‎Tour, The Vertical Element Christian Philipp M ller‎

‎, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, 2009 SC / 160 pages / 24,5 x 16,5 cm. Texte en Francais. ISBN 9789076979809.‎

‎Project book documenting the different stages of Christian Phillip M ller's commissioned art piece.‎

‎geschiedenis van het athe sme in Belgi ‎

‎Gent, SKRIBIS, 2021 Softcover, 252 pagina's, 24 x 16 cm. Nederlandstalig. Goede conditie. ISBN 9789463969833.‎

‎Onder de Belgen die zich in recente internationale opiniepeilingen uitlaten over hun religieuze overtuiging of het ontbreken daarvan, beschouwen aanzienlijke percentages van de respondenten zichzelf als athe st. Tot hiertoe bestond er nochtans geen algemene studie in Belgi over de rol van het athe sme in de intellectuele, politieke en culturele geschiedenis van het land. Dit boek is het resultaat van een samenwerking tussen Liberas vzw en de Association Belge des Ath es. Met de steun van de Vlaamse en de Franse Gemeenschap en koepelorganisaties van de vrijzinnige beweging bundelden beide organisaties hun krachten om het athe sme in heel Belgi tijdens de negentiende en twintigste eeuw op een toegankelijke en wetenschappelijke wijze te belichten. Dit volume behandelt de ontkenning van het bestaan van God niet enkel vanuit een filosofisch oogpunt. Er wordt gekeken naar debatten tussen wetenschappers binnen en buiten de muren van de universiteit, en naar het athe sme in vrijzinnige en politieke kringen. Ook athe sme in de kunsten en de letteren krijgt de nodige aandacht. Het athe sme wordt in deze milieus bestudeerd als een sociaal fenomeen dat veel weerstand opriep. Heel wat vooraanstaande wetenschappers, denkers, schrijvers en kunstenaars, van F licien Rops tot Leo Apostel, spelen een rol in deze geschiedenis en komen aan bod in het werk. De auteurs van de bijdragen zijn specialisten verbonden aan universiteiten en erfgoedinstellingen. De Franstalige versie van het boek is een uitgave van de Association Belge des Ath es. Introductie door Patrice Dartevelle en Christoph De Spiegeleer, met bijdragen van Christine B chet, Fran ois Belot, Patrice Dartevelle, Raf De Bont, Gita Deneckere, Christoph De Spiegeleer, Michel Draguet, Willem Elias, Jacques Gillen, Pierre Gillis, Anne Morelli, Caroline S gesser, Anne Staquet, Jeffrey Tyssens, Alain Vannieuwenburg en Niels De Nutte, en Hans van Stralen.‎

‎LES PASSAGES COUVERTS EN EUROPE‎

‎2003 / 232 pages. Relié avec jaquette. Editions du Mécène.‎

‎Très bel état malgré d'infimes frottements d'usage en coin.‎

‎LES CHÂTEAUX NORMANDS‎

‎OUEST FRANCE. 1981. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 78 pages. Premier plat illustré en couleurs. Nombreuses photos couleurs dans le texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 720-Architecture‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 720-Architecture‎

‎Jean Nouvel‎

‎Paris Electa 1987 Petit In4 carré - broché - 174 pages - très nombreuses illustrations ‎

4 Images

‎Très bon ‎

‎LE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART : Art Europeen‎

‎, RMN, 2006 Broches, 126 pages, Francais, Illustrations. ISBN 9782711851362.‎

‎Art Deco bronnenboek. Een visuele gids voor de periode van 1920 tot 1940.‎

‎Houten, Gaade, 1988 Hardcover met stofomslag, 192pp., 26x26cm., talrijke afbeeldingen in kleur, goede staat. ISBN 9060179412.‎

‎Discoveries of Manuscripts from Late Antiquity. Their Impact on Patristic Studies and the Contemporary World (Conference Proceedings 2nd International Conference on Patristic Studies)‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 424 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:2 b/w, Language(s):English, Spanish. ISBN 9782503591490.‎

‎Summary This book offers an anthology from the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Patristic Studies, ?The Discoveries of Manuscripts from Late Antiquity: Their Impact on Patristic Studies and the Contemporary World?, which took place in San Juan, Argentina, in March 2017. The aim of this event was to analyze and assess 20th- and 21st-century discoveries of manuscripts from Late Antiquity. Indeed, complete libraries of manuscripts, as well as individual documents of great importance for our understanding of historical authors and situations, have come to light after having been buried for millennia. Just some examples are the incredible discoveries of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic library, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Origen of Alexandria's homilies, and Augustine's sermons, among others. Rather than being passive documents, these manuscripts pose numerous questions to specialists from a diverse array of fields, demanding new evaluations of a past that was already thought to be understood and judged. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: The Discovery of Manuscripts from Late Antiquity: An Open Debate in Patristic Studies and in Contemporary Times (Patricia Ciner) Chapter 1. The Discovery of the Manuscripts of Qumran and the Apocryphal Literature: Their Impact on Patristic Studies Brief Introduction to the Topic (Magdalena D az-Araujo) Manuscripts of Christian Apocrypha: The Texts and their Use (Alberto D'Anna) The Mystery of Melchizedek in Early Christianity in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Adolfo D. Roitman) Health and Disease in Qumran Texts and Jewish Apocryphal Literature (Juan Carlos Alby) Chapter 2. The Discovery of Origen's Manuscripts and those of the Alexandrian Tradition: Their Impact on Patristic Studies Brief Introduction to the Topic (Anders-Christian Jacobsen) Origen's Renaissance in the Twentieth Century and the Recovery of his Literary Heritage: New Finds and Philological Advancement (Lorenzo Perrone) Self-knowledge and Dispersion in the Alexandrian Tradition (Rub n Peret Rivas) Chapter 3. The Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic Library: Its Impact on Patristic Studies Brief Introduction to the Topic (Mariano Troiano) Corpus Gnosticum. Noticias y fuentes sobre los Gn sticos incluida la Biblioteca de nag hammadi y otros hallazgos anteriores menos conocidos (Francisco Garc a Baz n) What Difference Does the Gospel of Judas Make? (David Brakke) Magic and Theology. Barbaric Utterances in the Pistis Sophia and their Different Levels of Interpretation (Mariano Troiano) Chapter 4. The Discovery of Coptic and Syriac Manuscripts: Their Impact on Patristic Studies Brief Introduction to the Topic (Patricia Ciner) The Discovery of Coptic Manuscripts and the Development of Patristic Studies: Methodological and Epistemological Issues and the Challenge of Some New Research Projects (Alberto Camplani) Recovering Late-Antique Christian Identities: The Ongoing Discovery and Rediscovery of Syriac Manuscripts, their Diversity, and Limitations (Luise Marion Frenkel) Chapter 5. The Discovery of Collections of Letters from the Patristic Era: Its Impact on Western History Brief Introduction to the Topic (Patricia Ciner) The Vision of God and Augustine's De uidendo deo liber unus (= ep. 147) (Oscar Vel squez) Pope Leo I's Letters on ?The Manichean Perversity? (Bronwen Neil) Chapter 6. Manuscripts from Late Antiquity and from the Patristic Period: Their Discovery, Conservation and Digital Publication Brief Introduction to the Topic (Patricia Ciner) Writing Materials of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Ira Rabin) La ?vocaci n patr stica? de la Biblioteca Vaticana (Cesare Pasini) The Impact of Recent Archaeological, Historical and Literary Discoveries for the Study of Patristics (Angelo Di Berardino) Chapter 7. The Discovery of Manuscripts from Late Antiquity and its Impact on the Contemporary World Brief Introduction to the Topic (Patricia Ciner) Papyri, Parchments, and Ostraca and the Study of Ancient Christianity Today (Theodore De Bruyn) The Impact of the Rediscovery of Manuscripts on Theology and Religious Culture after the Second World War (Marco Rizzi)‎

‎onverwachte antwoord‎

‎Maastricht, J.M. Meulenhoff, 2007 Paperback, 285 pagina's, 20 x 12.5 cm, Nederlands.*PRIMA ISBN 9789029079112.‎

‎Het onverwachte antwoord‎

‎L'ABBAYE ROYALE DE FONTEVRAUD AU XVIIe ET XVIIIe SIECLES.‎

‎HERAULT EDITIONS. 1986. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 257 pages. Premier plat illustré en couleurs. Couverture rempliée. Quelques photos noir et blanc, hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 720-Architecture‎

‎Préface de Jean de Viguerie. Classification Dewey : 720-Architecture‎

‎Lest She Pollute the Sanctuary'. The Influence of the Protevangelium Iacobi on Women's Status in Christianity‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, x + 243 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 b/w, 1 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503590363.‎

‎Summary This work explores a second-century text, the Protevangelium Iacobi, and, by examining current scholarship on the subject, assesses the way it has influenced the Christian perception of women and the ordering of their lives through the centuries down to the present day. It demonstrates how Mary, as she is presented in this text with extreme and unreal emphasis on her purity, has been held up as an unattainable model for all Christian women and takes as a case study the lives of contemplative women in the Roman Catholic church, showing how the image of Mary impossibly secluded in the temple has been partly responsible for their enclosure. By exploring the way female biological processes have been allowed to intrude on the sacred, tracing this influence from the Old Testament, through this text and its connection with Mary to the present day, it argues that this has been a significant factor in the denial of presbyteral ordination to women in some Christian churches. One of the original features of this work is the tracing of art work depicting scenes from the text across the Christian world, thus demonstrating the breadth of its influence, right down to New Age writings today. TABLE OF CONTENTS Part I: Questions of Influence Chapter 1: Prolegomena: Locating ourselves and our Questions and the Protevangelium Jacobi: 'Joachim searched the records of the twelve tribes of Israel' Chapter 2: Introducing the Protevangelium Jacobi: authorship, genre, provenance, dating, sources, purpose: 'All the while, I was glorifying God who gave me the wisdom to write this history.' Part II: Aspects of Influence Chapter 3: The Influence of the Protevangelium on Mariology and Asceticism: 'A virgin has given birth!' Chapter 4: The Influence of the Protevangelium on the Concept of [Woman in the] Sacred Space: 'her heart will never be led away from the temple of the Lord' Chapter 5: The Influence of the Protevangelium on Concepts of Ritual Purity: 'lest she defile the sanctuary of the Lord' Part III: Means of Influence Chapter 6: The Influence of the Protevangelium on the Sanctoral Cycle of the Church's Liturgy: 'thou shall not walk on this earth until I bring thee into the Temple of the Lord'. Chapter 7: The Influence of the Protevangelium on the Artistic and Iconographic Tradition: 'he set her down on the third step of the altar and she danced with her feet?' Conclusion: Consequences of Influence: Chapter 8: The Influence of the Protevangelium Jacobi on the lives of women: 'Anna, you will conceive and give birth, and your child will be talked about all over the world.' Appendix I: The Influence of the Protevangelium on the Cult of Mary in the martyrological tradition: 'and the Lord God poured grace upon her?and every house in Israel loved her.' Appendix II: The Influence of the Protevangelium on the Popular Cult of Mary: 'your child will be talked about all over the world.'‎

‎ARCHITECTUUR VAN BELGISCHE HOSPITALEN, Architectuur van Belgische Hospitalen.‎

‎Brussel, Monumenten en Landschappen, 2005 softcover , geillustreerde kartonomslag in kleur met flappen, 205 x 295mm., 256pp., colour illustration throughout. ISBN 904030209x.‎

‎M&L Cahier 10. With English summary. In goede staat.‎

‎Grondstof, stof tot nadenken. Metaal.‎

‎, Stichting Kunstboek, 2001 Softcover met flappen, 95pp., 17x24cm., ills. in kleur. goede staat. ISBN 9789058560360.‎

‎Ter gelegenheid van de Open Monumentendag Vlaanderen. Deze publicatie brengt het verhaal van hoe de verschillende metaalsoorten in ons roerend en onroerend erfgoed werden gebruikt; ijzer, lood, tin, koper, diverse legeringen en natuurlijk ook edele metalen als zilver en goud komen daarbij aan bod. In Grondstof, stof tot nadenken - Metaal krijgt de lezer een unieke kans om op een aangename en genuanceerde manier kennis te maken met de verborgen metaalschat van het Vlaamse erfgoed.‎

‎Gestoorde Vorsten Rois Perturbes Disturbed Monarchs NL/ENG/D/FR, ‎

‎, Museum Dr. Guislain 1999, 1999 Softcover, 285 pagina's/seiten/pages, NL/ENG/D/FR, 295 x 240 mm, in good condition, illustraties in colour en b/w,. ISBN 9789076745015.‎

‎ Geschiedenis van de Psychiatrie‎

‎Archi de terre‎

‎Parenthèses (éditions) 1978 Broché - Couverture glacée photo éditeur - 104 pages Bon état Couverture coins légèrement frottées 312 g‎

‎Fernand Toussaint: 1873-1956 ‎

‎, Berko art, 1986 Hardcover with dusjacket. 108 Pages, Format 29X25cm. Illustrated. Text: French - English./ **NEUF/ New ISBN 9789070481940.‎

‎Fernand Toussaint: 1873-1956 The book in the series is devoted to a Belgian artist whose work fully captures the wordly chan of the beyday of the Belle Epoque. // Le livre de la s rie est consacr un artiste belge dont l'?uvre capture pleinement le chan verbal de l' poque de la Belle poque.‎

‎Rouen sous l'Occupation : 1940-1944 ‎

‎, Ed. Bertout dition , 2004 cartonnage illustre de l'editeur, 160 pages Illustrated. bon etat. ISBN 9782867435478.‎

‎Red couvrez P.P. Rubens Anvers : guide de promenade‎

‎, Stedelijk Ontwikkelingsbedrijf/Toerisme Antwerpen, 2004 Softcover, 144 pages, Texte en Francais / Tres belle exemplaire, 210 x 150 mm, illustr. en couleur, . ISBN 9789076704784.‎

‎Bokrijk Landelijke architectuur in beweging.‎

‎, Hannibal Books, 2024 Hardcover, 296 pagina's, met prachtige illustraties, 27c29cm, Nederlandstalige editie. ISBN 9789464941098.‎

‎Blik op een vernieuwd Bokrijk, een architecturale heropleving van eeuwenoud vakmanschap Bokrijk is klaar voor de toekomst. Wat begon als een gedurfde visie groeide uit tot een ambitieus project: de restauratie van 124 historische gebouwen in het Openluchtmuseum. Dit boek markeert het hoogtepunt van acht intense jaren van vakmanschap en research. Fotograaf Luc Daelemans brengt het gerestaureerde Bokrijk in beeld in de iconische Becher-stijl. De gebouwen kijken recht in de lens, steeds in dezelfde tonaliteit. Van vierkantshoeve tot zwingelkot of grenssteen, alle bouwwerken en objecten worden als evenwaardige protagonisten verbeeld. Ze komen tot leven in boeiende verhalen over de gebouwen zelf, hun bewoners en de gebruikte restauratietechnieken. Dat alles dankzij nieuw onderzoek met de hulp van lokale erfgoedcommunities uit heel Vlaanderen. De meerjarige restauratiecampagne vormde een uitgelezen kans om de interne expertise en het vakmanschap aan te scherpen en te delen. Het dynamische museum Bokrijk wil zo zijn interne expertise doorgeven aan volgende generaties en zijn rol als kenniscentrum bekrachtigen. Deze publicatie viert de voltooiing van de meerjarige restauratiecampagne van de erfgoedcollectie van Bokrijk in 2024.‎

‎Am d e de la Patelli re, les clats de l'ombre - Beau Livre ‎

‎, Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2014 Couverture reliee 215 pages, Texte en Francais, Illustrations en couleurs en noir & blanc nombreuses illustrations dans et hors texte. 24x30cm bon etat. ISBN 9782353401925.‎

‎Aujourd'hui m connu, Am d e de La Patelli re (1890-1932) est une des figures marquantes de l'art fran ais de l'entre-deux guerres. Son oeuvre s' labore sur peine dix ann es. Durant cette courte p riode, il r alise plus de neuf cents tableaux et tudes et s'impose comme l'un des peintres majeurs de sa g n ration, aux c t s d'Andr Dunoyer de Segonzac, Yves Alix, Henry de Waroquier ou Andr Favory. Ces artistes sont marqu s par le r alisme qui est alors la tendance pr dominante dans l'art fran ais. Ils refusent l'acad misme et ont int gr le souci d'ordre et de construction du cubisme. Ils ne forment pas un groupe homog ne mais tous s'affirment comme des ind pendants. Dans cette floraison d'individualit s, La Patelli re occupe une place singuli re. Homme d'une profonde spiritualit , son esth tique est faite de "la coexistence d' l ments contraires - mais non contradictoires" o se m lent ainsi soucis de construction et lyrisme, onirisme et ancrage dans le r el, attachement la figure de Delacroix et attention port e Picasso et Matisse... L'objectif de La Patelli re est de "transposer la nature par des moyens plastiques pour la situer dans un plan spirituel". Refusant tout esprit de syst me, il a d velopp une oeuvre qui se laisse difficilement enfermer dans une cat gorie tant elle appara t vari e dans ses th mes, sa forme et ses ambitions. L'ouvrage Am d e de La Patelli re, Les clats de l'ombre accompagne l'exposition organis e par les mus es de Roubaix, Bergues, Nantes et Beauvais et explore l'ensemble des facettes de cette production foisonnante. Des oeuvres r alis es durant la Premi re Guerre, aux premi res r ussites ancr es dans un r alisme onirique jusqu'aux derniers tableaux, au lyrisme exacerb .‎

‎Abraham and Rol‎

‎, Norma,Editions 2017, 2017 Hardcover, 176 pages, English, 305 x 235 mm, new book, with dustjacket, . ISBN 9782915542905.‎

‎It is a rare species, but it exists, as '60s art critic Pascal Renous pointed out on the subject of artistic couples. This designer-decorator duo of Janine Abraham and Dirk-Jan Rol met at Jacques Dumond's studio in 1955. The couple shares the same love of precision, line and plain colours. Their earliest joint creations were first exhibited at the Salon des artistes decorateurs, in Paris. Their furniture, made of wicker, wood and aluminium, twice won prizes at the Salon des artistes decorateurs (a sideboard in 1956 and an armchair in 1958), garnering notice from the public and professionals alike. Jean Royere did not hesitate to use their emblematic Soleil armchair (gold medal at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair) in the decoration of the palace of the Shah of Iran, in Teheran. Their light and functional designs are available today, re-edited by Yota Design. Abraham & Rol were also interior designers and intervened in this capacity for both individual clients and large corporate clients, such as Yves Rocher and Saint-Gobain, with the same precision and sense of composition that define their furniture pieces. Finally, the couple also expressed their creativity through architecture, their mastery of this discipline enabling them to design some twenty houses from the 1960s through the 2000s in the Ile-de-France region. Their homes are genuine inhabited sculptures, of which certain have become truly emblematic.‎

‎freres Cloutier. Ceramistes et sculpteurs.‎

‎, norma editeur., 2017 hardcover with dusjacket, Couverture reliee sous jaquette,184 pages, 230 illustrations, 23 x 30.5 cm. ISBN 9782915542622.‎

‎L'oeuvre des freres Cloutier occupe une place singuliere dans la ceramique francaise de la seconde moitie du xxe siecle. Tout a la fois fascinante et deroutante, la production des jumeaux, s?appuyant sur une grande maitrise des savoir-faire, acquise notamment chez Pol Chambost ou Georges Jouve, mele depuis l?ouverture de leur atelier en 1955 necessite interieure, impertinence et humour. Tout en s?inscrivant dans le renouveau de la ceramique francaise, Jean et Robert nous emmenent dans leur terre d?election, un univers onirique en perpetuel mouvement qu?ils vont explorer tout au cours de leur ?uvre, se jouant des modes et des diktats.‎

‎James Ensor. Fragmenten en echo's Tekeningen 1873-1885 ‎

‎Antwerp, Ronny Van de Velde Gallery, 2018 Gebonden, Hardcover 175 pages, very richly illustrated with coloured illustrations. 30x22 cm.‎

‎catalogue exposition Ronny Van de Velde Gallery‎

‎Mappae mundi (VIIIe-XIIe si cle)‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 2 vols, 1237 pages, Size:230 x 315 mm, Illustrations:684 col., Language: French. ISBN 9782503597249.‎

