Authors:Professor Isabel de Madariaga, Isabel De Madariaga,
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: history, short, catherine
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0300097220
ISBN-13: 9780300097221

An eminent scholar of Russian history here presents the most informative, balanced, and up-to-date short study of Catherine the Great and her reign. This edition includes a new preface dealing with recently discovered sources and revised interpretations of the period.

Author: Professor Isabel de Madariaga
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: terrible, ivan
Number of Pages: 526
Published: 2006-09-25
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0300119739
ISBN-13: 9780300119732

Ivan IV, “the Terrible” (1533–1584), is one of the key figures in Russian history, yet he has remained among the most neglected. Notorious for pioneering a policy of unrestrained terror—and for killing his own son—he has been credited with establishing autocracy in Russia. This is the first attempt to write a biography of Ivan from birth to death, to study his policies, his marriages, his atrocities, and his disordered personality, and to link them as a coherent whole.Isabel de Madariaga situates Ivan within the background of Russian political developments in the sixteenth century. A

Author: Salvador De Madariaga
Publisher: Ayer Co Pub
Keywords: series, reprint, index, essay, americans
Published: 1968-06
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0836906616
ISBN-13: 9780836906615

Author: Professor Robert V. Hine Professor John Mack Fara
Publisher: Yale University Pre
Keywords: history, series, western, lamar, american, short, frontiers, west
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-04-30
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0300117108
ISBN-13: 9780300117103

Published in 2000 to critical acclaim, The American West: A New Interpretive History quickly became the standard in college history courses. Now Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher offer a concise edition of their classic, freshly updated. Lauded for their lively and elegant writing, the authors provide a grand survey of the colorful history of the American West, from the first contacts between Native Americans and Europeans to the beginning of the twenty-first century.Frontiers introduces the diverse peoples and cultures of the American West and explores how men and women of different ethni

Author: Professor Clive DimmockProfessor Allan David Walk
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: diversity, culture, leadership, educational
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2005-07-12
List price: $56.95
ISBN-10: 076197170X
ISBN-13: 9780761971702

`Clive Dimmock and Allan Walker’s books is a valuable addition to the overcrowded literature on leadership. This is a useful and important book because citizenship, globalization and the tensions with nationality should be the concern of all who lead any school; even monofaith, monoethic and monolingual schools’ - Tim Brighouse, TES Friday ’The authors offer a rigorous and systematic analysis based on careful definition, illustration and discussion which demonstrates the importance of understanding culture, leadership and their interaction in different contexts: in doing so t

Authors:Paul Henry Lang, Professor Alfred Mann, Professor Ge
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: performance, musicology
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1997-08-25
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0300068050
ISBN-13: 9780300068054

Arriving in the United States at age twenty-seven, Hungarian-born Paul Henry Lang (1901-1991) went on to exert a powerful influence on musical life and scholarship in his adopted country for more than six decades. As professor of musicology at Columbia University, editor of the Musical Quarterly, a founder of the American Musicological Society, and chief music critic of the New York Herald Tribune, Lang became one of America`s foremost musical scholars and commentators. This anthology of his previously uncollected writings includes essays written throughout his career on a full array of music

Authors:Professor Tony Bush, Professor Les Bell, David Middl
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: management, amp, leadership, educational, principles
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2010-05-05
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 1848602103
ISBN-13: 9781848602106

Fully revised and thoroughly updated, this Second Edition of this classic book brings together many leading international authors on educational leadership, with brand new chapters from leaders in the field – Ken Leithwood, Paul Begley, Allan Walker and Alma Harris. Providing an overview of essential topics within the field, this book adopts an international perspective and offers conceptual and empirical insights.