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London, England, U.K.: Allison & Busby, 1980. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This book contains the political and theoretical writings of one of Hungary's most prominent dissident intellectuals; Vajda, student of Georg Lukacs, held a post at the Philosophical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences until he was expelled from the Academy and the Communist Party; this book begins with a discussion of the shortcomings of the ideas of Korsch and Lukacs about class consciousness in terms of events in Eastern Europe; the title essay illuminates the contrast between Marx's view of the power-structure of socialism and that of the actually existing socialist countries; several of the essays debate with other dissidents such as Bahro, Rakovski, Konrad, and Szelenyi; finally there is a discussion of the nature of the system in various Eastern European countries (white cover with red & black lettering, titles of the essays on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy)
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The State and Socialism: Political Essays
by Vajda, Mihaly
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Grenada and Soviet/Cuban Policy: Internal Crisis and U.S./OECS Intervention (A Special Study of Teh Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, The Wilson Center)
by Valenta, Jiri; Ellison, Herbert J. (editors)
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Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Westview Press, 1986. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A compilation of papers by American strategic thinkers analyzing government documents captured during and after the United States invasion of Grenada in 1983 which provide insight into both the inner workings of a radical third world regime and Soviet/Cuban strategy in the third world; includes maps, photos, and an appendix with 25 selected Grenada documents (green cover with black lettering, slight edgewear and corner creases, previous owner's name on half-title page, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)
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La favela d'un siecle a l'autre: Mythe d'origine, discours scientifiques et representations Virtuelles
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Maison des Sciences de L'Homme , 2006. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. In French (The Slum from One Century to Another), a volume in the series Horizons Americains (American Horizons), with a preface by Yves Grafmeyer; the author is a professor of sociology in Rio de Janeiro; a publisher's review copy (white pictorial cover, very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)
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The Way of All Flesh: Hunting and Ideology of the Bedamuni of the Great Papuan Plateau (Papua New Guinea)
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Leiden, Netherlands: Leiden University, 1987. Paperback. Very Good. This study of the relationship between hunting and ideology among the Bedamuni people of Papua New Guinea is the result of field research carried out from 1978 to 1979; this is a Leiden University doctoral dissertation with text in English, summary in Dutch; includes bibliography, tables, drawings, and hand-drawn maps (red cover with black lettering and drawing on the front, slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)
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Regulation and Economics (Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Volume 9)
by Van den Bergh, Roger J.; Pacces, Alessio M. (editors)
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Cheltenham, England, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2012. Second Edition. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket. This is a revised, expanded edition of a book that provides a comprehensive, authoritative overview of the economics of regulation, with an emphasis on European as well as American regulatory methods; individual chapters written by experts are divided into six sections: Regulation in General, Regulatory Tools, Social Regulation, Regulation of Public Utilities, Regulation of Non-Natural Monopolies, and Regulation of Professions (dark green laminated cover with gold lettering on front & spine; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment; this is a large, heavy volume that can only be shipped by domestic media maill for the stated shipping charge)
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Arguing for Basic Income: Ethical Foundations for a Radical Reform
by Van Parijs, Philippe (editor)
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New York , NY, U.S.A.: Verso, 1992. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. The essays in this book originated at a conference in Belgium in 1989 on Liberty, Equality, Ecology, in which participants discussed the idea of a basic income for all citizens as policy issue and political philosophy; contributors include, in addition to the editor, John Baker, Brian Barry, Alan Carling, Michael Freeden, Robert Goodin, Andre Gorz, Bill Jordan, Richard Norman, Claus Offe, Guy Standing, Hillel Steiner (pages slightly tanned, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)
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The Power of Power Politics: A Critique
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New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A.: Rutgers University Press, 1983. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. This book provides a comprehensive overview of international relations and its paradigms and their failure to survive rigorous testing; building on the work of Thomas Kuhn the author provides an intellectual history of the international relations discipline since 1919 when the dominant approach was the idealist paradigm based on human reason and utopian analysis; the realist paradigm developed after the failure of international law and organization to prevent World War II and remains the dominant approach; he develops an original scheme for evaluating the adequacy of paradigms and reviews statistical findings to support the conclusion that the realist paradigm has serious deficiencies, especially in producing knowledge and explaining behavior; he provides a review of recent work on foreign policy and on the causes of war in order to delineate other flaws inherent in the power politics perspective (maroon…
