2013, ISBN: 9780865473171

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Hardcover. Fine. This collection of essays by one of the best known contemporary Muslim scholars writing in the English language covers many facets of Islamic life and thought. The auth… More...

Hardcover. Fine. This collection of essays by one of the best known contemporary Muslim scholars writing in the English language covers many facets of Islamic life and thought. The author has brought together studies dealing with practical as well as intellectual aspects of Islam in both their historical and contemporary reality. Although concerned with the scholarly dimension of the subjects with which he deals, the author devotes himself especially to the contemporary significance of such themes as religion and secularism, the meaning of freedom, and the tradition of Islamic science and philosophy. The traditional perspective of the author runs throughout all of these studies and provides a unified framework for the work despite the diversity of the subjects treated. The essays, many of which have appeared over the years in various journals and collections on Islamic studies, have been rewritten and revised in the light of later research and scholarship as well as certain issues which have become of special contemporary significance. Considering the current interest in the Islamic world in the West and the necessity felt by many to gain firsthand knowledge of Islam as both religion and civilisation, the present work is a timely addition to the small collection of writings in European languages which provide veritable keys for a better understanding of Islam and Muslims while remaining faithful to the perspective of the Islamic tradition. Like new--hardcover with dust jacket--jacket in a new, clear, archival-quality Brodart jacket protector., 5, New York: David Felt & Co, 1852. Soft Cover. Very Good. Presentation copy with 'from the author' penciled on title page. A few light spots on wrappers. 1852 Soft Cover. 62 pp. Original shoestring binding with pink wrappers. A transcript of the speech given at Blooming-Grove Church by Mann, the first secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. Though it states this lecture was given to celebrate the Boston Mercantile Library's 29th anniversary, the BML was founded in 1820. Other speakers who lectured before this group included Rev. Henry Ward Beecher; Horace Greeley; Rev. H.W. Bellows; Rev. E.C. Holland; Rev. E.H. Chapin. "Mann, Horace (04 May 1796–02 August 1859), educator and social reformer, was born in Franklin, Massachusetts, the son of Thomas Mann and Rebecca Stanley, farmers. Although earlier historical accounts that described his childhood as impoverished are inaccurate (his family was moderately prosperous), they are correct in their assertion that Mann's values were shaped during childhood by his family, his community, and in no small part by his relations with the local Congregationalist preacher, Nathanael Emmons. After a lengthy struggle with the minister's undiluted Calvinism, Mann ultimately rejected orthodox religious dogma when, following the accidental drowning of his brother Stephen in 1810, Emmons relegated his brother to the ranks of the eternally damned. Unwilling to farm for a living, Mann determined to escape Franklin's narrow confines. While college offered a means of advancement, Mann's limited secondary education (received in doses of a few weeks each winter at a nearby district school) presented an obstacle. He entered into a period of self-preparation in Latin and at nineteen took instruction in Greek from Samuel Barrett, an itinerant schoolmaster. Mann received further instruction, in mathematics, from the Reverend William Williams, a Baptist minister in nearby Wrentham. In the fall of 1816 Mann journeyed to Providence, Rhode Island, and gained admittance to the sophomore class at Brown. By dint of hard work, he not only overcame his remaining deficiencies but flourished. Eventually named president of the United Brothers, a literary society, Mann graduated at the top of his class in 1819. Determined to enter the legal field, he then read law in the office of Josiah J. Fiske back in Wrentham. Mann missed the mental stimulation of his Brown classmates and quickly became bored with the dull routine of office work. He had decided to enter Judge Tapping Reeve's renowned law school in Litchfield, Connecticut, when he received an offer to return to his alma mater as a tutor; after weighing his options, he returned to Brown in early 1820. Mann found that life on the other side of the desk at Brown held few fascinations for him. Following his earlier intentions, he entered Litchfield law school in early 1822. As New England suffered from a surfeit of lawyers, graduation from the school provided no guarantee of employment. After considering various locations, Mann moved to the town of Dedham, Massachusetts, where he read law for almost another year in the office of attorney James Richardson before passing the Norfolk County bar in December 1823. Although Mann's practice grew slowly at first (he often served as a collection agent for rural creditors), honors began to come his way. Asked to deliver Dedham's annual Fourth of July oration in 1823, he made such an impression that he was asked to give another speech in July 1826 commemorating Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, both of whom died on 4 July of that year. He started receiving business from Boston firms and was sufficiently successful to lend money on the side. In addition, he entered a business partnership with another brother, Stanley, in a series of textile mills. He also entered public life, beginning as the moderator of the Dedham Town Meeting, and in May 1827 was elected to the Massachusetts General Court (the lower house of the state legislature). His most significant effort as an elected representative was to back the move to provide state support for the construction of a private railroad line between Boston and New York's Hudson River. With the passage of the legislation, Mann gained his first experience in harnessing the power of the state to achieve reform; it would not be his last. In the midst of his legislative dealings, Mann married Charlotte Messer, the daughter of Brown University president Asa Messer, in Providence in September 1830; the couple had no children. In the same year as his marriage Mann for the first time took a leading part in the reform movement that so characterized the era and that was to hold him in its sway for the rest of his life. Following reports of the shameful conditions under which the insane of Massachusetts often lived, Mann shepherded a bill through the legislature (signed into law in March 1830) that provided for the construction of a state insane asylum. Located in Worcester and possessing a capacity for 120 persons, the facility was a vast improvement over the filthy jail cells that had been the standard lot for the commonwealth's less fortunate citizens. Although totally unschooled in social work, architecture, and facility management, Mann and his fellow commissioners oversaw all facets of the facility's construction and selected its first superintendent, Dr. Samuel B. Woodward, as well. Although the new facility opened amid acclaim in January 1833, Mann was in no mood to celebrate. His wife's health, never robust, had earlier collapsed, and in August 1832 she died. Mann immediately went into an emotional tailspin from which he was years in recovering. Adding to his distress was the impending failure of his brother's businesses, for which he had cosigned several notes. After moving to Boston, he briefly lived in a boardinghouse (where he met and befriended the sisters Mary Peabody and Elizabeth Palmer Peabody—then engaged in editing as well as keeping school) before moving his belongings into his office in a further attempt to reduce his expenses. Attempts on the part of friends to revive his spirits met with only fleeting success. Although Mann remained busy, even his work brought him little solace. Mann had long been involved with the temperance movement and by the mid-1830s had become a leader of that movement's moderate faction, which sought to eliminate alcohol abuse by use of logic and moral suasion. Having left the state legislature in 1832, he was urged by friends to return to public life. He briefly led a committee investigating the burning of the Ursuline convent of Cambridge in August 1834, only to have to resign when his health failed. Mann then reluctantly allowed his name to be placed in nomination as a Whig candidate for the state senate that fall. Elected in the Whig landslide, he became senate president in the following year. Upon returning to the legislature, Mann initially focused on reforming debtor laws. His greatest endeavor, however, began with the passage of an act creating a state board of education in April 1837. Providing for a ten-member board (consisting of the governor, lieutenant governor, and eight appointed citizens), the bill also mandated the hiring of a secretary, who was to make annual reports to the legislature. Although the sponsor of the bill, James G. Carter, was expected to be appointed to the position, Mann was chosen instead. Many of Mann's friends were openly dubious about his giving up a senate seat and a possible chance at the governorship for an enterprise that seemed nebulous at best. Mann, however, was undismayed. While he remained ambitious, his wife's death caused him to lose all interest in material attainments by this time, and he seized upon this opportunity to make his mark in service to others. The task that awaited him was daunting. Although Massachusetts had had a school district system in place since 1789, in reality the public schools were a disgrace. Exceptions existed, but classes were generally conducted in poorly equipped buildings during short, erratic wintertime sessions by teachers whose preparation for their task was as poor as their salaries. No formal teacher training programs existed on any level, and textbooks were equally varied in both content and quality. Mann viewed the establishment of a public school system as an