Resultados de búsqueda: Historical Essays

Washington, DC: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1978. Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for a few chips on back cover. New Uses for Large Estates (NY); Rub a Landmark; When a Factory is Home (elderly housing); Images of a Town (townscape planning); Spotlight on an Old Lighthouse (Grosse Point, IL); 1978 Essay & Poetry Winners

NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1994. Paperback. VERY GOOD+. As new except for corner bump which has bent page corners. "dazzling, free-form meditation explores the three primary colors through their myriad associations in art, history, music, poetry, fiction, movies, anthropology, linguistics, myth, religion, science, food, sports, and everyday life." 268 pages

Wiley Periodicals, 2015. Trade Paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality!

NY: New York Academy of Sciences, 1983. Trade Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for light rubbing to cover edges and faint stain to bottom corner of first 8 pages. Articles on: French Country Medicine; Probability; Weierstrasan Mathematics; Bell Labs; Developmental Psychology in the 1970s; Lesegue's Measure Problem and Zermelo's Axiom of Choice; Italian Medical Writings of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. 168 pages of annotated essays. ISBN: 0897662180.

American Historical Review, 1938. (reprint). Oversize Paperback. GOOD+. Tight, age soiled and faded blue cover, clean interior except for stain at top corner of binding, no markings except for hand written "Robert Ostergren from H.O. Taylor" across top of front cover. 20 page, staple-bound, reprint from the American Historical Review, Vol. XLIV, No. 1, October 1938. "Convincing arguments are hardly to be looked for in an essay upon the influences and conditions bringing some degree of linkage and expectedness to history: for opinions will depend on temperament and the slant of individual interest in different phases of human life..." 0.6

Danbury, CT: Western Connecticut State University, 2005. Oversize Paperback. FINE. As new. Articles include: ""Upon Entering the White House: Affairs and Sec Scandals through the Years": "Buying the Right to Privacy: Contraception in Connecticut, 1940-1970"; Charles and Di: A History in Attitudes"; "An Inquiry into the Masculine Mentality"; "the Oppression of Women in Christianity"; "Black Women Abolitionists"; "Walt Whitman and Homosexuality"; "Woman and Nation in Four Indian Films of the 1990s"; and "The Politics of Sexuality: Two Photo Essays".

NY: Harper 7 Brothers. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Dj worn more so on edes; 8 vo; 284 pages. .

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Forty talks/speeches/lectures by Van Loon on the radio from May to October 1935 307 pages, Blue book has light rubbing on bottom board edges. Dust jacket, with $2 price on flap, is somewhat faded on spine and has small corner chips and half-inch tears.

State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1967. Softcover. Very Good/no jacket. Pages 280-440, illustrations, 25cm tall, octavo. Volume 50 number 4. A 1932 interview with Hitler; Louis P. Lochner's letters to his children 1932-1941; blitzkrieg in Belgium; pictorial records of an SS experiment on Angora rabbits; fall of Berlin. Paper-clip mark on first leave, otherwise a fine copy.

TX: University of Texas Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 8 vo; 132 pages. .

Cornell University Press, 1977. First edition. Unknown. Very Good/good. 8vo, 399 pges, cloth Fifteen essays representing the first systematic attempt to deal with the reemergence of ethnic conflict in western societies. With maps.

MIT Press for the BCSIA Studies In International Security:, 2000. First published in 1998, this book is the 2000 printing, 179 pages. "In this book, the author argues that the United States and other democracies can fight terrorism while preserving liberty and maintaining a healthy, unified society. Drawing on his experience in the U.S. Depts. Of State and Justice, he shows how domestic and foreign intelligence-gathering can thwart terrorism, how the U.S. must cooperate and share information with its allies, and how terrorism can be prevented in many cases." FINE SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

NY: Dover Publications. Good with no dust jacket. 1963. Trade Paperback. Corners turned up, film on back has peeled near side ede; 8 vo; 450 pages. .

Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 8 vo; 441 pages. .

MIT Press for the BCSIA Studies In International Security:, 1998. 179 pages. "In this book, the author argues that the United States and other democracies can fight terrorism while preserving liberty and maintaining a healthy, unified society. Drawing on his experience in the U.S. Depts. Of State and Justice, he shows how domestic and foreign intelligence-gathering can thwart terrorism, how the U.S. must cooperate and share information with its allies, and how terrorism can be prevented in many cases." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Good+ in Good dust jacket. MCMLIV. Hardcover. Books corners and edes slight wear, dj edges worn small pieces missing; 8 vo; 303 pages. .

Chicago: University of Chicago. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 8 vo; 148 pages. .

WA: University of Washington Pre. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. Corners and edes on book slight wear, dj faded with tears around edges; 8 vo; 458 pages. .

Cambridge: University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1964. Second Printing. Hardcover. Dj has worn edes; 8 vo; 387 pages. .

London: Fabian Society , 1890. Very good (soiled spine and rear cover, lightly bumped corners, wrinkled at top and bottom of spine, many uncut pages, spotted title page and frontispiece, and a few spots on side page edges). No dust jacket but now in a heavy plastic protective cover. 1st edition, 2nd state: front cover and frontispiece have illustration with date "1890." Title page shows a date of "1889." The true first edition, first state would have the 1889 date on cover too. Essays by Shaw, Sidney Webb, William Clarke, Sydney Olivier, Annie Besant, Graham Wallas, and Hubert Bland.. Hard Cover.