Search Results: Titles starting with B from Zeno's

New York. 1987. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. Remainder Dot On Bottom Edge. 0374317674. Illustrated by Natalie Babbit. 82 pages. hardcover. Cover art by Natalie Babbit. keywords: Childrens . FROM THE PUBLISHER - The further exploits of the Devil in his own realm and in the world above are recounted in ten more tales. inventory #23635 ISBN: 0374317674.

New York. 1963. November 1963. Signet/New American Library. 1st Printing of This Signet Classic Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. Newly Translated From The Russian and With An Afterword By Andrew R. MacAndrew. 285 pages. paperback. CT203. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback Russia Translated Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Babel has been compared to Hemingway in the violence he depicts, in his abiding theme of test and initiation, in his intense artistic dedication. Yet his style and vision are uniquely his own. Babel's tales are shaped by deeply personal and intense ironies: maternal love vies with the harsh realities of ghetto life; a starving writer is coupled with a sensual wealthy woman; a Jewish intellectual enters into a strange alliance with brutal Cossacks in the Goyaesque horrors of war in Poland. Babel's stories are written with passionate devotion to the mot juste, the swift phrase, the unexpected image, and they form a series of lightninglike attacks upon the… Read More

New York. 2006. Regan Books/Harper Collins. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780060837723. 336 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Timothy O’Donnell. keywords: Psychology Psychopaths Business. FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do so at the Stock Exchange.' - Robert B. Hare, Ph. D., quoted in Fast Company. Dr. Robert Hare has devoted more than three decades of his professional career to the investigation of the psychopath and how psychopathic behavior influences and corrupts society. Hare is the creator of the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R), a twenty item personality checklist. There is no doubt that everyone has come in contact and possibly been deceived by a psychotic personality. In fact, most disturbingly, it's the nature of a psychopath to initially come across as very appealing and likable. How do you defend yourself against such a person in the workplace? In ‘Snakes in Suits', industrial and… Read More

Pittsburgh. 2015. January 2015. University of Pittsburgh Press. Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780822963288. Pitt Poetry Series. 72 pages. paperback. keywords: Poetry. FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘Fiercely distilled and haunted by the cruelties of war, Do Not Rise is compressed, imperative, disquieting, and compassionate.' - Edward Hirsch. ‘The collection's conceptual center - and its most insistent word - is ‘open.' . The resulting gaps open the poem to a meaningful range of pauses, hesitations, delays, sonic mutations, reconsiderations. There is so much seeing in its listening.' - Elizabeth Willis. ‘Beth Bachmann's Temper was the last time [in forty years] I remember reading a first book by a poet so prodigally and - the word that came to my mind was - severely gifted. The new poems in Do Not Rise are a quantum leap forward with all the metaphorical leaps, adumbrations, dizzyings, deft, brief knottings that make the poems in Temper so dazzling. A… Read More

Berkeley. 2004. University Of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0520237781. 348 pages. hardcover. keywords: History Labor Politics NAFTA. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Food, televisions, computer equipment, plumbing supplies, clothing. Much of the material foundation of our everyday lives is produced along the U.S./Mexico border in a world largely hidden from our view. Based on gripping firsthand accounts, this book investigates the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on those who labor in the agricultural fields and maquiladora factories on the border. Journalist David Bacon paints a powerful portrait of poverty, repression, and struggle, offering a devastating critique of NAFTA in the most pointed and in-depth examination of border workers published to date. Unlike journalists who have made brief excursions into strawberry fields and maquiladoras, Bacon has more than a decade's experience reporting on the ground at the border, and he has developed sustained… Read More

Dallas. 2014. BenBella Books. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. 9781940363196. 208 pages. paperback. keywords: Health. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Weight loss is not the key to health, diet and exercise are not effective weight-loss strategies and fatness is not a death sentence. You've heard it before: there's a global health crisis, and, unless we make some changes, we're in trouble. That much is true—but the epidemic is NOT obesity. The real crisis lies in the toxic stigma placed on certain bodies and the impact of living with inequality—not the numbers on a scale. In a mad dash to shrink our bodies, many of us get so caught up in searching for the perfect diet, exercise program, or surgical technique that we lose sight of our original goal: improved health and well-being. Popular methods for weight loss don't get us there and lead many people to feel like failures when they can't match unattainable body standards. It's time for a… Read More

New York. 2001. September 2001. Simon & Schuster. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684867583. 288 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Michael Accordino. keywords: Crime Science Medicine Autobiography. FROM THE PUBLISHER - For most people, the forensic sciences are something reported on the news when a crime is solved through DNA evidence, or used as a plot twist for television shows. But behind the crime-scene tape and the doors of the morgue is a world never seen by the public. Now famed pathologist and medical examiner Dr. Michael Baden and award-winning writer Marion Roach take readers into the laboratory, above the autopsy table, onto the witness stand and out in the field to show how advances in forensic science can solve crucial questions in a criminal case, often with startling accuracy. Baden and Roach reveal how a key clue to the killer of Nicole Brown Simpson was lost when her body was moved to the morgue, and why the JonBenet Ramsey case can never be solved. They show how… Read More

New York. 1972. Belmont. 1st Belmont Paperback Ediiton. Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. 203 pages. paperback. keywords: Mystery America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - THE SKI HELMET MURDERS - Who tried to kill Helen Deemer, the pretty girl from out of town, and why? What had that to do with the frightful murder of a rich Manhattan diamond dealer? And what dark secret made the deranged killer place a knife and a note with the words ‘Killer Boy was Here' on her hospital pillow? Inspector Schmidt and his friend George Bagby meet a spoiled teen-ager, a shopful of ladies who knit, and some of New York's more unsavory denizens in this fanciful novel of mystery and suspense. inventory #34661

Boston. 1995. Beacon Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0807070661. 241 pages. hardcover. keywords: Autobiography Journalism Armenian. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Bagdikian's book spans the human gamut, from the time of his birth when he was almost left for dead during a massacre of Armenians in Turkey to his becoming an editor of a leading American daily and a dean of the School of Journalism at Berkeley. As a child, Bagdikian lived in two worlds - the world of his puritanical clergyman-father, whose parish was in a small New England town, and the world of his truck-driver uncle and his grandfather who made bathtub beer during Prohibition. Bagdikian had to attend church regularly but he made money for college tuition on a boardwalk with friends who were pitchmen and gamblers. As a professional journalist, Bagdikian continued his insider-outsider roles - his double vision - as one of the country's leading journalists and as a leading critic of his own profession. An enemy of secrecy in… Read More

Boston. 1992. Beacon Press. 4th Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0807061573. 288 pages. paperback. keywords: Media Business Politics. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Since this classic on corporate control of the media was first published in 1997, the number of corporations dominating our media has shrunk from fifty to merely five. Once called 'alarmist', Bagdikian's claims are uncanny and chilling in their accuracyl This much-needed sixth edition follows up on the digital revolution, revealing startling details of a new communications cartel within the United States. inventory #40695 ISBN: 0807061573.

London. 1984. Carcanet. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0856354708. 142 pages. hardcover. Cover design by Bruce Wilson. keywords: Literature Caribbean Guadeloupe. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This is the story of three generations of a family. It begins with the legend of the folk-hero O'O, the black corsair who frees slaves from the slave ships and flays the slavers, making breeches from their skin. From legend we move to history, but a history into which fantasy and poetry flow naturally. Among the corsair's descendents there are twins in each generation, and they express the paradoxical nature of the changing black experience on the island of Guadeloupe and FRENCH Caribbean generally. The history of the O'O clan is one of marriages, of racial mixture and development. What remains is the island, its contours, its flora and fauna, and the sea that washes it, things which change in meaning but not in character with each generation. The social miracle at the heart of the story, the… Read More

Berkeley. 2011. January 2011. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780520267022. Sather Classical Lectures, 69. A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature. 50 b/w photographs, 9 tables, 2 graphs . 192 pages. hardcover. keywords: Archaeology Ancient History Language . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world - that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution - has perished. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, leading papyrologist Roger S. Bagnall convincingly argues, however, that ordinary people - from Britain to Egypt to Afghanistan - used writing in their daily lives far more extensively than has been recognized. Marshalling new and little-known evidence, including remarkable graffiti recently discovered in Smyrna, Bagnall presents a fascinating analysis of writing in different segments of society. His book offers a new picture of literacy in the ancient world… Read More

Cambridge. 2011. Harvard University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780674061682. 165 pages. hardcover. keywords: Philosophy. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Marking the tercentenary of David Hume’s birth, Annette Baier has created an engaging guide to the philosophy of one of the greatest thinkers of Enlightenment Britain. Drawing deeply on a lifetime of scholarship and incisive commentary, she deftly weaves Hume’s autobiography together with his writings and correspondence, finding in these personal experiences new ways to illuminate his ideas about religion, human nature, and the social order. Excerpts from Hume’s autobiography at the beginning of each chapter open a window onto the eighteenth-century context in which Hume’s philosophy developed. Famous in Christian Britain as a polymath and a nonbeliever, Hume recounts how his early encounters with clerical authority laid the foundation for his lifelong skepticism toward religion. In Scotland, where he grew up, he… Read More

