Creator: James Riordan
Publication date: 1998-10
Dewey code: 920
Price: $16.95
Review Memories of the Dispossessed: Descendants of Kulak Families Tell Their Store (Russian Memoirs Series, No. 2) / Drake Intl Services:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-04-30
Dewey code: 910
List Price: $160.00
Price: $116.80
Review Empire: The Life, Legend, And Madness of Howard Hughes / Blackstone Audiobooks:Howard Hughes lived one of the greatest, most heroic, misunderstood, mysterious, bizarre, and tragic lives in American history. In this brilliantly documented biography, the mythology that surrounded that life is disentangled from the truth. Hughes had always been different. Certainly his riches set him apart, but he was also tough. Orphaned and a millionaire at eighteen, Hughes repudiated his relatives, seized control of the Hughes Tool Company, the linchpin of his fortune, and went on to become a flamboyant movie producer, holder of many world aviation records, principal owner of Trans World Airlines, a critically important defense contractor, Hollywood's most pursued and elusive bachelor, and partner of the United States government. This is an epic biography of an epic figure who bestrode the world like a colossus yet could not master himself. Though he rose to fame after a record-setting flight around the world and the construction of an unprecedented fleet of airplanes, aerospace industry icon Howard Hughes wasted millions of dollars in production, swindled taxpayers through self-serving philanthropy projects and regularly lied to stockholders. In his spare time he worked for Joe McCarthy, was an avid supporter of segregation and nearly destroyed himself through drugs. In this biography of Hughes, authors David Barlett and James Steele reveal the dark, often unlawful, existence that can accompany an American success story.
Publication date: 1996
Review Les ecoles savantes en Turquie: Sciences, philosophie et arts au fil des siecles : actes des journees d'Ankara, 24-29 avril 1995, Lycee Charles de Gaulle (Les cahiers du Bosphore) / Editions Isis:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-07-06
Dewey code: 792.0233092
List Price: $110.00
Price: $104.22
Review Joan Littlewood (Routledge Performance Practitioners) / Routledge:Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. A theatrical and cultural innovator, Joan Littlewood's various contributions to theatre made a huge impact on the way in which theatre was generated, rehearsed and presented during the twentieth century. This is the first book to combine:· an overview of Littlewood's career in relation to the wider social, political and cultural context. · an exploration of Littlewood's theatrical influences, approach to actor's training, belief in the creative ensemble, attitude to text, rehearsal methods and use of improvisation. · a detailed case study of the origins, research, creative process and thinking behind Littlewood's most famous production, Oh What a Lovely War, and an assessment of its impact. · a series of practical exercises designed to capture and illustrate the key approaches Littlewood used in the rehearsal room. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today's student.
Publication date: 2006-06-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $80.99
Price: $80.99
Review Mistress And Maid / IndyPublish.com:
Publication date: 1995-11
Review Sixty Years in Dairying: Story of Molly Sale (Women Achievers) / Parapress:
Publication date: 2007-07-01
Dewey code: 362.29092
Price: $32.95
Review All That Glitters / Hodder Headline:In the 1990s, Pearl Lowe was a singer in the hugely successful pop group Powder, a fashion model, and a friend to some of the most famous people in the world. A beautiful woman with a glamorous career and a family she adored, Pearl had it all. But soon she began taking an increasingly potent string of drugs and drinking to excess. As her family and body crumbled around her, Pearl realized she had to make a choice: confront the demons, get clean, and have her life back, or give up and slip further into addiction. Pearl made her choice: these days she lives with her children and husband in the British countryside and designs her own clothing line. Inspiring and riveting, this is the autobiography of a woman who almost failed to escape a world that is relentless in its destructiveness despite its scintillating appearance.
Creator: David Booy
Publication date: 2004-09-30
Dewey code: 289.60922
List Price: $110.00
Price: $105.02
Review Autobiographical Writings by Early Quaker Women (Early Modern Englishwoman: a Facsimile Library of Essential Works) / Ashgate Publishing:While writings by early modern Quaker women have been discussed and quoted fairly extensively, relatively few of their texts are readily or widely available. The chief purpose of this edition is to rectify this state of affairs in one central area - that of autobiographical writing. The edition contains substantial excerpts from a range of self-writings by Quaker women, composed between the 1650s and circa 1710: letters, testimonies, memoirs, accounts of spiritual development, narratives of persecution and imprisonment. Six of the texts have been freshly edited from manuscripts (including Mary Penington's A Brief Account); the others have been transcribed from the first printed editions. In his general introduction to the volume, the editor sketches the history of the Quaker movement from the 1650s to the early 1700s, and considers the role of female Quakers during the first and second phases of the movement. The introduction also surveys the types and purposes of autobiographical writings produced by female Friends, and relates these writings to key Quaker ideas, concerns and practices regarding the inner light, scripture, testimony, plain speaking, friendship, gender and community. Booy indicates the wider context of the development of autobiographical writing during the seventeenth century, and discusses briefly issues to do with the construction of the self in writing. Each text is prefaced by a substantial headnote providing biographical and historical information. Footnotes supply biblical and other references, and gloss unfamiliar or specialist vocabulary. The volume includes a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary materials. [+]The edition is aimed at all those interested in the history of the Quakers, whether they be scholars in the fields of religious, cultural and women's studies, or of history and literature generally.
Publication date: 1997-07
Dewey code: 942.0190922
Price: $44.95
Review Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh-Century England / Blackwell Publishers:This is the first full-scale biography of two early English queens: Emma, queen first to Aethelread and then to Cnut, and Edith, queen to Edward the Confessor. Through detailed study of these women the author demonstrates the integral place of royal queens in the rule of the English kingdom and in the process of unification by which England was made. The careers of Emma and Edith span the troubled decades of eleventh-century English history, and the book reassesses their role in the story of foreign conquests, succession dispute and political murder. Their biography is illuminated by a detailed study of the structures of tenth- and eleventh-century English Queenship - motherhood, marriage, inheritance and succession, the royal household and patronage, consecrated and holy Queenship. It moves from the partial stories told of them by others, and the unique narrative worlds they themselves commissioned, to a new and detailed biography in which Emma especially emerges as one of the most significant political actors of her day and in which both women are shown as both imprisoned by but contesting the inexorable female lifecycle. The book is an important contribution to our understanding of eleventh- and twelfth-century rule but also of medieval England in general, and, crucially, the role of women within that world.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-03-20
Dewey code: 940.5318092244
List Price: $140.00
Price: $105.00
Review Testimony from the Nazi Camps / Taylor & Francis:This book focuses on a little-known corpus of testimonial accounts published by French women deported to Nazi camps, and will be of interest to those studying modern French literature, women's studies and the Holocaust.
