London: Grafton Books, 1984. Peter Goodfellow (cover art). Reprint. Paperback. From Kirkus (July 21, 1982): As a guide to sailors this book is not to be trusted," remarks Ursula Le Guin of her latest collection of stories. "Perhaps it is too sensitive to local magnetic fields." Local magnetic fields...
London: Tandem Publishing Ltd., 1972. First U.K. Edition. Softcover. Rare. This debut novel from preeminent science-fiction writer Ursula LeGuin introduces her brilliant Hainish series, set in a galaxy seeded by the planet Hain with a variety of humanoid species, including that of Earth. Over the centuries, the Hainish colonies have...
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. The Anatomy of Power is a 1983 book by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith. It sought to classify three types of power: compensatory power in which submission is bought, condign power in which submission is won by making the alternative...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Reprint. Paperback. This book addresses the question of how life may have arisen on earth, in the spirit of an intriguing detective story. It relies on the methods of Sherlock Holmes, in particular his principle that one should use the most paradoxical features of a....
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1976. Paul Bacon (jacket design). First Edition (stated), First Printing. Hardcover. Doris Kearns Goodwin's classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and other defining moments the tumultuous 1960s, is a monument in political biography. From the moment...
New York: Ballantine Books, 1992. Paperback Edition. A one-voume reference to the history of ideas that is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected from the beginning of civilization into the twenty-first century. Massive in its scope, and yet totally accessible, A HISTORY OF...
London: Allen Lane, 2005. First Edition (presumed), Sixth Printing. Hardcover. In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population...
Beijing: Beijing Review Press, 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Covers history, population, human rights, the Dalai Lama, religion, culture, autonomy, economy, people's livelihood, the Lhasa riots.
New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1963. Reprint. Paperback.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press/Bison, 1978. Reprint. Paperback. On the morning of March 6, 1836, in an old abandoned mission called the Alamo, a small Texas garrison fought to the death rather than yield to an overwhelming army of Mexicans. Through the years the garrison’s heroic stand has become so...
London: Picador, 1982. Reprint. Paperback.
London: Picador, 1990. Reprint. Paperback.
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1965. Reprint. Mass market paperback.
New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1955. Seong Moy (cover design). Reprint. Mass market paperback. Anchor A55.
Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1995. Reprint. Paperback. What do the theories of poststructuralism have to offer contemporary feminism? In a discussion which assumes no prior knowledge of these complex theoretical issues, Chris Weedon argues that feminism is a politics which depends for its effectiveness on an alliance of theory and...
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