Search Results: Titles starting with R from Books of the World

Boston: South End Press, 1991. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Very Good. Prior owner's name to first page, otherwise Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xiii + 433 pages.

New York: Simon & Schuster, September 2020. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. As New book in an As New jacket. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxii + 452 pages. An unprecedented and intimate tour de force of new reporting on the Trump presidency facing a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest. Woodward uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. Woodward takes readers into the Oval Office as Trump's head pops up when he is told in January 2020 that the pandemic could reach the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed 675,000 Americans. In 17 on-the-record interviews with Woodward over seven volatile months, Trump provided a self-portrait that is part denial and part combative interchange mixed with surprising moments of doubt as he glimpses the perils in the presidency and what he calls the "dynamite behind every door."… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, August 1998. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Dark blue paper covered boards with one-quarter navy cloth spine and silver lettering. Very Good book in a Near Fine jacket. Light foxing to edges. Interior unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean and bright with slight edgewear. No tears, creases or folds. Not from a library. Not remainder mark. Not clipped. 740 pages.

New York: St. Martin's Press. December 1998. Hardcover. Good book in a Very Good jacket. Interior is unmarked. Spine is lightly cracked at the front hinge. Some foxing on top closed edge. Cover is clean and bright but lightly worn along the top edge and slightly frayed at the top rear corner. Not from a library, not a remainder, not clipped. A nice reading copy. 722 pages.

Bangkok: Asia Books, 2000. Trade Paperback. Third Edition, second printing, 2001. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 476 pages.
The Ravens were fighter pilots working as Forward Air Controllers for the Central Intelligence Agency in Laos during the Vietnam War, though their existence was denied by both the United States and North Vietnam. The Ravens undertook observation missions and were also tasked with marking enemy targets with smoke rockets to direct air strikes onto them. These deniable mercenary pilots had units based in five locations in Laos: Long Tieng, Luang Prabang, Pakse, Vientiane, and Savannakhet. The Ravens wore no uniform, carried no identification, and flew unarmed light aircraft which they would sold for a dollar apiece so that they could be struck from the US Air Force records.

New York: Random House, November 2008. Trade Paperback. Full number line. Fine. Slight corner wear, otherwise pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 380 pages. Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; some had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they removed their veils and began to speak more freely-their stories intertwining with the novels they were reading by Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, as fundamentalists seized hold of the universities and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the women in Nafisi's living room spoke… Read More

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1950. Paperback. Second Edition. Near Fine. Appears unmarked. Spine tight with a tilt and rumpling from excess glue. Covers clean and bright with only light shelfwear. Seems to be in about the same condition as when it was picked up from the shelves of a college bookstore seventy years ago. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. viii + 406 pages. 21 cm.

New York & London: W. W. Norton, May 2002. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Dust stains to top edge and light shelfwear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 415 pages. To the dismay of many in the West, the first Gulf War ended with Saddam Hussein still in control. This prescient title considered what the future of Iraq would be without Saddam Hussein: even more unstable and more problematic to the secrurity of the United States.

Santo Domingo: Centro de Investigacion para la Accion Femenina (CIPAF), 1985. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Slight shelfwear. Not from a library. 139 pages. Spanish translation of International Feminism: Networking Against Female Sexual Slavery (Report of the Global Feminist Workshop to Organize Against Traffic in Women, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, April 6-15, 1983.

New York: Knopf, April 2020. Hardcover. First Edition, fifth printing. Fine book in an As New Cover. Spine tail lightly bumped, otherwise As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Not damaged. 178 pages.

London: Hakluyt Society. 1996. Staple-bound pamphlet. 1st Edition. As New. Securely bound with two staples in heavy paper wraps. Not from a library. Contained within the Hakluyt Society Annual Report for 1995. Also includes "Obituary: Terence E. Armstrong." 32 pages, 1 map, 9 B&W photos.

Rare! London: Echanges et Mouvement, April 1979. Staple-Bound Pamphlet.Very Good. Interior unmarked. Binding secure. Some discoloration to covers. 64 pages. Translation of a pamphlet published in 1978 in France.Contents: Foreword; 1. The origin of the debate: the traditional worker's movement and the new movement; 2. A discussion about consciousness, and organisations, on individual and collective behaviour; 3. The critical contest: organised labour versus 'the revolt against work; 4. The 'revolt against work' or Fight for the right to be lazy; 5. Political ideology and social reality; 6. Revolt of work or the end of leftism; 7. Anything new in the 'Revolt against work'? The job, the wage itself are forms of social control both at the workplace and during the red of the day. What's new about the 'revolt against work? A new perspective. The 'Revolt against work' and 'Collective struggle'. Work and wage Labour; 8. A few reflections concerning the refusal of work, sabotage, etc.; 9. Work and capital:… Read More

New York: Crown, 1961. Trade Paperback. 12th printing. No ISBN. Very Good. First and second page have name of prior owner and a few other notes, otherwise unmarked. Spine is straight and tight with a light crease. Reading and shelf wear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 164 pages. Cover Title: Relativity: the Special and General Theory : A Clear Explanation of the Famous Theory that Brought About The Atomic Age : With Only A High School Education The Reader Can Understand Albert Einstein's Explanation of His Epoch-Making Theory. Inner Title: Relativity: the Special and General Theory : A Popular Exposition by Albert Einstein. Authorized Translation by Robert W. Lawson.

Coventry, UK: Dangaroo Press, 2001. Paperback. As New. Pristine inside and out. Unread. Undamaged. 53 pages.

Washington, DC: International Development Association, September 1993. Paperback. Fine. Slightly aged, otherwise pristine inside and out. Not from a library. 44 pages. World Bank Report No. P-6157-SL

New York: Inside News Publications, 1997. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light rubbing to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not damaged. ix + 396 pages.

New York: South End Press, July 1991. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Prior owner's name to first page, otherwise As New. Text block unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. viii + 181 pages. Biehl examines the contradictions of ecofeminism and argues that social ecology, an alternate framework, offers a more liberating program for men and women, as well as for our beleaguered biosphere.

New York: Viking, September 2007. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight; tail slightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright with slight shelfwear to bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xviii + 332 pages. Zhang Dai (1597-1689), subject of this absorbing and evocative literary-biographical study, was a Chinese essayist and historian whose long life bridged the conquest of China by the Manchus and the fall of the Ming dynasty in 1644. The upheaval inspired him to write a history of the Ming as well as personal recollections of his youth, which Spence mines for insights into the culture of this period. Zhang's reminiscences about his earlier life as a well-to-do scholar and aesthete are full of poetic reveries--a treasured blend of tea, evening lanterns in his hometown of Shaoxing, an exquisite courtesan, plum blossoms in the moonlight--which contrast with his later circumstances of poverty, coarse food… Read More

New York: Viking Penguin, 2003. Hardcover. First American Edition / full number line. As New book in an As New jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 352 pages. A finely written fantasy for anyone who ever wondered what a certain age would look like from beyond the looking-glass and who will find it ripe with promise that the best days are yet to come.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2002. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Fine book in a Very Good cover. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Top edge of jacket has light shelfwear and a single 3/8-inch tear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 433 pages. Rommy "Squirrel" Gandolph is a Yellow Man, an inmate on death row for a 1991 triple murder in Kindle County. His slow progress toward certain execution is nearing completion when Arthur Raven, a corporate lawyer who is Rommy's reluctant court-appointed representative, receives word that another inmate may have new evidence that will exonerate Gandolph. Arthur's opponent in the case is Muriel Wynn, Kindle County's formidable chief deputy prosecuting attorney, who is considering a run for her boss's job. Muriel and Larry Starczek, the original detective on the case, don't want to see Rommy escape a fate they long ago determined he deserved, for a host of reasons. Further complicating the situation is the… Read More