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260 pages including index and black and white plates. The death in London by hanging of one of Italy's leading bankers, Roberto Calvi, focused the world's attention upon the affairs of the Banco Ambrosiano, a bank closely involved in Vatican finance. After intensive research, including interviews with leading figures in the Italian financial world, with Calvi's family and associates in the United States and with bankers in the capitals of Europe, author has been able to unravel the complex story of Roberto Calvi and his world, and to piece together this amazing chronicle of financial malpractice in high places. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
82 pages. Features: Bare-breasted photo of Mia Martin on title page; The Last Word - an article, which would appear to be the last written by John Grierson before his death in 1972, discusses many aspects of the movement he founded; Alexandro Jodorowsky's 'El Topo' - graphic photos; Interview of Sterling Hayden with photos; Paul Nicholas writes on one aspect of a young British actor's life - with photos; Peter Whitehead's 'Daddy' - photos; The Decade of Change - Part 4 of the changing patterns in stardom on the British Screen - major article with many great photos; Preview of the 17th London Film Festival; 'Catch My Soul' - photos; Mary Pickford - article with photos; 'Mistress Pamela' - photos; 'Tout va Bien' - photos; Pin-up photo of the past - Henri Vidal; The Love Affairs of Jesus Christ; Antonio Calenda's 'Fury' - photos; Ad for 'Paper Moon'. Unmarked with average wear. Center page loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
164 pages. Features: Woody Allen on Mia's Revenge, Soon-Yi's Charms, Life in Exile and, of course, death; Sallie Tisdale - My Orgasm, Myself; Jimmy Breslin; Martha Sherrill on Don Imus; Mark Kram on Buddy Ryan; Cheating at Annapolis; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Afghan exiles agony; Trudeau's bad press over expensive foreign junket; A hard choice for viewers - First Choice pay TV seeks to run soft-core porn in the face of protests; Large weapons haul by RCMP on highway 99 near Whistler, BC; Cover story - Winnipeg '83 - Joe Clark on Trial - major article with colour photos; Q&A with Joe Clark on the politics of leadership; Maureen McTeer - more than just a political wife; Boston's Kevin H. White; Dark Stain on British Bobbies - tragic mistaken identity killing; Greymac, Seaway Trust Crown Trust - unfolding affair; Apple computer upstages its rivals - interesting article from the early days of PCs; Peter C. Newman on the potential of Pay TV; Canadian Pro Golfers begin a new season - photo of Dan Halldorson; The mob, a death and the NFL; Physics article on the results of proton decay research; Donald Forster and the University of Toronto - a restrained President; Time magazine quibbles with a red border around The Alberta Report; Relentless growth in private cops - Intertec. Average wear. Address label removed from front cover resulting in some peeling. Book
98 pages. Features: The End of the Great Financial Stimulus Experiment; Iron Jean Chretien - a Liberal Party Fantasy; Presidential expert Gil Troy in conversation; Who doesn't get into Canada? - a new emphasis on applicants from Asia; Federal Liberals utter the dreaded C (coalition) word; $4 Million G20 Fence in Ontario; America's more friendly face; Ronnie Lee Gardner chooses death by firing squad; Translator of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses is under attack; BP's PR disaster; Our Man in South Africa - Hector Vergara; Why are Hollywood films taking over high school math, history, even geography class?; Doctors are urged to get rid of their outdated pagers; Robot fish guides schools of fish from danger; New research to detect lung cancer is underway in Canada and the US; Did Anne of Green Gables have Fetal Alcohoal Syndrome?; Georges Marciano and his Montreal hotel; Fine dining at Vancouver's Cactus Club Cafe; Mark Steyn from Tangiers; In Memoriam - William James John Bleach. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Exclusive - we test-drive U.S. car with Rotary Engine - "Wankel Fever" hits Detroit; Death can result from mixing ordinary drugs and food with a couple of drinks; What it takes to win at Indy, with '65 winner Jim Clark; You can build a tape player for your car; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
