Search Results: Authors starting with D from House of Our Own Books

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 1988. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book examines the basic philosophical and methodological ideas which underlie Chomsky's theory of human linguistic competence, ideas which are increasingly influential in cognitive and perceptual psychology as well as linguistics, and which provide the basis for a distinctive vision of the human condition (green cover with white lettering, slightly rubbed, spine sunned, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press, 1997. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This guide to public health research begins with a historical survey of public health methods and traces their evolution; the following chapters discuss individual research methods, including a review of relevant studies, their advantages and disadvantages, practical principles, and ethical issues (black pictorial cover has slight shelf wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight, completely unmarked copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment)

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Trade Paperback. As New. This volume brings together leading experts to examine the lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina about better assessing, percieving, and managing risks from future disasters

Somerville, MA, U.S.A.: Cascadilla Press, 2011. Paperback. As New. This two-volume set incldes 55 papers presented or selected as alternates at the 2010 conference; these are bright, clean, tight copies in perfect condition

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Assouline, 2005. Paperback. Near Fine. This book, containing 228 photographs, is derived from a series of exhibitions at the Danziger Gallery in New York City that provided an exploration, celebration, and discovery of 20th century American photography; introduction by the author (heavy card covers with photo on rear, very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: Harvard University Press, 1985. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. This is an econmic study of the medical malpractice sysem, including the legal process, the liability insurance markets, and the effect on health care; it analyzes the effeciency of the system in terms of the deterrence of medical negligence, the compensation of injured patients, and the spreading of risk; in order to provide evidence of the operation of the system in practice and evaluate proposals for reform, the auhor undertook an empirical analysis of malpractice claims and insurance markets (white cloth with black lettering on spine; white dust jacket with black lettering has very slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1995. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This book includes a series of essays which together constitute a re-appraisal of the relationship between gender and history; among the topics discussed are the positions of servants and wives in Victorian and Edwardian England; the changing structure of housework; the role of family relationships; the interconnections between class and gender, work and home; and the role of the concepts of the public and the private developed through the work of feminist historians; this volume brings together the major writings of a historian who has been at the forefront of the re-examination of femininity and masculinity in history (green pictorial cover, slightly rubbed, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1981. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This is a collection of eleven papers on the social significance of the recurring themes and images of American film and on the politics and economics of the American film industry; contributors, in addition to the editors, include P. H. Melling, Richard Maltby, Ralph Willett, Christopher Frayling, Leonard Quart, Albert Auster, Mary Ellison, and Robert Reiner (white pictorial cover with red & black lettering, faint crease on spine, edges very slightly sunned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment)

Spain: Vease This book presents managerial concepts and techniques essential to the development of organizations in innovative and compelling ways; it explains why the basic tools used to understand the economics of organization are relevant and when to use them; the authors are business management professors in Barcelona and Lausanne (white covers with tiny edge tear at end of spine; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Second Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8 1/4 " X 9 1/2".

Newton Abbot, Devon, U.K.: David & Charles, 1972. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First published in 1962, this is the second printing of a history of the English shipping industry in early modern times, with a new preface and a few corrections; a contribution to economic history, it examines the role of one of the most important and fast-growing industries and provides a realistic account of the shipping business and its commerical background (dark brown cloth with gold lettering, edges and first few pages slightly foxed; red dust jacket with white lettering, very slight edgewear, spine slightly sunned but lettering not faded; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Dublin, Ireland: Anvil Books, 1974. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This is a study of Arthur Griffith, Irish nationalist, founder of Sinn Fein in 1905, leader of the Irish delegation that signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921, a proponent of non-violent action and passive resistance to British rule; the first part narrates the development of the Sinn Fein movement up to the 1916 Easter Rising; the second part analyses the ideological debate within the Sinn Fein movement between non-violence and physical force; an epilogue surveys the memoirs of three sucessful guerilla leaders of the war for independence; includes more than 60 photographs (bright green cloth with silver lettering; name of the former owner, author of a book on the conflict in Northern Ireland, on the front endpaper, four sentences in the introduction partially underlined, marginal checkmarks in the bibliogaphy, the remainder is unmarked)

