Author: Bamber Gascoigne
Publisher: Running Press
Keywords: history, china, dynasties
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-09-25
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0786712198
ISBN-13: 9780786712199

Shang, Chou, Han, T’ang, Sung, Yuan, Ming, Ch’ing—for most Westerners, they stand only as adjectives to describe a lacquer, a bronze, a silk, a watercolor. And for all the familiarity a blue and white porcelain vase from the Ming dynasty or the bright and sturdy pottery figures of horses and grooms from the T’ang may now have acquired, the history of the civilization that produced them remains obscure. So do the names of the potters and artists and philosophers and emperors and generals—except perhaps for those of Kublai Khan, who was not Chinese, and K’ung Fu Tzu—known as Confuc

Author: Bamber Gascoigne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: bibliography, sandars, lectures, prints, nelson, printing, milestones, colour
Number of Pages: 133
Published: 1997-06-28
List price: $89.99
ISBN-10: 0521554411
ISBN-13: 9780521554411

This broad historical survey ranges from developments in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through the inventive attempts of nineteenth-century British publishers to achieve cheap, effective color printing, to the pioneering work of the firm Thomas Nelson and Sons. A catalog of more than 1000 British and foreign views published by the firm in their own distinctive technique, the Nelson print, is also provided. This book links these developments to the wider scientific, cultural and social currents of the period.

Author: Ingrid Gascoigne
Publisher: Benchmark Books (NY)
Keywords: world, cultures, guinea, new, papua
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2009-03-01
List price: $42.79
ISBN-10: 076143416X
ISBN-13: 9780761434160

Discusses the geography, history, economy, government, varied culture and peoples of the country made up of more than 600 islands and archipelagos.

Author: David Gascoigne
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: european, writing, directions, new, tournier, michel
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 1996-03-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 1859730841
ISBN-13: 9781859730843

This intriguing book provides a up-to-date introduction to the works of Michel Tournier, arguably the most internationally influential French novelist of the last 25 years. His novels have been widely translated and have often provoked controversy and incurred charges of perversion. This study examines the nature of the attack which Tournier mounts on many of the norms and assumptions of Western culture and his often startling reinterpretation of the mythologies which have nourished and sustained it. His critical review of contemporary culture places him in a radical tradition of French writer

Author: Neil Gascoigne
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: scepticism
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0773524770
ISBN-13: 9780773524774

Gascoigne explores the challenge to epistemology itself and considers two contemporary responses: the turn against foundationalist epistemology in favour of more naturalistic conceptions of inquiry, and the resistance to this response by non-naturalistically inclined philosophers. This contextualization of the sceptical debate gives students a better appreciation of the methodological importance of sceptical reasoning, an analytic understanding of the structure of sceptical arguments (including an assessment of whether the theoretical burden lies with the sceptic or anti-sceptic), and an aware

Author: Ingrid Gascoigne
Publisher: Benchmark Books (NY)
Keywords: world, cultures, guinea, new, papua
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1998-04
List price: $42.79
ISBN-10: 0761408134
ISBN-13: 9780761408130

Discusses the geography, history, economy, government, varied culture and peoples of the country made up of more than 600 islands and archipelagos.

Author: Bill Bamber
Publisher: Brick Tower Book
Keywords: bear, panic, trap, stearns
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1883283639
ISBN-13: 9781883283636

Bear, Stearns & Co., a storied Wall Street firm with a maverick reputation, had endured many crises in its 85-year history. Nothing, however, could have prepared the firm for the sudden death spiral that would lead to its takeover for a pittance. In a dramatic showdown with JP Morgan and the Fed, this is the tragic story of how fortunes were made and lost. Bill Bramber, a senior executive at Bear Stearns, had a bird’s eye view of just what happened inside Bear’s offices and on the trading floor that led to the most sensational financial crisis of our times.