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

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: Temple University Press, 1990. Hard Cover. As New/As New. This is a collection of original essays that discuss the historical, theoretical, and political issues central to the work of the British historian, socialist, and peace activist E. P. Thompson; contributors include, in addition to the editors, Geoff Eley, William Sewell,:Catherine Hall, Renato Rosaldo, Ellen Wood, Robert Gray, John Goode, Kate Soper, and Martin Shaw (black cloth with gold lettering; black pictorial dust jacket with white lettering & photo of Thompson on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment)

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987. Hard Cover. As New/As New. This is a new translation of the earliest example of the German Arthurian legend and the beginning of the golden era of Middle High German literature (1170-1240); an extensive introduction by the translator establishes EREC within its historical and cultural setting, and detailed notes to the text refer to the philological, literary, and historical scholarship on this important medieval romance (purple cloth with gold lettering; pictorial dust jacket with purple lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Hong Kong: Urban Council, 1983. Paperback. Very Good. 8 3/8" X 10. This is the catalog of an exhibition of paintings by four 19th century painters of the Lingnan School in Guangdong province at the Hong Kong Museum of Art in 1983; includes reproductions of 120 paintings by Song Guangbao, Meng Jinyi, Ju Chao, and Ju Lian; an introduction by Laurence C. S. Tam; and an essay on Ju Chao and Ju Lian by Chuang Shen; text in Chinese and English (pictorial cover with black lettering & characters, color paintings on front & back, very slight edgewear, small brown stain on upper edge of back cover and last few pages; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A: Routledge, 1998. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A collection of essays by some of the world's leading experts that provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of the Asian economic crisis, with case studies of thirteen countries, including Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore; the case studies examine each country's experience, how its government and the international community reacted, and why some countries weathered the storm better than others; other chapters analyze the causation and management of the crisis, the avoidance of future crises, and the implications for deregulatory and other economic reforms (maroon & white pictorial cover, very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, unmarked copy)

Ghent, NY, U.S.A.: Sophia Perennis, 2001. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. First published in 1924, this was the fourth in a series of books that applied traditional metaphysics to the case of pseudo-esoteric groups; it takes up the general question of East and West as conservators and transmitters of traditional wisdom in the modern age; the titles of its two parts, Western Illusions and How the Differences Might be Bridged describe its intention (brown cover with yellow lettering, faint corner crease, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A: Longman Publishers, 1994. Second Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is an updated edition of a book first published in 1983, with a new section covering the years 1975 to 1992; described by Paul Kennedy as "...a concise, balanced account of the past hundred years of British history...." this book covers all aspects of the British experience; it explores the domestic situation, including the problems of British industry, the relationship of town and country, the democratization of education, recreation, and culture, the shifting patterns of religious belief, and the changing relationships between England, Scotland, Wales, and the divided Ireland; it also explores the changing foreign role of a former great power poised between the Atlantic and European worlds, and between the memories of an imperial past and an uncertain future; the final section examines the impact of the Thatcher government on domestic politics and international affairs, including the… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Verso Books, 1987. Second Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This is one of the first efforts to propose an economic theory of the rationality governing production in a feudal system; the empirical material is taken from the history of Polish agriculture in the 16th and 17th centuries, when the Polish peasantry was subjected to the belated serfdom that developed in Eastern Europe in the later middle ages; it studies the type of economic calculation inherent in a feudal manor and its mode of adaptation to variations in harvests and markets; it reconstructs the long-term dynamic of a feudal system exemplified by the Polish grain economy, with its important export sector; includes a presentation by Fernand Braudel (cover has very slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in near fine condition)

Greenville, DE, U.S.A: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, 1965. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Proceedings of a conference to reappraise the economic impact of the Civil War, with talks followed by commentary and discussion by prominent American historians, economists, and political scientists (red cloth with gold lettering, slight foxing of edges and title page, tan dust jacket with red lettering, slight shelf and edge wear, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1977. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine/Very Good: this book compares the economic effects of public borrowing with alternative methods of financing public expenditure; the primary issue studied is how the choice of government borrowing influences the consumption-investment mix and the level of output (dark blue cloth with silver lettering; orange dust jacket with slight edgewear; otherwise, a bright, clean, tight copy)

Boston, MA, U.S.A: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Volumes I and II of Economic Theory, the author's investigation of the system of economic relations, a radical reassessment, clarification, and development of the theoretical contributions of classical political economy, particularly of Marx (black cloth with very slight edgewear, previous owner's initials on Volume I endpaper; dust jackets have slght edgewear, otherwise bright, clean, tight copies; may require extra shipping for two volumes)

