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Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University, 1977. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean but tanned pages with a few corner creases and general rubbing to edges. Some marginal markings and underlined passages on introductory essay. Wrappers have general handling wear, soiling, tanning. ; Contents: Holton, "Introduction"; Starobinski, "Criticism and Authority"; Weinberg, "The Search for Unity: Notes for a History of Quantum Field Theory"; Rossi, "X-Ray Astronomy"; Eisenstadt, "Sociological Theory and an Analysis of the Dynamics of Civilizations and of Revolutions"; Thurow, "Economics 1977"; Culler, "In Pursuit of Signs"; Miller, "Problems of Communication."; Vol. 106, No. 4, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 9.75" tall; 177 pages.

Cambridge, MA: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1965. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean, slightly tanned pages with reading wear throughout. Previous owner's name on contents page, which also has a closed tear at top corner.Wrappers tanned with chip at top front corner, previous owner's name at top front, fading and creasing at spine, overall handling wear including creasing on back. ; Contents: Lyndon B. Johnson, Foreword. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Employment, income, and the ordeal of the Negro familyh. St. Clair Drake, The social and economic status of the Negro in the United States. Rashi Fein, An economic and social profile of the Negro American. Phililp M. Hauser, Demographic factors in the integration of the Negro. James Tobin, On improving the economic status of the Negro. John Hope Franklin, The two worlds of race: a historical view. Harold C. Fleming, The Federal executive and Civil Rights: 1961-1965. James Q. Wilson, The Negro in politics. Thomas F.… Leer más

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1971. Soft Cover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Binding stressed but holding. General light shelfwear to wraps. Small amount of writing on table of contents. Thematic issue exploring social and psychological issues surrounding early adolescence. ; 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 250 pages.

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, sound binding. Clean and bright pages. Light handling wear. Contents: Holton, Einstein and the Cultural Roots of Modern Science. Galison, The Americanization of Unity. Daston, Fear and Loathing of the Imagination in Science. Doniger and Spinner, Misconceptions: Female Imaginations and Male Fantasies in Parental Imprinting. Wilson, Consilience Among the Great Branches of Learning. Weinberg, Physics and History. Friedrich and Herschbach, Space Quantization: Otto Stern's Lucky Star. Gombrich, Eastern Inventions and Western Response. Ackerman, Leonardo da Vinci: Art in Science. Graham, Educational Dilemmas for Americans. ; 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 236 pages.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University, 1977. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean but tanned pages with a few corner creases and general rubbing to edges. Wrappers have general shelf wear, soiling, age-darkening. ; Contents: Holton, "Introduction"; Starobinski, "Criticism and Authority"; Weinberg, "The Search for Unity: Notes for a History of Quantum Field Theory"; Rossi, "X-Ray Astronomy"; Eisenstadt, "Sociological Theory and an Analysis of the Dynamics of Civilizations and of Revolutions"; Thurow, "Economics 1977"; Culler, "In Pursuit of Signs"; Miller, "Problems of Communication."; Vol. 106, No. 4, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 9.75" tall; 177 pages.

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2001. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, sound binding. Clean and bright pages. Light handling wear. Contents: Berselli, The crisis and transformation of Italian politics. Brunetta, Italy's other left. Violante, Italian parliamentary institutions: an evolutionary overview. Ranci, Democracy at work: social participation and the "Third Sector" in Italy. Berger and Locke, Il Caso Italiano and globalization. Ovi, Cheese, children, and container cranes: learning from Reggio Emilia. Cavalli, Reflections on political culture and the "Italian national character." Livi-Bacci, Too few children and too much family. Paoli, Crime, Italian style. ; 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 185 pages; REMOVED - condition.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2007. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wraps have light handling wear. Contents: McNeill, Violence & its historical limits. LeBlanc, Why warfare? Schell & Boynton, People's power vs. nuclear power. Juergensmeyer, Gandhi vs. terrorism. Whitehead, Violence & the cultural order. Todorov, Avant-gardes & totalitarianism. Michnik, The Ultras of moral revolution. Ness, The rise in female violence. Bloom, Female suicide bombers. Mnookin, Negotiating conflict: Belgium & Israel. Blight & Lang, Robert McNamara: then & now. Annals by David Jewitt, Jane X. Luu, and Owen Gingerich. John Kinsella, INto the Sun (poetry). Peggy Shinner, Life is Adequate (fiction). Notes by Robert I. Rotberg, Susan T. Fiske, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. ; 10" (25.4 cm) tall; 168 pages.

