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

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Plume, 1993. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Inscribed By Author. A novel by the Nigerian writer, signed on the half-title page (black & white pictorial cover with green endpapers; faint corner crease, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1989. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A collection of essays, originally published in the journal Economy and Society, reflecting the French influence on literary theory; it contains essays on the fiction of Perault, Borges, James, Eco, and Tournier, complemented by theoretical essays on power and representation that provide critiques of Barthes, Derrida, Deleuze, Marin, and Derrida (white cover with black lettering, slight edge and shelf wear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Hard Cover. As New/Near Fine. This is a study of Swedish politics over the past 100 years that uses rational choice theory to analyze a number of the most important controversies, beginning with the tariff dispute of the 1880s that led to the modern party system; it also examines conflicts on suffrage reform and the introduction of parliamentary government, the crisis program of the 1930s which laid the basis for the Swedish welfare state, and postwar political battles on economic planning and the pension system; it concludes with more recent controversies on nuclear energy and employee investment funds (black cloth with gold lettering; white dust jacket with blue & yellow bands has a few slight creases; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bergin & Garvey, 1990. This book examines the meaning of work in American society; it places ideas about work in their historical and cultural contexts (white cover with red & blue lettering, slight edgewear and sunning along edges, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.: Princeton University Press, 1970. Third Printing. Very Good/No Jacket. This is a study of the working of dominant poetic images or master tropes in Antigone that attempts to illuminate the role of Sophocles' poetry in his drama; it examines six groups of recurrent images, forming patterns or sequences, which serve to arouse and establish connections of thought, emotion, and judgment in each part of the play (gray cloth with gold lettering on black spine label; spine & edges are slightly sunned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Quebec, Canada: Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, 2006. Trade Paperback. As New. Translated from Italian into French (Worldviews and Global Society: Great Interpretations and Current Debates); the author is a Professor of Sociology at l'Universite de Roma Tre whose research focuses on theories of society, processes of globalization, the construction of the European Union, its formation and its identity as an actor in the global society (orange & black pictorial cover with black & white lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Stanford, CA, U.S.A.: Hoover Institution Press, 1979. This is a signed copy of an ethnography of the British colonial service that examines the district officers in Ghana during the period between the world wars, their individual backgrounds, their collective value system, and their behavior patterns; this is the author's own copy of her first book, signed on the front end paper (dark green cloth with gold lettering on front & spine; very slight edge wear; otherwise a bright,, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A: National Planning Association, 1975. Paperback. Good. 7 " X 10. This volume embodies the results of two research projects which the author conducted at the National Planning Association during the previous seven years: the National Priorities Study and the Goals Accounting Study; the primary objective of this work is to develop an analytical system for understanding changes in the quality of life; the secondary objective is to attempt some empirical estimates within the framework of this system; Part I, Systematic Analysis of Multiple Values; Part II, Estimates for Single Goals (multicolored cover, slightly rubbed, slight wear along edges of cover and spine, library stamps, labels & stickers, but no card pocket; overall, a good, clean, tight copy; this book will not be drop-shipped)

Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. This is a selection of the prize-winning poet's best work and spans his entire career; it restores to print over fifty poems unavailable for decades and adds more than two dozen new poems collected for the first time; signed by the author on the title page (light yellow & gray cover; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from an independent bookstore). Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. As New.

Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A: University of Michigan Press, 1999. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Aparicio, Eduardo. An analysis of Cuban exile politics based on interviews with political actors in Miami and in Cuba, reviews of government documents, and the author's personal involvement in various political movements; includes a series of black & white photographs, Between Miami and Havana, by Eduardo Aparicio (red cloth with gold lettering, previous owner's stamp on front free endpaper, one corner very slightly bumped, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Aldine Publishing Company, 1973. This book is the outcome of a project conducted at New York University and supported by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to produce academic research on social policy questions with particular emphasis on the infomation needs of government policy-makers; six of the studies were selected and rewritten for this book to illustrate the scope and method of social research, especially in relation to the crucial issues of health, education, and welfare; these studies are significant not only for their findings related to planning and incentives but also as exemplars of the direction of social policy analysis (light blue textured cloth with gold lettering, very slight edgewear; white dust jacket with red & blue lettering, faded spine, slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Whitestone, NY, U.S.A.: Griffin House Publications, 1979. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is the fourth volume in the Council on National Literature's annual series, Review of National Literatures; it includes articles on the literatures and languages of India, with assessments of major authors, trends, and historical-literary movements; contributors include Anne Paolucci, P.S. Guptara, Kalyan Chatterjee, Alistair Niven, William Walsh, Henry Paolucci, Vasant Shahane, P. Lal, Ronald Warwick, Richard Clark (cover is slightly rubbed, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: University of Chicago Press, 1977. An examination of the nature of 19th century American mass voting behavior showing that substantial variation in party support followed lines of cleavage among classes, occupational groups, and places of residence (blue cloth with silver lettering, blue pictorial dust jacket with white lettering slightly rubbed along edges; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 1992. Hard Cover. As New/As New. This is a study of methodological individualism, the view in social science that all social phenomena must be accounted for in terms of what individuals think, choose, and do; the author, a Professor of Philosophy at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, challenges the assertion that methodological individualism is obviously true but trivial and attempts to revive the debate between individualists and non-individualists; he argues that once the individualist assumptions are challenged, the way is clear for a rehabilitation of non-individualist methodology which permits an independent study of social contexts, and a contextual study of the beliefs and actions of individuals (black cloth with gold lettering; publisher's review copy slip afixed to front endpaper; black & green dust jacket with white lettering and red stripes is enclosed in clear mylar cover; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: MIT Press, 1990. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. This book is a history of the interaction between the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) and the British computer industry and a case study in the implementation of public innovation; in Britain in the late 1940s, the NRDC was charged with assisting in commercial development of new technologies; this book examines the failure of the NRDC 's effort to establish a British computer industry able to compete internationally and the consequences and implications of this failure (black cloth with red lettering on spine; green dust jacket with black lettering, slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

U.S.A.: Harbor Press, 1955. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This is a three-volume reprint of a work originally published in 1887, a complete history of the Inquisition in the period prior to the Reformation; the author contends that the Inquisition was a natural, perhaps inevitable, evolution of the forces at work in the 13th century, and so has included a review of nearly all the spiritual and intellectual movements and some of the social conditions of the Middle Ages; Book I: Origin and Organization of the Inquisition; Book II: The Inquisition in the Several Lands of Christiandom; Book III: Special Fields of Inquisitorial Activity; tan cloth with bright red lettering, pages very lightly tanned, gift inscription on front endpaper of first volume; otherwise these are good, clean, tight copies (shipping other than media mail may require extra cost)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1990. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This a collection of ethnographic studies and theoretical perspectives on the intersection of television and family life in America, China, and other world cultures (black cover with green & white lettering has slight shelfwear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; text is unmarked)

Hicksville, NY, U.S.A.: Exposition Press, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. This book, by the Nigerian critic and scholar, formerly Dean of Arts at the University of Lagos, is a critical study of Joyce's Stephen Hero, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses which contends that the significance of these works must be sought in the inner lives of Joyce's characters; this study concentrates on how Joyce delves into the consciousness of his characters and explores their intimate emotions (dark blue textured cloth with bright gold lettering, pages slightly tanned; dark blue price-clipped dust jacket is slightly rubbed with creases and small tears along edges)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: New York University Press, 1991. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is a collection of essays on international economic history, originally delivered as papers at a symposium in Berlin in 1988 in honor of Wolfram Fischer, an economic historian at the University of Berlin; these essays, both theoretical and empirical, by leading specialists from Europe and the United States, explore the interactions within the world economy generated by the flow of goods and capital between countries and continents; frontispiece portrait of Wolfram Fischer (blue & red cover with white lettering has edgewear & corner crease; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Lewiston, NY, U.S.A: C. J. Hogrefe, 1984. Hard Cover. Very Good. A collection of articles by American, British, and European scholars on the nature of relations among generations and the consequences of these relations for the community and its members, grouped into four sections: Intergenerational Relationships in the Process of Civilization, Multi-Generational Family, Distance and Alienation in Different Life Worlds, The Generation Concept and Tendencies in Research (white paper-covered boards with green stripes and lettering, slight edgewear, upper right front corner bumped with small tear in paper, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)