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Title: Family Names and Family History
Author: David Hey
Publication Date: March 2010
Publisher: Orion Books Limited
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0-7538-1809-4
ISBN 13: 978-0-7538-1809-1
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Price: £7.99(GBP) Retail Gardners Books Limited (Wholesaler)
£7.99(GBP) Retail (Littlehampton Book Services, Limited)
Dewey #: 929.4/2



Title: Obligations and Privileges of the First-Born: Stories
of Responsibility, Failure and Fulfilment Thoughout History
Author: Vyvyan Pritchard
Publication Date: January 2009
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 1-902210-11-5
ISBN 13: 978-1-902210-11-7
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Price: £25.00(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
£25.00(GBP) Retail (Gazelle Book Services Limited)
General Subjects (BISAC): FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Family Relationships



Title: Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) and Her Family:
Political Women in the High Middle Ages
Author: Miriam Shadis
Publication Date: December 2008
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Market: Australia
ISBN: 0-312-23473-2
ISBN 13: 978-0-312-23473-7
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Price: $111.00(AUD) Retail (Palgrave Macmillan)

Synopsis: The women in the family that ruled thirteenth-century Castile used maternity, familial and political strategy, and religious and cultural patronage to secure their personal power as well as to promote their lineage. Leonor of England, and her daughters Blanche of Castile (Queen of France), Urraca (Queen of Portugal), Costanza (a Cistercian nun of Las Huelgas) and Leonor (Queen of Aragon) provide the context for a study focusing on Berenguela of Castile, Queen of Leon through marriage and of Castile by right of inheritance, whose most significant accomplishment was to enable the successful rule of her son Fernando.



Title: Hfl: Family Histories: My Indian Family History Paperback
Title: Hfl: Family Histories: My Polish Family History Paperback
Title: Hfl: Family Histories: My Caribbean Family History Paperback
Title: Hfl: Family Histories: My Pakistani Family History Paperback
Title: Acorn: Then and Now: Life at Home Paperback
Publication Date: September 2008
Publisher: Heinemann Library
Market: United Kingdom
Binding Format: Book, Other
Price: £6.50 and £5.25(GBP) Retail (Harcourt Education)
Language: English
Series Title: Then and Now Ser.
Audience: Juvenile
Dewey #: 640

Synopsis: Then and Now series looks at what life was like in the past. It takes simple concepts, comparing how they were in the past to how they are now.



Title: The Medieval Church: Christianity in the Age of Princes and Peasants, AD 600-1450
Author: Paul M. Bassett
Publication Date: June 2008
Publisher: Baker Books
Market: Canada
ISBN: 0-8010-1276-7
ISBN 13: 978-0-8010-1276-1
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Price: $37.99(CND) Retail (R. G. Mitchell Family Books, Incorporated)

Synopsis: The third book in the Baker History of the Church series explores the development of the church during the medieval period, covering the years AD 600 - 1450.  In the first two volumes of the Baker History of the Church, readers found an accessible but authoritative series that shed light on the roots of their faith and the foundations of the church. The Medieval Church, the third volume of the series, covers the years AD 600 - 1450.  While the term "Middle Ages" limits the true scope of the church in this time period, Paul M. Bassett discusses the various expressions of faith in the sixth and seventh centuries and offers careful examination of the events that affected the medieval church.  His comprehensive account offers a lively history of Christianity from the final collapse of the Roman Empire to the first shocks of the Reformation.



Title: The Talented Women of the Zhang Family
Author: Susan Mann
Publication Date: October 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-520-25089-3
ISBN 13: 978-0-520-25089-5
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Language: English
LC Class #: PL2277.M355 2007



Title: Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700-1860
Author: Laura Croghan Kamoie
Publication Date: August 2007
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-8139-2637-8
ISBN 13: 978-0-8139-2637-7
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
General Subjects (BISAC): HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)



Title: Scottish Exodus: Travels among a Worldwide Clan
Author: James Hunter
Publication Date: August 2007
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 1-84596-116-1
ISBN 13: 978-1-84596-116-9
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Price: £7.99(GBP) Retail (TBS)
£7.99(GBP) Retail (Publisher)

Synopsis: This groundbreaking account of Scotland’s diaspora is a fascinating study in character and identity.  Over the years, millions of native Scots have left their home country, yet they have been written about only in general terms. Scottish Exodus breaks new ground by taking a set of emigrants by the name of MacLeod and, with the help of their descendants, investigates exactly what happened to them.  These MacLeods began as Scots, but became French aristocrats, Polish resistance fighters, Irish priests, Texan ranchers, New Zealand shepherds, Australian gold miners, Aboriginal activists and Nova Scotian farmers.  One nineteenth-century MacLeod even swapped his Gaelic for Arabic, and his Christianity for Islam before settling down comfortably in Cairo.  Based on unpublished documents, letters and family histories, and on the author’s travels in the company of today’s MacLeods — some of them still in Scotland, others in the United States, Australia, Canada, England, Poland, France, New Zealand and South Africa — Scottish Exodus is a tale of horror and hardship, disastrous voyages and the hazards of pioneering on faraway frontiers.  But it is also the moving story of how people separated from Scotland by hundreds of years and thousands of miles continue to identify with the small country where their global journeys began.



Title: Householders: The Reizei Family in Japanese History
Author: Steven D. Carter
Publication Date: May 2007
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0-674-02453-2
ISBN 13: 978-0-674-02453-3
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Price: £35.95(GBP) Retail (John Wiley & Sons, Limited)
£35.95(GBP) Retail Gardners Books Limited (Wholesaler)

Synopsis: As direct descendants of the great courtier-poets Fujiwara no Shunzei (1114-1204) and his son Teika (1162-1244), the heirs of the noble Reizei house can claim an unbroken literary lineage that spans over eight-hundred years.  During all that time, their primary goal has been to sustain the poetic enterprise, or michi (way), of the house and to safeguard its literary assets, which include secret teachings, ritual practices, works of art, and a treasure of trove of manuscripts that has only been available for study by scholars since the mid-1980s.  Steven D. Carter weaves together strands of family history, literary criticism, and historical research into a coherent narrative about the transmission and evolution of the Reizei Way from generation to generation, beginning with its genesis in the late Heian period and ending with the Reizei House as it still directs poetic activities today in the family residence--recently restored--on Imadegawa Avenue in Kyoto.  What emerges from this innovative approach is an elegant portrait of the Reizei poets as participants in a collective institution devoted more to the continuity of family poetic practices and ideals than to the concept of individual expression that is so central to more modern poetic culture.  In addition to the narrative chapters, the book also features an extensive appendix of one hundred poems from over the centuries, by poets who were affiliated with the Reizei house.  Carter's annotations provide essential critical context for this selection of poems, and his deft translations underscore the rich contributions of the Reizei family and their many disciples to the Japanese poetic tradition.



Title: Celebrate the USA: Hands-on History Activities for Kids
Author: Lynn Kuntz
Publication Date: May 2007
Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Publisher
Market: United States
ISBN: 1-58685-846-7
ISBN 13: 978-1-58685-846-9
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Price: $7.95(USD) Retail (Publisher)

Synopsis: Celebrate the USA Hands-on History Activities for Kids Lynn Kuntz Illustrations by Mark A. Hicks Celebrate the USA: Hands-on History Activities for Kids is a fun and fact-filled children's activity book that celebrates all things American with art projects, crafts, activities, recipes, and games.  Brimming with the "whos, whats, wheres, whens and whys" of America, Celebrate the USA encourages kids to use imagination, creativity, and their own two hands to discover American history.  More than 50 projects are included to help kids discover their patriotic pride, such as making a glass harmonica, a five-pointed star, an All-American beach-towel banner, a compass, patriotic flip-flops, Fourth of July Poppers, and more!  Plus the book includes tasty recipes for Liberty Bell Cookies, Watermelon Bowl Fruit Salad, and more.  Celebrate the USA will help kids: Learn the surprising stories behind famous American symbols like the Liberty Bell and Uncle Sam.  Uncover little-known flag and firework facts.  Tune-in to tall tales, silly statistics, and oddball American folklore and fun.  Explore "behind-the-scenes" American life for many different Americans.  Understand what it means to be an American.  Learn the history behind American holidays.  An excellent tool for teachers.



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Title: Soldier's Son
Author: Ben W. McClelland
Publication Date: December 2006
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 1-57806-625-5
ISBN 13: 978-1-57806-625-4
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 320
Price: $28.00(USD) Retail (Publisher)
First Print Run: 2250
Also Available Through: Brodart Company; NACSCORP, Incorporated
Language: English
Series Title: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
Audience: General Adult
Bowker Subjects: CHILDREN OF MILITARY PERSONNEL
PRISONERS OF WAR
SOLDIERS_FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
WORLD WAR, 1939-1945_PRISONERS AND PRISONS, GERMAN
General Subjects (BISAC): FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Family Relationships
HISTORY / Military / General
HISTORY / Military / World War II
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies
General Subjects (BIC): CHILDREN
FAMILY AND OTHER RELATIONSHIPS
MILITARY HISTORY
WARFARE AND DEFENCE
WORLD HISTORY: SECOND WORLD WAR
LCCN: 2003-016332
LC Class #: CT275.M46533A3 2004
Dewey #: 940.54/7243/092 B
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 5 x 7 in.

Synopsis: Ben W. McClelland is a professor of English and holder of the Schillig Chair of English Composition at the University of Mississippi.


          "In December 1944 First Lieutenant Ewing R. "Pete" McClelland was captured in the Battle of the Bulge.  Soon afterwards he was killed when the Allies bombed the German POW camp where he was held."  "Back home in Pennsylvania, his young widow and three small children survived him.  Too young to have lasting recollections, Ben W. McClelland, the soldier's son who was just beyond infancy, became one of the war's fatherless innocents for whom the memories of others would form the paternal image."  "As the boy evolved into manhood, he reflected on how strange it was to grow up without this parent.  In this narrative, a work of analysis as well as an odyssey into family heritage, the son undertakes a compelling search to find this man he could not remember.  Through sentiment and nostalgia he depicts the innocence of childhood and recalls the many people who furnished impressions of his father."  "Old photographs, intimate letters, and interviews with the memory keepers and the storytellers in his extended family were resources from which the author recreated a time and a place and a person.  This reconstruction resurrects a father vital in life and passion, a man chronicled in humorous family tales, realized among vivid small-town characters, and seen against the contrast of social changes of the 1960s."  "The search for his father consumed most of a lifetime.  As Ben W. McClelland was approaching the age of sixty, he had recovered this lost, never-before-realized identity.  But to complete the circle of his quest, he undertook one thing more, the emotional pilgrimage to his father's grave in Europe." --BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved



Title: Healing Your Family History: 5 Steps to Break Free of Destructive Patterns
Author: Rebecca Linder Hintze
Publication Date: October 2006
Publisher: Hay House, Incorporated
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 1-4019-0797-0
ISBN 13: 978-1-4019-0797-6
EAN: 9781401907976
Item Status: Active Record
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Price: $14.95(USD) Retail (Publisher)
Language: English
Audience: General Adult
Bowker Subjects: LIFE SKILLS
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Personal & Practical Guides
General Subjects (BIC): SELF-HELP AND PRACTICAL INTERESTS



Title: Slavery, Family and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic: The World of the Lascelles, 1648-1834
Author: S. D. Smith
Contributor: Paul Johnson (Contribution by)
Avner Offer (Contribution by)
Sheilagh Ogilvie (Contribution by)
Gianni Toniolo (Contribution by)
Gavin Wright (Contribution by)
Publication Date: August 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Market: Canada
ISBN: 0-521-86338-4
ISBN 13: 978-0-521-86338-4
EAN: 9780521863384
Item Status: Active Record
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated
Language: English
Audience: Scholarly & Professional
Bowker Subjects: UNITED STATES_HISTORY
General Subjects (BISAC): HISTORY / United States / General
General Subjects (BIC): AMERICAN HISTORY_USA

Synopsis: A study of the British Atlantic World through a case study of the plantation-owning Lascelles.

          From the mid-seventeenth century to the 1830s, successful gentry capitalists created an extensive business empire centered on slavery in the West Indies, but inter-linked with North America, Africa, and Europe.  S. D. Smith examines the formation of this British Atlantic World from the perspective of Yorkshire aristocratic families who invested in the West Indies.  At the heart of the book lies a case study of the plantation-owning Lascelles and the commercial and cultural network they created with their associates.  The Lascelles exhibited high levels of business innovation and were accomplished risk-takers, overcoming daunting obstacles to make fortunes out of the New World.  Dr Smith shows how the family raised themselves first to super-merchant status and then to aristocratic pre-eminence.  He also explores the tragic consequences for enslaved Africans with chapters devoted to the slave populations and interracial relations.  This widely-researched book sheds new light on the networks and the culture of imperialism.



Title: Family Fictions and Family Facts:
Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Queteley
and the Population Question in England, 1798-1859
Author: Brian Cooper
Publication Date: April 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-415-15058-2
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Cloth Text
Pages: 256
Price: $95.00(USD) Retail (Taylor & Francis, Incorporated)
Available Through: Baker & Taylor Books; Brodart Company;
Macmillan Distribution Services
Language: English
Series Title: Studies in the History of Economics
Audience: College
Bowker Subjects: FAMILY ECONOMIC ASPECTS
FAMILY HISTORY
GREAT BRITAIN ECONOMIC CONDITIONS 19TH CENTURY
GREAT BRITAIN POPULATION
GREAT BRITAIN SOCIAL CONDITIONS
General Subjects (BISAC): FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General
HISTORY / Great Britain
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family
General Subjects (BIC): BRITISH AND IRISH HISTORY
UNITED KINGDOM, GREAT BRITAIN
FAMILY AND OTHER RELATIONSHIPS
FAMILY AND RELATIONSHIPS
POPULATION AND DEMOGRAPHY
SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL STUDIES
LC Call#: HQ615
Dewey #: 306.8/5/0942/09034
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 6.299 x 9.055 in.

Synopsis: Brian Cooper explores the role of economic theory in 'normalizing' the family in the first half of the 19th century. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the text examines the impacts of these different forms of contemporary debate.



Title: Family History Problem Solver:
Expert Step-by-Step Advice on Tracing Your Ancestors
Author: Lise Hull
Publication Date: September 2005
Publisher: Collins & Brown
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 1-84340-274-2
Item Status: Active Record
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 192
Price: £19.99(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
Language: English
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 21 x 28 cm.



Title: The Transnational History of a Chinese Family:
Immigrant Letters, Family Business,
and Reverse Migration
Author: Haiming Liu
Publication Date: July 2005
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-8135-3597-2
Item Status: Active Record
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 256
Available Through: Baker & Taylor Books
Language: English
Bowker Subjects: CALIFORNIA HISTORY
CHINA EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION
CHINA HISTORY
CHINESE AMERICANS
UNITED STATES EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION
General Subjects (BISAC): HISTORY / China
HISTORY / United States / State & Local
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies
General Subjects (BIC): AMERICAN HISTORY USA
ASIAN/MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY CHINA
ETHNIC STUDIES USA
HISTORY OF SPECIFIC GROUPS USA
IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION
LOCAL HISTORY USA
LCCN: 2004-023483
LC Call#: F870.C5L58 2005
Dewey #: 304.8/73051/0922
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 5.906 x 9.055 in.

Synopsis: Haiming Liu presents a transnational history of a Chinese family from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. It makes it clear that, for many Chinese American families, migration does not mean a break from the past but the beginning of a life that incorporates and transcends dual national boundaries.



Title: Family Needs and Family Desires:
Families and State Welfare in New Zealand 1920-1970
Author: Bronwyn Labrum
Publication Date: July 2005
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Country of Publication: New Zealand
Market: United States
ISBN: 1-86940-338-X
EAN: 9781869403386
Item Status: Active Record
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 300
Price: $34.95(USD) Retail (Independent Publishers Group)
Language: English
Audience: Scholarly & Professional
Thorpe Subjects: FAMILY STUDIES
HISTORY
SOCIAL SERVICES AND WELFARE
Bowker Subjects: NEW ZEALAND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
WOMEN HISTORY
General Subjects (BISAC): FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General
HISTORY / General
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Social Services & Welfare
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
General Subjects (BIC): FAMILY AND OTHER RELATIONSHIPS
HISTORY
SOCIAL WELFARE AND SOCIAL SERVICES
SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL STUDIES
WOMEN'S STUDIES
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 6.22 x 8.819 in.



Title: State and Family in Early Rome
Author: Charles Launspach
Publication Date: July 2005
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange, Limited, The
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 1-58477-542-4
Item Status: Active Record
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Language:  English
Bowker Subjects: CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY
ROME HISTORY
ROME SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS
General Subjects (BISAC): HISTORY / Ancient / Rome
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions
General Subjects (BIC):
CONSTITUTION: GOVERNMENT AND THE STATE
EUROPEAN HISTORY: BCE TO c500 CE ANCIENT ROME
LCCN: 2004-056798
LC Call#: JC83.L37 2005
Dewey #: 937/.01



Title: Scrapbooking Your Family History
Author: Laura Best
Publication Date: May 2005
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
Imprint: Chapelle
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 1-4027-1658-3
Item Status: Active Record
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 128
Price: $24.95(USD) Retail (Publisher)
Language: English
Audience: General Adult
Bowker Subjects: SCRAPBOOKS

Synopsis: Genealogist Laura Best follows up her well-received Genealogy for the First Time (reg); with a colorful volume dedicated to techniques for preserving precious ancestral memories through scrapbooking. Scrapbooking can be more than just a craft: it can become a window into important family history. Use those vintage photos, uncovered documents, and newly-found family stories to create scrapbooked family trees and pedigree charts, eight generation treatments, depictions of holidays and family reunions through the years, and histories of family homesteads. Inscribe notes on ancestors' occupations and hobbies, anecdotes, celebrations, and sad moments: every memory worth passing on to children, grandchildren, and generations to come. The page designs all draw on color schemes and images common to various time periods, and there are also techniques for displaying the scrapbooked material in shadow boxes and frames.



Title: In My Brother's Shadow
Author: Timm Uwe
Publication Date: April 2005
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Country of Publication: United States
Market: Canada
ISBN: 0-374-10374-7
EAN: 9780374103743
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Pages: 160
Price: $31.50(CND) Retail
(HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited)
Available Through: Alibris; Baker & Taylor Books;
Brodart Company; Emery-Pratt Company;
HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited;
Koen Book Distributors;
Partners Book Distributing, Incorporated; Partners/West
Language: English
Original Language: German
Audience: General Adult
Bowker Subjects: BROTHERS AND SISTERS
GERMANY BIOGRAPHY
WORLD WAR, 1939-1945 GERMANY
General Subjects (BISAC):
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Siblings
HISTORY / Military / World War II
General Subjects (BIC):
BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY: GENERAL
FAMILY AND RELATIONSHIPS
WORLD HISTORY: SECOND WORLD WAR
LCCN: 2004-062287
LC Call#: PT2682.I39Z46213
Dewey #: 833/.914
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 13.97 x 20.955 cm.

Synopsis: A renowned German novelist's memoir of his brother, who joined the SS and was killed at the Russian front. Uwe Timm was only two years old when in 1942 his older brother, Karl Heinz, announced to his family he had volunteered for service with an elite squadron of the German army, the SS Totenkopf Division, also known as Death's Heads. Little more than a year later Karl Heinz was injured in battle at the Russian front, his legs amputated, and a few weeks after that he died in a military hospital. To their father, Karl Heinz's death only served to immortalize him as the courageous one, the obedient one, the one who upheld the family honor. His childhood was marked by the mythology of his brother's lost life; his absence-the hole he left in the family-just as palpable as if he were still alive. His mother's sadness and his father's rage over the loss of Karl Heinz ultimately defined Uwe's relationship with his parents. But while they eulogized the boy, Uwe wondered: who really had his brother been? The life and death of his older brother has haunted Uwe Timm for more than sixty years. His parents' silence was one of the most painful aspects of his family history. Not even after the war ended, and details of unspeakable horrors emerged, did his parents ever acknowledge Germany's guilt and Karl Heinz's role in it. They simply said: We didn't know. After the deaths of his parents and older sister Timm set out in search of answers. Using military reports, letters, family photos and cryptic entries from a diary his brother kept during the war, he began to piece together the picture, discovering his brother's story is not just that of one man, but the tragedy of an entire generation. In the Shadow of My Brother is a meditation on German history and guilt, one that is both nuanced and measured.



Title: Ulph Family History:
The Story of a British Surname and Its People
Author: Colin Ulph
Publication Date: April 2005
Publisher: Colin Ulph
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0-9511088-3-2
Item Status: Active Record
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: Revised, illustrated
Pages: 256
Price: £15.00(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
Language: English
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 18 x 24 cm.



Title: A Jewish Family in Germany Today:
An Intimate Portrait
Author: Y. Michal Bodemann
Publication Date: March 2005
Publisher: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0-8223-3421-6
Item Status: Active Record (Readily Available)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 224
Price: £14.95(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: Alibris; Baker & Taylor Books;
Brodart Company; Koen Book Distributors
Language: English
Audience: General Adult
Bowker Subjects: CHILDREN OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
JEWS GERMANY
General Subjects (BISAC): HISTORY / Holocaust
HISTORY / Jewish
General Subjects (BIC): HISTORY OF SPECIFIC GROUPS
JEWISH STUDIES
THE HOLOCAUST
LCCN: 2004-011845
LC Call#: DS135.G5K353 2005
Dewey #: 305.892/4043/0922 B

Synopsis: Immediately after the Holocaust, it seemed inconceivable that a Jewish community would rebuild in Germany. What was once unimaginable has now come to pass: Germany is home to one of Europe's most dynamic Jewish communities, and it has the fastest growing Jewish immigrant population of any country in the world outside Israel. By sharing the life stories of members of one Jewish family-the Kalmans-Y. Michal Bodemann provides an intimate look at what it is like to live as a Jew in Germany today. Having survived concentration camps in Poland, four Kalman siblings-three brothers and a sister-were left stranded in Germany after the war. They built new lives and a major enterprise; they each married and had children. Over the past fifteen years Bodemann conducted extensive interviews with the Kalmans, mostly with the survivors' ten children, who were born between 1948 and 1964. In these oral histories, he shares their thoughts on Judaism, work, family, and community. Staying in Germany is not a given; four of the ten cousins live in Israel and the United States. Among the Kalman cousins are an art gallery owner, a body builder, a radio personality, a former chief financial officer of a prominent U.S. bank, and a sculptor. They discuss Zionism, anti-Semitism, what it means to root for the German soccer team, Schindler's List, money, success, marriage and intermarriage, and family history. They reveal their different levels of engagement with Judaism and involvement with local Jewish communities. Kalman is a pseudonym, and this anonymity allows the family members to talk with passion and candor about their relationships and their lives as Jews.

Publishers Weekly
December 20, 2004 0-8223-3421-6
The German Jewish community was decimated after Hitler came to power in 1933, reduced from 600,000 to less than 10,000 by the end of WWII. Now, there are well over 100,000 Jews in Germany, and the number continues to increase. Bodemann, a sociology professor at the University of Toronto, has written one book (Out of the Ashes) and edited another (Jews, Germans, Memory) dealing with contemporary German Jewry. His new book approaches the same subject by examining the experiences of one Jewish family consisting of four concentration camp survivors and their ten children. The one female survivor and her husband moved to the United States with their young son, who went on to become a successful financial analyst with little relationship to his cousins. The male survivors remained in Germany, where they established a large kitchen appliance business. Three cousins moved to Israel, and the rest remained in Germany, where Bodemann began interviewing them in 1990. Although the stories have considerable human interest, they represent raw data that require interpretation and analysis. Bodemann gives verbatim accounts of the interviews without regard to the repetitious content. Readers will come away frustrated if they seek clear answers to the questions of why Jews remain in Germany and why so many are attracted to the land that once fostered Nazism. (Jan.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.



Title: Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil:
Santana de Parnaiba, 1580-1822
Author: Alida C. Metcalf
Publication Date: March 2005
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-292-70652-9
EAN: 9780292706521
Item Status: Active Record
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Pages: 302
Price: $22.95(USD) Retail (Publisher)
Language: English
Bowker Subjects: BRAZIL HISTORY
FRONTIER AND PIONEER LIFE
General Subjects (BISAC): HISTORY / South America
HISTORY / United States / General
General Subjects (BIC):
AMERICAN HISTORY SOUTH AMERICA
AMERICAN HISTORY USA
LCCN: 2004-053553
LC Call#: HQ594.15.S24M48 2005
Dewey #: 306.85/0981/61
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 6 x 9 in.

Synopsis: "This is an exciting book, indeed a pathbreaking book, for it opens new vistas in the history of colonial Latin America. . . . Metcalf skillfully uses the history of one frontier region to illuminate the history of southern Brazil. . . . She masterfully links her region to the general growth and development of the Portuguese colony thereby demonstrating the strengths which local history, case study, demography, and quantitative techniques can make. This is an outstanding contribution to frontier history, family history, and the social history of rural zones."--Americas" Metcalf's excellent, carefully researched case study of rural life in colonial Portuguese Latin America analyzes the process of family adaptation to a changing agricultural frontier in what is now the prosperous state of Saõ Paulo. . . . The book should interest not only students of Brazilian history but all those concerned with such themes as slavery in the Western hemisphere, the role of women, men, and children in a changing frontier society, and the fate of indigenous populations."--Choice". . . meticulously researched, pioneering work . . . The importance of Professor Metcalf's description and analysis of family and society transcends Santana de Parnaíba in the colonial era, adding more tessera to the mosaic of the economies and societies of Portuguese America and providing an excellent historical framework for an understanding of modern Brazil."--Ethnohistory Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil was originally published by the University of California Press in 1992. Alida Metcalf has written a new preface for this first paperback edition.

Choice
December 1, 1992 0-520-07574-9
Metcalf's excellent, carefully researched case study of rural life in colonial Portuguese Latin America analyzes the process of family adaptation to a changing agricultural frontier in what is now the prosperous state of S~ao Paulo. The emphasis is on the inheritance of cultural attitudes and economic resources amidst the struggle for family survival. Metcalf examines in depth the issue of race, the role of colonial government, the origins of social class, families of planters, and families of slaves. The study is based on manuscript censuses and uses sophisticated statistical analysis. Handsomely printed and admirably illustrated, the book should interest not only students of Brazilian history but all those concerned with such themes as slavery in the Western hemisphere, the role of women, men, and children in a changing frontier society, and the fate of indigenous populations. This book complements nicely Dain Borges's recently published study, The Family in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1945 (1992) although the latter book focuses on a later period. Graduate; faculty. R. M. Levine; University of Miami



Title: Family Medical History Kit
Author: Self-Counsel Press Staff
Publication Date: March 2005
Publisher: Self-Counsel Press, Incorporated
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 1-55180-608-8
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: CD-ROM
Price: $7.95(USD) Retail (Midpoint Trade Books, Incorporated)
Available Through: Baker & Taylor Books; Brodart Company
Language: English
Bowker Subjects: FAMILY HEALTH AND HYGIENE
General Subjects (BISAC): FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Health
General Subjects (BIC): FAMILY AND HEALTH



Title: The Roman Family in the Empire:
Rome, Italy, and Beyond
Contributor: Michele George (Editor)
Publication Date: February 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0-19-926841-X
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 350
Price: £70.00(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: Baker & Taylor Books;
DA Information Services Pty, Limited
Language: English
Audience: General Adult
Bowker Subjects: GENEALOGY
ROME HISTORY
ROME SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS
General Subjects (BISAC):HISTORY / Ancient / Rome
REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC):
EUROPEAN HISTORY: BCE TO c500 CE ANCIENT ROME
GENEALOGY
LC Call#: HQ511
Dewey #: 306.8/5/0937
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 14 x 22 cm.

Synopsis: This volume contains a series of articles that examine the Roman family in Italy and the empire using a wide range of evidence and considering a number of critical issues. Its focus on regional differences in family structure, forms of marriage, and kinship patterns make it the first publication to include targeted study of the family in the Roman provinces. The chapters cover Roman Egypt, Judaea, Spain, Gaul, North Africa, and Pannonia, and make use of both conventional textual sources and epigraphic evidence and material that is less frequently treated, including the medical writers and the Justinianic receipts.

          Introduction, Michele George 1. Putting the family across: Cicero on natural affection, Susan Treggiari 2. Family imagery and family values in Roman Italy, Michele George 3. The Roman child in sickness and health, Keith Bradley 4. Parent-child conflict in the Roman family: the evidence of Justinian, Judith Evans Grubbs 5. Searching for the Romano-Egyptian family, Richard Alston 6. The Jewish family in Judaea from Pompey to Hadrian - the limits of Romanization, Margaret Williams 7. Family relations in Roman Lusitania: social change in a Roman province?, Jonathan Edmondson 8. Family history in the Roman North-West, Greg Woolf 9. Family and kinship in Roman Africa, Mireille Corbier 10. Children and parents on the tombstones of Pannonia, Mary T. Boatwright

          This title on Roman family life includes studies of the families in Roman provinces. Subjects treated include family values, the relationship between parents and children, family tensions, marriage patterns, and family commemorations on tombstones.



Title: Tracing Your Family History New
Author: Jonathan Peacock  Caroline Peacock
Publication Date: February 2005
Publisher: Good Web Guide, Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 1-903282-49-7
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Pages: 144
Price: £4.99(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: Bertrams The Book Wholesaler
Language: English



Title: Kinship, Contract, Community, and State:
Anthropological Perspectives on China
Author: Myron L. Cohen
Publication Date: February 2005
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0-8047-5066-1
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 376
Price: £44.50(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: Baker & Taylor Books;
DA Information Services Pty, Limited
Language: English
Bowker Subjects: CHINA HISTORY
CHINA SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS
ETHNOLOGY CHINA
FAMILY CHINA
KINSHIP
General Subjects (BISAC): HISTORY / China
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnology
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family
General Subjects (BIC): ANTHROPOLOGY
ASIAN/MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY CHINA
CUSTOMS AND FOLKLORE
ETHNOGRAPHY
FAMILY AND RELATIONSHIPS
LCCN: 2004-020533
LC Call#: GN635.C6C64 2004
Dewey #: 306/.0951



Title: Shaltiel: One Family's Journey Through History
Author: Mosche Shaltiel-Gracian
Publication Date: February 2005
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-89733-534-1
Item Status: Active Record
Binding Format:T rade Cloth
Price: $30.00(USD) Retail (Publisher)
Language: English
Bowker Subjects: SHALTIEL, DAVID, 1903-1969



Title: Victorian Girls: Lord Lyttelton's Daughters
Author: Sheila Fletcher
Publication Date: January 2005
Publisher: Phoenix House
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: New Zealand
ISBN: 0-7538-1811-6
EAN: 9780753818114
Item Status: Active Record (Readily Available)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 268
Price: $29.99(NZD) Retail (Archetype)
Available Through: Alibris; Alliance Distribution Services;
Bertrams The Book Wholesaler; Gardners Books Limited
Language: English
Bowker Subjects: ENGLAND SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS
FAMILY GREAT BRITAIN
FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS
GIRLS
GREAT BRITAIN HISTORY VICTORIA, 1837-1901
LYTTELTON, GEORGE LYTTLETON, 1ST BARON, 1709-1773
General Subjects (BISAC):
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Fatherhood
HISTORY / Great Britain
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family
General Subjects (BIC):
BRITISH AND IRISH HISTORY
UNITED KINGDOM, GREAT BRITAIN
CHILDREN
CUSTOMS AND FOLKLORE
FAMILY AND RELATIONSHIPS
PARENTHOOD
LC Call#: DA565.L87F58 2004
Dewey #: 942.081/086/21
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H):1 2.9 x 19.8 cm.
.27 kg.

