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New York. 1983. Columbia University Press. 1st American Edition. Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket with Some Small Tears. 0231055900. 205 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by J.S. Roberts. keywords: Anthropology Politics Philosophy. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Anthropological theory, from its beginnings in philosophy and linguistics, has provided Western thought and politics with deep-rooted images and convictions amounting to a kind of political cosmology. The anthropologists are ‘here and now,' the objects of their discourse are ‘there and then,' and the existence of the ‘other'-the ‘savage,' the ‘primitive,' the ‘under-developed' world-in the same time as ours is regularly denied. This is the central thesis of Johannes Fabian's TIME AND THE OTHER, a probing critique of the emergence and present shape of anthropological discourse. Fabian examines ‘uses of time' in dominant paradigms of… Read More

Philadelphia. 1968. Central Committee For Conscientious Objectors. Ninth Edition. Second Printing. Some Foxing, Otherwise Good in Wrappers. 110 pages. paperback. keywords: Reference Draft Sixties. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The CCCO Program - PURPOSE: to maintain freedom of conscience: to interpret the moral and legal basis of conscientious refusal to participate in war; to counsel and assist conscientious objectors to conscription, civil defense, and the payment of taxes for military purposes; to encourage an end to conscription. inventory #25612

Baton Rogue. 2000. Louisiana State University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0807124761. Winner Of The Pegasus Prize For Literature. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. 243 pages. hardcover. Cover: Designer: Amanda McDonald Scallan . keywords: Literature Latin America Venezuela Women Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In DOÑA INES VS. OBLIVION, Ana Teresa Torres delivers an extraordinary revisionist history of the land, people, and political entity that are Venezuela. Taking epic themes of oppression and freedom, rivalry, hatred, shame, revolution, and reconciliation, she redraws them to human scale through the intimate confiding of one family's three-hundred-year story. It is the voice of Doña InEs that speaks across these pages, first in imperious outrage and by the end in just a whisper. Hers is a memoir that transcends death. Matriarch of a wealthy planter family in the eighteenth-century village of Caracas, Doña InEs fights for control of… Read More

Richmond. 2015. October 2015. Omnidawn Publishing . Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781632430090. Introduction by Cal Bedient. 6 x 9. 104 pages. paperback. keywords: poetry . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Terse, provocative poems that question the assertions of our modern era. Blood Oboe materializes inside the labyrinth of the cosmos. Douglas Piccinnini's poetry recodes the vanishing pastoral and codes the new currency of the digital age - of the person forever indebted and on trial. Blood Oboe moves through an expanse of clipped moods that seek to distinguish time in time. He has done it - written poems of a gnarled toughness that can't be taken apart, chewed up, seen through. Douglas Piccinnini has set the mark for new poems of a terrific integrity, unsmiling (their humor is deep down, waiting); poems sharply seeing. - Cal Bedient, co-editor of Lana Turner, author of The Multiple. inventory # 44211 ISBN: 9781632430090.

Rochester. 2014. February 2014. York Medieval Press. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781903153505. 21 black and white illustrations. 218 pages. paperback. keywords: Medieval Literature . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Obscenity is, if nothing else, controversial. Its definition, consumption and regulation fire debate about the very meaning of art and culture, law, politics and ideology. And it is often, erroneously, assumed to be synonymous with modernity. Medieval Obscenities examines the complex and contentious role of the obscene - what is offensive, indecent or morally repugnant - in medieval culture from late antiquity through to the end of the Middle Ages in western Europe. Its approach is multidisciplinary, its methodologies divergent and it seeks to formulate questions and stimulate debate. The essays examine topics as diverse as Norse defecation taboos, the Anglo-Saxon sexual idiom, sheela-na-gigs, impotence in the church courts, bare ecclesiastical bottoms, rude sounds and dirty… Read More

Pittsburgh. 2002. Carnegie Mellon University Press. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780887483752. Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry. 5 1/2 x 9 1/4. 64 pages . paperback. keywords: Poetry Poetry - American. FROM THE PUBLISHER - These is accomplished art concealed in Mr. Casey's seemingly off-hand sketches. - Daniel Hoffman, The New York Times. A reissuing of Obscenities, the debut collection of poems by Michael Casey. Reviews: The man has that rare sense of language alive, each word as important to test against each other before letting it stay as every other word you keep. - Nat Hentoff, The Village Voice. Readers in search of authentic gut poetry need search no further. - Publishers Weekly. inventory #41821 ISBN: 9780887483752.

