A Basic Guide to All Aspects of Book Collecting--what to Collect, who to Buy From, Auctions, Bibliographies, Care, Fakes and Forgeries, Investments, Donations, Definitions, and More
A Basic Guide to All Aspects of Book Collecting--what to Collect, who to Buy From, Auctions, Bibliographies, Care, Fakes and Forgeries, Investments, Donations, Definitions, and More
This book is written to enlighten you to take control of your life, money and plan for the future. IF we can acquire some knowledge of how to spend, save and invest our money we will be able to live comfortably while leaving a nice nest egg for our children. We should always try to leave the next generation a little better. The bible says to leave an inheritance to your childrens children.
This is an American story that reminds us of the possibilities our nation offers. It's the story of the son of a Russian immigrant, Ray Nasher, who was born in Boston, lived in a three-decker house, and graduated from that great democratizer, Boston Latin School. It's the story of his entrepreneurial success in Texas and his marriage to Patsy and their creation, over the course of more than forty years, of one of the greatest sculpture collections of the twentieth century. It's also the story of how that sculpture collection and the Nashers were courted by the most powerful art institutions and their directors—the National Gallery and its director, the late Carter Brown, the Guggenheim and its impresario, Thomas Krens, the Tate in London, and the Dallas Museum of Art. It's the story about how, in the end, Nasher did it his way, buying land next to the Dallas Museum and conceiving there an extraordinary sculpture center, designed by Renzo Piano, the Italian architect of unsurpassed insight into what the museum experience should be. Picasso. Matisse. Giacommetti. Moore. Brancusi. Arp. Gauguin. The giants of the twentieth century form the core of the Nasher Collection. And for Nasher, the pursuit is without end. For him the most important acquisition remains, as it does with all true collectors, the next one. This is a book about art and ambition. And, finally, the triumph of the Nashers' will to create a collection focused only on the best.
An examination of eugenic thinking past and present, from forced sterilization to prenatal screening, drawing on experience with those who survived eugenics. Part science and part social movement, eugenics emerged in the late nineteenth century as a tool for human improvement. In response to perceived threats of criminality, moral degeneration, feeble-mindedness, and "the rising tide of color," eugenic laws and social policies aimed to better the human race by regulating reproductive choice through science and technology. In this book, Rob Wilson examines eugenic thought and practice--from forced sterilization to prenatal screening--drawing on his experience working with eugenics survivors. Using the social sciences' standpoint theory as a framework to understand the intersection of eugenics, disability, social inclusiveness, and human variation, Wilson focuses on those who have lived through a eugenic past and those confronted by the legacy of eugenic thinking today. By doing so, he brings eugenics from the distant past to the ongoing present. Wilson discusses such topics as the conceptualization of eugenic traits; the formulation of laws regulating immigration and marriage and requiring sexual sterilization; the depiction of the targets of eugenics as "subhuman"; the systematic construction of a concept of normality; the eugenic logic in prenatal screening and contemporary bioethics; and the incorporation of eugenics and disability into standpoint theory.
Before the X-Files, before alt.conspiracy, there was Robert Anton Wilson and his legendary Illuminatus! Trilogy. Now this avatar of conspiriology, renowned for his razor wit and progressive philosophy, takes you on a fascinating, eclectic ride through what Wilson has termed the "Cultic Twilight" where conspiracy theories flourish. Everything Is Under Control covers the range of Wilson's kaleidoscopic knowledge, from John Adams to the Voronezh (former Soviet Union) UFO sighting, the Campus Crusade for Cthulhu to the Mothman prophecies, and everything in between. What do the Freemasons, the Kennedys, and Princess Diana have in common? All are at the center of gigantic conspiracy theories with incredibly complex and endlessly multiplying twists, turns, highways and byways. Arranged by alphabetical entries which include cross-references to other entries in the book and also provide addresses to related sites on the Web, this book is truly interactive--you can dip in, read through, or follow one of the URLs from an interesting entry onto the internet. What some famous people say about Robert Anton Wilson: "A dazzling barker hawking tickets to the most thrilling tilt-a-whirls and daring loop-o-planes on the midway to higher consciousness." --Tom Robbins "Wilson managed to reverse every mental polarity in me, as if I had been pulled through infinity." --Philip K. Dick "One of the most important scientific philosophers of his century--scholarly, witty, scientific, hip and hopeful." --Dr. Timothy Leary
Read My Wisdom Breathes out loud without trying to know what you’re reading to allow yourself the freedom to go on a journey of imaginative inlightenmint that opens your adventurer’s eyes to having fun My Wisdom Breathes is written in first person minimal punctuation politically incorrect grammatically improper and written to discharge and soar you out of your past to experience your nunow My Wisdom Breathes is a book written to be carried with you wherever you go and when you are experiencing a bad day you can open My Wisdom Breathes to any page and expand out of your bad day To expand of optimistic foresight to feel a better way to experience your day as I wrote My Wisdom Breathes to show people the way I expanded my life to open your heart and soul to your trailblazer talents
By Admitting I Taught Myself Fear That Allowed Me to Unlock My Hidden Blocks That I Taught Myself Fear Through My Childhood Surroundings and People of Influence
By Admitting I Taught Myself Fear That Allowed Me to Unlock My Hidden Blocks That I Taught Myself Fear Through My Childhood Surroundings and People of Influence
I wrote How Did I Teach Myself Fear? To unblock my hidden blocks by admitting and admiring gut gumption I taught myself fear through my childhood surroundings and people of influence. I unlocked my imprisoned impudence to understand, admit, and admire. I taught myself everything in my life.
