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2014ref. 260205087Milan 2014. audioCD. Very Good. 5x5x0. Milan M2-36838; case shows only light shelf-wear; disc is mint/near mint; because we care that your order arrives in the condition stated we have additionally sealed the case in bubblewrap for added protection during shipment Milan unknown
2020ref. 009317Princeton University Press Princeton 2020 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; xi 561 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm ; ISBN 9780691200903 9780691233963 0691200904 0691233969 ; OCLC 1110656207 ; dark grey cloth in dustjacket; dustjacket attached to endpapers ; Contents: A Quaker's Odyssey. Dinner at Longman's -- In the classroom of nature -- An errand in the city -- The vocal circle -- Lecturer and physician -- The Herculaneum papyri -- Antiquity Embraced. Words from Egypt's past -- The sounds of an ancient language -- Paris atmospheres -- Rooted in place -- Hier pour demain -- L'Affaire Polycarpe -- An Egyptian geography of Egypt -- Indications -- Scripts and Bones. Summer at Worthing -- Letters from Paris -- The papyri of the Description de l'Egypte -- Seeking uxellodunum -- The master of conditions -- Abandoning the alphabet at Grenoble --Demonstrations -- Iconoclasm at the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres -- Reading the Past. The obelisk from Philae -- A singular and puzzling artifact -- A momentous change -- Words and sounds -- Parisian reactions -- Words across the Channel -- Antique Letters. Grey's box -- An opportune encounter -- The "true key" to Egyptian hieroglyphs -- The semantic trap avoided -- The reception of the Precis -- "Hold your laughter friends!" ; "In 1799 a French officer was clearing debris from a military installation when he discovered a stele bearing three scripts: ancient Greek hieroglyphic and a third that could not be definitively identified. This artifact which came to be known as the Rosetta Stone has traditionally played the starring role in the history of decipherment which has until now been understood as an instance of code-breaking a kind of Bletchley Park avant la lettre. In The Riddle of the Rosetta Buchwald and Josefowicz delve into a wide array of British and French sources as well as archival material to produce a comprehensive new history of the decipherment. More than a puzzle-solving exercise based on a single artifact the decipherment engaged with the era's social cultural and intellectual contexts. It grew in the midst of heated disputes about language historical evidence the status of the Bible the nature of polytheism and the importance of classical learning. Jean-Francois Champollion in France and his British rival the medical doctor and polymath Thomas Young approached the decipherment from different standpoints derived from their contrasting temperaments educational experiences and attitudes to antiquity. Imbued with reverence for Greek culture and raised a Quaker Young disdained Egyptian culture and saw Egyptian writing principally as a way to uncover new knowledge about Greco-Roman antiquity. To him the decipherment was akin to a challenge posed by a problem in mathematics or science. Champollion's altogether different motivations and attitude unfolded amidst the political chaos of Restoration France in fierce response to the intrigues of opposing scholars aligned with throne and altar. Unlike Young Champollion admired ancient Egypt and this sympathy coupled with his willingness to upend conventional wisdom about the enigmatic Egyptian signs freed him to travel a path down which Young refused to go. A remarkable intellectual adventure reaching from the filthy back streets of Georgian London to the hushed lecture rooms of the Institut de France from the forgotten byways of provincial France to the splendor of the Valley of the Kings this book reveals the decipherment in its full historical complexity" ; FINE/FINE Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2020 hardcover
ref. 1527740838.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. A9780313381690Hardback. New. This intriguing book introduces the first Social Security reform proposal tailored to meet the nation's fiscal challenges and care for an aging population. hardcover
2019ref. __1786438925Edward Elgar Pub 2019. Hardcover. New. 702 pages. 9.75x6.75x1.50 inches. Edward Elgar Pub hardcover
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2012ref. 333362New York: Eakins Press Foundation 2012. hardcover. fine/near fine. 24 color and 5 duotone illustrations. 358 pages. Tall 8vo black blind-stamped cloth black d.w. lightly edge worn. New York: Eakins Press Foundation 2012. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Eakins Press Foundation unknown
1997ref. 308221Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Photography 1997. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Jed Fielding. Foreword by Denise Miller and essays by Shirley Hazzard & Nan Richardson. Illustrated with 80 photographs. 124 pages. Slim oblong 4to orange cloth d.w. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Photography 1997. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. Signed and inscribed by Fielding on halftitle page. Museum of Contemporary Photography unknown
1997ref. 276227Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Photography 1997. First. hardcover. near fine/fine. Jed Fielding. Foreword by Denise Miller and essays by Shirley Hazzard & Nan Richardson. Illustrated with 80 photographs. 124 pages slim oblong 4to orange cloth d.w. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Photography 1997. First edition. A near fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. A nice association copy inscribed by the author to Shirley Hazzard who wrote one of the essays. Museum of Contemporary Photography unknown
2013ref. 271254Dallas: Nasher Sculpture Center 2013. paperback. fine. Foreword by James Strick. Extensively illustrated. 112pp. 4tp. textured silver wrappers. Dallas: Nasher Sculpture Centuer 2013. A fine copy. Nasher Sculpture Center unknown
ref. 176772hardcover. maps. xvi 412pp. 8vo cloth d.w. N.Y.: Random House 2006. First Edition. Fine Inscribed by the author to Kitty Carlisle Hart " for Kitty one of New Orleans' greatest. With love and Admiration Jed". Also laid in is a unsigned note to Kitty Carlisle Hart from the author presenting this work to her. unknown
ref. A9780857247599Hardback. New. Contains a stimulating collection of original papers spanning a variety of topics. This title contains three papers on the subject of job design and organizational performance covering the determinants of multiskilling from a theoretical perspective and also the empirical effect of multiskilling and teams on financial performance. hardcover
2005ref. 60310NY: Knopf 2005. First edition. 8vo pp. 642. A fine copy in dj. Essays by the New Republic arft critic. Knopf unknown
1988ref. 58281San Francisco: North Point Press 1988. First Edition. 8vo pp. 46. A fine copy in dj. Inscribed by the author to poet William Jay Smith and his wife: "June 2007 To Bill and Sonia This my first book about art done in a city we love - - and with thoughts of another city we all love - and where we all met - with admiration - and love - Jed North Point Press unknown
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1997ref. 526215West Stockbridge Ma: Hard Press Inc 1997. Softcover. Fine. First edition signed issue. Text by Jed Perl. Introduction by John Ashbery. Illustrated with afterword by Trevor Winkfield. Oblong quarto. Glossy pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. Printing a two-page introduction by John Ashbery. Limited to 100 numbered copies Signed by Trevor Winkfield. Jed Perl and John Ashbery from a total edition of 2000 copies on the colophon page as issued. Hard Press, Inc unknown
1965ref. 283452London England: Methuen 1965. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in a very good dustwrapper with soiling to the rear panel. Methuen hardcover
ref. 0231215525.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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ref. A9780803237933Hardback. New. Reconsiders the impact of the largely forgotten contributions of indigenous soldiers in the Second World War hardcover
1997ref. 27278mint oversize hc shrinkwrapped expedited shipping not available--CITY Takarajima Books
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