Search Results: Titles starting with U from House of Our Own Books

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 2006. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is a history of the evolution of U.S. Army doctrine for two of the many types of operations other than conventional warfare for which the Army had to prepare during the three decades that followed World War II: counterinsurgency and limited peacetime contingency operations; it examines the nature of counterinsurgency and nation-building missions, the institutional obstacles inherent in dealing effectively with such operations, and the strengths and weaknesses of U.S. doctrine; includes maps and illustrations, 570 pages (light green pictorial cover with dark green lettering; edgewear along top of spine; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A: MIT Press, 1993. Trade Paperback. As New. This volume includes a selection of articles from The Washington Quarterly, an international policy journal published for the Center for Strategic and International Studies; its survey of international security issues and policy directions makes a valuable contribution to the debate over America's world role in the post cold war era (red, white and blue cover; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.: Perceval Press, 2009. This book consists of a series of 35 collages that combine maps, paint and text to form an atlas of imaginary future American states that is a satirical critique of American imperialism (brown covers with silver lettering and world maps on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstorre) . Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket. 11 3/4" X 10 5/8".

Union City, NJ, U.S.A.: Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1980. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. An anthology of poetry and stories, a selection of the best work from the members of the US1 Poets' Cooperative, a diverse group of writers in central New Jersey; includes black & white drawings (gray cover with gold lettering and graphic, slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

London, England, U.K.: Faber & Faber, 1967. This is the first full account of the Ulster Volunteer Force, known as Carson's army a citizen army of 100,000 Ulster Prortestants, from its origins in 1912 until its virtual extinction at the Battle of the Somme; at a time when the Liberal Govenment was determined to grant home rule to Ireland, the Ulster Volunteer Force was organized to resist by force any attempt to eject Ulster from the United Kingdom; includes map and photographs (black cloth with gold lettering on spine, very slight edgewear, previous owner's address sticker on front endpaper; white pictorial dust jacket with orange lettering and photo of Belfast on Covenant Day, 1912, has a few creases along the upper edge and some brown reinforcement tape on the underside, not visible from the outside; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York, NY, U.S.A: Praeger Publishers, 1980. Hard Cover. Near Fine. A collection of articles on the concept of uncertainty in the social sciences (black cover with silver lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1992. Trade Paperback. As New. This book argues that sociology has not freed itself from the influence of philosophy, specifically from the search for certainty; the authors criticize sociology for its formalism and argue that to regain its radical and critical edge it must return to and develop a comparative and historical approach; in Part I the authors trace formalism to central positions in Western philosophy and examine its impact on historiography, evolutionary social thought, and positivist sociology; in Part II they examine the tensions between formalism and social theory in the work of Levi Strauss and Habermas; in Part III they compare modernization theory to the more recent discussions of modernity and postmodernity; the book ends with a discussion of alternative, more sociological accounts of rationality and scientific knowledge which form the basis of a non-formalist, comparative, and historical sociology (pictorial black & white cover)

Helsinki, Finland: Ajatus Kirjat, 2005. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 6 7/8" X 8 7/8. This is a beautiful book about Finnish cuisine and culture with traditional Finnish recipes and descriptions of the Finnish way of life during the different seasons of the year; includes many color photographs; the author is a food culture editor (orange & black laminated cover with photographs on the front and back; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Beverely Hills, CA, U.S.A: Sage Publications, 1984. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. In this volume, a group of international contributors explore the respones of seven Western democracies - Britain, France, West Germany, United States, Sweden, Denmark, and Ireland - to the problem of unemployment; most of the chapters were first presented as papers at a workshop on unemployment policy held at the University of Aarhus in 1982 and sponsored by the European Consortium for Political Research (black cloth with gold lettering, very small tear on upper edge of endpaper, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Yale Law Journal, 1998. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. This is a Yale Law Journal reprint of an article from the April 1988 issue, a critical study of the work of the Harvard Law Professor Roberto Unger on philosophy, law, and politics; the author, a Research Fellow at Queen's College, Oxford, contends that Unger's reputation, despite its acclaim, is undeserved, that his work displays little familiarity with the philosophical literature, that his philosophical, legal and political analysis, particularly his celebrated critique of liberalism, is riddled with logical and historical errors; 92 pages (plain white cover with blue lettering is slightly sunned; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Los Angeles, CA U.S.A.: Figueroa Press, 2006. This is an illustrated history of the University of Southern California and its surrounding neighborhood, with large black & white and color photographs on nearly every page, maps of the campus and the neighborhood, and a 21st century neighborhood profile (orange laminated cover with black & white photo of the university area; a bright, clean, tight copy). First Edition. Paperback. As New. 9 1/4" X 8 3/4".

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)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1993. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Although questions of sexuality and power were central to Foucault's writings, they largely ignore feminism; this book explores the problems that Foucault raises for feminism and the implications of including gender in analyses of power relations, sexuality, and the body; contributors include, in addition to the editor, Kate Soper, Jean Grimshaw, Maureen Cain, M.E. Bailey, Janet Ransom, Maureen McNeil, Susan Bordo, Dean MacCannell, Juliet Flower MacCannell, Janet Holland (gray & white covers with black lettering, drawing by Erich Heckel on front, corners slightly bumped; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.: Sage Publications, 1994. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Near Fine: this is a study of the restructuring of the major economic and political organizations of American society and their intstitutitional interrelations, which have provided the organizational context for contemporary urban and suburban development; it argues that the spatial restructuring of urban America cannot be explained by either contemporary ecological or neomarxist theory; rather it is largely the result of changes in the organizational structure and operaton of America's intergovernmental system; the central focus of this book is a description and analysis of the federal system of urban policy making as it has evolved since the 1930s (red & black laminated cover with white & black lettering is slightly rubbed; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Nairobi, Kenya: East African Publishing House, 1970. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Essays on the planning and logistical aspects of the rapid growth of new and old towns in East Africa (upper left corner of rear cover creased, small tear on spine, otherwise a clean, tight copy)

Port Washington, NY, U.S.A: Kennikat Press, 1980. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This book, the product of a conference on The Future of the Metropolis sponsored by the University of Cincinnati in 1975, contains essays by historians and specialists in housing and health care on urban problems and policies (brown cloth with white and yellow lettering, slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.: University of California Press, 1974. A major study of the politics of tropical Africa's largest city which examines the impact of urbanization on the distribution and exercise of influence within the Nigerian capital as grew from a colonial town of 100,000 people to a metropolis with a population of over 1.25 million; the main thesis is that urban political structure in Lagos has shifted from oligarchy to communalism, defined as a form of domination in which political control is vested in a cultural aggregate whose members share a common identity and a sense of corporate solidarity; includes a fold-out map of the city of Lagos (corners slightly bumped, dust jacket slightly rubbed, with wear at lower edge of spine, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.