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ISBN: 9781841959931 - The Gift Bestseller The Gift
Lewis Hyde

ISBN10: 1841959936  ISBN13: 9781841959931
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Sep 2007
Examining the 'gift economy', this title argues defence of the place of creativity in our increasingly market-orientated society. ""The Gift" actually deserves the hyperbolic praise that in most blurbs is so empty. It is the sort of book that you... More

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ISBN: 9780374223137 - Common as Air Common as Air
Lewis Hyde

ISBN10: 0374223130  ISBN13: 9780374223137
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 25 Mar 2011
Suspicious of the idea that creative work is intellectual property, the author turns to America's Founding Fathers - men like Adams, Madison, and Jefferson - in search of other ways to imagine the fruits of human wit and imagination. More

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ISBN: 9780374532796 - Common as Air Common as Air
Lewis Hyde

ISBN10: 0374532796  ISBN13: 9780374532796
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Nov 2011
Offers a defence of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past and continue to enrich in the present. This title turns to America's Founding Fathers - men such as Adams, Madison, and Jefferson ... More

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ISBN: 9781847672254 - Trickster Makes This World Trickster Makes This World
Lewis Hyde

ISBN10: 1847672256  ISBN13: 9781847672254
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Sep 2008
Deals with tricksters who are a great bother to have around, but paradoxically they are also indispensable heroes of culture, because our world - with its complexity and ambiguity, its beauty and its dirt - was trickster's creation... More

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ISBN: 9781908526045 - Common As Air Common As Air
Lewis Hyde

ISBN10: 1908526041  ISBN13: 9781908526045
Publisher: Union Books
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2012
In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous 'I Have a Dream' speech. Thirty years later his son registered the words 'I Have a Dream' as a trademark and successfully blocked attempts to reproduce these four words. Unlike the Gettysburg... More

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ISBN: 9780472063536 - On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg
Lewis Hyde

ISBN10: 0472063537  ISBN13: 9780472063536
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 Sep 1998
Essays and reviews that trace the changes in Ginsberg's career and in his poetry From Kenneth Rexroth to the Czechoslovakian secret police, from Marianne Moore to the FBI, from Diana Trilling to Time magazine -- Allen Ginsberg's work has always... More

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ISBN: 9780914660132 - Lee Mingwei Lee Mingwei
Lewis Hyde, Jennifer R Gross, Mingwei Lee

ISBN10: 0914660136  ISBN13: 9780914660132
Publisher: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2000
A contemporary artist uses ordinary human interactions to create thought-provoking art. Preface by Anne Hawley Introduction and Acknowledgments by Lee Mingwei Osmosis by Jennifer R. Gross 1 Isabella's Will by Lewis Hyde 15 Plates 23 Lee... More

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ISBN: 9781841958330 - The Gift The Gift
Lewis Hyde

ISBN10: 1841958336  ISBN13: 9781841958330
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 02 Nov 2006
First published in America in 1979, this work examines the 'gift economy'. First published in America in 1979, "The Gift" is a modern classic which remarkably has never before been published in Britain. This inspiring examination of the 'gift... More

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ISBN: 9780394715193 - The Gift The Gift
Lewis Hyde

ISBN10: 0394715195  ISBN13: 9780394715193
Publisher: Random House USA Inc Vintage Books
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 09 Aug 1988
Discusses the argument that a work of art is essentially a gift and not a commodity. More

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ISBN: 9780099273226 - The Gift The Gift
Lewis Hyde

ISBN10: 0099273225  ISBN13: 9780099273226
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: Reissue
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Mar 1999
Inquires into the place of creativity in our market-orientated society. Starting with the premise that art is a gift and not a commmodity, this book ranges across anthropology, literature, economics and psychology, showing how the "commerce of the... More