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02787cam a2200373 a 4500 |
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25282181 |
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OCoLC |
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20220107164522.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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920122s1992 nyu b 000 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
92003782 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0151294763 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780151294763 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)25282181 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Modifying agency |
BAKER |
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BTCTA |
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YDXCP |
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HALAN |
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TULIB |
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OCLCO |
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ASC |
| 041 1# - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| Language code of original and/or intermediate translations of text |
dut |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
CT9990 |
| Item number |
.D8613 1992 |
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| Classification number |
CT9990 |
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.D8613 1992 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Dunning, A. J. |
| 240 10 - UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
<a href="Uitersten.">Uitersten.</a> |
| Language of a work |
English. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Extremes : |
| Remainder of title |
reflections on human behavior / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
A.J. Dunning ; translated from the Dutch by Johan Theron. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1st U.S. ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
c1992. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
ix, 207 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Translation of: Uitersten. |
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| General note |
"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book." |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-207). |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Extremes: A Mirror -- Extremes of the Heart. The Burning Heart. Heart Transplants. The Neurotic Heart. Soldier's Heart -- Extremes of Men and Knives. The Perfect Crime. The Anatomy Lesson. Eternal Youth. "Viva il Coltello" -- Extremes of Faith. Parthenogenesis. Heretics. Anorexia Religiosa -- Extremes of the Senses. A Taste for Cabin Boys. In the Land of the Blind. False Paradises. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Dutch cardiologist A. J. Dunning brings a wry wit and an impressive knowledge of art, literature, and religion to his essays on the sublime and the monstrous in society. He writes of Joan of Arc and Gilles de Rais, who were brought together in the service of their king and eventually burnt at the stake: one is a martyr, one as a pederast mass murderer. He compares a seventeenth-century nun's veneration of the heart with that of the first surgeons who performed heart transplants. He gives the clinical facts behind Gustav Mahler's fatal sore throat, Sigmund Freud's cocaine addiction, and Charlotte Corday's assassination of Marat in his bath. He tells of the practice in England of body-snatching for science, and of the practice in Italy of castrating young boys for music. He discusses parthenogenesis, the use of hormones in the search for eternal youth, and mystifying fatigue syndromes in different countries and generations. The invention of Braille. The satanic verse of Baudelaire. The atrocious eating habits of medieval saints and modern teenage girls. Informative, entertaining, preposterous tales - all documented, all true - of how unnatural human nature can be. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Eccentrics and eccentricities. |
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Characters and characteristics. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Human behavior. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
669 |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://archive.org/details/extremesreflecti00dunn">https://archive.org/details/extremesreflecti00dunn</a> |
| Public note |
Free eBook from Open Library |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |
