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  • Augsburg's Action Drawing

    Augsburg's Action Drawing

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    One set of drawing cards entitled Augsburg's Action Drawing, printed by the Educational Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1850. This set is subtitled "Set II. The Deer," and was designed to "aid in the teaching of Action Drawing ... in connection with the chapter on Action Drawing in Book I of Augsburg's Drawing." The 14 cards contain simple outlines of a deer in various poses; each image--white on a black background--covers half a card. Each card bears a number in the lower right-hand corner.

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    Blue City

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    "In 1946, after many years' absence, John Weather returns to Blue City to find his father--the one-time Mayor--had been murdered on the street two years before. For political reasons among the conflicting forces which now rule the place, the murder has been hushed up and the murderer never found. The City as Weather finds it on his return, is one of evil and corruption, and corruption, as he also discovers, is something which once injected into a political organism is bound to spread. And this is what has happened in Blue City which is rotting from the top. It is an ugly City now, too ugly even for the men and women who have made it that way, and its corruption revolts John Weather into action on its own terms. Kenneth Millar writes with uncompromising toughness and spares us no reality. His world is one of brutal values; his people without pity or remorse. But this is not toughness for the sake of toughness. It is a harsh and vivid picture of a brutal side of life, focused before us with pitiless clarity like a sudden light in a shameful room. And in the nakedness of its tearing reality and in a manner which is not easily forgotten, we are faced with the fearful implications of these people's lives, and a lingering disturbance for some sort of truth which they contain"--Dust jacket.

    636026

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    As William James said : extracts from the published writings of William James

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    The individual -- The inwardness of life -- Heroism and the gospel of action -- The moral life -- Good and evil -- Education and practical wisdom -- Friends and friendship -- Appraisals of personality -- Art and literature -- Nature -- Travel notes -- National traits -- History and politics -- War and peace -- Human nature -- Faith -- Religion -- Death and immortality -- God -- The philosopher -- Knowledge and truth -- Freedom -- Reality.

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    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (1989)

    Manuscripts

    Science, Technology and Society Program. Lectures entitled: Communications Satellites as a Trade Issue; Space Commercialization: Myth and Reality; Getting into Space: Rockets and Shuttle; A New Launch Vehicle for Space?; The Rocky Road to Communication Satellites; Towards a New Space Policy; and Is There a Future for Communication Satellites?

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    Eat a bowl of tea

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    Captures the tone of everyday life in an American Chinatown, describing its bachelor society and focusing on a young couple who must reconcile their dreams of married life with reality.

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    Scientists for Social and Political Action

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    The collection deals primarily with the professional activities of Olin C. Wilson, who was most active from the mid-1930s into the 1980s. Wilson corresponded frequently with astronomers from a variety of universities in the United States and abroad, and the collection is representative of the deeply international and collaborative nature of astronomical and astrophysical research in the second half of the twentieth century. It also contains valuable and insightful material related to the schism between Mount Wilson and CalTech in the 1970s and 1980s, and the near-demise of Mount Wilson during that decade.

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