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Publisher :Greenwood Publishing Group Release Date :1999 ISBN :9781573560665 Pages :744 pages Rating :4.5/5 (66 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review World Historical Fiction by Lynda G. Adamson:
Download or read book World Historical Fiction written by Lynda G. Adamson and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1999 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: An annotated bibliography covering the best in historical fiction set all around the world
Publisher :American Library Association Release Date :2009 ISBN :0838909671 Pages :782 pages Rating :4.8/5 (389 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Sequels by Janet Husband:
Download or read book Sequels written by Janet Husband and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2009 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.
Publisher :Greenwood Publishing Group Release Date :2000 ISBN :157356155X Pages :465 pages Rating :4.5/5 (735 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review To be Continued by Merle Jacob:
Download or read book To be Continued written by Merle Jacob and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2000 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Main entries by author, then series. Title and subject index also included.
Publisher :Amer Library Assn Release Date :1990 ISBN : Pages :596 pages Rating :4.3/5 (91 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Sequels by Janet Husband:
Download or read book Sequels written by Janet Husband and published by Amer Library Assn. This book was released on 1990 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: A reference book for librarians and users of public libraries which provides easy access to information on good recreational reading. This revised edition features expanded coverage of mystery and science fiction. New indexes allow access by subject, genre and main characters.
Publisher : Release Date :1961 ISBN : Pages :386 pages Rating :4.3/5 (91 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The English Catalogue of Books [annual] by Sampson Low:
Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books [annual] written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Publisher :Gefen Publishing House Ltd Release Date :2007 ISBN :9789652294166 Pages :394 pages Rating :4.2/5 (941 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Aaronsohn Saga by Shmuel Katz:
Download or read book The Aaronsohn Saga written by Shmuel Katz and published by Gefen Publishing House Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: A celebrated botanist, who had won world fame as the discoverer of 'wild wheat, ' Aaron Aaronsohn (1876 1919) created the first Jewish Agricultural Experiment Station in Palestine then under Turkish rule in 1910. His venture was supported and funded from the u.s. by a group which included Julius Rosenwald, Justices Louis D. Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter (both later on the u.s. Supreme Court), Judah L. Magnes (later President of the Hebrew University), and Henrietta Szold, the founder of Hadassah. In World War I, reacting against the oppressive Turkish regime, Aaronsohn founded a Jewish spy organization, nili, to help the British in the forthcoming battle for Palestine. Here is told the story of Aaronsohn, who is revealed as a master of strategy, and his sister Sarah, whose self-sacrificing devotion to the cause shows her to be a great historic personality in her own right. Historian Shmuel Katz here rectifies the absence of a comprehensive biography of Aaronsohn and the nili spy ring. Meticulously researched British War Office intelligence documents and the letters and field reports of nili s central figures illustrate the crucial contribution made by nili to the British conquest of Palestine. Powerfully written, with deep sensitivity to the emotional lives of the people portrayed, The Aaronsohn Saga is both solid history and a marvelous read.
Publisher :Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press Release Date :2004 ISBN :9780838640289 Pages :306 pages Rating :4.6/5 (42 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Oedipus Borealis by Edna Edith Sayers:
Download or read book Oedipus Borealis written by Edna Edith Sayers and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: "After examining characters widely disparate from the saga skalds, the model holds: only in the narratives having a Christian purpose do we find the link among disability, deformity, sexual aberrance, wisdom, craft, and power broken. With the would-be Icelandic saint, Gudmund the Good, disability is no longer the mark of a great man, but now appears in its modern interpretation: a character-building setback that the hero must overcome."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher :Texas A&M University Press Release Date :2008-03-25 ISBN :1603440291 Pages :193 pages Rating :4.6/5 (34 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Mrs. Cordie’s Soldier Son by Rocky R. Miracle:
Download or read book Mrs. Cordie’s Soldier Son written by Rocky R. Miracle and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: The story of D.C. Caughran Jr., Mrs. Cordie’s son, could be that of almost any soldier in World War II. He left the comfort of home and family to become part of one of the defining conflicts of modern times. The letters he wrote home tell his story from the day he received his draft notice in the summer of 1942 through battle, capture, wounding, imprisonment, and his eventual return home for recuperation and discharge. Author Rocky R. Miracle, the son-in-law of D.C. Caughran, tells not only Caughran’s story, but at the same time the story of “the home folks” who anxiously watched for letters from their “soldier boy” and wrote faithfully of their love and prayers for his safety. This home-front narrative also stands as an important and deeply personal record of life in wartime. Taken prisoner during the German breakout of December 1944 that led to the Battle of the Bulge, D.C. was force-marched past corpses lining the road into Germany, loaded with other American prisoners into boxcars, and held in a prison camp during the coldest European winter of the century. He suffered starvation rations and hepatitis and was hospitalized after his liberation, though doctors were doubtful that he would recover. However, with time and care, he returned to health, was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army, and lived a long, productive life. This intimate portrait of an American family—at home and at war—during a time of world upheaval is at once heartwarming, sobering, and entertaining. Mrs. Cordie’s Soldier Son is highly recommended for readers interested in World War II, the POW experience, and home-front literature.
