Hendrik Willen Van Loon:
Ancient Man: the Beginning of Civilizations - cópia assinada
2020, ISBN: bec13e06dea7628f2d13fa7b6e20e180
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New York City, NY: Abrams ComicArts, 2013. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Abrams ComicArts, 2013. Hardcover. As New/As New. Fi… mais…
New York City, NY: Abrams ComicArts, 2013. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Abrams ComicArts, 2013. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 80 pages. The author's fourth novel-in-pictures. Even by Audrey Niffenegger's exacting standards, it is one of the most beautifully realized book productions of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, including the British Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. A stunningly beautiful production by Audrey Niffenegger and Sara Corbett: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial hard boards with black titles on spine, as issued. Art and text by Audrey Niffenegger. Pale gray gilt edges, which match the color of the DJ. Printed on thick glossy stock paper to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with pale gray metallic-silver titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Audrey Niffenegger's "Raven Girl". Her fourth illustrated novel. Unlike her previous works in the same vein (where the images dominate) , "The Raven Girl" is told in images and text of equal weight and significance. "A dreamy, dark fairy tale. In it, an English postman falls in love with a fledgling raven from East Underwhelm, Otherworld. The pair conceive a child, a raven trapped in a girl's body, who becomes so distraught that she engages the services of a plastic surgeon to give her wings" (Rebecca Barry) . "Hauntingly captures the world of birds and humans, and as the title suggests, a creature somewhere in between" (The Chicago Tribune) . Niffenegger's Grimm-ly evocative tale has been favorably compared to the work of Edward Gorey. Quite apart from the fact that hers is a frankly erotic, proto-feminist sensibility (whereas Gorey was a deeply closeted gay man who was a lifelong celibate) , the iconographic patterns, unusual perspectives, tensile lines, and gossamer atmosphere suggest a hypnotic and ethereal otherworldliness that is Niffenegger's own. Her 21st-century, post-feminist response to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", "The Raven Girl" has been adapted into a full-length ballet by The Royal Ballet London, which premiered on May 24 and ran until June 8, 2013. An absolute "must-have" title for Audrey Niffenegger collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, placed, and dated (on the day of the exhibition) in black pen-marker on the title page by the artist/author: "Audrey Niffenegger June 14, 2013, Chicago". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the "Raven Girl: New Etchings" Exhibition Card. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, placed, and exhibition-day dated copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the finest American artist/writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER AUDREY NIFFENEGGER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1419707264., Abrams ComicArts, 2013, 5, Paperback / softback. New. Marginalized due to the deployment of both a highly specialized jargon and a novel stylistic approach meant to upset established norms and conventions, Baudrillard's thought has suffered from the lack of an accessible, consistent and comprehensive exposition able to make it relevant to diverse contemporary disciplines. As a result, its impact on architecture has always been confined to academia. By presenting an introductory but in-depth formalization of Baudrillard's interest in architecture and related fields, this book makes intelligible his philosophical premises thus showing, through the prism of architecture, their relevance and persuasiveness today. Key concepts such as the object system, the code, simulation, hyperreality and precession, to name a few, are addressed in the light of the specially reconceptualized key construct of ambience, thus emphasizing how the mutual concerns of architecture, urban studies and cultural studies provide a fertile ground for debate. Such an approach, which focuses on the contradictions inherent in contemporary society from the vantage point of Baudrillard's original involvement in architectural analysis, philosophy and criticism, is one which students, practitioners and scholars alike from as diverse disciplines as architecture, interior design and urban studies - but also fine art, anthropology, sociology, economics, human geography, social psychology and cultural studies to start with - will benefit from immensely., 6, University of Toronto Press, 2020. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This book examines the impact of the Enlightenment on war in Russia and Russian military culture during the period of Catherine II. It challenges ideas of Russian cultural and intellectual independence from the West, questions the traditional picture of the Russian military, and addresses the larger question of militarization in Russian history. Chapters explore specific ways the Enlightenment influenced military culture, such as through the creation of a military proto-intelligentsia, patronage and education, or concepts of merit, ideas about the military profession, thinking about soldiers, or personal behavior. It draws on archival sources, military manuals, essays, memoirs, and letters to understand the impact of Enlightenment ideas on military culture, including education, the rule of law, and humanism in combination with religion and the cameralism of the police state. It includes a case study of the siege of Izmail and discussion of the clash between the Military Enlightenment during Catherine's reign with its own traditions, values, and intellectual independence, and the new military culture introduced by Catherines son, Emperor Paul I. (2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR), University of Toronto Press, 2020, 0, Honolulu.: Bishop Museum Press.. 1963.. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, figures, 136pp, bibliography, minor wear and soiling wrappers, good copy. 25.6 x 17.5cm. Papers from a Symposium held at the Tenth Pacific Science Congress of the Pacific Science Association, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 21 Sugust to 6 September 1961. Papers include: Movement of People and Ideas across the Pacific; Prehistoric Voyages as Agencies for Melanesian and South american Plant and animal Dispersal to Polynesia; Vernacular Plant Names in Melanesia: Some Examples from Northern New Caledonia; Proto-Melanesian Plant Names; Correlations of Plant Patterns and Population Migration into the Australian New Guinea Highlands; The Role of Pandanus in the Culture of the Marshall Islands; The Migration of Rice from Mainland Southeast Asia into Indonesia; Rice Cultivation of the ancient Mariana Islanders; Sweet-Potato Variation and Its Relation to Human Migration in the Pacific; The Origin of the Sweet Polato Plant; The Oceanian-African Hypotheses and the Sweet Potato. ., Bishop Museum Press., 1963., 0, Paperback / softback. New. Tells the story of an idea that humanity's expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, this title follows the trajectory of European knowledge about continent's eastern frontier., 6, EB. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Boni & Liveright, New York, 1920. 121 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in green cloth with color pastedown present to the front boards and titles present to the spine. Boards lightly rubbed and worn. No ownership marks present.. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. A history of humans in what is now the Middle East from prehistory to the 4th century B. C. E. With many charming color and black & white illustrations by the author. Here, in simple, readable, lucid language suitable for a child but delightful for adults, too is the history of humanity from the first proto-humanoids to the development of the earliest alphabets. Though the details have been refined since this enchanting primer was first published in 1920, this account of the early millennia of civilization as captured by Hendrik Willem van Loon, the renowned early-20th-century popularizer of all things historical, remains a clever and effective portrait of the grand scale of humanity s progress. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall ., 3<
