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1937ref. 69051Leipzig: Verlag der Offizin Richard Hadl 1937. Rare offprint "separatum" from Artibus Asiae volume VII; 4to pp. 85 1; 16 mounted plates at the back a few illustrations in the text; first 2 leaves a bit toned else a very good sound copy in contemporary black wrappers printed paper label on upper cover. Rock 1884-1962 was "captivated by the ritual books he found in the possession of the Naxi religious specialists the 'dongba' while plant hunting in China's borderlands. Rock went on to devote the remaining years of his life to the translation of these books that contained such a treasure house of knowledge a corpus of literature that for Rock offered tantalising glimpses at the indigenous religion of pre-Buddhist Tibet. Rock a voracious autodidact appreciated an intellectual challenge: this was a script that by the time he first encountered it in the 1920s nobody had previously deciphered aside from some exploratory incomplete translations conducted via Chinese by French scholars and explorers. This vast corpus of ritual literature was essentially unexplored territory and this was where Rock liked to tread. Through his assiduous collecting and cataloguing and not without controversy he preserved thousands of these texts in collections now spread throughout the western world . While Rock's first published translations were no more than concise summaries of the stories he discovered within the Naxi manuscripts he later developed a more extensive anthropological style of translation. This meant recording in exacting detail the phonetic reading given by a dongba and then embarking upon a full written commentary. The first translation to use this method was published in 1937 as 'The birth and origin of Dto-mba Shilo the founder of Mo-so shamanism according to Mo-so manuscripts' a seminal work on Dobbaq-sheel'lo the mythical founding father of the dongba religion" see Poupard D.J. Introduction to: A Pictographic Naxi Origin Myth from Southwest China Leiden University Press. Only University of Hawaii in OCLC. Verlag der Offizin Richard Hadl unknown
ref. 66625Taschen 2025. Hardcover with 5-phase lenticular 23.8 x 33.3 cm 2.33 kg 300 pages Edition: Multilingual English French German brandnew. A tribute to David Bowie from the artists official photographer Mick Rock. Compiled in 2015 with Bowie's blessing this collection includes stage shots backstage candids and more charting the musical theatrical and sexual revolution of the 197273 Ziggy Stardust world tour and celebrating the eternal inspiration of a transformative artist. A unique tribute from David Bowies official photographer and creative partner Mick Rock compiled in 2015 with Bowies blessing. In 1972 David Bowie released his groundbreaking album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. With it landed Bowies Stardust alter ego: a glitter-clad mascara-eyed sexually ambiguous persona who kicked down the boundaries between male and female straight and gay fact and fiction into one shifting and sparkling phenomenon of 70s self-expression. Together Ziggy the album and Ziggy the stage spectacular propelled the softly spoken Londoner into one of the worlds biggest stars. A key passenger on this glam trip into the stratosphere was fellow Londoner and photographer Mick Rock. Rock bonded with Bowie artistically and personally immersed himself in the singers inner circle and between 1972 and 1973 worked as the singers photographer and videographer. This collection brings together spectacular stage shots iconic photo shoots as well as intimate backstage portraits. With a lenticular cover of different headshots it celebrates Bowies fearless experimentation and reinvention while offering privileged access to the many facets of his personality and fame. Through the aloof and approachable the playful and serious the candid and the contrived the result is a passionate tribute to a brilliant and inspirational artist whose creative vision will never be forgotten. A unique tribute from David Bowies official photographer and creative partner Mick Rock compiled in 2015 with Bowies blessing.In 1972 David Bowie released his groundbreaking album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. With it landed Bowies Stardust alter ego: a glitter-clad mascara-eyed sexually ambiguous persona who kicked down the boundaries between male and female straight and gay fact and fiction into one shifting and sparkling phenomenon of 70s self-expression. Together Ziggy the album and Ziggy the stage spectacular propelled the softly spoken Londoner into one of the worlds biggest stars.A key passenger on this glam trip into the stratosphere was fellow Londoner and photographer Mick Rock. Rock bonded with Bowie artistically and personally immersed himself in the singers inner circle and between 1972 and 1973 worked as the singers photographer and videographer.This collection brings together spectacular stage shots iconic photo shoots as well as intimate backstage portraits. With a lenticular cover of different headshots it celebrates Bowies fearless experimentation and reinvention while offering privileged access to the many facets of his personality and fame. Through the aloof and approachable the playful and serious the candid and the contrived the result is a passionate tribute to a brilliant and inspirational artist whose creative vision will never be forgotten. Taschen 2025 hardcover
