Smith Andrew D Eds (4 results)

Softcover. Condition: As new. xxvi, 579 p. 23 cm. Paperback. Portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Under the direction of John English and Réal Bélanger. Includes James McGill, John Molson, Sir Samuel Cunard, John Redpath, John Kinder Labatt, William Notman, Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, Sir Adam Beck, Timothy Eaton, and many others. Index.…

Condition: as new. Durham : Duke University Press, 2010. Hardcover. 276 pp. A collection of theoretical essays arguing that theorists of modernity must reckon with the medieval, which is not, as some have asserted, completely separate or different from the modern. Contents : Outside modernity / Andrew Cole and D. Vance Smith -- The sense of an epoch : periodization, sovereignty, and the limits of secularization / Kathleen Davis -- The sacrament of the fetish, the miracle of the commodity : Hegel and Marx / Andrew Cole -- Empire, apocalypse, and the 9/11 premodern / Bruce Holsinger -- Response : more than we bargained for / Michael Hardt -- Scholastic modernities : we have never been Schreber : paranoia, medieval and modern / Erin Labbie and Michael Uebel -- Medieval studies, historicity, and Heidegger's early phenomenology / Ethan Knapp -- Medieval currencies : nominalism and art / C.D. Blanton -- Response : Medusa's gaze / Jed Rasula -- On the medieval / Fredric Jameson. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780822346524. Keywords : PHILOSOPHY. …

Pictorial hard covers. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st edition. Scarcely used. Weight: 2.7 Language: English.

Condition: Fine. xxii, 594, 64 col plates, b/w line drawings. 292x235mm. HB. Fine in d/w. The definitive handbook, representing the work of 150 botanists and covering more than 280 families of plants known to occur in the Western Hemisphere between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. The text describes each family's features, diversity of genera and species, distribution, habitat, classification, botany, natural history, and economic uses. Numerous illustrations portray flora that range from the deserts of Mexico and the coasts of Central America to the vast lowland rainforests of Amazonia and the cloud forests of the Andes. [9780691116945].…