Edition: n.e.
Publication date: 1992-06-30
Review Lucie Duff Gordon: Twentieth-century Woman in Nineteenth-century Egypt (Allborough Biographies S) / Allborough Publishing:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-04-16
Dewey code: 946.081092
List Price: $160.00
Price: $128.00
Review British Women and the Spanish Civil War / Taylor & Francis:Through oral and written narratives, this book examines the interaction between women and the war in Spain, their motivation, the distinctive form of their involvement, and the effect of the war on their individual lives. These themes are related to wider issues, such as the nature of memory and the role of women within the public sphere. Throughout the study the author distils the most recent theoretical work in the fields of oral history, psychoanalytic methodology for historians, and the anthropological, historical and cultural studies on memory and memorialization.
Creator: Tom Nimen
Publication date: 1998-03
List Price: $129.50
Price: $129.50
Review A Short History Display: Thumbnail Sketches of 50 Little Giants / Abbeville Press:
Publication date: 1997-03-15
Dewey code: 362.196994190092
Price: $12.95
Review Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors / Holt Paperbacks:From the moment a doctor who looks like Richard Nixon informs him he has leukemia, Evan Handler sweeps us into the experience of his illness-and recovery-spinning a delicate balance of humor and wisdom, anger and hope, that redefines the literature on facing adversity. Evan Handler has played leading roles in seven broadway productions. This book is based on his hit off-Broadway play, which THE NEW YORK TIMES called "laceratingly funny and self-revealing. ".
Publication date: 1993-12-09
Dewey code: 787.2092
List Price: $179.99
Price: $131.39
Review Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762): Part 1: Life and Works; Part 2: Thematic Catalogue (1687-1762 : Part 1 : Life and Works/Part 2 : Thematic Catalogue) / Oxford University Press, USA:Although Francesco Geminiani is a relatively well-known composer whose name is frequently cited in studies of baroque music, his biography and works have been relatively little researched. His music was often analyzed without due reference to biographical and historical background, and his multifarious activities as violinist, composer, theorist, and small-scale entrepreneur were never considered in their full interrelationship. This volume represents a first attempt at providing a comprehensive account of a composer who in the first half of the eighteenth century dominated the English musical scene alongside Handel. The book traces Geminiani's life and career from his birth in Lucca in December 1687 to his activities in three centers: London, Paris, and Dublin. After analyzing the critical reception to Geminiani, both contemporary and modern, Careri examines his compositions by genre, illustrating his remarks with thirty-nine music examples, some presented in facsimile. The book also includes a complete thematic catalogue with music incipits, containing details of primary sources, reworkings and transcriptions, and modern editions.
Publication date: 1997
Review Ich bin ihnen begegnet: Wegweiser der Wissenschaft, Pioniere der Technik, Kopfe der Politik / Droste:
Publication date: 1996-01-01
Price: $32.95
Review Selected Letters 1890s to 1940s / Kali for Women,India:Sarojini Naidu left behind an extensive corpus of letters written over five and a half decades, starting from her student days in London in 1985 to the last days of her life in Lucknow as the Governor of Uttar Pradesh. This book is the first-ever compilation and publication of her letters. It is not merely a historical record of the turbulent times in which she lived but also provides insights into her private life. This volume includes correspondences with G. K. Gokhale, M. K. Gandhi, Edmund Gosse and Jawaharlal Nehru, among others.
Publication date: 2004-08-30
Dewey code: 920
Price: $14.95
Review Through The Eyes Of Betsy Mccall / Authorhouse:
Creator: Malcolm Green
Publication date: 1994-06
Dewey code: 150.1952
Price: $55.00
Review Object-Choice (All You Need Is Love... : on Mating Strategies & a Fragment of a Freud Biography) / Verso Books:
Creator: Edward Grant
Publication date: 1974-01-01
Dewey code: 509.4
List Price: $152.00
Price: $152.00
Review A Sourcebook in Medieval Science (Source Books in the History of the Sciences) / Harvard University Press:Modern scholarship has exposed the intrinsic importance of medieval science and confirmed its role in preserving and transmitting Greek and Arabic achievements. This Source Book offers a rare opportunity to explore more than ten centuries of European scientific thought. In it are approximately 190 selections by about 85 authors, most of them from the Latin West. Nearly half of the selections appear here for the first time in any vernacular translation. The readings, a number of them complete treatises, have been chosen to represent "science" in a medieval rather than a modern sense. Thus, insofar as they are relevant to medieval science, selections have been drawn from works on alchemy, astrology, logic, and theology. Most of the book, however, reflects medieval understanding of, and achievements in, the mathematical, physical, and biological sciences. Critical commentary and annotation accompany the selections. An appendix contains brief biographiesof all authors. This book will be an indispensible resource for students and scholars in the history of science.
Creator: Lynn McDonald
Publication date: 2005-09-29
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $150.00
Price: $142.50
Review Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 8 (Collected Works of Florence Nightingale) / Wilfrid Laurier University Press:Volume 8: Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution makes available a great range of Florence Nightingale’s work on women: her pioneering study of maternal mortality in childbirth (Introductory Notes on Lying-in Institutions), her opposition to the regulation of prostitution through the Contagious Diseases Acts (attempts to stop the legislation and otherwise to facilitate the voluntary treatment of syphilitic prostitutes), her views on gender roles, marriage and measures for income security for women and excerpts from her draft (abandoned) novel. There is correspondence with women friends and colleagues from childhood to old age, on a vast range of subjects. Correspondents include old family friends, royal and notable personages, nuns and colleagues in various causes. Most of this material has not been published before and some letters wil be new even to Nightingale scholars. Altogether a very different view of Nightingale emerges from what normally appears in biographies and other secondary sources. This material will enable a new assessment of her feminism, her relations with women and her contribution to improving the status of women of her time.
Creator: Clara Wing-Chung Ho
Publication date: 1999-12-31
Review Biographical Dictionary Of Chinese Women: The Qing Period, 1644-1911 (University of Hong Kong Libraries Publications) / Hong Kong University Press:The first biographical dictionary in any Western language devoted solely to Chinese women, this reference is the product of years of research, translation, and writing by a team of over 60 China scholars from around the world. Compiled from a wide array of original sources, these detailed biographies present the lives, work, and significance of more than 200 Chinese women from many different backgrounds and areas of interest.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-06-23
Dewey code: 809.93592072
List Price: $140.00
Price: $129.21
Review Women's Life Writing and Imagined Communities / Routledge:This collection of 15 essays with a critical introduction explores how women's life-writing reflects and shapes a community's values - whether that community is global, national, or local. The authors examine women's autobiographical texts from a variety of perspectives, including feminism, cultural studies, postmodernism, and New Historicism. The material analyzed includes novels, memoirs, autobiographies, web pages, online zines, letters, religious records, anthologies, and deportation narratives. This volume was previously published as a special issue of the journal Prose Studies.
Publication date: 1987
Review El grabado en la ciencia hispanica / Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas:
Publication date: 2003-10
Price: $48.99
Review The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus / IndyPublish.com:
Authors
- Alan Tyson
- Robert Winter
- Douglas Johnson
Dewey code: 780.924
List Price: $120.00
Price: $363.74
Review The Beethoven Sketchbooks: History, Reconstruction, Inventory (California Studies in 19th Century Music) / University of California Press:
Publication date: 1980-12
Dewey code: 252.0963
List Price: $129.95
Price: $129.95
Review Lucretia Mott, Her Complete Speeches and Sermons (Toronto Studies in Theology) / Edwin Mellen Press:This volume presents the 49 speeches and sermons given by Lucretia Mott, a fore-runner of the modern women's rights movement, abolitionist, influential social reformer, and peace activist.
