Search Results: Authors starting with E from Books of the World

Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 2002. DVD. Twenty-four 30-minute lectures on four Fine DVDs in two Fine original cases along with a Fine 112-page paperback Course Guidebook. No shrink-wrap, otherwise As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Suitable for gifting. Professor Marshall C. Eakin of Vanderbilt University delivers twenty-four lectures examining both the unity and diversity in the early history of the Americas. He discusses how Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 created a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures, European, African, and Native-American, and gave birth to the distinctive identity of the Americas today. Contents: lecture 1. Three peoples collide ; lecture 2. The Native Americans ; lecture 3. Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas ; lecture 4. Europeans and Africans ; lecture 5. European overseas expansion ; lecture 6. Christopher Columbus, path to conquest ; lecture 7. Stepping stones, the conquest of the Caribbean ; lecture 8. The rise of… Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Good book in a Very Good jacket. Last page torn, does not affect text, otherwise Near Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean and bright with wear to upper front corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 340 pages. In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, the Cold War ended, and a new World order began. We thought everything had changed. But one thing never changed: the spies. From 1995 to 2000, a man known as 'Comrade J" was the highest-ranking operative of the SVR--the successor agency to the KGB--in the United States. He directed all Russian spy actions in New York City, and personally oversaw operations against the United States and it allies in the United Nations. Contents: Born a communist -- Spies, bribes, and nuclear bombs -- Fake diplomats and un thefts -- The escape -- Epilogue.

New York: Condé Nast Publications. December 1974. Digest-size Magazine. Very Good+. Edited by Ben Bova. Cover art by Mike Gilbert for his Focus on Mars feature. Includes "Nix Olympica" (Hugo finalist, Locus nominee) (novelette) by William Walling; "Encounter Below Tharsis" (short story) by Bob Buckley; "The Weather on Mars" (short story) by the Alex & Phyllis Eisenstein; "The Indian Giver" (serial, part 2 of 3) by Alfred Bester; "On Mars with Mike Gilbert" (special feature) by Mike Gilbert; "Why We Won't Find Life on Mars" (science fact) by Richard C. Hoagland; "The Biopump Solution" (science fact) by Thomas A. Easton; "Destination Mars" (editorial). Illustrated by Kelly Freas, Mike Gilbert, and Jack Gaughan.

New York: Condé Nast Publications. October 1972. Digest-size Magazine. Very Good+. Edited by Ben Bova. Cover art by Jack Gaughan for "Common Denominator" (novelette, Locus Award nominee) by David Lewis. Includes "The Pritcher Mass" by Gordon R. Dickson (serial, part 3 of 3); "The Star Hole" (novelette) by Bob Buckley; "To Be a Champion, Merciful and Brave" (short story) by Richard Olin; "The Vietnam War Centennial Celebration" (short story) by Ralph E. Hamil; "Stretch of Time" (short story) by Ruth Berman; "Robots - Rams from Cams" (science fact) by Thomas Easton; "The Revolutionaries" (editorial). Illustrated by Jack Gaughan, Vincent Di Fate, John Schoenherr, Kelly Freas, and Leo Summers.

New York: Penguin, 2015. Paperback. Very Good. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Small tear to front cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 270 pages + 16 page reader's guide. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction. Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked by a wife of her husband while both are painting in their studio, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate. Uniting fact and fiction into an original romantic vision, The Danish Girl eloquently portrays the unique intimacy that defines every marriage and the remarkable story of Lili Elbe, a pioneer in transgender history, and the woman torn between loyalty to her marriage and her own ambitions and desires. The Danish Girl's lush prose and generous emotional insight make it, after the last page is turned, a deeply moving first novel about one of the most… Read More

Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and… Read More

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, September 1996. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Binding square and tight. Cover clean and crisp with light shelf wear, corners sharp. Light dust stains to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 642 pages. A resurgence of ethno-nationalism, the collapse of empires, the outbreak of humanitarian crises, and growing pressures on weakened states are substantially altering world politics. While a new international system has not yet emerged to replace the Cold War system, conflict within and between states continues at a high level, posing a severe challenge to diplomats and citizens in the United States and other countries. Some 40 essays in this unique and comprehensive volume probe traditional and emerging sources of conflict and explore the full range of instruments, actors, techniques, and policies for managing and resolving conflict--ranging from combat intervention, collective security, and UN peacekeeping to… Read More

London: IPC Magazines. Trade Paperback. 1981. Near Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Crease at front hinge. Light edge/reading wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 160 pages. An illustrated account of the lives of Charles and Diana and their families up to their union. Illustrated with color and B & W photographs.Contents: The Royal Family Tree, The Spencer Family Tree, Diana's Story, A New Life, His & Her Parents' Marriages, Birth And Babyhood, The Grandfather He Hardly Knew, A Proud Grandmother, A Sister For The Prince, Early School, A Prince At A Coronation, A Mothers' Influence, A Father's Pride, Gordonstoun, Charlie's Aunt, Timbertop, Helmet And Shield, Places And Titles, A Student At Cambridge, The German Connection, Myfyriwr Yn Aberystwyth, Linked With His Name, Set For Take-Off, God Bless The Prince Of Wales, The Changing Face.Travelling Man, Sailor Ahoy!, Girl Of The '80s, Country Life, Family Album, Chasing Sport, African… Read More

New York: New American Library / Meridian, October 1977. Trade Paperback. Fifth printing. Good+. Interior tanned, but unmarked. Spine creased. Rubbing and reading wear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 754 pages, 4 leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was the most famous--and notorious--woman in the early twentieth century. This abridged version of her two-volume autobiography takes her from her birthplace in czarist Russia to the socialist enclaves of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era and the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, the movement to legalize birth control (she was Margaret Sanger's mentor), and the movement for women's sexual and economic freedom.

London & New York: Longman, 1979. Hardcover. Fifth Edition. Eighth printing, 1995. Blue cloth over boards with silver lettering to spine. Sewn binding. Frontispiece portrait of Ernest Satow. Very Good+ book in a Near Fine jacket. Gift inscription on FFEP. Text pristine. Spine straight. Rubbing to jacket, light fading to spine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xx + 544 pages. An international classic. A comprehensive survey of the rules, laws and conventions covering the conduct of diplomacy, not only between individual nations, but also through international organisations. The fifth edition also covers commercial and economic functions of diplomacy, modern communications, and terrorism.

London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1965. Hardcover. Third printing, 1967. Very Good. Unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Light soiling to covers. 165 pages. Editorial material in English; plays in French.

New York: G. Schirmer, 1986. Staple-bound Pamphlet. Prior owner's stamp to front cover. Penciled notes. 64 pages.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Eduational Publishing, 1952. Trade Paperback. First Edition, Twenty-first printing (stated), 1980. Very Good. Text Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Rubbing to covers. Dust stains to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 139 pages.First published in 1690 under the title: An Essay Concerning the True Original Extent and End of Civil Government. The First Treatise attacks patriarchalism in the form of sentence-by-sentence refutation of Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, while the Second Treatise outlines Locke's ideas for a more civilized society based on natural rights and contract theory.

New York: The Odyssey Press, n.d. [c. 1935]. Hardcover. Tenth printing. Good. Discarded school textbook. Spine cracked. Notes and underlining in pencil. lvi + 422 pages.

London: National Portrait Gallery, 1974. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. Very Good+. From the collection of photographer, historian, curator, and patron of the arts Valerie Lloyd (1945-1999). Inked inside front cover: "Val Lloyd. Dept. Film + Photography. NPG". This is a photographic album with twenty-eight portraits of Oxford dignitaries taken by Lewis Carroll together with Carroll's poem "Hiawatha's Photographing" a parody of Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha". Introduction by Morton N. Cohen. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 32 pages. Stiff paper wrappers. 8vo.

New York: Grove Press, November 1981. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Interior unmarked. Binding square and tight. Foxing to edges. Mild shelfwear. Not from a library. 397 pages. A collection of essays on El Salvador discusses the rise of militant labor, terrorism, and human rights issues; and the prospects for peace.

New York: New American Library, April 1983. Mass Market Paperback. Mentor Book ME2195. First Edition. Stated First Printing, April 1983 / full number line. Very Good. Appears unmarked. Lightly tanned. Dust stains to top edge. Spine creased. Dog-ears to front cover. Not from a library. 394 pages.

Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1985. Paperback. Third Printing, 1988. Very Good. Interior unmarked. Spine cocked and creased. Reading wear to covers and edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 379 pages. Translation of: Bidāyah wa-nihāyah. This is a powerful portrayal of a middle-class Egyptian family confronted by material, moral, and spiritual problems during World War II.

New York: Hastings House, November 1967. Hardcover. Third printing, October 1972. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Text block pristine. Gift inscription to FFEP. Spine straight and tight. Jacket shows age toning and light edgewear with two quarter-inch tears at spine head. Nor from a library. No remainder mark. 192 pages. Numerous black & white photos. Full title: New England Legends and Folklore; Based on writings by Samuel Adams Drake and Others, and Illustrated with Photographs by Samuel Chamberlain. Edited, with a Foreword, by Harry Hansen. "Adapted, with additions, from A Book of New England Legends and Folk Lore, by Samuel Adams Drake,... 1884."

Charlotte, North Carolina: Main Street Rag, September 2004. Trade Paperback. First Printing (stated). Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light wear to upper corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 157 pages. 21 cm.