Polemics and Prophecies, 1967-1970 (A Non-Conformist History of Our Times)
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. Softcover. More
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The War Years 1939 - 1945: A Non-Conformist History of Our Times
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1988. First Edition (stated). Paperback. The celebrated radical journalist presents a selection of his World War II columns, celebrating the times' great men and deeds and castigating corruption, prejudice, self-interest, and stupidity. More
Sexuality, State and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback. This long-awaited work reconstructs the ways in which the meanings and uses of sex changed during that important moment of political and social configuration viewed as the birth of modernity. Isabel V. Hull analyzes the shift in..... More
The American Challenge
See annotation, 1968. Hardcover. Appears to be a Taiwanese pirated edition. Sold for its collectible value only since cannot guarantee accuracy of contents. From the front cover: A startling report on the impact of American Industry, Technology and Culture on Europe and the World. Translated from the..... More
Outcries and Asides
London: Heinemann, 1974. Jonathon Seddon-Harvey (book design). First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. This book, publishing in honour of the author's eightieth birthday, consists of more than two hundred short informal pieces - like so much 'Table Talk' - on a great variety of topics. More
Over the Long High Wall: Some Reflections and Speculations on Life, Death and Time
London: William Heinemann, 1972. Reprint. Hardcover. More
The Development of Family and Marriage in Europe
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Reprint. Paperback. Series: Studies in Literacy, Family, Culture and the State. More
The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive: Systems of Marriage and the Family in the pre-industrial societies in Eurasia
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Trade Paperback. Continuing the comparative survey of pre-industrial family formation undertaken in The Development of Family and Marriage in Europe (1983), Professor Goody looks in depth at kinship practice in Asia. His findings cause him to question many traditional assumptions about the "primitive" East..... More
Bridewealth and Dowry
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Second Printing. Softcover. No. 7 in the Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology series Two papers. One by Jack Goody on the use of bridewealth and dowry in Africa and Eurasia. The other by Dr Tambiah on the same institutions but in India, Ceylong..... More
Why Your CEO Failed in China: True tales of how not to do business in the People’s Republic
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2020. Cara Wilson (cover design). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Previously published, in shorter form, as Business Republic of China Jack Leblanc arrived in China in 1989 intending to teach for just two years. He was to spend the next two decades on a very..... More
Slums & Suburbs
New York: Signet Books, 1961. First Paperback Edition, Fourth Printing. Paperback. More
The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. Fifth Printing. Trade Paperback. “This work is a profound and fundamental contribution to the issues addressed.”—Sociology “Vital to an understanding of peasant politics.”—Library Journal James C. Scott places the critical problem of the peasant household—subsistence—at the center of this study. The fear..... More
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play
New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2017. Fifth Printing. Paperback. James Scott taught us what’s wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the..... More
The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New China
London: Faber and Faber, 2013. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. The Death of Mao opens in the summer of 1976, as Mao Zedong lay dying and China was struck by a great natural disaster. The earthquake that struck Tangshan, a shoddily built mining city, was one of the worst in recorded..... More
Jane Jacobs: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Brooklyn: Melville House, 2016. First Printing. Paperback. Hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “perhaps the single most influential work in the history of town planning,” Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities was instantly recognized as a masterpiece upon its publication in 1961. In..... More
Hong Kong State of Mind: 37 Views of a City That Doesn't Blink
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2017. Lee Po Ng (illustrations). First Edition. Sixth Printing. Paperback. Hong Kong is a mixed bag of a city. It is where Mercedes outnumber taxi cabs, partygoers count down to Christmas every December 24, and larger-than-life billboards of fortune tellers and cram school tutors compete with..... More
Property Rights and Economic Reform in China
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. This book analyzes the changes in property rights in contemporary China in light of the rapid economic growth of the last two decades. More
Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak
New York: Other Press, 2006. Jeremy Diamond (cover design). First English Edition. First Printing. Paperback. "To make the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda is a painful task that we have no right to shirk–it is part of being a moral adult." –Susan Sontag In the late 1990s..... More
The Social Contract (Penguin Great Ideas)
London: Penguin Books, 2004. Maurice Cranston (tr.). Reprint. Paperback. Rousseau's explosive cry for human liberty helped to spark the French Revolution and has haunted our discussions of how we should rule one another ever since - seen as both a blueprint for political terror and as a fundamental statement of..... More
Umbrella Uprising: A Visual Documentation of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests
Hong Kong: Bacdrop Studio Limited, 2020. First Edition. Softcover. Art has long been regarded as a cultural form within social movements to confront injustice and reshape society. The 2019 Hong Kong social movement has witnessed a proliferation of creative energies during the protests for people to express their social and..... More
Unmade in China: The Hidden Truth About China's Economic Miracle
Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. If you look carefully at how things are actually made in China - from shirts to toys, apple juice to oil rigs - you see a reality that contradicts every widely-held notion about the world's so-called economic powerhouse. From the inside looking out..... More
Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China's Foreign Relations
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. First Edition. Paperback. What role do nationalism and popular protest play in China's foreign relations? Chinese authorities permitted anti-American demonstrations in 1999 but repressed them in 2001 during two crises in U.S.-China relations. Anti-Japanese protests were tolerated in 1985, 2005, and 2012 but banned in..... More
Why Are We 'Artists'? 100 World Art Manifestos
London: Penguin Books, 2017. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 'Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right'. This extraordinary collection of 100 artists' manifestos from across the globe over the last 100 years brings together activists, post-colonialists, surrealists, socialists, nihilists and..... More
Beyond The Silver River: South American Encounters
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. During the five years Jimmy Burns was based in Buenos Aires, which resulted in his award-winning study of the Falklands War and its aftermath, The Land That Lost Its Heroes, he also embarked on further-flung journeys in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and..... More
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. Lawrence Ratzkin (cover design). Reprint. Paperback. The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait of America―particularly California―in the sixties. It focuses on..... More
