Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1995. xxix, 610 pp. Map, plates, endnotes, bibliography, index. A landmark work on grassroots activism during the civil rights movement. Hailed as one of the best treatments of the civil rights movement, this book is the most comprehensive and detailed study yet of the movement at the state level. Adam Fairclough marshals a wealth of research to recount more than five decades of struggle for justice and equality in the South's most politically intriguing, ethnically ... (more information)

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003 xviii, 323 pp. Footnotes, bibliography, index. A comparative study of taxation in Brazil and South Africa. CONDITION: Imperceptible rubbing to covers.. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/No Jacket (as issued). 24 x 16 cm. ... (more information)

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Sarajevo: Naucno drustvo N.R. Bosne i Hercegovine, 1957 166 pp. Plates, facsimiles, bibliographical footnotes. 3 articles in Serbo-Croatian (romanized), with summaries in Russian, French, or English. CONTENTS for this volume: Ornament juznoslovenskih rukopisa XI-XIII veka [with Russian summary] [Vladimir Mosin]. Muteselimi i njiihov djelokrug [with French summary] [Hamdija Kresevljakovic]. Bracni pomocnik kod Srba i Hrvata [with English summary] [Milenko S. Filipovic]. Henrik Baric--In memoriam [J. Vukovic]... (more information)

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London: Edward Arnold, 1907 Scarce. ix, 1 l., 304 pp. + 8 pp. (advertisements). 5 maps (one folding in color), footnotes, 7 documentary appendices, index. Gilt train motif stamped on front cover. In original navy cloth; page edges untrimmed. A comprehensive historical survey of the origin and development of railroads in China from 1863-1907. CONDITION: An ex-libray copy (stamped withdrawn; call number on spine, library bookplate and stamps, due date slip, rear pocket). Text clean and free of marks. Paper so... (more information)

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Berkeley, CA: University of Califonia Press, 1979. xxi, 306 pp. Chronology, footnotes, bibliography, index. A modern classic of political economy. Approximately 10 pages near beginning of book have pencilled underlining/marginalia, else text is clean and free of marks. Moderate handling to card covers. Ships fast!. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. 21 x 14 cm. ... (more information)

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Stockholm, Sweden: Stiftelsen Juristforlaget vid Stockholms universitet, 1982 235 pp. Portrait, bibliographical footnotes. Contributions in Swedish. A collection of 14 scholarly articles dealing with the history of Scandinavian law. Light overall rubbing to card covers. Rear blank endpaper browned. Sewn binding (no creasing).. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 24 x 17 cm. ... (more information)

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Beograd (Belgrade): Srpska kraljevska akademija, 1933 79 pp. 3 leaves of plates, bibliographical footnotes. Text in Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic). CONTENTS: 1) O pocetku kovanja srpskih dinara i o postanku Brskova, prvog rudnika srebra i prve kovnice Srbije. 2) O pripadnosti dinara sa natpisom "Vrosivs--Rex--S. Stefan" Urosu I i Urosu II Milutinu. 3) O tezina i o kvalitetu srpskog dinara u 80-tim godinama XIII stolenja. 4) Pregled razvoja srpskog dinara. CONDITION: Oversized card covers browned and br... (more information)

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Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998. vii, 343 pp. Bibliographical notes, bibliography, index. This book explores the issue of power and how it relates to scientific thinking about childbirth. The issue of who should control childbirth remains one of debate despite almost four decades of campaigning for change. Its continuing relevance suggests that the problem of exercising choice and personal agency remains a struggle women face in an institutional system of maternity care which demands complia... (more information)

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Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ____. Still in publisher's original shrinkwrap. In this lively reading of David Hume's "Dialogues concerning Natural Religion," the author reveals a complex internal hermeneutic that gives new form, structure, and meaning to the work. Linking situations, character, style, and action to the philosophical concepts presented, Sessions finds meaning contained in the work itself and calls attention to the internal connections between plot, character, rhetoric,... (more information)

