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Peggy Preheim

By: Peggy Preheim,Carter E. Foster,Harry Philbrick,Gregory Volk

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Peggy Preheim

By: Peggy Preheim,Carter E. Foster,Harry Philbrick,Gregory Volk

New York-based artist Peggy Preheim is known for her minutely detailed, miniscule graphite drawings on otherwise blank sheets of paper, creating a mood and atmosphere specific to her work. Her drawings are influenced by the small sixteenth century panel paintings of the Low Countries, while their lush black-and-white tonalities evoke early found photographs on which they are often based. Published on the occasion of Preheim's first retrospective, which originates at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut, this monograph is the artist's first and features rich reproductions of works from throughout her 20-year career, including sculpture and photography. Noted designer Daphne Geismar's elegant design perfectly captures the uncanny qualities of Preheim's style. The volume includes essays by curator Carter Foster and critic Gregory Volk, as well as a collection of poems and imaginary letters written in response to selected works by Aldrich Director Harry Philbrick. Published in collaboration with The Aldrich.

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150

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Gregory R Miller & Co

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ISBN 10

0980024218

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9780980024210

Swift Justice

Murder & Vengeance In A California Town

By: Harry Farrell

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Swift Justice

Murder & Vengeance In A California Town

By: Harry Farrell

Hailed in a starred Kirkus Review as "one of the most riveting, revealing, and intensely readable true crimers to appear in a long time", Swift Justice is Harry Farrell's unforgettable story of the mob violence that paralyzed the town of San Jose in 1933. Farrell reconstructs the kidnapping and murder of Brooke Hart and the lynching of his accused murderers days later. 8 pages of photos.

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348

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Macmillan

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0312089015

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9780312089016

Power and the Pursuit of Peace: Theory and Practice in the History of Relations Between States

By: F. H. Hinsley,Francis Harry Hinsley

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Power and the Pursuit of Peace: Theory and Practice in the History of Relations Between States

By: F. H. Hinsley,Francis Harry Hinsley

In the last years of the nineteenth century peace proposals were first stimulated by fear of the danger of war rather than in consequence of its outbreak. In this study of the nature and history of international relations Mr Hinsley presents his conclusions about the causes of war and the development of men's efforts to avoid it. In the first part he examines international theories from the end of the middle ages to the establishment of the League of Nations in their historical setting. This enables him to show how far modern peace proposals are merely copies or elaborations of earlier schemes. He believes there has been a marked reluctance to test these theories not only against the formidable criticisms of men like Rousseau, Kant and Bentham, but also against what we have learned about the nature of international relations and the history of the practice of states. This leads him to the second part of his study - an analysis of the origins of the modern states' system and of its evolution between the eighteenth century and the First World War.

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742

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Cambridge University Press

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0521094488

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9780521094481

The Spiral After-Effect

International Series of Monographs in Experimental Psychology, Volume 2

By: Harry C. Holland

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The Spiral After-Effect

International Series of Monographs in Experimental Psychology, Volume 2

By: Harry C. Holland

The Spiral After-Effect presents the visual phenomenon of the spiral after-effect in clinical investigations. This book explains how and under what conditions the illusion happens or can be modified. Organized into eight chapters, this book begins with an overview of the features of illusion that are similar to many of the characteristics of other movement perceptions, including vividness, velocity, and persistence. This text then examines the complex structure and the geometric function of the inducing stimulus. Other chapters consider the effects of drugs on the spiral illusion, which is rather strange when one considers the wide use of the phenomenon in patient groups who may be receiving substantial admixtures of compound for therapeutic purposes. This book discusses as well the relationship between intelligence and perception of the spiral after-effect. The final chapter deals with the conditioned after-effect. Clinical psychologists and readers who are interested in personality research will find this book useful.

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141

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Elsevier

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1483136019

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9781483136011

Upon the Altar of the Nation

A Moral History of the Civil War

By: Harry S. Stout

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Upon the Altar of the Nation

A Moral History of the Civil War

By: Harry S. Stout

A profound and timely examination of the moral underpinnings of the War Between the States The Civil War was not only a war of armies but also a war of ideas, in which Union and Confederacy alike identified itself as a moral nation with God on its side. In this watershed book, Harry S. Stout measures the gap between those claims and the war’s actual conduct. Ranging from the home front to the trenches and drawing on a wealth of contemporary documents, Stout explores the lethal mix of propaganda and ideology that came to justify slaughter on and off the battlefield. At a time when our country is once again at war, Upon the Altar of the Nation is a deeply necessary book.

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Penguin

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1101126728

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9781101126721

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Peggy Preheim

Peggy Preheim

Swift Justice

Swift Justice

Power and the Pursuit of Peace: Theory and Practice in the History of Relations Between States

Power and the Pursuit of Peace: Theory and Practice in the History of Relations Between States

The Spiral After-Effect

The Spiral After-Effect

Upon the Altar of the Nation

Upon the Altar of the Nation

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