Perseus books 1999 (23 risultati)

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Some wear, but still a good reading copy. A portion of your purchase of this book will be donated to non-profit organizations.Over 1,000,000 satisfied customers since 1997! Choose expedited shipping (if available) for much faster delivery. Delivery confirmation on all US orders.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good+++. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good+++/Near Fine. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Everything needed to convince judges, scientists, lawyers and the millions of others who care deeply about animals of the injustice of denying them basic legal rights. 362 pages inclduing index. Sticker on front end paper. Overall, terrific copy.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Used Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Dust Jacket is clean and intact, with minor edge and corner wear. Front and back covers have very slight edge and corner wear. Spine intact with no creasing or warping. Binding is tight and intact, pages clean and unmarked. Firefly sells new and used books through our store front. We try to add a detailed description to as many titles as possible. If you have questions regarding this title, please contact us. Photos available on request. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Good.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardback, 1st Edition, Fine in Fine DJ, 8vo., 294 pages., 0.0 0.0 0.0.

black hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. vg cond. binding square & tight. covers have couple of faint smudges. bottom rear corner rubbed through. top edge has some minor soiling, other edges clean. erasure spot on front flyleaf, tiny bit of red ink on last page of index (bindery defect), faint smudges on pp. xv~xvii, otherwise contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg cond. rear bottom corner missing 1cm piece, not price clipped. good used copy. clean text, good binding. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). xx+636p. glossy b&w photo illustrations. 19 tables. notes. bibliography. index. world history. world war ii. nazi germany. third reich. ~ Nazi Terror tackles the central aspect of the Nazi dictatorship head on. Its devastating central argument is this: the Nazis did not rule by terror and terror rarely touched the lives of most ordinary Germans. The terror apparatus at the dark heart of Nazi Germany, set in motion by the Nazi Party leadership in Berlin, employed a selective terror that concentrated almost exclusively on Jews and other specifically targeted enemies of the Nazi regime. It depended for its implementation and effectiveness, however, on the cooperation and often voluntary participation at the local level of the broad mass of ordinary German citizens who themselves suffered little or not at all from Nazi terror. A small but growing contingent of historians of Nazi Germany have begun to view the Gestapo not as an omnipresent organ of terror but as a relatively small organization with few officers and few spies, reliant on the complicity of a meek and "ordinary" German population that largely policed itself: Not until now, however, have these provocative and controversial claims been so convincingly and thoroughly substantiated. By focusing on the role of the individual and on the role of society in making terror work, Johnson is able to definitively and dramatically answer such questions as these: Who were the Gestapo officers? Were they merely banal paper shufflers, as Hannah Arendt depicted Eichmann, or were they hideously and recognizably evil? What tactics did they use? What was it like to be arrested and interrogated by them? Were they motivated by an eliminationist antiSemitism? Did the average German know about the mass murder of Jews and other "undesirables" while it was happening? Exactly how was Nazi terror applied in the daily lives of ordinary Jews and Germans? Johnson spent five years researching in Gestapo and justice archives in three Rhineland communities ~ Cologne, Krefeld and Bergheim ~ reading and analyzing more than 1,100 Gestapo and "special court" case files. He conducted surveys and interviews with German perpetrators, Jewish victims and ordinary Germans who experienced the Third Reich at first hand. Nazi Terror examines more than one thousand individual cases of persecution pertaining to the entire spectrum of people who suffered from Nazi terror~Jews, Communists, Socialists, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, clergymen, the disabled and others. It deals in flesh and blood narratives~sometimes quite graphically~as well as in facts and statistics to tell the story of how the terror~perhaps the defining characteristic of the Nazi dictatorship~was imposed by the Gestapo and tolerated by ordinary Germans. These gripping, shocking and powerful firsthand accounts take the reader into the very heart of darkness: inside the Gestapo headquarters where the victims of Nazi terror were tortured and interrogated. Consequently, Johnson's book is able to settle many nagging questions about who, exactly, was responsible for what, who knew what and when they knew it. Destined to become the classic study of terror during the Nazi dictatorship and the benchmark for the next generation of Nazi and Holocaust scholarship, Eric Johnson's Nazi Terror.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good/NO DUSTJACKET. First Pbk. Edition. Reading, MA: Helix Books/Perseus Books. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. (1999). First Pbk. Edition. Paperback. Sm 4to., 820 pp., blindstamp, page toning . Black & White Plates (illustratore).

HC. 170pp ISBN 0738201243 Extreme-life expert Malcolm Walter focuses on the similarities between Mars and the early Earth. Walter unveils his dramatic plan--already adopted by NASA--for finding life in the rocks and subsurface water of Mars. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review press release laid in. B&W and color ill. (illustratore).…

black hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic cover. fine cond. nice clean copy. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwr. fine cond., not worn or torn or price clipped. first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line).vi+297p. memoirs. autobiography. american literature. english literature. drug culture. psychology of addiction. addiction literature. "how to stop time is the little black dress of dope books. Smart, sleek and savagely subtle, Ms. Marlowe is the most gifted druggie to pop out of Harvard since the late Timothy Leary." ~Jerry Stahl.~ "Cultural criticism masquerading as a heroin memoir masquerading as a dictionary, how to stop time looks at American society through the lens of heroin use. Weaving personal history with aphorisms and analysis, Ann Marlowe is unsparing in her exploration of her, and society's, obsession with heroin addiction. This is no glamorization of "heroin chic," no cautionary tale about the irresistable power of the drug, no cliched memoir of degradation and ecstasy. Instead, Marlowe delves beneath the surface of addiction, offering many startling insights into the nature of nostalgia and the love of predictable experience on the one hand and craving the validation ~ of danger on the other; about suburban childhood, and striving to remake yourself. How to stop time is the first book to examine heroin in relation to our cynical, post~consumer society, and the first to explain the profound nostalgia that powers both addiction and our age. Stepping in beside the likes of William S. Burroughs, Jim Carroll and Thomas De Quincey, Ann Marlowe's how to stop time is sure to become one of the classics of addiction literature.". …

First Edition. New remainder book. A small remainder stamp to the bottom edge of the pages.

tan & brown hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). deckled foredge. xiii+446p. 20 b&w glossy illustrations. notes. index. american history. american revolution. biography. politics. conspiracy theory ~ Thomas Fleming, author of the prize~winning Liberty! The American Revolution, has again taken the seemingly familiar in American history and breathed new and revelatory life into it. This time, through the lives and ambitions of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, the author transports us into the post~revolutionary world of 1804, a chaotic and fragile period in the young country and a time of tremendous global instability. Compressing his narrative into the final year of Hamilton's life, Fleming, with a master tragedian's sense of the inevitable and an historian's eye for new and startling insights, recounts the dramatic events that led up to Hamilton and Burr's fateful, fatal encounter. At first glance, Hamilton and Burr would seem to be men who shared a unique understanding and sympathy. Both were proud veterans of the War for Independence and extremely sensitive about their honor. Both were passionate politicians, leading figures in their respective parties. Both lived in splendid mansions and were saddled with enormous debts. Both were dogged by lurid rumors ~largely true~ about their extramarital sexual exploits. Yet in these very similarities can be found the stresses that caused a rift between them. Their differences only widened the breach: Hamilton's illegitimate birth in the West Indies (John Adams called him "the bastard brat of a Scotch pedlar"), Burr the son of a Princeton president and grandson of the great Puritan divine, Jonathan Edwards; Hamilton's son, Philip, killed in a duel, a shock that drove Hamilton's gifted daughter, Angelica, insane, while Burr enjoyed an intense relationship with his beautiful unhappy daughter, Theodosia, living in South Carolina with a husband she married only to give Burr access to his power and wealth; Hamilton's political isolation after the Federalist party fell from power, Burr's ascendancy as vice president under Jefferson, a man despised by Hamilton. Add to this volatile mix President Jefferson's secret enmity for Burr and his decision to destroy him with the help of New York's patronage~hungry political boss DeWitt Clinton. At least as combustible was the looming figure of the "New Caesar"~Napoleon Bonaparte. The rise of this Man of Destiny fed both Hamilton and Burr's political fantasies at a time when many politicians were talking secession and the probable collapse of Jefferson's government. Their mutual hunger for fame proved the final strain between the two ex~soldiers, convincing them that the outcome of their contest would determine the fate of the American republic. Tangled in a web of regret, anger, desperation and ambition, the two men were driven almost inexorably to their murderous confrontation in Weehawken, New Jersey. Duel is narrative history at its most authoritative, and authoritative history at its most readable. Once again Thomas Fleming has shown himself to be a stylist of first rank and a master historian, uniquely capable of finding the deeply human core at the heart of the defining events of our nation's past.…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by all three authors. Signed by Author.

Hardback. First Printing. Tight Bright Attractive Copy With No Markings To The Book. Very Good to Near Fine Condition in a Very Good to Near Fine condition Dustjacket. ISBN 0-7382-0165-0.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. black and blue cover.8to.320 pages.index.fine copy in fine dust Jacket,original price present.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

(XLIII) 563 p. Paperback (In good condition.).

Original publisher's cloth hardback, gilt lettering spine, pictorial dustjacket, large 8vo: xvi, 222pp. Very fine copy - as new.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. hbk 256pp dj shelfworn with some damp damage at top rh corner now in protective sleeve same dampness has also affected first twenty pages with slight corrugation text is unaffected and is unmarked clean and tight throughout.

Some highlighting Super octavo, hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hard Cover. Fair. Publisher: Perseus Books Group, 1999, Good, HB, ISBN: 0-7382-0244-4. A spirited, orginal and wonderfully irreverent conversation that will challenge, provoke, and forever change your outlook on the digital economy. Book.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearAbraham Rodriguez, Jr. captures what it's like to grow up too fast amid the crushing poverty of the South Bronx in this collection that depicts a gritty slice of New York Latino life.Boy Without a Flag is 'about the rancid underbelly of the American Dream,' says the author. 'These are the kids no one likes to talk about; they are seen as the enemy by most people. I want to show them as they really are, not as society wishes them to be.'In these truth-telling stories about his neighborhood of Puerto Rican adolescents growing up in the South Bronx, Rodriguez introduces us to the youth who fight every day for survival in our cities.…

1st edition stiff wrappers Fine octavo 313pp., b/w pls., diags., tables, notes, index.