%{search_type} search results

Abbas, Ferhat, 1899-; politicians; Algeria; biography; politics and government; history.

Contains accounts of ten medical scientists who may be regarded as representatives of Islamic medicine.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

A firsthand account of a highly successful businessman, Tanri Abeng, who served as Minister for State-Owned Enterprises in Indonesia and was responsible for reforming and privatising the SOEs in order to take pressure off the national budget, attract investment, improve management skills, and change a bureaucratic culture for a commercial one focused on competition. The book covers an 18-month period, from March 1997 to the end of 1998, a period when Indonesia's economy was in crisis and the country's economic policies were being overhauled. The author recounts his experiences and lessons learnt and provides a model and method for others in similar situations. In addition Tanri provides insights to the widely differing styles of leadership of the two presidents who led during his term in office: Soeharto and Habibie.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Dannie Abse's rich mixture of Welsh and Jewish backgrounds, and his dual occupations of doctor and author, have led to what is widely regarded as one of the most readable, humorous and poignant autobiographies since the war. Goodbye, Twentieth Century incorporates his acclaimed first volume of autobiography, A Poet in the Family, in a new volume which brings his life up to the present and the outset of a new century.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Author's note; PROLOGUE: THE PRICE OF WASTE AND POLLUTION: AN INSIDIOUS MASSACRE; 1 HORMONES AND BREAST CANCER WHY ME?; 2 DEATH OF FATHER HAIR, OIL AND MOURNING; 3 DNA REPORT AND S-PHASE TAKE ME TOWARDS HEALING; 4 CANCERS, DISEASES, SUFFERING ALL ROUND LIFE, DROP BY DROP; 5 LYMPH NODES MY BREAST OFFERED IN SACRIFICE; 6 RADIATION MY BODY LIKE A BATTLEFIELD; 7 BUREAUCRATIC DOCTORS BUT WHO'D WANT TO LIVE ANYWHERE ELSE?; 8 BREAST CANCER IN FRANCE WHY SO HUSHED UP?; 9 A NO-WIN SITUATION CELEBRATING FRIENDSHIP IN TUNISIA

• 10 PARIS BREAST BLUES THE FEAR OF RECURRENCE11 BEIRUT, WAR AND CANCER KAHABRA BRINGS KAHABRA; 12 SEARCHING FOR ALTERNATIVES INCOMPREHENSIBLE PAINS; 13 TRAGIC IRONY ONE HEALED; THE OTHER HIT; 14 MY LOVE HAS CANCER FACING UP; 15 MALE HORMONES LIBERTÉ, ÉGALITÉ, FRATERNITÉ!; 16 ALL AROUND, YET AGAIN IS THERE AN END?; 17 RECURRENCES MOVE ON: THE EARTH WILL TAKE YOUR SHAPE; EPILOGUE: MEDICINE, DEATH, AND RECOVERY; REFERENCES; OTHER BOOKS BY SPINIFEX

A moving journey through the experience of breast cancer, and the many different approaches and treatments. This is a rare insight into cross-cultural understandings of illness. Multi-layered and many tongued, this book would be of interest to medical practitioners, as well as those facing and interacting with cancer.

