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Seldes, George: Great Thoughts, Ballantine Books 1985
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Paperback Great Value. Prompt delivery with tracking. Many satisfied customers. Satisfaction guaranteed. ; 1.25 x 9.25 x 6.25 Inches; 487 pages; Upon its publication, George Seldes's <b>The Great Thoughts</b> instantly took its place as a classic--a treasure house of the seminal ideas that have shaped the intellectual history of the world down through the ages.A A Seldes, a pivotal figure in the history of American journalism and a tireless researcher, spent the better part of his extraordinary lifetime compiling the thoughts that rule the world, casting his net widely and wisely through the essential works of philosophy, poetry, psychology, economics, politics, memoirs, and letters from the ancient Greeks to the modern Americans.<br><br>Now Seldes's splendid and important work has been revised and updated to include the great thoughts that have changed our world in the decade since the book's first appearance.A A Quotations from leaders as varied as Nelson Mandela, Lech Walesa, Yitzak Rabin, Newt Gingrich, and Jesse Jackson reflect the radical shifts in the world political scene.A A Toni Morrison and Cornel West speak out on the enduring vitality of African-American culture.A A Alvin Toffler and Arthur C. Clarke give us a glimpse into the future.A A Gloria Steinem and Monique Wittig define the motives and the goals of late twentieth-century feminism.A A Rachel Carson, Aldo Leopold, and Wallace Stegner ponder the meaning of wilderness in an increasingly populated and industrialized world.A A These and scores of other thinkers in all major disciplines have added their voices to this new edition of <b>The Great Thoughts</b>.<br><br><b>USA Today</b> praised the first edition of <b>The Great Thoughts</b> as "a browser's delight."A A The work of a lifetime, brought up-to-date to reflect the global upheaval of the past decade, <b>The Great Thoughts</b> stands alone as an enduring achievement and an invaluable resource. Very Good with no dust jacket

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Clinton, Catherine [edited with an Introduction by]; Illustrated By Stephen Alcorn: A Poem of Her Own - Voices of American Women Yesterday and Today, NY Harry N Abrams Inc 2003
ISBN: 0-8109-4240-2 Fine in Fine Dust Jacket Book Designed By Allison Henry; Color Illustrations By Stephen Alcorn

A collection of more than 20 poems by American women published between 1678 to 2001. Lyrical meditations to powerful declarations, this compilation and commemoration of distinctly femaile perspectives includes poems that wrestle with difficult issues as well as others that celebrate the themes of freedom, democracy, and the splendor of the natural world. Julia Alvarez, Louise Bogan, Anne Bradstreet, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lydia Maria Child, Sandra Cisneros, Lucille Clifton, Emily Dickinson, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Nikke Giavanni, Julia Ward Howe, Lucy Larcom, Emma Lazarus, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, Naomi Shihab Nye, Marge Piercy, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Mary Jo Salter, Anne Sexton, Leslie Marmon Silko, Cathy Song, Gertrude Stein, Phillis Wheatley. Introduction "Women's Poetic Gifts" and detailed Author biographies. The Stephen Alcorn illustrations were painted directly on acid-free paper, using light-fast casein paints, and without the aid of preliminary sketches. 80pp. Pictorial boards, light blue endpapers, glossy art paper. Dust jacket price 17.95. Book is in as New, unread condition. No remainder markings. First Edition Fine Hard Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

[SW: CHILDREN POETRY AMERICAN JUVENILE NONFICTION]

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Ostrowitz, Judith; Graburn, Nelson H. H. (Foreword by): Privileging the Past: Reconstructing History in Northwest Coast Art, Seattle, WA, and Vancouver, BC University of Washington Press; UBC Press 1999
ISBN: 0295978147 NEW

Cloth, xiii, 201 pp., illus. (some col.), biblio., index; 27 cm. BRAND NEW. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "What makes Northwest Coast Native American art authentic? And why, when most of art history is a history of the avant-garde, is tradition so deeply valued by contemporary Native American artists and their patrons? In Privileging the Past, Judith Ostrowitz approaches these questions through a careful consideration of replicas, reproductions, and creative translations of past forms of Northwest Coast dances, ceremonies, masks, painted screens, and houses. Ostrowitz examines several different art forms - two very different architectural constructions, a dance performance, and modern sculptures and dance paraphernalia-considering their relations to arts of the past. Chief Shakes' Community House has endured, in various forms, at the same site in Wrangell, Alaska, for close to 170 years as an 'old style' Tlingit tribal house. The Grand Hall of the Canadian Museum of Civilization at Hull, Quebec, is constructed as a Native village with an assemblage of replicated houses made by contemporary Native artists, both old and new totem poles, and references to the Northwest Coast landscape. The opening ceremonies of the exhibition Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in October 1991 included a dance program by a group of Native performers from Vancouver Island, B.C., adapting traditional elements for a long and complex theatrical presentation. Finally, artists such as Art Thompson, Beau Dick, Doug Cranmer, Robert Davidson, Susan Point, and Jim Schoppert produce vital and lively art - masks, rattles, prints, and paintings are considered here - that utilizes inherited subject matter and conventionalized stylistic devices. Ostrowitz finds that these replicas and performances function as do most other works of art, referencing history in a highly selective manner. Ostrowitz draws on an extensive body of interviews she conducted with tribal leaders, artists, and artisans long known and highly respected in both Native and non-Native venues. Throughout the book, we hear their voices-members of the Alfred, Cranmer, Hunt, Tallio, and Webster families, and many other individuals-as they relate their responses to the modern adaptation of their cultural heritage. Privileging the Past explores intellectual issues raised by postmodern theory, supported by detailed studies of projects that will interest a broad audience of students, historians, museum-goers, and those intrigued by Native American art and cultural history." - Publisher. NEW Hard Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Collectible

[SW: 0774807539 (Canadian ISBN)Museums Canadian Movements::Performance Art XL: Extra Large]

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Feterley, Judith, and Pryse, Marjorie (Edited by): American Women Regionalists, 1850-1910, New York W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1992
ISBN: 0393961370 Very Good

xx, 648 pp., biblio., index; 24 cm. Near-fine. Publisher's stamp/tail edge (faculty review copy, appears unread). Literary Criticism. "Sixty-four stories and sketches by fourteen writers are brought together in this groundbreaking anthology to trace a tradition of women's writing in America. Crossing boundaries of region and ethnicity, these works are by writers popular in their time but neglected in the twentieth century. In American Women Regionalists readers will find writing that charts the imagination and talent of some of our most compelling voices. Included in the collection are works by New Englanders Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Sarah Orne Jewett, Tennessean Mary Noailles Murfree, New Orleans writers Kate Chopin and Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Native American Zitkala-Sa, and Western writers Sui Sin Far and Mary Austin, among others. Together these writers enable readers to reconstruct a women's tradition of sketches and short stories from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Willa Cather. To help contextualize the stories and sketches, Pryse and Fetterley provide a general introduction, biographical/critical headnotes, and bibliographies for further reading. / Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse teach American literature and women's studies at the State University of New York-Fetterley at the University at Albany, and Pryse at the College at Plattsburgh." - Publisher. Trade Paperback 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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