Basic books perseus books group (40 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. The untold story of the Russian Submarines that fought the Cold War.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: very good dust-jacket, cover price $35.00, very good gray hardcover, it took careful examination to find a few traces of use, one early page corner dog-eared and tiny tears along bottom edge of a few early pages where the reader was careless, and with slight indentations in the very soft hardcover spine. STARGARDT, NICHOLAS. The German War: a nation under arms, 1939-1945 : citizens and soldiers. New York: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2015, later printing number line ending in 8, xxviii, 704pp., . Dust-jacket design by Chelsea Hunter. "Drawing on a wealth of first-hand testimony, the German War is the first foray for many decades into how the German people experienced the Second World War. Told from the perspective of those who lived through it-- soldiers, school-teachers and housewives; Nazis, Christians and Jews-- its masterful historical narrative sheds fresh and disturbing light on the beliefs, hopes, and fears of people who embarked on, continued, and fought to the end, a brutal war of conquest and genocide" - CONTENTS: Defending the attack. Unwelcome war ; Closing ranks ; Extreme measures -- Masters of Europe. Breaking out ; Winners and losers -- The shadow of 1812. German Crusade ; The first defeat -- Stalemate. The shared secret ; Scouring Europe ; Writing to the dead -- The war comes home. Bombing and retaliation ; 'Holding out' ; Borrowed time -- Total defeat. Digging in ; Collapse ; Finale -- Crossing the abyss. ISBN 9780465018994.…

very good dust-jacket, cover price $29.99, very good black and light brown hardcover, attractive copy, appears little used if at all. SCHNEER, JONATHAN. Ministers at war: Winston Churchill and his war cabinet. New York: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2015, 1st printing number line ending in 1, xxiii, 323pp., . Schneer shows the inner workings of Winston Churchill's cabinet during World War II when Britain was guided by a group of talented, ambitious rivals who put aside their differences to defeat their common enemy. - CONTENTS: Part I. Making a war cabinet. Challenging the prime minister ; Finding a war prime minister -- Part II. Churchill and his ministers at war. Testing the war cabinet ; The months of greatest crisis ; Shaping the war cabinet ; The war cabinet at work ; Spearhead of the left ; Coping with Mr. Cripps ; The cat that walked alone ; The impact of Professor Beveridge ; The "cocky Cockney" and the debate over postwar Britain -- Part III. Sundering the war cabinet. Churchill on the downslope ; Aftershock ; Coda. ISBN 9780465027910.…

PAPERBACK, fresh attractive copy, appears unused. HOLLINGER, DAVID A. Postethnic America: beyond multiculturalism. Tenth anniversary edition, revised and updated / With a new postscript by the author. New York : London: Basic Books, Perseus Books Group, 2005, later printing, xii, 296pp., . 9780465030651 ISBN 0465030653. …

Rothenberg, David, 1962-. Thousand mile song: whale music in a sea of sound. New York: Basic Books, Perseus Books Group, 2008, 1st printing, 287pp., very good dust-jacket, very good hardcover with music cd in rear plastic pocket. Uses the enigma of whale sounds to examine the question of whether we can ever truly understand nonhuman minds. - Accompanying compact disc contains audio examples of whale songs and interspecies music. ISBN 9780465071289.…

hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: near fine dust-jacket, cover price $27.99, attractive copy, near fine hardcover with red spine and gray boards, a tiny surface tear in the soft red paper covering at the top of the spine, very minor, book appears unused. MCMILLAN, DAN. How could this happen: explaining the Holocaust. New York: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2014, 1st printing number line ending with 1, xi, 276pp., . "The Holocaust has long seemed incomprehensible, a monumental crime that beggars our powers of description and explanation. Historians have probed the many sources of this tragedy, but no account has united the various causes into an overarching synthesis that answers the vital question: How was such a nightmare possible in the heart of Western civilization? In How Could This Happen, historian Dan McMillan distills the vast body of Holocaust research into a cogent explanation and comprehensive analysis of the genocide's many causes, revealing how a once-progressive society like Germany could have carried out this crime. The Holocaust, he explains, was caused not by one but by a combination of factors--from Germany's failure to become a democracy until 1918, to the widespread acceptance of anti-Semitism and scientific racism, to the effects of World War I, which intensified political divisions within the country and drastically lowered the value of human life in the minds of an entire generation. Masterfully synthesizing the myriad causes that led Germany to disaster, McMillan shows why thousands of Germans carried out the genocide while millions watched, with cold indifference, as it enveloped their homeland. Persuasive and compelling, How Could This Happen explains how a perfect storm of bleak circumstances, malevolent ideas, and damaged personalities unleashed history's most terrifying atrocity." - CONTENTS: Posing the question -- A genocide like no other -- Why Germany? -- A world of enemies -- Hardened by war -- Division and disaster -- Why Hitler? -- From dictator to demigod -- Why the Jewish people? -- Hatred as science -- The absent moral compass -- What they knew. ISBN 9780465080243. …

Hard Cover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over brown boards, gilt lettering on spine. Brown endpapers. Includes B&W photographs, maps and drawings as well as extensive Notes, Bibliography and Index. . Both the volume and the dust jacket (in mylar) are in perfect, pristine condition. AS NEW/AS NEW. . B&W Illustrations. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. (xiii), 290 pp. …

Third Edition. Fine cloth copy in a fine, very slightly edge-bumped dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; vi, 307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; First edition. Subjects; Lomborg, Bjørn (1965-). Climatic changes Government policy. Climatic changes Economic aspects. Global warming Government policy. Climate change mitigation Economic aspects. Environmental policy Economic aspects. Pollution Economic aspects. 1 Kg.…

kart. Zustand: Gut. 20,5 cm ; Englischsprachige Paperbackausgabe, XII, 285 Seiten. Gutes Exemplar (good Condition). hw652 ISBN: 0465043011.

Hard Cover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. First Printing. First edition, first printing. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over brown boards, bronze lettering on spine. Profusely illustrated with photographs, drawings, graphs, and charts. Both the volume and the unclipped ($30.00) dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW/AS NEW. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xi, 322 pages.…

First edition with a 1 present in the number line; small 4to; paper covered boards with gilt lettering on spine; hardcover; 442 pages; black and white illustrations; very good with no apparent flaws in a similar quality pictorial dust jacket.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Description; 554 pages; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-532) and index. Subjects; Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965--Military leadership. Cherwell, Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount, 1886-1957. World War, 1939-1945--Science--Great Britain. Nuclear weapons--Government policy--Great Britain--History. Atomic bomb--Great Britain--History. Nuclear weapons--Government policy--United States--History. Great Britain--Military policy. Great Britain--Military relations--United States. 1 Kg. …

Original publisher's paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: x, 294pp. Fine copy.

(XLIII) 563 p. Paperback (In good condition.).

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

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

First edition with a 1 present in the number line; small 4to.; paper backed boards, hardcover; x, 420 pages; black and white illustrations and maps; very good in a very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Heavy Book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The text within the book is clear and bright. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

[978-0-465-01153-7] 2008. (hardcover) Very good. 322pp. 8vo. Quarter bound, black paper over red paper boards. Title stamped in silver to spine. No jacket. Maps. Black and white photographs.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Uncorrected proof. Illustrated wrappers. Fine.

1st U.S. edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xiv, 657 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: color illustrations; 25 cm. Contents; Confession and conversion -- Worldly ambitions -- Infancy, order and sin -- Family scars -- "So small a boy, so great a sinner ." -- Unfriendly friendship -- "To Carthage I came ." -- Apostle of Christ -- The living gospel -- Becoming Martha -- Selling lies for a living -- Guided encounters -- Eternal Rome -- Milan and Ambrose -- "Torn from my side ." -- Greater friends -- Plato reborn -- Inwards and upwards -- Sex, ambition and philosophy -- Into the garden -- Gentle withdrawal -- Villa life -- "Watering my couch with tears" -- Augustine with Augustine -- Born again -- The last days of Monnica -- Authority and love -- Slaves of God -- True religion -- The reluctant priest -- Sinners and seekers -- Faith and error -- "Not in rioting and drunkenness ." -- Seat of the scornful -- The seven steps -- Paul and Lazarus -- Postal contacts -- Amazing grace -- Food for scandal -- Shared burdens -- Confessing -- The heaven of heavens -- Epilogue. Includes bibliographical references (pages 572-610) and index. Summary; "You are great, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is your power and to your wisdom there no limit." So begin the Confessions of St. Augustine: the most intimate and heartfelt prayer ever composed, a cornerstone of Western thought, and a study of anguish, hesitation, and divine intervention that influences Christians--Catholics and Protestants alike--to this day. But the Confessions do not tell the full story of Augustine's tumultuous life and times. Here, the celebrated historian of the ancient world, Robin Lane Fox, follows Augustine of Hippo on his eventful journey to God and the writing of the Confessions. Born in AD 354 to a pagan father and a Christian mother, Augustine spent the first years of his life grappling with the nature of God and the world. He learned about Christianity as a child but was not baptized, choosing instead to immerse himself in his studies--all the while indulging in a life of lust and ambition. In the Confessions, he recounts his schooling in the classics in late-Roman North Africa, his sexual. sins ("Give me chastity, but not yet," he famously prayed), his time in an outlawed heretical sect, his worldly career and friendships; and his' gradual return to God. Drawing on recently discovered letters and sermons, Lane Fox expands on and complicates the story Augustine told about himself. He takes us from Augustine's heretical years as a Manichaean and his study of Neoplatonism to his later conversion. He evokes Augustine's early life with exceptional insight, showing how his quest for knowledge and faith ultimately brought him to Christianity. And he calls on his unparalleled knowledge of antiquity to bring Augustine's world to bustling life. This is an authoritative portrait of this colossal figure at his most thoughtful, venerable, and profound."--Adapted from book jacket. Subjects; Augustine Saint, Bishop of Hippo. Christian saints. Algeria - Hippo (Extinct city). 1 Kg. …

