Publicado por Liveright Publishing Corporation; W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London, 2016
ISBN 10: 1631490826 ISBN 13: 9781631490828
Librería: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st. 259 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. *** "Half-Earth proposes an achievable plan to save our imperiled biosphere: devote half the surface of the Earth to nature. In order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet, says Edward O. Wilson in his most impassioned book to date. Half-Earth argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the Earth to nature. If we are to undertake such an ambitious endeavor, we first must understand just what the biosphere is, why it's essential to our survival, and the manifold threats now facing it. In doing so, Wilson describes how our species, in only a mere blink of geological time, became the architects and rulers of this epoch and outlines the consequences of this that will affect all of life, both ours and the natural world, far into the future. Half-Earth provides an enormously moving and naturalistic portrait of just what is being lost when we clip 'twigs and eventually whole branches of life's family tree.' In elegiac prose, Wilson documents the many ongoing extinctions that are imminent, paying tribute to creatures great and small, not the least of them the two Sumatran rhinos whom he encounters in captivity. Uniquely, Half-Earth considers not only the large animals and star species of plants but also the millions of invertebrate animals and microorganisms that, despite being overlooked, form the foundations of Earth's ecosystems. In stinging language, he avers that the biosphere does not belong to us and addresses many fallacious notions such as the idea that ongoing extinctions can be balanced out by the introduction of alien species into new ecosystems or that extinct species might be brought back through cloning. This includes a critique of the 'anthropocenists,' a fashionable collection of revisionist environmentalists who believe that the human species alone can be saved through engineering and technology. Despite the Earth's parlous condition, Wilson is no doomsayer, resigned to fatalism. Defying prevailing conventional wisdom, he suggests that we still have time to put aside half the Earth and identifies actual spots where Earth's biodiversity can still be reclaimed. Suffused with a profound Darwinian understanding of our planet's fragility, Half-Earth reverberates with an urgency like few other books, but it offers an attainable goal that we can strive for on behalf of all life." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.
Publicado por Liveright Publishing Corporation / W. W. Norton & Company, 2020
ISBN 10: 1631495569 ISBN 13: 9781631495564
Librería: Armadillo Books, Chapel Hill, NC, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. A truly lovely First Edition copy! Mint condition in hardcover (square, tight, and unmarked) in a like dust jacket -- crisp, bright, and tight -- which has not been price-clipped. No rips, no tears, no rubbing, and no defects of any kind. No remainder marks. Stated First Edition; first printing (full number line present). Suitable condition for presentation as a gift, or for adding to a library collection. Ships from NC. All hardbacks are sealed in recycled plastic, packaged securely, and shipped promptly with tracking information. (K-4.).
Publicado por Liveright Publishing Corporations / W. W. Norton, NY, 2014
ISBN 10: 0871401002 ISBN 13: 9780871401007
Librería: North Country Books, Milton, VT, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Reprint. Hardcover edition with dust jacket -- both like new with no faults to note. Like new in Like new dust jacket.
Publicado por Liveright Publishing Corp. / W. W. Norton & Comp., 2018
ISBN 10: 0871404575 ISBN 13: 9780871404572
Librería: Inga's Original Choices, Piggott, AR, Estados Unidos de America
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Hard Cover. Condición: As New-. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New-. Various Photographers Ilustrador. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Usual ex-libri markings but very nice, clean copy, appears unread and to never having been checked out; no pockets, no torn out pages. A stock image [photo] is an accurate representation of the listed book's dust jacket design. Complete number line [1 - 10] at copyright page. NON price-clipped dust jacket [$ 13.95] in mylar covers attached to boards, clean, colors bright, minor display indications. Textblock pages [xvi, 371 including index] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Illustrated with one 16-page section of B&W photographs. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. Ex-Library.
Publicado por Liveright Publishing Corporation; W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London, 2019
ISBN 10: 163149404X ISBN 13: 9781631494048
Librería: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st. xi, 332 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. First published under title: Welt aus den Angeln. Translated from the German by the author. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Top right corner bumped. Fine DJ. *** "An illuminating work of environmental history that chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, which transformed the social and political fabric of Europe. Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the sixteenth century plummeted so drastically that Mediterranean harbors were covered with ice, birds literally dropped out of the sky, and "frost fairs" were erected on a frozen Thames--with kiosks, taverns, and even brothels that become a semi-permanent part of the city. Recounting the deep legacy and far-ranging consequences of this "Little Ice Age," acclaimed historian Philipp Blom reveals how the European landscape had suddenly, but ineradicably, changed by the mid-seventeenth century. While apocalyptic weather patterns destroyed entire harvests and incited mass migrations, they gave rise to the growth of European cities, the emergence of early capitalism, and the vigorous stirrings of the Enlightenment. A timely examination of how a society responds to profound and unexpected change, Nature's Mutiny will transform the way we think about climate change in the twenty-first century and beyond." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.
Publicado por Liveright Publishing Corporation; W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London, 2016
ISBN 10: 0871402963 ISBN 13: 9780871402967
Librería: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st. xxix, 507 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark (ink dot)/tail edge. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. *** "A history of the Bolshoi Ballet from its dubious beginnings in 1776 to the present, exploring its political ties and importance under various Russian regimes and how it came to define both Russian culture and ballet itself." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: The swindling magician; Napoleon and after; Fleet as lightning: the career of Ekaterina Sankovskaya; Imperialism; After the Bolsheviks; Censorship; I, Maya Plisetskaya; Epilogue. Size: 8vo.
Publicado por Liveright Publishing Corporation; W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London, 2017
ISBN 10: 1631491326 ISBN 13: 9781631491320
Librería: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st. xiv, 525 pages, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Bumped corners. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. "Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War II and the great events that led to Dunkirk. In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of World War II, Alone brings to resounding life perhaps the most critical year of twentieth-century history. For, indeed, May 1940 was a month like no other, as the German war machine blazed into France while the supposedly impregnable Maginot Line crumbled, and Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister in an astonishing political drama as Britain, isolated and alone, faced a triumphant Nazi Germany. Against this vast historical canvas, Michael Korda relates what happened and why, and also tells his own story, that of a six-year-old boy in a glamorous movie family who would himself be evacuated. Alone is a work that seamlessly weaves a family memoir into an unforgettable account of a political and military disaster redeemed by the evacuation of more than 300,000 men in four days--surely one of the most heroic episodes of the war." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.
Publicado por New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, 2020
Librería: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, Estados Unidos de America
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very good dust-jacket, cover price $27.95, fresh attractive copy, very good gray hardcover, appears unused. GOODMAN, RUTH. The domestic revolution: how the introduction of coal into Victorian homes changed everything. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, stated First American edition, and 1st printing number line starting with 1, xxi, 330pp., . "'The queen of living history' (Lucy Worsley) returns with an immersive account of how English women sparked a worldwide revolution--from their own kitchens. No single invention epitomizes the Victorian era more than the black cast-iron range. Aware that the twenty-first-century has reduced it to a quaint relic, Ruth Goodman was determined to prove that the hot coal stove provided so much more than morning tea: it might even have kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Wielding the wit and passion seen in How to Be a Victorian, Goodman traces the tectonic shift from wood to coal in the mid-sixteenth century--from sooty trials and errors during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to the totally smog-clouded reign of Queen Victoria. A pattern of innovation emerges as the women stoking these fires also stoked new global industries: from better soap to clean smudges to new ingredients for cooking. Laced with uproarious anecdotes of Goodman's own experience managing a coal-fired household, this fascinating book shines a hot light on the power of domestic necessity" - CONTENTS: Living off the land -- Out of the woods -- The draw of coal -- London, transformed -- The spreading blaze -- Cooks' tools -- A new menu -- Cleaning-up -- The domestic burden. ISBN 9781631497636.
Publicado por W. W. Norton Publishing -, 1937
ISBN 10: 0710015542 ISBN 13: 9780710015549
Librería: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Usual shelfwear to covers and page edges. Decent spine. Underlining and notes on several pages of text. Psychology. Pasadena's premier and independent new and used bookstore.
Publicado por Liveright Publishing/W. W. Norton, NY, 2021
Librería: North Country Books, Milton, VT, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Like new hardcover and dust jacket. Clean, tight and unmarked. Dust jacket not price-clipped.
