I.A. Richards; His Life and Work

Russo, John Paul

Biographies & Memoirs

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV+PRESS

Detailed and well-researched history of religious persecution in Scotland. Quite scarce, especially in US collections.

Enemies of God: The witch-hunt in Scotland

Religion & Spirituality

Larner, Christina

New Age & Spirituality

History of Syphilis

From its appearance in Europe at the end of the 15th century until its cure with the discovery of penicillin, syphilis has inspired wildly varying -- & culturally revealing -- theories about its origin, nature, & treatment. Here, Quetel chronicles five centuries of medical detective work & official management of a virulent disease that quickly became a cultural phenomenon. Drawing parallels with the medical & social campaigns against AIDS, Quetel notes that the history of syphilis has a surprisingly contemporary resonance. In addition to tracing the history of the medical conceptualizations of syphilis & the attendant therapies for the disease, Quetel also charts the cultural representations of syphilis over a period of 500 years. Illustrations.

Medical Books

Claude Quétel

History

Beginning in a test tube and ending on the catwalk, Nylon brings together social history and the story of fashion.

Nylon: The Story of a Fashion Revolution

Susannah Handley

Figures of Speech: American Writers and the Literary Marketplace, from Benjamin Franklin to Emily Dickinson

Literature & Fiction

R. Jackson Wilson

History & Criticism

The Act of the Mind: Essays on the Poetry of Wallace Stevens

Johns Hopkins Press, 1969, Very good., Hardcover. 268 pages. Very good in dust jacket. Text clean. [Literary Criticism, Matthew Arnold] Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.

Arnold's Poetic Landscapes

Alan Roper

British & Irish

Clifton Hood traces the complex and fascinating history of the New York City subway system. At its opening in 1904, the tracks covered the twenty-two miles from City Hall up to 145th Street and Broadway, the longest stretch ever built at one time. From that initial route through the completion of the IND, the Independent Subway, in the 1940s, the subway grew to cover 722 miles -- long enough to reach from New York to Chicago. 
"Clifton Hood's 722 Miles is the fullest and most authoritative account of the building and impact of the New York City subways, the most extensive system of urban transportation in the United States and perhaps the world." -- Nathan Glazer, Harvard University
"A clear, perceptive and carefully researched study of this engineering feat and the ways in which the subway led to an expansion of the metropolitan area." -- Publishers Weekly

722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York

Hood, Clifton

Americas

Based on extensive historical, literary and political research, this text examines the relationship between ideas and political and social reality. It explains why the aspirations of Irish nationalism have failed to modify the facts of Irish political conflict and sectarian division. For this revised edition, Professor Boyce has added a new final chapter which considers the development of nationalism in both parts of Ireland in the light of the most recent political events and places the phenomenon of nationalism in its contemporary and European setting.

Nationalism in Ireland

Politics & Social Sciences

Boyce, D. George

Politics & Government

Indias Political Crisis

William Isaac Hull

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