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

New York: Quartet Books, 1982. Reprint (Orig Pub 1981). Hard Cover. As New/Very Good. A series of essays on the Palestinian question drawn from the speeches and writings of a Palestinian who served as Jordan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations

Editions du Rocher, 2000. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Text in French; originally published in English in 1940 and in French in 1945, Stein recorded her childhood memories of Paris and observations of French people and culture (black & white cover with portrait of Stein on the front, very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Essex, England, U.K.: Longman, 1981. Trade Paperback. Very Good. In this book the author gives an account of the main characteristics of parties and pressure groups in Britain, within the context of their roles in the political system; it focuses on their policies, goals, and organization and relates their growth and behavior both to theories of democracy and to British history during the last century; relevant case studies are used to illustrate the actual working of parties and pressure groups; particular attention is given to major factions and sub-groups within the parties and to the main parties which rose to prominence in the 1970s; a final section assesses the impact of parties and pressure groups on the political system as a whole (green cover with minor shelf and edge wear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Hard Cover. As New/As New. This book examines variation in electoral trajectories of the new single-issue parties in Europe: green, radical right, and ethnoterritorial parties; it argues that the fortunes of these niche parties are shaped by the strategic responses of the mainstream parties; it advances a new theory of party competition in which mainstream parties facing unequal competitors have access to a wider and more effective set of strategies; combining statistical analyses with case studies, it explores how and why established parties undermine niche parties or turn them into weapons against their mainstream party opponents (dark blue cloth with gold lettering; blue & white pictorial cover; a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1969. This volume includes two of the French author's most acclaimed avant-garde novels; after graduation from the Sorbonne in philosophy, Butor published four experimental novels in the 1950s that led to his reputation as one of the early exponents of the French new novel (white covers with blue lettering; front cover slightly rubbed with some edge wear; back cover has corner crease; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. Good.

Durham, NC, U.S.A: Duke University Press, 1986. Second Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This is a critical study of Bergman's career and artistic development that attempts to elucidate the structure of meaning in each of his films (white & black pictorial cover with a scene from Cries and Whispers on the front)

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. This is a study of the popular Passion dramas staged during Holy Week in Andalusia and how they are closely linked with the penitential ideology that governs how Andalusians feel about life, death, wealth, and poverty, with the influential system of religious societies known as cofradias, and with the effect of a guilt and suffering complex on gender roles and relations between the sexes; includes photographs (yellow covers with brown lettering on spine; yellow pictorial dust jacket has very slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine.

Orlando, FL, U.S.A.: Academic Press, 1984. This book contains a selection of papers from the Third International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies held in Bad Homburg, Germany, in 1983; these papers combine archaeolgy, history, and ethnography to explore the relationship between prehistoric and living hunter gatherer societies; they look for both continuity in these societies through time and for the effects of changing degrees of contact with surrounding farmers, herders, traders, and settlers (gray cloth with silver lettering; tan pictorial dust jacket with black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy). Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A., 1933. This book, by the author of two works on the history of the English craft guilds, is a critique of the system of higher education, in particular the elective system, and a proposal for a coherent course of study (green cloth with gold lettering, bright on the front cover, faded on the spine, rubbed on back, slight edge wear, pages slightly tanned, previous owner's name on front end paper; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy). Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This book traces historical processes from palaeolithic times to the present, providing an overview of the entire history of humanity; it takes its point of departure from Marx's theory of social evolution, but expands Marx's five stages of development to eight and, in contrast to Marx, denies that the transition from one stage to the next is necessarily marked by social conflict and revolution; the focus is not limited to the economic and socio-economic aspects of historical development, but also ethnic, cultural, religious, and military-technological factors; the author, an emeritus professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies at the University of St. Petersburg, denies that social evolution necessarily implies progress and shows how each progress is also a regress (blue pictorial cover with yellow & white lettering and Max Beckmann painting on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.: Princeton University Press, 1998. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is a study of arts patronage and cultural politics under Italian Fascism, which differed from other fascist regimes in its support for modernist and avant garde art; includes many illustrations (brown pictorial cover with ripple in lamination along one edge; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

