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Zustand: very good, very good. First Printing. 19 cm, 212, award sticker on front DJ, black mark on bottom edge. The author is a Jungian therapist who writes about living with advancing cancer and the rigors of its treatment.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1996). 1996 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppxii,212. Colour and b/w photographs, illustrations. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt. Good-plus in dust-wrapper. Publisher's information sheet laid in. "Water: A Natural History takes us back to the diaries of the first Western explorers; it moves from the reservoir to the modern toilet, from the grasslands of the Midwest to the Everglades of Florida, through the guts of a wastewater treatment plant and out to the waterways again. It shows how human-engineered dams, canals, and farms replaces natures beaver dams, prairie dog tunnels, and buffalo wallows. Step by step, Outwater makes clear what should have always been obvious: while engineering can depollute water, only ecologically interacting systems can create healthy waterways. An environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of why our waterways continue to be polluted and what needs to be done to save this essential natural resource. Important reading for students of environmental studies, the heart of this history is a vision of our land and waterways as they once were, and a plan that can restore them to their former glory: a land of living streams, public lands with hundreds of millions of beaver-built wetlands, prairie dog towns that increase the amount of rainfall that percolates to the groundwater, and forests that feed their fallen trees to the sea." .

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover with jacket in very good condition. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. AF. Used.

, Gardner, Howard, 1943-. Extraordinary minds: portraits of exceptional individuals and an examination of our extraordinariness. New York: BasicBooks, 1997, stated First Edition, xii, 178pp., very good dust-jacket, very good half-cloth. MasterMinds. 9780465045150 ISBN 0465045154.

Hardcover. Zustand: NF. Hardback in Near Fine condition, Near Fine dust jacket Remainder mark on bottom edge. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 277 pages. * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *.

1st Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: vii, 280 pages; 22 cm. Contents: Introduction / Olwen Hufton -- Religion and human rights: the case of and for Protestantism / Patrick Collinson -- Killing a Chinese mandarin: the moral implications of distance / Carlo Ginzburg -- The ancien régime: an open system? A contribution to the study of the birth of civic liberties / Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie -- Censorship, a comparative view: France, 1789--East Germany, 1989 / Robert Darnton -- Freedom, slavery, and the modern construction of rights / Orlando Patterson -- Contested meanings: women and the problem of freedom in the mid-nineteenth-century United States / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- The extinction of human rights in Nazi Germany / Ian Kershaw. Subjects: Human rights History. Civil rights History. Law history. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 162 pages; Description: xiii, 162 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Cosmology--Popular works. 1 Kg.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: very good dust-jacket, cover price $23.00, attractive copy, very good maroon half-cloth with gray boards, a few page corners lightly dinged. JOHNSON, BARBARA. Freedom and interpretation. New York: BasicBooks, 1993, 1st printing number line ending with 1, viii, 226pp., . Dust-jacket by Paul Perlow. Series: Oxford Amnesty lectures, 1992 "Much of modern thought - philosophical, linguistic, literary, and psychoanalytic - denies the possibility of a unified and whole self. What do such theories imply about how we interpret our freedom? If the self is really as fragmented and fragile as such theories suggest, how can we defend human rights in the world?" - "At a time when these questions are as vital as ever, here is a fascinating series of meditations on human freedom and intellectual responsibility by some of the most challenging thinkers of today. In this first volume of the Oxford Amnesty Lectures, seven leading literary figures - Wayne C. Booth, Helene Cixous, Terry Eagleton, Frank Kermode, Julia Kristeva, Paul Ricoeur, and Edward W. Said - explore the relationship between political freedom and modern conceptions of the self as they address questions of identity, nationalism, politics, ethics, poetic language, and freedom." - CONTENTS: Introduction / Barbara Johnson - We who are free, are we free? / Hélène Cixous -- Freedom and interpretation / Frank Kermode -- Individualism and the mystery of the social self : or, does amnesty have a leg to stand on? / Wayne C. Booth -- Self as ipse / Paul Ricoeur -- Deconstruction and human rights / Terry Eagleton -- The speaking subject is not innocent / Julia Kristeva -- Nationalism, human rights, and interpretation / Edward W. Said. 9780465025381 ISBN 0465025382.

First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 286 pages; Description: xiii, 286 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Affirmative action programs--United States. African Americans--Employment. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-275) and index. 1 Kg.

Trade paperback. Lawrence, Vint (illustrator). Reprint. Second printing. xiii, 271 p. Campaign Calendar. Index. Introduction by Andrew Sullivan. The New Republic has long been a leading journal of political thought, and its writers are renowned for their insightful, irreverent, and often biting analyses of public figures in American life. This book brings together the best pieces on the personalities and politics of the men who would be president in a definitive reference for this year's thoughtful voter. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some page discoloration.

Williams, George C. The pony fish's glow, and other clues to plan and purpose in nature. New York, NY: BasicBooks, 1997, stated First Edition, 184pp., very good dust-jacket, small tear on front, very good black and red hardcover. Science masters series. ISBN 9780465072811.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition, as stated. 6 x 9 in. Cloth and paper boards. Condition is FINE ; like new on all points. DJ is FINE ; not clipped, like new. Phil. Stax.

Zustand: very good, very good. First Printing. 24 cm, 356.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 0 pages; Description: xviii, 286 p., 12 p. of plates : ill. , maps ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-272) and index. Subjects: Ledyard, John (1751-1789) --Travel --Travelers --United States --Biography --Voyages and travels --History --18th century. Summary: Called a "man of genius" by his close friend Thomas Jefferson, John Ledyard lived, by any standard, a remarkable life. In his thirty-eight years, he accompanied Captain Cook on his last voyage; befriended Jefferson, Lafayette, and Tom Paine in Paris; was the first American citizen to see Alaska, Hawaii, and the west coast of America; and set out to find the source of the Niger by traveling from Cairo across the Sahara. His greatest dream, concocted with Jefferson, was to travel alone around the world and cross the American continent from the Pacific Northwest to the Atlantic. Catherine the Great dashed that dream when she had him arrested in deepest Siberia and escorted back to the Polish border. Ledyard wrote the definitive account of Cook's last voyage and his death at the hands of Hawaiian islanders, and formed a company with John Paul Jones that launched the American fur trade in the Pacific Northwest. Before the Revolution, Americans by and large didn't travel great distances, rarely venturing west of the Appalachians. Ledyard, with his boundless enthusiasm and wide-ranging intellect, changed all that. In lively prose, journalist James Zug tells the riveting story of this immensely influential character -a Ben Franklin with wanderlust-a uniquely American pioneer. 1 Kg.

hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 304 pp.

Fourth Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 222 pages; Description: xvii, 222 p. : ill. , map ; 25 cm. Subjects: Afrocentrism. Greece--Civilization--Egyptian influences. Notes: "A New republic book. " Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-213) and index. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is lightly bumped and rubbed along top and bottom edges with a slightly harder bump at top back edge. 577 pages with index.

Softcover. [12. reprint]. xii, 242 S. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Signatur und Stempel. GUTER Zustand, ein paar Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and library-signature. GOOD condition, some traces of use. K02996 9780465010639 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: DJ Fine. 2nd Printing. Size: Large Octavo.

Softcover. 254 S. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Signatur und Stempel. GUTER Zustand, ein paar Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and library-signature. GOOD condition, some traces of use. 9780465014088 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 350 20th anniversary ed., Rev. and updated [ed.].

Softcover. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Signatur und Stempel. GUTER Zustand, kaum Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and library-signature. GOOD condition, few traces of use. L00548 9780465024810 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

, Schacter, Daniel L., 1952-. Searching for memory. The brain, the mind, and the past. New York : BasicBooks, 1996, stated First Edition, xiii, 398pp., very good dust-jacket, original price $27.00, very good light brown half-cloth, gray boards, a few small flecks on top foredge. CONTENTS: Introduction : memory's fragile power -- On remembering : "a telescope pointed at time" -- Building memories : encoding and retrieving the present and the past -- Of time and autobiography -- Reflections in a curved mirror : memory distortion -- Vanishing traces : amnesia and the brain -- The hidden world of implicit memory -- Emotional memories : when the past persists -- Islands in the fog : psychogenic amnesia -- The memory wars : seeking truth in the line of fire -- Stories of elders. 9780465025022 ISBN 0465025021.

hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 246 pp.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. 1. Translated from the French by David Sharp. Quarter bound in blue cloth over white boards, copper lettering on cover and spine. Illustrated with 16 pages of B&W photographs. . The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, and square. Bottom edge only lightly soiled. The unclipped dust jacket shows mild shelf-wear, else fine. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xvii, 606 pp.

Zustand: very good, good. First Printing. 24 cm, 262, illus., map, sticker residue on DJ. In this hard-hitting analysis and manifesto the authors criticize the selfish, elitist attitude of U.S. innovators who see manufacturing and production workers as a necessary nuisance rather than an integral part of the operation.

1/4 Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. An attractive first edition/first printing in about Fine condition in alike, gold dust-jacket. Only minor traces of use; Morone covers over two hundred years of history, from the Revolution to the Jacksonian era to the Progressive movement to the end of the 21st century. "Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government"; 8vo; 402 pages; FSA.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good condition. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. 383pp. 25 cm. Signed by the author to Alexa.

Soft Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. -. 1. Publisher's glossy wraps. Illustrated with B&W photographs. The volume is in excellent condition, tight, square and clean, showing only mild shelf-wear. Former own'er name written on half-title, else fine. NEAR FINE. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xiii, (iii), 399 pp.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: DJ Near Fine (price clipped). 1st Printing. An irreverent look at the frontier Midwest, drawing on the work of more than 300 travel writers, native Westerners, Eastern dudes and foreign visitors, including Charles Dickens, Margaret Fuller, Anthony Trollope, and Mark Twain. Size: Narrow Large Octavo.

Zustand: very good, very good. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 286, ink notation on front endpaper, slight wear to DJ edges. Addresses the politics and culture of racial preference, and provides a focal point for subsequent debate on the contradictions of affirmative action.