New York: Vintage Books, 2020. Linda Huang (cover design). First Trade Paperback Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback. Signed by author. Riveting, elegant, humorous—and illustrated by Smith’s signature Polaroids—New York Times bestseller Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times. Following a...... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2021. Cara Wilson (cover design). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. New York Times bestselling author Paul French (Midnight in Peking, City of Devils) returns to the Chinese capital to tell 18 true stories of fascinating people who visited the city in the first half of the..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2021. Cara Wilson (cover design). First Edition. Paperback. Kwan Lai-chun was sick of being made to feel second-class by her husband’s concubine; sick of her mother-in-law’s endless carping about the money she spent; sick of the whole family. Late one sticky, humid night, something snapped in..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2020. Magaret Griffiths (cover art). First Edition. Paperback. Asia, 1996. What do you do when you have failed to find the meaning of life in India, your money has run out, your girlfriend has gone, and prospects at home are limited? Go further east, young man!..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. Attributing the origins and development of culture to the ways various societies adapt to their particular environments, Harris pits his theory of cultural materialism against such alternative theories of culture as Wilson's sociobiology and Levi-Strauss's structuralism. More
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1972. Fourth Printing. Paperback. More
London: Methuen & Co., 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Reading Television was the first book to push the boundaries of television studies beyond the insights offered by cultural studies and textual analysis, creating a vibrant new field of study. Using the tools and techniques in this book, it is possible for..... More
New York: Vintage International, 1993. Paperback. With unsettling beauty and intelligence, this Golden Man Booker Prize–winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient..... More
New York: New York Post. New York Post Family Classics Library. Hard Cover. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travel to the bleak wastes of Dartmoor to solve the mystery surrounding the late Sir Charles Baskerville and a ghostly hound. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the..... More
London: The Women's Press, 1985. Paperback. A natural evolution from the earlier, much acclaimed short story collection In Love & Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show women oppressed but not defeated. No longer do they excuse the aggression of others, no longer are they suspended in their..... More
Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Second Edition. First Printing. Paperback. This popular selection of Wittgenstein’s key writings has now been updated to include new material relevant to recent debates about the philosopher. - Follows the evolution of Wittgenstein’s philosophical thought from the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus through to the Philosophical Investigations..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Annabel Brett (ed. and tr.). First Edition. Paperback. The Defender of the Peace of Marsilius of Padua is a massively influential text in the history of western political thought. Marsilius offers a detailed analysis and explanation of human political communities, before going on to attack..... More
Nutley, NJ: The Craig Press, 1966. David Hugh Freeman (tr.). Second Edition. Paperback. Part of the University Series, Philosophical Studies edited by Dr. Gordon H. Clark. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Reprint. Softcover. This is the first comprehensive evaluation of Charles Taylor's work and a major contribution to the leading questions in philosophy and the human sciences as they face an increasingly pluralistic age. Charles Taylor is one of the most influential moral and political philosophers..... More
London: Routledge, 1996. M.A. Notturno (ed.). First Paperback Edition. Paperback. One of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, Sir Karl Popper here examines the problems connected with human freedom, creativity, rationality and the relationship between human beings and their actions. In this illuminating series of papers, Popper suggests..... More
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