Synopsis: The daughters of George, fourth Lord Lyttelton, were the nieces of Prime Minister Gladstone. Their letters and diaries provide a detailed picture of their lives at home in Worcestershire and in fashionable London society, at country houses and travelling.



Title: House of Mitford
Author: Jonathan Guiness
Publication Date: January 2005
Publisher: Phoenix House
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: New Zealand
ISBN: 0-7538-1803-5
EAN: 9780753818039
Item Status: Active Record (Readily Available)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 624
Price: $29.99(NZD) Retail (Archetype)
Available Through: Alibris; Alliance Distribution Services;
Baker & Taylor Books; Bertrams The Book Wholesaler;
Gardners Books Limited; HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited
Language: English
Bowker Subjects: ARISTOCRACY
MITFORD FAMILY
General Subjects (BISAC):
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
General Subjects (BIC): BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
POLITICAL SCIENCE AND THEORY
WOMEN'S STUDIES
LC Call#: CT787.C87
Dewey #: 941/.082/0922
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 12.7 x 20.32 cm.
.56 kg.

Synopsis: The story of one of the 20th century's most extraordinary - and controversial - families, the Mitfords. They were glamorous and romantic and - especially in politics - extreme. Yet the flamboyant contrasts and the violent disagreements hid a powerful affection, subtle likeness in character, and an underlying unity.



Title: The History of Family Business, 1850-2000
Author: Andrea Colli
Publication Date: December 2002 (sic)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-521-80472-8
EAN: 9780521804721
Item Status: Active Record (Readily Available)
Binding Format: Paper Text
Pages: 114
Price: $16.99(USD) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: Alibris; Baker & Taylor Books;
Brodart Company; Cambridge University Press;
DA Information Services Pty, Limited;
Gardners Books Limited; Powells.com
Language: English
Series Title: New Studies in Economic and Social History
Audience: College
Bowker Subjects: FAMILY-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES
General Subjects (BISAC):
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship
General Subjects (BIC): ENTREPRENEURSHIP
LCCN: 2002-031065
LC Call#: HD62.25.C65 2002
Dewey #: 338.6
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 5.512 x 8.661 in.
.337 lbs.

Synopsis: Central to this historical and comparative perspective on family business are the reasons for its decline and persistence, how it evolved historically, the different forms it has taken over time and how it has contributed to the growth of single economies.

          "In this new textbook, Andrea Colli gives a historical and comparative perspective on family business, examining through time the different relationships within family businesses and among family enterprises, inside different political and institutional contexts. He compares the performance of family businesses with that of other economic organisations, and looks at how these enterprises have contributed to the evolution of contemporary industrial capitalism. Central to his discussion are the reasons for both the decline and persistence of family business, how it evolved historically, the different forms it has taken over time, and how it has contributed to the growth of single economies. The book summarises previous research into family business, and situates many aspects of family business - such as their strategies, contribution, failure, and decline - in an economic, social, political, and institutional context. It will be of key interest to students of economic history and business studies."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

          This historical and comparative overview of family business examines the different relationships within family businesses and among family enterprises, as well as different political and institutional contexts. Andrea Colli compares the performance of family businesses with that of other economic organizations, and looks at how these enterprises have contributed to the evolution of contemporary industrial capitalism. He also analyzes the reasons for both the decline and persistence of family businesses.

          Introduction; Part I. Family Business: Nature and Structure: 1. In search of a definition: quality and quantity; 2. Changing perspectives on family firms; Part II. Geographical, Sectoral and Dimensional Distribution of Family Firms: 3. Stages of the industrialization process; 4. Industry typology; 5. Financial systems; 6. Institutional framework; 7. Culture; 8. Families, firms and ideologies; Part III. Family Firms in the Era of Managerial Enterprise: 9. Which role for family firms? The traditional view; 10. Which role for the family firm? Toward a new perspective; 11. Old problems, open questions: leadership succession, corporate governance, and path dependence; 12. Conclusions; 13. Bibliographical essay; 14. Bibliography.



Title: Family, Kinship, and Sympathy
in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Author: Cindy Weinstein
Contributor: Albert Gelpi (Contribution by)
Ross Posnock (Contribution by)
Publication Date: December 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Market: Canada
ISBN: 0-521-84253-0
EAN: 9780521842532
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Pages: 254
Available Through: Alibris; Baker & Taylor Books;
DA Information Services Pty, Limited
Language: English
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in American Literature
and Culture Ser., Vol. 147
Audience: Scholarly & Professional
Bowker Subjects: AMERICAN LITERATURE
HISTORY AND CRITICISM 19TH CENTURY
General Subjects (BISAC):
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
General Subjects (BIC):
LITERATURE: HISTORY AND CRITICISM USA
LCCN: 2004-045923
LC Call#: PS374.D57W45 2004
Dewey #: 813/.3093552
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 16 x 24 cm.
.54 kg.

Synopsis: Cindy Weinstein radically revises our understanding of nineteenth-century sentimental literature. Arguing that these novels are far more complex than critics have suggested, Weinstein expands the archive of sentimental novels to include some of the more popular, though under-examined writers, and shows how canonical texts can take on new meaning when read in the context of these novels. She demonstrates the aesthetic and political complexities of this influential genre and its impact on Stowe, Twain and Melville.

          Introduction: in Loco Parentis; 2. 'A sort of adopted daughter': Family relations in The Lamplighter; 3. Thinking through sympathy: Kemble, Hentz, and Stowe; 4. Behind the scenes of sentimental novels: Ida May and Twelve Years a Slave; 5. Love American style: The Wide, Wide World; 6. We are family, or Melville's Pierre; Afterword.



Title: Gardner, McAnallen, Ralston
and Fehrenbach Family History
Contributor: Beatrice Mansfield (Editor)
Publication Date: December 2004
Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, Incorporated
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 1-58939-670-7
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Pages: 436
Price: £11.93(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: Bertrams The Book Wholesaler;
Gardners Books Limited
Language: English
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 21 x 28 cm.
.977 kg.



Title: Family Matters:
Child Welfare in Twentieth-Century New Zealand
Author: Bronwyn Dalley
Publication Date: December 2004
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Country of Publication: New Zealand
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 1-86940-190-5
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 280
Price: £11.95(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: Alibris; Brodart Company; UNIREPS
Language: English
Thorpe Subjects: HISTORY
SOCIAL SERVICES AND WELFARE
PARENTING AND CHILD CARE
Bowker Subjects: CHILD WELFARE
CHILDREN NEW ZEALAND
General Subjects (BISAC):
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting
HISTORY / General
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Social Services & Welfare
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies
General Subjects (BIC): ADVICE ON PARENTING
CHILDREN
HISTORY
PARENTHOOD
SOCIAL WELFARE AND SOCIAL SERVICES
LCCN: 98-198082
LC Call#: HV802.5.D35 1998
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 16 x 23 cm.

Synopsis: "Family Matters traces the changes in government child welfare services from 1902 until 1992, when the New Zealand Children and Young Persons Service began. It explores all aspects of child welfare services, including juvenile delinquency, youth justice, foster care, adoption, residential care, and child abuse. These services are a unique form of social welfare which has little in common with the benefits and pensions which characterise other areas of New Zealand's welfare state." "By using government policy documents and personal case files, Bronwyn Dalley combines an analysis of child welfare policy with an examination of its effects on children and families."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved



Title: Guide to Tracing Your Family History
Author: Anthony Adolph
Publication Date: November 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Imprint: Collins
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: Australia
ISBN: 0-00-715892-0
Item Status: Active Record (Readily Available)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Pages: 352
Price: $54.95(AUD) Retail (HarperCollins Publishers)
Available Through: Alibris; Baker & Taylor Books;
Bertrams The Book Wholesaler; Gardners Books Limited;
HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited
Language: English
Bowker Subjects: FAMILY_HISTORY
General Subjects (BISAC):
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family
General Subjects (BIC):
FAMILY AND RELATIONSHIPS
LC Call#: CS16
Dewey #: 929.1/072
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 19.05 x 24.13 cm.
1.202 kg.

Synopsis: Firmly practical in its approach, yet entertaining in style, this reference guide will be a useful companion for all who are seeking a reliable, one-source volume to use while tracking down family origins. There are tips on what to do when the trail runs cold, how to use the Internet and how to trace ancestors from outside Britain.



Title: My Collected Reeve Family History Research
- Keith Desmond Reeve
Author: Keith Desmond Reeve
Publication Date: November 2004
Publisher: Reeve, KD
Country of Publication: Australia
Market: Australia
ISBN: 0-646-43983-9
EAN: 9780646439839
Item Status: Active Record
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 100
Price: $50.00(AUD) Retail (Publisher)
Language: English
Thorpe Subjects: FAMILY STUDIES
General Subjects (BISAC):
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General
General Subjects (BIC):
FAMILY AND OTHER RELATIONSHIPS
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 21 x 30 cm.
 

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Title: Medieval Russia, 980-1584
Author: Janet L. B. Martin
Publication Date: March 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0-521-67636-3
ISBN 13: 978-0-521-67636-6
Binding Format: Paper Text
Price: £21.99(GBP) Retail (Publisher)

Synopsis: A comprehensive history of Russia from the reign of Vladimir I 'the Saint' through to Ivan IV 'the Terrible'.  This revised edition adds the results of recent studies and the author's own research to present an up-to-date analysis of political, social, and economic history, foreign relations, culture and religion of medieval Russia.  Presenting clear arguments and conclusions on the dynamic forms and characteristics assumed by the states and society of the lands of Rus', this broadly accessible book offers informative and provocative interpretations, of interest to both students and specialists.



Title: Army Records
Author: William Spencer
Publication Date: November 2007
Publisher: National Archives (PRO), The
Market: Australia
ISBN: 1-905615-10-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-905615-10-0
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Price: $32.95(AUD) Retail (Peribo Pty Limited)

Synopsis: Army Records' explores the documents surrounding key regiments, such as the Household Cavalry and the Royal Artillery, as well as the administrative backdrop to the service - pensions, casualty lists, deserters and the decisions of the Chelsea Invaliding Board.



Title: The Art of the Family Tree: Creative Family History Projects Using Paper Art, Fabric and Collage
Author: Jenn Mason
Publication Date: June 2007
Publisher: Quayside
Market: United States
ISBN: 1-59253-339-6
ISBN 13: 978-1-59253-339-8
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Price: $24.99(USD) Retail (Publisher)

Synopsis: Combines the popular interests of genealogy and bookmaking Researching family history is the second most popular topic on the Internet (after sex).  With more than 4 billion records online today and more becoming available everyday, the Internet is fueling the growth of this popular hobby by simplifying the process of finding information and connecting with individuals who share a common branch in their family tree.  This unique book combines the general surge of interest in genealogy with the popularity of memory crafts and book and journal making.  The projects featured encompass many mixed-media techniques and provide beautiful ideas for creating family trees that will become family heirlooms and keepsakes.  Inspiring seasoned journal and memory crafters as well as genealogy buffs, the book divides projects into three styles: family trees designed to be hung as a piece of artwork on a wall, family tree books and journals, and dimensional family trees that take a more sculptural approach.  Each project includes clear and concise directions as well as tips about story-telling, information gathering, and sidebars.  Full-color templates and clip art for various types of family trees are also included.



Title: Names and History: People, Places and Things
Author: George Redmonds
Publication Date: June 2007
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group, Limited
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 1-85285-507-X
ISBN 13: 978-1-85285-507-9
Binding Format: UK-Trade Paper
Price: £12.99(GBP) Retail (Orca Book Services)
£12.99(GBP) Retail Gardners Books Limited (Wholesaler)

Synopsis: Steeped in English history and the origins of its complex language and often distinctly local use of words, this volume presents the stories of British last names, first names, animals, inns and pubs, ships, streets, plants, and local place names.  The book is of interest to general readers wishing to delve into English names and history, and those interested in genealogy will find much to glean from the lengthy treatment of surnames.  Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)



Title: Almanach de Gotha II, Vol. 2: III. Non-Sovereign Princely and Ducal Houses of Europe:
The 200 Non-Royal Principle Aristocratic European Families
Contributor: John Kennedy (Editor)  John E. James (Editor)
Publication Date: May 2007
Publisher: Almanach de Gotha, Limited
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-9532142-6-5
ISBN 13: 978-0-9532142-6-6
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Price: $105.00(USD) Retail (Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated)

Synopsis: This edition contains biographical and genealogical listings, with family histories, of the one hundred and seventy families of the princes and dukes of the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Russia, Hungary, Sweden, Poland, Romania and many other countries.  Biographies and genealogies are given for thousands of individuals, drawn from the families of Galitzine, Somerset, Jablonowski, Hohenberg, Umbriano del Precetto, Franco d'Aragona, Radziwills, Troubetskoy and Youssoupov, among many others. The Standard Edition is bound in a unique colour-coded cloth cover, embossed and stamped.  Text pages are sewn and printed on quality paper.  The book is set in a traditional Gotha type face with a 7,000-name full index.



Title: Tu arbol Genealogico: Your Family Tree (Spanish Edition)
Author: Nuria Roca
Contributor: Rosa M. Curto (Illustrator)
Publication Date: March 2007
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-7641-3580-5
ISBN 13: 978-0-7641-3580-4
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Price: $6.99(USD) Retail (Publisher)

Synopsis: This Spanish-language book is one in a series of four entertaining What Do You Know About? books, for very young children whose first language is Spanish.  Attractive color illustrations and easy-to-follow text combine to present factual information that younger boys and girls will readily absorb and understand. Tu árbol genealógico, which is Spanish for ¿Your Family Tree,¿ describes all the people that small children first come to know: parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, and cousins.  Four pages presenting activities for children appear at the back of the book, followed by a two-page section for parents, with tips on explaining the subject in more detail.  (back cover) Un árbol genealógico es el dibujo de un árbol que muestra a tus antepasados.  Ellos son personas de tu familia que nacieron antes que tú. Tus antepasados son muy especiales, porque forman parte de tu vida y de tu historia.  D ibuja un árbol y pégale fotos de miembros de tu familia, los mayores en las ramas de arriba, los menores en las de abajo, y tú y tus hermanos en la base del tronco.  Luego, escribe sus nombres bajo cada foto.  ¡Y ya tienes hecho el árbol de tu familia!



Title: Map Guide to German Parish Registers - Kingdom of Prussia - Province of Rhineland II
Author: Kevan M. Hansen
Publication Date: February 2007
Publisher: Family Roots Publishing Company
Market: United States
ISBN: 1-933194-12-X
ISBN 13: 978-1-933194-12-7
Binding Format: Perfect
Price: $34.95(USD) Net (Publisher)



Title: Cityscapes: A History of New York in Images
Contributor: Howard B. Rock (Editor)  Deborah Dash Moore (Editor)
Publication Date: February 2007
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0-231-10625-4
ISBN 13: 978-0-231-10625-2
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Price: £23.00(GBP) Retail (John Wiley & Sons, Limited)
£24.50(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
£25.50(GBP) Retail Gardners Books Limited (Wholesaler)

Synopsis: Rock (history, Florida International U.) and Moore (religion, Vassar College) begin with the colonial seaport in 1623, reproducing drawings, maps, and city plans.  Then they work their way through the republican town of 1784-1829, the fragmented city 1830-84 when photographs first began recording the city, the immigrant metropolis of 1885 to 1939, the cosmopolitan community to 1965, and the global village to the end of the century.  All the illustrations are black and white.  Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)



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Title: Monumental Inscriptions, Known Graves and War Memorials
in the Bega Valley Shire: The Set
Publication Date: December 2006 
Publisher: Bega Valley Genealogy Society Incorporated.
Country of Publication: Australia
Market: Australia
ISBN: 0-9580406-1-3
ISBN 13: 978-0-9580406-4-8
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Ringbound
Pages: 1000 
Language: English
Thorpe Subjects: GENEALOGY AND HERALDRY
LOCAL HISTORY
General Subjects (BISAC): HISTORY / General
REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
HISTORY
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 21 x 30 cm.



Title: Biography and Genealogy Master Index Supplement
Publication Date: October 2006
Publisher: Gale Group
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-7876-7827-9
ISBN 13: 978-0-7876-7827-2
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Price: $340.00(USD) Retail (Publisher)
Also Available Through: NACSCORP, Incorporated; Thomson Learning Australia
Language: English
Bowker Subjects: UNITED STATES_BIOGRAPHY
UNITED STATES_GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY: GENERAL
GENEALOGY



Title: Genealogy Online for Dummies
Author: Barratt
Publication Date: July 2006
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0-7645-7061-7
ISBN 13: 978-0-7645-7061-2
EAN: 9780764570612
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Pages: 350
Price: £14.99(GBP) Retail Gardners Books Limited (Wholesaler)
£14.99(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
Also Available Through: Bertrams Books; Gardners Books Limited
Language: English
Bowker Subjects: GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
LC Class #: CS414
Dewey #: 929.102854678

Synopsis: Researching our family tree has become a top national pastime, and with the advent of the Internet, it's also become much faster and easier than before.  As more and more information is placed online, you can afford to relax and research in the comfort of your own home, at your convenience.  The only problem is where_and how_do you start?Genealogy Online For Dummies gives you expert guidance, from Nick Barratt, the genealogy expert on the BBC's 'Who Do You Think You Are?' programme, on how to start building your family tree, where to look for clues, how to discover the most useful websites and how to use and organise the information that you find.  Genealogy Online For Dummies includes: Laying The Groundwork Planning for Genealogical Success Fine-Tuning Your Organizational and Preservation Skills Starting to Build Your Family Tree What's in a Name? Locating Your Ancestors (Geographically Speaking) Getting to Know What You Are Looking For Starting Offline: Basic Genealogical Sources in the UK Going Online: Searching Official and Commercial Websites Storing and Organizing Information in Your Computer Coordinating Your Attack: Getting Help from Other Researchers Sharing Your Wealth Online Creating a Place to Call Home Ten Handy Databases Ten Things to Remember When Designing Your Genealogical Web Site Ten Sites That Offer Help

           Researching our family tree has become a top national pastime, and with the advent of the Internet, it's also become much faster and easier than before.  As more and more information is placed online, you can afford to relax and research in the comfort of your own home, at your convenience.

          'Genealogy Online For Dummies' gives you expert guidance on how to start building your family tree, where to look for clues, how to discover the most useful websites and how to use and organise the information that you find.



Title: Tracing Your Ancestors In the National Archives
Author: Amanda Bevan
Publication Date: May 2006
Publisher: National Archives (PRO), The
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: Australia
ISBN: 1-903365-89-9
ISBN 13: 978-1-903365-89-2
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: 7, Revised, illustrated
Pages: 576
Price: $59.95(AUD) Retail (DLS Distribution Services)
Also Available Through: Bertrams Books; Gardners Books Limited
Language: English
Bowker Subjects: GREAT BRITAIN_GENEALOGY
PUBLIC RECORDS
REGISTERS OF BIRTHS, ETC.
ARCHIVES_GREAT BRITAIN
General Subjects (BISAC): LAW / Public
REFERENCE / Genealogy
REFERENCE / General
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
LAW
REFERENCE, INFORMATION AND INTERDISCIPLINARY SUBJECTS
Dewey #: 929.341
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 15.24 x 23.495 cm.

Synopsis: The new edition of the essential family history title: the only exhaustive guide to The National Archives' holdings.



Title: The National Archives: A Practical Guide for Family Historians
Author: Stella Colwell
Publication Date: March 2006
Publisher: National Archives (PRO), The
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: Australia
ISBN: 1-903365-85-6
ISBN 13: 978-1-903365-85-4
EAN: 9780764570612
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated 
Pages: 192
Price: $26.95(AUD) Retail (DLS Distribution Services)
Also Available Through: Alibris  ;Baker & Taylor Books; Bertrams Books; DLS Australia, Pty Ltd. (Library Sales Only);
DLS Distribution Services; Gardners Books Limited; NACSCORP, Incorporated 
Language: English
Audience: General Adult 
Bowker Subjects: GREAT BRITAIN_GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
LC Class #: CS414
Dewey #: 929.1072041
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 19.05 x 24.765 cm.

Synopsis: This is a first-timers guide to the National Archives for England, Wales and the United Kingdom and many of the key sources for family history research.

          This is the first-timer's guide to the National Archives for England, Wales and the United Kingdom and many of the key sources for family history research.  These include military service records, death duty records and wills before 1858.  Expert genealogist Stella Colwell takes you on a guided tour, showing you how to access the key records and how to interpret them.  All the new online services and other developments over the last six years are fully covered, including: the online catalogue containing over 8.5 million document references the main means of accessing information about the records, the online document ordering system, and Documents Online, which allows users to download digital images of public records.

          A first-timer's guide to The National Archives and many of the key sources for family history research.



Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Genealogy 
Author: Christine Rose
Kay Germain Ingalls
Publication Date: March 2006
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Country of Publication: United States
Market: Australia
ISBN: 1-59257-430-0
ISBN 13: 978-1-59257-430-8
EAN: 9781592574308 
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: 2, Revised  
Pages: 384
Price: $29.95(AUD) Retail (Penguin Group Australia)
Also Available Through: Baker & Taylor Books; Bookazine Company, Incorporated; Brodart Company; Canbook Distribution Services; NACSCORP, Incorporated; Partners Book Distributing, Incorporated; Partners/West  
Language: English
Audience: General Adult 
Bowker Subjects: GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 18.694 x 23.266 x 2.311 cm.
.562 kg.



Title: Who Do You Think You Are?
Author: Dan Waddell
Publication Date: March 2006
Publisher: Harpercollins UK
Country of Publication: United Kingdom 
Market: New Zealand
ISBN: 0-00-722089-8 
ISBN 13: 978-0-00-722089-2
EAN: 9780007220892 
Item Status: Import to Order (Readily Available)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated   
Pages: 224 
Price: $59.00(NZD) Retail (HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand)
Also Available Through: Baker & Taylor Books; Bertrams Books; Gardners Books Limited; HarperCollins Publishers Australia; NACSCORP, Incorporated   
Language: English
Audience: General Adult 
Bowker Subjects: GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
LC Class #: C516
Dewey #: 929.1072041
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 19.5 x 25.2 cm.
.92 kg.

Synopsis: This is an accessible and modern guide to the hugely popular art of tracing your family history.  Published to tie in with the BBC2 series, the book is packed with practical guidance on locating records and researching different eras and topics.  It also includes celebrity histories and a directory of the best current Internet resources. Who Do You Think You Are? is a fresh, contemporary take on family history and tracing your family tree.  Suitable for the hobbyist and the more experienced researcher, it incorporates both basic information on tracing your ancestors plus theme-based sections allowing more detailed and focused research to follow up on family stories and characters.  The first section of the book is a concise and comprehensive summary of basic research tools - how to locate and use a range of records and information to track down your family and to provide the framework for more detailed research.  The main part of the book looks at key themes such as social history, occupations, military connections, immigration and emigration, and looking for skeletons in the cupboard (bigamy, illegitimacy, lunacy and crime - far more interesting than tracing your family back to William the Conqueror).  With information, tips and stories about the historical background and law changes of the past, this is a fresh way of approaching family history and developing research into the stories and characters unearthed.  Finally, a comprehensive resources section provides the most up-to-date sources for common themes and localities - with assessments of the best Internet sources for all types of research.  Also featuring celebrity family history stories and lots of extraordinary tales from ordinary people, this book is a fascinating practical guide to this absorbing and intriguing hobby.

          This is an accessible and modern guide to the hugely popular art of tracing your family history.  Published to tie in with the BBC2 series, the book is packed with practical guidance on locating records and researching different eras and topics.  It also includes celebrity histories and a directory of the best current Internet resources.

          - Key title  This is an accessible and modern guide to the hugely popular art of tracing your family history.  Published to tie in with the BBC2 series, the book is packed with practical guidance on locating records and researching different eras and topics.  It also includes celebrity histories and a directory of the best current Internet resources.  - Tie-in to the second in the hugely popular BBC2 series due to be broadcast in January 2006.  The first series was a massive ratings winner for BBC2 with at least double the audience they would normally get.  - Previous tie-in book to Series 1, published last year, sold over 130,000 copies.  - Celebrities confirmed for the new series include Jeremy Paxman, Stephen Fry,
Jane Horrocks, Sheila Hancock, Julian Clary and Gurinder Chadha.  - Dan Waddell will be interviewed for a Who Do You Think You Are? BBC History magazine supplement.  - The Internet has revitalised this hobby   - the National Archives has 8-10,000 hits per day and recent figures show a 44% increase on last year in family researchers on the Internet.  - The BBC Who Do You Think You Are? website received 2.5 million hits in the 2 days after the series was launched.  - Online promotions with popular family history websites; tie-ups with the National Archives and cross promotions with CD-rom and DVD.

          Every person in the world is a part of history, but many of us do not know to what extent our family tree can be traced. This book explains how to carry out your own genealogy project, perhaps revealing family history that would otherwise have been overlooked.



Title: Smart Family History: New Ideas for Maximising Your Research
Author: Geoff Swinfield
Publication Date: February 2006
Publisher: National Archives (PRO), The
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: Australia
ISBN: 1-903365-80-5
ISBN 13: 978-1-903365-80-9
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 256
Price: $21.95(AUD) Retail (DLS Distribution Services)
Also Available Through: Baker & Taylor Books; Bertrams Books; Brodart Company; DLS Australia, Pty Ltd. (Library Sales Only); Gardners Books Limited; NACSCORP, Incorporated
Language: English
Audience: General Adult
Bowker Subjects: GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
LC Class #: CS414
Dewey #: 929.1072041
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 11.43 x 15.875 cm.

Synopsis: Taking you beyond the usual sources, professional researcher Geoff Swinfield offers genealogists a wealth of smart ideas on what to do next, related to each stage of your ancestor's life.

          Of all the family history books available, this is the only concise guide to further research.  Taking you beyond the usual sources, professional researcher Geoff Swinfield offers a wealth of smart ideas on what to do next, related to each stage of your ancestor's life: indexes and directories, websites, specialist records and more.  He also shares his tried and tested strategies for when you're stuck, addressing familiar dilemmas like `which of these possible candidates is my ancestor?'  Every genealogist will find new things to try in this convenient and affordable guide.

          A concise guide to taking your family research farther and faster



Title: From Sailing Ships to Spitfires:
The Life and Times of an Immigrant Family, Whose Sons Fought in the Second World War
Author: Shirley Walker  
Publication Date: January 2006
Publisher: Borealis Press, Limited
Country of Publication: Canada
Market: Canada
ISBN: 0-88887-287-9
ISBN 13: 978-0-88887-287-6
Item Status: Active Record
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Language: English
Audience: General Adult
Bowker Subjects: GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
Dewey #: 929/.2/0971



Title: Find Your Family on the Internet: A New Zealand Guide
Author: Ros Henry
Publication Date:
Publisher: January 2006
Country of Publication: New Zealand
Market: Australia
ISBN: 1-877361-09-7
ISBN 13: 978-1-877361-09-8
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Pages: 152
Price: $29.95(AUD) Retail (Dennis Jones & Associates Pty, Limited)
Also Available Through: Alibris
Language: English
Audience: General Adult
Thorpe Subjects: GENEALOGY AND HERALDRY
INTERNET
General Subjects (BISAC): COMPUTERS / Internet / General
REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
INTERNET
Dewey #: 929.02854678
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 17 x 21 cm.



Title: Tracing Your Family History:
The Complete Guide to Locating Your Ancestors and Finding Out Where You Came From
Author: Lise Hull
Publication Date: December 2005
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association, Incorporated, The
Country of Publication: United States
Market: Australia
ISBN: 0-7621-0573-9
ISBN 13: 978-0-7621-0573-1
EAN: 9780762105731
Item Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Pages: 224
Price: $44.95(AUD) Retail (Bookwise International)
Also Available Through: Bookwise International; NACSCORP, Incorporated
Language: English
Bowker Subjects: GENEALOGY
GREAT BRITAIN_GENEALOGY
UNITED STATES_GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
LCCN: 2005-044363
LC Class #: CS16.H85 2006
Dewey #: 929/.1/072
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 21.488 x 28.194 x 2.311 cm.
1.139 kg.



Title: Biography and Genealogy Master Index Supplement 2006, Vol. 2
Publication Date: December 2005
Publisher: Gale Group
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-7876-6676-9
ISBN 13: 978-0-7876-6676-7
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Edition: 2006
Pages: 900
Price: $325.00(USD) Retail (Publisher)
Also Available Through: Alibris  ;Baker & Taylor Books; Blackwell North America; Brodart Company; NACSCORP, Incorporated; Thomson Learning Australia 
Language: English
Bowker Subjects: BIOGRAPHY
GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY: GENERAL
GENEALOGY

Synopsis: Together, the two annual volumes in this series provide 600,000 citations to biographical articles appearing in 250 editions and volumes of 140 biographical dictionaries and who's whos.



Title: Medieval Genealogy
Author: Paul Chambers
Publication Date: September 2005
Publisher: Sutton Publishing, Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0-7509-3687-8
ISBN 13: 978-0-7509-3687-3
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 288
Price: £25.00(GBP) Retail Gardners Books Limited (Wholesaler)
Also Available Through: Alibris  ; Bertrams Books; Gardners Books Limited; Peribo Pty Limited
Language: English
Bowker Subjects: GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
LC Class #: CS415
Dewey #: 929.1072041

Synopsis: 'Medieval Genealogy' provides an account of the records available and the techniques needed to find and understand them.  With numerous illustrations and practical examples the book will fill an obvious gap in the genealogists' library.



Title: Marital Violence: An English Family History, 1660-1857
Author: Elizabeth Foyster
Publication Date: August 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Market: Australia
ISBN: 0-521-61912-2
EAN: 9780521619127
Item Status: Active Record
Binding Format: Paper Text
Pages: 290
Language: English
Audience: College
Bowker Subjects: GREAT BRITAIN GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY

Synopsis: Exposing the 'hidden' history of marital violence between the Restoration and the mid-nineteenth century.

          This book exposes the 'hidden' history of marital violence and explores its place in English family life between the Restoration and the mid-nineteenth century. In a time before divorce was easily available and when husbands were popularly believed to have the right to beat their wives, Elizabeth Foyster examines the variety of ways in which men, women and children responded to marital violence. For contemporaries this was an issue that raised central questions about family life: the extent of men's authority over other family members, the limitations of women's property rights, and the problems of access to divorce and child custody. Opinion about the legitimacy of marital violence continued to be divided but by the nineteenth century ideas about what was intolerable or cruel violence had changed significantly. This accessible study will be invaluable reading for anyone interested in gender studies, feminism, social history and family history.

