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

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: MIT Press, 2006. First Edition. Trade Paperback. As New. This is a collection of papers from a workshop held at Leiden University in 2002 to mark the appearance of Noam Chomsky's paper on wh-movement, the first systematic discussion of the phenomenon by which interrogative words appear at the beginning of interrogative sentences, one of the central displacement operations of human language; the contributors reconsider a number of issues raised by Chomsky from the perspective of contemporary minimalist syntactic theory; orange cover with white lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition)

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. This is a comparative study of the poetry of Whitman and Dickinson whose intent is to investigate the structure of each poet's imagination and to explorre the aesthetic consequences of their diverging responses to a single vision, that of the central consciousness, the artist's vision as responsible for organizing the universe; includes a letter from the publisher's managing editor to the previous owner, the poet Daniel Hoffman, a friend of the author, about the experience of working with the author; Hoffmann was the U.S. Poet Laureat in 1983-84 (green cloth with gold lettering on spine; dust jacket has slight crease on back flap; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore) . Revised. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

Detroit, MI, U.S.A.: Wayne State University Press, 1991. First American Edition. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket. First published in 1985 in German, this is an interpretive biography of Walter Benjamin, the quintessential European intellectual between the two world wars; historian, philosopher, literary critic, student of language and culture, and journalist, the independent scholar was forever trying to define himself and his time as products of a tradition in crisis; his life and work were one, a chronicle of the modern European intellectual and a mirror of the era; includes many photographs (green cloth with black lettering, a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This is a study of the question of idolatry in the religious and political controversy of the Reformation; it provides a survey of the development of the Reformed attitude toward idolatry from Erasmus through Calvin; its central thesis is that Calvin, in defending the heritage of the Reformed attitude toward idolatry, forged a new theological metaphysics in which the boundaries between the spiritual and the material were more clearly drawn, and that this reaffirmation of the centrality of spiritual worship provided the ideological foundation for much of the social and political unrest that accompanied the spread of Calvinism (gray pictorial cover with black & white lettering, slight reading crease on front; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1984. Hard Cover. As New/As New. This book is a collection of essays, originally presented at a conference at the University of Hull in 1981, on the relationship of warfare to social and political systems; the essays are arranged under two headings: Capitalism, Militarism, and the State System, and The Cold War and Defense Policy; contributors include Michael Mann, Martin Shaw, John Hall, Nigel Young, Ralph Miliband, Michael Cox, Dan Smith, Stephen Kirby, Andrew Cox (brown textured cloth with gold lettering; yellow dust jacket with black lettering, photo of anti-war protest on front; a bright, clean, tight copy)

Newark, DE, U.S.A.: University of Delaware Press, 1995. This is a literary and historical study of British and German women's experience of World War I and World II; it examines their literary response to the historical experiences of the wars and their political experience, particularly the threat of fascism, between the wars (yellow laminated covers with black lettering; white pictorial dust jacket with black & red lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.: University of Arizona Press, 1985. This is a facsimile of William Walker's account, originally published in 1860, of his invasion and conquest of Nicaragua; doctor, lawyer, newspaper editor, politician, adventurer, liberator, imperialist, Walker sailed to Nicaragua with a band of mercenaries in 1855, joined with rebel forces in a civil war, defeated the national army, seized the capital, and gained control of the country until 1857 when he was forced to leave by the U.S. Navy; after twice trying to regain control of Nicaragua, he was captured and executed in Honduras in 1860; foreword by Robert Houston (red pictorial cover, slight corner creases, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy) . First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Albany, NY, U.S.A.: State University of New York Press, 1995. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This book represents a series of case studies of groups of researchers whose works are considered foundational to an understanding of human communication processes; each communication theory presented is examined at three levels, philosophical, theoretical, and practical (white cover with very slight corner creases; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Leiden, Netherlands: Leiden University, 1987. Paperback. Very Good. This study of the relationship between hunting and ideology among the Bedamuni people of Papua New Guinea is the result of field research carried out from 1978 to 1979; this is a Leiden University doctoral dissertation with text in English, summary in Dutch; includes bibliography, tables, drawings, and hand-drawn maps (red cover with black lettering and drawing on the front, slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Urbana, IL, U.S.A: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Second Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Signed by Author. This book, by the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, is an account of their parents trial, appeals, and execution, including many of the letters Julius and Ethel wrote while in prison, and the court battles over their guardianship and their own lives with their adoptive parents and coming of age during the politically turbulent 1960s; this edition, with three new chapters, reiterates their belief that their parents were innocent; one new chapter challenges the controversial book by Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton; another new chapter focuses on their successful campaign to open up previously restricted files on the case; foreword by Eric Foner; signed and dated by Robert Meeropol on front endpaper (black cloth with silver lettering; black, yellow & red dust jacket; a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A: Praeger Publishers, 1985. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. A collection of orginal essays on German politics and political parties (maroon textured cloth with gold lettering on black background, slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

