Search Results: Titles starting with A from House of Our Own Books

Paris, France: France Loisirs, 1992. Text in French; a study of facial expressions, includes 100 portraits (black laminated covers with white lettering, masks with different expressions on the front, corners & spine ends bumped, writing on front end paper; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.: Pacific Asia Museum, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 11" X 8 5/8. This is the catalog of an exhibition of the photographs of Hu Ch'ung-hsien at the Pacific Art Museum in Padadena, California in 1983; the photographs were taken over a two-year period in the garden of the painter Chang Ta-ch'ien in Taipei; the photographs, evocative of classical Chinese still-life paintings, have inscriptions--poems, reminiscences, and observations--in Chinese calligraphy by Chang Ta-ch'ien; includes 68 reproductions of the photographs (eight in color) with translations of the inscriptions and an introducton by Richard Strassberg (light gray covers with black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy)

University Park, PA, U.S.A.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. This book is a critical analysis of modern conceptions of the self; it is concerned with the political theory and psychology of the self as private property, as the subjective experience of the mode of production of modern capitalism; the focus is on the ideological structure of a way of productive and acquisitive activity which informs our self-conception (maroon cloth with gold lettering, slight edgewear, previous owner's embossed stamp on front endpaper; maroon dust jacket with white & black lettering is rubbed with small tears and creases along edges, otherwise completely intact)

Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This collection of essays traces the attempts of a writing teacher, over a ten year period, to understand theoretically what happens when students from diverse backgrounds learn to use academic language in college writing courses; her original assumption, based on the work of Paulo Freire, was that students could be inculcated with critical consciousness, an awareness of the injustices of social inequality, through teaching them academic discourse; over time she became increasingly skeptical about the politically liberating effects of academic discourse and concludes by calling for a theory of discourse that recognizes the need to argue for values and a pedagogy that can assist these arguments (blue cover with white lettering, in nearly perfect conditon except for previous owner's embossed stamp on half-title page)

Cambridge, England, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book is an account of knowledge and epistemic norativity; it's central thesis is that knowledge is a kind of success from ability (black & gray cover with yellow & white lettering, photo of a baseball player on the front, has very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; text is completely unmarked)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1994. Trade Paperback. As New. This book examines the textual complexity of all of Smith's major works by analyzing their stylistic, figurative, and rhetorical features and by reading them in the context of Enlightenment discourse on the moral, legal, political, and economic aspects of society; rather than seeing Smith's writings as promoting the values of an emerging commercial society, this reading emphasizes their ambivalences; of central importance for the structure of Smith's discourse is Stoic moral philosophy, which provides a set of values antithetical to both classical republican virtues and the aspirations of an acquisitive commercial society

New York, NY, U.S.A: Alan R. Liss, 1981. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. This book contains the proceedings of a workshop held in Ann Arbor, MI, in 1980; it reviews recently introduced techniques of hemoglobin analysis and discusses their applications in research as well as in the clinical laboratory, with an emphasis on detailed methodology to facilitate the use of these techniques; the first 7 chapters explain how high pressure liquid chromatography has become a useful tool for hemoglobin, globin chains, and peptide analysis; the last 6 chapters deal with the detection of hemoglobin production, in vitro hemoglobin synthesis, prenatal diagnosis, and the significance of glycosylated hemoglobins (light blue cloth with gold lettering, very slight edgewear; green dust jacket with white lettering, slightly rubbed, slight edgewear; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Raven Press, 1984. Hard Cover. As New/Very Good. This volume contains the presentations from the 16th Annual Symposium of the Intra-Science Foundation in Santa Monica, California, in 1983; these papers by noted experts cover important theoretical and empirical advances in pain research (black cloth with gold lettering; black dust jacket with gold and white lettering has a small closed edge tear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Cambridge, England, U.K.: Daemon Press, 1990. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Inscribed by Editor. This book makes available for the first time, from manuscripts and printed documents in various archives and libraries, a number of early writings, in French, of Benjamin Constant in which he defends the cause of his father who was involved in a series of military lawsuits following a mutiny in a battalion of his regiment in Amsterdam; included are Constant's earliest polemical writings; Constant's French texts are not translated; a substantial introduction in English by C. P. Courtney provides a general survey of the affair and a reassessment of this relatively unknown period of Constant's literary career; inscribed by author on half-title page (plain white cover with black lettering, slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: International Publishers, 1954. The author, the foreign correspondent for the Daily Worker (London), recounts the struggle for freedom throughout British colonial Africa in the face of terrible repressions; with an introduction by Alphaeus Hunton, Secretary of the Council on African Affairs, chaired by Paul Robeson and W.E.B. DuBois (corners and spine ends slightly bumped, review copy notice with hand-written date of publication pasted to first page; yellow dust jacket with red lettering, sunned along spine, edgewear at ends of spine, otherwise completely intact, a bright, clean copy). First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Westport, CT, U.S.A.: Negro Universities Press, 1970. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. This is a facsimile reprint of an anti-slavery narrative originally published in London in 1805; the rest of the title continues: with a Brief Notice of the Neighbouring Tribes, Soil, Productions, &c. and Some Observations on the Facility of Colonizing that Part of Africa, with a View to Cultivation; and the Introduction of Letters and Religion to its Inhabitants: but More Particularly as the Means of Gradually Abolishing African Slavery; the author, a Royal Navy officer, was in command of this failed attempt to colonize an island off the coast of Sierra Leone (light blue cloth with gold lettering on spine; a bright, clean, tight copy)

London, England, U.K.: Bloomsbury, 2013. This is a collection of essays, originally delivered as papers at an interdisciplinary conference on Dress, Popular Culture, and Social Action in Africa at Northwestern University in 2009, and focused on dressed bodies and questions of agency and power; the essays are divided into four sections: Dressed Bodies and Power; Material Culture, Visual Recognition, and Display; Connecting Worlds through Dress; and Transcultured Bodies; includes many photographs and other illustrations (white pictorial cover with red, orange, yellow & black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). First Edition. Trade Paperback. As New. 6 3/4" X 9 1/2".

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Harry N. Abrams, 1999. This is a very large two-volume boxed set of color photographs of African rituals, based on ten years of field work across East, West, and Southern Africa; the authors' intent was to create a visual exploration of the meaning and power of traditional rituals and ceremonies they had witnessed before they disappeared forever; the 43 ceremonies from 26 countries are divided into three sections: Birth & Initiation, Courtship & Marriage, and Royalty & Power; each section includes an introduction describing the ceremonies (black cloth with gold lettering on the spine & photo in gold frame on the front; each volume in nearly perfect condition except for previous owner's name on the front end paper; box has some shelf war; otherwise these are bright, clean tight volumes; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 14" X 10.5". Boxed Set.

London, England, U.K.: HarperCollins, 1995. This book examines the crisis of the nation-state and the realignment of the relations among states, citizens, and the world economy with the rise of trans-national corporations, which comprise about half of the world's largest economies, and the re-emergence of tribal loyalties forcibly submerged during the stasis of the Cold War (white pictorial cover with very slight edgewear, pages very slightly tanned, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Trade Paperback. Very Good.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 2001. Trade Paperback. As New. This book, a collection essays by leading Marxist scholars and writers, assesses the significance of twentieth century communism from the perspective that revolutionary transformation of the modern world-system is necessary for freedom to flourish; it attempts to come to terms with the downfall of the first modern attempt to construct a rational alternative to the structures of the existing world-system and revisits specific events of 1989 in Germany, Russia, China, and other countries (black pictorial cover with white & yellow writing, a bright, clean, tight copy)

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Ivan R. Dee, 1995. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Signed by Editors. Founded in 1982, the New Criterion is a journal of critical dissent from left/liberal orthodoxy on the arts, culture, and intellectual life; this volume includes a selection of essays by major conservative critics, signed by both editors on the half title page (black cover with multi-color stripes & white lettering, very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1990. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This book takes issue with the major themes of postmodernism; it challenges the idealist irrationalism of post-structuralism, questions the existence of any radical break separating allegedly postmodern from modern art, and denies that recent socio-economic developments represent a fundamental shift from classical patterns of capital accumulation, and also takes issue with some critics of postmodernism, such as Habermas and Jameson; it views postmodernism as a symptom of political frustration and social mobility rather than a significant intellectual or cultural phenomenon, reflecting the disappointment of the generation of 1968 and the incorporation of many of its members into the new professional and managerial middle class (light blue cover with black lettering, a bright, clean, tight copy)

Paris, France: Editions Caribeennes, 1987. A volume of papers, in French, from the first international conference on the literary work of Aime Cesaire held in Paris in 1985; actes du premier colloque international sur l'oeuvre litteraire d'Aime Cesaire, Paris-21-22-23 novembre 1985 (pictorial cover with slight edgewear, small tan spot on fore-edge, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Greenwich, CT, U.S.A.: Climax Molybdenum Company A collection of technical articles on alloys in various industries, grouped into four sections: Alloys for Transportation, Alloys for Energy Conversion, Alloys for Fuel Production and Distribution, and Alloys for Process Industries; includes many charts, graphs, tables, and illustrations (black paper-covered boards, covers rubbed with edgewear and bumped corners, interior clean and unmarked). Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8 3/4" X 11 1/4".

Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.A.: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. First Printing. Hard Cover. As New/As New. This book chronicles the history of a South Carolina planter family from the antebellum years, when they transformed a small patrimony into a Lowcountry agricultural empire, through the trauma of the Civil War and the difficult postwar period; includes portraits and photographs (green paper-covered boards with silver lettering; green pictorial dust jacket with photo of Chicora Wood on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy)