Stephen J Macdonald (72 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Small tear along top edge of front cover. 1962 Soft Cover. 95 pp. Includes: Letters by Thomas Mann; Life in the Industrial North by Marcus Cunliffe; Has Switzerland a Future? by Herbert Luethy; Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Bertrand de Jouvenel; "And Thou Beside Me Singing" by Nigel Dennis; After Cuba, Berlin? by Richard Lowenthal; Going Into Europe: A Symposium; Folding Chairs by Gunter Grass; Cathedral Town by John Montague; James Son and Spice by James Reeves; Morning by Harry Fainlight; How Art Writing Earns Its Bad Name by Clement Greenberg; James Agee by Dwight Macdonald; Canetti's Crowd by George Steiner; Unamuno's Sense of Life by J.M. Cohen; Letters; Authors.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd Ed. 2nd printing. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. 20 page introduction; works cited list; 311 pages of Florida Crime with the complete text of "The Hated One" by Don Tracy, a novel of murder, race and culture out of print for decades, and the opening to an unfinished work by Willeford. Also includes: John D. MacDonald, Brett Halliday, Jonathan Latimer, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Stephen Ransome and Edwin Granberry. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Leo Monso (DJ design) (illustrator). Book Club (BCE/BOMC). A BCE from the early 1950s of a collection of first murder stories by noted mystery writers originally published from the early 1910s through the early 1950s. Contents include Room Number Twenty-three (Hugh Pentecost), The Fifty-Carat Jinx (Lawrence G Blochman), Bezique of Death (Veronica Parker Johns), The Little House at Croix-Rousse (Georges Simenon), The Riddle of the Dangling Pearl (Stuart Palmer), Shoes for Breakfast (Lawrence Treat), Find the Woman (Kenneth Millar (Ross Macdonald)), Marksman (William Campbell Gault), Victim No. 5 (Harry Stephen Keeler), The Man in the Velvet Hat (Jerome and Harold Prince), The Adventure of the Black Narcissus (August Derleth), And on the Third Day (David Alexander), Too Many Brides (Ruth Wilson), The Fourth Degree (Jerrome Barry), The Second Sight of Dr Sam: Johnson (Lillian de la Torre), Old Calamity Tries a Bluff (Joseph Fulling Fishman), A Great Whirring of Wings (Day Keene), Thenody (Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White)), The Adventure of One-Penny Black (Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee)), and The Specialty of the House (Stanley Ellin). Light edge wear with a 1" triangular piece missing from the bottom of the spine. Light fading to the spine. The internals are clean and tight. A very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Gino D'Achille; (illustrator). First American Edition. (xv) 590 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a crease on the spine; ink mark on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. Cover art by Gino D'Achille. This anthology contains: Foreword by Bernard Cornwall; The First Conflict by Richard Howard; Spiking the Guns by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne; How the Redoubt Was Taken by Prosper Merimee; The Duel by Joseph Conrad; Gallant's Gamble by Charles Partington; Every Man a King by Clayton Emery; Zodomirsky's Duel by Alexandre Dumas; High and Mighty by Tim Lebbon; Perdita's War by Daphne Wright; The Crossroads at Churubusco by John T. Aquino; Damned Banker by Paul Finch; The Calvary Charge by Peter T. Garratt; Vengeance by Pamela Brooks; The Sharpshooter by Garry Douglas; The Fallen Plume by Tom Holt; The Man Who Saw by Talbot Mundy; Flashman Besieged by George MacDonald Fraser; The Private History of a Campaign that Failed by Mark Twain; The Little Regiment by Stephen Crane; Mercy at Gettysburg by John Jakes; From a Soldier's Wife by Bella Spencer; One of the Missing by Ambrose Bierce; The Storming of the Fort by Walter Wood; Loved I Not Honour More by Amy Myers; For Valour by L. T. Meade and Clifford Halifax; and Sphinx by Clotilde Graves; followed by an appendix: Stories of the Victoria Cross. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Peter Rauch; (illustrator). First Edition. (xii) 243 pp. Gold boards lettered in orange on the spine. Wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a short tear and associated creasing on the lower edge of the front panel; very faint lavender spray on the lower edge of the text block; price intact; no interior markings. This anthology contains: The Time of the Eye by Harlan Ellison; I Always Get the Cuties by John D. MacDonald; The Spoils System by Donald E. Westlake; Miser's Gold by Ellery Queen; The Silver Curtain by John Dickson Carr; Violation by William F. Nolan; My Mother the Ghost by Henry Slesar; You Can Get Used to Anything by Anthony Boucher; The Donor by Dan J. Marlowe; The Pill Problem by Pauline C. Smith; The Crooked Picture by John Lutz; Night Piece for Julia by Jessamyn West; No More Questions by Stephen R. Novak; Hollywood Footprints by Betty Buchanan; Face Value by Edward Wellen; The Leopold Locked Room by Edward D. Hoch; If I Quench Thee by William E. Chambers; Rope Enough by Joe Gores; Robert by Stanley Ellin; Murder by Scalping by S. S. Rafferty; We All Have to Go by Elizabeth A. Lynn; The Little Old Lady of Cricket Creek by Len Gray; The Girl Who Jumped in the River by Arthur Moore; Hand in Glove by James Holding; Shut the Final Door by Joe L. Hensley; The Counterfeit Conman by Albert F. Nussbaum; My Sister and I by Jean L. Backus; Goodbye Cora by Richard Ellington; Multiples by Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg; and The Deveraux Monster by Jack Ritchie. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. G. Ziel; (illustrator). Book Club Edition. First book club edition. Blue boards lettered in black on the spine; red upper edge; headband. Some wear at the corners of the dustjacket; small tick marks on the contents page. Dj art by G. Ziel. This anthology contains: The Terminal Beach by J. G. Ballard; Automatic Tiger by Kit Reed; The Legend of Joe Lee by John D. MacDonald; Descending by Thomas M. Disch; Decadence by Romain Gary; Be of Good Cheer by Fritz Leiber; A Benefactor of Humanity by James T. Farrell; The Carson Effect by Richard Wilson; The Shining Ones by Arthur C. Clarke; Pacifist by Mack Reynolds; The New Encyclopaedist by Stephen Becker; Gas Mask by James D. Houston; A Sinister Metamorphosis by Russell Baker; Sonny by Rick Raphael; The Last Secret Weapon of the Third Reich by Josef Nesvadba; It Could Be You by Frank Roberts; Synchromocracy by Hap Cawood; The Search by Bruce Simonds; The Pirokin Effect by Larry Eisenberg; The Twerlik by Jack Sharkey; A Rose for Ecclesiates by Roger Zelanzy; Problem Child by Arthur Porges; The Wonderful Dog Suit by Donald Hall; The Mathenauts by Norman Kagan; Family Portrait by Morgan Kent; The Red Egg by Jose Maria Gironella; The Power of Positive Thinking by M. E. White; A Living Doll by Robert Wallace; Training Talk by David R. Bunch; A Miracle Too Many by Philip H. Smith and Alan E. Nourse; The Last Lonely Man by John Brunner; The Man Who Found Proteus by Robert Rohrer; and Yachid and Yechida by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Size: 8vo. Book.

Paperback. Condition: New. Understanding how theory informs social work practice is an area that students can often find challenging.  This book will help students understand how theory impacts and informs social work practice across a range of contexts and with different service user groups. It starts off by briefly setting the context, introducing students to the importance of social work theory and its development over the years, before moving on to look at different types of theory across 17 tightly structured chapters. These cover a range of psychological theories, sociological theories, ethics and moral philosophies, political theories and ideologies, and organisational theories.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Vii, 358 Pp. Blue Boards, Spine Lettered In Silver. First Printing. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Includes A Long Ayer Bibliography. Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer (1910 - 1989), Usually Cited As A. J. Ayer, Was An English Philosopher Known For His Promotion Of Logical Positivism, Particularly In His Books Language, Truth, And Logic (1936) And The Problem Of Knowledge (1956). He Was Educated At Eton College And The University Of Oxford, After Which He Studied The Philosophy Of Logical Positivism At The University Of Vienna. From 1933 To 1940 He Lectured On Philosophy At Christ Church, Oxford. During The Second World War Ayer Was A Special Operations Executive And Mi6 Agent. He Was Grote Professor Of The Philosophy Of Mind And Logic At University College London From 1946 Until 1959, After Which He Returned To Oxford To Become Wykeham Professor Of Logic At New College. He Was President Of The Aristotelian Society From 1951 To 1952 And Knighted In 1970. He Was Known For His Advocacy Of Humanism, And Was The Second President Of The British Humanist Association (Now Known As Humanists Uk). Professor A. J. Ayer Was President Of The Homosexual Law Reform Society For A Time; He Remarked That "As A Notorious Heterosexual I Could Never Be Accused Of Feathering My Own Nest.".

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2001 Newcomen Society hardcover edition. Some reading wear, lean to spine else good condition. Contents: (1) Introduction, (2) Keynote address, Sir Neil Cossons, (3) Railways in the Greek and Roman world, (4) A rediscovered early rail waggon, (5) Pre-1840 trackways in south Wales, (6) Transitional technology: the Nantlle railway, (7) The railways of James Watt, (8) An engineering assessment of the Kilmarnock & Troon railway (1807-46), (9) Early railways in Dorset: the industrial railway of Purbeck, (10) North eastern locomotive pioneers 1805 to 1827; a reassessment, (11) The strange story of the Steam Elephant, (12) Rope haulage: the forgotten element of railway history, (13) An alternative railway technology: early monorail systems, (14) Rings, springs, strings and things: the national collection pre 1840, (15) The first steam locomotives on the European mainland, (16) The origins of the St Etienne rail roads, 181-38; French industrial espionage and British technology transfer, (17) The transfer of pioneering British railroad technology to North America, (18) The Albion mines railway of 1839-1840; some British roots of Canada's first industrial railway, (19) Learning through restoration; the Samson locomotive project, (20) Coal, banks and railways, (21) Early railways and regional identity, (22) The Stanhope and Tyne railway; a study in business failure, (23) Reflections on the iconography of early railways.

Paperback. Condition: New. Understanding how theory informs social work practice is an area that students can often find challenging.  This book will help students understand how theory impacts and informs social work practice across a range of contexts and with different service user groups. It starts off by briefly setting the context, introducing students to the importance of social work theory and its development over the years, before moving on to look at different types of theory across 17 tightly structured chapters. These cover a range of psychological theories, sociological theories, ethics and moral philosophies, political theories and ideologies, and organisational theories.

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