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古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams - Lynne Withey (Atria) 【紙書籍】 9780743234436

タイトル: Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams著者: Lynne Withey出版社: Atria出版日: 2002年07月09日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。The lively, authoritative, New York Times bestselling biography of Abigail Adams. This is the life of Abigail Adams, wife of patriot John Adams, who became the most influential woman in Revolutionary America. Rich with excerpts from her personal letters, Dearest Friend captures the public and private sides of this fascinating woman, who was both an advocate of slave emancipation and a burgeoning feminist, urging her husband to "Remember the Ladies" as he framed the laws of their new country. John and Abigail Adams married for love. While John traveled in America and abroad to help forge a new nation, Abigail remained at home, raising four children, managing their estate, and writing letters to her beloved husband. Chronicling their remarkable fifty-four-year marriage, her blossoming feminism, her battles with loneliness, and her friendships with Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Dearest Friend paints a portrait of Abigail Adams as an intelligent, resourceful, and outspoken woman.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 World Upside Down: Cross-Cultural Contact and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Peru - Susan Elizabeth Ramírez (Stanford University Press) 【紙書籍】 9780804735209

タイトル: World Upside Down: Cross-Cultural Contact and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Peru著者: Susan Elizabeth Ramírez出版社: Stanford University Press出版日: 1998年10月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。The old saying that "history is written by the victors" certainly applies to most of the history of European colonialism in Spanish America. However, in recent decades scholars have begun to study the Spanish conquest and early colonialization of America from the point of view of the native Americans in an attempt to right this imbalance. Taking the perspective of the vanquished, the author aims to determine and explain some of the general principles on which the pre-Hispanic Andeans' lives were based. The book describes how the imposed Spanish colonial system altered the organization and belief systems of the native inhabitants of northern Peru during the first fifty years or so after the Spanish conquest. By centering on an area that was incorporated into the Inca empire relatively late (1460's-70's), the book offsets the Cuzco focus of much of the existing literature in Inca history and culture. It explores the impact of expanding colonialism on indigenous ideas about leadership and legitimacy, the supernatural and morality, land tenure, service and allegiance, and wealth.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession - Allison Hoover Bartlett (Riverhead Books) 【紙書籍】 9781594488917

タイトル: Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession著者: Allison Hoover Bartlett出版社: Riverhead Books出版日: 2009年09月17日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。In the tradition of "The Orchid Thief," a compelling narrative set within the strange and genteel world of rare-book collecting: the true story of an infamous book thief, his victims, and the man determined to catch him. Rare-book theft is even more widespread than fine-art theft. Most thieves, of course, steal for profit. John Charles Gilkey steals purely for the love of books. In an attempt to understand him better, journalist Allison Hoover Bartlett plunged herself into the world of book lust and discovered just how dangerous it can be. Gilkey is an obsessed, unrepentant book thief who has stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars? worth of rare books from book fairs, stores, and libraries around the country. Ken Sanders is the self-appointed ?bibliodick? (book dealer with a penchant for detective work) driven to catch him. Bartlett befriended both outlandish characters and found herself caught in the middle of efforts to recover hidden treasure. With a mixture of suspense, insight, and humor, she has woven this entertaining cat-and-mouse chase into a narrative that not only reveals exactly how Gilkey pulled off his dirtiest crimes, where he stashed the loot, and how Sanders ultimately caught him but also explores the romance of books, the lure to collect them, and the temptation to steal them. Immersing the reader in a rich, wide world of literary obsession, Bartlett looks at the history of book passion, collection, and theft through the ages, to examine the craving that makes some people willing to stop at nothing to possess the books they love.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Boat and the Town (American) - Geoffrey Moorhouse (Little Brown) 【紙書籍】 0316580600

タイトル: Boat and the Town (American)著者: Geoffrey Moorhouse出版社: Little Brown出版日: 1979年01月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 In Search of Melancholy Baby - Vasilii Pavlovich Aksenov (Random House) 【紙書籍】 9780394543642

タイトル: In Search of Melancholy Baby著者: Vasilii Pavlovich Aksenov出版社: Random House出版日: 1987年06月12日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control - Kathleen Taylor (Oxford University Press) 【紙書籍】 9780199204786