1992ref. 219601992. Underground Music Indie Rock Zines Edited and largely written by Scott Rutherford the zine reflects a unique moment in American subcultural publishing when punk indie rock and vintage car culture collided in the DIY scene. Three issues of Speed Kills! a hybrid indie rock and automotive zine published in Chicago in the early 1990s. Each issue is a vivid chronicle of underground musical and visual culture with strong regional ties to Chicago and national relevance through its coverage of touring bands and scenes. The archive includes issues #2 Spring 1992 #5 and #7 all printed in black-and-white with screen-printed or offset color covers each approximately 8.5 x 11 inches. 1 Rutherford Scott ed. Speed Kills! No. 2. Chicago: Self-published 1992. This early issue includes coverage of the Richmond band Breadwinner East Coast drag racing the Australian noise-punk group Cosmic Psychos and a profile of Detroit drag legend Ed "Big Boss Man" Milhizer. As noted on the cover the zine delivers "Breadwinner! Unrest! Cosmic Psychos! Drag Racing! Lotsa Reviews!" The editorial notes refer to coverage from the "'92 Bedroom Nats" combining punk show reportage with drag strip atmosphere. The design incorporates full-bleed photo reproductions hand-lettering and found collage. 2 Rutherford Scott ed. Speed Kills! No. 5. Chicago: Self-published 1993. This issue includes a contributor list of more than two dozen names from the underground music and zine world including members of Gaunt Cherubs Pitchblende Don Caballero and Steadkaddy Six. The zine comes with a bonus 7" record featuring Gaunt and includes a faux-survey titled "Favorite Car Survey Yes." Interviewees include Merge Records co-founder Laura Ballance and record engineer Steve Albini who describes his favorite ride as "any van with over 250000 miles." One page advertises a music zine marketplace with the slogan "your needle is distorting sound by as much as 85%" blending fidelity humor with hardline DIY ethics. 3 Rutherford Scott ed. Speed Kills! No. 7. Chicago: Self-published 1994. Labeled the "Art & Science Special" this issue includes a piece titled "Futurism: Proto Punk" by Karen Pinkus linking early 20th-century Italian Futurism with the energy and aesthetic of punk rock. Includes contributions by indie rock standouts like Mac McCaughan Superchunk and Rachel Brook Flying Saucer Attack . A profile of the band Unwound is presented under the title "smashing the work ethic OR everyday is yesterday" while reviews cover artists including Don Caballero Cherubs and Labradford. The layout remains resolutely cut-and-paste incorporating xerox collage screen print textures and handwritten text. Speed Kills was a Chicago-based fanzine launched in 1991 by editor Scott Rutherford uniquely blending the worlds of underground indie rock and vintage drag racing culture. Emerging during a time when fanzines served as vital connectors within DIY music communities Speed Kills stood out by juxtaposing interviews and reviews of bands like Nirvana Pavement and Superchunk with in-depth features on 1960s drag racing legends and hot rod culture. Its pages often featured hand-screened covers vintage auto parts advertisements and detailed discussions on car mechanics reflecting a deep enthusiasm for both music and automotive subcultures. This fusion offered readers a tactile and immersive experience highlighting the shared spirit of creativity and rebellion in both scenes. Light toning to page edges. Minor staple rust and occasional handling creases. Covers bright and intact. Overall very good condition. Speed Kills! stands as a rare and distinctive zine that merged the grease-stained Americana of hot rod nostalgia with the avant-garde ethos of noise rock and punk embodying the collision of speed sound and subculture in the 1990s musical underground. unknown
ref. A9780521102322Paperback / softback. New. This study is concerned with the forty-year period before 1930 when Argentina experienced rapid economic and social growth broken only by the First World War. The Radical Civic Union appeared in the 1912 elections and in 1916 its leader Hipolito Yrigoyen became President. paperback
