berns emily (12 resultados)

Condición: good. The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condición: good. This book is in good condition with very minimal damage. Pages may have minimal notes or highlighting. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 31 pages. 8.50x8.50x0.08 inches. In Stock.

First edition. Softcover. 105 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 3 thorugh March 26, 1978. Includes numerous black and white illustrations. A near fine copy in wrappers.

Paperback. First edition. Fine/As New paperback with a very light tap to the crown. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. The catalogue for an exhibition of 17th century views of Italian cities and landscapes, held at the Bell Gallery, List Art Building, Brown University, Providence, RI, March 3 - March 26, 1978, with 57 works described, annotated, and illustrated. "A veduta is a highly detailed, large-scale painting or, more often, a print of a cityscape or other vista. This genre of landscape art originated in Flanders and is associated with the Grand Tour of artists." Artists include: Jan Brueghel the Elder, Canaletto, Luca Carlevaris, Hieronymus Cock, Wenceslaus Hollar, Jan van de Velde, Jan van Goyen, Gaspar van Wittel, and others. Texts by Emily Berns, Darlene Ellen Bonner, Hermona Alisah Dayag, Virginia Alison Loeb, Michael Lee Olsen, and Kate Misch Tuttman. 105 pages; 57 b&w illustrations + 4 text figures; 8.25 x 10.25 inches. Index. Printed by Meriden Gravure.

Softcover. Condición: VG. Duotone illus. wraps; 105 pp.; 57 bw figures. Accompanied an exhibition at the Bell Gallery at Brown University in 1978; Includes works by Canaletto, Luca Carlevaris, Wenceslaus Hollar, Jan van Goyen, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Hieronymus Cock, and more.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Image shows actual book for sale. Book Condition: Good; firm binding; contents very good; a little light handling wear. Soft Cover Brown University 1978 Art.

Condición: New. Print on Demand.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Scarce hardcover, xi + 158 pages, numerous b&w and colour images and photos in text, NOT ex-library. Fine condition, book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. In a likewise dust jacket. -- This book was inspired by the author's desire to counteract - with individual stories and historical facts, rather than polemics - the negative, simplistic caricature of the United States and Americans so prevalent today in Europe. Through research into her own family's diverse European background, she shows in detail how immigrants both influenced America and were influenced by it. The stories she tells about them and the historical facts she relates provide a fascinating, sometimes surprising view of their and their descendants' lives and of the many-sided new country in which they found themselves. The picture that emerges is of a nation indebted in myriad ways to the old countries, but still - inevitably - distinct. -- Contents: A Gutsy New Englander; A Businessman and a Gentleman; A Daughter of Maine; Beyond the Pale; Out of Prussia; A Tale of Two Photographs; New Mexican Days; Hitler's Gift to America; Appendix A [19th-century letters sent from East Cambridge, MA to Edinburgh, Scotland]; Appendix B [description of the wedding of the Author's great-grandparents Charlotte Thorndike Sibley and Henry Hoyt Hilton on October 6, 1897 in Belfast, Maine from Belfast's Republican Journal]; Selected Bibliography.

Paperback / softback. Condición: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Have you ever wondered who the Davy Jones was in "Davy Jones's locker" or why a celebrity with a short-lived career is called a "flash in the pan"? Have you ever asked yourself how "heebie-jeebies" came to mean "the creeps" or why things that are "OK" are also "hunky-dory"? If so, you will be intrigued by "The Devil in the Details: The Unexpected Origins of Weird English Words," an etymology book that manages to be both careful, accurate and thorough AND accessible, personal and fun. To author Emily Berns Heyser, uncovering the origins of an odd word or expression is something like solving a mystery or finding a hidden treasure. While preparing her entries, Heyser tracked down scores of primary sources and personally checked numerous old publications, including early dictionaries. After researching the theories behind a broad range of odd terms and expressions, she filters out the more risible and presents the more plausible in a lively manner, offering her own reasoned opinion about the evidence. She also provides context for each entry-and, in so doing, makes a larger point about the English language's acquisitive, adaptive and inventive nature. Most importantly, "The Devil in the Details" reminds people that words tell stories and contain whole worlds of information. In fact, the weird words and expressions we use so naturally are living, breathing documents, recording both the intricate paths of human history and the sometimes-unpredictable ways human beings think. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.