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

New Delhi, India: Kali for Women, 1996. This book uncovers the biases that underlie mainstream development theory and account for the marginal status given to women's needs in current development policy; it traces the emergence of women as a specific category in development thought and examines alternative frameworks for analyzing gender heirarchies; it identifies the household as the primary site for the construction of power relations and compares the extent to which gender inequalities are revealed in different approaches to the concept of the family unit; it assesses the poverty line as a measuring tool and provides a critical overview of population control, an issue fiercely contested by feminists (black paper-covered boards with gold lettering, slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Cambridge, England, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. This is a collection of papers from a workshop held at Utrecht University in 1994 in which leading linguists in the field of Prosodic Morphology examine a range of issues in the interaction of word-formation and prosody; the book describes the general transition in linguistic theory from rule-baed to constraint-based approaches; most of the contributions are written from the perspective of Optimality Theory, a theory of constrant interaction in generative grammar (black cloth with white & blue lettering is in nearly perfect condition except for a white sticker on the front end paper; black dust jacket with white & blue lettering has very slight shelf wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.: Josey-Bass, 1979. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is a quarterly sourcebook in behavioral science methodology focused on innovative methods for studying person-situation interactions; the first two chapters deal with the independent variables, persons and situations; the second two chapters examine what goes on between the introduction of the independent variables and the measurement of the dependent variables, namely interaction; the fifth chapter examines the concept of behavior as it is used in person-situation interaction research; the last chapter describes an ideal interactive paradigm (white cover with black lettering, slight edgewear, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.: University of Michigan Press, 2007. This book addresses the modeling, interpreting, testing, and presentation of interactive propositions in regression analysis; it begins by explaining how verbal statements of interactive arguments and hypotheses translate into mathematical empirical models; it then provides advice on estimating, interpreting, and presenting the results of such models and explains some existing general pratice rules (black textured cloth with silver lettering on spine; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment). Near Fine/No Jacket.

New York, NY, U.S.A: Columbia University Press, 1981. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. This book examines the change in family life as two working parents becomes the norm in industrialized countries; it investigates the conditions under which parents can undertake productive roles both at home and at work and explores the effects of alternative care arrangements on their children; for this study, research teams collected extensive data in the United States, France, Sweden, Germany, and Hungary on cash benefits for working parents who are raising children, child care services provided outside the home, and the costs and benefits of alternative policies; the results include a description, analysis, and comparison of both social benefits and formal child care programs in these countries, assessing their strengths and weaknesses as well as the rationale behind each approach to child care (reddish brown cloth with black lettering, very slight edgewear; dust jacket has moderate edgewear, repaired tear on… Read More

Tbilsi, Georgia: AZRI Publishing House, 2000. Paperback. Near Fine. 8 3/8" X 11 1/4. This book, with text in Georgian and English, includes articles about the Georgian artist and full-color reproductions of his art works (pictorial cover with very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A: Praeger Publishers, 1983. Trade Paperback. Very Good. The author, a political scientist and former antiwar activist, examines the past and present of the American left to attempt to determine the role it will pay in shaping the nation's future; in Part I he identifies the main currents of left thinking and argues that the American left's repeated fragmentation and isolation is largely responsible for its own failures to gain mass support; in Parts II & III he traces the political changes undergone by the left in the previous two decades and considers the possibility that radical democracy could serve as a perspective to unify and identify the left as a force in American politics in the future; with a forward by Derek Shearer (white cover with red lettering, minor shelf and edgweear, cover slightly curled, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A: Routledge, 1992. Trade Paperback. As New. This is a study of first-time upper middle-class mothers and their image of motherhood; it focuses on women in their thirties who had established careers before having a child and shows how they do not want to reproduce the mothering they themselves received; they do not want to emulate the traditional image of self-sacrificing mother; while recognizing that the new mother is expected to consider her own needs as well as her child's, they nonetheless lack close relationships, especially with other women, and have an image of the new mother as being able to care for herself and her child without social support

