Seven locks press washington dc (28 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Inscribed by co-author Curtis W. Johson (as "Curt") on front free endpaper. Book is NF save for slightly cocked spine, in NF DJ; DJ in mylar cover. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 2Nd Edition. Includes Index. Moderate Wear.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Gray cover shows only slight shelf wear. DJ scuffed at edges and has one taped tear.

Hardbound. Condición: Good. Collectible - Ex-Library with Markings; 210 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1987. 1st ed. Fine book in very good dust jacket. Top edge of jacket shows chips and tears. 331 pp. Sm 4to. [Uu].

Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. (1991), 249pp, slight shelfwear.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. "Islamic Fundamentalism" looks at the rulers of Iran in 2001. Mr. Mohaddessin evaluates the history of Iranian fundamentalism, the post-Khomeini rulers, the Iran-Iraq war, the exporting of arms and terrorism from Iran, the effects on Middle East Peace, external forces on Iran, and the political crisis inside Iran. Included are endnotes, an appendix, and an index. This copy is clean and solid. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. The Book Is Bound In A Cream Cloth Over Boards With Blue Lettering On The Spine. The Book Has Bumping To The Lower Corners. Watson, Carol (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Cabin John, MD / Washington, DC: Seven Locks Press 1989. First edition [no statement of printing]. "An anthropologist's struggle against bureaucracy, corruption, and powerful financial forces to protect a tribal society in Brazil". 212 pages, illustrated [including a frontispiece map and pictorial endpapers], notes, index. Near Fine copy [minor upper corner bumping] in Near Fine dust Jacket. See Photos cell.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Ex-library with stamps and removal marks otherwise clean pages and cover. Partial contents: The Setting: Rural America; some Necessary Definitions; What the Center Tried to Be; What We Learned; Some Suggestions for the Future. --- We are a Benedictine Monastery/Seminary Library; thank you for your support.…

Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 144pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. First edition.

Paperback. Condición: Fine. near fine. First edition. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. 196 pages. Condition of the book is Fine; No flaws noted, like new. Dust jacket is Near Fine; Very light wear. Stk.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Paperback Edition. Describes "a program to rebuild America's economy", offering a prescription for long-run economic growth "coupled with fairness for all members of American society". Ex-Library.

Condición: good. 24 cm, 224, wraps, illus., map, some wear and soiling to covers, pencil erasure residue on half title page.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 179 pp., Art Illus Plts, Red Hardback, Gilt title (Bright), Oblong 4to, Fine in Fine DJ, 1st ed (Separate 2-sided Paper titled "The Things that Matter" by author laid in).

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: None as Issued. 2nd Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/VG; strong & sound w/edge rubs & faint creasings to corner tips. "No man an island.", and neither "Main Street America." Anthology of essays addressing the mutual influence between Main Street America socio-econmic-political events and those of Third World countries. 18 documentaries w/3 appendices explore connections in trade, investments, government policies and foreign aide . when Main Street sneezes, and the Third World sneezes.…

paperback. Condición: Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: no dust jacket present. Updated Edition. This trade paperback is in good condition, with no notable flaws except minor shelf wear. The cover is intact, and the pages are clean and unmarked. There is no dust jacket, as typical for paperbacks, and the binding remains strong and secure. ###.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/clipped price, in mylar; 187 clean, unmaked pages/index. photos by John Vachon & Claire Flanders (ilustrador). SIGNED & Insc By Author.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good+. First. Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Corners and spine ends are lightly bumped. Interior is clean and bright.

Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 203 pages. Inscribed by author on front fly leaf. Foxing to edges. Crease on front flap of dust jacket. "Autographed Copy" sticker on front of dust jacket. Otherwise, tight clean copy. Record # 855717.

Condición: good, fair. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 331, front DJ flap price clipped, pieces of DJ missing at rear DJ and spine, DJ edges worn and small tears. Inscribed by author. Residue at rear cover. The true story of a schizophrenic patient.

Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st edition. SIGNED. A Fine copy in Fine dust jacket. 8vo., 308 pp., illustrated with B&W photographs. SIGNED with a long inscription by the author (Baker) on the front end paper. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve.

