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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover corners and edges are lightly rubbed. Binding is tight.

paperback. Condition: Used-Very Good. 2nd. pp248; Paperback in very good condition; Clean pages; Creased Spine; Light edgewear.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Printing. 171 Pages. Indexed. Illustrated throughout. Tight bright book with no marks or stamps. The appearance of unread book. Even harder than doing great science is explaining it. That's what The Science Masters Series does. Short easy to read books present cutting-edge ideas in a format that will enable a broad audience to attain scientific literacy. Contents in Eight Chapters: The First Humans, A Crowded Family, A Different Kind of Human, Man the Noble Hunter, The Origin of Modern Humans, The Language of Art, The Art of Language, and The Origin of Mind. Richard is the son of Mary and Louis Leakey, world famous antroopologists known for their extraordinary discoveries.

Soft cover. Condition: Good ++. No Jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover corners and edges are lightly rubbed. Binding is tight. 427pp.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Later Printing. A stock image [photo] is an accurate representation of the listed book's cover design. Covers clean, colors bright, no reading creases at spine, minor edge wear. Pages [xi, 273 including index] clean, binding tight and square. A few pages with underlining and/or marginalia. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4 to 9 3/4".

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Various Photographers & Artists (illustrator). First Edition First Printing. A stock image [photo] is an accurate representation of the listed book's dust jacket design . Complete number line at copyright page. NON price-clipped dust jacket [$ 26.00], clean, crisp, colors bright, minor edge wear. Illustrated throughout with B&W photographs and art reproductions. Pages [268 including index] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Red boards, clean, black spine, bright silver gilt lettering. Remainder copy. Long before Dolly the Sheep or transgenic mice or bioengineered corn, there was the red canary - the first genetically engineered organism, back in 1920's Germany. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. Remainder.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. Pictorial wraps. Light shelf wear, one very slight crease along a firm, square binding. xvi,383 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. The untold story of the Russian Submarines that fought the Cold War.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg. Dust Jacket Condition: vg-. viii 328 pages; text unmarked; light shelf wear to dj. Hardcover (dj).