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Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press, 1971. x, 306 pp. Notes, index. These important essays have been rendered into English by various translators. CONTENTS: The theory of the Formal Method (Boris M. Ejxenbaum). On realism in art (Roman Jakobson). Literature and biography (Boris Tomasevskij). Literary environment (Boris M. Ejxenbaum). On literary evolution (Jaurj Tynjanov). Problems in the study of literature and language (Jurij Tynjanov and Roman Jakobson). The dominant (Roman J... (more information)

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Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1980. xi, 352 pp. Notes, contributors, bibliography. CONTENTS: Toward a theory of realignment: An introduction [Trilling and Campbell]. The structure and meaning of critical realignment: The case of Pennsylvania, 1928-1932 [McMichael and Trilling]. Methodological issues in the study of realignment [Nexon]. Secular realignment: The concept and its utility [Seagull]. Realignment, party decomposition, and issue voting [Campbell]. Realignment and short-term crisis: A case ... (more information)

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Albany, NY: State University of New York Press (SUNY), 1991. xv, 253 pp. Endnotes, bibliography, index. Jean Paul Sartre's "Critique of Dialectical Reason" deals with a problem that continues to dominate both continental and Anglo-American thought: the historical character of reason and the question of relativism. This work deals with the issue of relativism in the context of Sartre's later philosophy and contemporary debates on the social-historical character of reason as they emerge, principally... (more information)

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Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. x, 212 pp. List of contributors, 11 essays. This collection of essays looks at literary representations of space--physical, psychological, political, and cultural; examines the relationship between gender and geography in a broad array of texts and contexts, from the early novel to contemporary Caribbean and Chicana literature; explores the changing definitions of "women's place"; and shows how maps of gender overlay with maps of status. Minor ... (more information)

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Denver, CO: Department of Anthropology, University of Denver, 1935. Four reports bound together (mimeographed typescript manuscripts). 1) Reconnaisance Work in the Upper Rio Grande Valley, Colorado and New Mexico, Season 1942 (Archaeological Series, 3rd Paper) [pub. 1942; 35 pp.; bibliography, 1 plate]. 2) Archaeological Sites of the Chucara Drainage, Southern Colorado (co-author Janet Chatin; pub. 1943; Archaeological Series, 4th Paper) [62 pp.; bibliography, 4 plates]. 3) The Archaeological Survey of the ... (more information)

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Nairobi, Kenya: East African Publishing House, 1967 32 pp. Maps, bibliographical references. A collection of documents and oral accounts (latter collected by Gwassa in 1966-1967) illustrating the Maji Maji uprising in Tanzania in 1905-1907. CONDITION: Stapled pamphlet with moderate overall handling wear. Text clean and free of all marks.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 22 x 14 cm. ... (more information)

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Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. vii, 247 pp. Editor's introduction, edited text, commentary glossary, bibliography. Reputedly written by Jerome Barlow[e] and William Roy[e], former Fransciscan friars, this is a long pre-Reformation verse satire which unrelentingly and irreverently attacks various aspects of Roman Catholicism as well as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, England's powerful prelate-chancellor in power under Henry VIII from 1515 to 1529. Written probably late in 1527 and published in 1528 in ... (more information)

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Lund, Sweden: Department of Scandinavian Languages, Lund University, 1988. 50 pp. Bibliography. In stapled card covers. Light overall wear. Text clean and free of all marks.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 30 x 20 cm. ... (more information)

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Bucaresti: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste Romani, 1975 357 pp. Bibliographical footnotes, errata slip. Text in Romanian. This is a scholarly history of land reform in Romania between the first and second World Wars. CONDITION: Minor bumping to ends of spine; light overall shelfwear. Text clean and free of all marks.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 25 x 18 cm. ... (more information)

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Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1969. xviii, 566 pp. Footnotes, bibliography. Text in German. A collection of 25 scholarly essays dealing with the theology and philosophy of Martin Luther (1483-1546). Moderate underlining and marginalia in pen in Editor's introduction (9 pages), else text is free of all marks. Former owner's last name and date in pen on first free endpaper. Very light overall soiling to cloth covers, else boards in excellent condition.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacke... (more information)

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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994 vii, 280 pp. Moderate highlighting throughout text with some pen underlining/marginalia. Sewn binding (no creasing along spine); light overall handling wear to covers.. First Edition. Paperback. Acceptable. 26 x 20 cm. ... (more information)

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