Author: Rita Kramer
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: biography, series, radcliffe, maria, montessori
Number of Pages: 418
Published: 1988-01-22
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0201092271
ISBN-13: 9780201092271
Maria Montessori (1870–1952) brought about a revolution in the classroom. She developed a method of teaching small children and inspired a movement that carried that method into every corner of the world. In her rich and forthright biography, Rita Kramer brings this powerful woman to life, illuminating not only her lasting contributions to child development and social reform, but also the controversies surrounding her training methods and private life.
Author: Carolyn E. Delatte
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Keywords: biography, series, southern, lucy, audubon
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2008-09
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0807133817
ISBN-13: 9780807133811
"Lucy was, in DeLatte’s words, `extraordinarily independent’. She was no feminist. . . . Yet Lucy Bakewell Audubon had one advantage over many other women of her time: she knew precisely what she wanted. As often happens to good biographers, DeLatte herself seems to take on some of her subject’s characteristics as her biography progresses. Modestly but firmly, she turns her book into a plea for Lucy Audubon, an entirely unapologetic one, though."--Christopher Irmscher, from his ForewordWife of the great naturalist John James Audubon, Lucy Bakewell Audubon (1788-1874) was a
Author: Drake James
Publisher: Amadeus Press
Keywords: biography, hardcover, opera, centenary, ponselle, rosa
Number of Pages: 534
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1574670190
ISBN-13: 9781574670196
Published in celebration of the 100th anniversary of her birth, this book presents a candid portrait of Ponselle, "the Caruso in petticoats," contrasting the singer’s own words, from interviews with the author and others, with the recollections of friends, family members, and colleagues.
Author: John Richard Alden
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Keywords: biography, series, southern, george, washington
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 1996-10-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0807121266
ISBN-13: 9780807121269
In George Washington, John R. Alden traces the interwoven histories of Washington and the nation he helped to create, defend, and guide toward the future. Alden recreates the major events of Washington’s personal and professional life, including his boyhood in rural Virginia, his early careers as a surveyor and then a soldier in the French and Indian War, and his staid but enduring marriage. The core of the biography is devoted to Washington’s leadership roles-his assumption of the post of commander in chief of the Continental Army, his part in the Constitutional Convention, and hi
Author: Donald J. Winslow
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: biography, related, forms, monograph, autobiography, life, glossary, terms, writing
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 1995-04
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0824817133
ISBN-13: 9780824817138
This text presents an introduction and a reference source of terms in the writing of biographies, autobiographies and related literature.
Authors:G. Schepens, Jan Radicke,
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Keywords: biography, der, fragmente, griechischen, historiker, greek, literature, antiquarian, fascicle, imperial, undated, authors, iva
Number of Pages: 492
Published: 1999-05-01
List price: $303.00
ISBN-10: 9004113045
ISBN-13: 9789004113046
This volume forms part of Jacoby’s "Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker". It contains a complete collection of of the fragments of the notes of the Greek biographers of the Imperial times as well of the undated authors. It also includes an English translation of the testimonies and fragments.
Author: Edwin S. Gaustad
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Keywords: biography, religious, jefferson, library, thomas, altar, sworn, god
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 1996-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0802801560
ISBN-13: 9780802801562
In this new religious biography of Thomas Jefferson, Gaustad reveals the founding fathers great commitment to religious liberty as well as his passion to reform or purify Christianity. Superb debunking of contemporary religious right caricatures.
