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Arnold Newman

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By: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center,Roy Flukinger,Marianne Fulton

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Arnold Newman

At Work

By: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center,Roy Flukinger,Marianne Fulton

All photographs and archival materials from the Photography Department, Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas at Austin"--Title page verso.

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University of Texas Press

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0292744919

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9780292744912

Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte and Don Juan Canto VIII and Stanzas from III and IX

Illustrating Byron's Attitudes Toward Napoleon, Wellington, and War

By: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron

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Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte and Don Juan Canto VIII and Stanzas from III and IX

Illustrating Byron's Attitudes Toward Napoleon, Wellington, and War

By: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron

This volume presents a facsimile of the original draft manuscripts in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin.

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Taylor & Francis

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0815311486

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9780815311485

A Bibliography of Bertrand Russell: Separate publications, 1896-1990

By: Kenneth Blackwell,Harry Ruja

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A Bibliography of Bertrand Russell: Separate publications, 1896-1990

By: Kenneth Blackwell,Harry Ruja

Provides for the first time a full, descriptive bibliography of Russell's writings. Textually orientated, it will guide the scholar, collector and the general reader to the authoritative editions of Russell's works.

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0415104874

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9780415104876

The Conscience of the University, and Other Essays

By: Harry Huntt Ransom

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The Conscience of the University, and Other Essays

By: Harry Huntt Ransom

In 1982, a century after the laying of the cornerstone of its first building, the University of Texas was ranked by the New York Times among the best in the nation. No one had more to do with that extraordinary achievement than Harry Huntt Ransom. From 1935 to his death in 1976, he served the University in positions ranging from instructor in English to chancellor of The University of Texas System. In the fifties, sixties, and seventies, he held a succession of administrative posts requiring him to face a myriad of perplexing problems. Among the critical issues calling for analysis and decision in those years were the post-Sputnik pressure for greater emphasis on science and technology, the student revolts during the 1960s, and the defection of growing numbers of university faculty to industry and government. Harry Huntt Ransom did not merely respond to the problems of the times. He had his own large ambitions for the University of Texas, in particular the improvement of student programs, the development of a vigorous faculty, and—the achievement for which he is best remembered—the building of a world-renowned library. He was concerned with the role of the university in society, what the university should do and do well, and what it should not do. Always he viewed these matters in broad perspective, and his approach to them was far-sighted and deeply philosophical. As dean, vice-president, president, and chancellor, Ransom wrote and spoke often on these and other important subjects. Aside from the books that he wrote and edited, he left a prodigious amount of material, some of which had been published in various journals and some of which had been delivered as lectures and addresses and never made available in printed form. For the last twenty-five years of Ransom's life his wife, Hazel, was his closest companion and confidant. At the urging of Harry's friends, colleagues, and admirers, she undertook the task of sifting through her late husband's papers in an effort to organize and preserve some of the important contributions he had made to the thought and planning that were so instrumental in shaping the University of Texas and higher education in general. In these essays we see the force of reasoning and grace of style for which Ransom was so widely admired. It was he who reminded us that books last longer than buildings. This is a book of lasting importance that Harry Ransom himself might have given us had he lived longer.

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University of Texas Press

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0292785984

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9780292785984

The Correspondence of Edward Gordon Craig and Count Harry Kessler, 1903-1937

By: Edward Gordon Craig,Graf Harry Kessler

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The Correspondence of Edward Gordon Craig and Count Harry Kessler, 1903-1937

By: Edward Gordon Craig,Graf Harry Kessler

This long-awaited edition brings together for the first time 366 letters, cards and telegrams exchanged between Craig and his patron the cosmopolitan Count Kessler. An important primary source, illuminated by Dr Newman's commentary, it focuses on three areas of particular importance: - 1. Craig's artistic ideas and the spread of his influence through exhibitions and books; proposals are developed for work with Otto Brahm, Eleonora Duse, Max Reinhardt, Henry van de Velde, Eduard Verkade, Leopold Jessner, Dyaghilev, Beerbohm Tree, C. B. Cochran, and others. 2. Kessler's Cranach Press Hamlet with wood-engraved illustrations by Craig; this is a landmark in the history of twentieth-century book design and printing whose genesis is now fully revealed in these letters and amplified with reproductions of eighteen trial page proofs. 3. The relationship between an artist and his patron. Exceptionally detailed indexes are an additional feature of this book

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MHRA

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0901286591

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9780901286598

The Other Texas Frontier

By: Harry Huntt Ransom

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The Other Texas Frontier

By: Harry Huntt Ransom

“One is tempted to say that wherever there was a frontier in America there was a counterfrontier and that the main purpose of this counterfrontier was not only to help man grow or dig or catch or kill his livng but also to put this man in communication with the traditions of his kind and thereby secure to his descendants the benefits of the free mind.” —Harry Huntt Ransom The reflections of Harry Huntt Ransom (1908–1976) in The Other Texas Frontier present an alternative to the stereotypical picture of the brash, blustery heroes of the Texas frontier. Here, in six highly readable essays, Ransom posits a thesis of the counterfrontier: a quiet settling of the land by thoughtful, undramatic citizens who, he says, were the other Texans—the Texans without guns. Three of the essays are profiles of gifted men from Texas’ nineteenth century: Ashbel Smith, physician, diplomat, and first president of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas; Sherman Goodwin, physician, horticulturalist, bibliophile (and Ransom’s own grandfather); and Swante Palm, Swedish immigrant, bibliographer, and generous patron of the University of Texas libraries. Harry Huntt Ransom, one of Texas’ most accomplished men of letters and for forty-one years an integral part of the University of Texas System as professor, dean, president, and chancellor, leaves an extraordinary legacy to Texas for both his educational and literary service. Though educated out of state, he returned to his native Texas after completion of his PhD at Yale to teach, research, and write in the fields of copyright law, literary history, and bibliography. As founder of the Humanities Research Center, he was squarely in the tradition of the men he was writing about. Compiled and edited after Ransom’s death by his wife, Hazel H. Ransom, the literary sketches of The Other Texas Frontier form a book that Ransom himself had outlined but had not completed.

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Arnold Newman

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By: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center,Roy Flukinger,Marianne Fulton

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Arnold Newman

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By: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center,Roy Flukinger,Marianne Fulton

All photographs and archival materials from the Photography Department, Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas at Austin"--Title page verso.

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Arnold Newman

Arnold Newman

Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte and Don Juan Canto VIII and Stanzas from III and IX

Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte and Don Juan Canto VIII and Stanzas from III and IX

A Bibliography of Bertrand Russell: Separate publications, 1896-1990

A Bibliography of Bertrand Russell: Separate publications, 1896-1990

The Conscience of the University, and Other Essays

The Conscience of the University, and Other Essays

The Correspondence of Edward Gordon Craig and Count Harry Kessler, 1903-1937

The Correspondence of Edward Gordon Craig and Count Harry Kessler, 1903-1937

The Other Texas Frontier

The Other Texas Frontier

Arnold Newman

Arnold Newman

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