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Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. How do you tell that a country has died? In this devastating, pessimistic, though critically-timed revised edition of his classic book, Peter Hitchens describes and regrets the abolition of Britain. In the years since Peter Hitchens first wrote The Abolition of Britain, he argues, there has been an acceleration in the decay of society and culture. Fewer people read; universities have become less and less free; more churches are closing; language has become more homogenised; the city skyline is emblematic of the triumph of Mammon; the monarchy is merely hanging on and immigration is at an unprecedented and unsustainable level, a fact accepted even by those who first welcomed its growth.Hitchens, a former revolutionary Marxist, is amazed and amused by the way in which the nominal Conservative Party has now embraced culturally and socially revolutionary ideas, especially about the family, sexual politics and education, which he would have thought ambitious in his days as a 1960s Trotskyist.As he writes, my only concern now is to ensure that others, in some unimaginable future, will be able to find at least one voice which will explain to them how one of the fairest, kindest civilisations ever to have existed on earth should in so short a time have wasted its birthright and thrown away its gifts. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Good. First Paperback Edition, later printing. Format is approximately 5 inches by 8 inches. x, 404, [2] pages. Footnotes. Cover and first few pages are creased and the book has some wear. Includes Preface; Introduction; Conclusion; Appendix A: Rules; Appendix B: Retreat Notes of Mother Teresa; Endnotes, Acknowledgments, and Index. Chapters include "Put Your Hand in His Hand, and Walk Alone with Him; Something Very Beautiful for Jesus; "Come, Be My Light"; "To Bring Joy to the Suffering Heart of Jesus; Delay No Longer. Keep Me Not Back; To the ''Dark Holes"; The Dark Night of the Birth of the Society; The Thirst of Jesus Crucified; "My God, How Painful Is This Unknown Pain; "I Have come to Love the Darkness; "At His Disposal"; "God Uses Nothingness to Show His Greatness; and Radiating Christ. Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, 26 August 1910 - 5 September 1997), honored in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje (now the capital of North Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life. In 1950, Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation that had over 4,500 nuns and was active in 133 countries in 2012. The congregation manages homes for people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis. She was canonized on 4 September 2016, and the anniversary of her death (5 September) is her feast day. Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, MC, Ph.D. was the advocate for Mother Teresa of Calcutta in the cause for her canonization, and director of the Mother Teresa Center. He edited and wrote the commentary for the book Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light. Father Kolodiejchuk's 20-year association with Mother Teresa began in 1977 when he joined a new group of contemplative brothers she was then starting. He later joined the priestly branch of Mother Teresa's religious family, the Missionaries of Charity Fathers, at the time of their foundation in 1984. He was ordained to the priesthood in June 1985 in the Ukrainian Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist in Newark, New Jersey, USA, by the late Metropolitan-Archbishop of Winnipeg, Maxim Hermaniuk, C.Ss.R. In March 1999 he served as Mother Teresa's advocate in advancing the cause of her beatification and canonization. He was appointed director of the Mother Teresa Center, which is an extension of the office for the cause of canonization of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, in June 2004. This historic work reveals the inner spiritual life of one of the most beloved and important religious figures in history--Mother Teresa. During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions; her extraordinary contributions to the care of the sick, the dying, and thousands of others nobody else was prepared to look after has been recognized and acclaimed throughout the world. Little is known, however, about her own spiritual heights or her struggles. This collection of her writing and reflections, almost all of which have never been made public before, sheds light on Mother Teresa's interior life in a way that reveals the depth and intensity of her holiness for the first time. Compiled and presented by Fr. Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C., who knew Mother Teresa for twenty years and is the postulator for her cause for sainthood and director of the Mother Teresa Center, Mother Teresa brings together letters she wrote to her spiritual advisors over decades. A moving chronicle of her spiritual journey, including moments, indeed years, of utter desolation , these letters reveal the secrets she shared only with her closest confidants. She emerges as a classic mystic whose inner life burned with the fire of charity and whose heart was tested and purified by an intense trial of faith, a true dark night of the soul. "If I ever become a Saint-- I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from Heaven-- to light the light of those in darkness on earth." --Mother Teresa.…

