Search Results: Authors starting with F from House of Our Own Books

Stanford, CA, U.S.A.: Stanford University Press, 1980. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. This is a collection of twelve essays on the sources of U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America from a conference at the Smithsonian Institution in 1978; Part I deals with general aspects of U.S. foreign policy, Part II includes case studies of relations between individual Latin American countries and the United States or international institutions dominated by the United States; contributors include Cynthia Arnson, Angela Delli Sante, Peter Evans, Richard Fagen, Roberto Frenkel, Ira Katznelson, Michael Klare, Anthony Maingot, Henry Nau, Guillermo O'Donnell, Oscar Pino-Santos, Kenneth Prewitt, Earl Ravenal, Jerry Sanders, Barbara Stallings, Steven Volk, Alan Wolf (brown cloth with faded gold lettering on spine; brown & green dust jacket with white lettering is rubbed on the front with minor edgewear; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy with no external or internal markings)

Karachi, Pakistan: Oxford University Press, 1998. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is an anthology of 34 short stories from all the major languages of Pakistan in translation; includes a preface by Intizar Hussain and an introduction by the editor, Asif Farrukhi, a writer of short stories in Urdu (brown pictorial cover with yellow lettering has some edgewear and creases; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Concord, CA, U.S.A.: Small Poetry Press, 2002. Trade Paperback. Fine. Signed by Author. This is the fifth poetry collection by Ida Fasel, an English professor at the University of Colorado at Denver; signed by the author on the title page (a bright, clean, tight copy)

New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A.: Transaction Publishers, 1982. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This is a sociological study of the work of Hollywood film composers; it traces the network of connections between Hollywood producers (employers) and composers (employees) and reveals the structure of work allocation among composers and the division of labor within the Hollywood film community (white cloth with gold lettering on spine; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: Harvard University Press, 2003. Hard Cover. As New/As New. This book proposes a new theory of civil-military relations in which the connection is conceived as a principal-agent relationship, with the civilian executive directing and monitoring the actions of the military agents, the armed servants of the nation-state; military obedience is not automatic, but depends on the calculations of both parties (dark gray cloth with silver lettering; tan pictorial dust jacket; a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Gustav Fischer, 1988. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. This volume contains the contributions presented at the 3rd European Workshop on Bacterial Protein Toxins and covers major aspects such as their structure, mode of action, interaction with cell receptors and membranes, synthesis, regulation, secretion, internalization, and pathogenicity; it also encompasses aspects of applied toxicology in the fields of medicine and agriculture through the use of either native or modified toxins; includes131 figures and 31 tables; printed in Germany, all articles are in English; German ISBN: 3437111736 (red cloth with black lettering, very slightly bumped corner; orange laminated dust jacket with black lettering, slightly scuffed corner; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; supplements 19, 24, and 24 also available)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: World Pubishing Company, 1969. This is a first printing (October 1969) of a compilation of the best (or worst) from MAD magazine from 1952 to 1969; the original included six inserts, two of which have been removed; the intact inserts are the Mischief Stickers, Book Covers, Bumper Sticker, and Mobile; the missing inserts are the Record and Stencils (blue textured cloth with gold lettering on spine & embossed portrait of MAD mascot Alfred E. Neuman on the front ; covers have slight edge wear; other than two missing inserts interior is in very good condition; a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

DeKalb, IL, U.S.A.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1990. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Originally published in Prague in 1938, this is the memoir, translated into English by his grandson, of a Russian mining engineer who observed the growth of industry in Russia, witnessed the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, and supported the anti-Bolshevik forces in the Civil War before leaving the country in 1920; raised in a family of landed gentry, he left this world to become an engineer, a manager of some of Russia's largest mines, and a leader of an influential coal and steel association; includes photographs and a map of the Donbass Region (light gray cloth with a very slightly bumped corner and gray & white dust jacket; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition)

