One of the world's preeminent photographers, Irving Penn is famous for portraiture, still life, and other commercial work. He is less well known as a superb photographer of the female nude. His most important pictures in this genre were made in 1949-50 during intense sessions with artist's models that were essentially an artistic antidote to the ephemeral fashion world. Charged with powerful, physical, and sexual energy, yet somehow chaste, the images are among the most ambitious and successful nudes ever made. Sequenced to reveal the artist's progressive exploration of his theme, the photographs constitute a remarkable whole -- a frieze of life based on a love affair with earthly goddesses. -- The great 1949-50 nudes by Irving Penn have scarcely been seen and have never been the subject of serious book-length study. -- The book features faithful tritone reproductions of Penn's exquisitely wrought prints in silver and platinum and four dramatic gatefolds. --

1974/1980. First edition thus (softcover), first printing. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated stiff wrappers; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs and text by Irving Penn. 96 pp., with 74 black-and-white plates. 10-1/2 x 10-3/8 inches. [The first hardcover edition of this book was cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004).] From the "Beginning in 1948, when he photographed the Peruvian Indians in Cuzco, Penn has traveled the world to compile these 'records of physical' presence.' He has set up his 'ambulant studio' on the edge of the Sahara, among gypsies in Spain, in the highlands of New Guinea, in the mountains of Nepal -- and has invited the inhabitants to step, for a moment, out of their worlds and into a new one....For this remarkable collection of photographs, Penn has provided a text in which he further illuminates the relationship between photographer and subject, and the relationship between photographer and camera."

In the first edition of Sex: A Philosophical Primer , Singer offered a new conception of sex, locating it within a spectrum that also includes love and compassion. He suggested that this conception improves upon the work of theorists who tend to relegate sex, love, and compassion to separate and distinct compartments. Singer further argues that sex in human beings is normally-perhaps always in some degree-a composite of the appetitive and the interpersonal, a view that becomes the basis for his later remarks about the relative value of individual sex acts, as well as their place within the aesthetic and moral dimensions of human nature. In the present, expanded edition, Singer supplements the 2001 chapters with a timely and stimulating essay that focuses upon marriage, particularly same-sex marriage. Singer maintains that questions about sex are fundamental in all thinking about the marital condition, and addresses the problem of same-sex legitimization and rights to material benefits by analyzing the nature of marriage, union, and family in their relation to sexuality and love. For first-time and seasoned readers alike, Singer's lucid new reflections will clarify current and emerging issues in the philosophy of sex. Irving Singer is professor of philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of many books, among them Explorations in Love and Sex , Feeling and Imagination , and his trilogies Meaning in Life and The Nature of Love .

A fictional profile of the brilliant, prolific painter Camille Pissarro traces his colorful life, along with that of his remarkable wife, Julie, and his career at the center of the circle of the Impressionists

s/t: The Story of the Men Who Were Defeated for the Presidency

The President of the United States has an affair with the ruler of a small nation risking both his marriage and the security of the United States.

If you were in a position of authority and these five came to you at the life-and-death Summit Conference in Paris with the incredible details of The Plot would you believe any one of the? (From the back of the book.) All of the five and a step or two out of the loop of honest upstanding citizens. They come together and by various means learn of an assasination plot to take place at the Summit Conference.

The last decade of the twentieth century is already proving to be as dramatic as any decade before. The chances of global peace seem stronger now than at any time since 1900 and the people and organizations that have contributed most towards this progress are recognized by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. The Nobel Peace prizewinners during the period 1991-1995 include men, women and organizations whose principles, dedication and diligence continue to shape history.This volume is a collection of the Nobel Lectures delivered by the prizewinners, together with their biographies, portraits and presentation speeches by representatives of the Norwegian Nobel Committee for the period 1991 - 1995. Each Nobel Lecture is based on the work that won the laureate his/her prize. New biographical data of the laureates, since they were awarded the Nobel prize, are also included. This volume of inspiring lectures by outstanding individuals should be on everyone's bookshelf.Below is a list of the prizewinners during the period 1991 - 1995.Aung San Suu Kyi, R Menchú Tum, N R Mandela, F W de Klerk, Y Arafat, S Peres, Y Rabin, J Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.