          1. Rethinking the histories of violence; 2: Resisting violence; 3. Children and marital violence; 4. Beyond conjugal ties and spaces; 5. The origins of professional responses.



Title: Genealogy
Author: Maud Casey
Publication Date: July 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited
Country of Publication: Canada
Market: Canada
ISBN: 0-06-052048-5
EAN: 9780060520489
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Price:$33.95(CND) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited
Language: English



Title: Liu Village: Lineage and Change in Northeastern China
Author: Nie Lili
Contributor: J. S. Eades (Translator)
Publication Date: June 2005
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Country of Publication: United States
Market: Australia
ISBN: 1-57181-260-1
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 256
Price: $83.00(AUD) Retail (Footprint Books)
Available Through: Baker & Taylor Books;
Brodart Company; Footprint Books
Language: English
Series Title: Asian Anthropologies Ser.
Bowker Subjects: CHINA SOCIAL CONDITIONS GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Genealogy
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL STUDIES



Title: The Genealogy Handbook:
The Complete Guide to Tracing Your Family Tree
Author: Ellen Galford
Contributor: Ancestry. com Ancestry.com (Contribution by)
Publication Date: June 2005
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association, Incorporated, The
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-7621-0645-X
EAN: 9780762106455
Item Status: Active Record
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Pages: 192
Price: $16.95(USD) Retail (Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated)
Language: English
Audience: General Adult
Bowker Subjects: GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 10 x 10 x 7.5 in.
1 lbs.



Title: Ancestral Trails: The Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History
Author: Mark D. Herber
Publication Date: June 2005
Publisher: Sutton Publishing, Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0-7509-4198-7
ISBN 13: 978-0-7509-4198-3
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: 2, illustrated
Pages: 840
Price: £20.00(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
£20.00(GBP) Retail Gardners Books Limited (Wholesaler)
Also Available Through: Bertrams Books; DLS Australia, Pty Ltd. (Library Sales Only);
Gardners Books Limited; Peribo Pty Limited
Language: English
Bowker Subjects: GENEALOGY
GREAT BRITAIN_GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
LC Class #: CS414
Dewey #: 929.1/072/041
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 17 x 24 cm.

Synopsis: Mark D. Herber provides a comprehensive illustrated guide to tracing British ancestry as far back as the Middle Ages.  Chapters include advice on obtaining information from relatives, drawing a family tree, and researching census records.

Library Journal
March 1, 1998 0-8063-1546-6;

Herber's book is billed as "the complete guide to British genealogy and family history," and that is exactly what it is. Thoughtfully designed, this orderly, comprehensive, and elegant work guides the researcher (beginner or advanced) through the entire process of tracing British heritage, from obtaining information from living relatives to drawing family trees and starting research in the birth, marriage, death, or census records.  Later chapters guide researchers to records that are more difficult to find and use, such as wills, parish registers, civil and ecclesiastical court records, poll books, and property records.  Written for practitioners by a practitioner (Herber is a member of the Society of Genealogists in London), this complete, current, and beautiful guide ultimately helps the researcher focus on how the ancestral trail begins and how to form a coherent picture of past generations and their links to the present.  Highly recommended.  Howells's Netting Your Ancestors, on the other hand, is less elegant in delivering its guidance to genealogical research on the Internet.  Nothing that it covers' the selection of hardware and software, getting a direct internet connection, E-mail, mailing lists, and newsgroups' is tied uniquely to genealogical research.  In fact, a good 95 percent of the skills and tools it covers could be gleaned just as effectively from any basic computer book.  This seems to be written as a how-to book' how to get to the author's popular web site.  Not recommended.' Scott Hightower, Gallatin/NYU



Title: Making Sense of the Census Revisited: Census Records for England and Wales,1801-1901.
A Handbook for Historical Researchers
Author: Edward Higgs
Publication Date: March 2005
Publisher: University of London, Institute of Historical Research
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 1-905165-00-5
ISBN 13: 978-1-905165-00-1
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated
Pages: xii, 232
Price: £14.99(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
Also Available Through: Bertrams Books; Blackwell Publishing Limited
Language: English
Bowker Subjects: GREAT BRITAIN_CENSUS
GREAT BRITAIN_GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Genealogy
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
POPULATION AND DEMOGRAPHY
Dewey #: 304.60942072

Synopsis: 'Making Sense of the Census' is a reference for all those approaching census studies, including details of the structure and geography of the census, as well as including comprehensive information on the houses, households, individuals and occupations that appear in the census returns.



Title: Links to the Past Through Genealogy: Curriculum Activities for the Classroom
Author: Midge Frazel
Publication Date: March 2005
Publisher: Linworth Publishing, Incorporated
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 1-58683-181-X
ISBN 13: 978-1-58683-181-3
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Perfect
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 107
Price: $19.95(USD) Retail (Publisher)
Also Available Through: Brodart Company
Language: English
Series Title: Kathy Schrock's Every Day of the School Year Ser. 
Audience: Scholarly & Professional
Bowker Subjects: GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
LCCN: 2004-028895
LC Class #: CS49F735 2005
Dewey #: 372.89
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 8.5 x 11 in.



Title: The Roman Family in the Empire: Rome, Italy, and Beyond
Contributor: Michele George (Editor)
Publication Date: February 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0-19-926841-X
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 350
Price: £70.00(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: Baker & Taylor Books;
DA Information Services Pty, Limited
Language: English
Audience: General Adult
Bowker Subjects: GENEALOGY ROME HISTORY
ROME SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS
General Subjects (BISAC): HISTORY / Ancient / Rome
REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): EUROPEAN HISTORY:
BCE TO c500 CE ANCIENT ROME GENEALOGY
LC Call#: HQ511
Dewey #: 306.8/5/0937
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 14 x 22 cm.

Synopsis: This volume contains a series of articles that examine the Roman family in Italy and the empire using a wide range of evidence and considering a number of critical issues. Its focus on regional differences in family structure, forms of marriage, and kinship patterns make it the first publication to include targeted study of the family in the Roman provinces. The chapters cover Roman Egypt, Judaea, Spain, Gaul, North Africa, and Pannonia, and make use of both conventional textual sources and epigraphic evidence and material that is less frequently treated, including the medical writers and the Justinianic receipts.

          Introduction, Michele George 1. Putting the family across: Cicero on natural affection, Susan Treggiari 2. Family imagery and family values in Roman Italy, Michele George 3. The Roman child in sickness and health, Keith Bradley 4. Parent-child conflict in the Roman family: the evidence of Justinian, Judith Evans Grubbs 5. Searching for the Romano-Egyptian family, Richard Alston 6. The Jewish family in Judaea from Pompey to Hadrian - the limits of Romanization, Margaret Williams 7. Family relations in Roman Lusitania: social change in a Roman province?, Jonathan Edmondson 8. Family history in the Roman North-West, Greg Woolf 9. Family and kinship in Roman Africa, Mireille Corbier 10. Children and parents on the tombstones of Pannonia, Mary T. Boatwright

          This volume contains a series of articles that examine the Roman family in Italy and the empire using a wide range of evidence and considering a number of critical issues.

          This title on Roman family life includes studies of the families in Roman provinces. Subjects treated include family values, the relationship between parents and children, family tensions, marriage patterns, and family commemorations on tombstones.



Title: Family History 101
Author: Marcia Melnyk
Publication Date: January 2005
Publisher: F & W Publications, Incorporated
Country of Publication: United States
Market: Canada
ISBN: 1-55870-706-9
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 144
Price: $24.99(CND) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: Alibris; Baker & Taylor Books; Fraser
Direct Distribution Services; Gardners Books Limited; Koen
Book Distributors; Partners Book Distributing, Incorporated;
Partners/West
Language: English
Audience: General Adult
Bowker Subjects: GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
LCCN: 2004-058111
LC Call#: CS16.M44 2005
Dewey #: 929/.1/072073
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 22 x 28 cm.

Synopsis: Family History 101 brings the winning approach of Melnyk's popular Genealogy 101 course to Family Tree Books' friendly format. Readers ease into family history with: * Straightforward tips on tapping the power of the Internet * Checklists, forms, case studies and illustrations to make getting started fun and easy * Guidance to maximize existing information and become a better family historian Beginners as well as school teachers will appreciate Melnyk's reliable instruction and proven approach to the basics!

          A new installment of the popular Family Tree Books series instructs readers on how to make the most out of Internet resources; shares a host of case studies, checklists, forms, and illustrations that can expedite the research process; and offers advice on how to maximize existing information. Original.



Title: Family Tree Problem Solver
Author: Marsha Hoffman Rising
Publication Date: January 2005
Publisher: F & W Publications, Incorporated
Country of Publication: United States
Market: Canada
ISBN: 1-55870-685-2
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 240
Price: $28.99(CND) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: Alibris; Baker & Taylor Books;
Brodart Company; Fraser Direct Distribution Services;
Gardners Books Limited; Partners Book Distributing,
Incorporated; Partners/West
Language: English
Audience: General Adult
Bowker Subjects: GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
LCCN: 2004-058108
LC Call#: CS14.R57 2005
Dewey #: 929/.1/072073
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 22 x 28 cm.

Synopsis: Complications arising from incomplete or missing records, census irregularities, and individuals of the same name occur more often than non-genealogists might think. Respected genealogist and author Marsha Hoffman Rising helps beginners break through these ``brick walls'' by breaking down each researcher's common problem into a chapter with straightforward solutions. Readers will: * Go straight to the answers they need without wading through theory or irrelevant records overviews * Find explanations and case studies easily understood by beginning genealogists, yet still useful for more experienced researchers * Learn what NOT to do in research to avoid hitting brick walls in the future The result is the best and most accessible book on the market about overcoming obstacles, from Family Tree Magazine and Family Tree Books, the sources of genealogy's most popular publications!

          An award-winning genealogist helps beginning family tree researchers overcome such challenges as incomplete or missing records, census irregularities, and same-name obstacles, providing straightforward advice and case studies that demonstrate the strategies employed by experienced researchers. Original.



Title: Clans and Tartans
Publication Date: January 2005
Publisher: William Collins Sons & Company, Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0-00-717855-7
Item Status: Active Record (Readily Available)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 256
Price: £4.99(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
£4.99(GBP) Retail (HarperCollins Publishers Limited)
Available Through: Alibris; Baker & Taylor Books;
Bertrams The Book Wholesaler; Gardners Books Limited;
HarperCollins Publishers; HarperCollins Publishers Canada,
Limited
Language: English
Series Title: Collins Gem Ser.
Audience: General Adult
Bowker Subjects: SCOTLAND GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
Dewey #:929.2/09411
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 8.2 x 11.7 cm.

Synopsis: The histories of over 100 Scottish clans, together
with full-colour illustrations of their tartans.



Title: The Penguin Dictionary of First Names
Author: David Pickering
Publication Date: January 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: New Zealand
ISBN: 0-14-101398-2
EAN: 9780141013985
Item Status: Import to Order (Readily Available)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: 2
Pages: 400
Price: $25.00(NZD) Retail (Penguin Group New Zealand, Limited)
Available Through: Alibris; Bertrams The Book Wholesaler;
Canbook Distribution Services; Gardners Books Limited
Language: English
Series Title: Penguin Reference Ser.
Audience: General Adult
Bowker Subjects: GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
LC Call#: CS2300
Dewey #: 929.4/4/03
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 13 x 20 cm.

Synopsis: This is a guide to the history and meaning of names. This reference is not just a list of different names, but takes the reader back to the historical roots of each name with their cultural, religious and artistic heritage helpfully explained.

          "Now fully updated for its second edition, with 150 new entries, The Penguin Dictionary of First Names takes a close look at over 5,000 examples, ranging from the familiar to the comparatively obscure, drawn from all parts of the English-speaking world. Detailed and informative, it is essential reading for expectant parents and for anyone who is intrigued by the story attached to each name."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved



Title: A Researcher's Library of Georgia History,
Genealogy, and Records Sources, Vol. 3
Author: Robert S. Davis Jr.
Publication Date: January 2005
Publisher: Southern Historical Press, Incorporated
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-89308-813-7
Item Status: Active Record
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Language: English
Audience: General Adult
Bowker Subjects: GEORGIA GENEALOGY
REGISTERS OF BIRTHS, ETC.
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY



Title: Coffee County, Tennessee, Land Deed Genealogy
Author: Helen Marsh  Timothy R. Marsh
Publication Date: January 2005
Publisher: Southern Historical Press, Incorporated
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-89308-746-7
Item Status: Active Record
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Pages: 262
Language: English
Audience: General Adult
Bowker Subjects: TENNESSEE GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY

Synopsis: These abstracts will begin with the creation of the county in 1846 and continue on until the mid to late 1800's.



Title: Genealogy of the South Indian Deities: An English Translation of Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg's Original German Manuscript with a Textual Analysis and Glossary
Author: Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg  Daniel Jeyaraj
Publication Date: December 2004
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Incorporated
Country of Publication: United States
Market: Canada
ISBN: 0-415-34438-7
Item Status: Active Record (Readily Available)
Binding Format: Cloth Text
Pages: 400
Price: $136.00(CND) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: Baker & Taylor Books; Brodart Company;
Macmillan Distribution Services
Language: English
Original Language: German
Series Title: Curzon Series in Asian Religion Ser.
Audience: College
Bowker Subjects: GODS, HINDU
MYTHOLOGY, HINDU
General Subjects (BISAC): RELIGION / Hinduism
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
General Subjects (BIC): CUSTOMS AND FOLKLORE
HINDUISM
LCCN: 2004-009289
LC Call#: BL1216.4.S68Z5413
Dewey #: 294.5/0954/809033

Synopsis: For the first time, the work Genealogy of the South Indian Deities of the first Protestant missionary to India, Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg (1682-1719), is made accessible to an English readership.

          Originally published in 1713, this text reveals Ziegenbalg's ethos in the emerging European Enlightenment & his willingness to learn from the South Indians. The text contains the original voices of knowledgeable South Indians from various religious backgrounds & presents South India in a vivid & direct manner.



Title: Family Tree Resource Book for Genealogists
Contributor: Writers Digest Staff (Editor)
Publication Date: December 2004
Publisher: F & W Publications, Incorporated
Country of Publication: United States
Market: Canada
ISBN: 1-55870-686-0
Item Status: Active Record (Readily Available)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Pages: 704
Price: $42.99(CND) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: Alibris; Baker & Taylor Books;
Bertrams The Book Wholesaler; Bookazine Company,
Incorporated; Brodart Company; Emery-Pratt Company ;
Fraser Direct Distribution Services; Gardners Books Limited;
Koen Book Distributors; Partners/West; Powells.com
Language: English
Audience: General Adult
Bowker Subjects: GENEALOGY SOURCES
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
LCCN: 2004-059147
LC Call#: CS47.F36 2005
Dewey #: 929/.1/072073
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 22 x 28 cm.

Synopsis: In one authoritative reference, The Family Tree Resource Book for Genealogists provides all genealogists with the information they need to trace their American roots, including: * Research summaries, with maps and timelines, for every US state * Detailed county-level data, essential for unlocking the door to the bulk of genealogical records * Contact information, including Web sites, for libraries, archives, genealogical societies and historical societies Researchers will love having this wealth of trusted information at their fingertips, and at a very attractive price!



Title: Family Tree Page Ideas for Scrapbookers
Contributor: Memory Makers Staff (Editor)
Publication Date: December 2004
Publisher: Memory Makers Books
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 1-892127-42-3
Item Status: Active Record (Readily Available)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 112
Price: £12.99(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: Alibris; Baker & Taylor Books;
Bookazine Company, Incorporated; Brodart Company;
Fraser Direct Distribution Services; Gardners Books
Limited; Powells.com
Language: English
Audience: General Adult
Bowker Subjects: GENEALOGY PHOTOGRAPHS
CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION SCRAPBOOKS
General Subjects (BISAC): PHOTOGRAPHY / General
REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
PHOTOGRAPHY AND PHOTOGRAPHS
LCCN: 2004-053649
LC Call#: TR465.F36 2004
Dewey #: 745.593
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 22 x 28 cm.

Synopsis: The definitive book for teaching scrapbookers to research and create one-of-a-kind family tree pages, this guide makes the sometimes daunting task approachable, accomplishable, and fun. Readers will discover: * 50 family tree examples, providing inspiration in a multitude of styles * Genealogical research tips so recapturing family history is do-able, even for those just getting started * Reproducible charts and patterns, allowing scrapbookers to personalize the pages for their own themes * Information on trusted family tree software for easy results With a wide array of ideas and techniques, this guide makes it easy to create a historical record of family love and tradition.



Title: Scotland's Beginnings
Contributor: Michael Taylor (Editor)  Andrew Kitchener (Editor)
Publication Date: December 2004
Publisher: National Museums of Scotland Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 1-901663-26-4
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 64
Price: £5.99(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: Gardners Books Limited
Language: English
Audience: General Adult
Bowker Subjects: SCOTLAND GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): GENEALOGY
LC Call#: QE13.G7
Dewey #: 554.1/1
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 15.24 x 20.32 cm.

Synopsis: Beginnings tells the story of Scotland's journey across the Earth's surface. Our land is never static. There are continual changes to our landscape, our climate and our wildlife.



Title: Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Cumulation 2001-2005
Publication Date: December 2004
Publisher: Gale Group
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-7876-9101-1
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Edition: 97
Price: $1,125.00(USD) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: Baker & Taylor Books;
Thomson Learning Australia
Language: English
Bowker Subjects: BIOGRAPHY DICTIONARIES
UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHY
UNITED STATES GENEALOGY
General Subjects (BISAC): BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Reference
REFERENCE / Genealogy
General Subjects (BIC): BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY: GENERAL
DICTIONARIES OF BIOGRAPHY (WHO'S WHO)
GENEALOGY


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Title: Genetic Genealogy DNA Testing Dictionary
Author: Charles F. Kerchner Jr.
Publication Date: December 2004
Publisher: C. F. Kerchner & Associates, Incorporated
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-917335-01-5
. . .



Title: More Lasting than Brass: A Thread of Family
from Revolutionary New York to Industrial Connecticut
Author: Peter Haring Judd
Contributor: Alan Taylor (Foreword by)
Publication Date: November 2004
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 1-55553-626-3
. . .



Title: The Bradford Poor Law Union:
Papers and Correspondence with the Poor Law
Commission, October 1834-January 1839
Contributor: Paul Carter (Editor)
Publication Date: November 2004
Publisher: Yorkshire Archaeological Society
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0-902122-95-9
. . .



Title: DNA and Family History: How Genetic Testing
Can Advance Your Genealogical Research
Author: Chris Pomery
Publication Date: November 2004
Publisher: National Archives (PRO), The
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: Australia
ISBN: 1-903365-70-8
. . .



Title: Family History Made Easy
Author: Kathy Chater
Publication Date: November 2004
Publisher: Anness Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: Australia
ISBN: 1-84476-065-0
. . . .



Title: Van Pelt Genealogy: North Carolina Origins
Author: Michael P. Pelt  Malcolm P. Pelt
Publication Date: November 2004
Publisher: Higginson Book Company
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-7404-4951-6
. . .



Title: Italians to America, Vol. 18:
October 1901-March 1902:
Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports
Author: Willia[m] P. Filby (P. William Filby)
Publication Date: October 2004
Publisher: Scarecrow Press, Incorporated
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0-8420-5093-0
. . .



Title: The Durham Liber Vitae and Its Context
Contributor: David Rollason (Editor)  
Margaret Harvey Lynda Rollason (Editor)
Publication Date: October 2004
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 1-84383-060-4
. . .



Title: Digitizing Your Family History
Author: Rhonda McClure
Publication Date: October 2004
Publisher: Betterway Books
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 1-55870-708-5
. . .



Title: Family History Project: Great Great Stories
Contributor: History Channel (Television network)
Staff (Contribution by)
Publication Date: October 2004
Publisher: National Archives (PRO), The
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: Australia
ISBN: 1-903365-75-9
. . .



Title: Irish Ancestors:
A Pocket Guide to Your Family History
Author: John Grenham
Publication Date: October 2004
Publisher: Gill & MacMillan, Limited
Country of Publication: Ireland
Market: New Zealand
ISBN:0-7171-3628-0
. . .



Title: History and Genealogy of Hendrick,
Mcclain, Breen, Rutherford, Shuler, Mcalester,
Holcomb, Jackson, Buckner, Wood, Debusk,
Benedict, Fortune, Hickerson, Loving,
Freeman and Related Families
Author: Jerry P. Hendricks  Wincie Hendricks
Publication Date: October 2004
Publisher: Higginson Book Company
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-7404-4868-4
. . .
 

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Title: The Restless City
Author: Joanne Reitano
Publication Date: June 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-415-97848-3
ISBN 13: 978-0-415-97848-4
Binding Format: Paper over Boards
Price: $95.00(USD) Retail (Publisher)

Synopsis: New York has always been a bellwether for the nation, representing both its brightest ambitions and its darkest fears.  The Restless City is a short, readable history of New York City, from colonial times to the present, showing how the successes and struggles of the city reinforced each other to create a distinctly dynamic, shocking, and therefore influential city.  Organized around conventional time periods, each chapter provides an introduction to the era, followed by four or five mini-essays on different economic, political, social, or cultural conflicts that impacted NYC in that time period.  This would make a great short text for a course on New York history, or on urban history and the development of the American city.



Title: Empire History and Local Worlds: The Carp the Imperial Net and Its Loopholes in Quanzhou City China
Author: Wang Mingming
Publication Date: April 2008
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Limited
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0-7546-4787-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-4787-4
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Price: £50.00(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
£55.00(GBP) Retail (Bookpoint Limited)

Synopsis: This is a fascinating and thoroughly researched anthropological and social history of the Chinese city of Quanzhou.  The author reveals insights into imperial Chinese politics, commerce, and public life more generally by adopting a unique analytical framework through a cultural interpretation of a local folklore, the Carp.  This folklore involves three forces: the Carp - representing the city of Quanzhou; the Imperial Net - representing the imperial state; and it's loopholes - representing two tall Buddhist pagodas which pierce the net and allow the carp to escape the grip of imperial power. The author argues that the legend of the Carp performs an interactive drama and conveys a historical truth of local-imperial interrelationship.  He discusses how the Chinese imperial powers attempted to subdue and co-opt the energy of local festivals.  In doing so he provides an exemplary account of the struggle between a vigorous and sometime violent local world of politics and the centralizing/'civilizing' power of the Emperors.  The book is important to the re-understanding of China as well as to empire, civilization and locality.  The research draws on several disciplines to provide rich oral and written historical materials and archaeological findings and will be of interest to an interdisciplinary readership of scholars and students in anthropology, history and Chinese studies.



Title: Modernisation and Tradition in Manorial Societies: European Local and Manorial Societies 1500-1900
Contributor: Kerstin Sundberg (Editor)  Tomas Germundsson (Editor)  Kjell Hansen (Editor)
Publication Date: December 2007
Publisher: Nordic Academic Press, Sweden
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 91-89116-40-2
ISBN 13: 978-91-89116-40-5
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Price: £43.00(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
£43.00(GBP) Retail (Gazelle Book Services Limited)

Synopsis: Danish, German, and Swedish scholars participated in the symposium People-Power-Modernity: Scanian Manorial milieus from the High Middle Ages up to Now, held at an undisclosed time and place.  The 15 papers that emerged emphasize the connection between individual and societal perspectives on change and continuity in landscape, places, buildings, social relations, and work.  Art history, history, ethnology, cultural geography, and economic history are among the disciplines represented. Distributed in the US by ISBS.  Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)



Title: Huguenot Refugees in Colonial New York
Author: P.W. Carlo
Publication Date: November 2007
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 1-84519-059-9
ISBN 13: 978-1-84519-059-0
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Price: £55.00(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
£55.00(GBP) Retail (Gazelle Book Services Limited)

Synopsis: Carlo (history, State U. of New York-Nassau Community College) examines the arrival of over 2,000 French Protestant refugees in two Hudson Valley communities around the time Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685, and demanded that all French Protestants convert to Catholicism.  Among her topics are the churches of New Paltz and New Rochelle, religious beliefs and practices, educating children and young people, families and households, and masters and slaves.  The study began as her Ph.D. dissertation at the City University of New York.  Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)



Title: Brands of the West
Author: Becky Prunty
Contributor: David Stoecklein (Photographer)
Publication Date: September 2007
Publisher: Stoecklein Publishing
Market: United States
ISBN: 1-933192-68-2
ISBN 13: 978-1-933192-68-0
Binding Format: Cloth over Boards
Price: $16.95(USD) Retail (Globe Pequot Press, The)

Synopsis: This new book chronicles the history of branding in the West and the famous brands of some of the oldest ranches in the country.  Many of the brands these ranches have been using for hundreds of years are instantly recognizable as icons of the American West.  Ranches and cowboys feel a very intense bond to the brand they own or work for—its rich history and tradition instills a powerful sense of pride.  Not only does a brand confirm ownership, it also speaks to the history and sense of place that is so important in the ranching industry.  Stoecklein’s photographs offer a glimpse into the multi-faceted background of some of the first ranches to settle the West.



Title: New World, First Nations: Native Peoples of Mesoamerica and the Andes under Colonial Rule
Contributor: David Cahill (Editor)  Blanca Tovias (Editor)
Publication Date: September 2007
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 1-903900-63-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-903900-63-5
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Price: £55.00(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
£55.00(GBP) Retail (Gazelle Book Services Limited)
£55.00(GBP) Retail Gardners Books Limited (Wholesaler)

Synopsis: The eponymous October 2002 conference that gave birth to this volume was organized with the express goal, say editors Cahill and Tovías (both of the U. of New South Wales, Australia), taking stock of recent research on the indigenous peoples of Latin America and "contrasting the respective experiences of native Mesoamerican and Andean peoples under Spanish colonial rule (1492-1825)."  The papers fall broadly into three areas: the conquest and the creation of colonial culture, the colonial economy and social transformation, and late colonial politics and the process of independence from colonial rule.  Specific topics include the cosmological bases of local power in the Andes during the 16th and 18th centuries; shifting identities in colonial and contemporary Chiapas, Mexico; indigenous production and consumption of cotton in 18th century Chiapas; recent studies on gender relations in colonial native Andean history, and historical and cultural perspective on the 1814 revolution in Cuzco, Peru.  Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)



Title: The Colony of Pennsylvania: A Primary Source History
Title: The Colony of New Hampshire: A Primary Source History
Title: The Colony of Georgia: A Primary Source History
Title: The Colony of New York: A Primary Source History
Title: The Colony of North Carolina: A Primary Source History
Title: The Colony of Maryland: A Primary Source History
Title: The Colony of South Carolina: A Primary Source History
Author: Melody S. Mis
Publication Date: August 2007
Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group, Incorporated, The
Market: United States
ISBN: various numbers
ISBN 13: various numbers
Binding Format: Library Binding



Title: Friends in Peace and War: The Russian Navy's Landmark Visit to Civil War San Francisco
Author: C. Douglas Kroll
Publication Date: July 2007
Publisher: Potomac Books, Incorporated
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 1-59797-054-9
ISBN 13: 978-1-59797-054-9
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Price: £15.50(GBP) Retail (Orca Book Services)

Synopsis: Reveals a unique, little-known aspect of Russian-American relations. Addresses the controversial visit's purpose and its impact Based on records held in Russian and U.S. archives Great friendship existed between the United States and Imperial Russia during the nineteenth century. The Old World Russian autocracy supported the young New World democracy because of the emerging U.S. role as a bulwark against Great Britain's ambitions, in Asia and in the North Pacific Ocean region especially. In fact, when the American Civil War threatened to divide the United States, Russia alone among the European great powers gave no aid or comfort to the seceding states. The surprise 1863 arrival of squadrons of Russian warships and thousands of Russian sailors in New York and San Francisco proved fortuitous, coming when the Union feared British and French intervention on the Confederacy's behalf. C. Douglas Kroll, using both Russian and U.S. documents, investigates why the Russian Pacific Squadron came to San Francisco, a port of departure for California and Nevada gold headed east; what happened during its nearly year-long visit; and how its presence influenced events. Wi th the units of the U.S. Navy's small Pacific Squadron widely dispersed and Confederate commerce raiders on the loose, the Russians' arrival suggested to on-lookers that they intended to defend the Union against interference. Whether actively supporting the Union or training and refitting or both, the Russian officers and sailors endeared themselves to San Francisco's citizens. Parades and balls, as well as dinners hosted by both sides, helped San Franciscans overlook the various differences they had with their Russian visitors. Kroll gives us a thorough examination of the Russians' visit and its social, diplomatic, and military impact.



Title: The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees (2-volume Set)
Author: John Gambold  Anna Rosina Gambold
Contributor: Rowena McClinton (Introduction by)
Publication Date: July 2007
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-8032-3266-7
ISBN 13: 978-0-8032-3266-2
Binding Format: Cloth over Boards
Price: $99.95(USD) Retail (Publisher)

Synopsis:  In 1801 the Moravians, a Pietist German-speaking group from Central Europe, founded the Springplace Mission at a site in present-day northwestern Georgia.  The Moravians remained among the Cherokees for more than thirty years, longer than any other Christian group.  John and Anna Rosina Gambold served at the mission from 1805 until Anna’s death in 1821.  The principal author of the diaries, Anna, chronicles the intimate details of Cherokee daily life.  This edition of the diary includes the entire text in translation as well as a critical apparatus, contextual introductory material, and extensive notes.  Rowena McClinton’s translation from German script, an archaic writing convention, makes these primary eyewitness accounts available in English for the first time.  These diaries will be of immense value for understanding Cherokee culture and history during the early nineteenth century and missionary efforts in the South during this time.  McClinton gained unlimited access to the diaries and other supporting documents for the completion of this project, published with the consent of the Moravian Church of the Southern Province.  Volume 1 includes diary entries from 1805–13, a preface, and an introduction.  Volume 2 includes diary entries from 1814–21 and the editor’s epilogue.



Title: Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia: A Provincial History
Author: Sarah Badcock
Publication Date: June 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Market: Canada
ISBN: 0-521-87623-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-521-87623-0
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Price: $116.95(CND) Retail (Publisher)

Synopsis: After the collapse of the Romanov dynasty in February 1917, Russia was subject to an eight month experiment in democracy.  Sarah Badcock studies its failure through an exploration of the experiences and motivations of ordinary men and women, urban and rural, military and civilian.  Using previously neglected documents from regional archives, she offers a new history of the revolution as experienced in the two Volga provinces of Nizhegorod and Kazan.  She exposes the confusions and contradictions between political elites and ordinary people and emphasises the role of the latter as political actors.  By looking beyond Petersburg and Moscow, she shows how local concerns, conditions and interests were foremost in shaping how the revolution was received and understood.  She also reveals the ways in which the small group of intellectuals who dominated the high political scene of 1917 had their political alternatives circumscribed by the desires and demands of ordinary people.



