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Volume 2 in three parts: Breve Historia de las Divisiones Territoriales by Edmundo O'Gorman: li+261 pages with with index; Mexico y sus Constituciones by Felipe Tena Ramirez: ix+139 pages with tables, bibliography and index; El Sobreseimiento de los Amparos Administrativos en Materia Fiscal by M G Villers: 97 pages. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 7 1/2"") bound in half red leather with original wrappers bound in and gilt lettering to spine. Prologue by German Fernandez del Castillo. From the library of George M Foster Volume II of Trabajos Juridicos de Homenaje a la Escuela Libre de Derecho en su XXV Aniversario. From the library of Professor George M Foster. First edition.Volume I of this series was Apuntes para la Historia del Derecho en Mexico by D Toribio Esquivel Obregon. Further volumes were in preparation at the time of this printing. Volume III to be published in four parts. Volume IV in three parts.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18,…
Read More evidence as to man's place in nature by Huxley, Thomas E - 1863
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evidence as to man's place in nature
by Huxley, Thomas E
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Author Thomas Henry Huxley was known as Darwin's Bulldog. He, and his son and grandson. Sir Julian Huxley and Aldous Huxley, were key figures in the development of the various theories of evolution
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Breve Historia de las Divisiones Territoriales/Mexico y sus Constituciones/El Sobreseimiento de los Amparos Administrativos en Materia Fiscal
by Edmundo O'Gorman O'Gorman (1906-1995), Felipe Tena Ramirez and M G Villers
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The Mutual Interaction of People and Their Built Enviornment
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xv+505 pages with figures, charts, plates, diagrams, tables and indexes. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6") issued in black cloth with white lettering to spine and insignia on front cover. Preface by ol Tax. First edition.Contents: Sociocultural Aspects of Man-Environment Studies by Amos Rapoport; The Social Function of the Built Environment by Robert Gutman; Cultural Pluralism and Urban Form: The Colonial City as Laboratory for Cross-Cultural Research in Man-Environment Interaction by A D King; How Can We Learn about Man and His Settlements? by C A Doxiadis; Design for Man-Environment Relations by Aristide H Esser; Human Territoriality as an Object of Research in Cultural Anthropology by Ina-Maria Greverus; the Social Properties of Places and Things by G McBride and H Clancy; Some Territorial Layouts in the United States by Albert E Scheflen; A Description of the Maori Marae by M R Austin; Peasant House Building and Its Relation to Church Building: The Rumanian Case by Anca and Paul-Henri Stahl; Analysis of…
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Maori (Descriptive Grammars)
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Hunger: An Unnatural History - Inscribed & autographed by author
by Russell, Sharman Apt
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Blending science, sociology, and personal experience, this book is an exploration into how hunger works. It is inscribed and autographed by the author.
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A Short Walk In the Hindu Kush: A Preposterous Adventure
by Newby, Eric
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This book relates the tale of a classic adventure in the wilds of Afghanistan. There is a former owner's name inside the cover.
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Entre los naguales y los santos
by Félix Báez-Jorge (1945- )
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268 pages with tables, plates and bibliography. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") issued in wrappers. From the library of professor George M Foster and inscribed by the author to Foster. First edition.Condition:Corners gently bumped else a near fine copy.
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Modern Greek
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Koromfe (Descriptive Grammars)
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Persian (Descriptive Grammars)
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Resisting Occupation in Kashmir
by Duschinski, Haley; Bhan, Mona; Zia, Ather; Mahmood, Cynthia (all editors)
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University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Hardcover without dust jacket. Used - fine condition. Book is clean and tight with very little shelf wear aside from some light bumping to the corners. No markings or blemishes inside the book. Photos are of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.
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The Racial Analysis of Human Populations in Relation to Their Ethnogenesis and Some Possibilities for Estimating Inter-Population Relationship on the Basis of Continuous Traits in Current Anthropology Volume 3, Number 1
by Andrzej Kazimierz Wierciski (1930-2003) and Tadeuz Bielicki
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51 volumes complete with diagrams, illustrations, plates, maps, figures, indexes. Quarto (10 1/4" x 8 1/2") issued in wrappers. Some reprints, most first editions.Current Anthropology, whose first issue was launched in 1959, is one of the discipline's oldest and most distinguished journals, and has been sponsored since its founding by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The journal was the first of its kind, championing an interdisciplinary approach alongside a commitment to international dialogue, while fostering a community of international scholars. It became known for its innovative format that combined major research papers with responses solicited from the field. The format, now known as the "CA treatment" was unique in its time and was copied by other journals such as Behavioral and Brain Sciences. While the journal has changed over the years, its original principles are still clearly present and can be traced back to the unique collaboration between the Foundation, led by Paul Fejos,and the…
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Peldanos en la Conciencia: Restros en la Plastica Prehispanica
by de la Fuente, Beatriz Ramírez (1929-2005)
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101 pages with frontispiece and pictorial title, 88 illustrations and 25 color plates. Square royal octavo (9 1/2" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with black label to spine with gilt lettering and gilt pictorial to cover in original pictorial jacket. Second printing Limited to 3000 copies. The author: "The faces depicted by Mesoamerican man are artistic expression of different peoples. Here I have wanted to look at them not only as objects of art, but also in the light of what they communicate about the human being in himself and in his relationship with him. world that has to be ordered around him ". Condition: Points rubbed. Jacket edge wear with chips, tears and creases else very good in like jacket.
