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

Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.: ILR Press, 1983. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. This is a collection of essays on the economics of workers' compensation that examine the relationships among wages, benefits, and injury or claims rates (light yellow textured cloth with black lettering on spine; brown dust jacket with white lettering has edge wear, with a few repaired edge tears; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment)

Bridgend, Wales, U.K.: Poetry Wales Press, 1986. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. The fourth collection of poems by the Welsh poet; Terry Eagleton wrote about his previous collection that "Duncan Bush's poetry undermines the myth that political poems are one thing, personal poems another. For the same impulse informs the precise, delicate observations of this volume, and its sense of the deeper social forces which stunt or nurture human life." (pictorial cover with faint residue from removal of label on title page; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Belmont, MA, U.S.A.: Warthog Press, 2006. This is the second book of poems by the award-winning New Jersey poet, which one critic calls ".a brilliant book full of powerful, moving, and chillingly ironic poems;" signed by the author on the title page (light gray cover with black lettering, author's photo on front endpaper; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore; the author's first book,Tunnel Vision, also available). Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. As New.

New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A: Rutgers University Press, 1995. Revised. Trade Paperback. As New. Signed by Author. First published in 1981 in the wake of the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, this book recounts the lives of ordinary women through interviews with participants at all levels of the Nicaraguan resistance movement; believing that women's liberation was inextricably linked with national liberation, many of these women were in the vanguard of the resistance movement; includes many photographs (red & black pictorial cover, signed by the author on the title page)

Paris, France: L'Harmattan, 2001. Text in French; ths is a collection of essays by the German Professor of Romance Languages who has written extensively on Sartre and de Beauvoir (brown cover with red & white lettering has very slight shelf and edge wear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Trade Paperback. Very Good.

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Hard Cover. As New/As New. This book explores the relationship between social scientific ideas and behavior, showing how the descriptions of exotic cultures by British anthropologists can be translated into commentaries on British society; ultimately, British anthropologists sought to establish themselves as experts competent to formulate solutions to Britain's domestic as well as colonial problems (black cloth with silver lettering; green pictorial dust jacket; a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: George Braziller, 1981. Trade Paperback. Very Good. With a note by Richard Howard (slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean copy)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Century Co., 1923. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This volume is #265 of a limited edition of 400 copies; it contains papers contributed by former students of Felix E. Schelling in commemoration of his thirtieth anniversary as Centennial Professor of History and English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania; includes a biographical introduction by Arthur Hobson Quinn, and a bibliography of Schelling's writings from 1889 to 1923; editor unkown (black cloth with gold lettering, gilt top edge, frontispiece portrait of Schelling, very slight edgewear, pages slightly tanned, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

London, England, U.K.: Allison & Busby, 1979. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book, by the author of Political Economy (under the name John Eaton) examines the scientific outlook; includes an introduction by Mike Cooley (orange cover, pages slightly tanned; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. This book reveals how public memories and commemorations of Revolutionary War heroes helped Americans form a common bond and create a new national identity; based on extensive research on civic celebrations and commemorative literature in the half-century following the Revolution, it shows how people invoked memories of their participation in the war and used images of martyred officers as examples of glory and sacrifice for the sake of American political principles (black cloth with gold lettering; pictorial cover with painting of the Battle of Bunker Hill on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock and available for immediate shipment)

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Nonprofit Risk Management Center, 2002. Paperback. Near Fine. 8 1/2" x 11. Near Fine: this book shows how to use risk management to protect children from the risks inherent in youth-serving programs; it covers maltreatment, violence, injuries and accidents, internet access, and health-related risks (orange & yellow pictorial cover with very slight edgewear & corner crease; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

