Authors starting with L from House of Our Own

The Hague, Netherlands: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2007. As New/No Jacket. This book provides an academic analysis of the role and impact of the international community in stabilizing the countries of the Western Balkans and integrating them into the European community; includes maps and chart of facts and figures for each country (laminated paper-covered boards with color photo of Balkan scene on the front) ... more information

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Paris, France: Editions Du Seuil, 1966. Trade Paperback. Very Good. In Fench, 628 pages (very slight edgewear, small mark on spine from price sticker removal, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy) ... more information

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Paris, France: Ellipses, 1995. Trade Paperback. Fine. A French lexicon of Roman history and civilization, with illustrations (white pictorial cover with red & black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy) ... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Springer-Verlag, 1997. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. This is the corrected second printing of the second edition of this undergraduate textbook in analysis which centers around those properties that have to do with uniform convergence and uniform limits in the context of differentiation and integration; topics include the classical test for convergence of series, Fourier series, polynominal approximation, the Poisson Kernel, the construction of harmonic functions o... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A: Praeger Publishers, 1983. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This study was carried out under the auspices of the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University and proceeds from the assumption that most of the military and political conflict in the future will take place in the Third World; it addresses itself to a series of questions: how aggressive a policy is the Soviet leadership likely to follow in the Third World, how much priority will be given to the Th... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A: Humanities Press, 1970. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book is concerned with the effect of political and economic events in Europe from the Franco-Prussian War to the end of World War II on the lives of ordinary people; it tries balance the treatment of issues which affected Europe as a whole with those which were peculiar to one country; includes maps and plates (black pictorial cover is rubbed with edgewear and corner creases, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy) ... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harper & Brothers, 1948. Second Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None. This is a revised edition of a book originally published in 1938 that includes selected passages from the mystical works of Law, followed by a table of Law's dates and works, the editor's notes to selected passages and his studies of subjects treated in Law's mystical writings; also includes a frontispiece photograph of Law's handwriting, a foreword by Aldous Huxley, and four appendices; the editor was a... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Longman, 1996. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is a study of the origins, growth, and impact of the orders of begging friars which developed around the charismatic figures of St. Francis and St. Dominic in the 12th and 13th centuries; it shows how the protection and patronage of the popes turned these armies of beggars into a pastoral force of preachers and confessors; it explores their mission to the towns where a new secular culture had begun to develop with the rise of a... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Lawrence's first novel, begun in 1906, rewritten three times, and published in 1911; this edition is based on the final manuscript and reinstates original passages changed for censorship reasons by the English publisher; includes introduction, appendix, explanatory notes, textual apparatus, and map (black cover with red & white lettering, very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy) ... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. An autobiographical novel, a sequel to Sons and Lovers, about a Nottinghamshire school teacher who travels to Europe and falls in love with a German aristocrat; the first part appeared in 1934 as a short story, the second part was never published until the novel was published in its entirety in 1984; includes introduction,explanatory notes, textual apparatus, and maps (black cover with red & white lettering, ve... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Lawrence's first collection of short stories, first published in 1914 in England and 1916 in the United States; includes introduction, appendices, explanatory notes, and textual apparatus (black cover with red & white lettering, very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy) ... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. In this book the author explains the shift in industrial leadership from Britain to the United States and later from the United States to Japan in terms of the changing business investment strategies and organizational structures in these nations and criticizes economists for failing to understand these historical changes; the author applies economic theory to the history of technology and business organization in ... more information

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London, England, U.K: George Allen & Unwin, 1983. Trade Paperback. Good. An analysis of social services in Britain that concludes that most expenditure on social services is distributed in a manner that broadly favors the higher social groups, whether defined in terms of income or occupation, rather than the poor (a bright, clean cover with faint highlighting and a few marginal notes on the first 18 pages, the remainder of the text is unmarked) ... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is an introduction to Aristotle's philosophy that begins with Aristotle's contention in the Metaphysics that all human beings by their nature desire to know, followed by chapters on nature, change, human nature, ethics and desire, and the structure of reality (yellow cover with gold & blue lettering, slightly cocked, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy) ... more information

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Zwolle, Netherlands: Waanders Publishers, 2008. Hard Cover. As New/Near Fine. This volume of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art includes ten essays on the reprresentation of the body in Netherlandish art and on the issues of embodiment and the role of human senses, joining concepts from anthropology, social history, and cultural studies with more traditional art historical methodology; includes many illustrations (black cloth with silver lettering; pictorial cover with very slight edgewear; other... more information

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London, England, U.K: Oxford University Press, 1982. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. An analysis that takes the view that knowledge is based on belief, followed by discussions of truth, belief, justification, skepticism and materialism (bright blue cover with white lettering, slightly dented along spine, otherwise a good, clean copy) ... more information

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London, England, U.K: Earthscan Publications, 2002. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Because environmentally sustainable development can only be achieved if environmental policies are integrated into all other areas of public policy, the European Union has made the principle of environmental policy integration an important policy objective; this book includes papers from the Third Environmental Summer School of the Robert Schuman Center of the European University Institute in Florence in 1998 which explore th... more information

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Hong Kong: Asian Research Service, 1979. Paperback. Very Good. This monograph is an attempt to describe and analyze some of the trends and problems of mass and traditional media in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean; the problems cover a wide range of areas, including cultural imperialism, communicating with rural masses through mass, folk, and interpersonal communication channels, background on developmental communication and its implications on national ideology formation and freedom of the ... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Optimal control theory is a technique being used increasingly by academic economists to study problems involving optimal decisions in a multiperiod framework; this book is designed to make the difficult subject of optimal control theory accessible to economists; economic intuition is emphasized, and examples and problem sets covering a wide range of applications in economics are provided; a seconary purpose of thi... more information

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Manchester, U.K: Manchester University Press, 1989. Trade Paperback. As New. A volume in the Lives of the Left series of biographies of leading figures in the European and North American socialist and labor movements; Arthur Henderson was one of the first working class members of the British Parliament, Secretary of the Labour Party for nearly 25 years, and twice Leader of the Labour Party during the First World War and again briefly after 1931; a minister in the first two Labour governments, he became Fo... more information

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