Search Results: Authors starting with I from Eureka Books

The MIT Press, 2020. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A guide to long-term thinking: how to envision the far future of Earth.We live on a planet careening toward environmental collapse that will be largely brought about by our own actions. And yet we struggle to grasp the scale of the crisis, barely able to imagine the effects of climate change just ten years from now, let alone the multi-millennial timescales of Earth's past and future life span. In this book, Vincent Ialenti offers a guide for envisioning the planet's far future--to become, as he terms it, more skilled deep time reckoners. The challenge, he says, is to learn to inhabit a longer now. Ialenti takes on two overlapping crises: the Anthropocene, our current moment of human-caused environmental transformation; and the deflation of expertise--today's popular mockery and institutional erosion of expert authority. The second crisis, he argues, is worsening the effects of the first. Hearing out scientific experts who study a wider time span… Read More

CBS/Sony, 1978. Vinyl. VG. CBS/Sony 40AP 870-1. Japan. Folk, World, & Country. 2LP. 12'. 33RPM. Gatefold. Records: VG+. Sleeve: VG. Records appear unplayed. Sleeve shows some edgewear. We are selling the classical music LP collection of the singer, songwriter, and poet Rod McKuen. He received many promotional copies of albums and bought thousands of records, beginning in the 1950s. He had a high-end turntable and stereo system and with so many records, he didn't have time to play most of them more than once, if that. We are offering mostly high-grade copies, with defects noted. We are not record experts, but your satisfaction is guaranteed. If you aren't happy with some aspect of your purchase, please let us know immediately and we'll work to make it right.

Augsburg Publishing House, 1923. Hardcover. 31 pages. 6-1/4 by 9-1/4 inches. A poem, translated from the Norwegian by D. Svennungsen. Text and illustrations in brown ink. Light scuffs to brown cloth, else near fine.

Waldm. Kriedt, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. 160 pages. 5-1/2 by 7-1/2 inches. Translated from the Norwegian by Jno. W. Arctander. First edition (first printing). Gray cloth with black boarder and gold lettering on the cover; decorative endpapers. Black-and-white frontispiece with tissue guard. A very good hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Some wear to edges and corners. Hinges sound. A very nice copy.

Princeton University Press, 1967. Hardcover. The bestselling English translation of the ancient classic of Chinese divination that has inspired millions with its timeless insights into the changing nature of all existence The I Ching, or Book of Changes, has exerted a living influence in China for thousands of years. Today, it continues to enrich the lives of readers around the world. First set down in the dawn of history as a book of oracles, it grew into a book of wisdom with the inclusion of commentaries on its oracular pronouncements, eventually becoming one of the Five Classics of Confucianism and providing a common source for both Confucianist and Taoist philosophy. This edition of the I Ching is the most authoritative and complete translation available, preserving the spirit of the ancient text while providing a vital key for anyone who seeks to live harmoniously with the immutable law of change. The book presents the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching along with their texts and… Read More

AUP Popular Science, 2014. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Every scientific fact was born as an opinion about the unknown - a hypothesis. Opinion gradually becomes fact as evidence piles up to support a theory. But what if there are two theories, each of which has produced a myriad of things that correspond perfectly to the phenomena but can't be combined into one? One theory replaced the mystery of gravity with a precise model of space and time. The other theory replaced the mystery of matter with a description of quantum particles. As we understand our universe, we keep each in its own domain: space and time for very large things, particles for the very small ones. However, 13.8 billion years ago, those two incompatible domains belonged to a single realm. Who in the current or future generations of physicists will crack this seemingly impossible puzzle? This, contends the author, is not just a big question, but the biggest question in physics in our century. Combining… Read More

IF, 2001. Other.

Limegrass, 2007. Unknown. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed by the author to a previous owner.

HarperCollins Children's Books, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Three stories from the author of The Dangerous Book for Boys. First Edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author and the illustrator, Lizzy Duncan. This book comes from a very large collection of hypermodern first editions, most purchased at the time of publication and stored carefully in boxes. Entirely unread and virtually as new. Tollins are not fairies. Though they both have wings, fairies are delicate creatures and much smaller. Tollins are also a lot less fragile than fairies. In these three tales, Conn Iggulden introduces the explosive, magical and adventurous world of the Tollins.

