Search Results: Nonfiction / Essays from The Brooklyn Bookman

IYER, Pico (Editor): The Best American Travel Writing 2004. Boston & New York, Houghton-Mifflin Company, 2004. First Edition. Softcover, 332 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Travel & Adventure / The Best American Series (Fiction and Nonfiction). Condition: Very Good Plus. Former owner's red inked inscription found on the front endpaper. Copy is in overall excellent condition with clean and unmarked pages. This book "displays American restlessness at its most tantalizaing and entertaining." A most interesting compendium of travel writings on diverse regions such as Patagonia, Kashmir, the Ivory Coast to small town Vermont. ISBN: 0618341269

THURMAN, Judith: Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire. New York, Picador/Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2007. Stated First Picador Edition: 2008. Softcover, 427 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Essays / Literary / Women's Studies. Condition: Good. The main defect of the book involves ruffling of pages (page corners and edges bent). Otherwise a copy in readable condition with all pages clean and unmarked. This book "is an exuberant gathering of essays and profiles , representing twenty years of Judith Thurman's writing, particularly her fascination with human vanity, femininity, and 'women's work' – a term that in her definition, encompasses haute couture, literature, and ruling empires...these essays hint at the central occupations of a uniquely inquisitive mind." ISBN: 9780312427757

PORTER, Katherine Anne: The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter. Boston, Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, 1970. Reprint - 1990. Subject: Nonfiction / Essays / Poetry / Letters. Softcover, 496 pp. Condition: Very Good Plus. Light bumping to the to two of the book corners. Otherwise a clean copy in first-rate condition. "Here is a magnificent collection of essays and short pieces by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century...This rich, varied, wise, humorous, and spirited collection reveals a far-ranging mind and a life dedicated to the craft of writing and to standards of excellence." ISBN: 0395533627

GIBALDI, Joseph: MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers: Sixth Edition. New York, The Modern Language Association of America, 2003. Softcover, 361 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Writing Guides / Reference / How-To. Condition: Very Good. Light bumping to corners. Marking found on the half-title page. All other pages clean and not marked. Authoritative guide to writing effective and clear research papers, essays and compositions. ISBN: 0873529863

SCHECTER, Danny: News Dissector: Passions, Pieces and Polemics, 1960-2000. New York, Akashic Books, 2001. First Printing. Softcover, 297 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Reportage, American-Twentieth Century / Collected Articles & Essays. Condition: Very Good. Gently used copy with a slight trace of sticker pull on the front cover. Slight bumping to the top corners. Otherwise a copy in near-fine condition with clean, unmarked pages. A collection of articles and writings by the internationally-acclaimed progressive muckraking journalist. ISBN: 1888451203

COLES, Robert: The Secular Mind. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 189 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Secularism-United States / Philosophy and Psychology / Religion. Book and jacket condition: Very Good. Light wear to the jacket but in near-fine appearance. Book boards are sturdy with clean and unmarked pages. "This book is a sweeping essay on the shift from religious control over Western society to the scientific dominance of the mind." A profound, end-of-the-century meditation on the role and impact of secular culture on American life. Good food for thought! ISBN: 0691058059

PAGLIA, Camille: Sex, Art and American Culture: Essays. New York, Vintage, 1992. Stated First Edition. Softcover, 337 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / U.S.- Popular Culture – History / Feminism / Essay Collections. Condition: Very Good Minus. Light wear to extremities evident. Pages slightly toned but unmarked. A collection of insightful essays by America's most controversial feminist cultural critic. ISBN: 0679741011

ALLEN, Woody: Side Effects. New York, Ballantine Books, 1980. First Ballantine Paperback Edition 1981. Paperback, 216 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Humor / Essays. Condition: Good Plus. Some sunning to the pages but unmarked. Creasing to the spine and extremities. A decent copy in overall good plus condition. Straight to the point and humorous observations of modern everyday life. A must for fans of the iconic humorist and film director. ISBN: 0345296532.

STIGLER, Stephen M.: Statistics on the Table: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2002. Stated first paperback edition (third printing). Softcover, 488 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Mathematical Statistics – History / Statistics – Essays, Popularization. Condition: Very Good. Some very light bumping to the corners. Otherwise a copy in near-fine condition with all pages clean and unmarked. "This lively collection of essays examines in witty detail the history of some of the concepts involved in bringing statistical argument 'to the table,' and some of the pitfalls that have been encountered. The topics range from seventeenth -century medicine and the circulation of blood, to the cause of the Great Depression and the effect of the California gold discoveries of 1848 upon price levels, to the determinations of the shape of the Earth and the speed of light, to the meter of Virgil's poetry and the Second Coming..." ISBN: 0674009797

GERARD, Sarah: Sunshine State: Essays. New York, Harper Perennial, 2017. Stated First Edition (later printing). Softcover, 359 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Essays / Florida-Description-Social and Environmental Conditions-21st Century/ Memoir. Condition: Very Good. Signs of light moderate wear to the covers. All pages clean and unmarked. The noted author's first collection of essays, this books examines in sharp detail the glories (and underbelly) of Florida as the "Sunshine State." Recommended. ISBN: 9780062434876

BENNETT, Alan: Writing Home. London & Boston, Faber & Faber, 1997. Originally published in 1994. Paperback, 634 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Essays & Reviews / Memoir & Autobiography / Writers & Playwrights – UK – Alan Bennett, b. 1934. Condition: Good. Former owner's inscription found on the front cover's reverse. Some normal age-toning to the pages yet unmarked and clean. A couple of small tears to the advertisement back pages. First rate,decent copy overall. "Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights...includes Bennett's introduction to his Oscar-nominated screenplay for The Madness of King George and his more recent diaries, bringing Writing Home bang up to date." ISBN: 0571191541