Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st pbk, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 393 pages. Reaching beyond sensational headlines, Land of the Unconquerable at last offers a three-dimensional portrait of Afghan women. In a series of wide-ranging, deeply reflective essays, accomplished scholars, humanitarian workers, politicians, and journalists-most with extended experience inside Afghanistan-examine the realities of life for women in both urban and rural settings. They address topics including food security, sex work, health, marriage, education, poetry, politics, prisoners, and community development. Eschewing stereotypes about the burqa, the contributors focus instead on women's empowerment and agency, and their struggles for peace and justice in the face of a brutal ongoing war. A fuller picture of Afghanistan's women past and present emerges, leading to social policy suggestions and pragmatic solutions for a peaceful future. Review copy stamp on top edge otherwise like new.

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 217 pages. Emotions have long been a central concern in philosophy, psychological and sociological studies. When anthropologists began to study emotion, they challenged many assumptions shared by Western academics and lay persons by exposing the cultural variability of emotional meanings. In this collection of original essays by anthropologists concerned with the relationship of language and emotion, it is argued that the key focus to the study of emotion might be the politics of social life rather than the psychology of the individual. Through close studies of talk about emotion and emotional discourses in social contexts from poetry and song to therapeutic narratives, scholars who have worked in India, Fiji, the United States, Egypt, Senegal and the Solomon Islands show how emotion is tied to politics of everyday interaction. Their arguments and cross-cultural findings will intrigue and provoke anyone who has thought about the relationship between emotion, language and social life. The book will be of special interest to those who find the boundaries between cultural, psychological and linguistic anthropology, sociology, cross-cultural psychiatry, and social psychology too confining. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover ina worn, rubbed dust jacket. 340 pages. Essays exploring the impact of Church law on medieval legal theory. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 2nd pr., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 353 pages. The only available collection of Ricoeur's lectures on ideology and utopia, this seminal collection discusses the work of Althusser, Marx, Habermas, Geertz, Mannheim, and Weber. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 3rd pr., 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 471 pages, Walker Evans photos up front. In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignment for "Fortune" magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when in 1941. "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" was first published to enormous critical acclaim. This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land, and of the rhythm of their lives today stands as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. The time is the mid-1930s, in the depths of the Great Depression. Tenant farmers down South are struggling with deepening debt, chronic illnesses in their families (NO health care), land suffering from drought and the hopeless, grinding poverty much of America suffered through in that era. Clean copy. Lacks the dust jacket.

NY, Walker, 1st , 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white photos by Hine. 156 pages. Related material laid-in: exhibition card and newspaper article by author on Hine. Previous owner's stamp front fly leaf, old ink price on flap. Light edgewear, soil to dust jacket otherwise VG/VG

Hardcover. London, Reaktion Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light wear to bottom of spine. 360 pages, color and b&w illustrations, index. Libertine London investigates the sex lives of women from 1680 to 1830, the period known as the long eighteenth century. It uncovers the various experiences of women, whether mistresses, adulteresses or those involved in the sex trade. From renowned courtesans to downtrodden streetwalkers, Julie Peakman examines the multifaceted lives of these women within brothels, on stage and even behind bars. Based on new research into court transcripts, asylum records, magazines, pamphlets, satires, songs, theatre plays and erotica, we learn of the gruesome treatment of women who were sexually active outside of marriage. Julie Peakman looks at sex from women's points of view, undercutting the traditional image of the bawdy eighteenth century to expose a more sordid side, of women left distressed, ostracised and vilified for their sexual behaviour. Unveils the complex sex lives of libertine women in eighteenth-century London.

Softcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 364 pages. A picture of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages. Bennett explains the feudal system which linked the poor man to the soil and to the service of his lord and the church. Since all of the inhabitants of England at that time were countrymen, except for a few large towns, this book is really an introduction to life in Medieval England as a whole. Clean and unmarked wraps in reddish-brown with a woodcut illustration. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. West Kennebunk ME, Phoenix Publishing, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. an extraordinary memoir of Maurice that recounts the strange turns and fateful encounters that led him from his newsboyhood to collaborate with some of the world's most important men and to cooperate with some of it's most determined dreamers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 115 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Photography by David Goldblatt. Excerpts from Gordimer's prose alongside Goldblatt's striking black and white photographs. Goldblatt was an important South African photographer and documented apartheid under personal peril.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 115 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Photography by David Goldblatt. Excerpts from Gordimer's prose alongside Goldblatt's striking black and white photographs. Goldblatt was an important South African photographer and documented apartheid under personal peril.

