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  • SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES
    LOUIS FILLER
    Slavery in the United States clarifies the institution of slavery in its historical context. Filler avoids the all too prevalent literary attitude of either treating slavery as an unmitigated nightmare from the past, or regarding it as a way of life which warmly repaid slave and slaveholder. He does not reduce the issue to one of fact and figures, nor does he inject endless hyp...

    $1,320.00

  • MUCKRAKING AND PROGRESSIVISM IN THE AMERICAN TRADITION
    LOUIS FILLER
    Muckraking and progressivism have always marched arm-in-arm, cutting a wide path through modern American history. Originally published as Appointment at Armageddon, Filler's book is a vital contribution in understanding the intrinsic dynamic of reform in American life. It extracts from the issues that fostered progressivism and muckraking an essence that illuminates contemporar...

    $860.00

  • ALMA MAHLER AND HER CONTEMPORARIES
    SUSAN FILLER
    This selective annotated bibliography places Alma Mahler with three other female composers of her time, covering the first generation of active female composers in the twentieth century. It uncovers the wealth of resources available on the lives and music of Mahler, Florence Price, Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg, and Maria Teresa Prieto and supports emerging scholarship and inquiry ...

    $1,240.00

  • THE DEMOCRATIC IMAGINATION
    LOUIS FILLER
    This festschrift celebrates the accomplishments of renowned social scientist Irving Louis Horowitz as he turned sixty-five. Since Horowitz's views were global and his discourse was never restricted to national boundaries, the volume includes contributions from across the globe. Collectively, the book represents a personal as well as an intellectual statement from the contributo...

    $920.00

  • THE CRUSADE AGAINST SLAVERY
    LOUIS FILLER
    Perhaps no other crusade in the history of the U.S. provoked so much passion and fury as the struggle over slavery. Many of the problems that were a part of that great debate are still with us. Louis Filler has brought together much information both known and new on those who organized to defeat slavery. He has also re-examined the anti-slavery movement's ideals, heroes, and ma...

    $1,360.00

  • SOCIAL ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS
    LOUIS FILLER
    Social accounting grew up as a result of the desire to bring together in a meaningful and comprehensive manner all the available observed facts on the economic and financial activity of a nation. Three social accounting systems of flow have been developed during the last three decades. Each of these systems has been constructed separately and independently. The framework of eac...

    $1,320.00

  • GUSTAV AND ALMA MAHLER
    SUSAN M. FILLER
    This revised edition of Garland's 1989 publication updates the core bibliography on Gustave Mahler (as well as his spouse and fellow composer Alma Mahler) by incorporating new research gathered over the past dozen years on his life and professional works. Gustave Mahler, renowned conductor and composer of symphonies and song cycles, is one of the foremost musical figures of the...

    $1,420.00

  • THE CENTRAL PARK
    CYNTHIA S. BRENWALL / MARTIN FILLER
    A pictorial history of the development of New York City's Central Park from conception to completion. Drawing on the unparalleled collection of original designs for Central Park in the New York City Municipal Archives, Cynthia S. Brenwall tells the story of the creation of New York's great public park, from its conception to its completion. This treasure trove of material range...

    $251.00

  • THE UPRIGHT APE
    AARON G. FILLER
    "A neurosurgeon and evolutionary scholar presents a bold new theory on the early origins of the hominiform (human-like) primates . . . Thought-provoking." — Kirkus Reviews Drawing on such diverse antecedents as history, myth, and religion, as well as modern developments in biology and genetics, the author bravely questions and rejects the reigning scientific orthodoxy and shows...

    $338.00

  • LA ARQUITECTURA MODERNA Y SUS CREADORES
    FILLER MARTIN
    En este libro Martin Filler ha recopilado y ampliado una serie de artículos publicados en The New York Review of Books en torno no solo a los mejores arquitectos del siglo XX y principios del XXI, sino a los más influyentes, aunque algunos de ellos no hayan favorecido precisamente «la causa de la arquitectura moderna en su vertiente más intelectualmente elevada y humanamente se...
    Agotado

    $835.00

  • INSTRUMENTACION QUIRUGICA
    FILLER
    Agotado

    $2,035.00