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Thomas Love Peacock was a lifelong and assiduous letter writer at a time when the letter was often an art-form in itself. He had a wide circle of friends and correspondents which included Shelley and ...
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In the folklore of mathematics, James Joseph Sylvester is the eccentric, hot-tempered, sword-cane-wielding British Jew who, together with the taciturn Arthur Cayley, developed a theory of invariants t ...
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'... this book is a joy to read and explore from start to finish and nobody ever caught by the mystery and comedy of Tennyson's genius will wish to be without it. The great success... is to have taken ...
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Edward Hicks was called a pro-Boer, a feminist, and three parts a pacifist. Asquith chose him for the bishopric of LincoLn after a long ministry in the slums of Salford and he stood out among the bish ...
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Salamone Rossi (c.1570-c.1627) occupies a unique place in Renaissance music culture: he was the earliest outstanding Jewish composer to work in the European art music tradition. Working for the Gonzag ...
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This is the first volume of a comprehensive scientific biography of Hans Krebs, one of the world's foremost biochemists. It treats his childhood, his medical education and scientific apprenticeship un ...
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Gerrard offers a lively and engaging account of one of the most interesting yet neglected figures in the age of Pope. Theater impresario, poet, and commercial entrepreneur, Aaron Hill enjoyed close re ...
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This is the first book to consider all aspects of the life of Agostino Steffani (1654-1728), a composer, diplomat, and bishop. A remarkable figure of the late 17th and early 18th century Europe, Steff ...
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Bring history to life with this unique collection featuring vivid profiles of famous people, places and historical events. Articles are selected with the curriculum in mind, and include newly written ...
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Bring history to life with this unique collection featuring vivid profiles of famous people, places and historical events. Articles are selected with the curriculum in mind, and include newly written ...
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Gathers the correspondence between a British foreign correspondent and a German Rhodes Scholar who joined the anti-Hitler resistance and was findly executed by the Nazis ...
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In this book, the author attempts to further the reader's understanding of the social sciences, in this case specifically sociology, and to do so by examining, historically, some aspects to its origin ...
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Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is the father of modern philosophy, and one of the greatest of all thinkers. This is the first intellectual biography of Descartes in English; it offers a fundamental reasse ...
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University of Flordia, Gainesville. Biography of the Danish couple, physiologist August Krogh and his physician-wife Marie, by their daughter. August received the Nobel Prize in 1920 for his work in c ...
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This book is a new, major intellectual biography of perhaps the most influential theologian of the twentieth century, Karl Barth. It offers the first full-scale revision of the well-known theologian H ...
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Mary Moody Emerson has been cast by generations of scholars as the 'eccentric aunt' of Ralph Waldo - a quickly, deeply religious woman who though the cherished epistolary partner of her nephew is hers ...
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'An impressive example of what a historian can do in investigating the mixture of unconscious pressures, private motives, and public postures that affect political decisions.' ...
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This is the first biography of one of Australia's finest poets -- a famed lyricist, polyglot, and polemicist. Alexander draws on extensive interviews with Murray to reveal how this complex man endured ...
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This book concerns itself with food and hunger issues, primarily in America, but also as America is located in both history and a broader global system today. It focuses on food consumption and produc ...
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This lively and engaging biography brings Wilder's life and music into the spotlight where it belongs. From Wilder's childhood in Rochester, New York, to his rise as a major writer of popular songs in ...
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Typed from a manuscript in the possession of Amar Singh, this simple yet insightful book describes the family fortunes of at least two upper-class Bengali families during the last half of the nineteen ...
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This book concerns itself with food and hunger issues, primarily in America, but also as America is located in both history and a broader global system today. It focuses on food consumption and produc ...
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In a biographical history of the giants of classical music--including Handel, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, Brahms, and others--each chapter distills the life of one or more composers, set against t ...
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One of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century, Paul Ricoeur has influenced a generation of thinkers. In this, the first philosophically informed biography of Ricoeur, student, colleag ...
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Examines the responses of the Paris Jewish organizations to the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi-occupied French government ...
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