Search Results: Titles starting with R from Casa Pacifica

Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleThere is separation between spine and binding when book is opened, all else fine. Dust Jacket in mint condition and protected in Mylar.Signed by the author, H.W. Brands, on the title page.First Edition print.From master storyteller and New York Times bestselling Historian H. W. Brands comes the definitive biography of a visionary and transformative president. In his magisterial new biography, H. W. Brands brilliantly establishes Ronald Reagan as one of the two great presidents of the twentieth century, a true peer to Franklin Roosevelt. Reagan conveys with sweep and vigor how the confident force of Reagan's personality and the unwavering nature of his beliefs enabled him to engineer a conservative revolution in American politics and play a crucial role in ending communism in the Soviet Union. Reagan shut down the age of liberalism, Brands shows, and ushered in the age of Reagan, whose defining principles are still powerfully felt today.Employing… Read More

Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be untouched/unread. Spine and binding is tight.Dust jacket is in mint condition and protected with Mylar.Signed by the author, Joseph J. Ellis, on title page.From the award-winning, preeminent American historian: a revelatory portrait of a crescendo moment in American history.Joseph J. Ellis' focus: the summer of 1776, the most dramatic few months in the story of our country's founding. The thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire. At the same time, the British dispatched the largest armada ever to cross the Atlantic; it cruised off the coast of Staten Island in early July. The Continental Congress and the Continental Army were forced to make decisions on the run, improvising as history congealed around them. In a brilliant and seamless narrative, Ellis weaves the political and military experiences as two sides of a single story, and shows how events on one front influenced outcomes on the other.… Read More

Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be unread/untouched.Dust jacket in pristine, mint condition and protected by Mylar.Signed by the author, Dr. Stephan Greenblatt, on title page.First Edition print. "Endlessly illuminating and a sheer pleasure to read." ―Jack Miles, author of God: A BiographyDaring to take the great biblical account of human origins seriously, but without credulity
The most influential story in Western cultural history, the biblical account of Adam and Eve is now treated either as the sacred possession of the faithful or as the butt of secular jokes. Here, acclaimed scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores it with profound appreciation for its cultural and psychological power as literature. From the birth of the Hebrew Bible to the awe-inspiring contributions of Augustine, Dürer, and Milton in bringing Adam and Eve to vivid life, Greenblatt unpacks the story's many interpretations and consequences over time. Rich allegory, vicious misogyny, deep moral… Read More

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, VERY GOOD CONDITIONWe are selling a very good condition copy of Martin Ford's Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future.Binding is very good, but has some separation between the spine of the book and the binding when opened. Dust jacket is as new, and now is protected in Mylar.Signed by the author, Martin Ford, on the title page. First edition printing. Thank you for supporting Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families

Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be untouched/unread. Binding is tight.Dust Jacket in mint condition and protected in Mylar.Signed by the author, Daniel H. Wilson, on the title page.First Edition print.In this terrifying tale of humanity's desperate stand against a robot uprising, Daniel H. Wilson has written the most entertaining sci-fi thriller in years.Not far into our future, the dazzling technology that runs our world turns against us. Controlled by a childlike—yet massively powerful—artificial intelligence known as Archos, the global network of machines on which our world has grown dependent suddenly becomes an implacable, deadly foe. At Zero Hour—the moment the robots attack—the human race is almost annihilated, but as its scattered remnants regroup, humanity for the first time unites in a determined effort to fight back. This is the oral history of that conflict, told by an international cast of survivors who experienced this long and bloody… Read More

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, MINT CONDITION/COLLECTIBLE
Casa Pacifica is selling an as new, pristine edition of the best-selling and celebrated author, John Grisham, who is called "America's favorite storyteller." This book looks unread/untouched, and is ready for a new owner to enjoy it!
Signed by the author, John Grisham, on the title page.
First edition print.
#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham's newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that's on shaky ground. Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own a bank specializing in student loans, the three know they have been caught… Read More