Search Results: Authors starting with I from Underground Books, ABAA

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 1/2". xiv, 322pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book examines the links between the unprecedented visual inventiveness of the Romantic period in Britain and eighteenth-century theories of the sublime. Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), in particular, is shown to have directly or indirectly challenged visual artists to explore not just new themes, but also new compositional strategies and visual media such as panoramas and book illustrations, by arguing that the sublime was beyond the reach of painting. More significantly, it began to call into question mimetic representational models, causing artists to reflect about the presentation of the unpresentable and drawing attention to the process of artistic production itself, rather… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xx, 419pp. Rubbing, toning, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of blue cloth over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Faint toning to endpapers. Price sticker to half-title page. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In this prizewinning new interpretation of Jewish mysticism, Moshe Idel emphasizes the need for a comparative and phenomenological approach to Kabbalah and its position in the history of religion. Idel provides fresh insights into the origins of Jewish mysticism, the relation between mystical and historical experience, and the impact of Jewish mysticism on western civilization.(Publisher).

Methuen Books, 1976. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 11 1/4" X 8 3/4". Unpaginated. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Wear to jacket with rubbing, foxing, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. 2 1/2" closed tear to top edge of rear cover of jacket. Smudged fingerprints were put the by design by publisher. Rubbing and toning to covers and edges of paper over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Foxing to endpapers with lighter foxing to pages throughout. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. An admittedly worn, but overall solid copy of this book of humour by the creators of Monty Python.

Pheonix: David Bull Publishing, 2003. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 11" X 8 1/2". 127pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Contemporary sport bikes accelerate faster, brake harder, and cut through corners deeper than ever before. These technologically advanced motorcycles are exhilarating to ride, but to really get the most out of a motorcycle's performance capabilities a rider must develop his or her own personal performance. Riders need to take their skills to the next level. Now, in this book written specifically for sport riders, well-known journalist, racer, and riding school instructor Nick Ienatsch provides the tools and techniques to help riders analyze and develop that personal performance. If you're an experienced rider, Nick will help you hone and perfect your skills, operate controls with even greater finesse, and apply race-proven techniques on the track as well as on the street. If you're a… Read More

Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1991. First Edition. Leather_bound. Very good. First Edition. Leather_bound. Signed by the author in ink at front endpaper. Franklin Library First Edition. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 465pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of green leather over boards. Three raised bands to spine with four gilt compartments. Light dust-spotting to all-edges gilt. Tan silk bookmark sewn in. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. With information card from The Signed First Edition Society sewn in. A handsome copy of this signed first edition novel by David Ignatius. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Made restless by the tightening restrictions of CIA bureaucracy, agent Alan Taylor oversteps moral and legal bounds in a top-secret mission to destabilize the Soviet Union. His new recruit the beautiful Anna Barnes, who struggles with complex feelings for Taylor receives a deeper education than she signed up for in David Ignatius's trademark world of shifting international and… Read More

New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1984. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". xii, 851pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Over the past two centuries chemistry has developed from germinal speculations on the nature of gases and minerals to a highly complex discipline encompassing numerous areas of study. This authoritative and comprehensive volume traces the historical development of chemistry from its roots in ancient Greek theory to the revolutionary and explosive discoveries of the 20th century. The author, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and History of Science at the University of Wisconsin, places the role of alchemy as a "precursor" to chemistry and technological arts. This book also shows how discoveries concerning gases in the mid-18th century were pivotal in creating the foundations of chemistry as a modern science.Professor Ihde delves into many other fascinating aspects of… Read More

New York: Pageant Press, Inc, 1964. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". 234pp. Wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, chipping, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Sunning to spine of jacket. Light rubbing and gentle bumps to corners and edges of yellow cloth over boards. Previous owner's name in ink to front free endpaper. Inked underlining and notation to pages. Notation does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The thesis of E. H. Ijams book, Power to Survive and Surpass, is that the maintenance of Western civilization in the face of the converging tides of destruction mounting throughout the twentieth century, depends more on the spiritual qualities and moral resources of Western man than on our vast and popularly trusted material wealth and military power. The great paradox of this century is that though man has made astounding progress in mastering the external, physical world, he has done little or nothing to increase the spiritual… Read More

