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

Atermi, 2013. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. Hardcover. 9" X 6 1/4". This is a still-sealed facsimile of the collector's edition of Being or Nothingness by Joe K. Book remains unopened with protective paper sleeve secured around it. Both the book and the slipcase are clean.

Atermi, 2013. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. Hardcover. 9" X 6 1/4". This is a still-sealed collector's edition of Being or Nothingness by Joe K. At the back is a card issued to Anders Ericsson and hand numbered 0960. Both the book and the slipcase are clean. Book is sealed with a piece of black string and a wax seal with the initials J.K. stamped in. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of Recipients of Born: The Collector's Edition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.

Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2001. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 10" X 7". xiii, 394pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Gentle bumps to corners of boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The extremely labile nature of the nervous system has proved an intriguing area of research for over thirty years. From the earliest stages of neuronal growth during development, both the morphology and strength of neuronal connections within the central nervous system are shaped and modified by experience. While connections between neurons that are continually stimulated are strengthened, redundant connections weaken and are eventually lost. The Mutable Brain provides a comprehensive introduction to plasticity of the brain and neural circuits whilst covering the history of neurological research, from early work on the developing visual system, right through to current state-of-the-art molecular techniques. Authored by… Read More

Nashville: Holocaust Lecture Series Committee, 1991. Staplebound. Good. Staplebound. 12" X 9". 55pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Bump to bottom edge of front cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. This catalog was published in conjunction with an exhibition of the artist's work at the Nashville Jewish Community Center in October 1990 and at Vanderbilt University's Sarratt Student Center Gallery in January 1991.

New York: Disney Hyperion, 2024. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink to bookplate at half-title page. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 329pp. Very mild shelf wear to unclipped dust jacket. Bound in purple paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In a world in the clouds where only the rich own dragons, a poor boy named Remy finds a wild baby dragon—believed to be extinct—and becomes the focus of an evil pirate's vengeance. REMY spends his days trying to survive the mean streets of Cutthroat Wedge—one of the many islands floating in the gravitational pull of the magical Maelstrom raging below. But his life changes forever when a violent storm brings a baby dragon to his doorstep, and he feels a bond he has never felt with anyone. Remy names the dragon Storm and vows to protect this new friend, no matter the… Read More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". xvi, 721pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Remainder mark to bottom edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book, which comprises eight chapters, presents a comprehensive critical survey of the results and methods of laboratory experiments in economics. The first chapter provides an introduction to experimental economics as a whole, with the remaining chapters providing surveys by leading practitioners in areas of economics that have seen a concentration of experiments: public goods, coordination problems, bargaining, industrial organization, asset markets, auctions, and individual decision making. The work aims both to help specialists set an agenda for future research and to provide nonspecialists with a critical review of work completed to date. Its focus is on elucidating the role of experimental studies as a progressive research tool… Read More

New York: Golden Press, 1964. Staplebound. Fair. Staplebound. 10" X 7 1/4". 24pp. Wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing, toning, creasing, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Heavy rubbing at spine with paper rubbed away. A touch of rust to staples. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Book has been used previously, with scattered pencil and crayon markings to pages throuhgout. Though it has been colored in, none of the markings are overly distracting or obstructive. Binding is sound. An admittedly worn, but overall solid of this charming 1960s children's activity book about color.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". xiv, 178pp. Mild toning and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The Kumarasambhava of Kalidasa, probably composed about A.D. 400, is the greatest long poem in classical Sanskrit. The love story of the God and Goddess Shiva and Parvati, who are both lovers and cosmic principles, the poem is a paradigm of the union between male and female played out on the immense scale of supreme divinity.(Publisher).

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1961. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 6". Wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, creasing, and chipping to covers, corners, and edges. Several shallow, closed tear to edges of jacket. Sunning to spine of jacket. Bound in green cloth over boards with spine and front cover lettered in black. Faint toning to edges of boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Toning to gutters of endpapers. Previous owner's name in ink to front free endpaper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. With text in both English and Arabic.ABOUT THIS BOOK:For the more than five hundred million who call themselves Muslim this is the official guide to the Sacred Journey, the Pilgrimage to Mecca, and for non-Muslims it is a gateway opening on to another world, the first full-scale picture of Islam as it appears tot he followers of the Prophet Muhammad. The complete text, in English and Arabic, has the unqualified endorsement of the two great schools of Islam,… Read More

Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2015. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xii, 198pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A study of the role women played in the rebellious Dada art movement in the early twentieth century Mamas of Dada focuses on the lives and works of six representative female supporters of the Dada movement: Emmy Hennings, Gabrielle Buffet, Germaine Everling, Céline Arnauld, Juliette Roche, and Hannah Höch. Paula K. Kamenish selected these women for their avant-garde pursuits in the chief centers of Dada's rebellious activity and, more important, because they left behind a written record of their involvement with the movement, which was short lived from 1916 to 1924 but widespread geographically. The rebellious spirit of the Dada period proved portable and adaptable, and the movement led to later forms of surrealism at the same time that it… Read More

Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xx, 147pp. Very mild shelf weat to covers, corners, and edges of brown cloth over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The author provides a detailed investigation of the facts surrounding human mental ability, its measurement, inheritability, possible neurobiological underpinnings, and its role as a currency in human mate choice. He links human mental ability with educational attainment, occupational attainment, occupational prestige, and earned income. The ethical and policy implications are profound for both liberal democratic and libertarian social thought. Class mobility is significantly mediated by human intelligence, and intelligence itself is significantly heritable. Liberal democratic and libertarian conservative social policies require substantial revision in light of these findings. New forms of socioenvironmental and genomic intervention recommend themselves. The author… Read More

New York: Routledge, 2002. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xv, 240pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Business Excellence and Total Quality Management (TQM) models provide a means of measuring the satisfaction of customers, employees and shareholders simultaneously. A number of such models currently exist, but, the author argues, none of these address all dimensions of TQM. This book introduces the principles of TQM, and establishes their use in measuring Business Excellence in an organisational environment. It comparatively evaluates various TQM and Business Excellence models, and discusses the complexities of measuring success. Presenting important, innovative work by one of the most eminent scholars in the field, this book is essential reading for both academics and professionals working in quality management.(Publisher).

New York: Plenum Medical Book Company, 1986. Hardcover. Good +. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 6 3/4". xiii, 532pp. Mild rubbing, toning, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Slight lean to spine. Faint dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This work, Essential Endocrinology: A Primer for Nonspecialists, is written with dual purposes in mind: first, to provide a framework of basic endocrinology and diabetology to the medical student, and second, to provide a quick, con­ cise, and handy "guide" to the junior residents in their early years of training who wish to obtain a working knowledge about endocrine disorders that affect their patients. One of the outstanding advantages of being a teacher of en­ docrinology to students and junior residents is that it bestows a perspective from a unique vantage point. Books written for the junior members of our profession have suffered from extremes of caliber, ranging from… Read More

New York: The Modern Library, 1949. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 7 1/4" X 5". xlix, 476pp. Wear to price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, creasing, and chipping to covers, corners, and edges. Two open tears to top edge of jacket. Bound in blue cloth over boards with spine and front cover stamped in black and gilt. Rubbing and gentle bumps to corners and edges of boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Very occasional inked underlining and notation to pages. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Many contemporaries criticized him for smashing the Age of Reason. Goethe, however, remarked that reading a page of Immanuel Kant was like entering a bright and well-lighted room: The great eighteenth-century philosopher illuminated everything he ever pondered. The twelve essays in this volume reveal Kant's towering importance as an ethical and social thinker as well as his enduring influence on the shape of philosophy. Included are excerpts from Dreams of a Visionary, Prolegomena to Every… Read More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xvii, 302pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers and corners of unclipped dust jacket. Light creasing to edges of jacket. Orange paper over boards with spine backed in white and lettered in metallic green. Spots of light toning to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Everything you ever wanted to know about parasites but were too horrified to ask In What's Eating You? Eugene Kaplan recounts the true and harrowing tales of his adventures with parasites, and in the process introduces readers to the intimately interwoven lives of host and parasite. Kaplan has spent his life traveling the globe exploring oceans and jungles, and incidentally acquiring parasites in his gut. Here, he leads readers on an unforgettable journey into… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. 8 1/4" X 5 3/4". 245pp. Rubbing, toning, creasing, chipping, and tears to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Sunning to spine of jacket. Rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Previous owner's name in ink at front free endpaper. Toning to endpapers. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This is the story of one night in the life of a man. His name was John Philip Clifford and he was a successful American whose special mission for the U.S. Government brought him to Paris one warm spring evening. But, suddenly, Clifford had a really special and personal mission, a quest that led him in pursuit of a vital idea and brought him a great adventure.(Publisher).

New York: Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, Inc, 1960. Staplebound wraps. Good. Staplebound wraps. 10" X 6 7/8". 31pp. Moderate edgewear to printed staplebound wraps, with light scattered rubbing and dust soiling. Crease to center of text block and wraps. Binding is sound. Small smudge to page 6, else unmarked. An attractive copy of this issue of The Reconstructionist, which includes a hard-to-find essay on the Beats by Max Gartenberg, who would later author several books on the subject.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at front free endpaper. Stated First Edition. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 546pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bump to bottom edge of black paper over boards with 1" closed tear to paper. Bumps to top edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill. New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime. Nor can he foresee the dark drama that is about to unfold. Deftly shifting through time and perspective in contemporary India, Age of Vice is an epic,… Read More

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xxiii, 395pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of green cloth over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: We know a great deal about roles the environment plays in shaping survival, reproductive success, and even social systems among primates. But how do primate life histories affect social systems and vice versa? Do baboons' patterns of growth, for example, help to structure their societies? Does fission-fusion sociality interact with predator pressure to influence the timing of maturation in chimpanzees? Exploring these issues and many others, the contributors to Primate Life Histories and Socioecology provide the first systematic attempt to understand relationships among primate life histories, ecology, and social behavior conjointly. Topics covered include how primate life histories interact with rates of evolution, predator pressure, and… Read More

Punjab: Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1993. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". xliii, 249pp. Wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. 1/2" closed tear to jacket at top of spine. Bound in orange cloth over boards with spine and front cover lettered in purple. Hard bump to top of spine. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Sticker from Nataraj Books pasted to front free endpaper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. The publishers, Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB), are a religious group based in the northern Indian state of Punjab. Established in 1891 by Indian spiritual leader Jaimal Singh, the RSSB's teachings are guided by the fundamental spiritual beliefs found at the heart of most religions. Call of the great Master is an engrossing and lucid presentation of Sant Mat, the teachings of the saints, as set forth by mystics past and present.(Publisher).