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

Norway: Kvekerforlaget (Norwegian Quaker Press), 1982. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This is a collection of original essays on Quakerism in honor of Sigrid Lund, a Norwegian Quaker and peace and human rights activist; the essays reflect Lund's own endeavor to unite the spiritual and practical sides of Quakerism; contributors include well-known Quaker writers and field workers from different parts of the world, incluidng the Scandinavian countries, Britain, Germany, the United States, and others; all text in English (yellow cover with brown lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Argonaut Inc. Publishers, 1969. This is the first printing of a reprint of a book, first published in 1903, which contains the results of researches into the folklore of the Greek-speaking parts of Macedonia, carried on in 1900-1901 by the author under the the auspices of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University; the materials derived from oral tradition were supplemented from local publications; includes six appendices with text in Greek (dark blue bloth with gold lettering, small crease at upper end of spine, otherwise in near fine condition) . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.: T. & T. Clark, 1981. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This is the third printing of the third edition, originally published in 1936, of this Greek-English lexicon; the author was a professor of Hellenistic Greek at McGill University (blue cloth with gold lettering, very slight edgewear, 2 small marks on fore edge, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Munchen, Deutchland: C. H. Beck, 2002. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Text in German; this is a coporate history of the world's largest chemical company, founded in Germany in 1865; includes illustrations and photographs; 763 pages (gray cloth with white lettering on black spine label; blue dust jacket with white & light blue lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy; a very large, heavy volume)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: W.W. Norton & Company, 1986. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This volume is one of a series of short biographies derived from The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and includes five major Russian composers; each biography covers the composer's life and works, followed by a complete list of the works and a bibliography; includes photographs and other illustrations (black pictorial cover with white & red lettering, slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

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

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A: University of California Press, 1993. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. An ethnography of an Egyptian Bedouin community; the author, an anthropologist who lived for extended periods in the community, records the stories of the Bedouin women; includes 8 black & white photographs (pictorial cover with photo of Bedouin woman on the front; faint corner crease, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Nicaragua: American Friends Service Committee, 2003. Paperback. Very Good. This is a report, commissioned by the American Friends Serfvice Committee, by a Nicaraguan economist and consultant, who has worked for the Planning Ministry, the Ministry of External Co-operation, and the Institute of Sustainable Development

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: Temple University Press, 1989. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. This is the first empirical study of the actual process of attempting to translate into reality the concept of equal pay for work of equal value; it documents a large project undertaken by the state of Oregon to evaluate 35,000 jobs of state employees, and to identity and remedy gender-based pay inequities; it details both the technical and political processes, showing how the technical was always political, how initial defeat was turned into partial victory by labor union women and women's movement activists; the author, a sociologist at the University of Oregon, was a member of the legistative task force responsible for implementing the legislation requiring a pay equity study (black cloth with gold lettering, black & white dust jacket has two small edge tears; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copfy)

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)

New York, NY, U.S.A: Zed Books, 1999. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Published in association with the African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies in Nigeria, this book includes studies by African scholars that examine the causes of violent conflict in African nations, including Angola, Burundi and Rwanda, Liberia, Mali, and Sierra Leone, that are an obstacle to development (gray cover with slight edgewear and corner crease that extends through textblock, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

McHenry, IL, U.S.A.: Delta System Co., 1999. Trade Paperback. Fine. This volume presents the proceedings of a conference on Language Diversity and Academic Achievement in the Education of African American Students, sponsored by the Coalition on Language Diversity in Schools, that brought together some 50 national leaders in language, education, and public policy around meeting the academic needs of African American students with respect to language variation (a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition)

Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Suhrkamp, 2003. Hard Cover. As New/Near Fine. Text in German; this is the first volume of the correspondence between Adorno and Horkheimer, from 1927 to 1937 when Adorno moved to New York; includes an appendix with six letters from Adorno to Gabrielle Oppenheim, Leo Lowenthal, Ernst Krenek, Slatan Dudow, Ernst Bloch, Erich Fromm, as well as a number of reports (gray cloth with white lettering on blue spine label; plain blue dust jacket with gray & white lettering has very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, 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.

Bombay, India: Asia Publishing House, 1970. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. This is one of a series of village demographic surveys conducted by the Institute of Economic Growth in 1958-1960; the data cover six villages located within a radius of sixteen miles from the city of Delhi and relate to fertility level, differential fertility, marriage and widowhood, and infant mortality (dark blue cloth with gold lettering, slightly bumped corner; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Dorsey Press, 1989. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book provides an introduction to the prediction of behavior from measures of dispositions such as attitudes and personality traits (white pictorial cover with black lettering, very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Trade Paperback. As New. 6 3/4" X 9 1/2. In this book the author use archaeology, particularly the evidence of landscape and monuments, to examine the shared social memory of the ancient Greeks; in three detailed studies that focus on societies undergoing social transformation, the author shows how material evidence allows us to observe how they made use of the past to respond to these challenges; includes many illustrations (pictorial cover with images of Greek monuments on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition)

Catanzaro, Italy: Antonio Carello Editore, 1985. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Published in Italy, this is a bilingual anthology of Italian American poetry with text in English and Italian on facing pages; the poets include first, second, and third generation Italian Americans, includes a preface in both Italian and English by the editor and a biobibliography; a page has been inserted after the title page with a printed inscription and signature of the author's brother and a gift inscription in ink (cream-colored cover with red & black lettering, slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Westport, CT, U.S.A.: Greenwood Press, 1982. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket. The focus of this study is on the principles that guide military commnders in the effective conduct of war (plain white laminated covers with black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment)

Fayetteville, AR, U.S.A.: University of Arkansas Press, 1998. In this, the first Nubian novel every translated, a Nubian worker in modern Egypt, Awad, dreams of Dongala, the capital of medieval Nubia, now lost to the flood waters of the Aswan High Dam; in Dongala, the Nubians reached their zenith, defeating and dominating Upper Egypt; now, while Awad works in Cairo for good wages, his wife remains at home in squalor and must deal with the reality of today's Nubia, a poverty-stricken land (dark green cloth with gold lettering; green dust jacket with yellow lettering, author's photo on rear flap, very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Near Fine.