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Zustand: Fine. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition. May contain a remainder mark. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $7.95, attractive copy, appears unused. WELDON, FAY. Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1991, 2d printing, revised, 155pp., . Cover design by Roy Colmer. CONTENTS: The city of invention -- A terrible time to be alive -- A training in docility -- The mantle of the Muse -- Pity the poor writer -- Letter to a sister -- Emma lives! -- "Oh! It's only a novel!" -- "I never read much" -- "Are you sure they are all horrid?" -- "An annuity is a serious business" -- Let others deal with misery -- "You have delighted us long enough" -- A gently lingering illness -- A publisher's offer -- The marvel of creation. 9780881845990 ISBN 088184599X 7.20.

hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: wrinkly moisture damaged dust-jacket but complete, ink lines in margins on about 20 pages, a few ink notations in margins, not disruptive to reading, otherwise good used blue cloth, slight skew from reading. FRUG, GERALD E. City making: building communities without building walls. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999, 1st printing number line ending in 1, 256pp., . "American metropolitan areas today are divided into neighborhoods of privilege and poverty, often along lines of ethnicity and race. As Gerald Frug shows, this divided and inhospitable urban landscape is not simply the result of individual choices about where to live or start a business. It is the product of government policies - and, in particular, the policies embedded in legal rules. Frug presents the first ever analysis of how legal rules shape modern cities and outlines a set of alternatives to bring down the walls that now keep city dwellers apart." "He describes how American law treats cities as subdivisions of states and shows how this arrangement has encouraged the separation of metropolitan residents into different, sometimes hostile groups. He explains the divisive impact of rules about zoning, redevelopment, land use, and the organization of such city services as education and policing. He pays special attention to the underlying role of anxiety about strangers, the widespread desire for good schools, and the pervasive fear of crime. Ultimately, Frug calls for replacing the current legal definition of cities with an alternative based on what he calls "community building"--An alternative that gives cities within the same metropolitan region incentives to forge closer links with each other." - CONTENTS: pt. 1. The City as a Legal Concept. 1. City Powerlessness. 2. A Legal History of Cities. 3. Strategies for Empowering Cities -- pt. 2. Decentering Decentralization. 4. The Situated Subject. 5. The Postmodern Subject -- pt. 3. The Geography of Community. 6. Community Building. 7. City Land Use -- pt. 4. City Services. 8. Alternative Conceptions of City Services. 9. Education. 10. Police. 11. Choosing City Services. 9780691007410 ISBN 0691007411.

paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, cover price $16.99, attractive copy, near fine but with small green dots on top and bottom foredge, slightest wear to covers. GLÜCK, LOUISE. Proofs & theories: essays on poetry. Hopewell, New Jersey: The Ecco Press, 1994, appears to be a recnet digital reprint, 134pp., . Proofs & Theories is a long-awaited first gathering of essays by one of this country's most brilliant poets. Like her poems, the prose of Ms. Gluck, who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1993 for The Wild Iris, is compressed, fastidious, fierce, alert, and absolutely unconsoled. The force of her thought is apparent everywhere in her writing and whether she is contemplating - skeptically - the critical currency of ideas like "courage" and "sincerity," T.S. Eliot's reduced reputation as a poet of impersonality, the loyalties of the objectivist George Oppen, or the ferocity in the headlong art of Sylvia Plath, there is something exhilarating about her seriousness, spare, austere, mind-clearing, and adamantly alive. - CONTENTS: Education of the poet -- On T.S. Eliot -- The idea of courage -- On George Oppen -- Against sincerity -- On Hugh Seidman -- The forbidden -- Obstinate humanity -- Disruption, hesitation, silence -- Disinterestedness -- The best American poetry 1993 : introduction -- The dreamer and the watcher -- On Stanley Kunitz -- Invitation and exclusion -- Death and absence -- On impoverishment. ISBN 9780880014427 6.00.

