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

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The M.I.T. Press, 1972. Second Edition, Third Printing. Paperback. Some of the author premises regarding domestication of animals and foodstuffs: agriculture did not originate from a shortage of food; domestication is found in areas of marked diversity in plants or animals; primitive cultivators could not establish themselves in..... More

Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1995. First Tuttle Edition, Tenth Printing (Japanese edition). Paperback. Includes publisher's promotional wrap-around band in Japanese. This short work presents a configuration of the important elements to be found in contemporary Japanese social life, and attempts to shed new light on Japanese society. Nakane... More

Hong Kong: Helping Hand Ltd, 1989. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover (Outsized). With contributions by: David Bonavia, Father Sean Burke, Anthony Lawrence, Bea Hutcheon, Margaret Ng, Ann Quon, Nancy Ma Thompson, Sybil Wong. A photo book recounting the first-hand experiences of hardship and struggle, through personal interviews with elderly Hong... More

Hong Kong: South China Morning Post, Ltd., 1966. Colonel Valentine Rodolphe Burkhardt (illustrations). First Edition, Fourteenth Printing. Hardcover. Colonel Burkhardt was a career military officer who spent most of his life stationed in and around China and Hong Kong. He was a man of many talents -- among them butterfly... More

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. David Macaulay (illustrations). First Edition (presumed), Fourth Printing. Hardcover. About the author: David Macaulay is an award-winning author and illustrator whose books have sold millions of copies in the United States alone, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages. Macaulay... More

Corgi Books, 1968. Reprint. Paperback. This work has become a benchmark of popular anthropology and psychology. Zoologist Desmond Morris considers humans as being simply another animal species in this classic book first published in 1967. Here is the Naked Ape at his most primal in love, at work, at... More

New York: Anchor Books Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964. Paperback. More

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Some of Ürümchi's mummies date back as far as 4,000 years―contemporary with the famous Egyptian mummies but even more beautifully preserved. Surprisingly, these prehistoric people are not Asian but Caucasoid―tall, large-nosed and blond with thick beards and..... More

云南: 云南人民出版社, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Rare edition. Signed by author. Also includes a personal letter written by the author. More

Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2007. Reprint. Paperback. From a Japan Times book review, Sept. 27, 2014: If there’s room in your life for just one general history of Japan, let this be the one. In the hands of a master, history becomes art. British scholar-diplomat Sir George Bailey Sansom (1883-1965)... More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. First Edition (presumed), Sixth Printing. Hardcover. From the jacket blurb: The product of a long observation in the field (the research was sponsored by the Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group), this is the first full treatment of Vietnamese culture to be published... More