Soft Cover. Condition: vg+. vi 309pp; contents clean & tight. Paperback.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine-. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine-. First Edition First Printing. Usual ex-libri markings but very nice clean copy, appears unread as if never having been checked out. A stock image [photo] is an accurate representation of the listed book's dust jacket design. Complete number line at copyright page. NON price-clipped dust jacket [$ 25.95] in mylar covers, clean, colors bright, minor display indications. Textblock pages [261 including index] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Blue boards, gray spine, bright gilt lettering. Illustrated with maps. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Comprehensive single-volume history of World War I which explains the causes and why it dragged on so long. 564 pages, b/w photo section, maps, endnotes, bibliography, index. Wear to jacket, tape repair at spine head. Dust Jacket condition very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. xiii, 446 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled. First printing. Fine DJ. *** "In this retelling of the fatal duel between Hamilton and Burr, historian Fleming takes the reader into the post-revolutionary world of 1804, a chaotic and fragile time in the young country as well as a time of tremendous global instability. The success of the French Revolution and the proclamation of Napoleon as First Consul for Life had enormous impact on men like Hamilton and Burr, feeding their own political fantasies at a time of perceived Federal government weakness and corrosion. Their hunger for fame spawned antagonisms that wreaked havoc on themselves and their families and threatened to destabilize the fragile young American republic. From that poisonous brew came the tangle of regret and anger and ambition that drove the two to their murderous confrontation in Weehawken, New Jersey. This is authoritative history at its most readable." - Publisher Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. xv, 456 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. *** CONTENTS: PT. 1. WORLD HISTORY IS AMERICAN HISTORY; Tom Paine's vision; The complex road to an independent civilization; A new government and a new culture; PT. 2. THE GREATER ENLIGHTENMENT FORMS THE NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS; The Scottish enlightenment and the minds of early America; Nationalism and the varieties of capitalistic experience; Reform, new religions, and nativism; The diffusion of education; The writer and the republic; PT. 3. INFORMATION CREATES THE ROMANTIC CONSCIOUSNESS; Americans join the second great age of discovery; I am "part or parcel of God": the romantic search for the self; The romantic writer as cosmopolitan seer; PT. 4. THE SYMBOLIC UNION: CONSCIOUSNESS OUTRUNS NATIONALITY; The wild Jacksonian age; The imperial mind: the west and the future as reality; The south and the past as reality; The Black man as intellectual; The women's war; Utopian ideas; Battle hymns: aboliton and/or union; Centennial vistas, 1876: toward the twentieth century. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. xix, 332 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to boards, age toning. First printing. Fine DJ. *** "A profligate son was every Georgian parent's worst nightmare. To his father, William Jackson's imprudent spending, incessant partying, and sexual adventures were a sure sign he was on the slippery slope to ruin. But to his friends, William was a 'damned good fellow,' a charming, impeccably dressed young gentleman with enviable seductive skills who was willing to defend his honor in duels. Mr. Jackson and his son viewed each other across a generational gap that neither could bridge, and their flawed relationship had catastrophic consequences for their family. In The Profligate Son, historian Nicola Phillips hauntingly reconstructs this family tragedy from a recently discovered trove of letters and court documents. After Mr. Jackson's acquisition of a fortune during his service for the East India Company in Madras was undermined by false accusations that ruined his career, he invested all his future ambitions in his only son. William grew up in great comfort and was sent to the best schools in the country. But when the family moved to London, the teenager rebelled against the loneliness and often brutal regimes of public schooling and escaped to explore the pleasures of the town with his wealthy friends. His attempts to impress his peers led him into disastrous levels of debt that resulted in his imprisonment and ever more illegal efforts to satisfy his creditors, which appalled his prudent, sternly moralistic father. Mr. Jackson decided that the only way to combat his son's wayward behavior was to completely cut him off. In doing so, he condemned William to repeated imprisonment and a perilous voyage to an Australian penal colony. In Sydney William sought to rebuild his life with a family of his own, but even there his father's legacy brought further tragedy. A masterpiece of literary nonfiction as dramatic as any Dickens novel, The Profligate Son transports readers from the steamy streets of India and the elegant squares and seedy brothels of London to the sunbaked shores of Australia, tracing the arc of a life long buried in history." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. xv, 384 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. *** "Animated by the stories of some of the last century's most charismatic and conniving artists, writers, and businessmen, Men of Tomorrow brilliantly demonstrates how the creators of the superheroes gained their cultural power and established a crucial place in the modern imagination. / Gerard Jones is a writer whose credits include the New York Times, Harper's, Batman and Spider-Man comics, and Pok mon cartoons. Recently, he has developed the Art & Story Workshops for children and spoken on fantasy, aggression, and the media at institutions around the country. He is the author of Honey, I'm Home: Sitcoms Selling the American Dream and The Comic Book Heroes. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and son." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Outer edges and dust jacket have soil; bottom outer edge also has a small stain; volume has wear; corners bumped; tight, text clean. xxiii, [1], 294 p., illustrated. Published at $25.00 [oto br 33 a rt].

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Various Photographers (illustrator). Stated First Edition, First Printing. A stock image [photo] is an accurate representation of the listed book's dust jacket design. Complete number line [1 - 10] at copyright page. No remaider marks. Dust jacket clean, crisp, colors bright, minor display indications. Pages [312 including index] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Illustrated with one 8-page section of B&W photographs. Burnt orange boards, red spine, bright gilt lettering. Brief gift inscription at ffep. Publisher's price marked out at front jacket flap and at rear. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Various Photographers (illustrator). First Edition First Printing. Complete number line [1 - 10] at copyright page. No remainder marks. NON price-clipped dust jacket [$ 25.99]. Pages [xvi, 224 including index] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Illustrated with one 8-page section of B&W photographs. Gray boards, navy spine, gilt lettering. PO's name at ffep marked out. By author of Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. Domestic & international shipping includes tracking information.

Hard Cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition First Printing. Complete number line [1 - 10] at copyright page. No remainder marks. NON price-clipped dust jacket [$ 25.95], clean, crisp, colors bright, minor display indications. Pages [xxiii, 222 including index] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. White boards, clean, blue spine, silver gilt lettering. By author of Marriage: A History. Domestic & international shipping includes tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Paperback Edition Stated. 262 Pages Indexed. Gift inscription by author on the half-title page. No other marks or stamps to this otherwise As New book with flawless interior text pages. When President George W. Bush nominated Linda Chavez to be Secretary of Labor in 2001, few people realized that this hard-nosed conservative began her career among socialists and labor union officials, teaching in college affirmative action programs and writing political propaganda for the Democratic National Committee. This book chronicles Chavez's journey from a poverty-stricken childhood to prominence as one of the most influential public policy advocates in the nation, and the sometimes shocking experiences that shaped her views along the way. The author is president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a non-profit public policy research organization in Washington, DC, and the author of Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation. She writes a nationally syndicated column and serves as a political analyst for Fox News channel. Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, she now lives in Reston, Virginia, with her family. Inscribed By the Author.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.