Robert S Arthur Editors (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 293 pp., xxv. Presumed First Edition with no editions, printings or number line cited. Glossy red wrappers with title and Subtitle lettering in white and black lettering, respectively, across top third front cover, above a black and white illustration of an ostensible "EKG printout" across middle front cover; Author names in small white letters across bottom front cover. Following the Preface and Introduction, Contents divided into 6 sections with three short stories each, each trio followed by "Questions for Discussion / List of Additional Stories": (1) "Preliminary Phase"; (2) Spectator Phase"; (3) "Increasing Participation Phase"; (4) "Shock Phase"; (5) "Adaptation Phase"; (6) "Re-Entry Phase". Previous owner name and date discreetly at top left inside front cover; 'WITHDRAWN' red-stamped top and bottom edge and on ffep and rear flyleaf (NO other indication of being an x-Library book); 1 1/2" soft crease (NOT folded or floppy) on the diagonal at right bottom front cover corner (does not actually reach either the right edge or lower edge, but confined within those borders, echoes only through ffep, not text itself)); 3/4" fan-shaped water stain at same lower right front cover corner, but discoloration is thin with micro-jaggedness along "fan" edge for only 4 pp., rest of impact diminishingly, through p. 5 (text NOT impacted): describes much worse than it is, but there you have it. Binding tight (NO cracks); corners sharp (Micro-tip wear). Clean text. Despite peccadilloes, Solid Copy.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. W H AUDEN "Hammarskjold" / Robert Lowell "Poems by RIMBAUD (8 pages) / ROBERT KEE "The Wall" / RICHARD LOWENTHAL "The Impossible Defensive" / NIGEL DENNIS "Arthur from the Barge" / FRANCOIS BONDY "On Misunderstanding Eichmann" / CLANCY SIGAL "Song of the Open Road" / SIR WILLIAM HAYTER "Germany and the West" / ANDREW BOYD "Belgrade Notebook".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A nice copy in blue cloth with slight scuffing to covers. B/w Illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 331 pp., xvii. '1' in number line. Following the Preface and Acknowledgments, Contents divided into 25 Chapters in 3 Parts: Part I: INTRODUCTION: THE PROBLEM (1) Rosalie A. Kane, "Everyday in Nursing Homes: ' The Way Things Are ' "; (2) Steven S. Foldes, "Life in an Institution: A Sociological and Anthropological View"; (3) Arthur L. Caplan, "The Morality of the Mundane: Ethical Issues Arising in the Daily Lives of Nursing Home Residents"; Part II: CASES AND COMMENTARIES (4) [Editors], "About the Case" [Each Case is accompanied by a Commentary, with Commentator Name preceding the Case]: (5) Ruth Macklin, "Good Citizen, Bad Citizen"; (6) Margaret P. Battin, "The Chair and Other Public Space"; (7) James F. Childress, "If You Let Them They'd Stay in Bed all Morning: The Tyranny of Regulation in Nursing Home Life"; (8) Stephen H. Miles and Greg A. Sachs, "Intimate Strangers: Roommates in Nursing Homes", Case Commentary: "Accommodating Room and Roommate Preferences"; (9) Rosemarie Tong, "Till Death Do Us Part: Married Life in Nursing Homes"; (10) Mary Ellen Waithe, "Thought for Food: Nursing Home Meals", Case Commentary: "Something to Chew On"; (11) Laurence B. McCullough, "Phone Privileges"; (12) Robert Schwartz, "Guardian Angles"; (13) Reinhard Priester, "Leaving Homes: Residents on Their Own Recognizance"; (14) Andrew Jameton, "Let My Persons Go! Restraints of the Trade"; (15) Mila Ann Aroskar, "Bathing: On the Boundaries of Health Treatment"; (16) Sara T. Fry, "Caring on Demand: How Responsive is Responsive Enough?"; (17) Diane K. Kjervik, "Beyond the Call of Duty: A Nurse's Aide Uses Her Judgment"; (18) Terrie Wetle, "Death of a Resident", Case Commentary: "Care of the Dying and the Newly Dead"; (19) Martin Benjamin, "Dressing for ' Success ' "; (20) David J. Mayo, "Tips and Favors", Case Commentary: "Private Contracts Between Residents and Staff"; (21) Harry R. Moody, "Finding a Home"; (22) Loren E. Lomasky, "Letter of the Law: Evictions from Homes"; Part III: TOWARD SOLUTIONS (23) Mila Ann Aroskar, Ene Kristi Urv-Wong, and Rosalie A. Kane, "Building an Effective Caregiving Staff: Transforming the Nursing Services"; (24) Iris C. Freeman, "Developing Systems That Promote Autonomy: Policy Considerations"; (25) Rosalie A. Kane, Arthur L. Caplan, Iris C. Freeman, Mila Ann Aroskar, and Ene Kristi Urv-Wong, " Avenues to Appropriate Autonomy: What Next?"; Contributors, pp. 319--323; Index, pp. 325-331. // Laid-in news items from the New York Times (NO offsetting): (1) Letters to the Editor, Roberta Sales, Gregory Siskind, "The Nursing Shortage" (4 12 2001) (2) Paul Zielbauer, "Some Nursing Homes Lock Out Strikers, and Hartford Vows to Help Homes Cover Costs" (3 22 2001; (3) Jennifer Steinhauer, "As Assisted Living Centers Grow, Calls for Standards and Oversight" (2 12 2001); (4) Letter to the Editor, Bobbie Sackman, "The Homebound Elderly" (4 12 2001); (5) Letter to Editor, Charles H. Roadman II, "Nursing Home Workers" (7 29 2000); (6) Letter to Editor, Pankaj Gupta, "Ethics and the Elderly" (1 21 2000); (7) Sara Rimer, "Home Aides for the Frail Elderly in Shorter Supply"; (8) Ann R. Langdon, "The Aged as an Inconvenience" {"Nursing Homes too easily forget the ' do unto others ' creed.") (7 27 1999); (9) Letters, Charles J. Hynes, Ann Colbert, "Caring for the Elderly" (12 19 1999); (10) Letters, Claire Fagin, Sidney Z. Cohn, "Don't Repeal Nursing Home Rules That Work" (10 14 1995; (11) Eliisabeth Rosenthal, "Once in Big Demand, Nurses Are Targets for Hospital Cuts" (8 19 1996); (12) Sharon R. King, "Nursing Homes Draw Attention As Worker-Saafety Focus Shifts" (8 7 1996). // NO Jacket. Blue boards with bright white lettering on front cover and spine. Previous owner name and origin of purchase discreetly on inside top left front cover, else unqualifiedly As New: Strong binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); NO remainder marks; NO rubbing wear. Clean text. …

Mass-market paperback. Condition: Very good. Cardinal Giant edition January 1956. GC-1956 in very good condition. light edge wear. no markings.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. A real nice clean 638 page first printing of the Cardinal Giant edition published 1956. Has a little aging and is a real nice old book. See my scans for nice condition and more information from book cover. Size: 6 1/2h x 4 1/4w. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. Adventures of the Mind: From The Saturday Evening Post. Edited by Richard Thruelsen and John Kobler, with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Columbia University professor Mark Van Doren. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. Fourth Printing, January 1960. 285 pages. A remarkable mid-century anthology bringing together major figures in science, philosophy, literature, history, religion, architecture, modern art, music, linguistics and cultural criticism. Originally drawn from essays appearing in The Saturday Evening Post, the collection provides a compelling snapshot of American intellectual culture at the close of the 1950s. The volume opens with an introduction by Mark Van Doren, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, critic and celebrated longtime Columbia University professor. Of particular historical interest, Mark Van Doren was the father of Charles Van Doren, the Columbia academic who became a national television celebrity as a contestant on NBC's Twenty-One before becoming the central figure in the celebrated television quiz-show scandal. Charles Van Doren publicly admitted before a congressional committee on November 2, 1959, that he had participated in the deception surrounding the program. This copy is the January 1960 fourth printing, placing its production only months after Charles Van Doren's congressional confession and at a remarkable moment in the history of the Van Doren family's public reputation and American intellectual culture. The connection is contextual rather than associative: Charles Van Doren did not contribute to this volume, but his father Mark supplied its introduction. The juxtaposition is particularly interesting because Adventures of the Mind celebrates intellectual inquiry and presents serious ideas to a broad popular audience—the same period in which Charles Van Doren's television fame had transformed a young Columbia scholar into a nationally recognized symbol of intellectual achievement. Mark and Charles Van Doren Historical Context Mark Van Doren was one of the distinguished American literary scholars of his generation, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and longtime professor of English at Columbia University. His son Charles Van Doren was likewise a Columbia academic when he became nationally famous through his appearances on the television quiz program Twenty-One. His apparent command of an extraordinary range of knowledge turned him into an intellectual celebrity during the 1950s. The story collapsed during the television quiz-show investigations. On November 2, 1959, Charles admitted before congressional investigators that he had been supplied questions and answers in connection with Twenty-One. His association with the scandal became one of the defining episodes in the early history of American television. The timing gives this particular printing an intriguing historical context: the copyright page identifies it as the Fourth Printing, January 1960, only a short time after Charles Van Doren's nationally publicized confession. No claim of ownership, provenance or direct association with Charles Van Doren is made; the significance is the documented father-son relationship and Mark Van Doren's role as the author of the introduction. Accordingly, this copy is accurately described as the Fourth Printing, January 1960, rather than a fourth edition. Please refer to photographs for additional condition detail; photographs form part of the description. .The January 1960 printing also places the volume at an extraordinary moment in the history of the Van Doren family, appearing shortly after the 1959 congressional testimony of Mark Van Doren's son Charles during the notorious television quiz-show scandal. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A nice copy in blue cloth with slight sunning to covers. B/w Illustrations.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fair. Pages are darkened with age. Pages and binding are tight. Cover is slightly discolored and edge worn. 639 pages.