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

Saratoga, CA, U.S.A.: Anma Libri, 1984. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book, with text in French, examines Diderot's relations with his lover, Madame de Puisieux, in an effort to rehabilitate her character and re-evaluate the extent of their intellectual collaboration; it examines her writings and shows that she shared Diderot's moral, social, and political concerns (green pictorial cover with yellow lettering & photo of the dungeon of the Chateau de Vincennes on the front has slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment)

San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.: R and E Research Associates, 1975. Paperback. Very Good. 8 3/8" X 10 7/8. This study of Jewish attitudes toward Blacks has two parts: the first is an analysis of some of the historical points of contact between Blacks and Jews that have led to tensions; the second identifies five areas of current concern and a philosophical issue within the Jewish community which contribute to Jewish attitudes toward Blacks; it also presents the results of a survey among a sample of the leadership of the Sholom Aleichem Club and the Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia (plain orange covers with black lettering, very slight corner creases; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This book provides an ethnographic and historical analysis of the dynamics of class and culture in Tiraque, a province in the highlands of Cochabamba, Bolivia; it focuses on the changing conditions of production that give rise to and shape class relations and traces the formation of a landowning peasantry, a process that began in the 1800s and accelerated after the revolution of 1952, and the emergence of a rural class of merchants and transporters who extract surplus from the peasantry by a combination of alliances in production and reliance on traditional practices to consolidate its hold over production, the same cultural practices the peasants have used in an attempt to maintain a certain degree of autonomy from control by the merchants (red & white pictorial cover with photo of a Bolivian woman with child tending sheep in Tiraque, slight corner crease, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: New Society Publishers, 1987. Revised. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is the revised edition of a book originally published as Strategy for a Living Revolution; it offers a five-stage strategy for large-scale social change through non-violent revolution; it includes a foreword by Joanna Macy, a new introduction by the author, and critiques of the original thesis by Richard Falk on world order, David Albert on nonviolence theory, Bill Moyer on people's movements for social change, and Jane Meyerding on feminist critiques of the theory (purple cover with yellow & white lettering, slight reading crease; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A: Praeger Publishers, 1983. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This study was carried out under the auspices of the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University and proceeds from the assumption that most of the military and political conflict in the future will take place in the Third World; it addresses itself to a series of questions: how aggressive a policy is the Soviet leadership likely to follow in the Third World, how much priority will be given to the Third World in Soviet strategic planning, what are the Soviet instrumentalities for developing relationships in the Third World, and what factors are likely to enhance or obstruct Soviet progress in Third World countries? (red cloth with gold lettering, slight edgewear, free front endpaper removed, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A: Humanities Press, 1970. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book is concerned with the effect of political and economic events in Europe from the Franco-Prussian War to the end of World War II on the lives of ordinary people; it tries balance the treatment of issues which affected Europe as a whole with those which were peculiar to one country; includes maps and plates (black pictorial cover is rubbed with edgewear and corner creases, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Macmillan, 1983. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Ideology, a highly complex and elusive concept, occupies a central position in Marxist theory, though there is no single Marxist concept of ideology; few recent debates among Marxists have been as polarized as the divisions between followers of Lukacs and Althusser on the character of ideology; in this book, the author examines the writings of Marx and earlier Marxist theorists in order to develop a middle course between the historiciam of Lukacs and the structuralism of Althusser (black cloth with gold lettering; green dust jacket with white lettering, both have very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Newbury Park, CA, U.S.A.: Sage Publications, 1983. Second Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine: published in cooperation with the University of Michigan School of Social Work, this is a guide to raising funds for human services agencies and programs from government, foundation, and private sector grants (blue & white cover with white & blue lettering, very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: New Directions, 1949. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. A volume of the annual editions published by New Directions, it presents a highly varied selection of new avant garde and experimental writing from America and abroad, including stories, poems, plays, and essays by forty-five authors; the highlights listed on the dust jacket include a study of Rimbaud by Henry Miller, excerpts from Genet's Our Lady of Flowers, a story and three poems by Tennessee Williams, an essay on the painter Dove by Duncan Phillips (with reproductions), a dance play by Kenneth Rexroth, an essay on the situation of American writers by Stephen Spender, poems by contemporary Japanese poets, a short novel by John Hawkes, two stories by Borges (including The Circular Ruins), and new poems by William Carlos Williams; introduction by the editor (tan cloth with green lettering has slight creases at ends of spine; yellow dust jacket with small photos of some of the contributors on the front has edgewear with… Read More