Cambridge, MA: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967. Soft Cover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Square, tight copy with clean, bright pages. General shelfwear to wrappers with darkened spine. Contents: Daniel Bell, "The Year 2000--The Trajectory of an Idea"; Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Wiener, "The Next THirty-Three Years: A Framework for Speculation"; Fred Charles Ikle, "Can Social Predictions Be Evaluated?"; Donald A. Schon, "Forecasting and Technological Forecasting"; Martin Shubik, "Information, Rationality and Free Choice in a Future Democratic Society"; Leonard J. Duhl, "Planning and Predicting: Or What to Do When You Don't Know the Names of the Variables"; Harvey S. Perloff, "Modernizing Urban Development"; Daniel P. Moynihan, "The Relationship of Federal to Local Authorities"; Lawrence K. Frank, "The Need for a New Political Theory"; Stephen R. Graubard, "University Cities in the Year 2000"; Harold Orlans, "Education and Scientific Institutions"; Ernst Mayr, "Biological Man and… Leer más

New York: Random House, 1966. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ is clipped at corner with light overall shelf wear. ; Book examines poverty and its relationship to political unrest in northeastern Brazil. ; 8.5" tall; 206 pages.

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the English language. Square, tight binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wraps have light shelf wear, including slightly heavier wear to corner tips. ; Fifteen mothers, grandmothers, and great grandmothers in Cuernavaca, Mexico, comment on the effects of urbanization and rapid social change on their lives. Autobiographical vignettes together with ethnographic materia, survey findings, and author's own observations. ; Life Course Studies; 9.0" tall; 254 pages.

Iowa City: University Of Iowa Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is discolored along lower edge. DJ has light edge rubbing and overall light shelf wear. ; Examination of the earliest development of Andean civilization, 2500 to 200 B.C.E. ; 9.25" tall; 160 pages.

New York: Hill and Wang, 1979. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. First American Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Pages clean, bright. Cloth over boards is clean. DJ has very slight fading at DJ, otherwise clean. ; Essays about modern urban life. 8.5" tall ; 152 pages.

São Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional, 1978. Second Edition. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Second Edition. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wraps have light handling wear. Sixteen essays on social anthropology and ethnology by the author. ; Brasiliana; Vol. 22; 8.25" tall; 122 pages.

Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania: Dowden, Hutchison & Ross, 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Paper over boards is clean with slight shelf wear. ; Anthropometric essays on northwest Alaskan Eskimos including topics such as biochemical variations, craniofacial studies, nutrition studies, metabolic parameters, exercise physiology, general health, demography and population parameters, behavioral studies, and more. ; US/IBP Synthesis Series; Vol. 8; 9.5" tall ; 339 pages.

New York: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, inc, 1967. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Exlibrary markings. Sound binding with off-white pages. Wrappers have light shelf wear, creasing at spine. ; Examines the music of the various native Americans included in the term Flathead, which refers to a group of native peoples in Montana. Sources of music, ideas of music and musicianship, sound instruments, the uses of music, acculturation and culture change, problems of interpretation, songs and analysis, conclusions. Appendices, bibliography, index. ; Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology; Ex-Library; Vol. 44; 9.75" tall; 403 pages.

New York: Padell Books - Walden Publications, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Pages clean, very slightly tanned, rippled at top corner. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has edge wear including closed tear at bottom of spine, overall shelf wear, light soiling. ; Study of human sexual love by English sex authority Walter Matthew Gallichan (1861-1946). 9.0" (21 cm) tall; 283 pages.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1927. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good in Fair dust jacket. First American Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Pages lightly tanned with underlined passages throughout and notes on rear endpaper. Previous owner's name on ffep. Cloth over boards edge rubbed with heavier wear at corner tips. DJ chipped at top and bottom of spine with overall edge wear, shelf wear. ; Anthropological inquiry into the role "father" plays in primitive life. ; 6.75" (17 cm) tall; 95 pages.

Pelham, New York: Bridgman Publishers, 1935. Hard Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Square, sound binding. Clean, slightly age-darkened pages. Cloth over boards is shelf worn, soiled, faded at spine and around edges. Step-by-step instructions on drawing the human figure, with many illustrations. 10.25" (26 cm) tall; 64 pages.

Toronto, ON, Canada: Key Porter Books, 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. A nice tight, bright, square copy, bound in maroon paper-covered boards; very light, pale, barely visible soiling to edges of text block, o/w clean and unmarked inside and out; dust jacket clean, bright, and unmarked, with only minor edge wear. "In this personal, provocative, and devastatingly honest book, journalist and pundit Michel Gratton sets out to reveal the truth about how French Canadians think about life, politics and the future of Canada."; 9.25" tall; 232 pages.

Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1991. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Text clean and bright. Wrappers have light handling wear including crease at back top corner. Exterior lightly soiled. "Twelve essays by outstanding scholars, written with [this] volume's concerns specifically in mind, range across the broadest anthropological terrain, assessing and contributing to feminist work on biological anthropology, primate studies, global economy, new reproductive technologies, ethnolinguistics, race and gender, and more"; 9.0" (21 cm) tall; 422 pages.