Alain on Happiness
Frederick Ungar, January 1978. Paper Back. Octavo. Shelfwear. Wear to cover edges. Moderate sunning to spine. First U.S. paperback printing. Originally issued in 1928 as 'Propos sur le Bonheur'. Not common. [252 pages]. More
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The Wrong Complexion for Protection: How the Government Response to Disaster Endangers African American Communities
NYU Press, July 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. When the images of desperate, hungry, thirsty, sick, mostly black people circulated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it became apparent to the whole country that race did indeed matter when it came to government assistance. In The Wrong Complexion for Protection, Robert..... More
Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Routledge, February 2009. Trade Paperback. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf Coast counties. The lethargic and inept emergency response that followed exposed institutional flaws, poor planning, and false assumptions that are built into the..... More
Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific
Random House, March 2014. Hardcover. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY"FINANCIAL TIMES " From Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world s Top 100 Global Thinkers by "Foreign Policy" magazine, comes a penetrating look at the volatile region that will dominate the future of geopolitical..... More
Empire Wilderness: Travels Into America's Future
Random House (NY), August 1998. Hardcover. Traveling, like Tocqueville and John Gunther before him, through a political and cultural landscape in transition, Kaplan reveals a nation shedding a familiar identity as it assumes a radically new one. "An Empire Wilderness" opens in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where the first white settlers..... More
Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century
Random House (NY), February 1996. Hardcover. The bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts takes readers on a journey through troubled regions where age-old cultural rivalries threaten to reshape the world of tomorrow. From West Africa to the fundamentalist enclaves of Egypt and Iran to the culturally explosive lands of Central Asia..... More
Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos
Vintage, January 2003. Trade Paperback. In Warrior Politics, the esteemed journalist and analyst Robert D. Kaplan explores the wisdom of the ages for answers for today's leaders. While the modern world may seem more complex and dangerous than ever before, Kaplan writes from a deeper historical perspective to reveal how..... More
Joyce's Ulysses: The Larger Perspective
University of Delaware Press / Associated University Presses, 1989. Hardcover. All fifteen essays in this collection are concerned with the primacy of the novelistic aspects of Ulysses and how it achieves its meanings. Together they seek to redress the tendency of some recent critics to regard Ulysses as a compendium..... More
Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito
MacMillan/Library of Liberal Arts, 1989. Reprint. Stapled Pamphlet. 33rd printing. Octavo. Underlining & notes in pencil [70 pages]. More
Literature and Film (A Midland Book)
Indiana UP, December 1972. Trade Paperback. Previous owners name on the half title page. Light wear to the cover. All text clean and clear. More
Inside Outer Space: New Poems of the Spaces Age -- A738
Anchor Books/ Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. A Doubleday Anchor Original, mass market paperback. Stated First Edition. Sun bleached spine. Creases, edgewear and surface scratches and scars. [398 pages]. More
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