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Heavenly bodies

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Description: "For the past 175 years, both the telescope and the camera have advanced our knowledge of the world and the universe beyond it. Yet in the hands of masters of art and science, these devices not only capture images, they seize our imagination, too. 'Heavenly Bodies' is published in collaboration with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. One of the strengths of the Museum's permanent collection is the work that addresses the unshakable connection between science and photography. This important new book, and accompanying exhibition, draw upon that strength and focus on images of astronomy. Ranging from the 19th century to the present day, the photographs in 'Heavenly Bodies' address the miraculous universe as seen through the ever-changing lens of the camera"--Publisher's description.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [2014]
Call number: 653287
ISBN: 9781590054079; 1590054075
Provenance: Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, August 2020.

Mantel pieces : Royal bodies and other writing from the London review of books

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A collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir selected from three decades of the author's contributions to the London review of books. Subjects include Robespierre and Danton, the Hite report, Saudi Arabia (where she lived for four years in the 1980s), the Bulger case, John Osborne, the Virgin Mary as well as the pop icon Madonna, and Helen Duncan, Britain's last witch. There are essays about Jane Boleyn, Charles Brandon, Christopher Marlowe and Margaret Pole, Her famous lecture, 'Royal Bodies', which caused a media frenzy, explores the place of royal women in society and our imagination. Here too are some of her LRB diaries, including her first meeting with her stepfather and a confrontation with a circus strongman. Interleaved with letters and other ephemera gathered from the archive.

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Kon box

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"Michiko Kon is a contemporary Japanese artist of startling originality. Her exploration of the photographic still-life, in which perishable materials such as raw fish, fowl, and vegetables, are combined with familiar, often feminine objects--a schoolgirl's uniform, high-heeled shoes, a pocketbook--triggers our senses of touch, taste and smell through vision and imagination"--Publisher's description.

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Dam

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"Toshio Shibata is well known for his large-format landscape photographs, particularly those made in Japan. Shibata's photographs of mountainsides overlaid by concrete 'netting' and other engineering devices to prevent erosion. Our first book on this work, 'Landscape', was published to wide critical acclaim, and the first printing sold out upon publication. The artist's follow-up book, 'Dam', is perhaps more beautiful yet"--Publisher's description.

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Bodies of the dead collected for burial in the field near McPherson's woods, south of Chambersburg Pike, on battlefield of first day

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Bodies of the dead collected for burial in the field near McPherson's woods, south of Chambersburg Pike. Bodies lie side by side in an open field.

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John Whittaker letter to Cincinnatus Hiner Miller

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Whittaker congratulates Miller on his tales, calling them "some of the boldest flights of imagination I ever saw as any man could conceive of" and lauding Miller for his "fixed reputation as among the first of novelists." He writes of the situation in Oregon: "Gold discoveries and Gold excitements - Gold Humbug - form the staple of our local news." He also writes of the state of local and national politics, in the wake of the Civil War.

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PCT Governing Bodies

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Correspondence between Rogers and representatives of the various governing bodies overseeing the Pacific Crest Trail is arranged alphabetically by the name of the governing body: the (PCT) Advisory Council (created by the National Trails Act of 1968); California state departments of Water and Parks and Recreation; the Pacific Crest Trail System Conference; United States Department of Agriculture - United States Forest Service; United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management and USDI's National Park Service.

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