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367pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition fair
80 pages. Features: Many gorgeous fashion ads; Who Wants to be the Last American Killed in Vietnam?; Jan Stenerud is No Football Player but he Wins Football Games; Fateful Triangle - The United States, Japan and China; Concert Pianist Andre Watts - photo-illustrated article; For a Black Vice President in 1972 - Andrew Young; When China Gets Into the U.N. (United Nations); White Collar Fashion Photos - the Kitty Foyle Dress is Back; Long Island Soung playground built by Mr. and Mrs. Buttenwieser for their grandchildren; Lovely color ad for F. Chauvenet sparkling wine features Breugel's painting "The Wedding Dance"; Eel recipe; Two-page Sabena Airlines ad; and more. Please note that this offering does not include Part 2 which was a separate report on men's wear. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Features: Cover photo of Deng Xiaoping, perhaps the man most responsible for the mighty industrial resurgence of China in recent decades; Vantage cigarette ad features Nancy Clarke; Resurrection in China - This week Gerald Ford will be met on the tarmac in Peking by Teng Hsiao-ping, the effective head of the Chinese government; Consensus in Russia - No matter who takes over from Brezhnev, the future will be a continuation of the present; Boomer of the Arts - In nine high-voltage years Thomas Hoving has led the Metropolitan Museum the city's No. 1 tourist attraction among New Yorkers; The New York Blues - What is worth Saving in New York City?; Body Building - Is it an art, a sport or sheer exhibitionism? - article with full-page photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger plus photo of Charles Atlas; Nice color-photo one-page ad for the Salton Peanut Butter Machine; Color photo of Frank Gifford in half-page ad for Dry Sack; After Orthodoxy - Paris fashion photos of works by Kenzo, Yves Saint Laurent, Sonia Rykeil, Dorothee Bis, Chloe, Jean Charles de Castelbajac, and Issey Miyake; Passive Solar Home Design - article with photos and input from Ronald Beckman, executive director of the Research and Design Institute (REDE); Uncommon one-page color-photo ad for Borden's Liederkranze soft ripened cheese; The possible comeback of the vanishing whooping crane; A Confession of Multiple Homicides, by Richard Condon. 112 pages. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and fantastic color-photo ads. School stamp on front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy of this excellent issue. Book
80 pages. Features:; Great Jamaica tourism ad; Safire on Sneer Words; Little Red Riding Hood Revisited; Love and Sex in China - The wall of puritanism the Communists built around China's sexual mores shows signs of crumbling, but a traditional Chinese reticence still remains - color-photo illustrated article; Past Master of Posters - A.M. Cassandre (Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron) - with beautiful colour examples of his work; Two-page color-photo ad for Jordache Jeans features topless gents with lady; Pianist Peter Serkin; Kirin Beer ad with Lake Placid 1980 Winter Olympic Games theme; With the Afghan Rebels - article with photos; The Dark Roots of Violence; Nostalgic color-photo centerfold ad for Trissi features model at Walt Disney World; Six pages of *Gorgeous* color photos of 'Bathing Beauties of 1980';Amarone; Real estate and Camp ads; and more. Small library stamp on front cover. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
88 pages. Features: Cover illustration of Colonel Gaddafi of Libya with Nasser in background; Many fantastic color fashion ads; Colonel Qadhafi - Libya's Mystical Revolutionary - article with photo of Anwar Sadat seated between Quadhafi and Vice-President Mahmoud al-Ayubi of Syria, plus photo of Qadhafi seated with Gamal Abdel Nasser; The Secrecy Dilemma - Schlesinger expounds on the conflict between freedom of the press and government secrecy; The French Connection in Real Life - searching for clandestine heroin labs in Marseilles - article with photos; The American Malaise - a sociologist disagrees with Nixon's suggestion of a parallel with ancitn Greece and Rome; Gold Key Estates real estate development ad; New China Policy in Rock Glad, N.J.; Photos of Jade jewellery; Psychedelic one-page Peter Max ad; Oriental Mix - color photos of Manhattan apartment designed by Winkler-Patino; Many camp ads; and more. Above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
88 pages. Features:; Cover photo of Roberta Newman with her divorced parents, Richard and Judith. Nice ad for the 1980 Cadillac; One-page color photo ad for Singapore Airlines features three lovely flight attendants; Safire on 'Spookspeak'; Looking through an old address book; Lauren Bacall is featured in a Fortunoff ad; New Voices in American Poetry - article with one-page color photo of Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading to a group; Ad for the 1980 Malibu Classic Sedan; China's Long March into the Future - individual initiative is being spurred by the promise of higher living standards, not Maoist revolutionary romanticism; Is Joint Custody Good for Children?; Toyota Celica ad (blue); Einstein Moomjy Carpet ad features color photo of Albert Moomjy and the 'Great Floor of China'; Ted Kennedy - Haunted by the Past; Fashion - Fabrics that Stretch; The Best-Dressed Beds in Town - sultry color photos of exquisite European linens; Pancake recipes; Chivas Regal ad on back cover with Valentine's Day theme; Real estate and Camp ads. Small library stamp on each cover. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Rheingold lager beer ad features color photos of Jean Welch, Jill Darnley, Maggie Long, Helen Riickert, Dorothy Hart and Rita Daigle, the Miss Rheingold 1946 candidates; Illustrated ad for the Fairchild "Flying Boxcar"; We Enter the Atomic Age - the momentous story of the atom whose energy science has now unleashed; Two pages of fantastic photos illustrating the dramatic story of the atom - from radium to the atomic bomb, including the Curies, Einstein, Niels Bohr, Dr. E.O. Lawrence with a cyclotron, and the great factory at Oak Ridge, TN; Ernest Bevin - a new kind of statesman; When do we abolish (wartime) business controls: Germany is Not Yet Defeated - Senator Harley M. Kilgore argues her industrial power must be destroyed; China - Unless we preserve her full integrity we shall face still another war - Nathaniel Peffer's formula for peace in the Far East; One-page ad for Drene shampoo features three color photos of beautiful Bettina Bolegard, New York fashion model; Veterans storm the academic beachhead; Our music-loving Presidents; Benjamin ('Ben') Victor Cohen is expected to be a bridge from the President to Byrnes and Vinson; Jones & Laughline Steel ad includes sketches of Donald Gortner and Ralph Ardary; Vice Admiral Ben Moreell of the Seabees looks forward to moving his bulldozers into Japan; Boom in New Yorkers studying foreign languages; Interesting half-page ad for The American Mercury features heading "Can We Do Business With Stalin", with illustration of Stalin; Nice one-page Chicken of the Sea and White Star tuna ad; Two pages of photos of ladies in fashionable coats; and more. Average external soiling and wear. Unmarked. Opening to central portion of front cover mended with archival tape. Moderate age-toning to paper. A sound copy of this vintage WWII issue. Book
pp. xii, 164. Tall 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, worn. Second printing. "The New Left offers totalitarianism instead of freedom." Coldwar/Economics 3
Hardcover / as Brand New Book ISBN: 0465084125
8vo, br. ed. Throughout human history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been at the heart of life. The great museums of the world are full of the remains of countless ghostly feasts - dishes that once bore rich meats, pitchers used to pour choice wines, tall jars that held beer sipped through long straws of gold and lapis, immense cauldrons from which hundreds of people could be served. Why were feasts so important, and is there more to feasting than abundance and enjoyment? The Never-Ending Feast is a pioneering work that draws on anthropology, archaeology and history to look at the dynamics of feasting among the great societies of antiquity renowned for their magnificence and might. Reflecting new directions in academic study, the focus shifts beyond the medieval and early modern periods in Western Europe, eastwards to Mesopotamia, Assyria and Achaemenid Persia, early Greece, the Mongol Empire, Shang China and Heian Japan. The past speaks through texts and artefacts. We see how feasts were the primary arena for displays of hierarchy, status and power; a stage upon which loyalties and alliances were negotiated; the occasion for the mobilization and distribution of resources, a means of pleasing the gods, and the place where identities were created, consolidated - and destroyed. The Never-Ending Feast transforms our understanding of feasting past and present, revitalising the fields of anthropology, archaeology, history, museum studies, material culture and food studies, for all of which it is essential reading.
