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

New York: Arco. Paperback. 1978. Near Fine: Light foxing to edges and inside covers. Interior unmarked. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. No tears, no folds, no creases. 138 pages. A great read for any political junkie. An insightful breakdown FOIA and how the average person c an use it to their advantage. .

Williamsburg: Bicast Publishing, 1993. Trade Paperback. New. Not a remainder. Not damaged. 154 pages. "Virginia Cookin'" from colonial days. Recipes brought from England enriched with cooking methods, ingredients, and dishes learned from the Indians. Includes Herbs and Spices; Hors D'oeuvres and Appetizers; Soups, Chowders, and Stews; Beverages; Breads; Meats; Seafoods; Vegetables; Desserts; Cakes, Pies and Cookies; Salads; Preserves and Pickles; Index.

Nashville: Thomas Nelson. Hardcover. 1977. First Edition (stated). Fine book in a Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Remainder mark to bottom edge. Jacket has small tears and soiling. 160 pages. A biography of the Afro-American sea captain who sought to attract freed blacks from America to the colony of Sierra Leone.

New York: Simon & Schuster. Hardcover. October 23, 2007. First Edition / ninth printing. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean and bright. Spine ends lightly bumped. Light shelfwear wear to jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Suitable for gifting. 297 pages. Lexile: 850L. Reading level: 8-12 years. Stephen Hawking and his daughter Lucy explain the universe to readers of all ages. Garry Parsons' illustrations add humor and interest, and his scientific drawings add clarity; there are also 32 pages of full-color scientific photos.

New York: Dover Publications. Trade Paperback. June 1983. Very Good+. Interior unmarked. Spine straight and tight with reading creases. Light edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. x+468 pages. Gandhi's nonviolent protest movement, Satyagraha (satya = true, agraha = firmness), came to stand, like its creator, as a moral principle and a rallying cry. This is Gandhi's story of the path to his vision of Satyagraha and human dignity. Gandhi made scrupulous truth-telling a religion. His simply narrated account of boyhood in Gujarat, marriage at age 13, legal studies in England, and growing desire for purity and reform has the force of a man extreme in all things. He details his gradual conversion to vegetarianism and ahimsa (non-violence) and the state of celibacy (brahmacharya, self-restraint) that became one of his more arduous spiritual trials. In the political realm he outlines the beginning of Satyagraha in South Africa and India, with accounts of the first Indian fasts and protests, his… Read more

Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses. 1990. Paperback. Cover with flaps. 1st Edition. Fine. 91 pages.Nice full-color exhibition catalog with text in English. Published for the commemorative exhibition "Portugal in the opening of the world" at the Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, presented by the Organization of American States. Contents broken into sections "The Age of Closed Worlds," "The Significance of the Portuguese Discoveries," "The Culture of the Portuguese Discoveries," and "The Encounter Between the Worlds."

London: Sphere Books / Abacus. 1990. Paperback. First paperback printing. Tanned and foxed. Text unmarked. Spine creased. Not from a library. 162 pages. Most of the stories in this collection are about flags and why the English wave them. This collection also includes a ghost story; the story of a hanging in 1919 of a young boy; and "After the Strawberry Tea," the story of an English Chernobyl off the coast of Kent.

London: Sphere Books / Abacus. June 11, 1992. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition, later printing. Very Good. Pages tanned. Text unmarked. Spine creased. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. No tears. 240 pages.

New York: Europa Editions. 2006. Trade Paperback. Fine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 290 pages.

Des Moines, Iowa: Meredith, 1962. Five-ring Looseleaf Binder. Revised Edition. Third Printing. Red and white gingham-patterned oil-cloth covered binder with pictorial front endpaper, acetate overlay for the title page, acetate ring insert, and cardboard rear sheet lifter. Fine condition. Few signs of prior use. Light creasing to fourth divider tab. Prior owner's name penciled to rear sheet lifter. Binder is clean and bright with sharp corners and only slight rubbing. Binder rings align perfectly. Acetate insert and overlay are clear. Not from a library. Suitable for gifting. 400 pages. First published in 1930 as My Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book, a major revision was published in 1953 as Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book. The 1953 edition was further revised in 1962. This is the third printing of the 1962 Revised Edition with more than 1,000 recipes, more than 50 color photos of finished foods, and more than 250 black-and-white how-to and food identification photos. Nineteen chapters filled… Read more

Des Moines, Iowa: Better Homes and Gardens. 1999. Paperback. Fine condition. Contents: Cookie Basics, Drop Cookies, Bar Cookies, Cutout Cookies, Shaped Cookies, Sliced Cookies, Kids' Cookies, Special Day Cookies, Old World Cookies, Recipe Index.

