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

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6". xii, 367pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: All living things are remarkably complex, yet their DNA is unstable, undergoing countless random mutations over generations. Despite this instability, most animals do not grow two heads or die, plants continue to thrive, and bacteria continue to divide. Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems tackles this perplexing paradox. The book explores why genetic changes do not cause organisms to fail catastrophically and how evolution shapes organisms' robustness. Andreas Wagner looks at this problem from the ground up, starting with the alphabet of DNA, the genetic code, RNA, and protein molecules, moving on to genetic networks and embryonic development, and working his way up to whole organisms. He then develops an evolutionary explanation for robustness. Wagner… Read More

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9" X 5 3/4". xii, 356pp. Mild rubbing to front and rear covers. Very mild wear to corners and edges. Dust spotting to edges of text block. Foxing to inside of front and rear covers. Pencil marks to half-title page. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall solid copy of this biography on one of the twentieth century's leading philosophers of social science, Alfred Schutz (1899-1959).

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2015. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". x, 266pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Driven by a passion for music, for excellence, and for fame, violin soloists are immersed from early childhood in high-pressure competitions, regular public appearances, and arduous daily practice. An in-depth study of nearly one hundred such children, Producing Excellence illuminates the process these young violinists undergo to become elite international soloists. A musician and a parent of a young violinist, sociologist Izabela Wagner offers an inside look at how her young subjects set out on the long road to becoming a soloist. The remarkable research she conducted—at rehearsals, lessons, and in other educational settings—enabled her to gain deep insight into what distinguishes these talented prodigies and their training. She notes, for instance, the… Read More

New York: The Mayor's Committee on Job Advancement, City of New York, 1964. Staplebound wraps. Good +. Staplebound wraps. 10 7/8" X 8 1/2". Unpaginated, 16pp. Moderate wear to staplebound printed wraps, with small tears to edges and extremities, sunning, and dust soiling. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. An overall well-preserved copy of this report of The Mayor's Committee on Job Advancement's study of minority representation in the four largest national magazines, conducted page-by-page of every issue of a year-long period. The Mayor's Committee on Job Advancement was founded by Mayor of New York City Robert F. Wagner. This report is illustrated throughout in "integrated" advertisements and includes a first ever published list of advertisers and agencies cooperating with the effort. A fascinating artifact of 1960s thinkng on representation in media, a conversation and struggle that remains relevant today. 5 holdings in OCLC.

San Francisco: Pomegranate Communications, Inc, 2000. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 11 1/4" X 9". 120pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Very gentle rubbing to edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The world knows Maxfield Parrish for his legacy of extraordinary paintings--technical tours-de-force whose subjects ranged from the inspiring to the farcical. But Parrish is best appreciated in the context of his own life and times. This book elegantly provides that context with an overview of his brilliant book illustrations and of the era when the field of illustration flourished. Part lively Parrish biography and part lucid historical analysis of a unique epoch in American art, Maxfield Parrish and the Illustrators of the Golden Age draws upon the archives of the American Illustrators Gallery (New York City) and other resources to present works by Parrish, Pyle, Wyeth, Smith, Green,… Read More

Chicago: Laurel Book Company, 1935. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 8". 40pp. Mild rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Light age-toning to pages. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. A clean, unused copy of this 1935 school book for practicing writing.

New York: Pantheon, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library Copy. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 275pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Wear to jacket with rubbing, toning, and non-sticky sticker residue to covers, corners, edges, and flaps. Small library sticker to spine of jacket. Light rubbing and toning to covers and edges of black cloth over boards. Lean to spine. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Non-sticky sticker residue to endpapers. Borrower's ticket pocket from Norwin Public LIbrary pasted to rear free endpaper. Library stamp and penciled notation to title page. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: From Per Wahlöö—co-author with his wife, Maj Sjöwall, of the internationally bestselling Martin Beck series of mysteries—comes a suspense novel about a former German soldier wanted for questioning about a murder in Spain. Willi Mohr-former German soldier, starving artist,… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1986. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". 283pp. Moderate wear to paperback binding, with rubbing to edges, corners, and surfaces. Bookseller notations to front free endpaper. Binding is tight and sound. Contents are clean, bright, and unmarked. Features edited case studies and helpful analysis on the themes of "The Economic Setting for Policy," "The Antitrust Laws," "Monopolization," "Mergers," "Horizontal Agreements," "Price Discrimination," "Patents," and "Vertical Restraints of Trade and Group Boycotts.

Newnan: Beaver's Pond Press, 2017. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 11 3/4". 169pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper over boards. Price sticker to rear cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Through stunning portraiture and intimate conversations, Brent Walker takes the reader on a journey across the Southeast United States, uncovering stories of heartbreak, addiction, and hope. The Hidden South--Come Home is the first book by Atlanta-based photographer and storyteller Brent Walker. Through stunning portraiture and intimate conversations, Brent takes the reader on a journey across the Southeastern United States, uncovering stories of heartbreak, addiction, and hope. The book features more than 100 stories and portraits of people from all walks of life… Read More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956. Hardcover. Good/fair. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 197pp. Wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, creasing, chipping, and several open tears to covers, corners, and edges. Light rubbing and gentle bumps to corners and edges of blue cloth over boards. Light dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: As part of a 1950s study dealing with various phases of the impact of mass production on human behaviour, this volume, originally published in 1956 and now a classic of its time examines the technological environment and the foreman within management, from the foreman's point of view. The book presents case-history material, but behind this presentation and controlling it are broad concepts, one of the most important of which is that of a technological work environment. The book relates its study of a segment in American industry to the borader challenges of human relations to work in the… Read More

Racine: Whitman Publishing Company, 1940. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 3 3/4" X 5 3/4". 64pp. Light rubbing, toning, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Cleanly punched hole to front and rear cover of A Guide to American Airplanes. Rubbing to insides of covers of both volumes. Pages are clean and unmarked. Bindings are sound. War Planes includes 60 full color illustrated airplanes. American Airplanes includes 56 full color illustrated airplanes. Light rubbing to exterior of metal plane. Winding mechanism of toy appears to no longer function.

