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Hardcover. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 211 pages. By treating the history of moral concepts as geological strata, Rosenthal discovered the archaeological method long before it became fashionable. The appeal of this book - in addition to its wryly delightful style - is to those for whom Hobbes and Spinoza's thoughts are themselves part of a continuing and unavoidable meditation on unavoidable questions.This is philosophy as an essentially moral, frustratingly human enterprise. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, AMS Press, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, purple cloth with lettering on spine, 245 pages. A reprint of the 1608 edition of Heywood's Sallust. With an introduction by Charles Whibley. Part of "The Tudor Translations" series. Considered the first of the great Roman historians, Sallust has been read for centuries for his penetrating character studies, timeless moral insights, and matchless rhetoric. His profiles of flawed men led inexorably to ruin by excessive ambition or character defects resonate with us today more powerfully than ever. "The Conspiracy of Catiline" tells the dramatic story of renegade senator Lucius Catiline's attempt to seize power in Rome during the waning days of the republic. "The War of Jugurtha" recounts the rise and ultimate destruction of the headstrong Numidian king Jugurtha, who waged an insurgent war against Rome from 112 to 106 B.C. Mild spotting to rear cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Bucknell University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 184 pages. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Victor Nuovo. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Lewisburg ME, Bucknell University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 184 pages. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Victor Nuovo. Dust jacket chipped with light stain, book is very good, clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket, 456 pages. In a dazzling new interpretation of four hundred years of modern French history, Charles Tilly focuses not on kings and courtiers but on the common people of village and farm buffeted by the inexorable advance of large-scale capitalism and the consolidation of a powerful nation-state. Tilly, author of The Vendee and many other books, chooses the contention of the masses as his medium in painting this vivid picture of the people's growing ability and willingness to fight injustice, challenge exploitation, and claim their own place in the hierarchy of power. He tells the story of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, a watershed event in French history. The war pitted the young, ambitious Prussian military against the experienced and battle-hardened French army. The French were ultimately defeated, and the humiliating Treaty of Frankfurt relegated France to a second-rate power. The Contentious French offers a unique, insider's perspective on one of the most dramatic and significant events in French history. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, Revised Ed., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 592 pages, b&w illustrations. Lady Anne Conway was a remarkable woman who became a philosopher in her own right at a time when most women were denied even basic education. The Conway Letters is the record of her friendship with the Cambridge Platonist, Henry More, which began when he acted as her unofficial tutor in philosophy and lasted until her death. The letters cover a wide range of topics - personal, philosophical, religious, and social. They give a detailed picture of the More-Conway circle, including such figures as Jeremy Taylor, Ralph Cudworth, Robert Boyle, and Francis Mercury van Helmont, as well as Lady Conway's Quaker associates, George Keith and William Penn. The letters are thus a valuable source for mid-seventeenth-century history, and especially for the intellectual history of the period. Revised from the 1930 printing with new material and introduction by Sarah Hutton. Name on front fly leaf, small chip/tear to top spine of the dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton , 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 318 pages, A veteran producer provides an inside view of television, combining anecdotal discussions of agents, performers, and sponsors with detailed information on network organization and business activities. A good overview of the TV broadcasting business in the 1970s. No markings.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Facsimile reprints of two 18th century pamphlets, 29 and 52 pages. Introduction by Robert Adams Day. Two profiles of a infamous doctor named Richard Mead in mid-18th century London. The first an attack, the second a defense. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 301 pages. The classic study of the life of the nobility at the royal court of France, especially under Louis XIV. Paper tanning slightly, clean copy.

