KINCAID, Harold; MCKITRICK, Jennifer (eds.):Establishing Medical Reality: Essays in the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Biomedical Science
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USA: Power House Books, 2006. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 118 pages. "Documents the intimate life and culture of the nineteenth… More...
USA: Power House Books, 2006. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 118 pages. "Documents the intimate life and culture of the nineteenth-century geisha. It portrays these artists in a cultural reality created by staged studio photography, private scenes, and rare outdoor images. The geisha is pictured performing her daily rituals and various arts. Images of courtesans and other working women are presented alongside the geisha to show all sides of this enchanting aspect of Japanese culture. Completing the story are insightful essays on the history of nineteenth-century Japanese photography, the social history of the geisha, and the history of the opening of Japan." - from dust jacket. Light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Minimal library markings. A nice copy.., Power House Books, 2006, 3, New. What do American poets mean when they talk about freedom? How can form help us understand questions about what shapes we want to give our poetic lives, and how much power we have to choose those shapes? For that matter, what do we even mean by we? In this collection of essays, Peter Campion gathers his thoughts on these questions and more to form an evolutionary history of the past century of American poetry. Through close readings of the great modernists, midcentury objectivists, late twentieth-century poets, his contemporaries, and more, Campion unearths an American poetic landscape that is subtler and more varied than most critics have allowed. He discovers commonalities among poets considered opposites, dramatizes how form and history are mutually entailing, and explores how the conventions of poetry, its inheritance, and its inventions sprang from the tensions of ordinary life. At its core, this is a book about poetic making, one that reveals how the best poets not only receive but understand and adapt what comes before them, reinterpreting the history of their art to create work that is, indeed, radical as reality., 6, London: Peter Owen Limited, 1957. Presumed First printing thus. [Originally published in the 1920s, this is one of the Peter Owen Classics]. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Format is approximately 5 inches by 7.75 inches. 132 pages. DJ is in a plastic sleeve and has substantial wear, tears, soiling and chips. Some page discoloration. Jean Cocteau has for long been known as one of the most outstanding figures of contemporary literature. His films, his plays, his books, have won him international renown, but it is only recently that his stature as a modern novelist has been appreciated. In 1966, Children of the Game was first published in England, winning instant and wide acclaim. The Impostor is another one of his more important works. At the beginning of the war there was complete confusion: confusion which persisted until the end. For, like a fruit, the short war might have grown and dropped from the tree, whilst a war prolonged for exceptional reasons, firmly attached to the branch, went on growing, ever presenting new problems and new lessons to be learnt. The Impostor is set in France at the outset of the 1914-1918 war, evoking the atmosphere and environment of that period through the reactions and interactions of the characters. Thomas, at the age of 16, lives in a self-created world of fantasy. Adopting an impressive pose, he encounters the widowed Princesse de Bormes and her daughter Henriette. The girl falls in love with Thomas, nor is her mother indifferent to this imaginative young "impostor." The fate, love and grief of these and other vital characters, is played out alongside the vicissitudes of the war. Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 - 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic. Jean Cocteau insisted on calling himself a poet, classifying the great variety of his works - poems, novels, plays, essays, drawings, films - as "poésie", "poésie de roman", "poésie de thêatre", "poésie critique", "poésie graphique" and "poésie cinématographique". He is best known for his novels Le Grand Écart (1923), Le Livre Blanc (1928), and Les Enfants Terribles (1929); the stage plays La Voix Humaine (1930), La Machine Infernale (1934), Les Parents Terribles (1938), La Machine à écrire (1941), and L'Aigle à deux têtes (1946); and the films The Blood of a Poet (1930), Les Parents Terribles (1948), Beauty and the Beast (1946), Orpheus (1949), and Testament of Orpheus (1960), which alongside Blood of a Poet and Orpheus constitute the so-called Orphic Trilogy. He was described as "one of [the] avant-garde's most successful and influential filmmakers" by AllMovie. The Impostor is Cocteau's breakthrough novel on the horrors of World War I. Thomas the Impostor is set at the outbreak of the First World War and is based on Jean Cocteau's experiences in the Red Cross on the Western Front. This is not, however, your typical World War One narrative but a fascinating example of war writing from a quintessentially artistic imagination. Guillaume Thomas is a boy too young to join the army but determined to get to the front at any cost. He is aided by the magnificent Princesse de Borme, who uses her energy, influence and allure to put together a chaotic ambulance convoy to help wounded soldiers. Together they travel all over France until Guillaume finally gets his wish and joins a company of soldiers. While the princess pursues charity work with the wounded, Henriette falls in love with Guillaume. However, Guillaume, resplendent in army uniform and issued with a shiny revolver, is lost like a child in a fantasy land of their own creation. At the novel's denouement, he clings to his imposture, but in mind, if not body, he has grasped the real meaning of war. This visionary novel is a "hymn to the cult of youth" in which World War I battlefields become an exaggerated spectacle where fiction and reality are inseparable. It may come a surprise to some that Jean Cocteau actually fought in the First World War but Thomas the Impostor is his idiosyncratic response to the author's own experiences at the front. This is an excellent introduction to the writing of Jean Cocteau., Peter Owen Limited, 1957, 2.25, New. Although national governments and international agencies have committed vast sums of money to development, many projects have not only failed to improve the lives of the poor but in some cases have created additional social and economic problems. Such failures can often be traced to an inadequate understanding of the socio-cultural reality of the people most directly affected and to a lack of their participation in project planning, implementation, and evaluation. In this collection of essays, scholars and practitioners from diverse disciplines examine many of the perplexing social issues of development planning from the perspective of social impact analysis. Drawing on national, regional, and local case studies, the authors demonstrate why sociocultural factors are seldom adequately understood and discuss how they can be effectively incorporated into the planning process., 6, Ringling College of Art and Design, 2011-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Scarce. 174 pages, no jacket as issued, pictorial boards have minor shelf wear, bottom corner is bumped, bottom edge has several small dings, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. The book showcases more than 210 color images of Lerner’s work with essays and contributions by Eleanor Heartney, Peter Frank, Dominique Nahas, Neil Watson, Christian Sampson and Chie Fueki. "Lerner's settings and painting style contain reflections of grand painterl traditions, channeling at times Watteau, Constable, Courbet, Vermeer, David Casper Friederich and the Hudson River School Painters. Like them he is a painter of light and atmospherics, evoking landscapes tht inspire both awe and ennui. Ath the same time, the disconcerting debris of the contemporary or even future world make their appearance in the form of translucent fling saucers, shopping carts and airplanes. With such devices, Lerner created links between his interior and exterior realities, in the process reconciling some of the more contradictory aspects of his own multiple worlds." - Eleanor Heartney, Ringling College of Art and Design, 2011-01-01, 3, Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1997. Inscribed / Signed by Jackie Gaughan on the first page of the book's chapter about him. Very Good condition (one page corner a little wrinkled). Flat, uncreased spine. From his obituary: "Jackie Gaughan [1920-2014] was a true visionary and the last living 'Founding Father' of Las Vegas. Beginning with the old Boulder Club, he owned and/or operated 11 more casinos in the downtown area - the Pioneer Club, Las Vegas Club, Golden Nugget, Showboat, Union Plaza, Sundance, Nevada Hotel, Club Bingo, Gold Spike, Western Bingo and his beloved El Cortez. Over the years, beside the Flamingo Hotel, he was also licensed for the Tahoe Biltmore, Mispah Hotel, Royal Inn Casino and Barbary Coast. In his lifetime, he was probably the most licensed individual in the history of Nevada. He was also licensed in New Jersey, Mississippi, and Louisiana, as well as Australia." -- Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mar. 15, 2014. From the rear cover: "Las Vegas has been described as 'the last great, mythic city that Western civilization will ever create,' and its brief, phenomenal history has been largely shaped by a handful of colorful and astute casino operators who turned a dusty desert town into the gawdy, booming holiday mecca that it is today. The essays in this book introduce us to these 'players' and outline the decisions that led them and their chosen city unparalleled heights of success. We discover how early leaders like Cliff Jones, Moe Dalitz, and Benny Binion first grasped Las Vegas's potential as a center for high-stakes gambling, and we read of mobster 'Bugsy' Siegel's efforts to bring to reality another man's dream of a glamorous resort-casino on a then-remote site at the edge of town. Other visionaries like Jay Sarno, Sam Boyd, and Jackie Gaughan helped turn casinos into islands of fantasy, replete with lavish entertainment spectacles, that have become the norm for subsequent construction in the city, and they began the now-standard practice of mass-marketing the Las Vegas experience to middle America. The arrival of eccentric Howard Hughes introduced a new style of corporate management to an industry hitherto led by independent entrepreneurs and their families - a style of management since carried on by Kirk Kerkorian and Steve Wynn.". Inscribed / Signed by Jackie Gaughan. First Printing of the First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xv, 224pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping., University of Nevada Press, 1997, 3, Manila [1955], Benipayo.Blue cloth,very clean, solid & firm, in original dust jacket in Mylar, 185p.,introduction by N.V. M Gonzales, 10.5 x 18 cm., contents brilliantly clean. WITH AUTHOR'S SIGNED LETTER * * RARE FIRST EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . BIENVENIDO N. SANTOS . . . THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK . . . A COLLECTION OF 18 SHORT STORIES . . . HIS FIRST PUBLICATION ! . . . WITH THE AUTHOR'S TYPED, DATED & SIGNED LETTER . . . TOGETHER WITH 2 OBITUARIES & PHOTOGRAPHS FROM LOCAL PAPERS . . * Filipino literary classics, from the Benipayo Series On Philippine Contemporary Writing. . *** * THE AUTHOR: Bienvenido N. SANTOS [BNS] [1911-1996]: . He was a Filipino-American writer of fiction, poetry and nonfiction. He was born and raised in Tondo, Manila. His family roots are originally from Lubao, Pampanga, Philippines. . He lived in the United States for many years where he is widely credited as a pioneering Asian-American writer. . Santos received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the Philippines where he first studied creative writing under Paz Marquez Benitez. In 1941, Santos was a government 'pensionado' (scholar) to the United States at the University of Illinois, Columbia University, and Harvard University. He had arrived in San Francisco on October 12, 1941 aboard the Ruth Alexander leaving his wife and three daughters in the Philippines.[1] When war in the Pacific came to the Philippines on December 8 [December 7 Hawaii time he feared he would never see his family again, a reality that "not only interrupted his study of realism; it was overwhelming it" leading to a transformation in his sense of national consciousness and identity. . That crisis changed the nature of his writing into a less carefree style to one mixing laughter and pain; described by Florentino Valeros as "a man hiding tears in his laughter." . During World War II, he served with the Philippine government in exile under President Manuel L. Quezon in Washington, D.C., together with the playwright Severino Montano and Philippine National Artist Jose Garcia Villa. Santos left for home on January 17, 1946 aboard the Uruguay arriving in early February. . In 1967, he returned to the United States to become a teacher and university administrator. He received a Rockefeller fellowship at the Writers Workshop of the University of Iowa where he later taught as a Fulbright exchange professor. Santos has also received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, a Republic Cultural Heritage Award in Literature as well as several Palanca Awards for his short stories. Scent of Apples won a 1980 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. . Santos received an honorary doctorate degrees in humanities and letters from the University of the Philippines, and Bicol University (Legazpi City, Albay) in 1981. He was also a Professor of Creative Writing and Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Wichita State University from 1973 to 1982, at which time the university awarded him an honorary doctorate degree in humane letters. After his retirement, Santos became Visiting Writer and Artist at De La Salle University in Manila; the university honored Santos by renaming its creative writing center after him. Extracted from Wikipedia, see below for details . *** WITH THE AUTHOR'S TYPED, DATED & SIGNED LETTER WITH ENVELOPE: . This item contains 3 items in all: . a. The book: "YOU LOVELY PEOPLE" . Two Obituaries from local Manila Newspapers: . b. SUNDAY INQUIRER MAGAZINE: January 21, 1996: A two-page essay by Dr. Alice M. Sun-Cua with 2 photos of BNS. By Dr. Sun-Cua, who was a close friend to BNS, she was also one of the compilers of over 800 letters of correspondence to create an autobiographical "Memory's Fictions & "Postscript to a Saintly Life," two books covering the past 65 years of BNS's life. . c. MANILA BULLETIN THE NATION'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: February 27, 1996 article with 3 photos: "TRIBUTE: Noted writer Nick Joaqui recalls the good old days with Man Ben as with the likes of N.V.M. Gonzales and Frank Acellana listen." . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** CONDITION: This is bound in the original publisher's full blue cloth, bright, clean & solid, with likewise contents. . The original dust jacket is present it has a bit of the usual minor signs of wear at the top & bottom of spine, corners, nicely intact and in Mylar protectors. . *** REFERENCE: . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bienvenido_Santos * Santos The Author: . You Lovely People (1955) Scent Of Apples (1955) Brother My Brother (1960) [this title] The Volcano (1965) Villa Magdalena (1965) The Praying Man (1982) The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor (1983) What the Hell for You Left Your Heart in San Francisco? (1987) The Late, Late Show . He also wrote several short story collections, poetry and non-fictional books. . * ., 0, Dordrecht: Springer, 2007. Hardcover. As new. Philosophy and Medicine Volume 90. ix, 236, [4] p. 25 cm. 6 tables and 1 figure. Hardcover. Topics include: normality, disease and enhancement; holistic theories of health as applicable to non-human beings; disease and supervenience; defining "disease;" race and scientific reduction; genetic disease; why disease persists; creating mental illness in non-disordered community populations; gender identity disorder; clinical trials as nomological machines; social epistemology of NIH consensus conferences; maternal agency and the immunological paradox of pregnancy; violence and public health; taking equipoise seriously. Indexed., Springer, 2007, 5<
