Search Results: Titles starting with R from Cat's Cradle Books

Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio, Editôra, 1972. Second Edition. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Second Edition. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wraps have light shelf wear. ; Poem by Brazilian author Guilherme de Andrade e Almeida (1890-1969). Contents: Bibliografia do autor. Alguma bibliografia sobre o autor, por Frederico Pessoa de Barros. O principal do príncipe, por Lêdo Ivo. Raça. Apêndice: Brasileirismo, por Tristão de Athayde. Um pouco de arte negra, por Agrippino Grieco. Poesia, por Sérgio Milliet. ; Coleção Sagarana; Vol. 88; 7.25" tall; 52 pages.

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1982. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Square, sound binding. Pages clean, off-white. Wrappers have edge rubbing, light overall shelf wear. ; Translations of 20th century Japanese women's prose. 9.0" tall; 147 pages.

Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association, 1971. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, tanned pages. Wrappers have fading around edges, with general light edge wear to the book. ; Contents: Brace, Introduction to Jensenism. Jensen, Can we and should we study race differences? Alland, Intelligence in black and white. John, Whose is the failure? Cohen, The influence of conceptual rule-sets on measures of learning ability. Gregg and Sanday, Genetic and environmental components of differential intelligence. Brace and Livingstone, On creeping Jensenism. ; Anthropological Studies; Vol. 8; 10" tall; 75 pages.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean and bright pages. Small discolored area on ffep. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with bumped corners. DJ has light shelf wear. ; Twenty-seven of the prominent scholar of African American history's most influential shorter writings, beginning with his first published writing. ; 9.5" tall; 464 pages.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1970. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary markings. Originally a soft cover, rebound in library buckram over boards as a hardcover. Light soiling on front of book, on which is glued original front of wraps. Tight binding and hinges. Clean and just slightly off-white text pages. 97 pp. Volume in series published by the Industrial Research Unit of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania. Ex-Library; 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 97 pages.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1970. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary markings. Originally a soft cover, rebound in library buckram over boards as a hardcover. Light soiling on front of book, on which is glued original front of wrappers. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, off-white text pages. Volume in series published by the Industrial Research Unit of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania. Ex-Library; 8.00" (20 cm) tall; 146 pages.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1971. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary markings. Originally a soft cover, rebound in library buckram over boards as a hardcover. Damp stain on front of book, over which is glued original front of wraps. Tight binding and hinges. Clean and just slightly off-white text pages. 146 pp. Volume in series published by the Industrial Research Unit of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania. Ex-Library; 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 146 pages.

New York: Tamiment Library, New York University, 1999. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Minor shelf wear to wrappers. ; Contents: Staub, "Negroes are not Jews": race, Holocaust consciousness, and the rise of Jewish neoconservatism. Welch, The shooting of Jofre Corrêa Neto: writing the individual back into historical memory. Maynard, "Respect your elders, know your past": history and the queer theorists. Public history. Teaching radical history. The past in print. The abusable past. ; 9.0" tall; 154 pages.

New York: Radical Historians' Organization, Inc, 1988. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Minor wear to corner tips. Wrappers have light handling wear overall. ; Contents: Sklar, Oh! Althusser!: historiogrphy and the rise of cinema studies. Musser, Work, Ideology and Chaplin's tramp. Hirano, The Japanese tragedy: film censorship and the American occupation. Lopez, An "other" history: the new Latin American cinema. Brier, A history film without much history. Judt, Moving pictures. Higonnet, Art and politics in pre-revolutionary France. Gerstle, Solidarity forever? Noles, Capitalism in the countryside: the transformation of rural society in the United States. Brown, Adventures in the academic skin trade. Lambrose, The abusable past. ; 9.0" tall; 192 pages.

Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1975. Third Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Third Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Previous owner's name on ffep and half title. Text pages clean, a bit off-white. Cloth over boards is lightly edge rubbed, otherwise clean with bright lettering at spine. DJ has edge wear, tanning, general shelf wear. ; Important study of challenges to the Catholic Church both through the Protestant Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. ; 9.25" tall; 924 pages.

New York: Tamiment Library, New York University, 1999. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Minor shelf wear to wrappers. ; Contents: Special interview with Pepón Osorio Riffs on colonialism, postcoloniality, and Puerto Rican survival. Ferrer, Cuba, 1898: rethinking race, nation, and empire. Santiago-Valles, "Higher womanhood" among the "lower races": Julia McNair Henry in Puerto Rico and the "burdens" of 1898. Kramer, Making concessions: race and empire revisited at the Philippine Exposition, St. Louis, 1901-1905. Public history. Teaching radical history. The past in print. The abusable past. ; 9.0" tall; 220 pages.

Kirksville, Missouri: SIxteenth Century Studies Journal Publishers, 1987. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Pages have underlined passages, marginal comments. Wrappers have light edge wear. ; Collection of essays presented at a colloquy held under the sponsorship of the annual Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in St. Louis, October 24-26, 1986. Laube, Radicalism as a research problem in the history of early Reformation. Hillerbrand, Radicalism in the early Reformation. Looß, Radical views of the early Andreas Karlstadt (1520-25). Gritsch, Thomas Müntzer and Luther: a tragedy of errors. Hoyer, Lay preaching and radicalism in the early Reformation. Vogler, The Anabaptist kingdom of Münster in the tension between Anabaptism and imperial policy. Stayer, Christianity in one city: Anabaptist Münster, 1534-35. Index. ; Sixteenth-Century Essays & Studies; Vol. 9; 9.0" tall; 140 pages.

Washington: National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, 1959. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary markings. Originally a softcover, this has been rebound under boards as a hardcover. Square, tight binding. Clean but age-darkened text pages. Typescript font. Chemistry of protactinium and its isotopes, dissolution of protactinium samples, counting techniques, detailed radiochemical procedures for protactinium. Ex-Library; 9.25" (23.5 cm) tall; 80 pages.

Harrow: Izdanje Nase Reci, 1985. Soft Cover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Book is in the Croatian language. Square, tight binding. Clean but age-darkened pages. Wrappers have general shelf wear. History of Communist leadership in Yugoslavia in the mid-20th century. 8.0" (20 cm) tall; 116 pages.

Munich, Germany: Verlag Sudostdeutsches Kulturwerk, 1989. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by the artist on title page. Book is in the German language. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light handling wear. Illustrated in b&w. ; Monograph of the prominent Romanian-born German painter, graphic artist, illustrator, and cartoonist, "one of the luminaries of the explosive generation of the 1970s." ; 9.0" tall; 66 pages; Signed by Artist.

Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1905. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is clean. DJ has light edge rubbing. ; First English language translation of Brandolini's humanistic treatise on music as an intellectual and performative discipline. Latin text on left page, with English translation on facing page. ; Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies; Vol. 232; 9.25" tall; 160 pages.

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1864. Hardcover. Fair with no dust jacket. Hinges cracked but binding is holding. Pages tanned, soiled, foxed, some with dampstains. Cloth over boards is bowed. Heavy wear overall to exterior. ; Prescriptive Christian literature. Engraved frontispiece. Ex-Library; 6.75" tall; 302 pages.

Jakarta: Penerbit Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 1995. Soft Cover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Book is in the Indonesian language. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wrappers have moderate handling wear, including vertical crease on back. Notes, bibliography. Scholarly study of the magazine industry in Indonesia, including genres such as entertainment, news, business, and religion magazines. 9.5" (24 cm) tall; 337 pages.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1955. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary markings, primarily on endpapers and lower spine. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with gently bumped corners and overall light shelf wear. ; Topics include the growth of the Pennsylvania Southern Railway security system in the 1870s, southern railroad receiverships in the 1870s, the extension of the Illinois Central Railroad into the southern states, railroads of the south in 1880 and new construction to 1890, the expansion of the Louisville and Nashville, the Richmond and Danville System, and the Atlantic Coast Line, Plant System, and Seaboard Air Line in 1900. Illustrated with maps imbedded in text. ; Ex-Library; 9.25" tall; 310 pages.

Boston: Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, 1975. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Pages clean, off-white. Wrappers have some foxing, light overall shelf wear. ; Contents: Condit, Cincinnati passenger stations before 1930. Bogle, The Texas - a forgotten hero. Park, U.S. steam locomotive builders. Shaw, The profitability of early American railroads. Hofsommer, A chronology of Iowa railroads. Post, Dearborn's railroad memorial of 1819. ; 9.0" tall; 128 pages.