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New York: Thames and Hudson Inc., 1987. Previous Owner Markings (Including Highlighting and Underlining); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. ALSO KNOWN AS: Portions of this book have appeared previously in Art in America and The New Criterion. CONTENTS: 1 Introduction: The Waning of the Modern Age 2 Individualism: Art for Art's Sake, or Art for Society's Sake? 3 Anxious Objects: Modes of Cultural Resistance 4 Bureaucratization: The Death of the Avant-Garde 5 Pluralism: The Tyranny of Freedom 6 Secularism: The Disenchantment of Art (Julian Schnabel Paints a Portrait of God) 7 Graffiti in Well-Lighted Rooms 8 Has Modernism Failed? Bibliography. SYNOPSIS: How is it, asks Suzi Gablik in her provocative study of the contemporary art world, that most of our radical artists now reflect the culture of consumerism more than they challenge it? And how is it that the… Read More

Toronto: A Del Rey Book - Random House of Canada, Limited, 1990. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Homesick and stranded on an alien world, he wasn't looking for trouble - but big trouble was looking for him... SYNOPSIS: SNARLED IN A TANGLED WEB When violence and illness put a sudden end to Bill Anderson's brief career in space, he found himself stranded on Orion, the homeworld of Talan, the catlike alien who had saved his life. Despite the warm Oriani welcome, Anderson felt lost and lonely among Talan's people. So he made his way to the local spaceport, the only spot on the planet that drew offworld commerce - alien and human. At the bustling spaceport, Anderson's talents as a translator got him a job as all-around errand boy to Steven Black, the local underworld kingpin. Anderson enjoyed the intrigue that came with the job. And by the time he realized just how dirty the… Read More

New York: Pocket Books - Simon & Schuster Inc., 1991. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (Information Printed and Erased from Front Free Endpaper); Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Moderate Moisture Damage; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. Elizabeth Gage, author of A Glimpse of Stocking. BOOK NUMBER: 09912100. SYNOPSIS: Elizabeth Gage, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller A Glimpse of Stocking and Pandora's Box, takes us behind the gilded screen of international business where power and passion merge . . . where a woman gifted with creative brilliance and beauty challenges the supremacy of a merciless magnate, unleashing a tidal wave of greed, obsession and lust . . . The Master Stroke. FRANCIE BOLLINGER: Statuesque and aqua-eyed, she was a genius with a spectacular vision - and a body to match. No woman ever invaded the inner sanctum of New York's Magnus Industries until the… Read More

New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1973. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Light Moisture Damage; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. Edited by Nicholas Gage author of the best-selling The Mafia Is Not An Equal Opportunity Employer. CONTENTS: Introduction THE FACE OF THE MAFIA 1 Joe Valachi's Big Contract - Peter Maas 2 The Hit - James Mills ROOTS OF EVIL 3 The Mafia in Sicily - Norman Lewis 4 How the Mafia Came to America - Frederic Sondern, Jr. 5 The Purge of the Greasers - Fred J. Cook 6 After Luciano - Ralph Salerno and John Tompkins MEN OF POWER 7 Lucky Luciano--Boss for All Seasons - Frederic Sondern, Jr. 8 Vito Genevese--Power to Spare - Frank J. Prial 9 Carlo Gambino--Mafia Patriarch - Nicholas Gage 10 Joseph Colombo--Impulsive Innovator - Time Magazine PRIDE IN THE FAMILY 11 The Power Structure - Donald Cressey 12 Rules to Live By - Ralph Salerno and John Tompkins THE MAFIA AT… Read More

