2015, ISBN: f7cd4ffcc9781b044cafc0d8d8c78505

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UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's ubiquitous,trademark,neat green ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj … More...

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's ubiquitous,trademark,neat green ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj - publisher's printed price to rear panel of dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial illustrated artwork by Simon Drew,illustrated dw/dj - design also repeated to glossy,laminated boards with colour pictorial illustrated endpapers; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing - no nicks or tears present - virtually as new.Top+fore-edges bright and pristine,as are the contents - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,4-48pp [paginated] includes author SIGNED colour vignette illustrated title page,4 double- page colour illustrations,and 27 single-page colour illustrations - some pages having multiple illustration; plus [unpaginated] SIGNED title page and first illustration. Simon Drew would like to be considered a very wise man.His evidence is that "wise men drink wine" and nobody could be more dedicated to prolonging this state of (dis)graceful wisdom than Simon.He is certain that wine is an excellent aid to inspiration for his word plays,puzzles and drawings.For Simon,"less is never more.More is always more.Less is always less.This is more or less true." Such wisdom comes to him after several glases of wine ( - more or less). Simon has produced this book with due reverence to all viticulturists,vintners,publicans,restauranteurs, bon viveurs and to the god Bacchus and hopes to demonstrate that the way of the wise man is the path through the vineyard.He is fond of quoting a saying oft repeated by his grandmother (a reformed Methodist and born-again drinker): "I have no pain now,mother dear,but - oh I am so dry! Connect me to the vintner's tap and leave me here to die" (or words to that effect).So enjoy the book.Simon suggests you open a bottle of St Emilion.put your feet up,abandon all hope of good sense and read in a disorderly manner. Another title in Simon Drew's highly acclaimed series and readers already familiar with his earlier work will not be disappointed in this,his latest offering.Inspired by that,visual and verbal puns where the boundaries between sense and nonsense are not just blurred but usually absent.Simon Drew lives in Dartmouth,England,with his wife, Caroline,and his dog,Rabbit.He workd mainly in pen and ink,making fiendishly inventive drawings of everyday objects,birds and animals embellished with devious rhymes and word play.His work is widely acclaimed and exhibited,and is already the subject of over twenty books. Past books in this popular series have examined subjects as varied as music,cats, art,birds and animals which have each,in their turn,been subjected to that special Simon Drew 'treatment'.With its echoes of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear,Drew's work invites the reader to suspend disbelief and join him in a bizarre world where nothing is quite what it seems and just about anything is possible.See also rja1994, rja920, rja463113 and rja463213.Others in series include:'A Book of Bestial Nonsense', 'Nonsense in Flight', 'Still Warthogs Run Deep', 'The Puffin's Advice' [rja920], 'Cat with Piano Tuna', 'Camp David: Nonsense in Art' [rja31368 and rja463213] and 'Handel's Warthog Music'. Since April 2013,and again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, UK.WOODBRIDGE,SUFFOLK.ANTIQUE COLLECTORS' CLUB,2014., 5, London: Doubleday, 1989. A near Fine clean, tight and unmarked copy (Fine apart from light creasing to some later pages) with VG+ dustjacket which is price clipped. A large format volume of 160 pages, profusely illustrated. HRH The Prince of Wales publicly voiced his feelings about postwar trends in architecture for the first time in a speech to the Royal Institute of British Architects in May 1984. His hard-hitting phrases - 'monstrous carbuncle' (of the National Gallery extension and 'giant glass stump' (of the Mansion House Square project) - alerted the nation to his deep concern about the effect some modern architecture has had on the environment and on people's lives, and opened a major public debate. In this book the Prince develops and expands his views. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.09 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST 1. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall., Doubleday, 1989, 3.5, Colonialism is not just a matter of military conquest and economic exploitation: it is also a process of imagining through which dominated populations are represented in ways that play upon and legitimize racial and cultural differences. In Colonialism's Culture, Nicholas Thomas explores the perceptions of colonized populations which have emerged in the course of European expansion and critically assesses different approaches to colonial representation. Thomas argues that, while negative ideologies of racial denigration have been important, there is also a range of romanticizing, sentimental and exoticist images of others that require fuller appreciation. These images continue to play a significant role today, both in contemporary liberal attitudes towards other cultures and in scholarly disciplines like anthropology.Colonialism's Culture offers a wide-ranging account of the development of ideas about human difference and otherness, and of the conflict-ridden expression of these ideas in colonial projects at particular times. Thomas draws examples from the texts of eighteenth-century anthropology, nineteenth-century missionaries and colonial administration, and novelists of colonialism such as John Buchan. He shows that colonial culture was not some homogeneous ideology that dominated the colonized, but an array of discourses with their own internal tensions and contradictions.By reviewing debates about colonial culture and developing an innovative set of arguments, this book provides a stimulating introduction to a challenging field. aeo This is a topical subject area which draws not just on anthropological material, but also on literary and historical sources. aeo The book provides a good introduction to the whole field of studies on colonial discourse and histories -- discussing, among others, the work of Said and Bhabha.In a wide-ranging account of the development of ideas about human difference, Nicholas Thomas challenges reigning theories that portray colonialism as monolithic in character, purpose, and efficacy throughout the world. Taking issue with such writers as Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Spivak, Thomas describes colonialism not so much as a discourse but a project--a project in which the interactions among colonizing and colonized people are far more variable and reveal greater ambivalence than generally imagined. In addition to his review of current literature in cultural studies, the author provides extended reflections on photographs, colonial novels, exhibits of indigenous art, ethnographic films, and recent Hollywood films in order to reveal how deep and pervasive is colonialism's culture for colonizer and colonized.Thomas proposes that historicized, ethnographic explorations of the colonial experience are the most fruitful approaches to understanding colonialism's continued effects. He draws on travel, anthropology, and government as vehicles that gave nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Europeans exposure to colonized populations and provided a language through which to discuss them. The author reveals colonialism to be a complex ongoing cultural process--one in which dominated populations are represented in ways that play upon and legitimize racial and cultural differences. A provocative book for specialists, Colonialism's Culture can also serve as a stimulating introduction for students across the social sciences and humanities interested in this multifaceted field of inquiry.xi, 238 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. #191021 (Name on fep and some light pencil scoring.) Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA., 0<