Erstausgabe. Gr.8°. 2 Blätter, VII + 146 Seiten, 2 Blätter. Original-Halbleineneinband, illustrierter Original-Umschlag. Sehr gutes, sauberes, neuwertiges Exemplar.

[0-465-02460-2] 2002. (hardcover) Fine in near fine dust jacket. xvi, 364pp. 8vo. The jacket shows the lightest of rubbing and faint markings, barely noticeable, but present nonetheless. The book is clean and bright, corners sharp, binding solid and square. Fine copy in near fine to fine jacket.

[978-0-465-00321-1] 2010. (Mass market paperback) Very good. xi, 270pp. 8vo. Explores new perspectives about, as well as the implications of, radical new theories about mass, energy, our universe, and the nature of space, as written by the winner (for work the author had done when he was 21 years old) of the 2004 Nobel Prize for Physics. Clean, tight, bright, solid copy, with colour photographs. Full number line.…

[0-465-09148-2] 1999. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. x, [2], 282pp. 8vo. A narrative of how fairy tales speak to the basic human condition and highlight the roles played by iconic images like glass slippers, evil stepmothers, gingerbread houses, sorcery, and how they differ from culture to culture. Illustrated jacket shows light wear, markings at rear. Quarter-bound, ivory paper boards. Small bump at head of spine; else is clean, tight, bright, solid. Features a parents' guide to choose and use fairy tales.…

near fine dust-jacket, cover price $30.00, attractive black hardcover, probably unused, light residue of old pencil price on front endpaper. BENDERSKY, JOSEPH W. The "Jewish threat": anti-semitic politics of the U.S. Army. New York: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2000, stated First Edition, and 1st printing number line ending in 1, xvii, 359pp., . "While the pervasive anti-Semitism of "ordinary" Germans in the first half of the 20th century has received much attention lately, very little has been written about America's own history of anti-Semitism. In the shocking The "Jewish Threat," Joseph Bendersky argues that such racism permeated the highest ranks of the US military throughout much of the past century, having a very real effect on policy decisions.", "While researching a book on Weimar social history in the National Archives, Bendersky stumbled upon a Military Intelligence Division file that contained reports on the activities of prominent Jews around the globe who were presumed to be involved in a massive conspiracy to dominate the world. Initially convinced that this was simply the work of a fringe group in the military, Bendersky nevertheless followed the thread of this file further. Through ten years of research in more than 35 archives, the author has now uncovered clear, compelling, and irrefutable evidence of endemic and virulent anti-Semitism throughout the army officer corps, from the turn of the century right up to the decades after World War II.", "Written with novelistic intensity, The "Jewish Threat" is the first documented examination of a functioning anti-Semitic worldview within an American institution of government and adds an entirely new dimension to the history of the U.S. Army." - CONTENTS: Prologue: The Jewish Files -- The Officers' Worldview, 1900-1939 -- Military Intelligence and "International Jewry," 1917-1919 -- Jews and Geopolitics, 1918-1924 -- The Nordic Defense of America, 1918-1924 -- Educating Officer Elites: The Army War College, 1919-1933 -- Quiet Continuities, 1925-1936 -- The Officer Corps and the Third Reich, 1933-1939 -- War College, War Clouds, 1933-1941 -- Officers and the Holocaust, 1940-1945 -- Survivors, Refugees, and the Birth of Israel, 1945-1949 -- Change and Continuity in the Postwar Era, 1945-1960. 9780465006175 ISBN 0465006175.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Paperback Edition. Soft Cover Nazi Terror tackles the central aspect of the Nazi dictatorship head on by focusing on the roles of the individual and of society in making terror work. Based on years of research in Gestapo archives, on more than 1,100 Gestapo and "special court" case files, and on surveys and interviews with German perpetrators, Jewish victims and ordinary Germans who experienced the Third Reich firsthand, Johnson's book settles many nagging questions about who, exactly, was responsible for what, who knew what, and when they knew it. Nazi Terror is the most fine-grained portrait we may ever have of the mechanism of terror in a dictatorship.…