Edition: 1. ed
Publication date: 1988
Review Estudios historico-criticos de la ciencia espanola (Noctulabium) / Mundo Cientifico:
Creator: Susan E. Lorsch
Publication date: 1988-11-22
Dewey code: 700.88042
List Price: $126.95
Price: $126.95
Review Eighteenth-Century Women and the Arts: (Contributions in Women's Studies) / Greenwood Press:A major task confronting today's scholars is the reclamation from near oblivion of a multitude of works of art, literature, music, scholarship, and other creative enterprises by eighteenth-century women. This fascinating collection provides a multifaceted approach to understanding the roles played by women as both creators of and subjects within works of art in the eighteenth century. A series of initial essays examines the biographical and historical conditions in which women of the times lived and worked. Some essays explore the attitudes of women themselves and how they perceived their roles, as well as their expectations expressed by male authors. Other essays focus on women's contributions to particular arts, notably poetry, the novel, music, and painting. A final section attends to research itself, reporting first on collaborative efforts to identify individual eighteenth-century women authors and discover trends in their writing. In addition, an alternative to the traditional scholarly methods course is provided in an example of the original research directed toward the rediscovery and understanding of the texts of Elizabeth Griffeth. This entertaining collection will foster new appreciation for the presence of women in the arts of the eighteenth century. An important contribution to women's studies, this volume is sure to be of special interest to students and scholars alike.
Publication date: 1996-12
Dewey code: 780
Price: $21.95
Review Conversations With Iannis Xenakis / Faber & Faber:The music of the Greek-born composer, Iannis Xenakis, has been called brutal and violent. He first studied as an architect, but then turned to composition and put to musical use his knowledge of higher mathematics. In these conversations he talks about his life and music.
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Lucie Duff Gordon: Twentieth-century Woman in Nineteenth-century Egypt (Allborough Biographies S), British Women and the Spanish Civil War, A Short History Display: Thumbnail Sketches of 50 Little Giants, Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors, Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762): Part 1: Life and Works; Part 2: Thematic Catalogue (1687-1762 : Part 1 : Life and Works/Part 2 : Thematic Catalogue), Ich bin ihnen begegnet: Wegweiser der Wissenschaft, Pioniere der Technik, Kopfe der Politik, Selected Letters 1890s to 1940s, Through The Eyes Of Betsy Mccall, Object-Choice (All You Need Is Love... : on Mating Strategies & a Fragment of a Freud Biography), A Sourcebook in Medieval Science (Source Books in the History of the Sciences), Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 8 (Collected Works of Florence Nightingale), Biographical Dictionary Of Chinese Women: The Qing Period, 1644-1911 (University of Hong Kong Libraries Publications), Women's Life Writing and Imagined Communities, El grabado en la ciencia hispanica, The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, The Beethoven Sketchbooks: History, Reconstruction, Inventory (California Studies in 19th Century Music), Lucretia Mott, Her Complete Speeches and Sermons (Toronto Studies in Theology), Estudios historico-criticos de la ciencia espanola (Noctulabium), Eighteenth-Century Women and the Arts: (Contributions in Women's Studies), Conversations With Iannis XenakisTop headlines: Judges reject Alaska offshore drilling plan: Federal regulators improperly granted Shell Oil permission for exploratory drilling in Alaska's Beaufort Sea, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. ›17:08 21 Nov, Fri Al Gore's Nobel Patrol: A vigilant fan of the former veep keeps watch as the Nobel Committee announces its peace prize. ›15:10 12 Oct, Fri $1 billion network for green cars vowed: A $1 billion network of electric car recharging stations will dot San Francisco Bay area highways under a plan unveiled Thursday. ›22:55 20 Nov, Thu India: Pakistan must take 'strong action': India formally demanded that Pakistan take "strong action" against the people behind the Mumbai attacks on Monday. ›16:32 Do Women Lead Differently Than Men?: Americans could elect our first female president in 2008. 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