‎Summary ?The mappae mundi exist in scores of manuscripts and much work needs to be done before secure generalizations may be based upon them?, wrote the English historian Denys Hay in 1957. This book aims to contribute to this study by describing in detail the hundreds of diagrams and more elaborate maps found in medieval (mainly Latin) manuscripts up to around 1200. Most documents have been examined directly, some having been described from microfilm or electronic reproductions. Each document, far from being considered in isolation, is described in terms of its materiality (how the drawings were made, reprints and corrections, etc.), its codicological context (place of the drawing in the economy of the codex, rubrication, etc.) and its intellectual context (illustrated texts, place of the drawing on the page and in the codex as a whole). Taking these data into account will enable specialists to define precisely the reasons that contributed to the creation of these drawings. Each entry is accompanied by a reproduction of the map in large format to allow for comparisons and more in-depth study, making this book an indispensable resource for all related research. Les mappae mundi existent dans un grand nombre de manuscrits, et beaucoup de travail doit tre accompli avant que des g n ralisations certaines puissent tre fond es sur elles , crivait l'historien anglais Denys Hay en 1957. Cet ouvrage entend contribuer ce programme en d crivant dans le d tail les centaines de diagrammes et de cartes plus d velopp es que l'on rencontre dans les manuscrits m di vaux (principalement latins) jusqu'aux environs de 1200. La plupart des t moins ont t examin s directement, certains ayant t d crits partir de microfilms ou de reproductions lectroniques. Chaque t moin, loin d' tre consid r isol ment, est d crit dans sa mat rialit (fa on dont les dessins ont t r alis s, repentirs et corrections...), dans son contexte codicologique (place du dessin dans l' conomie du codex, rubrication...) et intellectuelle (textes illustr s, place du dessin dans la page et dans l'ensemble du codex). La prise en compte de ces donn es permettra aux sp cialistes de d finir pr cis ment les raisons qui ont contribu la r alisation de ces dessins. De tr s nombreuses reproductions permettent des comparaisons et des recherches plus approfondies, faisant de l'ouvrage un instrument de travail indispensable.‎

‎Original Man : The Tautz Compendium of Less Ordinary Gentlemen ‎

‎, Die Gestalten Verlag 2014, 2014 Hardcover, 240 pages, English, 265 x 220 mm, in fine condition, . ISBN 9783899555523.‎

‎Celebrating style, individuality, and joie de vivre, this book showcases 80 original men who will inspire readers to lead a less ordinary life. Original Man is a compendium of the stories of extraordinary men. From household names including Andy Warhol, Freddie Mercury, and Yves Saint-Laurent to lesser-known personalities, the 80 men presented here are incredibly diverse, yet all share entirely original lives. Featuring famous hell-raisers such as Iggy Pop, indomitable explorers including Ernest Shackleton, visionaries like Federico Fellini, and some less mainstream personalities such as Quentin Crisp or Takeshi Kitano, these biographies are as gripping as any fiction. This book is the brainchild of UK men's fashion maven Patrick Grant. As set about re-awakening the traditional Saile Row tailoring house of E. Tautz after a thirty-year slumber, he wanted to define the kind of man he aspired to clothe. Original Man is the compelling result of his musings--a collection of portraits of men who go beyond a veneer of stylish attire to wring every last drop out of life with their actions, thoughs, or words in a manner scarcely seen nowadays. These are not the biographies of those the world considers to be the best writers, thinkers, or adventurers (though undoubtedly some arguably are). Rather, this book celebrates those that have lived lives that are genuinely different. Whether in the life of a stylist, a libertine, an artist, or a hero, originality and historical precedence trumps prowess; the manner of their endeavors is what counts, not the end result. Reflecting Grant's personal background and experiences approximately half of the book's notable men come from the UK, a quarter from the US, and most of the remainder from Western Europe. Explaining his strong British bias, Grant states ''we seem to breed original characters (or celebrate them more vocally) at a rate which belies our relatively small population.'' Because a claim to inclusion requires sustained effort, not just a brief burst of activity, few of the men featured in Original Man are young. Some, such as Malcolm X and Ayrton Senna, died young, but had a lasting impact. The book also contains a few men well known for their hedonistic lifestyles such as Ozzy Osbourne and Oliver Reed, but it does not celebrate those who simply fritter their lives away at play unless it is done with the greatest sense of style. Often their tales are rather sad ones, like that of snooker player Alex Higgins, and are included in the hope that they are as precautionary as they are laudatory. Aware that there do not seem to be many equivalents to these stories today, Grant wishes to share these portraits to inspire readers--men and women alike--to try to live more interesting and original lives themselves.‎