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Oxford University Press Inc The Oxford Handbook of Moral Realism
Book SynopsisMoral realism is a family of theories of morality united by the idea that there are moral facts--facts about what is right or wrong or good or bad--and that morality is not simply a matter of personal preferences, emotions, attitudes, or sociological conventions. The fundamental thought underlying moral realism can be expressed as a parity thesis. There are many kinds of facts, including physical, psychological, mathematical, temporal, and moral facts. So understood, moral realism can be distinguished from a variety of anti-realist theories including expressivism, non-cognitivism, and error theory.The Handbook is divided into four parts, the first of which contains essays about the basic concepts and distinctions which characterize moral realism. The subsequent parts contain essays first defending the idea that morality is a naturalistic phenomenon like other subject matters studied by the empirical sciences; second, that morality is a non-natural phenomenon like logic or pure rational
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The Conrad Press Peter finds a pony pal
Book Synopsis‘Peter finds a pony pal’ is an utterly gripping story about ten-year-old Peter, a runaway, who hides in a loft and makes a wonderful pony friend, Buster, but can the friendship continue if Peter is found? Peter has to live with the father he has not seen for years. Teased and abused by the stepchildren, who are also unkind to his beloved cat, he runs away. After hiding in a lorry he finds himself in a country area. For weeks he is cared for by local twins, determined to keep him safe. They are impressed by his relationship with Buster, a rescued pony who has been wary of them. But can such happy times really last when there are daily items on the radio and TV about Peter’s disappearance?
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The University of Chicago Press The Adventure of the Real
Book SynopsisThough relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917-2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema. This book analyses his practical filmmaking methods.Trade Review"This is a splendid book - well researched, original, and lucidly written. I have no doubt it will become a classic: the single indispensable book on Rouch and his work. Henley provides a vast amount of information, detailed analyses of many of Rouch's films, and above all a subtle and probing discussion of Rouch's 'praxis.' The book is particularly illuminating as to Rouch's working methods, which only a practicing filmmaker with a gift for analysis and a fund of personal experience could have carried off - a rare combination." - David MacDougall, Australian National University"
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Archaia Studios Press PulpHope2 The Art of Paul Pope
Book SynopsisThe long out-of-print retrospective from multiple Eisner-Award-Winning artist Paul Pope makes its return in a special extended edition!
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The University of Chicago Press Ancestral Connections Art and an Aboriginal
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Prakash Books The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
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Phaidon Press Ltd Aboriginal Art
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Penguin Putnam Inc And Then Youre Dead What Really Happens If You
Book SynopsisA gleefully gruesome look at the actual science behind the most outlandish, cartoonish, and impossible deaths you can imagine What would happen if you took a swim outside a deep-sea submarine wearing only a swimsuit? How long could you last if you stood on the surface of the sun? How far could you actually get in digging a hole to China? Paul Doherty, senior staff scientist at San Francisco’s famed Exploratorium Museum, and writer Cody Cassidy explore the real science behind these and other fantastical scenarios, offering insights into physics, astronomy, anatomy, and more along the way.Is slipping on a banana peel as hazardous to your health as the cartoons imply? Answer: Yes. Banana peels ooze a gel that turns out to be extremely slippery. Your foot and body weight provide the pressure. The gel provides the humor (and resulting head trauma). Can you die by shaking someone’s hand? An
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Granta Books Real England: The Battle Against The Bland
Book SynopsisWe see the signs around us every day: the chain cafés and mobile phone outlets that dominate our high streets; the disappearance of knobbly carrots from our supermarket shelves; and the headlines about yet another traditional industry going to the wall. For the first time, here is a book that makes the connection between these isolated, incremental local changes and the bigger picture of a nation whose identity is being eroded. As he travels around the country meeting farmers, fishermen and the inhabitants of Chinatown, Paul Kingsnorth reports on the kind of conversations that are taking place in country pubs and corner shops across the land - while reminding us that these quintessentially English institutions may soon cease to exist.Trade ReviewMagnificent: one of the most important books I have read in a long time. Revealing, stirring and brilliantly written, it should be read by everyone in England -- Zac Goldsmith, Director, THE ECOLOGIST
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Penguin Books Ltd The Left Hand of God Paul Hoffman The Left Hand
Book SynopsisThe Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman is the gripping first instalment in a remarkable trilogy.Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary.The Sanctuary of the Redeemers is a vast and desolate place - a place without joy or hope. Most of its occupants were taken there as boys and for years have endured the brutal regime of the Lord Redeemers whose cruelty and violence have one singular purpose - to serve in the name of the One True Faith.In one of the Sanctuary''s vast and twisting maze of corridors stands a boy. He is perhaps fourteen or fifteen years old - he is not sure and neither is anyone else. He has long-forgotten his real name, but now they call him Thomas Cale. He is strange and secretive, witty and charming, violent and profoundly bloody-minded. He is so used to the cruelty that he seems immune, but soon he will open the wrong door
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Cambridge University Press The Persistence of Realism in Modernist Fiction
Book SynopsisForm vs. content, aesthetics vs. politics, modernism vs. realism: these entrenched binaries tend to structure work in early 20th century literary studies even among scholars who seek to undo them. The Persistence of Realism demonstrates how realism''s defining concerns sympathy, class, social determination animate the work of Henry James, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett and Ralph Ellison. In contrast to the oft-told tale of an aesthetically rich modernism overthrowing realism''s social commitments along with its formal structures, Stasi shows how these writers engaged with realism in concrete ways. The domestic novel, naturalist fiction, novels of sentiment, and industrial tales are realist structures that modernist fiction simultaneously preserves and subverts. Putting modernist writers in conversation with the realism that preceded them, The Persistence of Realism demonstrates how modernism''s social concerns are inseparable from its formal ones.Table of Contents1. Fables of autonomy in Late James; 2. 'She will drown me with her': sympathy and autonomy in Joyce's Ulysses; 3. 'Innumberable slight changes': historical time and social reproduction in The Years; 4. 'I was always sentimental': Beckett's scenes of sympathy; 5. 'He forgot his history': Ellison's Naturalist Modernism.
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The University Press of Kentucky The Marxist and the Movies A Biography of Paul
Book SynopsisThrough firsthand accounts from Jarrico himself and interviews with those closest to him, as well as congressional records and statements from those on both sides of the Red Scare, Ceplair provides an intimate view of Paul Jarrico's life, set in historical and cultural context.Table of ContentsThe Folktale and Its Contributions The Beginnings of Brief Narrative in Spain Gonzalo de Berceo The Cantigas de Santa Maria of Alfonso X el Sabio
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Real Space The fate of physical presence in the digital age on and off planet
Book SynopsisIs planet earth the end of the line, or is space itself the next stop?Cyberspace. It''s incredible, taking us to any part of the planet we want to visit. But as Paul Levinson shows in his brilliant new book, when it comes to transport, we''re still stuck in the past, preferring to take our bodies with us. Whether it''s trains, yachts, scooters or pogo-sticks, we''re compelled to keep moving, our movements curtailed only by the earth itself. In our imaginations however, we soar way past the limits of current technology. With a lucid but reflective style that takes in everything from robots and science fiction to religion and philosophy, Paul Levinson asks why there is a deep seated human desire to know what''s ''out there''. Why, after getting a man on the moon, did the US space program develop so slowly? In a world where space is constantly repackaged, how do we know what real space is? Is our desire to get into space natural, or a religious craving, and is it a modern phenTrade Review"...engagingly humane and commonsensical." - Albert Borgmann, author of Holding on to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium"...a lucid argument for injecting new passion into the exploration of outer space.He is one of our very best writers on technology because he presents the big picture." - Michael Heim, author of The Metaphysics of Virtual RealityTable of Contents1: Bicycling into Outer Space: The Limits of Cyberspace, The Lure of Outer Space, What Went Wrong in Outer Space?, Space Re-Packaged, Robots and Missed Golden Opportunities 2: Talking and Walking: The Reason They Rhyme, The Biological Antiquity of the Coupling, Human Roads, Rail Roads, Out of the Box, Impulse Power and Partners, Global Villages, The Beginnings of Space Travel and Cyberspace 3: Breaking Out of Windows and Cyberspace The Appeal of Interaction, The Medium of Media and the Real World, Two Kinds of Java in the World, Ecologies of Transport and Communication 4: The Cellphone as Antidote to the Internet Dissolving What Glues Us to the Screen, Talk Again Leads the Way to Walking, on Earth 5: The Only Way Forward from California is Up: What's Keeping Us Down? Realpolitik versus Realspace, The Entropy of Details and Science Fiction, Philosophy versus Science 6: Further from Home, Closer to Truth Mirrors: Pitfalls and Opportunities, Telescopes into Microscopes, Apartment, City, Universe 7: Is Democracy the Best Launchpad to Space? War and Peace, Application and Invention, Microsoft Space?, Democracy's Partners 8: Old-Time Religion as a New Wing to Space Conquistadors to the Stars?, Coinciding Heavens, How Would Religion Make Its Contribution?, Playful Space, 9: Would You Want To Live Near a Star Named HD 209458? Old Names for New Worlds, Spacefaring Metaphors, The Comforts of Home in Space 10: Real Robots Don't Cry Robotic Merits, Limitations of Programming, Knowledge in Tiers and Tears, Robots with Emotions? 11: Realspace in an Age of Terrorism Two-Edged Swords of Communication, Anthrax and E-Mail, Planes and Rockets: Reversal of Symbols?, Starport at the World Trade Center, A Last Word About Images, Reality, and Opportunity
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) The Reverse of the Curse: Paul, Wisdom, and the
Book SynopsisC. Marvin Pate examines the undisputed Pauline writings and demonstrates that wherever Paul employs the theme of wisdom, he does so to reverse the Deuteronomic curses and blessings. The covenantal blessings rest on those whose faith is in Christ, the wisdom of God, while the covenantal curses abide on those who attempt to obey the Torah. All of this results from Paul's separation of Christ, God's wisdom, from the law of Moses.In addition, the author deals with two secondary themes. First of all, he calls the 'new perspective' on Paul into question. Secondly, a revised form of the 'Tübingen theory' is put forth. Both of these points call scholarship back to a more Lutheran reading of the subject of Pauline theology, emphasizing the importance of law and gospel therein.
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Really the Blues
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The Catholic University of America Press Platos Moral Philosophy The Discovery of the
Book SynopsisSurveying many of Plato’s dialogues from the early, middle, and late periods, prominent philosopher John M. Rist shows how Plato gradually realized the need for metaphysics to support his ethical position and that a rigorous ethics required a secure metaphysics grounded in universal values.
