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

Lexington, MA, U.S.A: Heath Lexington Books, 1970. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. A collection of essays on the demand for passenger transportation based on recent quantitative research in economics, operations research, physics, transport and regional studies, and other fields; most of the essays view travel as the result of individuals' rational decision-making in an economic context (tan cloth with red lettering, corners very slightly bumped, previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Dublin, Ireland: Veritas, 2001. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. A collection of essays assessing the life and work of the Irish writer and public intellectual Desmond Fennell, with a transcript of an interview with him in 2000 and a bibliography of his writings (purple cover with color photos of Fennell on the front, very slight spine crease, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

London, England, U.K.: Duckworth, 2010. This book explores the formative period in the history of archaeology as a profession and an academic discipline in the late 19th and early 20th centuries through a study of the archive that records the excavations of the most prominent English archaeologist in Egypt during that time; includes photographs (red & white pictorial covers with photo of Egyptian excavators on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. As New.

London, England, U.K.: Pluto Press, 2011. Signed & dated by the author on the half-title page, this is an account of the history and practice of popular resistance in Palestine, from the Ottoman Empire to the present, by its most important chronicler; the author is a professor at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities (pictorial cover; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. As New.