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Out of My Life and Thought (The Albert Schweitzer Library) Even in our cynical age, the legendary story of jungle doctor Albert Schweitzer, self-sacrificingly devoted to the service of humanity, inspires. Out of print since the early 1970s, his classic autobiography, first published in 1933, speaks directly to modern readers in its searching appraisal of this "period of spiritual decline for mankind," an age in which science, technology and power seem divorced from ethical standards. |
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Colossus: The Price of America's Empire Ferguson brings his renowned historical and economic depth of field to bear on a bold and sweeping reckoning with America's imperial status and its consequences |
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Nuclear Terrorism : The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe From Publishers Weekly |
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The Natural Superiority of Women: Fifth Edition : Fifth Edition Among the central issues of the modern feminist movement, the debate over biology and culture over sex and gender, over genetics and gender roles has certainly been one of the most passionately contested. Making revolutionary arguments upon its first publication in 1953, "The Natural Superiority of Women" stands as one of the original feminist arguments against biological determinism. |
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Inheritors of the Spirit: Mary White Ovington and the Founding of the NAACP By highlighting the life of a key figure in the NAACP who until now has been largely treated as a footnote, Wedin (English, Univ. of Wisconsin at Whitewater) has given us a welcome addition to the literature on that organization. |
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Discovery; the autobiography of Vilhjalmur Stefansson |
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Bernard Maybeck: Visionary Architect |
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Notable American Unitarians 1740-1900 Biographies of Americans celebrated for achievements in the arts and sciences, religion and government: Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Dorothea Dix, William Ellery Channing. Illustrated |
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The End of Poverty : Economic Possibilities for Our Time Over the past two decades, Sachs has simply been the world's greatest economic reformer. It's perhaps fitting that he has enlisted Bono, the lead singer of U2 and development activist, to pen an introduction: the rock star as economist meets the economist as rock star. Perhaps someone so gifted and hardworking can be forgiven if his narrative is a little self-serving -- for instance, when he portrays his plans as responsible for early successes in Bolivia and Poland. At the same time, he prefers a more complicated analysis for the failures in which he was involved, like the chaos in Russia, later stagnation in Bolivia and Africa's perpetual crisis (their geography was bad, they didn't follow his advice, the West didn't give them enough aid, etc.). |
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The Nature of the Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals; An Introduction to Modern Structural Chemistry. |
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Biography - Jack, Homer A(lexander) (1916-1993): An article from: Contemporary Authors [HTML] (Digital) |
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections |
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Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers |
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Woman in the Nineteenth Century: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) Also see Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Dover Thrift Editions) |
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Theodore Parker |