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PW1007Oxford University Press 1990.: Series: Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology. 8vo. x 2 242 pp. Index. Black gilt-stamped cloth. Bookplate. Near fine. ISBN: 0195053613 "Eugenics is the branch of biology concerned with the improvement of hereditary qualities in humans. It draws scientists into direct contact with social and political policy makers. Yet eugenic movements which have been mainly implemented by politicians often differ significantly from the original aims of the scientists. The four contributors to this volume examine the eugenic movements in Germany France Brazil and the Soviet Union. The scientific components of those programmes are considered alongside the social religious and political forces which significantly altered the original scientific goals. The book opens up new and comparative perspectives on the history of eugenics and the social aspects of science in general." – Publisher. Contents: Introduction: Eugenics in the history of science-- Sheila Faith Weiss: The race hygiene movement in Germany 1900-1940-- William H. Schneider: The eugenics movement in France 1890-1940-- Nancy Leys Stepan: Eugenics in Brazil 1917-1940-- Mark B. Adams: Eugenics in Russia 1900-1940-- Conclusion: Towards a comparative history of eugenics: Issues and prospects. Series: Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology. hardcover books
196830817Greenwich: Fogg Art Museum / New York Graphic Society 1968. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. Unpaginated. Introduction notes and catalogue by Eugenia Parry Janis. With 79 full-page plates and 321 catalogue illustrations. A thorough study of the Degas monotype. Very good in clipped but otherwise very good dustwrapper. A large and heavy book. Additional shipping charges may apply. Fogg Art Museum / New York Graphic Society unknown books
200888983Morelia Michoacán: Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo; Consejo Nacional para la Ciencia y la Tecnología 2008. 27 cm. Coordinadores: Carlos Salvador Paredes Martínez. et al. 2 vols: 468p; pp 471-843 color and b/w plates maps facs. tbls. chts. graphs diags. bibl. index color pict. wrps. The most detailed architectural study and inventory of Michoacán region during the colonial period that has been printed. The study is the result of a multi- disciplinary group investigation between institutions in Mexico. The book has two main themes: the architecture of habitable space and the dynamics and organization and urban structure in relation to the population. There are 42 contributions by noted scholars divided into six parts. The last chapter is a survey of architecture throughout Latin America. Contents: Población poblamientos y reorganización de los asentamientos humanos en la Temprana Época Colonial -- Apropiación control y territorialidad en la concepción y construcción del territorio -- Los Asentamientos Humanos y sus espacios -- Arquitectura religiosa en el contexto del territorio y de los asentamientos humanos -- Tecnología y tradición constructiva -- Del territorio a la arquitectura en América colonial. AN ESSENTIAL REFERENCE. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000. Sold as set Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo; Consejo Nacional para la Ciencia y la Tecnología unknown books
200889049Morelia Michoacán: Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo Coordinación de la Investigación Científica Consego Estatal de Ciencia y Tenología 2008. 23 cm. Colaboración de: Carlos Salvador et al 162p bibl. apend. plus color plates plans facs. maps meas. draws. pict. fldg. wrps. Contents: La vivienda purépecha. notas en torno a s istoria y la habitabilidad en la época colonial Carlos Salvador Paredes Martínez / La vivienda purépecha: haitabilidad y forma de vida Eugenia María Azevedo Salomao / El espacio doméstico en pueblos purépecha como producto histórico y cultural Aida Castilleja González / Tecnología en la tradición constructiva de la vivienda purépecha Luis Alberto Torres Garibay / La vivienda purépecha evaluación del confort térmico Héctor Javier González Licón / La vivienda purépecha como elemento estrtégico de desarrollo local en una región de Michoacán Carlos Alberto Hiriart Pardo / Bibliografía / Anexo: Tipologías de viviendas tradicionales en Michoacán. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000. Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Coordinación de la Investigación Científica, Conse unknown books
1979158477BIRMINGHAM UNIV OF ALABAMA 1979 1979. DUST JACKET SMALL CHIP TO SPINE TOP FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover. BIRMINGHAM, UNIV OF ALABAMA, 1979 hardcover books
1979034519Birmingham: University of Alabama. 1979. Inscribed by Rawls to Cheryl Crawford on the dedication page: "and for Cheryl with admiration and affection/ Eugenia." Dated December 1 1979. With several small corrections to the text in the author's hand. Rawls and Bankhead were lifetime friends from childhood. Near fine in a good dust jacket with only minor edge wear and foxing but with dampstaining to the spine. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. University of Alabama hardcover books
