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Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 269 pages. 'Weber's famous study of the 'affinity' between the rise of rational bourgeois capitalism in England and Calvinist-Puritanism has for almost a century stirred up a cloud of dust and misunderstanding. Toward the end of settling some of the dust no one has previously made such an acute analysis of pre-revolutionary England as has David Little. On the one hand, he has applied and extended Weber's method, especially in the sphere of the law-monopoly and corporation law-thus filling a gap in these studies. He has also delineated the sharply conflicting conceptions of social order and of legitimation. On the the other hand, Little has given an invaluable critical survey of the extensive literature of Weber's thesis. This is a landmark in the study of the complex and varying relations between religion and society.' -James Luther Adams, Harvard Divinity School. Clean copy.

Softcover. Berkeley, Evolver Editions/North Atlantic, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 468 pages. Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme--but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being. This book is about how the money system will have to change--and is already changing--to embody this transition. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Chas. E. Tuttle Co., reprint, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Fine green textured cover with gilt to front and spine. B&w photo frontispiece. Foreword by John Spargo, Introduction by S. Foster Damon. A collection of tales capturing the essence of 19th-century rural life, primarily set in Vermont. Stories told in dialect, including chapters on trapping, hunting foxes, and some fishing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Chas. E. Tuttle Co., reprint, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Fine green textured cover with gilt to front and spine. B&w photo frontispiece. Foreword by John Spargo, Introduction by S. Foster Damon. A collection of tales capturing the essence of 19th-century rural life, primarily set in Vermont. Stories told in dialect, including chapters on trapping, hunting foxes, and some fishing. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Belknap Press / Harvard, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 760 pages. Representing ten years of research into the history of the managerial business system, this book concentrates on patterns of growth and competitiveness in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain, tracing the evolution of large firms into multinational giants and orienting the late twentieth century's most important developments. Clean,bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1st US, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering, 260 pages. Originally entitled ADEPTS OF AFRICA, SHADOWS OF ECSTACY, which was written in seven weeks in 1925, was the first novel Williams wrote but the fifth to be published in 1933. Follows the story of Nigel Constantine, an evangelical preacher who discovers the ability to cheat death. The charismatic occult leader stirs up an African revolt against Western Europe, with predictably devastating results. An unusual work on the occult and spiritualism, dealing with themes of colonialism, power, and global politics. Charles Williams, 1886-1945, was an English writer and theologian. He was a friend of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and was a member of their informal Oxford literary group, the Inklings. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Prestel, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 176 pages. This book features the vintage archaeological photography of John Beasley Greene, one of the first photographers in Egypt and Algeria. Few figures in 19th-century photography remain as elusive and intriguing as John Beasley Greene (1832-1856). Over the course of an exceptionally brief career he created a body of photographs that were publicly admired by his peers and continue to capture the imagination of contemporary audiences. Born in France to an American banker, he made his first expedition to Egypt in 1853, where he photographed ancient Egyptian monuments and is thought to be the first archaeologist to use photography. In these photographs, he positioned his horizon lines with precision, at times placing them so low in the frame that the photograph is nearly all blank sky, or so high that the monuments are almost swallowed up by vast seas of sand. Some of his Egyptian landscapes are so visually spare they appear to be of nothing at all. Greene also traveled to Algeria where he photographed the ancient cliff-top city of Constantine and the seaport town, Cherchell. By contrast, Greene's photographs from Algeria frequently present a densely layered abundance of visual detail. Breathtakingly beautiful, Greene's photographs construct a visual record of archaeological monuments and landscapes. Featuring some 100 vintage prints, this comprehensive book aims to introduce Greene's work to a new audience and to reconsider his place in the history of photography. Clean copy in shrinkwrap.

Softcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wraps, 16 pages illustrated in color by Ethel Bonney Taylor. Well-known nursery rhymes set to a musical score. No markings.

Hardcover. NY., Thomas Y. Crowell, 4th pr., 1974, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a spine sticker. Illustrated in b&w and 3-colors by Wendy Watson. A lovely picture book that illustrates the importance of sleep through various animals and a comparison to humans. Readers can see the different sleep positions and consider their own. Ex-lib with light stamping and residue to endpapers. Clean internally.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 2nd pr., 2026, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages in color. Basil Wolverton is one of the greatest, most idiosyncratic talents in comic book history. Though he is best known for his humorous grotesqueries in MAD magazine, it is his science-fiction character Spacehawk that Wolverton fans have most often demanded be collected. The wait is over: Spacehawk features every story from Spacehawk's intergalactic debut in 1940 to his final, Nazi-crushing adventure in 1942. Spacehawk is the closest thing to a colorfully-costumed, conventional action hero Wolverton ever created, yet the strip is infused with Wolverton's quintessential weirdness: controlled, organic artwork of strangely repulsive aliens and monsters and bizarre planets, and stories of gruesome retribution that bring to mind Wolverton's peer, Fletcher Hanks. Spacehawk had no secret identity, no fixed base of operations beyond his spaceship, and no sidekicks or love interests. He had but one mission in life: to protect the innocent throughout the Solar System, and to punish the guilty. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 346 pages. In Status and Culture, W. David Marx weaves together the wisdom from history, psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, philosophy, linguistics, semiotics, cultural theory, literary theory, art history, media studies, and neuroscience to demonstrate exactly how individual status seeking creates our cultural ecosystem. Marx examines three fundamental questions: Why do individuals cluster around arbitrary behaviors and take deep meaning from them? How do distinct styles, conventions, and sensibilities emerge? Why do we change behaviors over time and why do some behaviors stick around? The answers then provide new perspectives for understanding the seeming "weightlessness" of internet culture. Clean copy.

Hardcover. College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a small tape repair, 805 pages. The Confrontation of Indians, Spanish, and French in the Southwest, 1540-1795. Spanning two and a half centuries, from the earliest contacts in the 1540s to the crumbling of Spanish power in the 1790s. Storms Brewed in Other Men's Worlds is a panoramic view of Indian peoples and Spanish and French intruders in the early Southwest. The primary focus is the world of the American Indian, ranging from the Caddos in the east to the Hopis in the west, and including the histories of the Pueblo, Apache, Navajo, Ute, and Wichita peoples. Within this region, from Texas to New Mexico, the Comanches played a key, formative role, and no less compelling is the story of the Hispanic frontier peoples who weathered the precarious, often arduous process of evolving coexistence with the Indians on the northern frontier of New Spain. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st pbk., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 232 pages, b&w illustrations. Focusing on the immediate pre-revolutionary period and the first decade of the Islamic Republic, Bayat discusses the economic and political strategies of 'ordinary'[Iranian] people, mainly in Tehran.... He demonstrates that, for these people at least, the populist revolution did not bring about the changes that they needed or wanted. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, NLB, 1st transl. thus, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped in gilt, 257 pages. The articles and essays collected in this book were written during the decade of Lukacs's life when he was most active in politics. The first texts mark his transition from an anti-bourgeois aestheticism to Marxism and the newly founded Hungarian Communist Party. They are followed by material which displays the full range of his activity and thought during the subsequent ten years. Some of these essays were written when Lukacs was deputy commissar of education in the embattled, short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic. Others include the famous article on parliamentarianism which earned its author the respectful yet severe criticism of Lenin.The volume includes short studies on German revisionism, Bukharin's Marxism, and Karl Wittfogel, and longer pieces on Lassalle and Moses Hess. The collection ends with the theses Luckas wrote, under his cover name "Blum", in opposition to the policies of the Third Period of the Comintern. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with fading to spine, 174 pages. In this interpretation of Bolivia's political and social development, Carmenza Gallo focuses on the impact of the Bolivian tax code and its relationship to class structure. She argues that differences in state formation in primary export economies merge from variation of three main elements: class structure; the economic base and the export sector's degree of integration into the domestic economy; and the reliance of fiscal resources on export sectors. Gallo produces a more complete view of the state's responses to internal and international circumstances and a better understanding of the conditions under which officials of weak states, like Bolivia, act independently of upper classes.

Hardcover. NY/London, Theatre Arts/W. Heinemann, reprint, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine, 90 pages. Written when Michael Redgrave was at the height of his power and acclaim, The Actor's Ways and Means is a spirited and knowledgeable account of the most influential ideas about the art and craft of acting. Drawing on his own direct experience, Redgrave evaluates the influence of famous actors and directors, from Copeau to Stanislavski, from Meyerhold to Edward Gordon Craig. Illustrated with b&w photos of Redgrave in performance. Checkmark on front flyleaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. North Point Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 214 pages. The journals of seven very different alchemists evoke the mystery of pre-Renaissance times and a sense of humanity for today. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. In the heart of Brooklyn, New York, there is an alley that is the most beautiful place to live in the whole wide world. Or so Connie Ives believes. The alley is the perfect location to sharpen Connie's swinging skills, hold practices for the Alley Conservatory of Music, "and" convict a burglar by trial. Ten-year-old Connie, who lives in the Brooklyn neighborhood called The Alley, investigates a burglary with her friend Billy Maloon. Drawings by Edward Ardizzone. Clean copy.

Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 309 pages. The classic study, looking at Habsburg Spain's handling of the Dutch Revolt. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Columbian Art Company, 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in gray cloth with black and gilt titles and black embossed images to front. Illustrated with a fold-out frontispiece and with several full-page black and white illustrations, styled as plates, all illustrations in black and white. First published by R.S. Peale Co. the year before. A lovely overview of tourist spots in Chicago that World's Fair attendees could visit while enjoying the fair.

Hardcover. NY, Ecco Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 101 pages. In Fort Bragg, North Carolina, three recent paratrooper training graduates are temporarily attached to an airborne infantry company as they await orders to report to Vietnam. Because most of the men in the company fought together in Vietnam, the three newcomers are treated as outsiders and ignored. When money and personal property are discovered missing from the barracks, suspicion falls on the three newcomers. The narrative structure of the book contains several shifts of tone and point of view as the story unfolds. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Houston, Rice University, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed blue cloth covers, 143 pages. Comprised of 72 duotone images, explanatory text, and an afterword co-authored with Anne W. Tucker, this elegant book presents a view of an area of the United States often passed over; this is deep East Texas, where Keith Carter grew up. "Keith Carter's luminous, poetic photographs are moving documents of people and places where time seems to have stopped. They tell the story of hard lives lived with simple dignity outside the frantic movement and gaudy neon of the big city."--the publisher. No dust jacket, clean copy. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Softcover. U. S. Department of the Interior, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, horizontal format, 264 pages with b&w illustrations plus 14 pages of vintage packaging labels in rear. Chronicles the world's greatest concentration of salmon and canneries and their influence on Native and non-Native people in southwestern Alaska. This book documents long abandoned canneries, and those still in use, during the hey-day in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with maps, historic photographs, and first hand accounts that give the reader an impression of the unique Bristol Bay way of life. Also offers a view of life upriver, during the winter, along the length and breadth of the three great salmon rivers in the Bay, The Nushagak, the Kvichak, and the Naknek. Historic photographs document a variety of cabins, houses, caches, and some of the people who built them and relied on them for shelter and storage. NOTE: front cover is missing so title page serves as cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy of this scarce regional history.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Brookings Institution Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 305 pages. Disinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multi-front challenge to America's ability to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above falsehood. In this path-breaking book, Jonathan Rauch reaches back to the parallel eighteenth-century developments of liberal democracy and science to explain what he calls the "The Constitution of Knowledge" our social system for turning disagreement into truth. By explicating the Constitution of Knowledge and probing the war on reality, Rauch arms defenders of truth with a clearer understanding of what they must protect, why they must do it, and how they can do it. His book is a sweeping and readable description of how every American can help defend objective truth and free inquiry from threats as far away as Russia and as close as the cellphone. Clean copy.