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Ron Papandrea With Much Fire in the Heart The Letters of Mohammed Mrabet to Irving Stettner Translated by Paul Bowles
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Museums Societies and the Creation of Value
Book SynopsisMuseums, Societies and the Creation of Value focuses on the ways in which museums and the use of their collections have contributed to, and continue to be engaged with, value creation processes.Including chapters from many of the leading figures in museum anthropology, as well as from outstanding early-career researchers, this volume presents a diverse range of international case studies that bridge the gap between theory and practice. It demonstrates that ethnographic collections and the museums that hold and curate them have played a central role in the value creation processes that have changed attitudes to cultural differences. The essays engage richly with many of the important issues of contemporary museum discourse and practice. They show how collections exist at the ever-changing point of articulation between the source communities and the people and cultures of the museum and challenge presentist critiques of museums that position them as locked into the timTable of ContentsList of Figures; List of Contributors; Introduction; Section I Making and Remaking of Collections; Chapter 1 Inalienable patrimony and museums: re-valuing the MacGregor collection; Chapter 2 The emergence of value in the process of the Sámi repatriation: Bååstede; Chapter 3 Colonial collections in British military museums: of objects, materiality and sentiment; Chapter 4 Rephotography as a value creation technology in the nineteenth century: collecting, reproducing and exchanging; Section II Creating Value – Inside and Outside the Museum; Chapter 5 Aboriginal secret-sacred objects, their values and future prospects; Chapter 6 Systems of value in Vanuatu: reflections on the Ambae textile complex; Chapter 7 Displaying, creating and mobilizing value in a museum exhibition: Pacific Currents in Cambridge; Chapter 8 The revaluation of historical collections by source communities: the string figures of Yirrkala; Section III Engagement and Return; Chapter 9 ‘Go throw it in the river’, shifting values and the productive confusions of collaboration with museum collections; Chapter 10 Digital return of an ethnographic museum collection and value creation by an originating community in Baguia, Timor-Leste; Chapter 11 Digital/object/beings and 3D replication in the intercultural museum context: have you socialized your clones?; Section IV Indigenous Agency; Chapter 12 Value creation and museums from an Indigenous perspective; Chapter 13 Yolŋu pathways to value creation in museum and archival collections: the work and journey of Joseph Gumbula; Chapter 14 Creating value through cultural capital: ‘Witira Kanyila – "work as one to make it strong"'; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Persistence of Realism in Modernist Fiction
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The University of Michigan Press Paul Wellstone
Book SynopsisThe story of the life and political career of Senator Paul Wellstone, one of the most compelling figures in the history of modern American politics.Trade ReviewThis vividly written book captures the life and personal qualities of the late Senator Paul Wellstone. In so doing it provides an illuminating gloss on 'Max Weber's seminal exposition of the political vocation. It is a jewel of a book. - Fred Greenstein, Princeton University
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Anthropology of Art
Book SynopsisThis anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures at different times. Advances a cross-cultural concept of art that moves beyond traditional distinctions between Western and non-Western art. Provides the basis for the appreciation of art of different cultures and times. Enhances readers' appreciation of the aesthetics of art and of the important role it plays in human society. Trade Review“The Anthropology of Art is a superb compilation that enables both scholar and student to have in one volume the major studies and debates in this discipline. In the insightful introduction, the editors survey the history of the field and tackle the vexing problem of defining art in cross-cultural perspective.” Ivan Karp, Emory University “An excellent, near-perfect book that demonstrates the centrality of the anthropology of art in both anthropology and art history debates. The essential reader for anyone who wants a broad, stimulating introduction to the field.” Jeremy MacClancy, Oxford Brookes University“Addresses significant debates … .Seems[s] to provide an understanding of the often subtle but underlying discourse on contemporary African art.” H-Net Reviews "A unique and timely manual that serves to connect the student with the creative impulse of man." The Electric ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: The Anthropology of Art: A Reflection on Its History and Contemporary Practice: Howard Morphy and Morgan Perkins. Part I: Framing the Discipline:. Introduction. 