Lexington Books, December 2015. Hardcover. Mainstreaming Pacifism. Conflict, success, and ethics takes on the challenge of answering the widespread objection that pacifism is ineffective. The book proposes a classification of 11 effectual means to an end (fraud, violence, force, gain, legality, masses, ideology, dialogue, humanity, time, vulnerability), and shows how..... More
Dallas Institute of Humanities & Culture, December 1986. Oversize Softcover. {7' x 11'} Small quarto; mild external wear. Very good+/fine overall. (250 pages.). More
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, June 1965. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Lays the foundation for modern studies in historical and descriptive linguistics." Reprinted from Philosophy Library edition. Octavo. Shelf wear. Side notes in pencil on at least one page. [240 pages] Reprinted from The Philosophy Library edition. More
Ecco, September 2023. Hardcover. A vibrant cultural history investigating the tangled and complex history of pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, February 2023. Hardcover. A new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization or electricity before it, artificial intelligence will touch every aspect of our lives--and cause profound disruptions in the balance of global power, especially among the AI superpowers: China, the United States, and Europe. Autonomous..... More
Workman Publishing, September 2023. Hardcover. From veteran true crime master Harold Schechter comes a unique look into the history of crime told through the dark objects left behind. The false teeth of a female serial killer from 1908, the cut-and-paste confession of the Black Dahlia killer, the newly cracked cipher..... More
The New Press, September 2023. Hardcover. The most comprehensive critique of probation and parole--and a provocative and compelling argument for abolishing both--from the former Probation Commissioner of New York City Imagine if probation didn't exist. And I came to you with $80 million and 30,000 people the courts considered troubled..... More
Gadjah Mada Univ Pr, December 2003. Trade Paperback. In the early sixties, Stuart Schlegel went into a remote rainforest on the Philippine island of Mindanao as an anthropologist in search of material. What he found was a group of people whose tolerant, gentle way of life would transform his own..... More
William Morrow, June 2023. Hardcover. "A pleasure. ... Suitable for beach reading or for mainlining before a dinner party." --Dan Piepenbring, New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "Absorbing. ... As thoughtfully written as it is nuts." --Chicago Tribune A collection of the world's most mind-boggling, thought-provoking, and downright hilarious..... More
Reaktion Books, September 2023. Hardcover. A book for our times: a moving meditation on the tension between loneliness and freedom, individualism and love. At no time before have so many people lived alone, and never has loneliness been so widely or keenly felt. Why, in a society of individualists, is..... More
Viking, February 2023. Hardcover. An urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police misconduct, from one of the country's leading scholars on policing In recent years, the high-profile murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others have brought much-needed attention to the pervasiveness..... More
Yale University Press, July 1992. Trade Paperback. "A splendid study, surely one of the most important that has appeared on the whole matter of power and resistance."--Natalie Zemon Davis Confrontations between the powerless and powerful are laden with deception--the powerless feign deference and the powerful subtly assert their mastery. Peasants..... More
Pluto Press, June 2001. Trade Paperback. 'Jeremy Seabrook is one of England's most imaginative and creative writers, with a preacher's talent for prophesy and a capacity for righteous indignation reminiscent of George Orwell.' Richard Gott, The Guardian 'It raises questions about the rights of Thai women and children and the..... More
Allen Lane, January 2009. Hardcover. This major philosophical work, by one of the world's leading public intellectuals, constructs a new theory of justice, not from abstract ideals or notions of what perfect institutions and rules might be, but from what the results of a system are practically, in the world..... More
Harvard University Press, January 1970. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in edgeworn dustjacket with darkened spine & margins with foxing/soiling to DJ. Two small punctures in jacket along spine. Foxing/tanning to verso. Front flap is not clipped. Steel blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering along spine. Dust stains and mild..... More
Blackwell Pub, January 1988. Trade Paperback. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2023. Hardcover. "Unsettling, absolutely riveting, and--for better or worse--necessary reading." --Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking--and why we all need to understand it. It's a signal paradox of our..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2023. Hardcover. An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into corners of our national psyche where others fear to tread. The Undertow is both inquiry and meditation, an attempt to understand how, over the last decade, reaction has..... More
Louisiana State Univ Pr, January 2007. Hardcover. Presentation copy inscribed on the title page 'To Charlie' by the author. More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2023. Hardcover. When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn's disease and tinnitus," there was no returning to "normal." Suddenly well-meaning people called her an "inspiration" while grocery shopping or viewed her as a needy recipient of technological..... More
St. Martin's Press, April 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Interviews with more than one thousand gay servicepeople highlight an investigation into the presence and treatment of homosexuals in the military. The bestselling author of And the Band Played On follows with a book of even greater power and sweep as he..... More
Pantheon, September 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very light shelf wear on the jacket. One corner slightly bumped. More
Houghton Mifflin, February 1996. Trade Paperback. We all expect to live longer than ever before. But what awaits us in the land-beyond-fifty? Will passion and lust simply disappear in those "sunset years"? Will the joy of sex, one of the driving forces of our younger days, be diluted into what..... More
Bantam Book/ Vintage Book, September 1972. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. 4th Bantam/Vintage reprnt. Soiling/stains to cover. Previous dealer's rubber stamp also front cover and first inside page. [217 pages]. More
