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Trade Paperback. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Second Printing. 150 page. The rear cover is rubbed. The edges of the text block are foxed. An address label is attached to the reverse of the front cover. There is scribbling on the title page.

Cloth. Condición: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 247 pages. The covers are lightlyrubbed and soiled. A name is written on the FFEP. The text is clean and unmarked.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Edition Not Stated. THis entire issue focuses on issues dealing with the northern European countries. There is wear to the extremities. Numerous pencil marks have been erased although there might still be some that have been missed. THis is a very solid and readable copy.…

Soft Cover. Condición: Near Fine. 4th Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 4th Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Edges lightly rubbed. (Author of Feed, a National Book Award Finalist). 192 pages.

Trade paperback. Condición: Fair. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 219 p. Tale of Despereaux. Audience: Children/juvenile. tight copy, the text is wavy from dampness, some light edge wear.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Trade Paperback. Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Has very small publisher's remainder mark. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Cloth. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Edition Not Stated. 189 pages. The covers are rubbed and have small spots. There is moderate wear to the extremities. There is a tear on the top edge of the interior of the rear cover. The top edge and fore-edge of the text block are foxed. The text is in very good condition.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Sprawled along China's southern coast near Hong Kong, Guangdong is the fastest growing and most envied region in the country. With sixty million people in an area the size of France, the province has been a fascinating laboratory for the transformation of a static socialist economy and social system. Reforms instituted in the late 1970s by Deng Xiaoping have allowed this area to look outward once again and to move "one step ahead" of the rest of China and the socialist world in introducing new political and economic policies. Why did the new strategy come about? What happened in the various parts of Guangdong during the first reform decade?To answer these questions Ezra Vogel-one of the most widely respected observers of Asian economic and social development-returned to Guangdong, the subject of his award-winning book Canton under Communism, for eight months of fieldwork. The first Western scholar invited by a province to make such an extended visit, Vogel traveled to every prefecture in Guangdong and conducted hundreds of interviews to get a true picture of how post-Mao reforms are working. The result is a richly detailed study of a region on the cutting edge of socialist reform.One Step Ahead in China is a groundbreaking book, unique in its detailed coverage of Guangdong, the first socialist dragon to follow in the path of South Korea and Taiwan. Vogel paints a vivid portrait of Guangdong's accelerated development and surveys the special economic zones, the Pearl Delta, Guangzhou, and the more remote areas, including Hainan. He looks at the entrepreneurs and the role of the pervasive Chinese tradition of guanxi, in which friends and relatives of officials receive preferential treatment. He examines the problems of opening up a socialist system and places Guangdong in the context of the newly developing economies of East Asia. One Step Ahead in China is a groundbreaking book, unique in its detailed coverage of Guangdong, the first socialist dragon to follow in the path of South Korea and Taiwan. 6 maps, 7 tables. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Very Good Condition 249 pages.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. How does a teacher begin to appreciate and tap the rich creative resources of the fantasy world of children? What social functions do story playing and storytelling serve in the preschool classroom? And how can the child who is trapped in private fantasies be brought into the richly imaginative social play that surrounds him?The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter focuses on the challenge posed by the isolated child to teachers and classmates alike in the unique community of the classroom. It is the dramatic story of Jasonthe loner and outsiderand of his ultimate triumph and homecoming into the society of his classmates. As we follow Jasons struggle, we see that the classroom is indeed the crucible within which the young discover themselves and learn to confront new problems in their daily experience.Vivian Paley recreates the stage upon which children emerge as natural and ingenious storytellers. She supplements these real-life vignettes with brilliant insights into the teaching process, offering detailed discussions about control, authority, and the misuse of punishment in the preschool classroom. She shows a more effective and natural dynamic of limit-setting that emerges in the control children exert over their own fantasies. And here for the first time the author introduces a triumvirate of teachers (Paley herself and two apprentices) who reflect on the meaning of events unfolding before them. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Animal Thinking by Donald R. Griffin. This softcover edition, 5th printing, is in Very Good Plus (VG+) condition. The covers are in great shape and the binding is square and tight. There is minor abrasion on the half-title page, but the interior pages are clean and unmarked. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment to ensure protection from the elements, and a USPS electronic tracking number will be provided free of charge. Feel free to contact us for more information or additional pictures.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. Hardcover First Edition, 1st printing (2008). Former library book; otherwise, the book is in Very Good condition. The covers are in great shape. The binding is square and tight. Dust jacket is protected by a Mylar jacket and fixed to the pastedowns. Other than library stamps, the interior pages are clean and unmarked. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment for protection from the elements. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge. Bell, Cece (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover 1st edition, 1st printing in Very Good condition without a dust jacket. The covers are in great shape. The binding is tight. The interior pages are unmarked. Small abrasion to the front flyleaf. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment for protection from the elements. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. Hardcover 1st edition/1st printing in Like New or Fine condition with a nice, crisp dust jackdet. The covers are in great shape. The binding is tight. The interior pages are unmarked. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment for protection from the elements. Jacket show light shelf wear to top edge. Small abrasion to front flyleaf. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge.…