From the back of theA book that will convince you that organized crime in America begins with The Federal Government!Discover for yourself- No law requires you to file income tax returns- No law requires you to pay income taxes- No law requires you to have income taxes withheld from your pay, and how you can legally put a stop to such practices- No law requires you to keep books and records for income tax purposes- No law requires you to show your Social Security number to an bank or stockbroker--not even your employer- No law authorizes criminal prosecutions of alleged income tax "crimes" and why all such prosecutions are illegal- No law authorizes you to be audited by the IRS- No law authorizes employers or financial institutions to withhold income taxes from wages, interest or dividends- No law authorizes the IRS to seize any property (including wages, bank accounts, homes and automobiles) in payment of income taxes, and why all such seizures are illegalCompletely documented with 55 internal Revenue Code Sections, 8 Treasury Department Regulations, 23 Startling Government Admissions Reproduced In Their Original Form, 32 Court Exhibits and Much, Much More!

In an unnamed war, six dead soldiers refuse to allow themselves to be buried in the trench dug by two of their buddies, causing consternation among the army's generals.

Tired of being "bugged" by his father, a sixteen-year-old runs away from home. His adventures working and living alone and in a commune bring him to some unpleasant realizations about his own maturity.

Explains how to use a slide rule to perform various mathematical operations.

CONTENTS: MECANICA by Frank Edward Arnold THE MARTIANS ARE COMING by Robert W. Lowndes CRYSTAL WORLD by John L. Chapman THE MAN FROM THE FUTURE by Donald A. Wollheim RETURN FROM M-15 by S. D. Gottesman PLANET LEAVE by Clifton B. Kruse THE SECRET SENSE by Isaac Asimov WORLDS IN EXILE by Elton V. Andrews THE LAST VIKING by Hugh Raymond AMBITION by Wilfred Owen Morley PURPLE DANDELIONS by Millard Verne Gordon THE ROCKET by Damon Knight THE REVERSIBLE REVOLUTIONS by Cecil Corwin BIPED by Basil Wells

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The Godless Constitution is an urgent and timely reexamination of the roots of church-state separation in American politics - and a ringing refutation of the misguided claims of the religious right. In this important polemic two distinguished scholars of American political ideas and religion refute this dangerous attempt to introduce what they term "religious correctness" into our politics, by reminding us that the absence of any mention of God in the Constitution was a conscious action on the framers' part, intended to prevent the bloody religious controversies that so marked European history. They also emphasize that church-state separation was seen as a guarantee of - not a hindrance to - religions liberty. Fully respecting the importance of religion in the public sphere, yet forthright in defining proper limits, The Godless Constitution offers a bracing return to the first principles of American democracy - and a guide to keeping them intact in the forthcoming presidential campaign.

For six decades, Isaac Stern has been revered not only for his profound contributions as a great violinist, but for his political activism and his inspiration and generosity in sharing knowledge with younger musicians. He began performing publicly when he was very young, and was soon touring across the country and around the world. His fame escalated when he led the fight to save Carnegie Hall in 1962, and again when he was the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary film ¿From Mao to Mozart.¿ Here, Stern recalls his friendships and collaborations with such colleagues as Pablo Casals, Leonard Bernstein, and Igor Stravinsky; his background as an ardent supporter of Israel; and his unique insight into music and the violin. Photos.

In this final volume, Isaiah Berlin enters a profoundly interesting last phase in his life. He is as prolific a correspondent as ever, but the publication of new essay collections produces a striking change in tone, as readers seek clarification of his ideas. Many of these letters throw substantive new light on his thought, and deal with issues of overriding importance to today's world. Berlin dwells on pluralism of values and cultures, political liberalism, the defense of democracy, and the challenge posed by fundamentalism. But there is also a generous leavening of gossip to close friends, reflections on music, the arts, and artists, as well as a Shakespearean fascination with the variety of humankind. He reacts, as always, to world events: the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians; the fall of Communism; the Falklands, Gulf, and Bosnian wars; and he observes the leading players on the world stage--Reagan, Thatcher, Begin, Sadat, Shamir, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Clinton, and Khomeini; especially illuminating is the contrast he draws between Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov. He declines a peerage, wins the Agnelli Prize for ethics, campaigns against the "carbuncle" proposed by the National Gallery, helps run Covent Garden, talks at length to his biographer, and works with his editor on new volumes of his writings. Affirming is the crowning achievement both of Berlin's epistolary life and of the acclaimed edition of his letters that began publication 11 years ago.