Author: Thomas R. Malthus
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: arbor, paperbacks, ann, essay, first, population
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1959-11-15
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0472060317
ISBN-13: 9780472060313

Malthus’s classic prescription for the problem of overpopulation

Authors:W. S. Gilbert, James Ellis,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: paperbacks, harvard, ballads, bab
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2003-04-30
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0674058011
ISBN-13: 9780674058019

W. S. Gilbert, renowned author of the Savoy Operas, was also the creator of the Bab Ballads--"possibly the best comic verse--and surely the best illustrated--in the English language," according to James Ellis. Gilbert published these poems, together with his own, grotesque drawings signed "Bab," a childhood nickname, in Fun and other magazines in the late nineteenth century. In 1898, the older and by then distinguished Gilbert substituted pallid and inoffensive drawings for the originals, which he had come to believe "erred gravely in the direction of unnecessary extravagance." Since then the

Author: Robert Goldwater
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: art, history, paperbacks, primitivism, modern
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1986-12-23
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0674704908
ISBN-13: 9780674704909

This now classic study maps the profound effect of primitive art on modern, as well as the primitivizing strain in modern art itself. Robert Goldwater describes how and why works by primitive artists attracted modern painters and sculptors, and he delineates the differences between what is truly primitive or archaic and what intentionally embodies such elements. His analysis distinguishes the romanticism of Gauguin; an emotional primitivism exemplified by the Brücke and Blaue Reiter groups in Germany; the intellectual primitivism of Picasso and Modigliani; and a “primitivism of the subcon

Author: M. L. West
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: paperbacks, clarendon, music, greek, ancient
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 1994-04-14
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0198149751
ISBN-13: 9780198149750

Ancient Greece was permeated by music, and the literature teems with musical allusions. Here at last is a clear, comprehensive, and authoritative account that presupposes no special knowledge of music. Topics covered include the place of music in Greek life, instruments, rhythm, tempo, modes and scales, melodic construction, form, ancient theory and notation, and historical development. Thirty surviving examples of Greek music are presented in modern transcription with analysis, and the book is fully illustrated. Besides being considered on its own terms, Greek music is here further illuminate

Author: Frank Musgrove
Publisher: Methuen young books
Keywords: paperbacks, university, holiness, ecstasy
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1974-10-10
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0416785603
ISBN-13: 9780416785609

Deals with the counter culture which emerged in the wealthy societies of the late 1960s and early 1970s, often disguised by the rejection of conventional careers and the acceptance of voluntary poverty in the context of plenty. The period witnessed radical change in young people’s attitudes.

Author: Roger G. Newton
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: paperbacks, princeton, physics, thinking
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-03-04
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0691095531
ISBN-13: 9780691095530

Physical scientists are problem solvers. They are comfortable "doing" science: they find problems, solve them, and explain their solutions. Roger Newton believes that his fellow physicists might be too comfortable with their roles as solvers of problems. He argues that physicists should spend more time thinking about physics. If they did, he believes, they would become even more skilled at solving problems and "doing" science. As Newton points out in this thought-provoking book, problem solving is always influenced by the theoretical assumptions of the problem solver. Too often, though, he bel

Author: Lionel Trilling
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: paperbacks, harvard, authenticity, sincerity
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 1972-01-01
List price: $20.50
ISBN-10: 0674808614
ISBN-13: 9780674808614

"Now and then," writes Lionel Triling "it is possible to observe the moral life in process of revising itself." In this new book he is concerned with such a mutation: the process by which the arduous enterprise of sincerity, of being true to one’s self, came to occupy a place of supreme importance in the moral life--and the further shift which finds that place now usurped by the darker and still more strenuous modern ideal of authenticity. Instances range over the whole of Western literature and thought, from Shakespeare to Hegel to Sartre, from Robespierre to R.D. Laing, suggesting th