Title: A Dictionary of Iowa Place-Names
Author: Tom Savage
Contributor: Loren N. Horton (Foreword by)
Publication Date: June 2007
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Market: United States
ISBN: 1-58729-531-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-58729-531-7
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Price: $19.95(USD) Retail (Chicago Distribution Center)

Synopsis: Savage includes information on the place-names of all 1,188 incorporated and unincorporated communities in Iowa that meet at least two of the following qualifications: twenty-five or more residents; a retail business; an annual celebration or festival; a school; church, or cemetery; a building on the National Register of Historic Places; a zip-coded post office; or an association with a public recreation site.  If a town's name has changed over the years, he provides information about each name; if a name's provenance is unclear, he provides possible explanations.  He also includes information about the state's name and about each of its ninety-nine counties as well as a list of ghost towns.  The entries range from the counties of Adair to Wright and from the towns of Abingdon to Zwingle; from Iowa's oldest town, Dubuque, starting as a mining camp in the 1780s and incorporated in 1841, to its newest, Maharishi Vedic City, incorporated in 2001.



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Title: Brown Paper School Book: My Backyard History Book
Author: David L. Weitzman
Publication Date: September 2006
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-316-05981-1
ISBN 13: 978-0-316-05981-7
Item Status: Active Record
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Pages: 128
Price: $12.99(USD) Retail (Publisher)
Language: English
Audience: Juvenile
Bowker Subjects: LOCAL HISTORY
UNITED STATES_HISTORY, LOCAL_JUVENILE LITERATURE
General Subjects (BISAC): HISTORY / Historiography
JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / General
JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / State & Local
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Reference / General
General Subjects (BIC): AMERICAN HISTORY_USA
HISTORIOGRAPHY
LOCAL HISTORY AND FIELDWORK_USA
REFERENCE
Children's Subjects: RESEARCH
UNITED STATES_HISTORY



Title: Cambridge and Its Economic Region, 1450-1560
Author: John Lee
Publication Date: July 2005
Publisher: University of Hertfordshire Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: United States
ISBN: 1-902806-47-6
EAN: 9781902806471
Item Status: Active Record
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Pages: 256
Price: $79.95(USD) Retail (Independent Publishers Group)
Language: English
Series Title: Studies in Regional and Local History Ser.
Audience: Scholarly & Professional
Bowker Subjects: CAMBRIDGE (MASS.)
MASSACHUSETTS ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORY, LOCAL
General Subjects (BISAC):
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions
HISTORY / United States / State & Local
General Subjects (BIC): AMERICAN HISTORY USA
ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
LOCAL HISTORY USA



Title: The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston
Author: Maurie D. McInnis
Publication Date: June 2005
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-8078-2951-X
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 576
Price: $39.95(USD) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: Baker & Taylor Books; Brodart Company
Language: English
Audience: College
Bowker Subjects: WEST VIRGINIA HISTORY
WEST VIRGINIA POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
WEST VIRGINIA SOCIAL CONDITIONS
General Subjects (BISAC): HISTORY / United States / State & Local
POLITICAL SCIENCE / State, Provincial & Local Government
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
General Subjects (BIC): AMERICAN HISTORY USA
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
LOCAL HISTORY USA
SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL STUDIES
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 8.25 x 10.25 in.

Synopsis: At the close of the American Revolution, Charleston, South Carolina, was the wealthiest city in the new nation, with the highest per-capita wealth among whites and the largest number of enslaved residents. Maurie D. McInnis explores the social, political, and material culture of the city to learn how--and at what human cost--Charleston came to be regarded as one of the most refined cities in antebellum America. While other cities embraced a culture of democracy and egalitarianism, wealthy Charlestonians cherished English notions of aristocracy and refinement, defending slavery as a social good and encouraging the growth of southern nationalism. Members of the city's merchant-planter class held tight to the belief that the clothes they wore, the manners they adopted, and the ways they designed house lots and laid out city streets helped secure their place in social hierarchies of class and race. This pursuit of refinement, McInnis demonstrates, was bound up with their determined efforts to control the city's African American majority. She then examines slave dress, mobility, work spaces, and leisure activities to understand how Charleston slaves negotiated their lives among the whites they served. The textures of lives lived in houses, yards, streets, and public spaces come into dramatic focus in this lavishly illustrated portrait of antebellum Charleston. McInnis's innovative history of the city combines the aspirations of its would-be nobility, the labors of the African slaves who built and tended the town, and the ambitions of its architects, painters, writers, and civic promoters.



Title: The Politics of Place: A History of Zoning in Chicago
Author:J oseph Schwieterman  Dana Caspall
Publication Date: June 2005
Publisher: Lake Claremont Press
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 1-893121-26-7
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated
Price: $19.95(USD) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: Baker & Taylor Books; Booksource, The;
Partners Book Distributing, Incorporated
Language: English
Audience: General Adult
Bowker Subjects: CHICAGO (ILL.) HISTORY
CHICAGO (ILL.) POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
ZONING
General Subjects (BISAC):
HISTORY / United States / State & Local
POLITICAL SCIENCE / City Planning & Urban Development
POLITICAL SCIENCE / State, Provincial & Local Government
General Subjects (BIC): AMERICAN HISTORY USA
LOCAL GOVERNMENT



Title: Walden Pond
Author: W. Barksdale Maynard
Publication Date: May 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0-19-518137-9
Item Status: Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 416
Price: £10.99(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: Baker & Taylor Books;Brodart Company;
DA Information Services Pty, Limited
Language: English
Bowker Subjects: LITERARY LANDMARKS
MASSACHUSETTS_HISTORY, LOCAL
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID, 1817-1862
General Subjects (BISAC):
HISTORY / United States / State & Local
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
TRAVEL / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest
General Subjects (BIC): AMERICAN HISTORY USA
LITERATURE: HISTORY AND CRITICISM USA
LOCAL HISTORY USA
MUSEUM, HISTORIC SITES, GALLERY AND ART GUIDES
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): .045 kg.

Synopsis: Perhaps no other natural setting has as much literary, spiritual, and environmental significance for Americans as Walden Pond. Some 700,000 people visit the pond annually, and countless others journey to Walden in their mind, to contemplate the man who lived there and what the place means to us today. Here is the first history of the Massachusetts pond Thoreau made famous 150 years ago. W. Barksdale Maynard offers a lively and comprehensive account of Walden Pond from the early nineteenth century to the present. From Thoreau's first visit at age 4 in 1821--"That woodland vision for a long time made the drapery of my dreams"--to today's efforts both to conserve the pond and allow public access, Maynard captures Walden Pond's history and the role it has played in social, cultural, literary, and environmental movements in America. Along the way Maynard details the geography of the pond; Thoreau's and Emerson's experiences of Walden over their lifetimes; the development of the cult of Thoreau and the growth of the pond as a site of literary and spiritual pilgrimages; rock star Don Henley's Walden Woods Project and the much publicized battle to protect the pond from developers in the 1980s; and the vitally important ecological symbol Walden Pond has become today. Exhaustively researched, vividly written, and illustrated with historical photographs and the most detailed maps of Thoreau country yet created, Walden Pond: A History reveals how an ordinary pond has come to be such an extraordinarily inspiring symbol.



Title: The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood
Author: David Thomson
Publication Date: April 2005
Publisher: Little Brown U.K.
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: New Zealand
ISBN: 0-316-84860-3
Item Status: Import to Order (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 448
Price: $69.95(NZD) Retail
(Penguin Group New Zealand, Limited)
Available Through: Bertrams The Book Wholesaler;
Gardners Books Limited
Language: English
Awards: New York Times Editors' Choice ( WON AWARD ) 2004
Media Mentions: Entertainment Weekly December 17, 2004
National Public Radio December 20, 2004
Bowker Subjects:
HOLLYWOOD (LOS ANGELES, CALIF.) HISTORY
MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY
MOTION PICTURES HISTORY
General Subjects (BISAC):
HISTORY / United States / State & Local
PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General
PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism
General Subjects (BIC): AMERICAN HISTORY USA
FILM THEORY AND CRITICISM
FILMS, CINEMA
LOCAL HISTORY_USA
LC Call#: PN1993.U65
Dewey #: 384/.8/0979494
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 15 x 23 cm.

Synopsis: Taking into account the history of the Hollywood movie industry - as well as its greater panorama - this book explains how the whole industry works. It looks beyond the famous names that have made embedded Hollywood into the world's psyche to look at where the real power lies - with 'the money'.

Library Journal
November 15, 2004 0-375-40016-8
While Thomson's latest (after The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Expanded and Updated) is definitely a history of Hollywood, taking as much of a personal psychosociological approach to the film industry as anything, it is also somewhat of a reflection on what made Southern California "golden" beginning in the 1910s. The author profiles people like Louis B. Mayer, David O. Selznick, and William Mulholland, who facilitated the growth of Los Angeles and was the prototype of the villain in Chinatown-a film to which Thomson frequently alludes. Although the book starts naturally enough with Charlie Chaplin, it is largely nonlinear, which tends to add to the narrative's richness, as do Thomson's frequent perceptive and cogent analyses. The author has synthesized his longtime fascination with cinema into a most readable but challenging work. Not for those expecting a standard overview of Hollywood, this will appeal to readers willing to invest many thought-provoking hours. Recommended for larger collections.-Roy Liebman, California State Univ., Los Angeles Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Booklist
November 15, 2004 0-375-40016-8
Thomson definitely does not belong to the thumbs-up, thumbs-down school of film criticism. While others frantically push and pan the week's overhyped, soon-to-be-forgotten product, Thomson takes a longer view, peeling back the layers of reality, goring sacred cows, correcting misconceptions, and taking pains to reveal those moments when others, following John Ford's Liberty Valance dictum, have preferred to print the legend. Hence this book, characterized as a history of Hollywood but really a philosophical meditation on the myriad ways the movie industry has inspired and influenced L.A and America, and vice versa. Without resorting to the obscurantist rhetoric of postmodern academics, Thomson deconstructs this complicated, symbiotic relationship. In one chapter, for example, he explodes the long-held belief that Hollywood made L.A. into a boomtown. It was booming, and attracting Hollywood-style hucksters, before the film industry took root in the years preceding World War I. Another chapter begins with an examination of Chinatown that opens out into a discussion of lost water rights, corrupt business practices in early L.A., and how screenwriter Robert Towne lost and struggled to regain the rights to his story and characters. This is history seen through the lens of the movies and movie criticism undergirded with thoughtful research and scholarly reflection. --Jack Helbig Copyright 2004 Booklist

Publishers Weekly
October 11, 2004 0-375-40016-8
The "whole equation," a phrase borrowed from F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished Hollywood novel, The Last Tycoon, refers to the balancing of financial acumen, artistic aspiration and sociological savvy that movie moguls needed to keep Hollywood flourishing during the Depression. It's also what Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film) aims to achieve in his idiosyncratic chronicle of American filmmaking. He explores personalities (Louis B. Mayer, David O. Selznick) and specific films (von Stroheim's Greed, Spielberg's Jaws) to explain the 20th century's shifting sensibilities. Thomson addresses seminal effects from the last 100 years-from the ramifications of sound and color to the chilling consequences of the McCarthy hearings-to explain the culture of moviemaking. His writing is lyrical, but his pronouncements hyperbolic. (His ire against psychiatry, manifested in a dislike of Method acting, is particularly pronounced; its influence on an acting style, claims Thomson, "could yet destroy a society.") Thomson is considerably frustrated with current films and what he sees as moviegoers' lowered expectations. His melancholy metaphor for survival in Hollywood is the 1974 film Chinatown, where "the lone seeker of truth is told to shut up at the end." This fascinating, sometimes frustrating love letter to Hollywood doesn't shirk from exposing the blemishes on Thomson's inamorata. 23 photos. (Dec. 10) Forecast: Knopf will release an expanded edition of Thomson's Dictionary of Film in November, which could spur additional interest in this title, which will have a 75,000 first printing. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.



Title: Las Vegas: A Centennial History
Author: Eugene P. Moehring  Michael S. Green
Publication Date: March 2005
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0-87417-611-5
Item Status: Active Record
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 296
Price: £30.95(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: Baker & Taylor Books
Language: English
Bowker Subjects: LAS VEGAS (NEV.)
NEVADA ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
NEVADA HISTORY, LOCAL
General Subjects (BISAC):
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions
HISTORY / United States / State & Local
General Subjects (BIC): AMERICAN HISTORY USA
ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
LOCAL HISTORY USA
LCCN: 2004-017239
LC Call#: F849.L35M638 2005
Dewey #: 979.3/135
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 18 x 22 cm.

Synopsis: This is an account of the growth of Las Vegas, the impact of politics and war, and the struggle to establish a diverse economy. Aspects of city building, creation of infrastructure and transportation, the struggle to obtain a reliable source of water, and the function of cultural, educational and religious institutions are all given consideration.



Title: Where Washington Walked
Author: Raymond Bial
Publication Date: January 2005
Publisher: Walker & Company
Country of Publication: United States
Market: Canada
ISBN: 0-8027-8900-5
Item Status: Active Record (Readily Available)
Binding Format: Library Binding
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 48
Price: $27.95(CND) Retail (Publisher)
$27.95(CND) Retail (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Limited)
Available Through: Baker & Taylor Books; Brodart Company;
Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Limited
Language: English
Age Range: 8 to 12
Grade Range: 3 to 7
Audience: Young Adult
Bowker Subjects:
PRESIDENTS_UNITED STATES HOMES AND HAUNTS
UNITED STATES HISTORY, LOCAL
WASHINGTON, GEORGE, 1732-1799
General Subjects (BISAC):
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State
HISTORY / United States / General
HISTORY / United States / State & Local
General Subjects (BIC): AMERICAN HISTORY_USA
BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY:
HISTORICAL, POLITICAL AND MILITARY
LOCAL HISTORY_USA
POLITICAL LEADERS AND LEADERSHIP
LCCN: 2004-041931
LC Call#: E312.5.B53 2004
Dewey #: 973.4/1/092 B
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 24.765 x 21.59 cm.

Booklist
December 15, 2004 0-8027-8899-8
Gr. 3-6. This well-designed book introduces George Washington through a clearly written biographical account of his life and achievements, illustrated with many sharply focused, well-composed photographs and a few reproductions of period paintings and prints. As in Bial's Where Lincoln Walked (1998), most of the color photos show places that the president might recognize if he returned today. These include the banks of the Rappahannock River at Ferry Farm (Washington's boyhood home), his house and farm at Mount Vernon, a reconstruction of Fort Necessity, and several buildings in colonial Williamsburg. An apt quotation from Washington introduces the appended source bibliography, followed by lists of recommended books and places to visit. Succinct biographies of America's first president are not difficult to find, but students and teachers alike will value this book for its unusually vivid photographic record of the sites related to Washington. --Carolyn Phelan Copyright 2005 Booklist



Title: Highway 61:
A Father and Son Journey Through the Middle of America
Author: William McKeen
Contributor: Graham McKeen (Photographer)
Publication Date: January 2005
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0-393-04164-6
Item Status: Active Record (Readily Available)
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 256
Available Through: Alibris; Baker & Taylor Books;
Brodart Company; Canbook Distribution Services;
Powells.com
Language: English
Recommended In: Library Journal
Bowker Subjects: FATHERS AND SONS
UNITED STATES DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL
UNITED STATES HISTORY, LOCAL
General Subjects (BISAC):
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Fatherhood
HISTORY / United States / State & Local
TRAVEL / United States / General
General Subjects (BIC): AMERICAN HISTORY USA
LOCAL HISTORY USA
PARENTHOOD
TRAVEL AND HOLIDAY USA
LCCN: 2002-015985
LC Call#: E169.04.M379 2003
Dewey #: 977/.034
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 13.97 x 20.955 cm.
.195 kg.

