Search Results: Titles starting with N from Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller

University of North Carolina Press, 1987. Trade paperback. Good. 9x5x0. Several sentences have been underlined. The NAACP's fight against segregated education--the first public interest litigation campaign--culminated in the 1954 Brown decision. While touching on the general social, political, and economic climate in which the NAACP acted, Mark V. Tushnet emphasizes the internal workings of the organization as revealed in its own documents. He argues that the dedication and political and legal skills of staff members such as Walter White, Charles Hamilton Houston, and Thurgood Marshall were responsible for the ultimate success of public interest law. This edition contains a new epilogue by the author that addresses general questions of litigation strategy, the contested question of whether the Brown decision mattered, and the legacy of Brown through the Burger and Rehnquist courts.

UMI Publications, 1993. First edition. Hard cover. Like New/Very Good. Includes "Remembering Davey Allison, and Alan Kulwicki". Dale Earnhardt of Richard Childress Racing won the title, the sixth of his career. 1993 was marked by the deaths of two Winston Cup drivers, though neither were on-track in any form. The NASCAR Cup Series is the top racing series of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR). The series began in 1949 as the Strictly Stock Division, and from 1950 to 1970 it was known as the Grand National Division. In 1971, when the series began leasing its naming rights to the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, it was referred to as the NASCAR Winston Cup Series (1971–2003). A similar deal was made with Nextel in 2003, and it became the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series (2004–2007). Sprint acquired Nextel in 2005, and in 2008 the series was renamed the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (2008–2016). In December 2016, it was… Read More

Tate Publishing & Enterprises, 2014. Hardcover. Like New/Fine . 7x0x9.

HarperCollins Publishers, 1977. Softcover. Very Good. 8x6x0. Navarre Scott Momaday (1934) is a Kiowa novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969, and is considered the first major work of the Native American Renaissance. His follow-up work The Way to Rainy Mountain blends folklore with memoir. Momaday received the National Medal of Arts in 2007 for his work's celebration and preservation of indigenous oral and art tradition. He holds twenty honorary degrees from colleges and universities, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Simon & Schuster, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . 6x0x8. In a moving novel about aging by the youngest child of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the children of world-famous aviator Cal Linley come together to deal with the deteriorating mental capacity of their mother.

University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979. First edition. Softcover. Like New. 0x0x0. Signed by Author. Signature only on title page; scarce thus. In Near Fine condition. David P. Young is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Field of Light and Shadow, Black Lab and At the White Window. He is a well-known translator of the Chinese poets and of the poems of Petrarch. A recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships as well as a Pushcart Prize, he is the Longman Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Oberlin College and the editor of the Field Poetry Series at Oberlin College Press.

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 1995. Softcover. Like New. 8x0x9. Signed by Author. An exhibition catalog. Inscribed "For? Best, Nancy Rubins June 19, 1997". Autographed copies rarely offered. Introduction by Hugh M. Davies. Text by Kathyrn Kanjo and Lisa Liebmann. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations, list of plates, selected biography and bibliography. American sculptor Nancy Rubins (b. 1952) is known for creating gargantuan sculptures out of trash, and making them look visually appealing. Stylistically, her work resembles John Chamberlain's crushed automobiles, although her process is additive, like assemblage art. Installations can be found in the public collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Eli Broad Foundation, Los Angeles.[14] Large scale, outdoor sculptures are on permanent display at institutions… Read More

Grosset & Dunlap, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good/Good . Lists to "Swiss Chalet" on dustjacket. Bound in blue tweed cloth, with decorated endpapers.

Mountaineers Books, 2000. Softcover. Like New. 6x1x9. Remainder Mark bottom edge; else Fine. The wide-ranging expedition of Eric Shipton and H.W. Tilman in the Garhwal Himalaya in 1934 is regarded as the epitome of adventurous mountaineering. With their Sherpa companions they solved the problem of access to the Nanda Devi Sanctuary, crossed difficult cols, made first ascents, and explored remote, uninhabited valleys. These adventures are recounted in Shipton's wonderfully vivid Nanda Devi, one of the most inspirational mountain-travel books ever written. Once access to Nanda Devi was found, it was only a matter of time before a first ascent attempt was mounted. In 1936 Tilman joined an American and British expedition and tells the tale of their successful climb in his restrained, witty account, The Ascent of Nanda Devi. This compilation of these classic tales is concluded with further accounts by Shipton of his subsequent surveying expeditions in and around the Sanctuary, which served to… Read More

The Stephen Grene Press, 1980. Softcover. Very Good. 7x1x5. In Very Good+ condition. A history of Nantucket since its earliest settlement by both Indians and white colonists draws attention to the island's development through the Revolution, the rise and decline of the whaling industry, the growth of tourism, and the arts and crafts boom.

