Artists, Writers, and Musicians: An Encyclopedia of People Who Changed the World

Disney's animated trailblazing, Dostoyevsky's philosophical neuroses, Hendrix's electric haze, Hitchcock's masterful manipulation, Frida Kahlo's scarifying portraits, Van Gogh's vigorous color, and ...

Charles Carroll, Sally D. Mason, Eleanor S. Darcy, Ronald Hoffman - Dear Papa, Dear Charley: The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat, As Told by Charles Carroll of Carrollton and His Father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis With Sundry

This compelling collection of correspondence between a father and a son documents the history of eighteenth-century America through the intimate story of a family and the journey from boyhood to ...

Moshe D. Sherman - Orthodox Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook

The last in a series of three volumes edited by Marc Lee Raphael surveying some of the major rabbinic and lay personalities who have shaped Judaism in America for the past two centuries, this work ...

Richard Sakwa - Putin: Russia's Choice

< P > Vladimir Putin has had a major domestic and international impact since being elected Russian President in March 2000 and yet remarkably little is known about the man in the West. This book, ...

Roy Sherwood - Oliver Cromwell: King in All but Name, 1653-1658

Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector is frequently described as being " King in all but name " , but there is rarely a detailed explanation of exactly what this means. This book aims to correct that ...

Buck Rainey - Serial Film Stars: A Biographical Dictionary, 1912-1956

Jonathan Edwards and Stephen J. Stein - Notes on Scripture

This is the first complete edition of the private biblical notebook that Jonathan Edwards compiled over a period of nearly thirty-five years. Edwards' " Notes on Scripture " confirms the centrality ...

David Prutchi and Michael Norris - Design and Development of Medical Electronic Instrumentation: A Practical Perspective of the Design, Construction, and Test of Medical Devices

Design and Development of Medical Electronic Instrumentation fills a gap in the existing medical electronic devices literature by providing background and examples of how medical instrumentation is ...

Ephraim Nimni - National Cultural Autonomy And Its Contemporary Critics

< P > In his important essay Staat und Nation (State and Nation) Karl Renner presents his model for national-cultural autonomy, with a two-tier system of government that devolves considerable ...

Lewis Pyenson - The Passion of George Sarton: A Modern Marriage and Its Discipline