Des Moines, Iowa: Better Homes and Gardens Book. Paperback. 1993. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with light shelfwear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 64 pages.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. Hardcover.First Edition (stated). Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Light edgewear to jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 332 pages. The chronicle of a remarkable three thousand mile journey down the Mekong River as it runs through China, Tibet, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

New York: Street & Smith Publications. January 1960. Digest-size Magazine. Good. Interior lightly tanned but unmarked. "-20" inked on front cover. Edgewear. Top half-inch of spine curled. The last issue published solely under the Astounding name. Edited by John W . Campbell, Jr. Cover art by H. R. van Dongen illustrating Deathworld (Hugo finalist, serial, part 1 of 3) by Harry Harrison; The Burning Bridge (novelette) by Poul Anderson; Stress Pattern (novelette) by Robert Silverberg; Attention Saint Patrick (short story) by Murray Leinster; A Rose by Other Name... (short story) by Christopher Anvil; Viewpoint (short story) by Randall Garrett; Solid Plutonium Headache (science article). Interior illustrations by Bernklau, Leo Summers, and H. R. van Dongen.

New York: Street & Smith Publications. October 1960. Digest-size magazine. Good. Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. First issue with only " Analog" in the title. First issue with a photo cover. Cover illustrates "Science Fact: The Self-Repairing Robot" by Isaac Asimov. Includes "The Lost Kafoozalum" (Hugo finalist, novella) by Pauline Ashwell [Paul Ash]; "Combat" (novelette) by Mack Reynolds; "Satellite System" (short story) by H. B. Fyfe; "Psichopath" (short story) by Darrel T. Langart (Randall Garrett); "Thiotimolin and the Space Age" (short story) by Isaac Asimov. Illustrated by Schoenherr, Summers and Van Congen.

New York: Mcgraw-Hill. Hardcover. February 26, 1981. First edition / full number line. Very Good book in a Good jacket. Interior is pristine. Spine is straight and tight. Dust soiling to top edge. Jacket torn at spine ends. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Price clipped. 458 pages. A penetrating look at the developments in China following the death of Premier Zhou Enlai in 1976. The author was at Tianamen Square when angry crowds rioted. The book shows how far-reaching are the changes now underway in China.

Freetown, Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone. Government Printing Office. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. 1987. Very Good. Cover and pages securely bound by a single clean staple. Interior is pristine. 14 pages.

Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Classics. 1974. Trade Paperback. 1982 reprint. Good+ Tanning, foxing, edgewear. Spine creased. Interior unmarked. Not from a library. No tears. 213 pp. The Book of Dede Korkut is a collection of twelve stories set in the heroic age of the Oghuz Turks, a nomadic tribe who had journeyed westwards through Central Asia from the ninth century onwards. The stories are peopled by characters as bizarre as they are unforgettable: Crazy Karchar, whose unpredictability requires an army of fleas to manage it; Kazan, who cheerfully pretends to necrophilia in order to escape from prison; the monster Goggle-eye; and the heroine Chichek, who shoots, races on horseback and wrestles her lover. Geoffrey Lewis's classic translation retains the odd and oddly appealing style of the stories, with their mixture of the colloquial, the poetic and the dignified, and magnificently conveys the way in which they bring to life a wild society and its inhabitants. This edition also includes an… Read more

New York: Oxford University Press. Second edition. February 1990. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine square and tight. Covers clean and crisp. Dust stains to top edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 336 pages. A leading historian of international affairs and a distinguished political scientist bring the rich experience of the past to bear upon the perplexities that confront today's statesman. They survey the evolution of the international system from the emergence of the modern state in the seventeenth century to the present, paying particular attention to the nineteenth century's balance-of-power system, principles of which still determine many of the usages of modern diplomacy. The author show, however, that this classical system has been profoundly altered by a twentieth-century diplomatic revolution: a complex of political, economic, military, and ideological factors that has destroyed the homogeneity of the international community and confronted diplomats with new problems… Read more

New York: Simon & Schuster. Hardcover. 2014. First Edition (stated) / full number line. As New book in an As New jacket. Remainder mark to bottom edge, otherwise pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Not clipped. 337 pages. A humorous and suspenseful murder mystery on the moon. Like his fellow lunarnauts, twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson is famous the world over for being one of the first humans to live on the moon. And he's bored out of his mind. Kids aren't allowed on the lunar surface, meaning they're trapped inside the tiny moon base with next to nothing to occupy their time. Then Moon Base Alpha's top scientist turns up dead. Dash senses there's foul play afoot, but no one believes him.