Today Rousseau's diverse writings are listed in the syllabi of innumerable courses in many different disciplines. Thus this volume truly responds to a need on the part of teachers and students. A useful book to the specialist as well as the educated reader and a notable contribution to the profession.
Founder of Wallaces' Farmer, adviser to Theodore Roosevelt, and consultant to Iowa State College, Uncle Henry Wallace - perhaps more than any writer since Jefferson - spoke of rural society in terms of its significant role in the success of the American democratic vision. This book fills a gap in the history of Midwestern agriculture and the ......
A Wry Look at a Side of the Game the Fan Seldom Sees - The Front Office
Over his long career covering the Brooklyn Dodgers Harold Parrott witnessed the moguls of baseball's Golden Era firsthand and shares many unforgettable stories about his encounters. Funny and irreverent, this richly anecdotal memoir will be enjoyed by any sports fan who's ever wondered about the goings-on in big-league baseball's inner circle and ......
ISBN-13: 9781563526824
(Hardback)
Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT Imprint: TAYLOR TRADE PUBLISHING
Personal Accounts by the World's Leading Paranormal Inquirers
Issued on the 25th anniversary of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, this book brings together personal statements by sceptics of the world. It focuses on subjects such as parapsychology, astrology, UFOlogy, the difference between science and pseudoscience, alternative medicine, and near-death experiences.
Features a selection of Hall's love letters to Evguenia Souline, a White Russian emigre with whom Hall fell in love in the summer of 1934. These letters detail Hall's growing obsession, the pain to her life partner Una Troubridge of this betrayal, and the poignant hopelessness of a happy resolution for any of the three women.
"The fascinating tale of an extraordinary black man's involvement, growth, and final recognition in a white man's world of surgical research and medical practice ...at the same time, an insightful firsthand account of the genesis of some of the pioneering research into the nature of shock and some of the early procedures in cardiovascular ......
''These are what Edmund Wilson has rightly called the most interesting memoirs ever written. Indeed, Rousseau, Stendhal, even Augustine, must take their proper place, a half step behind this greatest of storytellers.''Paul Zweig, Nation In volumes 1 and 2, Casanova tells the story of his family, his first loves, and his early travels. With the ......
''Trask has written a version in an English fully contemporary yet remarkably Italian in sensibility. With admirable restraint and refinement, he has conveyed the zest and sensuous delight of the original.''National Book Award Citation Volumes 3 and 4 offer some of the most extraordinary episodes in Casanova's extraordinary life, including his ......
''These memoirs are compulsive reading . . . they are the work not only of a highly accomplished seducer but of a literary artist of the highest talents.''J. H. Plumb, New York Times Book Review In volumes 5 and 6, Casanova brings his flight from the Inquisitor's prison in Venice to a happy conclusion. Exiled from Venice, he goes to Munich and ......
