Search Results: Authors starting with N from Yesterday's Muse Books

New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. 3rd Printing. Large Softcover. Very Good. 11x0x8. Third printing. Edge wear, spine faded. 1989 Large Softcover. 431 pp. Black-and-white photographs throughout, with 16-page section of color photos. "For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, meditating, playing, dancing, lounging, giving birth, decision-making, cleansing, storing and preparing food, caring for animals, and honoring the dead. In effect, the architecture covers all facets of Indian life. The collaboration between an architect and an anthropologist, Native American Architecture presents the first book-length, fully illustrated exploration of North American Indian architecture to appear in over a century. Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton together examine the building traditions of the major… Read More

Toronto: Random House of Canada, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9x6x1. First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 1996 Hard Cover. 325 pp. For nearly forty years, Leonard Cohen has endured the ups and downs of an international career that has alternately identified him as the "Prince of Bummers" and Canada's most respected poet and performer. Now, author Ira Nadel brings us closer to understanding these conflicting descriptions and allows us to enter Cohen's private world. He peels back the many layers to reveal the man and explain the fascinating relationship between Cohen's life and his art.

New York: Albright-Knox Art Gallery / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Large Hardcover. Good/Good. 11x8x1. Jacket stained, jacket edges rubbed with a few small chips and small tears. Binding loosening. 1975 Large Hardcover. 260 pp. A comprehensive history of American landscape photograph in the West after the invention of wet-colliodion plates presents a view of the philosophical, esthetic and scientific climate that produced a fascination with the West's landscapes and a sophisticated means of recording it. Includes 314 black-and-white photographs.

New York: Random House, 2003. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x7. Reprint. Faint edge wear. 2003 Trade Paperback. 356 pp. Includes reader's guide and list of suggested reading. Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi's living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become intertwined with the ones they are reading. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of literature.

New York: Random House, 2003. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x7. Reprint. Faint edge wear. 2003 Trade Paperback. 356 pp. Includes reader's guide and list of suggested reading. Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi's living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become intertwined with the ones they are reading. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of literature.

New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good. 5x0x8. Signed by author. Reprint. Signed by author on title page with date "March 5/2010." Edge wear on front cover, ink name on front cover verso, minor ink marginalia. 2004 Trade Paperback. 356 pp. Includes reader's guide and list of suggested reading. Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi's living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become intertwined with the ones they are reading. Reading Lolita in… Read More

Dayton, Ohio: Nas' Naga, 1979. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 9x6x1. No jacket. A very nice copy. 1979 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. Poetry by Roger W. Russell using his Shawnee name. Russell also wrote Indians' Summer and attempted to sell the film rights to Warner Bros.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. First edition. Jacket edges worn. 1987 Hard Cover. viii, 310 pp. aul Nagel's Descent from Glory was an extraordinary critical and popular success, a Book-of-the-Month Club main selection hailed by reviewers as "magnificent" (The New York Times Book Review) and "splendid" (The Christian Science Monitor). That book focused on the men in the Adams family,but many readers--and Nagel himself--felt that the most interesting and stirring part of the Adams family saga was the story of the women. Here at last is the book many readers urged Nagel to write: the full story of some of the most interesting and important and articulate women in American history. This is no mere sequel to the first book; it is an attempt to do justice in their own right to some extraordinary individuals in their own right who happened to be women and whose personal lives and outlooks have been eclipsed by the… Read More

U.S: George T. Nagengast, 1958. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. Signed by author. Second edition. Signed by author with inscription. Light general wear to jacket. Pages crinkled. 1958 Hard Cover. 416 pp. Autobiographical novel. "A novel written by a native of Poland who spent most of his teens working as a slave laborer in Germany and Austria. He settled in the U.S. in 1955.

New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2008. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x1x8. Second printing. An exceptional copy. 2008 Trade Paperback. xv, 366 pp. The Battle for Moscow was the deadliest battle of World War II--and the deadliest battle of all time. Between September 30, 1941 and April 20, 1942, seven million German and Soviet troops took part in the battle, and 2.5 million of them were killed, taken prisoner, missing or severely wounded. As German troops approached Moscow, half of the city's population fled, while others looted stores, staged strikes and attacked those who were escaping. In the end, the German drive fell short, but Stalin's regime was so embarrassed by how close they came, by the mistakes the Soviet dictator made that allowed them to do so, and the behavior of many of its own citizens, that the battle was given short shrift in their history books. Both Hitler and Stalin (briefly allied and now newly at war) intruded themselves into the strategies for their… Read More

Paul Naintre, 2013. Signed Copy. Stapled Binding. Near Fine. Signed by author. Signed by author with inscription to Jonathan Smalter, owner of Yesterday's Muse Books located in Webster, New York: "Jonathan, Please allow me to compliment you on your remarkable book store. It is like an Aladdin's cave of literary treasure. I am glad it's close by so I don't have to travel to New York or London to see such rear and collectible books. Please accept this book as a gift to your book store. I wrote it for fun and also to pass on some possible useful info to people who are considering living aboard a boat. I loved aboard my boat, The Mirage, for 6 years year-round on the Genesee River. All the Best, Paul.". 2013 Stapled Binding. 19 pp. "Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live on a boat? This little book will give you a few ideas of what it's like. The book's purpose is to give you a simple, brief overview of what to consider when you are thinking about how… Read More

