Alexander Theroux

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Virginia

A fascinating cultural history, these splendid essays on the three primary colors--blue, yellow, and red--extend to the artistic, literary, linguistic, botanical, cinematic, aesthetic, religious, scientific, culinary, climatological, and emotional dimensions of each color. QBPC Selection.

The Primary Colors

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New York

Essays

The collected schizophrenias

- Softcover
- Copyright 1942
- Book is 80 years old and in good condition for its age. Does shows shelf and reading wear and has some discoloration to pages and cover. But spine is good and all pages are in tact. 
- From a smoke free home

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(BB3)#nonfiction #nonfiction #history #therootsofamericanculture #essays #constancerourke #vintage

Wyoming

And Other Essays

The Roots of American Culture

- Pragmatism and the American Mind: Essays and Reviews in Philosophy and Intellectual History by Morton White 
- Softcover
- Copyright 1973
- In Good Condition - Shows shelf and reading wear including the spine being faded by the sun. There is some discoloration to pages as well
- From a smoke free home

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Essays and Reviews in Philosophy and Intellectual History

Pragmatism and the American Mind

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Bronislaw Malinowski

Robert Redfield

Michigan

Science

This text provides a set of concepts about religion, magic, science, rite & myth in this collection of three of Malinowski's most famous essays.

Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays

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James Rachels

Stuart Rachels

Some bookstore/third party seller stickers on cover and a little cover wear, but otherwise in good shape.

Ohio

Basic Readings in Moral Philosophy

The Right Thing to Do: Basic Readings in Moral Philosophy is the engaging companion reader to James Rachels and Stuart Rachels’ best-selling text, The Elements of Moral Philosophy (0-07-803824-3). It offers readable, well-argued essays on compelling issues that students are familiar with and can understand. This collection can also stand on its own as the text for a course in moral philosophy, or it can be used to supplement any introductory text.

The Right Thing to Do

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Eric Arnesen

Robert G. Barrows

Michael Les Benedict

Ballard C. Campbell

W. Bernard. Carlson

Stacy A. Cordery

Ruth C. Crocker

Roger Daniels

Edmund J. Danziger

Leslie H. Fishel

Joseph A. Fry

Lewis L. Gould

Ellen M. Litwicki

Worth Robert Miller

Glenn Porter

Slight bend in top of back cover (doesn’t appear to be permanent). Otherwise textbook is in excellent condition. Completely clean throughout. Please see photos. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Connecticut

History

Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America

The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had transformed American society. Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern scholarship while making their own interpretive arguments. These engaging pieces allow students to consider the various societal, cultural and political factors that make studying the Gilded Age crucial to our understanding of America today. Charles W. Calhoun connects all of these essays with a comprehensive introduction that places each article in an understandable historical context. For the second edition of this successful book, each essay was revised and three new pieces have been added that explore technology, consumerism, intellectual life, and race in late nineteenth century America.

The Gilded Age

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Harold William Chase

Ducat

Cover has some wear. Pages are free of markings 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Texas

Cases, essays, materials second edition 

Chase and Ducat Constitutional Interpretation, Cases-Essays-Materials

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Introductory note: James Meller
1. Buckminster Fuller Chronofile
2. Margaret Fuller's Prophecy
3. Influences on My Work
4. Later Development of My Work
5. I Figure
6. Energetic Geometry
7. Fluid Geography
8. Designing a New Industry
9. Earth, Inc.
10. Universal Requirements of a Dwelling Advantage
11. Design for Survival - Plus
12. Preview of Building
13. Total Thinking
14. The Comprehensive Man
15. Prime Design 
16. Continuous Man
17. The Designers and the Politicians
18. World Planning 
Explanatory notes
#paperback #buckminsterfuller #science #essays #nonfiction #philosophy #architecture #design 

Illinois

Buckminster Fuller Reader

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Claudia Rankine

An American Lyric

* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry * * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award * ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Slate, Time Out New York, Vulture, Refinery 29, and many more . . . A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV-everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named "post-race" society.

