John m witt (7 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Softcover. Pictorial covers with white and black lettering. Title page not dated. Copyright page dated 2013. 112 pages. Very good condition. Shelf wear to covers. Covers, pages clean. Corners square. Binding stiff. A collection of essays, photos, stories and poems celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apple Farm in Three Rivers, Michigan and its artistic community. Comes with a pamphlet from the Mandala Garden dedication at Apple Farm in 2013.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. xiv, 456 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. ; ISBN 9780669280029, 066928002X OCLC 31890473 LCCN 94076841 LC DG533 .M27 1995 Dewey 945/.05 ; color pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; This collection of readings offers the best of contemporary Italian Renaissance scholarship, classic studies, and excerpts from a great variety of important primary sources in a single volume. Unique to this text is the presentation of conflicting interpretations of major issues in Renaissance history ; Contents: Pt. 1. The Renaissance problem -- 1. The Renaissance problem -- The culture of the Italian Renaissance / Jacob Burckhardt -- Did women have a renaissance? / Joan Kelly -- pt. II. The material world -- 2. The plage and public health -- The plague strikes Orvieto / Elisabeth Carpentier -- Medical reputations and the Black Death / Nancy G. Siraisi -- Sexuality and medicine in the Middle Ages / Danielle Jacquart and Claude Thomasett -- 3. The economy of city and countryside -- Landed property and trade in medieval Siena / Giuliano Pinto -- The preconditions for luxury consumption / Richard A. Goldthwaite -- Women's work in Renaissance Tuscany / Judith C. Brown -- 4. Urban needs and opportunities -- The Italian urban experience / Marvin B. Becker -- Social mobility in Florence / David Herlihy -- The urban territory of a Florentine merchant, 1400 / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber -- pt. III. Political forms -- 5. Renaissance Venice and Florence emerge -- Guild republicianism in Trecento Florence / John M. Najemy -- The Venetian aristocracy takes control / Frederic C. Lane -- 6. Forms of government in Renaissance Italy -- Communes and despots in late-medieval Italy / P.J. Jones -- The rise of the Medici / Dale Kent -- 7. Machiavelli's world -- The prince : political science or political satire? / Garrett Mattingly -- Machiavelli's advice to princes / Quentin Skinner Pt. IV. Humanism -- The beginnings of humanism / Ronald G. Witt -- Petrarch and the discovery of human nature / Hans Baron -- 9. Humanism serves the state -- In defense of civic humanism / Hans Baron -- The significance of civic humanism / Albert Rabil, Jr -- The moral philosophy of a Venetian humanist, Giovanni Caldiera / Margaret L. King -- 10. Schools of humanism -- Humanism and scholasticism in the Italian Renaissance / Paul Oskar Kristeller -- Antiquity versus modernity / Charles Trinkaus -- pt. V. Urban society and culture -- Maternity, widowhood, and dowry in Florence / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber -- Wives and husbands in late medieval Venice / Stanley Chonjnacki -- 12. Conspicuous consumption -- The building of Renaissance Florence / Richard A. Goldwaite -- Sumptuary law and social relations in Renaissance Italy / Diane Owen Hughes -- 13. Spirituality and ritual -- Ritual behavior in Renaissance Florence / Richard Trexler -- Art and pageantry in Renaissance Venice / Edward Muir -- 14. The end of the Renaissance? -- Changing assumptions in later Renaissance culture / William J. Bouwsma -- Clerics and laymen in Italian literature / Carlo Dionisotti ; FINE. Book.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 2nd ed.xiii, 188 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm ; ISBN 9780881920482, 9780917304095, 0881920487, 0917304098 ; OCLC 17441008 ; LCCN 77018737 ; LOC No SB413.J34 V47 ; Dewey 634.9/722/7 ; Bibliography: p. [171]-173. ; Green cloth ; no dustjacket ; J. D. Vertrees (1915--1993) was an entomologist, nurseryman, and educator who collected rare and unusual maples in southern Oregon. He was probably the most knowledgeable grower of Japanese maples in his time, amassing an impressive list of awards. ; Contents : Character and history -- What is a Japanese maple -- Momiji and Kaede -- The character of Japanese maples -- Variegation -- In regard to Fu -- History of Japanese cultivars -- Old literature on Japanese maples -- Taxonomy and nomenclature -- Taxonomy -- Nomenclature, difficulties and confusions -- Taxonomic subdivisions of acer palmatum -- Culture -- Culture in the garden -- Pests and problems -- Propagation -- Methods of propagation -- The cultivars displayed -- How to read cultivars -- Cultivars and selections of acer palmatum -- Plamate group -- Dissectum group -- Deeply divided group -- Linearilobum group -- Dwarf group -- Semi dwarf group -- Variegated group -- Unusual feature group -- New hybrids -- Cultivars & selections of acer japonicum -- Other acer species from Japan ; One of the first books published by Timber Press, this has remained a bestseller for almost 20 years. It presents the history, taxonomy, nomenclature, culture, & propagation of Acer palmatum & Acer japonicum & illustrates hundreds of wonderful varieties of these versatile trees & shrubs. ; clipped flaps from dustjacket laid in. name on front endpaper ; else FINE. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. xiii, 628 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm OCLC 760180 ; brown textured cloth with embossed lettering ; no dustjacket ; repair to back gutter ; dig to bottom of spine ; Contents:IN MEMORIAM-Henry Watterson -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH-Joel Chandler Harris -- MEMORIAL SKETCH--Marion Verdery -- SPEECHES -- THE NEW SOUTH-Delivered at the Banquet of the New England Club New York December 21 1886 -- THE SOUTH AND HER PROBLEM-At the Dallas Texas State Fair October 26 1887 -- AT THE AUGUSTA EXPOSITION-In November 1887 -- AGAINST CENTRALIZATION-Before the Society of the University of Virginia June 25 1889 -- THE FARMER AND THE CITIES-At Elberton Georgia in June 1889 -- AT THE BOSTON BANQUET-Before the Merchants' Association in December 1889 -- BEFORE THE BAY STATE CLUB-1889 -- WRITINGS -- SMALL JANE -The Story of a Little Heroine -- DOBBS--A Thumb-nail Sketch of a Martyr-A Blaze of Honesty-The Father of Incongruity-Five Dollars a Week A Conscientious Debtor -- A CORNER LOT -- THE ATHEISTIC TIDE SWEEPING Over The CONTINENT-The threatened Destruction of the Simple Faith of the Fathers by the Vain Deceits of Modern Philosophers -- ON THE OCEAN WAVE-An Amateur's Experience on a Steamship-How Sea-Sickness Works-The Sights of the SeaThe Lovers and the Pilot-Some Conclusions not Jumped at -- TWO MEN WHO HAVE THRILLED THE STATE-An Accidental Meeting on the Street in which Two Great Men areRecognized as the Types of Two Clashing Theories-Toombs's Successes-Brown's Judgment -- ??? How AN OLD MAN COME HOME -A Story Without a Moral Picked out of a Busy Life -- COTTON & ITS KINGDOM IN PLAIN BLACK AND WHITE-Reply to Mr Cable -- THE LITTE BOY IN THE BALCONY -- POEMS BY VARIOUS HANDS -- GRADY-F L Stanton -- ATLANTA-Josephine Pollard -- HENRY W GRADY-James Whitcombe Riley -- A REQUIEM IN MEMORY OF HIM THAT'S AWA Montgomery M Folsom -- HENRY WOODFIN GRADY-Henry O'Meara -- HENRY W GRADY-Henry Jerome Stockard -- WHO WOULD CALL HIM BACK ?-Belle Eyre -- HENRY W GRADY-G W Lyon -- WHAT THE MASTER MADE-Mel R Colquitt -- IN ATLANTA CHRISTMAS 1889-Henry Clay Lukens -- IN MEMORY OF HENRY WOODFIN GRADY-Lee Fairchild -- A SOUTHERN CHRISTMAS DAY-N C Thompson -- IN MEMORY OF HENRY W GRADY-Elizabeth J Hereford -- HENRY W GRADY-Mary E Bryan -- THE OLD AND THE NEW-J M Gibson -- HENRY W GRADY-E A B from the Boston Globe -- AT GRADY'S GRAVE-Charles W Hubner -- MEMORIAL MEETINGS -- THE ATLANTA MEMORIAL MEETING -- The Chi Phi Memorial -- Address of Hon Patrick Walsh -- Hon B II Hill -- Julius L Brown -- Hon Albert Cox -- Walter B Hill -- Judge Howard Van Epps -- Prof H C White -- Hon John Temple Graves -- Governor Gordon -- Resolutions -- MEMORIAL MEETING AT MACON GA -- Alumni Resolutions -- Address of Mr Richardson -- Mr Boifeuillet -- Major Hanson -- Judge Speers -- Mr Washington -- Mr Patterson -- PERSONAL TRIBUTES -- THOUGHTS ON H W GRADY-By B H Samett -- SEARGENT S PRENTISS AND HENRY W GRADY Similarity of Genius and Patriotism-By Joseph F Pon -- SERMON-By Dr T De Witt Talmage -- TRIBUTES OF THE NORTHERN PRESS -- He was the Embodiment of the Spirit of the New South From the New York World -- A Thoroughly American Journalist-From the New York Herald -- A Loss to the Whole Country--From the New York Tribune -- What Henry W Grady Represented-From the New York Commercial Advertiser -- A Far-sighted Statesman-From the New York Star -- An Apostle of the New Faith-From the New York Times -- The Foremost Leader-From the New York Christian Union -- Glorious Mission-From the Albany N Y Argus -- His Lofty Ideal-From the Philadelphia Press -- His Patriotism-From the Philadelphia Ledger -- Oratory and the Press-From the Boston Advertiser -- Lesson of Mr Grady's Life-From the Philadelphia Times -- His Loss a General Calamity-From the St Louis Globe Democrat -- Saddest of Sequels-From the Manchester N H Union -- A Life of Promise-From the Chicago Inter- Ocean -- Electrified the Whole Country-From the Pittsburg Dispatch -- A Large Brain and a Large Heart; FAIR. Book.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 2nd new edition. 478 pages. 10.00x7.00x9.97 inches. In Stock.