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19849025899Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 1984. 1st . Hardcover. Fine/very good. Spine of the dust jacket is lightened by the sun but title is still bright. <br/><br/> University of Wisconsin Press hardcover books
2017166233Milan: Skira 2017. Paperback. New in shrinkwrap though shrinkwrap is torn. Color-illustrated softcover with white lettering. 119 pp. Color illustrations. The latest sculptures from South African-born Toronto-based artist Evan Penny born 1953 are rooted in his longstanding interest in the human body and how viewers perceive their relationship with themselves and others. Skira paperback books
199341128New York: Facts on File 1993. cloth. 4to. cloth. vi 412 pages. First edition. Produced with the assistance of Judith S. Baughman. Over 125 authors are included. Each author entry contains a biography of the author books authored locations of archives if any biographies written and critical studies. Facts on File unknown books
19921332259New York: Facts On File Inc 1992. First Printing. Hardcover. Large Octavo; pp 412; G; blue spine with gilt text; no jacket; cloth has slight wear to exterior; few spots to front; mildly cocked spine; text block edges have slight wear; remainder mark to exterior head edge; interior clean; good binding. 1332259. FP New Rockville Stock. Facts On File, Inc hardcover books
2017166934New York: Matthew Marks Gallery 2017. Paperback. VG. White cardstock wraps with black lettering. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering. 64 unnumbered pages. Mainly color illustrations. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Sprüth Magers in London September 29-December 23 2017 and at Matthew Marks Gallery in New York November 2-December 22 2017. Matthew Marks Gallery paperback books
2017167035New York: Matthew Marks Gallery 2017. Paperback. New in shrinkwrap. White cardstock wraps with black lettering. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering. 64 unnumbered pages. Mainly color illustrations. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Sprüth Magers in London September 29-December 23 2017 and at Matthew Marks Gallery in New York November 2-December 22 2017. Matthew Marks Gallery paperback books
1964119482London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd 1964. Early printing of this work on Godel. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. From the library of physicist Stephen Hawking. Stephen Hawking was a theoretical physicist cosmologist and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death. Hawking's scientific works included a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation often called Hawking radiation. He was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. Hawking may be one of the most recognizable of theoretical physicists in part due to ALS which gradually paralyzed him over the decades. After the loss of his speech he was able to communicate through a speech-generating device--initially through use of a handheld switch and eventually by using a single cheek muscle. He is also well known since he achieved commercial success with several works of popular science in which he discussed his theories and cosmology in general. His book A Brief History of Time appeared on the Sunday Times bestseller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks. The Universe in a Nutshell which many consider a sequel to A Brief History explains to a general audience various matters such as Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. Hawking also gave a sold-out lecture at Texas A&M University entitled "Godel and the End of Physics" in which he said "Godel's theorem ensured there would always be a job for mathematicians. I think M theory will do the same for physicists." This book was likely used in Hawking's research in writing The Universe in a Nutshell and his other writings on this topic. A wonderful association. In 1931 Kurt Godel published his fundamental paper "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems." This revolutionary paper challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics and logic. Godel received public recognition of his work in 1951 when he was awarded the first Albert Einstein Award for achievement in the natural sciences--perhaps the highest award of its kind in the United States. The award committee described his work in mathematical logic as "one of the greatest contributions to the sciences in recent times." However few mathematicians of the time were equipped to understand the young scholar's complex proof. Ernest Nagel and James Newman provide a readable and accessible explanation to both scholars and non-specialists of the main ideas and broad implications of Godel's discovery. It offers every educated person with a taste for logic and philosophy the chance to understand a previously difficult and inaccessible subject. Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd hardcover books