Softcover. Syracuse NY, Gustav Stickley, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, approx. 200 pages, b&w illustrations, ads. Gustav Stickley showed his designs and ideas through his magazine The Craftsman. Published monthly between Oct 1901 and Dec 1916, The Craftsman was "the bible" of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States, which emphasized spare design, hand-crafting, and the importance of the individual craftsman. This issue features his article "Ornament: Its Use and Its Abuse". Also articles on The Development of the Public Library, The Future of Ceramics in America, Old Pewter Plate, The Modern House Beautiful, others. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2009, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 157 pages. Was George W. Bush the true heir of Woodrow Wilson, the architect of liberal internationalism? Was the Iraq War a result of liberal ideas about America's right to promote democracy abroad? In this timely book, four distinguished scholars of American foreign policy discuss the relationship between the ideals of Woodrow Wilson and those of George W. Bush. The Crisis of American Foreign Policy exposes the challenges resulting from Bush's foreign policy and ponders America's place in the international arena. Led by John Ikenberry, one of today's foremost foreign policy thinkers, this provocative collection examines the traditions of liberal internationalism that have dominated American foreign policy since the end of World War II. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 321 pages, b&w illustrations. In The Cruel Radiance, Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers. Instead she argues passionately that looking at such images--and learning to see the people in them--is an ethically and politically necessary act that connects us to our modern history of violence and probes the human capacity for cruelty. Grappling with critics from Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht to Susan Sontag and the postmoderns--and analyzing photographs from such events as the Holocaust, China's Cultural Revolution, and recent terrorist acts--Linfield explores the complex connection between photojournalism and the rise of human rights ideals. In the book's concluding section, she examines the indispensable work of Robert Capa, James Nachtwey, and Gilles Peress and asks how photography should respond to the increasingly nihilistic trajectory of modern warfare. Clean copy.

Softcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st pbk, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 271 pages, b&w illustrations. The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany presents a new interpretation of National Socialism, arguing that art in the Third Reich was not simply an instrument of the regime, but actually became a source of the racist politics upon which its ideology was founded. Through the myth of the "Aryan race," a race pronounced superior because it alone creates culture, Nazism asserted art as the sole raison d'etre of a regime defined by Hitler as the "dictatorship of genius." Michaud shows the important link between the religious nature of Nazi art and the political movement, revealing that in Nazi Germany art was considered to be less a witness of history than a force capable of producing future, the actor capable of accelerating the coming of a reality immanent to art itself. Light sticker residue to rear cover otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. University Park PA, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 295 pages illustrated in b&w and color. Beginning in the 1730s, Heather Minor tells us, Rome "began to resemble one huge construction site," with a series of ambitious and expensive new building campaigns that transformed the face and substance of the city. From renovations of the Santa Maria Maggiore and San Giovanni in Laterano and the restoration of the Arch of Constantine to the creation of the Capitoline Museum and the establishment of the papacy's Calcografia, the push for reform not only renewed papal and Church identity but also revived Italian culture as a whole. Based on extensive archival research and full of fascinating stories about the often stormy theological and intellectual debates central to the attempts at reform, The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome brings to life the personalities of architects, theologians, and intellectuals and links the extensive architectural programs with powerful shifts in the intellectual climate of the time. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, The Franklin Library, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, rich maroon leather boards with decorations in gold on front and rear boards. Title in gold on spine between raised leather bands. All edges are gilt. Text is clean and crisp. Satin ribbon marker. SIGNED BY PLIMPTON on a blank prelim page. In April 1985, Sports Illustrated published an article that stunned the sports community. George Plimpton's 13-page profile of Sidd Finch, a mysterious pitcher who had been signed by the New York Mets and reportedly threw 168 mph, came complete with photos from spring training, scouting reports, and interviews with Mets players and management. A week later, SI apologized to readers around the world for their role in what is generally regarded as the greatest hoax in the history of sports journalism. The magazine had teamed up with the legendary author and Paris Review bon vivant for an April Fool's Day prank of unprecedented proportions. After the success of the article, Plimpton decided to turn the story into a novel -- a rousing baseball fairy tale that is considered one of the most memorable sports novels of the last half-century.