London, Athlone Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 151 pages. Previous owner's name inside front cover. Clean otherwise.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 175 pages, b&w illustrations. Vermont-native Twitchell sets out from his current home in Florida on the inauguration day of America's first black president to find the "real" South and to try to understand the truth about his illustrious ancestor. He travels in an RV from Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp across Alabama and Mississippi to Coushatta, Louisiana. As he drives through the heart of Dixie, Twitchell sorts through the prejudices he learned from his northern rearing. In searching for the culture he had held at arm's length for so long, he tours small-town southern life -- in campgrounds, cotton gins, churches, country fairs, and squirrel dog kennels -- and uncovers some fundamental truths along the way. Notably, he discovers that prejudices of race, class, and ideology are not limited by geography. As one man from Georgia mockingly summed up North versus South stereotypes, "Y'all are rude and we're stupid." Unexpectedly, Twitchell also uncovers facts about his great-grandfather and sheds new light on his family's past. An enlightening, humorous, and refreshingly honest search, Look Away, Dixieland reveals some of the differences and similarities that ultimately define us as a nation. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Trubner & Co., 1st, 1874, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 361 pages. Hardcover. Fold-out diagram attached to title page. Brown cloth covers w/ edge wear, chipping to top of spine. Marking on title page. Foxing to fly leaves. Hinges cracking. Else pages clean and tight.

Softcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st pbk, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 390 pages. Magic and Modernity is the first book to explore comparatively how magic-usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern-is also something that is at home in modernity. "Magic" and "modernity" are rarely regarded as belonging together. Evolutionism regarded magic as quintessentially "unmodern." Although psychologists and romantic artists have sometimes declared magic to be a human universal, few modern scholars in the humanities and social sciences have studied how modern culture and institutions incorporated and even produced magic. Light pencil marking to about 30 pages.

Hardcover. Washington.DC, Smithsonian, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations.

Hardcover. Boston/New York, Bedford/ St. Martin's, 4th pr., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1224 pages plus appendix, color illustrations. Pictorial boards, very heavy textbook. Clean, tight copy. Light bump to cover corner otherwise very good. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. London, Methuen and Co., 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, soiled dust jacket, 296 pages. Russet cloth lettered in silver on spine. Illustrated with 2-color line frontispiece, 16 half-tone photographsic plates and 5 line illustrations in the text. An important and early anthropoliogical study of a little known phenomenon. The title is taken from the given name of a native New Guinean who started the cargo cult, circa 1935. Similar to other messianic movements, Burridge's first hand account is a scholarly examination of the religious, political, and economic aspects which make up the cult.

Softcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1st pbk, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 411 pages, b&w illustrations. Tracing the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia, Douglas Smith reveals a surprising fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Smith draws on official records, private correspondence, and letters to newspapers from otherwise anonymous Virginians to capture a wide and varied range of black and white voices. African Americans emerge as central characters in the narrative, as Smith chronicles their efforts to obtain access to public schools and libraries, protection under the law, and the equitable distribution of municipal resources. This acceleration of black resistance to white supremacy in the years before World War II precipitated a crisis of confidence among white Virginians, who, despite their overwhelming electoral dominance, felt increasingly insecure about their ability to manage the color line on their own terms. Exploring the everyday power struggles that accompanied the erosion of white authority in the political, economic, and educational arenas, Smith uncovers the seeds of white Virginians' resistance to civil rights activism in the second half of the twentieth century. Light marking to 10 pages, otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 272 pages, b&w illustrations. Bibliography. Index. The author considers the paradoxical period between the social and political revolutions of 1848 and the death of optimisn in 1914. Besides presenting a revealing and fascinating account of great social contrasts, the author introduces the reader into other aspects of life during this period, the relaxations and dissipations of both the rich and poor, from the showboat and the music hall to the lavish spectacles of the Nineties and the beginnings of jazz. Clean copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, Revised Ed., 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth. Gilt lettering to spine and front board, as well as decorative silver gilt towards top of front board. Gilt edge to top of edge block. 487 pages plus publisher's ads. An attractive copy of this popular soup-to-nuts etiquette manual., first published in 1884. This is the enlarged, revised edition. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st US, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth with gilt stamping, spine faded. The prolific author's study of marriage and, controversially at the time, endorsing a journey from polygamy to monogamy. Frontis. portrait of author. Bookplate on inside cover, otherwise clean. Uncommon.

Hardcover. Burlington VT, Ashgate, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt, 263 pages. (Early Modern Englishwoman: a Facsimile Library of Essential Works) Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.