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American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson

3 reviews
Peter Kurth

Little Brown & Co (T), 1990

Terrific bio of a terrific and terrible woman
I picked this book up by mistake several years ago. I thought it was a bio of Dorothy Parker. It was possibly the best mistake I ever made. Thompson is now a forgotten figure, somehow escaping the accolades heaped upon her peers. Yet she was a fantastic and inovative woman, breaking new career paths and new ideas. Sure, she wasn't the most likeable of people. But with Thompson that's not the ...

Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra

32 reviews
Peter Kurth

Back Bay Books, 1998

Spectacular!
If you are looking for a good book about Tsar Nicholas II, look no further. This was an absolutely amazing book. I have Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie, and it alone comes close to this one in telling the Romanov's story. It is very well written, does not bog the reader down with more information than is needed to tell the story. And the photographs are astonishing! Most of them ...

Continuum Mechanics and Theory of Materials

1 review
Peter Haupt

Springer, 2002

could be a standard work
With the sound implicit understanding that the reader is very well in tensor calculus the author shows the comprehensive basics of continua mechanics (kinematics, balance relations of mechanics and thermodynamics, objectivity and principle of dual variables) and material behaviour (elasticity, viscoelasticity, plasticity, viscoplasticity including introduction, experimental observation and ...

Lectures in Supercomputational Neuroscience: Dynamics in Complex Brain Networks (Understanding Complex ...

Springer, 2007

Computational Neurosciences is a burgeoning field of research where only the combined effort of neuroscientists, biologists, psychologists, physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers and other specialists, e.g. from linguistics and medicine, seem to be able to expand the limits of our knowledge. The present volume is an introduction, largely from the physicists' perspective, to the subject matter with in-depth contributions ...

Anastasia: The Riddle of Anna Anderson

44 reviews
Peter Kurth

Back Bay Books, 1985

Compelling proof
Numerous other reviewers have already gone into massive detail about all of the evidence Mr. Kurth produces to establish that "Anna Anderson" was indeed Grand Duchess Anastasiya, so I'm not going to write yet another length missive repeating what so many other people have already reiterated. I had only been a Russophile for three years when I read this book, and absolutely loved it; the next ...

Zelda: An Illustrated Life: The Private World of Zelda Fitzgerald

2 reviews
Zelda Fitzgerald, Peter Kurth, ...

Harry N Abrams, 1996

A must for Zelda fanatics and art lovers alike
This is a relatively new yet hard to find book, but once you've got it I promise it will hold a prestigious place on your bookshelf. The book is filled with high quality photos of every known piece of Zelda's artwork and sketches, plus a mini-bio of Zelda complete with pictures and words from Eleanor Lanahan, Zelda's granddaughter. For those who are interested in art, Zelda Fitzgerald's pieces ...

Isadora: A Sensational Life

5 reviews
Peter Kurth

Back Bay Books, 2002

She Was Large...She Contained Multitudes
Here is an excellent biography of someone whose life combined artistic achievement with personal dysfunction. Arguably the creator of what we now refer to as "modern dance," Isadora Duncan certainly filled her "sensational" personal life with a series of adventures and misadventures while struggling to sustain a career during which so many of her knowledgeable contemporaries praised her artistic ...