1958 (Oltre 10.000 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, original price $16.00, near fine. GORDON, NEIL. The company you keep. New York: Penguin Books, 2013, 406pp., . Isabel Montgomery starts to receive emails from her father, a man who had abandoned her in a hotel room ten years ago when his past finally caught up with him. Why has he contacted her now? Because he needs her help and is finally ready to reveal the truth. Isabel discovers that her father adopted a false identity in the hope of avoiding murder charges for a robbery gone wrong in 1974. Now, tracked down by a young newspaper reporter in search of a story, he must abandon years of safe underground life in an attempt to exonerate himself. ISBN 9780143123873 10.20.…

Condizione: Good. Good condition. From the collection of Tom Verlaine. Verlaine was a guitarist, singer, and songwriter who was a founding member of the seminal punk rock band Television. He was known for his innovative guitar playing and songwriting, and he is considered to be one of the most important and influential musicians of the past 50 years.…

paperback. Condizione: Good.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 64 pages with frontispiece, photographs, drawings, illustrations and index. Royal octavo. 9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. First edition. Stephen Houston is an anthropologist, archaeologist, and epigrapher whose insightful interpretations of Mayan iconography and hieroglyphic inscriptions shed new light on the intellectual culture of Mesoamerican society and address fundamental questions about the role of writing in ancient civilizations. Houston draws on inscriptions and figural art to reconstruct the political and social structure of Mayan civilization, including the dynamics of royal court life and the role of religion. His interpretations of stylized representations of the human body demonstrate how displays of emotion were depicted and used by Mayan elites to reinforce their status within a hierarchical society. By considering Mayan script in the context of both ancient and modern civilizations, he has proposed new arguments, as well, about how writing systems function and how they originate, evolve, and expire. Houston s interdisciplinary approach brings into sharper focus the poetics and preoccupations of ancient Mayan texts and illuminates the relationship between histories recorded in hieroglyphic texts and those pieced together through archaeological evidence. Condition: Very good to fine.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. x+293 pages with diagrams, plates and appendixes. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Foreword by Garry Kasparov. First edition. In 1995, shortly before he was to play IBM's Deep Blue, World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov defeated challenger Viswanathan Anand in eighteen demanding and gripping games. Here for the first time are move-by-move analyses by International Grandmaster Leonid Shamkovich and by Master--and Kasparov second--Michael Khodarkovsky which provide insight into the mind of the world champion as he prepared for the match against Deep Blue. Garry Kasparov handily won his first match with Deep Blue, but it is clear from Khodarkovsky's description that even in 1996 the massively parallel computer could be a difficult opponent. Then, before the spring 1997 rematch, the IBM team let on that it had improved Deep Blue considerably and that it was spoiling for a fight . . . The analysis of these games in A New Era shows just how much IBM has improved the breed. Must-reading for anyone who is passionate about the world's most enduring game of strategy and wits, A New Era takes the reader inside the world of professional chess, offering insiders' insights (including those of Kasparov himself) into the politics and psychology of competition at the top levels of play, whether against human or machine. Condition: Edge wear, corners bumped and rubbed else very good.…

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condizione: acceptable. Fairly worn, but readable and intact. If applicable: Dust jacket, disc or access code may not be included.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 318 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter yellow cloth with gilt lettering to spine over red boards ion original pictorial wrappers. First edition with review material laid in. Miller, a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, knows the territory: her depictions of Harlem, Philadelphia's African-American bourgeoisie, and the drug-and-club scene all have an admirable authenticity. But, unfortunately, the story told by her protagonist, Regina Harris, never engages: poor but beautiful Regina needs to demonstrate throughout that even a young woman with a bad past can survive and remain true to herself. Brought up in Harlem, Regina is a model daughter until her widowed mother dies, overwhelmed by coping with Regina's older sister Brenda, a crack addict with a newborn infant. Young Regina tries to take care of baby Renee, but there's no money, and she fears Renee will be put in foster care. Regina starts shoplifting, then doing sexual favors for rich drug dealers, but after she's wounded in the melee surrounding a drug deal turned violent, she decides to go straight. She graduates from college and becomes a remarkably well-paid and successful freelance writer. Still, she can't escape her past, even when she marries handsome Charles Whitfield, a lawyer and the only son of well-to-do black Philadelphians. When Charles runs for Congress, his opponent releases information about Regina's history to the press. The couple weathers the storm, Charles is elected, and Regina gives birth soon after to a daughter. The marriage breaks down, though, when she learns he's been unfaithful. Regina, hanging tough, has her own ideas about revengeand the future. Condition: Fine in like jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Former library book. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: near fine dust-jacket, cover price $24.95, fresh attractive copy, hardcover with black spine and gray boards, printed on rather stiff paper with a narrow inner margin, glued binding. COLE, DAVID. Enemy aliens: double standards and constitutional freedoms in the war on terrorism. New York: New Press, 2003, 1st printing number line ending in 1, xiii, 315pp., . The nation's foremost civil libertarian shines a light on the cynical exploitation of 9/11 by government officials to target immigrants and lay the groundwork for rolling back the rights of ordinary American citizens. - CONTENTS: pt. 1. Responding to 9/11. Their liberty, our security: an overview ; The disappeared ; Ethnic profiling ; Patriots and enemies: redefining terrorism ; Targeting citizens -- pt. 2. History lessons. Crossing the citizen-noncitizen divide: an overview ; Enemy aliens and enemy races ; Alien radicals and radical citizens: from anarchism to sedition ; "The course of least resistance": J. Edgar Hoover's first job and the Palmer Raids of 1919-20 ; The second Red Scare: targeting radical citizens ; Extending the boundaries: from Martin Luther King, Jr., to Watergate ; From communism to terrorism: lessons of a young lawyer -- pt. 3. Security. Legitimacy and double standards -- pt. 4. The right thing to do. The Bill of Rights as human rights ; Conclusion: Breaking the cycle. 9781565848009 ISBN 1565848004.…

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: very good dust-jacket wrinkled along top front edge, cover price $30, very good but with slight defects, very good hardcover with orange spine and white boards, light flecks on top foredge, minimal defects if you want to read the book. HORWITZ, TONY. Spying on the South: an odyssey across the American divide. New York: Penguin Press, 2019, later printing number line ending in 4, 476pp., . "The author retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's journey across the American South in the 1850s, on the eve of the Civil War. Olmsted roamed eleven states and six thousand miles, and the New York Times published his dispatches about slavery and its defenders. More than 150 years later, Tony Horwitz followed Olmsted's route, and whenever possible his mode of transport--rail, riverboats, in the saddle--through Appalachia, down the Ohio and Mississippi, through Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, and across Texas to the Rio Grande, discovering and reporting on vestiges of what Olmsted called the Cotton Kingdom" - "The best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it during an extraordinary journey, as an undercover correspondent in the South for the up-and-coming New York Times. For the Connecticut Yankee, pen name 'Yeoman, ' the South was alien, often hostile territory. Yet Olmsted traveled for 14 months, by horseback, steamboat, and stagecoach, seeking dialogue and common ground. His vivid dispatches about the lives and beliefs of Southerners--white and black, free and enslaved, rich and poor--were revelatory for readers of his day, and have endured as classic text for the study of America on the brink of cataclysmic breakup. Yeoman's remarkable trek also reshaped the American landscape. As a rebuke to the caste-bound ideology of the South's master class, Olmsted sought to reform his own society by creating democratic spaces for the uplift of all. The result: Central Park and Olmsted's path-breaking career as America's foremost landscape architect. Tony Horwitz rediscovers Yeoman Olmsted amid the angry discord and polarization of our own time. Is America still one country? In search of answers, and his own adventures, Horwitz follows Olmsted's tracks and often his mode of transport: through Appalachia, down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, into bayou Louisiana, and across Texas to the contested Mexican borderland. Venturing, as Olmsted did, far off beaten paths, Horwitz uncovers bracing vestiges of the Cotton Kingdom and strange new mutations that have sprung from its roots. [This book] is also a penetrating and poignant study of Olmsted, whose destiny was forged by his Southern odyssey. Horwitz's wise, intrepid, and often hilarious tale of his journey through an outsize American landscape is a masterpiece in the tradition of Great Plains, Bad Land, and the author's own classic, Confederates in the Attic.". ISBN 9781101980286. …

Soft cover. Reprint/offprint; softcovers; in very good condition.

Soft cover. Reprint; softcovers; minor shelfwear w/ light creasing of corners of wraps and leaves; light foxing of wraps; o/w in good condition.

Soft Cover. ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article, ex-library; light foxing of first page; o/w in good condition.

ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article; no covers; several small chips around edge; folded; o/w good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. ORIGINAL PUBLICATION; Hardcover; minor shelfwear w/ corners lightly bumped and boards scuffed; owner's stamp; o/w in good condition.

Soft Cover. ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article; softcovers; very good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article, no covers; in very good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

Soft cover. Softcovers; reprint; minor shelfwear and a couple of small foxing spots; o/w in good condition.

Soft Cover. ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of Journal Article; Softcovers; ex-library; minor shelfwear and light soiling of wraps; o/w in very good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. In his new collection, novelist and nature writer Bass focuses a naturalist's eye not only on the frozen lakes and interplay of predator and prey often found in his work but also on the ebb and flow of human emotions and relationships. This copy is an EX-LIB with the usual markings, labels but with a tight, straight binding, a first printing with the bright, price-intact dustjacket in mylar covering. The book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping.…

Soft Cover. Softcovers; ex-library; minor shelfwear; o/w in good condition.

Schneider, Reinhold, 1903-1958. Innozenz der Dritte. Mit einem Nachwort von Josef Rast. München: DTV, 1963, 156pp., small PAPERBACK, very good, previous owner's name.

Soft Cover. ORIGINAL PUBLICATION; Reprint, softcovers; owner's stamp, o/w in very good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

Condizione: New.