The practical wisdom that has guided Raymond Ackerman is revealed in this account of his roller-coaster ride as a businessman in a highly politicised society. His private passions and sound business ethics are shown to have enabled his passionate positive engagement with his country and with life.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPrologu
• e1. In the realm of Porloc
• k2. Around the Qua
• d3. Fowle Ayresand false start
• s4. Mental travellin
• g5. The threefold strai
• n6. The appeal of island
• s7. Turning Japanes
• e8. In the shadow of Trak
• l9. Consumed by ar
• t10. DreamNotesIndex.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Best known as the founding editor of "Quadrant", an unrepentant Cold War warrior and an advocate of the sanctity of Christian marriage, poet and polemicist, James McAuley, is shown here to have had darker traits which escaped the limelight. The biography also explores his many links with Harold Stewart and what turned this writer, critic and habitue of Sydney's bohemian world, into a rabid hater of his native land. Why did he choose to spend the last 30 years of his life in self-imposed exile in Japan. The resulting narrative traces McAuley and Stewarts' collaborative decades - peaking with Australia's most notorious literary hoax - and their harsh falling-out in later years, set against the backdrop of Australian life between the Great Depression and the Vietnam War. The book probes the lives of the two talented and enigmatic figures, who made enduring and prescient contributions to Australia's political, spiritual and literary culture.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Although John Wesley Powell and party are usually given credit for the first river descent through the Grand Canyon, the ghost of James White has haunted those claims. White was a Colorado prospector, who, almost two years before Powell's journey, washed up on a makeshift raft at Callville, Nevada. Hell or High Water is the first full account of White's story and how it became distorted and he disparaged over time. Eilean Adams, White's granddaughter, over decades and with the assistance of notable Colorado River historians, gradually uncovered the record of James White's adventure.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Contents: List of Illustrations List of Maps Preface
• 1. Son of Tennessee Pioneers1
• 2. A Time for Learning
• 3. Boatman, Woodsman, Indian Fighter
• 4. "That Infernal Pay Department"
• 5. "War to the Rope" in Florida
• 6. The Road to Mexico City
• 7. "Prince of Dragoons" in Texas
• 8. "Great White Chief" on the Plains
• 9. Return to Riverine Warfare in Florida
• 10. Civil Unrest in Kansas and Utah
• 11. The Pacific Northwest, "No Ordinary Sphere"
• 12. "Loyal Soldier" in Missouri
• 13. "Our Old Friend" as Peace Commissioner
• 14. A Time for Reflection Notes Selected Bibliography Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Between the War of 1812 and the Civil War, General William S. Harney became one of the best-known military figures in America. In a career aided by Andrew Jackson and the concept of an expansible army, Harney saw duty in virtually every part of the country and participated in most of the key military episodes of his time. He chased remnants of Lafitte pirates in Louisiana, campaigned with Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis during the Black Hawk War, developed Vietnam-style riverine tactics that ended the Second Seminole War, and led Winfield Scott's cavalry in the Mexican War. In the 1850s Harney devised the army's largest and most successful pre-Civil War campaign against Plains Indians, commanded troops charged with upholding federal authority in Kansas and Utah, and almost provoked hostilities with Great Britain in the Pacific Northwest. Removed from command amid false charges of disloyalty during the Missouri secession crisis, he returned as a leading member of the Indian Peace Commission of 1867-68.Harney was bold, ambitious, and innovative, but also impulsive, vindictive, and violent. His career illustrates the nineteenth-century army's role in implementing federal policy, highlights its limited resources compared to its responsibilities, and illuminates key aspects of its organizational structure, the behavior of its officers, and its impact on personal lives. George Rollie Adams is president and CEO of Strong Museum in Rochester, New York.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

At the pinnacle of his career, Sir James Douglas, fur trader and colonial governor, was knighted by the order of Queen Victoria, and greatly enjoyed the pomp of his position. Considering his modest beginnings as a mixed-race baby in South America, this lofty status was remarkable. The life of Amelia, companion throughout James' long rise, saw even more surprising changes. Amelia was of mixed blood too, being part-Cree, part-Scot. She never left the northern Canadian forests until she married James, but ended up a respected lady of the Empire. Between them, James and Amelia Douglas knew everybody who was anybody in western North America. Their lives saw astonishing contrasts, from crossing North America by canoe to touring Europe by train, from Native uprisings to frantic gold rushes. They met with grief as well as glory, losing seven of their beloved children. This is an engaging story of courage and companionship. Though James Douglas's role as a public figure is well known, this book offers the first real glimpses of him as a private man, husband and father.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Sam Maloof (born 1916) is revered for both the beauty and the integrity of his furniture and his pioneering role in the American craft movement. The examples in this book trace Maloof's remarkable career in woodworking from his humble beginnings to his position today as America's most celebrated furniture designer and craftsman.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• LIFE AND MILITARY CAREER OF THOMAS JACKSON
• PREFACE
• CONTENTS.
• CHAPTER I.
• BEFORE THE REBELLION.
• His Military Career an Episode in the History of the Rebellion
• Compared with the Puritan Leaders of England
• Resemblance to Havelock
• Northern Appreciation of his Gallantry
• Birth and Parentage
• Becomes a Student at West-Point
• Slow at Study
• Futile Attempt to play the Flute
• Specimens of Eccentricities
• Graduates
• Class-Mates
• Enters the Army
• Proceeds to Mexico
• Promoted for his Bravery
• Instances of Gallantry
• Retires from the Army.

