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Poison-damsels : and other essays in folklore and anthropology
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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"Built in 1459-1465 on one of the finest sites in the world, the ḥarēm of the Sultans of Turkey in Constantinople gradually rose to be the most mysterious, dreaded and unapproachable place in existence. So jealously have its secrets been guarded during the whole period of its existence, that even after the Sultans ceased to reside there, in the middle of the 19th century, the ḥarēm still remained as unknown as before. Owing to a sequence of fortunate chances and unusual facilities, Mr. N. M. Penzer has been able to lift the veil of secrecy that has hung so long over this forbidden place and to lay bare for the first time what strange things lay hidden beneath. Not only has he inspected the whole Palace from end to end during numerous visits in two consecutive years, but he has obtained photographs of certain parts that have resulted in the making of the most complete plan ever attempted. The empty chambers are again repeopled and the strange throng of janissaries, court pages, kadins, odalisques, eunuchs, buffoons and ḥarēm slaves pass before us in a kaleidoscopic array as curious as it is interesting. The whole palace lives once more, and we see the daily life of this amazing institution--the food, the kitchens, the courts, the schools, the mosques, the Sultan's private quarters--and the ḥarēm, guarded by bands of black eunuchs--all for one man and one man alone"--dust jacket.
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"Bill Jay's impressive career in photography was launched in his native England, where he became the Institute of Contemporary Arts' first Director of Photography. In the early 1970s he moved to New Mexico to study with Beaumont Newhall and Van Deren Coke. He founded the program of Photographic Studies at Arizona State University, and taught history and criticism classes there for the next 25 years. In short, with over 400 articles and 20-plus books to his credit, it would be an understatement to call Jay a doyen of the photographic world. Over the years, he has met and photographed many photographers, and written 'verbal snapshots' to accompany each one. 'Album' presents a selection of 100 of Jay's wonderful portraits and anecdotal texts, taken in the past three decades, and all annotated handwritten captions. Included in this august lineup are Aaron Siskind, Daido Moriyama, Helen Gee, Lewis Baltz, Michael Kenna, Rosamond Wolff Purcell, and Weegee the Famous"--Dust jacket.
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"Here at last is Pauli Murray's powerful poem, 'Dark Testament,' and forty-nine other of her poems, collected between two covers. Virtually hidden for 22 years while its author pursued her destiny as a civil rights and women's rights champion and, at the same time as an attorney and professor of law, 'Dark Testament' speaks so eloquently of the plight of black Americans that it might have been composed yesterday. Dr. Murray won her badge of honor as a civil rights activist in the Forties -- long before the Freedom Rides -- when she was arrested and jailed in the South for refusing to be segregated and when she led student sit-ins in all-white restaurants in the nation's capital. As a poet she was a protegé of Stephen Vincent Benét and was encouraged by Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Jean Starr Untermeyer, Lillian Smith, and many others. The title poem of this volume inspired Morris Milgram, who wrote the introduction, to start a career of developing genuinely integrated housing. Now over 13,000 people live in open housing owned or built by firms Milgram organized; and this might never have begun but for Pauli Murray's 'Dark Testament,' which taught Milgram that the ghetto perpetuates black unfreedom"--From back of dust jacket.
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