Horner Charles (239 results)

Flexibound. Condition: Very Good. 1. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Flexibound. Condition: Fine. Mint condition.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. First printing with full number line. Paperback book in good condition.

Flexibound. Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Strike The Tents The Story Of The Chautauqua. Book.

Condition: very_good. Book has little sign of wear or use.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Religion, history. Edition not noted. Tan cloth covers very nice, light edge wear. Dust jacket rubbed, two tears, moderate edge wear, spine panel faded. Interior clean and tight, endpapers tanned, top edge dusty.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Inscribed By Charles F. Horner On The Front End Paper. No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Owner's Name Inside; 166 pages.

Paperback. Condition: New. A China Scholar' Long March is a collection of fifty pieces written between 1978 and 2015 by Charles Horner, a China Scholar, a former U.S. government official, and the author of the two-volume work Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate. The pieces originally appeared in general interest publications such as The American Interest, The National Interest, and Commentary; in newspapers like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post; and in some more specialized periodicals such as China Heritage Quarterly and the Naval War College Review.The first piece dates from 1978, when the so-called 'Rise of China' was about to begin and, as such, Horner's writings span a generation of China's trying to make sense of its own rise and of American scholars and commentators trying to make sense of it also. Horner's 1992 article, 'China on the Rise' is now bracketed, a quarter century later, by a growing sense that the so-called Rise of China is coming to an end, and that a generation of commentary about it is about to come to an end along with it.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New. pp. xliii + 1206 Illus.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Strike The Tents The Story Of The Chautauqua. Book.

Condition: New. pp. xliii + 1206 Index.

Softcover. Condition: Very good condition. 154 pp. Volume 5, Number 1 (Spring 1997). Softcover.

Condition: New.

[i-ii], v-xiv, [15], 16-406 pages. Hardcover: H 21cm x L 13.5cm. Original full calf leather binding; some soiling and staining to boards with scuffing and wear along edges particularly at corners and along rear board's top edge; slight splitting along front and rear joints but with hinges firm, 2.75cm chipping at spine heel with 2cm loss at head, spine's black leather title label chipped with some loss to gilt lettering. Edges toned; obtrusive pencil notes and calculations on several initial and rear leaves; occasional pencil notes and marks to interior pages; toning to pages 290-291 from old laid-in note paper; chipped corners to front free endpaper and front flyleaf and to pages 405-406 and rear free endpaper. Evidently missing pages iii-iv or possibly issued without. Binding remains firm. A good antiquarian copy. 19th century math textbook by Charles Davies (1798-1876) whose distinguished academic career cumulated with appointment as emeritus professor of higher mathematics at Columbia College, now Columbia University, in 1865. …

Hardbound Good+/Good-., DJ 8vo, 305, General wear to covers. DJ is worn with several short edge tears.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Charles F. Horner to his son on the front end paper. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Condition: New. pp. xliii + 1206.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardback. Condition: Good. The capstone of modern China was the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 and its rejection of Confucianism, capitalism, and modernity. Yet rising China retains few vestiges of what Mao wrought. What then, the author asks, is post-Mao, postmodern China? Where did it come from? How did it get here? Where is it going.…