Zustand: Very Good. 1778053836. 5/6/2026 7:50:36 AM.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2002). 2002 1st edition. Square 4to (232 x 247mm). Pp144. Colour photographs throughout. Red boards, spine titled in gilt. Minor faults, smells slightly musty from long storage. Good copy in like dust-wrapper. "Chris Knights is a Norfolk farmer growing millions of carrots and parsnips each year. But he grows far more than vegetables; his farm has become a centre for a remarkable partnership - a partnership between farming and conservation". Chris Knight's excellent wildlife photogaphy, on his own farm and elsewhere in Britain. Chapters include: The farm in summer; The farm in winter; The coast; Wetland and stream; Highland and moorland; Afterthought. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2004). (1987) 2004 2nd edition. 4to (196 x 256mm). Pp191. Colour photographs, colour plates & illustrations by Will Garfit, Rodger McPhail and others, blue end-papers. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly faded dust-wrapper. A beautiful book which discusses the pros and cons of field sports in an intelligent and informed way. The second edition has been revised and brought up to date with the current debate. .

paperback. Zustand: Fine. DETAILS: sewn PAPERBACK, fresh attractive copy, fine condition, appears unused. RÖHL, JOHN C. G. The Kaiser and his court: Wilhelm II and the government of Germany. Cambridge ;: Cambridge University Press, 1996, xi, 275pp., . Kaiser Wilhelm II, Queen Victoria's eldest grandchild, took over the running of the powerful German Reich from Bismarck and within a couple of decades had led it into world war and collapse. How did the Kaiser come to have so much power? Why was there no one to help him steer a less disastrous course? This book analyses these crucial questions with the help of a wealth of new archival sources., The book begins with a character-sketch of the Kaiser which provides new and alarming insights into his personality. It then looks, crucially, at the Kaiser's friends and favourites, at the neo-absolutist culture of the court and of Berlin court society, and at the nature of his relationship with the court on the one hand and with the administrative 'pyramid' in Prussia and the Reich on the other. The book makes clear that these bureaucrats and diplomats had neither the means nor the will to oppose the overwhelming determination of the Kaiser and his close friends and advisers in directing the policies of the most dynamic and volatile state in Europe. The dangerous consequences of this situation led to the brink of world war as early as December 1912. A final chapter reveals for the first time the appalling extent and nature of the exiled Kaiser's antisemitism. - CONTENTS: 1. Kaiser Wilhelm II: a suitable case for treatment? -- 2. Philipp Eulenburg, the Kaiser's best friend -- 3. The Kaiser's court -- 4. The 'kingship mechanism' in the Kaiserreich -- 5. Higher civil servants in Wilhelmine Germany -- 6. The splendour and impotence of the German diplomatic service -- 7. Dress rehearsal in December: military decision-making in Germany on the eve of the First World War -- 8. Kaiser Wilhelm II and German anti-Semitism. 9780521565042 ISBN 0521565049.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. DETAILS: fresh attractive hardcover with printed covers. ALAREER, REFAAT. If I must die: poetry and prose. Compiled by Yousef M. Aljamal ; with a foreword by Susan Abulhawa. New York: OR Books, 2024, stated First Printing, xxi, 257pp., . "The renowned poet and literature professor Refaat Alareer was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City alongside his brother, sister, and nephews in December 2023. He was just forty-four years old, but had already established a worldwide reputation that was further enhanced when, in the wake of his death, the poem that gives this book its title became a global sensation. "If I Must Die" is included here, alongside Refaat's other poetry. Refaat wrote extensively about a range of topics: teaching Shakespeare and the way Shylock could be appreciated by young Palestinian students; the horrors of living under repeated brutal assaults in Gaza, one of which, in 2014, killed another of his brothers; and the generosity of Palestinians to each other, fighting, in the face of it all, to be the one paying at the supermarket checkout. Such pieces, some never before published, have been curated here by one of Refaat's closest friends and collaborators. This collection forms a fitting testament to a remarkable writer, educator, and activist, one whose voice will not be silenced by death but will continue to assert the power of learning and humanism in the face of barbarity." - CONTENTS: Foreword -- Introduction -- Modest proposal (2010) -- Israel's power of the camera: Gaza's power of Gaza (2010) -- Tragedy in one sentence (2011) -- Gaza mourns Vittorio Arrigoni (2011) -- If I must die, let it be a tale (2011) -- I was Mustafa Tamimi (2011) -- Mustafa's only care (2011) -- On a drop of rain (2014) -- O, Earth (Land day poem) (2012) -- Narrating Palestine (2014) -- The story of my brother, Martyr Mohammed Alareer (2014) -- When will dad come back? (2015) -- Over the wall (2012) -- Israel's killer bureaucracy (2016) -- And we live on.(2012) -- No justice for Gaza: Youth killed in viral video (2016) -- When I stoop (2012) -- Haunted by the horrors of cast lead (2018) -- Mom (2012) -- "Every Palestinian was a target" (2018) -- O'Live Tree (2012) -- An introduction to poetry (2021) -- My child asks, "Can Israel destroy our building if the power is out?" (2021) -- I Am You (2012) -- Gaza asks: When shall this pass? (2022) -- Freshly baked souls (2012) -- Without consequences, Israel will continue to Murder Palestinians (2022) -- To our friend in Letters Dareen Tatour (2018) -- Raising children under Israel's Bombs (2022) -- They even Keep our Corpses: Dying in Israeli prisons (2023) -- Spyware expose lets Israel off the hook (2023) -- 2023: A war against everything -- Al-Aqsa Flood, Day 3 (October 9) -- Al-Aqsa Flood, Day 7 (October 13) -- Death 247 in Gaza (October 14) -- In Gaza, we have grown accustomed to war (October 19) -- Israel Bombed My Home without warning (October 22) -- The Five Stages of Coping with War in Gaza (October 23) -- Al-Aqsa Flood, Day 20 (October 26) -- What it's like when Israel Bombs your Building (October 27) -- Israel's claims of "Terrorist activity" in a Children's Hospital were Lies (November 19) -- Drenched (November 28) -- On the resilience of the Palestinian community (published December 11) -- I Teach English Poetry (published December 11) -- Permissions. ISBN 9781682196212 14.10.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2004). (1987) 2004 2nd edition. 4to (193 x 255mm). Pp191. Colour photographs, colour plates & illustrations by Will Garfit, Rodger McPhail and others. Fine in dust-wrapper. A beautiful book which discusses the pros and cons of field sports in an intelligent and informed way. The second edition has been revised and brought up to date with the current debate. PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 25.00.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1987). (1987) 1988 reprint. 4to (193 x 255mm). Pp192. Colour photographs, colour plates & illustrations by Will Garfit, Rodger McPhail and others. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Slight foxing to edges and prelims. Good-plus in used / frayed dust-wrapper. A beautiful book which discusses the pros and cons of field sports in an intelligent and informed way. .

