Search Results: Culture from Warren's Books

Waukesha, WI: Country Beautiful Corporation, 1970. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12h x 9 1/2w. A real nice clean unmarked large 98 page first edition hardcover. Dust jacket is very nice but inside flaps have creases from being folded over inside book. Illustrated with about 65 black & white photos. Title tell it all from the 1960's. Climate change from an earlier time period. Senator Gaylord Nelson is from Florida..

New York: Times Books, 1996. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 9 1/2 h x 6 1/4w. A real nice clean unmarked 331 page first edition hardcover with "2" low in number line. Studies the current debates over immigration and affirmative action from the perspectives of four ethnically diverse Californians, Black, White, Asian, Latino and their search fo r a new center in the shrill immigration debate, and how it can guide the country. Graphs, maps..

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 9 1/2 h x 6 1/4w. A real nice clean unmarked 172 page first edition hardcover with "1" present in number line. From back flap of dust jacket: Drawing from anthropology, psychoanalysis, sociology, science, and philosophy, the author gives special attention to the metaphoric and symbolic meanings of food. Throughout he blends material culture with observations on thematics and narratively to enlighten the reader who enjoys the pleasures of the text as much as those of the palate..

Cambridge, Massachusetts,: The MIT Press, 1979. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 9h x 7 1/2w. Dust jacket has a little wear but still looks nice in mylar cover. The questions he addresses are fundamental in the true philosophical sense: Why exactly should we want to act and believe 0rationally? Why should we formulate principles of action and try to stick to them? The question are not moral but explicitly. He is not out to argue that unprincipled or irrational behavior is immoral; rather, he invites to consider what we are trying to do, and what the justifications for such behavior is...

Nashville, TN: George Peabody College for Teachers, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 9 1/2 h x 6 1/2w. A nice 113 page first edition hardcover. Heavy duty topics of the day that are discussed in this book are: Cultures in Conflict, The War of Ideas, Struggle for Freedom Through Education, The relationship of Science to human Progress, The Child on Modern Society (modern being 1953) and Moral and Spiritual Values - An Approach to Unity. Has blue cloth boards with gold lettering. Won't show well in scan but will attach scan to listing anyway..

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1996. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 10 1/2h x 9 1/2w. A real nice clean unmarked 253 page first paperback edition and canadian edition as stated on copyright page. Twelve women artists and writers open this rare window on the northern world of the Inuit. From the nine artists, reminiscences of life on the land and thoughtful comments on the sources of inspiration for their art are interwoven with vivid images of a unique culture and a stern landscape.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Te Neues Publishing Group, 2002. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. A real nice clean unmarked 144 page first edition soft cover with "1" present in number line. Has just a little curling from shelf wear on bottom but still very nice. Cover has french designed flaps. A nostalgic trip through time with pageants such as Miss America and Miss USA and including more unusual contests like Miss Car Wash (California), Miss Kansas Turnpike, Mr. America Pumping Iron and my favorite Miss Nude UK. Lots of beautiful pictures throughout..

USA: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 11h x 9w. A real nice clean unmarked 240 page first edition hardcover. Has a faint sticker removed spot on back bottom corner. May not show in scan. From back cover: At first glance, Jessica Ingram's landscape photographs could have been made nearly anywhere in the American South: Many of these places are where the bodies of African Americans-activists, mill workers, store owners, sharecroppers, children and teenagers-were murdered or found, victims of racist violence. These images are interspersed with oral histories from victims' families and investigative journalists, as well as pages from newspapers and FBI files and other ephemera..

USA: Omnibus Press, 1996. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 11 3/4h X 9w. A real nice clean unmarked softcover. Exquisite collection of the many faces of Tori Amos. Her views on everything from pianos to magic carpets are in this treasury of quotes, with a stunning array of color and black & white photos..

New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 9 1/2 h x 6 1/4w. A real nice clean unmarked 199 page first edition hardcover with "1" present in number line. After decades of liberal policies that welcomed ever greater numbers of immigrants, America is seeing a surge in anti-immigration sentiment. Historian David Reimers enters the emotionally charged immigration debate, looking at all sides of the argument. Reimers offers an engaging picture of what Americans think about, and how they approach, this crucial issue..

USA: Oxygen Publishing, 2021. Book. As New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8h x 5w. A real nice clean unmarked 237 page first edition softcover with clean white pages. About a guy with a gay dad whole disrupts the status quo of whiteness by unapologetically recognizing black humanity..

Don Mills, ON, Canada: Oxford University Press, 2004. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 9 1/2 h x 6 1/2w. A real nice 316 page first edition hardcover with "1" present in number line. Has black & white photos and maps scattered throughout. Has a little highlighting on a few pages but still nice. Social and ethnic identity are nowhere more enmeshed with language than in Israel. Words and Stones explores the politics of identity in Israel through an analysis of the social life of language. By examining the social choices Israelis make when they speak, and the social meanings such choices produce, Daniel Lefkowitz reveals how Israeli identities are negotiated through language..