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Fallen Giants(1st Edition)
A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes
by Maurice Isserman, Stewart Angas Weaver, Dee Molenaar, Fallen Giants
Hardcover, 592 Pages, Published 2008 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-11501-7, ISBN: 0-300-11501-6

"The first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay is a familiar saga, but less well known are the tales of many other adventurers who also came to test their skills and courage against the world’s highest and most dangerous mountains. In this lively and generously illustrated book, historians Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver present the first comprehensive history of Him ..."

Plain Style(2nd Edition)
A Guide to Written English
by Christopher Lasch, Stewart A. Weaver, Stewart Angas Weaver
Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-1814-5, ISBN: 0-8122-1814-0

""Plain Style" is an amusing and instructive guide to written English by the late Christopher Lasch, author of "The Culture of Narcissism," "The True and Only Heaven," and many other memorable works of American history and social criticism. Written for the benefit of the students at the University of Rochester, where Lasch taught from 1970 until his death in 1994, it quickly established itself in typescript as a local classic a lively, w ..."

John Fielden and the Politics of Popular Radicalism 1832-1847(1st Edition)
by Stewart Angas Weaver
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 1987 by Clarendon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-822927-8, ISBN: 0-19-822927-5

"John Fielden, industrial magnate and radical Member of Parliament for Oldham in Lancashire from 1832 to 1847, was best known as a leading advocate of factory reform. Drawing on a rare collection of Fielden family papers, this biographical study provides a fresh assessment of each of the movements in which Fielden became involved and of his role within them, and discusses the influences that shaped this radical industrialist who occupied ..."

Exploration(1st Edition)
A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Stewart Angas Weaver
Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2015 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-994695-2, ISBN: 0-19-994695-7

"We live in an age of globalization on every conceivable level, but globalization has a deeper history than politicians and pundits often allow, and nothing is more significant to its history than exploration. Wherever trade or faith or empire followed, explorers usually led. Their motives were as many-sided and various as their actions; their legacies are contested and mixed. But none can doubt the significance of explorers to the mak ..."

The Hammonds(1st Edition)
A Marriage in History
by Stewart Angas Weaver
Hardcover, 364 Pages, Published 1997 by Stanford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-3242-0, ISBN: 0-8047-3242-6

"Here for the first time is the story of one of historyâs great scholarly and marital collaborations. J. L. and Barbara Hammond were among the most innovative and influential historians of the twentieth century. Between 1911 and 1934, they wrote eight books together that amount, in effect, to the first sustained social history of modern England. Three of their books in particularâThe Village Labourer (1911), The Town Labourer (1917), ..."

William Cobbett
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, James Bemis, Stewart Angas Weaver, Stewart Weaver
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2011 by Ihs Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-932528-46-6, ISBN: 1-932528-46-6

"Examining the life of a prominent political journalist, this definitive biography explores the impact of William Cobbettâ€TMs career and legacy on English society. Showing how Cobbett was more than just a journalist, this study reveals often ignored aspects of Cobbettâ€TMs life and personal philosophy, especially his actions to restore the life and culture of English rural life. The better known aspects of his long career?including his ..."

Fallen Giants(1st Edition)
A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes
by Maurice Isserman, Stewart Angas Weaver, Dee Molenaar
Paperback, 592 Pages, Published 2010 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-16420-6, ISBN: 0-300-16420-3

"The story of the world’s highest peaks and the remarkable people who have sought to climb them The first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay is a familiar saga, but less well known are the tales of many other adventurers who also came to test their skills and courage against the world’s highest and most dangerous mountains. In this lively and generously illustrated book ..."

Fallen Giants
A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes
by Stewart Angas Weaver, Maurice Isserman, Dee Molenaar
579 Pages, Published 2008 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-14266-2, ISBN: 0-300-14266-8

"According to Robert M. Poole, former executive editor of National Geographic, during World War II and the cold war “the organization began to look less like a journalistic enterprise than an extension of government" (Explorers House, 184, 216—17). See memo from Barry ... During the expedition Americans David Dornan and Tom Frost and New Zealanders Mike Gill and ]im Wilson made the first ascent of Kangtega (22,240ft/6,779m) via its ..."

Plain Style
A Guide to Written English
by Christopher Lasch, Stewart Angas Weaver, Stewart A. Weaver
Hardcover, 121 Pages, Published 2002 by Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-3673-6, ISBN: 0-8122-3673-4

"Plain Style is an amusing and instructive guide to written English by the late Christopher Lasch, author of The Culture of Narcissism, The True and Only Heaven, and many other memorable works of American history and social criticism. Written for the benefit of the students at the University of Rochester, where Lasch taught from 1970 until his death in 1994, it quickly established itself in typescript as a local classicâ€”a lively, witty ..."

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