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

Paris, France: Editions de la Difference / Baudoin Lebon, 2008. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. This is the catalogue of an exhibition of the work of the French sculpter and photographer Henri Foucault held in Paris and Marseilles, 2008-2009; includes essays by Olivier Abel, Richard Leydier, and Anne Bertrand; text in French (gray textured cloth with white lettering, black & white decorative endpapers; light gray pictorial dust jacket with small tear at bottom of front fold; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Austin, TX, U.S.A: University of Texas Press, 1994. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book is a Syrian woman's personal account of her youth in Damascus in the first half of the 20th century, written to preserve the details of a genuine Arab past and to help younger Syrians appreciate the architecture of the old quarter with its reminders of earlier values (white pictorial cover with slight edgewear and faint corner crease)

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Trade Paperback. Fine. Inscribed By Author. The sixth book of poems by the winner of the O. B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library; these poems deal with issues of personal identity as revealed by examining the intimate bonds of family life; they explore these familial relations in terms of the religious, social and literary contexts that inform them, delving into such universal themes as human frailty, illness and death, bereavement,and thwarted desires (with autograph card from Regulator Bookshop)

Albany, NY, U.S.A.: State University of New York Press, 1990. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. In this book the author explains how the contemporary ecological crisis within industrial society is caused by the values inherent in unlimited economic growth and competitive materialism and shows that the limits-to-growth critique of industrial civilization is the most effective stance against the dominant and seemingly invincible social order (black front cover with white & red lettering has very slight shelf wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy, completely unmarked)

New York, NY, U.S.A: Manchester University Press, 1993. Trade Paperback. As New. A collection of extracts from articles originally published in Sociology, the journal of the British Sociological Association, reflecting debates within British sociology, along with commentary on the issues raised in these debates; issues include social mobility, women and class, organization structure, the concept of strategy, household inequalities, industrialism, modernity and revolution, ethnomethodology, and the concepts of power and gender; contributors include the editors, Ray Pawson, Helen Roberts, Alan Bryman, Claire Wallace, Sara Arber, John Scott, Michael Rustin, Rodney Barker, and Janet Finch

Armonk, NY, U.S.A.: M. E. Sharpe, 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is a study of the parallels between the financial problems of the 1930s and 1990s; the first part covers the explosion of debt in the public and private sectors during the 1970s and 1980s, and the implications for economic stagnation and recession; the second part is a reprint of Hart's classic 1938 study, Debts and Recovery, 1929 to 1937 (pale green cover with dark green lettering, slight edgewear and creased corners; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Black Rose Books, 1994. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is a collection of Goodman's political writings, edited by his literary executor and grouped under the headings Anarchism, Education, Science and Technology, Modern Culture in Crisis, and Decentralizing Power; the first essay, Social Criticism was found in Goodman's papers after his death and was previously unpublished; includes an introduction by the editor, a bibliography of works by and about Goodman, and a frontispiece portrait of Goodman (cover has slight corner crease, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1983. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. This is the first systematic and comparative assessment of various national and international arms control policy processes; it reviews the decision making processes in the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, France, West Germany, Norway, NATO, and the United Nations and details political, organizational, and public pressures affecting the formulation of arms control policy; it offers specific practical recommendations for better integrating arms control into foreign and defense policies; includes a preface by Paul Warnke; contributors are European and American arms control experts (brown cloth with gold lettering on spine has very slight edgewear; red dust jacket with white lettering has sight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

London, England, U.K.: Pluto Press, 1998. Trade Paperback. As New. This is a study of the role of literary criticism in the process of Irish decolonization since the late 18th century; it looks at how Irish literature has been constructed in the modern era as a specific realm of cultural activity, attempts to reconfigure the relations between literature and criticism, and then sets this analysis against a theory of decolonization based on a reading of Irish history from the perspectives of contemporary postcolonial and post-structuralist theory (blue & white cover with black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1995. Trade Paperback. As New. This book analyzes Durkheim's social ontology and epistemology from the standpoint of critical structuralism; it explores Durkheim's discussion of the relationships between the individual and society, the subject and object of knowledge, and truth and ideology (a bright, clean, tight copy)

Chicago, IL, U.S.A: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. This book, by two of the foremost experts on public discourse, is the first comprehensive, comparative study of pesidential speeches; it demonstrates that rhetoric is a fundamental constituent of the presidency; it analyzes inaugural, State of the Union, and farewell addresses, war declarations, veto messages, impeachment rhetoric, and pardons from Washington to Reagan (red cloth with silver lettering & blue paper-covered boards, creases at ends of spine; red pictorial dust jacket with photographs of presidental speeches on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Westview Press, 1989. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This study attempts to define the nature of the differences between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany with respect to issues arising out the policy of Defense and Detente intended to secure peace and security in Europe; it also tries to uncover the reasons for those differences; other contributors include James Golden, Dieter Dettke, and Gale Mattox (maroon cover with white lettering and black bands, very slightly rubbed; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 2000. Trade Paperback. As New. This is a study of Deleuze's relation to political theory and the challenge his work presents to traditional conceptions of politics; it examines fundamental concepts in Deleuze's work, such as difference, power, desire, multiplicities, nomadism, capture, and shows how it can be productive for political thought (black & purple cover with white lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Lexington, MA, U.S.A: Heath Lexington Books, 1970. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. A collection of essays on the demand for passenger transportation based on recent quantitative research in economics, operations research, physics, transport and regional studies, and other fields; most of the essays view travel as the result of individuals' rational decision-making in an economic context (tan cloth with red lettering, corners very slightly bumped, previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Chatham, NJ, U.S.A.: Chatham House Publishers, 1984. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. This book examines the transformation of the American economy and alternative public policy programs for economic renewal (gray cloth with gold lettering, spine ends slightly bumped; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

London, England, U.K.: Hutchinson, 1947. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This book is an attempt to approach the problems of civilization and history from the standpoint of Christian thinking; it is a defense of liberal democracy which the author regards as the best hope for a reasonable organization of society incorporating, encouraging, and disseminating the values which approximate most closely those implied in the Christian conception of man and society; no date of publication, author's preface dated February, 1946 (red cloth with slightly faded gold lettering, slightly tanned pages, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Bombay, India: Asia Publishing House, 1970. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. This is one of a series of village demographic surveys conducted by the Institute of Economic Growth in 1958-1960; the data cover six villages located within a radius of sixteen miles from the city of Delhi and relate to fertility level, differential fertility, marriage and widowhood, and infant mortality (dark blue cloth with gold lettering, slightly bumped corner; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 1987. This critical study of the rise of the novel argues that fiction written by women in 18th and 19th century England, rather than being incidental to the events of history, paved the way for the rise of the modern middle class (black covers with gold lettering on spine; dust jacket has crease along upper edge; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

Dublin, Ireland: Veritas, 2001. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. A collection of essays assessing the life and work of the Irish writer and public intellectual Desmond Fennell, with a transcript of an interview with him in 2000 and a bibliography of his writings (purple cover with color photos of Fennell on the front, very slight spine crease, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Stanford, CA, U.S.A.: Stanford University Press, 2000. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This book argues that even after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War nuclear deterrence will remain at the center of security policies of the world's great powers and will continue to be an attractive option for many other states; it explains why states can rely on nuclear deterrent strategies despite the impracticality of deploying invulnerable retaliatory forces; case studies assessing the nuclear deterrent policies of China, Britain, and France show why their experience, rather than that of the Cold War superpowers, better reflects the strategic and economic factors likely to shape state security policies in the future (brown cover with very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)