Publication date: 1997-01-28
Dewey code: 700.922
Price: $9.60
Review The Ladies of Gregynog / University Of Wales Press:
Publication date: 2000-11-11
Price: $33.95
Review Blue Ribbons Bitter Bread : The Life of Joice Nankivell Loch, Australia's Most Decorated Woman / Hale & Iremonger,Pty.Ltd ,Australia:Joice Loch was an extraordinary Australian. She had the inspired courage that saved many hundreds of Jews and Poles in World War II, the compassion that made her a self-trained doctor to tens of thousands of refugees, the incredible grit that took her close to death in several theatres of war, and the dedication to truth and justice that shone forth in her own books and a lifetime of astonishing heroism. Born in a cyclone in 1887 on a Queensland sugar plantation, she grew up in grinding poverty in Gippsland and emerged from years of unpaid drudgery by writing a children's book and freelance journalism. In 1918 she married Sydney Loch, Gallipoli veteran and writer, with whom she was commissioned to produce a book on Ireland. After a dangerous time in Dublin during the Troubles, they escaped from possible IRA vengeance to work with the Quakers in Poland. There they rescued countless dispossessed people from disease and starvation and risked death themselves. In 1922, Joice and Sydney went to Greece to aid the 1,500,000 refugees fleeing Turkish persecution. Greece was to become their home. They lied in an ancient tower by the sea in the shadows of Athos, the Holy Mountain, and worked selflessly for decades to save victims of war, famine and disease. During World War II, Joice Loch was an agent for the Allies in Eastern Europe and pulled off a spectacular escape to snatch over 1,000 Jews and Poles from death just before the Nazis invaded Bucharest, escorting them via Constantinople to Palestine. [+]By the time she died in 1982, she had written ten books, saved many thouands of lives, and was one of the world's most decorated women. At her funeral, the Greek Orthodox Bishop of Oxford named her 'one of the most significant women of the twentieth centry'. This classic Australian biography is a tribute to one of our greatest heroes.
Publication date: 1972-10
Dewey code: 920.72
Price: $59.95
Review The Part Taken by Women in American History (American Women Series) / Arno Press:
Authors
- Mathilde Graumann Marchesi
Dewey code: 784.9320924
Price: $52.50
Review Marchesi and Music: Passages from the Life of a Famous Singing-Teacher (Da Capo Press Music Reprint Series) / Da Capo Press:
Creator: Susanne Kord
Publication date: 1997-02-28
Dewey code: 830.9928703
List Price: $179.95
Price: $177.58
Review The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature / Greenwood Press:Today, a multiplicity of feminist approaches has become an integral part of the fields of German literary and cultural studies. While biographical works on women writers exist, this is the first reference to synthesize the wealth of feminist scholarship in German studies. While existing reference works focus exclusively on women authors, this volume contains numerous topical entries and covers the role of women in German literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present day. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on more than 500 topics. While some entries are provided for important women writers and other individuals, the bulk of the volume provides information on literary periods, epochs, and genres; critical approaches and theories; female stereotypes; laws and historical developments; literary concepts and themes; and organizations and archives relevant to women and women's studies. Each entry includes a brief identification of the subject, a discussion of feminist thought on the topic, and a brief bibliography. Entries are written by numerous contributors and reflect a range of critical/theoretical approaches.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-11-08
Dewey code: 792.028092247
List Price: $125.00
Price: $124.71
Review Women in Russian Theatre: The Actress in the Silver Age (Gender in Performance) / Routledge:Women in Russian Theatre is the first documentation of Russian actresses to be published in English. It is a fascinating feminist intervention into the much-studied canon of Russian theatre history. With unprecedented access to newly-opened files in Russia, Catherine Schuler examines the impact Russian actresses had upon the modernist theatre of their period. Schuler brings invaluable historical detail and contemporary critical theory, to case-studies of the following popular actresses and actress-entrepreneurs of the late Imperial Russian stage: Mariia Savina, Glikeriia Fedotova, Anna Brenko, Vera Kommissarzhevskaia, Mariia Ermlova, Polina Strepetova, and Lidia Iavorskaia.
Publication date: 1978-03-30
Review Physical Science in the Middle Ages (History of science) / Cambridge University Press:This concise introduction to the history of physical science in the Middle Ages begins with a description of the feeble state of early medieval science and its revitalization during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, as evidenced by the explosion of knowledge represented by extensive translations of Greek and Arabic treatises. The content and concepts that came to govern science from the late twelfth century onwards were powerfully shaped and dominated by the science and philosophy of Aristotle. It is, therefore, by focussing attention on problems and controversies associated with Aristotelian science that the reader is introduced to the significant scientific developments and interpretations formulated in the later Middle Ages. The concluding chapter presents a new interpretation of the medieval failure to abandon the physics and cosmology of Aristotle and explains why, despite serious criticisms, they were not generally repudiated during this period. As detailed critical bibliography completes the work.