New York. 1996. February 1996. Delacorte Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0385314744. 273 pages. hardcover. keywords: Humor Politics America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In the grand satirical tradition of Swift, Rabelais, and Twain comes. Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, and Other Observations. a scathing--but uncompromisingly fair--look at America's largest talk show host and the rest of the Republican right. Penned by the Emmy award-winning Saturday Night Live writer whom John Podhoretz of the New York Post has called the man responsible for some of the most brilliant political satire of our time, Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot tackles the issues--and the politicians--in ways few have dared. Exploding Medicare Costs: Why not shoot the elderly into space? Stay with me. Because I'm not just thinking about the budget here. I'm talking about science. Just think how many more manned space operations NASA could undertake if they didn't have to worry about getting the astronauts… Read More

Santa Maria. 1993. Asylum Arts. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 1878580418. 79 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - While the twenty-nine stories in City of Mazes bring to mind Robbe-Grillet, Duras, and Kafka, they are clearly the product of a powerful and distinct new voice. Obsessive and dreamlike, Cynthia Hendershot's tales are narrated by the disembodied or never-completely-bodied, those so intensely wrapped within their own Gothic darkness as to seem at once sensuously injured and curiously detached. In spite of their sufferings, their intense longing, the subjects of these fictions remain committed to someone who is careless. Lovers become vicarious participants in a passion that is extraordinarily powerful, even though it is enacted offstage, as if we are all condemned to eavesdrop eternally on our own disappointed desires. With their imagery of cruelty and self-victimization, of blood and violence, sex and love, Hendershot's stories are often… Read More

New York. 1965. April 1965. Pantheon Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Worn Dustjacket. Translated from the German by Ursule Molinaro. 183 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Gunter Grass. keywords: Literature Germany Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This book of sketches introduces to American readers a young German writer whose charm and wit have recently captured the delighted attention of the European literary scene. Perhaps best described as pantomime on paper, Reinhard Lettau's work evokes, in beautifully controlled language and often on less than a page, visual pictures of people dominated by their activities and by the objects their activities create. Much as a silent film selects and exaggerates, the pieces directly expose the essential qualities of life, having caught them, so to speak, in mid-air, with all the exact harshness, humor, and naked truth of the camera's eye. Originally published in Germany as two separate volumes, the books have been brought together here under… Read More

Boston. 1989. South End Press. Later Printing. Very Good in Wrappers. 0896083632. 423 pages. paperback. Cover photo by George Azar. keywords: Politics Middle East Palestine Israel Intifada. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This collection of critical essays includes eyewitness accounts from the West Bank and Gaza, discussions of Palestinian society and politics, and analyses of the role of the United States. inventory #8164 ISBN: 0896083632.

Summertown. 2021. 8/5/2021. GroundSwell Books. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781939053336. Planetary Solutions. 48 pages. paperback. keywords: Oceans. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This book provides an educational and engaging look at the interdependent relationship between the oceans and ourselves, and what is needed to protect the oceans' ecosystems. Young adults learn about a variety of human activities that affect water temperature, oxygen levels, acidity, ice density, sea levels and sea-life populations. Bates explains how measures such as blue carbon initiatives to prohibit deep-sea mining, replanting mangroves, protecting salt marshes and seagrasses and restoring coral reefs have benefits that have a multiplier effectâ??and that it is more cost-effective and financially rewarding to do these now rather than later. inventory #46614 ISBN: 9781939053336.

Chicago. 1981. Academy Chicago. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 089733048x. 226 pages. hardcover. keywords: Mystery Russia America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Vanya Duvakin, night security officer at the Red October Hotel in Moscow, finds a dead guest in one of the rooms. Before he knows it, he is drawn into a web of terror and intrigue orchestrated by the colorful Colonel Polkovnikov of the KGB. ‘Better [than Gorky Park] on the seedy and sinister atmosphere of Moscow, better in its characterizaiton, especially better in its plot.' - CHICAGO TRIBUNE. inventory #3183 ISBN: 089733048x.

Pittsburgh. 2018. February 2018. University of Pittsburgh Press. Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780822965251. Pitt Poetry Series. 6 x 9. 88 pages . paperback. keywords: Poetry. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Travel has always been Barbara Hamby's muse, and in Bird Odyssey she hits the road hard, riding a train across Siberia, taking a car trip from Memphis to New Orleans on Highway 61, and following The Odyssey from Troy to Ithaka. The concatenation of images released include Elvis and Tolstoy cruising through the sky in a pink Cadillac, Homer and Robert Johnson discussing their art in the Underworld, and the women in The Odyssey telling their side of the story, because what's a woman to do in this world of men? She has to strike out on her own, ask the right questions, and tell her own story, translating the world into her own bright lie. inventory #43466 ISBN: 9780822965251.

Pittsburgh. 2018. February 2018. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780822965251. Pitt Poetry Series. 6 x 9. 88 pages. paperback. keywords: Poetry. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Travel has always been Barbara Hamby's muse, and in Bird Odyssey she hits the road hard, riding a train across Siberia, taking a car trip from Memphis to New Orleans on Highway 61, and following The Odyssey from Troy to Ithaka. The concatenation of images released include Elvis and Tolstoy cruising through the sky in a pink Cadillac, Homer and Robert Johnson discussing their art in the Underworld, and the women in The Odyssey telling their side of the story, because what's a woman to do in this world of men? She has to strike out on her own, ask the right questions, and tell her own story, translating the world into her own bright lie. inventory #43465 ISBN: 9780822965251.

New York. 2000. Free Press. 2nd Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684863650. Illustrated by The Author. Edited by Charles F. Bryan Jr. , James C. Kelly, & Nelson D. Lankford. 329 pages. hardcover. keywords: Civil War History America Autobiography Military. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Eye of the Storm is one of the most important Civil War documents to be published since Ulysses S. Grant's Personal Memoirs. In 1994, four tattered scrapbooks were found in a Connecticut bank vault, yielding a treasure trove of more than five hundred watercolors that vividly depict America's greatest national drama. These scrapbooks -- plus a five-thousand-page illustrated memoir that was also discovered -- are the life's achievement of a long-forgotten Union private and mapmaker named Robert Knox Sneden. Sneden enlisted in the Union army after the fall of Fort Sumter. As a soldier and mapmaker, he witnessed many of the most famous battles of the war. His map of the second battle of Bull Run offers a detailed… Read More

New York. 1998. Free Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0684824094. 207 pages. hardcover. keywords: Biography Japan Music. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The most popular classical composer of our day was born with a medical deformity so severe that his parents had to fight to keep him alive. When the child of novelist Kenzaburo Oe and his wife, Yukari, was born with a herniated brain, the doctors recommended letting him die. Instead, his parents defied Japan's then-harsh customs and saved him with a complicated operation that left him severely handicapped. They named him Hikari, which means ‘light'; now in his thirties, with an I.Q. of 65, limited language and motor skills, and an inability to express emotions clearly, Hikari has indeed become a beacon of inspiration. He has miraculous musical gifts, including a phenomenal memory and the ability to compose chamber works that have broken sales records and delighted hundreds of thousands of listeners. Based on exclusive access to the Oe… Read More

New York. 1977. Grove Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394413385. Translated from the Japanese and with an introduction by John Nathan. 261 pages. hardcover. Cover illustration: Mayumi Oda Nathan. keywords: Literature Translated Japan Asia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Oe is acknowledged to be the be the most important writer to have emerged in in Japan since World War Il, and these four novels explain why his passionate, original vision, powered by an astonishing energy, speaks for the new generation that has grown up in Japan since the War. The earliest of his stories included here, Prize Stock, is an extraordinary tale about the strange relationship between a Japanese boy and a captured black American flyer in a Japanese mountain village during the War. It was for this short novel that Oe won the coveted Akutagawa Prize while he was still a student at Tokyo University. The short novel which supplies the title for this book, Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness, tells of the close relationship… Read More

New York. 1982. Summit Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 067144798x. 223 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature England Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The ‘birds of passage' are Ellen and Alice, two women getting on in years, waiting for their husbands to pass away so that they can achieve their hearts' desire - a Mediterranean cruise. It happens, but what the brochure does not mention is that one of the shipboard waiters doubles as a polite rapist. inventory #6366 ISBN: 067144798x.

New York. 2005. Harpercollins. Uncorrected Galley. Very Good in Wrappers. 0060596341. 355 pages. paperback. keywords: Mystery America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Thomas Dennehy, senior prosecutor in Davidson County, Tennessee, doesn't recognize Nashville anymore: a decade of relentless immigration means cops are learning Spanish, and the DA's office is looking for Vietnamese translators. Thomas's latest case is prosecuting Moses Bol, a Sudanese refugee who faces the death penalty for killing a white woman in the Nations, a notorious, racially charged part of town. Bol's conviction seems certain, until a university professor claims Thomas sent the wrong man to the death chamber in a previous case. The DA's office is rocked to its core, but within days another blow falls: a beautiful and brilliant anti-death penalty activist mysteriously surfaces as Bol's alibi, claiming she was with him at the time of the crime. Bol's case becomes a lightning rod as protesters on all sides… Read More

New York. 1951. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Previous Owner’s Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. Translated from the French by Constantine FitzGibbon. 266 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Karov. keywords: Literature France Crime Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This is a tense, laconic story of the back alleys of Paris and their obsessed and implacable young criminals. It tells of a gang of street urchins led by a bitter girl whose brother has been sentenced to death for murder. The gang kidnaps a rich boy and holds him for ransom in a dark cellar. Cowering and abused, young Cric endures their insults and listens, with fright and fascination, to their hideous professional secrets. The boy's rescue depends upon an elderly private detective who, raking among his sorrowful memories, understands the motives of these terrible children - children nurtured on and the twisted wisdom of the streets. From his first meeting with Fleur, the gang leader, in a filthy… Read More