Peterborough: broadview press Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. SUB-TITLE: an introduction to the discipline. CONTENTS: Introduction - by James P. Bickerton and Alain-G. Gagnon. PART I: THE STUDY OF CANADIAN POLITICS 1 From Society to State - by Leslie A. Pal 2 Politics and the Social Sciences in Canada - by Stephen Brooks and Alain-G. Gagnon 3 State Images and the Writing of Canadian Political Science - by Richard Nutbrown. PART II: POLITICAL IDEAS AND IDEOLOGIES 4 The Study of Canadian Political Culture - by Ian Stewart 5 Ideas and Identities in Canadian Political Life - by Cynthia Williams and Doug Williams 6 Canadian Party Ideologies in the Electronic Age - by A. Brian Tanguay. PART III: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS 7 Limits of Canadian Democracy - by Keith Archer 8 The Provincialization of Regional Politics - by Carl Hodge 9 Politics and the Constitution - by David Milne 10 New Constitutional Signposts - by Francois… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1973. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Previous Owner Markings (The Thomson Collection In Memory of Willis I. Thomson Bookplate Affixed to Reverse of Front Free Endpaper); Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped--Poorly, Slightly Encompassing Overleaf Text); Moderately Discoloured Where Jacket Was Once Affixed with Adhesive to Book; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The Life of Marjoe Gortner. BOOK NUMBER: 0673. DESIGNED BY: Gloria Adelson. SYNOPSIS: From Henry James in The Bostonians through Sinclair Lewis in Elmer Gantry, our writers have been drawn to that singular American phenomenon, the money-making faith healer and/or evangelist. They have tried to assess the ratio of fraud to honest faith in these strangely compounded personalities, the exact mix of charlatanism and… Read More

Old Tappan: Fleming H. Revell Company BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (Gift Inscription Neatly Inked to Reverse of Half Title Page); Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. The Power of the Resurrection Principle in the Daily of Life. CONTENTS: Preface; I Because He lives...there is a way out of our despair, cynicism, and depression--to childlike trust, hope, and joy. There is a cure. II Because He lives...the cure has been brought all the way to where we are, and administered so as to bring healing to our every point of need. As wholeness returns, we begin to recover a sense of who we are because of who He is. III Because He lives...we find courage to face and deal realistically with doubts, conflicts, and obstacles. IV Because He lives...His body is a living, breathing organism, commissioned to carry healing to a sick world. V Because He… Read More

New York: Warner Books, Inc., 1976. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Author of Fire at Sea and The Gathering Darkness. SUB-TITLE: Sabotaging the Nazi Nuclear Bomb. SYNOPSIS: Why the Nazis Didn't Win! In 1942 the Germans were on the way to developing the atom bomb. If they made it before the Allies, they would certainly go on to conquer the world. To stop them, a desperate attack was launched on their strategic material plant in Norway . . . a daring commando operation against overwhelming odds - Thomas Gallagher, equally accomplished in fiction and nonfiction, has written for magazines, television, and films. Among his films are The Doctor's Story; Fire at Sea: The Story of the Morro Castle (winner of the Edgar Allen Poe Award for nonfiction); The Gathering Darkness (a runner-up for the National Book Award); The Monogamist; Oona O'; and The X-Craft… Read More

New York: A Bantam War Book - Bantam Books, Inc. Specially Illustrated Edition. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. THE TRUE STORY OF THE SECRET MISSION THAT BLASTED HITLER'S DREAM OF AN ATOMIC BOMB. SUB-TITLE: Sabotaging the Nazi Nuclear Bomb. MAPS BY: Alan McKnight. SYNOPSIS: AGAINST IMPOSSIBLE ODDS, AGAINST CERTAIN DEATH - A MIRACLE OF COURAGE. June, 1942. Nazi Germany held the lead in the desperate race for an atomic bomb. With a sufficient quantity of one critical ingredient, the Third Reich could begin production. This is the breathtaking story of the tiny band of Norwegian patriots who gambled their lives and the lives of their loved ones on an impossible long shot - ten brave men who outwitted and outdared the Nazi war machine to destroy the Norsk Hydro plant and its precious supply of heavy water. It is an incredible story of wilderness survival,… Read More

New York: A Berkley Book published by The Berkley Publishing Group, 1984. Light Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age, Including Covers and Spine (Evident by Discolouration Where Price Sticker Was Previously Affixed). SUB-TITLE: The Correspondence Between T. H. White and L. J. Potts. ALSO KNOWN AS: This Berkley book contains the revised text of the original hardcover edition. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Introduction 1--Cheltenham, Cambridge, Reigate 2--Stowe 3--Stowe Ridings 4--Doolistown 5--Duke Mary's 6--Alderney; Appendixes - A White's Comments on L. J. Potts's Poems; B A Sample of T. H. White's Poems; C L. J. Potts's Review of The Elephant and the Kangaroo; D "Milk-a-Punch Sunday"; E The Works of T. H. White; Notes; Index. SYNOPSIS: Adviser, adversary, harshest critic, most devoted friend--L. J. Potts, White's Cambridge tutor, was all these and more. This extraordinary,… Read More

