Publication date: 1999-03
Dewey code: 920
Price: $30.00
Review Golden Phoenix: The Biography of Peter Munk / Key Porter Books:
Creator: New England Historic Genealogical Societ
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1995-05
Dewey code: 929.20973
Price: $35.00
Review Ancestors of American Presidents: First Authoritative Edition / Carl Boyer 3rd:
Publication date: 1990-06
Price: $25.00
Review Autobiographical Reflections / Borgo Press:
Creator: Alison Castle
Publication date: 2005-04-01
Dewey code: 791.430233092
List Price: $200.00
Price: $579.01
Review The Stanley Kubrick Archives / Taschen:The first book to explore Stanley Kubrick's archives is also the most comprehensive study of the filmmaker to date Part 1: The films In 1968, when Stanley Kubrick was asked to comment on the metaphysical significance of 2001: A Space Odyssey, he replied: ?It's not a message I ever intended to convey in words. 2001 is a nonverbal experience?. I tried to create a visual experience, one that bypasses verbalized pigeonholing and directly penetrates the subconscious with an emotional and philosophic content. ? The philosophy behind Part I borrows from this line of thinking: from the opening sequence of Killer's Kiss to the final frames of Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick's complete films will be presented chronologically and wordlessly via frame enlargements. A completely nonverbal experience. Part 2: The Creative Process Divided into chapters chronologically by film, Part 2 brings to life the creative process of Kubrick's filmmaking by presenting a remarkable collection of material from his archives, including photographs, props, posters, artwork, set designs, sketches, correspondence, documents, screenplays, drafts, notes, and shooting schedules. Accompanying the visual material are essays by noted Kubrick scholars, articles written by and about Kubrick, and a selection of Kubrick's best interviews. Special features ? Part 1 features 800 film stills scanned directly from the original prints and interpositives ? Part 2 presents about 800 items from the archives, most of which have never been published before ? essays by Kubrick scholars Gene D. Phillips, Michel Ciment, and Rodney Hill ? selected articles and essays, including interviews with and essays by Stanley Kubrick ? illustrated Kubrickchronology ? audio CD featuring a 70-minute 1966 interview of Stanley Kubrick by Jeremy Bernstein **BONUS** ? books in the first print run will each include a twelve-frame film strip from a 70mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey owned by Stanley Kubrick Made in cooperation with Jan Harlan, Christiane Kubrick, and the Stanley Kubrick Estate. The editor: Alison Castle received a BA in philosophy from Columbia University and an MA in photography and film from New York University (NYU/International Center of Photography masters program). [+]Castle also edited TASCHEN's Some Like it Hot. She lives in Paris, home of the world's best cinemas.
Creator: Hester Jones
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 2003-12
Dewey code: 820.9008
List Price: $495.00
Price: $469.25
Review Lives of Victorian Literary Figures II: The Brownings, The Brontes and the Rossettis By Their Contemporaries (Lives of Victorian Literary Figures) / Pickering & Chatto Publishers:The three volumes that comprise this set are facsimile reproductions of contemporary biographical material. They include letters, memoirs, poems and articles on three outstanding Victorian literary partnerships. These are the Brownings, Brontes and the Rossettis.
Creator: Gary Garrels
Publication date: 2000-03
Dewey code: 709.2
List Price: $85.00
Price: $874.55
Review Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective / Yale University Press:Sol LeWitt, one of the most important American artists of this century, has spent the past four decades creating artworks that explore the potential of ideas for the making of visual forms. LeWitt transforms these ideas into objects of exquisite beauty and elegance, deliberately introducing elements of chance, intuition, or irrationality into the systems that govern the creation of his works. LeWitt's delicate balancing act between thought and form, between order and disorder, between authorship and anonymity, has exerted an enormous influence on artists of subsequent generations. This book, the first retrospective of LeWitt's work in more than twenty years, fosters a deeper understanding of the artist's career and its significance to American art and thought. Including essays by Gary Garrels, Martin Friedman, Brenda Richardson, and other distinguished curators and art historians, the book charts the evolution of LeWitt's art from his groundbreaking work in Conceptualism during the early 1960s through his turn toward a more lyrical and sensual form of abstraction around 1980. With more than 350 images, the book provides a stunning visual survey of LeWitt's oeuvre from 1960 to the present, including sumptuous wall drawings, three-dimensional structures, and works on paper. This handsome book is the catalogue for an exhibition that will open at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from 19 February through 30 May 2000, and will then travel to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago from July to October and to the Whitney Museum of Art in New York from November to February 2001. Sol LeWitt "is to art as Bach was to music," says conceptual artist Adrian Piper, indicating LeWitt's seminal importance to both the theory and practice of contemporary art. LeWitt's creations are the direct embodiments of his theoretical writings, abstract principles that he develops with supreme integrity into physical form. Recognizing his key role in the minimalist and conceptual movements of the 1960s and '70s, New York's MoMA gave LeWitt a major retrospective in 1978. [+]Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective and the accompanying exhibition organized by Gary Garrels of the San Francisco Museum of Modern bring us up-to-date. During the '80s and '90s, LeWitt's work moved from a cerebral asceticism toward rich color and surfaces and a more explicit sensuality and expressiveness. Nearly 500 carefully chosen and well-reproduced photographs and drawings document this evolution. Together with a sampling of LeWitt's own pithy statements, lucid essays by seven of America's leading curators analyze his contributions to contemporary art. Typical of his methods and attitudes are his signature large-scale wall paintings, their sense of movement and bright bands of color making them among the most gorgeous of his works. While articulating the designs of the wall paintings and the concepts behind them, LeWitt does not paint them himself. He is generous in welcoming anyone else to give physical reality to his designs: "It would be a compliment," he says. Sol LeWitt is a beautiful and substantial book, and its range of illustration and depth of scholarship make it the definitive study of this highly influential artist. -John Stevenson.
Publication date: 1968
Review Australian Dictionary of Biography 12vol / MELBOURNE UNIV PRESS:
Creator: Steven G. Kellman
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 2006-09-15
Dewey code: 810.90003
List Price: $499.00
Price: $499.00
Review Magill's Survey of American Literature / Salem Press:This revised edition of "Magill's Survey of American Literature", originally published in 1991, with a 1994 supplement updates essays and adds many newones, covering 340 writers at the heart of literary studies. "Magill's Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition" offers profiles of major U. S. and Canadian writers accompanied by analyses of their significant works in fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction.
Publication date: 1994-12
Dewey code: 686.282092
Review Louis Braille (Great Achievers) / Chelsea House Pub (T):A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used by the blind throughout the world.
Creator: Rick Tilman
Publication date: 2003-09
Dewey code: 330.092
List Price: $835.00
Price: $490.00
Review The Legacy of Thorstein Veblen (Intellectual Legacies in Modern Economic) / Edward Elgar Publishing:Veblen was an original thinker, responsible for introducing and popularising a host of important concepts and insights. He ignited controversy not only in economics, but also in sociology, history and political science. The number and quality of the responses to his work provide evidence of the novelty and explanatory power of his ideas. These comprehensive volumes should enable the reader to sample the broad spectrum of Veblen's thought and that of his critics and interpreters. They include critical appraisals of the corpus of his published work as well as reinterpretations of his life and influence on the social sciences particularly economics, political science and sociology. This authoritative collection includes reprints of materials previously published by leading scholars on nearly every aspect of Veblen's life and work. It should be invaluable to professional scholars and graduate students who wish to heighten their understanding of the alternatives to formalism in the social studies.
Publication date: 1997-12
Dewey code: 780.92
Price: $9.95
Review Ludwig Van Beethoven, Composer: Composer (Great Achievers (Chelsea House Publishers).) / Chelsea House Publications:
Publication date: 1949
Review Abraham Lincoln...The War Years..SIGNED BY SANDBURG / Harcourt Brace:
Creator: Robert Folkestone Williams
Publication date: 1949-06
Dewey code: 942.0610924
Price: $75.00
Review Court and Times of James the First / Ams Pr Inc:
Publication date: 1991-10
Dewey code: 370
List Price: $79.00
Price: $474.53
Review Midstream: My Later Life (American Biography Series) / Reprint Services Corp:This book deals with her 25 years after Helen Keller left Radcliffe-the story of her work and friendships.
Creator: Oscar T. Shuck
Publication date: 2007-12-15
Dewey code: 349.79409
Price: $250.00
Review History of the Bench And Bar of California: Being Biographies of Many Remarkable Men, a Store of Humorous And Pathetic Recollectionsà / Lawbook Exchange:Shuck, Oscar T. , Editor. History of the Bench and Bar of California: Being Biographies of Many Remarkable Men, A Store of Humorous and Pathetic Recollections, Accounts of Important Legislation and Extraordinary Cases Comprehending the Judicial History of the State. Los Angeles: The Commercial Printing House, 1901. 1152 pp. Illustrated with numerous portraits. Reprinted 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-706-9. ISBN-10: 1-58477-706-0. Cloth. [+]$250. * An invaluable compilation of legal lore, much of it based on first and second-hand accounts, this work offers a history of the early years of the California bench and bar. Contents include "Recovery of the Pious Fund" by John Thomas Doyle, "Irrigation Laws and Decisions of California" by John Downey Works, "Adoption of the Common Law," "Tragic History of the Sharon Cases" and "The Field of Honor: Historic Duels in California" by Oscar Tully Shuck, "Lynch Law in California" by John Francis Davis and "The Early Bench and Bar of San Jose" by John Evan Richards.
Publication date: 1995-09
Dewey code: 530.092
Price: $7.95
Review Stephen Hawking (Great Achievers) / Chelsea House Pub (T):Describes the life of the renowned theoretical physicist who has taken the study of cosmology further than most in his field, despite his need for wheelchair and computer to travel and communicate.
Edition: Deluxe
Publication date: 1998-07
Dewey code: 799
List Price: $750.00
Price: $547.50
Review Rivers of the Heart: A Fly-Fishing Memoir / Lyons Press:A lifetime montage of people, places, things, realities, and fantasies drawn from favorite fly-fishing rivers. Like colorful patterns in a fly box, these pages hold some of the best and brightest moments of a long fly-fishing life. Here is the ecstasy (and occasional agony) of fishing for trout, salmon, and saltwater gamefish in waters from Canada to the Caribbean, from northern Scotland to the South Pacific.
Publication date: 1996-12
Dewey code: 759.9492
Price: $8.95
Review Vincent Van Gogh: Artist (Great Achievers (Chelsea House Publishers).) / Chelsea House Publications:Briefly examines the life of the renowned Dutch painter and traces the development of his art.
Publication date: 1995-05
Dewey code: 796.962092
Price: $7.95
Review Mario Lemieux Ice Hockey Star (Great Achievers) / Chelsea House Publications:
Publication date: 2000
Review Science antique, science medievale: (autour d'Avranches 235) : actes du colloque international (Mont-Saint-Michel, 4-7 septembre 1998) / Olms-Weidmann:
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