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Young, J. Z.. PROGRAMS OF THE BRAIN Based on the Gifford Lectures, 1975-7. Oxford: Oxford University Press, c. 1978.
Black cloth, bright silver lettering. Bibliography. Glossary. Index of names. Subject index. A few dozen b/w photos , drawings & charts in text. SCIENCE. Professor Young brings recent advances in our knowledge of the brain to bear upon some of the most fundamental human problems. He explores the whole range of human capacities and activities, such as seeing, learning, feeling pain, speaking, eating, loving, hating, sleeping, and dreaming, and deals also with the problems of body and mind, showing how the brain may act in knowing, commanding, obeying, enjoying, and creating, even in believing and worshipping. ; 9-1/2"Tall; 325 pages. 0198575459.

Hardcover, Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket; Very minor soil and wear on the sound binding. Name on ffep. Contents are almost like new. Minor edge wear and rubbing on clean, complete dust jacket..

[KW: Brain General Science,]

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Beinecke, William S. with Geoffrey M. Kabaservice. THROUGH MEM'RY'S HAZE A Personal Memoir. NY: Prospect Hill Press, c. 2000.
Binding, DJ and Contents are almost like new. ; Blue cloth, bright gold lettering. Index. 61 b/w photos. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. General counsel, president, chairman and CEO of The Sperry and Hutchinson Company, the nation's leading trading stamp company (Green Stamps) . In this honest and compelling memoir, Beinecke tells the story of the 20th century through his life: from student days at boarding school and Yale and Columbia Law School to his role in creating Yale's business school; from hard times in the depression and wartime service to prosperity as CEO of one of the nation's largest corporations. It is a clear-eyed portrait of a successful American family, a shrewd commentary on the workings of business, education, and philanthropy, and a warm and affectionate recollection of one man's upbringing, interests, travels, friendships, and good times. ; 9-1/2" Tall; 569 pages. 0967698707.

Hardcover, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

[KW: Sperry And Hutchinson Green Stamps Kingman Brewster, Jr. Cape Cod Frederick A. Collins, Jr. Depression Phillips Academy World War II Yale College,]

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Carpenter, Kenneth E. DISSEMINATION OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS IN FRENCH AND IN FRANCE 1776-1843.|THE, New York The Bibliographical Society of America 2002
First edition. Adam Smith's great work of political economy reached French readers through reprints of English editions; a number of translations directed towards different audiences; and a host of summaries, extracts and reviews in magazines and journals. Combining cultural history and bibliographical analysis, Carpenter traces the transmission of this text and assesses the implications of its paratext - occurring in reviews and advertisements, and in the front matter, footnotes, format, and typography of more than thirty monographs and periodicals. He provides full bibliographical descriptions necessary for identifying these works and understanding their interpretative agenda, as well as extensive quotations showing how translators, commentators, editors, and publishers mediated Adam Smith's ideas. This publishing history also serves as an anthology of contemporary critical response to a text at first marginalized by the government and the book trade, then adopted by intellectuals seeking an ideological basis for the French Revolution, and ultimately established as a canonical work of economic thought requiring commentary and scholarly apparatus. An extensive introductory essay describes the textual transformation of the French editions and explains how French readers sought in them "a tool for creating a new society." With thirteen black and white illustrations and an index.

8vo., cloth. lxii, (i), 255+(1) pages.

[KW: 0914930176 FRANCE ECONOMICS Oak Knoll Press SMITH, ADAM Bibliographical Society of America Bibliography Bibliography NEW]

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Bregman, Alvan: EMBLEMATA, Newtown Bird & Bull Press 2007
The Emblem Books of Andrea Alciato. A Leaf Book with Eight New Emblems by Henricus de Nova Villa. One of 124 bound thus, of 140 copies, with an original leaf. The original leaves included are taken from the 1589 Paris edition of the Alciato emblem book." During the late Renaissance, the most famous professor of law in all of Europe was Andrea Alciato ( 1492-1550) of Milan. ...Almost accidentally, he was responsible for creating a whole new genre of publication consisting of text and image, known as the emblem book. Alciato's emblems were built upon the Latin epigrams he liked to write as a learned pastime. ...Surprisingly, however, there are few books in English devoted to Alciato or to his emblems. No separate overview of Alciato's life and writing is known. In addition to the history of the emblem books, the author provides much personal information that illuminates the character and personality of Alciato. Alvan Bergman has written an illustrated text on the subject usually directed to scholarly specialist, but he has done so in a way that is engaging and informative to the non-specialist reader. " (from the prospectus)The eight contemporary emblems are illustrated by Wesley Bates' wood engravings are included as an Appendix.

8vo, Quarter morocco, Japanese cloth sides, cloth slipcase, leather spine label, paper label bearing emblem on top board. (vi), 128, (14) pages plus leaf.

[KW: Private Press & Fine Printing LEAF BOOK Pennsylvania MORRIS, HENRY EMBLEM BOOKS BATES, WESLEY Book Illustration BKI-TWF WOOD ENGRAVING NEW]

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