Chelsea House Publishers, a division of Main Line Book Co. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped. DUST JACKET: None, As Issued. EDITORIAL CONSULTANT: Ronald Takaki, Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. ON THE COVER: Kristi Yamaguchi, Zubin Mehta, and Maya Lin. EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Scott D. Briggs. PICTURE RESEARCHER: Pat Burns. CONTENTS: Michael Chang; Sammy Lee; Zubin Mehta; Wayne Wang; Kristi Yamaguchi; May Lin; Isamu Noguchi; Anne May Wong; Yo-Yo Ma; Margaret Cho; Further Reading; Index. PUBLISHER: Chelsea House Publishers, a division of Main Line Book Co. EDITORIAL DIRECTOR: Richard Rennert. EXECUTIVE MANAGING EDITOR: Karyn Gullen Browne. COPY CHIEF: Robin James. PICTURE EDITOR: Adrian G. Allen. ART DIRECTOR: Robert Mitchell. MANUFACTURING DIRECTOR: Gerald Levine. ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR: Joan Ferrigno. SERIES: 13th in series. SENIOR EDITOR: Jake Goldberg. SERIES DESIGN: Marjorie Zaum. SYNOPSIS: The Asian Americans profiled in this volume… Read More

New York: A Fawcett Gold Medal Book - Ballantine Books, a division of Random House Inc. , 1990. Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Repaired; Front Matter Missing; Moderate Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Heavy Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: Scott Thatcher is one sly executive. His business smarts and perseverance transformed an upstart Boston-based data processing company named PegaSys into the second largest computer corporation in the world. PegaSys is Thatcher's baby. And nobody fools with his baby - least of all Brian Shawby. Rumour has it that Shawby is plotting a hostile takeover of PegaSys . . . and Thatcher's laughing all the way to the bank. How can Shawby - the not-so-smart head of a not-so-solvent small-potatoes company - hope to raid mighty PegaSys? With a ruthless financier, a Japanese Samurai businessman, two cock-eyed limey lawyers, one oversexed… Read More

London: Anaya Publishers Ltd, 1992. Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked. SYNOPSIS: A source of inspiration and valuable practical information, Easy to Make Sewing is the book for everyone interested in sewing. Full colour photography and clear step-by-step instructions ensure that novice and experienced sewers alike will find this an easy and attractive book to use. The wide range of items include many lovely additions to the home, as well as play things for the children and outdoor accessories. Among the many items are: Beach bag, Patio chair covers, Creative wall hanging, Travel sewing caddy, Quilted placements. Wendy Gardiner has been a highly successful magazine editor and publisher, working on titles such as Vogue Patterns, Vogue Knitting and Weddings and Special Occasions. She has edited a number of craft books and is now turning her talented hands to writing her own books. CONTENTS: Introduction; 1: Quick Quick Sew (30-minute cushions,… Read More

EDITOR/CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Melanie Falick. GRAPHIC DESIGNER: Will Brady. PHOTOGRAPHER: Sara Remington. PHOTOSTYLIST: Alessandra Mortola. TECHNICAL EDITOR: Sue McCain. SAMPLE KNITTERS: Corinne Niessner. CONTENTS: Introduction; Hadley Pullover - Veronik Avery; Thoroughly Modern Knitting: Bohus Style; Après-Anything Socks - Ann Budd; Asterisk/Dot Hat & Cowl - Michele Rose Orne; The Fun of Faux; About the Designers; About Mason-Dixon Knitting; Yarn Colors; Abbreviations. SERIES: 2nd in Series. SYNOPSIS: Mason-Dixon Knitting Field Guides are little books that explore the big world of knitting, with patterns and stories to inspire the curious knitter.. Paperback. As New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

