Search Results: Authors starting with H from Underground Books, ABAA

Hamburg: C. Boylen, 1892. Loose_leaf. Good. Loose_leaf. 15 3/4" X 12 1/8". 20 tipped in plates, plus tipped in title page with list of plates to verso. Bound in original green cloth portfolio with pictorial label to upper board, elaborately decorated in black and gilt to upper board, stamped in blind to rear. Moderate wear to binding, with dampstains and inkstains to pictorial label, faint soiling to cloth, edgewear, and tears to cloth at spine and at edge of tail of spine. Some chipping to patterned paper endpapers and folds. Tissue guard covering title page with tipped in plate shows heavy foxing and edgewear. Edgewear to paper upon which the plates are mounted, with creasing and small tears to corners, fading and some foxing to bottom edges, and torn corner to last page. Plates themselves are in excellent condition. Paper upon which plates are mounted in good condition only. Portfolio binding in good condition only. An altogether quite well preserved and complete collection of these 20 drawings… Read More

Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1991. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9" X 5 3/4". xiv, 220pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with light rubbing and surface paper loss to covers and edges. Price sticker to rear cover. Inked underlining and notation to pages. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In a provocative argument that ends with his own sharply profiled position, Jürgen Habermas considers the main lines of thought pursued by epistemologists and methodologists of the social sciences - from NeoKantianism to behaviorism. For two decades, the German edition of this classic has been a standard reference point for discussions of the social sciences.(Publisher).

New York: Meyer & Meyer Sport, 2006. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". 220pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This volume reflects state of the art and controversial discussions on the topic of athletic expertise based on a particular theoretical point of view or empirical research. It exposes the reader to different perspectives and allows the reader to consider a variety of sub-domains within the topic of sport expertise. Thus, this volume contributes updated knowledge, a more holistic perspective on this body of knowledge, and a comprehensive understanding of the topic of athletic expertise.(Publisher).

Northbrook: Ampry Publishing, 2016. Paperback. Very good +. Paperback. 11" X 8 1/4". iv, 108pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Sticker to rear cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Hooked rugs can tell stories. The rug hooking artists in this book "put words to wool, sentences to lines of loops, a page of creative musing to a blank yard of linen." Open the book and turn the pages to learn how you can make your own story rug. How to design and tell a story in your own hooked rug How to "read" a story rug 6 master fiber artists and their story rugs Gallery of story rugs for inspiration(Publisher).

New York / Washington / Durham / New Brunswick / Walnut Creek / Washington D.C. / Boston / Boulder / Buffalo: New York University Press / Routledge / Smithsonian Institution Press / Duke University Press / Transaction Publishers / Altamira Press / Island Press / Allyn and Bacon / John Wiley & Sons / Westview Press / Berghahn Books / Waveland Press, 2014. Paperback. Good. Paperback. All volumes are in Good to Good + Condition. Previous owner's name in ink to front free endpaper of some volumes. Some volumes contain underlining and notation to pages. Notation does not obscure text. Bindings are all sound. An overall solid collection of 16 works on Environmental Athropology and Ecology. This set is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. IN THIS COLLECTION: The Environment in Anthropology: A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice… Read More

Athens, Georgia: Privately printed for the Depatrment of Music, University of Georgia, 1967. Hardcover. Good +. Hardcover. This 1967 Master's thesis presented to the Depatrment of Music at the University of Georgia explores the history and composition of the Henry Erben Organ in Grace Episcopal Church in Clarkesville, Georgia, original to the church in 1842, with chapters on the life of Henry Erben, a history of the Grace Episcopal Church, the construction of the organ, and its tonal design, with appendices of disposition lists, scaling charts, glossary, and bibliography, illustrated in 8 tipped-in photographs. This copy includes 5 additional photographs laid in, in an envelope, 4 of which are of the Henry Erben Organ and the last of the plaque in front of Grace Episcopal Church, as well as a 5-page pamphlet about the Henry Pilcher's Sons organ at First Presbyterian Church in Griffin, Georgia. 11 1/4" X 9". 44pp. Bound in full brown buckram over boards, with upper board lettered in gilt. Moderate… Read More

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush in ink at front endpaper. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 11 1/4" X 8 3/4". Unpaginated. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated paper over boards are clean with very mild shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A joyful celebration of growing families by former first daughters and #1 New York Times bestselling authors Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush. As two sisters watch their friends' families grow, they wish on a star for a sibling of their own...and a younger brother and a baby cousin arrive! The new family members aren't exactly what the sisters expected, but with time and patience, the group soon becomes fabulously four—and lets their imaginations soar! Together they can be anything, and no matter… Read More

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2022. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. Hardcover. Signed by Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush in ink at front free endpaper. 11 1/4" X 8 3/4". Unpaginated. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Pages are bright, clean, and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Sisters aren't just super, they're superheroes in this celebration of friendship and sisterhood by Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush. Emma has been lonely all her life growing up in a neighborhood with no other kids—until the day two sets of sisters move to her street! The girls immediately form a club, only to discover that something mysterious is going on. They've each always had special talents, but when they work together, it's almost like their skills become...superpowers. Now the sisterhood is ready to help their neighborhood thrive, as long as they can keep the spooky Ms. Wigglestoot from discovering their secret. Or maybe there's a… Read More

Mary Boyd Higgins, 1979. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 11" X 8 1/2". 123pp. Very mild shelf wear to paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Binding is untraditional, with pages gathered and held together with VeloBinding. Text contains printed, hand-marked corrections. An overall clean, solid copy of this work by Arthur Hahn, originally published in 1938, and republushed in 1979 by Mary Boyd Higgins as a trustee of the Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust Fund.

Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2004. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 9 3/4" X 6 1/2". x, 262pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, and edges of cloth over boards. Gentle bumps to corners of boards. Faint dust-spotting to edges of text block. Occasional inked underlining to pages. Underlining does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Relying on a series of empirical workplace studies as well as an extensive review of psychological, sociological and educational literature, the authors develop a framework for examining human competence as a process of networked expertise. Networked expertise refers to competencies that arise from social interaction, knowledge sharing, and collective problem solving. These are embedded in communities and organized groups of experts and professionals. Cognition and intelligent activity are not only individual and mental processes but ones which rely on socio-culturally developed cognitive tools. These include physical and conceptual artifacts as well as socially… Read More

Brentwood: Hart Freeland Roberts, Inc, 2010. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 12" X 12". 354pp. Mild wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Glossy plastic covering is beginning to peel at fore-edges of jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in white. Pages are bright, clean, and unmarked. Binding is sound. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS BOOK: When the architect Russell Hart was sent from New York to Nashville to oversee completion of the magnificent Hermitage Hotel, little did he know that he would soon be founding what would become a major architectural and engineering firm that has now been in business for 100 years. In the progress of this book, writer Susan Halford presents a lively and compelling account of Hart Freeland Roberts' journey from the time of that one-man, local… Read More

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". xviii, 556pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: How did the English get to be English? In Civilising Subjects, Catherine Hall argues that the idea of empire was at the heart of mid-nineteenth-century British self-imagining, with peoples such as the "Aborigines" in Australia and the "negroes" in Jamaica serving as markers of difference separating "civilised" English from "savage" others. Hall uses the stories of two groups of Englishmen and -women to explore British self-constructions both in the colonies and at home. In Jamaica, a group of Baptist missionaries hoped to make African-Jamaicans into people like themselves, only to be disappointed when the project proved neither simple nor congenial to the black men and women for whom they hoped to fashion new selves. And in Birmingham, abolitionist enthusiasm… Read More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xvi, 540pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: What are the most important differences among national economies? Is globalization forcing nations to converge on an Anglo-American model? What explains national differences in social and economic policy? This pathbreaking work outlines a new approach to these questions. It highlights the role of business in national economies and shows that there is more than one path to economic success. The book sets a new intellectual agenda for everyone interested in relations between politics, economics, and business.(Publisher).

