La Nacion, January 1750. Hardcover. Moderate creasing and shelf wear on the jacket. Two lightly bumped corners on the boards. More
University of Virginia Press, July 1990. Trade Paperback. The Long Day is a wonderfully readable personal narrative of the trials and tribulations of an "unskilled, friendless, almost penniless girl of eighteen, utterly alone in the world" who arrives in New York City in 1905 to earn her livelihood. The book..... More
Northwestern University Press, June 1974. Cloth. Bound in heavy grey cloth with bright silver lettering on the front board and spine. Two very lightly bumped corners. Minor foxing on the top edge of the print block. More
DOUBLEDAY/ANCHOR BOOK, January 1958. Mass Market PaperBack. Published 'with New preface by the author'; heavy darkening of spine and mild toning of cover at margins. Cover & typography by Edward Gorey. (174 pages plus 8 pages of available titles from Anchor Books & Dolphin Books). More
Simon & Schuster, January 1989. Trade Paperback. Time Wars is for anyone who has ever wondered why, in a culture so obsessed with efficiency, we seem to have so little time we can call our own. A courageous, thought-provoking challenge to conventional wisdom. More
Hill and Wang, January 1966. Trade Paperback. Mild wear & slightly foxed edges & inside first blank pages. Large rectangle of darkened glue(?) verso of rear cover. Text is clean & without markings. Good reading copy of this classic 'indictment of slum life'. More
Basic Books, January 1999. Paper Back. Abortion has been at the emotional center of America's culture wars for a generation. Ever since the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision, abortion has in many ways defined American politics, creating an ideological demilitarized zone between liberals and conservatives. Above all, the..... More
Duke University Press Books, October 1997. Trade Paperback. Unlike studies of nineteenth-century culture that perpetuate a dichotomy of a public, male world set against a private, female world, Lora Romero's Home Front shows the many, nuanced, and sometimes contradictory cultural planes on which struggles for authority unfolded in antebellum America..... More
Doubleday, August 2023. Hardcover. From the acclaimed author of The Shakespeare Wars and Explaining Hitler comes a stirring manifesto on love in the modern age. Who wrote the book of love? In an impassioned polemic, Ron Rosenbaum--who has written books on the mysteries of Hitler's evil, the magic of Shakespeare's..... More
Doubleday, August 2023. Hardcover. From the acclaimed author of The Shakespeare Wars and Explaining Hitler comes a stirring manifesto on love in the modern age. Who wrote the book of love? In an impassioned polemic, Ron Rosenbaum--who has written books on the mysteries of Hitler's evil, the magic of Shakespeare's..... More
Pub Group West, October 2000. Trade Paperback. In 1999, over 700,000 people were arrested on marijuana charges. Ask Ed: Marijuana Law is a primer on constitutional rights with personal accounts by users and growers, offering expert advice on how to minimize the chance of arrest for marijuana possession or use..... More
New Society Publishers, September 2009. Trade Paperback. Forty years later, the "audacious generation" takes on the unfinished business of their counter-culture youth. It is a brilliant and highly original thesis. I commend Roszak for writing the book. -- Tom Pochari, World Affairs Monthly ...sense of optimisim that comes out in..... More
Cambridge University Press, April 2010. Trade Paperback. This book is about the development of white women's liberation, black feminism and Chicana feminism in the 1960s and 1970s, the era known as the second wave of U.S. feminist protest. Benita Roth explores the ways that feminist movements emerged from the Civil..... More
Liveright, June 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. In his best-selling book The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein demolished the de facto segregation myth that black and white Americans live separately by choice, providing "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to the reinforced..... More
Routledge, December 2021. Paper Back. The practice of comprehensive planning is changing dramatically in the 21st century to address the pressing need for more sustainable, resilient, and equitable communities. Drawing on the latest research and best practice examples, The Comprehensive Plan: Sustainable, Resilient, and Equitable Communities for the 21st Century..... More
Basic Books, September 1990. Trade Paperback. More
Basic Books (AZ), September 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Every day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger explores the range of this primal experience. Sharman Apt Russell, the highly acclaimed author of Anatomy of a Rose and An Obsession with Butterflies, here takes us on a...... More
Sourcebooks, January 2020. Hardcover. The New York Times and USA Today bestseller! This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of..... More
Sourcebooks, January 2020. Hardcover. The New York Times and USA Today bestseller! This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of..... More
Vintage, July 2013. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The "poet laureate of medicine" (The New York Times) and author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat weaves together stories of mind-altering experiences to reveal what they tell us about our brains, our folklore and culture, and why..... More
Vintage, September 2008. Trade Paperback. Revised and Expanded With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a...... More
Harper Perennial, January 1987. Trade Paperback. More
Picador USA, January 2011. Trade Paperback. Sacks explores the world of the deaf. He looks at the history and culture of deaf people, and goes on to consider how the study of sign language can aid the understanding of language in general. More
WaterBrook, August 2023. Hardcover. A thoughtful investigation into the incredible true story of a Black man convicted and exiled under the Oregon Exclusion Law in 1851--and a contemporary White woman wrestling with racism and faith after learning she's a descendant of two men who assisted in the exile. "A beautiful..... More
University of California Press, 1966. Mass Market PaperBack. 8th printing. Mass market paperback with darkened edges. Worn cover. Previous owner's name in ink first inside page. Marked over writing from a previous owner on verso of cover. [207 pages]. More