1. Primitive Art: Franz Boas. 2. Split Representation in the Art of Asia and America: Claude Lévi-Strauss. 3. Tribes and Forms in African Art: William Fagg. 4. Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art: Gregory Bateson. 5. Tikopea Art and Society: Raymond Firth. 6. The Abelam Artist: Anthony Forge. Part II: Primitivism and Art/Artifact:. Introduction. 7. Introduction. In “Primitivism” in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern: William Rubin. 8. “Primitivism” in 20th Century Art: Arthur C. Danto. 9. Histories of the Tribal and the Modern: James Clifford. 10. A Case in Point: Sally Price. 11. Oriental Antiquities/Far Eastern: Craig Clunas. 12. Introduction. In ART/Artifact: Susan Vogel. 13. Vogel's Net: Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps: Alfred Gell. Part III: Aesthetics Across Cultures:. Introduction. 14. Yoruba Artistic Criticism: Robert Farris Thompson. 15. Style in Technology: Some Early Thoughts: Heather Lechtman. 16. “Marvels of Everyday Vision”: The Anthropology of Aesthetics and the Cattle-Keeping Nilotes: Jeremy Coote. 17. From Dull to Brilliant: The Aesthetics of Spiritual Power Among the Yolngu: Howard Morphy. Part IV: Form, Style and Meaning:. Introduction. 18. Visual Categories: An Approach to the Study of Representational Systems: Nancy D. Munn. 19. Structural Patterning in Kwakiutl Art and Ritual: Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel. 20. Sacred Art and Spiritual Power: An Analysis of Tlingit Shaman’s Masks: Aldona Jonaitis. 21. To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest: David M. Guss. 22. Modernity and the “Graphicalization” of Meaning: New Guinea Highland Shield Design in Historical Perspective: Michael O’Hanlon. Part V: Marketing Culture:. Introduction. 23. Introduction. In Ethnic and Tourist Arts: Cultural Expressions of the Fourth World: Nelson H. H. Graburn. 24. The Collecting and Display of Souvenir Arts: Authenticity and the “Strictly Commercial”: Ruth B. Phillips. 25. The Art of the Trade: The Creation of Value and Authenticity in the African Art Market: Christopher B. Steiner. Part VI: Contemporary Artists:. Introduction. 26. A Second Reflection: Presence and Opposition in Contemporary Maori Art: Nicholas Thomas. 27. Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings: Fred Myers. 28. Aesthetics and Iconography: An Artists Approach: Gordon Bennett. 29. Kinds of Knowing: Charlotte Townsend-Gault. 30. CEW ETE HAW I TIH: The Bird That Carries Language Back to Another: Jolene Rickard. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Anthropology of Art
Book SynopsisThis anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures at different times. Advances a cross-cultural concept of art that moves beyond traditional distinctions between Western and non-Western art. Provides the basis for the appreciation of art of different cultures and times. Enhances readers' appreciation of the aesthetics of art and of the important role it plays in human society. Trade Review“The Anthropology of Art is a superb compilation that enables both scholar and student to have in one volume the major studies and debates in this discipline. In the insightful introduction, the editors survey the history of the field and tackle the vexing problem of defining art in cross-cultural perspective.” Ivan Karp, Emory University “An excellent, near-perfect book that demonstrates the centrality of the anthropology of art in both anthropology and art history debates. The essential reader for anyone who wants a broad, stimulating introduction to the field.” Jeremy MacClancy, Oxford Brookes University“Addresses significant debates … .Seems[s] to provide an understanding of the often subtle but underlying discourse on contemporary African art.” H-Net Reviews "A unique and timely manual that serves to connect the student with the creative impulse of man." The Electric ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viii About the Editors x The Anthropology of Art: A Reflection on its History and Contemporary Practice 1 Howard Morphy and Morgan Perkins Part I Foundations and Framing the Discipline 33 1 Primitive Art 39 Franz Boas 2 Split Representation in the Art of Asia and America 56 Claude Le´vi-Strauss 3 Introduction to Tribes and Forms in African Art 74 William Fagg 4 Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art 78 Gregory Bateson 5 Tikopia Art and Society 91 Raymond Firth 6 The Abelam Artist 109 Anthony Forge Part II Primitivism, Art, and Artifacts 123 7 Modernist Primitivism: An Introduction 129 William Rubin 8 Defective Affinities: ‘‘Primitivism’’ in 20th Century Art 147 Arthur C. Danto 9 Histories of the Tribal and the Modern 150 James Clifford 10 A Case in Point and Afterwords to Primitive Art in Civilized Places 167 Sally Price 11 Oriental Antiquities/Far Eastern Art 186 Craig Clunas 12 Introduction to Art/Artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections 209 Susan Vogel 13 Vogel’s Net: Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps 219 Alfred Gell Part III Aesthetics across Cultures 237 14 Yoruba Artistic Criticism 242 Robert Farris Thompson 15 Style in Technology: Some Early Thoughts 270 Heather Lechtman 16 ‘‘Marvels of Everyday Vision’’: The Anthropology of Aesthetics and the Cattle-keeping Nilotes 281 Jeremy Coote 17 From Dull to Brilliant: The Aesthetics of Spiritual Power Among the Yolngu 302 Howard Morphy Part IV Form, Style, and Meaning 321 18 Visual Categories: An Approach to the Study of Representational Systems 326 Nancy D. Munn 19 Structural Patterning in Kwakiutl Art and Ritual 339 Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel 20 Sacred Art and Spiritual Power: An Analysis of Tlingit Shamans’ Masks 358 Aldona Jonaitis 21 All Things Made 374 David M. Guss 22 Modernity and the ‘‘Graphicalization’’ of Meaning: New Guinea Highland Shield Design in Historical Perspective 387 Michael O’Hanlon Part V Marketing Culture 407 23 Arts of the Fourth World 412 Nelson H. H. Graburn 24 The Collecting and Display of Souvenir Arts: Authenticity and the ‘‘Strictly Commercial’’ 431 Ruth B. Phillips 25 The Art of the Trade: On the Creation of Value and Authenticity in the African Art Market 454 Christopher B. Steiner Part VI Contemporary Artists 467 26 A Second Reflection: Presence and Opposition in Contemporary Maori Art 472 Nicholas Thomas 27 Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings 495 Fred Myers 28 Aesthetics and Iconography: An Artist’s Approach 513 Gordon Bennett 29 Kinds of Knowing 520 Charlotte Townsend-Gault 30 Cew Ete Haw I Tih: The Bird That Carries Language Back to Another 544 Jolene Rickard Index 549
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The University of Chicago Press The Real Real Thing The Model in the Mirror of
Book SynopsisOur era is defined by the model. From Victoria's Secret and America's Next Top Model to the snapshots we post on Face-book and Twitter, our culture is fixated on the pose, the state of existing simultaneously as artifice and the real thing. The author shows us the very meaning of the arts in the process of transformation.Trade Review"Surveying the field of contemporary culture with grace and wit, Wendy Steiner comes to the surprising conclusion that 'a revolution is underway in the general understanding of beauty.' The Perfected Form of the engineered celebrity and supermodel - and such things as Platonic architecture and sculpture - is giving way to a more interactive beauty. The real real engages the audience in vital interaction - does not petrify as a Medusa head - it's a Reality2." - Charles Jencks, author of Critical Modernism"
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Abrams Paul Thomas Anderson
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A master class of the masterworks of Paul Thomas Anderson.” * Variety Magazine *“This career retrospective, full of lavish photographs from his best-loved films, is enough to inspire that budding director in your life, or provide a gateway to revisit old favorites without firing up their Blu-ray player.” * A.Frame *
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HarperCollins Publishers The Earl and the Pharaoh From the Real Downton
Book SynopsisEnter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography.Between November 1922 and spring 1923, a door to the ancient Egyptian world was opened. The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun would be the most astonishing archaeological find of the century, revealing not only the boy pharaoh's preserved remains, but thousands of finely crafted objects, from the iconic gold mask and coffins to a dagger made from meteorite, chalices, beautiful furniture and even 3000-year-old food and wine. The world's understanding of Ancient Egyptian civilisation was immeasurably enhanced, and the quantity and richness of the objects in the tomb is still being studied today. Two men were ultimately responsible for the discovery: Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter. It was Lord Carnarvon who held the concession to excavate and whose passion and ability to finance the project allowed the eventual discovery to take place.The Earl and the PhTrade Review Early praise for the The Earl and the Pharaoh ‘The story of their quest for the tomb of an obscure pharaoh is familiar but still exciting, and the countess tells it well, conjuring up the fights, the frustrations, the times when Carnarvon came close to cutting his losses and giving up, and the moment in November 1922 when Carter held his candle up to a hole in the wall of Tutankhamun’s tomb and in answer to Carnarvon’s question, “Can you see anything?” answered, “Yes, wonderful things”… Carnarvon’s life makes a good story, with plenty of Downton-esque period details’ Daily Telegraph Praise for the Countess of Carnarvon’s previous works 'Bright, breezy and unpretentious'Guardian ‘If you can’t wait for the new season of Downton Abbey … this one’s for you … A revealing portrait of the changing times’New York Post ‘[A] fascinating insight into how the seriously rich once lived’Newsweek Daily Beast ‘Lady Carnarvon's narrative is a vivid time-stamp of a tempestuous period in history, aptly incorporating its political situation and social structure, to satisfy history buffs’Publishers Weekly
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Legare Street Press Tales of the Real Gypsy
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University of California Press To Repair the World Paul Farmer Speaks to the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Farmer] offers an anthology of 19 speeches on global health initiatives delivered between 2001 and 2012. . . .[from which ] readers will emerge with a heightened sense of the responsibilities and sacrifices required of future public servants." * Publishers Weekly *"...[To Repair the World] does not disappoint." * Los Angeles Review of Books *""With humor and passion, medical anthropologist Paul Farmer advocates a cure for society and the planet." * Nature *"The publication of this book is timely. It would make a perfect gift for a medical or biology graduate, but it would be inspiring to anyone who reads it. His speeches make one feel empowered ― to make a difference, to contribute to health policy, to accompany another who is struggling. In the speeches collected in To Repair the World, Dr. Farmer teaches us crucial lessons that we must all learn from, as scientists, as doctors, and as human beings." * Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine *Table of ContentsForeword by President Bill Clinton Introduction by Jonathan Weigel Part I: Reimagining Equity General Anesthesia for the (Young Doctor’s) Soul? Brown Medical School, Commencement 2001 Epiphany, Metanoia, Praxis: Turning Road Angst into Hope—and Action Boston College, Commencement 2005 Three Stories, Three Paradigms, and a Critique of Social Entrepreneurship Skoll World Forum, Oxford University 2008 The Story of the Inhaler College of the Holy Cross, Commencement 2012 Countering Failures of Imagination Northwestern University, Commencement 2012 Part II: The Future of Medicine and the Big Picture If You Take the Red Pill: Reflections on the Future of Medicine Harvard Medical School, Class Day 2003 Medicine as a Vocation University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Commencement 2004 Haiti After the Earthquake Harvard Medical School, Talks@Twelve Speaker Series 2010 The Tetanus Speech University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Commencement 2010 Part III: Health, Human Rights, and Unnatural Disasters Global Health Equity and the Missing Weapons of Mass Salvation Harvard School of Public Health, Commencement 2004 Making Public Health Matter Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Commencement 2006 Unnatural Disasters and the Right to Health Care Tulane School of Medicine, Commencement 2008 Exploring the Adjacent Possible Georgetown University, Commencement 2011 Part IV: Service, Solidarity, Social Justice Who Stands Fast? Union Theological Seminary, Union Medal Acceptance Speech 2006 Courage and Compassion in the Time of Guantánamo Emory University, Commencement 2007 Spirituality and Justice All Saints Parish (Brookline, MA), Spirituality and Justice Award Acceptance Speech 2008 Making Hope and History Rhyme Princeton University, Commencement 2008 The Drum Major Instinct Boston University, Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration 2009 Accompaniment as Policy Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Commencement 2011 Notes Acknowledgments
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