Search Results: Social Sciences from Black Sheep Books

London: International African Institute , Oxford University Press, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. An account of the social organization of the Swazi, with special reference to the aristocratic structure of their society. Blue cloth with gilt titling on spine, illustrated with black and white plates, tables and diagrams, fold-out black and white map at back. Top inch of front end paper is cut out to remove previous owner's name, otherwise book appears to be without flaws. Dust jacket, which is not price-clipped, has light wear at corners and is slightly darkened, but is clean and bright. 251 pages. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Paris: Armand, Colin & Cie,, 1899. Half-Leather. Volume 3 of a five-volume set, written in French: an attractively illustrated look at the temperate regions of the world, Green cloth with black titling on spine, black publisher's logo on back, black titling on white faux labels with decorative leafy borders on front, speckled text block edges, grey end papers, illustrated throughout with numerous black and white plates - both photographs and paintings, 244 pages, tiny bookseller's plate inside back cover. Cover has light edge wear, more wear to corners and spine ends, corners are bumped, one-inch closed tear to upper spine end, shelf wear, cover is lightly soiled and has multiple small spots and smudges - mostly small and/or pale, a small dark spot and a few light scratches on back, text block edges darkened, a small, pale scribble on leading edge, spine darkened, binding split at front and back end papers, - the remainder of the binding is tight, foxing spots on end papers and… Read More

Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2003. Second Edition. . Soft cover. Very Good/-. Statnekov's life since the early '70s has centered on pre-Columbian art, specifically the acoustical properties Peruvian whistling vessels and their effect on consciousness. Glossy soft cover, black with illustrations, white titling to front and spine, a cluster of full-colour photographs, 202 pages. Minor shelf wear. For some international orders we will ask you to approve additional shipping charges to cover the cost of tracking and insurance to your country, but no extra charge will apply without your consent. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Ringing Rocks Press, 2004. Soft cover. As New/-. Nickerson, Kern L.. 'Profiles of Healing' series is dedicated to helping the world's most revered healers, shamans, medicine people, and leaders of complementary medicine tell their stories. The series is a project of the Ringing Rocks Foundation, an organization that supports the survival and future development of global healing wisdom through education, research, and special project. New soft cover still in publisher's shrink wrap with an audio CD enclosed. For some international orders we will ask you to approve additional shipping charges to cover the cost of tracking and insurance to your country, but no extra charge will apply without your consent. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 1977. Card Cover. Very Good/-. A collection of songs derived from two villages in Wiru-speaking par of the Pnagia are in the Southern Highlands Province. The songs were translated by Paia and Strathem and they are mostly personal ones that express feelings about kinsfolk, courting partners, friends, enemies, spouses, neighbours. Orange card cover with illustration and white titling to front, staple binding, fold-out map at back, 121 pages. Light shelf wear. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan. Hardcover. New. Book "offers an original and comprehensive interpretation of Michel Foucault's analysis of biopolitics - situating biopolitics in the context of embodied histories of subjectivity, affective investments and structures of experience." Blue hard cover with white titling and colourful illustration on front, blue titling on grey spine, 220 pages. Very faint mark on leading text block edge. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. Book is a volume of "Blackwell Companions to Anthropology." Book is "an unprecedented collection of original essays by some of the field's most distinguished scholars of Japan which, taken together, offer a comprehensive overview of the field." Colourfully illustrated black and green soft cover with white titling, 518 pages. Book is in great shape. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good-/Very Good-. Roe develops an original model explaining the myths and folktales of the lowland tribes from South America's Amazon basin based on 384 representative myths from 69 Indian groups, giving special empfhasis to the Shipibo Indians, with whom he lived. Red cloth with gilt titling to spine, frontispiece, several black and white illustrations, 384 pages. Minor edge wear, faint foxing to top of textblock edge. Inside the book is clean and tight. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear and crease to back flap. Due to the value of this book, we might ask you to approve additional shipping charges to cover the cost of insurance and tracking, but no extra charge will apply without your consent. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London: Routledge, 1992. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good-/Very Good-. This original, imaginative and important book brings together concerns about gender, the family, and wider currents in British social, cultural and even political experience in the second half of the nineteenth century." Black cloth with silver titling on spine, decorated grey end papers, inscribed by author on title page, 236 pages. A letter from the author to the previous owner, as well as a personal invitation to the book launch, are tucked into book as well. There is a very pale, small mark on leading text block edge. Dust jacket has minor edge and shelf wear. This is a handsome book - clean, bright and tight. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over… Read More

Munchen: C.H. Beck'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, 1926. Card Cover. Very Good-/-. A German text cultural study about the rights and tribal laws of the Dshagga, the East African Bantu peoples. Gray covers with black titling on front and spine, untrimmed side and bottom textblock edges, the top page edge of every other page remains uncut! 778 pages. Creases to cover and a crease the length of the spine, a few faint smudges on the covers, edges and corners lightly worn, interior is in very good condition. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7.75"-9.75" tall

Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1996. First U.K. Edition. . Soft cover. Very Good/-. Written to bridge the gap that exists in the approaches to urban design. It addresses both the physical and social dimensions of the built environment in an integrated way. Soft cover with black faux label and white titling, illustrated with many black and white photographs, 241 pages. Light shelf wear, previous owner's name to half title. For some international orders we will ask you to approve additional shipping charges to cover the cost of tracking and insurance to your country, but no extra charge will apply without your consent. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Nakura: Kenya Weekly News. Hardcover. Fair/-. Book is a collection of articles, published in The Kenya Weekly News, between July, 1943 and March, 1944, on the past, the present, and the future of Kenya Colony. Grey boards with black titling on front, brown cloth spine, 275 pages. Corners and edges are worn and chipped, heavy shelf wear, text block edges are browned, spine cover split at gutter, endpapers cracked at hinge, binding is shaky, owner's name and owner's stamp on first page. Reading copy only. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London: International African Institute/Oxford University Press, 1945. Hardcover. Good/-. An investigation of the Tale social structure, by Meyer Fortes, Sociologist to the Institute of West African Industries, Arts & Social Science, in Accra, Gold Coast. Dark blue hard cover with gilt titling on spine, black and white frontispiece, black and white diagrams, maps and photographs, black and white fold-out map at back, 270 pages. Cover has minor edge wear, significant shelf wear with multiple spots of pale discolouration, sunned spine and upper front edge, text block edges darkened, owner's name in ink on end paper, front end papers foxed, underlining and notes in ink to the first 42 pages and very occasionally thereafter, occasional fingerprint smudges near a few page edges, binding is tight. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 1994. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good to Very Good/Good to Very Good. A meditation on "fathers, color, roots, time, and language." A memoir and the story of an American family. Black boards, black cloth spine, gilt titling to front and spine, INSCRIBED TO EVELYN C. WHITE AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR to title page, 197 pages. Minor edge wear, two pages have crease at upper corner. Dust jacket, which is not price-clipped, shows light edge wear and a crease to front flap. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Ringing Rocks Press. Soft cover. As New/-. Nickerson, Kern L.. 'Profiles of Healing' series is dedicated to helping the world's most revered healers, shamans, medicine people, and leaders of complementary medicine tell their stories. The series is a project of the Ringing Rocks Foundation, an organization that supports the survival and future development of global healing wisdom through education, research, and special project. New soft cover still in publisher's shrink wrap with an audio CD enclosed. For some international orders we will ask you to approve additional shipping charges to cover the cost of tracking and insurance to your country, but no extra charge will apply without your consent. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

Totowa, New Jersey: Bedminster Press, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Aubert takes us to the "hidden" societies: the privacy of love, the secrecy of the underground, the remoteness of a ship, the isolation of the ill, the retirement from social life into sleep, and similar fascinating topics. White cloth with grey and red titling on spine, blind-stamped illustration on front, coloured end papers and top text block edge, 351 pages. Book is in great shape. Dust jacket has edge wear with chipping and light creasing, but is clean and bright. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Toronto, ON: Garamond Press, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good-/Very Good-. Culture and Communication in Canada Series. The authors discuss the roots of hockey, the world of professional hockey, hockey in small communities, violence in professional and minor hockey leagues, and issues of Canadian identity. Blue cloth, gilt titling to spine, 312 pages. Minor edge wear, gift inscription to ffep. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear, light sunning to spine, a few pressure marks to back. For some international orders we will ask you to approve additional shipping charges to cover the cost of tracking and insurance to your country, but no extra charge will apply without your consent. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Berkeley, Ca.: University of California Press, 1990. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. A regional economic history of the Northern Peruvian highlands province of Cajamarca from the perspective of the peasant household. Burgundy hard cover with white titling on spine, 368 pages. Dust jacket has light shelf wear. Book is clean, bright and tight. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. Seventh Printing. . Hardcover. Good+/Good-. A Frree Lance Books, Volume VI, edited with introductions by H.L. Mencken. Yellow hard cover with black cloth spine, black titling on yellow spine label, black titling and decorative border on front, 210 pages. Wear to lower spine end, ink inscription on end paper, foxing spots to text block edges, end papers and very occasionally in text. Dust jacket is clipped, has edge wear particularly to spine ends and corners, closed tears to upper and lower spine eneds at gutter, cover is sunned and darkened, small sticker remnant on front . This is an attractive little book - clean and tight. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Ringing Rocks Press. Hardcover. As New/-. Nickerson, Kern L.. 'Profiles of Healing' series is dedicated to helping the world's most revered healers, shamans, medicine people, and leaders of complementary medicine tell their stories. The series is a project of the Ringing Rocks Foundation, an organization that supports the survival and future development of global healing wisdom through education, research, and special project. New hard cover with slipcase still in publisher's shrink wrap with an audio CD enclosed. For some international orders we will ask you to approve additional shipping charges to cover the cost of tracking and insurance to your country, but no extra charge will apply without your consent. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall