John Collier

John Collier's edgy, sardonic tales are works of rare wit, curious insight, and scary implication. They stand out as one of the pinnacles in the critically neglected but perennially popular tradition of weird writing that includes E.T.A. Hoffmann and Charles Dickens as well as more recent masters like Jorge Luis Borges and Roald Dahl. With a cast of characters that ranges from man-eating flora to disgruntled devils and suburban salarymen (not that it's always easy to tell one from another), Collier's dazzling stories explore the implacable logic of lunacy, revealing a surreal landscape whose unstable surface is depth-charged with surprise.

Fancies and Goodnights

Malcolm Collier

This book provides reliable research methods from the systematic gathering of data through analysis of photographic records to transfer of insights to ethnographic records, with an emphasis on developing the skills of thorough observation rather than on technical skill.

Photography as a Research Method

Visual Anthropology

The Chaser

Mannen i svart

Fiesta en una botella

Hardcover reprint of the original 1905 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9". No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Collier, John. The Art Of Portrait Painting. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Collier, John. The Art Of Portrait Painting, . London, New York, Cassell, 1905. Subject: Portrait Painting

The Art of Portrait Painting

Pictures in the Fire

Includes the novel His monkey wife and short stories.

The John Collier Reader

Playful and wickedly mischievous, John Collier's short stories will reappear in your memory to make you smile or laugh or sigh long after the title and author are forgotten. A wonderful collection of all John Collier's brilliantly structured and perfectly crafted tales not found in Fancies and Goodnights.

Fancies and Goodnights Vol 2

An offbeat classic about a strange and hilarious love triangle.

His Monkey Wife

The Mud the Beer and the Rugby

Dialect of south Lancashire, or Tim Bobbin's Tummus and Meary, revised and corrected, with his rhymes, and an enlarged glossary, by S. Bamford

Pippa Rogerson

Updated and refreshed version of this classic text for a new generation of students.

Collier's Conflict of Laws

The miscellaneous works of Tim Bobbin. [2 pt. The 2nd pt. is entitled] The battle of the flying dragon and the man of Heaton. [Followed by] Plebeian politics, by Tim Bobbin, the second

James Ladyman

Don Ross

David Spurrett

Every Thing Must Go argues that the only kind of metaphysics that can contribute to objective knowledge is one based specifically on contemporary science as it really is, and not on philosophers' a priori intuitions, common sense, or simplifications of science. In addition to showing how recent metaphysics has drifted away from connection with all other serious scholarly inquiry as a result of not heeding this restriction, they demonstrate how to build a metaphysics compatible with current fundamental physics ('ontic structural realism'), which, when combined with their metaphysics of the special sciences ('rainforest realism'), can be used to unify physics with the other sciences without reducing these sciences to physics itself. Taking science metaphysically seriously, Ladyman and Ross argue, means that metaphysicians must abandon the picture of the world as composed of self-subsistent individual objects, and the paradigm of causation as the collision of such objects. Every Thing Must Go also assesses the role of information theory and complex systems theory in attempts to explain the relationship between the special sciences and physics, treading a middle road between the grand synthesis of thermodynamics and information, and eliminativism about information. The consequences of the author's metaphysical theory for central issues in the philosophy of science are explored, including the implications for the realism vs. empiricism debate, the role of causation in scientific explanations, the nature of causation and laws, the status of abstract and virtual objects, and the objective reality of natural kinds.

Metaphysics Naturalized

Every Thing Must Go

This collection of John Collier short stories won the International Fantasy Award in 1951. His fantastic ability to mix satire with thought provoking 'what ifs' is clearly seen in this compilation of thirty-two short stories.

Fancies and Goodnights Vol 1

Frances Hubbard Flaherty

This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.

Elephant Dance

The passions, humourously delineated. By Timothy Bobbin. Containing: 25 plates, and poetical descriptions

To which is added a Rendering into Simple English of the Dialogue of Tummus and Meary, with the Idioms and Similes retained, and Explanatory Notes, etc. By Elijah Ridings

John Collier

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