EDITOR/CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Melanie Falick. GRAPHIC DESIGNER: Will Brady. PHOTOGRAPHER: Sara Remington. PHOTOSTYLIST: Alessandra Mortola. TECHNICAL EDITOR: Sue McCain. SAMPLE KNITTERS: Julie Lindsey, Carolyn McGraw, Susan Mitz, Corinne Niessner. CONTENTS: Introduction; Breton Cowl - Antonia Shankland; Breton Stripes; Squad Mitts - Ann Weaver; Freestyling, or What Is a Stripe Anyway?; Station Wagon Blanket - Mary Jane Mucklestone; Magic Cake; About the Designers; About Mason-Dixon Knitting; Yarn Colors; Abbreviations. SERIES: 1st in Series. SYNOPSIS: Mason-Dixon Knitting Field Guides are little books that explore the big world of knitting, with patterns and stories to inspire the curious knitter.. Paperback. As New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

The University of Chicago Press, 1983. Previous Owner Markings (Minimal Highlighting); Light Creasing on Front Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. ALSO KNOWN AS: This book originally appeared under the title Martin Gardner's Sixth Book of Mathematical Games from "Scientific American". CONTENTS: Introduction 1. The Helix 2. Klein Bottles and Other Surfaces 3. Combinatorial Theory 4. Bouncing Balls in Polygons and Polyhedrons 5. Four Unusual Board Games 6. The Rigid Square and Eight Other Problems 7. Sliding-Block Puzzles 8. Parity Checks 9. Patterns and Primes 10. Graph Theory 11. The Ternary System 12. The Trip around the Moon and Seven Other Problems 13. The Cycloid: Helen of Geometry 14. Mathematical Magic Tricks 15. Word Play 16. The Pythagorean Theorem 17. Limits of Infinite Series 18. Polyiamonds 19. Tetrahedrons 20. Coleridge's Apples and Eight Other Problems 21. The Lattice of Integers 22. Infinite Regress 23.… Read More

McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1973. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: An Autobiography. SYNOPSIS: "I sneaked rather shamefacedly into the world on February 22, 1913...I was martially, not physiologically a seven months baby." In 1919, the family moved from England to Canada and settled in Toronto's Cabbagetown district--referred to then as "the largest Anglo-Saxon slum in North American." "In my childhood we kids had everything going for us except money for clothes, fruit juices, and a stomach full of food, and what we didn't have we didn't particularly miss." It was a time of laughs and disappointments, the beginning of a growing awareness and a special perception--a writer's perception--that recreates in this memoir the times and places and characters of the… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus Ltd., 1955. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing. SUB-TITLE: Being Volume Two of The Golden Echo. EXCERPT: Preface ...My second volume owes its title to its covering the years of the First World War and those while we were still living in its shadow. Any picture of that period must be dominated by a sense of bitterness and bereavement. My next volume, which will be called The Familiar Faces, will deal with the years of freedom when we believed that war would not come again.... Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Glasgow: Fontana/Collins, 1975. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: THE IVORY TOWER . . . To King Macey, the lighthouse seems a perfect place to lie low after the murder of a cinema manager. As long as he has the gun in his hand, Macey is master of the situation, king of the castle. But a raging storm turns the lighthouse from a refuge to a prison - and Macey from a king to a multiple killer . . .. First Thus 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Illus. by John Farrara. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: D. C. Thomson & Co., Ltd., 1968. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (Partial Inscription Inked to Front Free Endpaper); Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Moderate Moisture Damage; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Moisture Damage; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: A Thought for Each Day in 1969. WHERE THE PHOTOGRAPHS WERE TAKEN: Holidays - Edinburgh; Service - Nunraw, East Lothian; The Way of the Geese - Aberlady Bay, East Lothian; The Unseen Gift - Chichester Cathedral, Sussex; A Day to Remember - Rescobie Loch, Angus; Potato Time - Barry, Angus; Behind the Dream - Stourhead, Wiltshire; Anything for Me? - New Mill, Penzance, Cornwall; Time - Knowle, Warwickshire; Out of the Shadows - On Beinn an Lochain, Argyll; Working Together - Kyle of Durness, Sutherland; The Heart of Things - Meriden Cross, Warwickshire; All As One - Alyth, Perthshire; Guessing - Ashdown Forest, Sussex; Learning - Dovedale, Derbyshire;… Read More