Verlag: Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016, 2016
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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very good dust-jacket, very good black cloth, little used if at all. SHAPIRO, IAN. Politics against domination. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016, stated First Printing, xii, 273pp., . Ian Shapiro makes a compelling case that the overriding purpose of politics should be to combat domination. Moreover, he shows how to put resistance to domination into practice at home and abroad. This is a major work of applied political theory, a profound challenge to utopian visions, and a guide to fundamental problems of justice and distribution. Shapiro builds his case from the ground up, but he also spells out its implications for pressing debates about electoral systems, independent courts, money in politics, minimum wages, and the vulnerabilities of minorities. He takes up debates over international institutions and world government, intervention to prevent genocide and ethnic cleansing, and the challenges of fostering democracy abroad. Shapiro is brutally realistic in his assessments of politics and power, yet he makes an inspiring case that we can reasonably hope to devise ways to combat domination and act on them. Gleaning insights from the battle against slavery, the creation of modern welfare states, the civil rights movement, Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, and the worldwide campaign against sweatshops, among other sources, Shapiro explains the ingredients of effective coalitions for political change and how best to press them for political change and how best to press them into the service or resisting domination. Politics against Domination ranges over political science, psychology, economics, history, sociology, and law. It will be of interest to seasoned veterans of political theory in all these disciplines. But it is written in the lucid and penetrating style for which Shapiro is widely known, making it readily accessible to newcomers. - CONTENTS: Adapting against domination -- Power and majority rule -- The stakes of political conflict -- Democracy against republicanism -- Against world government -- Resisting domination across borders -- Politics against domination. ISBN 9780674743847.
Verlag: Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1971
ISBN 10: 0674628209 ISBN 13: 9780674628205
Anbieter: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Vereinigtes Königreich
hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Hardcover. A John Harvard Library Book. Dust jacket is rather sunned and a little grubby. Three small nicks to upper edge of rear of jacket. Light wear to jacket spine ends and leading corners. Hardcover spine head is slightly bumped. Marginal wear to hardcover leading corners. Binding is sound, pages are tight and clean and contents are clear throughout. AF. Used.
Verlag: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,, Cambridge (Massachusetts),, 1963
Anbieter: Antiquariat Tode, Berlin, Deutschland
17 x 25 cm, 244 S., mit zahlreichen Abb., goldgepr. Leinen mit Orig.-Schutzumschlag (dieser etwas berieben, kleinere Randläsuren sind fachmännisch hinterlegt), Kopfschnitt leicht angestaubt, priv. Widmung auf dem fliegenden Vorsatz, sonst gut erhaltenes, textsauberes Exemplar. 800 gr.
Verlag: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1960
Anbieter: Graphem. Kunst- und Buchantiquariat, Berlin, Deutschland
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EA, 8°, Lwd. m. Goldprägung u. OSU., 102 S. - Buchblock leicht stockfleckig, sonst gutes Exemplar / First edition. textblock lightly foxed. Altogether good copy. Buch.
Verlag: Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1967, 1967
Anbieter: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Kanada
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 25cm, x,147p., index, illustrations, previous owner's name on the front free endpaper, original red cloth with gilt spine titles, a fine copy in very good jacket (S16).
Verlag: Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013, 2013
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
very good dust-jacket, cover price $39.95, paper slightly warped and creaky, otherwise very good black half-cloth with black boards which appears little used if at all. KOPENAWA, DAVI / ALBERT, BRUCE. The falling sky: words of a Yanomami shaman. Translated by Nicholas Elliott and Alison Dundy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013, xvi, 622pp., . "The shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami tribe of the Brazilian Amazon describes the culture conflicts his people have faced in Western industrial society and global politics, issuing a plea for the native peoples of the Amazon. The Falling Sky is a remarkable first-person account of the life story and cosmoecological thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon. Representing a people whose very existence is in jeopardy, Davi Kopenawa paints an unforgettable picture of Yanomami culture, past and present, in the heart of the rain forest--a world where ancient indigenous knowledge and shamanic traditions cope with the global geopolitics of an insatiable natural resources extraction industry. In richly evocative language, Kopenawa recounts his initiation and experience as a shaman, as well as his first encounters with outsiders: government officials, missionaries, road workers, cattle ranchers, and gold prospectors. He vividly describes the ensuing cultural repression, environmental devastation, and deaths resulting from epidemics and violence. To counter these threats, Davi Kopenawa became a global ambassador for his endangered people. The Falling Sky follows him from his native village in the Northern Amazon to Brazilian cities and finally on transatlantic flights bound for European and American capitals. These travels constitute a shamanic critique of Western industrial society, whose endless material greed, mass violence, and ecological blindness contrast sharply with Yanomami cultural values." - CONTENTS: Foreword / Jean Malaurie -- Maps -- I. Becoming other. Drawn words ; First shaman ; Xapiri's gaze ; Animal ancestors ; Initiation ; Spirits' houses ; Image and skin ; Sky and the forest -- II. Metal smoke. Outsider images ; First contacts ; Mission ; Becoming a white man? ; Road ; Dreaming the forest ; Earth eaters ; Cannibal gold -- III. The falling sky. Talking to white people ; Stone houses ; Merchandise love ; In the city ; From one war to another ; Flowers of dream ; Spirit of the forest ; Shamans' death -- Words of Omama -- How this book was written -- Appendix A. Ethnonym, language, and orthography -- Appendix B. The Yanomami in Brazil -- Appendix C. Watoriki -- Appendix D. The Haximu Massacre. ISBN 9780674724686.
Verlag: Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014, 2014
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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near fine dust-jacket, cover price $39.95, attractive blue half-cloth with light blue boards, appears little used if at all. BUT previous owner's name blacked out on front endpaper. BUELL, LAWRENCE. The dream of the great American novel. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014, 1st edition, xii, 567pp., . "The idea of 'the great American novel' continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or obsolete. In this landmark book, the first in many years to take in the whole sweep of national fiction, Lawrence Buell reanimates this supposedly antiquated idea, demonstrating that its history is a key to the dynamics of national literature and national identity itself. The dream of the G.A.N., as Henry James nicknamed it, crystallized soon after the Civil War. In fresh, in-depth readings of selected contenders from the 1850s onward in conversation with hundreds of other novels, Buell delineates four 'scripts' for G.A.N. candidates. One, illustrated by The Scarlet Letter, is the adaptation of the novel's story-line by later writers, often in ways that are contrary to the original author's own design. Other aspirants, including The Great Gatsby and Invisible Man, engage the American Dream of remarkable transformation from humble origins. A third script, seen in Uncle Tom's Cabin and Beloved, is the family saga that grapples with racial and other social divisions. Finally, mega-novels from Moby-Dick to Gravity's Rainbow feature assemblages of characters who dramatize in microcosm the promise and pitfalls of democracy. The canvas of the great American novel is in constant motion, reflecting revolutions in fictional fashion, the changing face of authorship, and the inseparability of high culture from popular. As Buell reveals, the elusive G.A.N. showcases the myth of the United States as a nation perpetually under construction." - CONTENTS: Birth, heyday, and seeming decline -- Reborn from the critical ashes -- The reluctant master text : the making and remakings of Hawthorne's The scarlet letter -- "Success" stories from Franklin to the dawn of modernism -- Belated ascendancy : Fitzgerald to Faulkner, Dreiser to Wright and Bellow -- Up-from narrative in hyphenated America : Ellison, Roth, and beyond -- Uncle Tom's cabin and its aftermaths -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and its others -- Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Mitchell's Gone with the wind, and literary interracialism North and South -- Morrison's Beloved as culmination and augury -- Moby-Dick : from oblivion to great American novel -- The great American novel of early twentieth century breakdown : Dos Passos's U.S.A. or Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath? -- Late twentieth-century maximalism : Pynchon's Gravity's rainbow and its rainbow. ISBN 9780674051157.
Verlag: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982
ISBN 10: 067453915X ISBN 13: 9780674539150
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Printed orange wrappers. Sticker shadow on the front cover, light wear on the wraps, title written in ink on the spine, thus very good.
Verlag: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. xiv, 427pp. Dark blue clothcovered boards with silver and black on the spine. Near fine with bumping to the spine ends and rubbing to the boards, lacking the dust jacket if issued.
Verlag: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1979
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. Revised edition. Edited by Frank Freidel with the assistance of Richard K. Showman. xxx, 1290pp. Trade paperback. Good only with soiling, edgewear, and the front wrapper becoming detached.
Verlag: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990
ISBN 10: 0674399781 ISBN 13: 9780674399785
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Volume IV only. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. [10], 713pp. Illustrated in black and white with 16 color plates. Very good with foxing to the top edge and bumping to the spine ends in a very good dust jacket with a small tear to the top of the rear panel, rubbing, and edgewear.
Verlag: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1966
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Edited by James D. Hart. Octavo. li, 287pp. Owner name penciled on front fly else just about fine in a modestly worn, price clipped, very good dust jacket. "This volume contains in their entirety all of Stevenson's previously published and unpublished writings about his trip to California in 1879-80" (from inside flap). The John Harvard Library.
Verlag: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2018
ISBN 10: 067498403X ISBN 13: 9780674984035
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition, wrappered issue. 299pp. Inked initials on front fly, else fine.
Verlag: Belknap Press / Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2010
ISBN 10: 0674050819 ISBN 13: 9780674050815
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First American edition. Translated by Kenneth Kronenberg. Octavo. 325pp. Fine in wrappers.
Verlag: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2015
ISBN 10: 0674088077 ISBN 13: 9780674088078
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Fourth printing. 528pp. Illustrated in black and white. Fine in wrappers.
Verlag: The Belknap Press / Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2016
ISBN 10: 067473713X ISBN 13: 9780674737136
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Octavo. 299pp. Initials inked on front fly else fine in fine dust jacket.
Verlag: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2017
ISBN 10: 0674659767 ISBN 13: 9780674659766
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing on the rear panel.
Verlag: Belknap Press / Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2010
ISBN 10: 0674050819 ISBN 13: 9780674050815
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First American edition. Translated by Kenneth Kronenberg. Octavo. 325pp. Trifle worn else fine in wrappers.
Verlag: The Belknap Press / Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2019
ISBN 10: 0674241398 ISBN 13: 9780674241398
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Reprint. Octavo. 277pp. Inked initials on half-title else fine in wrappers.
Verlag: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1974
ISBN 10: 0674803973 ISBN 13: 9780674803978
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Second printing. Trade paperback. 190pp. Wrappers age-toned, near fine.
Verlag: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. xli, 406pp. Illustrated from black and white photographic plates. Ex-library copy with the usual markings, pocket and label removed from rear endpapers, boards slightly worn, spine rubbed, about very good. Volume one only of a trilogy.
Verlag: Belknap Press, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2007
ISBN 10: 0674024745 ISBN 13: 9780674024748
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. 380pp. Illustrated. Lower corners gently bumped, still fine in fine dustwrapper. "A rare combination of exhaustive research, original ideas, and graceful writing" --John Murrin, Princeton University (from the rear cover).
Verlag: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1991
ISBN 10: 0674595750 ISBN 13: 9780674595750
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. 412pp. Modest edgewear still fine in a very good modestly edgeworn dustwrapper with a few tears.
Verlag: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1960
ISBN 10: 0674190017 ISBN 13: 9780674190016
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Reprint. Pictorial wrappers. Edited by Everett Carter. Light crease on front wrapper, else a very good or better copy.
Verlag: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 519pp. Brown cloth boards. Illustrated from black and white plates. Very good (plus) with inked owner name and notation on front fly, slightly bowed boards, some soiling along the spine and page edges in a very good age-toned dustwrapper with rubbing and wear, a few small chips and tears along the edges. An account of Woodrow Wilson's life up to his election as Governor of New Jersey in 1910.
Verlag: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000
ISBN 10: 067400163X ISBN 13: 9780674001633
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 656pp. Gray paper boards. Illustrated from black and white photographs, maps. Very good with spine ends and corners bumped, spine cocked, boards slightly bowed in a very good (plus) dustwrapper with a small tear along the crown, light rubbing and edge wear.
Verlag: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977
ISBN 10: 0674471768 ISBN 13: 9780674471764
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Second printing. 443pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs, maps. Near fine with foxing to the edges in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper with rubbing, chips and tears to the edges.
Verlag: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1983
ISBN 10: 0674033140 ISBN 13: 9780674033146
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Reprint. 720pp. Trade paperback. Near fine with some foxing to top edge.
Verlag: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1978
ISBN 10: 0674471784 ISBN 13: 9780674471788
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Seventh printing. Wrappers scuffed and creased, else very good.
Verlag: Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1955, 1955
Anbieter: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Kanada
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 25cm, second printing, xxiv,689p., index, previous owner's name on the front free endpaper, black cloth with gilt spine titles, a fine copy in very good jacket (b1).