2007, ISBN: 9780747533498

Paperback, Hardcover

Pasadena, CA: Star-News Press, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good -. 222 p.; 20 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. No dust jacket (as issued?). Gift inscription from th… More...

Pasadena, CA: Star-News Press, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good -. 222 p.; 20 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. No dust jacket (as issued?). Gift inscription from the author on front free endpaper: "To my cousin Miriam Hoopes from Nannine Preston Stephens." Letters recounting the Stephens' family's trip to Europe in from July 1928 to April 1929. In Very Good- Condition: slightly cocked; gilt on spine is faded; cover is lightly soiled; pages are clean and tight., Star-News Press, 1929, 3, San Francisco: The Sierra Club Books, 1979. Presumed First Edition, First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Good. 252, [4] pages. Sources. Inscribed by author on fep. DJ has some wear, soiling, and edge wear. The Sacred Hoop is a unique experience in historical fiction. From a retelling of Genesis to the saga of the Steam God (the Transcontinental Railroad) in nineteenth-century America, Bill Broder has illuminated in fiction the larger chronicle of humankind's changing relationship with the Earth, the Gods, and the Universe. Professionally, Bill Broder has worked extensively as a free-lance writer, specializing in the writing, design, and production of educational materials for museums, schools, exhibitions, and publishing companies. Broder worked with Gordon Ashby Associates on the Coyote Point Museum of Environmental Education, The St. Supery Winery, and the Oakland Museum. He wrote the tour for the 150th Anniversary Exhibit of the Gold Rush at the Oakland Museum. He worked with Jane Clickman Design on the Calaverus Historical Museum and Archive, the Oakland California SPCA Adoption Center, and other projects. He also wrote, edited, and helped design four annual publications of the Sierra Club Almanac for Young People (poetry, images, natural facts, and experiments) (Scribners). Bill Broder was born and brought up in Detroit. He graduated from Columbia College, served in the Navy, and wrote and taught writing as an assistant under Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft at Stanford. Broder has published The Sacred Hoop, Sierra Club Books and Remember This Time, written with his wife, Gloria Kurian Broder. His novel, Taking Care of Cleo, appeared in 2006, published by Handsel Books/ Other Press. It was chosen as one of six fiction finalists in the Great Lakes Book Awards and was one of twenty books from all categories chosen as a Notable Book of 2007 by the Michigan Library Foundation. Broder has also acted as member, Executive Director and Artistic Director of a playwrights workshop, California On Stage, and has completed a number of full-length plays. Abalone! was produced in Carmel, California and stage read at Authors Guild Tides Theater event. His other plays have received staged readings in the Bay Area by Equity actors at the Upstart Stage, The Plays in Progress Series at A.C.T., The Western Stage Theater Company, the New Playwrights Festival, and New Visions Festival. Two of his plays were presented as staged readings at The Second and Third Annual California Studies Conference in Sacramento, California., The Sierra Club Books, 1979, 2.75, Mass Market Paperback. Publisher: Random House USA | | Mass Market Paperback | 512 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: "This vibrant book of wonders speaks true and dreams deep. Writng with blazing honesty she tells of her hard-won knowledge of many of the world's spiritual and healing traditions, while hold the Sacred Hoop of Natie Amreicanwisdom. This magnificent teacher becomes for us a new embodiment of White Buffalo Woman."Jean HoustonAuthor of THE SEARCH FOR THE BELOVEDBUFFALO WOMAN COMES SINGING explores fascinating uses of traditions like the Medicine Wheel; healing through ritual action; dreamtime; and the moon lodge -- the woman's place of retreat and visioning. These powerful personal tools integrate ancient wisdom with contemporary experience, as Buffalo Woman calls each spiritual warrior to her own true place in the dance of life. | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery., 0, Bloomsbury, 1997. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket (only light shelfwear). NO fading, chips, or tears. Sharp corners. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. Bound in the original light blue boards with a black cloth spine stamped in bright gold. From the dust jacket: "Lost in an art -- the art of translation. Thus, in an elegant anagram (translation = lost in an art), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pioneering cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter hints at what led him to pen a deep personal homage to the witty sixteenth-century French poet Clément Marot. 'Le ton beau de Marot' literally means 'The sweet tone of Marot'-- n but to a French ear it suggests 'Le tombeau de Marot'-- that is, 'The tomb of Marot.' That double entendre foreshadows the linguistic exuberance of this book, which was sparked a decade ago when Hofstadter, under the spell of an exquisite French miniature by Marot, got hooked on the challenge of recreating both its sweet message and its tight rhymes in English jumping through two tough hoops at once.In the next few years, he not only did many of his own translations of Marot's poem, but also enlisted friends, students, colleagues, family, noted poets, and translators even three state-of-the-art translation programs! to try their hand at this subtle challenge.The rich harvest is represented here by 88 wildly diverse variations on Marot's little theme. Yet this barely scratches the surface of Le Ton beau de Marot, for small groups of these poems alternate with chapters that run all over the map of language and thought.Not merely a set of translations of one poem, Le Ton beau de Marot is an autobiographical essay, a love letter to the French language, a series of musings on life, loss, and death, a sweet bouquet of stirring poetry but most of all, it celebrates the limitless creativity fired by a passion for the music of words.Dozens of literary themes and creations are woven into the picture, including Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Dante's Inferno, Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Villon's Ballades, Nabokov's essays, Georges Perec's La Disparition, Vikram Seth's Golden Gate, Horace's odes, and more.Rife with stunning form-content interplay, crammed with creative linguistic experiments yet always crystal-clear, this book is meant not only for lovers of literature, but also for people who wish to be brought into contact with current ideas about how creativity works, and who wish to see how today's computational models of language and thought stack up next to the human mind.Le Ton beau de Marot is a sparkling, personal, and poetic exploration aimed at both the literary and the scientific world, and is sure to provoke great excitement and heated controversy among poets and translators, critics and writers, and those involved in the study of creativity and its elusive wellsprings.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xxiv, 632pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping., Bloomsbury, 1997, 4<