paperback. Condición: Very Good. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, very good with slightest opening line on spine. LEVINE, LAWRENCE W. Highbrow / lowbrow: the emergence of cultural hierarchy in America. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1997, 9th printing, xii, 306pp., . Series: The William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization, 1986 In this unusually wide-ranging study, spanning more than a century and covering such diverse forms of expressive culture as Shakespeare, Central Park, symphonies, jazz, art museums, the Marx Brothers, opera, and vaudeville, a leading cultural historian demonstrates how variable and dynamic cultural boundaries have been and how fragile and recent the cultural categories we have learned to accept as natural and eternal are. For most of the nineteenth century, a wide variety of expressive forms--Shakespearean drama, opera, orchestral music, painting and sculpture, as well as the writings of such authors as Dickens and Longfellow--enjoyed both high cultural status and mass popularity. In the nineteenth century Americans (in addition to whatever specific ethnic, class, and regional cultures they were part of) shared a public culture less hierarchically organized, less fragmented into relatively rigid adjectival groupings than their descendants were to experience. By the twentieth century this cultural eclecticism and openness became increasingly rare. Cultural space was more sharply defined and less flexible than it had been. The theater, once a microcosm of America--housing both the entire spectrum of the population and the complete range of entertainment from tragedy to farce, juggling to ballet, opera to minstrelsy--now fragmented into discrete spaces catering to distinct audiences and separate genres of expressive culture. The same transition occurred in concert halls, opera houses, and museums. A growing chasm between "serious" and "popular," between "high" and "low" culture came to dominate America's expressive arts. . In this innovative historical exploration, Levine not only traces the emergence of such familiar categories as highbrow and lowbrow at the turn of the century, but helps us to understand more clearly both the process of cultural change and the nature of culture in American society. 9780674390775 ISBN 0674390776. …

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. A mother-daughter collaboration, this text balances the respected views of a scholar with the fresh perspective of a younger colleague prepared to challenge current popular positions in these debates. The result is a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of language acquisition, from fetal speech processing to the development of child grammar to the sophisticated linguistic accomplishments of adolescence, such as engaging in conversation and telling a story. With examples from the real world as well as from the psychology laboratory, Kyra Karmiloff and Annette Karmiloff-Smith look in detail at the way language users appropriate words and grammar. They present in-depth evaluations of different theories of language acquisition. They show how adolescent usage has changed the meaning of certain phrases, and how modern living has led to alterations in the lexicon. They also consider the phenomenon of atypical language development, as well as theoretical issues of nativism and empiricism and the specificity of human language. Their nuanced and open-minded approach allows readers to survey the complexity and breadth of the fascinating pathways to language acquisition. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. A solution to inequalities wherever we lookin health care, secure retirement, educationis as close as the public library. Or the post office, community pool, or local elementary school. Public optionsreasonably priced government-provided services that coexist with private optionsare all around us, ready to increase opportunity, expand freedom, and reawaken civic engagement if we will only let them. Whenever you go to your local public library, send mail via the post office, or visit Yosemite, you are taking advantage of a longstanding American tradition: the public option. Some of the most useful and beloved institutions in American life are public optionsyet they are seldom celebrated as such. These government-supported opportunities coexist peaceably alongside private options, ensuring equal access and expanding opportunity for all. Ganesh Sitaraman and Anne Alstott challenge decades of received wisdom about the proper role of government and consider the vast improvements that could come from the expansion of public options. Far from illustrating the impossibility of effective government services, as their critics claim, public options hold the potential to transform American civic life, offering a wealth of solutions to seemingly intractable problems, from housing shortages to the escalating cost of health care. Imagine a low-cost, high-quality public option for child care. Or an extension of the excellent Thrift Savings Plan for federal employees to all Americans. Or every person having access to an account at the Federal Reserve Bank, with no fees and no minimums. From broadband internet to higher education, The Public Option reveals smart new ways to meet pressing public needs while spurring healthy competition. More effective than vouchers or tax credits, public options could offer us all fairer choices and greater security. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. "Consciousness matters. Arguably it matters more than anything. The purpose of this book is to build towards an explanation of just what the matter is." Nicholas Humphrey begins this compelling exploration of the biggest of big questions with a challenge to the reader, and himself. What's involved in "seeing red"? What is it like for us to see someone else seeing something red? Seeing a red screen tells us a fact about something in the world. But it also creates a new fact - a sensation in each of our minds, the feeling of redness. And that's the mystery. Conventional science so far hasn't told us what conscious sensations are made of, or how we get access to them, or why we have them at all. From an evolutionary perspective, what's the point of consciousness? Humphrey offers a daring and novel solution, arguing that sensations are not things that happen to us, they are things we do - originating in our primordial ancestors' expressions of liking or disgust. Tracing the evolutionary trajectory through to human beings, he shows how this has led to sensations playing the key role in the human sense of Self. The Self, as we now know it from within, seems to have fascinating other-worldly properties. It leads us to believe in mind-body duality and the existence of a soul. And such beliefs - even if mistaken - can be highly adaptive, because they increase the value we place on our own and others' lives. "Consciousness matters," Humphrey concludes with striking paradox, "because it is its function to matter. It has been designed to create in human beings a Self whose life is worth pursuing.". The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Trade paperback. Condición: Fine. Revised ed. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 276 p. Audience: General/trade.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. A New York Times #1 BestsellerA Wall Street Journal #1 BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Sunday Times BestsellerA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyWinner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardWinner of the British Academy MedalFinalist, National Book Critics Circle AwardWhat are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.Piketty shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequalitythe tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growthtoday threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, Piketty says, and may do so again.A work of extraordinary ambition, originality, and rigor, Capital in the Twenty-First Century reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Economies are constantly in flux, and economists have long sought reliable means of analyzing their dynamic properties. This book provides a succinct and accessible exposition of modern dynamic (or intertemporal) macroeconomics. The authors use a microeconomics-based general equilibrium framework, specifically the overlapping generations model, which assumes that in every period there are two generations which overlap. This model allows the authors to fully describe economies over time and to employ traditional welfare analysis to judge the effects of various policies. By choosing to keep the mathematical level simple and to use the same modeling framework throughout, the authors are able to address many subtle economic issues. They analyze savings, social security systems, the determination of interest rates and asset prices for different types of assets, Ricardian equivalence, business cycles, chaos theory, investment, growth, and a variety of monetary phenomena. Introduction to Dynamic Macroeconomic Theory will become a classic of economic exposition and a standard teaching and reference tool for intertemporal macroeconomics and the overlapping generations model. The writing is exceptionally clear. Each result is illustrated with analytical derivations, graphically, and by worked out examples. Exercises, which are strategically placed, are an integral part of the book. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. PAPERBACK; Thirteenth Printing. VERY GOOD CONDITION.A JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION; cpver has printed gold JOHN NEWBERRY MEDAL as part of the front cover design. "Now a Major Motion Picture" cover blurb sticker.; 269+pg pages; .yellow spine titles on brown decorated paper covers. .CLEAN, SOLID COPY. . Illustrated by Ering,timothy Basil Ilust (ilustrador).…