• Becomes Professor of Mathematics at Lexington, Va.
• Escapes Assassination
• Married
• Becomes a Widower
• Married a Second Time
• CHAPTER II.
• THE UPPER POTOMAC .
• Jackson resigns his Professorship and joins the Confederate Army
• Becomes a Colonel
• Joins Johnston's Forces on the Upper Potomac
• Rebel Evacuation of Harper's Ferry
• Scenes of Devastation
• Encounter with Patterson at Falling Waters
• Jackson's First Display of Strategetic Ability
• Johnston eludes Patterson and joins Beauregard
• Jackson made a Brigadier-General.
• CHAPTER III.
• THE BATTLE OF BULLRUN.

• Jackson's Position at the Opening of the Battle
• His Timely Appearance upon the Principal Scene
• Origin of the Sobriquet "Stonewall"
• Description of the Main Battle-Ground
• Desperate Position of the Confederates
• Terrible Conflicts between the Opposing Forcess
• Gallantry of Jackson's Brigade
• The Federals finally Repulsed
• They become Panic-Stricken
• Reasons why they were not Pursued by the Rebels
• Beauregard's Official Remarks on Jackson's Heroism
• His Appearance on the Field of Battle.
• CHAPTER IV.
• WINTER CAMPAIGN ON THE UPPER POTOMAC.
• Lull in Military Proceedings.

• Jackson placed in Command on the Upper Potomac
• March to Hancock
• Severity of the Weather and Suffering of the Troops
• Skirmish at Bath
• Engagement at Hancock
• Results of the Expedition
• Jackson's Energy as a Commander
• His Endurance of Fatigue
• Illustrations of his Piety.
• CHAPTER V.
• THE BATTLE OF WINCHESTER .
• Jackson retires from the Upper Potomac
• Skirmish at Blue's Gap
• Encounter at Blooming Gap
• Death of General Lander
• Harper's Ferry reoccupied by the Federals
• Advance of General Banks to Winchester
• Skirmishes before the Battle.

• Country around Winchester
• Opening of the Engagement
• Terrific Conflict near a Stone Wall
• The Confederates finally repulsed
• Numbers and Losses of the Combatants.
• CHAPTER VI.
• CAMPAIGN IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHENANDOAH
• RETREAT OF GENERAL BANKS.
• Retreat of Jackson up the Valley
• Federal Plans to capture him
• Battle of McDowell
• Compels Banks to retreat
• Battle of Front Royal
• Alarm of General Banks at Strasburgh
• He commences a rapid Retreat
• Disasters by the Way
• Exciting Scenes in Winchester
• Second Battle of Winchester.

"Stonewall" Jackson has been considered by military authorities to be one of the most brilliant commanders of his time. He had a skillful, though sometimes peculiar, style of fighting that could turn the tide of a battle in the Confederate favor and avoid disastrous defeat.

• Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Martin's father
• Montgomery bus boycott
• Powerful man of peace
• Free at last.

Tells the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his life, accomplishments in the civil rights movement, and his impact on American history.

Biography Muhammad Nadir Shah, Amir of Afghanistan, 1883-1933, an Afghan ruler.

For the last 15 years of Jascha Heifetz's life, Ayke Agus was his closest companion. She came to him as a violin student in his master class at the University of Southern California, but he sigled her out when he heard her play the piano; she became his private accompanist and ultimately his assistant and confidante. A sensitive and astute observer, Agus takes up where previous biographers left off; her book is a loving yet unblinking portrait of an ageing master by his disciple. The greatest violinist of the 20th century was a genius who was also insecure and unreasonable; in many respects the former prodigy had never had to grow up. But the aged Heifetz had much to tell, and Agus absorbed it all as they shared their stories about their lives and about music-making. He imparted not only the legacy of his art but all his beliefs and idiosyncrasies. "Now, you make sure that you do not forget to put all this in the book you are going to write after I am dead and gone", he told her. She fulfills this wish in an astounding portrait drawn with utter honesty, understanding, humour and devotion.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Muʼtamar al-Khirrījīn (Sudan); directory.

• pt. 1. Ithbât an-nubuwwa (The proof of prophethood)
• pt. 2. Other topics
• pt. 3. Biographies.

Born in Delhi in 1915, Syed Habib Ahmed rose to work at the highest level of the United Nations. Now retired, he lives in Canada. This autobiography follows his life and career, showing how he tried to unite Asian and western culture.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• vyp. 1. Novostroi͡ashcheesi͡a kladbishche
• vyp. 2. Li͡uteranskie i katolicheskie zakhoronenii͡a na Voznesenskom (Chugunovskom) kladbishche.

As a five-year-old, George Alagiah emigrated with his family to Ghana - the first African country to attain independence from the British Empire. This is Alagiah's shattering catalogue of atrocities crafted into a portrait of Africa that is infused with hope, insight and outrage. His viewpoint is spiked with the freshness of his younger self on his arrival in Ghana, the wonder inspired by his first impressions of Africa and the affection with which he still regards stories of his early family life. A sense of possibility lingers, even though the book is full of uncomfortable truths and the author tempers his personal insights with his integrity and sense of obligation in his role as a writer and reporter. He regards Africa not only as a group of nations or a vast continent, but as the site of an epic of individual pride and suffering.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• v. 2
• -6. Dizionario biografico A-C, D-L, M-Q, R-Z, Appendice.

This biography was written with full access to Sir Malcolm's private papers. It tells the story of the boy from the gasworks of Stamford, who became the most popular conductor in England. It is also an exploration of celebrity and the English psyche.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Preface. He Turns to Fight (October 1869). In the Beginning. The Peace Unravels (1824). The Death of Pisago Cabezon and the Rise of Cochise (1838). War to the Death: Cochise He Rises (1846). Storm from the East: The White Eyes Arrive (1856). "Cut--the--Tent"
• Driven to War (1861). War of Extermination (1861). Cochise Triumphant (1861). Battle of Apache Pass: Return of the Americans (July 1862). Death of Mangas Coloradas: The Shadow of the Giant (Late 1862). Cochise the Avenger (Late 1864). Turn toward Peace: Thomas Jeffords (Early 1871). Power Takes a Hand (Mid--1871). The One--Armed General and the Last War Won (October 1872). The Frail Peace--the Dying Chief (1873). Epilogue. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This is a biography of one of the most important figures in the history of the American West. This rare biography of the revered Cochise is also the first to adopt an Apache view of a crucial period in American history. Already a powerful and sophisticated leader after years of fighting the Mexicans, Cochise was the only Native American leader to win a war against the Americans after they wrested the southwest from the Mexicans in 1848. Revealed here is the complex and intimate relationship between the Apache and the Mexicans - and the bewilderment of Apache leaders in dealing with what appeared to be a confusing, contradictory, and, in the end, incomprehensible white world. Peter Aleshire (Phoenix, AZ) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of American Studies at Arizona State University, West Campus, and author of "Reaping the Whirlwind" and "The Fox and the Whirlwind: Gen George Crook and Geronimo". He is also the Associate Editor of "Phoenix Magazine".
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• The child is the father of the man
• To escape the reproach of her birth and blood
• The wooing
• One damned night of folly
• Parted.

A New York Times Notable Book of 2002! On February 10, 1906, Alice Ruth Moore, estranged wife of renowned early twentieth-century poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, boarded a streetcar, settled comfortably into her seat, and opened her newspaper to learn of her husband's death the day before. Paul Laurence Dunbar, son of former slaves, whom Frederick Douglass had dubbed "the most promising young colored man in America, " was dead from tuberculosis at the age of 33. Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow traces the tempestuous romance of America's most noted African-American literary couple. Drawing on a variety of love letters, diaries, journals, and autobiographies, Eleanor Alexander vividly recounts Dunbar's and Moore's tumultuous affair, from a courtship conducted almost entirely through letters and an elopement brought on by Dunbar's brutal, drunken rape of Moore, through their passionate marriage and its eventual violent dissolution in 1902. Moore, once having left Dunbar, rejected his every entreaty to return to him, responding to his many letters only once, with a blunt, one-word telegram ("No"). This is a remarkable story of tragic romance among African-American elites struggling to define themselves and their relationships within the context of post-slavery America. As such, it provides a timely examination of the ways in which cultural ideology and politics shape and complicate conceptions of romantic love.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• The child is the father of the man
• To escape the reproach of her birth and blood
• The wooing
• One damned night of folly
• Parted.