Atlantic Highland, NJ, U.S.A: Humanities Press International, 1986. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. The author, an internationally recognized economist and expert in the field of resource allocation and cost-benefit analysis, examines popular economic myths and misconceptions; he undermines the common belief that economics is or can be a science, challenges the validity of such standard concepts as economic efficiency and GNP, and questions the assumption that free competitive markets can operate effectively in a rapidly-changing high-technologhy society; he reveals the processes by which innovative activity, designed to raise living standards, has begun to erode the moral and psychological foundations of a viable and libertarian civilization (green cloth with gold lettering, slight edgewear; pictorial dust jacket with slight edgewear; othewise a bright, clean, tight copy)

London, England, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1971. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. This book examines the history of economic development in Colombia in the period when the local economy became increasingly dependent on foreign trade; the author relates the experience of Colombia to international comparisons of the early phase of economic growth and offers a theoretical analysis of the process by which economic decline was transformed into a process of development (bright red cloth with gold lettering, dust jacket has minor edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Washington, DC, U.S.A.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1981. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book contains the edited proceedings of a conference that examined empirical issues relating to the effects of minimum wages; the papers present both theoretical constructs and empirical measures of minimum wage effects; they deal with the impact of minimum wages on teenagers, agricultural workers, and domestic service workers, and in Chile, Costa Rica, France, Puerto Rico, and various parts of the United States (slight edgewear, faint crease on front cover, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Cape Town, South Africa: Oxford University Press, 1954. Second Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. This book describes the economic situation (at the time) in South Africa and reviews the main problems in agriculture, industry, mining, and the Native reserves (red cloth, endpapers browned, dust jacket has tear at upper right corner, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

London, England, U.K.: Butterworth Scientific, 1982. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. This book is a survey of the political economy of U.S. - Latin American relations; the central question is how changes in the economies of Latin American countries brought about renewed conflict with the United States; the authors of these six essays contend that the politics of economic relations have attained their current prominence as a result of a shift away from the politics of the cold war and counterinsurgency: the foreign economic policies of Mexico and Venezuela are described in detail; these studies emphasize issues of investment, trade, technology transfer, energy, and foreign aid (laminated yellow paper-covered boards, card pocket on rear endpaper and stamps on bottom of title page are only library markings; otherwise, a good, clean, tight copy)

Armonk, NY, U.S.A.: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. Trade Paperback. As New. This book advocates a guaranteed income policy as a replacement for the welfare system in the United States; the author believes that this policy is the best means to provide economic justice, retain the best aspects of the market economy, and reduce government intervention in people's lives; he discusses the place of work in our economy and our lives and demonstrates how a flat tax can be combined with the guaranteed income to yield an affordable welfare system (dark green pictorial cover with white lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.: Princeton University Press, 2009. This is the first book to systematically compare the profession of economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and to explain why it,differs among these countries; based on interviews with economists, institutional analysis, and scholarly evidence, the author traces the history of economics in each country, showing how each political, cultural, and institutional context gave rise to distinct professional and institutional configurations (gray pictorial cover, very slight corner crease; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from an independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. Near Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A: St. Martin's Press, 1984. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This book is the second volume of the United Nations University's Project on Sociocultural Development Alternatives in a Changing World and includes the proceedings of the Second International Seminar held in Madrid in 1980; it includes an opening address by Anouar Abdel-Malek, a keynote address by Celso Furtado, and a series of papers divided into four sections: Changing Patterns in the World Economy (with remarks by Immanuel Wallerstein and others); The Scientific and Technological Revolution: Its Impact on Urban and Rural Societies; Social Power: The State, the Working People, and Hegemonic Classes; and Youth, Sex, and Family: The Quest for New LIfe Units (light blue cloth with gold lettering and some edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.: University Press of Virginia, 1969. This is a collection of the author's essays on Poe's writings; after a brief biography of Poe to correct the distorted image created by earlier critics, the subsequent essays concentrate on establishing that Poe was at his best as a poet and that his poetic theories were basic to all his work; inscribed by the author on the front end paper to the previous owner, a professor of American literature (blue cloth with gold lettering on the front & spine has slight creases on spine; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Inscribed By Author. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Clinton Corners, NY, U.S.A.: Percheron Press, 2003. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. First published in 1970, this is a classic study of the relations of education to employment and a critique of human capital theory; it documents an inflation in educational credentials that has no relation to many jobs requiring diplomas and degrees and no positive effect on productivity; includes a new introduction by Berg and foreword by Eli Ginzberg (green cover with yellow & white lettering, slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)