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 Third World in Soviet strategic planning, what are the Soviet instrumentalities for developing relationships in the Third World, and what factors are likely to enhance or obstruct Soviet progress in Third World countries? (red cloth with gold lettering, slight edgewear, free front endpaper removed, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Oxford University Press, 1990. Trade Paperback. Fine. The first complete study of the pay equity issue in Canada, it documents the struggle of the labour-feminist alliance to obtain legislation of equal pay for work of equal value in the face of business and neo-conservative anti-feminist interests; examining gender and class struggles in the workplace, the marketplace, and the household, it focuses on the argtuements used by both sides, particularly at the federal levels in Canada and the U.S., and at the provincial levels in Ontario and Manitoba; appendices define crucial terms and list the standard factors considered in job evaluation (a bright, clean, tight copy)

Washington, D.C., U.S.A: Brookings Institution Press, 1983. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. This study describes the main components of the pay and pension system for the white-collar work force of the federal government; it reviews the fundamental laws and rules that have guided pay and pensions and analyzes studies and proposals for reform of the system; it also details a plan to realign both salary and retirement benefit systems so that they will be less costly in the long run and more likely to attract and retain a qualified work force in the short fun (dark blue cloth with very slight edgewear; red, white & blue dust jacket has general edgewear and several large chips and tears along upper edge; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Joseph Henry Press, 1998. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket. This book is about the role that insurance, along with other policy tools, can play in reducing losses from natural disasters and in providing financial protection for those who suffer property damage; the authors, leading experts on insurance, discuss the reasons for the dramatic increase in insured losses from natural disasters and the concerns of insurers about their ability to continue to provide coverage; they address the question of why there has been an increasing demand for hazards insurance, the types of coverage private insurers are willing to offer, and the role of reinsurance and public/private initiatives in providing protection to victims of natural disasters (laminated tan cover with brown lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Stanford, CA, U.S.A.: Stanford University Press, 1982. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This is a classic account of how rural France was transformed and integrated into the modern world after the Franco-Prussian War; it revised accepted notions about the French nation and French identity which were achieved only after a long struggle between Paris and the cultural, linguistic and regional diversity of the provinces (white pictorial cover with very slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight, unmarked copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment)

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A: Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, 1986. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Includes photographs of Education School faculty and buildings, and of Kwame Nkrumah receiving an honorary degree

Clearfield Company, 1988. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is a two-volume edition, reprinted by the Genealogical Publishing Co. in 1988, of a book originally published in London in 1910 on English Peerage law and family history; Volume I includes papers on Peerage law and Volume II on family history; the principal genealogical article deals with claims to Saxon descent, meaning descent older than the Norman Conquest (plain tan covers with black lettering, Volume I has slight crease on rear cover and bottom of spine, Volume II in perfect condition)

Garden City, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday & Company, 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. The papers in this book are based primarily on the research conducted by a group of students in 1969 as part of the National Security Summer Research Project, sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies to investigate the policies and operations of the national security establishment, particularly the Defense Department; the authors also include Marcus Raskin, co-director of the Institute, and project coordinator Derek Shearer (reddish tan cloth with blue lettering has slight edgewear; white pictorial dust jacket with blue & red lettering has slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1992. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book examines the legislative changes of the sixties relating to abortion, obscenity, homosexuality and prostitution that are commonly believed to illustrate the permissive or liberal character of the era and casts doubt on the view propounded by politicians and moralists that such changes indicated moral relaxation and increasing sexual license; it argues that the ideology of permissiveness requires close examination; it contrasts the moral climate of the sixties with the moral politics of the eighties (pictorial cover, slightly cocked, otherwise in perfect condition)