Albert Frederic Brown (72 results)

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Early Rhode Island Houses: An Historical and Architectural Study. Book.

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Book Company 015. Light edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Albert Nuetzell. This anthology contains: Introduction by Forrest J. Ackerman; Preface by Charles Nuetzel; The Test by Richard Matheson; The Earth Killers - a novelette by A. E. van Vogt; The Racer by Ib Melchior; All the Troubles of the World by Isaac Asimov; Friends and Enemies by Fritz Leiber; No Land of Nod by Sherwood Springer; A Very Cultured Taste by George Frederic (Charles Nuetzel); The Mute Question by Forrest J. Ackerman; The Homo Sap by Charles Nuetzel; Aquella by Donald A. Wollheim; The Climbing Wave - a novella by Marion Zimmer Bradley; Your Life in 1977 - an essay by Willie Ley; and Preposterous by Fredric Brown. Albert Nuetzell; (illustrator). Book. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Book Company 015. Light edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Albert Nuetzell. This anthology contains: Introduction by Forrest J. Ackerman; Preface by Charles Nuetzel; The Test by Richard Matheson; The Earth Killers - a novelette by A. E. van Vogt; The Racer by Ib Melchior; All the Troubles of the World by Isaac Asimov; Friends and Enemies by Fritz Leiber; No Land of Nod by Sherwood Springer; A Very Cultured Taste by George Frederic (Charles Nuetzel); The Mute Question by Forrest J. Ackerman; The Homo Sap by Charles Nuetzel; Aquella by Donald A. Wollheim; The Climbing Wave - a novella by Marion Zimmer Bradley; Your Life in 1977 - an essay by Willie Ley; and Preposterous by Fredric Brown. Albert Nuetzell; (illustrator). Book. …

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Condition: Neuf. Lebrun, Adélaïde; Brown, Jeb; Serq, Albert (illustrator).

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xiv, 456 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. ; ISBN 9780669280029, 066928002X OCLC 31890473 LCCN 94076841 LC DG533 .M27 1995 Dewey 945/.05 ; color pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; This collection of readings offers the best of contemporary Italian Renaissance scholarship, classic studies, and excerpts from a great variety of important primary sources in a single volume. Unique to this text is the presentation of conflicting interpretations of major issues in Renaissance history ; Contents: Pt. 1. The Renaissance problem -- 1. The Renaissance problem -- The culture of the Italian Renaissance / Jacob Burckhardt -- Did women have a renaissance? / Joan Kelly -- pt. II. The material world -- 2. The plage and public health -- The plague strikes Orvieto / Elisabeth Carpentier -- Medical reputations and the Black Death / Nancy G. Siraisi -- Sexuality and medicine in the Middle Ages / Danielle Jacquart and Claude Thomasett -- 3. The economy of city and countryside -- Landed property and trade in medieval Siena / Giuliano Pinto -- The preconditions for luxury consumption / Richard A. Goldthwaite -- Women's work in Renaissance Tuscany / Judith C. Brown -- 4. Urban needs and opportunities -- The Italian urban experience / Marvin B. Becker -- Social mobility in Florence / David Herlihy -- The urban territory of a Florentine merchant, 1400 / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber -- pt. III. Political forms -- 5. Renaissance Venice and Florence emerge -- Guild republicianism in Trecento Florence / John M. Najemy -- The Venetian aristocracy takes control / Frederic C. Lane -- 6. Forms of government in Renaissance Italy -- Communes and despots in late-medieval Italy / P.J. Jones -- The rise of the Medici / Dale Kent -- 7. Machiavelli's world -- The prince : political science or political satire? / Garrett Mattingly -- Machiavelli's advice to princes / Quentin Skinner Pt. IV. Humanism -- The beginnings of humanism / Ronald G. Witt -- Petrarch and the discovery of human nature / Hans Baron -- 9. Humanism serves the state -- In defense of civic humanism / Hans Baron -- The significance of civic humanism / Albert Rabil, Jr -- The moral philosophy of a Venetian humanist, Giovanni Caldiera / Margaret L. King -- 10. Schools of humanism -- Humanism and scholasticism in the Italian Renaissance / Paul Oskar Kristeller -- Antiquity versus modernity / Charles Trinkaus -- pt. V. Urban society and culture -- Maternity, widowhood, and dowry in Florence / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber -- Wives and husbands in late medieval Venice / Stanley Chonjnacki -- 12. Conspicuous consumption -- The building of Renaissance Florence / Richard A. Goldwaite -- Sumptuary law and social relations in Renaissance Italy / Diane Owen Hughes -- 13. Spirituality and ritual -- Ritual behavior in Renaissance Florence / Richard Trexler -- Art and pageantry in Renaissance Venice / Edward Muir -- 14. The end of the Renaissance? -- Changing assumptions in later Renaissance culture / William J. Bouwsma -- Clerics and laymen in Italian literature / Carlo Dionisotti ; FINE. Book.…