Citizen

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#hardcover #nonfiction #hillaryclinton #womenhistory #chelseaclinton #feminism #gutsywomen #truestories #essays #photoessays 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Favorite&nbsp;Stories of Courage and Resilience

Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them—women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done. She couldn’t have been more than seven or eight years old. “Go ahead, ask your question,” her father urged, nudging her forward. She smiled shyly and said, “You’re my hero. Who’s yours?” Many people—especially girls—have asked us that same question over the years. It’s one of our favorite topics. HILLARY: Growing up, I knew hardly any women who worked outside the home. So I looked to my mother, my teachers, and the pages of Life magazine for inspiration. After learning that Amelia Earhart kept a scrapbook with newspaper articles about successful women in male-dominated jobs, I started a scrapbook of my own. Long after I stopped clipping articles, I continued to seek out stories of women who seemed to be redefining what was possible. CHELSEA: This book is the continuation of a conversation the two of us have been having since I was little. For me, too, my mom was a hero; so were my grandmothers. My early teachers were also women. But I grew up in a world very different from theirs. My pediatrician was a woman, and so was the first mayor of Little Rock who I remember from my childhood. Most of my close friends’ moms worked outside the home as nurses, doctors, teachers, professors, and in business. And women were going into space and breaking records here on Earth. Ensuring the rights and opportunities of women and girls remains a big piece of the unfinished business of the twenty-first century. While there’s a lot of work to do, we know that throughout history and around the globe women have overcome the toughest resistance imaginable to win victories that have made progress possible for all of us. That is the achievement of each of the women in this book. So how did they do it? The answers are as unique as the women themselves. Civil rights activist Dorothy Height, LGBTQ trailblazer Edie Windsor, and swimmer Diana Nyad kept pushing forward, no matter what. Writers like Rachel Carson and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie named something no one had dared talk about before. Historian Mary Beard used wit to open doors that were once closed, and Wangari Maathai, who sparked a movement to plant trees, understood the power of role modeling. Harriet Tubman and Malala Yousafzai looked fear in the face and persevered. Nearly every single one of these women was fiercely optimistic—they had faith that their actions could make a difference. And they were right. To us, they are all gutsy women—leaders with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done. So in the moments when the long haul seems awfully long, we hope you will draw strength from these stories. We do. Because if history shows one thing, it’s that the world needs gutsy women.

The Book of Gutsy Women

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James G. Flanagan

William W. Donner

Indiana

Essays in Honor of William Davenport

Seven essays from a 1992 conference in San Francisco deal mostly with relatively traditional issues in anthropology, with a consistent focus on kinship and on Oceania. The topics include women in missionary ventures in Hawaii during the 19th and 20th centuries, empowered women, exchanging sisters, traditional issues in the study of modernity, Dou Donggo wedding receptions as cultural critique, and affect and paradox in museum exhibits. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Social Organization and Cultural Aesthetics

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Myriam Gurba

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Georgia

Accusations and Confessions

A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and toxicity that has wormed its way into society—in our books, schools, and homes, as well as the systems that perpetuate them—from the acclaimed author of Mean, and one of our fiercest, foremost explorers of intersectional Latinx identity. A creep can be a singular figure, a villain who makes things go bump in the night. Yet creep is also what the fog does—it lurks into place to do its dirty work, muffling screams, obscuring the truth, and providing cover for those prowling within it. Creep is Myriam Gurba’s informal sociology of creeps, a deep dive into the dark recesses of the toxic traditions that plague the United States and create the abusers who haunt our books, schools, and homes. Through cultural criticism disguised as personal essay, Gurba studies the ways in which oppression is collectively enacted, sustaining ecosystems that unfairly distribute suffering and premature death to our most vulnerable. Yet identifying individual creeps, creepy social groups, and creepy cultures is only half of this book’s project—the other half is examining how we as individuals, communities, and institutions can challenge creeps and rid ourselves of the fog that seeks to blind us. With her ruthless mind, wry humor, and adventurous style, Gurba implicates everyone from Joan Didion to her former abuser, everything from Mexican stereotypes to the carceral state. Braiding her own history and identity throughout, she argues for a new way of conceptualizing oppression, and she does it with her signature blend of bravado and humility.

Creep

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"Can anyone claim to understand the recent events in race relations in the United States who is ignorant of thier origins?"
 