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 195pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in gray paper over boards with spine backed in black and lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Although winning a major competitive scholarship, such as the Rhodes or Marshall, is a strong marker for later success, there has been little serious research on how these scholarships are given and how the process could be improved. This book, the fruits of a discussion on "strengthening nationally and internationally competitive scholarships," presents studies that address issues of identifying leadership and creativity in the young, analyze alternative methods of selection, make suggestions for the proper evaluation of scholarship programs, and look at the backgrounds of American Rhodes Scholars. An introduction by the editors provides an overview of the… Read More

New York: Pocket Books, 2009. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. Signed and inscribed to previous owner in ink by author to title page. 8 1/4" X 5 1/4". 580pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Light rubbing and spots of toning to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Penn Cage series comes an electrifying thriller that reveals a world of depravity, sex, violence, and the corruption of a Southern town. As a prosecuting attorney in Houston, Penn Cage sent hardened killers to death row. But it is as mayor of his hometown—Natchez, Mississippi—that Penn will face his most dangerous threat. Urged by old friends to try to restore this fading jewel of the Old South, Penn has ridden into office on a tide of support for change. But in its quest for new jobs and fresh money, Natchez, like other Mississippi towns, has turned to casino gambling, and now five… Read More

London: Marion Boyars, 2015. Paperback. Very good +. Paperback. 7 3/4" X 5". 123pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Faint dust-spotting to bottom edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. Book appears to be unread. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Illich's theories on the effectiveness of cars, air travel, and energy showed that industrial progress actually hampers the speed and effectiveness we have as people who were born capable of walking to our desired destinations. Roads, airports, stations, traffic jams, all take away the benefits of using complicated engineered methods of travel, and make our actual travel times longer.(Publisher).

New York: Longman, 2003. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". viii, 278pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Very occasional penciled notation to pages. The majority of pages are unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The novels of Charlotte and Emily Bronte have become canonical texts for the application of twentieth century literary and cultural theory. Along with the work of their sister, Anne, their texts are regarded as a sources of diversity in themselves, full of conflictual material which different schools of criticism have analysed and interpreted. This book shows how the Brontes writings engage with the major issues which dominate twentieth century theoretical work. The essays are grouped under broad schools of theory- biographical; feminist; marxist; psychoanalytical and postcolonial.(Publisher).

London: Printed for T. Hughes and C. Chaple, 1815. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. This 1815 guide to sleight of hand magic comprises 50 tricks from Victorian conjurer Thomas Ingleby, each with full description and explanation, with tricks including decapitating a rooster and restoring it to life, stopping and starting time on a watch at will, and cutting a card free from a shoulder of mutton which one of the company had previously drawn from a deck. This copy lacks the hand-colored frontispiece, replaced by a high quality color facsimile. Ex libris magician Burton S. Sperber, with his bookplate to rear pastedown: "Those who know don't tell. Those who tell don't know." Burton Sperber (1929-2011) was a mentalist and magic collector, a member of the Magic Castle since 1965, as well as the Inner Magic Circle of the Magic Circle in London, the informal club of mentalists in Los Angeles known as the Delta Group, and the Psychic Entertainers Association. Sperber contributed articles to Magick, was a… Read More

