Pritchett john s (26 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Paper wrappers. Zustand: A very good copy. First printing. 11 x 8.5 in. Includes Alberto Moravia "Insults," John D. MacDonald "The Taste of Gravy," V. S. Pritchett "Did You Invite Me?"and Part II of "All the President's Men.".

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. (Humor, Cartoons, Politics, Hawaii) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.…

Magazine. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 96 pages; Vol LXI, No. 18. Single issue magazine June 24,1985. Features Albert Hubbell cover art of a coastal scene of a dock and lobster traps. Cover is bright and fresh. Contents are clean and unmarked. Includes works by Judy Troy, V. S. Pritchett, John Rolfe Gardiner, John Harney, and more. NF. …

Zustand: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Zustand: New. In English.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Softcover; ex-library; in very good condition. Book.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Vol. 21, No. 6. Small quarto. Stapled wrappers. Wraps bumped along the edges, a bit or tearing at the staples, centerfold detached but present, very good overall. Includes an interview with Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, as well as contributions by Alberto Vargas, V.S. Pritchett, John D. Mac Donald, and others.…

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. Magazine. Quarto. P. 866-908. Stapled self-wrappers. Light toning, near fine. This British political magazine includes two poems by Robert Lowell, book reviews by John Fowles, V.S. Pritchett, Alison Lurie, Diana Trilling, and more.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Octavo. Near fine in wrappers.

