Authors starting with R from House of Our Own

New Delhi, India: Amerind Publishing Co, 1981. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Originally published by Nauka Publishers, Moscow, in 1969, this volume was translated and published for the United States Department of the Interior and the National Science Foundation; it is devoted to the Cambrian lower boundary problem and makes the case for isolating a new multizone stage, designated Tommotian, beneath the Cambrian stage; it discusses the principles of drawing the Cambrian and Palezoic lower boundary, as w... more information

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Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. This is a collection of essays on popular literature, originally presented at the first History Workshop Conference held at Ruskin College in May, 1984; these essys provide an historical perspective on a specific form of popular fiction, the romance: they reflect different positions and methods within the current debate on popular culture: sociological, psychoanalytic, and literary; some focus more on texts or readers, others on theoretic... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A: Routledge, 1991. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This book examines the work of two recent French thinkers and argues that the question of truth and eros involved them in a reflection on ethics, and conversely that the question of ethics in their work is inseparable from the ancient question of the passion of thought (pictorial cover, very slight corner crease, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy) ... more information

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Baltimore, MD, U.S.A: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. A social and political analysis of Tadzhikistan, including ethnicity, political elites, political socialization, and culture, including linguistics, literature and the arts, with tables, charts, and double page map (blue cloth with white lettering) ... more information

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Willimantic, CT, U.S.A: Curbstone Press, 1988. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Signed by Author. A book of poetry by the writer, photographer, and political activist; signed by the author on the dedication page (photograph of the author on the front cover) ... more information

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New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A: Rutgers University Press, 1995. Revised. Trade Paperback. As New. Signed by Author. First published in 1981 in the wake of the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, this book recounts the lives of ordinary women through interviews with participants at all levels of the Nicaraguan resistance movement; believing that women's liberation was inextricably linked with national liberation, many of these women were in the vanguard of the resistance movement; includes many photographs (red ... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A: Routledge, 1996. Trade Paperback. As New. In a patriarchial society women experience money as one more element of control; in this book the author interviews women from a wide range of economic, racial, and cultural backgrounds to reveal the complex role money plays in their lives (red & black cover, signed by the author on the half-title page) ... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A: Free Press, 1973. First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. This book is a systematic study of the ways foreign and civil wars end; drawing from a sample of 500 wars that were waged between 1500 and 1971, it describes the stages, procedures, and modes of peacemaking, the content of peace settlements, and the effects of a number of important variables that characterize the environment of war and peace talks; it correlates the effects of diplomatic and domestic political factors upon ... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A: Sheep Meadow Press, 1978. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Inscribed By Translator. A selection of poems, translated from Hebrew, from the first five books of poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch, a leading Israeli poet; the translation received an award from the Translation Center at Columbia University (light blue pictorial cover with black border, author's photograph on the back, slight edgewear, spine slightly sunned, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy) ... more information

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France: Fayard, 1993. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Text in French; a history of Cairo from its founding to the present, with many black & whte photos and illustrations, color maps on inside of covers (pictorial cover, two tiny edge tears, creases at bottom of spine, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy) ... more information

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London, England, U.K: Anvil Press, 1980. Paperback. Very Good. This book contains selected speeches by the General Secretary of the International Metalworkers Federation; introduction by Eugen Loderer, President of the IMF; Rebhan was a German Jewish immigrant to the United States who became active in the United Auto Workers in Illinois, studied at the University of Chicago, and eventually became director of the UAW's International Affairs Deparment; his speeches cover a wide range of issues confronting t... more information

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Washington, DC, U.S.A: Pergamon-Brassey's International Defense Publlishers, 1988. Hard Cover. As New/As New. The author, an advocate of military reform, examines some of the strategic problems confronting the U.S. armed forces which, despite massive defense expenditures, often fail at their assigned tasks (black cloth with gold lettering, bright red cover) ... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed By Author. This book examines the totality of Du Bois' political thought, locating its sources in the reform-minded intellectual ferment at the turn of the century and arguing that a committment to liberal collectivism, an essentially Fabian socialism, remained pivotal in Du Bois' thought even as he embraced a range of political programs over time, including Marxism; it reveals that Du Bois' cent... more information

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Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Westview Press, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. This collection of essays examines and questions the new orthodoxy among America's political and policy leaders which rejects the view that structural forces in our history, economy, and public policies serve to reinforce racial and economic inequality; contributors examine the history of our social policies since the New Deal; the central theme is a critical response to the conventional argument that liberalism mus... more information

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Cambridge, MA, U.S.A: Harvard University Press, 1963. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. A collection of papers selected from the psychological and psychiatric literature of the 1950s in five general areas: the problem of the effects of early experience on psychological development, psychosomatic disorders and neurosis, schizophrenic psychosis, somatic factors in psychopathology, and the social context and its effects on the phenomena of behavior (gray cloth with black lettering, very sligh... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A: Berg, 1997. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. In departing from the traditional stance taken by anthropologists, who study "others" ethnographically, this book explores forms of self-inscription on the part of both the ethnographer and the "others" who are studied; informed by developments in postmodernism, postcolonialism, and feminism, this is an original contibution to the dialogue across disciplinary boundaries; the chapters build upon recent reconsiderations of... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A: Praeger Publishers, 1984. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book is a study of the diplomatic relations between Israel and the United States; it considers the commonality of interests between the two countries and focuses on the period after the October War, on the peace process, the provision of economic and military assistance, and the domestic factors that influence the United States government (brown cover with slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy) ... more information

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Dover, MA: Auburn House, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Very Good. In this book leading scholars and practitioners from both developing and developed countries who have analyzed the successes and failures of foreign assistance in health from the perspective of multiple disciplines examine critical issues about the efforts to improve health conditions in the world's poorest countries and conclude that the policies and practices of both donors and recipients must be changed to transform assistance ... more information

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Paris, France: Librairie Armand Colin, 1965. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Laminated white boards, upper corners and end of spine bumped, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy (Volume 2 also available) ... more information

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Paris, France: Librairie Armand Colin, 1969. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Laminated white boards, upper corners and end of spine bumped, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy (Volume 1 also available) ... more information

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