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Revolution in the Middle East and Other Case Studies
by Vatikiotis, P. J. (editor)
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Totowa, NJ, U.S.A.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1972. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. This book of essays is based on a seminar whose purpose was to examine the revolutionary significance of the major economic, social, and political changes in the Middle East over the previous fifty years; a special feature of the seminar was the question of whether political changes in the Middle East are comparable to revolutions in other parts of the world; contributors include A. T. Hatto, Bernard Lewis, E. R. J. Owen, Albert Hourani, Roger Le Tourneau, Maurice Flory, Rene Duchac, Ernest Gellner, J. N. D. Anderson, A. K. S. Lambton, Hugh Seton-Watson, Harold Blakemore, John Gardner (green cloth with silver lettering, previous owner's name stamp on front endpaper, a few pages creased; laminated blue dust jacket with black lettering has slight edgewear, small hole in front cover; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)
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R.V.W.: A Biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams
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London, England, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This biography of the British composer by his widow is a detailed account of his career, during which he was at the center of musical events in England for some sixty years; includes a frontispiece photograph of the composer reclining on a hillside and many other photographs throughout the text (green cloth with gold lettering on brown spine label is slightly cocked, caricatures of the composer on the front and back endpapers, previous owner's name on the reverse of the front end paper, pages are slightly tanned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)
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Occidentalism: Modernity and Subjectivity (Theory, Culture and Society Series)
by Venn, Couze
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Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.: Sage Publications, 2001. Trade Paperback. As New. This book argues that modernity is in crisis, and proposes that the question of postmodernity is inseparable from postcoloniality (white pictorial cover with black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy)
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Rethinking Translation: Discourse, Subjectivity, Ideology
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1992. Trade Paperback. As New. This is a collection of essays on translation that examines the selection of foreign texts and translation strategies, reception of translated texts, and theories of translation from philosophers, critics, and translators themselves; it takes into account social and ideological dimensions of translation as well as questions of language and subjectivity; it also looks at the power of translators in the formation of literary canons and cultural identities (green front cover with white lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy)
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Le Reveil des Somnambules: Le Parti Communiste, Les Intellectuels et La Culture (1956-1985)
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France: Editions De Minuit, 1987. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Text in French; this is the second of two studies of intellectuals in the French Communist Party by the French sociologist and historian at the National Center for Sociological Research in Paris (white pictorial cover with black & red lettering, photo on the front, slight corner & edge wear, pages slightly tanned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)
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Subway Home: Poesie
by Vitiello, Justin
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Italy: Caramanica Editore, 1998. Trade Paperback. As New. Poetry in Italian, previously published in English by the Italian-American poet and translator
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Franklin Lakes, NJ, U.S.A: Lincoln Springs Press, 1994. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Inscribed By Author. Inscribed and dated by author on title page (bright green cover with white lettering, photo of author on back)
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Vanzetti's Fish Cart
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Lewiston, NY, U.S.A.: Mellen Poetry Press, 1991. Inscribed and dated by author on first blank page; previously published in Italian as Il carro del pesce di Vanzetti (blue textured paper covers with gold lettering, slight edgewear, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy; also available in Italian-language edition). Inscribed By Author. Trade Paperback. Very Good.
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Confessions of a Joe Rock
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Franklin Lakes, NJ, U.S.A: Lincoln Springs Press, 1992. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Inscribed By Author. Inscribed and dated by the author on title page (bright red cover with white lettering, photo of author on back)
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Nuevos Estudios Epicos Medievales (Biblioteca Romanica Hispanica, Estudios y Ensayos 138)
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Madrid, Spain: Editorial Gredos, 1970. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Text in Spanish / texto en español (white cover with red & blue lettering, pages uncut, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)
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