New York. 1998. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374148570. 255 pages. hardcover. Jacket photo by Rob Blakers.Jacket design by Susan Mitchell. keywords: Literature Australia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - The gruff widower Holland has two possessions he cherishes above all others: his sprawling property of eucalyptus trees and his ravishingly beautiful daughter, Ellen. When Ellen turns nineteen Holland makes an announcement: she may marry only the man who can correctly name the species of each of the hundreds of gum trees on his property. Ellen is uninterested in the many suitors who arrive from around the world, until one afternoon she chances on a strange, handsome young man resting under a Coolibah tree. In the days that follow, he spins dozens of tales set in cities, deserts, and faraway countries. As the contest draws to a close, Ellen and the stranger's meetings become more erotic, the stories more urgent. Murray Bail's rich narrative is filled with… Read More

New York. 1927. Wise-Parslow. 1st Edition. Some Discoloration To Boards,Otherwise Very Good.No Dustjacket. Color Illustrations by Marie Honre Myers. 93 pages. hardcover. keywords: Children Dutch . FROM THE PUBLISHER - A typical Volland children's book with excellent illustration, this one concerns Dutch children and their adventures growing up with, well, a gander on ice skates. inventory #1096

Lebanon. 2018. April 2018. ForeEdge. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9781512601664. 368 pages. hardcover. keywords: Biography. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Of all the many biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, none has presented the twenty-sixth president as he saw himself: as a man of letters. This fascinating account traces Roosevelt's lifelong engagement with books and discusses his writings from childhood journals to his final editorial, finished just hours before his death. His most famous book, The Rough Riders - part memoir, part war adventure - barely begins to suggest the dynamism of his literary output. Roosevelt read widely and deeply, and worked tirelessly on his writing. Along with speeches, essays, reviews, and letters, he wrote history, autobiography, and tales of exploration and discovery. In this thoroughly original biography, Roosevelt is revealed at his most vulnerable - and his most human. inventory #43536 ISBN: 9781512601664.

Boston. 1984. Houghton Mifflin. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0395352851. 464 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Bernadette Evangelist. keywords: Philippines Asia America History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - SITTING IN DARKNESS follows the paths of three people in the Philippines: an American soldier of fortune. a Filipino revolutionary leader. and an American historian who left the safety and limits of the library for the hazards of the jungle. What emerges is a narrative in which past and present are unforgettably entwined. In March 1982, David Haward Bain hiked 110 miles through the mountainous, sparsely populated coast of Luzon. Led by pygmy guides, he and his five companions crossed peaks, forded rivers, and negotiated jungles to retrace a historic expedition made during a pivotal but now forgotten American war. What spurred Bain to attempt this trek were the personal sagas of two men who were symbols of their country's aspirations, headline makers at the century's turn,… Read More

Richmond. 2015. October 2015. Omnidawn Publishing . Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781632430083. 6 x 9 . 96 pages. paperback. keywords: poetry. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Stark lyric poems that outline the fragility of perception and the obstinacy of being. This is a book about deciding not to die - about the obstinacy of being. And it's a book of craft, in which steadiness of presence generates the illumination that flickers through states darkened by steady crisis. The world is blurred, not broken. And a lyric I comes to rest in the world. To persist in faith is to accomplish the full journey from Resolve to Devotion. And we must know Devotion sees this vivid world with new eyes, always. In these latest poems, Andrea Baker shows a gaze for gardens, a gaze for catastrophe, a gaze for everlasting. Here is greatness coming into view. - Donald Revell, author of Tantivy. inventory # 44202 ISBN: 9781632430083.

New York. 1997. St Martin's Press. Advance Uncorrected Proofs. Very Good in Wrappers. 0312151780. African American's Debut Novel. 118 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature Black America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - From time to time a single voice surfaces: ‘It is all one life and one memory.' It sings of Ampofo, human cargo brought across the seas, of Sally, enslaved as a breeder of slaves, of Tomas, the master's banished son, of Antoinette, summoned by angels, of Robert, unseeing tourist in his ancestral land, and of Brenndan, imprisoned and damned by his violence. And all the voices belong to Calvin Baker, whose tautly lyrical Naming the New World brings the horror and healing of a people to our national literature. inventory #22893 ISBN: 0312151780.

Washington DC. 2001. National Geographic Society. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0792279611. 304 pages. hardcover. Cover illustration by Tim Barrall. keywords: Travel Motorcycle Cuba Latin America Caribbean. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Equally at Home on the Elegant Avenidas of Havana and the washboard trails of the Cuban countryside, Christopher Baker's gaudy red motorcycle proved to be the perfect vehicle for touring our nearby unknown neighbor. The bike drew stares, broke the ice, and made friends for Baker throughout his three-month, 7,000-mile Cuban ramble. As ‘a single male on a motorcycle, loose on a libertine isle,' Baker felt free to pursue - and chronicle - a wide range of adventures. His faithful moto exposed him to a revealing cross section of society: From farmers and fishermen to habaneros chafing under Castro's faltering rule, Baker explores the tensions simmering below the surface of a beautiful island gripped by poverty and poised for political transition. MI… Read More