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

New York: Harper & Row. Hardcover. 1984. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Light wear to jacket; half-inch tear to jacket at top rear hinge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. x + 228 pages.

New York: Penguin. Hardcover. March 16, 2006. First Edition / full number line. Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Jacket has light edgewear and two short tears at top of spine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 436 pages. From one of the world's best-known development economists: an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West's efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world.

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. Digest-size Magazine. October 1976. Very Good+. Edited by Ben Bova. Cover art by Vincent di Fate for "Media Man" (Locus nominee, novelette) by Joan D. Vinge. Includes "Shadrach in the Furnace" (Hugo finalist, Locus and Nebula nominee) (serial, part 3 of 3) by Robert Silverberg; "The Sapiphage" (short story) by Daniel P. Dern; "The Man Who Murdered Television" (short story) by Joe Patrouch; "Alienation" (short story) by Jaygee Carr; "Altruism, Evolution, and Society" (science fact ) by Thomas A. Easton; "Ideas or Ideologies" (editorial). Illustrated by Vincent di Fate, Jack Gaughan, and John Schoenherr.

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.

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1996. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Binding square and tight. Cover clean and crisp. Corners sharp. Light dust stains to edges. Light shelf wear. 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 preventive… Read more

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1966. Abridged Edition, edited by J.T. Bonner. Trade paperback. 1984 printing. Near Fine. Interior unmarked. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased, but faded. Dust stains to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 8vo. xiv + 346 pages. Index, footnotes throughout. 181 figures. Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? This classic biology text looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analyzing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work has become renowned for the sheer poetry of its descriptions. A great scientist sensitive to the fascinations and beauty of the natural world tells of jumping fleas and slipper limpets; of buds and seeds; of bees' cells and rain drops; of the potter's thumb and the spider's web; of a film of soap and a bubble of oil; of a splash of a pebble in a pond. In the course of this Thompson sets forth his seminal theory of transformation: that… 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. Trade Paperback. October 1977. Fifth printing. Very 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.… Read more

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

Toronto: Bantam Classics. Mass Market Paperback. October 1981. Near Fine. Interior unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased but faded. Crease to front hinge. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxii + 201 pages."When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing -- though absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation.

Washington, D.C.: Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State, July 1985. Trade paperback. Very Good. Text unmarked. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Edge and corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xvi + 215 pages.

Freetown, Sierra Leone: People's Educational Association of Sierra Leone, 1987. Very Good. Text block pristine. Gift inscription inside front cover. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light shelf and reading wear to covers. 342 pages. Numerous color and B&W photos.

Ames, Iowa: Iowa State College Press, 1952. Hardcover. 1952. First Edition. Very Good+. Ochre cloth over boards with red lettering and green illustration to front board and red lettering to spine. Endpapers have poems in green ink. Red and white dust jacket. Sewn binding. First printing of First Edition (no additional printings listed). Signed by author on half title page. Name of original owner and date "Oct. 29, 1952" on half title page. Original owner's bookplate to verso of FFEP. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. Text block pristine. Spine tight, tail bumped. Top front flap clipped. Jacket shows rubbing and light edgewear, and light chipping and sun fading to spine. See pictures. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xiv + 235 pages. Return to an Iowa farm of the 1880s, seen through the impressionable eyes of a lively young boy. There in Des Moines County, not far from Burlington, Hugh Orchard grew up when the farm was the center of life in rural America. A broken binder was a major crisis. A… Read more

New York: Ballantine Books, March 1979. First Paperback Edition. Mass market paperback. ISBN 0-345-27255-2. Very Good. Lightly tanned. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light dust stains to top edge. One-quarter inch tear to front cover. xiv+458 pages. Winner of the 1978 Ditmar Prize for Best International Long Fiction, the 1978 Gandalf Prize for Book-Length Fantasy, and the 1978 Locus poll Award for Best Fantasy Novel.

New York: Penguin. 1985. Paperback. Edited with an Introduction by Ronald Blythe. Very Good. Crease across front cover, wear and tear at spine ends, light tanning to page edges. Interior is pristine. Spine is straight and tight. Cover is clean and bright. Not from a library. 471 pp.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Eduational Publishing. Trade Paperback. 1952. later printing. Near Fine. Text Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Rubbing to covers. Dust stains to closed 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.

Georgetown, Guyana: Demerara Publishers Limited. Paperback. 1991. Very Good. Interior pristine. Spine creased and leaning. Reading wear to covers.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. Paperback. Very Good. Text unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Rubbing, creasing and edgewear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxiv + 362 pages. This selection covers the full range of Mansfield's fiction, from her early satirical stories to the subtly nuanced comedy of 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel' and the macabre and ominous 'A Married Man's Story'. The stories that pay what Mansfield calls 'a debt of love' to New Zealand are as sharply etched as the European stories, and she recreates her childhood world with mordant insight. Disruption is a constant theme, whether the tone is comic, tragic, nostalgic, or domestic, echoing Mansfield's disrupted life and the fractured expressions of Modernism.

New York: Grove Press, November 1981. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Interior unmarked. Binding square and tight. Foxing to closed edges. Mild shelfwear to covers. 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.