Creator: Dorothy G. Rogers
Edition: Facsimile edition
Publication date: 2002-07
Dewey code: 301
List Price: $595.00
Price: $595.00
Review The Social, Political and Philosophical Works of Catharine Beecher (Nineteenth-century American Thought) / Thoemmes Continuum:Catharine Beecher (1800-78) did a great deal to change assumptions about the place of women in American society. Best known as the foremother of home economics or "domestic science", she sought to give homemaking the status of a career - one as worthy and honourable as any of the well-paid professions then held exclusively by men. Outside the home, so Beecher argued, women should have access to higher education to prepare them for the teaching profession (Beecher herself founded Hartford Female Seminary and other leading women's colleges. ) As teachers, women could bring to the nation the same benefits as they brought to their families as mothers. But Beecher was also a traditionalist. She objected to women entering the workforce in fields that she considered masculine, and she stoutly opposed women's suffrage. Besides her more public life as educator and campaigner, Beecher was a very considerable philosopher and social theorist, and her writings are now the subject of increasing attention. This six-volume collection includes Beecher's main philosophical works. Her "Elements of Mental and Moral Philosophy" (1831) is one of the earliest books on philosophy of mind in the American canon. In "Common Sense Applied to Religion" (1857) Beecher sets out an ethical system of self-sacrifice, using a methodology borrowed from the Scottish School. [+]Also included in the set is her anonymous "Essay on Cause and Effect" where she argues that a proper definition of cause makes clear the differentiation of mind and matter. Among three volumes of writings on the role and rights of women is "True Remedy", in which Beecher denounces factory work as unsuitable for women, her "Anti-Suffrage Petition", and "Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator" (1872). In these works she argues, among much else, that "the evils it is hoped to cure by the ballot would continue" so long as women's labour in the home was denied the respect given to men's paid work in the outside world. Most of these books are missing even from the largest research libraries, and this collection of Thoemmes Press facsimiles should be welcomed by scholars of American philososphy, history of education and women's studies.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-08-04
Dewey code: 305.420973
List Price: $125.00
Price: $104.02
Review Women's Untold Stories: Breaking Silence, Talking Back, Voicing Complexity / Routledge:Honest, vivid, and diverse, the essays collected in Women's Untold Stories reveal women's narratives that have largely gone unheard-stories of women of different ages, races, sexual orientations and ethnicities. These stories are outside the "master narrative", describing experiences that have been suppressed, ignored, or are somehow difficult to tell. The stories reveal race, class and gender pressures with accounts of a Mexican maid's daughter and a tomboy who breaks gender norms as a "butch" straight woman. Experiences of motherhood and family life are covered with stories of home births, women of color's struggles with infertility, and a mother's side of an incest story. Narratives of women in public life are also included: a scientist's unconventional orientation to her work, a sweatshop worker's advocacy within the workplace, and Japanese-American women who were interned during World War II. And rare portrayals of women who demonstrate remarkable political efficacy appear in this book as well: life-long political activists, a white woman in the civil rights movement, and a Hmong refugee who is a community advocate. Fascinating and often intense, these women's wide- ranging experiences, contextualized by the contributors, help readers to understand the importance of those women's lives that have been left at the margins of history and politics.
Publication date: 2005-05-30
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $120.00
Price: $119.99
Review Cavalier Giovanni Battista Buonamente: Franciscan Violinist / Ashgate Publishing:Giovanni Battista Buonamente was among the most original and inventive Italian composers of the seventeenth century. Peter Allsop reveals his importance as part of a tradition that stands in direct antithesis to that of the Corellian sonata today regarded as the 'norm'. This development is traced in a series of likely teacher-pupil relationships from Salamone Rossi to Marco Uccellini, the most prolific Italian composers of instrumental ensemble music in the first half of the seventeenth century. The first half of the book sets out what is known of Buonamente's turbulent career as he moved from the courtly environments of the Gonzaga household and Habsburg court to several less auspicious posts at various religious institutions, ending his life as maestro di cappella at the mother house of his order, S. Francesco in Assisi. A fascinating picture emerges of the nature of musical patronage against a background of war and plague in this time of great political instability. The later chapters comprise detailed discussions, supported with over 100 music examples, of the unusually wide range of genres for which Buonamente wrote: sinfonias, free sonatas, sets of variations, canzonas, sinfonias, dances; and he was the first Italian to cultivate the ensemble suite to any extent. The book concludes with an examination of his influence on his probable pupil Marco Uccellini and the interest Buonamente instigated in canonic writing, which was passed via Uccellini to a succession of Modenese composers.
Edition: 1. Aufl
Publication date: 1987
Price: $105.45
Review Damen-Conversations-Lexikon / Union Verlag:
Creator: David George Mullan
Publication date: 2003-01
Dewey code: 828.40809928709411
List Price: $154.95
Price: $154.89
Review Women's Life Writing in Early Modern Scotland: Writing the Evangelical Self, C. 1670-C. 1730 (Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750. Contemporary Editions) / Ashgate Publishing:This edition presents writings by early modern Scottish women about women - namely, themselves. From about 1660, Scottish women began to express themselves, sometimes extensively, in religious prose. Here David Mullan showcases selections of these women's writings from c. 1670 until c. 1725, by which time the remarkable self-writing impetus provided by the later covenanting experience began to abate. Much of the material is in the form of journals, some narrowly focused on the inner self, some rather more aware of the external world, some from aristocratic women and some from women in lower social stations. There are also a couple of autobiographies, and within several of the documents will be found women's personal covenants with God. Mullan includes an introductory essay, as well as and glossaries to define the evangelical usage of important terms and Scotticisms, introductory comments for each individual document, and annotations to identify obscure words, individuals named in the texts, biblical references, and other points of interest.
Creator: G. Anzaldua
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-09-20
Dewey code: 810.809206643
List Price: $110.00
Price: $104.93
Review this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation / Routledge:Over twenty years after the ground-breaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back challenged feminists to envision new forms of communities and practices, Gloria E. Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating have brought together an ambitious new collection of over eighty original contributions offering a bold new vision of women-of-color consciousness for the twenty-first century. Through personal narratives, theoretical essays, textual collage, poetry, letters, artwork and fiction, this bridge we call home examines and extends the discussion of issues at the center of the first Bridge such as classism, homophobia, racism, identity politics, and community building, while exploring the additional issues of third wave feminism, Native sovereignty, lesbian pregnancy and mothering, transgendered issues, Arab-American stereotyping, Jewish identities, spiritual activism, and surviving academe. Written by women and men - both 'of color' and 'white,' located inside and outside the United States - and motivated by a desire for social justice, this bridge we call home invites feminists of all colors and genders to develop new forms of transcultural dialogues, practices, and alliances. Building on and pushing forward the revolutionary call for transformation announced over two decades ago, this bridge we call home, will challenge readers to rethink existing categories and invent new individual and collective identities.
Creator: Lois Palken Rudnick
Publication date: 2003-05
Dewey code: 920
Review Santa Fe Originals: Women of Distinction / Museum of New Mexico Press:
Publication date: 2004-02
Dewey code: 782.421640922
Price: $55.00
Review The Andrews Sisters: A Biography and Career Record / McFarland & Company:The Andrews Sisters, Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne, were a legendary singing trio from the 1930s to the 1950s: the most successful female singing group in history and the world's top-selling group until the Beatles arrived. Of the 605 songs they recorded, 113 charted. They also made 18 movies, had regular radio and television appearances, and entertained three generations of GIs. Based on extensive research, unpublished letters, and interviews with family, friends, and colleagues, this study documents not only the lives and work of the Andrews Sisters but also the popular culture spanned by the sisters' long careers, from their immigrant parents' arrival in the United States to their solo careers and the rift which estranged them in their later years. The work contains a complete discography of released, unreleased and solo recordings, including recording dates, record numbers and accompaniment.
Publication date: 2003-11-03
Dewey code: 920
Price: $24.95
Review Sudden Fall From Grace, A / PublishAmerica:A Sudden Fall From Grace is the true story of the years of abuse my family suffered from the church that my husband had founded and pastored for ten years. Although some names and minor details were changed for obvious reasons, this story relates how a stress-related burnout compounded by near-deadly psychotropic drugs, administered by an inept, yet, well-meaning psychiatrist, helped to fuel the plots of the church leaders to throw their broken pastor out into the streets. Our story chronicles the hell my children and I went through as we watched the unstoppable disintegration of this man we loved so much as he abandoned all and threw his life into the abyss. An equally searing pain in our lives came from the church elders who relentlessly plotted to destroy my family with their Machiavellian designs. This sometimes tortuous existence went on for four years until my family finally became free from the icy death clutches of the Snow Queen as well as the vindictive, and maliciously backbiting gossips at the “church. ” At last we were free from both sources of evil.
Edition: Largeprint
Publication date: 2000-06
Dewey code: 941.083092
Price: $24.95
Review Elizabeth, the Queen Mother: A 20th Century Life / Chivers Press:
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