana.
Publication date: 1997-08
Dewey code: 509.4109033
List Price: $134.95
Price: $134.94
Review Science, Culture and Politics in Britain, 1750-1870 (Collected Studies, 567) / Variorum:A collection of studies aiming to show how the social, political, economic and institutionalised aspects of science can be integrated with its content. Specific topics include the institutions of British science, the careers of scientists and the impact of locality.
Authors
- Marylin Jameston
- Rusty Fischer
Dewey code: 920
Price: $13.95
Review The Girl You Don't Bring Home to Mother: A Memoir of Prostitution & Redemption / iUniverse:One part Girl, Interrupted, one part Leaving Las Vegas, all parts brutally frank and entirely truthful, THE GIRL YOU DON'T BRING HOME TO MOTHER tells the unabashed story of one very good girl gone very, very bad. With a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a Master of Communication from Emerson College, Marylin Jameston was on the path to be anything but a working prostitute. But like so many sex workers in the profession today, Marylin experienced a rash of acting out and other harmful behaviors that made her feel unwanted, unloved, and unworthy of anyone's affection. Suicidal and frantic, at 27 Marylin entered into prostitution, working as a call girl for 5 years in the Boston area. She retired from the sex trade at 32 and started a more vigorous treatment program for her bipolar disorder, which had gone undiagnosed for 10 years. In the process, Marylin lived a life few of us can ever imagine, let alone survive. From pimps to madams, massage parlors to brothels, in calls to out calls, Marylin has seen, done, and heard it all. And now she is ready to "tell all" in her frank and touching memoir, THE GIRL YOU DON'T BRING HOME TO MOTHER.
Publication date: 2005-10-01
Dewey code: 920
Price: $18.95
Review My Stroke. . . My New Life / Ericsson:During a stroke each minute spent seeking treatment is critical. The sooner treatment begins, the more brain cells are likely to be saved, preventing serious loss of language, vision, movement, and behavior. Brain cells die quickly without the oxygen and nutrients that are normally delivered by the blood. This can mean permanent disability or even death. My New Life speaks of life in general, and how the stroke victim can deal with new obstacles such as driving, eating, dressing. It also contains illustrations and addresses for Web sites to visit to gain additional information. The book includes a table of contents, bibliography, glossary, and index. It can be carried in a purse or pocket.
Publication date: 1872
Review Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America ... With biographies / Johnson, Fry and Company:
Publication date: 2004-03
Dewey code: 305.42092
List Price: $149.00
Price: $149.00
Review Hiratsuka Raicho and Early Japanese Feminism (Brill's Japanese Studies Library) / Brill Academic Publishers:This work on Hiratsuka Raich? at last fully assesses her key role in the history of the Japanese women's movement. It provides a full and contextual analysis of the life (1886-1971) and work of this leading Japanese feminist, all in the light of the changes affecting women in Japan. At the same time the author compares her working with similar historical shifts and movements in western countries, notably Great Britain and the United States. International comparisons at the level of personal biography and associated ideas are made, to see the influence of Western feminists on Hiratsuka's feminism. Hiratsuka is compared with other Japanese feminists, whereby her pivotal role in the history of the Japanese women's movement becomes clear. With extensive footnotes for further reference - and research -, a number of appendices, a detailed bilingual glossary and bibliography; a true reference on an important subject.
Edition: 1. ed
Publication date: 1998
Review Clones, moscas, y sabios (Las anecdotas de la ciencia) / Planeta:
Publication date: 1991-08
Dewey code: 509'.02
List Price: $134.95
Price: $134.95
Review Par Raison De Nombres: L'Art Du Calcul Et Les Savoirs Scientifques Medievaux (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 344) / Variorum:The subject of this volume is the place of mathematics and science in the thought of the medieval West, notably during the 10th-14th centuries. The "Quadrivium", part of the educational system of the Middle Ages, is discussed in the opening studies. These show how its original structure, and the division into the arts of arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy, was reshaped, a process stimulated by the discovery of Arabic science and a new emphasis on the distinction between theoretical and practical learning. This theme, in the form of the relationship between theory and practice, is taken up again in the final articles. A further group of studies deals specifically with the development of arithmetic, looking in particular at the evolution and the use of numerals.