Madrid, Spain: Editorial Betania, 1989. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Text in Spanish (The Visionary: Work in Two Acts); this drama had its premiere at the Public Theatre's Festival Latino de Nueva York in 1984; the author, a playwright and songwiter, was born in Cuba in 1932 but spent most of his life in New York City, where he co-founded El Teatro de las Americas Unidas in 1973 (light yellow pictorial cover with photo of the author on the back, slight edgewear, crease along front fold; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1929. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Inscribed By Author. This is signed first edition of a study of the private correspondence of Machiavelli by the author of a previous biography published in French and Spanish; in this book, the author provides a brief summary of Machiavelli's life, followed by a critical analysis of all the letters written by and to him; includes a frontispiece portrait of Machiavelli and nine other illustrations; inscribed, signed, and dated (August 9, 1929) by the author to the syndicated columnist Drew Pearson; the author, a graduate of the University of Naples, had gone to Cuba to take part in the independence movement, became a colonel in the Cuban army, professor of law at the University of Havana, speaker of the Cuban House of Representatives, Cuban delegate to the League of Nations, and Cuban ambasador to the United States (green textured cloth with gold lettering, bright on the front cover,… Read More

Westport, CT, U.S.A.: Greenwood Press, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near Fine: this book intends to show the constructive importance of past experience in order to discover and recover the meaning of present day living and of the seminal values of tradition (gray cloth with white lettering on dark blue-green background, corner very slightly bumped; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

CreateSpace, 2011. Trade Paperback. Very Good. The book was written to persaude the public to support the retention of the Barnes art collection, one of the world's great modern art collections, in its orginal building on the estate of its founder, Albert Barnes; the text is organized as a walking tour of the galleries and describes the paintings and their setting in detail; inscribed by the author on the title page (beautiful pictorial cover, slight edge wear and corner creases; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A: Praeger Publishers, 1980. Hard Cover. Near Fine. A collection of articles on the concept of uncertainty in the social sciences (black cover with silver lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 2001. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket. This book applies contemporary macroeconomic theory and econometric modelling techniques in order to address policy issues relating to the CFA Franc Zone, a group of francophone African Countries sharing a common currency that is linked to the French Franc; within this methodological framework, the author analyzes the way in which the monetary institutions of the CFA influence macroeconomic development and policy formation (gray laminated boards with black lettering; in stock and available for immediate shipment)

Westport, CT, U.S.A: Greenwood Press, 1976. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. A history and reassessment of progressivism and muckraking by a leading historian of social reform; includes bibliographical essay and illustrations (red cloth with black lettering, very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A: Holmes & Meier, 1982. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book examines the various ways in which the theories of the capitalist economy have been constructed and assesses their strengths and limitations; one of its main conclusions is that there have been very few, if any, new ideas in economic theory since the time of Adam Smith; what distinguishes schools of thought is not so much new discoveries as a differing organization of or emphasis on a recurring set of ideas (black & green cover, slightly cocked, pages slightly tanned, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Feminist Press at City University of New York, 2002. This issue of the journal Women's Studies Quarterly continues the discussion of issues raised at the conference Then and Now: The Politics of Women's Studies at City University of New York's Graduate Center in 2000, and includes essays that examine women's studies programs; the first section, Women's Studies at Thirty Years: Looking Backward, Looking Ahead, includes essays based on talks at the conference; other sections include Case Studies from the Campuses: The Status of Women's Studies Today; Women's Studies Now: Across the Great Divides; Reading, Writing, and Asynchronicity; Teaching, Life, and Work: Critical Pedagogies (brown & white covers with very slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Paperback. Near Fine.

Cedar Rapids, IA, U.S.A.: Torch Press, 1939. Hard Cover. Very Good/None. This is a small edition of the letters of the American historian privately printed for members of the Bibliophile Society in a blue slip case; most of the letters were written during a trip to Europe from the fall of 1873 to the spring of 1874 (blue textured cloth with red lettering on paper spine label, top edge gilt, other edges rough cut; covers are sun-spotted; blue slip case with marbled paper inside is in very good condition)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991. This volume of the collected writings of Zelda Fitzgerald includes a novel, a play, 11 short stories, articles, and letters;also includes a preface by the editor and an introduction by the novelist Mary Gordon (black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine & yellow paper-covered boards; pictorial dust jacket with photo of Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald on the back; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). First Edition. Quarter Cloth. Fine/Fine.

Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.: University of New Mexico Press, 2012. Trade Paperback. As New. This is a history of environmental politics during the Nixon administration, from the first Earth Day in 1970, through Nixon's opportunistic support for the passage of major environmental legislation, to his forced resignation in 1974 (white & gray cover with blue lettering & portrait of Nixon on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment)