Category: Humanities

On Painting, Revised edition

By: Alberti, Leon Battista

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Yale University Press : 1966

Seller ID: 26413

ISBN-13: 9780300000016

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Acceptable

A few pages contain underlining. Translated with introduction and notes by John R. Spencer. 141p.

Alberti's Della Pittura was the first modern analytical study of painting, a pioneering treatise on the theory of art. A systematic description of the one-point perspective construction, it was primarily designed to persuade both patron and painter in the Renaissance to discard the old tastes in painting for the new.
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The Legacy of French Theory (Ideas From France)

By: Appignanesi, Lisa (editor)

Price: $28.00 USD

Publisher: London, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) : 1985

Seller ID: 25849

ISBN-13: 9780905263502

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Some rubbing on the cover. 48p. Measures 8x11.25 inches.

Includes four sections: Pleasures and Pitfalls of theory, with contributions from Christian Descamps, Malcolm Bradbury, Jacques Roubaud, Terry Eagleton and Cora Kaplan; The Archeology of Michel Foucault, with contributions from Alan Sheridan, Jeffrey Weeks, John Forrester, and Peter Dews; The Rise and Fall of Structural Marxism, with contributions from Gareth Stedman Jones, Ted Benton, Michele Barrett, and Bob Jessop; and The Uses of History, with contributions from Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and Peter Burke.
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Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac

By: Balzac, Honoré de

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell and Company

Seller ID: 32517

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Unmarked text. Copyright 1900. 315p. Measures 5x7.5 inches. Text in English. Introduction by W. P. Trent. Le Cousin Pons is one of the last of the 94 novels and short stories that make up Honoré de Balzac's Comédie humaine.

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist and playwright.
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The Passionate Sightseer: From the Diaries 1947-56

By: Berenson, Bernard

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : 1960

Seller ID: 24853

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. 168 illustrations in photogravure, 3 in color. Chipping, bends, and tears on dust jacket. Notes. Index. 200p. Preface by Raymond Mortimer.

Berenson records on excursions to Rome, Venice, Sicily, Tripoli and Leptis Magna, Calabria, The Romagna, and Florence.
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R.M. Lumiansky: Scholar, Teacher, Spokesman for the Humanities

By: Blitzer, Charles (editor)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: American Council of Learned Societies : 1987

Seller ID: 13152

Binding: Booklet (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Mailing label on back. ACLS Occasional Paper, No. 3. Text of the Memorial Service for R. M. Lumiansky that was held at the New York Public Library on September 21, 1987. Speakers: Vartan Gregorian, Joel Conarroe, Robert Raymo, Elizabeth Pochoda, John E. Sawyer, Georges May, and Stanley N. Katz. 19pp. Robert M. Lumiansky (1913-1987) was a scholar of Medieval English and president of the American Council of Learned Societies.
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A Sense of the Future: Essays in Natural Philosophy

By: Bronowski, J.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: The MIT Press : 1977

Seller ID: 31850

ISBN-13: 9780262021289

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Clipped dust jacket under mylar with some chipping and rubbing.

Essays selected and edited by Piero E. Ariotti in collaboration with Rita Bronowski. Index. References. Titles include (among others) "On Art and Science," "The Creative Process," "The Human Values," and "The Values of Science." 286p. Measures 6.25x9.25 inches.
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Age of Cathedrals: Soaring Stone and the Quest for Light (Humanities West, Vol 2, No 3)

By: Clark, William

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: San Francisco, Humanities West Journal : 1995

Seller ID: 21921

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Acceptable

Unmarked. Waterstain on corner and bent corner on back cover. Illustrated. Published in conjunction with a May 12-13, 1995 symposium presented by The American Institute of Architects, Grace Cathedral, and the San Francisco Early Music Society. Includes program, speaker biographies, an essay on Gothic by William Clark, a cathedral chronology, and a bibliography. 24p.
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Modern Science and Modern Man

By: Conant, James B.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Columbia University Press : 1952

Seller ID: 24685

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Unmarked text. Hampton Lectures in America, Number 5. Delivered at Columbia University 1952. Eighth printing.

4 chapters: Science and Technology in the Last Decade, The Changing Scientific Scene, 1900-1950, Science and Human Conduct, Science and Spiritual Values. 111p. No dust jacket.
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Neoclassicism and Romanticism 1750-1850: An Anthology of Sources and Documents

By: Eitner, Lorenz (editor)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Prentice Hall : 1970

Seller ID: 24705

ISBN-13: 9780064301862

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Some check marks in the contents, otherwise unmarked text. Some dog-eared pages. Includes the Enlightenment, Revolution, the Restoration, Humanism, Goethe, Ruskin, Constable, Turner, Baudelaire, etc. 352p. Index.
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The Arts and Human Development: A Psychological Study of the Artistic Process

By: Gardner, Howard

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. : 1973

Seller ID: 28753

ISBN-13: 9780471291459

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Previous owner's name on front end page. Tears and chipping on dust jacket. B/W illustrations. 395p. An interdisciplinary study that draws on psychology, philosophy, education, linguistics, and the humanities.
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Arachne: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Humanities (Vol 6, No. 2)