112 pages. Features: Wind of Liberty, by Kenneth Bulmer; The Wages of Death, by Robert Silverberg; Machine Ricord, by Tevis Cogswell. Above-average wear. Water damage. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
Articles: Ginseng, Otter Skins, and Sandalwood - The Conundrum of the China Trade; Management Response in British Coastal Shipping Companies to Railway Competition; Toponymie ancienne et origine des noms Saint-Pierre, Miquelon et Langlade; Death was Their Escort, and glory passed them by - Life in the Marine Convoys of World War II; plus several book reviews. 3 items high-lighted in table of contents and sunning to spine else a clean and lightly worn copy. Book
72 pages. Features: The quiet death of the Susan B. Anthony dollar; Glassmaking in America - the story of Steuben; The peaceful journey of Chen Chi; Lladro - creating new traditions in Spanish porcelain; Mary Moline's Rockwell-inspired dolls; In Memoriam - Marcel Moussalli; Why Gordon W. Jones collects books; The glass of Orrefors a look at a current traveling exhibit. Rubbing to front cover, otherwise average wear. Prior owner's name atop page 2. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
Pages 131-174.. Features: Alex Monkman's Dream - transportation through the mountains; Whisky, Horses & Death - the Plains Indian in the Cypress Hills; The Miner's Angel; The Great Creston Bank Robbery; A Just Retribution - The first newspaper headline claimed 45 miners had been massacred by Indians in the Fraser Canyon. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Ad clipped from back cover. Book
96 pages. Features: 700 Miles to San Simon; Cromson Trail of Qual-Chan; Captain Cooney's Fate; Death of an Outlaw; Tramp Girls; The McCoy Gang; Trouble on the U.P.; Joaquin Murieta's Last Victim was the Man Who Created Him; Little-known Anton Chico; Last Log Drive to Somers Mill; The Short and Miserable Life of the Shoshone; Old Times at the Occidental. Date stamp atop back cover. Magazine
64 pages. Features: The West As it Was; Kid Thompson's Silver Pesos; Outlaw!; Gold!; On the Trail of Geronimo; Donald "Putt" Puttman - Western Artist; The Xit Ranch; Call of the Dutchman; Blood Brother to the Apache; Five Cards and Six Shooter; Slaughter of the Mustangs; Monster of the Plains; Six Who Risked Death. Very small scribble on back cover. Magazine
Light bump near base of spine else fine. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Contents: Oikos and polis; Public and private interests in classical Athens; Women in Antiquity: Appendix I: Greeks and 'others' Appendix II: Greek Sexuality; Family in classical Athens: search for a perspective; Family tombs and tomb-cult in classical Athens: tradition or traditionalism? Fustel de Coulanges, The Ancient City Part I (A. Momigliano) Part II (S. C. H. ) ; Death and time; comparative perspectives on death. ; International Library of Anthropology; 210 pages
This is an about very good softcover copy in the original stiff card covers with light wear. Covers clean, a little toned. Completely clean inside. Top right corner of the book curved. A virtual encyclopedia of American cartoonists. This is the 'Revised edition 1972-77'. 187 cartoonists profiled here. Each with black & white portrait photograph and several typical cartoons. Plus a short statement by each artist about themselves. Introduction. Lists of award winners. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Cover is a collage of the cartoonist self-portraits in black & white. 11" high X 9" wide, 183 pages.
In-8, brossura, pp. 27. Estratto dal "Politecnico" fascic. XLIV, febbr. 1860. Alcune leggere sottolineature a matita, peraltro ben conservato.
2 vols., 8vo., Fourth Edition, neat signature on front free endpapers; contemporary full calf, boards with double Oxford frame in gilt, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartments with black leather labels lettered in gilt (one label effectively a fragment), third compartments with red leather labels numbered and tooled in gilt, all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, gilt dentelles, red sprinkled edges, green silk markers, joints mildly rubbed, hinges starting (but binding entirely sound), else a very good, fresh, clean copy.
LIGUORI 1990 490 PP. FONDO DI MAGAZZINO: PERFETTO E INTONSO. Questo libro si propone si essere la ricostruzione globale, in una prospettiva di ermeneutica storica (filologicamente e sociologicamente fondata) della poetica di uno dei pittori più illustri e giustamente "popolari" di tutta l'arte spagnola, Francisco Goya y Lucientes.Goya è oggi considerato, a buon diritto, fra i pochi grandi precursori primo-ottocenteschi dell'"arte moderna" (come in modo diverso lo sono stati, ad esempio, Friedrich, Géricault, Delacroix, Turner...). Tuttavia la sua figura va vista non solo come quella di una personalità artistica di grande talento, ma anche come quella di un uomo che si serve della pittura come linguaggio espressivo per comunicare ciò che è necessario dire a proposito di un mondo che egli sogna, più o meno chiaramente, di trasformare. Goya sembra essere coinvolto in un profondo rapporto d'odio-amore con la storia. In una prospettiva totale "male" e "bene" potevano mescolarsi, ma sulla bilancia della storia il "male" era in eccesso. Di qui il compito della ragione come ragione oppositiva e radicale, nel senso di un congiungimento di intelletto e immaginazione per fronteggiare l'orrore, i "mostri della storia".Attraverso il linguaggio (e il pensiero) "forte" e "agonico" della propria arte (per usare il linguaggio della critica "decostruzionista"), Goya ha messo in atto una pratica creativa della trasparenza razionale nei confronti delle contraddizioni e della brutalità del processo storico. Tale pratica si configura come filosofia stessa della "condizione umana" tramite un'arte che, in modo già espressionista e/o surrealista, vuole proporsi come "valore", al di là di un'esclusiva dimensione stilistica, e quindi in una prospettiva decisamente "anticlassica". Ma la "filosofia" di Goya si fonda altresì sulla consapevolezza non marginale che gli ideali di mutamento, di trascendenza di una parte dell'umanità vengono spesso, troppo spesso, annullati e relegati nel "regno di utopia". E tale emarginazione nell'"utopia" è messa soprattutto in atto dalla "stupidità", dalla "malafede", dalla "follia malvagia" di coloro che a questa metamorfosi si oppongono, mossi dalla insensata volontà di percorrere, senza remissione, i sentieri "demoniaci", ma storicamente determinati, del "male".
Patroni Griffi Giuseppe La morte della bellezza. , Mondadori 1987-04-01, Copertina originale lievemente segnati dal tempo; sovraccoperta leggermente ingiallita ma in buono stato. Tagli impolverati. Pagine ingiallite ai margini ma in buono stato. La pagina 311 è leggermente scollata dal resto del libro. Buono (Good) . <br> <br> <br> 312<br> 8804301422
New English Paperback. Pbo. 4to. (28 x 22,5 cm). In French. 317 p., 39 b/w plates. B/w ills. A heavy volume. Les Lyciens et la mort. Une etude d'historie sociale. Following the presentation of the subject with its chronological limits and sources, the researcher continues with tomb types, lexicological study, funeral rites and cult, protection of the tombs, profanation of the tombs and the tomb as a reflection of a society. A collection of inscriptions is also given in detail.
Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century. Those who have unearthed them, from the middle ages to the present, have speculated widely on their meaning. This authoritative book makes a major contribution to the study of death and burial in late antique and early medieval society with its long overdue systematic discussion of this mortuary evidence. Tracing the history of Merovingian archaeology within its cultural and intellectual context for the first time, Effros exposes biases and prejudices that have colored previous interpretations of these burial sites and assesses what contemporary archaeology can tell us about the Frankish kingdoms. Working at the intersection of history and archaeology, and drawing from anthropology and art history, Effros emphasizes in particular the effects of historical events and intellectual movements on French and German antiquarian and archaeological studies of these grave goods. Her discussion traces the evolution of concepts of nationhood, race, and culture and shows how these concepts helped shape an understanding of the past. Effros then turns to contemporary multidisciplinary methodologies and finds that we are still limited by the types of information that can be readily gleaned from physical and written sources of Merovingian graves. For example, since material evidence found in the graves of elite families and particularly elite men is more plentiful and noteworthy, mortuary goods do not speak as directly to the conditions in which women and the poor lived. The clarity and sophistication with which Effros discusses the methods and results of European archaeology is a compelling demonstration of the impact of nationalist ideologies on a single discipline and of the struggle toward the more pluralistic vision that has developed in the post-war years. ; 1.05 x 9.24 x 6.38 Inches; 272 pages
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear to cover. 102 pages. Blurb taped to front endpaper.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 130 pages. 9 1/2"w x 11 5/8"h. Text in German and English. Signed by Arnulf Rainer on title page. Introductory essay by Jean-Michel Foray.
Bologna, 1852, dicembre 30, cm. 64 x 46, Notificazione dell' I.R. Governo Civile Militare, aquila bicipite xil. ed a firma Conte Nobili.
