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Clark, Wesley KBiblio.com

Winning Modern Wars: Iraq Terrorism and the American Empire

Smith, Wesley JBiblio.com

Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World BIOTECHNOLOGY EUGENICS ETHICS

200421195San Francisco California U.S.A.: Encounter Books. New. 2004. Hardcover. 1893554996 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - 219 pages -- Interior text is clean tight and unmarked. From the publisher's description of the book: "Cloning researchers claim to have cloned an embryo that is mostly human but also part animal. Biotech companies brag about manufacturing human embryos as 'products' for use in medical treatments. Echoing long discredited master-race thinking James Watson who won a Nobel Prize for co-discovering the DNA double helix claims that genetically enhanced people will someday 'dominate the world.' Events are moving so fast--and biotechnology seems so complicated--that many of us worry that we can't have an informed opinion about these issues that are remaking the human future before our very eyes. But now Wesley J. Smith provides us with a guide to the brave new world that is no longer a figment of our imagination but right around the corner of our lives. Smith starts with the basic questions. What are stem cells What is the difference between embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells and which is most promising for medical therapy What does embryonic stem cell research involve and why is it so controversial What is its relationship to human cloning .In addition to explaining the science of stem cells this highly readable and carefully researched book reports on the gargantuan "Big Biotech" industry and its supporters in the universities and in the science and bioethics establishments. Smith shows how this lobby works and how the lure of huge riches mixed with the ideology of 'scientism' threatens to impose a 'new eugenics' on society that would dismantle ethical norms and call into question the uniqueness and importance of all human life. 'A Consumer's Guide to Brave New World' presents a clear-eyed vision of two potential futures. In one we will use biotechnology as a powerful tool to treat disease and improve the quality of our lives. But in another darker scenario we will be steered onto the anti-human path Aldous Huxley and other prophetic writers first warned against fifty years ago when science fiction had not yet become science fact." -- with a bonus offer--; . Encounter Books hardcover

AB Books · États-Unis1 976,00 $US≈ 1 671,89 €

[Powell, John Wesley] [EG Beckwith] [FW Lander] [John Pope] [John G Parke] [WH Emory] [Asa Gray] [John Torrey] E G F W W HBiblio.com

Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean Made under the Direction of the Secretary of War in 1853-4. Volume II John Wesley Powell's copy

18551677Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson Printer 1855. First edition. Hardcover. Good. John Wesley Powell's copy of Volume II of these 1853-54 reports with his stamp faintly in purple ink on the title page. A good only copy with dampstaining throughout but collectible in light of its owner who famously would go on to survey and provide his own report on the Grand Canyon. These 1853-54 reports were issued somewhat haphazardly in 12 volumes apparently as they were received rather than by region. Volume II contains the following: 1 "Report by Lieutenant E.G. Beckwith Third Artillery upon the Route near the Thirty-Eighth and Thirty-Ninth Parallels Explored by Captain J.W. Gunnison Corps of Topographical Engineers" Gunnison was killed on the journey; 2 "Report of Lieutenant E.G. Beckwith . . . upon the Route near the Forty-First Parallel"; 3 Report of a Reconnaissance from Puget Sound via South Pass to the Mississippi River by F.W. Lander Civil Engineer"; 4 "Report of Brevet Captain John Pope Corps Topographical Engineers upon the Portion of the Route near the Thirty-Second Parallel Lying between the Red River the Colorado and the Rio Grande"; 5 "Report of Lieutenant John G. Park Corps Topographical Engineers upon the Portion of the Route near the Thirty-Second Parallel Lying between the Rio Grande and Pimas Village on the Gila"; and 6 "Extract from Report of a Military Reconnaissance Made by Lieutenant Colonel W.H. Emory U.S. Army of the Portion of the Route near the Thirty-Second Parallel Lying between the Mouths of the San Pedro and Gila Rivers." Among several of the later reports are botanical sections by Asa Gray and John Torrey. These are replete with nice line-drawing botanical plates. In the first Beckwith report J.M. Stanley provides a series of beautiful vista illustrations in color of the Gunnison route. Near the rear are a fold out map and a fold out geological section depicting the stretch between the Colorado River "Red River and the Rio Grande. A contemporary binding of red cloth and quarter/corner leather with five raised bands and gilt lettering on spine. Red marbled endpapers. Again good only with dampstaining to all corners of the pages top and bottom see photos. The pages have some light waviness to them but turn fine and are readable the text itself mostly free of staining. Mottling on front board wrinkle on rear. Rubbing to board edges and nicks to spine corners as one might expect for a heavy book of this age. Despite its condition still a special copy--Powell's. The inclusion of the Colorado River in the fourth report in the volume would have ultimately been of special interest to him and one imagines the example of these reports would have influenced his own. A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer hardcover

