Search Results: Authors starting with F from Underground Books, ABAA

Madison: The University of Wisconin Press, 1990. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9" X 6". xix, 314pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In 1985 Johannes Fabian, while engaged in fieldwork in the Shaba province of Zaire, first encountered this saying. Its implications—for the charismatic religious movements Fabian was examining, for the highly charged political atmosphere of Zaire, and for the cultures of the Luba peoples—continued to intrigue him, though its meaning remained elusive. On a later visit, he mentioned the saying to a company of popular actors, and triggered an ethnographic brainstorm. "Spontaneously, they decided it would be just the right topic for their next play. On the spot they began planning—suggestions for a plot were made, problems of translating the French term ‘pouvoir' were debated, several actors cited sayings and customs from their home villages.… Read More

London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xix, 417pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This edited volume examines the phenomenon of pseudoarchaeology from a variety of perspectives. The engaging and stimulating essays, written by a diverse group of scholars, scientists and writers, explore issues including: -the differences between real and pseudoarchaeology -pseudoarchaeology's increasing popularity and how the media, especially TV, has contributed to this -the warping of genuine archaeology to fit national and other agendas -pseudoarchaeology's potential risk to the genuine academic field of archaeology. Including case studies such as the supposedly mystical Maya, Nazi pseudoarchaeology, ancient pseudohistory in modern India, and surveys of esoteric Egypt, this fascinating text will appeal to students of archaeology and ancient history as well as… Read More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9 3/4" X 6 3/4". xviii, 656pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Remainder marks to bottom edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This handbook looks to provide academics and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the phenomenon of innovation. Innovation spans a number of fields within the social sciences and humanities: Management, Economics, Geography, Sociology, Politics, Psychology, and History. Consequently, the rapidly increasing body of literature on innovation is characterized by a multitude of perspectives based on, or cutting across, existing disciplines and specializations. Scholars of innovation can come from such diverse starting points that much of… Read More

St. Paul: West Publishing Co, 1997. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 7". xxxvi, 778pp. Rubbing, bumps, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of red paper over boards. Sticker to front and rear cover. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Occasional highlighting to pages. Binding is sound. An overall solid copy of this volume on law and the science of expert testimony. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1900. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". v, 484pp. Rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of black cloth over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Faint foxing to endpapers. Occasional penciled notation to pages. Notation does not obscure text. Hinges are cracked with connective mesh visible, however, binding remains sound. This is Volume II only. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This classic work examines typology not only as a biblical and theological subject but also in its connection with Christian doctrines and dispensations.(Publisher).

New York: One World, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at front endpaper. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 308pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in blue paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories. Luz "Little Light" Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run out of town by a violent white mob. As Luz navigates 1930s Denver, she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory. Luz recollects her ancestors' origins, how her family flourished, and how they were threatened. She bears witness to the sinister forces that have devastated her people… Read More

London and New York: Routledge, 2020. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xx, 217pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Extreme intelligence is strongly correlated with the highest of human achievement, but also, paradoxically, with higher relationship conflict, career difficulty, mental illness, and high-IQ crime. Increased intelligence does not necessarily increase success; it should be considered as a minority special need that requires nurturing. This book explores the social development and predicaments of those who possess extreme intelligence, and the consequent personal and professional implications for them. It uniquely integrates insights and knowledge from the research fields of intelligence, giftedness, genius, and expertise with those from depth psychology, emphasising the importance of finding ways to talk effectively about extreme intelligence, and how it can… Read More

Nashville: The Imperial War Museum / The Battery Press, 1996. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 6". Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of red cloth over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Bindings are sound. With fold-out map in tipped in pocket at back of Volume I. An overall clean, solid set of these works on the history of The Great War. This set is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. Facsimile reprint published in association with Battery Press, Nashville, Tennessee as number forty-four of their Great War Series(Publisher) ABOUT THIS SERIES: This volume in the Official History of The Great War covers the early stages of the Middle East theatre - from the outbreak of war to June 1917. After a brief background to the situation in Egypt in August 1914, and the opening of hostilities with Turkey at the end of October, this volume concerns itself with the… Read More

Burton: Subterranean, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 572pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Bound in pink cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: From the stories that led to the creation of his best-selling Riverworld and Dayworld novels, to more unusual selections like "Uproar in Acheron" (a western-cum-fantasy), "The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod" (a story which works as both literary pastiche and homage), or break-all-the-rules fiction like "The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol" (a Farmer favorite which was first published in Playboy magazine), it's all here. With a total of 20 different stories and one Farmer-penned introduction that add up to nearly two hundred thousand words, The Best of Philip José Farmer is, hands down, the finest collection of Farmer… Read More

London: The Folio Society, 2008. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 9" X 6 1/4". xiv, 331pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of decorative cloth over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Slipcase is clean and undamaged. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Winner of the Booker Prize. An insightful and thrilling novel about the British Empire in India during the Great Mutiny of 1857, as seen through the eyes of a young, love-struck idealist. India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered one of the finest British novels of the last fifty years. Farrell's story is set in an isolated Victorian outpost on the subcontinent. Rumors of strife filter in from afar, and yet the members of the colonial community remain confident of their military and, above all, moral superiority. But when they find themselves under… Read More

Washington DC: Island Press, 2021. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". ix, 187pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Price sticker to rear cover of jacket. Bound in tan paper over boards with spine lettered in black. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Shanna Farrell loves a good drink. As a bartender, she not only poured spirits, but learned their stories—who made them and how. Living in San Francisco, surrounded by farm-to-table restaurants and high-end bars, she wondered why the eco-consciousness devoted to food didn't extend to drinks. The short answer is that we don't think of spirits as food. But whether it's rum, brandy, whiskey, or tequila, drinks are distilled from the same crops that end up on our tables. Most are grown with chemicals that cause pesticide resistance and pollute waterways, and distilling itself requires huge volumes of water. Even bars are notorious for generating… Read More