London, England, U.K.: John Murray, 1988. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. In this travelogue the author, who lived for about 20 years in Istanbul and Athens and published many books on Turkey and Greece, combines his travels along the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts of Turkey and describes these journeys, the archaeological sites, and the historical monuments, and evokes the spirit of the places along the way; includes maps and photographs, a Turkish glossary, an architectural glossary, and a bibliography (black cloth with gold lettering has very slight edgwear; white pictorial dust jacket with color photo of the Castle of Anamur on the front has slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Brockport, NY, U.S.A: BOA Editions, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. In the preface Wilbur writes, "This is a gathering of translations, written over a period of three decades or more, which for one or another reason were never included in any collection of my poems. Though they are 'uncollected' in that sense, I don't present them as leavings....I've arranged these translations chronologically within language groupings." (black cloth with silver lettering, pictorial dust jacket with very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Brockport, NY, U.S.A: BOA Editions, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. In his introduction Louis Simpson writes, "On the basis of memory Peter Makuck has built us his world. The poetry is in the building, the use of language, intimate, exact, colorful. Each poem has its own reality, its own unexpected and moving truth." (black cloth with silver lettering, pictorial dust jacket with very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

London, England, U.K.: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A study of major changes in the industrial and political behavior of British civil servants, including an increase in militancy and whether it is explained theoretically as a result of proletarianization (some wear on edges and corners, rear cover slightly yellowed, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Mena, AR, U.S.A.: Cedar Hill Publications, 2000. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. This is a book of essays critical of the current state of American poetry whose major premise is that poetry has lost much that must be recovered if the poem is to be a tool of cultural change as well as critique (light yellow pictorial cover with black lettering, slight edgwear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Merit Publishers, 1968. First published in 1936, this is a reprint of Trotsky's analysis of the political and social crisis in France in the mid-1930s, from the fascist riots of 1934 to the mass strike in 1936, re-published in 1968 at the time of the student protests and the mass strikes (red cloth with gold lettering, pages very slightly tanned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Louisville, KY, U.S.A.: Presbyterian Church, 1995. Paperback. Near Fine. This is an issue of Church & Society (July/August 1995), devoted to the life and thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, with articles by Eberhard Bethge, Renate Bethge, Sabine Bethge Moffett, Albrecht Schonherr, Alan Geyer, Larry Rasmussen; includes an introduction by Barbara Green, a chart of the Bonhoeffer family tree, and photographs (blue & white cover with photo of Bonhoeffer on the front)

Brockport, NY, U.S.A: BOA Editions, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. In his foreword Richard Wilbur writes of these poems, "Their language has a supple openness, as of an amiable and intelligent man talking; both in its playfulness and in its gravity, it avoids the stagey; and it easily enlists any suitable form in the pursuit and sharpening of its point. On the few occasions when one feels a saliency of 'technique,' there's a good point for it." (black cloth with silver lettering, dust jacket has slight edgewear, one small tear along upper edge, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.: University of California Press, 2005. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Essays by twelve anthropologists who subject such popular commentators as Samuel Huntingdon, Thomas Friedman, Robert Kaplan, Dinesh D'Souza, and the authors of The Bell Curve to cold, hard scrutiny and find that their writing is often misleadingly simplistic, culturally ill-informed, and politically dangerous; these essays cover topics such as globalization, ethnic violence, social justice, and the biological roots of behavior (very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)