ref. A9780198267959Hardback. New. Describes the collective responses of bereaved people to the aftermath of violent death. This book concentrates particularly on the birth development and organization of the self help and campaigning groups. It examines these as attempts to give institutional expression to interpretations of grief. hardcover
ref. A9780198258438Hardback. New. The Social World of an English Crown Court analyses the routine organization of everyday life and work in a middle level metropolitan court. Completing the trilogy begun with A View from the Shadows and Helping Victims of Crime this new work is unique in British criminology and socio-legal studies and should be essential reading for every serious scholar working in this area. hardcover
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ref. B9780520328082Paperback / softback. New. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice reach and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893 Voices Revived makes high-quality peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994. paperback
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ref. A9780190619862Hardback. New. Since 1960 only nine developing countries have succeeded in sustaining high growth. The aim of Dictators Democrats and Development is to examine how dictators and democrats in three of the nine Indonesia Malaysia and Thailand who share broad similarities with the Rest built and sustained pro-growth political coalitions. hardcover
ref. B9780520203525Paperback / softback. New. This is a study of nationalism in Argentina a fundamentalist movement pledged to violence and a dictatorship that came to a head with the notorious "disappearances" of the 1970s. This radical right-wing movement has left its mark on almost every part of Argentinian society. paperback
ref. A9781681887975Hardback. New. The iconic photography and tales of famous musicians and rock-and-roll legends all from "the man who shot the Seventies" himself Mick Rock. Born in 1948 in Hammersmith London Michael Rock became a photographer after graduating from college and developed his visual style with photos of the local rock music scene in England. Soon thereafter his photography career took off going higher and higher with each new musician he shot for. His work is embodied in this text full of luscious color-saturated photography of some of the most dynamic and enthralling musical acts and stars in rock history—and likewise filled with amazing and amusing behind-the-scenes stories of musicians from Mick Jagger to Miley Cyrus and beyond. A sure-fire hit with rock and musical history fans! hardcover
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ref. B9780199385324Hardback. New. China's technological catch-up industrial development strategy is leading to lower energy use and less CO2 emissions in several of China's energy intensive industries. While this strategy has saved substantial amounts of energy and CO2 it is not yet sufficient to cap and reduce China's CO2 emissions. hardcover
ref. 76203Dordrecht Kluwer Academic Publishers 1991. 302 p. Paperback in good condition Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers 1991 paperback
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ref. B9780521102322Paperback / softback. New. This study is concerned with the forty-year period before 1930 when Argentina experienced rapid economic and social growth broken only by the First World War. The Radical Civic Union appeared in the 1912 elections and in 1916 its leader Hipolito Yrigoyen became President. paperback
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ref. 57162Brepols 2019 2019. Hardcover 356 pages. 95 b/w ill. 17 colour ill. 14 b/w tables 178 x 254 mm English . ISBN 9782503579825. Painted cityscapes have always captivated the viewers of medieval works of art. To this day scholars are mesmerised by their capacity to mirror the urban context from which they sprang combined with their ability to symbolize a more abstract world view religious idea or social ideal. Especially oil painting which thrived in the fifteenth-century Low Countries among a heterogeneous elite and the well-off urban middling groups succeeded as no other medium in capturing the urban landscape in its finest details. In order to gain an insight into how late medieval citizens clerics and noblemen conceived of urban society and space this book combines a serial analysis of a large corpus of painted city views with a critical discussion of some well-documented and revealing works of art. Throughout the book a variety of questions are addressed ranging from the religious conception of the city the theatrical dimension of urban space the extent to which Early Netherlandish painting depicted the city as an economic space how images of city and countryside functioned as identity markers of the donor and how technical advances in the field of cartography impacted the portrayal of towns in the sixteenth century. In doing so this study explores the duality of some of the major interpretive schemes that have determined the last few decades of historiography on late medieval Netherlandish culture oscillating between bourgeois and courtly realistic and symbolic profane and religious and innovative versus traditional. Brepols 2019 2019 hardcover
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1965ref. 171321965. African American Education 2 original press photographs related to integrating Little Rock Central High School and the University of Alabama. n.d. 1957 1965. Silver gelatin print photographs 8 x 10". Both images include original typed press captions printed in image margins. Little Rock photo shows NAACP leaders including Daisy Bates reacting to positive court news. Original press caption in part: "Negro Leaders Happy with Court Decision - Mrs. Daisy Bates left president of Arkansas chapter of the NAACP and Clarence Laws field secretary seem to be well satisfied with the ruling handed down today by the Supreme Court in which Little Rock's Central High School shall carry on immediate integration. The school is scheduled to open next Monday." Bates was an important figure in integrating schools and she hand-selected student called the Little Rock Nine who first integrated Central HS in 1957. Vivian Malone Jones was the first Black student to graduate from University of Alabama on May 30 1965. In the photograph she wears graduation cap and gown and smiles confidently at the viewer. Original press caption printed along right edge of image in part: "Vivian Malone is shown in her cap and gown that she will wear at the University of Alabama graduation May 30." Malone was one of the first two African American students at the University in 1963. Malone earned her first bachelor's degree at Alabama A&M a historically black university but the school lost its accreditation after she graduated. To get an accredited degree Malone applied to the University of Alabama's School of Commerce and Business Administration and won a lawsuit over the segregationist admission policies. Then-governor George Wallace turned this event into a national event when he blocked the judge's ruling and declared his famous slogan "Segregation Now Segregation Forever." National Guard troops were brought in to ensure Malone could attend the University. Little Rock photo has light creases along top edge and bottom right corner not affecting image. Both in very good condition. unknown
1885ref. 140841885. Dome of the Rock interior nineteenth century records the exposed Foundation Stone at the center of one of Jerusalem's principal sacred monuments. Completed in 691-692 CE under the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik the Dome of the Rock stands on the Haram al-Sharif or Temple Mount a site central to Islamic and Jewish sacred traditions and also closely connected with Christian biblical history. The photograph preserves the relationship between the Rock itself and the architectural enclosure constructed around it more than a millennium earlier. Albumen print measuring 11" x 8.5" unmounted. The Foundation Stone occupies the foreground while columns arches and the decorated interior rise behind it. The surrounding colonnades are faced with marble in their lower sections with mosaic ornament above allowing the photograph to record both the irregular natural surface of the Rock and the elaborate architectural treatment of its enclosure. Jewish tradition associates the Temple Mount with the First and Second Temples and identifies the Rock with the site of the Holy of Holies; the Second Temple was destroyed by Roman forces under Titus in 70 CE. Islamic tradition connects the Rock with Muhammad's Night Journey and ascent to heaven while traditions associated with Abraham's attempted sacrifice also attach sacred meaning to the site. The Dome of the Rock occupies the Haram al-Sharif alongside the Al-Aqsa Mosque and other religious and educational buildings. Nineteenth century photographs of its interior recorded spaces that were considerably less accessible to many Western travelers than Jerusalem's exterior monuments while the albumen process circulated such views through the expanding photographic market for images of the Holy Land. Very good condition. A detailed nineteenth century interior view centered on the Foundation Stone and the marble and mosaic architectural decoration surrounding it. unknown
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