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- catalog abstract "Study with reference to Karnataka.".
- catalog abstract "Maintaining the same high standards of the first edition, published in 1973, this new, revised edition is still the most comprehensive one-volume history of a state that was once thought of as "a bridge to somewhere else." In revising, Elliott summarizes the state's economic, political, and social history since 1973 and strengthens a major point he made then: that Nevada's acceptance of liberal marriage and divorce laws and of legalized gambling brought economic stability to a state singularly devoid of stable economic resources. -- from Book Jacket.".
- catalog abstract ""Corren los penosos años cincuenta en una ciudad de provincias sumida en la penuria y el olvido. Los integrantes de una peculiar Cofradía -- más encaminada a lo etílico y a lo esotérico que a los rigores de la penitencia -- inician una noche una disparatada aventura, dirigida al hallazgo de una mítica fuente de aguas virtuosas, de la que un dia bebió, a lo que parece, un eximio canónigo de dilatada memoria. La aventura de los cofrades marcará la linea simbólica a partir de la cual se abrirá una via de escape del mundo estrecho y ramplón que les rodea"--Page 4 of cover. When a group of unconventional religious brothers find what seems to be a magical mythical water source, their adventure marks the line between one life and another.".
- catalog abstract ""Benjamin Harrison was an early proponent of American expansion in the Pacific, a key figure in such landmark legislation as the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the McKinley Tariff, and one of the Gilded Age's most eloquent speakers. Yet he remains one of our most neglected and least understood presidents. In this first interpretive study of the Harrison administration, the authors illuminate our twenty-third president's character and policies and rescue him from the long shadow of his charismatic secretary of state, James G. Blaine."--Publisher.".
- catalog abstract ""James K. Polk was one of the strongest and most active presidents ever to occupy the office. In the nineteenth century only Jefferson, Jackson, and Lincoln matched his overall leadership and domination of national government. Bergeron's crisp, insightful narrative shows how and why Polk achieved such stature and yet failed to attract the kind of popular support or retrospective recognition granted other presidential luminaries."--Publisher.".
- catalog abstract "Proceedings of the International Seminar on "Problems of Urban Transport in India", Vishakhapatnam, 1985.".
- catalog abstract "Who should have the authority to shape the education of citizens in a democracy? This is the central question posed by Amy Gutmann in the first book-length study of the democratic theory of education. The author tackles a wide range of issues, from the democratic case against book banning to the role of teachers' unions in education, as well as the vexed questions of public support for private schools and affirmative action in college admissions.".
- catalog abstract "Lists over fifteen hundred firms alphabetically. Entries are indexed by services, industries served, geography, and key officers of the firms.".
- catalog abstract "The volume focuses on the programs, ideas, and practices of the early twentieth century's most influential testers.".
- catalog abstract ""Study ... was entrusted to the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy"--Foreword.".
- catalog abstract "Encompassing American history from the eve of the Revolution to the first decades of our own century, this book is a history of five generations of the Butler's, a family sundered at its very core by the same institution of slavery that would lead the nation into the horror and destruction of the Civil War. To his family, Major Butler's legacy consisted of two well-appointed properties in Philadelphia, the rich plantation lands in the South that paid for those properties, and more than nine hundred human beings bound to the soil of the plantations. Tracing the Butlers' private and public lives at their homes in Philadelphia and on their plantations in South Carolina and Georgia, Bell surveys every aspect of life on the great agricultural empire assembled by Pierce Butler for his heirs. He tells of the fields where rice, cotton, and sugar were cultivated; of the small fleet of ships that carried those goods to port and brought provisions to the isolated island plantations on their return voyages; and of the Butler's often testy relations with their managers, particularly with the paradoxical Roswell King. But most dramatically, Bell portrays the lives of the slaves, referred to by Pierce Butler as "the wretched Affricans," whose toil brought riches to the family. He describes their work and the punishment they could expect when they transgressed in some way; their diet and health and the amusements with which they consoled themselves; and the "day of weeping" that came when Major Butler's wastrel grandson, in an effort to regain solvency, sold half the slave community- 460 men, women, and children- in an enormous auction at Savannah's Ten Broeck Raceway in 1859.".
- catalog abstract "This book celebrates and preserves the venerable Gullah culture of the sea islands of the South Carolina and Georgia coast. Entering into communities long isolated from the world by a blazing sun and salt marshes, Patricia Jones-Jackson captures the cadence of the storyteller lost in the adventures of "Brer Rabbit," records voices lifted in song or prayer, and describes folkways and beliefs that have endured, through ocean voyage and human bondage, for more than two hundred years.".
- catalog abstract "Working with the image of the Indian shaman as Wild Man, Taussig reveals not the magic of the shaman but that of the politicizing fictions creating the effect of the real. "This extraordinary book . . . will encourage ever more critical and creative explorations."--Fernando Coronil, [I]American Journal of Sociology[/I] "Taussig has brought a formidable collection of data from arcane literary, journalistic, and biographical sources to bear on . . . questions of evil, torture, and politically institutionalized hatred and terror. His intent is laudable, and much of the book is brilliant, both in its discovery of how particular people perpetrated evil and others interpreted it."--Stehen G. Bunker, Social Science Quarterly.".
- catalog abstract "Lenape Indians are considered part of the Delaware Indian tribe.".
- catalog abstract ""Selected Tanner lectures on moral philosophy."--T.p.".
- catalog abstract "A biography of the Polish born Art Deco portraitist and her work.".
- catalog abstract "Examines the work and the lives of women artists through five centuries.".
- catalog abstract "Gale Biographical index series; no 9.".
- catalog abstract "A complete critical survey of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.".
- catalog abstract "During Andrew Jackson's time, the Muscogulges were the largest group of Indians living on the frontier, and they manifested a strong geographical and cultural cohesiveness in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.".
- catalog abstract "Ethnography of Inuit adolescence describing the life of young people between the ages of 9 and 20 in the community of Holman Island, NWT. Describes the day-to-day activities of Inuit youth, their time playing sports and games, attending school, engaging in sexual play, simply "hanging out" with friends and peers.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of essays in which black South African school children discuss the political strife in their country and its effect on their daily lives.".
- catalog abstract "On the role of television in rural development of Rajasthan.".
- catalog abstract "Briefly traces the life of the nineteenth century American writer, examines his major novels, tales, and poems, and discusses the themes and style of his work.".
- catalog abstract ""This law school casebook examines the opinions and decisions of the governmental bodies most directly responsible for the laws and regulations that apply to the electronic mass media--Congress, the FCC, and the courts. ... it includes selected cases designed to illustrate the development of a body of law on a particular subject. Text and explanatory materials designed for law study accompany the cases."--Publisher's website.".
- catalog abstract "From the Publisher: Assuming the voices of psychoanalyst, scholar, and postmodern polemicist, Kristeva discusses both the conflicts and commonalities among the Greek, Christian, Roman, and contemporary discourses on love, desire, and self.".
- catalog abstract "22 short stories by Ann Beattie, Raymond Carver, John Irving, Joyce Carol Oates, Cynthia Ozick, John Updike, and others.".
- catalog abstract "This study traces one of the greatest and most dramatic trials in history and provides fresh information on the way Japan conducted the war, from Pearl Harbor, to the attempted assassination of Stalin, to the final surrender.".
- catalog abstract "A study of a small native community in northern Ontario (Collins) and the attempts of its members to establish a viable local economy.".
- catalog abstract "Newspaper articles compiled from the St. Thomas journals, the London free press, and the London daily advertiser.".
- catalog abstract "This biography covers André and François André Michaux, two of the most significant figures in the botanical history of the United States and France. During their lives, spanning the latter half of the eighteenth century to the first half of the nineteenth, this father and son made remarkable contributions to the advancement of botany, horticulture, and forestry.".
- catalog abstract "Papers presented at a national workshop, Dehradun, 1982, organized by the Centre of Himalayan Studies, Ranchi University.".
- catalog abstract "The author considers the influence of English political, social, and theatrical history on the depiction of black characters on the English stage from 1589 to 1695. He shows that almost without exception blackness was associated with treachery, evil, and ugliness. The first work to study the depiction of blacks in the drama of this period in a complete cultural context, this book will be informative for anyone interested in the stereotypical representation of blacks in literature. -- from Book Jacket.".
- catalog abstract "Examines the identity of "the new woman" of the 1920s chronicling their struggles and experiences in contrast to popular images set forth in the mass media and in literature of the day.".
