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Berkeley . 2005. University of California Press. 2nd Printing. Very Good in Wrappers. 0520240316. 236 pages. paperback. keywords: Natural History California Wild Garden. FROM THE PUBLISHER - California's Wild Gardens showcases the splendid abundance of California's native plants in their natural settings-from foggy rain forests and rolling grasslands to high alpine meadows and parched deserts. The book offers a close-up look at more than one hundred special sites in the state, highlighting their distinctive ecology, the rare and unique plants found in them, and some of their more familiar botanical treasures. With its spectacular color photographs and lively writing by some of California's best biologists and ecologists, California's Wild Gardens is the perfect introduction to the state's remarkable botanical diversity. Like the best travel guides, it will inspire its readers to further explore California's natural heritage. In addition to illuminating California's… Read More

New York. 1983. Columbia University Press. 1st American Edition. Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket with Some Small Tears. 0231055900. 205 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by J.S. Roberts. keywords: Anthropology Politics Philosophy. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Anthropological theory, from its beginnings in philosophy and linguistics, has provided Western thought and politics with deep-rooted images and convictions amounting to a kind of political cosmology. The anthropologists are ‘here and now,' the objects of their discourse are ‘there and then,' and the existence of the ‘other'-the ‘savage,' the ‘primitive,' the ‘under-developed' world-in the same time as ours is regularly denied. This is the central thesis of Johannes Fabian's TIME AND THE OTHER, a probing critique of the emergence and present shape of anthropological discourse. Fabian examines ‘uses of time' in dominant paradigms of… Read More

San Francisco. 1998. January 1998. Pince Nez Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers With French Flaps. 0964875748. Paperback Original. 126 pages. paperback. Cover design by Max Von Buchen. keywords: Poetry America Italy. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Nothing escapes the eye of the poet and visual artist, F.M. Faggi. In his first collection of poetry published in English, he delights us with wit and mischief, with sensuality and thoughtfulness. Even the most dreary, mundane aspects of life (laundry, for example) become a playground of possibility, opportunities for pranks and theatrics. In some of his most whimsical ‘tailed passages', Faggi commands the reader to become a part of the poetry, a part of the art. ‘Take your green dress (wear it) . ‘ Thus, the reader enters and helps create the rather surrealistic world of the poet where clotheslines stretch from Tuscany to San Francisco and love letters turn into kites. In none of the pieces is the artist's eye very far away -… Read More

Brooklyn. 2014. Archipelago Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. 9780914671077. Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe. 240 pages. paperback. Cover design by David Bullen. Cover art by Abidin Dino. keywords: Literature Translated Turkey . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Sait Faik Abas?yan?k was born in Adapazar? in 1906 and died in Istanbul in 1954. In twelve books of short stories, two novels, and a book of poetry, Sait Faik's prose celebrates the natural world and renders in vivid detail the struggles of his characters: ancient coffeehouse proprietors and priests, dream-addled fishermen and poets of the Princes' Isles, lovers and wandering minstrels of another time. Many stories are loosely autobiographically and deal with Sait Faik's frustration with social convention, the relentless pace of westernization, and the slow yet steady ethnic cleansing of his city. Seemingly in keeping with the restrictions that the new Republic placed on language… Read More

Pittsburgh. 2016. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1st American Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780822964025. History of the Urban Environment. 280 pages. paperback. Cover photograph: (top) Detail from photograph of mulleins and child about one mile south of Chicago's Jackson Park in the early 1900s, (bottom) Verbascum in Brooklyn, 2005, photograph by Zachary J. S. Falck. Cover design: Ann Walston. keywords: Environmental History Urban Studues. FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘Falck's insights offer a singular contribution to a field that began forty years ago by interrogating the formation of the conservation movement and its wild and monumental artifacts - the national forests and parks - as emblems of the American claim to be nature's nation.' - American Historical Review. Zachary J. S. Falck presents a comprehensive history of ‘happenstance plants' in American urban environments. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and continuing to the present, he examines the… Read More

