Search Results: Titles starting with W from Casa Pacifica

Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be untouched/unread. Spine and binding is tight.Dust jacket is in mint condition and protected with Mylar.Signed by the author, Doris Kearns Goodwin.Wait Till Next Yearis the story of a young girl growing up in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, when owning a single-family home on a tree-lined street meant the realization of dreams, when everyone knew everyone else on the block, and the children gathered in the streets to play from sunup to sundown. The neighborhood was equally divided among Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans, and the corner stores were the scenes of fierce and affectionate rivalries.We meet the people who influenced Goodwin's early life: her father, who emerged from a traumatic childhood without a trace of self-pity or rancor and who taught his daughter early on that she should say whatever she thought and should bring her voice into any conversation at any time; her mother, whose heart problems left her with the… Read More

Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be untouched/unread. Binding is tight.Dust Jacket in mint condition and protected in Mylar.Signed by the author, Yael Kohen, on the title page.First Edition print.No matter how many times female comedians buck the conventional wisdom, people continue to ask: "Are women funny?" The question has been nagging at women off and on (mostly on) for the past sixty years. It's incendiary, much discussed, and, as proven in Yael Kohen's fascinating oral history, totally wrongheaded.In We Killed, Kohen pieces together the revolution that happened to (and by) women in American comedy, gathering the country's most prominent comediennes and the writers, producers, nightclub owners, and colleagues who revolved around them. She starts in the 1950s, when comic success meant ridiculing and desexualizing yourself; when Joan Rivers and Phyllis Diller emerged as America's favorite frustrated ladies; when the joke was always on them. Kohen brings us into the… Read More

Signed, First Edition, As New Condition/CollectibleBook is in very good condition. Barely noticeable separation between binding and spine when book is open, all else fine. No dust jacket, however book is hardback but did not come with one. Signed by the authors, Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, on title page.First edition print. From the creators of the #1 international hit podcast Welcome to Night Vale comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves . . . no matter where we live.Welcome to Night Vale . . . a friendly desert community somewhere in the American Southwest. In this ordinary little town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are commonplace parts of everyday life, the lives of two women, with two mysteries, are about to converge.
Pawnshop proprietor Jackie Fierro abides by routine. But a crack appears in the standard order of her perpetually nineteen-year-old life when a… Read More

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, VERY GOOD CONDITION
Casa Pacifica is selling a copy of David Shafer's Whiskey Tango Foxtrot in good condition. The binding is separated from the spine when book is opened- see photos, but other than that this book is in great condition. Dust jacket is in mint condition, and is now protected with Mylar.
Signed by the author, David Shafer, on the title page and stamped with an owl.
First edition print. Three young adults grapple with the usual thirty-something problems—boredom, authenticity, an omnipotent online oligarchy—in David Shafer's darkly comic debut novel.The Committee, an international cabal of industrialists and media barons, is on the verge of privatizing all information. Dear Diary, an idealistic online Underground, stands in the way of that takeover, using radical politics, classic spycraft, and technology that makes Big Data look like dial-up. Into this secret battle stumbles an unlikely trio: Leila Majnoun, a disillusioned non-profit worker; Leo Crane, an… Read More

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, MINT CONDITION
A print of Lyndsay Faye's The Whole Art of Deception: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes in mint condition.
Signed by the author, Lyndsay Faye, on the title page.
First edition print
Book Description: This collection of short mysteries by the international-bestselling author of Dust and Shadow "belongs on the top shelf with the very best of Doyle's" (Nicholas Meyer, author of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution). Inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, Edgar Award–finalist Lyndsay Faye has masterfully woven these quintessential characters into her own works of fiction—from her acclaimed debut novel, Dust and Shadow, to a series of short stories for the Strand Magazine, whose predecessor published the first Sherlock Holmes story in 1892. The best of Faye's Sherlockian tales, including two new works, are brought together in a collection that spans the character's career, from self-taught upstart to lauded detective, both before and… Read More

Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be untouched/unread.Dust jacket in prisitne, mint condition and protected in Mylar.Binding is tight. Signed and dated by the author, Ian Morris: "Ian Morris. October 29, 2010"First edition print. A New York Times Notable Book for 2011Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West's rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many worry that the emerging economic power of China and India spells the end of the West as a superpower. In order to understand this possibility, we need to look back in time. Why has the West dominated the globe for the past two hundred years, and will its power last?Describing the patterns of human history,… Read More

Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be untouched/unread. Spine and binding is tight.Dust jacket is in mint condition and protected with Mylar.Signed by the author, E.J. Dionne Jr., on title page."Dionne's expertise is evident in this finely crafted and convincing work." —The Los Angeles TimesFrom one of our most engaging political reporters and the author of Why Americans Hate Politics; the story of conservatism from the Goldwater 1960s to the present day Tea Party that has resulted in broken promises and an ideological purity that drives moderate Republicans away.Why the Right Went Wrong offers a historical view of the right since the 1960s. Its core contention is that American conservatism and the Republican Party took a wrong turn when they adopted Barry Goldwater's worldview during and after the 1964 campaign. The radicalism of today's conservatism is not the product of the Tea Party, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne writes. The Tea Partiers are the true heirs… Read More

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, AS NEW/MINT CONDITION
A mint condition copy of Neal Bascomb's The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb is for sale here at Casa Pacifica! This book is in pristine condition and looks never read! It is ready to be enjoyed by a reader or collector!
Signed by the author, Neal Bascomb, on the title page.
First edition print.
It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known before. They have the physicists, they have the uranium, and now all their plans depend on amassing a single ingredient: heavy water, which is produced in Norway's Vemork, the lone plant in all the world that makes this rare substance. Under threat of death, Vemork's engineers push production into overdrive.
For the Allies, the plant must be destroyed. But how would they reach the castle fortress set on a precipitous gorge in one of the coldest, most inhospitable places on Earth?
Based on a trove of top secret documents and never-before-seen… Read More

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, VERY GOOD CONDITION
Casa Pacifica is selling a copy of Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff's The Witches: Salem, 1962. Binding is in good condition, although there is some separation between the binding and spine (loose binding), as if someone has read the book before. Dust jacket is as new, and is now protected in Mylar. Pages have a deckle edge.
Signed and dated by the author, Stacy Schiff, on the title page.
First edition printing.
The panic began early in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece began to writhe and roar. It spread quickly, confounding the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, husbands accused wives, parents and children one another. It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. Speaking loudly and emphatically, adolescent girls stood at the center of the crisis. Along with suffrage and… Read More

Signed, First Edition, Mint ConditionBook appears to be untouched/unread. Binding is tight. Because this is a textbook, there is not dust jacket. Signed by the authors, Ritchie, et al., on title page. First edition print. In the very first text of its kind, Women at War brings together all the available information and experience on Women's health and mental health under one cover to enlighten the practitioners caring for them. 2.5 million US service members have deployed since September 11th, 2001 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; with over 300,000 of these soldiers being women. While the available information on the medical and mental health needs of women in deployment and combat is sparse and hard to find, this new volume brings together the literature that exists on female active duty service members and veterans.Women at War reviews topics such as epidemiology, deployment health, reproductive and genitourinary issues, mothering, sexuality, PTSD and other psychological effects of war, wounds… Read More

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, MINT CONDITION/COLLECTIBLE
Casa Pacifica is selling a pristine, mint condition copy of John Simpson's The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary. This book looks unread/untouched, and is ready for a new reader or collector to enjoy it! Dust jacket is in mint condition, and is now protected in Mylar.
Signed by the author, John Simpson, on the title page.
First edition print. "A charmingly full, frank, and humorous account of a career dedicated to rigorous lexicographic rectitude. . . .[John Simpson] is an absolute hero." —Lynne Truss, New York TimesCan you drink a glass of balderdash? And what do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? The answers to these questions can be found in the Oxford English Dictionary. There is no better guide to the dictionary's many wonderments than its former chief editor, John Simpson. In The Word Detective, an intensely personal memoir and a joyful celebration of English, he weaves a… Read More