harvard university cambridge ma 2012 (6 résultats)

1st edition. 8vo. xiii + 498pp. Small ownership inkstamp to half title. Original boards. Pictorial black d/w. lettered in gilt and white, very good. ISBN 9780674064393 US$12.

Original publisher's black spine, gray paper-covered boards, silver title spine, pictorial dustjacket, thick 8vo: xviij, 382pp., chapternotes & references, index, table of contents. Very fine copy - as new.

1st edition. 8vo. [xiv] + 472pp. + adverts. Original boards. Pictorial beige d/w. with black lettering to slightly faded spine. ISBN 9780674062566 US$22.

Octavo, paperback,262 pp.BRAND NEW. Leading primatologist Craig Stanford warns that extinction of the great apes, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans, threatens to become a reality within just a few human generations and questions whether we can live with the consequences of wiping our closest relatives off the face of the Earth. We are on the verge of losing the last links to our evolutionary past, and to all the biological knowledge about ourselves that would die along with them. The crisis we face is tantamount to standing aside while our last extended family members vanish from the planet. Stanford sees great apes as not only intelligent but also possessed of a culture: both toolmakers and social beings capable of passing cultural knowledge down through generations. Compelled by his field research to take up the cause of conservation, he is unequivocal about where responsibility for extinction of these species lies. Our extermination campaign against the great apes has been as brutal as the genocide we have long practiced on one another. Stanford shows how complicity is shared by people far removed from apes' shrinking habitats.

Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[xiii] 333. Various monochromatic photographs throughout. Publisher's two-tone charcoal and black cloth with title silvered to spine, in an unclipped, pictorial dust-jacket. Letter from author Victoria Nelson to David Lodge, loosely inserted. Slight bubbling to paste-down and end-papers. Minor shelf wear to edges of dust-jacket. In Gothicka, Nelson explores the modern gothic genre in media and how the tone has shifted from the traditionally dark Protestant post-enlightenment gothic genre. Considering the works of authors and filmmakers alike, Nelson weaves a tale of how contemporary religion interacts with mass media and discusses the reinvention of the Gothic villain as hero.

xiv + 380pp., with some bl/w ills., 24cm., publisher's hardcover, illustrated dustwrapper, very good condition, ISBN , R101185.