2011148 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Asian Art in London 2010; Eskenazi Limited - London gallery celebrates fifty years; The portrayal of life in a splendid age - Qianlong emperor's imperial seals; Power and Clothing - Imperial Chinese robes from the forbidden city; Evolution of Yongzheng rank badges; Inheritance and Innovation - an archaeological perspective of Qin culture; Korean traditional ceramics; India's fabled city - the art of courtly Lucknow; The Silk Road in history and pre-history; Book Review; and more. Unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
194548 pages. Features: Rheingold lager beer ad features color photos of Jean Welch, Jill Darnley, Maggie Long, Helen Riickert, Dorothy Hart and Rita Daigle, the Miss Rheingold 1946 candidates; Illustrated ad for the Fairchild "Flying Boxcar"; We Enter the Atomic Age - the momentous story of the atom whose energy science has now unleashed; Two pages of fantastic photos illustrating the dramatic story of the atom - from radium to the atomic bomb, including the Curies, Einstein, Niels Bohr, Dr. E.O. Lawrence with a cyclotron, and the great factory at Oak Ridge, TN; Ernest Bevin - a new kind of statesman; When do we abolish (wartime) business controls: Germany is Not Yet Defeated - Senator Harley M. Kilgore argues her industrial power must be destroyed; China - Unless we preserve her full integrity we shall face still another war - Nathaniel Peffer's formula for peace in the Far East; One-page ad for Drene shampoo features three color photos of beautiful Bettina Bolegard, New York fashion model; Veterans storm the academic beachhead; Our music-loving Presidents; Benjamin ('Ben') Victor Cohen is expected to be a bridge from the President to Byrnes and Vinson; Jones & Laughline Steel ad includes sketches of Donald Gortner and Ralph Ardary; Vice Admiral Ben Moreell of the Seabees looks forward to moving his bulldozers into Japan; Boom in New Yorkers studying foreign languages; Interesting half-page ad for The American Mercury features heading "Can We Do Business With Stalin", with illustration of Stalin; Nice one-page Chicken of the Sea and White Star tuna ad; Two pages of photos of ladies in fashionable coats; and more. Average external soiling and wear. Unmarked. Opening to central portion of front cover mended with archival tape. Moderate age-toning to paper. A sound copy of this vintage WWII issue. Book
189276 pages. While grieving the loss of his beloved, author receives a message from the other world. "Willink was one of the earliest philosophers to postulate that the world exists in more than the three dimensions we are used to, thus setting the stage for the development of hyperspace theories." - Wikipedia [quoting Michio Kaku and Paul J. Nahin]. 7.5" x 5". Prior owner's details neatly written inside front board. Few pencil markings erased from contents. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1953Contents include: Industry and occupation characteristics of the labour force as well as characteristics of age, birthplace, class of worker, immigration, marital status, origin, and years of schooling. The 1951 census, held two years after Newfoundland became part of Canada, marked Canada's first census as a nation of ten provinces and two territories. The content of the population and household questionnaire covered name, sex, age, marital status, relationship to "head" of household, and the structural type and tenure of dwelling. This census also provided information for small areas such as counties, municipalities, cities, towns, etc. Multi-paginations. 11.25" x 9" x 2.25". 2.6 kg. Forest green buckram with gilt lettering upon backstrip. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
1905[8], 9-304 pp. All seven black and white plates present. Publisher's maroon cloth illustrated on front and backstrip. Higgins [1834-1917] was Speaker of the British Columbia Legislature. "I have adhered as closely as possible to descriptions of the peculiarities of speech and mode of life of the men and women who peopled the Pacific Coast forty or fifty years ago. The stories of the occult, which comprise several chapters, are left to the judgement of wiser heads than mine. I have seen much that puzzled and mystified me, and I am still seeking light, thus far with indifferent success. The reminiscent stories are all founded upon actual occurrences, and in the years to come may be found of value to the student of early events in California and the British Pacific. I have aimed to write history, so far as it came under my own observation, in an entertaining manner." - Preface. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Front hinge starting. Foxing to edges and last several leaves. No dust jacket as issued. A sound copy of this wonderful presentation of Pacific Coast life in the mid-1800s. Lowther 1538, Wallace p.50, Watters p.311, Tod & Cordingley 167, Smith p.148. Book
