The Big Bow Mystery3 reviews Israel Zangwill Dybbuk Press, LLC, 2007 Historically significant and a great read The fact that the mystery disappears after the second chapter in no way detracts from the joy of this book. From widowed boarding house attendants to freeloading artists to a detective that might as well be the anti-Sherlock Holmes, this is one of the funniest and meanest books to come out of the ...             Talleyrand2 reviews Philip G. Dwyer Longman, 2002 Not a primary source bio, but good supplemental piece This slender volume should not be used as an introduction to Talleyrand. That being said, it's a wonderful resource for those who have a background in the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era through the July restoration. This isn't really a biography, more of a study of M. de Talleyrand's ...             Cartoon History of the Universe 2: Volumes 8-1336 reviews Larry Gonick Main Street Books/Doubleday, 1994 The universe in comics... finally... + From the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome + my favorite of the series + Great Service! + Great Book!             In Cold Blood429 reviews Truman Capote Modern Library, 2002 Anarachy in the heartland : an American story + Brutal Event in Journalistic Focus + The first true crime book is still the best + In Cold Blood in a new edition + A Commentary on our 21st Century Culture             The Black Death and the Transformation of the West (European history series)9 reviews David Herlihy, Samuel K., Jr. Cohn Harvard University Press, 1997 Original & thoughtful, but also some unanswered questions... + Suggestive + A Good Book on the Study of Black Death + A Few Probelms But Overall A Great Work             1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West35 reviews Roger Crowley Hyperion, 2006 Fast Paced, Readable History + Like a novel, only short + AP World History Review + Informative             An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1914 2 volume set (paperback) (Economic & Social ...1 review Halil Inalcik, Suraiya Faroqhi, ... Cambridge University Press, 1997 History of the Ottoman Empire in the Annales tradition This volume should become the standard work on the Ottoman Empire. It gives as complete a picture of life, commerce, diplomacy and ottoman bureaucracy as possible considering the relative unavailability of reliable sources for the empire. It brings together intra-empire, inter-continental and ...             Michelangelo5 reviews HarperTrophy, 2003 I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN! + easy to read biography for kids and adults alike + Entertaining for my five-year-old daughter + The Life and Times of Michelangelo..... + Beautifully illustrated, well researched, and fascinating             The Crusades Through Arab Eyes78 reviews Amin Maalouf Schocken, 1989 Unusual Historic Perspective, Written in Suspense + Good read + An interesting side + Not as biased as the title suggests. + Great Historical read from 1st person accounts.             Modern Prussian History: 1830-19471 review Philip G. Dwyer Longman, 2000 Mnay things missed or forgotten I read the first installment of the book and it was a good read and I was expecting the same from this book but I was very disapoionted. First onto the book. The book does a good job explaining the revolution of 1848 but then it starts to go downhill talking about things that maybe had an ...             A Handbook to Lisdoonvarna and its Vicinity Philip Dwyer Clare Local Studies Project (CLASP Press), 1998 CLASP PRESS is delighted to make available once again this fascinating Handbook to Lisdoonvarna and its Vicinity. Its first appearance in 1876 coincided with a period of great growth at the celebrated Spas of Lisdoonvarna. The Galway Steam Company landed daily at Ballyvaughan and the Midland Great Western Railway advertised Lisdoonvarna as a prime destination in its Summer Excursions.             Cartoon History of the Universe 1 Vol. 1-7 (Cartoon History of the Universe) (Cartoon History of the ...51 reviews Larry Gonick Main Street Books, 1997 Wow! If only high school/college history had been this fun and insightful + Funny pictures, serious topic + readable history + Funny History + I wish we had this during grade school?             Sense and Subjectivity: A Study of Wittgenstein and Merleu-Ponty (Brill's Studies in Epistemology, ... Philip Dwyer Brill Academic Publishers, 1997 The aim of this study is to show how the philosophies of Merleau-Ponty and the later Wittgenstein serve to establish, in very similar ways, (1) that subjects (persons) and what is subject-dependent, or in short, 'subjectivity', must be categorically distinguished from objects and what is subject-independent, or in short 'objectivity' and (2) that the 'sense' of the world as ...             Black Death17 reviews Philip Ziegler Harper Perennial, 1971 "And in the dust be equal made" + What was the real impact of the Black Death? + Good Book for the General Readers + The best.             Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England (Women's & Gender History) Louise Jackson Routledge, 2000 The first detailed investigation of the way that child abuse was discovered, debated, diagnosed and dealt with in the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Providing a much needed insight into Victorian attitudes, including that of Christian morality, this book makes a distinctive contribution to the history of crime, social welfare and the family. It also offers a valuable critique of current work ...             The Stones: A History in Cartoons1 review Bill Wyman The History Press, 2006 The History of the Stones Through Cartoons--Five Stars If you are a fan of the Rolling Stones, you owe it to yourself to get this book. Bill Wyman was the historian of the group, clipping and saving everything, including, I assume, many of these cartoons. The cartoons are laid out in chronological order from the beginnings of the Stones career ...             Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England Olive Anderson Oxford University Press, USA, 1987 The first serious historical study of a central human problem, this book opens new avenues for understanding the nature of--and responses to--suicidal behavior as it charts unexplored terrain in the general history of death. Using an unusual array of historical techniques and sources, including coroners' private case papers, Olive Anderson examines in turn four key elements in the study of ...             The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution (Cartoon History of ...21 reviews Larry Gonick Collins, 2007 I love this guy. + Great, but ... + The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution He always uses humor to bring low the ego of man and the pomposities of our forefathers, and hence ourselves. It's good we don't take ourselves too seriously. We will make better choices for our future that way. For those who might criticize this book as glossing over certain episodes: Well, ...             Return of the Black Death: The World's Greatest Serial Killer7 reviews Susan Scott, Christopher Duncan Wiley, 2005 A Whole New Look that Makes Total Sense! + Quite Convincing Scott and Duncan have quite obviously done their homework! I can't imagine the time (& tedium) it must have taken to sift through all those records, but it was well worth the effort. I believe Scott and Duncan have seriously found the genuine cause of the Black Death. The way they present their ...             Preaching the Crusades: Mendicant Friars and the Cross in the Thirteenth Century (Cambridge Studies in ... Christoph T. Maier Cambridge University Press, 1998 This study throws new light on both the history of the crusades and the mendicant orders in the thirteenth century. It describes the way in which the Franciscan and Dominican orders became involved in preaching the cross and examines their contribution to the crusading movement of the thirteenth century. It explains the role of the papacy in organizing recruitment campaigns through the ...