opportunity for the uplifting of all individuals within society; indeed, in the face of increased immigration and the movement of individuals from the farm to the factory, he viewed the creation of such a system as vital to society's very survival. In his attempt to create a system of public schools that would equalize educational opportunity as well as mold individuals into more productive members of society, Mann brooked no opposition to his vision. Those who did try to thwart his quest were deemed by him ignorant, ill informed, or narrowly partisan. What Mann possessed in enthusiasm was unmatched by authority; his secretaryship, which paid a mere $1,000 annually, empowered him only to collect and disseminate information. Having gathered statistical data from around the state by circulating a written questionnaire, Mann set out on a series of local meetings across the commonwealth during his first year in office. While responses varied from location to location, he was generally successful in arousing the interest of locally influential citizens. Not content with personal appearances to advance his arguments, he began the Common School Journal, a twice-monthly magazine, in 1838 and remained its editor for ten years. As a means of informing the public, however, his twelve annual reports (1837–1848) while secretary were unsurpassed. Chock full of statistical data, the reports—which were widely read and circulated—presented the problems of the common schools as well as possible solutions. Mann viewed improved teacher training as a priority. Blessed with a gift of $10,000 from education benefactor Edmund Dwight, Mann anonymously presented the donation to the state legislature with the proviso that the state match the amount in providing for teacher training facilities. Local municipalities soon clamored to be chosen for the new experiment, and in January 1839 the nation's first 'normal' school opened its doors in Lexington; two more such institutions soon were established in Barre and Bridgewater. Noting that many current teachers could not afford to attend the normal schools, Mann set up local two-week training institutes as well as annual county educational conventions that allowed teachers and administrators to meet and exchange ideas. Mann's attempts at such radical reform inevitably led some to question both his motives and purpose. By seeking to create nonsectarian school systems with centralized administrations, Mann was accused on several occasions of instituting 'Godless' schools. One such controversy erupted in 1844, when a group of thirty-one schoolmasters from Boston published a sharply worded critique of his seventh Annual Report. Attacking Mann's recommendations for teacher training as well as his opposition to corporal punishment among other targets, the group soon faced Mann's wrath in the form of written rejoinders. A group of Mann's allies were elected to the Boston School Committee, and in the following year they issued a report that devastated the schoolmasters' position. Given the scope of Mann's exertions, however, it is surprising that he encountered as little overall resistance as he did. Although contemporary and later biographers cast the controversies that did erupt as pitting an enlightened Mann and his supporters against the reactionary orthodox clergy of his day, in reality Mann's proposals enjoyed a broad base of support among both orthodox and liberal clerics. In May 1844 Mann married Mary Peabody, with whom he was to have three children. The newlyweds sailed for Europe, accompanied by Mann's longtime friend and noted educator of the blind Samuel Gridley Howe. Mann was eager to learn as much as possible about local school systems abroad, particularly the vaunted Prussian system. On his return to the United States in November 1844 Mann set out to merge the best that he found in European educational systems with the principles of the growing American common school movement. Within a few years, the results were remarkable. Having already succeeded at increasing the term of the school year to six months in 1839, Mann oversaw the expenditure of more than $2 million by the state in pursuit of better schoolhouses and equipment. Teacher salaries improved by more than 50 percent, and fifty new high schools opened during his tenure as secretary. Desiring uniform instructional materials, the board of education commissioned a Boston publisher to print 100 different titles of common school textbooks. Concerned with the physical condition of the students, Mann made sure that at least an hour a day was devoted to exercise and health education. While Mann had been occupied with the development of public schools, political controversies such as the potential spread of slavery within the United States continued to mount on the national level. Following the death of Representative John Quincy Adams, the former president, in February 1848, Mann was elected that April to the U.S. House of Representatives to complete the remainder of Adams's term while remaining as secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. Elected