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The softcover edition of "City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn" by William J. Mitchell is a 7th printing from 2000 and is in Very Good+ condition. The covers exhibit minimal wear with just a hint of shelf wear, maintaining great shape. The binding is secure and tight. There is a small abrasion on the first page, but the interior pages are clean and unmarked."City of Bits" serves as an engaging and comprehensive introduction to a new type of city, exploring virtual spaces interconnected by the information superhighway. William Mitchell, an MIT professor, provides a technically well-grounded yet accessible examination of architecture and urbanism in the context of the digital telecommunications revolution.Rest assured, the book will be carefully packaged for shipment to ensure protection from the elements. An electronic tracking number from USPS will be issued free of charge. Should you require additional information or wish to see more pictures of the book, feel free to contact me.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. A paperback anthology of essential Greek and Latin texts with facing English translations.It is ideal reading for bar, bus, bed or beach. Everyone, teacher and taught alike, should have one. It is this years must-have present.The Journal of Classics TeachingThis selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from thirty-three of antiquitys major authors includes poetry, dialogue, philosophical writing, history, descriptive reports, satire, and fictiongiving a glimpse at the wide range of arts and sciences, thought and styles, of Greco-Roman culture.The selections span twelve centuries, from Homer to Saint Jerome. The texts and translations are reproduced as they appear in Loeb volumes.The Loeb Classical Library is the only existing series that, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. A Loeb Classical Library Reader offers a unique sampling of this treasure trove.In these pages you will find, for example: Odysseus tricking the Cyclops in order to escape from the giants cave; Zeus creating the first woman, Pandora, cause of mortals hardships ever after; the Athenian general Nicias dissuading his countrymen from invading Sicily; Socrates, condemned to die, saying farewell; a description of Herods fortified palace at Masada; Ciceros thoughts on what we owe our fellow men; Livys description of the rape of the Sabine women; Manilius on the signs of the zodiac; and Plinys observation of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79.Here you can enjoy looking in on people, real and imaginary, who figure prominently in ancient history, and on notable events. Here, too, you can relish classical poetry and comedy, and get a taste of the ideas characteristic of the splendid culture to which we are heir. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. A young boy takes his stuffed elephant everywhere he goes, including on vacation and even on a visit to school. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Mylar protector included. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.…

Softcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Focuses on Victorian culture, assessing the immense influence the ancient Greeks had on British classical education, the images and themes of George Eliot's writings, Christian sensibility, decorative arts, and English playing fields during the nineteenth century Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The colossal figures who shaped the politics of industrial America emerge in full scale in this engrossing comparative biography. In both the depth and sophistication of intellect that they brought to politics and in the titanic conflict they waged with each other, Roosevelt and Wilson were, like Hamilton and Jefferson before them, the political architects for an entire century.All previous efforts to treat the philosophies and programs of Roosevelts New Nationalism and Wilsons New Freedom have been partial and episodic. Now John Milton Cooper reconstructs in parallel lines the entire range of their ideologies and their strugglestheir social identification in terms of class, education, and regional roots; the origins and evolution of their political thought; their party leadership roles; and their psychological characters.After tracking the shared identities of young manhood, Cooper explains the conflict of their mature years that developed from opposing philosophies of government. Not until 1912, when Wilson ran for president, did they come together partially and briefly on common practical grounds of reform of the political process and efforts to curb big business in the public interest. Later, foreign policy in particular pitted them in a deeper conflict that consumed the rest of their lives. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. …