Synopsis: "Long-distance father William McKeen watched his son grow up during summers, holidays, and long weekends. Now, with Graham in college, the two take a summer road trip down Highway 61, the legendary road of the blues, from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico." "In cheap motels and smoky bars, with obscure bluesmen and barnstorming guitar heroes, they discover how the highway links rich and poor, black and white. In Minnesota and Iowa, Bill shows his son where he spent boyhood summers with his father, who died a decade before Graham was born. In St. Louis, there's another nostalgic return to a former haunt, a slice of rock-and-roll heaven called Blueberry Hill. In Memphis, they find the genuine, uncommercialized side of the city's legendary music world, and deep in the heart of the Mississippi Delta they stand over the grave of legendary bluesman Charley Patton, listen to the murmur of wind over the cotton fields, and offer silent benediction." "As they venture together through magnificent country, walking the hometown streets of Bob Dylan and Mark Twain, standing at Robert Johnson's haunted crossroads, journeying from the Delta Blues Museum to Doe's Eat Place to the Cafe Atchafalaya of New Orleans, father and son come to realize that they have a permanent connection that can never be broken by age or distance."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Library Journal
March 1, 2003 0-393-04164-6
Highway 61 is such an easy road trip for father and son, William and Graham McKeen, that it wouldn't be a surprise if the reader (metaphorically) fell asleep at the wheel. William (editor of Rock and Roll Is Here To Stay) writes with a comfortable cadence, liberally embellishing his narrative with local history and the lives of musicians he reveres. As a divorced and long-distance father, he views the summer journey as a means to connect with his college-student son; fortunately, they share a love of blues and rock'n'roll, which provides a unifying theme for the trip. Beginning in Canada, the pair heads south, following the Mississippi and exploring the hometowns of Bob Dylan and Mark Twain. Near the end of their journey, they search for the burial place of blues legend Robert Johnson (there are three reputed graves in the Delta). Along the way, accommodations are unremarkable, encounters serendipitous, and many sunsets spectacular. Graham provides an eclectic selection of photographs, but the journey lacks a map (although one could easily follow along with an atlas at hand). This is a book for music lovers as well as armchair travelers. Recommended for regional and most public libraries.-Janet Ross, formerly with Sparks Branch Lib., NV Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Booklist
March 1, 2003 0-393-04164-6
In the summer of 2001, the author and his 18-year-old son piled into a 1997 Ford Explorer (stocked with various supplies, including a staggering number of CDs) and embarked on an unusual odyssey: to travel Highway 61 from its beginning in Thunder Bay, Ontario, to New Orleans, where the legendary road just sort of disappears into the city. Their voyage took them, as the book's subtitle reveals, through the middle of America, through its wide-open spaces, its towns and cities. Highway 61, the author (chairman of the journalism department at the University of Florida) tells us, "connects North and South, industrial and rural, black and white, rich and poor." It also, at least in this case, connected a divorced father and son, bringing them together at a time when the son, now becoming a man, was starting to find his own road and to drift even further away. Father-son memoirs are a dime a dozen; this one, though, separates itself from the pack by looking both inward and outward and finding lots to see in both directions. --David Pitt

Publishers Weekly
February 10, 2003 0-393-04164-6
Deep, abiding love for music and for his son Graham are twin emotions that emerge with touching clarity in McKeen's literary documentary about traveling through middle America. The book's lack of conflict is immediately evident when McKeen says he and Graham never shared a cross moment. Once readers accept this absence of dramatic tension, they'll be able to enjoy the chronicle as an honest, informative journey. The author capably proves his premise: having an open mind about music, whether it's Johnny Cash, Enya, Tony Bennett or Led Zeppelin, is the only way to gain maximum pleasure from it. McKeen reveres Bob Dylan, and when he and Graham hit Hibbing and Duluth, Minn., readers will gain new insight into Dylan's early years as a performer in a St. Paul pizzeria called the Purple Onion and his abandonment of college after one semester. Visiting Hannibal, Mo., leads to a compelling account of Mark Twain's tragic life. McKeen and son encounter Joe Edwards, who runs the bar Blueberry Hill in a St. Louis suburb and received Cashbox magazine's honor of owner of the best jukebox in America. McKeen is at his best portraying Scott Joplin, who died of syphilis in 1917 and was quoted as saying, "Maybe fifty years after I'm dead my music will be appreciated." Highway 61 itself comes across as a complex, colorful character, whether an open, glorious road or a boring, bumper-to-bumper drive. McKeen ends the book stirringly when he notes that he was "completely shocked to see how segregated this country still is." (Mar.) Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.



Title: Local History
Author: Alison Cooper
Publication Date: January 2005
Publisher: Hodder Wayland
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Market: New Zealand
ISBN: 0-7502-4675-8
Item Status: Active Record (Readily Available)
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Edition: 2, illustrated
Pages: 48
Price: $39.99(NZD) Retail
(Hodder Moa Beckett Publishers, Limited)
Available Through: Alibris; Alliance Distribution Services;
Gardners Books Limited
Language: English
Series Title: The History Detective Investigates Ser.
Audience: Juvenile
Dewey #: 907.2
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 22 x 27 cm.

Synopsis: A guide to investigating local history through examining buildings, signs, photographs and documents.



Title: Writing Our Communities:
Local Learning and Public Culture
Author: Dave Winter  Sarah Robbins
Publication Date: January 2005
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 0-8141-5920-6
Item Status: Active Record
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Pages: 207
Language: English
Audience: Scholarly & Professional
Bowker Subjects: COMMUNITY
COMMUNITY LIFE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE COMPOSITION AND EXERCISES
ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDY AND TEACHING
LESSON PLANNING
UNITED STATES_HISTORY STUDY AND TEACHING
UNITED STATES HISTORY, LOCAL
General Subjects (BISAC):
EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / General
HISTORY / Study & Teaching
HISTORY / United States / State & Local
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
General Subjects (BIC):AMERICAN HISTORY USA
HISTORY
LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING (OTHER THAN ELT) ENGLISH
LOCAL HISTORY USA
SOCIAL SCIENCES
SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL STUDIES
TEACHING SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES
WRITING SKILLS ENGLISH
LCCN: 2004-021097
LC Call#: HM756.W755 2005
Dewey #: 307/.071/073
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 7 x 10 in.



Title: Indian Placenames in America,
Vol. 2: Mountains, Canyons, Rivers, Lakes,
Creeks, Forests, and Other Natural Features
Author: Sandy Nestor
Publication Date: December 2004
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0-7864-1983-0
Item Status: Active Record (Readily Available)
Binding Format: Library Binding
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 208
Price: £30.95(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: Baker & Taylor Books;
Blackwell North America; Brodart Company;
DA Information Services Pty, Limited
Language: English
Audience: General Adult
Bowker Subjects: INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA NAMES
NAMES, GEOGRAPHICAL UNITED STATES
UNITED STATES HISTORY, LOCAL
General Subjects (BISAC):
HISTORY / United States / State & Local
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Etymology
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
General Subjects (BIC): AMERICAN HISTORY USA
ETYMOLOGY
HISTORY OF SPECIFIC GROUPS THE AMERICAS
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES THE AMERICAS
LOCAL HISTORY USA

Synopsis: As a companion to Volume 1 (which covered cities, towns and villages), this book covers over 1400 rivers, lakes, mountains and other natural features in the United States with Indian names.

          The legacy of the American Indian is evident throughout the United States in the many places that have Indian names. Countless placenames have, however, been corrupted over time, and numerous placenames have similar spellings but different meanings because of the way they were interpreted by various authorities. As a companion to Volume 1 (2003; covered cities, towns and villages), this book covers over 1400 rivers, lakes, mountains and other natural features in the U.S. with Indian names. The text is arranged by state with the natural features appearing alphabetically.



Title: American Counties: Origins of County Names
Dates of Creation and Population Data 1950-2000
Author: Joseph Nathan Kane  Charles Curry Aiken
Publication Date: December 2004
Publisher: Scarecrow Press, Incorporated
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United Kingdom
ISBN: 0-8108-5036-2
Item Status: Active Record (Readily Available)
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Edition: 5
Pages: 560
Price: £72.00(GBP) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: Baker & Taylor Books;
Blackwell North America; Brodart Company;
DA Information Services Pty, Limited
Language: English
Bowker Subjects: UNITED STATES HISTORY, LOCAL
General Subjects (BISAC):
HISTORY / United States / State & Local
General Subjects (BIC):AMERICAN HISTORY USA
LOCAL HISTORY USA
LCCN: 2004-010154
LC Call#: E180.K3 2005
Dewey #: 917.3/001/4
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 21.59 x 27.94 cm.

Synopsis: The premiere guide to information on the histories of the names, sizes, and populations of the counties of the United States

          "This latest edition of a longstanding classic contains concise information on each U.S. county's area, population, date of creation, and name origin. Unlike previous editions, counties and other first-order subdivisions - independent cities, boroughs, census areas - are presented in a single list, and greater attention is paid to county name origins. The American Counties is an essential resource for researchers in local or state history, travelers, and genealogists."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved



Title: Patrons and Adversaries:
Nobles and Villagers in Italian Politics, 1640-1760
Author: Caroline Castiglione
Publication Date: December 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Country of Publication: United States
Market: New Zealand
ISBN: 0-19-517386-4
Item Status: Import to Order (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Cloth
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 272
Price: $175.00(NZD) Retail
(Oxford University Press New Zealand)
Available Through: Baker & Taylor Books;Brodart Company;
Oxford University Press Australia;
Oxford University Press New Zealand
Language: English
Audience: Scholarly & Professional
Bowker Subjects: FEUDALISM EUROPE
ITALY HISTORY
NOBILITY ROME
PAPACY HISTORY
ROME (ITALY) POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
VILLAGES ITALY
General Subjects (BISAC): HISTORY / Ancient / Rome
HISTORY / Europe / General
HISTORY / Italy
POLITICAL SCIENCE / State, Provincial & Local Government
RELIGION / Christianity / History
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural
General Subjects (BIC): CHRISTIANITY
EUROPEAN HISTORY
(I. E., OTHER THAN BRITAIN AND IRELAND)
EUROPEAN HISTORY
(I. E., OTHER THAN BRITAIN AND IRELAND) ITALY
EUROPEAN HISTORY: BCE TO c500 CE ANCIENT ROME
HISTORY OF RELIGION
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
RURAL COMMUNITIES
LCCN: 2004-045577
LC Call#: DG803.6.B37C37 2004
Dewey #: 320.945/63/09031

Synopsis: Four generations of the aristocratic Barberini family and its "vassals" clashed over how the early modern Roman countryside should be governed.



Title: Sleuthing the Alamo: Davy Crockett's Last Stand
and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution
Author: James E. Crisp
Publication Date: December 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Country of Publication: United States
Market: New Zealand
ISBN: 0-19-516350-8
Item Status: Import to Order (Available for Order)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 224
Price: $35.00(NZD) Retail
(Oxford University Press New Zealand)
Available Through: Baker & Taylor Books;
Oxford University Press Australia;
Oxford University Press New Zealand
Language: English
Series Title: New Narratives in American History Ser.
Audience: College
Bowker Subjects: TEXAS BIOGRAPHY
TEXAS HISTORY REVOLUTION, 1835-1836
ALAMO (SAN ANTONIO, TEX.)
General Subjects (BISAC):
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
HISTORY / United States / State & Local
General Subjects (BIC):
AMERICAN HISTORY: c1800 TO c1900 USA
AMERICAN HISTORY USA
BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY: GENERAL
LOCAL HISTORY USA
LCCN: 2004-049255
LC Call#: F390.C79 2004
Dewey #: 976.4/03
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): .187 kg.

Synopsis: In Sleuthing the Alamo, historian James E. Crisp draws back the curtain on years of mythmaking to reveal some surprising truths about the Texas Revolution--truths that are often obscured by both racism and political correctness. This engaging first-person account of historical detective work illuminates the methods of the serious historian who searches for the more complex truths behind the glorious myths. Beginning with a personal prologue recalling both the pride and the prejudices that he encountered in the Texas of his youth, Crisp illustrates how he discovered documents that have been distorted, censored, and ignored. In four chapters focusing on specific documentary "finds," he uncovers the clues that led to these archival discoveries. Along the way, the cast of characters expands to include: a prominent historian who tried to walk away from his first book; an unlikely teenaged "speechwriter" for General Sam Houston; three eyewitnesses to the death of Davy Crockett at the Alamo; a desperate inmate of Mexico City's Inquisition Prison, whose scribbled memoir of the war in Texas is now listed in the Guiness Book of World Records; and the stealthy slasher of the most famous historical painting in Texas. In his afterword, Crisp explores the evidence behind the mythic "Yellow Rose of Texas" and examines some of the powerful forces at work in silencing the voices from the past that we most need to hear today. An indispensable resource for anyone interested in the Alamo or historical detective work, Sleuthing the Alamo is also ideal for undergraduate courses in historical methodology, southwestern borderlands, the American West, Texas history, American expansion, Mexican-American history, race relations, and Southern history.

Library Journal
November 15, 2004 0-19-516349-4
Native Texan Crisp (history, North Carolina State Univ.) takes the reader along on a step-by-step investigation of several problems related to the Texas revolution: Sam Houston's speech at Refugio, the authenticity of the de la Pena diary, and the circumstances of Davy Crockett's death. The emphasis is not so much on the conclusions reached as on the process used and the paths followed to reach those conclusions. Along the way, Crisp shows why it is important to go back to the original sources, inquires into how and why myth is made, and demonstrates that at times the paint brush is mightier than the pen. As a case study, this engaging book should find a place in undergraduate libraries, but it is also recommended for any library with an interest in the history of Texas and the West.-Stephen H. Peters, Northern Michigan Univ. Lib., Marquette Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.



Title: Denver in Flames: Forging a New Mile High City
Author: Dick Kreck
Publication Date: December 2004
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Country of Publication: United States
Market: United States
ISBN: 1-55591-444-6
Item Status: Active Record (Readily Available)
Binding Format: Trade Paper
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 304
Price: $18.95(USD) Retail (Publisher)
Available Through: Alibris; Brodart Company;
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.; Powells.com
Language: English
Audience: General Adult
Bowker Subjects: DENVER (COLO.) HISTORY
FIRE DEPARTMENTS
FIRE EXTINCTION HISTORY
FIRE FIGHTERS
General Subjects (BISAC):
HISTORY / United States / State & Local
POLITICAL SCIENCE / State, Provincial & Local Government
TECHNOLOGY / Fire Science
General Subjects (BIC): AMERICAN HISTORY USA
FIRE PROTECTION AND SAFETY
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
LOCAL HISTORY USA
LCCN: 00-009190
LC Call#: F784.D457K74 2000
Dewey #: 978.8/83
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 6 x 9 x .82 in.
1 lbs.

Synopsis: Uses historical illustrations & records, eyewitness accounts, diaries of ordinary citizens, & dozens of interviews with current a retired firefighters to recount the triumphs & tragedies of Denver's firefighters, & the disastrous fires they fought between 1863 & 1974.

Reference & Research Book News
May 1, 2001 1-55591-444-6
Veteran columnist Dick Kreck recounts in compelling, journalistic style the triumphs and tragedies of Denver's firefighters and the disastrous fires they fought between 1863 and 1974. He paints a moving portrait of heroism and tragedy, chronicling events that led to long-term changes in city ordinances, building codes, and firefighting techniques. Includes b&w photos of fire scenes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)



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