Search Results: Titles starting with F from House of Our Own Books

Ireland: Gallery Press, 2002. Trade Paperback. As New. Poetry by a Belfast writer; these poems move away from the poet's previous concentration on violence and political strife towards an acceptance of the natural order of the world (green pictorial cover with photo of the author on the back)

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1981. This is a history of the development of philosophy as an academic discipline in British Canada during its first 100 years, from the publication of James Beaven's Elements of Natural Theology in 1850 until the mass immigration of philosophers from abroad after World War II changed its character; it includes those philosophers whose writing was extensive and covered a variety of topics; includes portraits of six philosophers by Kathryn Cole (bright yellow cloth with black lettering, inscribed by one of the co-authors and dated June, 1982, on the front endpaper; two very small cuts on edges of front and back covers and indentation in bottom edge of textblock, otherwise both cover and text are in excellent condition). Inscribed By Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London, England, U.K.: Radical Statistics, 1987. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good. This book documents the decline of the British health service against a background of growing need and demand for health care and increasing inequalities in health; it examines the impact of policies such as encouraging commercial medicine and privatization and the ways these relate to the social causes of ill health (cover shows some wear, upper right corner of title page clipped, otherwise a bright, clean copy)

London, England, U.K.: Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1982. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Karl Marx, in his basic evolutionary model for human society, included a stage that has come to be called the Asiatic mode of production, defined as a special form of society marked by state ownership of the means of production and extensive state intervention in all forms of social life; in the Soviet Union the concept had a controversial career, with leading writers, primarily Stalin, denying its very existence; drawing on a large body of Soviet writing on historiography, the author develops a critical analysis of the issue, and introduces important corrections to previous account available in the West (red & white cover, minor shelf and edgewear, several small creases, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Niwot, CO, U.S.A.: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1994. Trade Paperback. As New. Inscribed By Author. This memoir of his early years growing up in the Falls Road section of West Belfast by Sinn Fein leader Gery Adams is also a portrait of a Catholic working-class community; inscribed in gaelic and signed by the author on the title page (white pictorial cover with painting on the front, photo of author on the back; a bright, clean, tight copy)

London, England, U.K.: Michael Joseph, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. This is a novel about a Greek family lving through the 20th century turmoils, from the Greco-Turkish War to the Second World War and the Greek Civil War; the author, who teaches English at Cambridge, grew up in Greece (blue textured cloth with gold lettering; pages tanned; pictorial dust jacket has slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Amsterdam, Netherlands: Critique of Anthropology, 1990. Paperback. Near Fine. This is a special issue of the journal Critique of Anthropology that includes interdisciplinary essays on the major features of Catalan identity, past and present, by anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and others from different countries but with a common interest in Catalonia; contributors include Josep Llobera, Ignasi Terradas, Josep Fradera, Peter Sahlins, Oonagh O'Brien, J. Bestard, Saundra Satterlee, Ray Keenoy, Anne Bailey, Soledad Garcia (yellow cover with red stripes, white box in center with black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Westport, CT, U.S.A.: Greenwood Press, 1976. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. This is a reprint of a book originally published in 1959 which investigates the meanings and functions of Christian symbolic life in America; it maintains that Christianity's basic meanings lie within the moral and species structure of family life; most of the research for this book was done in the New England city that was the site of the author's Yankee City studies (light brown cloth with gold lettering on spine; a bright, clean, tight copy)

London, England, U.K.: Earthscan Publications, 1989. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book, first researched as a report for the Red Cross, examines the causes of famine and proposes a system for preventing disaster based not on technical information but on the perceptions of the victims themselves; it looks at how they perceive their predicament and what they do to avert mass starvation, and what famine-relief organizations can do to help prevent disaster (gray cover with yellow on red lettering, pages slightly tanned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.: Mercury House, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Pearson, Jim. Inscribed by Editor. This is the first English translation of the Fantastic Tales of the 19th century Italian writer I. U. Tarchetti, whose novel Fosca was the basis for Ettore Scola's 1981 film Passione d'amore; the stories in this book were the first Gothic tales published in the Italian language; includes an introduction by the translator Lawrece Venuti and illustrations by Jim Pearson; an appendix contains translations of two French Gothic tales and a memoir of Tarchetti by Salvatore Farina; inscribed, signed, and dated by Venuti on the half-title page (black cloth with gold lettering, gold edges, gray end papers, black ribbon marker; dust jacket has illustration by Pearson on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 1978. Examines the scientific claims of Marxism, the development of communist theory and practice in the Soviet Union, and the phenomenon of Eurocommunism, concluding that Marxism is not a rational philosophy but a religion and predicting that the Soviet Union, as a multinational empire, is unlikely to survive for more than a few decades (dust jacket has large chip and small tears on edges, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. This is a collection of diverse essays by philosophers and other observers of the meanings of fashion (white laminated pictorial cover with black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket.

