Keyser Samuel Jay (196 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Good. When he married for the second time, Jay Keyser thought he and his wife would settle down on a bucolic little farm in Massachusetts, a place where the cows meet the sea. That was before he found out the awful truth: he had married a travel junkie. While he was envisioning walks along quiet beaches, hand in hand at end of day, her sights were set on stakeouts beside the Grumeti River in Tanzania watching crocodiles take down a baboon. He didn't want to come within six thousand miles of a crocodile, let alone six feet. But, somehow, he couldn't let Nancy go it alone. And so, for the past fifteen years, Jay Keyser has followed his wife around this treacherous world. I Married a Travel Junkie is his chronicle. A natural born lemonade-maker, our reluctant traveler did his level best to understand not only the extraordinary people and places he visited, but his own internal conflict. As he studied his anxiety across the course of seven terrifying trips to Africa, from the Serengeti National Park to the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, he gradually began to accept the profound differences between his wife and himself. Although terrified by them, he has learned from his experiences, most especially from an encounter with an angry female gorilla, who offered key insight into marriage and human nature. Jay Keyser learned to stop and smell the elephant dung.…

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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. A memoir of MIT life, from being Noam Chomsky's boss to negotiating with student protesters.When Jay Keyser arrived at MIT in 1977 to head the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, he writes, he felt like a fish that had been introduced to water for the first time. At MIT, a colleague grabbed him by the lapels to discuss dark matter; Noam Chomsky called him boss (double SOB spelled backward?); and engaging in conflict resolution made him feel like a marriage counselor trying to reconcile a union between a Jehovah's witness and a vampire. In Mens et Mania, Keyser recounts his academic and administrative adventures during a career of more than thirty years.Keyser describes the administrative side of his MIT life, not only as department head but also as Associate Provost and Special Assistant to the Chancellor. Keyser had to run a department (budgets were like horoscopes) and negotiate student grievances--from the legality of showing Deep Throat in a dormitory to the uproar caused by the arrests of students for anti-apartheid demonstrations. Keyser also describes a visiting Japanese delegation horrified by the disrepair of the linguistics department offices (Chomsky tells them Our motto is: Physically shabby. Intellectually first class.); convincing a student not to jump off the roof of the Green Building; and recent attempts to look at MIT through a corporate lens. And he explains the special faculty-student bond at MIT: the faculty sees the students as themselves thirty years earlier. Keyser observes that MIT is hard to get into and even harder to leave, for faculty as well as for students. Writing about retirement, Keyser quotes the song Groucho Marx sang in Animal Crackers as he was leaving a party--Hello, I must be going. Students famously say Tech is hell. Keyser says, It's been a helluva party. This entertaining and thought-provoking memoir will make readers glad that Keyser hasn't quite left.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. When he married for the second time, Jay Keyser thought he and his wife would settle down on a bucolic little farm in Massachusetts, a place where the cows meet the sea. That was before he found out the awful truth: he had married a travel junkie. While he was envisioning walks along quiet beaches, hand in hand at end of day, her sights were set on stakeouts beside the Grumeti River in Tanzania watching crocodiles take down a baboon. He didn't want to come within six thousand miles of a crocodile, let alone six feet. But, somehow, he couldn't let Nancy go it alone. And so, for the past fifteen years, Jay Keyser has followed his wife around this treacherous world. I Married a Travel Junkie is his chronicle. A natural born lemonade-maker, our reluctant traveler did his level best to understand not only the extraordinary people and places he visited, but his own internal conflict. As he studied his anxiety across the course of seven terrifying trips to Africa, from the Serengeti National Park to the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, he gradually began to accept the profound differences between his wife and himself. Although terrified by them, he has learned from his experiences, most especially from an encounter with an angry female gorilla, who offered key insight into marriage and human nature. Jay Keyser learned to stop and smell the elephant dung.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Modest wear to jacket, clean pages and sound binding. Ownership signature to top of ffep.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Book has a slight cock to spine, light rubbing and smudging/toning to covers, modest wear to edges and tips of corners with bumps/scuffs and tiny bends, faint toning to pages, some underlining to pages. otherwise in good condition, tight binding, a decent reference copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Fine dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. Asheville, North Carolina: Front Street, 2003. Appears unread, fresh and crisp. Fine condition in bright, Fine Dust Jacket. No chips or tears. NOT price clipped ($14.95). Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. No remainder mark. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. "First Edition" is so stated on the copyright page. A collection of 43 fables in the tradition of Aesop and Kipling, "recounting the wise and the foolish, inspired and clumsy antics of Samuel Jay Keyser's all-too-human 'gods.'" Olive / turquoise boards. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Shetterly, Robert (Dust Jacket art and interior drawings). Shetterly, Robert (Dust Jacket art and interior drawings) (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. 1st Edition. [4], 38pp, bound in stiff paper covers, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. From the personal collection of Author and Anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. The covers are sunned, and are in Good Condition. The Interior is in Very Good Condition. POETRY. …

Trade paperback. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 206 p. Linguistic Inquiry Monographs, 3. Audience: General/trade. Very good. moderate shelfwear to the cover, no ownership marks.

paperback. Condition: Very Good.