2 volumes, 8vo, softcover, full title: THE NESTORIANS AND THEIR RITUALS; WITH THE NARRATIVE OF A MISSION TO MESOPOTAMIA AND COORDISTAN IN 1842-1844, AND OF A LATE VISIT TO THOSE COUNTRIES IN 1850; ALSO, RESEARCHES INTO THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE SYRIAN JACOBITES, PAPAL SYRIANS, AND CHALDEANS, AND AN INQUIRY INTO THE RELIGIOUS TENETS OF THE YEZEEDEES, contains also accounts of visits to Kurdistan , Antioch and the Black Sea. xxiv, errata, 448pp.; xiii,errata, 426pp, 17 illustrations, 2 fldng maps in pocket,
Features: New software for complex beam analysis; New guidelines for bridge design; Implications of single-hull tankers phase-out; Finland; Green ship technology; China update; Cruise liner technology; Cranes and cargo handling. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
8vo, br. 304pp. ed. In 1931, China suffered a catastrophic flood that claimed millions of lives. This was neither a natural nor human-made disaster. Rather, it was created by an interaction between the environment and society. Regular inundation had long been an integral feature of the ecology and culture of the middle Yangzi, yet by the modern era floods had become humanitarian catastrophes. Courtney describes how the ecological and economic effects of the 1931 flood pulse caused widespread famine and epidemics. He takes readers into the inundated streets of Wuhan, describing the terrifying and disorientating sensory environment. He explains why locals believed that an angry Dragon King was causing the flood, and explores how Japanese invasion and war with the Communists inhibited both official relief efforts and refugee coping strategies. This innovative study offers the first in-depth analysis of the 1931 flood, and charts the evolution of one of China's most persistent environmental problems.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding.
176 pages. "This lavishly illustrated book tells the story of the most exciting underwater adventure of the decade - the finding and raising of the Nanking Cargo." - from dust jacket. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Light wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Very nice copy. Book
8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.308
16mo, br. ed. pp.254. A wonderfully enjoyable storehouse of ancient Chinese history and legends, which also has an important role in understanding 21st-century China 'And remember: Heaven's blessing will cease forever if there's despair and poverty in your lands' The Most Venerable Book (also known as The Book of History) is one of the Five Classics, a key work of Chinese literature which preserves some of the most ancient and dramatic chronicles of the history, both real and mythological, of the Chinese state. For many centuries it was a central work for anyone wishing to work for the Imperial administration, preserving as it does a fascinating mixture of key Confucian concepts as well as page after page of heroes, benevolent rulers, sagacious ministers, and struggles against flood, corruption and vicious, despotic rulers. The First Emperor tried in 213 BC to have all copies of the book destroyed because of its subversive implication that 'the Mandate of Heaven' could be withdrawn from rulers who failed their people. For similar reasons it was also banned by Chairman Mao. Extraordinarily, the values of The Most Venerable Book have been revived by the Chinese government of the 2010s.
