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

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Boni and Liveright, 1924. First edition, fifth printing (March, 1924) of British writer's novel (light blue cloth in mylar cover, faded and worn along edges and spine, pages slightly age-tanned, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy). Fifth Printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book addresses itself to the problem of understanding the relationship between psychoanalysis and language in terms of both traditional philosophical theories on language and contemporary linguistic theories; the contributors, from a variety of academic disciplines, discuss and evaluate the works of Jacques Lacan, the French psychoanalyst who re-emphasized the primacy of language in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis; the essays also explore the more general question of the place of language in human and social relationships (orange pictorial cover, very slight edgewear, small tear on page edge, slight scuff along lower edge of title page, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.: Mainstream Publishing, 1997. Hard Cover. As New/As New. A critical biography of the captain of industry and philanthropist by a Scottish historian and biographer of Robert Burns, William Wallace, Michael Collins, and others; includes photographs (brown cloth with gold lettering; pictorial dust jacket with portrait of Carnegie on the front and photograph of Carnegie House in New York on the back)

Stratford, Prince Edward Island, Canada: Tea Hill Press, 2005. Trade Paperback. As New. This book is a history of Prince Edward Island during the 1960s and 1970s, one of the liveliest political eras in the history of the province, and of its longest-serving premier, Alex Campbell, who laid the foundations for the modernization of Prince Edward Island (gray pictorial cover with black lettering, photos of Campbell on the front and the author on the back; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 1987. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is the first comphrehensive account of the structure and usage of Standard Modern Greek, the language ordinarily spoken and written at present by moderately educated people in the large urban centers of Greece; it provides a descriptive analysis of the structure and current usage of the language, illustrated by examples drawn from a cross-section of spoken, written, and literary sources (dark blue cover with white lettering, slight corner creases, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Originally published in 1912, this was the first major ethnographic account of the Sudan; it combines the local history of the province with the history of different ethnic groups and genealogies of the indigenous population; the author was the deputy inspector of Kordofan province from 1906 to 1912 and combined his administrative work with ethnographic research; includes photographs (yellow & blue pictorial cover with photo on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from an independent bookstore). Reprint. Trade Paperback. As New.

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. Paperback. Near Fine. This volume, the fifth study of the Philadelphia Economic Monitoring Project, analyzes how the economic expansion, industrial restructuring, and deconcentration of employment and population of the metropolitan area afftected work, wages, and poverty within the metropolitan labor market (green cover, pages very slightly tanned, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Gainesville, FL, U.S.A: University Presses of Florida, 1980. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. A history of America's relations with the Soviet Union from recognition in 1933 to the extension of Lend-Lease assistance in 1941 that gives extensive attention to the external and internal influences on Roosevelt's Soviet policy, ranging from a desire to increase trade in the early years to an increasing preoccupation with strategic concerns after 1936, notably cooperation with the Soviets against Japan in the Far East and Hitler in Europe (yellow cloth with black lettering and orange endpapers, slightly rubbed, previous owner's name on half-title page, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Longman, 2002. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book provides a synthesis of recent studies of the social history of 19th century France; chapters cover social elites, the working class, the peasantry, religion and anti-clericalism, education and literacy, medicine, the consumer society, and gender (pictorial cover with Courbet painting on front, very slilght edgewear, faint corner crease; otherwise a bright, clean, unmarked copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 1998. Hard Cover. As New/Near Fine. From the lives and works of three Irish writers the author constructs a portrait of the national imagination, shaped not only by the Irish cultural and mythic heritage but also by the reality of English political domination (black cloth with red lettering; black, red & white dust jacket with very slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: Jewish Publication Society, 1985. Originally published in Yiddish and Hebrew, this is a classic study of Hasidism and the Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment, movements that clashed in the early 19th century and contributed to the shaping of modern Jewish culture; the author, born in Galicia, received a doctorate in history from the University of Vienna, did research on the history of Polish Jewry, and later settled in Israel where he became professor of Eastern European Jewish History at the University Tel Aviv and a leading member of Mapam, the left-wing Labor-Zionist party; translated from Yiddish by Eugene Orenstein, and from Hebrew by Aaron and Jenny Klein (black cloth with yellow lettering is slightly cocked; black pictorial dust jacket with photo of Polish synagogue on the front, author's photo on the back; a bright, clean, tight copy). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine.

Brockport, NY, U.S.A: BOA Editions, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. In his introduction Louis Simpson writes, "On the basis of memory Peter Makuck has built us his world. The poetry is in the building, the use of language, intimate, exact, colorful. Each poem has its own reality, its own unexpected and moving truth." (black cloth with silver lettering, pictorial dust jacket with very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Columbia University Press, 1980. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed By Author. This is a study of the central figure in the 19th century Muslim Nationalist awakening who sought to revitalize the Muslim community in India by the introduction of Western ideas; the author provides the biographical and historical background of Ahmad Khan's acomplishments, tracing his relations with other Indian leaders and placing him in the larger framework of the Islamic world; inscribed, signed, and dated on the front end paper by the author, a political scientist who was President of the Pakistan Council of the Asia Society, Director of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, and editor of the Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; includes a frontispiece portrait of Ahmad Khan (black cloth with gold lettering; white dust jacket with portrait of Ahmad Khan on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book is a critical account by Czech scholars of the development of archaeology from antiquity to the present, and of the philosophical, social, and political forces that shaped its development (white cover with black & red lettering, slight edgewear and corner creases; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A: Plenum Press, 1984. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This book contains the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute on the Regression of Atherosclerotic Lesions held in Maratea, Italy, in 1983; the Institute was designed to foster discussion of experimental data on the regression of atherosclerosis in animals and evidence of similar phenomenon in humans; the participating scientists showed with anatomical and biochemical data that atherosclerosis regresses in cholesterol fed animals after withdrawal of atherogenic stimuli; the existence of regression in humans was inferred (white paper-covered boards with black lettering and red designs, slight rubbing and edgewear, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Stockholm, Sweden: P.A. Norstedt & Soners Forlag, 1969. Tenth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None. This is the 10th edition, with text in Swedish, of Sweden's Constitutional Laws and Associated Regulations with Explanations (blue cloth with gold decoration on front cover, gold lettering on spine is faded, crease on right front edge; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 2008. This is the first major study of the ethos of games, known as athleticism, that obsessed Victorian and Edwardian public schools and dominated the lives of many school boys; it traces the growth and consolidation of this once powerful ideology and investigates the means by which it was created and sustained; includes photographs (gray & white covers with photo of the 1910 Harrow School cricket team on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment. Reprint. Trade Paperback. As New.

London, England, U.K.: Earthscan Publications, 1993. An account by an economic journalist of how Eastern and Central Europe has become a dumping ground for obsolete technologies, products, and waste; how the introduction of capitalism after 1989 did not make any real improvement to the environment as governments were more committed to reaping the short-term benefits of rapid privatization than to building an ecologically sustainable economy (upper right corner of first page before title page clipped, otherwise a bright, clean copy in near fine conditon). First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. This is a study of 19th century North American artists whose travels through Central and South America had a decisive influence on their own artistic careers; includes 100 black & white illustrations, 8 color plates, and an appendix with the biographies and itineraries of the artist-travelers (olive green cloth with gold lettering on spine is slightly sunned along upper edge; pictorial dust jacket with yellow & white lettering is enclosed in a mylar cover; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 9 1/4" X 10 1/4".

Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.: Princeton University Press, 2003. This is a study of the rise and fall of philhellenism, the love of Greek culture, in Germany that focuses on the cultural history of classical archaeology; includes photographs and other illustrations (pictorial cover with photo of the Acropolis on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. As New.