A New York Times Notable Book of 2002! On February 10, 1906, Alice Ruth Moore, estranged wife of renowned early twentieth-century poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, boarded a streetcar, settled comfortably into her seat, and opened her newspaper to learn of her husband's death the day before. Paul Laurence Dunbar, son of former slaves, whom Frederick Douglass had dubbed "the most promising young colored man in America, " was dead from tuberculosis at the age of 33. Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow traces the tempestuous romance of America's most noted African-American literary couple. Drawing on a variety of love letters, diaries, journals, and autobiographies, Eleanor Alexander vividly recounts Dunbar's and Moore's tumultuous affair, from a courtship conducted almost entirely through letters and an elopement brought on by Dunbar's brutal, drunken rape of Moore, through their passionate marriage and its eventual violent dissolution in 1902. Moore, once having left Dunbar, rejected his every entreaty to return to him, responding to his many letters only once, with a blunt, one-word telegram ("No"). This is a remarkable story of tragic romance among African-American elites struggling to define themselves and their relationships within the context of post-slavery America. As such, it provides a timely examination of the ways in which cultural ideology and politics shape and complicate conceptions of romantic love.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

By the 1920s, Jews were - by all economic, political, and cultural measures of the day - making it in America. But as these children of immigrants took their places in American society, many deliberately identified with groups that remained excluded. Despite their success, Jews embraced resistance more than acculturation, preferring marginal status to assimilation. The stories of Al Jolson, Felix Frankfurter, and Arnold Rothstein are told together to explore this paradox in the psychology of American Jewry. All three Jews were born in the 1880s, grew up around American Jewish ghettos, married gentile women, entered the middle class, and rose to national fame. All three also became heroes to the American Jewish community for their association with events that galvanized the country and defined the Jazz Age. Rothstein allegedly fixed the 1919 World Series - an accusation this book disputes. Frankfurter defended the Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. Jolson brought jazz music to Hollywood for the first talking film, "The Jazz Singer", and regularly impersonated African Americans in blackface. Each of these men represented a version of the American outsider, and American Jews celebrated them for it. Michael Alexander's account complicates the history of immigrants in America. It challenges charges that anti-Semitism exclusively or even mostly explains Jews' feelings of marginality, while it calls for a general rethinking of positions that have assumed an immigrant quest for inclusion into the white American mainstream. Rather, Alexander argues that Jewish outsider status stemmed from the group identity Jews brought with them to this country in the form of the theology of exile. "Jazz Age Jews" shows that most Jews felt culturally obliged to mark themselves as different - and believed that doing so made them both better Jews and better Americans.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Reputation construction
• the war of image commences - Napoleon and the liberals
• romanticism
• popular Bonapartism
• Napoleon and the triumphant republic
• Napoleon and the right
• determinism, structuralism and the great man
• the great man and the "weaker sex"
• the modern Charlemagne and European integration.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Egocentric tyrant? Primitive Corsican condottiere? Motor of world progress? Superman beyond good and evil? Embodiment of the talents and aspirations of the common man? Or insignificant grain in the sands of time? Chracterizations of Napoleon Bonaparte are in plentiful supply. In part, the evolution of his reputation is a story of historical construction; Bonaparte was just the first in a long queue of agents eager to reveal the "real" Napoleon. But it is also true that the reputation alters according to circumstance: the Napoleon of Restoration Europe was a far cry from the Napoleon that emerged after world war and subsequent experience of totalitarianism. In more recent times he advances simultaneously as gender bigot and father of European integration. None of this is entirely irreconcilable with `the truth'; the apparent contradictions of his reputation can be traced back to the ambiguities of Napoleonic character and rule. Napoleon Bonaparte was not a conviction politician; his power lay in the ability to reflect what others wanted to see. Whether for or against, we all become followers because we discern in him so much of what we love and hate, cherish and despise.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
There is no shortage of characterizations of Napoleon, but not since Peter Geyl's classic "Napoleon: For and Against in the 1940s" has a writer tried to assess his many reputations and how they have evolved, and continue to evolve. Drawing on the latest scholarship, this is an addition to the "Reputations" series. Alexander treats Napoleon as a universal figure, rather than a specifically French one, and draws from an array of evidence in many media. He focuses particularly on how Napoleon's reputation has been altered by such events as the World Wars and the Cold War, and by association with such figures as Hitler, Santa Anna, Mehemet Ali, and Mussolini.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)