Trade paperback. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. [14], 376, [6] p. This paperback edition contains a new Appendis on Secret Files, Secret Record Systems. From Wikipedia: "John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 May 2, 1972) was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation predecessor to the FBI in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972 at age 77. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories. Late in life and after his death Hoover became a controversial figure, as evidence of his secretive actions became known. His critics have accused him of exceeding the jurisdiction of the FBI. He used the FBI to harass political dissenters and activists, to amass secret files on political leaders, and to collect evidence using illegal methods. Hoover consequently amassed a great deal of power and was in a position to intimidate and threaten sitting Presidents." From Wikipedia: " Athan George Theoharis (born August 3, 1936) is an American historian, professor of history emeritus at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As well as his extensive teaching career, he is noteworthy as an expert on the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, and U.S. intelligence agencies, having written and edited a large number of books on these and related subjects. Born in Milwaukee, Theoharis earned all of his degrees from the University of Chicago: two bachelor's degrees in political science in 1956 and 1957, a master's degree in 1958 and his Ph.D. in history in 1965. The scope of his writings has extended to Cold War history, anti-communism in America, civil rights and the politics of government secrecy. Theoharis's debut book was Anatomy of Anti-Communism (1969), which was quickly followed with the publication of his revised PhD dissertation, directed under the supervision of Walter Johnson, titled The Yalta Myths: An Issue in U.S. Politics, 1945-1955 (1970). This was followed by his influential Seeds of Repression: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of McCarthyism (1971), and his influential article "Roosevelt and Truman on Yalta: In the mid-1970s, because of his work exploring the Truman and Eisenhower loyalty and security programs as well as his articles on FBI wiretapping, Theoharis was asked by the Church Committee to conduct research at presidential libraries. The Church Committee-the Senate select committee to study governmental operations with respect to intelligence activities-was formed by Senator Frank Church after Nixon administration, FBI, and CIA abuses became public. First without and then with qualified security clearances, Theoharis examined some presidential records relating to the FBI and White House at the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson presidential libraries. He also examined some FBI records for the Church Committee at FBI headquarters. Following this work, and changes made to the Freedom of Information Act in the 1970s, in 1976 Theoharis became a specialist in the history of the FBI. He focused on FBI records procedures, rather than individual FBI targets, leading to discoveries or further understandings of the complexities and uses of FBI office files (as opposed to "official" FBI files), the JUNE mail file, the National Security Electronic Surveillance Index Card File, Surreptitious Entries file, COMPIC file, and COMRAP file. Very good. Cover has slight wear and soiling. First Elephant Paperback Edition [stated]. Presumed 1st ptg.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In Boring Postcards Magnum photographer and postcard enthusiast Martin Parr brought together 160 of the dullest postcards of 1950s, 60s and 70s Britain to make a book that was, contrary to the conceit of its title, both fascinating and extremely funny. It was one of those ideas that seemed so obvious that no one could believe it hadn't been done before, and it caught the public imagination in a big way. In Britain Boring Postcards was discussed everywhere from daytime TV shows to art and design magazines, from local newspapers and radio stations (outraged that their town should be labelled 'boring') to Time magazine. Now Parr has turned his attention to the USA for a new book of Boring Postcards. Just as before, for a postcard to qualify as sufficiently 'boring', either its composition, its content, or the characters featured must be arguably boring or the photograph must be absent of anything that might conventionally be described as interesting. As the study of postcards becomes a field of academic interest, this book offers more than amusement: as a folk art recording of the non-places and non-events of post-war America, it reveals poignant insights into its social, cultural and architectural values. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Again and again British politicians, commentators and celebrities intone that 'The War on Drugs has failed'. They then say that this is an argument for abandoning all attempts to reduce drug use through the criminal law. Peter Hitchens shows that in Britain there has been no serious 'war on drugs' since 1971, when a Tory government adopted a Labour plan to implement the revolutionary Wootton report. This gave cannabis, the most widely used illegal substance, a special legal status as a supposedly 'soft' drug (in fact, Hitchens argues, it is at least as dangerous as heroin and cocaine because of the threat it poses to mental health). It began a progressive reduction of penalties for possession, and effectively disarmed the police.This process still continues, behind a screen of falsely 'tough' rhetoric from politicians. Far from there being a 'war on drugs', there has been a covert surrender to drugs, concealed behind an official obeisance to international treaty obligations. To all intents and purposes, cannabis is legal in Britain, and other major drugs are not far behind.In The War We Never Fought, Hitchens uncovers the secret history of the government's true attitude, and the increasing recruitment of the police and courts to covert decriminalisation initiatives, and contrasts it with the rhetoric. Whatever and whoever is to blame for the undoubted mess of Britain's drug policy, it is not 'prohibition' or a 'war on drugs', for neither exists. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

PAPERBACK. First edition. 20pp color frontispiece octavo paper. cover wear otherwise very good-.

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. B & W photos, graphics and collage; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 8 pages; No. 10: February - March 1976. No. 9: August - September 1975. Single issue of the anti-fascist digest newspaper. Tabloid format newspaper with single horizontal fold. Usual and expected light toning to page stock, a little heavier at the folds. Illustrated with b&w photos and graphics. VG.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. B & W photos & graphics ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 8 pages; No. 11: May - July, 1976. No. 9: August - September 1975. Single issue of the anti-fascist digest newspaper. Tabloid format newspaper with single horizontal fold. Usual and expected light toning to page stock, a little heavier at the folds. Cover story: "The Economics of Racism." VG.…

Wraps. Zustand: Good. The format is approximately 11 inches by 8.5 inches. [2], 49, [1] pages, plus covers. Illustrated front cover. Illustrations. Check List of Thomas Jefferson's Architectural Drawings. 33 numbered drawings. Index to Papers Used by Jefferson. Cover has some wear and soiling and a scuff on the back. Frederick Doveton Nichols, FAIA, was an architect, educator, and historian. He studied for two years at Colorado College and completed his undergraduate degree in fine arts from Yale University in 1935. He joined the National Park Service, becoming regional director of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). He became director of architectural studies at the University of Hawaii in 1941 and after service in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II, he returned to Hawaii. In 1950 he became a professor and later chairman of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia until his retirement in 1982. Nichols wrote several books on the architectural history of Georgia and Virginia and on Thomas Jefferson as a designer. He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1963 and received the University of Virginia Thomas Jefferson Award in 1979 as well as other fellowships and awards. Nichols was a member of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, the American Institute of Architects Task Force on the U.S. Capitol West Front, the Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, and the Monticello Restoration Society. In the introduction to this work, Frederick Doveton Nichols observes, "Jefferson stands alone as the most distinguished native architect of the Early Republic." The drawings collected in the pages that follow this assertion bear out the truth of Nichol's words. From the graceful floor plans of Monticello to the public buildings of Williamsburg and the pavilions of the University of Virginia, the imaginative and mathematical mind of Thomas Jefferson takes shape in the architectural sketches for these landmark structures. A detailed checklist is appended to the text and provides a thorough overview of Jefferson's drawings. Architecture first captured Thomas Jefferson s imagination while he was a student in Williamsburg, when he bought his first architectural book from an old cabinetmaker. "Architecture is my delight, " he was quoted as saying in later years, "and putting up, and pulling down, one of my favorite amusements." This fascinating book by Frederick Doveton Nichols is a compilation of original architectural drawings done by Thomas Jefferson. The book includes drawings of the First Version of Monticello, the Final Drawings of Monticello, The University of Virginia Rotunda and Pavilions, the Virginia Capitol in Richmond, and Poplar Forest. A commentary at the beginning of the book contains an overview of Jefferson s architectural development and a check list at the end of the book is arranged in alphabetical order by places or buildings with the current location of the drawings. Jeffersonian architecture is an American form of Neo-Classicism and/or Neo-Palladianism embodied in the architectural designs of U.S. President and polymath Thomas Jefferson, after whom it is named. These include his home (Monticello), his retreat (Poplar Forest), the university he founded (University of Virginia), and his designs for the homes of friends and political allies (notably Barboursville). More than a dozen private homes bearing his personal stamp still stand today. Jefferson's style was popular in the early American period at about the same time that the more mainstream Greek Revival architecture was also coming into vogue (1790s1830s) with his assistance. In colonial Virginia during the 18th century there were no schools of architecture, so Jefferson learned the profession on his own from books and by studying some of the classical architectural designs of the day. As a self-taught architect and classicist, he was most influenced by the Italian revivalist architect Andrea Palladio (15081580). His "bible" was Andrea Palladio's The Four Books. Thomas Jefferson (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The first major survey of photography's place in recent art history, now available in paperback. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Acceptable. Very occasional pen underlining [pp. 8,10,18-19,199-200,205] Age-tanning to paper. Foxing to end papers and edges. Dust jacket is chipped, edge-worn, soiled and rubbed. Protected by Brodart now. Previous owner's name on FFEP 387 pp.

