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"New foreword and editorial additions" Edited and with a foreword by Bettina Bien Greaves. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is new, still in shrinkwrap. xii/176 pages.Originally published in 1952 as: "Planning for Freedom and Other Essays and Addresses"; and issued in 1980 as: "Planning for Freedom and Sixteen Other Essays and Addresses."

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is new, still in shrinkwrap. xii/171 pages."In his foreword, Robert D. Tollison identifies the main objective of Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan's "The Reason of Rules": . . . a book-length attempt to focus the energies of economists and other social analysts on the nature and function of the rules under which ordinary political life and market life function." In persuasive style, Brennan and Buchanan argue that too often economists become mired in explaining the obvious or constructing elaborate mathematical models to shed light on trivial phenomena. Their solution: economics as a discipline would be better focused on deriving normative procedures for establishing rules so that ordinary economic life can proceed unaffected as much as possible by social issues. In "The Reason of Rules," Brennan and Buchanan sketch out a methodological and analytical framework for the establishment of rules. They point out that the consideration of… Leer más

The Artists in Perspective Series. First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.25", displays light shelfwear. Name of previous owner at top of half title page is blacked out. Name and address of previous owner appears in upper outside corner of blank page at rear of volume. Interior is otherwise clean and bright. Illustrated with six plates offering b&w reproductions. 178 pages.

SUNY series on modern Jewish literature and culture. First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9.25", displays light shelfwear, with trace of sticker removal in lower outside corner of front cover. Book is otherwise in excellent condition, with solid binding, clean and bright interior. xv/235 pages."In a unique study of Anglo-Jewish writers in the post-war period, Dr. Sicher traces through their works the story of the rise of the Jewish community from slum poverty to suburban affluence. This period is one of crucial social change in Britain. At the same time, Dr. Sicher raises serious questions about the modern writer's cultural and ethnic identity. In this process, Dr. Sicher advances the thesis that, under the impetus of the Holocaust, the more traditional conflict between Jewish roots and assimilation has been succeeded by a reassessment of identity and morality. Dr. Sicher's perspective on this particular period of literature is a highly original one and it should provoke… Leer más

Letras Hispánicas. Softcover volume displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Critical edition of this 1985 "costumbrista" play made into a film in 1989. 193 pages.

"...unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published by David McKay Company in 1934". Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", is in fine condition. 56 pages.
"The 1934 World's Championship brought Alekhine and Bogoljubow together for the second time. For the second time, Alekhine emerged very much the winner. The special interest that these 26 games hold for chess enthusiasts (aside from the important fact that Alekhine was involved in them) lies largely in the psychology of the opponents. Alekhine thought little of Bogoljubow's ability; Bogoljubow was certain he was the world's finest player.As a result, these are very exciting games, marked with unexpected risks and surprising attacks. Reinfeld and Fine annotated the games in exhaustive detail, filling as much as five pages (and rarely as little as one) with notes on a single game. They also provided biographies of the two masters, their tournament and match records as of 1934, and a summary chart of the 26… Leer más

Volume, measuring approximately 4.5" x 7.25", is bound in original printed stiff wrappers.. Book shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. Red just jacket displays small, closed tears at top of spine panel. 168 pages.

Booklet, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is bound in original printed and illustrated wrappers. Like new. Textual reproductions. 35 pages.Published on occasion of an exhibition at the Johnson Museum held March 15-April 17, 1983.

First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is new. 76 pages.
"Carolyn Clark's poems – a mesh of narratives, word play, scholarly lore, and reflections on our shared human states of growth, marriage, parenthood, daughterhood – should be savored slowly most of all for the lushness of her language… In this collection Plato dwells easily with concepts of Christian Grace; science plays with mysticism; an homage to the almost orgiastic experience of peeling and eating an orange somehow merges into the fruits in "Two Gorges." Clark's horse poems (several lovely ones) remind us of Maxine Kumin's but are their own revelations of muscle and mind. There is much to interest and admire in these poems, but these lines – with a whiff of Kay Ryan and Emily Dickinson—particularly made this reader smile: "But beware: memory is/ a powerful sloth/ hanging nose down/ from a semiotic clothesline." —Eleanor Elson Heginbotham, Professor Emerita, Concordia University St. Paul

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", is new. xxi/182 pages."The philosophy of Ayn Rand has had a role equal or greater than that of Milton Friedman or F.A. Hayek in shaping the contemporary neo-liberal consensus. Its impact was powerful on architects of Reaganomics such as Alan Greenspan, former Director of the World Bank, and the new breed of American industrialists who developed revolutionary information technologies in Silicon Valley.But what do we really know of Rand's philosophy? Is her gospel of selfishness really nothing more than a reiteration of a quintessentially American "rugged individualism"? This book argues that Rand's philosophy can in fact be traced back to a moment, before World War I, when the work of a now-forgotten German philosopher called Max Stirner possessed an extraordinary appeal for writers and artists across Europe. The influence of Stirnerian Egoism upon that phase of intense creative innovation we now call Modernism was seminal.The implications for our… Leer más

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Ink notations appear at top of half title page. Pages are clean and without markings. Bilingual in German and English. 127 pages.

Softcover volume is as new. Contains b&w illustrations, index and an "incomplete and idiosyncratic index of Warhol's worlds." 162 pages.

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in gray paper spine and boards, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xv/416 pages."In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time—climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people—the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The problems are too big, too interdependent, too divisive for the nation-state. Is the nation-state, once democracy's best hope, today democratically dysfunctional? Obsolete? The answer, says Benjamin Barber in this highly provocative and original book, is yes. Cities and the mayors who run them can do and are doing a better job. Barber cites the unique qualities cities worldwide share: pragmatism, civic trust, participation, indifference to borders and sovereignty, and a democratic penchant for networking, creativity, innovation, and cooperation. He demonstrates how city mayors, singly and jointly, are… Leer más

Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 5.5" x 7.5". Book is new. 173 pages."A collection of personal essays that weaves together fragmented images from horror films and cultural tropes to meditate on anxiety and depression, suicide, body image, identity, grief, and survival."

SuhrkampBasisBiographie 4. First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.75" x 7.5", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 158 pages."Walter Benjamin is one of the most discussed authors of the 20th century – in science, literature and art. His idiosyncratic and unconventional writings are an incessant reflection on his metropolitan origins, his Berlin origins: on how to find one's way through the labyrinth of constantly changing impressions."

Policy Analyses in Internationl Economics, 30. First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", exhibits very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. xii/162 pages.

Colección El Escribente. First edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings.Work by Puerto Rican writer Julio Ramos (b. 1957), who is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and author of "Desencuentros de la modernidad: literatura y política en América Latina (1989) and "Paradojas de la letra" (1996), among other titles. 104 pages.

Le Regard littéraire. First edition. Preface by René Huyghe. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.75" x 7.25", is in fine condition. 249 pages."Delacroix, " c'est le rêve! Et je n'entends pas par ce mot les capharnaüms de la nuit, mais la vision produite par une intense méditation ou, dans les cerveaux moins fertiles, par un excitant artificiel. En un mot, Eugène Delacroix peint surtout l'âme dans ses belles heures." Charles Baudelaire

First printing. Translation and edition by Elizabeth Csicsery-Ronay. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in blue cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xiv/274 pages."Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was equally prominent as composer and music critic. A Travers Chants is the collection of writings he himself selected from his thirty-odd years of musical journalism. This new translation, phrased in lively, idiomatic English and annotated for the twentieth-century reader, is illustrated with lithographs and drawings from Berlioz's lifetime."

Collection Interventions. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.75", is in fine condition. 125 pages.