New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2016. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x2x9. First edition. Small tear on rear jacket panel. Address label on front paste-down endpaper. 2016 Hard Cover. xx, 505 pp. "ISIS—the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria—has taken on the mantle of being the single most dangerous terrorist threat to global security since al-Qaeda. In Defeating ISIS, internationally renowned intelligence veteran and counter-terrorism expert Malcolm Nance, author of The Plot to Hack America and the forthcoming Hacking ISIS, gives an insider's view to explain the origins of this occult group, its violent propaganda, and how it spreads its ideology throughout the Middle East and to disaffected youth deep in the heart of the Western world. Most importantly, Defeating ISIS gives an amply illustrated, step-by-step analysis of the street-level tactics the group has employed in assaults against fortified targets, in urban combat, and during… Read More

N/A: Konemann, 1998. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 9x1x12. First edition. A very nice copy. 1998 Large Hardcover. 617 pp. "This mighty volume devotes itself in words and pictures to the history of Israel. Events throughout the twentieth century are traced in detail, decade for decade. The Ottoman Empire, the period of the British Mandate in Palestine, the birth of the State of Israel following several decades of conflict between Jews and Palestinians... The book follows Jewish immigration; it documents day-to-day life in peacetime and war--from the War of Independence to the Six Day War and the Gulf War in the early 1990s; it covers the strained efforts to unite Israelis, Palestinians and the Arab states up to the 1993 peace treaty--and the assassination of Itzhak Rabin. ...contains approximately 2,000 color and black and white photographs, some of them rare, along with illustrations, caricatures, and maps.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1995. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 0x0x0. Second printing. Sticker ghost on spine. 1995 Trade Paperback. xix, 258 pp. Lurid depictions of sex and impotence, themes of emperor worship and violence, the use of realism and myth--these characterize the fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo. Napier discovers surprising similarities as well as provocative dissimilarities in the work of two writers of radically different political orientations. Napier places Yukio's and Kenzaburo's fiction in the context of postwar Japanese political and social realities and, in a new preface for the paperback edition, reflects on each writer's position in the tradition of Japanese literature.

London: Ebury Press, 2002. 5th Printing. Trade Paperback. Good. 4x1x7. 5th printing. Faint toning. 2002 Trade Paperback. A history of British rock and pop music from the late 1950's through the present day.

Washington, D.C: National Geographic, 2011. Large Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 9x0x12. Balit, Christina. New. An exceptional copy. 2011 Large Hardcover. 191 pp. The new National Geographic Treasury of Greek Mythology offers timeless stories of Greek myths in a beautiful new volume. Brought to life with lyrical text by award-winning author Donna Jo Napoli and stunning artwork by award-winning illustrator Christina Balit, the tales of gods and goddesses such as Zeus, Aphrodite, Apollo, and Athena and heroes and monsters such as Helen of Troy, Perseus, and Medusa will fascinate and engage children’s imaginations. National Geographic completes the book with embellishments of each story: sidebars for each god, goddess, hero, and monster link the myths to constellations, geography, history, and culture to help young readers connect the stories to real life events, people, and places. A family tree and a “cast of characters” profile page help make… Read More

Nicholas Books, 1965. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near fine in very good jacket. Jacket spine a bit toned. 1965 Hard Cover. xiii, 340, [2] pp. 8vo. Maps on endpapers. 1965 reissue of the 1859 original, which provided "detailed instructions and suggestions on kinds, makes and sources of foodstuffs needed; on medicines, equipment, animals, tenting gear, tools" for "westward-bound wagon trains and travellers.

New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, 2001. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x1x9. Signed by author. Reprint. Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('For Kelley, warm best wishes, Sylvia Nasar, 2.26.02'). 2001 Trade Paperback. 461, [1] pp. Inspiration for the film starring Russell Crowe , Ed Harris, and Jennifer Connelly. Includes black-and-white photographs. "How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?" the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner. "Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did," came the answer. "So I took them seriously." Thus begins the true story of John Nash, the mathematical genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness, and who -- thanks to the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community -- emerged after decades of… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Trade Paperback. Fine. 6x1x9. Book club edition. A fine copy. 2011 Trade Paperback. xv, 558 pp. A New York Times bestseller, this sweeping narrative from the author of A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet. Grand Pursuit is the epic story of the making of modern economics, of how economics rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material fate in its own hands.

New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1916. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his embossed stamp on front endpaper (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). No jacket. Front board rubbed, top page ridge and endpapers lightly foxed. 1916 Hard Cover. xxiii, 417 pp. An extrapolation of the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin into the realm of sociology. Includes: Introduction by Norman Angell; Preface; The Philosophy of Force: The Philosophy of Force; Causes of the Success of the Philosophy of Force; The Biological Errors; The General Sociological Errors; The Special Sociological Errors; The Declining Economic, Social, and Moral Effectiveness of Force; The Intellectual Revolution; Mutual Aid as a Factor of Social Progress: Force and the Social Structure; Darwin's Theory of Social Progress;… Read More