Search Results: Nonfiction from Exchange Value Books

HVG Konyvek; Budapest, HU, 2017. Softcover. Fine. 0x0x0. Softcover. Text in Hungarian. Price in pencil on title page. No issues.

The Baffler Foundation; New York, NY, 2021. 1st. Softcover Magazine. Very Good. Editor: Jonathon Sturgeon. Contributors: Kirsten Weld, Dana Kopel, Zinzi Clemmons, Richard Rhodes, Dale Peck, et al. "The Baffler Magazine, Sep-Oct 2021, No. 59, 'Ill Liberalism.'" The Baffler Foundation, Inc.; New York, 2021. English language. Softcover perfect-bound magazine. 136 pages. Color illustrations. Text clean. Back page has slight ripples. Front cover slightly bows out. Very Good Plus. No ISSN. "DON’T LOOK NOW. Contemporary liberals are summoning an omnium gatherum of dead words and outdated textbooks, dredging up confused accounts of Enlightenment rationality that tend to mutate into smug but underfunded mandates to “believe in science!” and calling everything from Bernie Sanders’s speeches to January’s Capitol riot to the global profusion of Black Lives Matter protests… Read More

Quality Chess; Glasgow, UK, 2009. 1st Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 9x6x1. Softcover. Price in pencil on title page. Title page creased. Text clean. 450 pages. ISBN: 9781906552022. "In "Champions of the New Millennium" three accomplished authors present the eighteen best chess players in the world today. Each player is introduced with an illuminating profile, and then four of his or her finest games are explained in depth. These players are the current top ten: Anand, Kramnik, Topalov, Morozevich, Svidler, Mamedyarov, Shirov, Leko, Ivanchuk, Aronian. The stars likely to dominate the next decade: Karjakin, Carlsen, Radjabov, Wang Yue, Ponomariov and Grischuk. The best female player ever, Judit Polgar. And finally, World Championship finalist and comeback kid, American star Gata Kamsky. "Champions of the New Millennium" is the ideal guide to who's who in modern chess.

[EUROPEAN HISTORY]. [ANON]. "The Evidence Summed Up: or A Statement of the Apparent Causes and Objects of the War." London: D. I. Eaton, at the Cock and Swine, No. 74 Newgate-Street, 1794. Octavo. English language. Political pamphlet. 8.25 x 5 in. 21 x 13 cm. 2 oz. pp. ii, [3] 4-40, advert. Likely taken out of a sammelband, or other collection. Browning. Pencil on front and back wrappers: [American Revolution - Pitt - Young - Fox]. Offsetting on inside front wrapper, and more or less throughout. B3-B4 gathering partially detached at top. Foxing on last leaf. Vertical chainlines, vatman's tears. Text clean. Good - Good Minus. ESTC: T33594. At the LoC, British Library, Met, Huntington, etc. Apparently, according to Vialibri, no other copy available online."Pamphlet on the causes and objects of the war on revolutionary France. 'It may be hoped, that those independent private persons, who have, in their different capacities, given their support to administration, only because they have not accustomed… Read More

Enrico Panai and Createspace, 2018. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. PANAI, Enrico, and Alastair McEwen. "Skip! The Art of Avoiding Projects: An Ecological Way of Living in the Information Age." Enrico Panai and Createspace, DE, USA, 2018. English language. Softcover. 284 pages. Text clean. Wear evident on covers. Very Good. ISBN: 97817178909120. "We have all perceived, at least once, that something wasn’t right at work. In order to correct this situation, therefore, we made a project. In fact, every time we would like to change something we make a project. But, unbelievable as it may seem, even though they appear to be formally successful, projects do not always solve problems. Actually, they frequently add new ones. Consequently, the feeling that something is not working recurs and we start to make projects again, thus initiating a vicious circle. In other words, we make lots of projects but they usually change very little. But the digital revolution is forcing us to… Read More