mass market paperback. Zustand: acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED12mo; 416 pages; acceptable mass market paperback; tear bottom edge front cover where meets spine and small tear fore edge front cover; tanning to edge cover light and spine area; slight scuff to cover; tanned pages and inside cover; rounded tips from factory are bumped; few slight nicks to cover edges; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking; ' an original and distinguished collection of outstanding contemporary short stories.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First American edition with cancel title page. 168pp. Illustrated. Pages lightly age-toned, spine with a few tiny spots, boards with modest edgewear, very good in a price-clipped about very good dust jacket with a small round tear on the spine (affecting the title), tanning, an ink mark on the front flap and small chips and tears along the edges. Prints an essay on Paul Valêry by Andrê Gide; additional contributions by Louis MacNiece, William Sansom, George Seferis, Rose Macaulay, V.S. Pritchett, Osbert Sitwell, Edith Sitwell, Lawrence Durrell and more.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. A fair copy, bound in an orange cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Boards are in good condition but with bumping to corners and slight soiling and wear to spine. Binding is tight. Dust jacket is intact but has some chips and tears and small sections to the spine and on the top front are missing. Protected in mylar sleeve. All pages are free from notations. Pages are tanned with occasional small marks but good overall. Some discolouration to half-title page, end-papers and to paste-downs. Edges are soiled and tanned. B/W photographs. An interesting read. John Minton (illustrator).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Travel with me, if you will, on this incredible journey spanning millions of years from when Pangea begin its development towards becoming a single, supercontinent to is break up to form what we know as today's seven continents, each rich in treasure. Detect, if you can, the unique secrets left behind in Pangea's wake that will lead us to hidden treasures and hidden dangers.Do not delay your journey, for others are trying to discover the still hidden treasures and hidden dangers. Will you be next to find unimaginable wealth Will you be able to detect the hidden dangers.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Losing a job should not mean losing your direction, identity, and future-but America's unemployment system was never designed to help workers navigate lasting economic change.Rebuilding the Ladder: From Unemployment to Reemployment in 21st-Century America presents a practical case for replacing a passive, Depression-era safety net with a modern system that actively guides displaced workers back into meaningful employment.Today, job loss is often more than a temporary interruption. Automation, artificial intelligence, outsourcing, industry decline, and changing skill requirements can eliminate entire career paths. Yet the current system still relies primarily on temporary benefit checks, outdated job portals, fragmented training programs, and workers finding their own way through an increasingly complicated labor market.People facing unemployment do not need only a check. They need a path forward.John S. Pritchett examines the financial, psychological, and civic consequences of prolonged unemployment. Workers can lose savings, retirement security, professional connections, confidence, and a sense of belonging. Communities suffer as joblessness weakens local economies, increases alienation, and erodes trust in public institutions.Drawing lessons from Denmark, Germany, Singapore, and successful American workforce initiatives, the book proposes a new Reemployment Compact for America built around four central supports: - Flexible reemployment accounts for training, certification, relocation, childcare, and other transition expenses- Modern career-navigation centers combining human coaching with current labor-market information- Wage insurance to help experienced workers accept new positions without suffering an immediate financial collapse- Rapid, employer-aligned training programs connected directly to real hiring opportunitiesThe book also outlines a phased roadmap for implementation, including modernized state systems, portable career records, employer transition plans, regional workforce partnerships, community-college training hubs, and a permanent national funding structure.The goal is not to promise that every job can be preserved. It is to ensure that every worker has a realistic opportunity to move forward when the economy changes.Accessible, compassionate, and policy-focused, Rebuilding the Ladder is written for workers, employers, educators, workforce professionals, policymakers, and anyone concerned about the future of work in an age of accelerating disruption.We do not owe every worker permanence-but we do owe them possibility, guidance, and a way back up.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Human progress begins with the courage to exceed limits-but the same ambition that builds civilizations can also drive them toward disaster.The Hubris Paradox: Ambition, Achievement, and the Abyss explores the volatile relationship between human brilliance and human overconfidence. From ancient myths and scientific breakthroughs to technological disruption, political ideology, and institutional collapse, John S. Pritchett examines why the forces that propel progress can also blind people and organizations to consequence.The book traces this paradox through Prometheus, the Wright brothers, Marie Curie, the Manhattan Project, Apollo, the Titanic, Challenger, Chernobyl, the Boeing 737 MAX, FTX, artificial intelligence, gene editing, and other moments when ambition crossed the boundary between boldness and recklessness.These failures were rarely caused by a lack of intelligence. They occurred when confidence silenced doubt, warning signs were ignored, and systems lost the ability to listen.Yet this is not an argument against innovation. Pritchett makes the case for tempered hubris: ambition strong enough to pursue extraordinary goals, paired with humility strong enough to question assumptions, anticipate harm, and change course.Moving from diagnosis to design, the book shows how humility can become more than a personal virtue. It can be built into organizations through red teams, pre-mortems, independent review, pause points, feedback loops, protected dissent, scenario planning, kill switches, and systems designed to recover when they are wrong.The book also examines leadership in an age of complexity. Effective leaders, it argues, are not those who project absolute certainty, but those who create cultures where difficult questions can reach decision-makers before failure becomes inevitable.A practical appendix provides six field tools for applying these principles: - The Foresight Canvas- The System Resilience Checklist- The Listening Architecture Map- The Consequence Ledger- The Leadership Reflex Inventory- The Narrative Immunity Stress TestAccessible, wide-ranging, and deeply relevant to the age of AI and accelerating technological change, The Hubris Paradox is for leaders, innovators, policymakers, educators, and anyone concerned with building progress that can survive its own success.The challenge is not to extinguish the fire of ambition. It is to build systems wise enough to carry it.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Sun gives life to Earth. It can also threaten the systems modern civilization depends upon.In The Breath of Ra: Geomagnetic Storm, Elliott Caldwell's fascination with the Sun begins with a childhood eclipse and grows into a lifelong mission to understand one of its most dangerous expressions: extreme space weather.As Elliott studies solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and Earth's magnetic field, he becomes increasingly concerned about the vulnerability of power grids, satellites, navigation, communications, aviation, and other critical infrastructure. His warnings are often dismissed as alarmist, but history-from the Carrington Event to the 1989 Quebec blackout-shows that severe geomagnetic storms are not imaginary threats.Detection is only the beginning. Preparation is what determines what happens next.Elliott helps develop Solar Sentinel, an advanced forecasting and decision-support system designed to combine solar observations, upstream measurements, historical patterns, and real-time grid data. Its purpose is not to stop the Sun, but to give operators precious time to protect vulnerable systems.Then Elliott pushes toward something more ambitious: Lightrod.Rather than trying to absorb a solar storm, Lightrod is designed to keep geomagnetically induced currents from taking damaging paths through the electrical grid. Sensors, blocking equipment, automated switching, reactive-power controls, and grid reconfiguration work together to protect transformers and preserve stability as Earth's magnetic field is disturbed.The idea draws resistance from governments, utilities, investors, and skeptics who question whether billions should be spent preparing for a rare event.Then the Sun settles the argument.A massive Earth-directed coronal mass ejection races toward the planet, forcing Elliott and his team to test Solar Sentinel, Lightrod, and years of preparation against the kind of storm they have feared all along.The crisis becomes a race not to stop the Sun, but to keep its disturbance from turning humanity's own infrastructure against itself.Blending heliophysics, technological innovation, public policy, disaster suspense, and the human cost of preparedness, The Breath of Ra explores the tension between low-probability risk and high-consequence failure.The Sun is both creator and destroyer.The question is whether civilization will be ready when its next great storm arrives.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 219pp. Orange cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with one map and nine captioned photographic plates. A trace of light partial toning to the front free endpaper, else a fine copy in the splendid pictorial Minton dust wrapper, non-price-clipped, but with several small areas of loss from the spine panel ends (just impacting the title lettering) and one corner tip, and with a little internal reinforcement. A personal account of the history, culture and people of Spain.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. folded tanned newspaper. Damp stain to margin, V S Pritchett "Don't Go out today". Book.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original cerise cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine. 8vo 7½'' x 5¼'' 251 printed pages of text Ink name to the top of the front free end paper. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition John Woodcock designed dust wrapper with 5 mm surface rub to spine tip, small tear to the middle of the front gutter, not price clipped 16s, pink spine not faded. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original cerise cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine. 8vo 7½'' x 5¼'' 251 printed pages of text Foxing to the end papers and page edges. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition John Woodcock designed dust wrapper with 5 mm surface rub to spine tip, small crease line across foot of upper panel, not price clipped 16s, pink spine not faded. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near fine. 1st Edition. Sixteen Issues, First Printings. From The Library Of Ian Ballantine, Then The American Representative For Penguin Books, Prior To His Founding Of Ballantine Books. The Issues Contain A Mixture Of Original Items And Reprints From Earlier Publication. All Are Near Fine Or Fine, Unread, No Marks. American Issue Dust Jackets Present On #6, #7, #8, (With 25 Cent Prices On Front Flap, List Of "Recent American Releases" On Rear Flaps, Flight To Victory Ads On Rear Panels), All Near Fine Or Fine Except 23 Which Has A 1" Open Tear At Bottom Of Spine Panel, 31 Which Is Worn And Only Very Good, And 33 Which Has Slight Rubbing At Corners. A Few Issues With Ballantine's Tiny Handwritten Editorial Note "Anthol 436" At Upper Left Corner Of Front Cover, No Other Marks. Plates (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First printing of the true first edition, published in 1938 - the first of three volumes of New Writing published by The Hogarth Press - each volume edited by John Lehmann, Christopher Isherwood and Stephen Spender. With eight pages of photographic plates, chosen and arranged with the assistance of Humphrey Spender. ***Very good in pale-yellow cloth-covered boards with dark-blue titles to the spine and front board. The boards show some rubbing and marks commensurate with age and handling, but are generally clean. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Page block edges nice and clean, with the top edge stained green by the publisher, now gently faded. The fore-edge is untrimmed. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally near fine, with no previous ownership inscriptions, but with an attractive bookplate from John Bernard Kilfeather on the front pastedown. No off-setting or foxing to the endpapers, and the interior pages are also clean and unmarked. No foxing. No creases or tears. ***In a very good typographical dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 6s. net. The dustwrapper is complete, with just some very slight loss at the top and tail of the spine and corner tips. Edges of dustwrapper slightly creased and rubbed, with a couple of small closed tears. There is a small splash-stain on the front panel, and some overall browning to the dustwrapper. The spine is unfaded. ***240 pages. 224mm x 150mm. ***'It is now three years since "New Writing" was launched, and four or five since a small group of writers began to discuss the outlines of the project among themselves. --- Since the publication of the first number, the trend of events in Europe, and the world, has given "New Writing" an even greater significance for the younger writers, and at the same time the very fact of its existence has encouraged a new kind of writer to come forward. Both these developments have stimulated interest in fresh aspects not only of literature but also of the other arts, and "New Writing" found that further needs were arising which demanded to be met as urgently as the old. It is for this reason that with the present number a New Series has been inaugurated with several additional features to extend its scope: "New Writing" believes that a living publication should grow as life itself grows and changes.' (Quote taken from the editors' Foreword) ***First printing of the true first edition, published in 1938, with a complete original dustwrapper. Uncommon thus. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…