Author: Angelo
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368627082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.
The Adventures of an Atom: It's Autobiography, by Itself
Author: Angelo
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368627082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368627082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
Author: R. Reginald
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0941028763
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0941028763
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.
Language and literature (general) pamphlets
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Languages : en
Pages : 726
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Languages : en
Pages : 726
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National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Biography
Author: Charles Knight
Publisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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The English Cyclopaedia: Cyclopaedia of biography
Author: Charles Knight
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
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The Book of Skin
Author: Steven Connor
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801488931
Category : Body, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Skin, Steven Connor argues, has never been more visible. The Book of Skin explores the multiple functions of the skin in the cultures of the West. In this vividly illustrated book, Connor draws on evidence from a variety of sources including literary and other forms of public and private writing, especially medical texts, as well as painting, photography, and film, folklore and popular song. Because of its newfound visibility, skin has never been at once so manifest and so in jeopardy as it is today. This dilemma becomes evident, in Connor's view, if we examine how skin is displayed and manipulated as a site of inscription. In order to trace our culture's anxious concerns with the materiality and mortality of skin, Connor's analysis ranges from the human body itself to photography, from Medieval leprosy, Renaissance flaying, and eternal syphilis to cosmetics, plastic surgery, and skin cancers. Connor examines the chromatics of skin color and pigmentation, blushing, suntanning, paleness, darkening, tattooing, cutting, the Turin shroud, the Mummy, and the Invisible Man. He also offers engaging explanations for why particular colors are ascribed to feelings and conditions such as green for envy, purple for rage, and yellow for cowardice. Connor's insights into the obvious and yet unfamiliar terrain of the skin and its place in Western culture ameliorates the intensities and attenuations of touch in cultural history. The Book of Skin bears out James Joyce's claim that "modern man has an epidermis rather than a soul."
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801488931
Category : Body, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Skin, Steven Connor argues, has never been more visible. The Book of Skin explores the multiple functions of the skin in the cultures of the West. In this vividly illustrated book, Connor draws on evidence from a variety of sources including literary and other forms of public and private writing, especially medical texts, as well as painting, photography, and film, folklore and popular song. Because of its newfound visibility, skin has never been at once so manifest and so in jeopardy as it is today. This dilemma becomes evident, in Connor's view, if we examine how skin is displayed and manipulated as a site of inscription. In order to trace our culture's anxious concerns with the materiality and mortality of skin, Connor's analysis ranges from the human body itself to photography, from Medieval leprosy, Renaissance flaying, and eternal syphilis to cosmetics, plastic surgery, and skin cancers. Connor examines the chromatics of skin color and pigmentation, blushing, suntanning, paleness, darkening, tattooing, cutting, the Turin shroud, the Mummy, and the Invisible Man. He also offers engaging explanations for why particular colors are ascribed to feelings and conditions such as green for envy, purple for rage, and yellow for cowardice. Connor's insights into the obvious and yet unfamiliar terrain of the skin and its place in Western culture ameliorates the intensities and attenuations of touch in cultural history. The Book of Skin bears out James Joyce's claim that "modern man has an epidermis rather than a soul."
The English Cyclopaedia. (Geography. - Natural History. - Biography. - Arts and Sciences) ...
Author: Encyclopaedias
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Book of Thoth
Author: Aleister Crowley
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 9780877282686
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Now a classic in the field, used by students of the Golden Dawn as well as by those who want to understand Crowley's tarot. This is the definitive study of the Egyptian tarot and is used as a key to all Western mystery disciplines. Color plates of eight cards.
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 9780877282686
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Now a classic in the field, used by students of the Golden Dawn as well as by those who want to understand Crowley's tarot. This is the definitive study of the Egyptian tarot and is used as a key to all Western mystery disciplines. Color plates of eight cards.
The miscellaneous works of Tobias Smollett. With a memoir of the author by T. Roscoe
Author: Tobias George Smollett
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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