Titles starting with I from House of Our Own

Trenton, NJ, U.S.A.: Africa World Press, 2005. Trade Paperback. As New. This book is based on interviews with a broad range of Kenyan women; the author taught in a village school in Western Kenya in 1989 and 1990, and returned to Kenya in 1995 and 1996 to conduct these interviews, and again in 2001 and 2001 to update the women's lives (pictorial cover with photo of a woman farmer; a bright, clean, tight copy) ... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1989. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A collection of essays, originally published in the journal Economy and Society, reflecting the French influence on literary theory; it contains essays on the fiction of Perault, Borges, James, Eco, and Tournier, complemented by theoretical essays on power and representation that provide critiques of Barthes, Derrida, Deleuze, Marin, and Derrida (white cover with black lettering, slight edge and shelf wear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A: Bergin & Garvey, 1990. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book examines the meaning of work in American society; it places ideas about work in their historical and cultural contexts (white cover with red & blue lettering, slight edgewear and sunning along edges, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy) ... more information

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Tuscaloosa, AL, U.S.A: University of Alabama Press, 1992. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. In this comprehensive critical study of the American poet Marianne Moore, the author explores specific themes and qualities that appear throughout the poet's work and demonstrates Moore's intellectual and literary achievement in which she combined precision of description with striking association of ideas in original poetic forms (black cloth with gold lettering; gold dust jacket with black lettering, photo of Moore on ... more information

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London, England, U.K.: Michael Joseph, 1987. Fourth Printing. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket. 7 1/2" X 10 1/2. Titford, Freda; Kirkwood, Ken. This is an anthology of the gardening articles Sackville-West wrote for her weekly column in the Observer newspaper from 1946 to 1961; originally published in 1968 as Sackville-West's Garden Book, this edition includes a new selection of the articles, arranged in months of the year, with full-color flower illustrations; each chapter opens with a poem by Sackvil... more information

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Bloomington, IN, U.S.A: Indiana University Press, 2001. Hard Cover. As New/As New. In a review of U.S. relations with the Third World since World War II, the author, a former ambasador and State Department official, attempts to understand the hostility of newly independent nations toward the United States; he traces the independence struggles of the peoples of the British, Dutch, Belgian, and Portuguese empires in the post-war era, as the United States, depite its anti-colonial heritage, tended to inherit... more information

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Washington, D.C., U.S.A: National Planning Association, 1975. Paperback. Good. 7 " X 10. This volume embodies the results of two research projects which the author conducted at the National Planning Association during the previous seven years: the National Priorities Study and the Goals Accounting Study; the primary objective of this work is to develop an analytical system for understanding changes in the quality of life; the secondary objective is to attempt some empirical estimates within the frame... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: World Union OSE / American Committee of OSE, 1968. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This is a collection of writings, in English, French, Russian, and Hebrew, on the work of the Jewish organization for health care and children's welfare, founded in St. Petersburg in 1912 as the Society for the Protection of Jewish Health (OZE); after the Russian Revolution it moved its headquarters to Berlin in 1923 and then to Paris in 1933, where it became the Society for the Aid of Children (O... more information

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Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A: University of Michigan Press, 1999. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Aparicio, Eduardo. An analysis of Cuban exile politics based on interviews with political actors in Miami and in Cuba, reviews of government documents, and the author's personal involvement in various political movements; includes a series of black & white photographs, Between Miami and Havana, by Eduardo Aparicio (red cloth with gold lettering, previous owner's stamp on front free endpaper, one corner very slig... more information

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Chicago, IL, U.S.A: Aldine Publishing Company, 1973. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. This book is the outcome of a project conducted at New York University and supported by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to produce academic research on social policy questions with particular emphasis on the infomation needs of government policy-makers; six of the studies were selected and rewritten for this book to illustrate the scope and method of social research, especially in rel... more information

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Washington, DC, U.S.A: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1969. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. This book orginated as one of the Rational Debate Seminars sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, in 1969, and includes lectures by Galvin, a proponent of the flat rate tax, and Bittker, a proponent of progressive taxation, their rebuttals, and the discussion that followed (bue cloth with black lettering, very slight corner wear; blue dust jacket with slight ed... more information

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Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: University of Chicago Press, 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. An examination of the nature of 19th century American mass voting behavior showing that substantial variation in party support followed lines of cleavage among classes, occupational groups, and places of residence (dust jacket has some edge wear, otherwise a bright, clean copy) ... more information

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New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A: Transaction Publishers, 1994. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. This anthology offers a selection of writings from Liberty, a magazine which featured some of the outstanding anarchist writers in America at the end of the 19th century, including Benjamin Tucker, Victor Yarros, Steven Byington, John Beverley Robinson, and Gertrude Kelly; the writings are divided into four sections: political theory, economic theories and reforms, social implications, and strategies of individualist anarc... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A: Garland Publishing, 1989. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. This book is part of a documentary series, edited by Charles Rosenberg, that reproduces in facsimile the most important primary sources on medical care in the United States up to 1940; this collection focuses on medical institutions for childen, their origins, aims, and evolution, their patients, and their practitioners; the selections illuminate how infant asylums, childen's hospitals, and convalescent homes developed and ope... more information

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Chicago, IL, U.S.A: Belford, Clarke & Co, 1882. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. A collection of writings by the most famous 19th century American orator, athiest, humanist, advocate of science and reason (brown cloth with gold lettering, slightly faded on spine but bright on front cover, slight wear on corners and spine ends, pages slightly yellowed, with frontpiece portrait of the author and seven other portraits) ... more information

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Hicksville, NY, U.S.A.: Exposition Press, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. This book, by the Nigerian critic and scholar, formerly Dean of Arts at the University of Lagos, is a critical study of Joyce's Stephen Hero, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses which contends that the significance of these works must be sought in the inner lives of Joyce's characters; this study concentrates on how Joyce delves into the consciousness of his characters and explores their intimate em... more information

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New Haven, CT, U.S.A: Yale University Press, 1966. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. This study analyzes the political ideas of the Philosophic Radicals in terms of their political activity in attempting to establish a new political party in order to change the balance in Parliament; though they failed, their effort was important as an episode in parliamentary politics and for what it reveals about their doctrine (dark blue cloth with gold lettering, very slight edgewear; light blue dust j... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This book is the third in a series of related studies of mind and language, and its objective is to provide a foundation for the two earlier books, Speech Acts and Expression and Meaning as well as to further investigate these topics; this study began as an investigation of that part of the problem of meaning which concerns how people impose intentionality on entities that are not intrinsically intentional, how the... more information

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Lewiston, NY, U.S.A: C. J. Hogrefe, 1984. Hard Cover. Very Good. A collection of articles by American, British, and European scholars on the nature of relations among generations and the consequences of these relations for the community and its members, grouped into four sections: Intergenerational Relationships in the Process of Civilization, Multi-Generational Family, Distance and Alienation in Different Life Worlds, The Generation Concept and Tendencies in Research (white paper-covered boards with gree... 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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