Harper Perennial, 2019. Trade Paperback.

Northern California Branch, American Civil Liberties Union, 1954. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 79 pages. 'An annotated chronologically arranged reading guide to most of the better (and some of the worst)--works, book and pamphlet, in English on race, racism, and human rights '-- Page 1. First edition (first printing). Very good in stapled wrappers (paperback) with toned edges. Author's name crossed out in ink on first page, otherwise pages clean.

John W. Iliff & Co, 1893. Hardcover. 519 pages. 'Containing Choice Selections of the Most Pathetic, Gay, Humorous, Heroic, Sublime and Patriotic Speeches and Poems.' With explanatory notes and elocutionary instructions. Illustrated in black-and-white. Green cloth with gold lettering and black decoration on cover and spine; marbled pageblock. Gold tarnished and faded and small stains to cover. Paper at rear hinge just starting. A nice square copy.

America's Test Kitchen, 2005. Hardcover. 'Best American Side Dishes' presents 500 recipes for appetizers, salads, and casseroles to accompany a main course, with step-by-step illustrations of techniques, descriptions of test processes, and sidebars for equipment and ingredients.

Édité par Publicité commerciale & théatrale, 1929. Trade Paperback. 40 pp. Program distributed for performances of 'Snegourotchka' with music by Rimsky-Korsakoff. The cover illustration is signed 'J. Bilibine, 1928'; the illustrations of stage designs and costumes are signed 'A. Korovine.' Some color illustrations are tipped-in. Advertisements appear on front cover, and are also interspersed with the text. Text in French. 9.75 x 12.5 inches. First edition (first printing), presumed. Very good copy in color illustrated wrappers (paperback). Covers are scuffed and mildly tanned.

Peachtree Publishers, Ltd, 1987. Hardcover. 37 pages. 8-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches. Capote's 1946 story written for his Aunt and rediscovered the year of his death. Illustrations in color.

Oldhams Press, Ltd, 1941. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 32 pages. Issue offered complete. B/W illustrations throughout. First edition (first printing). Very good in illustrated wrappers (paperback). Issue previously folded in half.

Wm. L. Allison Company, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. 426 pages. 7 tales of Maine in the French-Indian War. Wright,II, 1314. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in stamped green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Edge and corner wear. Spine identifies the book as 'The Wrecker's Daughter', the first story in the book. No dust jacket as issued.

Kodansha International Ltd, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 39 pages. 14-1/2 by 10-1/2 inches. Number 1 in the series, Famous Ceramics of Japan; large format books beautifully illustrated with color photographs of hand-crafted ceramic wares. This volume features the fine enameled porcelains fiercely gaurded by the Nabeshima clan for 250 years. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a few minor scratches on the back panel and lightly bumped corners. [JSP04].

Ten Speed Press, 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. An approachable guide to being an informed, compassionate, and socially conscious person today--from discussions of race, gender, and sexual orientation to disability, class, and beyond--from critically acclaimed historian, educator, and author Blair Imani. "Blair answers the questions that so many of us are asking."--Layla F. Saad, author of Me and White Supremacy We live in a time where it has never been more important to be knowledgeable about a host of social issues, and to be confident and appropriate in how to talk about them. What's the best way to ask someone what their pronouns are? How do you talk about racism with someone who doesn't seem to get it? What is intersectionality, and why do you need to understand it? While it can seem intimidating or overwhelming to learn and talk about such issues, it's never been easier thanks to educator and historian Blair Imani, creator of the viral sensation Smarter in Seconds videos. Accessible to… Read More

Back Bay Books, 2024. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor: this "miraculous, transcendental book" invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live (Ed Yong, author of An Immense World). A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments. Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature, including: -the mother octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs, -the Chinese sturgeon whose migration route has been decimated by pollution and dams, -the bizarre, predatory Bobbitt worm (named after Lorena), -the common goldfish that flourishes in the wild, -and more. Imbler discovers that some of the most radical models of family, community, and care can be found in the… Read More