alfred knopf new york 2007 (12 Ergebnisse)

very good dust-jacket, scratches on rear panel, cover price $23.95, very good white hardcover, small square cut out of top of front endpaper probably to remove owner's name. DANTICAT, EDWIDGE. Brother, I'm dying. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007, stated First Edition, , . Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph, a charismatic pastor, as her "second father" when she was placed in his care at age four when her parents left Haiti for America. So she experiences a jumble of emotions when, at twelve, she joins her parents in New York City, whom she struggles to remember--she has left behind Joseph and the only home she's ever known. The story of a new life in a new country while fearing for those still in Haiti soon becomes a terrifying tale of good people caught up in events beyond their control. In 2004, his life threatened by a gang, the frail, 81-year-old Joseph makes his way to Miami, where he thinks he will be safe. Instead, he is detained by the Department of Homeland Security, brutally imprisoned, and dead within days. It was a story that made headlines around the world. ISBN 9781400041152.

Bach, Steven. Leni: the life and work of Leni Riefenstahl. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007, 3d printing, x, 386pp., good dust-jacket with small tear along lower edge of rear flap, very good hardcover, remainder dot on bottom foredge. Leni Riefenstahl, the woman best known as "Hitler's filmmaker," is one of the most controversial personalities of the twentieth century. Her story is one of huge talent and huger ambition, one that probes the sometimes blurred borders dividing art and beauty from truth and humanity. Two of her films, Olympia and Triumph of the Will, are universally regarded as among the greatest and most innovative documentaries ever made, but they are also insidious glorifications of Hitler and the Third Reich. Relying on new sources - including interviews with her colleagues and intimate friends, as well as on previously unknown recordings of Riefenstahl herself - biographer Bach untangles the truths and lies behind this gifted woman's lifelong self-vindication as an apolitical artist who claimed she knew nothing of the Holocaust and denied her complicity with the criminal regime she both used and sanctified (jacket text) - CONTENTS: Berlin -- Metropolis -- Debuts -- Climbing -- Higher -- Above the clouds -- The Blue Light -- Ascent -- Lightning -- The turning point -- Total devotion -- Triumph -- The Olympic idea -- Tomorrow the world -- Aftermath -- Leni at war -- Goodbye to all that -- Pariah -- Survivor -- Comeback -- Fortune and men's eyes -- The last picture show(s) -- Afterlife. ISBN 9780375404009.

20 x 13cm 639pp b&w illust very good hardback & dustwrapper The background and context of the conflict between the Roman empire and the Jewish capital and its consequences.

24.0 x 16.0cms 424pp b/w & colour illusts very good hardback & dustwrapper This book looks at three generations of the Clarke family: Edward Clarke who controlled the Singer sewing-machine empire and commissioned New York''s Dakota building; Edward Clarke his closetted son: Sterling Clarke the art connoisseur who collected Impressionist works and built the Williamstown Museum; Stephen Clarke who chaired New York''s Museum of Modern Art and sacked Alfred Barr.

343pp. 8vo. Original yellow wrappers. Black and white illustrations. A very good copy. First edition proof.

8vo, xx + 851pp. Original boards in pictorial dustwrapper. Fore-edges of text block untrimmed. b/w photographic illustrations of plates. A near-fine copy.

8vo. [x] + [143pp.] Edges of pages spotted. Original boards. Pictorial d/w. with black spine lttered in white. D/w. slightly rubbed to edges with chip to wrapp. at fore-edge of upper board. ISBN 9780307267841 US$7.

24.0 x 16.0cms 728ppb/w illusts very good+ paperback & cover (owner''s signature) This was the first major biography of the Dutch born icon of American abstract expressionism.

24.0 x 16.0cms 728ppb/w illusts very good+ paperback & cover (owner''s signature) This was the first major biography of the Dutch born icon of American abstract expressionism.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 13th printing ; xiv, 381 pages ; 22 cm ; ISBN 9781400040810, 9780676979787, 1400040817, 0676979785 ; OCLC 85692744 ; dark brown cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; "Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does--humans are a musical species. Oliver Sacks's compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own brains, and of the human experience. Here, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people."-- From the publisher ; Contents: Haunted by music. A bolt from the blue : sudden musicophilia ; A strangely familiar feeling : musical seizures ; Fear of music : musicogenic epilepsy ; Music on the brain : imagery and imagination ; Brainworms, sticky music and catchy tunes ; Musical hallucinations -- A range of musicality. Sense and sensibility : a range of musicality ; Things fall apart : amusia and dysharmonia ; Papa blows his nose in G : absolute pitch ; Pitch imperfect : cochlear amusia ; In living stereo : why we have two ears ; Two thousand operas : musical savants ; An auditory world : music and blindness ; The key of clear green : synesthesia and music -- Memory, movement, and music. In the moment : music and amnesia ; Speech and song : aphasia and music therapy ; Accidental davening : dyskinesia and cantillation ; Come together : music and Tourette's Syndrome ; Keeping time : rhythm and movement ; Kinetic melody: Parkinson's disease and music therapy -- Phantom fingers: the case of the one-armed pianist ; Athletes of the small muscles : musician's dystonia -- Emotion, identity, and music. Awake and asleep : musical dreams ; Seduction and indifference ; Lamentations : music and depression ; The case of Harry S. : music and emotion ; Irrepressible : music and the temporal lobes ; A hypermusical species : Williams Syndrome ; Music and identity : dementia and music therapy ; Oliver Wolf Sacks is a neurologist and writer. He was born in London, England on July 9, 1933. Sacks earned his medical degree at Oxford University and performed his internship at Middlesex Hospital in London and Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco. He completed his residency at UCLA. In 1965, Sacks became a clinical neurologist to the Little Sisters of the Poor and Beth Abraham Hospital. He also worked with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Sacks' work in a Bronx charity hospital led him to write the book Awakenings in 1973. The book inspired a play by Harold Pinter and became a film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. Sacks was also elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. ; What goes on in human beings when they make or listen to music? What is it about music, what gives it such peculiar power over us, power delectable and beneficent for the most part, but also capable of uncontrollable and sometimes destructive force? Music has no concepts, it lacks images; it has no power of representation, it has no relation to the world. And yet it is evident in all of us-we tap our feet, we keep time, hum, sing, conduct music, mirror the melodic contours and feelings of what we hear in our movements and expressions. In this book, Oliver Sacks explores the power music wields over us-a power that sometimes we control and at other times don't. He explores, in his inimitable fashion, how it can provide access to otherwise unreachable emotional states, how it can revivify neurological avenues that have been frozen, evoke memories of earlier, lost events or states or bring those with neurological disorders back to a time when the world was much richer. ; FINE/FINE. Book.

723 p 24 cm Encuadernación editorial en cartoné con sobrecubierta en papel. Estado de conservación: Como nuevo. .

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. 8vo. [8], 1-407, [1] pp. Quarter brown cloth over blue paper boards with orange lettering on the spine. Price of $16.99 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket art by Kinuko Y. Craft. Two small blemishes on the fore-edge, else a sharp copy.