Publication date: 1997
Review Bruckenschlag zwischen zwei Kulturen: Helmholtz in der Korrespondenz mit Geisteswissenschaftlern und Kunstlern / Basilisken-Presse:
Creator: Ben Young
Publication date: 1998-07-30
Dewey code: 781.65092
List Price: $125.00
Price: $125.00
Review Dixonia: A Bio-Discography of Bill Dixon (Discographies) / Greenwood Press:Bill Dixon has refined a sonically unique pan-tonal language of trumpet playing. As a trumpeter, composer, educator, and theoretician, Bill Dixon has politically and musically influenced many phases of the development of Black music in the second half of the 20th century. This authoritative guide details information about the life and music of Bill Dixon. Bill Dixon comments throughout the text on the familiar and unfamiliar aspects of his career as it unfolds between performances and recordings. The recollections of those who have collaborated with Bill Dixon over the years supplement the thorough research here presented on the life and career of Bill Dixon and subsequently, on the New York avant garde artistic sphere in which he worked. Music and music history scholars, especially those interested in jazz and Black music, will be attracted to the wealth of information provided, often from primary sources, on Bill Dixon and Black music through the 50s, 60s, and 70s. The discography included encompasses issued and non-issued recordings as well as listings for every known Bill Dixon performance. Collaborations with dancers, directors, filmmakers and painters, among others, are also documented.
Creator: Francs Spalding
Publication date: 1999-01
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $24.95
Price: $277.65
Review The Art of Hilda Carline: Mrs Stanley Spencer / Philadelphia Museum of Art:Hilda Carline was Stanley Spencer''s first wi fe and was herself an accomplished artist. However, the pres sures of living in an era when women were given little recog nition, coupled with her marriage to a prominent artist, see ms to have consumer her life. '.
Creator: Andreas Lixl-Purcell
Publication date: 1988-06-24
Dewey code: 920.72089924043
List Price: $119.95
Price: $141.36
Review Women of Exile: German-Jewish Autobiographies Since 1933 (Contributions in Women's Studies) / Greenwood Press:Women's exile autobiographies, written usually for an audience of relatives and fellow travellers, are rarely made available to the public. This is particularly true for Jewish women who fled Germany after Hitler's rise to power in 1933. In this unusual volume, the memoirs, diaries, and letters of twenty-six of these extraordinary women are published together for the first time. Their recollections paint a provocative profile of exile life and cover a broad spectrum of emigre history on every continent. While each memoir voices an intensely personal explanation, their combined effect is to launch a radical reinterpretation of women's roles, fates, and destinies.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-12
Dewey code: 610.73092
List Price: $130.00
Price: $115.52
Review Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj (History of Medicine in Context) / Ashgate Publishing:Although the life of Florence Nightingale is a much-trodden territory, her involvement with India and Indians is relatively unknown. This is surprising as she was concerned with Indian affairs from 1857 to 1894. This book presents in detail this aspect of her life and work, and shows how she progressed from being concerned with the narrow sphere of army sanitation to the socio-economic condition of the whole of India. Despite her interest in the country, Florence Nightingale never actually visited India. But she still managed to instigate and inspire a number of sanitary and social reforms there. Starting in 1857 with army sanitation she had, by the end of her involvement with India in 1894, shifted her attention to such social issues as village sanitation and female education. In between, she was involved with the development of hospitals, irrigation, famine relief, the land tenure system in Bengal, urban sanitation and female nursing. In this volume, Jharna Gourlay covers all these aspects of Florence Nightingale's work, tracing her political involvement and her growing awareness of Indian problems, showing how she gradually moved from an imperialist position to one advocating power-sharing Indians. Her story is also one of how a private individual without official position - and, moreover, a woman in a patriarchal society - could influence government policy and public opinion on matters of immense importance. Based on primary sources from both Britain and India, particularly her own correspondence and articles, this book tells Florence Nightingale's story though her own words, whilst simultaneously placing it in the wider historical context.
Creator: Nancy Signorielli
Publication date: 1996-11-30
Dewey code: 302.20922
List Price: $138.95
Price: $138.95
Review Women in Communication: A Biographical Sourcebook / Greenwood Press:"This is a story of achievement. It is a compilation of essays about the lives and accomplishments of a group of communication professionals, women in communication. All have furthered our understanding of the important role that communication plays in our lives and in the fuctioning of societies. All their stories tell us about an interesting series of choices, obstacles, and opportunities. " (From the Foreword by Alan Rubin). Focusing on pioneers in journalism, contemporary media professionals, and scholars in the fields of interpersonal, organizational, and mass communication, this book profiles 48 outstanding women in communication. An appendix highlights an additional 29 communication scholars. Each full profile examines the subject's family background, education, mentors, career path, major contributions and achievements, and concludes with a bibliography of important scholarly contributions. [+]Since communication is a relatively young discipline, many of the women included are at the prime of their professional career. Subjects were selected by a peer-review process.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1995-06-30
Dewey code: 770.92
List Price: $150.00
Price: $148.24
Review Cultural Sniping: The Art of Transgression (Comedia) / Routledge:Jo Spence was one of Britain's pioneering photographers. Born into a working-class London family, she worked for many years as a studio photographer. Her political concerns led to documentary photography. Soon after completing her degree in the theory and practice of photography, she discovered she had breast cancer. Through her struggle to come to terms with the illness, to find non-invasive treatments and to share her experience with others, she developed unique ways of using photography. Cultural Sniping brings together a wide range of Jo Spence's photographs and writings for the first time. Through images and texts she explores complex issues of gender, class, health and the body, and their impact on her understanding of personal history and the construction of identity. Cultural Sniping includes images from Spence's early work in documentary photography and from her pioneering photo-therapy projects, undertaken in collaboration with other photographers. In her later work Spence faces up to the experience of illness and dying, and Cultural Sniping reproduces work from her Return to Nature and Death Mask series, in which she tries to come to terms with the reality of death. Jo Spence's commitment to engaging with personal experience, political understanding and critical theory make her writing and photography a vital contribution to our understanding of the politics of representation.
Publication date: 1977
Review Skin deep: The autobiography of a woman doctor / J. F. Midgley:
Creator: Andrew I. Lebed
Publication date: 1972-03-20
Review Soviet Science, 1917-70 / Scarecrow Press:
Publication date: 1990
Review JANET FRAME THE COMPLETE AUTOBIOGRAPHY / WOMEN'S:
Creator: Ben Arnold
Publication date: 2002-04-30
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $117.95
Price: $117.94
Review The Liszt Companion: / Greenwood Press:Franz Liszt is most well-known for his compositions for piano and orchestra, but his influence is also strong in chamber music, choral music, and orchestral transcriptions. This new collection of essays presents a scholarly overview of all of the composer's work, providing the most comprehensive and current treatment of both his oeuvre and the immense amount of secondary literature written about it. Highly regarded critics and scholars write for both a general and academic audience, covering all of Liszt's major compositions as well as the "neglected gems" found among his choral and chamber works. Following an outline of the subject's life, The Liszt Companion goes on to detail Liszt's critical reception in the German press, his writings and letters, his piano and orchestral works, his neglected secular choral works, and his major organ compositions. Also explored here are his little-known chamber pieces and his songs. An exhaustive bibliography and index of works conclude the volume. This work will both elucidate aspects of Liszt's most famous work and revive interest in those pieces that deserve and require greater attention.
Publication date: 1999
Review Five hundred wagons stood still: Mormon Battalion wives / S. Maynes:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1979-05-31
Dewey code: 509.24
List Price: $126.00
Price: $119.59
Review Goethe and the Development of Science 1750-1900 (History of Science) / Springer:
Publication date: 1998-05
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $80.00
Price: $115.77
Review School House in the Wind / University of Exeter Press:'The books are full of delights - evocations of the landscape in Cornwall, of the Malvern Hills and the Bredon Country. And her insights into the educational system in which she taught, with occasional theraputic breaks, for forty or so years are fascinating. How she would have hated the Gradgrind and Bounderby ethos of current education. The books create a picture of a character talented, loveable and essentially wise. ' - Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries Spring 1999 ". some of the best writing about Cornwall which has ever been published, her descriptions surging with the shape and colour of the land itself. [+]" - Devon Life, September 1998 Long out of print and now published together for the first time, the three volumes of autobiography of Anne Treneer, Cornish author and schoolteacher, cover the period from her birth in a rural village in 1891 to her retirement from teaching in 1948. Their appeal is diverse: from lovers of the countryside and Cornwall to those interested in education, local history or the Midlands during the war years.
Edition: 7. stark uberarbeitete und erg. Aufl
Publication date: 1984
Review Mein Leben fur Fortschritt und Forschung / Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung:
Publication date: 1999-10
Dewey code: 378.112
List Price: $52.00
Price: $118.22
Review Stalwart Women": A Historical Analysis of Deans of Women in the South (Athene Series) / Teachers College Press:This innovative study provides a close examination of the accomplishments of four women who served as Deans of Women in coeducational institutions. Focusing on Southern colleges rather than traditionally elite institutions, the author begins with each woman's retirement and looks back at their fascinating lives of achievement, spirit, and strength. With appeal to those in the fields of Women's History, Southern History, and the History of Education, at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, this groundbreaking volume illuminates the enduring impact and legacy of the female dean.
Publication date: 2003-05
Dewey code: 220.92082
List Price: $168.00
Price: $149.73
Review A Woman's Place is in the House: Royal Women of Judah and their Involvement in the House of David / Sheffield Academic Press:Archaeological discoveries have increasingly brought to light evidence of women's involvement in the royal houses of the ancient Near East, yet such evidence has not fundamentally altered the perception of monarchy as an exclusively male-gendered theological, political, and social institution. Solvang's study assembles the evidence in search of an integrated view of royal women's position and power in critical functions of monarchy, challenging customary assumptions about women's place in the royal harem. The historical information serves as a backdrop for a literary reading of biblical texts describing the royal house of Judah. Attention is given to three women representing different royal positions: Michal (daughter), Bathsheba (queen mother), and Athaliah (queen and monarch).
Publication date: 1995-10-26
Dewey code: 782.1092
List Price: $158.50
Price: $115.71
Review Gluck: An Eighteenth-Century Portrait in Letters and Documents / Oxford University Press, USA:This book brings together a variety of eighteenth century sources-principally letters to and from Gluck-to construct a portrait of one of the most interesting musicians of that century. Celebrated today for his historical significance, as the composer who did most to effect the transition from baroque to classical opera, Gluck in his lifetime was both a controversial and a colorful figure. Besides the letters, the book includes a wealth of factual documents and informal anecdotes, not easily accessible in the original German, French and Italian languages. Everything has been arranged and translated to provide readers with a lively, continuous narrative.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1993-11-15
Dewey code: 947.0841
List Price: $125.00
Price: $124.71
Review Memories of Revolution: Russian Women Remember / Routledge:Preserving the childhood memories of some of the last generation of White Russian women to experience the Revolution first-hand, this collection of interviews and photographs provides a unique and moving record of life in imperial and Bolshevik Russia. The accounts give a deeply personal insight into how the revolution devastated the aristocracy, the intelligensia and foreigners of Moscow and St. Petersburg in the few weeks after the October 1917 upheaval. The memories of the women in this book have remained very sharp, with a volume and precision of detail, and intensity of recall, found in those whose premature transition to adulthood coincided with the whose premature transition to adulthood coincided with the traumas of revolution.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1991-07-01
Dewey code: 016.3460134
List Price: $120.00
Price: $152.10
Review Feminist Legal Literature: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland Reference Library of Social Science) / Routledge:
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