By: Gerry, Tom (editor)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Laurentian University : 1999

Seller ID: 19706

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Bumped on back cover. Articles by Geoffrey Waite, Jeffrey Schantz, Maya Bevan, James B. Gerrie and Amy Ione.119p.
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Seeing the Difference: Conversations on Death and Dying (Doreen B. Townsend Center Occasional Papers, 24-25)

By: Gillis, Christina M.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Townsend Center for Humanities : 2001

Seller ID: 12113

ISBN-13: 9781881865247

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Unmarked book. Some rubbing on cover. Proceedings from a two-day institute. Contributors include Sandra Gilbert, Jodi Halpern, Michael Witmore, Thomas Cole, Patricia Benner, Guy Mico, Elizabeth Dungan, and others.
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Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins

By: Gurche, John

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: Yale University Press : 2015

Seller ID: 30753

ISBN-13: 9780300216844

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Color illustrations. Measures 8.5x10 inches. For the Smithsonian Institution's groundbreaking David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, opened in 2010,

Gurche created fifteen sculptures representing six million years of human history. This book relates how he worked with a team of scientists to depict human evolution for the project.
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Hamond Historical Atlas

By: Hamond

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Hamond : 1968

Seller ID: 20097

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Good

Unmarked. Large format color maps. Corner crease and some rubbing on back cover. A collection of maps illustrating geographically the most significant periods and events in the development of Western Civilization, including the history of language and the history of religion. 48p.
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The Triumph of Humanism: A Visual Survey of the Decorative Arts of the Renaissance

By: Keith, D. Graeme et al

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco : 1977

Seller ID: 21273

ISBN-13: 9780884010302

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Unmarked. Worn corner. Illustrated end papers. Catalog for October 22, 1977-January 8, 1978 exhibition.

Contributors include Charles Avery, William D. Wixon, Yvonne Hackenbroch, Stephen V. Grancsay, Clare Vincent, Jessie McNab Dennis, David DuBon and Paul Needham. Topics include the Medici, small bronzes, gold work and jewelry, ceramics, glass, arms, armor, furniture, etc.
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The Selected Letters of Bernard Berenson

By: McComb, A. K.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin/The Riverside Press : 1964

Seller ID: 27278

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket with bends and tears. Previous owner's name on front end page. Edited by A.K. McComb, with an Epilogue by Nick Mariano. 310pp. Index. Photo of Berenson.

Letters from 1887, when he was a student at Harvard, through 1958. First printing.
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Framing the Questions: New Visions from the Arts and Humanities at Berkeley

By: Office of the Vice Chancellor For Research

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: The Regents of the University of California. : 2000

Seller ID: 25134

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Well illustrated. This volume provides a window into research in the arts and humanities at UC Berkeley at the end of the 20th Century.

The text focuses on particular examples, but in the aggregate gives us a "frame" or lens on trends that are reshaping, in significant ways, this crucial area of higher education.

Contributors include Candace Falk, Shawn Brixey, David Wessel, Robert Alter, Gerald Vizenor, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, and others. List of resources at Berkeley.
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Perplexing Dreams: Is There A Core Tradition in the Humanities (ACLS Occasional Paper, No. 2)

By: Shattuck, Roger

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: American Council of Learned Societies : 1987

Seller ID: 13153

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Mailing label on back. ACLS Occasional Paper, No. 2. 12p. Roger Whitney Shattuck (1923-2005) was an American writer best known for his books on French literature, art, and music of the twentieth century.
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The Archaic Smile: The Relation of Art and The Dignity of Man (Rushton Lecture)

By: Taylor, Francis Henry

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Birmingham, AL, Rushton Lectures Foundation : 1958

Seller ID: 24371

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Dust jacket has some tears and some fading on the back. Book reprints a section from Daedalus: Proceedings of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 86, number 4, pp285-322. Section of plates (B/W).

Francis Henry Taylor was a distinguished American museum director and curator, heading the Metropolitan Museum of Art for fifteen years. Card taped to front end page reads: "Presented as a Gift from The Rushton Lectures.
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Townsend Center for the Humanities UC Berkeley Newsletter (February/March 2011)

By: Townsend Center for the Humanities

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Townsend Center for the Humanities UC Berkeley : 2011

Seller ID: 21636

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Previous owner's address on back. Includes "Experience and Reason in the Articulation of Values" by Charles Altieri and Susan Maslan, "The Humanities and the Crisis of the Public University" by Colleen Lye and and James Vernon, "Joyce Carol Oates: The Writer's (Secret) Life, a calendar of campus events and the Townsend Center Exhibits. 20p.
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New Left Review 91 (Jan, Feb 2015)

By: Watkins, Susan (editor)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: New Left Review : 2015

Seller ID: 23888

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Interview with Evgeny Morozov. Articles by Wang Chaohua, Franco Moretti, Gopal Balakrishnan and others. 160p.
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Category: Humanities