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Published by Brand: New York Review Books, 1990
ISBN 10: 0940322005ISBN 13: 9780940322004
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. In his introduction, Peter Singer writes: "This book is about the tyranny of human over non-human animals. This tyranny has caused and today is still causing an amount of pain and suffering that can only be compared with that which resulted from centuries of tyranny by white humans over black humans." Now you may read the 2nd Edition of the 1975 classic that inspired a world-wide movement.
Published by Brand: New York Review of Books, 2001
ISBN 10: 0940322927ISBN 13: 9780940322929
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The author of Lonesome Dove and other great novels about the American West takes readers on a non-fiction exploration of his favorite region, sharing eleven essays originally published in The New Yorker.
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Published by Brand: New York Review Books, 2003
ISBN 10: 1590170733ISBN 13: 9781590170731
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. In Fixed Ideas Joan Didion describes how, since September 11, 2001, there has been a determined effort by the administration to promote an imperial America-a "New Unilateralism"-and how, in many parts of America, there is now a "disconnect" between the government and citizens."[Americans] recognized even then [immediately after 9/11], with flames still visible in lower Manhattan, that the words 'bipartisanship' and 'national unity' had come to mean acquiescence to the administration's preexisting agenda-for example the imperative for further tax cuts, the necessity for Arctic drilling, the systematic elimination of regulatory and union protections, even the funding for the missile shield."Frank Rich in his preface notes: "The reassuring point of the fixed ideas was to suppress other ideas that might prompt questions or fears about either the logic or hidden political agendas of those conducting what CNN branded as 'America's New War.'"He adds, "This White House is famously secretive and on-message, but its skills go beyond that. It knows the power of narrative, especially a single narrative with clear-cut heroes and evildoers, and it knows how to drown out any distracting subplots before they undermine the main story."Book and cover design by Milton Glaser, Inc.
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Published by Brand: New York Review of Books, 2001
ISBN 10: 0940322595ISBN 13: 9780940322592
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. The papers given at the conference and collected in this volume concentrate on three aspects of Berlin's concept of pluralism. Aileen Kelly, Mark Lilla, and Steven Lukes trace the development and consequences of his distinction between "hedgehogs," thinkers who have a single, unified theory of human action and history, and "foxes," who believe in multiplicity and resist the impulse to subject humanity to a universal vision. Ronald Dworkin, Bernard Williams, Thomas Nagel, and Charles Taylor examine how liberalism can be sustained in the face of Berlin's insight that equally legitimate values, such as liberty and equality, may come into irreconcilable conflict. Avishai Margalit, Richard Wollheim, Michael Walzer, and Robert Silvers take up Berlin's advocacy for the State of Israel and his hopes for it as a place where the often contrary values of liberalism and nationalism might find harmonious resolution.
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Published by Brand: New York Review of Books, 2001
ISBN 10: 0940322757ISBN 13: 9780940322752
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Does an opera producer do anything besides tell the singers where to stand? Can a single note be played more or less beautifully on the piano? In these essays, five of our most accomplished artists and critics explore the relationship between technique and interpretation in the performing arts. Tom Stoppard considers ways of controlling how an audience gets information while watching a play, and Charles Rosen reflects on the very physical relationship between the musician and the instrument. Jonathan Miller describes ways of restoring dramatic motivation to some of our best-loved operas. Garry Wills argues that the collaborative and commercial pressures of filmmaking have produced some of our greatest cinematic achievements, and Geoffrey OBrien looks at how hip audiences in the Nineties have rediscovered Sixties pop music icon Burt Bacharach. Witty, trenchant, often surprising, and always insightful, this collection is essential reading for all devotees of theatrical, musical, and film performance.
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Published by Brand: New York Review Books, 1995
ISBN 10: 0940322072ISBN 13: 9780940322073
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. In November of 1993, the New York Review of Books published the first of two tenaciously argued essays by Frederick Crews, author of Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Critical Method This is Crews' resounding critique of Freudian theory and the recovered memory movement, with the spirited exchange of letters it provoked and a new introduction by the author.
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Published by Brand: New York Review Books, 2008
ISBN 10: 1590172957ISBN 13: 9781590172957
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. From the revelations of classical statuary pulled from the Roman soil as the popes began rebuilding the city in the fifteenth century, to the myth of serenity that Venice constructed to conceal its physical and political fragility, to bloody yet cultured Florence under the Medici, Ingrid D. Rowland traces the worldly, unworldly, and otherworldly strivings of artists, writers, popes, and politicians during that great outburst of mental energy we know as the Renaissance.Here are Botticelli, whose illustrations for the Divine Comedy reveal him to be one of Dantes most careful readers; the multifaceted genius of Leonardo; the astonishing mastery of Titian and the erratic brilliance of artists like Correggio, Caravaggio, and Artemisia Gentileschi; the enigmatic erotic novel Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, the decoding of which was the subject of the recent novel The Rule of Four; the Western fascination with the mysteries of Egypt; and the glittering spiritual ferment of late Byzantium, which as it collapsed passed on so many ideas to Renaissance Italy.But beyond its artistic accomplishments, Rowland writes, Renaissance life at its most distinctive was the intangible, unworldly life of the mind. In her pages astronomers and astrologists, poets and philosophers, pornographers and prostitutes jostle for attention with painters and sculptors. Among them the inquisitive Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher stands out as a polymath who ranged over nearly every field of knowledge. Even though his commingling of scientific observation and hermetic symbolism is now obsolete, he remains for Rowland a builder of connections who insisted on seeing harmony in the midst of disorder-and thus one of the most exemplary Renaissance figures of all.
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Published by Brand: New York Review Books, 2001
ISBN 10: 1590170091ISBN 13: 9781590170090
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. In the fall of 1998, one year after the death of Isaiah Berlin, the New York Institute for the Humanities organized a conference to consider his intellectual legacy. The scholars who participated devoted much of their attention to the question of pluralism, which for Berlin was central to liberal values. His belief in pluralism was at the core of his philosophical writings as well as his studies of contemporary politics and the history of ideas. The papers given at the conference and collected in this volume concentrate on three aspects of Berlin's concept of pluralism. Aileen Kelly, Mark Lilla, and Steven Lukes trace the development and consequences of his distinction between "hedgehogs," thinkers who have a single, unified theory of human action and history, and "foxes," who believe in multiplicity and resist the impulse to subject humanity to a universal vision. Ronald Dworkin, Bernard Williams, Thomas Nagel, and Charles Taylor examine how liberalism can be sustained in the face of Berlin's insight that equally legitimate values, such as liberty and equality, may come into irreconcilable conflict. Avishai Margalit, Richard Wollheim, Michael Walzer, and Robert Silvers take up Berlin's advocacy for the State of Israel and his hopes for it as a place where the often contrary values of liberalism and nationalism might find harmonious resolution. The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin includes not only the panelists' contributions but also transcripts of the lively exchanges among themselves and with audience members following each session. The two days of discussion preserved here demonstrate the continuing vitality and relevance of Isaiah Berlin's thought in today's social and political debates.
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Published by Brand: New York Review of Books, 1995
ISBN 10: 0940322048ISBN 13: 9780940322042
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Published by Brand: New York Review of Books, 2001
ISBN 10: 0940322765ISBN 13: 9780940322769
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: New York Review of Books, 2000
ISBN 10: 0940322102ISBN 13: 9780940322103
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: New York Review of Books, 1993
ISBN 10: 0940322013ISBN 13: 9780940322011
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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