Wraps. Condición: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 21 cm. [8], 329-480 pages. Wraps. Notes. Figure. Tables. Pencil erasure residue on title page. This is the Official Journal of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. Armed Forces & Society publishes empirical, theoretically-informed articles, research notes, book reviews, and review essays. Its articles may adopt an interdisciplinary, comparative, or historical perspective, use qualitative or quantitative methods, and range from policy-relevant to theoretical themesâ"but they always meet the highest standards of intellectual rigor, scholarly argument, evidence, and readability. The lead article in on "Soviet Penetration in Afghanistan." Other topics include Escalation Control, Military Rule, Factionalism, Professional Military Education, and Intermediate Nuclear Forces. Among the authors are Charles C. Moskos and Stephen J. Cimbala. The Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society (IUS) is a professional organization and forum for the exchange and evaluation of research on military institutions, civil-military relations, and military sociology with a broad emphasis across the social and behavioral sciences. The IUS is intended to be interdisciplinary in nature and has around 600 fellows in over 35 countries, who hold varying occupations in the military, academia, and the private sector. The Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society was founded in 1960 by Morris Janowitz, professor of sociology at the University of Chicago. The IUS is centrally located at Loyola University Chicago and has a Washington D.C. region, a Rocky Mountain region, and a Canada region. The stated mission of the IUS is to provide independent, interdisciplinary analysis of military institutions, which "requires intellectual collaboration across university, organizational, disciplinary, theoretical, and national lines." The IUS publishes the journal Armed Forces & Society, which has been in circulation since 1974. The IUS hosts international conferences every other year, which provide for the presentation and evaluation of new research on civil-military issues. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xiv, 359, [3] pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by Peirce on half-title. Minor corner creasing to several pages. Neal Peirce, editor-in-chief/founder of the Citiscope, is a pulse-taker of change in how cities govern themselves and prepare to face new challenges. Curtis W. Johnson is the co-author of three books about public policy issues in urban regions, most recently Century of the City, published in late 2008 by the Rockefeller Foundation. As a longtime writer with the Citistates Group, Johnson, along with columnist Neal Peirce, has written more than a hundred feature-length articles on a wide range of public policy issues which have appeared in more than 50 newspapers over the past 20 years. John Stuart Hall, Ph.D., is Professor of Public Affairs and Public Service at ASU. A founder and former Director of ASU's School of Public Affairs and its Center for Urban Studies, and Project Director of over 40 large-scale, and often, interdisciplinary urban research projects, "No one in the country knows as much as Neal Peirce about the ins and outs of American local government". Neal Peirce is the best writer on urban affairs in the country". -- Henry Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. The growth of decentralization and the growing power of tribes, states, and citistates are addressed. (A citistates is a sovereign state consisting of an independent city and its surrounding territory.) The book outlines how urban America can prosper in a competitive world. Knowledge will be king-the dominant resource. The author feels that nation-states are losing their power to innovate and transform society, but citistates will take up the slack: "The citistate is the most dynamic form of human settlement today. We are just beginning to sense its full latent power. But it may be years before we grasp its limits, geographic or political.".…

Trade paperback. Condición: Very good. No DJ issued. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xiii, [1], 80, [2] pages. Illustrations. Inscribed by David Beckmann on the half-title page. Inscription reads June 19, 1991 To Myung Ja Oh-- You made an important contribution to our Friday morning reflections. Comments that you made were among the most memorable of over a decade of discussion. With best wishes, David Beckmann. Previous owners label affixed to the half-title page. Foreword by Barber B. Conable. World Food Prize laureate David Beckmann is one of the foremost U.S. advocates for hungry and poor people. He has been president of Bread for the World since 1991, leading large-scale and successful campaigns to strengthen U.S. political commitment to overcome hunger and poverty in the country and around the world. Beckmann is also president of Bread for the World Institute, which provides policy analysis on hunger and strategies to end it. He founded and serves as president of the Alliance to End Hunger, which engages diverse U.S. institutionsâ"Muslim and Jewish groups, corporations, unions, and universitiesâ"in building the political will to end hunger. Beckmann is a Lutheran pastor as well as an economist. He earned degrees from Yale University, Christ Seminary, and the London School of Economics. Six universities have awarded him honorary doctorates. In 2010, he was named a World Food Prize laureate. Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. (November 2, 1922 - November 30, 2003) was a U.S. Congressman from New York and former President of the World Bank Group. In 1980, Conable appeared in Milton Friedman's PBS documentary Free to Choose. Conable retired from the House in 1984. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan appointed him president of the World Bank. His experience as a legislator proved crucial as he persuaded his former colleagues to almost double Congress's appropriations for the bank. He retired in 1991.…

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xxi, 221, with eight pages of photos outside the pagination. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is white with blue lettering. Dust jacket is sleeved in a protective mylar cover, and show minor shelf wear on covers. Bar code sticker on dust jacket back from former seller. Some mild smudging on dust jacket front near bottom edge. Boards show negligible shelf wear to covers and very minor rubbing wear on the bottom board edges. Mild bumping to head and tail of spine. Text block shows light shelf wear and foxing on edges. Gift inscription in black ink on half title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #2. 1401713. FP New Rockville Stock.…

First Edition. INSCRIBED Bert "To dear Susie, Dave & family - You can relate to these stories better than most people, Susie - as you were there! Best wishes - Love, Bert, July '94". 168 pp. Color and black & white photographic illustrations. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (short closed tears; wear to extremities; tape repair upper front spine). The author, Bert Minshall was John Wayne's good friend and confidant as well as the captain of Wayne's 136-foot ship, a former U.S. Navy minesweeper, named Wild Goose. In his memoir, Bert shares many entertaining stories revealing ". the legendary Duke: charismatic, fun-loving, occasionally difficult and prone to angry outbursts, a movie star who enjoyed a good laugh or a prank with the abandon of a young boy, a sailor at heart who delighted in his big, aging navy workhorse.". …