with the support of both Conscience Whigs (antislavery) and Cotton (those willing to equivocate on the issue) Whigs, Mann sought to tread a fine line in Congress. Opposed to slavery—though not an abolitionist—and the Mexican War, Mann feared that entering into partisan debates would harm not only his work on behalf of public education but would erode his attempts to check the advance of slavery as well. His efforts to rise above the fray pleased neither half of his constituency, and he added to his workload by agreeing to direct the legal defense of Daniel Drayton and Edward Sayers, who were charged with aiding escaped slaves in the District of Columbia. Although initially convicted, the two men were eventually released after lengthy appeals. After being reelected to the House in the fall of 1848, Mann prepared his twelfth and final report as school secretary and resigned the post shortly thereafter. During his first full congressional term, Mann was appointed a visitor at West Point and tried to assist Nathaniel Hawthorne, his wife's brother-in-law, when the author lost his position at the Salem (Mass.) Custom House. The slavery issue, however, would not go away, and by placin, David Felt & Co, 1852, 3, New York, NY: The Knickerbocker Press. Dust Jacket has become discolored over time, edges chipped, creased and have some small tears. Jacket is now protected in a Brodart sleeve. Cover is dark blue cloth-covered board. Minimal wear. Stamp from the personal library of Rufus M. Jones (of Haverford College) inside the front cover. Inscribed to previous owner, Rufus M. Jones, by the author. Pages have begun to tan slightly over time and a few pages have creased due to being folded over. Overall, pages are still very good and tightly bound. . Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 1929., The Knickerbocker Press, 1929, 2.25, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Natasha Perkel (maps). [12], 303, [5] pages. Previous owner's address label and advertisement for this book pasted to fep. Illustrations. Maps. Includes Epilogue, Notes, The Berga Prisoners, Acknowledgments, and Index. Chapters cover The Devil Quotes Scripture; Sucker Punch; The Obedience of Corpses; The Selection; Prayer Book and Sword; Walking Shadows; Weasels in a Hole; The Dying Weeks; and Orders from Nowhere. Roger Cohen (born 2 August 1955) is a journalist and author. He was a reporter, editor and columnist for The New York Times, and the International Herald Tribune (later re-branded as the International New York Times). He has worked as a foreign correspondent in fifteen countries. In 1983, Cohen joined The Wall Street Journal in Rome to cover the Italian economy. The Journal later transferred him to Beirut. He joined The New York Times in January 1990.[6] In the summer of 1991, he co-authored with Claudio Gatti In the Eye of the Storm: The Life of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf. The authors wrote the book based on information from Norman Schwarzkopf's sister Sally, without Schwarzkopf's help. In 2004, he began writing a column called 'Globalist', which is published twice a week in The International Herald Tribune. In 2005, Cohen's third book, Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble, was published by Alfred A. Knopf. In 2006, he became the first senior editor for The International Herald Tribune. In February 1945, 350 American POWs captured earlier at the Battle of the Bulge or elsewhere in Europe were singled out by the Nazis because they were Jews or were thought to resemble Jews. They were transported in cattle cars to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany, and put to work as slave laborers, mining tunnels for a planned underground synthetic-fuel factory. This was the only incident of its kind during World War II. Starved and brutalized, the GIs were denied their rights as prisoners of war, their ordeal culminating in a death march that was halted by liberation near the Czech border. Twenty percent of these soldiers , more than seventy of them , perished. After the war, Berga was virtually forgotten, partly because it fell under Soviet domination and partly because America's Cold War priorities quickly changed, and the experiences of these Americans were buried. Now, for the first time, their story is told in all its blistering detail. This is the story of hell in a small place over a period of nine weeks, at a time when Hitler's Reich was crumbling but its killing machine still churned. It is a tale of madness and heroism, and of the failure to deliver justice for what the Nazis did to these Americans. Among those involved: William Shapiro, a young medic from the Bronx, hardened in Normandy battles but, as a prisoner, unable to help the Nazis' wasted slaves, whose bodies became as insubstantial as ghosts; Hans Kasten, a defiant German-American who enraged his Nazi captors by demanding, in vain, that his fellow U.S. prisoners be treated with humanity, thus committing the unpardonable sin of betraying his German roots; Morton Goldstein, a garrulous GI from New Jersey, shot dead by the Nazi in charge of the American prisoners in an incident that would spark intense debate at a postwar trial; and Mordecai Hauer, the orphaned Hungarian Jew who, after surviving Auschwitz, stumbled on the GIs in the midst of the Holocaust at Berga and despaired at the sight of liberators become slaves. Roger Cohen uncovers exactly why the U.S. government did not aggressively prosecute the commandants of Berga, why there was no particular recognition for the POWs and their harsh treatment in the postwar years, and why it took decades for them to receive proper compensation. Soldiers and Slaves is an intimate, intensely dramatic story of war and of a largely forgotten chapter of the Holocaust., Alfred A. Knopf, 2005, 3, New York: Atheneum. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth spine. 0689112750 . A Fine first Printing of the First Edition housed in an alike dust-jacket; After the death of her mother, sixteen-year-old Tessa moves from the small town she's called home to the city to live with her father. Tessa is an introspective and thoughtful young woman, and she's not sure what to make of the fast-paced and frenetic city. She quickly learns that the only way to make friends is to join the youth group at her church. Tessa is shy at first, but she quickly gains confidence and becomes friends with the other girls in the group. Tessa is also drawn to the church's pastor, who she believes is a kind and compassionate man. When Tessa learns that her father has been dating her church's secretary for months, she is both surprised and disappointed. Tessa decides to take a trip to the countryside with her church group to spend time with her father and the secretary. While on the trip, Tessa begins to have second thoughts about her relationship with her father and the church. She also begins; 8vo; 181 pages ., Atheneum, 1982, 5, Harper and Brothers Publishers 1942 / No. 42 / Reprint Clean and Unmarked Text, stapel bound. Small Paperback : soft cover edition in good or better condition, some slight wear to edges, as normal for age of book. Overall good copy of this title. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. 40 pages plus 3 page of advertisements for other Fox Books. Modren reprint, no reprint date. About: Emmet Fox (July 30, 1886 - August 13, 1951) was a New Thought spiritual leader of the early 20th century, famous for his large Divine Science church services held in New York City during the Great Depression. Fox was born in Ireland. His father, who died before Fox was ten, was a physician and member of Parliament. Fox attended Stamford Hill Jesuit college near London, and became an electrical engineer. However, he early discovered that he had healing power, and from the time of his late teens studied New Thought. He came to know the prominent New Thought writer Thomas Troward. Fox attended the London meeting at which the International New Thought Alliance was organized in 1914. He gave his first New Thought talk in Mortimer Hall in London in 1928. Soon he went to the United States, and in 1931 was selected to become the successor to James Murray as the minister of New York's Divine Science Church of the Healing Christ. Fox became immensely popular, and spoke to large church audiences during the Depression, holding weekly services for up to 5,500 people at the New York Hippodrome until 1938 and subsequently at Carnegie Hall. He was ordained in the Divine Science branch of New Thought. Fox's secretary was the mother of one of the men who worked with Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill W., and partly as a result of this connection early AA groups often went to hear Fox. His writing, especially "The Sermon on the Mount," became popular in AA. Contemporaneous New Thought writers include Ernest Holmes, Thomas Troward, Emma Curtis Hopkins, H. Emilie Cady, Malinda Cramer, Charles Fillmore, Myrtle Fillmore, Joel S. Goldsmith, James Dillet Freeman, Eric Butterworth, Florence Scovel Shinn. Modern Edition. Soft Cover / Chapbook. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Cover Illustration. Inspirational / Worship. R: Religious Material /study., Harper and Brothers Publishers 1942 / No. 42 / Reprint, 3, Harper and Brothers Publishers 1942 / No. 42 / Reprint Clean and Unmarked Text, stapel bound. Small Paperback : soft cover edition in good or better condition, some slight wear to edges, as normal for age of book. Overall good copy of this title. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. 40 pages plus 3 page of advertisements for other Fox Books. Modren reprint, no reprint date. About: Emmet Fox (July 30, 1886 - August 13, 1951) was a New Thought spiritual leader of the early 20th century, famous for his large Divine Science church services held in New York City during the Great Depression. Fox was born in Ireland. His father, who died before Fox was ten, was a physician and member of Parliament. Fox attended Stamford Hill Jesuit college near London, and became an electrical engineer. However, he early discovered that he had healing power, and from the time of his late teens studied New Thought. He came to know the prominent New Thought writer Thomas Troward. Fox attended the London meeting at which the International New Thought Alliance was organized in 1914. He gave his first New Thought talk in Mortimer Hall in London in 1928. Soon he went to the United States, and in 1931 was selected to become the successor to James Murray as the minister of New York's Divine Science Church of the Healing Christ. Fox became immensely popular, and spoke to large church audiences during the Depression, holding weekly services for up to 5,500 people at the New York Hippodrome until 1938 and subsequently at Carnegie Hall. He was ordained in the Divine Science branch of New Thought. Fox's secretary was the mother of one of the men who worked with Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill W., and partly as a result of this connection early AA groups often went to hear Fox. His writing, especially "The Sermon on the Mount," became popular in AA. Contemporaneous New Thought writers include Ernest Holmes, Thomas Troward, Emma Curtis Hopkins, H. Emilie Cady, Malinda Cramer, Charles Fillmore, Myrtle Fillmore, Joel S. Goldsmith, James Dillet Freeman, Eric Butterworth, Florence Scovel Shinn. Modern Edition. Soft Cover / Chapbook. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Cover Illustration. Inspirational / Worship. R: Religious Material /study., Harper and Brothers Publishers 1942 / No. 42 / Reprint, 3, First printing of second edition, revised and enlarged. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in dark green cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Volume is in fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright pages. Dust jacket, with price of $14.95 on front flap, shows minor loss at top edges. xvii/468 pages."The only solution to the Jewish question in Russia is that one~third should emigrate, one~third become Christianized and one~third should perish." The Russian official who made this statement in 1890 mirrored his country's reaction to the Jewish community from the time of the Khazar empire. These anti-Semitic sentiments have persisted to the present day. The history of the Russian Jews is, in part, a paradigm of the forms repression by state and society can take: forcible conversion, military conscription with little regard to age (an almost certain death sentence for the small boys who were included), pauperization, occupational and geographical restriction, bloody pogroms, and recent Marxian attempts to "denationalize" and assimilate Jewish culture. It is also, as Salo Baron points out in his comprehensive new book, the history of an heroic and relatively successful struggle to preserve Jewish cultural and religious identity in the face of nearly total opposition. Professor Baron chronicles the fate of the Jews under successive tsars, showing how changing rulers affected the community. Alexander I's recognition of Jewish loyalty during the Napoleonic war gave way to the propagation of anti~Semitic literature under Nicholas I. This was in turn followed by the liberalism of the second Alexander, then pogroms and May Laws during the reign of Alexander III. The author investigates conditions within the Jewish community during these periods, providing information on trends in population, economics, education, religious activities, and intellectual life. He demonstrates how Russia often suffered as a nation by restricting Jewish participation in national affairs. Has the life of the Russian Jew materially changed in recent years? Professor Baron gives evidence of anti-Semitism in the Stalinist era and following the Nazi terror. And he asserts that it remains today. He concludes his study with a thoughtful and not unpromising prognosis for the future of the Jews in Russia, depending on the emergence of the "reason" which the present government insists is its sole guide.", Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1976, 4, San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. ix, [1], 260, [2] pages. DJ is price clipped. Small stamp on bottom edge. Includes Author's Preface, Shapinsky's Karma; Art's Father, Vladek's Son; Jensen's Shangri-la; Lennie's Illusion; Slonimsky's Failure; and Bogg's Bills, as well as Preface. The opening essay, "Shapinsky's Karma," tells the story of Akumal Ramachander, an English teacher from Bengalore, India,who, on his first trip to America, stumbles upon the work of a completely unknown, utterly reclusive, virtually destitute sixty year-old abstract painter named Harold Shapinsky. Ramachander decides it is his karma--his destiny in live--to bring this unlikely subject to fame and worldly success--and, surmounting all obstacles, he proceeds to de exactly that. Like the other essays in the collection, this true-life version of a contemporary art-world fairy tale is what Mr. Weschler calls a "passion piece"--these are stories of people merely going about their everyday business and ending up somewhere entirely different from where they thought they were headed. These stories are marked not only by the rare enthusiasms of their subjects but equally