Search Results: Authors starting with B from Hopewell_Books

1971 Hardcover; No dust Jacket; Minimal wear; No Markings or Highlighting; Nice clean copy! (See Photos)
The Black Man or, Haytian Independence. Deduced From Historical Notes, and Dedicated to the Government and People of Hayti

INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR; 1992 Blue Hardcover with gilt titles on front and spine; Boards are clean and bright; Contents tight and clean; Minimal wear; No Markings/Highlighting (See Photos)
"Benítez-Rojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena. Benítez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbean-the area's discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politics-there emerges an 'island' of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago.

1994 Softcover; Minor cover and edgewear; No markings/highlighting; NIce clean copy(See Photos)
For over half a century, acclaimed photographer Ruth Bernhard has worked to "simplify, isolate, and give emphasis to form with greatest clarity" in her radiant photographs of the female nude. Now, with Chronicle Books' timely reissue of her best-selling volume, The Eternal Body, Bernhard's most evocative images are once again available in a superb collection, complete with an insightfill text, that pays tribute to a living legend. Hauntingly sensual yet classically reserved, the book's ethereal duotone photographs appear to be illuminated from within so that even the simplest lines of the human form -- a draped torso, a curved neck, an angled limb -- take on a complexity not often seen in work of this kind. A master artist whose technical prowess places her among the ranks of the greatest photographers of our time, Ruth Bernhard has created a masterpiece of expression and sensitivity in The Eternal Body.… Read More

1984 Hardcover: Tanned pages; Minimal wear; Name written on cover page; No Markings or Highlighting; Nice Clean Copy! (See Photos)
The Tenth International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR10) was held from July 3 to July 8, 1983, in Padova, Italy. These Conferences take place every three years, under the auspices of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation, with the purpose of assessing the current research in the field, critically discussing the progress made and disclosing the points of paramount im portance which deserve further investigations....

1774 First Edition In 3 Leather Volumes; Volume 1 has detached front hinge; Heavy Foxing; Staining; Cover and edgewear; No markings or highlighting in text ( See Photos)Volume 2 has cover and edgewear; Heavy Foxing; Staining; Cover and edgewear; No markings or highlighting in text ( See Photos)Volume 3 has cover and edgewear; Heavy Foxing; Staining; Cover and edgewear; No markings or highlighting in text; names on all 3 endpapers ( See Photos)
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and… Read More