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1992. This is a collection of essays originally presented as papers at the Conference on Soviet Cinema held at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center in 1986, the first gathering of international Soviet cinema scholars to take place in the United States, with participants from France, Italy, Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States; this collection encompasses 70 years of Soviet cinema history from the perspective of 20 academics of different backgrounds and nationalities; includes illustrations (black & white cover with red & white lettering,, very faint spine crease; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. Near Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins, 1991. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This is the original HarperCollins Academic edition of the book later reprinted by Routledge (with the same ISBN); this book explores the concept of an equitable distribution of resources; it examines the principle interpretations of equity used by economists and political philosophers and argues that none captures the essence of the term as well as an alternative conception relating equity to the existence of individual choice; it shows that this conception is not only well-grounded philosophically but also directly relevant to distributional policy; the theoretical argument is complemented by detailed discussion of the application of the central idea to specific policy areas; it also includes chapters on the trade-off between equity and efficiencty, and on the incorporation of equity considerations into the measurement of changes in economic welfare (blue cover with white lettering, one corner creased; otherwise a bright,… Read More

U.S.A.: Harbor Press, 1955. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This is a three-volume reprint of a work originally published in 1887, a complete history of the Inquisition in the period prior to the Reformation; the author contends that the Inquisition was a natural, perhaps inevitable, evolution of the forces at work in the 13th century, and so has included a review of nearly all the spiritual and intellectual movements and some of the social conditions of the Middle Ages; Book I: Origin and Organization of the Inquisition; Book II: The Inquisition in the Several Lands of Christiandom; Book III: Special Fields of Inquisitorial Activity; tan cloth with bright red lettering, pages very lightly tanned, gift inscription on front endpaper of first volume; otherwise these are good, clean, tight copies (shipping other than media mail may require extra cost)

London, England, U.K: George Allen & Unwin, 1983. Trade Paperback. Good. An analysis of social services in Britain that concludes that most expenditure on social services is distributed in a manner that broadly favors the higher social groups, whether defined in terms of income or occupation, rather than the poor (a bright, clean cover with faint highlighting and a few marginal notes on the first 18 pages, the remainder of the text is unmarked)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1995. Trade Paperback. As New. This book analyzes Durkheim's social ontology and epistemology from the standpoint of critical structuralism; it explores Durkheim's discussion of the relationships between the individual and society, the subject and object of knowledge, and truth and ideology (a bright, clean, tight copy)

London, England, U.K: Oxford University Press, 1982. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. An analysis that takes the view that knowledge is based on belief, followed by discussions of truth, belief, justification, skepticism and materialism (bright blue cover with white lettering, slightly dented along spine, otherwise a good, clean copy)

Albany, NY, U.S.A.: State University of New York Press, 2002. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This is a collection of essays in which various contributors explore the ways in which Marxism continues to illuminate our understanding of culture, economy, and politics; they focus on the question of epistemology to examine the process of anthropological intellectual production in different national settings and analyze the ways in which heirarchies of power and forms of state domination figure in the formation of subjectivities in different ethnographic contexts; they also reflect upon how class, gender, and ethnicity, as well as regional and national identities, are configured through the relationships involved in making a living under late capitalism (black & white cover with very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: International Publishers, 1927. First published in 1909, this is Lenin's defence of dialectical materialism; includes a foreword by A. Deborin and Lenin's prefaces to the first and second Russian editions; this edition, Volume 8 of the Collected Works, has the copyright 1927 but no indication of the printing (black cloth with gold lettering, bright on the front cover, slightly faded on the spine; corners slightly bumped; pages slightly tanned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Moscow, Russia: Progress Publishers, 1977. First published in 1947, this is the third printing in 1977 of the fourth revised edition of 1964 of Lenin's defence of dialectical materialism; includes Lenin's prefaces to the first and second editions of 1908 and 1920 and frontispiece portrait of Lenin (gray textured cloth with gold lettering on front & spine; a bright, clean, tight copy in near fine condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Fourth Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Les Lilas, France: Editions Jerome Villette, 1997. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near Fine: this is a professional cookbook, with text in French and English, on buffets from the celebrated French culinary school, Ecole Lenotre; it provides practical advice on the organization, preparation, and management of buffets with recipes for terrines, large pieces, and hot and cold canapes illustrated with step-by-step photos (laminated pictorial cover, slightly bumped corner, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Les Lilas, France: Editions Jerome Villette, 1999. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near Fine: this is a professional cookbook, with text in French and English, the first published work of the celebrated French culinary school, Ecole Lenotre, which introduces a set of small catering tools initially designed for sugarwork applications, with a wide variety of suggestions for new decorative uses for these tools in the fields of confectionery, breakmaking, cooking, catering, chocolate, and ice-cream; each recipe features symbols to identify the tools used and provides practical guidance for preparation; includes full-page color photographs of each dish (laminated pictorial cover, slightly rubbed, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)