Simon Roberts:Order and Dispute: Introduction to Legal Anthropology (Pelican)
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Hanover: University Press of New England, 1998. First edition, fifth printing. Hardcover. Extremely mild wear to corners, light soiling to fore-edges (some blue), very gentle rubbing to … More...
Hanover: University Press of New England, 1998. First edition, fifth printing. Hardcover. Extremely mild wear to corners, light soiling to fore-edges (some blue), very gentle rubbing to rear edges, exceedingly gentle rubbing to spine head and foot, bright pages in tight binding, extremely gentle rubbing to DJ corners (fading to front-rear corner), very mild rubbing to DJ spine head, faint soiling to DJ (mostly to rear DJ, some blue soiling to rear DJ), else Very Good(+) to Near Fine(-) in Very Good(+) DJ./very good +. Octavo in white-green DJ, xv, 353 pages, b&w illustrations, 24 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || This suite of brief and lively essays, based largely on interviews and studio visits, explores what Charles A. Riley II calls "one of the most vital (and misunderstood) creative forces in modern art, architecture, music, dance, literature, and philosophy: the pursuit of perfection." Riley examines many contemporary figures who exemplify the ascetic impulse in their work and life. These artists examined through the lens of asceticism, serve as focal points in Riley's consideration of cultural issues such as the role of spirituality in contemporary art, the interaction of Western and Asian traditions, and the relationship between the artists' lives and work. Contents: The ascetic ideal in contemporary painting. The habit of perfection : Piet Mondrian -- The floating world : Joan Miró -- Written in white : Mark Tobey -- Pilgrimage to the sublime : Barnett Newman -- A mind of winter : Jasper Johns -- Instant apotheosis : Robert Mapplethorpe -- The priestess of perfection : Agnes Martin -- Travelling the ellipse : Robert Mangold -- Sense and sensibility : Brice Marden -- The prison house of abstraction : Peter Halley -- Effacing the grid : Nancy Haynes -- White light : Mark Milloff -- Pursuing the line : Theresa Chong. Asceticism and sculpture. The solitude of objects : Alberto Giacometti -- Drawing in air : David Smith -- Caught in the web : Eva Hesse -- An art of meditation : Isamu Noguchi -- Present perfect : Donald Judd -- Virtue like jade : Yu Yu Yang -- The noiseless, patient sculptor : Mark di Suvero. The art of public withdrawal : Bruce Nauman. Asceticism and architecture. The prophet : Frank Lloyd Wright -- The priest : Mies van der Rohe -- The mandarin : I.M. Pei -- Our glassy essence : a few contemporary architects. Asceticism in music and the dance. The ascetic as dandy : Claude Debussy -- The voice of angels : Olivier Messiaen -- Musician of silence : John Cage -- Complexity and contradiction : Elliott Carter -- The master craftsman : Steve Reich -- The lawmaker : Philip Glass -- The last puritan : Glenn Gould -- Asceticism in the dance -- The taskmaster : George Balanchine -- Silent redemption : Doris Humphrey -- The wizard of solitude : Merce Cunningham -- Our lady of pain : Pina Bausch. Asceticism in literature and philosophy. The comfortable hermit : Søren Kierkegaard -- Elected silence : Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The poet of purity : Stéphane Mallarmé -- Delicious recoil : Marcel Proust and Walter Pater -- Sages in the holy fire : W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot -- A world of cinders : T.E. Hulme -- The sensible ascetic : William James -- The habit of indifference : Samuel Beckett -- Metaphysics in retreat : Martin Heidegger -- Baroque of the void : Robert Musil -- Corrected out of existence : Thomas Bernhard -- The freedom of nothingness : Jean-Paul Sartre -- Blood on snow : Simone Weil -- An effaced order : Michel Foucault -- The poet as pilgrim : Seamus Heaney -- How perfect is it : Walter Abish. Asceticism in art, Arts, Modern -- 20th century., University Press of New England, 1998, 3, New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A riveting true story of money, madness, and murder--from the bestselling author of The Falcon and the Snowman. When a modest California beauty is swept off her feet by a quiet, handsome Englishman of incredible wealth, she never realizes that her storybook romance will quickly become an unstoppable horror. Too late she realizes, and eventually her bullet-ridden, headless corpse is found in the English countryside. With eight pages of photographs. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price0clipped} MBS1, Simon & Schuster, 1992, 5, Buffalo, NY:White Pine Press,, 2000.. 1st edition.. Fine in wraps. Stories in English by writers who emigrated to the U.S., their introductions are original to this volume. Includes Julia Alvarez, Codrescu, Danticat, Ha Jin, Bharati Mukherjee, Simon Oritz, et al., Buffalo, NY:White Pine Press, 2000., 0, The Wordsworth Trust/Utopia Press,, 2003. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exhibition catalogue, French wraps. Published to accompany the exhibition: The Life of Things. Words by Jack Mapanje, Images by Alex Black and Simon Morely, Text by Robert Woof.., The Wordsworth Trust/Utopia Press, 2003, 5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£18.99) to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.A tiny snick on front,top edge and a small closed tear at foot of spine's gutter's edge on bottom edge of dw/dj.Top+ fore-edges imperceptibly toned but still bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.(An accidental corner crease to top corner pp285/6.) Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate scenic colour photographic illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vi-ixpp+2-290pp [paginated] includes contents list/ table,a foreword by Mark Radcliffe,12 chapters,16pp contemporary b/w+colour auto+biographical photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece, between pp86/7 and pp198/9 respectively,pictures and song lyrics credits,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and 4pp blanks at the rear of the book. Every Friday summer evening for the past two decades,ten burly Cornishmen met on the quay at Port Isaac for the simple joy of sharing friendship,beer and song.Then,in March 2010,everything changed.A music producer heard their passionate voices and signed them up to a major record label,transforming this bunch of fishermen,coastguards and lifeboatmen into the unlikeliest of buoy bands.This is the complete fishing nets to riches story of how the boat came in for Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends.It tells what it's like to grow up in a seafaring community that lives as much by its wits as by the bounty of the sea.Each member of the group tells his part of a unique story.There are tales of lifeboat rescues, fishing escapades and a history of smuggling and wrecking against the rugged backdrop of Cornwall's coast.They speak about collecting songs heard on the lips of great-grandfathers and finding in them a resonance that stretches across generations.Their music has struck a chord in the hearts of men and women,young and old,across the English-speaking world.With a new album due out this year (then 2011) and British folk music enjoying a huge revival,this is an affectionate and timely autobiography. With their ages ranging between forty-seven and seventy-seven,Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends are Peter Rowe,retired lobster fisherman; the Brown brothers - Jeremy,Julian and John - lobster fishermen with their own boats whose fathers and grandfathers were fishermen before them; local builders Trevor Grills and John McDonnell; Nigel Sherratt who runs the Cupcakes Cafe and Kittiwake's B&B; local shop owner Jon Cleave,sporting a splendid walrus moustache and a deep bass voice; smallholder John Lethbridge,and potter Billy Hawkins, with his studio in Port Isaac's former Methodist chapel.Nine out of ten Fisherman's Friends have known each other since early childhood and attended the same local schools.Their rousing,unaccompanied renditions of shanties such as 'The Cadgwith Anthem' and 'South Australia' have helped to spark a folk music renaissance.Their first album for Universal went gold and the group won the BBC2 Folk Award for Good Tradition in 2011. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.Simon & SchusterUK Ltd.,2011., 5, England & Russia: Penguin Books Ltd, 1979 The cover has a bit of wear, with a few scuffs and foxing. The page edges are a bit tanned and foxed. 216 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Paperback. Very Good. Size D: 7"-8" Tall (177-203mm)., Penguin Books Ltd, 1979, 3<