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 275 pages. In April 1985, Sports Illustrated published an article that stunned the sports community. George Plimpton's 13-page profile of Sidd Finch, a mysterious pitcher who had been signed by the New York Mets and reportedly threw 168 mph, came complete with photos from spring training, scouting reports, and interviews with Mets players and management. A week later, SI apologized to readers around the world for their role in what is generally regarded as the greatest hoax in the history of sports journalism. The magazine had teamed up with the legendary author and Paris Review bon vivant for an April Fool's Day prank of unprecedented proportions. After the success of the article, Plimpton decided to turn the story into a novel -- a rousing baseball fairy tale that is considered one of the most memorable sports novels of the last half-century. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Clearfield Company, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 132 pages. A reprint of a book written by Alexander Jones in 1855. The book explores the role of Welsh immigrants and their descendants during the American Revolution. It provides a detailed account of the Welsh contributions to the war effort, including their participation in battles, their leadership in politics and commerce, and their support for the cause of American independence. The book is divided into several chapters, each focusing on a different aspect of Welsh involvement in the Revolution. It begins by discussing the early settlement of Welsh immigrants in America, their struggles to maintain their language and culture, and their eventual integration into American society. Jones then goes on to describe the various battles and campaigns in which Welsh soldiers fought, including the Battle of Bunker Hill, the Battle of Saratoga, and the Battle of Yorktown. He also highlights the contributions of Welsh leaders such as General Richard Montgomery and Colonel William Davies.In addition to military contributions, the book also explores the role of Welsh Americans in politics and commerce during the Revolution. Jones discusses the involvement of Welshmen in the Continental Congress, as well as their contributions to the development of American industry and trade. Overall, The Cymry of '76 provides a comprehensive and detailed account of the Welsh contribution to the American Revolution. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 224 pages. The Dakota is arguably the best-known residential address in the world, home to dozens of New York City's most famous artists, performers, and successful executives. The rare sale of an apartment there, usually at jaw-dropping prices, is newsworthy, as is the financial and architectural health of the building itself, a landmark in every sense of the word.The first true luxury apartment house built in New York City, more than 130 years ago, the Dakota is still the gold standard against which all other apartment buildings are weighed. Historian Andrew Alpern tells the fascinating story of how the Dakota came to be, how Singer sewing magnate Edward Clark dared to build an apartment building luxurious enough to coax the city's wealthy from their mansions downtown for ultra-modern living on what was then the swamplands of the Upper West Side. Redrawn plans of the entire building, published here for the first time, show how Clark created apartments glamorous enough that they made living under a shared roof as acceptable in Manhattan as it already was in Europe's grand capitals, forever revolutionizing apartment life in New York City.

Softcover. Lexington KY, University Press of Kentucky, 2nd Ed., 2001, Softcover, 377 pages. The first part of the book deals with the production code as it existed from 1922-34 with the introduction of figures such as Will Hays, Mae West and Joe Breen. The second part deals with the administration of the production code from 1934-66. Specific detail is given on the movies Dead End; Gone With the Wind; The Outlaw and The Postman Always Rings Twice; The Bicycle Thief; Detective Story and A Streetcar Named Desire; The Moon is Blue and The French Line; Lolita and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. This second edition is updated to include the introduction of the PG-13 and NC-17 ratings of the 1990s. Mild wear to covers, clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Chilton Book Co, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 176 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Son, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 316 pages. Examines masculine hostility toward women by drawing upon evidence in anthropology, myth, history, psychology and literature. From the weird taboos and rites of primitive societies to the disturbing prevalence of homosexuality today - here is an authoritative, enlightening, and fascinating chronicle of man's war against woman. Small stamp on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Carpet Bombing Culture, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. 216 pages, b&w photos. A unique collection of portraits personally selected by one of the UKs foremost portrait photographers covering alternative London's unique counter-cultural history from Punks, New Romantics, Goths, Disco Queens, Soul Boys, Fetish Worshippers, Rockers, Cyberpunks, Ravers, Clubbers and Party Animals. Derek Ridgers has been a feature in the clubs and on the streets of the capital for over 50 years - indulging in his obsession for documenting the people dressed up for the glorious night.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 112 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st US, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with front and spine printed in black and gilt, 417 pages. This volume publishes his speeches, broadcasts, messages, statements, and letters made, sent, and issued between 22 February and 31 December 1944. A full and momentous year, 1944 included the Normandy invasion, the largest amphibious operation in history, which re-established the Allied military presence in German-occupied Europe. Light spotting to covers, otherwise clean.