2002314 pages. Features: The Age Issue - What to Wear, Where to Shop, When to Lie, How to Have Sexy Legs (and a sex life) Forever; Plus Style Setters from 16 to 80+; All about Jennifer Aniston's Easy Charm; Remembering the Great Bill Blass; Cosmetic Surgery - what's new, what's next; Fashion for All - 75 looks for day and night; and more. Faint bits of writing atop front cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this wonderful issue. Magazine
1948220 pages. Dozens of pages of ads for Canadian businesses provide an excellent overview of Canada's broad and highly-developed post-war manufacturing base. Articles: B.C.'s Vast Potential Hydro Power; The Medical Department of Swift Canadian Co. Ltd.; The Cost-of-Living Index - how it is made and what it tells; The Role of canada's Weekly Newspapers; Patents Available to Manufacturers - Canadian Patents and Developments Limited; Industrial Gas in Canada; State Old Age Pension Plans; Representation Made Re. B.C. Sales Tax; Principal Changes in the Conciliation and Arbitration Provisions of the Alberta Labour Act; The Visit of G.H. Ward to Canada; Canada's Great Experiment in World Trade Promotion a Success; Industrial Defence Preparedness Committees Formed; Royal Commission on Prices Established; Alex Skelton Appointed Assistant Deputy Minister of Trade and Commerce; and more. Nice two-colour Dofasco ad on back cover features their gigantic steel casting program which serves the hydro-electric power industry. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1926Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: A Cowboy in Trouble - A tale from Indian Territory which is now part of Oklahoma; The Seminoles of Florida - An interesting photo-illustrated account of these hermits of the Florida wilds; The Longest Voyage on Record - An authoritative account of the "Maria Madre", presently moored at Paysandu, Uruguay - with photos; The Way of the Wild - Photo-illustrated article by cinematographer F. Ratcliffe Holmes about his adventures filming wildlife; Filed - Until Found - The daring escape of John Kelly from the Worcester, MA jail; My First Rhino - After V.G. Bell bagged his first, he was nearly bagged by a nearby rhino; The Wild Tribes of Malaya - Edward E. Long visits unknown stone-age tribes - article with wonderful photos; "Stope Number Five East" - Grim story from the Golden Gleam Mine in Nevada; Among the "White Arabs" - Photo illustrated article on the Shawiya Berbers of Algeria; The Ju-Ju Man's Vengeance - The death of a German by hypnotism in West Africa; Painting Pictures Beneath the Sea - Well-known landscapte artist Tilden Dakin paints submarine 'seascapes' from a diving-bell of his own design; "Ginger" To the Rescue! - A story of the old 'blackbirding' days in the South Seas, when the recruiters were not always over-scrupulous as to how they obtained native labour for the plantations; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part II - Jack McLaren spent eight years with savages on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula in Australia - with photos. 88 pages plus 20 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
19458 pages, including two pages of reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Possibly one of a series of publications by this author as the first page refers to previous lessons. Topics include: Requirements First of the Student; Time of Sitting; Raising of Vibrations; Group Sitting; Phases of Mediumship; Sittings; Making Conditions; Final Instructions; and Order of Mediumship. Photos include: Trumpet Class, Cabinet Demonstration, Levitation, and Materialization. Moderate wear. Unmarked but for a trifle of pencil writing atop first page which suggests a printing date of 1945. A quality vintage copy. Book
1959151p., illus. Allabout series 31 Hardcover Good condition tattered d.j. fair
1964296p., illus. Introd. by Sir Maurice Bowra Hardcover Very good condition good
1976Folio 81p., illus. Limited edition, 500 copies signed by the author. Photographs and short sketches. Hardcover Very good condition good
1988unp., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
1992unp., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
1964296p., illus. Introd. by Sir Maurice Bowra Hardcover Very good condition
1983200pp. 28 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
1985101pp. 21 cm. Paperback Very good condition
1987418 p. Hardcover Very good condition good
1963xx, 453, xvii p. illus., maps, diagrs., plans. 23 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
1987337pp. 24 cm. Hardcover
1991No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with very slight tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 147pp. This issue includes Graham Greene, post-war Daphne Du Maurier, PC Wren, Beau Geste, London Mystery Magazine, Military memoirs of the age of Marlborough, Richard Hughes, collecting early cricket books.
