Family, Women and Social Change in the Middle East: The Palestinian Case
Toronto: Canadian Scholar's Press, 1987. Soft cover. 8vo. Orig. card wrappers, sewn and glued binding. 72 pp. Covers are age toned and damp stained. More
Social Studies
The Secret of Divine Civilization
Willmette, Illinois: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1970. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter red cloth, tan cloth boards. xi, 126 pp. B&W portrait frontis. Dust jacket is age toned, lightly bumped to edges, a few small chips to spine ends and corners. More
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1994. Soft cover. 9" x 8.5" The companion book to the award-winning film by Peter Wintonick and Mark Achbar. Oblong. Soft cover. 264 pp. B&W film stills in-text throughout. Fine. Includes 18 "Philosopher All-Stars" trading card. This book features a complete transcript of the film along..... More
500 Years On/500 Anos Despues
Madrid: Amnesy International. Soft cover. 8.75" x 8.75" [n.d., 1992]. Photographs taken by indigenous people of the Peruvian Andes. Soft cover. 44 p.p. English and Spanish. B&W photos. Some light wear and creasing. A social photographic essay of the life and the hardships of indigenous Peruvians, on the occasion of..... More
The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Tradition
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter cream cloth, cream paper boards. xviii, 469 pp. Fine in fine jacket. In the ninth century BCE, the peoples of four distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical traditions that have continued to nourish humanity..... More
Culture & Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism
London: MacMillan & Co., 1938. Hardcover. 16mo. Full burgundy cloth, stamped vignette to front board, gilt title to spine. xlix, 238 pp. Neat pencil marginalia and notes throughout. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned to spine and top edges, some rubbing to joints. More
Tattooed: The Sociogenesis of Body Art
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. 8vo. First paperback edition. 292 pp. [8] pp. colour photos. Fine. More
The Ends of Globalization
Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Paperback, xiii, 193pp. Covers lightly sunned o/w near fine. A sociocultural approach and criticism on globalization, its roots and connections to cultural, political, and economic life. More
Igbo-Ora: A Town in Transition. A Sociological Report on The Ibarapa Project
Ibadan: Oxford University Press, 1966. Soft cover. 5" x 8.5" Orig. card wraps. viii, 80 pp. B&W photos in text. Creasing to joints, a few small stains. Marker inscription to inside front cover. More
The Sorrows of The Ancient Romans: The Gladiator and the Monster
Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 1996. Soft cover. 8vo. Third printing, and first paperback printing. [12], 210 p.p. Two B&W photos. Slight bumping and curling to corners, else a fine copy. This inquiry into the collective psychology of the ancient Romans speaks not about military conquest, sober law, and practical..... More
Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. vii, 230 pp. Light staining to spine. Sporadic marginalia and underlining. The selections in this volume represent a cross section of Baudrillard's writings from 1968-1985 and are drawn mostly from his major books. About half appear in English translation..... More
T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2003. Soft cover. 18mo. Soft cover. 147 pp. Spine sunned. Pencil underlining and marginalia. This book contains the full text of Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism, the complete communiques and fliers of the Association for Ontological Anarchy, the long essay "The Temporary Autonomous Zone," and a...... More
The Devil's Dictionary
New York: Hill and Wang, 1962. Soft cover. 5.5" x 8" American Century Series. Soft cover. 211 pp. Covers deeply toned, spine faded. Light rubbing to edges. More
English University Adult Education 1908-1958: A Unique Tradition
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Full brown paper boards. xii, 363 pp. Spine slightly tilted, light soiling to edges of text block. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. Dust jacket lightly toned, bumped to extremities. More
A History of The World for High Schools
Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1918. Hardcover. 8vo (small). Macmillan's Canadian School Series. Original green cloth. iv, 518 pp. [5 two-page spread plates of colour maps]. B&W illustrations in-text. Rubbing to extremities, some light staining to rear board. Foxing to edges of text block. Covers ancient history in Greece..... More
The Irrational in Politics: Sexual Repression and Authoritarian Conditioning
Tucson, AZ: See Sharp Press, 1993. Soft cover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Soft cover. 52 pp. Very slight sunning to extremities and light creasing to upper corner of front cover, fine overall. More
The People's Land: Eskimos and Whites in the Eastern Arctic
London: Penguin, 1975. Soft cover. 4" x 7.5" Paperback. 240 pp., [8] B&W maps at rear. Rubbing to extremities, wear from sticker removal to front cover, scuffing to head of rear cover, staining to spine. Interior is age toned. More
Japan Unveiled: Understanding Japanese Body Culture
London: Hachette Illustrated, 2003. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Full coral red paper boards. Patterned endpapers. 215 pp. Fully illustrated in colour. Sunning to tail edge, rubbing to spine ends and corners. Light staining to edges of text block. Light bumping and rubbing to edges of dust jacket, covers lightly..... More
An Introduction to the Social Sciences
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1930. Hardcover. 18mo. Orig. green cloth. 112 pp. Spine tilted, light rubbing to spine ends, spine slightly sunned. Dust jacket is in two pieces, lacking spine entirely, preserved in mylar cover, with some chipping to extremities and age toning. More
The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1997. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 218 pp. Some sunning to spine and head of front joint, else fine. This work combines social theory, philosophy, and psychoanalysis in novel ways, offering a more sustained analysis of the theory of..... More
Acting in an Uncertain World: An Essay on Technical Democracy
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. Hardcover. 8vo. Soft cover. 287 pp. Light sunning to spine, spot of fading to upper corner of front cover. Else fine. Controversies over such issues as nuclear waste, genetically modified organisms, asbestos, tobacco, gene therapy, avian flu, and cell phone towers arise almost daily as..... More
Field of Vision: PhotoSensitive and Social Change
Toronto: PhotoSensitive, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 10.5" x 10" Full black paper boards. 195 pp. B&W photos in text. Spine tilted, slight sunning to spine ends. Edge toning to interior. Dust jacket is rubbed to extremities, short tears and creasing to top edge of dust jacket. More
Culture and Customs of Chile
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000. Hardcover. 8vo. Culture and Customs of Latin America and the Caribbean series. Pictorial paper boards. xxii, 168 pp. B&W photos in text. Spine slightly cocked. Fine overall. More
Indian Patchwork
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. Orig. tan cloth, blue stamped vignette. vi, 304 pp. Inscribed to front pastedown to Dean and Geraldine Guie by farmer, activist for Native Americans, and "amateur" anthropologist Lucullus McWhorter, signed "From Big Foot, Christmas, 1936." Spine slightly tilted..... More
Independence, Convergence, and Borrowing in Institutions, Thought and Art
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Harvard Tercentenary Publications. Orig. maroon cloth. x, 272 pp., [20] pp. B&W plates of photos. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar. Dust jacket is sunned and chipped to extremities. Two essays are in French, one is in German. More