Zustand: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1992). (1987) 1992 reprint. 4to (195 x 255mm). Pp192. Colour photographs, colour plates and illustrations by Will Garfit, Rodger McPhail and others. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Minor faults, good-plus in slighty used / spine faded dust-wrapper. A beautiful book which discusses the pros and cons of field sports in an intelligent and informed way. .

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Raritan: A Quarterly Review. Summer 2023. Vol. XLIII No 1 (illustrator). Paperback. Binding sound, text clean, very light shelfwear. Book.

single_issue_magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Paperback magazine in very good condition. All inside pages are in great shape. Minor shelf wear to the cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque avec équipements. Livre reconditionné de bibliothèque. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Refurbished library book. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a fine, slightly dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 176 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm. Notes; Illustrations on lining papers. Subjects; London (England) Aerial photographs. London (England) Pictorial works. Aerial photography England London. London (England) Description and travel. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 164 pages ; 24 cm. Subjects; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791. Composers Austria ; Biography. 3 Kg.

PAPERBACK, cover price $13.95, fresh attractive copy, very good. TEC, NECHAMA. Defiance: the Bielski partisans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 1st printing number line ending in 1, xiii, 276pp., . The Bielski partisans operated in the forests of Belorussia, where they both fought the Nazis and attempted to rescue Jews. By 1944, they numbered 1,200 persons, and constituted the largest Jewish rescue operation in occupied Europe. 9780195093902 ISBN 0195093909.

PAPERBACK, fresh attractive copy, appears unused. ETZIONI, AMITAI, ed. . New communitarian thinking: persons, virtues, institutions, and communities. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, vii, 313pp., . Series: Constitutionalism and democracy Communitarian thought is at the heart of a fierce debate in political theory about the justice, efficacy and the future of liberalism and liberal societies. These essays bring communitarian thinking to bear on such contentious issues as abortion, homosexuality, free speech and personal autonomy. - CONTENTS: Old Chestnuts and New Spurs / Amitai Etzioni -- 1. Communitarian Liberalism / Thomas A. Spragens, Jr. -- 2. The Communitarian Critique of Liberalism / Michael Walzer -- 3. Moral Argument and Liberal Toleration: Abortion and Homosexuality / Michael J. Sandel -- 4. Community: Reflections on Definition / Robert Booth Fowler -- 5. The Communitarian Individual / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- 6. Personhood and Moral Obligation / Philip Selznick -- 7. Human Nature and the Quest for Community / Alan Wolfe -- 8. Virtue, the Common Good, and Democracy / David Hollenbach -- 9. The Virtues of Democratic Self-Constraint / Amy Gutmann -- 10. Institutions as the Infrastructure of Democracy / William M. Sullivan -- 11. Liberal Politics and the Public Sphere / Charles Taylor -- 12. Free Speech and Free Press: A Communitarian Perspective / Jeffrey Abramson and Elizabeth Bussiere -- 13. American Conceptions of Citizenship and National Service / Rogers M. Smith -- 14. Immigration and political community in the United States / Daniel J. Tichenor. 9780813915692 ISBN 0813915694.

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; slightly dust-dulled and edge-bumped. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; [8], 53 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects; Louise Glück 1943-2023. American poetry Women authors. Women poets, American. 3 Kg.

Fourth Edition. Fine cloth copy in a fine, somewhat edge-bumped dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; xviii, 555 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Notes; National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, 2008. Subjects; Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) (1932-2018). Authors, Trinidadian 20th century Biography. Authors, East Indian 20th century Biography. 3 Kg.

Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 275 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 29 cm. Subjects; Cathedrals Great Britain. Church architecture Great Britain. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a fine, very slightly edge-torn dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Price-clipped. Physical description; xxii, 489 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm. Subjects; Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich, 18401893. Composers Russia Biography. Russian composers Biography. Music 19th century History and criticism. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 617 pages ; 25 cm. Notes; Cloth case binding; illustrated dust jacket designed by Stephen Parker. Man Booker Prize, 2009, shortlist. Contents; Olive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. For each of them she writes a separate private book, bound in different colours and placed on a shelf. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they play in a story-book world -- but their lives, and those of their rich cousins, children of a city stockbroker, and their friends, the son and daughter of a curator at the new Victoria and Albert Museum, are already inscribed with mystery. Each family carries its own secrets. Into their world comes a young stranger, a working-class boy from the potteries, drawn by the beauty of the Museum's treasures. And in midsummer a German puppeteer arrives, bringing dark dramas. The world seems full of promise but the calm is already rocked by political differences, by Fabian arguments about class and free love, by the idealism of anarchists from Russia and Germany. The sons rebel against their parents' plans; the girls dream of independent futures, becoming doctors or fighting for the vote. This vivid, rich and moving saga is played out against the great, rippling tides of the day, taking us from the Kent marshes to Paris and Munich and the trenches of the Somme. Born at the end of the Victorian era, growing up in the golden summers of Edwardian times, a whole generation grew up unaware of the darkness ahead. In their innocence, they were betrayed unintentionally by the adults who loved them. In a profound sense, this novel is indeed the children's book. Subjects; Victoria and Albert Museum ; Fiction. 1800-1899. Women authors, English 19th century Family relationships ; Fiction. Children of the rich England History 19th century ; Fiction. Family secrets ; Fiction. Parent and child ; Fiction. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xvii, 424 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-412) and index. Translated from the German. Contents; 1. Childhood, a World War, and a new beginning -- 2. Secret Germany -- 3. Reichswehr -- 4. Sea change -- 5. In the Third Reich -- 6. Crisis and war -- 7. On the General Staff -- 8. Stauffenberg turns against Hitler -- 9. In the front line -- 10. Conspiracy -- 11. Planning the coup: internal preparations -- 12. Contacts abroad -- 13. Assassination plans -- 14. Launching the insurrection -- 15. Uprising. Subjects; 1944. Anti-Nazi movement Germany ; Biography. Revolutionaries Germany ; Biography. Biographies (Biography). Anti-Nazi movement. Attempted assassination. Families. Revolutionaries. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: xviii, 270 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects: Politicians Great Britain ; Anecdotes; Politics and government; Politicians; Political science Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc.; English wit and humor; English wit and humor Collections; Political science ; Humor; Political science Anecdotes; Great Britain Politics and government ; Anecdotes; Great Britain; Great Britain Politics and government Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc.; Anecdotes in English Special subjects Politics Anthologies; Anecdotes in English Special subjects Politics. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xv, 652 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Education, Rural Soviet Union History; Peasants Education Soviet Union History; Soviet Union Rural conditions. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; x, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes index. Subjects; Read, Herbert 1893-1968. English poetry 20th century. English essays 20th century. Great Britain History. Great Britain Description and travel. Great Britain Essays. Great Britain, to 1979. 3 Kg.

paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. small PAPERBACK, near fine, attractive copy. WALSER, MARTIN. Beschreibung einer Form: Versuch über Franz Kafka. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1992, Erste Auflage, and 1st printing number line starting with 1, , . Series: Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch, 1891 First published in 1961. 9783518383919 ISBN 3518383914 4.00.