Alexander Marshack (46 results)

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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Book condition is very good. Minor shelfwear with minor edge wear to some edges. the scientific facts behind today's sensational headlines. Profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings. Index. 192 pages.

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Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1972. Art, Europe. McGraw-Hill Book Company. Very good black cloth, and very good to good+ dust jacket 413p. 11/24 Please allow for additional overase postage.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition; First Printing. Lamination on DJ is peeling; DJ has small tears and scuffs; Sunning to boards; Light age toning ; 572 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Dell Printing, Laurel Edition. Yellow and red illustrated wraps with black lettering. LB 111 Cover price .35¢ Heavy rubbing and wear to all edges, uneven sunning and light soiling to wraps. Hinge is broken at front endpaper, text is tanned to brown and shows occasional underlining in ballpoint pen. Profusely illustrated with drawings and black and white photographs. "The earth satellite and what it means, the world's sinking continents, ice and the mystery of the Ice Age, the pattern of the seas, sun spots and their significance, what causes freak storms, Antarctica, the last unexplored continent, answers to some of man's oldest and most puzzling questions about the world he inhabits.".

Paperback. first edition. LB-111 very good - fine, reading crease PBO. paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Pocket pb. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 111.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Printing.

Oversized Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Very good oversize hardcover with good dust jacket, slight wear to jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Various (illustrator). 1st Edition. Indicated to be 1st Dell printing.April, 1958. Interior is, except for name sticker inside front cover, unmarked. Book has been wet at head of spine which has loosened glued binding, but does not appear to have affected interior pages. Paperback cover is whole and shows a little wear where price sticker removed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket is in acceptable condition. Minimal wear and bumping to corners of cover boards is consistent with age, handling and use. Binding is tight and secure. All pages are intact and free of all marks or highlights. Book is wrapped in a poly bag for further preservation. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Book condition is good. Slightly slanted. Minor shelfwear. The scientific facts behind today's sensational headlines. Profusely illustrated with photos and drawings. Index. 192 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A very clean and well preserved copy, free of any internal markings. Over 400 black and white photos, diagrams.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 192 pages. Illustrated. (SL#220).

First Printing. Dell Laurel Edition LB111. Very Good to Near Fine condition.

Softcover. 12mo. 192 pp. Index, Dell Laurel Edition LB111. With black and white photos and illustrations. Near Fine with a tiny bit f wear t the extremities.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. large black full cloth hardbound 4to ~ 4º (quarto ~ 9"x11") very large "coffee table" size book, international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg cond., rubbed, 3" tear on front, large scratch on rear. not price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ first edition so stated. first printing (nap). high quality book club edition (small emboosed spot rear cover bottom near spine). 413p. postscript. acknowledgments. collection of materials. bibliography. (list of) sites and caves. list of illustrations. index. 203 maps. 225 b&w photos. drawing & figiures. archaeology. art history. prehistoric art. archaeoastronomy. lunar zodiacs. prehistory. history of astronomy. ancient art. shamanism. ancient religion.~ Surely one of the most extraordinary books ever published, The Roots of Civilization by Alexander Marshack sheds new light on the evolution and prehistoric development of man which will radically alter the thinking of all archaeologists and anthropologists throughout the world. By examining the artifacts and the cave drawings of the Ice Age, Marshack has opened up new pathways to the origins of man's thought, his use of symbol notation and of language. What he has discovered would, in fact, make it seem likely that man was capable of complex thought processes thousands of years before it had ever been considered possible. Hallam Movius, the noted Harvard archaeologist, has this to say about the research, already hailed by leaders in the field as a "revolution": "A major breakthrough in the field of the interpretation and understanding of Upper Paleolithic art. Marshack's results have thrown revolutionary new light on the intellectual level attained by our Upper Paleolithic forebears. These spectacular studies have contributed startlingly new and fundamentally important evidence on the evolutionary level of early man's cognitive and intellectual capacity and on the level of symbolic development he had attained . " Marshack writes clearly and with great detail about how he set out to do his work and how he made his amazing discoveries. He takes the reader every step of the way, almost as if he were telling a detective story. We have here, richly illustrated and carefully annotated, the first complete account of these critical new findings, findings which add greatly to our knowledge of the first modern men to appear in Europe, the hunters of horse, mammoth, bison, reindeer and rhinoceros, who roamed the lands below the great ice sheets during the period 35,000~10,000 B.C., thousands of years before agriculture and the first towns.

Paperback #LB 111 CONDITION: vg.

Good condition paperback #lb 111.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Marshack, Alexander et al. (illustrator). THE ROOTS OF CIVILIZATION: THE COGNITIVE BEGINNINGS OF MAN'S FIRST ART, SYMBOL AND NOTATION, Alexander Marshack, hardcover with unclipped dust jacket (price never printed), Revised and Expanded edition, over 400 illustrations, 1991. BOOK CONDITION: very good, almost near fine. The text block is in fine condition, with no tears, dogears, or marks. No bookplate or signature of prior owner. Not a library book, but it does have a remainder mark on the bottom edge. The brown cloth boards are in very good condition (bumping of spine, a bit of edge wear, and tiny white spot on front cover). The dust jacket is in good condition (some edge chipping and crinkling, small tear, tiny hole in back cover). 11 ¼ x 8 ¾, 445 pages, 59 ounces. XX [From the inner flaps and back cover] Surely one of the most extraordinary books, THE ROOTS OF CIVILIZATION sheds new light on one of our earliest cultures. By examining the artifacts, paintings, and drawings of the Ice Age (beginning over 30,000 years ago), Marshack presents new ways of interpreting the origins of thought, the use of symbolic notation and development of language. What he has discovered revises the whole concept of our primitive forebears. These early people had an advanced culture and were capable of complex thought processes thousands of years before it had ever been considered possible. Howard Gardner of Harvard University has said this is one of the seminal books of our time. Marshack writes clearly and with great detail about how he made his amazing discoveries. He takes the reader every step of the way, almost as if he were telling a detective story. We have here, richly illustrated and carefully annotated, the first complete account of these critical findings. They add greatly to our knowledge of the first modern people to appear in Europe, the hunters of horse, mammoth, bison, reindeer and rhinoceros, who roamed the lands below the great ice sheets during the period 35,000-10,000 B.C., thousands of years before agriculture and the first towns. This revised edition brings the research to the present with new illustrations and additional text reflecting Marshack's most recent work. It is noteworthy that his studies have spawned a new subdiscipline and a new generation of archaeologists and anthropologists. René Dubos, the noted bacteriologist said, I read every year more than 100 books devoted to scientific subjects, but I do not recall any which enriched me as much, intellectually and emotionally. XX Alexander Marshack is Associate in Paleolithic Archaeology of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University. He has published dozens of papers and articles, here and abroad. XX Profusely illustrated, THE ROOTS OF CIVILIZATION has become a source book on the range of Homo sapiens' capacity for art and symbol, with detailed data on the evolution of humankind, the intelligence and language. It analyzes the first images of "sex" and "killing," and offers new insight into the eventual rise of civilization, radically challenging traditional archaeological holdings. XX Marshack's work has won unstinting praise from anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists and others studying the origins of the ways of mankind (The New York Times).

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 3.96.