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Condition: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Condition: Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Condition: Very Good. hardcover 100% of proceeds go to charity! May have signs of use, wear and minor cosmetic defects.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 134 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter blue cloth with silver lettering to spine over blue boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Review copy with review literature laid in. On the Water is an intensely told tale of adolescent passion, narrated by Anton, a shy, uncomfortable outsider who harbours a yearning for a different kind of life that becomes symbolized in the river and in rowing. He joins the club, crossing the metaphorical and actual line which divides the town he lives in and forms an unlikely partnership with the calm, ironical David. Together they become a successful coxless pair, coached by an enigmatic German, Schneiderhahn. The story revels in descriptions of the physical exertion and emotional connection as it recreates pre-war Amsterdam. Telling the story in flashbacks, Anton now stands alone on a wintry evening facing a derelict and abandoned boathouse, recalling the long, hot summer of 1939 and mourning a lost world. Condition: Fine in like jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 278 pages. Octavo (8 1.2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter blue cloth with silver lettering to spine an blind stamped letters to cover ion original pictorial jacket. First edition. With a rush of adrenaline, this coming-of-age novel plunges into the world of a North Florida police force. The spotlight is on Abigail ("Fitz") Fitzpatrick, a female cop who is lesbian and rarely allowed to forget it, by either her male colleagues or the public in general. As the novel begins, Fitz, reared by nuns but a self-proclaimed "street addict," has burned out after eight years as a paramedic. Following the tragic death of a boy she couldn't save, she joins the police academy and enters the macho arena of police life.The story carries us through "Rookie Daze," the grueling stage of training, and comes full circle in "Rhythm and Blues," when Fitz is a seasoned officer and trainer of rookies herself. Along the way she faces crucial decisions as love, ethics, and friendship collide. A recent breakup with a female lover, a police investigator, alters her perceptions, shaping the person she is to become. And Morelli, an appealing male colleague with a bucketful of problems, forces Fitz to test the limits of loyalty.Fast-paced, original, funny, this novel recalls the early Joseph Wambaugh in its crackling authenticity. Stress, danger, professional integrity, and harassment are the issues as Fitz, in a voice that's unforgettable, tells us what it's like to be a police officer--as an insider, and an outsider as well. Condition: A fine copy in like jacket.…

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

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $5.95, near fine, tiny dings in right side, otherwise near fine copy. MINOT, SUSAN. Monkeys. New York: Washington Square Press, 1987, 1st Washington Square Press trade pbk. printing, March 1987, and 1st printing number line ending in 1, 159pp., . The Vincents, a New England family of nine, struggle to keep up appearances amidst the underlying tensions of the squabbles of seven children, a father with a drinking problem, and a marriage being torn apart. 9780671631888 ISBN 0671631888 6.40. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Former library book. Mylar protector included. Binding is moderately loose. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Photos,Drawings (illustrator). Ex-Library.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Hardback. Condition: 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.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good hardcover. No DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Slightly tanned. Covers show light edge wear with slight bend. Binding cracked but still intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 17010482. 1765897111. 12/16/2025 2:58:31 PM.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 407 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over black boards in original jacket. First edition. The Narrows is the 14th novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the tenth featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch. As Bosch crosses paths with FBI Agent Rachel Walling, the novel ties story elements left unresolved in The Poet and those from Blood Work and A Darkness More Than Night together into the Bosch mythos. Condition: Very good to fine in a near fine jacket.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 144 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Translated by Sarah J Young. First American edition. Using games by Kramnik, Shirov, Nunn and Kasparov, and complete illustrative games to highlight the key ideas, this book offers an examination of one of the most dramatic forms of defence in chess. In the Sveshnikov Sicilian, Black aims for maximum piece activity at the cost of a shattered pawn structure, seeking to seize the initiative regardless of cost. If Black is successful, the pawns will look after themselves. On the other hand, White is aiming to use Black's weaknesses as springboards for an attack of his own. Condition: Light edge wear, corners gently bumped else better than very good.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 109 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. Comprehensive master view of the 1. e4 e6 2. d4 c5 lines including variations such as .a6; unfortunately for White, Black seems to have an edge. Condition: Near fine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 275 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. The tendency toward mayhem that goes along with life with Jack McMorrow sends his girlfriend Roxanne to the relatively stable urban center of Portland, leaving Jack with a sore heart and an ultimatum in the wilds of Maine. In an effort to clean up his act, Jack takes a job as a courthouse reporter for the Kennebec Observer. What seems like the safe choice turns out to be anything but when Jack is drawn into a domestic abuse case that leaves a woman dead and McMorrow tangled in a messy web of innuendo, conflicted emotions, and mortal danger. It s time for Jack to grow up, but can he do it? Is it his destiny to follow his subjects into a life of rancor and violence, or will he be able to escape the call of his darker side and find some measure of peace? Only the future knows. Page edges age toned else a very good to fine copy in a near fine jacket.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. vii+56 pages with plages, maps and bibliography. Quarto (10 1/4" x 7 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Smithsonian Institution Institute of Social Anthropology Publication 5. First edition. This publication is the result of a cooperative program carried out by the author and three Peruvian anthropologists who were representatives, respectively, of the Institute of Social Anthropology and the Instituto de Estudios etnológicos. Julian H steward, director of the former organization has contributed a foreword that explains the nature of the project; and Dr Luis E Valcrecel, Peru's Minister of Public Education has written a preface that points up the need of more anthropological studies for the practical use of administrators. Condition: Corners bumped, edge wear else very good.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, cover price $16.95, previous owner's name stamp blacked out inside front cover and on title page, with marker bleeding through to next page, otherwise a very good copy. LILLA, MARK. The reckless mind: intellectuals in politics : with a new afterword. New York: NYRB/New York Review Books, 2016, 1st printing number line starting with 1 of this edition, xiii, 229pp., . Series: New York Review Books collection In 1953 Czeslaw Milosz published The Captive Mind, his classic study of how intellectuals in postwar Eastern Europe were tempted to collaborate with the Communist system under which they lived. But they were hardly unique. European history of the past century is full of examples of philosophers, writers, and jurists who, whether they lived in democratic, Communist, or fascist societies, supported and defended totalitarian principles and horrific regimes. - CONTENTS: Martin Heidegger -- Hannah Arendt -- Karl Jaspers -- Carl Schmitt -- Walter Benjamin -- Alexandre Kojève -- Michel Foucault -- Jacques Derrida -- The lure of Syracuse -- Sola Fide. ISBN 9781681371160.…

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, near fine, attractive copy appears little used if at all. HILL, ANITA. Reimagining equality: stories of gender, race, and finding home. Boston, Mass: Beacon Press, 2011, xxiv, 195pp., . "In 1991, Anita Hill's courageous testimony during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings sparked a national conversation on sexual harassment and women's equality in politics and the workplace. Today, she turns her attention to another potent and enduring symbol of economic success and equality-the home. Hill details how the current housing crisis, resulting in the devastation of so many families, so many communities, and even whole cities, imperils every American's ability to achieve the American Dream. Hill takes us on a journey that begins with her own family story and ends with the subprime mortgage meltdown. Along the way, she invites us into homes across America, rural and urban, and introduces us to some extraordinary African American women. As slavery ended, Mollie Elliott, Hill's ancestor, found herself with an infant son and no husband. Yet, she bravely set course to define for generations to come what it meant to be a free person of color. On the eve of the civil rights and women's rights movements, Lorraine Hansberry's childhood experience of her family's fight against racial restrictions in a Chicago neighborhood ended tragically for the Hansberry family. Yet, that episode shaped Lorraine's hopeful account of early suburban integration in her iconic American drama A Raisin in the Sun. Two decades later, Marla, a divorced mother, endeavors to keep her children safe from a growing gang presence in 1980s Los Angeles. Her story sheds light on the fears and anxiety countless parents faced during an era of growing neighborhood isolation, and that continue today. In the midst of the 2008 recession, hairdresser Anjanette Booker's dogged determination to keep her Baltimore home and her salon reflects a commitment to her own independence and to her community's economic and social viability. Finally, Hill shares her own journey to a place and a state of being at home that brought her from her roots in rural Oklahoma to suburban Boston, Massachusetts, and connects her own search for home with that of women and men set adrift during the foreclosure crisis. The ability to secure a place that provides access to every opportunity our country has to offer is central to the American Dream. To achieve that ideal, Hill argues, we and our leaders must engage in a new conversation about what it takes to be at home in America. Pointing out that the inclusive democracy our Constitution promises is bigger than the current debate about legal rights, she presents concrete proposals that encourage us to reimagine equality. Hill offers a twenty-first-century vision of America-not a vision of migration, but one of roots; not one simply of tolerance, but one of belonging; not just of rights, but also of community-a community of equals" - CONTENTS: Home : survival and the land -- Belonging to the new land -- Gender and race at home in America -- Lorraine's vision : a better place to live -- Blame it on the sun -- Lessons from a survivor : Anjanette's story -- Home in crisis : Americans on the outside of the dream -- Home at last : toward an inclusive democracy. ISBN 9780807014431 12.30.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Soft cover. 2013. Minimal wear, looks near new. Firmly bound, tight and square. No spine crease. Reproduction of an original text that had imperfections such as underlining, smudges, etc. No additional markings. Very Good condition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. sewn PAPERBACK, near fine, attractive copy with only light wear to covers. FINCH, ANNIE. The body of poetry: essays on women, form, and the poetic self. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005, 1st printing number line 4321, xii, 177pp., . Series: Poets on poetry The Body of Poetry collects essays, reviews, and memoir by Annie Finch, one of the brightest poet-critics of her generation. Finch's germinal work on the art of verse has earned her the admiration of a wide range of poets, from new formalists to hip-hop writers. And her ongoing commitment to women's poetry has brought Finch a substantial following as a "postmodern poetess" whose critical writing embraces the past while establishing bold new traditions. The Body of Poetry includes essays on metrical diversity, poetry and music, the place of women poets in the canon, and on poets Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Sara Teasdale, Audre Lorde, Marilyn Hacker, and John Peck, among other topics. In Annie Finch's own words, these essays were all written with one aim: "to build a safe space for my own poetry. . . . [I]n the attempt, they will also have helped to nourish a new kind of American poetics, one that will prove increasingly open to poetry's heart." - CONTENTS: A horse with two wings : a note on criticism and poetics -- Metrical diversity -- Metrical subversions : prosody, poetry, and my affair with the amphibrach -- A Carol for Carolyn -- Langpo, Pomo, Newfo -- Omniformalism : a manifesto -- The body of poetry -- Liturgy -- Walk with me : on poetry and music -- Passion in translation : Louise Labe -- Sonnet 18 : Kiss me again by Louise Labe -- H.D., "Imagiste"? -- Technology and inspiration : introduction to A poet's craft -- Poetics : a taxonomy -- Repetition, repetition -- How to create a poetic tradition -- Mother Dickinson -- Letter for Emily Dickinson -- The heart of Phillis Wheatley -- Unnecessary burdens : Cooper, Gluck, Graham -- Carolyn Kizer and the chain of women -- My Teasdale talisman -- Female tradition as feminist innovation -- Coherent decentering -- Desks -- Stein the romantic, Mallarme the radical -- Victorian voice-making and the contemporary poet -- Confessions of a postmodern poetess -- Dactylic meter : a many-sounding sea -- A rock in the river : Maxine Kumin's rhythmic countercurrents -- The ghost of meter revisited -- Making shattered faces whole : the metrical code in Audre Lorde -- In defense of meter -- Limping prosody -- Forms of memory -- John Peck's hypnagogic poetry -- Encounter. 9780472068951 ISBN 0472068954 9.10.…

Soft cover. Softcovers; ex-corporate library; minor shelfwear w/ light creasing of wraps and leaves; o/w in good condition.

ORIGINAL Reprint/Offprint of journal article; in very good condition. Magazine/Periodical.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm "Simulated Stereo" record album, Decca DL 75125, very-good-plus vinyl in a very good cardboard jacket, which includes 12 cuts, 6 per side (which is odd, since the original radio episodes were 30 minutes -- presumably 22 or so minus the ads. But even shorn of cereal ads, "How He Became The Lone Ranger, Part 1 and Part 2," here runs seven minutes, meaning it's been edited down by two-thirds. Next come "He finds Silver, Part 1 and Part 2," then "He Finds Dan Reid, Part 1 and Part 2," all on one side. Meantime, why Decca opted to devote the jacket's entire front panel to the old joke that sees the Ranger and his faithful Indian companion coming under Indian attack, at which point Tonto delivers the time-worn punchline "What you mean WE, paleface?" we can't imagine. Though, combined with the chain-saw editing of the original episodes, we must conclude the Decca gang simply evinced no respect for the (admittedly somewhat derivative) mythmaking of WXYZ station owner George Trendle and scriptwriter Fran Striker -- and wasn't about to waste time soliciting cast photos. Disc now reduced from $14.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Softcover octavo in plastic wraps with a wire comb binding. Community cookbook with donated recipes, including Mrs. White Smith's meatloaf, Joe McCorquodale Jr.'s Spanish omelet, two recipes which purport to be from Wales and seven from Switzerland -- to include spitzbuben, Linzer cake, zwiebelkuchen, and cheese pie -- indicating the presence of at least a couple of Swiss immigrants here in the 1950s. Reduced from $28. Jackson Hospital Auciliary 1956-1957, Mrs. White Smith, president (illustrator).…

Paperback reprint. [12], 257 pages. H 18.25cm x L 13.25cm. Yellow and white illustrated stiff paper covers lightly soiled, faint vertical crease to rear cover. Binding is firm and interior pages are bright and clean. A very good+ copy. Summarized as "The author and the characters from the Pooh books engage in dialogue elucidating the Taoist principle of Te, the Way of the Small." ISBN 0525934960.…