New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993. Second, revised edition. Softcover. This Norton Critical Edition presents the work of one of America's foremost poets. It moves well beyond the scope of its predecessor, Adrienne Rich's Poetry (1975), in giving proper recognition to Rich's extraordinary achievements in both poetry and... More
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1954. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. A collection of articles, essays, speeches, etc., by the great scientist, thinker and activist. More
Totowa, NJ: Littlefield, Adams & Co, 1967. Reprint. Paperback. "Thoughtful Essays of a Profound Thinker". An inspiring collection of essays, in which Albert Einstein addresses the topics that fascinated him as a scientist, philosopher, and humanitarian Divided by subject matter—“Science,” “Convictions and Beliefs,” “Public Affairs,” etc.—these essays consider everything..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. First paperback edition. More
Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1996. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. Is there a future for sociology? To many, sociology seems to have lost its way. Born of the ideas of Auguste Comte in the nineteenth century, sociology established itself as 'the science of modernity', linked to a progressive view of... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Sceptre Books, 1986. Reprint. Paperback. It was a great relief to many when in October 1982 Bernard Levin returned to the pages of The Times. In his eighteen months' leave from regular journalism (during which he was alarmed to discover that he didn't miss it) there were those less fortunate... More
London: Unwin Paperbacks, 1976. Reprint. Paperback. A free man's worship.--Mysticism and logic.--The place of science in a liberal education.--The study of mathematics.--Mathematics and the metaphysicians.--On scientific method in philosophy.--The ultimate constituents of matter.--The relation of sense-data to physics.--On the notion of cause.--Knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description..... More
New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1961. Menten Inc. (cover design). Reprint. Revised with a new introduction. Softcover. This 1961 edition is a verbatim reprint of the first 310 pages and chapters of Refractory and Conformity of Sense to Sound of Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-Fields of Literature, third... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Four essays about DeVoto: The Historian by Catherine Drinker Bowen, The Writer by Edith R. Mirrielees, The Citizen, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and The Personality by Wallace Stegner. Introduction by Wallace Stegner. More
Scribner, 2004. Paperback. More
West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1989. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Locust Hill Literary Studies No. 3. About the author: Claude Prance (1906-2002) was born in Portsmouth, England, and was educated at the Philological School and St John’s College at Southsea. He joined the Midland Bank in 1923... More
London: Verso, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. The essays in this book develop a socialist-feminist perspective on a wide range of crucial and diverse issues in feminist theory and cultural criticism. They explore the present and past of feminist debates on sexuality, from Wollsontecraft through Millett and Rich. Using both psychoanalysis... More
The New Press, 1995. Softcover. More
New York: Mason & Lipscomb Publishers, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. The definitive and authorized biography of one of the greatest literary humorists of all time. More
New York: State University of New York Press, 1992. First Paperback Edition. Second Printing. Softcover. This is the first comprehensive anthology of the Chinese sexology classics, the world's oldest and most advanced tradition of sexual yoga. While remaining accessible to the general reader, the translation of these texts, most never... More
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1977. Muriel Nasser (jacket design). First Edition (presumed). Second Printing. Hardcover. More
New York: Perennial Library, 1999. First Perennial Classics Edition. Paperback. The essays in this volume have been selected by White himself, from a lifetime of writing. "I have chosen the ones that have amused me in the rereading," he writes in the Foreword, "alone with a few that seemed to... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1922. Hardcover. With essays by Wordsworth, Coleridge, William Blake, Charles Lamb, Percy Shelley, Hazlitt, Joh Keble, John Henry Newman, Thomas Carlyle, James Henry Leigh Hunt, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, John Stuart Mill, Walter Bagehot, Walter Horatio Pater, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and James Russell Lowell. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. First Trade Paperback Edition, Seventh Printing. Softcover. A collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in literature and feminist theory, including Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Carolyn Heilbrun, Annette Kolodny, Nancy Miller, Lillian Robinson, and others. More
New York: Routledge, 1989. First Trade Paperback Edition. Softcover. From Library Journal: Feminist criticism began in the 1970s with the analysis of women's writing by women; in recent years, "gender studies" has come to constitute a field in which male and female critics consider the construction, meaning, and transformation... More
New York: Dell Publishing, 1968. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. A spiritual and intellectual autobiography on the Black Panther while he was in Folsom Prison. The essays in Soul on Ice are divided into four thematic sections:[37] "Letters from Prison", describing Cleaver's experiences with and thoughts on crime and prisons; "Blood... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1978. Reprint. Hardcover. Ever since she was a child, Erma Bombeck has been an expert worrier, and married life has only honed that skill. She gets anxious about running out of ball bearings; about snakes sneaking in through the pipes; about making meaningful conversation on... More
London: Thames & Hudson, 1976. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. With 110 illustrations. More
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