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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. P6 - DJ has crease on the back inside flap, light crease on the front and back, light discoloration and normal shelf wear otherwise good. Book has light discoloration and normal shelf wear otherwise very good. Glasmost is dead, and the cold war rages on in the pages of this elegantly suspenseful cloak-and-dagger adventure. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. G6 - Book has crease on the front left side, light crease on the spine, some chipping on the top and bottom edges and sides, discoloration and normal shelf wear othewise very good. Capturing a crucial moment in history of exploration-the mid-nineteenth-century romance with the Arctic-Andrea Barrett's compelling novels tells the story of a fateful expedition. Through the eyes of. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** 245 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** 111 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 20 cm. Schirmer's Visual Library. Translated from the German. Tight, clean copy. Size: 12mo.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** 246 pages, illustrations, maps; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. First paperback edition. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 4th. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** xix, 514 pages, illustrations, 1 map; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. "The Fourth Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough's meticulously re-edited text. Missing words have been restored and the entire novel has been re-punctuated in accordance with Conrad's style. The result is the first published version of Heart of Darkness that allows readers to hear Marlow's voice as Conrad heard it when he wrote the story. 'Backgrounds and Contexts' provides readers with a generous collection of maps and photographs that bring the Belgian Congo to life. Textual materials, topically arranged, address nineteenth-century views of imperialism and racism and include autobiographical writings by Conrad on his life in the Congo. New to the Fourth Edition is an excerpt from Adam Hochschild's recent book, King Leopold's Ghost, as well as writings on race by Hegel, Darwin, and Galton. 'Criticism' includes a wealth of new materials, including nine contemporary reviews and assessments of Conrad and Heart of Darkness and twelve recent essays by Chinua Achebe, Peter Brooks, Daphne Erdinast-Vulcan, Edward Said, and Paul B. Armstrong, among others. Also new to this edition is a section of writings on the connections between Heart of Darkness and the film Apocalypse Now by Louis K. Greiff, Margot Norris, and Lynda J. Dryden. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** ix, 197 pages, illustrations, map; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Browning. Subtitle on wraps: A Cultural History of the Chinese Language. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** xviii, 164 pages; 21 cm. Translation of: Essai sur le don. Tight, clean copy. "A brilliant example of the comparative method, this classic work presents the first systematic study of the custom of exchanging gifts. It proves that the theory of the gift is the theory of all human society." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Foreword by Mary Douglas . Introduction. 1. The Exchange of Gifts and the Obligation to Reciprocate (Polynesia) 2. The Extension of this System: Liberality, Honour, Money 3. Survivals of these Principles in Ancient Systems of Law and Ancient Economies 4. Conclusion: Moral Conclusions. Notes. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** xix, 700 pages; 22 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear, age toning. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** 310 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. First paperback edition. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Good. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** 312 pages; 20 cm. N275. Good+. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. Age toning. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Good. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** xix, 287 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear, age toning. Another copy available. CONTENTS: The auction; The crit; The fair; The prize; The magazine; The studio visit; The biennale. "The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. In a series of narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the elite at the Basel Art Fair, the eccentricities of Artforum magazine, the competition behind an important art prize, life in a notorious art-school seminar, and the wonderland of the Venice Biennale. She reveals the new dynamics of creativity, taste, status, money, and the search for meaning in life. A judicious and juicy account of the institutions that have the power to shape art history, based on hundreds of interviews with high-profile players, Thornton's entertaining ethnography will change the way you look at contemporary culture." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** xviii, 164 pages; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Classic anthropology. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** 323 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. "Here is a clear and enthusiastic introduction to building methods from ancient time to the present day, illustrated throughout with line drawings. In addition, Mr. Salvadori discusses recent advances in science and technology that have had important effects on the planning and construction of buildings." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Structures : The beginning of architecture; Function and structure; Architects and engineers; Structure and the layman -- The pyramids : What are they?; The building of the pyramids; The social purpose of the pyramids; The death of the pyramids -- Loads : Dead loads; Live loads; Dynamic loads; Wind loads; Earthquake loads; Thermal and settlement loads -- Materials : Tension and compression; Elasticity and plasticity; Safety factors; Steel; Reinforced concrete; Plastics -- Beams and columns : Newton's laws; Translational equilibrium; Rotational equilibrium; Beam action; Shear; Buckling -- Houses : Prehistoric and historic houses; The American house; Concrete-frame housing; Prefabricated concrete buildings -- Skyscrapers : The high-rise building; The birth of a skyscraper; The skyscraper structure -- The Eiffel Tower : The symbol; The builder of the tower; The building of the tower; Cranes and elevators; The life of the tower; The taller towers -- Bridges : Arches; Railroad bridges; Concrete bridges; Space frames -- The Brooklyn Bridge : The creator of the bridge; The construction of the bridge; Modern suspension bridges -- Form-resistant structures : Grids and flat slabs; Strength through form; Curved surfaces; Barrel roofs and folded plates Saddle roofs; Complex roofs; Thin shell dams -- The unfinished cathedral : The origin of the gothic cathedrals; Gothic spaces and structures; Saint Pierre at Beauvais -- Domes : The largest roofs in the world; The dome as structure; The Pantheon; Santa Maria del Fiore; Modern domes -- Hagia Sophia : The construction of the church; The interior of the church; The structure of the church; The fate of Hagia Sophia -- Tents and balloons : Tents; Pneumatic structures -- The hanging sky : Domes and dishes; The hanging dish -- The message of structure : Semiotic messages; Semiotic message and scale; The varying semiotic message. Size: 8vo.