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Society and Economy in Mexico
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xxii+163 pages with photographs, charts, tables, graphs and bibliographies. Quarto (11 1/4" x 8 1/2") issued in brown cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Forward by Jeffrey Bortz. Statistical Abstract of Latin America Supplement Series, Supplement 10. First edition.Contents: the Six Ideological Phases of Mexico's "Permanent Revolution" since 1910 by James W Wilkie; The Development of Engineering Expertise for Social and Economic Modernization in Mexico since 1929 by David E Lorey; The Class Structure of Mexico, 1895-1980 by Stephanie Granato and Aida Mostkoff; Complexities of Measuring the Food Situation in Mexico: Supply versus Self-Sufficiency of Basic Grains, 1935-82 by James W Wilkie; The Dramatic Growth of Mexico's Economy and the Rise of Statist Government Budgetary Power, 1919-82 by James W Wilkie.Condition:Corners bumped else a better than very good copy.
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Red Pottage
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Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.
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The Sky and the Forest
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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The Spirit of Ancient Peru: Treasures from the Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera
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London: Thames and Hudson, 1998 216 pages with plates, diagrams, maps, illustrations, bibliography and index. Quarto (11 1/4" x 9") issued in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine decorative vignette to front cover. Preface by Isabel Larco de Alvarez-Calderon. Foreword by Harry S Parker. 1st edition. Contents: The Spirit of Rafael Larco Hoyle: An Introduction by Kathleen Berrin; Rafael Larco Hoyle (1901-1966) by Clifford Evans; Life and Afterlife in Pre-Hispanic Pru: Contextualizing the masterworks of the Museo of Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera by Richard L Burger; The Coastal Islands of Peru: Myths and Natural Resources by Maria Rostworowski de Diez Canseco; Moche Art: Myth, History and Rite by Elizabeth P Benson; Deer Hunting and Combat: Parallel Activities in the Moche World by Christopher B Donnan; Andean Aesthetics by Esther Paztory; Catalogue of Objects by Elizabeth P Benson, Susan E Bergh, Richard L Burger, Heidi King and Joanne Pillsbury. Condition: Jacket price clipped, small chip at…
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The People Called Apache
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447 pages with maps, 16 color plates, over 300 black and white photographs, and over 200 drawings, bibliography and index. Folio (12 3/4" x 9 1/4") bound in original publisher's dark brown cloth with black lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Drawings by Thomas Mails. First edition. They called themselves The People, but to nearly everyone else in their world they were known as The Enemy. And they earned the name in every respect. Seldom has any people fought harder for the preservation of their territory and their way of life. We know them today as the Apache, an ancient people who, in historic times, made a prolonged and desperate effort to drive the Spanish, the Mexicans and finally the Anglo-Americans out of their ancestral lands. Unsuccessful, they were placed in four reservations, on or near their original ranges in Arizona and New Mexico, some of the most ruggedly beautiful land in this country. There most of them still live, accepting the White ways yet keeping many of the old…
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"Ecstatic renovation!" : Street Art Celebrating Sierra Leone's 1992 Revolution
by Joseph A. Opala; Raymond Desouza George (forward)
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RARE! Freetown: Sierra Leone Adult Education Association, January 1994. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. Fine. Interior pristine. Securely bound with two clean staples. Rubbing to covers. 39 pages.
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Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky
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Nijinsky, Romola. Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky. The Definitive Biography Copyright 1980. Simon and Schuster stated First Impression Thus. Number line starts with 1. EXLIB. Good Condition/ VG original dust jacket. 260 pages, indexed. ISBN0671411233. PERFORMING ARTS, RUSSIA, BALLET, VASLAV NIJINSKY. Summary: "The life of Vaslav Nijinsky is not merely a record of a great dancer's artistic triumphs; it is one of the strangest stories ever written. There is madness everywhere. From the child's first appearance with a troupe of wandering Russians to that last terrible performance, his "Marriage With God" , it is a growing chaos of madness, abnormality, distortion, genius and beauty." 260 pages, indexed. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4.
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