Rural Hours · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €

POWELL, John Wesley; John S Billings, Bernhard OrnsteinBiblio.com

Autograph Letter Signed and accompanying Albumen Photograph of a Tailed Man 1879-80

1879422485Washington D.C. 1879. Very Good. Autograph Letter Signed by John Wesley Powell Director of the Bureau of Ethnology in Washington D.C. together with an accompanying photograph which he sent in 1880 to John S. Billings a surgeon and a statistician on medicine in the U.S. Army. The one page letter is written on "Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology" letterhead dated: "Ap. 27" 1880 and is addressed at the bottom to "Dr. John S. Billings Surgeon U.S.A. Army Medical Museum." Some water staining to the edges and related blurring to the manuscript text still legible and three-inch tear repaired with tape on the verso good only. The Albumen Print measures 9 ½ x 12 inches laid down on a cardboard mount 11 x 16". Contemporary manuscript caption in ink on the bottom margin of the mount: "3824 Photo. Tailed man" and on the back in French which identifies the photograph as a being from the Society of Anthropology in Berlin. Dated "Oct. 18" with "1879" inserted in pencil. Light soiling and toning to the mount with a tear to the top margin of the mount very good. The photograph of a tailed man which Powell takes "pleasure in sending" to Billings is an enlargement of the photo taken in 1879 by Surgeon-General Bernhard Ornstein chief physician of the Greek army. The original photo sent to the Berlin Anthropological Society sparked a decade-long debate about whether such protuberances were "atavistic tails" or "pathological protuberances." Powell was a celebrated naturalist and explorer who despite losing an arm in the Civil War led the first known passage through the Grand Canyon in 1869. When Congress created the Bureau of Ethnology in 1879 Powell was named its first director a post he held until his death. John Shaw Billings is best known as the modernizer of the Surgeon General's Library the nation's first comprehensive library for medicine. He also started Index Medicus a monthly guide to contemporary medicine that ran until his retirement at the Medical Museum and Library. A nice association. unknown

Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €

Wesley Lau (starring); Theodore Dreiser (novel); Erwin Piscator, Lena Goldschmidt, Euripides, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Kirk DeBiblio.com

An American Tragedy / Hippolytus / The Critic Original annotated play scripts belonging to actor Wesley Lau

1948168751N.p.: N.p. 1948. Carbon typescript copy of the play "An American Tragedy" with spirit-duplication copies of the plays "Hippolytus" and "The Critic" bound in. Working copies belonging to actor Wesley Lau with pencil annotations of Lau's name and the plays' titles on the front wrapper and manuscript marker annotations of "W. Lau" on the top left of the title page as well as listed in the annotations of actors' names adjacent to the character list on the title page with manuscript pencil and marker annotations throughout all three by Lau. The working copy of the three plays found here are all from July 1948 Beloit College Beloit Wisconsin performances of the three plays which Lau while on summer vacation from Yale Drama School performed in during the college's summer theatre workshop. Lau played the lead Claude Griffiths in Erwin Piscator and Lena Goldschmidt's 1932 adaptation of the the 1925 Theodore Dreiser novel Theseus in Euripide's "Hippolytus" and Plagiary in the 1779 satire "The Critic" by Richard Brinsley Sheridan noted as "acting version" by Beloit College theatre director and designer Kirk Denmark. Beloit's 1948 summer season including the "successful" production of "An American Tragedy" and upcoming performances including "Hippolytus" and "The Critic" were the subject of a July 13 1948 article "Janesville Student has Role in Next Beloit College Play" in the Janesville Daily Gazette which notes that director Denmark was assisted in the productions by "Wesley Lau of Yale University." Noted character actor Wesley Lau received a Masters of Arts degree from Yale Drama School and studied at The Actors Studio in New York with the intention of becoming a playwright having taken up acting only after finding more work as an actor than a playwright. Lau is best known for his 81 performances as Lt. Andy Anderson in the 1957-1966 CBS television series "Perry Mason" but made memorable appearances in numerous television series including "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" 1958-1959 "Peter Gunn" 1959-1960 "Gunsmoke" 1959-1960 "Bonanza" 1960 and 1966 "The Twilight Zone" 1961-1962 "The Big Valley" 1965 "Mission: Impossible" 1969-1972 and "The Six Million Dollar Man" 1975 among many others as well as appearing in the films "The Alamo" 1960 "The Venetian Affair" 1967 and "Panic in the City" 1968. An American Tragedy: Green untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for playwrights Erwin Piscator and Lena Goldschmidt and author Theodore Dreiser. 81 leaves with last page of text numbered III-29. Carbon typescript copy rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. Hippolytus: Bound in following "An American Tragedy." Title page present with credits for playwright Euripides. 30 leaves with last page of text numbered 29. Spirit duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine overall. The Critic: Bound in following "Hippolytus." First page integral with title page with credits for playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan and "Acting Version by" Kirk Denmark. 40 leaves with last page of text numbered III-20. Spirit duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus. N.p. unknown