Publication date: 1983-11-30
Review This Mad Folly / Library of Australian History:
Publication date: 2001-05
Dewey code: 780.92
Price: $22.99
Review Counterpoint / Xlibris Corporation:Counterpoint is the life story of Joe Harnell, Grammy and Emmy award-winning pianist, composer, arranger and conductor. He was musical director for such stars as Frank Sinatra, Maurice Chevalier, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Peggy Lee and Pearl Bailey, as well as The Mike Douglas Show. His smash hit instrumental record of "Fly Me to the Moon" was a landmark, setting a new standard of performance in the record business. Among many others, he composed and conducted the scores for TV series like The Incredible Hulk, The Bionic Woman, and V, and also a number of movies of the week. His story is filled with revealing insights and anecdotes about the many stars and musicians he has lived and worked with, some funny, some sad, some appalling. Although his professional life ran smoothly and successfully, his perilous personal journey ran over rutted roads through three failed marriages and a tortured battle with booze, eventually emerging into the calm of sobriety and the exhilaration of a fulfilling relationship. Joe's book gives the reader a new, intimately known friend, whose candor and understanding will remain in memory for years to come.
Publication date: 1926
Review Through some eventful years / J.W. Burke:This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University LibraryÕs preservation reformatting program.
Publication date: 1976-06
Dewey code: 686.20922
Price: $20.00
Review Notes on Woman Printers in Colonial America and the United States 1639 / Univ of Virginia Pr:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1974
Review Science and Creation: From Eternal Cycles to an Oscillating Universe / Science History Publications:This is the first systematic probing into perhaps the most puzzling, but least discussed fact of cultural history: the birth of science. Cultural history abounds in parallel achievements, but it happended only once, between 1250 and 1650, that rudimentary science turned into a self-sustaining enterprise. Such a singular process can hardly be without a lesson, the grasp of which might be of crucial importance for the future of mankind. To unfold this lesson the author, Stanley L. Jaki, Distinguished University Professor at Seton Hall University, New Jersey, and an internationally renowned historian and philosopher of science, first gives a detailed analysis of ancient Hindu, Chinese, Maya, Egyptian, Babylonian, and Greek cultures, all of which, especially the Greek, could boast a valuable start in science. Yet, in all of them, science suffered a stillbirth. They all failed to muster up a sufficient measure faith in progress, confidence in the rationality of the universe, appreciation of the quantitative method, and a depersonalized view of the process of motion, all qualities which are the main features of the scientific quest. Because the Koran overemphasized the will of the Creator, Muslim scholars fell prey to a mistrust in the validity of rational laws, and as a result science came to a standstill among the Arabs as well. Quite different was the case in the Christian, medieval West, where the biblical faith in the Creator permeated for the first time a whole culture and effectively produced the qualities described above. The ultimate result was the rise of classical physics. [+]Such is the main theme of a highly original book, in which an astonishing wealth of information is marshalled to unfold, as the author states, 'the ultimate consequences of some basic presuppositions'. The work is a classic effort of synthesis, full of drama that vibrates through the long history of science.
Publication date: 1999-06
Dewey code: 809
Price: $35.00
Review A Slender Reputation (Orlando the Marmalade Cat) / Trafalgar Square Publishing:Kathleen Hale, born more than a century ago in 1898, is the creator of one of the most popular children's book characters of the 1940s and 50s-Orlando the Marmalade Cat. A Slender Reputation is the story of her life, told with an artist's gift for detail and a zest that so many readers have enjoyed in her Orlando tales.
Edition: 1. ed
Publication date: 1994
Review Ciencia espanola en el exilio, 1939-1989: El exilio de los cientificos espanoles (Memoria rota) / Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Republicanos:
Creator: Stanley Sadie
Publication date: 1996-05-23
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $300.00
Price: $219.00
Review Wolfgang Amade Mozart: Essays on his Life and his Music (Adelphi Papers) / Oxford University Press, USA:This volume is a collection based on the Royal Musical Association's Mozart Conference of 1991, the principal scholarly event in the English-speaking world in commemoration of the bicentenary. It includes essays placing Mozart in the context, in Salzburg and Vienna, in which he worked, explaining aspects of his life and work hitherto obscure; essays interpreting his instrumental music; and a substantial series of studies on different aspects of his operas, from Lucio Silla to La clemenza di Tito, with particular stress on the creative processes in the Da Ponte operas.
Edition: 6th
Publication date: 1856
Review The women of the American revolution / Scribner:This work depicts the contributions made by women to the fight for American independence. There is no other comparable work on the women of the Revolution. Essential reference work in most libraries. THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY: Literature of American History.
Publication date: 1860
Review Trappers of New York, or, A biography of Nicholas Stoner & Nathaniel Foster: Together with anecdotes of other celebated hunters, and some account of Sir William Johnson, and his style of living / J. Munsell:
Creator: Adam Henderson
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-01
Dewey code: 305
Price: $69.95
Review As Nature Made Him / Sound Library:
Creator: Cattell Jaques
Publication date: 1983-02
Dewey code: 509.22
Price: $125.00
Review American Men and Women of Science: Cumulative Index, 1-14 / R. R. Bowker:
Publication date: 1989-06-30
Review Eudora Welty (Women Writers) / Palgrave Macmillan:
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