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The Canfield Decision; A Novel

The Canfield Decision; A Novel by Agnew, Spiro T.

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Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
Title
The Canfield Decision; A Novel
Author
Agnew, Spiro T.
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The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
ISBN
9780872234529
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Very good
Description
Chicago: The Playboy Press, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good/very good. First edition of The Canfield Decision, a novel, inscribed by former Vice President Spiro Agnew to New York Times reporter, Albin Krebs.. Octavo, 344pp. Blue hardcover, cloth spine, title in gilt on spine, gilt illustration on front board. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Light sunning to boards, solid text block. In the publisher's dust jacket, near fine, light wear at edges, bright illustrations and retail price on front flap. Inscribed by former Vice President Spiro Agnew on the front free endpaper: "With best wishes to Albin Krebs. Spiro T. Agnew." Spiro Agnew (1918-1996) served as Vice President of the United States from 1969 until 1973, when he was forced from public office for accepting kickbacks from contractors. The scheme began when Agnew was the Baltimore County Executive, continued when he became the Governor of Maryland in 1966, and escalated when he became Vice President in 1968. The scheme fell apart in early 1972 when United States Attorney George Beall opened an investigation into corruption in Baltimore County, with whispers that Agnew may be involved. The story went public in 1973, with Agnew quickly losing support within the Nixon administration and ultimately resigning on October 10th.
The Physiology of Common Life

The Physiology of Common Life by Lewes, George Henry

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Title
The Physiology of Common Life
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Lewes, George Henry
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New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1867. First American edition (later printing). 1867 ILLUSTRATED HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY FOR THE LAYPERSON BY TALENTED SELF-TAUGHT PHILOSOPHER-SCIENTIST AND ROMANTIC PARTNER OF GEORGE ELIOT (MARY ANN EVANS). Two hardcover volumes, 7 ½ inches tall, pebbled salmon cloth binding, blindstamped rules, gilt title to spines, each volume signed in pencil, "CW Gaylord 3/1872". Vol. I: xii, 368 pp, 4 pp publisher's ads; Vol. II: 410 pp, 10 pp publisher's ads. Wood engravings. Sunning to spines, small tear in fore edge of front free endpaper and a few marginal penciled notes in Vol. I; bindings tight, pages crisp and clean, very good minus in custom archival mylar covers. CONTENTS: HUNGER AND THIRST, FOOD AND DRINK, DIGESTION AND INDIGESTION, THE STRUCTURE AND USES OF OUR BLOOD, CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD; ITS HISTORY, COURSE, AND CAUSES, RESPIRATION AND SUFFOCATION, WHY WE ARE WARM, AND HOW WE KEEP SO, FEELING AND THINKING, THE MIND AND THE BRAIN, OUR SENSES AND SENSATIONS, SLEEP AND DREAMS, THE QUALITIES WE INHERIT FROM OUR PARENTS, LIFE AND DEATH. GEORGE HENRY LEWES (1817 -1878) was an English philosopher and critic of literature and theatre. He was also an amateur physiologist. He became part of the mid-Victorian ferment of ideas which encouraged discussion of Darwinism, positivism, and religious skepticism. However, he is perhaps best known today for having openly lived with Mary Ann Evans, who wrote under the pen name George Eliot, as soulmates whose lives and writings were enriched by their relationship, though they never married each other. Having abandoned successively a commercial and a medical career, he seriously thought of becoming an actor and appeared several times on stage between 1841 and 1850. Finally he devoted himself to literature, science and philosophy. Lewes undertook studies on nutrition and physiology; he explored the question whether sugar was injurious to teeth. He conducted experiments on the reflexes and the nervous system of living animals, especially frogs, using ether and chloroform out of consideration for their pain. From about 1853 Lewes's writings show that he was occupying himself with scientific and more particularly biological work. He always showed a distinctly scientific bent in his writings, though he had not had technical training. More than popular expositions of accepted scientific truths, they contain able criticisms of conventionally accepted ideas and embody the results of individual research and individual reflection. He made several suggestions, some of which have since been accepted by physiologists, of which the most valuable is that now known as the doctrine of the functional indifference of the nerves - that what were known as the specific energies of the optic, auditory and other nerves are simply differences in their mode of action due to the differences of the peripheral structures or sense-organs with which they are connected.

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