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Hippolyte Bayard and the Invention of Photography

The first English-language volume about Hippolyte Bayard, one of the inventors of photography who helped transform the burgeoning medium into an art form.

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The History of Mankind: And Stories about Some Other People

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Never was so much condensed into so little by so few. Just one; Louis.

-Winston Churchill

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn…about this book.

-Clark Gable

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American Exposures: Photography and Community in the Twentieth Century

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Photographs have the power to define and shape a community of people-for those who are revealed as well as for those who view them. Louis Kaplan addresses this phenomenon through…

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The Night of Light ..

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The Damned Universe of Charles Fort

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Nonfiction. Charles Fort collected the rejects and crackpots of science, classifying them in real-unreal zones: UFOs, living objects falling from the sky, phantom bullets, spontaneous combustion, showers of blood, the…

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Photography and Humour

Louis Kaplan

The ticklish subject of humour is often on the sidelines of writing about photography, yet photos often entertain us with their wit and visual jokes.

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American Exposures: Photography and Community in the Twentieth Century

Louis Kaplan

Photographs have the power to define and shape a community of people-for those who are revealed as well as for those who view them. Louis Kaplan addresses this phenomenon through…

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Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer

Louis Kaplan

In the 1860s, William Mumler photographed ghostsor so he claimed. Faint images\nof the dearly departed lurked in the background with the living, like his well-known photo of the recently assassinated…

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At Wit’s End: The Deadly Discourse on the Jewish Joke

Louis Kaplan

This book explores the fascinating discourse on Jewish wit in the twentieth century when the Jewish joke became the subject of serious humanistic inquiry and inserted itself into the cultural…

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At Wit’s End: The Deadly Discourse on the Jewish Joke

Louis Kaplan

This book explores the fascinating discourse on Jewish wit in the twentieth century when the Jewish joke became the subject of serious humanistic inquiry and inserted itself into the cultural…

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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Biographical Writings

Louis Kaplan

Marking the centenary of the birth of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), this book offers a fresh approach to the Bauhaus artist and theorist’s multifaceted life and work - an approach that…

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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Biographical Writings

Louis Kaplan

Marking the centenary of the birth of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), this book offers a fresh approach to the Bauhaus artist and theorist’s multifaceted life and work - an approach that…

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A Life in Jewish Education: Essays in Honor of Louis L. Kaplan

Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture, The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland, no. 4

Essays dealing with various aspects of Jewish education…

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Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV: Volume One

Steven Laurence Kaplan

In the past few years we have begun to worry, with a sort of expiatory zeal, about the state* of our environment, the size of our population, the political economy…

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Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV: Volume One

Steven Laurence Kaplan

In the past few years we have begun to worry, with a sort of expiatory zeal, about the state* of our environment, the size of our population, the political economy…

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Stan Douglas - Entertainment

Entertainment is a critical reader accompanying the Vancouver artist’s recent exhibition of photographs at The Power Plant in Toronto. This body of work is a meticulous studio project for which…

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The Stae of the Library Art Volume 3, Part 1 Shelving Volume 3, Part 2 Storage Warehouses Volume 3, Part 2

Ralph E Ellsworth,Louis Kaplan,Jerrold Orne

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…

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Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV

Steven L. Kaplan

A new edition of Kaplan’s landmark study on eighteenth-century French political economy, reissued with a new Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert. Based on comprehensive archival, Kaplan’s classic work constitutes a…

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Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV

Steven L. Kaplan

A new edition of Kaplan’s landmark study on eighteenth-century French political economy, reissued with a new Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert. Based on comprehensive archival, Kaplan’s classic work constitutes a…

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Blood Dark

Alice Kaplan,Louis Guilloux,Peter Bush

Tells the story of a brilliant and provocative philosopher trapped in a provincial town and of his spiraling descent into self-destruction. This title describes how Cripure manages to embroil himself.

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Dreams and Spiritual Growth: A Judeo-Christian Way of Dreamwork

Louis M. Savary,Patricia H. Berne,Strephon Kaplan Williams

A comprehensive dreamwork methodology including thirty-seven dreamwork techniques, that integrates psychological, spiritual, historical and theological perspectives.

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Art Therapy and the Neuroscience of Relationships, Creativity, and Resiliency: Skills and Practices

Noah Hass-Cohen,Joanna Clyde Findlay

Presenting a neuroscientifically aware approach to art therapy.

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The Discovery of Discovery by Charles Tenney

Harold M. Kaplan,Ralph E. McCoy,Louis E. Hahn,Louis E. Hahn

This anthology on creativity represents a lifetime of reading and study by the late Charles Dewey Tenney, a philosopher who had been a student of Alfred North Whitehead at Harvard…

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The Image of the Black in Western Art: Volume II From the Early Christian Era to the Age of Discovery: Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World: New Edition

Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient images of Pharaohs created by unknown hands to the works of the…

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The Image of the Black in Western Art: Volume IV From the American Revolution to World War I: Black Models and White Myths: New Edition

Black Models and White Myths examines the racial assumptions behind representations of Africans that emphasized the contrast between civilization and savagery and the development of so-called scientific and ethnographic racism…

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The Image of the Black in Western Art: Volume II From the Early Christian Era to the Age of Discovery: From the Demonic Threat to the Incarnation of Sainthood: New Edition

Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient images of Pharaohs created by unknown hands to the works of the…

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The Image of the Black in Western Art: Volume III From the Age of Discovery to the Age of Abolition: Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque

Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient images of Pharaohs created by unknown hands to the works of the…

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The Image of the Black in Western Art: Volume III From the Age of Discovery to the Age of Abolition: The Eighteenth Century

The Eighteenth Century features a rich collection of images of Africans representing slavery’s apogee and the beginnings of abolition. Old visual tropes of a master with adoring black slave gave…

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Autour de Descartes: Le Dualisme de l'Ame Et Du Corps

Textes … prononces dans le cadre d'un colloque organise conjointement par le Departement de philosophie de l'Universite de Tours et par l'Association des Amis du Musee Descartes … octobre 1989…

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