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

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pergamon Press, 1984. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. This is a study of the relations betwen men and women in Muslim society, of the relationship between the political and sexual spheres (blue & white laminated cover with white & red lettering, small rubbed area on back; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Athens, Greece: Lycabettus Press, 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is an account of the life and times of the people of the Pindos mountains in northern Greece as experienced by the author during ten years of wandering the ancient paths and summer pastures of the region; it tells in particular of his friendship with a family of Vlach shepherds from the mountains close to Albania (pictorial cover with photo of author on back has very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. This is a comparative study of the poetry of Whitman and Dickinson whose intent is to investigate the structure of each poet's imagination and to explorre the aesthetic consequences of their diverging responses to a single vision, that of the central consciousness, the artist's vision as responsible for organizing the universe; includes a letter from the publisher's managing editor to the previous owner, the poet Daniel Hoffman, a friend of the author, about the experience of working with the author; Hoffmann was the U.S. Poet Laureat in 1983-84 (green cloth with gold lettering on spine; dust jacket has slight crease on back flap; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore) . Revised. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

Phoenix Mill, Gloucestershire, England: Allan Sutton Publishing, 1996. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 7 1/8" X 9 7. Published in association with the National Trust, this book is a collection of papers presented to the 1993 and 1994 Leeds Symposium on Food History, an illustrated survey of how country houses were provided for in terms of food preparation, compiled by experts on the history of food and domestic skills; includes many illustrations, charts, and diagrams (black textured cloth with gold lettering, photo of a country house kitchen on the end papers; dark blue dust jacket with photo of a Hampshire country house kitchen on the front has sight shelf wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Churchill Livingstone, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. This textbook is designed as a practical handbook for clinicians seeing patients with neurologic disorders (gray cloth with red & yellow lettering, very slight shelfwear, previous owner's name on front endpaper, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; an extremely large, heavy volume, may require extra shipping)

Stanford, CA, U.S.A.: Stanford Law Books, 2010. Hard Cover. As New/As New. The essays in this book, which were originally prepared for and presented as a seminar series at Amherst College, explore the ways law identifies and responds to strangers within and across borders; they analyze the ambiguous place strangers occupy in communities not their own and reflect on how dealing with strangers challenges the law (tan cover with gold lettering; black & tan pictorial dust jacket; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition)

Latham, MD, U.S.A.: University Press of America, 1986. The book is a critical and historical review of competing views on the question of demarcating science from non-science in order to assess the scientific status of economics (maroon cloth with gold lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy, in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is a detailed study of the workings of the various parts of the British state in their confrontation with the radical Chartist movement during the course of 1848; it proceeeds from January to late summer, when mass arrests ended the insurgent movement; a further chapter examines the workings of the legal system, and the volume concludes with a general commentary on the political consequences of the decline of Chartism which followed the defeats of 1848 (gray cover with black lettering, pages tanned, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Tavistock, 1987. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This is a collection of essays w commemorating the centenary of the publication in 1884 of Engels' The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, which provided socialism and feminism with the first major discussion of the relationship between capitalism and patriarchy, of class conflict as a major cause of women's subordination (dark green pictorial cover with photo of Marx, Engels & Marx's family has a very faint crease; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment)

New York, New York, U.S.A: Routledge, 1990. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This anthology includes articles published in the journal Radical Philosophy between 1984 and 1989; it covers topics in social and moral philosophy which are central to current controversies on the left, focusing on theoretical issues raised by the socialist, feminist, and environmental movements (cover has slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. This is a collection of diverse essays by philosophers and other observers of the meanings of fashion (white laminated pictorial cover with black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket.

Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.A.: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. First Printing. Hard Cover. As New/As New. This book chronicles the history of a South Carolina planter family from the antebellum years, when they transformed a small patrimony into a Lowcountry agricultural empire, through the trauma of the Civil War and the difficult postwar period; includes portraits and photographs (green paper-covered boards with silver lettering; green pictorial dust jacket with photo of Chicora Wood on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970. Originally published in Polish 1965, this book, by a humanist Marxist philosopher, is based on the rediscovered early works of Marx, particularly The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844; includes an introduction by Erich Fromm (orange cloth with gold lettering has slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This book applies the insights of feminist scholarship and of literary analysis to examine the Australian national character, and looks at how the concept of the typical Australian, and the woman who stands in relation to him, has evolved across a range of cultural forms, including historical and literary texts, film and the media; it concentrates in particular on the writings of Henry Lawson and Barbara Baynton, and explores the circulation of ideas about these writers, their contribution to a national mythology, and the different ways their importance has been represented to modern readers (pictorial cover with very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Humanities Press, 1974. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This is a critical study of the four main philosophers of pragmatism, focusing on their writings and the substance of their ideas (red cloth with gold lettering, very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: W.W. Norton, 2011. This book uses cognitive neuroscience to rethink traditional teaching methods; it reviews the neurobiological foundations for learning, explaining how neural patterns impact attention, emotional processing, memory formation, and motivation; each chapter contains a summary and review of material to aid teachers in translating neurobiological information into the classroom as well as practical interventions, instructional strategies, and resources (white & gray pictorial cover; a bright, clean, tight copy). Trade Paperback. As New. 8" x 10".

Basel, Switzerland: Birkhauser Verlag, 1955. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. This volume, Poetry, is the first of a ten-volume set of the works of Friedrich Schiller published by Ernst Jenny; all text in German (yellow cloth and paper-covered boards with slightly faded gold lettering on black spine label; light tan dust jacket with dark tan lettering and floral border on front cover has slight edge wear, faint damp stain on lower end of spine; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

London, England, U.K.: Oberon Books, 1995. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. A translation of Schiller's first play in verse, a form he was to use for the rest of his career, and an early example of the historical drama for which he was to become famous; introduction by Nicholas Dromgoole; this is a very sturdy book with a striking black & white cover designed by the artist Andrzej Klimowski

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bergin & Garvey, 1990. This book examines the meaning of work in American society; it places ideas about work in their historical and cultural contexts (white cover with red & blue lettering, slight edgewear and sunning along edges, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Trade Paperback. Very Good.

U.S.A.: NLB, 1971. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. This book is a contribution to the philosophical interpretation of Marx and is concerned with the importance of Marx's concept of nature in the formulation of historical materialism; the author's reading of Marx's own writings, particularly the Grundrisse, and his discussion of Marx's positions in relation to those of Kant, Hegel, Engels, Lenin, Lukacs, and Sartre, enables him to establish the significance of Marx's view of the interpenetration of nature and society (tan cover with gold lettering, previous owner's names on front endpaper; brown dust jacket with yellow border, yellow & white lettering, is worn along edges; otherwise a bright, clean copy)