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Title: 100 Years Of Emancipation 

Author: Robert A. Goldwin - edited by
 
Date: 1964
 
Binding: Paperback
 
Condition: A used/read copy.  Some scuffing/soiling to wrappers.Light foxing to text block.  Edges and corners are rubbed.  Some faded yellow highlighting through out, text still legible.Spine tight.


Pennsylvania

100 Years of Emancipation 

Lerone BennettJr., analyses the Black revolution and its implications for the future in this brutally honest look at racism and its effects before, during and after the 1960s. A must have book, for those looking to understand the underlining dynamics behind the events that shaped Black revolution.
 
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Title: Confrontation: Black and White

Author: Lerone Bennett, Jr.
 
Date: 1966
 
Binding: Paperback
 
Condition: Some scuffing/chipping to wrappers with some light soiling to edges.  Corners a bit rubbed. Couple leaves were dog-eared. Spine tight, no markings. Minor age toning to edges of leaves.  A nice, bright copy.
#paperback #essays #blackstudies 

Confrontation: Black and White

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

English

Writing for Success in College, Work, and Everyday Life

Real Essays delivers the powerful message that good writing, thinking, and reading skills are both essential and achievable.nbsp; From the inspiring stories told by former students in Profiles of Success to the practical strategies for community involvement in the new Community Connections, Real Essays helps students to connect the writing class with their real lives and with the expectations of the larger world.nbsp; So that students don’t get overwhelmed, the book focuses first on the most important things in each area, such as the Four Most Serious Errors in grammar; the Four Basics of each rhetorical strategy; and the academic skills of summary, analysis, and synthesis. Read the preface [http://bedfordstmartins.com/catalog/static/bsm/PDF/Preface/Anker/9780312648084/].

Real Essays with Readings

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Nadine Gordimer

Very good copy. Dust jacket has little wrinkles. First edition, first printing. Nobel prize winner.

Writing and Living, 1954-2008

A comprehensive collection of the author's nonfiction works ranges from reports on the 1976 Soweto uprising and observations of Zimbabe at the dawn of independence to portraits of such figures as Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.

1st ed. /1st printing * Telling Times

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#paperback #reader #postcolonial #collection #essays #academic 

New Jersey

Social Studies

The essential introduction to the most important texts in post-colonial theory and criticism, this second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 121 extracts from key works in the field.

Leading, as well as lesser known figures in the fields of writing, theory and criticism contribute to this inspiring body of work that includes sections on nationalism, hybridity, diaspora and globalization. The Reader's wide-ranging approach reflects the remarkable diversity of work in the discipline along with the vibrancy of anti-imperialist writing both within and without the metropolitan centres. Covering more debates, topics and critics than any comparable book in its field, The Post-Colonial Studies Reader is the ideal starting point for students and issues a potent challenge to the ways in which we think and write about literature and culture.

The Post-Colonial Studies Reader

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Essays include “Authority And The Family Revisited: Or, A World Without Fathers?”, “Civil Rights And Women’s Rights In The Federal Republic of Germany Today” and “Summer Universities For Women: The Beginning Of Women’s Studies?”
 
 
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Title|Author: New German Critique: Special Feminist Issue - Number 13 / Winter 1978. Helen Fehervary, Renny Harrigan & Nancy Vedder-Shults – Editors.
 
Publisher|Place|Date: University of Wisconsin –Milwaukee, German Department. Milwaukee, WI. 1978.
 
Edition/Binding: 1st printing. Paperback. With an original subscriber renewal form slipped in.
 
Size|Pages|Illustrated: 9”x6”. 232 pp. Few black and white illustrations throughout.
 
Condition: Age toning to spine and lower wrapper as well as lightly to upper wrapper and edges of leaves. Slight curling to upper wrapper corners. Small crease to corner of lower wrapper. Slip with some age toning to one edge. Internally clean and bright.              #paperback #feminism #feminist #women #woman #essays #rare #vintage

New German Critique: Special Feminist Issue

Kimberle Crenshaw

Neil Gotanda

Garry Peller

Minor dog-eared edges. Book cover and pages are like new. Spine is unbroken.

The Key Writings That Formed the Movement

What is Critical Race Theory and why is it under fire from the political right? This foundational essay collection, which defines key terms and includes case studies, is the essential work to understand the intellectual movement

Why did the president of the United States, in the midst of a pandemic and an economic crisis, take it upon himself to attack Critical Race Theory? Perhaps Donald Trump appreciated the power of this groundbreaking intellectual movement to change the world.

In recent years, Critical Race Theory has vaulted out of the academy and into courtrooms, newsrooms, and onto the streets. And no wonder: as intersectionality theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw recently told Time magazine, "It's an approach to grappling with a history of white supremacy that rejects the belief that what's in the past is in the past, and that the laws and systems that grow from that past are detached from it." The panicked denunciations from the right notwithstanding, CRT has changed the way millions of people interpret our troubled world.

Edited by its principal founders and leading theoreticians, Critical Race Theory was the first book to gather the movement's most important essays. This groundbreaking book includes contributions from scholars including Derrick Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Patricia Williams, Dorothy Roberts, Lani Guinier, Duncan Kennedy, and many others. It is essential reading in an age of acute racial injustice.

Critical Race Theory

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Mark Juergensmeyer

Massachusetts

An Introduction

Can Islam be located on a map? Is Europe the center of the Christian world? Is India a Hindu nation? While decades ago these questions were often answered in the affirmative, the truth has never been that simple. Not only are adherents of particular faiths spread across the globe, but there are many variations of a particular faith practiced side by side. This has only become more true in recent years as the pace of globalization has quickened. The essays collected here provide brief and accessible introductions to the major world religions in their global contexts. The volume begins with an introduction to the globalization of religion by Mark Juergensmeyer, and is followed by individual essays on Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and local religious societies. The book concludes with three essays reflecting on the global religious scene. Taken together, these essays provide a concise, authoritative, and highly readable introduction to the state of worldwide religion in the 21st century.

Global Religions

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Jim Gaffigan

Florida

A Love Story

A follow-up to Dad Is Fat celebrates the comedian's offbeat love affair with American junk foods, sharing his uproarious observations about such topics as unappetizing coconut water, the essential nature of pretzel bread and the deliciousness of bacon cheeseburgers. 200,000 first printing.

Food **Signed**

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Andrea Barrett

Utah

Fiction Writers on Their Craft

A Kite in the Wind is an anthology of essays by 20 veteran writers and master teachers. While the contributors offer specific, practical advice on such fundamental aspects of craft as characterization, character names, the first person point of view, and unreliable narrators, they also give extended, thoughtful consideration to more sophisticated topics, including “imminence,” or the power of a sense of beginning; creating and maintaining tension; “lushness”; and the deliberate manipulation of information to create particular effects. The essays in A Kite in the Wind begin as personal investigations — attempts to understand why a decision in a particular story or novel seemed unsuccessful; to define a quality or problem that seemed either unrecognized or unsatisfactorily defined; to understand what, despite years of experience as a fiction writer, resisted comprehension; and to pursue haunting, even unanswerable questions. Unlike a how-to book, the anthology is less an instruction manual than it is an intimate visit with twenty very different writers as they explore topics that excite, intrigue, and even puzzle them. Each discussion uses specific examples and illustrations, including both canonical stories and novels and writing less frequently discussed, from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, by both American and international authors. The contributors share their hard-earned insights for beginning and advanced writers with humility, wit, and compassion. The first section of the book focuses on narration, with particular attention paid to various kinds of narrators; the second, on strategic creation and presentation of character; the third, on some of the roles of the visual, beginning with establishing setting; and the fourth, on structural and organizational issues, from movement through time to the manipulation of information to create mystery and suspense.

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The Roots of American Culture

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Pragmatism and the American Mind

Bronislaw Malinowski; Robert Redfield

Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays

James Rachels; Stuart Rachels

The Right Thing to Do

Eric Arnesen; Robert G. Barrows; Michael Les Benedict; Ballard C. Campbell; W. Bernard. Carlson; Stacy A. Cordery; Ruth C. Crocker; Roger Daniels; Edmund J. Danziger; Leslie H. Fishel; Joseph A. Fry; Lewis L. Gould; Ellen M. Litwicki; Worth Robert Miller; Glenn Porter

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Creep

Robert A. Goldwin

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Lerone Bennett, Jr.

Confrontation: Black and White

Susan Anker

Real Essays with Readings

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Global Religions

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