Publisher :University of Toronto Press Release Date :2005-01-01 ISBN :0802038379 Pages :177 pages Rating :4.8/5 (2 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Anglo-Saxon England in Icelandic Medieval Texts by Magnús Fjalldal:
Download or read book Anglo-Saxon England in Icelandic Medieval Texts written by Magnús Fjalldal and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Medieval Icelandic authors wrote a great deal on the subject of England and the English. This new work by Magnús Fjalldal is the first to provide an overview of what Icelandic medieval texts have to say about Anglo-Saxon England in respect to its language, culture, history, and geography. Some of the texts Fjalldal examines include family sagas, the shorter þættir, the histories of Norwegian and Danish kings, and the Icelandic lives of Anglo-Saxon saints. Fjalldal finds that in response to a hostile Norwegian court and kings, Icelandic authors - from the early thirteenth century onwards (although they were rather poorly informed about England before 1066) - created a largely imaginary country where friendly, generous, although rather ineffective kings living under constant threat welcomed the assistance of saga heroes to solve their problems. The England of Icelandic medieval texts is more of a stage than a country, and chiefly functions to provide saga heroes with fame abroad. Since many of these texts are rarely examined outside of Iceland or in the English language, Fjalldal's book is important for scholars of both medieval Norse culture and Anglo-Saxon England.
Publisher :Vu University Press Amsterdam Release Date :1994 ISBN : Pages :248 pages Rating :4.3/5 (91 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Companion to Old English Poetry by Henk Aertsen:
Download or read book Companion to Old English Poetry written by Henk Aertsen and published by Vu University Press Amsterdam. This book was released on 1994 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: This companion contains original essays by scholars in Britain, the United States, Canada and the Netherlands. In addition to general surveys on the nature of old English poetry and its material context, there are detailed discussions and interpretations of individuals poems: ''Beowulf'' in its Germanic and Christian backgrounds, ''The Wanderer'' and ''The Seafarer'' as wisdom poetry, ''The Dream of the Rood'' and the related religious poetry, the shorter heroic poems, the personal lyric, Biblical narrative poetry, saints' lives and riddles and maxims. The purpose in each case is to stimulate a critical engagement by providing a literary approach and some historical context.
Publisher :University of the Phillipines Press Release Date :2005 ISBN : Pages :278 pages Rating :4.3/5 (91 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Captain Herman Leopold Schück by Michael Schück Montemayor:
Download or read book Captain Herman Leopold Schück written by Michael Schück Montemayor and published by University of the Phillipines Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: The rise of Germany as an empire in 1872 and the weakening of the Sultanate of Sulu and Spain converged in Jolo through the friendship of Captain Herman Leopold Schuck, an adventurous German sea captain and Jamalul Alam, the famous sultan of Sulu. This work chronicles that friendship as it to seeks to better understand how a Prussian from Upper Silesia, steeped in Germanic culture and driven by a lucrative trading relationship with the sultan, developed a fascination with Tausug culture.
Publisher :City Lights Books Release Date :1999 ISBN :0872863492 Pages :194 pages Rating :4.8/5 (728 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Marx Family Saga by Juan Goytisolo:
Download or read book The Marx Family Saga written by Juan Goytisolo and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: In Juan Goytisolo's latest surreal fiction Karl and Jenny Marx sit on their sofa in Hampstead and watch a television documentary. Albanian refugees land on a private Italian beach flourishing photocopies of dollar bills in search of paradise Dallas. Find out how Karl reacts to the demise of the systems Josef Visionariovitch and Co. built on his word! Read all about the family life of the Marxes, moving upmarket from Dean Street to Highgate and beyond, yet never free of the hock shop! But the narrator's publisher, the urbane pipe-smoking Mr. Faulkner, wants a bestselling novel, a proper story with real facts and heart-rending descriptions of the Marx menage. Some hope! Goytisolo returns to the techniques of his youth, sticks in a photo of Helen Demuth, the family servant. Why bother with all that description? Leave that to Balzac. Now was Marx or Engels the father of her child?
Publisher :SIU Press Release Date :1992 ISBN :9780809317622 Pages :206 pages Rating :4.3/5 (176 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Hedstroms and the Bethel Ship Saga by Henry Carl Whyman:
Download or read book The Hedstroms and the Bethel Ship Saga written by Henry Carl Whyman and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: The first book-length biographical treatment of Olof Gustaf Hedstrom and his brother Jonas documents their work in spreading Methodism among Swedish immigrants to America. Henry C. Whyman discusses the Bethel Ship Saga, a ministry unique in American immigrant history, and examines the larger picture of the role of religion in nineteenth-century European immigration to the United States. The Bethel Ship, a floating chapel in New York Harbor, was the vehicle and headquarters for an effective ministry to immigrants arriving in America. Olof Hedstrom, a Methodist minister serving in the Catskill Mountain area, was called to New York to organize and lead this endeavor.
Publisher :World Scientific Release Date :1997 ISBN :9810226047 Pages :502 pages Rating :4.8/5 (12 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Saga of the Nerve Growth Factor by Rita Levi-Montalcini:
Download or read book The Saga of the Nerve Growth Factor written by Rita Levi-Montalcini and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1997 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: This volume is a collection of articles written by Nobel Laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini and published from 1942 to 1995. Studies described in the first part set the stage for the discovery of a protein molecule which became known as the Nerve Growth Factor (NGF), described in detail in the second part. The NGF synthesized in minute amounts in all vertebrate tissues, plays an essential role in the differentiation and survival of several nerve cell populations in the peripheral and central nervous system. The discovery of the NGF was defined by the Nobel Foundation as a milestone in developmental neurobiology, and the author was awarded in 1986 with this prestigious award. Studies pursued in subsequent years and still in progress, have unveiled other fundamental properties of the NGF, described in the third part of this volume.
Publisher :Oxford University Press on Demand Release Date :1998 ISBN :0195099702 Pages :239 pages Rating :4.1/5 (95 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Why Ask My Name? by Adele Reinhartz:
Download or read book Why Ask My Name? written by Adele Reinhartz and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1998 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Unnamed characters--such as Lot's wife, Jephthah's daughter, Pharaoh's baker, and the witch of Endor--are ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible and appear in a wide variety of roles. Adele Reinhartz here seeks to answer two principal questions: first, is there a "poetics of anonymity," and if so, what are its contours? Second, how does anonymity affect the readers' response to and construction of unnamed biblical characters? The author is especially interested in issues related to gender and class, seeking to determine whether anonymity is more prominent among mothers, wives, daughters, and servants than among fathers, husbands, sons and kings and whether the anonymity of female characters functions differently from that of male characters.
Publisher :City Lights Books Release Date :2000-10 ISBN :9780872863736 Pages :244 pages Rating :4.8/5 (637 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Landscapes of War by Juan Goytisolo:
Download or read book Landscapes of War written by Juan Goytisolo and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Provides an examination of the tensions that exist between the West and Islamic societies of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. These essays, originating in Goytisolo's travels in the late 1990s, provide historical analysis and first-person reportage of life in four war-zones: Sarajevo, Algeria, the West Bank and Gaza, and Chechnya. Goytisolo shows how relations between Islam and the West continue to be shaped in a climate of ideological, political, and cultural confrontation. --From publisher description.
Publisher :Weidenfeld & Nicolson Release Date :1986 ISBN : Pages :798 pages Rating :4.F/5 ( users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Siege by Conor Cruise O'Brien:
Download or read book The Siege written by Conor Cruise O'Brien and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1986 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: A guide to modern Jewish history, Zionism, and the history of Israel for the general reader. Ch. 1 (pp. 25-80) gives a short survey of 19th century antisemitism and the Jewish response to it. also mentions British antisemitism in relation to anti-Zionist policies in the 1930s and refusals to help the Jews during the Holocaust.
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