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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Classified Guide to Technical and Commercial Books
Author: The Nation
Author: Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University. 2d Ed., Enl
Author: Avery LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Enlightening: Letters 1946 - 1960
Author: Isaiah BerlinPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446496082
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
'People are my landscape', Isaiah Berlin liked to say, and nowhere is the truth of this observation more evident than in his letters. He is a fascinated watcher of human beings in all their variety, and revels in describing them to his many correspondents. His letters combine ironic social comedy and a passionate concern for individual freedom. His interpretation of political events, historical and contemporary, and his views on how life should be lived, are always grounded in the personal, and his fiercest condemnation is reserved for purveyors of grand abstract theories that ignore what people are really like. This second volume of Berlin's letters takes up the story when, after war service in the United States, he returns to life as an Oxford don. Against the background of post-war austerity, the letters chart years of academic frustration and self-doubt, the intellectual explosion when he moves from philosophy to the history of ideas, his growing national fame as broadcaster and lecturer, the publication of some of his best-known works, his election to a professorship, and his reaction to knighthood. These are the years, too, of momentous developments in his private life: the bachelor don's loss of sexual innocence, the emotional turmoil of his father's death, his courtship of a married woman and transformation into husband and stepfather. Above all, these revealing letters vividly display Berlin's effervescent personality - often infuriating, but always irresistible.
Drawing on America's Past
Author: Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807827949
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This book presents watercolor renderings along with a selection of the artifacts in the Index of American Design, a visual archive of decorative, folk, and popular arts made in America from the colonial period to about 1900. Three essays explore the history, operation, and ambitions of the Index of American Design, examine folk art collecting in America during the early decades of the twentieth century, and consider the Index's role in the search for a national cultural identity in the early twentieth-century United States.
Book Catalogue
Author: Catalogue of the London Library, St. James Square, London
Author: Charles Theodor Hagberg Wright (Sir).)Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
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