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Paper Back. Zustand: Used.

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Paper Back. Zustand: Used.

Paper Back. Zustand: Used.

Paper Back. Zustand: Used.

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very good dust-jacket with narrow scuff and tear along bottom edge near spine, cover price $35.00, attractive black cloth, probably never used. gift bookplate from a company on front endpaper. IMPEY, CHRIS / HENRY, HOLLY. Dreams of other worlds: the amazing story of unmanned space exploration. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2013, 2d printing number line ending in 2, 450pp., . "Dreams of Other Worlds describes the unmanned space missions that have opened new windows on distant worlds. Spanning four decades of dramatic advances in astronomy and planetary science, this book tells the story of eleven iconic exploratory missions and how they have fundamentally transformed our scientific and cultural perspectives on the universe and our place in it. The journey begins with the Viking and Mars Exploration Rover missions to Mars, which paint a startling picture of a planet at the cusp of habitability. It then moves into the realm of the gas giants with the Voyager probes and Cassini's ongoing exploration of the moons of Saturn. The Stardust probe's dramatic round-trip encounter with a comet is brought vividly to life, as are the SOHO and Hipparcos missions to study the Sun and Milky Way. This stunningly illustrated book also explores how our view of the universe has been brought into sharp focus by NASA's great observatories--Spitzer, Chandra, and Hubble--and how the WMAP mission has provided rare glimpses of the dawn of creation. Dreams of Other Worlds reveals how these unmanned exploratory missions have redefined what it means to be the temporary tenants of a small planet in a vast cosmos.". ISBN 9780691147536.

good dust-jacket worn around edges, cover price $39.95, I find orange highlighting of a paragraph each on two pages (115-116) and ink notations on rear endpaper, book seems otherwise very good brown cloth. ADELMAN, JEREMY. Worldly philosopher. The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman COPY WITH A FEW MARKINGS. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013, 2d printing number line ending in 2, xv, 740pp., . ISBN 9780691155678.

Jalal, Ayesha. The pity of partition: Manto's life, times, and work across the India-Pakistan divide. Princeton: University Press, 2013, 1st printing number line ending in 1, xv, 265pp., very good dust-jacket, a few page corners dog-eared, a few very minor marks, otherwise still very good copy, not for sale stamp on top foredge. Lawrence Stone lectures. - "Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore in newly formed Pakistan. Today Manto is an acknowledged master of twentieth-century Urdu literature, and his fiction serves as a lens through which the tragedy of partition is brought sharply into focus. In The Pity of Partition, Manto's life and work serve as a prism to capture the human dimension of sectarian conflict in the final decades and immediate aftermath of the British raj. Ayesha Jalal draws on Manto's stories, sketches, and essays, as well as a trove of his private letters, to present an intimate history of partition and its devastating toll. Probing the creative tension between literature and history, she charts a new way of reconnecting the histories of individuals, families, and communities in the throes of cataclysmic change. Jalal brings to life the people, locales, and events that inspired Manto's fiction, which is characterized by an eye for detail, a measure of wit and irreverence, and elements of suspense and surprise. In turn, she mines these writings for fresh insights into everyday cosmopolitanism in Bombay and Lahore, the experience and causes of partition, the postcolonial transition, and the advent of the Cold War in South Asia. The first in-depth look in English at this influential literary figure, The Pity of Partition demonstrates the revelatory power of art in times of great historical rupture.". ISBN 9780691153629.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good - Cash. Minor rubbing and edge wear to cover, with light reader wear to pages. Still great condition. Secure pages, solid binding. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

23.0 x 15.0cms 366pp b/w illusts very good+ paperback & cover The themes are: how the Empire worked at its edge; Hellenization in the early Middle Ages; Hellas & Peloponnesos 1180-1204; the ecclesiatical organisation of central Greece at the time of Michael Choniates; the Byzantine Empire in the 12th century; Byzantine Kythera; Constantinople & its palace; Philippikos & the Greens; Philippikos the Gentle; the historical context of iconclast reform; Constantinople Rome & the Franks in the 7th & 8th centuries; the Pentarchy in the 9th century; the origins of Byzantine charity; the philanthropic activity of the Byzantine Church; the transmission of Fermat''s last theorem; book burning as purification in early Byzantium.

Zustand: Gebraucht / Used. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good. Xiii,592pp.

342 p. Bound in the publisher's brown cloth with pictorial dustjacket (Fine copy.).

Hardcover. A touch of sunning to spine of dustjacket, otherwise very good condition. 281pp. ISBN-13 9780691154671.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In the vast literature of love, The Seducer's Diary is an intricate curiosity--a feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an erotic failure as a pedagogic success, a wound masked as a boast,' observes John Updike in his foreword to Søren Kierkegaard's narrative. This work, a chapter from Kierkegaard's first major volume, Either/Or, springs from his relationship with his fiancée, Regine Olsen. Kierkegaard fell in love with the young woman, ten years his junior, proposed to her, but then broke off their engagement a year later. This event affected Kierkegaard profoundly. Olsen became a muse for him, and a flood of volumes resulted. His attempt to set right, in writing, what he feels was a mistake in his relationship with Olsen taught him the secret of 'indirect communication.' The Seducer's Diary, then, becomes Kierkegaard's attempt to portray himself as a scoundrel and thus make their break easier for her.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'First published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd 1953'--Title page verso.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Isaiah Berlin's Mellon Lectures on romanticism, a movement that he believed to be 'the greatest single shift in the consciousness of the West to have occurred, ' are as eloquent, sprightly, and profound as anything he ever produced. This edition is provided with fascinating addenda as well as exacting editing and full references; it presents Berlin's analysis of the contradictions, plurality, and irrationality of a vital conjunction in intellectual, political, and artistic history, and restores the voice of the magus at its most thought-provoking and beguiling.'--Roy Foster, University of Oxford.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Almanac is a collection of lyrical and narrative poems that celebrate, and mourn the passing of, the world of the small family farm. But while the poems are all involved in some way with the rural Midwest, particularly with the people and land of the northwestern Illinois dairy farm where Austin Smith was born and raised, they are anything but merely regional. As the poems reflect on farm life, they open out to speak about childhood and death, the loss of tradition, the destruction of the natural world, and the severing of connections between people and the land.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Walter Lowrie's classic, bestselling translation of Søren Kierkegaard's most important and popular books remains unmatched for its readability and literary quality. Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death established Kierkegaard as the father of existentialism and have come to define his contribution to philosophy. Lowrie's translation, first published in 1941 and later revised, was the first in English, and it has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to Kierkegaard's thought. Kierkegaard counted Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death among 'the most perfect books I have written,' and in them he introduces two terms--'the absurd' and 'despair'--that have become key terms in modern thought. Fear and Trembling takes up the story of Abraham and Isaac to explore a faith that transcends the ethical, persists in the face of the absurd, and meets its reward in the return of all that the faithful one is willing to sacrifice, while The Sickness Unto Death examines the spiritual anxiety of despair.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This brief book, a sequel to How to Win an Election, gathers Cicero's most perceptive thoughts on topics such as leadership, corruption, the balance of power, taxes, war, immigration, and the importance of compromise. These writings have influenced great leaders--including America's Founding Fathers--for two thousand years, and they are just as instructive today as when they were first written.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An inventive and observant collection of lyric poems from the Princeton Series of Contemporary PoetsWith skillful rhetoric and tempered lyricism, the poems in A Glossary of Chickens explore, in part, the struggle to understand the world through the symbolism of words. Like the hens of the title poem, Gary J. Whitehead's lyrics root around in the earth searching for sustenance, cluck rather than crow, and possess a humble majesty.Confronting subjects such as moral depravity, nature's indifference, aging, illness, death, the tenacity of spirit, and the possibility of joy, the poems in this collection are accessible and controlled, musical and meditative, imagistic and richly figurative. They are informed by history, literature, and a deep interest in the natural world, touching on a wide range of subjects, from the Civil War and whale ships, to animals and insects. Two poems present biblical narratives, the story of Lot's wife and an imagining of Noah in his old age. Other poems nod to favorite authors: one poem is in the voice of the character Babo, from Herman Melville's Benito Cereno, while another is a kind of prequel to Emily Dickinson's 'She rose to His Requirement.'As inventive as they are observant, these memorable lyrics strive for revelation and provide their own revelations.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The cool temperate waters around Britain and Ireland contain a huge variety of marine life and the sea anemones and corals, the Anthozoa, are some of the brightest and most attractive of all the groups of animals that live in them. Anemones and corals can be found from rockpools to the deepest depths and in all habitats from rocky reefs to soft mud.This is the second edition of this popular guide to all 74 of the sea anemones and corals found in British and Irish inshore waters. It will be an essential companion for divers, rockpoolers and students who want to identify the sea anemones and corals they find and know more about them.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Trigonometry has always been an underappreciated branch of mathematics. It has a reputation as a dry and difficult subject, a glorified form of geometry complicated by tedious computation. In this book, Eli Maor draws on his remarkable talents as a guide to the world of numbers to dispel that view. Rejecting the usual arid descriptions of sine, cosine, and their trigonometric relatives, he brings the subject to life in a compelling blend of history, biography, and mathematics. He presents both a survey of the main elements of trigonometry and a unique account of its vital contribution to science and social development. Woven together in a tapestry of entertaining stories, scientific curiosities, and educational insights, the book more than lives up to the title Trigonometric Delights.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Steven Nadler's knowledge of the many influences acting on Spinoza is profound. He is as sensitive to Spinoza's reactions to Descartes and Maimonides as to the philosopher's fears of the conservative religious forces that were threatening the Dutch Republic of his day. The wide context that Nadler provides makes for a reading of Spinoza's treatise which is unfailingly rich, nuanced, and illuminating.'--Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. Hirschman here offers a new interpretation for the rise of capitalism, one that emphasizes the continuities between old and new, in contrast to the assumption of a sharp break that is a common feature of both Marxian and Weberian thinking. Among the insights presented here is the ironical finding that capitalism was originally supposed to accomplish exactly what was soon denounced as its worst feature: the repression of the passions in favor of the 'harmless,' if one-dimensional, interests of commercial life. To portray this lengthy ideological change as an endogenous process, Hirschman draws on the writings of a large number of thinkers, including Montesquieu, Sir James Steuart, and Adam Smith.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This is a sprawling tale told with great energy, verve, and insight. Mazower offers an original and disturbing picture of the ideological foundations of the great sacred cow of postwar international institutions. No Enchanted Palace will be a much discussed volume in what is likely to be a continuing debate over the future of the United Nations.'--Sunil Khilnani, author of The Idea of India.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Well-organized and clear, this book is easy to navigate. The photographs are consistently good, the selection of species is judicious, and the valuable habitat section establishes the right context for the treatment of diverse fauna. This guide provides a good taste of the Australian wildlife experience for both the casual watcher and the experienced observer.'--Alan McBride, coauthor of The Complete Guide to Finding the Birds of Australia.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The esteemed author of 'The Age Of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics & Culture' returns with this intriguing narrative which argues that economic expansion is creating an increasingly complex world in which only a minority who have the right knowledge and skills reap the majority of the economic rewards.