Alfred E Russell Ed (3 results)

Cloth Bound. Condition: Good. 1906. Ex-Library Book In Brown Clothbound Hardcover Boards With Gilt Bust Stamped On Front. In Good Condition. Light Markings On Front Board, Wear On Front Hinge. Light Wear On Top Edge Of Spine. Interior Is In Very Good Condition, Flyleaves Tanned, Otherwise Tight Clean Copy. Size 8Vo. 215 Pages. This Book Is Part Of The Archibald Church Library Collection, Northwestern University Medical School. Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Ex-Library.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 429 p. diagrs., facsim., tables. 25 cm. LCCN 58009397 LC GV53 .L3 Dewey 790.0973 OCLC 477253 brown cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: "Leisure" / Oxford English Dictionary -- "Leisure" / Encyclopedia of the social sciences -- The pattern of leisure in contemporary American culture / Margaret Mead -- Accidie / Aldous Huxley -- The sedentary society / Herbert Collins -- How to make a civilization / Clive Bell -- Work and leisure under industrialism / Clement Greenberg -- The spread of reading / Richard D. Altick -- Farm and countryside / Foster Rhea Dulles -- Explanation of play / Jean Piaget -- The play element in contemporary civilization / Johan Huizinga -- The emergence of fun morality / Martha Wolfenstein -- In praise of idleness / Bertrand Russell -- The right to be lazy / Paul Lafargue -- The great emptiness / Robert MacIver -- Time and silence / Max Picard -- The ideology of privacy and reserve / Paul Halmos -- The pathology of boredom / Woodburn Heron -- The workweek in American industry 1850-1956 / Joseph S. Zeisel -- The changing length of working life / Seymour L. Wolfbein -- $30 billion for fun / editors of Fortune -- The amount and uses of leisure / George Lundberg, Mirra Komarovsky, and Mary Alice McInerny -- Social class differences in the uses of leisure / R. Clyde White -- Leisure and occupational prestige / Alfred C. Clarke -- Industrial workers' worlds / Robert Dubin -- Society: status without substance / E. Franklin Frazier -- Tuxedo park, black tie / Cleveland Amory -- American sports, play and display / Gregory P. Stone -- Money, muscles, and myths / Roger Kahn -- What's happening to hobbies? / Eric Larrabee -- The do-it-yourself market / U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- Vacations / "a cynic [Leslie Stephen] -- Camping in the wilderness / Gregory P. Stone and Marvin J. Taves -- Notes on a natural history of fads / Rolf Meyersohn and Elihu Katz -- Voluntary association memberships of American adults / Charles R. Wright and Herbert H. Hyman -- The motivational pattern of drinking / John W. Riley, Jr., Charles F. Marden, and Marcia Lifshitz -- Sex as play / Nelson N. Foote -- Leisure as contemplation / Joseph Pieper -- Time on our hands / Russell Lynes -- Less work, less leisure / Harvey Swados -- Work and leisure in post-industrial society / David Riesman -- Comprehensive bibliography on leisure / Rolf Meyersohn ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 128 pages. Features: The Personal Practice of Patriotism; Are We ,a Nation of Timid People?; New Drive Against the Anti-Communist Program - condensed testimony of Edward Hunter, the man who originated the term brainwashing; Paperback Perfidy - Hon. Francis E. Walter trashes a recent book entitled "The Un-Americans" by probable Communist Frank Donner, which claims to be the first fully documented account of the notorious House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC); And So We Negotiated - American should learn that negotiations with barbarians (the Soviets) is futile; American Money Bolsters Castro's Dictatorship; Made-In-Russia Forgeries - how Russia plants fake news in the foreign press; Federal Income Tax - Captain Eddie Rickenbacker explains how this Communist Cancer was blueprinted by Karl Marx; Man in Gray - Jefferson Finis Davis and a story of his tragic humiliation; They're Headin' for the Hills - the civilian thinks he'll be the casualty in the next war; My Summer with the Sore Knuckle Crew - youths and their desire to show they can survive away from home; Needed - New Vigilantes; How We Plan to Explore Outer Space; A Clergyman Reconsiders Free Enterprise; The Incredible "Mad Anthony" Wayne - an unforgettable American hero; and more. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; American Mercury Magazine, "To Bear Witness To The Truth", October (Oct.) 1961, Volume XCIII No. 452 - "Mad Anthony" Wayne / New Drive Against the Anti-Communist Program The Personal Practice of Patriotism; Are We ,a Nation of Timid People?; New Drive Ag.…