033903New York: New York University Press 1958. 11th Printing. ix 118p. stiff wrappers. New York University Press unknown books
198913701EBoston: Northwestern University Press 1989. First Edition. Signed presentation copy inscribed by the author: “With best wishes to Dacor Henry Serrano Villard. Washington D.C. 1989.†Illustrated. Fine fresh copy in a fine dust jacket. The basis of the film In Love and War starring Sandra Bullock as Agnes ’Aggie/Ag’ von Kurowsky the nurse who cared for Ernest Hemingway after he suffered shrapnel wounds in Milan in 1918 with whom he fell in love and planned to marry with Chris O’Donnell as Hemingway. Henry S. Villard was the youngest Red Cross ambulance driver in Italy and became a close friend of Hemningway and von Kurowsky while he was in the hospital bed next to Hemingway. Northwestern University Press unknown books
198945376Boston: Northeastern University Press 1989. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Boston: Northeastern University Press 1989. Signed and inscribed by one of the authors. Numerous b/w photographs. 303 pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Light blue cloth. Silver lettering to spine blind stamped decoration to front board. Head lightly bumped; head and heel lightly faded; very minimal foxing to top and bottom edges; boards lightly bowed; rear board lightly bumped at fore edge. Housed in a very lightly soiled and very lightly edge bumped dustjacket. Interior very clean. Very good/Very good. Northeastern University Press hardcover books
1989124607Boston: Northeastern University Press 1989. First edition of Villard's intimate account of his friendship with Hemingway and his nurse Agnes von Kurowsky the model for Catherine Barkley in A Farewell to Arms. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Carolyn and John Jones with best wishes Henry Serrano Villard Washington D.C. 1989." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marianne Perlak. Photograph of Hemingway by Henry S. Villard. In 1918 the young Ernest Hemingway was recuperating in a Milan hospital from shrapnel and bullet wounds received on the Italian front. There he met a nurse Agnes von Kurowsky fell in love and planned to be married. It was a crucial part of the Italian adventure that eventually would provide the background for ten of his early short stories and A Farewell to Arms. The youngest Red Cross ambulance driver in Italy when he was hospitalized for infectious hepatitis Henry S. Villard occupied the hospital room next to Hemingway's and soon befriended him and von Kurowsky. In collaboration with James Nagel he has created a revelatory work that combines his personal reminiscences with von Kurowsky's diary and personal letters to Hemingway Hemingway's letters to his family and Nagel's exploration of places events and their significance to an understanding of Hemingway and his work. Northeastern University Press hardcover books
1995UVONHEM00mmHyperion 1995. Very Good. Von Kurowsky Agnes. Hemingway in Love and War: The Lost Diary of Agnes Von Kurowsky. Villard Henry Serrano; Nagel James; Hemingway Ernest. New York: Hyperion 1995. xiv 303pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light bumping. Hyperion paperback books
197358062NY:: Walker and Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. Black and white photographs and line drawings throughout each volume. No statements of printing. Both volumes are near fine in very good minor edge wear and rubbing dust jackets. Housed in a very good minor shelf wear cloth slipcase. . Walker and Company, hardcover books
11043STANFORD SUAA 1985. REVISED EDITION FINE. STANFORD, SUAA, 1985 unknown books
19972311772New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Near Fine. First edition. Jacket near fine. Ink underlining and marginalia a few pages dog-eared. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi 432 pp. "February 21 1848 the House of Representatives Washington D.C.: Congressman John Quincy Adams rising to speak suddenly collapses at his desk; two days later he dies in the Speaker's chamber. The public mourning that followed writes Paul C. Nagel "exceeded anything previously seen in America." Forgotten was his failed presidency and his often cold demeanor. It was the memory of an extraordinary human being--one who in his last years had fought heroically for the right of petition and against a war to expand slavery--that drew a grateful people to salute his coffin in the Capitol and to stand by the railroad tracks as his bier was transported from Washington to Boston. Nagel probes deeply into the psyche of this cantankerous misanthropic erudite hardworking son of a former president whose remarkable career spanned many offices: minister to Holland Russia and England U.S. senator secretary of state president of the United States 1825-1829 and finally U.S. representative the only ex-president to serve in the House. On the basis of a thorough study of Adams' seventy-year diary among a host of other documents the author gives us a richer account than we have yet had of JQA's life--his passionate marriage to Louisa Johnson his personal tragedies two sons lost to alcoholism his brilliant diplomacy his recurring depression his exasperating behavior--and shows us why in the end only Abraham Lincoln's death evoked a greater outpouring of national sorrow in nineteenth-century America. We come to see how much Adams disliked politics and hoped for more from life than high office; how he sought distinction in literary and scientific endeavors and drew his greatest pleasure from being a poet critic translator essayist botanist and professor of oratory at Harvard; how tension between the public and private Adams vexed his life; and how his frustrations kept him masked and aloof and unpopular. Nagel's great achievement in this first biography of America's sixth president in a quarter century is finally to portray Adams in all his talent and complexity. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
199744429NY: Knopf 1997. First Edition. 8vo pp. xi 432. Sources index. Illustrated. Almost as new in somewhat scuffed dj. The difficult Adams in all his talent and complexity. Knopf unknown books
197228580Berlin: Henschelverlag Kunst und Gesellschaft 1972. 150 plates numerous illustrations. 1 vols. 4to. Blue-grey cloth. Fine in slightly worn dust jacket and slipcase. 150 plates numerous illustrations. 1 vols. 4to. A catalogue raisonée of Kollwitz drawings. Henschelverlag Kunst und Gesellschaft unknown books
68095Munich: Braun & Schneider. Very Good. N.D. Hardcover. Nagel Ludwig V. L.V. NAGEL ALBUM. Munich: Braun & Schneider n.d. 1900 60 pages. German text 13.25x10.5 inches. Green pebbled cloth covers with gilt printing. The spine ends and edges are rubbed and scuffed and the covers show some very light soiling. Otherwise the contents are bright and complete. A nice copy. . Braun & Schneider hardcover books
1990UNAGLEE00NJOxford University Press 1990. Very Good. Nagel Paul C. Lees of Virginia : Seven Generations of an American Family. New York: Oxford University Press 1990. 332pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. 1/4 Black Cloth. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to extremities. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Price clipped. Oxford University Press hardcover books
184327483Ulm: Wohler 1843. 8vo. viii 184 pp.; 16 fold. figs. <br><br>with the same author's Anleitung zur Auflösung geometrischer Aufgaben. Ulm: Stettin 1840. 8vo. vi 88 pp.; 7 fold. figs.<br>Â Â Â Â Two treatises on geometry: Third edition of the Lehrbuch illustrated with 16 folding figures and second of the Anleitung illustrated with 7 folding figures. Contemporary marbled papercovered boards spine with hand-inked paper label; rubbed paper cracked along joints spine extremities and label significantly chipped. Lehrbuch: Light spotting with occasional smudges; a few early pencilled annotations. Anleitung: pages clean. Some tables with edges or corners creased. Wohler hardcover books
1956199486Yverdon.: Journal D'Yverdon. 1956. Limited edition #166/200. Brown cloth gilt titles. . Very good no dust jacket. 24.8x17.5 cm. . French text. weight: 0.8 lb. Journal D'Yverdon. hardcover books
195725560Bennington Vermont: Bennington College 1957. 23 pages; lecture on the values of the freedom of liberal thought by Ernest Nagel 1901 - 1985 philosopher of science and long-term professor at Columbia ".Consistent with his other philosophical views Nagel was critical of those historians who have tried to establish on a speculative basis general historical laws. In contrast he was sympathetic with historians who attempt to propose tentative but intricate explanations of important historical events.He was among the most prominent philosophers of science in the United States of his generation." Patrick Suppes in the ANB Approx. 6" x 9" size; plain stapled light blue printed paper covers; a little light wear to the binding edge-color fade; contents clean and in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Bennington College paperback books
1977Embry 171098W. W. Norton 1977. Fine in fine price-clipped dust jacket in mylar cover. W. W. Norton, 1977. unknown books
1952106582<p>16mo 6 1/4" x 4 1/4" red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and top cover illustrated with maps 342 pp. Gilt lettering a little faded normal some aging and browning; otherwise very good. Useful guide book of Austria which gives information on history art airways navigation and railways. There are also six folding maps including a large folding map of Austria </p> Nagel Publishers, books
1858106581<p>16mo 6 1/4" x 4 1/4" red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and top cover illustrated with maps 342 pp. Normal some aging and browning; otherwise very good or better. Useful guide book of Austria which gives information on history art airways navigation and railways. There are also six folding maps including a large folding map of Austria </p> Nagel Publishers, books
