Publication date: 1955-01-01
Review The third door; the autobiography of an American Negro woman. / Publisher Unknown:
Authors
- Mary Kavanaugh Oldham ( Editor). Eagle
Review The Congress of Women Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893. With Portraits, Biographies and Addresses. Published by Authority of the Board of Lady Managers, Mrs. Bertha M. Honore Palmer, President. Official Edition. Sold Only By Subscription. / A. B. Kuhlman & Co.:
Publication date: 1999
Review Florre Jo Everett Davidson / Heritage Publishing:
Publication date: 2005-05-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $99.99
Price: $99.99
Review Life And Gabriella / IndyPublish.com:Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1873-1945) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist from Richmond, Virginia. Beginning in 1897, she wrote 20 novels and many short stories, mainly about life in Virginia. Her own education had been rudimentary, a fact Glasgow compensated for by reading widely. She maintained a close lifelong friendship with James Branch Cabell, another notable Richmond writer. She spent many summers at her family's Bumpass, Virginia estate, the historic Jerdone Castle plantation, a venue that reappears in her writings. Her works include: The Descendant (1897), Phases of an Inferior Planet (1898), The Voice of the People (1900), The Battle- Ground (1902), The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields (1904), The Romance of a Plain Man (1909), Virginia (1913), The Builders (1919), The Past (1920), Barren Ground (1925), The Romantic Comedians (1926), They Stooped to Folly (1929), The Sheltered Life (1932), Vein of Iron (1935), In This Our Life (1941).
Edition: 18th Edition
Publication date: 1992
Review American Men & Women of Science 1992-93 (Volume 1 A-B) / Bowker:
Publication date: 1987-12
Dewey code: 891.723
Price: $19.95
Review Chekhov and Women: Women in the Life and Work of Chekhov / Slavica Pub:
Publication date: 1960
Review Pioneers in God's Hills Stories and Biographies of the brave men and courageous women who sought homes and peace in the fertile valleys among the hills of Fredericksburg and Gillespie County / Gillespie County Historical:
Publication date: 1973
Review The suburban bitch / Tiller Pub:
Publication date: 1999-01-30
Dewey code: 788.92165092
List Price: $101.95
Price: $101.95
Review Bobby Hackett: A Bio-Discography (Discographies) / Greenwood Press:Considered an archetype among his contemporaries, the virtuosity of Hackett's performances places him among the greatest of jazz musicians. Bobby Hackett made his recording debut in March, 1937,with the Dick Robertson Orchestra. He performed with and led various musical groups and played accompaniment to many well-known vocalists such as Tony Bennett. As a performer Hackett played the cornet, trumpet, and,occasionally,the guitar. This bio-discography offers a thorough perspective on Hackett's recordings and performances and traces his career and varied accomplishments. The indexes that accompany the extensive discography span a vast area of jazz and popular music and include such popular names as Louis Armstrong, Teresa Brewer, Jackie Gleason, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, and others who featured in Hackett's career. Concise and informative, this current compilation of Bobby Hackett's recordings and performances is an important research guide for anyone interested in Bobby Hackett's career and to jazz enthusiasts and musicologists.
Publication date: 1932
Review "Aimee" the Gospel gold digger / Peoples Pub. Co:
Publication date: 1975
Review Miss Louisa Lord's diary of a voyage on the ship St. Petersburg, 1840 / The Ivy press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1989-01-01
Dewey code: 780
Price: $85.00
Review Charles Koechlin (1867-1950): His Life and Works (Contemporary Music Studies) / Routledge:Lavishly illustrated with photographic and musical examples, this book provides the first comprehensive evaluation of Koechlin's life and works. As well as concentrating on major symphonic works like Koechlin's jungle Book cycle, it also discusses his attraction to the early sound film and themusic inspired by such stars as Lilian Harvey, Marlene Dietrich and Charlie Chaplin in the 1930s. Koechlin's career provides a fascinating study of the triumph of integrity and independence over almost overwhelming odds and his rich and varied output offers a veritable treasure-trove for performers, scholars and enthusiasts alike. In 1942, Wilfred Mellers classed Koechlin "among the select number of contemporary composers who really matter", yet it is only in teh 1980s that Koechlin began to achieve the recognition he deserves as a composer of breadth, vision andpowerful originality: a pioneer of polytonality and a master orchestrator who was greatly admired by contemporaries such as Fauré, Debus.
Publication date: 1980
Review Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan: A Biography / All Pakistan Women's Association:
Publication date: 2002-01
Dewey code: 355
List Price: $22.99
Price: $99.99
Review The Last Ski Troopers / Xlibris Corporation:
Authors
- Eric Robinson
- A. E. Musson
Review Science and technology in the Industrial Revolution / University of Toronto Press:Many of the leading figures of the Industrial Revolution appear in these pages, with new and revealing insights into their achievements. Based on wide-ranging and original research, this book provides a major reinterpretation of the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain is often depicted as a triumph of empiricism, of illiterate practical craftsmen without scientific training. This traditional view has been seriously challenged by the ''fresh and important researches'' of A. E. Musson and Eric Robinson, as Professor David S. Landes observed in the Cambridge Economic History of Europe.
Publication date: 1890
Review Daughters of fame / American Publishers Corporation:
Publication date: 1937
Review Fate rides a tortoise: A biography of Ellen Spencer Mussey / J.C. Winston:
Publication date: 2003-03
List Price: $24.95
Price: $149.99
Review When Money Grew on Trees: The True Tale of a Marijuana Moonshiner and the Outlaw Sheriff of Madison County, Arkansas / David McElyea:
Publication date: 1878
Review Bible heroines: Being narrative biographies of prominent Hebrew women in the patriarchal, national, and Christian eras, giving views of women in sacred ... as revealed in the light of the present day / Fords, Howard, & Hulbert:
Creator: Betty Williams
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1999-05
Dewey code: 323.11915970561
List Price: $16.95
Price: $102.29
Review Writings from Prison (Human Rights & Democracy) / Blue Crane Books:A symbol of courage, an activist in the struggle for the recognition of Kurdish identity, an advocate of women’s emancipation and democratization of Turkey, Leyla Zala is the first Kurdish woman elected to the parliament in Turkey of post military dictatorship (1991). Tolerance was short lived. In 1994 she and five other Kurdish parliamentarians were stripped of their immunity, arrested, and sentenced to 15 years in prison for statements made in support of a peaceful resolution of the Kurdish problem in Turkey. Since the arrest, a tremendous effort has been launched on her behalf by human rights organizations and the diplomatic community worldwide.
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The third door; the autobiography of an American Negro woman., The Congress of Women Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893. With Portraits, Biographies and Addresses. Published by Authority of the Board of Lady Managers, Mrs. Bertha M. Honore Palmer, President. Official Edition. Sold Only By Subscription., Florre Jo Everett Davidson, Life And Gabriella, American Men & Women of Science 1992-93 (Volume 1 A-B), Chekhov and Women: Women in the Life and Work of Chekhov, Pioneers in God's Hills Stories and Biographies of the brave men and courageous women who sought homes and peace in the fertile valleys among the hills of Fredericksburg and Gillespie County, The suburban bitch, Bobby Hackett: A Bio-Discography (Discographies), "Aimee" the Gospel gold digger, Miss Louisa Lord's diary of a voyage on the ship St. Petersburg, 1840, Charles Koechlin (1867-1950): His Life and Works (Contemporary Music Studies), Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan: A Biography, The Last Ski Troopers, Science and technology in the Industrial Revolution, Daughters of fame, Fate rides a tortoise: A biography of Ellen Spencer Mussey, When Money Grew on Trees: The True Tale of a Marijuana Moonshiner and the Outlaw Sheriff of Madison County, Arkansas, Bible heroines: Being narrative biographies of prominent Hebrew women in the patriarchal, national, and Christian eras, giving views of women in sacred ... as revealed in the light of the present day, Writings from Prison (Human Rights & Democracy)Top headlines: Do Women Lead Differently Than Men?: Americans could elect our first female president in 2008. 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