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1985
Review Charles Wells: Pioneer--scout--Apache slave / Saddlebag Books:
Publication date: 1944
Review Worthies of Thomond;: Being a compendium of short lives of the most famous men and women of Limerick and Clare to the present day / Printed by George McKern & Sons, and published by the author at Pery Square, Limerick:
Creator: Maxine Schwartz Seller
Publication date: 1994-05-30
Dewey code: 371.100922
List Price: $159.95
Price: $159.95
Review Women Educators in the United States, 1820-1993: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook / Greenwood Press:This reference profiles the careers of more than sixty women educators who made significant contributions to American education in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Multicultural in nature, the book includes African-American, Native-American, Asian-American, and Hispanic women. The profiles are arranged alphabetically, and each begins with a brief paragraph summarizing the subject's importance. The entries provide information about the subject's family background, her education, people and events that influenced her, her goals, her achievements, and the impact of gender on her life and career. Each contributor locates his or her subject within the appropriate social and political context, thus providing an historical background for the educator. Each entry concludes with a bibliography of works by and about the subject, and the volume closes with a chronological listing of the women and a selected bibliography.
Authors
- C. R. Perricone
- Julia Urquidi Illanes
Dewey code: 863
Price: $36.00
Review My Life With Mario Vargas Llosa (American University Studies, Series Xxii : Latin American Studies, Vol 1) / Peter Lang Pub Inc:
Publication date: 1986
Review Science--a powerful productive force / Sofia Press:
Publication date: 1992-11
Dewey code: 509.44
List Price: $134.95
Price: $134.94
Review The Culture of Science in France, 1700-1900 (Collected Studies Series, Vol 381) / Variorum:This volume treats a remarkable period in the history of science in France. The articles in the first of its two sections, concerned with patronage and institutions, explore the structures that fostered research and the diffusion of scientific and technological knowledge, not only in the great institutions under state control but also in the very different world of the independent academies and the many scientific and industrial societies in Paris and the provinces. The second section focuses on the physical sciences, in particular the physics of heat and the imponderable fluids, and their relations with experimental and technological practice. It contains studies of figures of outstanding importance in the history of French science, including J. H. Lambert, P. S. de Laplace, and Sadi Carnot. Taken together, the articles provide a coherent picture of a nation's science over a period of a century, developing a methodological perspective that unites cognitive and social considerations.
Publication date: 1998-06
Dewey code: 823.914
Price: $74.95
Review Angela Carter: The Rational Glass / Manchester Univ Pr:This full scale study discusses Angela Carter's fiction in chronological order, and notes that her themes are fairly consistent throughout her work; but consistency of theme is not the same thing as repetition. The new angles and emphases that develop are partly from Carter's immersion in the changing intellectual debates of the times, and concurrently, arise from the reading she was doing at the different stages of her life, which stretched from the Medieval through de Sade to Foucault. Aidan Day describes theoretical arguments on the Enlightenment, modernity, feminism and postmodernism in a way which does not assume too much prior knowledge. Broader in its appeal than much of the specialist work written on Carter, which tends to stress special interests in fantasy, sexuality or the gothic, Day's clarity and thoroughness are refreshing in that they credit Angela Carter's fiction with the central place that it deserves.
Creator: Joanne M. Braxton
Publication date: 1997-06
Dewey code: 975.3004960730092
Price: $30.00
Review Out of the Depths, Or, the Triumph of the Cross (African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940) / MacMillan Publishing Company:African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940 seriesHenry Louis Gates, Jr. , General EditorThe past decade has seen the increasing popularity of African-American women writers, from Alice Walker, to the Delany sisters, to Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison. Although African-American women have been publishing their work since at least 1733, when Phyllis Wheatley published her book of poems in London, their writings in the past have been largely neglected and hard to find. This series helps fill that void by reprinting in their original format the works by black women writers who published during the first half of the twentieth century. Born a slave in 1860, Nellie Arnold Plummer was an educator in the schools of Maryland and Washington, D. C. , for forty-five years. Her family narrative and spiritual biography Out of the Depths, or The Triumph of the Cross documents, through excerpts from the diary of her father and letters by family members, the trials, hardships, and triumphs of the Plummers through slavery into freedom.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-07-01
Dewey code: 509
List Price: $150.00
Price: $139.17
Review Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology (Monographs in Clinical Pediatrics) / Routledge:More than 90 percent of all scientific history has been made during the last half century. So far, however, only a fraction of historical scholarship has dealt with this period. Merely a decade ago, most scientific historians considered recent science - the scientific culture created, lived and remembered by contemporary scientists - an area of study best left to the historical actors themselves. Today, an increasing number of historians are turning to the study of contemporary science. When doing so, they are confronted with new and unfamiliar methodological and theoretical problems. How to handle the huge amounts of published and unpublished source materials? What level of scientific training is necessary to understand contemporary science? Does the lack of historical perspective prevent good scholarship? Can (and will) historians of recent science share the turf with other professional groups, such as active scientists, scholars of science and technology studies, and science journalists? Thi.
Publication date: 1995-08
Dewey code: 509.4409033
List Price: $134.95
Price: $134.94
Review Studies in the Culture of Science in France and Britain Since the Enlightenment (Variorum Collected Studies, No Cs501) / Variorum:This work places more emphasis on the history of science in France because French science has been less well recorded. Three of aspects science history are addressed: the potentially hostile view the public takes of science; the importance of qualifications; and the national context of science. Some articles present a broad perspective, others are more detailed and draw upon the archives of the Paris Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of London. An interpretation of the career of Priestley is followed by a historiographical article on Lavoisier. Other subjects include the professionalization of science.
Creator: Denise D. Knight
Publication date: 1997-06-30
Dewey code: 810.9928709034
List Price: $165.00
Price: $132.00
Review Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook / Greenwood Press:The nineteenth century gave birth to some of the richest works in American literature. For decades, nineteenth-century authors such as Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman have been considered the dominant figures of the period, and other writers have received much less attention. But the scope and focus of American literary studies has shifted dramatically in recent years, and mainstream anthologies have been revised to reflect changes in the canon. One of the most exciting changes has been the reassessment of the contributions of American women writers of the nineteenth century. Some of these women, such as Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe, are fairly well known. Others, such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, have been the subject of much recent critical attention. But despite the resurgence of interest in American women writers of the nineteenth century, resources for readers have remained widely scattered. This reference book is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive entries on more than 70 American women writers who published during the nineteenth century. Featuring authors who have long been assimilated into the literary canon as well as once-popular writers who have largely been forgotten, this volume invites a critical reassessment of the contributions of these writers to American literary history. Entries are written by expert contributors and are arranged alphabetically to facilitate access. [+]Each entry includes a biographical sketch, a discussion of the writer's major works and themes, an overview of the critical response to the writer, and a bibliography of works by and about the writer. To encourage additional research, the volume closes with a bibliography of significant studies of nineteenth-century American women writers.
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With biographies, Hiratsuka Raicho and Early Japanese Feminism (Brill's Japanese Studies Library), Clones, moscas, y sabios (Las anecdotas de la ciencia), Par Raison De Nombres: L'Art Du Calcul Et Les Savoirs Scientifques Medievaux (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 344), Charles Wells: Pioneer--scout--Apache slave, Worthies of Thomond;: Being a compendium of short lives of the most famous men and women of Limerick and Clare to the present day, Women Educators in the United States, 1820-1993: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, My Life With Mario Vargas Llosa (American University Studies, Series Xxii : Latin American Studies, Vol 1), Science--a powerful productive force, The Culture of Science in France, 1700-1900 (Collected Studies Series, Vol 381), Angela Carter: The Rational Glass, Out of the Depths, Or, the Triumph of the Cross (African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940), Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology (Monographs in Clinical Pediatrics), Studies in the Culture of Science in France and Britain Since the Enlightenment (Variorum Collected Studies, No Cs501), Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical SourcebookTop headlines: Books Q&A: The Real Charles Schulz: 'Peanuts' creator Charles Schulz emerges as insecure and an emotionally distant father and husband in a new biography and documentary. ›22:32 9 Oct, Tue Video: Capitol residents rent out homes for inauguration: Nov. 30: An estimated 1.5 million people will descend upon Washington for Barack Obamas inauguration. 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