Hardcover. ix, 502 p. List of Poems. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Plath's letters to her mother detailing the important events of her life during the years 1950 to 1963. Very good in good dust jacket. DJ has some wear and soiling. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated].

Reprint. Good ex-library copy in the original cloth-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Library marks remain to interior and exterior. Pages starting. Text is bright and clean. Physical Description; IX, 114 p., [4] p. pl. : photos. ; 18 cm. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. 9th edition. [4], 300 p.; 18 cm. [Reprinted from 7th revised edition with new preface, 1814; first edition 1793] Contents: I. The divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures -- II. The importanct of revealed truth; the duty of reading the Scriptures, and the manner in which they should be read -- III. The scriptural character of God -- IV. A brief exposition of the Ten Commandments, as comprising the substance of the moral law -- V. Man's situation, as a sinner, in this present world -- VI. The Deity of Jesus Christ -- VII. The doctrine of Christ's Deity shewn to be essential to Christianity, and some objections to the doctrine beliefly answered -- VIII. The nature and design of the mediatorial office, sustained by the Lord Jesus Christ -- IX. The merits and atonement of Christ -- X. The exaltation of Christ, and his appearance in the presence of God in our behalf -- XI. Justification -- XII. Regeneration -- XIII. The personality and Deity of the Holy Spirit; with some thoughts on the doctrine of the Sacred Trinity -- XIV. The gifts and influences of the Holy Spirit -- XV. The uses of the moral law, in subserviency to the gospel of Christ -- XVI. The believer's warfare and experience -- XVII. The privileges enjoyed by the true believer -- XVIII-XIX. The dispositions and character, peculiar to the true believer -- XX-XXI. The believer's attention to relative duties -- XXII. The Christian's improvement of his talents -- XXIII. Prayer -- XXIV. Baptism and the Lord's Supper -- XXV. The state of separate spirits; the resurrection of the body; judgment and eternity. Fair brown leather, lacks spine. Slight worming up to page 32.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Advance Review Copy; First Printing. Uncorrected Proof of the first American edition/first printing in Fine condition. From the collection of Betty Anderson, legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century as evidenced by her (small and unobtrusive) inventory number and signature; This book is a collection of correspondence between Igor Stravinsky and a number of people, including his friends Robert Craft and Nadia Boulanger. It covers a wide range of topics, including Stravinsky's work, life, and thoughts.; Stravinsky: Selected Correspondence; 1; 8vo. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Was World War II really the `Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations. In this book, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated with the narrative of the `Good War'. Whilst not criticising or doubting the need for war against Nazi Germany at some stage, Hitchens does query whether September 1939 was the right moment, or the independence of Poland the right issue.He points out that in the summer of 1939 Britain and France were wholly unprepared for a major European war and that this quickly became apparent in the conflict that ensued. He also rejects the retroactive claim that Britain went to war in 1939 to save the Jewish population of Europe. On the contrary, the beginning and intensification of war made it easier for Germany to begin the policy of mass murder in secret as well as closing most escape routes. In a provocative, but deeply-researched book, Hitchens questions the most common assumptions surrounding World War II, turning on its head the myth of Britain's role in a `Good War'. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good Plus. Second Edition. 2005. xvi, 197pp. Minor shelf wear to covers. The book is otherwise in excellent condition with no inscriptions, and all contents are tight and clean. "What was it like to be in love in Rome? Th 22 poems of Sextus Propertius' first book of elegies (publisehed in 28 B.C.) offer an answer. Defiantly un-Roman in his devotion to love for his Cynthia and to his art, Propertius writes with a strangely modern voice - passionate, wry, self-scrutinising and ironic. But it is a voice that has been shaped and controlled by a literary tradition already centuries old. This revised edition of Book I provides, in a verse translation which attempts to simulate the discipline and constraints of the hetameter-pentameter alternation in the elegiac couplets of the original poems, a handily self-contained Augustan poetry book- the earliest extant book of Latin love-elegy - to a readership without Latin. The Introduction and Commentary furnish the reader with explanations of the literary, mythological, historical and geographical allusions necessary for an understanding of the poems.".…

Trade paperback. Reprint. Seventh printing. ii, 166 p. Includes illustrations. Dupard-Locoul Family Chart; In 1936, Laura Locoul Gore completed an eye-witness account of life on a Creole Louisiana sugarcane farm named after her: "Laura Plantation." Her manuscript, only recently discovered in St. Louis, Missouri, details the daily life and major events of the inhabitants, both free and enslaved, of the plantation that she and her maternal forebears ran. Laura's writings offer an insider's perspective into a Creole household, spanning four generations of love and greed, pride and betrayal, heroism and pettiness, violence and excess. And, her words are also an explanation to her children as to why she rejected the traditional confines of Louisiana's Creole world to become a modern American of the 20th Century. This new publication (168 pages) includes an extensive biographical commentary on the members of Laura's Creole family by the current owners of the Laura Plantation Company, with 142 historic photographic images of the plantation and its inhabitants. Very good. Signed by author. Appears to be signed by Marmillion. …

Hardcover. 13th edition. viii, 477 p.; 13.5 cm. [Reprinted from 7th revised edition with new preface, 1814; first edition 1793] Contents: I. The divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures -- II. The importanct of revealed truth; the duty of reading the Scriptures, and the manner in which they should be read -- III. The scriptural character of God -- IV. A brief exposition of the Ten Commandments, as comprising the substance of the moral law -- V. Man's situation, as a sinner, in this present world -- VI. The Deity of Jesus Christ -- VII. The doctrine of Christ's Deity shewn to be essential to Christianity, and some objections to the doctrine beliefly answered -- VIII. The nature and design of the mediatorial office, sustained by the Lord Jesus Christ -- IX. The merits and atonement of Christ -- X. The exaltation of Christ, and his appearance in the presence of God in our behalf -- XI. Justification -- XII. Regeneration -- XIII. The personality and Deity of the Holy Spirit; with some thoughts on the doctrine of the Sacred Trinity -- XIV. The gifts and influences of the Holy Spirit -- XV. The uses of the moral law, in subserviency to the gospel of Christ -- XVI. The believer's warfare and experience -- XVII. The privileges enjoyed by the true believer -- XVIII-XIX. The dispositions and character, peculiar to the true believer -- XX-XXI. The believer's attention to relative duties -- XXII. The Christian's improvement of his talents -- XXIII. Prayer -- XXIV. Baptism and the Lord's Supper -- XXV. The state of separate spirits; the resurrection of the body; judgment and eternity. Fair diced calf. Most of back chipped off, retains title-piece.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good+. B & W photos, graphics and collage; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 12 pages; No. 9: August - September 1975. Single issue of the anti-fascist digest newspaper. Tabloid format newspaper with single horizontal fold. Usual and expected light toning to page stock. IIncludes a lengthy analysis of George Wallace. : "Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire." llustrated with B & W photos, graphics. VG+.…

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. First Edition. A truly groundbreaking collaboration between translator Coleman Barks and illustrator Michael Green that interweaves word and image: a magnificent meeting of ancient tradition and modern interpretation that uniquely captures the spiritual wealth of Rumi's teachings. Beautifully and lavishly illustrated in color in a number of artistic styles and combinations of different media. From the collection of Sanje (Frank) Elliott, Buddhist mentor, artist, and friend to many. Condition notes: 125 numbered pp +3; HB w/ DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, green eps, color frontis; no defects. Cover: yellow paper over boards with green cloth back strip, gilt titles spine; minimal shelfwear. DJ: unclipped, pink spine with white titles, green front with color artwork pink and black titles; minimal edge/shelfwear. A beautiful book. Giftable. Michael Green (illustrator).…

Zustand: Very Good. 1st ed. Very good/DJ also very good.

Zustand: Good. Deaccessioned ex-lib. , 175 p., clean and unmarked except for library stamps; back end paper missing, where most likely an envelope had been placed; fine paper only mildly age-toned; binding firm; art-deco leaf-patterned blue boards slightly bumped & rubbed, white lettering clear; frontis. is b&w engraving of Murillo's "The Conception of the Virgin;" and 30 others of works by Morales, El Greco, Velasquez, Cano, Ribera, Zurbaran, Murillo and Goya. …