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

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Trade Paperback. Very Good. The seventh volume of the Cambridge Economic History of Europe, in two parts, is the second of a group of three to cover the economic history of the Western world during and since the Industrial Revolution; the main theme of this volume is the role played in the growth of the industrial economies by the factors of production: capital, labor, and enterprise; separate chapters study each of these factors for the principal economies: Britain, France, Germany, and Scandinavia; Part 2, which covers the United States, Japan, and Russia, is also available separately (red & black cover with white lettering has very slight edgewear, pages very slightly tanned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; a large, heavy volume)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This collection of specially commissioned essays provides a critical introduction to Melville's work, with analyses of his major writings, including all of his novels as well as most of his poetry and short fiction; includes an introduction by the editor, afterword by Andrew Delbanco, chronology of Melville's life, and bibliography (pictorial cover has slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Trade Paperback. Very Good. The seventh volume of the Cambridge Economic History of Europe, in two parts, is the second of a group of three to cover the economic history of the Western world during and since the Industrial Revolution; the main theme of this volume is the role played in the growth of the industrial economies by the factors of production: capital, labor, and enterprise; separate chapters study each of these factors for the principal economies: the United States, Japan, and Russia; Part 1, which covers Britain, France, Germany, and Scandinavia, is also available separately (red & black cover with white lettering has very slight edgewear, pages very slightly tanned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; a large, heavy volume)

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)

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Pearson Education, 2011. Ninth Edition. Paperback. As New. 9 " X 11. This is a custom edition prepared by the publisher for the University of Pennsylvania from the ninth edition of the biology textbook Campbell Biology; it includes chapters 14-15 & 21-26 (white pictorial cover; text is completely unmarked; a bright, clean, tight copy in excellent condition; a large, heavy volume which can only be shipped by media mail)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1977. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is a historical study of the relationship between the labor movement and the socialist party in Canada, as it developed after the birth of modern industrial unionism; the first chapter is a theoretical introduction that attempts to account for the relative strength of socialism in Canada as contrasted with the United States (tan cover with black lettering, slight corner wear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Stads- Och Kommunhistoriska Institutet, 2000. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This volume consists of papers presented at a conference, Capital Cities and Their Cultural Identities, organized by the the Institute of Urban History at Stockholm University in 1998; the purpose of the conference was to compare urban historical experiences from different European cities, including Amsterdam, Glasgow, Warsaw, Vienna, Budapest, Helsinki, Oslo, and Stockholm; the authors include Michael Wagenaar, W. Hamish Fraser, Tomas Kizwalter, Sylvia Hahn, Vera Backsai, Marjatta Hietala, Jan Eivind Myhre, Lars Nilsson, with commentary by Henrik van Dijk and Hakan Forsell (purple cover has very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Stanford, CA, U.S.A.: Stanford University Press, 1980. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. This is a collection of twelve essays on the sources of U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America from a conference at the Smithsonian Institution in 1978; Part I deals with general aspects of U.S. foreign policy, Part II includes case studies of relations between individual Latin American countries and the United States or international institutions dominated by the United States; contributors include Cynthia Arnson, Angela Delli Sante, Peter Evans, Richard Fagen, Roberto Frenkel, Ira Katznelson, Michael Klare, Anthony Maingot, Henry Nau, Guillermo O'Donnell, Oscar Pino-Santos, Kenneth Prewitt, Earl Ravenal, Jerry Sanders, Barbara Stallings, Steven Volk, Alan Wolf (brown cloth with faded gold lettering on spine; brown & green dust jacket with white lettering is rubbed on the front with minor edgewear; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy with no external or internal markings)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 2003. This book is about the poverty of popular political engagement in the richest countries, which it argues is the direct result of the system that has created their material wealth: capitalism; the author examines the work of political and social theorists, including Marx, Freud, Arendt, Elias, Habermas, and Castells in order to provide a historical analysis of the different aspects of capitalism which have created the current situation of social and political poverty (white pictorial cover; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. As New.

Roma, Italia: L'Erma di Bretschneide, 2007. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 7" X 9 3/4. This book was the author's doctorial thesis at the University of Rome and won the Erminia Bretschneider Award for the History of Art; text in Italian with many color and black & white reproductions (dark red textured cloth; black dust jacket with paintings by Caravaggio, Carracci, and Reni on the front & back covers, small edge tear & crease on back; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment; a very large, heavy volume that can only be shipped by media mail)

St. Leonards, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1991. Trade Paperback. As New. This collection of essays is an experiment in the mapping of social experience; it begins with a critique of the conservatism of some post-structural interventions into theories of representation in Anglo-American scholarship; the second part explores the ways in which the production of bodies take effect materially; the third part explores the unacknowledged effects of the representation of sexual difference (white pictorial cover with black & red lettering)

Grossman Publishers, 1971. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A collection of essays that explore the historical roots of participatory democracy in Western culture and analyze its application to the problems of modern society, and the possible forms it might take on every level of society in the United States, from the workplace to the community to the nation at large; it also describes and evaluates existing participatory societies, including the Israeli Kibbutzim and Yugoslavia (blue cloth with white & black lettering, one corner slightly bumped; white & blue dust jacket with very slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Johannesburg, South Africa: Ravan Press, 1985. This book analyzes the nature of work and worker resistance in the metal industry of South Africa; asserting that most studies of the labor process have neglected worker resistance, it describes two forms of resistance that have been important in the history of South Africa's foundaries, and then analyzes the interplay between the transformation of the labor process and the crisis in the system of racial capitalism to show how worker organizations have begun to develop a working class politics; includes photographs (red pictorial cover has very slight edge wear, pages are tanned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Bombay, India: Asia Publishing House, 1969. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. This book brings together the author's essays on social stratification in India, written between 1964 and 1966 and concerned primarily with problems of status and power; it discusses the changing positions of the Harijans and Adivasis, the middle classes, and certain sections of the Indian elite; the author was a sociologist at the University of Delhi (black cloth with gold lettering, pages slightly tanned, previous owner's name on front endpaper; brown & tan dust jacket is shelfworn with small edge tears and chips at ends of spine and folds, otherwise intact)

Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.: Franklin Printing and Publishing Company, 1894. This is a compendium of condensed articles from dental journals of six different nations that is, according to the editor, "...a necessity for every active progressive dentist, to enable him to keep fully abreast with the dental profession"; includes a list of dental journals from around the world and books and pamphlets pertaining to dentistry, as well as advertisements for dental schools and dentistry products; this book is from the personal library of Hermann Prinz, Professor of Dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania and auhor of many book on dentistry (black cloth with slightly faded gold lettering on spine, worn on corners and spine ends; previus owner's name & date stamp on title page; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy). Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Canberra, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2007. This is the first comprehensive history of modern Australian social anthropology that examines the forces that shaped and framed the formation of a distinctive anthropological practice; it reveals the struggle to establish and consolidate anthropology as an academic discipline in Australia, which required anthropologists to demonstrate that their discipline was the predominant interpreter of indigenous life; it considers the ways that the new discipline controlled the development of knowledge about colonized peoples that could be used by colonial administrators to manage, control, and advance the indigenous population (black pictorial cover with photo on the front, spine has slight reading crease; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment). Trade Paperback. Near Fine.

U.S.A.: Random House, 1974. This is the second printing of this book of poetry by the former poet leaureat of the United States; inscribed to his colleague at the University of Pennsylvania, Robert Lucid, and dated March, 1974 (black cloth with very slightly faded, but still bight & legible, gold lettering on spine; otherwise a clean, tight copy). Inscribed By Author. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. This is the author's second collection of poetry that explores the patterns of everyday life and the inner drama of imagination; signed by the author on the title page and inscribed to the poet Joan Landis on the half-title page (white pictorial cover; a bright, clean, tight copy). Signed by Author. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: International Publishers, 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Michael Gold's columns originally published in the Daily Worker, the New Masses, and Anvil, with forward by Robert Forsythe (tan cover with silver letters, corners slightly bumped, back cover has light and dark patches, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

London, England, U.K.: Pluto Press, 1998. This book traces the course of black and anti-racist politics in Britain since the 1940s, providing an historical perspective on black political organization; the author questions contemporary political and academic orthodoxy and provides a radical critique of current black politics (white & orange cover with orange & black lettering, photos on the front; in nearly perfect condition except for small crease at end of spine). Trade Paperback. Near Fine.