I Am Wisdom is about understanding how wisdom and words describe the images of peoples desired life. Wisdom and words open enterprising expressions to rise and shine from within, unleashing their prowess to expand through life with liberating, inspired foresight and to appreciate energizing, amazing, accomplished outcomes. I Am Wisdom turns on peoples lights of enlightenment that excite dreamers and entrepreneurs within to see that wisdom is wealth to experience things they dare to now and forevermore. I Am Wisdom shows people the way to write and speak to the images of their dreams. Understanding wisdom and words opens their gates of ingenious lore to explore life in a bold new way. Then it opens peoples eyes to their inner wisdom to dance with their dreams, appreciating lifes extravaganzas with glorious gusto.
In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of savanna baboons. "I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla,” writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist’s coming-of-age in Africa. An exhilarating account of Sapolsky’s twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, A Primate’s Memoir interweaves serious scientific observations with wry commentary about the challenges and pleasures of living in the wilds of the Serengeti—for man and beast alike. Over two decades, Sapolsky survives culinary atrocities, gunpoint encounters, and a surreal kidnapping, while witnessing the encroachment of the tourist mentality on Africa. As he conducts unprecedented physiological research on wild primates, he becomes enamored of his subjects—unique and compelling characters in their own right—and he returns to them summer after summer, until tragedy finally prevents him. By turns hilarious and poignant, A Primate’s Memoir is a magnum opus from one of our foremost science writers.
This American underground classic is a rollicking cosmic mystery featuring Albert Einstein and James Joyce as the ultimate space/time detectives. One fateful evening in a suitably dark, beer-soaked Swiss rathskeller, a wild and obscure Irishman named James Joyce would become the drinking partner of an unknown physics professor called Albert Einstein. And on that same momentous night, Sir John Babcock, a terror-stricken young Englishman, would rush through the tavern door bringing a mystery that only the two most brilliant minds of the century could solve . . . or perhaps bringing only a figment of his imagination born of the paranoia of our times. An outrageous, raunchy ride through the twists and turns of mind and space, Masks of the Illuminati runs amok with all our fondest conspiracy theories to show us the truth behind the laughter . . . and the laughter in the truth. Praise for Masks of the Illuminati “I was astonished and delighted . . . Robert Anton Wilson managed to reverse every mental polarity in me, as if I had been pulled through infinity.”—Philip K. Dick “[Wilson is] erudite, witty, and genuinely scary.”—Publishers Weekly “A dazzling barker hawking tickets to the most thrilling tilt-a-whirls and daring loop-o-planes on the midway to a higher consciousness.”—Tom Robbins “Wilson is one of the most profound, important, scientific philosophers of this century—scholarly, witty, hip, and hopeful.”—Timothy Leary
I Am Wisdom is about understanding how wisdom and words describe the images of peoples desired life. Wisdom and words open enterprising expressions to rise and shine from within, unleashing their prowess to expand through life with liberating, inspired foresight and to appreciate energizing, amazing, accomplished outcomes. I Am Wisdom turns on peoples lights of enlightenment that excite dreamers and entrepreneurs within to see that wisdom is wealth to experience things they dare to now and forevermore. I Am Wisdom shows people the way to write and speak to the images of their dreams. Understanding wisdom and words opens their gates of ingenious lore to explore life in a bold new way. Then it opens peoples eyes to their inner wisdom to dance with their dreams, appreciating lifes extravaganzas with glorious gusto.
By Admitting I Taught Myself Fear That Allowed Me to Unlock My Hidden Blocks That I Taught Myself Fear Through My Childhood Surroundings and People of Influence
By Admitting I Taught Myself Fear That Allowed Me to Unlock My Hidden Blocks That I Taught Myself Fear Through My Childhood Surroundings and People of Influence
I wrote How Did I Teach Myself Fear? To unblock my hidden blocks by admitting and admiring gut gumption I taught myself fear through my childhood surroundings and people of influence. I unlocked my imprisoned impudence to understand, admit, and admire. I taught myself everything in my life.
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