London, England, U.K.: Leslie Frewin Publishes, 1969. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine/Very Good: this book, by the journalist and author of two books on the American psychic Edgar Cayce, is an investigation of reports of the past life of a young Canadian woman who, under hypnosis, remembers her life as an obscure Canadian farmwoman born in the previous century; with the help of her memories, existing records, and local research, the author recreates the life of the farmwoman and confirms some of the memories (black cloth with gold lettering, slight crease at end of spine; red pictorial dust jacket with white lettering has edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean,tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Sheridan Square Publications, 1984. Trade Paperback. Fine. This book is the first in-depth analysis of the world of counterintelligence; it examines the battle between the CIA's Clandestine Services and its Soviet counterparts, the foreign directorates of the KGB and the GRU; the author was a career intelligence officer in the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, with undercover service in Cuba and Mexico; introduction by Thomas Powers (cover price effaced, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, U.K.: Bloodaxe Books, 1994. This is the first English edition of the poetry of Italy's greatest living poet, translated by the English poet Charles Tomlinson (pictorial cover with painting on the front has slight edge wear, two yellow stickers on spine, a few small dents on the back, previous owner's inscription on front end paper; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Trade Paperback. Good.

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Liberal Arts Press, 1955. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This book includes selections from the writings of the utopian socialist Edward Bellamy, principly The Religion of Solidarity, Looking Backward, and Equality, under the topical headings The Religion of Solidarity, The Gilded Age, A Republic of the Golden Rule, and The Means of Social Salvation; includes an introduction to Bellamy's life and work by the editor, a chronology of his life, and a bibliography (red cloth with gold lettering on black labels, slightly rubbed, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Soho Press, 1987. The collection includes the best poems from the author's first book, Heart's Needle, winner of the 1959 Pulitzer Prize; his second book, After Experience; a privately published book, Remains; poems that appeared in small press or broadside form; some new poems; and excerpts from The Fuehrer Bunker, a series of dramatic monologues from the denizens of Hitler's bunker during the last month of the Reich; inscribed by author on back of half-title page, facing the title-page (black cloth with gold lettering & blue paper-covered boards; blue pictorial dust jacket with painting on front, author's photo on the back, slight crease on upper right edge of rear cover; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Inscribed By Author. Half Cloth. As New/Near Fine.

United Kingdom: Lawrence & Wishart, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. This book tells the story of the early years of the organization of municipal workers, from the small local organizations of the late 19th century to the establishment of the National Union of Public Employees in 1928; based originally in the London area but soon growing beyond the capital, these unions took up the fight against appalling wages and conditions in the public sector (maroon cloth with gold lettering, pictorial dust jacket with several tiny pinholes, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A: Oxford University Press, 1996. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This book introduces a series of classic attempts to explain religion scientifically; it first considers the views of E.B. Tylor and James Frazer, two Victorian pioneers in anthropology and the comparative study of religion; it then explores the controversial reductionist approaches of Freud, Marx, and Durkheim, and explains the program of their opponent Mircea Eliade; finally, it examines new methods advanced by modern anthropologists E.E. Evans-Pritchard and Clifford Geertz; each chapter provides biographical background, exposition of the theory, comparative analysis, and critical assessment (black cover with white lettering, slightly rubbed, previous owner's stamp on inside of front cover, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Eden Press Women's Publications, 1980. A collection of papers from the 1978 Inaugural Institute on Women organized by the Canadian Psychological Association's Interest Group on Women and Psychology; includes studies related to sex-role influences, counseling for women, sex differences in competencies, and female hormonal research (purple cloth with gold lettering, front and rear end papers are corner-clipped; pink dust jacket has edgewear, including a few tears, sunning to spine and edges). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

New York, NY, U.S.A: Routledge, 1993. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This is the first book to approach sexuality from the perspective of citizenship; it argues that analyses of the social construction of sexualities have tended to ignore the material contexts in which gender construction occurs, the effect of which has been that the sexual has been detached from power relations and interests; the author maintains that the progressive sexualization of modern capitalist societies is primarily shaped by the complex interrelated material interests of market and state; the inherent individualism and amoralism of the consumerist market inevitably leads to the commodification of our sexual identities; capitalism encourages us to purchase our sexual identities and lifestyles; the state neither resists nor retreats but concedes relative and partial rights to deviant sexual minorities, investing them with limited forms of gender/consumer power, in other words sexual citizenship