Royal Books · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €

Wesley, John, 1703-1791; Whitefield, George, 1714-1770; Tucker, Josiah, 1713-1799; Corbett, Charles, 1710-1752Biblio.com

A COMPLEAT ACCOUNT OF THE CONDUCT OF THAT EMINENT ENTHUSIAST MR. WHITEFIELD. To which is annexed I. A true Character of him attested by himself. II. A most useful and entertaining Catechism for the Use of Female Methodists. III. Some Queries sent to Mr. W. at Bristol by the Reverend Mr. Tucker of that City. IV. An Answer to them supposed to be written by Mr. John Wesley. V. Some general Remarks on the Answer by the Publisher of this Account. And VI. A more particular Reply by Mr. Tucker the Author of the Queries. Together with SOME REMARKS on Mr. W's Journal.

173998089London: Sold by C. Corbett Bookseller and Publisher against St. Dunstan's-Church in Fleet-Street 1739. 1739. Good. - Octavo 8-1/2 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Printed self-wrappers with "Price Six-pence" in square brackets at the foot of the title page. Remnants of later plain green wraps are present along the spine. The front edges of the cover page and last page are slightly chipped. 2 & 38 deckle-edged pages decorated with a title device a formal head & tail piece and woodcut initial. There is scattered dampstaining particularly to the first and last pages. Good. First and only edition. RARE.The significance of a large part of the content of this pamphlet is described in a scholarly article by the American theologian and leading authority on John Wesley Dr. Randy L. Maddox. His article John Wesleys Earliest Published Defense of the Emerging Revival in Bristol 2014 can be found at The Divinity Archive a project of The Duke Divinity School Library.Part 1 "A Compleat Account of the Conduct &tc. of that Eminent Enthusiast Mr. Whitefield &tc." pages 1-16 is a scathing denunciation of Whitefield and John Wesley pieced together by the publisher Charles Corbett. Corbett who was responsible for other anti-Methodist tracts cites an account in the high church Anglican-supported Weekly Miscellany as his source. Corbett mocks Whitefield: "There is something so extravagantly ridiculous in the Behavior of this young Man it is very difficult for a person of any Humour to keep his Countenance.". He later goes on to include Wesley in his insults: "I defy all Mankind to justify such Conduct upon any Principles whatsoever; and Mr. John Wesley is less justifiable or rather more guilty than Mr. Whitefield because he is a Man of more Learning better Judgement and a cooler Head.". Following this Corbett publishes "A Copy of a private Conversation of Mr. Whitefield's taken down in Writing after his leaving the Room and brought to him by the Rev. Mr. Tucker Minister of All-Saints in Bristol and at his Request sign'd by Mr. Whitefield himself." It is the text of a conversation Whitefield had on March 30 1739 in which he attributes his understanding of "true Christianity" to a book by Henry Scougal "The Life of God in the Soul of Man". The text was originally published by Josiah Tucker in a broadsheet dated "Bristol March 30 1739".Part II "A Method of Confession drawn up for the Use of the Women Methodists. Taken from the Original." pages 18-20. Among the questions proposed are the following: "Are you in Love / Do you take more Pleasure in any Body than in God / Whom do you love just now better than any other Person in the World / Is not the Person an Idol Does he not especially in Publick Prayer steal in between God and your Soul / Does any Court you / Is there any one whom you suspect to have any such Design / Is there anyone who shews you more Respect than to other Women / Are not you pleased with That / How do you like him / How do you feel yourself when he comes when he stays when he goes away The last ten Questions may be ask'd as often as Occasion offers." Josiah Tucker described this as "shocking scheme for confessing the women". Dr. Maddox makes a cogent argument in his essay that while differing from Wesley's original December 1738 "Rules of the Band Societies" the author of the rules published here may have been Wesley not Whitefield.Part III "Queries to Mr. Whitefield" pages 20-22 were written by Josiah Tucker and appeared around mid-april 1739. According to Dr. Maddox the queries were "highlighting his discomfort with Whitefields emphasis on extraordinary operations of the Spirit". Part IV "An Answer to the Queries sent to Mr. Whitefield from the Rev. Mr. Tucker Minister of All-Saints Bristol; in a Letter to the Querist" 22-25 is attributed to John Wesley by both the publisher Charles Corbett and Dr. Maddox in his essay. The tone of the reply is quite disdainful. The writer opens: "Had not the Bristol Queries been said to be written by the Rev. Mr. Tucker I should have imagin'd they come from one who had no manner of Notion of Divine Revelation; but as you are a Reverend Minister I must suppose you to be a Christian though you have given great room to think that you believe nothing of the Operations of the Holy Spirit by owning that you do not perceive them in yourself and are hitherto unacquainted with any extraordinary and supernatural Light". He concludes: "If I have mistaken you please to let me know it and tell me both what you mean by the Expressions in which you oppose Mr. W's Notions of supernatural Light and Assistance and what your own Notions are of these Things."Part V of the pamphlet pages 26-31 is Corbett's response to the "Answer to the Queries" followed by his negative assessment of Whitefield. "This Answer is a sophistical Evasion and a false Charge upon the Querist. It turns all upon the Ambiguity of the Words extraordinary and supernatural and feeling or experiencing. Neither the Querist nor any other sober Christian denies the Operation of the Spirit upon our Minds and Hearts; and as this Influence is added to the natural Powers of the Soul it may be called extraordinary or supernatural." Corbett's argument is followed by his contemptuous remarks regarding Whitefield. "Mr. W. in the Character signed by himself has thoroughly satisfied the World of his great natural Abilities and the following Extracts from his last Journal are as strong a Proof of his supernatural Powers and Endowments. Tho' in many of them his Humility be so extraordinary as to put him upon a level with the Prophets and Apostles only yet in others he seems to put himself upon a Foot with Jesus Christ: and the Carnal Letter-learned Established Clergy are rank'd with the false Prophets whom he very candidly threatens with Damnation for opposing him." These statements are followed by nearly three pages of extracts from Whitefield's journal.Part VI is Josiah Tucker's reply to Wesley's answer pages 31-38. It is headed: "The following Reply of Mr. Tucker's not coming to hand 'till all the preceding Part of this Pamphlet was printed off and being willing to make this Collection as complete as I could I have here inserted it". Tucker's reply is dated "OxonJune 14 1739" and includes numerous footnotes by the author. It is especially interesting in that it includes Tucker's attack on the Catechism for female Methodists. He is responding to "Rev. Mr. Hutchins" i.e.John Hutchings b. 1716 who worked closely with Whitefield in Bristol in 1739. "Agreeable to this his Friend and Assistant at Bristol the Rev.Mr. Hutchins put out some Remarks on my Queries wherein with the usual Christian Spirit and Meekness of the Sect he affirms That I had cast a slur upon my gown . . . That I ought to quit the Ministry -- And that I got it by downright Falsehood and Equivocation..His next Attack is on my Phrase and Diction: Here he says I ought not to have asked After what Manner they come into the Mind but after what Manner we are enabled to discern believe and embrace them.But before I take my leave of him I would desire him to consider that if I really was a Deist as he represents me I should not have been such a strenuous Opposer of Mr. Whitefield: No The Deists seem strongly inclin'd to favour his Cause and foment the Division. They in particular are highly delighted with his Shocking scheme for confessing the Women; the graver Part with the Abuse and miserable Perversion of Scripture Sentences and the more dissolute with his indecent and loose Interrogations. This is a Scheme so evidently calculated to promote Vice and Lewdness that many People still persist in thinking 'tis only a waggish Sneer put upon him. But the Gentleman need not be told the contrary; as he appears to be Mr. Whitefields Friend he must know that 'tis a genuine and real Piece approved and recommended by the Heads of the Sect and actually put in Practice both in London and Bristol. Since therefore he has taken upon him to vindicate Mr. Whitefields Principles and Conduct he is hereby called upon publickly to defend it." London: Sold by C. Corbett, Bookseller and Publisher, against St. Dunstan's-Church in Fleet-Street, 1739. paperback

Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €

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