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

Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell Press, 1990. This is the first of two volumes of the diaries of a provincial English businessman engaged in textiles, banking, and politics in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; the diaries cover a span of nearly 50 years, and are a reflection of the industry, trade, and banking, the politiccs, and the social life of a relatively stable community in East Anglia; in a book-length introduction, the editor provides the background of the family, the local society, and the local economy, particularly the textile industry; includes a frontispiece portrait of the author, as well as many other illustrations, and genealogical tables of the author's family; survey map of the town in 1776 on the end papers (olive textured cloth with gold lettering, end of spine and one corner slightly bumped; illustrated blue dust jacket has tear on back edge, enclosed in clear mylar cover; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

San Diego, CA, U.S.A.: Museum of Photographic Arts, 1991. Paperback. Fine. This is the catalog of an exhibition of photographs from the movement in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s in which photogaphy was allied with various worker movements and depicted the conditions of proletarian life; includes an extended essay on the history of the movement by the author, who curated the exihibition, followed by an exhibition checklist; includes many photographs (yellow cover with yellow lettering on red background; a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1993. This is a first edition of Olson's sixth novel, a psychology mystery set in Provincetown on Cape Cod, inscribed on the title page; Olson is an American poet and novelist, winner of the Penn/Faulkner Award (black cloth & purple paper-covered boards with gold lettering on spine; pictorial dust jacket; a bright, clean, tight copy). First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Bradford, Ontario, Canada: Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, 2011. This is an issue of the Journal of Motherhood Initiative and Community Involvement (Fall/Winter 2011; Volume 2, Number 2) devoted to mothering and migration; includes 18 articles, mostly by Canadian and American academics, as well as poetry and book reviews (purple pictorial cover with slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Trade Paperback. Very Good.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Family Service Association of America, 1969. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Inscribed By Author. This is a biography of Francis McLean, a social welfare pioneer, the first executive director of the National Association of Societies for Organizing Charity, the forerunner of the Family Service Association of America; the author, an associate and friend of McLean's, was the executive director of the Family Service of Philadelphia; includes frontispiece portrait of McLean; inscribed by the author on the front endpaper (green cloth with gold lettering, tan endpapers, has slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Westport, CT, U.S.A.: Greenwood Press, 1989. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. This is a companion volume to Orr's Dictionary of Critical Theory, a bibliography of over 5,000 books, articles, and dissertations on critical theory, in English, French, and German, arranged by sections corresponding to current critical approaches: Structuralism, Semiotics, Narratology, Psychological, Sociological, Marxist, Feminist, Reader-Response, Reception, Phenomenological, Hermeneutics, and Deconstruction, Post-Structuralist, and Post-Deconstructive; includes three indexes: index of subjects and major theorists, general index, and author index (gray cloth with black lettering on red labels on front cover and spine; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.: University of Michigan Press, 1996. This is a collection of critical essays arranged into three groups that attempt to uncover the poet's theoretical, epistolary, and more broadly public and historical sense of an audience; contributors include David Porter, Charlotte Nekola, Robert Weisbuch, Virginia Jackson, R. McClure Smith, Martin Orzeck, Betsy Erkkila, L. Stephanie Tingley, Richard Sewell, Robert Regan, Willis Buckingham, Karen Dandurand (light gray cloth with black lettering on spine; green & white dust jacket; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. As New/As New.

New South Wales, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2010. This is the 10th edition of what has been described as the best one-volume history of Southeast Asia; while it covers the early history of the region, it concentrates on the period since the 18th century, including the impact of colonial rule, economic changes of the 19th and 20th centuries, the independence movements, the impact of social change and the roles of religions, ethnic minorities, and immigrant groups (pictorial cover with white lettering, corner creases; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Tenth Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Oslo, Norway: Norwegian University Press, 1989. Reprint. Fine. This is a treatise on the diverse modes of social thought and their relation to each other, and to the historical emergence of the modern State, the Market, and the Individual (white cover with black & red lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition)

New York, NY, U.S.A: St. Martin's Press, 1981. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. This book reports on the management of relationships between multinational corporations, their headquarters, foreign subsidiaries, and affiliated companies; in-depth studies of British, German, Japanese, and Swedish companies, as well as American organizations, provide insights into such areas as subsidiary autonomy, allocation of decision making power, structural arrangements, relationships between subsidiaries and host-countries, differences between managing wholly-owned affiliates and joint ventures, formality of relations, reporting systems, and others; includes figures and tables (black cloth with gold lettering, small crease at top of spine; dust jacket slightly sunned, small tear at top of spine, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Clifton Park, NY, U.S.A.: Delmar / Cengage Learning, 2005. Trade Paperback. Fine. This book, by an experienced artist and educator, is a guide to what it takes to survive and succeed in art school; chapters are divided into three parts: The Basics, which contains information on study skills; The Techniques, which covers drawing and design basics; The Tools, which covers the tools and supplies used in the studio and setting up a work space; includes many illustrations (pictorial cover with red & black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition)

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2007. Hard Cover. As New/As New. This book is a collection of essays on the city of Istanbul, its history and institutions, during the Ottoman and Republican periods, written by young scholars who are recipients of the John Freely Fellowship awarded annually through the American Research Institute in Turkey to honor the celebrated author of travel and history books; includes an introduction by the editor and illustrations (maroon cloth with gold lettering; pictorial dust jacket with photo of Istanbul; a bright, clean, tight copy)