Tribeca. 2018. September 2018. Four Way Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781945588174. 6 x 9. 66 pages. paperback . keywords: poetry . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Engaging the past and present, these poems attempt to reconcile loss and longing while also seeking to understand our own impermanence. Written in a plain-spoken voice, they are meditative, elegiac and tender. . Falconer's poems are sparse, beautiful, and breathtaking . Victoria Chang . These arresting poems move with the complex currents of familial relationships, the strains of joy, love, and loss . An exquisite collection! Rigoberto González. inventory #43953 ISBN: 9781945588174.

Lincoln. 1988. University Of Nebraska Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0803219741. Translated from the Norwegian by Sverre Lyngstad. 246 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Norway Scandinavia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Set in Oslo, Norway, Adam's Diary (Adams Dagbok) transcends geographical boundaries in its depiction of lovers victimized by social roles and sexual stereotypes. It was recognized as a major novel on publication in Norway in 1978, and its translation into English will raise Knut Faldbakken to the rank of world-class writer. The modern Adam is a composite of Thief, ‘Dog,' and Prisoner. These are the personas of the three male narrators who love, fear, and hate the same woman, a divorcee who waits tables in a restaurant. The thief is her lover, afraid of any commitment; the ‘dog' is an abandoned summer sweetheart, reduced to a shadow of his former self, and the prisoner is her former husband, thoroughly average in his machismo. For… Read More

Lincoln. 1988. University Of Nebraska Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket W/A Few Tears & A One Small Hole. 0803219741. Translated from the Norwegian by Sverre Lyngstad. 246 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Norway Scandinavia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Set in Oslo, Norway, Adam's Diary (Adams Dagbok) transcends geographical boundaries in its depiction of lovers victimized by social roles and sexual stereotypes. It was recognized as a major novel on publication in Norway in 1978, and its translation into English will raise Knut Faldbakken to the rank of world-class writer. The modern Adam is a composite of Thief, ‘Dog,' and Prisoner. These are the personas of the three male narrators who love, fear, and hate the same woman, a divorcee who waits tables in a restaurant. The thief is her lover, afraid of any commitment; the ‘dog' is an abandoned summer sweetheart, reduced to a shadow of his former self, and the prisoner is her former… Read More

New York. 1984. November 1984. Holt Rinehart Winston. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0030436265. 500 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Irving Freeman. Jacket front photo: Emma Goldman at the age of seventeen. keywords: Biography Politics Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In 1927, Emma Goldman - free love advocate, birth control pioneer, and anarchist - began her autobiography, she kept hidden a part of her life that she feared would destroy her as a public figure. What she would not reveal was the true story of her passionate, anguished romance with Dr. Ben Reitman, a flamboyant Chicago gynecologist known for his work among hobos and the destitute. For ten tempestuous years (from 1908 to 1917) Reitman had been lover, public relations man, and political soulmate to Goldman. During their frequent absences from each other, Emma had written hundreds of letters to Reitman in which she held back none of her feelings - political, emotional, sexual - and he responded in kind. Goldman knew that… Read More

Lebanon. 2017. ForeEdge/University Press of New England. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9781611689716. 232 paages. hardcover. keywords: Birds Vultures. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Turkey vultures, the most widely distributed and abundant scavenging birds of prey on the planet, are found from central Canada to the southern tip of Argentina, and nearly everywhere in between. In the United States we sometimes call them buzzards; in parts of Mexico the name is aura cabecirroja, in Uruguay jote cabeza colorada, and in Ecuador gallinazo aura. A huge bird, the turkey vulture is a familiar sight from culture to culture, in both hemispheres. But despite being ubiquitous and recognizable, the turkey vulture has never had a book of literary nonfiction devoted to it?until Vulture. Floating on six-foot wings, turkey vultures use their keen senses of smell and sight to locate carrion. Unlike their cousin the black vulture, turkey vultures do not kill weak or dying animals; instead, they cleanse, purify,… Read More

New York. 2011. January 2011. Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780399157202. 227 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Lisa Amoroso. keywords: Literature America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Reminiscent of Raymond Carver and Tim O'Brien, an unforgettable collection of intercollected short stories. In Fort Hood housing, like all army housing, you get used to hearing through the walls. You learn too much. And you learn to move quietly through your own small domain. You also know when the men are gone. No more boots stomping above, no more football games turned up too high, and, best of all, no more front doors slamming before dawn as they trudge out for their early formation, sneakers on metal stairs, cars starting, shouts to the windows above to throw them down their gloves on cold desert mornings. Babies still cry, telephones ring, Saturday morning cartoons screech, but without the men, there is a sense of muted silence, a sense of muted life. There is an army… Read More

New York. 1996. January 1996. Pantheon Books. 1st American Edition. Some Very Slight Discoloration To Gutter Area Of Rear Endpapers,Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket . 067944209x. 296 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Mirko Ilic. keywords: Media Politics History America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Why do Americans mistrust the news media? It may be because show like ‘The McLaughlin Group' reduce participating journalists to so many shouting heads. Or because, increasingly, the profession treats issues as complex as health-care reform and foreign policy as exercises in political gamesmanship. These are just a few of the arguments that have made Breaking the News so controversial and so widely acclaimed. Drawing on his own experience as a National Book Award-winning journalist--and on the gaffes of colleagues from George Will to Cokie Roberts--Fallows shows why the media have not only lost our respect but alienated us from our public life. inventory #22902 ISBN: 067944209x.

New York. 1987. September 1987. Pantheon Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0394563255. 247 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Mike Yamashita. keywords: Literature Africa Somalia. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In this novel, Farah tells the story of the orphan Askar. Before he is born, Askar has lost his father to the bloody war dividing Somalia and Ethiopia, and his mother dies giving birth to him. It is only thanks to Misra, a kindhearted woman who discovers him next to his mother's corpse and takes him into her home, that he survives. But Askar is a true child of his times, and as he matures he begins to feel suffocated by life in Misra's small village. As a young adolescent seeking perspective on both his country and himself, Askar goes to live with his cosmopolitan aunt and uncle in the capital, Mogadiscio. ‘It is a turbulent and dangerous time in Mogadiscio, as Somalis struggle to re-create a national identity that has been destroyed by the upheavals of… Read More

London. 1983. Allison & Busby. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0850314755. 208 pages. hardcover. Cover: Illustration by Stuart Jane. Designed by Mick Keates. keywords: Literature Somalia Africa . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Did he, Deeriye, know what he would do if his son were hurt or caught planting a bomb? Would he, Deeriye, seek vengeance, would he kill? lie was surprised to hear his own answer . Like the wise old man in many folk tales, Deeriye is a key element in the increasingly bizarre intrigue that develops in Nuruddiri Farah's inspired new novel. The setting is today's Somalia, and in the capital city of Mogadiscio is a mood of fear, of threatened violence, nighttime disappearances and widespread distrust - unmistakable marks of the police state. A lifelong fighter for the nationalist cause, Deeriye is now simply an asthmatic patriarch, staying alternately with his married son and daughter. His present predicament - dependent for his well-being on family, neighbours and friends,… Read More

London . 2007. January 2007. British Film Institute. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 1844571394. 95 pages. paperback. keywords: Film Studies. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Set in ‘a world before Elvis, in a Liverpool before the Beatles', Terence Davies' film Distant Voices, Still Lives is an elegiac and intensely autobiographical meditation on a post-War working-class childhood. Paul Farley's study of the film is both a personal response, as a Liverpudlian and as a poet, and an exploration of Davies's unique visual style, blending the spaces - the ‘short halls, stairways, coal cellars and meter cupboards of northern England' - and sounds - the BBC shipping forecast, a pub sing-a-long, the strains of Vaughan Williams and Britten - of memory. inventory #35949 ISBN: 1844571394.