2005, ISBN: 9780747533498

Paperback, Hardcover, First edition

Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2005. Softcover, 232 pages, ENG, 250 x 220 x 20 mm, in Perfect condition!, coloured photographs about the most loyal best friend of man, with some folding pages. IS… More...

Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2005. Softcover, 232 pages, ENG, 250 x 220 x 20 mm, in Perfect condition!, coloured photographs about the most loyal best friend of man, with some folding pages. ISBN 9780810992429. Man Ray, William Wegman's first Weimaraner, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence. In 1978, Wegman was invited by Polaroid Corporation to try out its mammoth 20 x 24" camera, and he began a series of photographs featuring Man Ray that were published in Abrams' Man's Best Friend. In 1986 a new dog, Fay Ray, came into Wegman's life and soon thereafter another famous collaboration began. After Man Ray died in 1982, Wegman continued his exploration of the medium with non-canine subjects, and he also began to work with the expanding universe of Fay Ray's progeny. Throughout the years, Wegman has maintained an extraordinary level of creativity, capturing his versatile subjects in a seemingly limitless variety of poses and guises. This book gathers together the best of his work - hundreds of unique, large-format photographs - with an insightful and candid essay by the artist exploring his experiences with the camera and his exceptional models. Though many of these images have become well known through exhibitions, books, and his best-selling calendars, some of the best had never been published when this book was originally, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2005, 0, Devon, England. Devon, England: Green Books. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1992. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Softcover. Creasing to bottom edge of front cover, else Fine in wrappers. Owner stamps on ffep. Author has SIGNED AND INSCRIBED a message to former owners on half-title page. . The seas are not limitless. This book presents an ecological perspective on the uses and misuses of the oceans. . 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 153 pages. Signed by Author. G6 ., Green Books, 1992, 4, Bloomsbury, 1997. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket (only light shelfwear). NO fading, chips, or tears. Sharp corners. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. Bound in the original light blue boards with a black cloth spine stamped in bright gold. From the dust jacket: "Lost in an art -- the art of translation. Thus, in an elegant anagram (translation = lost in an art), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pioneering cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter hints at what led him to pen a deep personal homage to the witty sixteenth-century French poet Clément Marot. 'Le ton beau de Marot' literally means 'The sweet tone of Marot'-- n but to a French ear it suggests 'Le tombeau de Marot'-- that is, 'The tomb of Marot.' That double entendre foreshadows the linguistic exuberance of this book, which was sparked a decade ago when Hofstadter, under the spell of an exquisite French miniature by Marot, got hooked on the challenge of recreating both its sweet message and its tight rhymes in English jumping through two tough hoops at once.In the next few years, he not only did many of his own translations of Marot's poem, but also enlisted friends, students, colleagues, family, noted poets, and translators even three state-of-the-art translation programs! to try their hand at this subtle challenge.The rich harvest is represented here by 88 wildly diverse variations on Marot's little theme. Yet this barely scratches the surface of Le Ton beau de Marot, for small groups of these poems alternate with chapters that run all over the map of language and thought.Not merely a set of translations of one poem, Le Ton beau de Marot is an autobiographical essay, a love letter to the French language, a series of musings on life, loss, and death, a sweet bouquet of stirring poetry but most of all, it celebrates the limitless creativity fired by a passion for the music of words.Dozens of literary themes and creations are woven into the picture, including Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Dante's Inferno, Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Villon's Ballades, Nabokov's essays, Georges Perec's La Disparition, Vikram Seth's Golden Gate, Horace's odes, and more.Rife with stunning form-content interplay, crammed with creative linguistic experiments yet always crystal-clear, this book is meant not only for lovers of literature, but also for people who wish to be brought into contact with current ideas about how creativity works, and who wish to see how today's computational models of language and thought stack up next to the human mind.Le Ton beau de Marot is a sparkling, personal, and poetic exploration aimed at both the literary and the scientific world, and is sure to provoke great excitement and heated controversy among poets and translators, critics and writers, and those involved in the study of creativity and its elusive wellsprings.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xxiv, 632pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping., Bloomsbury, 1997, 4<

1997, ISBN: 9780747533498

Hardcover

Pasadena, CA: Star-News Press, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good -. 222 p.; 20 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. No dust jacket (as issued?). Gift inscription from th… More...

Pasadena, CA: Star-News Press, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good -. 222 p.; 20 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. No dust jacket (as issued?). Gift inscription from the author on front free endpaper: "To my cousin Miriam Hoopes from Nannine Preston Stephens." Letters recounting the Stephens' family's trip to Europe in from July 1928 to April 1929. In Very Good- Condition: slightly cocked; gilt on spine is faded; cover is lightly soiled; pages are clean and tight., Star-News Press, 1929, 3, Mass Market Paperback. Publisher: Random House USA | | Mass Market Paperback | 512 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: "This vibrant book of wonders speaks true and dreams deep. Writng with blazing honesty she tells of her hard-won knowledge of many of the world's spiritual and healing traditions, while hold the Sacred Hoop of Natie Amreicanwisdom. This magnificent teacher becomes for us a new embodiment of White Buffalo Woman."Jean HoustonAuthor of THE SEARCH FOR THE BELOVEDBUFFALO WOMAN COMES SINGING explores fascinating uses of traditions like the Medicine Wheel; healing through ritual action; dreamtime; and the moon lodge -- the woman's place of retreat and visioning. These powerful personal tools integrate ancient wisdom with contemporary experience, as Buffalo Woman calls each spiritual warrior to her own true place in the dance of life. | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery., 0, Bloomsbury, 1997. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket (only light shelfwear). NO fading, chips, or tears. Sharp corners. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. Bound in the original light blue boards with a black cloth spine stamped in bright gold. From the dust jacket: "Lost in an art -- the art of translation. Thus, in an elegant anagram (translation = lost in an art), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pioneering cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter hints at what led him to pen a deep personal homage to the witty sixteenth-century French poet Clément Marot. 'Le ton beau de Marot' literally means 'The sweet tone of Marot'-- n but to a French ear it suggests 'Le tombeau de Marot'-- that is, 'The tomb of Marot.' That double entendre foreshadows the linguistic exuberance of this book, which was sparked a decade ago when Hofstadter, under the spell of an exquisite French miniature by Marot, got hooked on the challenge of recreating both its sweet message and its tight rhymes in English jumping through two tough hoops at once.In the next few years, he not only did many of his own translations of Marot's poem, but also enlisted friends, students, colleagues, family, noted poets, and translators even three state-of-the-art translation programs! to try their hand at this subtle challenge.The rich harvest is represented here by 88 wildly diverse variations on Marot's little theme. Yet this barely scratches the surface of Le Ton beau de Marot, for small groups of these poems alternate with chapters that run all over the map of language and thought.Not merely a set of translations of one poem, Le Ton beau de Marot is an autobiographical essay, a love letter to the French language, a series of musings on life, loss, and death, a sweet bouquet of stirring poetry but most of all, it celebrates the limitless creativity fired by a passion for the music of words.Dozens of literary themes and creations are woven into the picture, including Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Dante's Inferno, Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Villon's Ballades, Nabokov's essays, Georges Perec's La Disparition, Vikram Seth's Golden Gate, Horace's odes, and more.Rife with stunning form-content interplay, crammed with creative linguistic experiments yet always crystal-clear, this book is meant not only for lovers of literature, but also for people who wish to be brought into contact with current ideas about how creativity works, and who wish to see how today's computational models of language and thought stack up next to the human mind.Le Ton beau de Marot is a sparkling, personal, and poetic exploration aimed at both the literary and the scientific world, and is sure to provoke great excitement and heated controversy among poets and translators, critics and writers, and those involved in the study of creativity and its elusive wellsprings.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xxiv, 632pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping., Bloomsbury, 1997, 4<

1997, ISBN: 9780747533498

Pasadena, CA: Star-News Press, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good -. 222 p.; 20 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. No dust jacket (as issued?). Gift inscription from th… More...

Pasadena, CA: Star-News Press, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good -. 222 p.; 20 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. No dust jacket (as issued?). Gift inscription from the author on front free endpaper: "To my cousin Miriam Hoopes from Nannine Preston Stephens." Letters recounting the Stephens' family's trip to Europe in from July 1928 to April 1929. In Very Good- Condition: slightly cocked; gilt on spine is faded; cover is lightly soiled; pages are clean and tight., Star-News Press, 1929, 3, Bloomsbury, 1997. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket (only light shelfwear). NO fading, chips, or tears. Sharp corners. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. Bound in the original light blue boards with a black cloth spine stamped in bright gold. From the dust jacket: "Lost in an art -- the art of translation. Thus, in an elegant anagram (translation = lost in an art), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pioneering cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter hints at what led him to pen a deep personal homage to the witty sixteenth-century French poet Clément Marot. 'Le ton beau de Marot' literally means 'The sweet tone of Marot'-- n but to a French ear it suggests 'Le tombeau de Marot'-- that is, 'The tomb of Marot.' That double entendre foreshadows the linguistic exuberance of this book, which was sparked a decade ago when Hofstadter, under the spell of an exquisite French miniature by Marot, got hooked on the challenge of recreating both its sweet message and its tight rhymes in English jumping through two tough hoops at once.In the next few years, he not only did many of his own translations of Marot's poem, but also enlisted friends, students, colleagues, family, noted poets, and translators even three state-of-the-art translation programs! to try their hand at this subtle challenge.The rich harvest is represented here by 88 wildly diverse variations on Marot's little theme. Yet this barely scratches the surface of Le Ton beau de Marot, for small groups of these poems alternate with chapters that run all over the map of language and thought.Not merely a set of translations of one poem, Le Ton beau de Marot is an autobiographical essay, a love letter to the French language, a series of musings on life, loss, and death, a sweet bouquet of stirring poetry but most of all, it celebrates the limitless creativity fired by a passion for the music of words.Dozens of literary themes and creations are woven into the picture, including Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Dante's Inferno, Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Villon's Ballades, Nabokov's essays, Georges Perec's La Disparition, Vikram Seth's Golden Gate, Horace's odes, and more.Rife with stunning form-content interplay, crammed with creative linguistic experiments yet always crystal-clear, this book is meant not only for lovers of literature, but also for people who wish to be brought into contact with current ideas about how creativity works, and who wish to see how today's computational models of language and thought stack up next to the human mind.Le Ton beau de Marot is a sparkling, personal, and poetic exploration aimed at both the literary and the scientific world, and is sure to provoke great excitement and heated controversy among poets and translators, critics and writers, and those involved in the study of creativity and its elusive wellsprings.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xxiv, 632pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping., Bloomsbury, 1997, 4<

1997, ISBN: 9780747533498

Bloomsbury, 1997. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket (only light shelfwear). NO fading, chips, or tears. Sharp corners. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. NOT a library di… More...

Bloomsbury, 1997. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket (only light shelfwear). NO fading, chips, or tears. Sharp corners. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. Bound in the original light blue boards with a black cloth spine stamped in bright gold. From the dust jacket: "Lost in an art -- the art of translation. Thus, in an elegant anagram (translation = lost in an art), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pioneering cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter hints at what led him to pen a deep personal homage to the witty sixteenth-century French poet Clément Marot. 'Le ton beau de Marot' literally means 'The sweet tone of Marot'-- n but to a French ear it suggests 'Le tombeau de Marot'-- that is, 'The tomb of Marot.' That double entendre foreshadows the linguistic exuberance of this book, which was sparked a decade ago when Hofstadter, under the spell of an exquisite French miniature by Marot, got hooked on the challenge of recreating both its sweet message and its tight rhymes in English jumping through two tough hoops at once.In the next few years, he not only did many of his own translations of Marot's poem, but also enlisted friends, students, colleagues, family, noted poets, and translators even three state-of-the-art translation programs! to try their hand at this subtle challenge.The rich harvest is represented here by 88 wildly diverse variations on Marot's little theme. Yet this barely scratches the surface of Le Ton beau de Marot, for small groups of these poems alternate with chapters that run all over the map of language and thought.Not merely a set of translations of one poem, Le Ton beau de Marot is an autobiographical essay, a love letter to the French language, a series of musings on life, loss, and death, a sweet bouquet of stirring poetry but most of all, it celebrates the limitless creativity fired by a passion for the music of words.Dozens of literary themes and creations are woven into the picture, including Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Dante's Inferno, Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Villon's Ballades, Nabokov's essays, Georges Perec's La Disparition, Vikram Seth's Golden Gate, Horace's odes, and more.Rife with stunning form-content interplay, crammed with creative linguistic experiments yet always crystal-clear, this book is meant not only for lovers of literature, but also for people who wish to be brought into contact with current ideas about how creativity works, and who wish to see how today's computational models of language and thought stack up next to the human mind.Le Ton beau de Marot is a sparkling, personal, and poetic exploration aimed at both the literary and the scientific world, and is sure to provoke great excitement and heated controversy among poets and translators, critics and writers, and those involved in the study of creativity and its elusive wellsprings.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xxiv, 632pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping., Bloomsbury, 1997, 4<