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Berkeley. 2003. University Of California Press. Reprint of an Expanded Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0520215621. 422 pages. paperback. keywords: Japan Crime. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong–more than four times the size of the American Mafia. Despite their criminal nature, the yakuza are accepted by fellow Japanese to a degree guaranteed to shock most Westerners. Here is the first book to reveal the extraordinary reach of Japan's Mafia. Originally published in 1986, Yakuza was so controversial in Japan that it could not be published there for five years. But in the West it has long served as the standard reference on Japanese organized crime, inspiring novels, screenplays, and criminal investigations. David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro spent nearly two decades conducting hundreds of interviews with everyone from street-level hoodlums and police to Japan's most… Read More

New York. 1988. September 2017. Warner Books. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0446389234. Illustrated by David Mazzucchelli. Colorist: Richmond Lewis. 98 pages. paperback. keywords: . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Frank Miller brought new life into the Batman mythos in the late 80s with The Dark Knight Returns - He followed up his masterpiece with this dark and original take on the 1st. days of Batman's career in Gotham City, Year One. inventory #41876 ISBN: 0446389234.

Berkeley. 2012. March 2012. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520271807. A Fletcher Jones Foundation Humanities Book. 15 b/w photographs, 1 table . 288 pages. paperback. keywords: Cinema Studies. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Catherine Jurca brings to light a tumultuous year of crisis that has been neglected in histories of the studio era. Drawing on the records of studio personnel, independent exhibitors, moviegoers, and the motion pictures themselves, she analyzes what was wrong - and right - with Hollywood at the end of a heralded decade. inventory #38207 ISBN: 9780520271807.

New York. 1997. Seven Stories Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Wrappers. 1568580304. Introduction by Michael Crichton. Cartoons by Tom Tomorrow. 332 pages. paperback. keywords: Media Censorship America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - READ ALL ABOUT IT: • the deadly secrets of the Occupational Safety Agency • the ultra-conservative group with secret plans for your future • the secret Pentagon plan to subsidize defense contractor mergers • toxic incinerators • the latest on the ozone crisis • the AEC memo that shows why information about human radiation experiments was censored • 60 billion pounds of fish that is wasted each year • the return of tuberculosis • the Pentagon's mysterious HAARP project • how the news media masks spousal violence in the ‘language of love.' The 25 top censored stories of the year, including the top ten mentioned above, were compiled by Carl Jensen, Project Censored, and a national panel of 20 leading media scholars and… Read More

New York. 1997. Meadowbrook Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Wrappers. 0671574973. 270 pages. paperback. keywords: Childcare. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Here are the answers to questions parents ask most during their child's first five years. This practical encyclopedia of child care contains more than 170 topics organized alphabetically for easy access. Now you can easily find answers to questions about your child's physical, emotional, and intellectual development. This book details what to expect during the first five years of your child's development and how to deal with any problems that may arise. Its clear, helpful writing style and reader-friendly format have already made Child Care A to Z one of Great Britain's best-selling parenting books. American parents will find it an indispensable, frequently used reference tool that provides helpful information on such topics as Milestones: teething, walking, talking, toilet training, starting school; Learning: concentration, curiosity,… Read More

Berkeley. 2004. University Of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0520233239. 363 pages. hardcover. keywords: Biography Mark Twain America Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wrong. This book recovers Twain's final years as they really were–lived in the shadow of deception and prejudice, but also in the light of the author's unflagging energy and enthusiasm. Dangerous Intimacy relates the story of how, shortly after his wife's death in 1904, Twain basked in the attentions of Isabel Lyon, his flirtatious–and calculating–secretary. Lyon desperately wanted to marry her boss, who was almost thirty years her senior. She managed to exile Twain's youngest daughter, Jean, who had epilepsy. With the help of Twain's assistant, Ralph Ashcroft, who fraudulently acquired power of… Read More

Pittsburgh. 2016. October 2016. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780822944676. Drue Heinz Literature Prize. 240 pages. hardcover. Cover design by Joel W. Coggins. keywords: Short Fiction. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Winner of the 2016 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Many of these richly layered stories juxtapose the miracles of modern medicine against the inescapable frustrations of everyday life: awkward first dates, the indignities of air travel, and overwhelming megastore cereal aisles. In Go Forth, an aging couple attends a kidney transplant reunion, where donors and recipients collide with unexpected results; in Hounds, a woman who runs a facial reconstruction program for veterans nurses her dying dog while recounting the ways she has used sex as both a weapon and a salve; and in Consider this Case, a lonely fetal surgeon caring for his aesthete father must reconsider sexuality and the lengths people will go to have children. Melissa Yancy's personal… Read More

Pittsburgh. 2016. October 2016. University of Pittsburgh Press. Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780822944676. Drue Heinz Literature Prize. 240 pages. paperback. Cover design by Joel W. Coggins. keywords: Short Fiction. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Winner of the 2016 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Many of these richly layered stories juxtapose the miracles of modern medicine against the inescapable frustrations of everyday life: awkward first dates, the indignities of air travel, and overwhelming megastore cereal aisles. In Go Forth, an aging couple attends a kidney transplant reunion, where donors and recipients collide with unexpected results; in Hounds, a woman who runs a facial reconstruction program for veterans nurses her dying dog while recounting the ways she has used sex as both a weapon and a salve; and in Consider this Case, a lonely fetal surgeon caring for his aesthete father must reconsider sexuality and the lengths people will go to have children. Melissa Yancy's personal experience… Read More

New York. 1994. Lexington. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0029143950. Based On The National Institute Of Drug Abuse Studies On The Resurgence Of Contemporary LSD Use . 163 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by REM Studio Inc. keywords: LSD Drugs History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The authors offer an insightful look at LSD use and provide an essential resource for parents, counselors, and educators. Far from fading out after the 1960's LSD has in fact never gone away, and the percentage of high school seniors using the drug is now only slightly lower than it was twenty years ago. The book examines why young people in the 1990s are using LSD - its appeal, its experience, and where kids are getting it. Solidly researched and dispassionately written, this book weaves current studies and anecdotes with recent statistics to create a vivid, complete, and credible picture of contemporary LSD use. inventory #21531 ISBN: 0029143950.

New York. 1998. March 1998. Random House. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0679404465. 248 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Wyatt McSpadden. keywords: Politics America Humor . FROM THE PUBLISHER - YOU GOT TO DANCE WITH THEM WHAT BRUNG YOU brings together a first-class collection of smart, spirited, and fiercely funny writings. From the wild and woolly politics of her native Texas to the waffling in the Oval Office, Molly Ivins exposes the fatuous and hypocritical at all levels of public life. Whether she's writing about the 1996 presidential candidates (‘Dole contributed perhaps the funniest line of the year with his immortal observation that tobacco is not addictive but that too much milk might be bad for us. The check from the dairy lobby must have been late that week'), conspiracy theorists (‘Twenty-five years in the newspaper bidness have given me a fairly strong faith in the proposition that if you haven't read about it in The Daily Disappointment or seen it on… Read More

New York. 1959. McDowell Obolensky. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 144 pages. hardcover. keywords: Autobiography Poetry America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In this book, William Carlos Williams goes back to one of the strongest influences on his life: his mother. Mrs. Williams' life took a fascinating course from Puerto Rico where she was born and brought up, to Paris where she studied painting, to the United States where she lived after her marriage. Dr. Williams has chosen an unusual and extremely effective way of presenting his subject. He has not worked within the framework of the essay, nor has he written about his mother a biography or an appreciation. Instead he has blended his writing with her words to achieve an effect analogous to his blending of prose and poetry in PATERSON. His picture of his mother is actually a reconstruction; from the things she said she comes alive. She was a spirited young girl growing up in an exotic country, Puerto Rico, in a circle where… Read More

Chapel Hill. 1997. Algonquin Books. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 1565121570. 309 pages. hardcover. Cover: Illustration by: Robbin Gourley. Design by: Gwen Petruska. Author photo: Daniel Cima. keywords: Literature Dominican Women Caribbean America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Yolanda Garcia - Yo, for short - is the literary one in the family. Her first published novel, in which she made ‘characters' out of her three sisters, her Mami and Papi, her grandparents, tias, tios, cousins, housemaids, and husbands was a big success. Now she's famous and basking in the spotlight while her ‘characters' find their naked and very recognizable selves dangling in that same blinding light. So what happens? Turnabout is fair play. Yolanda Garcia's family and friends get their chance to tell the truth about Yo: how she's always had to be center stage; that she's been telling lies since the day she was born; about the year she went into therapy with her best friend and how Yo swore… Read More

New York. 2000. Penguin Books. Reprinted Penguin Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0140437975. 239 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Maggie, a powerful exploration of the destructive forces that underlie urban society and human nature, produced a scandal when it was first published in 1893. This volume includes George's Mother and eleven other tales and sketches of New York written between 1892 and 1896. inventory # 44725 ISBN: 0140437975.

Lincoln and London. 2012. University of Nebraska Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780803240179. 193 pages. paperback. keywords: Memoir Natural History California. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The environment may surround us, but when that environment is a natural wonder like Yosemite National Park, it also reaches what's inside us. For Mark Liebenow, Yosemite did just that, and did so when he needed it most. In Mountains of Light, winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, Liebenow takes us deep into the heart of this wilderness, introducing us to its grand and subtle marvels-and to the observations, reflections, and insights its scenery evokes. Acting as our guide, Liebenow calls on the spirit and legacy of naturalist John Muir to rediscover nature and recover his own exuberance for life. Whether celebrating the giant sequoias, massive granite mountains, and wild, untamed rivers, or losing himself on an unmarked trail, Liebenow is always accompanied by thoughts of his wife… Read More

New York. 1997. Knopf. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0679454446. 353 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde. Signed by the Author. keywords: Mystery Literature Florida. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Grange, Florida, is, famous for its miracles-the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus, the stigmata man. And now it has JoLayne Lucks, unlikely winner of the state lottery. Unfortunately, JoLayne's winning ticket isn't the only one. The other belongs to Bodean Gazzer and his raunchy sidekick, Chub, who want the whole $28 million jackpot to start their own underground militia. inventory #24476 ISBN: 0679454446.

New York. 1997. Knopf. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0679454446. 353 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde. keywords: Mystery Literature Florida. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Grange, Florida, is, famous for its miracles-the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus, the stigmata man. And now it has JoLayne Lucks, unlikely winner of the state lottery. Unfortunately, JoLayne's winning ticket isn't the only one. The other belongs to Bodean Gazzer and his raunchy sidekick, Chub, who want the whole $28 million jackpot to start their own underground militia. inventory #24595 ISBN: 0679454446.

Eugene. 1992. Mystery Scene Press. Short Story Paperbacks #10. Very Good in Wrappers. 156146810x. 47 pages. paperback. Cover illustration by David Martin. keywords: Mystery . FROM THE PUBLISHER - MY HEART CRIES FOR YOU. Wayne and Ethel Ann met cute, real cute, bumping carts in the flower section of the grocery store on Valentine's Day. The beginning of the perfect romance, or so it would seem, if Ethel Ann had been the perfect woman or Wayne the perfect man. But Ethel Ann liked beer and bunny slippers, and Wayne, good-looking Wayne, had a small cruel streak that Ethel Ann's brother decided to use. You see, Ethel Ann's father was rich and dying, and Ethel Ann was going to inherit everything. Unless she died. inventory #23146 ISBN: 156146810x.

New York. 1988. Dutton. Redesigned Edition. Some Foxing Along Top Edge,Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 0525444459. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. 100 pages. hardcover. Cover art by Ernest H. Shepard. keywords: Literature Children . FROM THE PUBLISHER - When We Were Very Young, the first of A.A. Milne's four world-famous books for children, introduced Christopher Robin to innumerable friends, and has probably been read more widely than any other book of verse for children published in our time. For sheer delightfulness the children's rhymes of A.A. Milne are in a class by themselves, with their charm, humour, and understanding - to say nothing of their irresistible rhythms. Ernest H. Shepard's illustrations are an important complement to the verses. A.A. Milne has here created a book of proven classic quality, a book that goes straight to the heart. inventory #11540 ISBN: 0525444459.