New York. 2007. Atheneum. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9781416907350. 496 pages. hardcover. keywords: Young Adult. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Jack is amazed to have caused an earthquake. He is thirteen, after all, and only a bard-in-training. But his sister, Lucy, has been stolen by the Lady of the Lake; stolen a second time in her young life, as he learns to his terror. Caught between belief in the old gods and Christianity (790 AD, Britain), Jack calls upon his ash wood staff to subdue a passel of unruly monks, and, for his daring, ends up in a knucker hole. It is unforgettable -- for the boy and for readers -- as are the magical reappearance of the berserker Thorgil from a burial by moss; new characters Pega, a slave girl from Jack's village, and the eager-to-marry-her Bugaboo (a hobgoblin king); kelpies; yarthkins; and elves (not the enchanted sprites one would expect but the fallen angels of legend). Rarely does a sequel enlarge so brilliantly the world of the first story. Look… Read More

New York. 2009. Atheneum. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 9781416907374. 479 pages. hardcover. keywords: Young Adult. FROM THE PUBLISHER - It begins with a vicious tornado. (Odin on a Wild Hunt, as the young berserker Thorgil sees it.) The fields of Jack s home village are devastated, the winter ahead looks bleak, and a monster a draugr has invaded the forest outside of town. Soon, Jack, Thorgil, and the Bard are off to right the wrong of a death caused by Father Severus. Their destination is Notland, realm of the fin folk, though they will face plenty of challenges and enemies before get they get there. Impeccably researched and blending the lore of Christian, Pagan, and Norse traditions, this expertly woven tale is beguilingly suspenseful and, ultimately, a testament to love. inventory #47090 ISBN: 9781416907374.

Berkeley. 2010. April 2010. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520257139. 680 pages. paperback. keywords: Global Health Global Anthropology Medical Anthropology. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This reader of Paul Farmer's most important work is organized thematically, with a foreword by the Pulitzer-Prize winner, Tracy Kidder, author of the best-seller Paul Farmer biography Mountains Beyond Mountains, a powerful introduction by Haun Saussy (Yale), and a probing interview between Farmer and Haun. The book provides a broad overview of Paul's intellectual, medical and human rights work over the last two-and-a-half decades and traces the development of many intertwined themes in Farmer's work and thinking on AIDs, drug-resistant TB, preferential rights of the poor, structural violence, and human dignity. inventory #37620 ISBN: 9780520257139.

Berkeley. 2013. April 2013. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780520275973. Edited by Jonathan L. Weigel. Foreword by President Bill Clinton. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4. 15 b/w photos. 240 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Nicole Hayward. keywords: Global Health Medical Anthropology Social Problems . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Make this long hoped-for tidal wave of justice wash away some of the world's problems, wash clean the wounds, and nourish the planet. from To Repair The World Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health equity and social justice, Farmer encourages young people to tackle the greatest challenges of our times. Engaging, often humorous, and always inspiring, these speeches bring to light the brilliance and force of Farmer's vision in a single, accessible volume. A must-read for graduates, students, and… Read More

Columbia. 1991. University Of Missouri Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0826207774. 297 pages. hardcover. keywords: History Biography China Travel. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This book follows Edgar Snow's travels through Southeast Asia in the early 1930s taking a look at both the personal and professional maturation of this important 20th century journalist. Edgar Snow (17 July 1905 in Kansas City, Missouri - 15 February 1972 in Geneva) was an American journalist known for his books and articles on Communism in China and the Chinese Communist revolution. He is believed to be the first Western journalist to interview Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong, and is best known for RED STAR OVER CHINA (1937) an account of the Chinese Communist movement from its foundation until the late 1930s. inventory #32495 ISBN: 0826207774.