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1	Ways of Seeing more books like this by John Berger WAYS OF SEEING (1972), one of John Berger's best known works, began as a series of BBC programs. Both TV shows and book attempt to popularize some of Berger's very anti-establishment ideas about art, particularly his proto-feminist way of looking at the nude, his appreciation of photography and other mechanically reproduced art, and his ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	About Looking more books like this by John Berger John Berger writes eloquently about the role of the viewer in looking at works of art--or indeed at anything. His ruminations take him not only to museums but to zoos and photography archives. Berger, who began his career as a painter, won sometimes controversial acclaim as an art critic during his 10-year stint at the New Statesman, where he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.80! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Another Way of Telling more books like this by John Berger, Jean Mohr Novelist and art critic John Berger examines the power of photographs in this volume of work by Swiss photographer Jean Mohr, who also adds his own thoughts. The photographs--mainly delineating the daily life of a French peasant woman--raise questions about the relationship between the photographer and his subject. see all copies from $2.95! new only from $12.00! \| first editions
4	Success and failure of Picasso more books like this by John Berger Novelist, painter, and art critic John Berger presents a controversial view of Picasso, seeing the artist as an often less than compelling artist whose career reached its peak during his Cubist period, approximately 1907 to 1914. Berger appreciates Picasso's strengths while never hesitating to point out his weaknesses as well, and he situates ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| first editions \| SVS
5	A Woman's Decision: Breast Care, Treatment, and Reconstruction more books like this by Karen J Berger Fully updated, with the most recent research and new diagnostic treatments, this acclaimed reference offers readers the latest information on breast cancer, treatment and reconstruction. "A Woman's Decision" covers every aspect of breast cancer--from selecting a physician, to treatment, to how breast cancer affects relationships to finding support ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	G more books like this by John Berger John Berger's 1972 erotic novel tells the story of an adventurous young man, his tumultuous life, and especially his many-faceted romantic adventures, in the midst of the chaos of early 20th-century Italy. B won the Booker Prize for this novel, and stirred up controversy when he used his acceptance speech to denounce the Booker organization for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Pig Earth more books like this by John Berger John Berger, who has lived since 1974 in a small peasant community in the French Alps, sets PIG EARTH--the first volume of a trilogy about peasant life--in that location. In this collection of individual stories, which often read like folktales, Berger writes passionately in favor of the value of the slower, smaller, land-oriented peasant way of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Once in Europa more books like this by John Berger These linked stories set in a small village in the Alps--a village very much like the one John Berger moved to in 1974, where he writes and farms--comprise the second volume in his Into Their Labours trilogy about peasant life. Berger's theme is the inevitability of the distruction of the peasant's traditional ways as they fall victim of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.40! \| first editions \| SVS
9	To the Wedding more books like this by John Berger With a sensuous eye and a profound sense of history, John Berger tells the story of a wedding that could take place only at the end of the 20th century, in a Europe where desire crosses borders with a smuggler's cunning and a refugee's despair. Gino and Ninon are getting married. They are making a claim on a future they may never have. As Berger ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series more books like this by John Berger WAYS OF SEEING (1972), one of John Berger's best known works, began as a series of BBC programs. Both TV shows and book attempt to popularize some of Berger's very anti-establishment ideas about art, particularly his proto-feminist way of looking at the nude, his appreciation of photography and other mechanically reproduced art, and his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $66.62!
11	And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos more books like this by John Berger In this collection of lyrical brief prose pieces, novelist and critic John Berger explores love and loss, the relationship of love to absence, and the way these things have been dealt with, historically, in poetry and in art. see all copies from $4.09! new only from $7.59! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Shape of a Pocket more books like this by John Berger This volume of 24 essays--a decade's worth--by novelist and art critic John Berger includes his thoughts on various artists (Degas, Kahlo, Brancusi), rural living, and his own aging. The pocket referred to is "a small pocket of resistance," directed at, among other things, globalization and the destructive effect it is having on the world. Berger ... see all copies from $5.50! new only from $8.80! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	A fortunate man; the story of a country doctor more books like this by John Berger, Jean Mohr First published 30 years ago, this book examines the relationship between a country doctor and his community. Writer John Berger and photographer Jean Mohr accompany the doctor as he makes his rounds in an English village, raising fundamental questions about the value society assigns to human life. see all copies from $3.07! new only from $8.77! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	A Painter of Our Time more books like this by John Berger In John Berger's novel--his first--Janos Lavin, an expatriate Hungarian painter in London, disappears after his wildly successful one-man show. From the diaries Janos left behind, an English friend tries to find out why. What he discovers--which centers on the 1956 uprising in Budapest--has as much to do with the conflict between art and politics ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.60! \| signed copies \| first editions
15	Restoring the Earth more books like this by John J Berger see all copies from $1.99! new only from $65.42! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Sense of Sight more books like this by John Berger This collection of John Berger's essays introduces some of the themes that would become his perennial preoccupations--Cubism, photography, the conflation of politics and art--topics he will explore at greater length in his influential WAYS OF SEEING (1972). The essays in THE SENSE OF SIGHT date from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.40! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Charging Ahead more books like this by John Berger In this book, the author uncovers the truth about government and industry involvement in renewable energy research and development, revealing the high-stakes challenges confronted by today's energy pioneers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.46! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Here Is Where We Meet more books like this by John Berger This unclassifiable book--part memoir, part essay, part novel--from English expatriate writer John Berger crosses the European continent to provide settings for a series of episodes, many of which are centered on people who have died. From an afternoon in Lisbon spent with his long-dead mother, to an interlude by the Szum river in Poland with an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Keeping a rendezvous more books like this by John Berger In this powerful volume of essays, one of the most important art critics of our time reawakens us to the wonder and minifold meanings of the visual world as he restores the connections between art and the moral imagination. "Berger's mind travels the globe, and its range is astonishing . . . unfailingly interesting".--New York Times Book Review. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Corker's Freedom more books like this by John Berger Berger's 1963 novel takes place on one day in April, 1960. The elderly Corker, who runs a South London employment agency, has just freed himself from his invalid sister and moved out of her house. In the course of the day, he discovers, mysteriously, the secret of happiness and communicates it in the course of a travel lecture he gives at his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
21 view cover	King: A Street Story more books like this by John Berger A homeless couple and their dog, King, are the focus of Berger's dreamlike novel about displacement and loyalty. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.92! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance more books like this by John Berger From one of the most widely admired, articulate, and impassioned writers of the modern era comes this powerful collection of essays that holds a starkly reflective mirror up to the post-9/11 world. see all copies from $12.00! new only from $13.01! \| SVS
23	A Fortunate Man more books like this by John Berger, Jean Mohr First published 30 years ago, this book examines the relationship between a country doctor and his community. Writer John Berger and photographer Jean Mohr accompany the doctor as he makes his rounds in an English village, raising fundamental questions about the value society assigns to human life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $61.64! \| first editions
24	All about upholstering more books like this by John. [from old catalog] Bergen see all copies from $1.99! first editions
25 view cover	Photocopies: Stories more books like this by John Berger Twenty-nine small stories that represent brief moments of memory, vision, melancholy, and art, from the Booker Prize-winning author of "Ways of Seeing" and "G". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.83! \| first editions

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