8vo, br. ed. ancient China a monster called Taowu was known for both its vicious nature and its power to see the past and the future. Over the centuries Taowu underwent many incarnations until it became identifiable with history itself. Since the seventeenth century, fictive accounts of history have accommodated themselves to the monstrous nature of Taowu. Moving effortlessly across the entire twentieth-century literary landscape, David Der-wei Wang delineates the many meanings of Chinese violence and its literary manifestations. Taking into account the campaigns of violence and brutality that have rocked generations of Chinese - often in the name of enlightenment, rationality, and utopian plenitude - this book places its arguments along two related axes: history and representation, modernity and monstrosity. Wang considers modern Chinese history as a complex of geopolitical, ethnic, gendered, and personal articulations of bygone and ongoing events. His discussion ranges from the politics of decapitation to the poetics of suicide, and from the typology of hunger and starvation to the technology of crime and punishment
complete in 3 volumes: 138 + 164 + 117pp. with 4 maps and 8 figures, 30cm., original 1954-1961-edition, in the series "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. New series" vol.44 part 1 & vol.47 part 1 & vol.51 part 3, signed by the author, formerly belonged to a Scheut library (with some stamps), few handwritten annotations, softcover (some use), good condition, [Louis Schram, 1883-1971, was a Scheut missionary from Bruges (Belgium); this historical and sociological study of a people of mixed Mongol and Turkish origin in a frontier region of Northwest China is based on studies and notes made by the author during a residence of more than ten years among them], [contains: Part I: Their origin, history and social organization. Part II: Their religious life. Part III: Records of the Monguor clans; history of the Monguors in Huangchung and the chronicles of the Lu family. Added: fragile and slightly damaged handwritten map (probably drawn by the author himself) entitled "Carte du Kansou[…] aborigènes fan dzen et autres qui en dépendent (dressée par le gouvernement chinois en 1891)"], X75710
8vo, br. ed. pp.xiii-309, paper illustr, maps. (Studies on East Asia, Vol. 17).
94 pages. Loaded with wonderful color and black and white photos. Features: Thirteen pages of great colour movie ads; Kenny Bee - one page photo; Chin Han Divorces his wife; Lung Kung Yee attempts suicide; Kenny Bee Places Career First - photos and article; The Reborn Romance of Lau Wing and Man Sit Yee; The Success of Wu Wei Chung and Your Smiling Face; Mou Tang Pei wants to be 'Boat-People'; Ma Young Lin attracts girls; Lonely-Hearted Louis Castro; Teen Hawk - the quiet man with emotion; T'u Chung Shen - an idealistic director; The Benefit of Film Censorship Revision by the Information Ministry of the Republic of China (Taiwan); What TV Lacks; The Clown; John Travolta - article with photos; and much more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
8vo, Maps, illustrations, tables, viii + 349pp, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index, Describes the military reform which led to the establishment of the New Army and the relationships of the New Army with the social order.
Taipei, Ch'en-Wen Publishing Company, 1965, voll. 2 in-16, tela editoriale con titolo in oro ai dorsi, pp. XXV, [1], 836, [2] - XII, 775, [3]. Con una carte geografica ripiegata in fine al secondo volume e alcune illustrazioni ripiegate. Ristampa dell'edizione del 1883.
original green cloth gilth titles , 80-850pp 2 large octavo volumes with large folding frontispieces, many illustrated plates, text illustrations and a large folding map of the Empire to slipcase at rear of vol. two. some. wear to backstrips, otherwise fine.
8vo, br. ed. 372pp. William Mesny ran off to sea as a boy and jumped ship at Shanghai in 1860 when he was just 18. Amid the chaos of foreign intrigue and civil war in 19th-century China, he became a smuggler, a prisoner of the Taiping rebels, a gun-runner and finally enlisted in the Chinese military. After five years of fierce campaigning against the Miao in remote Guizhou province, Mesny rose to the rank of general and used this privileged position to travel around China - to the borders with Burma, Tibet and Vietnam - writing opinionated newspaper articles, collecting plants and advising government officials on the development of railways, telegraphs and other modern reforms. Mesny eventually settled in Shanghai with a 16-year-old concubine and published Mesny's Chinese Miscellany, a weekly magazine about his experiences. But his story was not to end well. After his implication in an illicit arms deal, his fortunes never recovered, and when he died in 1919 he was working as a desk clerk. David Leffman has spent over 15 years footstepping Mesny's travels across China, interviewing locals and piecing together his life story from contemporary journals, private letters and newspaper articles