Saint John's, NF, Canada: Harry Cuff Publication, 1981. Trade Paperback. Good. Dawe, Tom. Ghost stories heard by the author, one of Newfoundland's leading poets, and written for radio (front cover slightly rubbed, edges worn, faint stain on rear cover, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Paris, France: Editions De La Maison Des Sciences De l'Homme Paris, 1982. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Text in French (white cover with red lettering, slightly sunned along edges with slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Cambridge University Press This is a collection of essays on Renaissance literature and culture, originally delivered as papers at a conference on Renaissance Subject/Early Modern Object at the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 by leading scholars in the New Historicist and material culture approaches to the Early Modern period; contributors include Margreta de Grazia, Patricia Parker, Louis Montrose, Stephen Orgel, Nancy Vickers, Ann Rosalind Jones, Maureen Quilligan, Margaret Ferguson, Gary Tomlinson, Peter Stallybrass, Jonathan Goldberg, Stephen Greenblatt, Marjorie Garber, and Jonathan Dollimore; includes many illustrations (black pictorial cover with white lettering; very slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight, unmarked copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine.

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1940. This book, by the author of Microbe Hunters, is a report on a five-year effort to promote a national health program and obtain the political support to enact it into law; de Kruif was a microbiologist, well-known as a writer on medical and science issues; signed by the author and inscribed to Alene Erlanger, a kennel owner and dog breeder who, a few months after Pearl Harbor, organized a national program, Dogs for Defense, to select and train dogs for military use in World War II (black covers with silver lettering on spine; front end paper removed; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Inscribed By Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Victoria, BC, Canada: English Literary Studies, University of Victoria, 1992. Trade Paperback. As New. This is a study of Coleridge's theological and historical thought which contends that Coleridge composed a theology of history, a genre placing human experience within the larger framework of Scriptural revelation; 200 pages (plain tan cover with black lettering, portrait of Coleridge on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Paris, France: Unesco, 1966. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. This volume reports the proceedings of a seminar organized by Unesco in co-operation with the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America in Mexco City in 1962; the first chapter is a general report on the discussion at the seminar; the second chapter on existing social and economic patterns and trends in the region includes a compilation of working documents prepared for the seminar; chapters 3 through 15 are a selection of papers by international experts in rural development (tan cloth with red lettering, white paper dust jacket with a few small tears along edges, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: Harvard University Press, 1984. This book is a history of European urbanization from the 16th through the 18th centuries; based on a systematic survey of the population history of 379 European cities with over 10,000 inhabitants analyzed at fifty-year intervals, it provides a comprehensive data base for examining the nature of the changes that took place in European cities; using a broad range of economic, demographic, and geographic models, it illustrates patterns of urban growth and shows the effects of urbanization on European history as a whole (tan cloth with black lettering; dust jacket has engraving of 17th century Paris on the front cover; a bright, clean, tight copy). First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 2003. This book is about the poverty of popular political engagement in the richest countries, which it argues is the direct result of the system that has created their material wealth: capitalism; the author examines the work of political and social theorists, including Marx, Freud, Arendt, Elias, Habermas, and Castells in order to provide a historical analysis of the different aspects of capitalism which have created the current situation of social and political poverty (white pictorial cover; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. As New.

Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1999. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is the 5th edition, published in 1983, of a Spanish translation by Aurelio Garzon del Camino of Debray's account of Che Guevara's abortive guerrilla war in Bolivia; Debray, a French intellectual and journalist, author of Revolution in the Revolution?, a handbook for guerrilla warfare, was convicted in Bolivia of being an associate of Guevara and imprisoned for three years before an international campaign led to his release (white cover with color photo of Che on the front, pages slightly tanned, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)