- catalog abstract "The return of Jews to Eretz-Israel from 1777 to 1948.".
- catalog abstract "Girl on a White Porch was chosen from over four hundred entries as the best new poetry manuscript of the year. These poems, by a writer whose roots are in Louisiana, evoke a strong sense of nostalgia for the Deep South, for family, and for a lost innocence that is both personal and regional." -- Cover, page 4.".
- catalog abstract "Aphoristic work, with commentaries, on the Vedic phonology and grammar, according to the Taittirīya recension of the Black Yajurveda.".
- catalog abstract "Récit passionnant et sérieusement documenté de la rupture, au coeur de la Révolution tranquille, entre Robert Bourassa et René Lévesque.".
- catalog abstract "This book offers an illustrated encyclopedia that can be used as a reference work for the Civil War as well as for recreational reading.".
- catalog abstract "Classical commentaries on Jaimini's Mīmāṃsāsūtra presenting the tradition of Bhāṭṭa school.".
- catalog abstract "Treatises on the Hindu domestic rituals for the dead according to Mithila tradition and expiatory rites.".
- catalog abstract "Includes bibliographies and index.".
- catalog abstract "Includes material on education, illegitimacy, health care, housing, criminal justice, repression, and reform.".
- catalog abstract "Includes biographical note about the poets represented.".
- catalog abstract "On divorced Muslim woman's right to maintenance and the Islamic personal law in India; comprises judgement of the Supreme Court of India on criminal appeal in favor of the respondent, Shah Banu Begum, 75 year old Muslim woman, and articles, editorials, reportage, views, etc.".
- catalog abstract "Problems of rural India.".
- catalog abstract "Study on the figures of speech (alaṅkāras) expounded in Rasagaṅgādhara, a treatise on Sanskrit poetics, by Jagannātha Paṇḍitarāja".
- catalog abstract "History of the Radha Soami Satsang Beas; includes short biographies of the leaders of the sect.".
- catalog abstract "This book serves not only as an introduction, but also as an advanced text and reference source in the field of deterministic optimal control systems governed by ordinary differential equations. It also includes an introduction to the classical calculus of variations. An important feature of the book is the inclusion of a large number of examples, in which the theory is applied to a wide variety of economics problems. The presentation of simple models helps illuminate pertinent qualitative and analytic points, useful when confronted with a more complex reality. These models cover: economic growth in both open and closed economies, exploitation of (non- ) renewable resources, pollution control, behaviour of firms, and differential games. A great emphasis on precision pervades the book, setting it apart from the bulk of literature in this area. The rigorous techniques presented should help the reader avoid errors which often recur in the application of control theory within economics.".
- catalog abstract "No political parties of present-day Germany are separated by a wider gulf than the two parties of labor, one democratic and reformist, the other totalitarian and socialist-revolutionary. Social Democrats and Communists today face each other as bitter political enemies across the front lines of the cold war; yet they share a common origin in the Social Democratic Party of Imperial Germany. How did they come to go separate ways? By what process did the old party break apart? How did the prewar party prepare the ground for the dissolution of the labor movement in World War I, and for the subsequent extension of Leninism into Germany? To answer these questions is the purpose of my study.".
- catalog abstract "Discusses the new economic forces that affect lives and livelihoods, today's changing people and their workplace surroundings, the newest management concepts and practices, and the shape of evolving organizations as they respond to increasing tasks and responsibilities.".
- catalog abstract "Combines a general introduction and a detailed commentary to make insights of recent Homeric scholarship accessible to students and general readers as well as to classicists.".
- catalog abstract "In myth, author Puhvel argues, a human group expresses the thought patterns by which it formulates self-cognition and self-realization, attains self-knowledge and self-confidence, explains its own sources and sometimes tries to chart its destinies. Here, Puhvel unravels the prehistoric origins of the traditions of India and Iran, Greece and Rome, of the Celts, Germans, Balts, and Slavs. Utilizing the methodologies of historical linguistics and archaeology, he reconstructs a shared prehistorical religious, mythological, and cultural heritage. Separate chapters on individual traditions as well as on recurrent themes give life to the book as both a general introduction and a detailed reference.--From publisher description.".
- catalog abstract "In many developing countries the persistent problem of hunger calls for policies that encompass not only production of food but also its distribution and its use by consumers. This book brings together the best of current thinking on food policy -- by specialists in agriculture, nutrition, management, public health, education, development, and other fields. In their introductory chapter and in the overviews of the six parts of the book, the editors place the individual contributions within the broad framework of food policy.".
- catalog abstract "Contains words, phrases, idioms, and sayings with variants and English equivalents.".
- catalog abstract "This portrait follows the former First Lady from her birth in a boomtown mining shack to the White House and is full of anecdotes and behind-the-scenes glimpses of historical figures.".
- catalog abstract "Although a great deal has been written concerning every important aspect of the Civil War itself, with a few notable exceptions little attention has been given to the personal lives of the 961 generals who commanded the Union and Confederate armies. This book offers a wealth of comparative biographical data on these men in a convenient form that will serve the purposes of both academic researchers and Civil War buffs.".
- catalog abstract "Book focuses on Southwark in Surrey.".
- catalog abstract "Chemical, health, and safety information on almost 800 toxic and hazardous chemicals. Intended for manufacturers, engineers, health professionals, and other personnel with an interest in chemical exposure. Alphabetical arrangement by chemicals. Entries include such information as permissible exposure limits in air, harmful effects and symptoms, and personal protective methods. Many references. Carcinogen index.".
- catalog abstract "The Brodericks of San Francisco are a wealthy family whose lives present a panorama of modern America from the sixties to the present day.".
- catalog abstract "Contains the abstracts of communications to be delivered at the Sixth International Conference for Nubian Studies, arranged at Uppsala, 11-16 August, 1986, under the auspices of the Swedish Academy of Letters in cooperatin with the Universities of Bergen and Uppsala.".
- catalog abstract "George and Nina seem like a perfect couple. They share an apartment and love each other ... but he is gay and she is pregnant with a boyfriend who isn't happy with her arrangement.".
- catalog abstract "Reconstructs seventeen days in the life of Thomas Jefferson during which the Declaration of Independence was written and edited. Includes reproductions of original manuscripts showing revisions and deletions.".
- catalog abstract "Jaina hymn presenting epistemological approach to verbal testimony.".
- catalog abstract "In linguistics, where definitions at best are often imprecise, those of slang terms are notoriously hard to establish. Recorded slang emerged from the special languages of sub-cultures and never stops evolving. Since the publication of the classic Dictionary of American Slang, on which this new dictionary is partially based, many changes have taken place.".
- catalog abstract "This book provides practicing statisticians and econometricians with new tools for assessing quality and reliability of regression estimates. Diagnostic techniques are developed that aid in the systematic location of data points that are unusual or inordinately influential, and measure the presence and intensity of collinear relations among the regression data and help to identify variables involved in each and pinpoint estimated coefficients potentially most adversely affected. It emphasizes diagnostics and includes suggestions for remedial action.".
- catalog abstract ""Of the eight American Nobel Prize winners in literature, three--Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill and William Faulkner--were alcoholic drinkers, and two--Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck--were hard drinkers. Almost all critical comment about these writers has treated their drinking habits a somehow separate from their work. Thomas Gilmore argues that the result is neither good biography nor good literary criticism. He shows how the drinking and the work can each shed light on the other. Although readers and critics acknowledge that many modern writers tend to be heavy drinkers, [title] is the first full-length study of drinking as it is depicted in literature, both by writers who have had drinking problems and those who have not. This interdisciplinary study of science and literature explores the ways scientific knowledge of alcoholism may enlighten the reader as well as the means by which literature may confirm, intensify, dramatize, extend, and occasionally even challenge empirical studies. Examining the work of Malcom Lowry, Evelyn Waugh, Eugene O'Neill, John Cheever, Saul BEllow, F. Scot Fitzgerald, John Berryman, Kingsley Amis, and George Orwell, Gilmore evaluates the major genres of modern literature--drama, poetry, the short story, the novel--for the distinctive portrayals of drinking or alcoholism. He argues that good literature resists stereotyping the alcoholic and portrays instead a figure divided into a welter of conflicting feelings. Gilmore shows that literature conveys the complex struggle in a fictional character or in a real person in a way that science--which must be diagnostic, analytical, and objective--cannot."--Cover [p. 4].".
- catalog abstract "Contains references to journal articles, books, dissertations, and conference papers which are biographical and relate to persons in all fields who have influenced history. References are to pathographies, psychohistories, psychobiographies, and some pertinent general titles. Many foreign-language works. Alphabetical arrangement of biographical entries.".
- catalog abstract "The major purpose of this book has been to collect the knowledge that we now have of this field, including some indications of where it is going. Each of the authors has been encouraged to report the state of knowledge from an individual viewpoint. It is hoped that these chapters will be effective in conveying an impression of the state of the art in instructional technology. They may provide the substantive framework for the various techniques that make up the field of instructional technology, the problems yet to be solved by research and development, and an indication of the remarkable potentialities for the improvement of instruction.".
- catalog abstract "Alphabetical listing of over 2000 topics that include biographies, educational and psychological tests, interventions and service delivery, handicapping conditions, related services, legal matters, and miscellaneous. Intended for professionals and general public. Entries include narrative, references, contributor's name and institution, and cross references. Vol. 3 contains appendix (Public Law 95-142) and index.".
- catalog abstract "The essential concerns of conservatism are the same as those that motivated Nisbet's first and most influential book, The Quest for Community. In fact. Conservatism unites virtually all of Nisbet's work. In it, Nisbet deals with the political causes of the manifold forms of alienation that underwrite the human quest for community. The sovereign political state is more than a legal relationship of a superstructure of power, it is inseparable from its successive penetrations of man's economic, religious, kinship and local allegiances, and its revolutionary dislocations of established centers of power.".
- catalog abstract "Sources of financing are arranged by industry, geographic areas, and method of financing.".
- catalog abstract "A compendium of market information on major consumer goods purchased in West European countries.".
- catalog abstract ""...presents a new political philosophy to help explain the concepts that define the limits of expression within the State. The focus is on the reason for the controls placed upon the media, and upon events and the laws as they shape the role of the State in controlling freedom of expression. In developing this philosophy, the history of the media, media law, and political philosophy are explored only as they relate to the philosophy."--Introduction.".
- catalog abstract "Looks at the last forty years of American politics, notes changes in the Democratic Party, and discusses the ideas and individuals important to the period.".
- catalog abstract "We are pleased to present to our readers The Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Phosphate and Other Minerals which was held in Marsielle, France during September 1-4, 1985. It was hosted by Professor Michel Olmer, the Chief of the Division of Nephrology in Hospital de la Conception of the University of D'Aix-Marsielle II. The workshop was attended by 250 scientists from 17 countries including Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Democratic Republic of Germany, Egypt, England, France, Israel, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the United States of America. There were 28 invited presentations by leading scientists and 40 oral and 75 poster presentations selected from over 200 abstracts submitted to the Organizing Committee. This meeting provided an excellent opportunity for interested scientists from interrelated disciplines including nephrology, endocrinology, physiology, biochemistry and nutrition to get together and discuss recent advances in the field of phosphate and mineral metabolism.".
- catalog abstract "In 600 poems by 145 authors, this book gives a cross-section of black American poetry writing in the twentieth century.".
- catalog abstract "For review see: Jeffrey P. Williams, in Nieuwe West-Indische Gids/New West Indian Guide, vol. 62 (1988); p. 192-193; and: Geneviève Escure, in Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 4 (1) (1989); p. 141-152.".
- catalog abstract "Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, "All About H. Hatterr" is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta. His story is of his search for enlightenment as, in the course of visiting seven Oriental cities, he consults with seven sages, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of "Living." Each teacher delivers himself of a great "Generality," each great Generality launches a new great "Adventure," from each of which Hatter escapes not so much greatly edified as by the skin of his teeth. The book is a comic extravaganza, but as Anthony Burgess writes in his introduction, "it is the language that makes the book. ... It is not pure English; it is like Shakespeare, Joyce, and Kipling, gloriously impure."".
- catalog abstract "Includes section on legislation.".
- catalog abstract "Encyclopedic work on Hindu religious law.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of critical essays on Lowell and his works arranged in chronological order of publication.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of critical essays on Williams and his works arranged in chronological order of publication.".
- catalog abstract "Includes diaries, letters, sermons, poems, stories, novels, political treatises, and autobiographies. Authors include Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Martin Luther King, Jr., Charles Finney, Walter Rauschenbusch, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Abraham Lincoln, John Updike, Thomas Merton, Flannery O'Connor, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, William Faulkner, Reinhold Niebuhr, Emily Dickinson, Woodrow Wilson, among others.".
- catalog abstract "Investigates the response of 19th and 20th century intellectuals to Darwin's evolutionary theories.".
- catalog abstract "In The Steeple's Shadow, David Lyon argues that there is a fundamental fault in the sociology which predicts an inevitable withering away of the Church's influence in people's lives. He surveys the debate and shows that although secularization is an interesting concept for understanding the apparent decline and isolation of churches in the West, it is misleading to assume that religion itself is dying. Lyon distinguishes between the myths and realities of the process of secularization and shows that by developing a clear picture of the social world, Christians can understand both its challenges and its opportunities, and can determine for themselves what the place of religion should be in today's world. --From publisher's description.".
- catalog abstract "Surveys the Danish immigration to the United States and discusses the contributions made by Danes to various areas of American life.".
- catalog abstract "Based on: the Broadway play written by Wagner starring Lily Tomlin.".
- catalog abstract "Comparative presentation of prefixes in Sanskrit and Thon-mi Sambhoṭa's Tibetan grammar.".
- catalog abstract "Aphoristic work, with a classical commentary, on the Vedic sacrificial rites according to the Vājasaneyisaṃhitā of Yajurveda.".
- catalog abstract "The poem presents the powerful spirit of Black women the world over. Includes eighty-four portraits of ordinary Black women.".
- catalog abstract "Traces the Klan from its beginnings and assesses its future role in America.".
- catalog abstract "The story behind the search for the mysterious traitor in the FBI who passed millions of military secrets to the Soviet Union over a fifteen year period.".
- catalog abstract "Comprehensive multidisciplinary encyclopedia dealing with aging processes and older adults. Intended for "the educated inquirer who needs a brief authoritative introduction to key topics and issues in aging." Signed entries contain cross references. Contains lengthy bibliography. General index.".
- catalog abstract "Exposition, with commentary, on the governing rules (paribhāṣā) in Sanskrit grammar.".
- catalog abstract "In praise of Sāhajī, King of Tanjore, fl. 1684-1712.".
- catalog abstract "A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is intended to be both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of a particular approach to the interpretation of historical texts. Volume One deals with the Renaissance, Volume Two with the Age of Reformation. Quentin Skinner gives an outline account of all the principal texts of the period, discussing in turn the chief political writings of Dante, Marsiglio, Bartolus, Machiavelli, Erasmus and more, Luther and Calvin, Bodin and the Calvinist revolutionaries. But he also examines a very large number of lesser writers in order to explain the general social and intellectual context in which these leading theorists worked. He thus presents the history not as a procession of 'classic texts' but are more readily intelligible. He traces by this means the gradual emergence of the vocabulary of modern political thought, and in particular the crucial concept of the State. -- Publisher description".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence and accounts of the Seymour family, chiefly of Edward Seymour, 1st duke of Somerset and William Seymour, 2nd duke of Somerset.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence between contemporary political and literary celebrities and Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford, Sir Edward Harley, and Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford. Also, correspondence and papers of Margaret, Duchess of Portland, and other Harley family members.".
- catalog abstract "The cave of Lascaux -- the "Sistine Ceiling of the Cave Man"--Is a spectacular window into the shadowy, powerful animal world of the Old Stone Age, some 17,000 years ago. The chance discovery of two boys in France in 1940, the cave was soon overwhelmed by tourists and in the early 1960s showed inescapable evidence that its radiant frescoes of bison, aurochs, horses, and deer were dimming with molds and fungi generated by bright lights and the warmth and breath of countless visitors. Lascaux was sealed in 1963 by the French government, which later commissioned the distinguished prehistorian and television producer Marlo Ruspoli to create a record of its now permanently inaccessible wonders. In the early 1980s, hemmed in by infinite precautions, Ruspoli carefully filmed and photographed Lascaux. Here, complete with discussions of the content and meaning of the frescoes by Ruspoli and other experts in prehistoric art, is the thrilling result: the last view of the Stone Age life and world of Lascaux.".