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

New York: Harper & Row, March 1984. Hardcover. 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.

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: Penguin, March 2006. Hardcover. 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. 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: 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: 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

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

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.

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.

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. Not from a library. 342 pages. Numerous color and B&W photos.

Iowa City: Penfield Press, 1979. Staple-bound softcover. Fourth printing, June 1986. Near Fine. No writing. A few small discolorations. Securely bound by two staples. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. vi + 66 pages.

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.

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.

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1985. Mass Market Paperback. First Penguin Classics printing. Near Fine. Interior unmarked, but lightly tanned. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers rubbed. Not from a library. Black remainder mark to bottom page. 319 pages. In an age of ferment, following the American and French Revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft took prevailing egalitarian principles and dared to apply them to women. Her book is both a sustained argument for emancipation and an attack on the social and economic system. Subsequent feminists tended to loose sight of her radical objectives. For Mary Wollstonecraft all aspects of women's existence were interrelated, and any effective reform depended on a redistribution of political and economic power.

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.

New York: Pathfinder Press, December 1983. Trade Paperback. First Edition, Second Printing, 1984. Very Good. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Edge and corner wear. Rubbing to covers. Light foxing to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 352 pages.

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."