Resultados de búsqueda: Sociology from Berthoff Books

W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1965. Soft cover. Good. 202 pages, with index. Book originally published 1959. Trade paperback, crease in spine, minimal shelf wear, binding tight, foxing to top edge, pages 82-3 brown from previously laid-in newspaper clipping. Name of former owner and date May 1966 written on ffep, small marks in margin of approximately 30 pages.

Crane Russak, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. 109 pages, with bibliography. Preface by Prof. Menachem Amir. Profile of the late-Soviet ruling strata, written half a decade before the USSR's demise. Trade paperback, scant wear, spine sunned, small nick in front cover, very faint foxing to top edge. Pages unmarked.

Beacon Press, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. 201 pages, with index. First paperback edition. Essays by the neo-Marxist sociologist on late-20th century American society. Trade paperback, reading crease, some shelf wear, faint foxing to edges and white back cover. Pages unmarked.

Pantheon, 1981. Soft cover. Good. 306 pages, with introduction by John Berger, map of Sicily across two pages. Translated from Italian by Justin Vitiello and Madeline Polidoro. Interviews with and monologues by residents of impoverished villages in western Sicily, collected by the Italian sociologist, poet, and apostle of non-violent action. Small trade paperback (~5" x 8"), shelf wear and rubbed along edges of spine, stains to a couple of pages as from laid-in newspaper clippings. Underscoring and/or marginalia on ~15 pages of the main text, mostly small pencil marks in margins; heavier annotation by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff in the introduction (highly critical) and Dolci's preface (appreciative).

Sidgwick & Jackson, 1984. Soft cover. Near Fine. 192 pages, with index, bibliography, list of dramatis personae, diagram of the Souls circle. Covers the influence of this group as "an elite in English society, 1885-1930", which included influentials such as Lord Curzon and PM Arthur Balfour. Wide trade paperback (7-3/8" x 9-5/8"), practically no visible wear. Errata slip laid in. Name of former owners written on inside front cover, interior pages unmarked.

Random House, 1993. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 237 pages. A study in dialogue form of the ethical basis of public life. Medium 8vo (9-1/2" x 6-1/4"), light beige paper with black decoration over boards, black cloth quarter with gilt lettering, some smudges to boards, a bit of wear and fading at crown and heel, foxing to fore-edge, in unclipped DJ with wear to edges, coffee stain and other smudges. Names of former owners on ffep, underscoring and marginalia in pencil by Prof. Ann E. Berthoff throughout.

Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 240 pages, with index. Former library book with card sleeve remnants on rear end papers, library marks on spine and elsewhere, bit clipped from absent DJ's flap affixed to front pastedown. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff written on ffep, her underscoring and marginalia on approximately 70 pages; her notes on end papers and half-title include the observation - "better than anything the women's movement went on to produce", and a reminiscence of Mary Ellman treating her as having an independent personality and intellectual interests, in Harvard circles in 1950. 8vo, light blue cloth with faded white and silver gilt lettering on spine, mustard end papers, wear to corners/crown/heel, old price notation on ffep.

Impress, 2015. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 303 pages, with "books consulted" list, illustrated with b&w photos. The author had volunteered at the Hospice of the Fisher Home, in Massachusetts. Trade paperback, a few smudges to exterior, binding tight. Inscribed by the author on title page, to friends. Pages bright and unmarked.

The Noonday Press (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 1995. Soft cover. Good. 295 pages. Diary of one year in the poet's life, with wide-ranging observations on society and intellectual life. Trade paperback, wraps curling, light foxing to edges. Name of former owner written on inside front cover, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 60 pages, rfep and inside back cover.