First Edition. One of a series of groundbreaking Chicano Movement children's picture books, written and illustrated by some of the most important Chicano activist writers and artists. The author was Alurista, the main illustrator was one of the original activist-artists of Chicano Park in San Diego, Victor Orozco Ochoa. The.....

First Edition. One of a series of groundbreaking Chicano Movement children's picture books, written and illustrated by some of the most important Chicano activist writers and artists. The author was Alurista, the main illustrator was one of the original activist-artists of Chicano Park in San Diego, Victor Orozco Ochoa. The.....

First Edition. The text of a lecture issued as Vortragsreihe "Panta rhei" der Hans Erni-Stiftung, 3. Arber won a Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of restriction endonucleases. 52 pages. First edition. A fine copy in silver boards (hardcover). This copy is inscribed to the future Nobel Prize winner.....

First Edition. A short monograph whose title translates roughly to Bitter Tears (Criminal Abortion and the Law). Becerro de Bengoa, a physician, advocates reforming the Uruguayan abortion law. In this book, he is generally sympathetic to pregnant women seeking abortions and proposes fining women for having abortions, rather than giving.....

A full standing portrait of the second Chinese woman to study medicine in the United States; she went on to be one of the first Western trained physicians in China. This albumen print on a thin photographer's mount dates from Hü King Eng's four years as an undergraduate at Ohio.....

First Edition. A "loose leaf book", issued in a paper clamshell box with original examples of continental European printing, each laid into a paper folder with a brief printed description on the front. An introductory leaf of text by the editor is laid into the box as well. The contents.....

First Edition. A "loose leaf book", issued in a paper clamshell box with original examples of printed book illustrations, each laid into a paper folder with a brief printed description on the front. An introductory leaf of text by the editor is laid into the box as well. The contents.....

First Edition. A World War One book that simultaneously recruits women to work in the British munitions industry and explains their presence to a public skeptical of the appropriateness of women working in factories. The author, a successful novelist, argues that women shouldn't be given just two choices when it.....

First Edition. A curious and idiosyncratic attempt to translate concepts like beauty and reason into mathematics. A few years ago, images from a digitized version of this book made the rounds on the Internet, even landing on the website of Smithsonian Magazine ("These Geometrical Shapes Are Diagrams of Human Consciousness".....

First Edition. The second of four volumes seeking to define "a new Blackness, real and strong as our history, pushing consciousness toward a new place" through photography (quoted from the first volume). At the time Joe Crawford started this series, African American photographers had been almost completely left out of.....

A poster for the most notorious art show in history, the Entartete Kunst Ausstellung (Degenerate Art Exhibition) organized by Joseph Goebbels in 1937 as a public denunciation of modern art by the Nazis. After an opening exhibition in Munich, the show toured Germany. This poster is for the Chemnitz showing.....