Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1996-05-09
Review A World of Light: Portraits and Celebrations / Women's Press Ltd,The:
Creator: technolog International Conference on Japanese Information in Science
Publication date: 1990-01-01
Dewey code: 509.52
List Price: $118.00
Price: $118.00
Review Japanese Information in Science, Technology and Commerce, / Ios Pr Inc:
Publication date: 1968
Review The chemical dream of the Renaissance, / Heffer:
Publication date: 1998-05-28
Review Penguin Biographical Dictionary of Women (Penguin Reference) / Penguin Books Ltd:
Creator: Patrick Cullen
Edition: Facsimile edition
Publication date: 1996-08
Dewey code: 820.80928709031
List Price: $130.00
Price: $103.00
Review The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works : Printed Writings, 1500-1640 : Anne Askew (Elgar Reference Collection) / Scolar Press:The discovery and re-examination of women authors has been a key part of early modern women's studies, but a major problem has been the inaccessibility of the texts themselves. This series is designed to make available a comprehensive collection of writing in English from 1500 to 1700, both by women and for and about them. Each text is preceded by a short introduction providing an overview of the life and work of the writer, along with a survey of important relevant scholarship. The series is in two parts, covering the periods 1500 to 1640, and 1641 to 1700. It is complemented by a separate facsimile series of essential works and original monographs.
Publication date: 2005-06-30
Dewey code: 617
Price: $23.99
Review Emma And I (Isis) / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Publication date: 1921
Review The life of Frances E. Willard / National Woman's Christian Temperance Union:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1992-05-01
Dewey code: 954
Price: $24.00
Review Very Ingenious Man- Claude Martin in Early Colonial India / Oxford University Press, USA:Of all the adventurers, mercenaries and fortune-hunters who comprised the baggage of the East India Company in eighteenth-century India, the most fascinating was perhaps Claude Martin. Born a Frenchman, he made his way to the Subcontinent, in the days when France and Britain were fighting it out to the finish. Martin fought briefly alongside his countrymen, but switched his allegiance to the British in good time to see the French defeated by Clive. This astute early move to the winning side was characteristic; Martin's later career constantly reveals incredible acrobatic ability to land on his feet-and always on the right side of the fence. Martin possessed one of the shrewdest minds of his day, and a range of interests which enabled him to indulge in several key activities within early colonial India. He was an architect who designed and built some of the finest houses and buildings in Lucknow; as a surveyor he helped make some of the earliest maps of northeast India; he experimented with hot-air balloons and bladder surgery; he was a soldier, planter, and entrepreneur; he advised the British as well as the nawabs of Awadh on financial and political matters, in the process of making himself one of the wealthiest men in north India; he was a botanist and patron of the arts whose house in Lucknow became a center for learned discussion. He was a lover and a philanthropist whose bequests are still alive in the form of several schools named after him, located in Lucknow, Calcutta, and Lyon. Martin was, in short, as composite a mix of Enlightenment thinker, endearing scoundrel, and imaginative man as it was possible to be.
Authors
- Vivianne M. Schinasi-silver
Dewey code: 962.1052092
List Price: $19.95
Price: $101.84
Review 42 Keys to the Second Exodus: Memoir of a Life, the Seeds of Which Were Planted in Egypt and Flourished in Canada / Shoreline:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2003-12-09
Dewey code: 194
List Price: $110.00
Price: $100.44
Review Simone Weil as we knew her / Routledge:In 1941 Simone Weil was introduced to Father Jean-Marie Perrin, a priest of the Dominican order whose friendship became one of the most significant influences on her spiritual development. It was for Father Perrin that she wrote her 'spiritual autobiography', contained in Waiting for God, and to him that she later wrote 'Letter to a Priest'. When Weil requested work as a field hand, Perrin sent her to Gustave Thibon, a farmer and Christian philosopher. From 1941-2, Weil stayed with the Thibon family, working in the fields by day while writing by night the notebooks which posthumously became Gravity and Grace and other seminal works. Perrin and Thibon met Weil at a time when her interior life and her creative genius were at the height of their glowing maturity. During the short but deep period of their acquaintance with her, they came to know her as she actually was. Their accounts of this time reveal her to us in the bare parlour of the Dominican convent at Marseilles where, after waiting her turn among a stream of refugees, she discussed her personal problems with Father Perrin. They show her to us in the vineyards of Ardèche, and on the stone seat by the fountain overlooking the Rhone valley where she read Plato to Thibon, her host. First published in 1953, and now newly introduced by Patricia Little, this unique portrait depicts Weil through the eyes of her friends, not as a strange and unaccountable genius but as an ardent and very human young person in search of truth and knowledge.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-01
Dewey code: 305.40968
List Price: $15.95
Price: $101.12
Review Help / Rivercross Pub:From childhood to womanhood, experiences with family, travel, friendships an sexual attractions. How a young woman's experiences with the opposite sex and her own can lead to confusion. When past experiences creep into the present, chaos begins.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-03-07
Dewey code: 016.78092
List Price: $115.00
Price: $101.72
Review Johannes Brahms (Routledge Musical Bibliographies) / Routledge:In his opposition to the conventions of composition furthered by Franz Liszt and the New German School, his strained relationship with Richard Wagner, but his admiration and friendship with Robert Schumann, Brahm's is a truly fascinating object of study. This guide is an essential resource for all serious and casual scholars of Brahm's music and life.
Authors
- Gabriel Faure
- Jean-Michel Nectoux
- J. Barrie Jones
- Camille Saint-Saens
Dewey code: 780.92244
List Price: $110.00
Price: $101.93
Review The Correspondence of Camille Saint-Saens and Gabriel Faure: Sixty Years of Friendship / Ashgate Publishing:This English edition of Jean-Michel Nectoux's collection of the complete correspondence of Saint-Saens and Faure features some 130 letters spanning the period from 1862-1920. Immensely significant to the study of French music, these letters throw light upon one of the longest-surviving friendships between two composers in the history of music. They also contain frank exchanges of views on such topics as the music of Wagner, Berlioz, Debussy, Franck and others, the state of musical education in France, and other important artistic figures of fin de siecle Paris including Puvis de Chavannes, Rodin and Fremiet. Barrie Jones's skilful translation of this important body of correspondence captures the often playful, casual, but always stimulating language of both composers. These letters are frequently the sole source for dating certain compositions or discovering projects that were started but then abandoned. They constitute a primary source for appreciation of Saint-Saens's and Faure's compositions, opinions, and working practices.
Creator: B.-A. Lundvall
Publication date: 2004-12-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $109.00
Price: $99.52
Review Product Innovation, Interactive Learning and Economic Performance, Volume 8 (Research on Technological Innovation, Management and Policy) (Research on Technological Innovation, Management and Policy) / JAI Press:The aim of this book is to contribute to the understanding of product innovation - how it takes place and how it affects firms and the economy. It links product innovation to interactive learning and to the performance of firms. It studies the interconnections between these three elements on the basis of unique data sets and detailed case studies. The book will prove helpful for managers, employees and policy makers as well as for scholars and students who want to understand the role of product innovation in the economy. In the book it is shown that product innovation is of major importance. For the economy as a whole, the introduction of new products is fundamental for economic growth. Process innovation without product innovation would sooner or later result in economic stagnation and in what has been called technological unemployment. In turbulent sectors product innovation is necessary for firms to survive and grow. The book also shows that product innovation is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon. In order to capture this complexity authors combine different theoretical perspectives, different levels of aggregation, and different methodological approaches.
Publication date: 1990-09-01
Dewey code: 305.420941
Price: $95.00
Review The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists / New York University Press:
Publication date: 1995-01-01
Dewey code: 808
Price: $22.00
Review Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer / Lilliput Press:
Publication date: 2003-04-24
Dewey code: 790
Price: $15.99
Review Now Solo: One Woman's Record-Breaking Flight Around the World / Mainstream Publishing:In 1999, Jennifer Murray - businesswoman, artist, housewife and mother of three - became the first woman to pilot a helicopter around the world in a record breaking solo flight. Escorted all the while by Colin Bodill, several times world microlight champion, she single-handedly chartered the helicopter across the globe. They faced a gruelling 30, 000 miles - 8000 of which covered water - on a trip the aviation world believed could not be done. The helicopter designer gave them a one in five chance of making it. "Now Solo" documents Jennifer and Colin's epic journey. Taken from the audio diaries which Jennifer kept at the end of each exhausting day, the book tells of the planning and endless bureaucracy and of the tempers and tiredness. This extraordinary adventure took them from Brooklands, England to Saudi Arabia, China, Russia, the United States and Canada. En route they persevered through engine failure, emergency landings, problems with fuel supply, chronic tiredness, tropical storms and encounters with Chinese fighter jets.
Creator: Peter Bell
Publication date: 1993-02
Review Victorian Biography: A Checklist of Contemporary Biographies of British Men and Women Dying Between 1851 and 1901 / Peter Bell:
Creator: S.G Kohlstedt
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1991-05
Dewey code: 509.94
List Price: $209.00
Price: $209.00
Review International Science and National Scientific Identity: Australia between Britain and America (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science) / Springer:
Publication date: 1990-03
Dewey code: 324.623092
List Price: $68.95
Price: $101.31
Review Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960 / Avebury:
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Willard, Very Ingenious Man- Claude Martin in Early Colonial India, 42 Keys to the Second Exodus: Memoir of a Life, the Seeds of Which Were Planted in Egypt and Flourished in Canada, Simone Weil as we knew her, Help, Johannes Brahms (Routledge Musical Bibliographies), The Correspondence of Camille Saint-Saens and Gabriel Faure: Sixty Years of Friendship, Product Innovation, Interactive Learning and Economic Performance, Volume 8 (Research on Technological Innovation, Management and Policy) (Research on Technological Innovation, Management and Policy), The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists, Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Now Solo: One Woman's Record-Breaking Flight Around the World, Victorian Biography: A Checklist of Contemporary Biographies of British Men and Women Dying Between 1851 and 1901, International Science and National Scientific Identity: Australia between Britain and America (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science), Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960Top headlines: Aston Martin laying off 600 employees: Aston Martin, maker of James Bond's luxury sports car, said Monday that it is laying off as much as a third of its work force because of falling sales during the economic slump. ›18:16 Scoop: Britney had ulterior motive for TV special: "Britney: For the Record" might offer an inside glimpse into the pop star's life, but offering up tidbits about her failed relationship with Kevin Federline wasn't the goal of the documentary. ›02:35 New hope on AIDS in Africa: In a sign of hope on a continent ravaged by AIDS, a South African fertility clinic has started a service allowing couples infected with the virus to have a healthy baby. ›12:20 Eau de Penn State: Flowers, not football: Want to smell like your alma mater? 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