by the energy, empathy, intelligence, wit, and insight that Mr. Weschler brings to them. These are stories of people merely going about their everyday lives, when suddenly they seem to catch fire, becoming utterly obsessed, and ending up somewhere entirely different from where they though they were headed. These fascinating stories are marked not only by the rare enthusiasms of their subjects, but equally by the energy, empathy, intelligence, wit, and insight that Mr. Weschler brings to them. Lawrence Weschler (born 1952) is an author of works of creative nonfiction. A graduate of Cowell College of the University of California, Santa Cruz (1974), Weschler was for over twenty years (1981-2002) a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Awardsfor Cultural Reporting in 1988 and Magazine Reporting in 1992and was also a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award (1998). His books of political reportage include The Passion of Poland (1984); A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers (1990); and Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas (1998). Weschler has taught, variously, at Princeton, Columbia, UCSC, Bard, Vassar, Sarah Lawrence, and NYU, where he is now distinguished writer in residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He recently graduated to director emeritus of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, where he has been a fellow since 1991 and was director from 2001-2013, and from which base he had tried to start his own semiannual journal of writing and visual culture, Omnivore., North Point Press, 1988, 3<

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Palace Editions, St. Petersburg, 2002. Book. Fine Condition. Cloth. 175 pages. Hardcover. Crisp, tight, sharp and clean condition book, with a bright dustjacket now protected in a Mylar sleeve. 138 pages of full color illustrations. Bibliographical list on Russian folk toys with an annotated list of illustrations. ., Palace Editions, St. Petersburg, 2002, 5, San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. ix, [1], 260, [2] pages. DJ is price clipped. Small stamp on bottom edge. Includes Author's Preface, Shapinsky's Karma; Art's Father, Vladek's Son; Jensen's Shangri-la; Lennie's Illusion; Slonimsky's Failure; and Bogg's Bills, as well as Preface. The opening essay, "Shapinsky's Karma," tells the story of Akumal Ramachander, an English teacher from Bengalore, India,who, on his first trip to America, stumbles upon the work of a completely unknown, utterly reclusive, virtually destitute sixty year-old abstract painter named Harold Shapinsky. Ramachander decides it is his karma--his destiny in live--to bring this unlikely subject to fame and worldly success--and, surmounting all obstacles, he proceeds to de exactly that. Like the other essays in the collection, this true-life version of a contemporary art-world fairy tale is what Mr. Weschler calls a "passion piece"--these are stories of people merely going about their everyday business and ending up somewhere entirely different from where they thought they were headed. These stories are marked not only by the rare enthusiasms of their subjects but equally by the energy, empathy, intelligence, wit, and insight that Mr. Weschler brings to them. These are stories of people merely going about their everyday lives, when suddenly they seem to catch fire, becoming utterly obsessed, and ending up somewhere entirely different from where they though they were headed. These fascinating stories are marked not only by the rare enthusiasms of their subjects, but equally by the energy, empathy, intelligence, wit, and insight that Mr. Weschler brings to them. Lawrence Weschler (born 1952) is an author of works of creative nonfiction. A graduate of Cowell College of the University of California, Santa Cruz (1974), Weschler was for over twenty years (1981-2002) a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Awardsfor Cultural Reporting in 1988 and Magazine Reporting in 1992and was also a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award (1998). His books of political reportage include The Passion of Poland (1984); A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers (1990); and Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas (1998). Weschler has taught, variously, at Princeton, Columbia, UCSC, Bard, Vassar, Sarah Lawrence, and NYU, where he is now distinguished writer in residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He recently graduated to director emeritus of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, where he has been a fellow since 1991 and was director from 2001-2013, and from which base he had tried to start his own semiannual journal of writing and visual culture, Omnivore., North Point Press, 1988, 3<

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[EAN: 9780865473171], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: North Point Press, San Francisco], AKUMAL RAMSCHANDER, HAROLD SHAPINSKY, NICOLAS SLONIMSKY, RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, CONDUCTOR, LEXICO… More...

[EAN: 9780865473171], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: North Point Press, San Francisco], AKUMAL RAMSCHANDER, HAROLD SHAPINSKY, NICOLAS SLONIMSKY, RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, CONDUCTOR, LEXICOGRAPHER, LEONARD DURSO, COUNTERFEITING, KNUD JENSEN, MUSEUM, BANKRUPTCY, CARTOONIST, Jacket, ix, [1], 260, [2] pages. DJ is price clipped. Small stamp on bottom edge. Includes Author's Preface, Shapinsky's Karma; Art's Father, Vladek's Son; Jensen's Shangri-la; Lennie's Illusion; Slonimsky's Failure; and Bogg's Bills, as well as Preface. The opening essay, "Shapinsky's Karma," tells the story of Akumal Ramachander, an English teacher from Bengalore, India,who, on his first trip to America, stumbles upon the work of a completely unknown, utterly reclusive, virtually destitute sixty year-old abstract painter named Harold Shapinsky. Ramachander decides it is his karma--his destiny in live--to bring this unlikely subject to fame and worldly success--and, surmounting all obstacles, he proceeds to de exactly that. Like the other essays in the collection, this true-life version of a contemporary art-world fairy tale is what Mr. Weschler calls a "passion piece"--these are stories of people merely going about their everyday business and ending up somewhere entirely different from where they thought they were headed. These stories are marked not only by the rare enthusiasms of their subjects but equally by the energy, empathy, intelligence, wit, and insight that Mr. Weschler brings to them. These are stories of people merely going about their everyday lives, when suddenly they seem to catch fire, becoming utterly obsessed, and ending up somewhere entirely different from where they though they were headed. These fascinating stories are marked not only by the rare enthusiasms of their subjects, but equally by the energy, empathy, intelligence, wit, and insight that Mr. Weschler brings to them. Lawrence Weschler (born 1952) is an author of works of creative nonfiction. A graduate of Cowell College of the University of California, Santa Cruz (1974), Weschler was for over twenty years (1981-2002) a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Awardsâ€"for Cultural Reporting in 1988 and Magazine Reporting in 1992â€"and was also a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award (1998). His books of political reportage include The Passion of Poland (1984); A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers (1990); and Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas (1998). Weschler has taught, variously, at Princeton, Columbia, UCSC, Bard, Vassar, Sarah Lawrence, and NYU, where he is now distinguished writer in residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He recently graduated to director emeritus of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, where he has been a fellow since 1991 and was director from 2001-2013, and from which base he had tried to start his own semiannual journal of writing and visual culture, Omnivore., Books<

1994, ISBN: 9780865473171

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Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. 1994. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. ; Articles inside include An Interview with Thomas Flanagan, Art Spiegleman's Ma… More...

Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. 1994. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. ; Articles inside include An Interview with Thomas Flanagan, Art Spiegleman's Maus, JG Ballard's Empire of the Sun and The Kindness of Women, Gravity's Rainbow, The Poetry of Rae Armantrout and more. ; B&W Illustrations ., University of Wisconsin Press, 1994, 0, San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988. Collection of essays on artists, writers, booksellers & other obsessives, including Art Spiegelman of Maus fame, avant-gards musician Nicolas Slonimsky, failed Los Angeles bookseller Leonard Durso, and banknote artist J.S.G. Boggs. Hardcover, full magenta cloth, gilt titling. Light wear to book & jacket, nick to front panel/cover, front flap creased. Text clean; ix, blank, 260 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo., North Point Press, 1988, 3<

1988, ISBN: 9780865473171

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988. Collection of essays on artists, writers, booksellers & other obsessives, including Art Spiegelman of Maus fame, avant-gards musician Nicolas S… More...

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988. Collection of essays on artists, writers, booksellers & other obsessives, including Art Spiegelman of Maus fame, avant-gards musician Nicolas Slonimsky, failed Los Angeles bookseller Leonard Durso, and banknote artist J.S.G. Boggs. Hardcover, full magenta cloth, gilt titling. Light wear to book & jacket, nick to front panel/cover, front flap creased. Text clean; ix, blank, 260 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo., North Point Press, 1988, 3<