Publication date: 1966-02
Review Montague Summers / Cecil Woolf:
Publication date: 2003-04-01
Dewey code: 978.02092
Price: $59.95
Review Wyatt Earp: The Biography / Talei Publishers:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-06-15
Dewey code: 306.36092
List Price: $870.00
Price: $866.00
Review George Elton Mayo: Critical Evaluations in Business and Management / Routledge:George Elton Mayo (1880-1949) is widely recognized as the progenitor of the human relations movement in management and his work laid the foundations for later management and organizational thinking. This collection reprints key scholarship concerning Mayo's role in shaping business and management studies into the present day. It includes a new introduction and an extensive annotated bibliography.
Publication date: 1995-10-12
Dewey code: 720.92
Price: $55.00
Review Lebbeus Woods: Anarchitecture Architecture Is a Political Act (Architectural Monographs, No. 22) / Academy Editions:Presents the visionary architecture of Lebbeus Woods, who proposes that architecture can change society.
Publication date: 1954-06
Dewey code: 808
Price: $65.00
Review The George Eliot Letters (Yale Edition of the George Eliot Letters) / Yale Univ Pr:
Publication date: 2001-01
List Price: $1,080.00
Price: $820.80
Review Obras Completas / Universidad de la Matanza:
Creator: Frederick D. Williams
Publication date: 1991-06
Price: $50.00
Review The Diary of James A. Garfield / Michigan State Univ Pr:
Authors
- Hans Werner Holzwarth
- Klaus Kertess
- Roberto Ohrt
Publication date: 2009-04-01
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $1,000.00
Price: $903.28
Review Albert Oehlen / Taschen:This is the definitive monograph of Oehlen's work to date. This XL retrospective explores Albert Oehlen's entire career chronologically and examines his creative process via in-depth texts. Limited to 1,000 copies, each numbered and signed by the artist. Albert Oehlen seeks the limits of painting in his work, challenging viewers to abandon their instinctive expectations. His early work in the late 1970s - when painting was decidedly out of fashion - was associated with a so-called 'bad painting' movement, in that it aimed at challenging ideas about what makes a painting 'good' or 'bad'; a recent exhibition in London was, somewhat ironically, entitled 'I Will Always Champion Good Painting'. With an approach he describes as 'post-non-representational', Oehlen uses painting not only as a way to convey meaning, but also as a means of exploring the function a painting can serve - often a painting's title itself gives the work an entirely new dimension. Never without a touch of tongue-in-cheek humor, his work seems to be winking at us as it dares us to change the way we look at art. Combining subtlety and sophistication with chaos and brutality, Oehlen has left an indelible mark on contemporary painting. This XL monograph explores all groups of Oehlen's work chronologically via genre-oriented approach, such as mud-colored paintings, mirror paintings, computer paintings, and so forth. Like a series of interlocking episodes, the chapters of the book draw the reader into a complex drama of constantly evolving themes. [+]In-depth texts get to the root of Oehlen's creative process, and an exhaustive bibliography and biography round out this comprehensive study. While Oehlen fans will rejoice at the publication of this breathtaking book, no one with an interest in contemporary art can afford pass up this unique opportunity to discover Oehlen's work. And to anyone who says painting is obsolete: we beg to differ. This book is also available in an Art Edition, limited to 100 copies and with an original artwork by Albert Oehlen.
Publication date: 2008-07-15
Dewey code: 428
List Price: $822.40
Price: $822.40
Review Contemporary Robbie Reader Biographies Set (Robbie Reader Contemporary Biographies) (Robbie Reader Contemporary Biographies) / Mitchell Lane Publishers:
Authors
- Michael Bloch
- James Lees-Milne
Dewey code: 720.92
Price: $45.00
Review Beneath a Waning Moon: Diaries, 1985-1987 / John Murray Publishers:Those who know him already will be prepared for the unexpected, and they will not be disappointed. Those new to him may be surprised to find - along with his honesty and delicious perceptiveness - the almost surreal oddness of some of his anecdotes. The thoughts, pleasures and regrets of those who appear in these pages are similarly fascinating. The Prince of Wales feels that the mantle of John Betjeman has fallen on his own shoulders, Diana Mosley explains why Macmillan rather than Ribbentrop should have been hanged after the war, Mick Jagger displays an extensive knowledge of Shakespeare, and Alan Clark admits he is bored stiff by his life in politics. JLM unites a sensibility uniquely his own with inconsistencies and prejudices of a kind we all share. He combines wit, acerbity and compassion, and is as delightful a companion in print as in life.
Publication date: 1986-08
Dewey code: 759.4
Price: $95.00
Review The Life and Work of Jean-Leon Gerome / Sotheby's:
Publication date: 1976-06
Dewey code: 428
List Price: $42.50
Price: $888.40
Review Portraits of Linguists / Greenwood Pub Group:This set is a standard biographical work in the history and theory of linguistics and an essential resource for all scholars of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century Western linguistics. Containing articles by eminent scholars in English, French, and German, this hard-to-find text offers 91 biographies, a mass of information on major figures encompassing both biographical detail and remarks on the subjects' work.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-01-07
Dewey code: 823.8
List Price: $1,440.00
Price: $1,428.96
Review Thomas Hardy: Family History (Rtp Family Histories Series) / Routledge:These original sources include important writings and interviews on Hardy by family and friends, and cover his life and relationships, his intellectual and musical background, his family life and their homes and haunts.
Publication date: 1998-04
Price: $13.95
Review A Trail from Poverty to University Administrator / Vantage Pr:
Publication date: 1995-01
Review Against the Odds: Survival on the Russian Front, 1944-1945 / Poolbeg Press:
Edition: Facsimile edition
Publication date: 2000-07-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $960.00
Price: $960.00
Review Life and Works of William Law / Thoemmes Continuum:'Both as an effective (and entertaining) critic of worldliness, and then as a forceful exponent of Christian mysticism, William Law played a unique role in eighteenth-century English life and thought. This complete edition of his unusually rich and hugely influential writings will need to be consulted by all serious students of the period. ' - Dr Brian Young, author of Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England (1998)William Law (1686-1761), controversialist, theologian and mystic, was (and is) considered one of the great intellectuals of his age. He took an anti-Lockean stance and came into confrontation with many of the leading theologians of his day. His works went through many editions, and he influenced, among others, Samuel Johnson, Edward Gibbon and John Wesley. His powerful and lucid writing style played a large part in this, the DNB describing it as 'transparently clear, vivid, and pungent,. his portraits remind us that he was a contemporary of Addison, and a keener satirist'. [+]He is most famous for A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, which sided him with Berkeley and Joseph Butler, was partly responsible for slowing the spread of deism, and which continues to enthrall evangelical Christians today. Indeed, his mysticism is perhaps more understood today than it was in his lifetime. Other famous works include his Three Letters to the Bishop of Bangor and Remarks upon a late Book entituled, the Fable of the Bees. This edition of Law's works, first published in 1892-3, features all his writings plus a memoir by G. B. Morgan. Added to these nine volumes is the first serious critical biography of Law, Overton's William Law, Nonjuror and Mystic. The 10-volume collection thus gives eighteenth century scholars a complete archive for the study of this important man. -the only modern edition of the complete works of William Law -includes Overton's celebrated biography -out of print and uncommon -very influential and highly respected theologian and intellectual, still read today.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-07-24
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $850.00
Price: $846.00
Review The Life of Samuel Johnson LL. D.: First issue of first edition bound with the Principal Corrections and Additions to the First Edition / Edition Synapse:'The most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature. ' by (W. J. Bate) This is a reprint of the rare first edition (first issue) of the Boswell's biography which has never been reprinted in facsimile format before. The original writing by Boswell in this edition is very different from later editions which are thoroughly edited and rewritten. This is an indispensable source for the study of 18th century English society and literature and will be reprinted together with an even rarer booklet of Corrections and Additions to the First Edition which Boswell prepared himself and distributed only to the subscribers to the first edition.
Edition: 3rd Edition
Publication date: 1778
Review Plutarch's Lives - Translated From the Original Greek with Notes Critical and Historical 1778 (Plutarch's Lives - Translated From the Original Greek with Notes Critical and Historical, Volume V) / Edward and Charles Dilly, London:Beautiful original leather design with ornate binding with gold detail and label. A beautiful frontispiece and a great classic read, text written in old English "f" instead of "s" and printed on handmade paper!!!.
Authors
- Michael Jackson
- Weldon, III McDougal
- Jackson 5
Dewey code: 784.540922
Price: $9.95
Review Michael Jackson Scrapbook: The Early Days of the Jackson 5 / Avon Books:A collection of photographs of Michael Jackson and his brothers from the early 1970's when they performed as the Jackson 5. Text discusses the creation of the group and its rise to fame.
Authors
- Lawrence Principe
- Robert Boyle
Publication date: 2001-10
Dewey code: 509.2
List Price: $884.94
Price: $880.94
Review The Correspondence of Robert Boyle (The Pickering Masters) / Pickering & Chatto Ltd:"The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, 1636-1691" is the first edition of Boyle's correspondence transcribed, mostly for the first time, from the original manuscripts. It is fully annotated, with an introduction and comprehensive general index. "The Correspondence of Robert Boyle" is a British Academy Research Project. Robert Boyle (1627-91) was not only one of the founders of modern Western science but also a key figure in late 17th-century English culture. Himself a prolific and innovative experimenter, he was at the centre of a network of figures with similar interests. These included some of the most important European intellectuals of his day, together with many leading figures in the most innovative and influential scientific institution of the 17th century, the Royal Society. This is the first complete edition of Boyle's correspondence. More than a third of the letters presented here have never before been published, while the text of others is more complete and accurate than hitherto. Boyle's surviving correspondence is with over 300 men and women. They range from luminaries such as the philosopher, John Locke, or the churchman and politician, Gilbert Burnet, to men who are little known - figures like the shadowy French alchemist, Georges Pierre, or the New England physician, William Avery. [+]Yet these correspondence are hardly less significant than the celebrities for understanding Boyle's milieu, and the new edition is important not least for the light it throws on the circles of alchemists and chemists in Boyle's period in England and abroad, whose activities are otherwise barely known and have yet to be fully explored. Boyle's piety was celebrated, many of this letters are to clergymen who advised him in his spiritual life, while his charity to those in need is reflected by various letters seeking his assistance, not least from Hugenot refugees from the France of Louis XIV. "The Correspondence" also illustrates Boyle's active role in the promotion of Protestant Christianity. For nearly thirty years as Governor of the Corporation for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England (the New England Company), his profound interest in the affairs of that body is illustrated by many letters. Other letters give details of Boyle's involvement in projects to promulgate a Gaelic translation of the Bible in Ireland and in the Scottish Highlands. The correspondence also provides crucial materials for Boyle's own life as a member of a distinguished Anglo-Irish family. His earliest letters are to his father, the great Earl of Cork, while subsequent ones throw light on his land holdings in Ireland and on his relations with his brothers, sisters and other members of his family.
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Montague Summers, Wyatt Earp: The Biography, George Elton Mayo: Critical Evaluations in Business and Management, Lebbeus Woods: Anarchitecture Architecture Is a Political Act (Architectural Monographs, No. 22), The George Eliot Letters (Yale Edition of the George Eliot Letters), Obras Completas, The Diary of James A. Garfield, Albert Oehlen, Contemporary Robbie Reader Biographies Set (Robbie Reader Contemporary Biographies) (Robbie Reader Contemporary Biographies), Beneath a Waning Moon: Diaries, 1985-1987, The Life and Work of Jean-Leon Gerome, Portraits of Linguists, Thomas Hardy: Family History (Rtp Family Histories Series), A Trail from Poverty to University Administrator, Against the Odds: Survival on the Russian Front, 1944-1945, Life and Works of William Law, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL. D.: First issue of first edition bound with the Principal Corrections and Additions to the First Edition, Plutarch's Lives - Translated From the Original Greek with Notes Critical and Historical 1778 (Plutarch's Lives - Translated From the Original Greek with Notes Critical and Historical, Volume V), Michael Jackson Scrapbook: The Early Days of the Jackson 5, The Correspondence of Robert Boyle (The Pickering Masters)Top headlines: Brain-injured troops face long-term risks: Many of the thousands of troops who suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan are at risk of long-term health problems including depression and Alzheimer's-like symptoms, researchers say. ›16:02 Solar car completes 1st round-the-world trip: The first solar-powered car to travel around the world ended its journey at the U.N. climate talks Thursday, arriving with the message that clean technologies are available now to stop global warming. ›13:48 Fowl foul: Thanksgiving dinner stolen: A Wisconsin family found it hard to be thankful after a thief made off with their turkey dinner. ›04:59 30 Nov, Sun National Mall will be open for inauguration: President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural committee says, in a change from tradition, the entire length of the National Mall will be open to the public during his inauguration. ›17:51 Vermont named healthiest state, Louisiana last: Louisiana has displaced Mississippi as the unhealthiest state, and other Southern states were close rivals due to high obesity and smoking rates in new rankings. ›20:06 3 Dec, Wed Bison roundup shows species' prairie recovery: Bison are no longer in danger of extinction. 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