Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1992
Dewey code: 305.4889162071
Price: $29.95
Review Faraway Hills Are Green, The / Canadian Scholars Press:Weaving a rich tapestry from the voices and history of Ireland and Irish women in Canada Conway produces us with visions of women who have struggled against sexism, poverty, neo-colonialism and religious constraints. "Sheelagh Conway has provided a fascinating contribution to women's history. " - Books in Canada.
Creator: Melissa Bradshaw
Publication date: 2004-01
Dewey code: 811.52
List Price: $60.00
Price: $130.85
Review Amy Lowell, American Modern / Rutgers University Press:This volume presents a re-evaluation of Lowell, and builds a solid critical basis for assessing her poetry, criticism, politics and influence. Essays explore the varied contributions of Lowell as a woman poet, a modernist and a significant force behind the literary debates of early-20th-century poetics. In addition to placing Lowell in her proper historical context, contributes demonstrate her centrality to current critical and theoretical discussions: femist, gay and lesbian, and post-colonial, as well as in disability, American and cultural studies. The book includes the work of a transatlantic group of literary critics and scholars.
Publication date: 2001-05-30
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $131.95
Price: $131.25
Review Beethoven in Person: His Deafness, Illnesses, and Death (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance) / Greenwood Press:This critical reevaluation of the causes of many of Beethoven's illnesses offers detailed accounts of the treatments applied by his physicians and a comprehensive rendering of the composer's final illness, death, and burial. Separate chapters discuss the causes of many of Beethoven's illnesses, his autopsy and the exhumations. Following the rediscovery of the original Latin autopsy report in 1970, the author has discovered two faulty translations, which he argues contributed to errors in earlier medical assumptions. New evidence disputes earlier assertions that Beethoven's deafness resulted from syphilis. This fascinating account of Beethoven's ailments should appeal to Beethoven enthusiasts and to both the medical and music communities.
Publication date: 1979-05-03
Dewey code: 942.060922
Price: $69.00
Review The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe / Oxford University Press, USA:
Publication date: 1989
Review Goethes Tragweite in der Naturwissenschaft: Hermann von Helmholtz, Ernst Haeckel, Werner Heisenberg, Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker / Duncker & Humblot:
Edition: Disk
Publication date: 1999-08
List Price: $1,175.00
Price: $218.87
Review Women Artists / G. K. Hall & Company:
Publication date: 1995
Review Paradigmenwechsel und konfessionelle Krise in der fruhen Neuzeit: Der Kampf um die Autonomie der Wissenschaft (European university studies. Series XX, Philosophy) / P. Lang:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-11-07
Dewey code: 374.0082
List Price: $170.00
Price: $141.45
Review Women, Class and Education (Women and Social Class (G. Routledge & Co.).) / Routledge:Making use of theory, reflection, narrativity and auto/biographical writing, Jane Thompson provides an accessible understanding of what learning means and what education can contribute to the struggles of working class women.
Publication date: 2002-01
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $129.95
Price: $129.95
Review Anton Bruckner - A Documentary Biography: Trial, Tribulation and Triumph in Vienna (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music, Volume 83b) / Edwin Mellen Press:This study provides a fuller account of Bruckner's early and middle years than has hitherto been available, and supplements the more accessible information about his years in Vienna by drawing on a rich source of material in contemporary reviews of performances of his works, comparisons between him and Brahms, and the well-documented accounts of hostility between the "conservative" pro-Brahms faction (represented by Hanslick, Halbeck and others) and the "progressive" pro-Wagner and pro-Bruckner faction (represented by the Schalk brothers, Ferdinand Lowe and Hugo Wolf).
Publication date: 2004-05
Dewey code: 813.5
List Price: $129.95
Price: $129.95
Review The Life and Work of Writer Annie Trumbull Slosson: A Connecticut Local Colorist (Studies in American Literature (Lewiston, N.Y.), V. 68.) / Edwin Mellen Press:Annie Trumbull Slosson (1832-1926) was an important short story writer who epitomized the American local color movement that flourished after the Civil War and ended at the beginning of the twentieth century. Along with writers like Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, she helped establish the popular and critical model of the short story in which location and idiosyncratic characterization identified a particular region of the United States. In New England women dominated the genre, for the isolated farms and desolate villages were often places where women and old men lived - the young men had died in the war or had gone west in search of gold. Slosson's first work, The China Hunter's Club (1878), helped establish the viability of local dialect, building on the tradition established by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Catherine Sedgwick. But in her two most important volumes, Seven Dreamers (1890) and Dumb Foxglove and Other Stories (1898) she reached full maturity, with stories that developed the mystical/psychological ramifications of her characters, mostly older women who abandoned the old-style Congregational/Calvinist puritanism of their forebears and embraced the new revisionist Protestantism - salvation by good deeds and decent behavior, a philosophy Slosson acquired in her schoolgirl days at Catherine Beecher's Hartford Female Seminary. Slosson's eclipse as a writer occurred in the new century, as other styles of prose fiction emerged, and local colorists were relegated to secondary "women's" popular writing. As well, she began writing for the Sunday-school press, sentimental homilies that guaranteed her removal from the halls of serious literature. At the same time she became an entomologist, and her studies of the insect world, documented in important articles in entomological journals, became the central focus of her later life. Over one hundred newly-discovered insects bear the suffix slossonii. When she died in 1926, she was remembered by the scientific world but she was totally forgotten by the literary world. [+]Slosson is a writer who needs to be rediscovered, for her stories are often works of considerable literary worth. This is the first full-length study of this pioneering woman, a book that looks at her rich and varied life, as well as her significant contributions to the worlds of literature and entomology.
Publication date: 1915
Review History of Humboldt County, California,: With biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth ... from the early days to the present / Historic record company:
Publication date: 2007-11-22
Dewey code: 941.07092
List Price: $145.00
Price: $143.53
Review Cassandra Brydges (1670-1735), First Duchess of Chandos: Life and Letters / Boydell Press:Cassandra Brydges, née Willoughby (1670-1735), was a remarkable woman; through her marriage at the age of 43 to the immensely wealthy and influential James Brydges (later the first duke of Chandos), she was connected to many of the most important members of society at the time. Unusually for the period, much of her writing survives, including an extensive collection of correspondence, and it is therefore possible to gain a richer picture of her life. This book presents all the known extant letters of the duchess. They reveal a woman engaged in a very wide range of activities - from managing family and the family fortunes, investing on the stock market, socialising with a wide range of important and influential people, to matchmaking, expressing views on social conduct, painting, and researching family history. They are accompanied by an introduction, providing an overview of her life, and full notes. Professor ROSEMARY O'DAY teaches in the Department of History at the Open University.
Creator: Lily Xiao Hong Lee
Publication date: 2003-01
Dewey code: 903
List Price: $131.95
Price: $130.63
Review Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: The Twentieth Century 1912-2000 (Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women) / M.E. Sharpe:The first biographical dictionary in any Western language devoted solely to Chinese women, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women is the product of years of research, translation, and writing by scores of China scholars from around the world. Volume II: Twentieth Century includes a far greater range of women than would have been previously possible because of the enormous amount of historical material and scholarly research that has become available recently. They include scientists, businesswomen, sportswomen, military officers, writers, scholars, revolutionary heroines, politicians, musicians, opera stars, film stars, artists, educators, nuns, and more.
Creator: Krishna R. Dronamraju
Publication date: 1985-10
Dewey code: 509.24
Price: $23.00
Review Haldane: The Life and Work of J.B.S. Haldane With Special Reference to India / Pergamon Pr:
Creator: Rowena Cooper
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-05
Dewey code: 335
List Price: $129.95
Price: $129.95
Review Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China / Chivers Audio Books:"This is a powerful, moving, at times shocking account of three generations of Chinese women, as compelling as Amy Tan. " -Mary Morris. "An evocative, often astonishing view of life in a changing China. " - The New York Times In Wild Swans Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. Chang's grandmother was a warlord's concubine. Her gently raised mother struggled with hardships in the early days of Mao's revolution and rose, like her husband, to a prominent position in the Communist Party before being denounced during the Cultural Revolution. Chang herself marched, worked, and breathed for Mao until doubt crept in over the excesses of his policies and purges. Born just a few decades apart, their lives overlap with the end of the warlords' regime and overthrow of the Japanese occupation, violent struggles between the Kuomintang and the Communists to carve up China, and, most poignant for the author, the vicious cycle of purges orchestrated by Chairman Mao that discredited and crushed millions of people, including her parents.
Creator: Susan Massotty
Publication date: 1995-09
Dewey code: 940.5318092
Price: $23.95
Review The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (G.K. Hall Large Print Perennial Bestseller Collection) / G. K. Hall & Company:The compelling diary of a young girl on the brink of maturity as her life draws to toward its tragic end - one of the most moving and vivid documents of the Jewish experience. Anne Frank's diaries have always been among the most moving and eloquent documents of the Holocaust. This new edition restores diary entries omitted from the original edition, revealing a new depth to Anne's dreams, irritations, hardships, and passions. Anne emerges as more real, more human, and more vital than ever. If you've never read this remarkable autobiography, do so. If you have read it, you owe it to yourself to read it again.
Publication date: 1990
Price: $130.98
Review Deutsche Gelehrten-Reisen nach England, 1660-1714 (Munster monographs on English literatur) / P. Lang:
Publication date: 2005-03-30
Review Baba Allaudin Khan (Lotus collection) / Roli Books Pvt Ltd:Biography of Ustad Allaudin Khan, 1881-1972, Hindustani musician and sarod player.
Authors
- Tom Winnifrith
- Edward Chitham
Dewey code: 823.809
Price: $30.00
Review Bronte Facts and Bronte Problems / Palgrave Macmillan:
Publication date: 1987-11-19
Review Lucie Rie / Alphabooks:
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Routledge & Co.).), Anton Bruckner - A Documentary Biography: Trial, Tribulation and Triumph in Vienna (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music, Volume 83b), The Life and Work of Writer Annie Trumbull Slosson: A Connecticut Local Colorist (Studies in American Literature (Lewiston, N.Y.), V. 68.), History of Humboldt County, California,: With biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth ... from the early days to the present, Cassandra Brydges (1670-1735), First Duchess of Chandos: Life and Letters, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: The Twentieth Century 1912-2000 (Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women), Haldane: The Life and Work of J.B.S. Haldane With Special Reference to India, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (G.K. Hall Large Print Perennial Bestseller Collection), Deutsche Gelehrten-Reisen nach England, 1660-1714 (Munster monographs on English literatur), Baba Allaudin Khan (Lotus collection), Bronte Facts and Bronte Problems, Lucie RieTop headlines: Feast on Fido? Dog meat a delicacy in Korea: Dog meat is eaten in Asia. 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