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

Gloucester, MA, U.S.A.: Peter Smith, 1962. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This is a reprint of the 1876 Henry Holt edition of the first volume of Taine's six-volume history of France from 1750 to 1870; this volume describes French society up to the time of the Revolution (tan cloth with plain black lettering, ends of spine slightly creased; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.: Mercury House, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Pearson, Jim. Inscribed by Editor. This is the first English translation of the Fantastic Tales of the 19th century Italian writer I. U. Tarchetti, whose novel Fosca was the basis for Ettore Scola's 1981 film Passione d'amore; the stories in this book were the first Gothic tales published in the Italian language; includes an introduction by the translator Lawrece Venuti and illustrations by Jim Pearson; an appendix contains translations of two French Gothic tales and a memoir of Tarchetti by Salvatore Farina; inscribed, signed, and dated by Venuti on the half-title page (black cloth with gold lettering, gold edges, gray end papers, black ribbon marker; dust jacket has illustration by Pearson on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Montreal, PQ, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Canadian philosopher and political scientist Charles Taylor captures the existential angst experienced by those societies and peoples of North America who are eager for recognition and are worried about the dangers that threaten their identity and their sense of belonging (blue cloth with gold lettering)

Cambridge, England, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. This is the second volume of a selection of published papers by the influential Canadian philosopher that he characterizes as philosophical anthropology; the 12 essays in this volume are divided into two sections: Philosophy and Social Science and Political Philosophy (white cover with blue & tan lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment; Volume I also available)

Cambridge, England, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. This is the first volume of a selection of published papers by the influential Canadian philosopher that he characterizes as philosophical anthropology; the 10 essays in this volume are divided into 3 sections: Agency and the Self, Philosophy of Psychology and MInd, and Philosophy of Language (white cover with blue & tan lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment; Volume II also available)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 2008. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. This is the first major study of the work of one of the most important philosophes of recent times; the author, a lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford University, and a friend and former student of Anscombe, presents her principal ideas, bringing out their interconnections, elaborating and discussing their implications, pointing out objections and difficulties, and aiming to present a unified overview of her philosophy; includes a bibliography of Anscombe's published writings (black textured cloth with gold lettering; black dust jacket with color photo of Anscombe on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Columbia University Press, 1948. This is a history of industrial hygiene, from its earliest beginnings to the development of legislation in Europe and America in the 19th and 20th centuries and the efforts to study the causes and control of occupational accidents and diseases; foreword by Alice Hamilton (black cloth with gold lettering, previous owner's bookplate inside front cover, pages very slightly tanned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Austin, TX, U.S.A: University of Texas Press, 1994. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book is a Syrian woman's personal account of her youth in Damascus in the first half of the 20th century, written to preserve the details of a genuine Arab past and to help younger Syrians appreciate the architecture of the old quarter with its reminders of earlier values (white pictorial cover with slight edgewear and faint corner crease)

Washington, D.C., U.S.A: National Planning Association, 1975. Paperback. Good. 7 " X 10. This volume embodies the results of two research projects which the author conducted at the National Planning Association during the previous seven years: the National Priorities Study and the Goals Accounting Study; the primary objective of this work is to develop an analytical system for understanding changes in the quality of life; the secondary objective is to attempt some empirical estimates within the framework of this system; Part I, Systematic Analysis of Multiple Values; Part II, Estimates for Single Goals (multicolored cover, slightly rubbed, slight wear along edges of cover and spine, library stamps, labels & stickers, but no card pocket; overall, a good, clean, tight copy; this book will not be drop-shipped)

Roma, Italia: L'Erma di Bretschneide, 2007. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 7" X 9 3/4. This book was the author's doctorial thesis at the University of Rome and won the Erminia Bretschneider Award for the History of Art; text in Italian with many color and black & white reproductions (dark red textured cloth; black dust jacket with paintings by Caravaggio, Carracci, and Reni on the front & back covers, small edge tear & crease on back; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment; a very large, heavy volume that can only be shipped by media mail)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 2009. Trade Paperback. As New. This is a study of feminist utopian novels that expose the patriarchal social order and offer new conceptual space to articulate the politics of change, validate the personal as political, and express feminists' self-defense through their symbolic violence against patriarchy (blue cover with white lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Hard Cover. As New/As New. This book is a collection of essays that examine the political and economic operations of the biotechnology industry, focusing on the relationships among corporations, universities, and national governments involved in biotechnological research; it places these operations in historical context, tracing the history of both the institutional frameworks within which they developed and the ideas, attitudes, and language which shaped their development (green textured cloth with white lettering; green & black dust jacket; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Paris, France: Unesco Press, 1981. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is a collection of 46 articles on disarmament, edited by the director of the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo for Unesco as part of its initiative to develop disarmament education as a distinct field of study for mobilizing informed public opinion on questions of peace and war (pictorial cover with slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: John Wiley & Sons, 1977. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. This book presents a study of Malaysia and its primary commodity exports in the context of a general discussion of developing countries in world trade, and an extended treatment of theories of trade and development; it reviews a wide range of empirical studies, emphasizing the different development in Third World countries between different export products, modes of ownership, and control of production (green paper-covered boards with gold lettering; green laminated dust jacket with white lettering, tear at top of front fold, creases in lamination; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Ames, IA, U.S.A.: Iowa State University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge concening M. bovis infections in animals and humans and a description and evaluation of new molecular tools useful in conducting epidemiological investigations of bovine tuberculosis; contributors include tuberculosis specialists from all over the world (laminated cover with one slightly scuffed corner, previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, otherwise in nearly perfect conditon)

Italia: Il Mulino, 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Text in Italian; this is a translation of the book Understanding and Producing Speech, published in 1983 (blue & gray cover with white lettering, pages slightly tanned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Verso, 1993. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. A collection of Thompson's essays on 19th century British history, written over a period of 25 years, with an introduction describing her personal and political life and academic career; the essays include: Chartism and the Historians, The Early Chartists, Women and Nineteenth-Century Radical Politics, Ireland and the Irish in English Radicalism before 1850, Seceding from the Seceders: The Decline of the Jacobin Tradition in Ireland, Queen Victoria, the Monarchy and Gender (maroon cloth with gold lettering, slight discoloration at lower right corner of rear cover due to sticker removal; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Austin, TX, U.S.A.: PRO-ED, 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book is about treating language disabilities in older students; chapters are grouped into three sections: The Emergent Role of the Speech-Language Pathologist in School Settings, Language Intervention in a Multidimensional Context, and Interventions for Specific Dimensions of Language Disabilities (crease at upper right front corner, minor edgewear and shelfwear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Columbia University Press, 2018. This is a study of Chinese policies regarding childcare and child welfare that were central to the formation of the modern Chinese state (black covers with black lettrers on gold spine label; red pictorial dust jacket; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. As New/As New.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Historically, networks of trust such as kinship groups, religious sects, and trade diasporas insulated themselves from political control by a variety of strategies; this book looks at how and with what consequences members of these networks have evaded, compromised with, or even sought connections with political regimes; since different forms of integration between trust networks produce authoritarian, theocratic, and democratic regimes, this book provides background to the explanation of democratization and de-democratization (black cloth with silver lettering on front & spine, slightly bumped corners; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)