Garden City: Garden City Publishing Company, 1944. Hardcover. Very good/fair. Hardcover. 10" X 12". Unpaginated, 24pp. Rather heavy wear to pictorial dust jacket, with heavy chipping to edges, taped tears, and 2 1/2" closed tear to front panel, remarkably with few losses. Pictorial paper over boards with spine backed in black cloth. Moderate edgewear to boards. Wonderful pictorial endpapers diagramming the world's heaviest locomotive, the Union Pacific 4-8-8-7 Type, nicknamed "Big Boy" to front endpapers and the 2700 HP Diesel-Electric Freight Locomotive and 5400 HF combination to rear endpapers. Hinges a touch tender; binding remains sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Stunningly illustrated in color throughout by Glen Thomas, this guide to the "giants of the rails" features accurate drawings in full color, descriptions of modern locomotives of every type, along with details of train, hand, flag, lamp, whistle, and automatic signals and cross-sections of the country's greatest engines.

Western Heritage Books, 1995. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xv, 313pp. Mild rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Light toning to covers and edges of blue cloth over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall solid copy of this biography of one of the giants of the early Petroleum Industry in Oklahoma.

New York: Random House, 1954. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 6". xi, 682pp. Wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Bound in blue cloth over baords with spine and front cover stamped in black and gilt. Toning to covers and light bumps to edges of boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A sweeping anthology of works by an American original, including the complete text of The Sound and the Fury, a foreword by the author, his Nobel Prize address, and a selection of brilliant novellas and short stories, including: "The Bear" (from Go Down, Moses) "Old Man" (from The Wild Palms) "Spotted Horses" (from The Hamlet) "A Rose for Emily" "Barn Burning" "Dry September" "That Evening Sun" "Turnabout" "Shingles for the Lord" "A Justice" "Wash" "An Odor of Verbena" (from The Unvanquished) "Percy Grimm" (from Light in August) "The Courthouse" (from Requiem for a Nun)(Publisher).

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1974. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". x, 166pp. Wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, and creaasing to covers, corners, and edges. Bound in brown cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt and black. Boards are slightly warped. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Previous owner's name in ink to front paste-down. Faint musty smell to pages. Faint soiling to edge of front free endpaper. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. With collection of numerous Faulkner clippings laid in. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This collection includes texts, criticism, and bibliographical studies of a number of the unpublished writings of William Faulkner. A Faulkner Miscellany makes available in print a considerable body of such materials from the Faulkner papers, together with illustrations, bibliographical listings, and studies of a number of his manuscripts and typescrips.

New York: Doubleday, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink to title page. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 319pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in proctective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Gray paper over boards with spine lettered in red. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Bestselling British author Sebastian Faulks reinvents the unreliable narrator with his singular, haunting creation—Mike Engleby. "My name is Mike Engleby, and I'm in my second year at an ancient university." With that brief introduction we meet one of the most mesmerizing, singular voices in a long tradition of disturbing narrators. Despite his obvious intelligence and compelling voice, it is clear that something about solitary, odd Mike is not quite right. When he becomes fixated on a classmate named Jennifer… Read More

London: Perspective Photo Press, 2006. Very good/Good +. 9 1/2" X 12 1/4". 128pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in green cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The New Forest is one of the most beautiful regions of the UK. For over one thousand years this unique area of natural heathland has developed and flourished thanks to the commoners who have rights over the land. They lovingly tend and protect it, but it is the animals who roam there that are the true architects of the Forest. This glorious collection of photographs is a testimony to the commoners' skill, hard work and passion which ensures the Forest thrives as a living, evolving and working.(Publisher).

Albuquerque: Barry Feig's Center for Product Success, 2017. Paperback. Very good +. Paperback. 9" X 6". iii, 262pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Consumers buy products for two reasons: the rational reason and the real reason. While your customers may say they want your products because of its features and benefits, their decision to buy is based on emotions, not intellect. This newly revised edition of the best selling Hot Button Marketing shows you how to identify and push the hot buttons that will prompt consumers to purchase your product over a competitor's even if it's a parity product. Filled with tips and insights that can be applied at every stage of marketing from product development to one-to-one selling, this newly revised edition shows you how to hit the sixteen hot buttons and get your product sold. It is the forerunner of one of the hottest trends in marketing today… Read More

Houston: Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co, 2012. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". xi, 133pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Several very small bumps to bottom edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. Book appears to be unread. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The only good Indian is a dead Indian" is historically linked to General Philip Sheridan in 1869. This vindictive curse has lingered in the consciousness of the American Indian for more than 100 years. It has been parodied and overused until it has lost its' meaning: the extermination of Native Americans as a "good" thing. There are undoubtedly a number of Native Americans passing as white because they are ashamed of their heritage. The Only Good Indian - PTSD: A Native American's Story of Survival is the story of Jeanne, who suffered from painful depression with persistent "orders" from her psyche to kill herself. Jeanne was unaware of her Native American… Read More

New York: The John Day Company, 1937. Ex-Library. Library binding. Good. Ex-Library. Library binding. 9 1/4" X 7". x, 287pp. Library binding. Rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of red cloth over boards. Dust-spotting and stamp from Machray School Library to edges of text block. Toning to endpapers. Stamp and a spot of surface paper loss to title page. Occasional library stamps to pages throughout. Pages are free of marks and notation. Front hinge is cracked, however, binding remains sound. An overall solid copy of this book that records the history of the ancestors of our present animal life, and describes the fossils of fishes, plants, reptiles and birds.