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Original price of £11.95 printed on dust jacket front flap. Jacket has lower front flap clipped short closed heel tear now protected with paper backed polyester film. Book has no writing or marking.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Cream and brown boards with gilt spine title. 1st Edition Stated, 1st Printing with '1' present in a number sequence. No apparent wear. If read, only lightly. Unmarked. Dust jacket has a tiny tear on top edge, inside flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** 288 pages; 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. A near-fine copy of the first printing. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st. 876 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. First edition thus. "Echoing Edward Said's belief that 'Western humanism is not enough, we need a universal humanism,' renowned critic Clive James presents here his life's work. Containing over one hundred original essays, organized by quotations from A to Z, this book illuminates, rescues, or occasionally destroys the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the twentieth century. In discussing, among others, Louis Armstrong, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, James writes, 'If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory, and part of that memory will need to be of an age in which they were not yet alive.' This is the book to burnish these memories of a Western civilization that James fears is nearly lost." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** 222 pages; 19 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. "The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist. What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in tasty chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day. While you wait for your morning coffee to brew, for the bus, the train, or a plane to arrive, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry will reveal just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe." - Publisher. Size: 12mo.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st. 416 pages; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. First paperback edition. "A brilliantly insightful and witty examination of beloved and little-known films, directors, and stars by one of America's most esteemed critics." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Woest, Kevin (illustrator). 2nd. 346 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark (ink dot)/tail edge. Critical reading for the recent building collapse in Florida. "The authors examine buildings of all kinds, from ancient domes like Istanbul's Hagia Sophia to the state-of-the-art Hartford Civic Arena.Their subjects range from the man-caused destruction of the Parthenonto the earthquake damage of 1989 in Armenia and San Francisco." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** 289 pages; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** xi, 475 pages, 16 pages of plates, illustrations, maps; 21 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket wiorn at the crown/spine. Another copy available. "Napoleon Bonaparte, Marie Antoinette, Baudelaire, Baron Haussmann, the real-life Mimi of La Boheme, Proust, Charles de Gaulle--these and many more are Robb's cast of characters in a series of stories about the Paris you never knew." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Departure; One night at the Palais-Royal; The man who saved Paris; Lost; Restoration; Files of the Surete; A property in Bohemia; Marville; Regression; Madame Zola; Marcel in the Metro; The Notre-Dame equation; A little tour of Paris; Occupation; Lovers of Saint-Germain-des-Pres; The day of the fox; Expanding the domain of the possible; Peripherique; Sarko, Bouna and Zyed; Terminus: The North Col; Chronology. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** xiii, 592 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Winner of Pulitzer Prize 1982. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, 143 pages, chiefly illustrations; 14 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. Size: 24mo.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. 327 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. N687. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. First paperback edition. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** xxi, 393 pages, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket slightly faded at extremities. CONTENTS: Assassination; Uprising; "I have overthrown this government"; Watchful waiting; First chief; The return of Pancho Villa; Huerta Agonistes; The Benton affair; The Tampico incident; The landing at Veracruz; The clouds of war; The fall of Victoriano Huerta; The convention at Aguascalietes; Willa's and Zapata's reign of terror; Carranza by default; Blood on the border; Villa raids Columbus; "You will promptly organize . . ."; Pancho Villa's narrow escape; Colonia Dublan; Gunfight at Parral; To the brink; Carrizal; Exit the United States; The triumph of Obregon; Epilogue. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Good. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** xx, 364 pages, [1] page of plates, illustrations; 29 cm. Norton Critical Studies in Art History Series. Firm binding, clean text. Back cover & adjacent couple of leaves waterstained (no odor/mold). Age toning, edges lightly soiled. Another copy available. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** xiv, 576 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. "Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. 'The overlap is strong, and the knowledge flows in both directions,' say the authors, because astrophysicists and military planners care about many of the same things: multi-spectral detection, ranging, tracking, imaging, high ground, nuclear fusion, and access to space. Tyson and Lang call it a 'curiously complicit' alliance. 'The universe is both the ultimate frontier and the highest of high grounds,' they write. 'Shared by both space scientists and space warriors, it's a laboratory for one and a battlefield for the other. The explorer wants to understand it; the soldier wants to dominate it. But without the right technology -- which is more or less the same technology for both parties -- nobody can get to it, operate in it, scrutinize it, dominate it, or use it to their advantage and someone else's disadvantage.' Spanning early celestial navigation to satellite-enabled warfare, Tyson and Lang examine the intersection of science, technology, industry, and power." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Collectible.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** viii, 533 pages, [24] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), map, portraits; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. "They began as courtiers in a hierarchy of privilege, but history remembers them as patriot-citizens in a commonwealth of equals. . . ." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Collectible.