Jackson, MS, U.S.A.: University Press of Mississippi, 1979. A collection of essays on various aspects of Faulkner's literary art, originally presented as papers at the 5th annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference held at the University of Mississippi in 1978; contributors include Malcolm Cowley, Hugh Kenner, Thomas Daniel Young, Ilse Dusoir Lind, Bruce Kawin, and Horton Foote (red, black & gray cover with slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; instock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore)). Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.: University of California Press, 1992. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. In a series of readings of central Renaissance texts, the author, a leading exponent of cultural materialism, demonstrates that the early-modern state, the church, and the cultural apparatus could not prevent dissident voices or concepts such as hierarchy, rationality, gender, and sexuality from forcing their way into literary texts (gray pictorial cover with very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Oxford, England, U.K.: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Hard Cover. As New/Very Good. This is a study of feminist ideas about the institution of the family in late 19th and early 20th century England; it explores women's experience of family life, showing how the expression of individual discontents began to coalesce into a feminist critique; it considers how feminists tried to secure economic independence for women, to restructure the organization of the household, especially housework and child care, and to reshape marital and sexual relations, emphasizing how differences in social class and political allegiance were both reflected in and influenced attitudes toward the family (black cloth with gold lettering; pictorial cover with painting, A Bloomsbury Family, on the front, very small edge tear, small scuff mark on back; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 2009. Trade Paperback. As New. This is a study of feminist utopian novels that expose the patriarchal social order and offer new conceptual space to articulate the politics of change, validate the personal as political, and express feminists' self-defense through their symbolic violence against patriarchy (blue cover with white lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.: Sage Publications, 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book examines feminist writings from 1963 to 1994, beginning with The Feminine Mystique and covering the first thirty years of Second Wave feminism; it focuses on the concepts of equality and difference (purple cover with white lettering is slightly rubbed, previous owner's name inside front cover; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

London, England, U.K.: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1964. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First published in 1936, this a study of Anglo-French feudalism whose objective is to show how the monarchy was preserved and developed in France and England in a period when political society was being reorganized into seignorial and feudal forms; it attempts to explain the causes, material and moral, of the weakness of the monarchy, and the conditions which enabled it to persist and expand, the machinery it established, and the failure of attempts in England to impose on it aristocratic control; includes maps and genealogical tables, introduction by Henri Berr (dark blue cloth with gold lettering on spine, gold seal on front cover, previous owner's name label on front endpaper, pages slightly tanned; plain gray dust jacket with dark blue lettering and decoration, sunned spine and edges, slight edgewear; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Cambridge, England, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1994. This is the first major study of gender and property in South Asia; it argues that the most important economic factor affecting women's status is the control of property; that women's lack of rights to property, particularly land, explains their economic, social, and political subordination; it examines women's resistance to gender inequality, and how barriers to owning land can be overcome (gray & red pictorial cover with photo of Gujarati woman farmer on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable, independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. As New.

Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.: Trickster Press, 1995. A collection of articles by eminent folklorists honoring their colleague Kenneth Goldstein, chairman of the Folklore and Folklife Department of the University of Pennsylvania, editor of the Journal of American Folklore, former president of the American Folklore Society, and celebrating the traditions that defined the field of folklore studies in the latter half of the 20th century; contributors examine topics ranging from Goldstein's own theoretical positions and the process of fieldwork to discussions of folk belief, ethnic diversity, children's folklore, Native American texts, early American rituals, women's folklore; contributors include Roger Abrahams, Dan Ben-Amos, Tristram Coffin, Henry Glassie, Herbert Halpert, David Hufford, Dell Hymes, Virginia Hymes, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Margaret Mills, Peter Narvaez, John Roberts, Dan Rose, Neil Rosenberg, Robert St. George, Brian Sutton-Smith, John Szwed, Janet Theophano, Gerald Thomas,… Read More