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink to front free end paper. 11 1/4" X 8 3/4". Unpaginated. Very mild wear to pictorial over boards with light rubbing to covers and gentle bumps to corners. Price sticker to rear cover. Pages are bright, clean, and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: At first glance, Jessica Ingram's landscape photographs could have been made nearly anywhere in the American South: a fenced-in backyard, a dirt road lined by overgrowth, a field grooved with muddy tire prints. These seemingly ordinary places, however, were the sites of pivotal events during the civil rights era, though often there is not a plaque with dates and names to mark their importance. Many of these places are where the bodies of activists, mill workers, store owners, sharecroppers, children and teenagers were murdered or found, victims of racist violence. Images of these places are interspersed with oral histories… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 3/4" X 7 3/4". 192pp. Book presents nicely in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Black cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Bump to bottom corner of spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. Heavily illustrated throughout. ABOUT THIS BOOK: However repugnant, torture has been practiced, either publicly approved or clandestinely, for thousands of years. From the rack to electrodes, from witch-hunts to the Inquisition to a post-colonial world, torture is something we have always lived with. The History of Torture tells the complete story, from the ancient world to the present day, from physical cruelty to mental torment. The rack may be thought of as something medieval, but was first written about in ancient… Read More

Lanham: Hamilton Books, 2007. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". xiv, 214pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book chronicles the apparent discovery of "memory molecules" in 1965, the loss of credibility that plagued those finding, and the subsequent triumphant discovery of the neuroactive peptides, including endorphins, which followed in their wake. The story is told in the context of the historical development of neuroscience as a field, with emphasis on research aimed at uncovering the brain mechanisms of learning and memory, roughly from 1950 to 1980, when the revolution in the scientific study of brain function was getting underway. A series of biographical vignettes paint the background and set the stage. Once introduced, the characters recur as their personal histories intertwine with the scientific story that unfolds. This seminal episode in the history of neuroscience flows… Read More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 314pp. Mild toning and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine lettered in silver. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The human sciences in the English-speaking world have been in a state of crisis since the Second World War. The battle between champions of hard-core scientific standards and supporters of a more humanistic, interpretive approach has been fought to a stalemate. Joel Isaac seeks to throw these contemporary disputes into much-needed historical relief. In Working Knowledge he explores how influential thinkers in the twentieth century's middle decades understood the relations among science, knowledge, and the empirical study of human affairs. For a number of these thinkers, questions about what kinds of knowledge the human sciences could produce did not rest on grand ideological… Read More

Sydney: New Holland Publishers, 2005. Hardcover. Good +/Good +. Hardcover. 13" X 9 1/2". 304pp. Mild rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Light rubbing and gentle bumps to corners and edges of gray paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Australian Dreaming is the first Aboriginal history of the Australian continent and its people, as told by the Aboriginal story-tellers. Through traditional myths and legends, it gives an explanation of the formation of the landscape and creation of many outstanding geographical features. It recounts epic travels of the great Spirit Ancestors and tells how they created the animals and plants and gave birth to the earliest people of this land. It tells, also, how the Ancestors taught the Aboriginal people to… Read More

Seattle: University of Washington Book Store, 1927. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 7 1/4" X 5 1/4". 34pp. Mild rubbing, creasing, and toning to covers and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Sunning to spine. Torn bookplate to front free endpaper. "Closed Stacks" stamp to endpaper and to title page. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this booklet that aims to teach the reader to more deeply understand art and the artists who produce it.

Tucson: Galen Press, Ltd, 1994. Hardcover. good +/good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xx, 709pp. Some shelf wear to covers and edges of dust jacket. Light creasing and several closed tears to edges of dust jacket. Red paper over boards with spine lettered in white. Very light dust spotting to top edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Written for both laymen and professionals, this book gives answers the questions that everyone wants to ask in a question and answer format. What really happens to a dead body? What does our culture do with corpses and what have other cultures done? How does a body turn to dust? What happens in embalming, cremation, cryogenic preservation, autopsies, anatomical dissection, organ donation, burials, and funerals? How do we transport bodies and what does a medical examiner really do? How about the more bizarre uses for corpses, such as cannibalism, body snatching, use in secret rites, research, and religious ceremonies? This… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink to front free endpaper. Stated First Edition. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". 317pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Green paper over boards with spine lettered in black. Light bump to head and tail of spine. All-black stain to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. By… Read More