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Stephan Loewentheil (born 1950) is an American antiquarian and a rare book and photograph collector. He is the founder and president of the 19th Century Rare Book and Photograph Shop, located in New York, New York and Baltimore, Maryland. Over a career spanning four decades, Loewentheil "has excelled … in unearthing obscure bibliographic ...
Hans Peter Kraus (October 12, 1907 – November 1, 1988), also known as H. P. Kraus or HPK, was an Austrian-born American book dealer described as "without doubt the most successful and dominant rare book dealer in the world in the second half of the 20th century" [1] and in a league with other rare book dealers such as Bernard Quaritch, Guillaume de Bure and A.S.W. Rosenbach.
Postmodernity and Its Discontents is a book written by Zygmunt Bauman, published in 1997. It is considered a landmark in Bauman's studies on postmodernism . [ 1 ] (subscription required) [ 2 ] (subscription required) The title references Sigmund Freud 's 1930 book Civilization and Its Discontents .
Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds is a 2003 book by Zygmunt Bauman which discusses human relations in liquid modern (post-modern) world. The book is part of series of books written by Bauman, such as Liquid Life and Liquid Times .
Zygmunt Bauman (/ ˈ b aʊ m ə n /; Polish:; 19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish–British sociologist and philosopher. [1] He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship.
In 2006 the "Rare Book Room" website was created which contains the complete collection in medium to medium-high resolution freely available to the public through a web browser or as a PDF file. Some high resolution versions are still being sold by Octavo through a separate website. As of 2007 over 400 books have been scanned. [1]