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

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1992. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This volume is derived from a conference organized by Lancaster University's Centre for the Study of Cultural Values to examine the moral significance of the enterprise culture; contributors from various academic disciplines discuss the moral significance of attempts to implement the program of cultural reform associated with the revival of capitalist production, increase in individual freedom, and restoration of individual responsibility that has been adopted by all three major political parties in Britain (black cover with white and yellow lettering, a bright, clean, tight copy)

Lewiston, NY, U.S.A.: Mellen Poetry Press, 1991. Inscribed and dated by author on first blank page; previously published in Italian as Il carro del pesce di Vanzetti (blue textured paper covers with gold lettering, slight edgewear, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy; also available in Italian-language edition). Inscribed By Author. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.: University Press of Florida, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is a study of the efforts of Muslim women to resist the oppressive rule of Islamic fundamentalism as they become better educated and more aware of the larger world and of their basic human rights; includes photographs (yellow textured cloth with black lettering on spine; red & orange dust jacket with author's paintings on the front & back; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment)

U.S.A.: Veritas Prep, 2013. Paperback. Very Good. 8 1/2" x 11. This test preparation book for the Graduate Management Admissions Test is focused on statistics, combinatorics, and probability and contains hundreds of sample problems (dark blue cover with white & black lettering, a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition except for corner crease on front cover; in stock and available for immediate shipment)

Armonk, NY, U.S.A.: M. E. Sharpe, 2003. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This is a collection of essays, many by sociologists, on practical utopian ideas to create a better world (tan cover with black lettering, upper end of spine scuffed, card pocket inside back cover, but no other library markings)

London, England, U.K: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. The authors, sociologists at the Univesity of Lausanne, draw on their experience working with schoolchildren, teenagers, and a variety of cultural, political, and commuity groups to illustrate the versatility of video in approaching diverse situations in everyday life; these projects and interviews form the basis for a first typology of styles and approaches in using the medium and for a videology, a language, set of concepts, and theory encompasing process and praxis, image and action (glossy yellow cover, slight edgewear, upper right front corner slightly creased, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1992. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book provides a comprehensive critical framework for understanding the Vietnam experience, Vietnam narratives, and modern war literature; the narratives examined, including personal accounts as well as novels, portray a soldier's and a country's journey from pre-war innocence, through battlefield experience, to a difficult post-war adjustment; the author places these narratives in the context of important cultural and literary themes (pictorial cover with faint creases, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Taegu, Korea: Maeilwonsaek Press, 2000. Paperback. Very Good. 9 " X 11 1/2. This is a beautifully-illustrated Korean cookbook, with recipes in Korean and English, written by a Korean woman who has lived in Cleveland, OH, for nearly thirty years and who, without formal training, has done research on Korean cooking and given cooking lessons and demonstrations for Korean community organizations; the recipes consist of ingredients which can be purchased at Oriental grocery stores or supermarkets and do not include food additives; includes color photographs of each dish (yellow cover with slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Taegu, Korea: Maeilwonsaek Press, 2000. Paperback. Very Good. 9 " X 11 1/2. This is a beautifully-illustrated Korean cookbook, with recipes in Korean and English, written by a Korean woman who has lived in Cleveland, OH, for nearly thirty years and who, without formal training, has done research on Korean cooking and given cooking lessons and demonstrations for Korean community organizations; the recipes consist of ingredients which can be purchased at Oriental grocery stores or supermarkets and do not include food additives; includes color photographs of each dish (yellow cover with slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This is a detailed account, in two volumes, of the early Viking ancestors of the English-speaking peoples, based on a study of the Norse sagas, recent archeological evidence, and the author's research in Scandinavian libraries and museums; the French-American author was a noted explorer and naturalist who led two expeditions to Africa before turning to Northern Europe, wherre five years of travels and research resulted in two books, The Land of the Midnight Sun and The Viking Age;; the two volumes include more than 1300 illustrations taken from antiquities discovered in mounds, cairns, and bogs as well as from the ancient sagas and eddas (maroon cloth with gold lettering and decoration, bright on the front covers, slightly faded on the spines; spine ends are slightly creased, otherwise these are bright, clean, tight, sturdy volumes)

Worthington, OH, U.S.A: Charles A. Jones Publishing Company, 1969. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A collection of readings on urban riots and civil unrest (slight shelfwear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Urbana, IL, U.S.A.: University of Illinois Press, 1991. In this book the author argues, not that Virginia Woolf is a postmodern writer, but that postmodern assumptions about art can account for her narrative innovations and feminist politics better than conventional modernist and feminist approaches to her works; in rethinking many of the prominent aesthetic and critical positions of her day, Woolf anticipated many postmodern principles (white pictorial cover with red & gray lettering has 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). Trade Paperback. Near Fine.

Cambridge, England, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is a study of the differences between Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience and Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, both published in the last decade of the 18th century; it argues that each work was shaped by and responsive to very different social and cultural pressures in the England of its time and offers a very different vision of human possibility (black pictorial cover with yellow lettering, rear cover sunned along edges, pages very slightly tanned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. This book explores the contradictory ways German trade unionists and industrialists, engineers and politicians, educators and social workers explained American economic success, envisioned a more efficient or rationalized economic system for Germany, and debated the social and cultural costs of adopting the American version of modernity; it examines German efforts to transform production and consumption, factories and homes, and argues that economic Americanism was implemented ambivalently and incompletely, producing neither prosperity nor political stability (dark blue cloth with bright gold lettering, black remainder marks on bottom edge, previous owner's name on front endpaper; gold dust jacket with blue lettering, slight creases and small tear along edge; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Munich, Germany: Prestel Verlag, 2006. This is a magnificent volume on the renowned German biologist, naturalist, artist, and illustrator, who developed his science and his ideas about nature in both writing and images; this volume focuses on his images of nature, and places them in the context of his life and work; includes many of his drawings and watercolors (light orange covers with dark orange lettering on spine; decorative end papers; white pictorial dust jacket with orange & gray lettering in plain cardboad slipcase; this is a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. As New/As New. 9 3/4 " x 13 1/2".

Durham, NC, U.S.A.: Duke University Press, 2002. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Based on both fieldwork and scholarship, this book explores the educational applications of visual media in different institutional settings, both inside and outside the classroom, during the past half century; the projects analyzed include media produced by AIDS advocacy groups and social service agencies, documentary and fictional cinemas of West Africa, museum exhibitions, and a colaboration between the Brazilian television industry and community-based video (dark gray cover with white lettering, slight crease on back, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1981. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is a collection of papers on voluntary associations and volunteer programs in developing countries (blue & white cover with corner creases and rubbing, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)