Search Results: Titles starting with B from House of Our Own Books

London, England, U.K.: Pandora Press, 1989. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is a study of the lives of women in Britain during the inter-war years, a history which examines all classes of women and their private as well as public lives of work and politics; chapters include images of women, education, employment, home and health, leisure, and politics and issues; includes period photographs (pictorial cover with very slight edgewear, pages tanned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Jamestown Foundation, 1976. Paperback. Very Good. In 17th century colonial Virginia, Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion against the governor, Sir William Berkeley; this volume is neither a narrative study of the rebellion nor a biography of either Bacon or Berkeley; it is a collection of abstracts of manuscripts microfilmed by the Virginia Colonial Records Project; materials are arranged according to repository and by manuscript numbers assigned by each archive (tan card cover with drawing of the arms of the colony of Virginia on the front; previous owner's name along upper edge of front cover; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Gustav Fischer, 1992. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. This volume contains the contributions presented at the 5th European Workshop on Bacterial Protein Toxins; it includes workshops dealing with progress in the field of clostridial toxins, ADP-ribosylating toxins, pertussis toxin, diphtheria toxin, cholera-related enterotoxins and several membrane damaging toxins; it also includes contributiions from a session on immunology and on applications which illustrate the potential of vaccine design, as well as four plenary lectures only peripherally related to protein toxins: the evolution of toxin research, the multicellular nature of bacterial action, the uses of modern microscopic techniques in studying living bacteria and target cells, and the latest insights in the function of the major histocompatibility complex; includes 129 figures and 29 tables; printed in Germany, all articles are in English; German ISBN: 3437114212 (red cloth with black lettering, slightly bumped corners;… Read More

San Diego, CA, U.S.A.: Academic Press, 1991. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. This volume contains articles which provide an overview of the state of bacterial genetics; the first section includes articles on the genetic methods available in Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium; the second section reviews the genetic systems available in other bacteria (dark green cloth with gold lettering on front and spine, ends of spine slightly creased, previous owner's name on front endpaper; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Gustav Fischer, 1994. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. This volume reports the proceedings of the 6th European Workshop on Bacterial Protein Toxins; it reports advances made in reasearch areas, including novel toxins, regulation of toxin expression, export and assembly of toxins, structural basis of toxin function, membrane-damaging toxins, intracelluar activities, toxins in biotechnology and therapy, and immunology of toxins and vaccine development; also includes three keynote lectures on topics related to toxin research; includes118 figures and 37 tables; printed in Germany, all articles are in English; German ISBN: 34371156359 (orange laminated cloth with black lettering, slight crease on spine; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; supplments 17, 19, and 23 also available)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Gustav Fischer, 1991. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. This volume contains the contributions presented at the 4th European Workshop on Bacterial Protein Toxins and covers various aspects such as their molecular architecture, binding and internalization, mechanisms of cell intoxication, regulation of toxin expression, the role of toxins in pathogenicity, applications of toxins in medicine and agriculture, and the interaction of toxins with the immune system; it also documents the rapid rate of increase of knowledge in the field of microbial toxinology; includes 150 figures and 65 tables; printed in Germany, all articles are in English; German ISBN: 3437113089 (red cloth with black lettering, corner very slightly bumped; orange laminated dust jacket with very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; supplements 17, 23, and 24 also available)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Gustav Fischer, 1988. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. This volume contains the contributions presented at the 3rd European Workshop on Bacterial Protein Toxins and covers major aspects such as their structure, mode of action, interaction with cell receptors and membranes, synthesis, regulation, secretion, internalization, and pathogenicity; it also encompasses aspects of applied toxicology in the fields of medicine and agriculture through the use of either native or modified toxins; includes131 figures and 31 tables; printed in Germany, all articles are in English; German ISBN: 3437111736 (red cloth with black lettering, very slightly bumped corner; orange laminated dust jacket with black lettering, slightly scuffed corner; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; supplements 19, 24, and 24 also available)

The Hague, Netherlands: W. Van Hoeve Publishers, 1969. This book includes articles by scholars of Balinese studies, originally published in Dutch, and is a supplement to and continuation of a previous volume, Bali: Studies in Life, Thought, and Ritual; the first six articles deal with aspects of traditional Balineses culture, the last two with cultural changes (red cloth with gold lettering; map of Bali on front end papers; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket.

Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.: Westview Press, 1998. Trade Paperback. As New. This book is a social, political, and economic history of the region that became the independent nation of Bangladesh in 1971; it traces the development of national identity in the region, first as part of India and then of Pakistan, and the slow evolution toward statehood; it also explores the formative period of Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, and British government that preceded Pakistani rule and subsequent independence

CreateSpace, 2011. Trade Paperback. Very Good. The book was written to persaude the public to support the retention of the Barnes art collection, one of the world's great modern art collections, in its orginal building on the estate of its founder, Albert Barnes; the text is organized as a walking tour of the galleries and describes the paintings and their setting in detail; inscribed by the author on the title page (beautiful pictorial cover, slight edge wear and corner creases; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Japan: Bonjinsha Co., 2009. This is the second volume of a textbook for learning Kanji, the Chinese characters used in the modern Japanese writing system; it includes about 250 Kanji in 23 lessons, numbers 23 to 45 (green cover with white & black lettering, slight corner wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. Very Good. 7 1/8" X 10 1/8".

Hague, Netherlands: Mouton, 1967. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. This book was written for people without specialized training who become involved with regional planning in developing countries; it seeks to make clear the kind of thinking necessary in regional planning, the role of research, the problems of securing and examining evidence, and the time element; successive chapters examine universal problems such as population growth, urbanization, industrial change, and the evolution of transport; the final section discusses the form of the plan and its presentation (light green cloth with gold lettering on dark green background, prevous owner's name on front endpaper, slight edgewear; blue & gray dust jacket with a few small tears along edges; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

East Haven, CT, U.S.A: Pluto Press, 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good. The central purpose of this book is to arrive at a critical view of the conventional state of thought on art and aesthetics; the central argument is that art is not a quality but a category, and that aesthetics is not primarily about art, contrary to the orthodox philosophical presumption (cover has slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.: Scolar Press, 1983. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A biography of the English composer and an analysis of his music; includes a foreword by Felix Aprahamian, catalogs of Bax's writings and compositions, discography, bibliography, and photographs (orange cloth with gold lettering, slight edgewear; brown dust jacket with orange lettering, photo of Bax and Harriet Cohen on front cover, spine sunned, a few small tears and chips along edges; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Easthampton, MA, U.S.A.: Adastra Press, 1999. This is the third printing of a collection of poems written between 1970 and 1993 and includes poems from previous collections, uncollected poems (1988-1992), and new poems (1993-1997); the poet Stephen Dunn calls this book "a moving record of how Vietnam hurt him into poetry, and into a moral vision;" inscribed, signed, and dated on the title page (plain tan cover with yellow lettering, author's photo on the back, has slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Inscribed By Author. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. Trade Paperback. As New. This book examines the stigmatization of children who deviate from acceptable American standards of physical appearance; using theory and methodology from sociology, anthropology, and psychology as well as her own extensive interviews with children and their caretakers, the author analyzses both the effects of this stigmatization on children and the strategies they use to cope with it

New York, NY, U.S.A: Praeger Publishers, 1985. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. This study examines the economy of Taiwan in terms of a series of questions: how does a small nation lacking natural resources manage to develop its economy rapidly, how can it continue its high rate of economic development when its labor force is no longer inexpensive, what are the comparative advantages to be exploited, how do the country's policy makers and the active members of the private sector view the situation (green cloth with gold lettering on black background, very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1993. This is a collection of essays that explore the development of British anthropology in the period 1880 to 1920 when it involved not just the study of custom but also included archaeology, physical anthropology, and philology; they reveal how the emergence of new approaches of the 1920s and 1930s and the triumph of social anthropology involved a narrowing of the field (brown laminated pictorial cover; a bright, clean, tight, unmarked copy in nearly perfect condtion except for a small dent on the upper edge of the front cover; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London, England, U.K.: Lund Humphries, 1975. Fourth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This is the 4th revised edition of a dictionary first published in 1947; in this edition pinyin-values have been added to the headings at the top of the pages and a Page Index of Main Entries in Hanyu-Pinyin and Gwoyeu-Romatzyh has been included (black cloth with bright gold lettering, very slight shelfwear, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. This book explores recent discoveries of remarkable developmental transformations in the adolescent brain that have revolutionized our understanding of adolescent behavior (black covers with silver lettering on spine & black pictorial dust jacket; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from an independent bookstore). Hard Cover. As New/As New.