2000DISPONIBILITÀ GARANTITA AL 99%; SPEDIZIONE ENTRO 12 ORE DALL'ORDINE. FONDO DI MAGAZZINO PARI AL NUOVO. LIEVISSIMI SEGNI DEL TEMPO. Un libro composto a più voci, che cerca di affrontare il tema della felicità liberandolo dalle manifestazioni New Age e anche dalle lamentele dei professionisti dei disastri. La felicità come possibile, come impegno e immaginazione. Due saggi dei curatori affrontano l'analisi uno dal punto di vista storico e l'altro dal punto di vista sociologico. Seguono quattro scritti, tre molto personali, e chiude la riflessione di una psicologa, Flavia Flacco, che affronta il tema del pensare positivo a tutti i costi come pericoloso sintomo di rimozione e di paura. In principio la felicità era un sentimento privato, come la tristezza o la malinconia. Oggi, invece, sembra quasi una costrizione pubblica. Dalla propaganda New Age agli spot televisivi, dalle pubblicazioni di manuali che pretendono di insegnare come essere o vivere felici ai film di una comicità accomodante ed epidermica, un trionfale irritante edonismo impone dappertutto le sue regole, allontanando i dolori, nascondendo in angoli appartati le magagne quotidiane dell'esistenza. E' un modo superficiale di affrontare la vita, cui questi saggi invitano a opporsi, non per cedere nell'eccesso opposto di visioni apocalittiche o di lamentele passatiste, ma per riflettere sulle assurde procedure che spostano meditazioni profondamente individuali e soggettive verso atteggiamenti codificati. Se la felicità è un dovere, afferma Filippo La Porta che apre introduttivamente la sequenza dei saggi da lui curati insieme ad Alessandro Carrera, è comunque un dovere che va interpretato, e, da Epicuro a Robert Nozick attraverso Leopardi e una rilettura di Adorno, la sua analisi è una sollecitazione a vivere senza conformismi di sorta. A La Porta segue il punto di vista sociologico - da Thomas Jefferson ad Audrey Hepburn - e autobiografico di Alessandro Carrera sui concetti di felicità americana ed europea e le considerazioni di Rachel Wetzsteon sulle difficoltà di essere felici in due. Flavia Facco invece affronta da psicologa il tema del pensare positivo come pericoloso sintomo di rimozione e di paura, mentre Emily Fox Gordon racconta la sua odissea terapeutica di disadattata infelice in un centro rieducativo. Una segnalazione a parte merita Cynthia Ozick e il suo particolare contributo. La scrittrice ebrea americana, i cui romanzi sono tradotti anche in Italia, indaga sul suicidio di primo Levi, la cui motivazione, secondo lei, è già implicita ne "I sommersi e i salvati" suo ultimo libro. E la Ozick sembra quasi richiamarci a una conclusione: quanto sia difficile o impossibile il ritorno alla felicità laddove l'umanità venga così crudelmente oltraggiata. A book composed of many voices, which seeks to address the issue of happiness by freeing it from New Age events and complaints of the professionals of the disasters. Happiness as possible as commitment and imagination. Two essays by curators face tracing one from a historical point of view and the other from the sociological point of view. Follow four written, three very personal, and closes the reflection of a psychologist, Flavia Flaccus, which deals with the theme of positive thinking at all costs as dangerous symptom of removal and of fear. Descrizione bibliografica Titolo: Il dovere della felicità Autore: AA.VV. (Autori Vari) Curatore: Alessandro Carrera, Filippo La Porta Editore: Milano: Baldini & Castoldi, Maggio 2000 Lunghezza: 186 pagine; 22 cm ISBN: 8880898124, 9788880898122 Collana: Volume 162 di I saggi Soggetti: Scienze sociali, Gioia, Psicologia sociale, Felicità, Filosofia morale, Etica, Metafisica, Mentalità, Modernità, Conoscenza, Ricerca, New Age, Dolore, Edonismo, Mass Media, Industria culturale, Meditazione, Epicuro, Robert Nozick, Sociologia, Analisi, Thomas Jefferson, Audrey Hepburn, Rachel Wetzsteon, Flavia Facco, Gruppi sociali, Divertimento, Tempo libero, Concezioni filosofiche, Stati Uniti d'America, Costituzione, Benessere, Collettività, Infelicità, Illusione, Individualismo, Liberalismo, Pensiero positivo, Leopardi, Adorno, Letteratura, Romanzi, Cinema, Emily Fox Gordon, Paura, Rimozione, Primo Levi, Follia, Suicidio, Esistenzialismo, Terapia, Diritti sociali, Diritto, Doveri, Anticonformismo, Destino, Karma, Biografie, Personaggi illustri, Storia, Saggi, Libri Vintage Fuori catalogo, Rivoluzionari, Ideali, Relazioni sociali, Matrimonio, Coppie, Daniela Matronola, Woody Allen, Comicità, Depressione, Malattia mentale, Disagio, Natura, Ananke, Rilke, Costumi, Kant, Perfezione, Moralismo, Louis Stevenson, Sermone di Natale, Romanzi, Salinger, Religione, Social sciences, Joy, Social psychology, Happiness, Moral philosophy, Ethics, Metaphysics, Mentality, Modernity, Knowledge, Research, Pain, Hedonism, Cultural industry, Meditation, Epicurus, Sociology, Analysis, Social groups, Fun, Leisure, Philosophical conceptions, Constitution, Wellbeing, Collectivity, Unhappiness, Illusion, Individualism, Liberalism, Positive thinking, Literature, Novels, Fear, Repression, Madness, Suicide, Existentialism, Therapy, Social rights, Law, Duties, Nonconformism, Destiny, Biographies, Characters Illustrious, History, Essays, Out of print books, Revolutionaries, Ideals, Social relations, Marriage, Couples, Comedy, Depression, Mental illness, Discomfort, Nature, Customs, Perfection, Moralism, Christmas sermon, Novels, Religion
2003No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 162pp. Britain's biggest music magazine with main feature on Beyonce, plus AC/DC, The Darkness, Pharrell Williams, Queens of the Stone Age, Whitney Houston, Inside the Rolling Stones, Jade Jagger and reviews, chats and much more.
1977Slightly damaged corners, "Withdrawn" written in red marker on FEP Ex-Library
1974Worn d/j, "Withdrawn" written in red marker on FEP, covers are bowed and creased. Text is clean and bright Ex-Library