Racine, Wisconsin: DeKoven Foundation for Church Work, 1969. Staplebound wraps. Good. Staplebound wraps. 7" X 5". 23pp. Inscribed by the author's widow to the title page and dated 1970. Sunning, scattered rubbing, foxing, edgewear, and light soiling to stapled wraps. Light foxing to endpapers. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid copy of this cumulation of 40 years in the priesthood, a meditation on the subjects of the holiness of material things and the meaning of the sacraments. OCLC shows one holding at this time.

Oxford: Berg, 2007. Paperback. Very good +. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6". xx, 327pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: There is no prepared script for social and cultural life. People work it out as they go along. Creativity and Cultural Improvisation casts fresh, anthropological eyes on the cultural sites of creativity that form part of our social matrix. The book explores the ways creative agency is attributed in the graphic and performing arts and in intellectual property law. It shows how the sources of creativity are embedded in social, political and religious institutions, examines the relationship between creativity and the perception and passage of time, and reviews the creativity and improvisational quality of anthropological scholarship itself. Individual essays examine how the concept of creativity has changed in the history of modern social theory, and question its applicability as a… Read More

New York: Routledge, 2017. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". x, 142pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Very occasional inked notation to pages. Notation does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Iceland is a tiny Nordic nation with a population of just 330,000 and no professional sports leagues, and yet its soccer, basketball and handball teams have all qualified for major international tournaments in recent years. This fascinating study argues that team sport success is culturally produced and that in order to understand collective achievement we have to consider the socio-cultural context. Based on unparalleled access to key personnel, including top coaches, athletes and administrators, the book explores Icelandic cultural capital as a factor in sporting success, from traditions of workmanship, competitive play and teamwork to international labour migration and knowledge transfer. The first book to focus specifically on… Read More

Berlin: Little Gestalten, 2021. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 11 1/4" X 9 3/4". 59pp. Hard bump to tail of spine, otherwise very little shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Every explorer is a true adventurer. Bound by a common curiosity for the unknown, the intrepid individuals featured in Explore the World traveled across land and sea gathering expansive knowledge of geography, climate, culture, flora, and fauna. The expeditions that shaped the world we live in are gathered in this illustrated, non-fiction compendium. From Vikings setting sail in choppy waters to Polynesians investigating the many islands in the South Pacific, this book shines a light on the people that made these adventures possible. Telling stories of teamwork and courage, from the sherpas climbing up Mount Everest to the astronauts who dared to fly into space, Explore the World brings the history up to date.(Publisher).

New York: The Viking Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good +. First Edition. Hardcover. 8" X 5 1/2". 56pp. Signed by Daniel Halpern to title page. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Moderate edgewear to unclipped dust jacket, with a few very small closed tears and chips, sunning to spine, and one 1" closed tear to rear top edge. Chartreuse cloth over boards with spine backed in white and spine lettered in red and gilt. Soiling to cloth and bumping to head and tail of spine. Previous owner's name to front pastedown, bookseller notations pencilled to front free endpaper. Small closed tear to margin of contents page. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A lovely signed first printing of the poetry of Daniel Halpern.

New York: Marvel Comics Group, 1981. Staplebound. Good. Staplebound. 10 3/4" X 8". 50pp. Wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing, creasing, and toning to covers, corners, and edges. Scribbled ink marks to pages 34-35. Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding feels somewhat tender, but remains sound. An overall solid copy of this magazine of comics and silly stories, published by Marvel in 1981.

New York: Del Rey, Ballantine Books, 1995. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Second Printing. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 5/8". 343pp. Signed by Barbara Hambly to title page. Mild edgewear to unclipped dust jacket. Black paper over boards, with spine backed in red cloth and lettered in silver. MIld edgewear to binding, with bumping to extremities. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A nice signed copy of this vampire novel by Barbara Hambly.