With david carpenter (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. New Edition. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** A very nice hard cover copy in dust jacket, appears unread, without flaw 4.5 X 6.75" 96 pages. Now a retired fisherman and trapper who sometimes lives rough on the street, Augie Merasty was one of the estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Metis children who were taken from their families and sent to government funded, church-run schools, where they were subjected to a policy of "aggressive assimilation." They were taught to be ashamed of their heritage and, as he experienced, often suffered physical and sexual abuse. This new edition includes a Study Guide for classroom and book club use, as well as a postscript describing how the publication of his memoir changed Augie Merasty's life.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. THE MAGNA CARTA, FORCED ON KING JOHN IN 1215 BY REBELLION,IS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS DOCUMENTS IN WORLD HISTORY. IT ASSERTS A FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE: THAT THE RULER IS SUBJECT TO THE LAW. THE ACCOMPANING COMMENTARY DRAWS ON NEW DISCOVERIES TO GIVE A FRESH ACCOUNTOF MAGNA CARTA'S TEXT.…

Cloth Boards. Condizione: Near Fine. Revised. Printed, pictorial cloth hardcover. Pp 220, endpapers are Periodic Table and Saturated Vapour Pressure of Water. An excellent, sharp-edged, square, tight, clean copy; just a little shelfwear spine bump; no previous names, markings etc and the book appears little used. Image/further information available upon request.…

Softcover. 63 p.; 18.5 cm. (Oxford Society of Historical Theology. Abstract of proceedings for the year 1910/1911) Good, sewn, in orig. gray wrapper. A few page corners torn.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. A survivor of Canada's residential school system tells the story of what he endured as a small boy, suffering hunger, beatings, sexual assaults, and a variety of other indignities as "he faced the dark heart of humanity, let loose by the cruel policies of a bigoted nation." Black cloth w/gilt cover/spine lettering, 76 pages (including acknowledgements) + brief biographical note (Campbell) and a note on the type. Price-clipped dust jacket w/bumped top corners. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. First Edition, First Printing. The memories of residential schooling by retired fisherman and trapper, Augie Merasty as related to author, David Carpenter. 73 pp. plus: Acknowledgements, About David Carpenter. Dark green cloth covered boards have gilt text on spine and front panel, red ep's. Unclipped ($21.95) DJ has Augie's portrait on rear flap. Bookseller's Inventory # 165249. Kathie Bird (Augie's portrait) (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. English text.; Paperback. 24.5 x 30.5 cm; 1.5 Kg; 256 pages with colour illustrations.; Used with minor signs of wear. Interior in very good condition.; Catalogue from the exhibition held at the Asia Society and Museum, New York from February 27 to May 4, 2008.; "The exceptional paintings, prints and illustrated books in the present exhibition - all drawn from the collections of members and supporters of the Japanese Art Society of America - give viewers the opportunity to experience and appreciate the breadth of the ukiyo-e tradition in a new light. The exhibition and catalogue explore the intertwined worlds of art, popular culture, commerce and society of Edo Japan in a focused examination by a team of renowned experts." excerpt from the preface by Vishahka N. Desai, President of the Asia Society.; "This exhibition brings together approximately one hundred fifty paintings, woodblock prints and illustrated books, with images known as ukiyo-e, or pictures of the floating world - The floating world was a new leisure industry of popular entertainment centered in the shogunal capital of Edo (modern Tokyo). The carefully selected images in the exhibition not only present the principals of that realm - the actor, the artist, the courtesan, the poet, the publisher, the patron - they also examine the confluences and contradictions in a time of enourmous social, cultural and economic change in Japan. The exhibtion and catalogue focus on individuals - adding to the already substantial scholarship on Hokusai, Hiroshige and Utamaro - including the father of ukiyo-e, Hishikawa Moronobu, the artist and publisher Okumura Masanobu, the color innovator Susuki Harunobo, the master publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo and the briliant painter Katsukawa Shunsho." excerpt by the foreword by Melissa Chiu, Director of the Asia Society.…