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

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1978. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. This is an analysis of East Germany from within the system, but with an appraisal from the point of view of a different system, Western political democracy; it provides a survey of its economic and political structure, outlines its history, and analyzes its institutions; it describes the way in which, through education, military training, trade unions, community organizations, and other means, it shapes the society to support and benefit from the structure of the state; the author, a political scientist in West Germany, lived in East Germany until 1958 when he left the country after being expelled from secondary school (green cloth with gold lettering, one corner slightly bumped; black & orange dust jacket is rubbed with edgewear; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.: Chronicle Books, 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Signed by Author. This volume includes selections from seven previous collections and 23 new poems, previously unpublished in book form; signed and dated by author on title page (multicolor cover with very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Chicago, IL, U.S.A: American College of Radiology, 1981. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Light blue cloth, slightly rubbed, with dark blue and red panels on front cover, gold lettering on front and spine, a good, clean, tight copy

New York, NY, U.S.A: Humanities Press, 1970. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book is concerned with the effect of political and economic events in Europe from the Franco-Prussian War to the end of World War II on the lives of ordinary people; it tries balance the treatment of issues which affected Europe as a whole with those which were peculiar to one country; includes maps and plates (black pictorial cover is rubbed with edgewear and corner creases, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Basel, Switzerland: Birkhauser Verlag, 1955. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. This volume, Poetry, is the first of a ten-volume set of the works of Friedrich Schiller published by Ernst Jenny; all text in German (yellow cloth and paper-covered boards with slightly faded gold lettering on black spine label; light tan dust jacket with dark tan lettering and floral border on front cover has slight edge wear, faint damp stain on lower end of spine; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Amsterdam, Netherlands: Querido, 1988. Trade Paperback. As New. 5 7/8" X 7 7/8. A book of poems in Dutch by the prolific Dutch poet, novelist, and translator Hendrik Jan Marsman, who uses the pseudonym Bernlef, derived from an 8th century Frisian poet (gray pictorial cover with white & black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Holmes & Meier, 1983. Second Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This study of gender and class consciousness explores the integration of domestic and industrial production and how the two sexes are differently related to this double production process, both in general structural terms and at different stages of the life-cycle of the family; it is also concerned with ideological conceptions which obscure the interdependence of industrial and domestic production by emphasizing gender differences between breadwinners and homemakers (gray pictorial cover with black & white lettering, very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. This book resulted from a panel discussion on femnisms and generations at the Modern Language Association convention in 1993 and includes original essays on the perceived differences between second and third wave feminisms (light gray cover with maroon lettering, slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Albany, NY, U.S.A.: State University of New York Press, 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This is the first major study in English of the work of Geog Buchner, now recognized as the first modern playwright; it includes a brief biography followed by chapters that analyze the plays, Danton's Death, Leonce and Lena, and Woyzeck, and the novella Lenz; two appendices include the reception of Buchner's plays and a reading and acting text of Woyzek (tan cloth with gold lettering on spine, very slight corner wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: Harvard University Press, 1951. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. This is the first major study of Sorel's thought in English; it traces his search for an organizing principle which would embody his ideals of human dignity and responsibility through many fields of intellectual endeavor and many existing theories to his final hypothesis of syndicalism (red cloth with gold lettering, pages slightly tanned, previous owner's name on front endpaper; dust jacket with green & black lettering is slightly sunned along edges, with a few edge tears and chips; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Princeton, NJ, U.S.A: Princeton University Press, 1932. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This book describes the most important developments, tendencies and problems in German municipal politics and administration in the post-World War I period (black cloth with faded gold lettering, slight edgewear, previous owners' bookplate and stamp on pastedown, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

London, England, U.K.: Macmillan Press, 1984. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This book examines the life and work of the two leading German expressionist dramatists Ernst Toller and Georg Kaiser; includes a brief general introduction to expressionism and a section of black & white photographs (black & yellow pictorial cover with white lettering, very slight corner wear, bookplate of literary critic, dramatist, and theater historian Philip Freund inside front cover; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Princeton, NJ, U.S.A: Princeton University Press, 1979. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This book is a study of German military policy in the early 1930s and its relation to Germany's domestic politics and foreign policy; it also examines the way the Western powers perceived and responded to German military policy and how they interacted with each other and with Germany (light tan cloth with gold lettering on red label, slight shelfwear, otherwise a good, clean, sturdy copy)

University Park, PA, U.S.A: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1975. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A study of the Germanic invasions of western Europe in the 4th, 5th, and 6th centuries, by one of the leading experts on the period, emphasizing their geographical, linguistic, and social aspects; Part I establishes the framework of the study, tracing the history of each wave of invasions; Part II outlines the frontiers of knowledge in areas of major importance; Part III provides a thorough bibliography arranged by topic and area; includes chronological table and maps (dark brown cloth with gold lettering; tan & white pictorial dust jacket, sunned along spine, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Munchen, Deutchland: C. H. Beck, 1995. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. This is a history of Christianity in Germany, with all text in German (green cloth with gold lettering on black label on spine, previous owner's inscription on front endpaper; white pictorial dust jacket with red & blue lettering has very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1991. Published in 1991, this book is identical to the 2016 reprint; it provides an overview and critique of recent work on the global context of urban growth, world cities, and the theory it has generated; it examines the transformation of London from imperial capital in the 19th and early 20th century to a center of global control today, and how this has changed not only the economic and social structure of the city but also its physical, spatial, and architectural form (blue & white pictorial cover with black lettering and aerial photo of London on the front and back, a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment). Trade Paperback. Fine.

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Zed Books, 2001. This book examines the nature of today's internal and regional conflicts, together with the systems of global governance that have emerged in response to both of them; the commitment among donor governments and aid agencies to conflict resolution and social reconstruction indicates that war is now part of development discourse; the author argues that the very notion of development has been radicalized in the process, and now requires the direct transformation of third world societies; because conflict is understood as a product of a developmental malaise, underdevelopment itself is now seen as a source of instability; the author argues, however, that transforming the social systems of developing countries is beyond the ability and legitimacy of individual govenments (white pictorial cover with gold lettering, pages slightly tanned, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Second Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.: Sage Publications, 2000. Trade Paperback. As New. 6 3/4" X 9 1/2. This book, drawing on feminist cultural studies, challenges existing models of globalization by exploring the changing relationships between nature, culture, and the global; includes many illustrations (blue & white pictorial cover; a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1997. First American Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. This book examines the evolution of liberalization in India from 1984 to 1994 in three specific areas: telecom services, computer software, and electronic mass media; the study is based on historical and contemporary documentary research and interviews conducted in India in 1989 and 1990, and subsequently in the United States and Canada; while empirically grounded in the particulars of India's political and economic contexts, it is primarily a theoretical argument on the political economy of telecommunications; preface by Bella Mody, who describes the book as "an excellent antidote to the utopian rhetoric on liberalization of telecommunications" (black cloth with gold lettering; blue-green dust jacket with white lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Fifth Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. The chapters in this volume, by Canadian political scientists, cover government institutions, politics, and the political system in Ontario (green & yellow cover with slight edgewear and corner creases, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)