Macey Samuel (148 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket w New Mylar Cover. Apparent First. ----------Blue hardcovers, bright gilt spine letters, book is 9" tall. 184 pages, with frontispiece portrait: William Hogarth, her portrait Miss Mary Edwards ( c 1740) in Frick collection.FINE CONDITION- - dust jacket Fine Condition- - - - SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE- - - For Bob, with Best Wishes, Sam July 29 83 -=- - -.…

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. hbk 275pp illust an unread copy excellent clean tight unmarked in sleeve-protected dj as new.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Trivial rubbing to the edges and corners of the DJ. DJ is now protected by a mylar cover. Binding is tight and square. Pages are very clean and bright with no markings.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. 73 pages. Trade paperback bound in tan printed wrappers. Moderate wear to the binding. Prior owner's name written at the top of the front cover. Sound text block; clean inside. Unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Canadian First. Minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Nine academic essays on the Deptford trilogy. (No. 20 ELS Monograph Series). Includes an Intro essay by Robertson Davies. (iv) 123 pages. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Former owner's sticker on inside top corner of inside page & slight crease to cover at top front corner. Pages clean, tight & unmarked.…

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Patriarchs of Time: Dualism in Saturn-Cronus, Father Time, the Watchmaker God, and Father Christmas. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book has very slight bumping on front corners and a hint of wear on the top and bottom of the spine. Otherwise, it is nearly as new with crisp pages and tight binding. The dust jacket has several small tears and moderate wear to the edges, light rubbing, and a few small scuffs and marks. Otherwise, the dust jacket is clean and presentable. …

Trade Paperback Original. Condition: Near Fine Plus. First Edition. Davies' introduction is title "The Deptford Trilogy in Retrospect". Contains nine essays; 123 pages.

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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Dynamics of Progress: Time, Method, and Measure. Book.

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Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Exploring the personifications of time by which Western civilization has ordered its attitudes toward both earthly existence and eternity, Patriarchs of Time traces the lineage of time's gods from the deities of ancient Mesopotamia and Persia through the pantheons of Greece and Rome, the Christian Father Time, and the brief reign of the Newtonian Watchmaker God to the consumerist Santa Claus who holds sway over the year's end celebrations of our own day. Each of these patriarchs, Samuel L. Macey shows, has embodied dualisms that reflect the dilemma in the Western mind between the joys and woes of our brief time on earth and the promise of eternal life or eternal punishment in the hereafter.Santa Claus is today, effectively, the sole inheritor of Saturn's old midwinter festival, but Macey suggests that it remains to be seen whether he will fully manifest the dualism that has always characterized the West's patriarchs of time, and whether our present consumerist saturnalia will regain the spiritual message of hope and eternal life that has always been a part of time's dominion.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. VERY GOOD hardcover in VERY GOOD dust jacket, no marks in text; a clean, very gently used copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book. Case dented, otherwise in good condition. Photos and foreign shipping rates on request.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; very minimal shelfwear; "Essays include: Robertson Davies looks back to the conception of the Deptford trilogy; Radford considers the relationship between Davies' earlier trilogy and Fifth Business;an examination of three different aspects of the later Deptford trilogy; folklore, time, and the public figure;the biographical and Jungian themes in Fifth Business; and more".…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: New. The development of increasingly precise measurements is an essential part of what Samuel L. Macey identifies as the West's wide-ranging effort to rationalize human activity-to simplify and standardize the way we work and communicate with one another. In The Dynamics of Progress, Macey examines the history of such rationalizations as they have manifested themselves. He identifies a symbiotic relationship among these different types of rationalization, demonstrating that without the rationalizing of time, weights and measures, numbers, and language, the scientific, technological, and industrial advances of the past three hundred years would have been inconceivable.In addition to discussing rationalization in its various forms, Macey also addresses reactions against it, and closes with some observations on the future. Increasing demands for material goods have the potential for spreading wealth, but such demands strain the earth's limited resources. How we address the challenge posed by this depletion of resources, Macey suggests, will be the ultimate test of our rationalizing powers.…

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Beige soft cover lightly soiled and rubbed on all extremities. The inside is unmarked. The binding is tight. The pages are clean and clear.

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