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Berghahn Books, 2003. In Nazi Germany, modern expressive dance found favor with the regime and with Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels; how modern artists collaborated with Nazism reveals an important aspect of modernism; this book offers three perspectives: the dancer Lilian Karina tells her own personal story of dancing in interwar Germany; the dance historian Marian Kant gives a systematic account of the interaction of modern dance and the Nazi state; and a documentary appendix looks at the reality created by Nazi racism, pedantic bureaucrats, and artistic ambition; includes 18 pages of illustrations (laminated paper-covered boards without dust jacket as issued; pictorial cover with photo of dancers Lilian Karina and Vasily Vassilieff). First American Edition. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: International Publishers, 1954. The author, the foreign correspondent for the Daily Worker (London), recounts the struggle for freedom throughout British colonial Africa in the face of terrible repressions; with an introduction by Alphaeus Hunton, Secretary of the Council on African Affairs, chaired by Paul Robeson and W.E.B. DuBois (corners and spine ends slightly bumped, review copy notice with hand-written date of publication pasted to first page; yellow dust jacket with red lettering, sunned along spine, edgewear at ends of spine, otherwise completely intact, a bright, clean copy). First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Albany, NY, U.S.A.: State University of New York Press, 1990. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. In this book the author explains how the contemporary ecological crisis within industrial society is caused by the values inherent in unlimited economic growth and competitive materialism and shows that the limits-to-growth critique of industrial civilization is the most effective stance against the dominant and seemingly invincible social order (black front cover with white & red lettering has very slight shelf wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy, completely unmarked)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 2001. Trade Paperback. As New. This book, a collection essays by leading Marxist scholars and writers, assesses the significance of twentieth century communism from the perspective that revolutionary transformation of the modern world-system is necessary for freedom to flourish; it attempts to come to terms with the downfall of the first modern attempt to construct a rational alternative to the structures of the existing world-system and revisits specific events of 1989 in Germany, Russia, China, and other countries (black pictorial cover with white & yellow writing, a bright, clean, tight copy)

Milano, Italia: Instituto Editoriale Internazionale, 1973. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Text in Italian: This is a translation of the book The Underlying Reality of Language and Its Philosophical Import, published in 1971 (white & red cover with black lettering, very slight edgewear, pages tanned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A.: Transaction Publishers, 1994. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This essay in cultural history concieves of opera as a laboratory for continual exploration of the powers hidden in the interaction between words and music; its origins in Renaissance Italy are traced to the belief of the Humanists that the magical properties of music could be harnessed, to the transition from polyphony to monody that gave musical expression to individualism, to the melodramatic propensity of Italian culture reflected in its literary and theatrical arts, and to the Florentine salon of burgers, aristocrats, scientists, and artists whose agenda included the challenge to rediscover how the ancient Greeks succeeded in heightening the rhetorical power of words by allying them with music; originally published in 1986, this edition includes a new introduction by the author in which she reconsiders her original work (white cover has very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A: Harvard University Press, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A publication of the MIT/Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, this study examines methods of evaluating school systems, the impact of school resources on student achievement, obstacles to efficiency, and the causes and magnitude of inequality of opportunity (first page has slight crease, otherwise a bright, clean copy)

Boston, MA, U.S.A: Northeastern University Press, 1998. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. An analysis of U.S. nuclear policies that describes acts related to the manufacture, deployment, and testing of nuclear weapons that violate both international and federal law; it presents a theoretical and historical framework for understanding these activities, examining the crimes within their organizational and social structural contexts; it also considers the role that these weapons have played in world affairs and explores options for the prevention and control of future nuclear offenses (green cloth with gold lettering, slight fading along edges, dust jacket has faint creases at ends of spine, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

London, England, U.K.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1961. This is the fourth printing of the first British edition of a book by the Irish poet, novelist, and critic whom many critics and Irish literary figures considered the nation’s finest poet since Yeats (light brown cover with gold lettering on front & spine, previous owner's name on front end paper, pages slightly tanned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Fourth Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: Temple University Press, 1990. Hard Cover. As New/As New. This is a collection of original essays that discuss the historical, theoretical, and political issues central to the work of the British historian, socialist, and peace activist E. P. Thompson; contributors include, in addition to the editors, Geoff Eley, William Sewell,:Catherine Hall, Renato Rosaldo, Ellen Wood, Robert Gray, John Goode, Kate Soper, and Martin Shaw (black cloth with gold lettering; black pictorial dust jacket with white lettering & photo of Thompson on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment)

Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.: University Press of Virginia, 1997. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This study of South African history finds the roots of the 20th century racial state in the years of British rule during the early 19th century when the Cape Colony was first integrated into the British empire of free trade (pictorial cover with painting of Cape Town on the front, slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight , unmarked copy)

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. A unique collaboration between two of the most important students of popular music, this volume explores two themes central to the study of music: the experience of musical participation and the experience of musical mediation; a number of the authors' most important essays, thoroughly revised, are introduced and framed by dialogues that supply additional context, introduce retrospective concerns, and reveal previously unseen connections; the format expresses the authors' desire for a more reflexive, experimental discourse on music and society; the subjects range from jazz, blues, polka, soul, rock, world beat, rap, karaoke, and other familiar genres to major scholarly debates in music theory and popular culture (cover has photo of South African street musicians on the front, very slight corner wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)