Publicado por Liveright Publishing Corporation; W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2014
ISBN 10: 0871403145 ISBN 13: 9780871403148
Librería: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st. Cloth, 148 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with light edgewear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "In a drawing style derived from Steve Canyon and The Spirit, Feiffer combines his long-honed skills as cartoonist, playwright, and screenwriter to draw us into this seductively menacing world where streets are black with soot and rain, and base motives and betrayal are served on the rocks in bars unsafe to enter. Bluesy, fast-moving, and funny, Kill My Mother is a trip to Hammett-Chandler-Cain Land: a noir-graphic novel like the movies they don't make anymore." - Publisher. Size: 4to. Collectible.
Publicado por W. W. Norton Publishing -, 1985
ISBN 10: 0393302431 ISBN 13: 9780393302431
Librería: "Pursuit of Happiness" Books, Oakland, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Soft Cover. Condición: Good. Gd. condition/394 pages - This text brings together her most influential writings. This collection provides a firsthand view of the movement and its ongoing impact. [TH211532].
Publicado por W. W. Norton Publishing -, 1974
Librería: "Pursuit of Happiness" Books, Oakland, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Soft Cover. Condición: Good. PB/pub.1947/Gd. condition/275 pages - The author scrutinizes the literature of the pass, from Donne, to Keats, to show the main lines of development in the English tradition. [KT412667].
Publicado por W. W. Norton Publishing -, 1949
Librería: "Pursuit of Happiness" Books, Oakland, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Hard Cover. Condición: Good. Hardcover dj/pub.1949/Fair condition/295 pages - This text shows how the psychological discoveries of our time reveal new insights into human beings. [K911329].
Publicado por Liveright Publishing Corporation / W. W. Norton & Company, 2012
ISBN 10: 0871404613 ISBN 13: 9780871404619
Librería: Inga's Original Choices, Piggott, AR, Estados Unidos de America
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Hard Cover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Various Photographers Ilustrador. Stated First Edition, First Printing. A stock image [photo] is an accurate representation of the listed book's dust jacket design . NON price-clipped dust jacket [$ 25.95], clean, crisp, colors bright, minor display wear. Pages [268 including index] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Illustrated throughout with B&W photographs. White boards, navy spine covering, bright silver gilt lettering. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described.
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Publicado por Liveright Publishing Corporation; W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London, 2018
ISBN 10: 0871404478 ISBN 13: 9780871404473
Librería: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st. xxvi, 388 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "A portrait of nineteenth-century conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker describes their rise from savvy side-show celebrities to wealthy Southern gentry and discusses how their experiences reflected America's historical penchant for objectifying differences." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Collectible.
Publicado por Liveright Publishing Corporation; W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London, 2016
ISBN 10: 1631490230 ISBN 13: 9781631490231
Librería: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st. Cloth, 167 pages, colour illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In 1936 newspapers were ablaze with a scandalous child custody trial taking place in Hollywood and starring the actress Mary Astor; the story pushed Hitler and Franco off the front pages. George S. Kaufman, then the most successful playwright on Broadway and a married man to boot, had been Astor's lover. The scandal revolved around Marys diary, which her ex-husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, had found when they were still together. Mary, he claimed, had not only kept a tally of all her extramarital affairs but graded them-- and he already alerted the press in order to obtain a divorce and get custody of their daughter. Sorel provides all the juicy details of this particular slice of Hollywood Babylon, including Mary's life as a child star, and her teenage love affair with the much older John Barrymore." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Collectible.
Publicado por Liveright Publishing Corporation; W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London, 2016
ISBN 10: 0871404427 ISBN 13: 9780871404428
Librería: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st. xxv, 370 pages, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. *** "Thomas Jefferson is often portrayed as a hopelessly enigmatic figure -- a riddle -- a man so riven with contradictions that he is almost impossible to know. Lauded as the most articulate voice of American freedom and equality, even as he held people -- including his own family -- in bondage, Jefferson is variably described as a hypocrite, an atheist, or a simple-minded proponent of limited government who expected all Americans to be farmers forever. Now, Annette Gordon-Reed teams up with America's leading Jefferson scholar, Peter S. Onuf, to present a character study that dispels the many cliche s that have accrued over the years about our third president. Challenging the widely prevalent belief that Jefferson remains so opaque as to be unknowable, the authors create a portrait of Jefferson, as he might have painted himself, one 'comprised of equal parts sun and shadow.' Tracing Jefferson's philosophical development from youth to old age, the authors explore what they call the 'empire' of Jefferson's imagination -- an expansive state of mind born of his origins in a slave society, his intellectual influences, and the vaulting ambition that propelled him into public life as a modern avatar of the Enlightenment who, at the same time, likened himself to a figure of old -- 'the most blessed of the patriarchs.' Indeed, Jefferson saw himself as a 'patriarch,' not just to his country and mountain-like home at Monticello but also to his family, the white half that he loved so publicly, as well as to the black side that he claimed to love, a contradiction of extraordinary historical magnitude." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Collectible.