1992044656Firneze: Le Monnier 1992. x 403p. original stiff printed boards Materiale ricerche per il Devoto-Oli. Le Monnier unknown books
1999176314New York: Graphis 1999. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 223 pages. Features an essay by Eugenia Parry. A collection of Bidaut's photographs using the antique tintype technique. A tight very good copy in red cloth boards with the usual flaking to the lettering on the spine and front board. No dust jacket as issued. Graphis unknown books
2004Embry 137224Houghton Mifflin & Co. 2004. First edition first printing. One page with small stain else fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Inscribed by the author. Houghton Mifflin & Co., 2004. First edition, first printing. unknown books
2018Embry 196510Rodale 2018. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Rodale, 2018. First edition, first printing. unknown books
199621665Fullerton CA and Los Angeles: Fullerton College Art Gallery / The Artists' Floating Invisible Museum of Actual Art / Public Access Press of the Southern California Institute of Architecture 1996-2004. First editions of three all published of a projected series of four portfolios the series cut short by Eugenia Butler's untimely death of a brain hemorrhage in 2008. One of 80 numbered copies the entire edition produced numbered and signed in the artist's or poet's studio. At the time of the exhibition of The Book of Lies at the 18 Arts Gallery in Santa Monica in 2007 Eugenia Butler wrote: "Sixteen years after the Book of Lies project began the first three of its four volumes are finished. The entirety of the work has taken on form and content far beyond any original imaginings. It has become a rounded voice coming from many voices a discourse about truth in the territory of the unknowable. Its power derives from the strength and integrity of the individual pieces from the communal voice and in single intimate interactions. Each volume is a work of art unto itself that developed from the process of creating it from the individual works themselves and from the relationships between the parts and the whole. At a certain point a bigger vision broke through - something beyond previous understandings - surpassing the initial ideas to become a singular artwork consisting of discrete and powerful works of art. Its subject matter is truth lies and the intimate power of a true work of art." The works of art include pieces by artists and writers Georganne Deen Kim Jones Julia Lohmann John O'Brien Edgar Arceneaux Sally Elesby George Evans Joan Jonas Barry Sanders Arthur Sze Matthew Thomas Kim Abeles Lynn Aldrich Carolee Campbell Steve DeGroodt Janet Fitch Tom Marioni Kim McCarty Michael C. McMillen John Outterbridge Mary Rakow and Madam X. Carolee Campbell of the Ninja Press designed the box brass and enclosures for Vol. III. Images and additional information on The Book of Lies may be found at: http://www.curatorial.com/exhibitions_current/exhib-BookofLies.html. Bookplate in two portfolios with small adhesive shelf labels on each portfolio otherwise the set is in fine condition. Complete sets are rare on the market. Quartos three original portfolios of 81 works of art created out of incised & collaged lead oil paint on vellum original pencil drawings a photograph on platinum paper polaroid photographs cyanotypes ashes of love letters hand-embroidery and holograph and mechanically reproduced images and texts with interleaved translucent sheets noting the artist loose as issued inserted in a paper chemise and cardboard folderor in an individual folder and laid into a clamshell box accompanied by a spiral bound commentary volume in original printed wrappers printed by Carolee Campbell of the Ninja Press. Bookplate in two portfolios with small adhesive shelf labels on each portfolio otherwise the set is in fine condition. Complete sets are rare on the market. Fullerton College Art Gallery / The Artists' (Floating, Invisible) Museum of Actual Art / Public Access Press of the Southern Ca unknown books
199430619Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Art Museum 1994. Softcover. VG- exlibrary with small sticker to cover at head light wear to cover edges. Purple ill. wraps. 64 pp. 16 bw plates numerous bw ills. Exhibition held September 23 to December 18 1994; three additional venues/times. University of New Mexico Art Museum paperback books
20081330044Roma: Edizioni Quasar 2008. Softcover. Quarto; VG-; Paperback; Spine b&w illustration with white text; Cover is clean and bright; Text block clean and tight but for name in ink on front flyleaf; Text in Italian; 307 pages illustrated b&w folded site map laid in. <br /> <br /> NOTE: Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1330044. FP New Rockville Stock. Edizioni Quasar unknown books
197429296Nashville: Thomas Nelson Inc 1974. cloth dust jacket. square 8vo. cloth dust jacket. 156 4 pages. B2-2270. Illustrated history written for young adults. Jacket age darkened with some rubbing of spine. Thomas Nelson Inc unknown books
198446871San Francisco: the Coalition 1984. handbill leaflet. Single sheet flyer/handbill printed two sides one in English one in Spanish 8.5x11 inches calling for a May 12 1984 demonstration in San Francisco black text on marigold paper prisoner sketch. Speakers included a number of Salvadorian refugees and activists originating from Central America. the Coalition unknown books
1994184632Baltimore: DuForcelf Black Classic Press 1994. Paperback. 188p. very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps remainder marks to bottom page edges. Baltimore writer and educator. DuForcelf Black Classic Press paperback books
197421738Detroit: Broadside Press 1974. First Edition. Very good . 4to. Broadside printed recto only. 10.875" by 8.5" approx. Very good plus. Small crease to one edge; else about fine. <br/><br/>Attractively printed broadside from this African-American press operated by Dudley Randall in Detroit beginning in the mid-60s and throughout the 1970s. From an edition of 500 copies. Broadside Press unknown books
196920828San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute 1969. First edition. Loose Sheets. Fine. Single sheet folded art poster. Fine condition. When opened it measures 20 x 14". Scarce poster announcing an exhibition April 11 - May 3 1969 at the San Francisco Art Institute and featuring a cream of the crop of artists of the day. Exhibition organized by Eugenia Butler. <br/><br/> San Francisco Art Institute unknown books
2015163323Mexico D.F.: Pablo Goebel Fine Arts 2015. Paperback. NF. Red color-pictorial wraps with white lettering. 67 pp. full of color images. Catalogue from the gallery exhibition held at Pablo Goebel Fine Arts in 2015 and previously in Medellin at GalerÃa Duque Arango. With essays in both Spanish and English by Pablo Goebel Luis-Martin Lozano and Miguel Angel Munoz. Pablo Goebel Fine Arts paperback books
1926WRCAM50158Charleston: Southern Printing and Pub. Co. 1926. 1011pp. plus fifteen plates. Modern three-quarter calf and cloth boards leather label by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with original wrappers bound in. Front board slightly bowed. Mild toning. Very good. A biography of James Oglethorpe British general and founder of the colony of Georgia. Oglethorpe was a member of Parliament and a renowned humanitarian conceiving the plan to resettle many of England's poorest particularly those in debtors' prisons to the New World. Southern Printing and Pub. Co. hardcover books
1986180905Paris: Musee des Arts Decoratifs 1986. Hardcover. VG/VG some cover wear. Dj has some curling along edges and some tearing near spine. French language edition. Black cloth boards with silver letering pn spine. SIlver dj with photographs. 191 pages : chiefly illustrations some color. Museum exhibition. Musee des Arts Decoratifs hardcover books
201234478New Haven: Yale University Press 2012. Paperback. Very good. 201pp index. Internally fine with clean text that has no underlining highlighting or notes. <br/><br/> Yale University Press paperback books
1969289307Grand Rapids Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House 1969. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed. Signed by the author on the title page. A religious work on the love of God. Green cloth. Minor wear to the Very Good dustjacket. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Zondervan Publishing House unknown books
15943000London: : Printed by Adam Islip for C. Hunt of Excester 1594. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH translated from the 1582 Italian translation of Camillo Camilli d. 1615. . Quarto: . 19 x 14 cm. . 16 333 3 pp. A-Y8 Bound in 19th c. calf rebacked the boards ruled in gold. This is a fine copy; title a little dusty. Occasional marginal pencil notations in margins. “To Distinguish and discern these natural difference’s of man’s wit and to apply to each by art that science wherein he may profit is the intention of this my work.†“This sentence concisely summarizes the ultimate purpose of one of the most successful and influential Spanish scientific books published in the early modern period one with long-lasting influence upon the European intellectual world: the ‘Examen de Los Ingenios para Las Ciencias’ 1575 by the Spanish physician and philosopher Juan Huarte de San Juan 1529-1588… Huarte is now hailed as the precursor of several branches of pedagogy and psychology including differential pedagogy and differential psychology and their practical applications professional orientation and selection. Recently too Noam Chomsky recognized in Huarte a forerunner of the rationalist innatism and the linguistic theory of 17th-century French scholars notably Descartes. In the eyes of Chomsky the ‘Examen’ is the first scientific treatise to define human wit as a generative power that reveals the creative capacities of the human mind… “For Huarte wit denotes the totality of the psychological abilities of an individual; more precisely an individual ability or predisposition dependent on temperament linked to the qualities of the four basic elements earth air water and fire organically connected to the brain and under the influence of other organs. The starting point for Huarte’s theory of wits is that the temperature of the four qualities hot cold moist and dry of the elements has an impact upon the function of the rational as well as the ‘sensitive’ soul and that intemperate and ever-changing environmental conditions lead to a diversity of the wits. Wit is subject to age region of birth sex currents of air weather diet physical exercise and lifestyle in general since these factors have an impact upon the predominance in every individual of one of three powers of the intellective soul: memory imagination or understanding… Huarte’s goal is to clearly delineate what makes a man capable of one science and incapable of another to discover the number of differences of wits the arts and sciences that correspond to each and most importantly to illustrate how all this can be known. The Brain & Faculties of Mind “Contrary to the view of Aristotle and following Plato Hippocrates and Galen instead Huarte argues that ‘the brain is the principal seat of the reasonable soul.’ In his view in order for the reasonable soul to discourse and philosophize the brain ‘should be tempered with measurable heat and without excess of the other qualities’ and divided into four ventricles ‘distinct and severed each duly bestowed in his seat and place.’ Huarte describes the ventricles of the brain as four little hollows of ‘one self composition and figure without anything coming in between which may breed a difference.’ The three ventricles in the forepart of the head are used to ‘discourse and philosophize’ while the fourth ventricle deals with the least noble operations as it ‘hath the office of digesting and altering the vital spirits and to convert them into animal.’ The conviction that the three mental powers understanding imagination and memory necessarily work in collaboration with each other –to the extent that without one the rest would malfunction- makes Huarte conclude that ‘in every ventricle are all the three powers.’… Building a Better Society by Compulsion. “Huarte took his theories very seriously and believed that they could have practical repercussions upon the society of his time. His dedicatory to King Philip II of Spain suggests in fact a law by which subjects exclusively performed the profession art or science that corresponded to them by nature. Huarte envisioned appointing ‘men of great wisdom and knowledge who might discover each man’s wit at a tender age and cause him perforce to study that science which is agreeable to him not permitting him to make his own choice… to the end he may not err in choosing that which fitteth best with his own nature.’ Huarte’s reasoning was that if every man carried out the job that suited his natural capabilities best progress in the scientific artistic and technological production of Spain would promptly follow and a body of naturally accomplished and efficient professionals would ensue… “Huarte allows for a body of intellectuals defined by their merits and not by the social class into which they were born; nature should then be made the key for social mobility. Nobility by birth is no guarantee of sophisticated wits and Huarte remarks that precisely within the highest strata of society numerous witless children are born whereas poor families often produce witty offspring. Eugenics “The ‘Examination’ interacts with numerous treatises on midwifery and procreation in England in the early modern period. Indeed Chapter XV of the book is a short treatise on eugenesis i.e. the application of the biological laws of inheritance to the perfection of mankind particularly concerned with four issues: 1. ‘to show the natural qualities and temperature which men and women ought to possess to the end they may use generation’; 2. To discuss ‘what diligence the parents ought to employ that their children may be male and not female’ and 3. ‘how they may become wise and not fools’ and finally 4. ‘how they are to be dealt withal after their birth for preservation of their wit.’. This final chapter is of the utmost importance to Huarte who is of the opinion that ‘parents apply not themselves to the act of generation with that order and concert which is by nature established neither know the conditions which ought to be observed to the end their children may prove of wisdom and judgment.’ In other words ‘The Examination’ aims to prevent parents from engendering witless children out of ignorance and by so doing to remedy the problems of society prior even to the moment of conception: ‘if by art we may procure a remedy for this begetting witless children we shall have brought to the commonwealth the greatest benefit that she can receive.’â€RocÃo G. Sumillera “Richard Carew The Examination of Men's Wits†pp. 1-66 STC 2nd ed. 13892; Garrison-Morton 4964 1575 Spanish edition; Durling 2498. Hunter & Macalpine p. 46. Thorndike VI pp. 413-14 Printed by Adam Islip, for C. Hunt of Excester, unknown books
1934WRCLIT83772London: Watts & Co. 1934. viii551pp. 12mo. Stiff printed wrapper. Small Portsmouth bookseller's blindstamp in upper fore-corner of half title a bit of scattered foxing early and late otherwise an unusually nice copy. First edition published as No 19 in "The Forum Series." Includes overviews of activities at home and abroad including 24 pages on a "Successful Experiment" in California discussions of birth control and of course the highly sensitive primary subject. Watts & Co. unknown books
