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

Parklands, South Africa: Ad.Donker , 1992. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. The author of these poems was sentenced to ten years in prison in 1984 for furthering the aims of the African National Congress, and served his prison term on Robben Island and in Johannesburg; during his internment he enrolled in the University of South Africa and was awarded a degree (pictorial cover with photo of the author on the back, pages slightly tanned, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A: Cambridge University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. This comprehensive introduction to Islam is divided into three sections; the first two parts present the foundations, the fundamental teachings and practices of Muslims which were elaborated during the community's formative period; the third part deals with the community's progress through the long transition over the past two centuries to the present; includes map and photographs (black cloth with silver lettering; black pictorial dust jacket with very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995. This play, commissioned by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, combines Homeric and Caribbean themes; episodes of the story of Odysseus' protracted wandering from Troy to his island home of Ithaca are interspersed with commentary by a blind Caribbean singer; inscribed by the Nobel Prize author on the dedication page (black pictorial cover, pages have very faint corner crease; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore) . Inscribed By Author. Third Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine.

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Westview Press, 1984. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This is a collection of essays that emphasize the importance of cultural and ideological issues in contemporary world politics; the essays are grouped under the headings Cultures, Economies, and States; Hegemony, Resistance, and Reassertion; Ideology and World Order Discourse; Culture, Ideology, and Peace; contributors include, in addition to the editor, Anouar Abdel-Malek, R. N. Berki, Mark Blasius, Joseph Camilleri, Robert Cox, Celso Furtado, Rajni Kothari, Ali Mazrui, Ashis Nandy, R. J. Vincent, Emmanuel Wallerstein (yellow cloth with black lettering, previous owner's name on front endpaper; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Liverpool, England, U.K.: Liverpool University Press, 2011. This is a study of consumer behavior in modern France as depicted in novels of the period from the end of the 19th century to the mid-20th century; it analyzes patterns of behavior involved in shopping, spending money, and acquiring merchandise and examines the impact of affluence on French shoppers, shopkeepers, and society (black covers with gold lettering on spine; yellow pictorial dust jacket with black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. As New/As New.

Latham, MD, U.S.A.: University Press of America, 1986. This is a study of Hayek's ethical concepts which explores the intellectual background of these views and elaborates some of the interpretive issues raised by his ethics; it considers Hayek in terms of the political and economic liberalism of which he is a prominent proponent (purple cover with white & blue lettering; author's own address label at the top of title page; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. Near Fine.

London, England, U.K.: Earthscan Publications, 1989. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book, first researched as a report for the Red Cross, examines the causes of famine and proposes a system for preventing disaster based not on technical information but on the perceptions of the victims themselves; it looks at how they perceive their predicament and what they do to avert mass starvation, and what famine-relief organizations can do to help prevent disaster (gray cover with yellow on red lettering, pages slightly tanned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.: University of Arizona Press, 1985. This is a facsimile of William Walker's account, originally published in 1860, of his invasion and conquest of Nicaragua; doctor, lawyer, newspaper editor, politician, adventurer, liberator, imperialist, Walker sailed to Nicaragua with a band of mercenaries in 1855, joined with rebel forces in a civil war, defeated the national army, seized the capital, and gained control of the country until 1857 when he was forced to leave by the U.S. Navy; after twice trying to regain control of Nicaragua, he was captured and executed in Honduras in 1860; foreword by Robert Houston (red pictorial cover, slight corner creases, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy) . First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. This study is based on a fieldwork project in Sydney Australia that involved 48 children, aged 8 to 11, who joined a video games club and were videotaped and interviewed over a four year period; it looks at various issues including the production of masculinity, the understanding of girls' game play, debates about violence, and parental regulation (gray laminated pictorial covers; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket.

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Warren, Gorham & Lamont, 1981. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Contracts for the sale of goods are not only the most common category of contracts, they are subject to a specific set of rules found in Article Two of the Uniform Commercial Code; this book gathers the law governing contracts under one cover, bringing together the Code with its comments and the pertinent case law (tan cloth with bright gold lettering on red labels on front cover and spine, crease at top of spine, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A: Praeger Publishers, 1985. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. A collection of orginal essays on German politics and political parties (maroon textured cloth with gold lettering on black background, slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book is a critical assessment of experiments designed to impart a language, either natural or invented, to an ape; the performance of the animals is compared with the course of semantic and syntatic developments in children, both speaking and signing; it examines the neurological, cognitive, and specifically linguistic attributes of our species that subserve language, and considers whether apes possess an ability to acquire language (orange pictorial cover with white lettering, very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Princeton, NJ, U.S.A: Markus Wiener Publishing, 1993. Trade Paperback. As New. This book, first published in German in 1981, is a study of the role and status of women in the culture of Islam before the 19th century

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1993. This is the first academic study of the New York School of Poets; it provides a critical and historical introduction to this group of writers, including close readings of major works by John Ashbery as well as detailed accounts of Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler; it examines the relationship between American poetry and painting in the Cold War years, and between modern poetry and deconstruction; it concludes with an account of the influence of the New York School on contemporary writers, such as the Language Poets (black cloth with gold lettering, pages very slightly tanned; pictorial dust jacket with photo of Frank O'Hara and other poets on the front, very small scuff mark on side of spine; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Westport, CT, U.S.A.: Greenwood Press, 1976. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. This is a reprint of a book originally published in 1959 which investigates the meanings and functions of Christian symbolic life in America; it maintains that Christianity's basic meanings lie within the moral and species structure of family life; most of the research for this book was done in the New England city that was the site of the author's Yankee City studies (light brown cloth with gold lettering on spine; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Albany, NY, U.S.A.: State University of New York Press, 1996. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This is a major study of the relations between the President and the Cabinet and examines how and why the White House emerged as the center of power in the domestic policy process, relegating the departments to implementing rather than initiating major policy proposals; foreword by Stephen Hess (green & pink pictorial cover with slight crease along edge, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A: Sage Publications, 1994. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This book presents a comprehensive synthesis of the central debates in contemporary sociology; it focuses on the main concepts of sociology, including agency, rationality, structure, system, culture and ideology, power and the state, gender and feminism, and differentiation and stratification, and examines the contributions of the principal theorists to each concept (light blue & white cover with red lettering, very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book reviews the main current theoretical approaches to International Political Economy and discusses the problems that arise from treating states and markets as separate and contesting units of analysis; the author contends that the historically informed tradition of classical political economy provides a firmer foundation for a critically grounded International Political Economy than neoclassical economics; he shows how different currents within classical political economy, for example Keynesian or Marxian, can inform the study of International Political Economy and develops his own preferred variant, drawing on the work of Adam Smith, Veblen, and Polanyi, showing how his approach can generate a better understanding of such substantive issues as globalization, trade, and development (yellow pictorial cover with small closed edge tear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Englewood Cliffs, NJ, U.S.A.: Prentice-Hall, 1970. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is a collection of essays intended to show that a writer's attitude toward his or her subject is an important part of the writer's message; it classifies nine different types of discourse based on attitude and shows how writers reveal their attitudes through their choice of words and other aspects of composition (orange & white pictorial cover with slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Stanford, CA, U.S.A.: Stanford University Press, 1982. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This is a classic account of how rural France was transformed and integrated into the modern world after the Franco-Prussian War; it revised accepted notions about the French nation and French identity which were achieved only after a long struggle between Paris and the cultural, linguistic and regional diversity of the provinces (white pictorial cover with very slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight, unmarked copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment)