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

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 well as the correlation of litho- and bio-stratigraphic boundaries; includes many drawings, fold-out diagrams, and plates (tan cloth with black lettering, binding shaken, rubbed on back cover; tan & white laminated dust jacket with slight edgewear; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Denmark: Gyldendal, 1998. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 10 1/4" x 12. Published in conjunction with an exhibition in the old library hall of the Round Tower in Copenhagen in 1988, this is a celebration of the classic architecture of the Golden Age, the flourishing cultural epoch of the last fifty years of the Absolute Monarchy in Denmark; essays on the architecture of the period are lavishly illustrated with color photographs and reproductions of paintings and drawings of Copenhagen's buildings (gray textured cloth with black lettering has slight edgewear; dark green dust jacket with photographs on front & back has slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; this is a very large, heavy volume which may require extra postage unless shipped media mail)

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. This is the second of three volumes of original essays on Renaissance humanism; this volume contains essays on humanism in England, Spain, France, Germany, the Low Countries, Croatia, Hungary, and the Slavic cultures, and a separate essay on Erasmus; volume 1 also available (olive green cloth with gold lettering on front & spine and tan end papers is in nearly perfect condition except for previous owner's name on front end paper)

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pennsylvania, 1988. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. This is the first of three volumes of original essays on Renaissance humanism; this volume contains two parts: Foundations of Humanism, with essays on the Roman and Medieval periods, and Italian Humanism, with essays on Renaissance Italy, including the major cities of Florence, Venice, Milan, Rome, and Naples; volume 2 also available (olive green cloth with gold lettering on front & spine and tan end papers is in nearly perfect condition except for previous owner's name on front end paper)

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 theoretical questions about narrative or ideology; introduction by Jean Radford, essays by Margaret Williamson, Anna Clark, Derrick Price, Jean Radford, Helen Taylor, Alison Light, Christine Bridgwood, Ann Rosalind Jones, and Michele Roberts (dark gray textured cloth with gold lettering on front & spine, corners & spine ends very slightly bumped, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Twayne Publishers, 1967. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This is a biography of the Elizabethan writer Thomas Lodge, known primarily as the author of the prose romance, Rosalynde, the basis for Shakespeare's As You Like It, but also of essays, plays, and lyrics; Lodge was also a practicing physician who died during the London Plague of 1625; this study of his life and work views him not only as a writer but as a Renaissance gentleman and representative of his age (red cloth with gold lettering and decoration, red endpapers; front endpaper has some residue from removal of sticker; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Paris, France: Desclee De Brouwer, 1964. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Text in French; this is a partial translation of Schriften zur Theologie, III (Theological Investigations), essays by the German Catholic theologian; cet ouvrage est la traduction partielle de Schriften zur Theologie, III (white cover with slight edgewear, faint corner crease, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is a literary-critical study of Orwell's work and its relationship to his life; it relates his literary style to his political beliefs and aks how a writer who is a relatively minor talent came to occupy a central position in the culture; includes frontispiece portrait of Orwell (orange & black cover with white & black lettering, photo of Orwell on the front; endpapers are tanned, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A.: Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers University, 2002. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book includes the proceedings of a human rights hearing organized by the Center for Women's Global Leadership, Women at the Intersection of Racism and Other Oppressions, at the United Nations World Conference Against Racism in South Africa in 2001; the book is a collection of women's testimonies and reflections on the impact of different forms of discrimination (white cover with slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

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 faint corner crease, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Editorial Planeta, 1974. Text in Spanish; Chile: A Thousand Days Between Revolution and Fascism, is the personal testimony of a social scientist who lived in Chile from May 1972 to October 1973, an analysis of the experiences and achievements of the popular unity government of Allende as well as the origins, development and unleashing of the military coup that ended the Chilean road to socialism; includes many photographs; inscribed by the author on the first page after the front endpaper; the author was born in Uruguay and has a doctorate in social science from the Universities of Montevideo and Paris (gray cover with red lettering, corners slightly bumped, ends of spine slightly creased; white laminated dust jacket with black lettering has edgewear, a few small edge tears, red barbed wire over photo of Allende rally on front, photos of Allende and Pinochet on back, photo of the author on front flap; a bright, clean, tight copy). Inscribed By Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1993. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Although questions of sexuality and power were central to Foucault's writings, they largely ignore feminism; this book explores the problems that Foucault raises for feminism and the implications of including gender in analyses of power relations, sexuality, and the body; contributors include, in addition to the editor, Kate Soper, Jean Grimshaw, Maureen Cain, M.E. Bailey, Janet Ransom, Maureen McNeil, Susan Bordo, Dean MacCannell, Juliet Flower MacCannell, Janet Holland (gray & white covers with black lettering, drawing by Erich Heckel on front, corners slightly bumped; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1996. In a patriarchal 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). Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. As New.

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 & black pictorial cover, signed by the author on the title page)

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)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Gustav Fischer, 1991. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. This volume contains the contributions presented at the 4th European Workshop on Bacterial Protein Toxins and covers various aspects such as their molecular architecture, binding and internalization, mechanisms of cell intoxication, regulation of toxin expression, the role of toxins in pathogenicity, applications of toxins in medicine and agriculture, and the interaction of toxins with the immune system; it also documents the rapid rate of increase of knowledge in the field of microbial toxinology; includes 150 figures and 65 tables; printed in Germany, all articles are in English; German ISBN: 3437113089 (red cloth with black lettering, corner very slightly bumped; orange laminated dust jacket with very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; supplements 17, 23, and 24 also available)

Helsinki, Finland: Ajatus Kirjat, 2005. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 6 7/8" X 8 7/8. This is a beautiful book about Finnish cuisine and culture with traditional Finnish recipes and descriptions of the Finnish way of life during the different seasons of the year; includes many color photographs; the author is a food culture editor (orange & black laminated cover with photographs on the front and back; a bright, clean, tight copy)

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)

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)

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Pearson Education, 2011. Ninth Edition. Paperback. As New. 9 " X 11. This is a custom edition prepared by the publisher for the University of Pennsylvania from the ninth edition of the biology textbook Campbell Biology; it includes chapters 14-15 & 21-26 (white pictorial cover; text is completely unmarked; a bright, clean, tight copy in excellent condition; a large, heavy volume which can only be shipped by media mail)