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New York: Mark H. Newman & Co., 1849. Second Edition. . Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Porter, an early 19th Century Congregational minister and seminary teacher, wrote several works on rhetoric and speech, on what he called the "art of reading." This book, "The Rhetorical Reader," was intended for use in academies and high schools and was issued in over… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1991. First Printing, First Trade Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Halberstam's eleventh book was written at the beginning of the last decade of the 20th Century, giving its author a sweeping view and penetrating analysis of world and national political and economic history over the past fifty years but equally as fascinating… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1998. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Trade Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. A collection of essays by this well-known economics analyst and columnist, written between 1995 and 1997, many appearing in Krugman's regular column in "Slate" or the "New York Times;" text is tight, square and clean with no underlining or… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Atheneum, 1963. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Trade Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback; Atheneum 27; a classic, comprehensive analysis of the American legal system and its trial courts' ability to provide justice for all citizens, as appropriate today as when first published in the 1950s; First Printing of the First Atheneum Edition;… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Ballantine Books, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Ballantine S 705; Professor Horowitz's now-classic studies of the 'new' civilian militarists, written in the early years of the Vietnam War, seem equally appropriate and applicable today when men with little connection with the military make military policy,… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1978. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. Morris followed his bestselling "The Naked Ape," a brutally frank look at the human animal, with this work, an equally honest scrutiny of the society which humanity has created for itself; hardcover; First Printing of the First U.S. Edition; text is clean,… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Pantheon Books, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Terkel, who won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Good War," revisits Americans and the American Dream in the 1980s to find an America increasingly divided by politics, economics, religion and philosophy, forgetting truth in pursuit of the trivial. Light remainder mark on top edge,… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Paperback Library, Inc., 1970. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Vintage paperback, Paperback Library 66-277; Gerzon was twenty in 1969 when he completed this analysis of the under-30 generation's alienation from middle class culture, systematically examining a wide range of issues including the draft, civil rights, war protest, poverty programs, drugs and… Saber más sobre este artículo

Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Trade Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Now considered a landmark work in sociology and anthropology, winner of the 1981 Margaret Mead Award, this beautifully written, sympathetic and sensitive study of mental illness in rural Ireland was seen as a classic work from its… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Doubleday & Co., 1969. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Trade Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Anchor A654; Marshall uses a large body of psychological studies and data to show that the American system of adversarial trial law is often a game of make-believe, that the perception and recollection of witnesses are so… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Anchor Books A387; this anthology, edited by Bedau with contributions from experts with a wide range of opinions is still considered an authoritative and balanced presentation of the legal, moral, social and historical issues surrounding the use of the… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Good Plus/Good Plus. Readings from Wolfe's writing of the 1960's & '70's, chosen by the author and including selections from the "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" and "The Right Stuff;' dustjacket art also by Wolfe; spine is deeply creased, but book still whole and tight;… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: HarperCollins, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/About Very Good. The companion volume to Moore's bestselling "Care Of The Soul" explores the difficulties and rewards of relationships; First Printing of the First Edition; dustjacket is rubbed, somewhat worn.