Publicado por Liveright Publishing Corporation; W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London, 2013
ISBN 10: 0871404508 ISBN 13: 9780871404503
Librería: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st. xii, 706 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "Redefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, this book finally examines this pivotal American era through a sweeping international lens that juxtaposes a struggling democracy with enticing ideologies like Fascism and Communism. Historian Ira Katznelson asserts that, during the 1930s and 1940s, American democracy was rescued yet distorted by a unified band of southern lawmakers who safeguarded racial segregation as they built a new national state to manage capitalism and assert global power." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Collectible.
Publicado por Liveright Publishing Corporation; W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London, 2018
ISBN 10: 1631491172 ISBN 13: 9781631491177
Librería: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st. xv, 620 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), map, facsimiles; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "An unforgettable portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century, published on the centenary of his birth. Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next twenty-seven years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration, the future leader of South Africa wrote a multitude of letters to unyielding prison authorities, fellow activists, government officials, and, most memorably, to his courageous wife, Winnie, and his five children. Now, 255 of these letters, many of which have never been published, provide exceptional insight into how Mandela maintained his inner spirits while living in almost complete isolation, and how he engaged with an outside world that became increasingly outraged by his plight. Organized chronologically and divided by the four venues in which he was held as a sentenced prisoner, The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela begins in Pretoria Local Prison, where Mandela was held following his 1962 trial. In 1964, Mandela was taken to Robben Island Prison, where a stark existence was lightened only by visits and letters from family. After eighteen years, Mandela was transferred to Pollsmoor Prison, a large complex outside of Cape Town with beds and better food, but where he and four of his comrades were confined to a rooftop cell, apart from the rest of the prison population. Finally, Mandela was taken to Victor Verster Prison in 1988, where he was held until his release on February 11, 1990. With accompanying facsimiles of some of his actual letters, this landmark volume reveals how Mandela, a lawyer by training, advocated for prisoners' human rights. It reveals him to be a loving father, who wrote to his daughter, 'I sometimes wish science could invent miracles and make my daughter get her missing birthday cards and have the pleasure of knowing that her Pa loves her,' aware that photos and letters he sent had simply disappeared. More painful still are the letters written in 1969, when Mandela--forbidden from attending the funerals of his mother and his son Thembi--was reduced to consoling family members through correspondence. Yet, what emerges most powerfully is Mandela's unfaltering optimism: 'Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark & grim, who try over and & over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation & even defeat.' Whether providing unwavering support to his also-imprisoned wife or outlining a human-rights philosophy that resonates today, The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela reveals the heroism of a man who refused to compromise his moral values in the face of extraordinary punishment. Ultimately, these letters position Mandela as one of the most inspiring figures of the twentieth century." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Collectible.
Publicado por New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton, 2012, 2012
Librería: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, Estados Unidos de America
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Gorra, Michael Edward. Portrait of a novel: Henry James and the making of an American masterpiece. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton, 2012, stated First Edition, and 1st printing number line, xxiv, 385pp., very good dust-jacket, cover price $29.95, very good black and yellow hardcover, fresh attractive copy with tiny ding to top right corner of cover. A revelatory biography of the American master as told through the lens of his greatest novel. - CONTENTS: An old man in Rye -- A preparation for culture. The girl in the doorway ; A native of no country ; A superstitious valuation ; Along the Thames -- The marriage plot. Her empty chair ; Proposals ; An unmarried man ; A London life ; The envelope of circumstances -- Italian journeys. Bellosguardo hours ; Mr. Osmond ; Stranieri ; An uncertain terrain ; A Venetian interlude ; Fenimore -- Sex and serials, the Continent and the critics. Maupassant and the monkey ; The magazines ; The Roccanera ; The art of fiction -- Putting out the lights. The altar of the dead ; "I was perfectly free" ; Working in the dark ; The second chance ; Endgame. ISBN 9780871404084.
Publicado por Liveright Publishing Co / W W Norton & Co, New York, London, 2014
Librería: Cher Bibler, Tiffin, OH, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing. 317pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Publicado por Liveright Publishing Company / W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2022
ISBN 10: 1631495607 ISBN 13: 9781631495601
Librería: Black Falcon Books, Wellesley, MA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, stated; first printing, full number line. The book is square and unmarked; corners sharp, tail of spine bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $27.95); the bottom of the front flap is corner-creased; Brodart protected.
Publicado por W. W. Norton Publishing -, 1972
Librería: "Pursuit of Happiness" Books, Oakland, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Hard Cover. Condición: Good. Hardcover dj/pub.1972/VG condition/400 pages - This text shows us at close range how the great composer pursued his beloved work while fulfilling the many obligations of both his public and private li ves. [KH218334].
Publicado por W. W. Norton Publishing -, 1986
Librería: "Pursuit of Happiness" Books, Oakland, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Hard Cover. Condición: Good. Hardcover/pub.1986/Gd. condition/373 pages - The author documented the complex inter-play between the press and public officials and the impact of this interaction on the shaping of major public polic y. [KR823347.
Publicado por NY/Boston: W. W. Norton/Boston Publishing Company, (1988). (1988)., 1988
Librería: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: Very good. - 4to, black cloth (rear cover rubbed; bottom edges of covers slightly faded) titled in gilt on spine & in blind on front cover), in dw (rubbed; staining to top edge of rear flap). 352 pp. Profuse full-page, double-page & textual illustrations in B&W & color. Very good. First edition.The complete history of the Vietnam War with eye-witness accounts by Morris Udall, Mary Reis Stout, Sam Davis, Walter Cronkite, Jim Quay, Al Santoli, Everett Alvarez and Jan Scruggs.
Publicado por W. W. Norton Publishing -, 1974
Librería: "Pursuit of Happiness" Books, Oakland, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Soft Cover. Condición: Good. PB/pub.1974/Fair condition/346 pages - The author has gone beyond any previous study of the history of slavery in this text. He has given us perspectives not only on slavery but on human relationships in early America. [KE619354].
Publicado por Liveright Publishing Corporation; W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2018
ISBN 10: 0871404478 ISBN 13: 9780871404473
Librería: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st. xxvi, 388 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed and inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, lightly soiled on the back cover, protected in a mylar cover. *** "A portrait of nineteenth-century conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker describes their rise from savvy side-show celebrities to wealthy Southern gentry and discusses how their experiences reflected America's historical penchant for objectifying differences." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. SIGNED. Collectible.
Publicado por Liveright Publishing Corporation; W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London, 2015
ISBN 10: 0871404230 ISBN 13: 9780871404237
Librería: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 606 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Bumped corners. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. *** "Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a 'mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war' that served as the seat of power for an empire that spanned from Spain to Syria. Yet how did all this emerge from what was once an insignificant village in central Italy? In S.P.Q.R., world-renowned classicist Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even two thousand years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power, citizenship, responsibility, political violence, empire, luxury, and beauty. From the foundational myth of Romulus and Remus to 212 CE--nearly a thousand years later when the emperor Caracalla gave Roman citizenship to every free inhabitant of the empire, S.P.Q.R. (the abbreviation of 'The Senate and People of Rome' examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries by exploring how the Romans thought of themselves: how they challenged the idea of imperial rule, how they responded to terrorism and revolution, and how they invented a new idea of citizenship and nation. Opening the book in 63 BCE with the famous clash between the populist aristocrat Catiline and Cicero, the renowned politician and orator, Beard animates this 'terrorist conspiracy,' which was aimed at the very heart of the Republic, demonstrating how this singular event would presage the struggle between democracy and autocracy that would come to define much of Rome s subsequent history. Illustrating how a classical democracy yielded to a self-confident and self-critical empire, S.P.Q.R. reintroduces us, though in a wholly different way, to famous and familiar characters--Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus, and Nero, among others--while expanding the historical aperture to include those overlooked in traditional histories: the women, the slaves and ex-slaves, conspirators, and those on the losing side of Rome's glorious conquests." - -Publisher. Size: 8vo.
Publicado por w w norton publishing, 1991
Librería: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, Webster, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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first edition. fine book fine jacket.