Hachette Books, 2002. Softcover. Like New. 6x0x9. Standup comic George Carlin follows up his dark-horse smash bestseller Brain Droppings with another compendium of cranky meditations, cinching his reputation as the Andy Rooney of boomer hepcats.

The California State Colleges, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . The organization, media, and contents of government propaganda in France in the period beginning in 1848 under the leadership of Louis Napoleon. These pioneering propaganda techniques of the Second Empire anticipated many of today's methods of mass manipulation.

Lewis Osborne, 1966. Hard cover. Very Good/No dustjacket. Major C. Bolin, aka David Butler, was one of the many notorious individuals of the California Gold Rush. From the Introduction by Richard Dillion, noted librarian and author on many articles and books on California, "The name was an alias adopted by an Ohio Argonaut in 1853 when he became a gambler in the California mining camps. His real name was Major C. Bolin, the Major being his first name and not a military title." This is an account, in Bolin's own words related to his attorney, A. A. Sargent, of his life in California and Oregon that ended with a dramatic escape from prosecution for murder, to be capture, returned for trial, conviction and execution.

University of Chicago Press, 1997. Softcover. Very Good. 8x6x0. Signed by Author. Inscribed "For the cabin in Marble-and all forms of reclusion! " And, signed "Peter Sacks". Peter Sacks draws upon his life as an expatriate as well as upon his early years in South Africa, including his time spent in the military, to create a remarkably powerful book of poetry. At turns meditative and narrative, Sacks is unafraid to lay bare in vivid imagery his sense of both personal and historical losses, and his commitment to the works of mourning and of cultural repair. Even the love poems emerge from this book with the impress of both bittersweet aspiration and regret. He received Phi Beta Kappa's Christian Gauss Award for The English Elegy in 1985, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997, and was the 1999 winner of the University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series contest. In 1999 he was a Lannan Foundation writer in residence in Marfa, Texas.

Esther Schipper, 2006. First edition. Hard cover. Like New/No Dustjacket as Issued. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Esther Schipper Gallery, Berlin, Feb. 17-Mar. 25, 2006; 47 pages, color illustrations. Nathan Carters work combines the three-dimensional qualities of sculpture with the linearity of reliefs and pictorial force of two-dimensional works, and with narrative elements found in his drawings. Scarce in any condition.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good. 6x1x8. The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the Indonesian archipelago. Just two miles long and half a mile wide, it is remote, tranquil, and, these days, largely ignored.Yet 370 years ago, Run's harvest of nutmeg (a pound of which yielded a 3,200 percent profit by the time it arrived in England) turned it into the most lucrative of the Spice Islands, precipitating a battle between the all-powerful Dutch East India Company and the British Crown. The outcome of the fighting was one of the most spectacular deals in history: Britain ceded Run to Holland but in return was given Manhattan. This led not only to the birth of New York but also to the beginning of the British Empire.Such a deal was due to the persistence of one man. Nathaniel Courthope and his small band of adventurers were sent to Run in October 1616, and for four years held off the massive Dutch navy. Nathaniel's Nutmeg centers on the… Read More

National Geographic Society, 1967. Hard cover. Very Good. Six Issues in Bound Volume. Available for U.S. media mail shipping only.

National Geographic, 2003. Hardcover. Like New/No Dustjacket . 8x1x9. A reference atlas combines full-color photography, current maps, and essays from leading ornithologists, conservationists, and other prominent experts to provide key information on a wide range of species as well as effective bird-watching techniques.

Dorling Kindersley, 1992. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good . 6x0x9. Photographic portraits and descriptions of eighty commonly observed North American birds complement a detailed guide to creating a bird-friendly environment, with tips on feeders, nestboxes, birdbaths, recipes, and bird identification.

Abrams, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Like New/Fine . 1x9x11. For more than one hundred years, the National Geographic Society has brought the world and all that is in it to millions worldwide. Through its unparalleled research, exploration, publications, and photography, the organization and its magazine have, in many ways, defined how we see the world. This book not only celebrates the first 100 years but takes various subjects that they have covered over the years - from national disasters to world changing historical events and shown how they have been chronicled in the pages of their publications. The book has charted how the society grew and developed, how it embraced change and new media to become the window on the world of science and nature it is today.