New York: Random House, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink to title page. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". 272pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Pictorial paper over boards with spine lettered in orange. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. From the Powell's Indiespensable signed first edition book club with custom slipcase and original packing slip from Powell's book club laid in. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Spellbinding, haunting, The Age of Miracles is a beautiful novel of catastrophe and survival, growth and change, the story of Julia and her family as they struggle to live in an extraordinary time. On an ordinary Saturday, Julia awakes to discover that something has happened to the rotation of the earth. The days and nights are growing longer and longer,… Read More

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988. First Edition. Paperback. Very good +. First Edition. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 230pp. Inscribed by Nancy A. Walker to half-title page and dated November 1988. Presumed First Edition, with no further printings listed. Very light wear to paper wraps, with tiny spot of sticker remnant to rear. Light foxing to fore-edge. Typed notes on women's humor laid in. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A nice signed copy of this first book-length study of humor writing by American women.

Johnson City: The Overmountain Press, 1993. Hardcover. Good +/good. Hardcover. 8" X 5 1/2". viii, 339pp. Mild wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, light chipping, and several small, open tears to covers, corners, and edges. Price sticker to rear cover of jacket. Bound in tan cloth over boards with spine and front cover lettered in black. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Along with stories of the Indians as a group, there are many stories of individual natives, including the illiterate but brilliant Sequoyah who invented an alphabet for the Cherokee. Walker also includes much about other missions and missionaries. Once nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Walker's work remains (as noted in the New York Times Book Review, February 7, 1932) "an interesting and valuable addition not only to the local history of Tennessee and Georgia, but also the history of the American Indian and his relations with white civilization and government."(Publisher).

2001. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 11" X 8 3/4". x, 225pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of brown paper over boards. Rubbing and gentle bumps to edges of spine. Faint dust-spotting to top edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this family history of the descendants of Terry 'Bill Kirby, Sr. and Nancy Terry Greer.

Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2008. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to previous owner by author in ink at title page. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". x, 176pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine lettered in white. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Although historians frequently use memoirs as source material, too often they confine such usage to the anecdotal, and there is little methodological literature regarding the genre's possibilities and limitations. This study articulates an approach to using memoirs as instruments of historical understanding. Jennifer Jensen Wallach applies these principles to a body of memoirs about life in the American South during Jim Crow segregation, including works by Zora Neale Hurston, Willie Morris, Lillian Smith, Henry Louis Gates Jr., William Alexander Percy, and Richard Wright. Wallach argues that the field of… Read More

Far Hills: New Horizon Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to previous owner by Delilah Wallenda in ink at title page. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiii, 254pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Mild rubbing, creasing, toning, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of blue paper over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The "Great Wallendas" was one of the most famous daredevil aerial circus acts in history. Delilah Wallenda, who continues to walk the wire, reveals the colorful, poignant inside story of circus life, her eccentric grandfath Karl, and a family shaken by public tragedy and private mayhem including fights, affairs, divorces, bigamy, suicides, and insanity through the years.(Publisher).

Winnipeg, Canada: Border Crossings / Arts Manitoba, 2008. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 10 1/4" x 8". 99pp. Mild shelf wear, with some faint scuff marks to lower board. Hardcover boards with quarter cloth binding and paper over boards. The Winnipeg Alphabestiary is an exhibition catalog based on a set of 26 works originally conceived on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Winnipeg-based art publication Border Crossings. The project was a fundraiser for a magazine that has had a significant role in showcasing Winnipeg artists in addition to its focus on national and international culture. The criteria for the artist selection were straightforward: all 26 creators called Winnipeg home, whether they were currently living in the city or not, and their work had to be representational. The artists were assigned their alphabet letters randomly and asked to match their letter to an animal subject. The alphabestiary format has both a long history and a close association with children's books,… Read More

Cambridge: Academic Press, 2017. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 7 3/4". xvii, 220pp. Mild rubbing, bumps, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Sport and the Brain: The Science of Preparing, Enduring and Winning, Part A, Volume 231 reflects recent advancements in the understanding of how elite athletes prepare for and perform at peak levels during competition. The latest release in this series focuses on a variety of topics, including chapters on Great British medalists: Psychosocial biographies of Super-Elite and Elite athletes from Olympic sports, a chapter on elite and super-elite Great British athletes: Some theoretical implications from Hardy et al.'s (2016) findings, and The psychosocial development of world class athletes: Additional considerations for understanding the whole person and salience of adversity. This series takes a multidisciplinary approach, focusing on aspects of… Read More

New York: The American Foundation for the Blind, 1963. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. Second Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 316pp. Green cloth over boards with upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Mild edgewear to binding, firm and sound. Pages are clean and bright. Crease to pages 18 through 22. A solid copy of this second volume in a series of four issuing from the International Congress on Technology and Blindness, "which explores some of the fundamental parameters of sensory loss with particular attention to visual impairment--first, a tutorial guidance into the nature of sensory loss, particularly in the visual channel; second, a comprehensive review of research to date in augmenting the efectiveness of the remaining sensory channels.