タイトル: Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control著者: Kathleen Taylor出版社: Oxford University Press出版日: 2006年08月24日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。The term 'brainwashing' was first recorded in 1950, but it is an expression of a much older concept: the forcible and full-scale alteration of a person's beliefs. Over the past 50 years the term has crept into popular culture, served as a topic for jokes, frightened the public in media headlines, and slandered innumerable people and institutions. It has also been the subject of learned discussion from many angles: history, sociology, psychology, psychotherapy, and marketing. Despite this variety, to date there has been one angle missing: any serious reference to real brains. Descriptions of how opinions can be changed, whether by persuasion, deceit, or force, have been almost entirely psychological.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Arab of the Desert - Harold Richard Patrick Dickson (Allen & Unwin) 【紙書籍】 0049530100

タイトル: Arab of the Desert著者: Harold Richard Patrick Dickson出版社: Allen & Unwin出版日: 1983年12月31日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead - Dennis McNally (Broadway) 【紙書籍】 9780767911856

タイトル: A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead著者: Dennis McNally出版社: Broadway出版日: 2002年08月06日古本可。かなり摩耗した読み物です。本文にマーキングがある場合があります。製本が割れている可能性がありますが、全ページ揃っています。ダストジャケットは含まれません。図書館から入手することもあります。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist-a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads, and for students of rock and the 1960s' counterculture. From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of the most beloved, unusual, and accomplished musical entities to ever grace American culture. The creative synchronicity among Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan exploded out of the artistic ferment of the early sixties' roots and folk scene, providing the soundtrack for the Dionysian revels of the counterculture. To those in the know, the Dead was an ongoing tour de force: a band whose constant commitment to exploring new realms lay at the center of a thirty-year journey through an ever-shifting array of musical, cultural, and mental landscapes. Dennis McNally, the band's historian and publicist for more than twenty years, takes readers back through the Dead's history in "A Long Strange Trip," In a kaleidoscopic narrative, McNally not only chronicles their experiences in a fascinatingly detailed fashion, but veers off into side trips on the band's intricate stage setup, the magic of the Grateful Dead concert experience, or metaphysical musings excerpted from a conversation among band members. He brings to vivid life the Dead's early days in late-sixties San Francisco-an era of astounding creativity and change that reverberates to this day. Here we see the group at its most raw and powerful, playing as the house band at Ken Kesey's acid tests, mingling with such legendary psychonauts as Neal Cassady and Owsley "Bear" Stanley, andperforming the alchemical experiments, both live and in the studio, that produced some of their most searing and evocative music. But McNally carries the Dead's saga through the seventies and into the more recent years of constant touring and incessant musical exploration, which have cemented a unique bond between performers and audience, and created the business enterprise that is much more a family than a corporation. Written with the same zeal and spirit that the Grateful Dead brought to its music for more than thirty years, the book takes readers on a personal tour through the band's inner circle, highlighting its frenetic and very human faces. "A Long Strange Trip" is not only a wide-ranging cultural history, it is a definitive musical biography.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Ancient Mediterranean - Michael Grant (Penguin Publishing Group) 【紙書籍】 9780452010376

タイトル: Ancient Mediterranean著者: Michael Grant出版社: Penguin Publishing Group出版日: 1988年09月01日古本可。かなり摩耗した読み物です。本文にマーキングがある場合があります。製本が割れている可能性がありますが、全ページ揃っています。ダストジャケットは含まれません。図書館から入手することもあります。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証Written by eminent classical scholar Michael Grant. The Ancient Mediterranean is a wonderfully revealing, unusually comprehensive history of all the peoples who lived around the Mediterranean from about 15,000 B.C. to the time of Constantine (306-337 A.D.). Many volumes, including Professor Grant's own previous works, trace the histories of the great civilizations of Greece and Rome. But this unique work looks at the influences and cultures of the entire region, including Egypt, Israel, Crete, Carthage, Ionia and the Eastern colonies. Syria, and the Etruscans, as well as the Greek and Roman states.Drawing on archaeology, geography, anthropology, and economics. Professor Grant shows how the great Oriental civilizations--Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, Persia--originated attitudes and institutions ultimately passed on to the West. He describes the effect on the people and their achievements of the long, irregular coastline, the mountainous terrain surrounding small fertile plains, the typical plant life of olive and grape, and the rapidly changing weather. Further, he investigates how the demographic factors around this deep and stormy sea caused or influenced the great periods of ancient history, such as that of fifth-century Athens and of Rome in the first century A.D. Appealing and fascinating reading, this impeccably researched history brings a fresh perspective to understanding our ancient heritage.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Becoming Attached: First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity to Love - Robert Karen (Oxford University Press) 【紙書籍】 9780195115017

タイトル: Becoming Attached: First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity to Love著者: Robert Karen出版社: Oxford University Press出版日: 1998年04月23日古本可。かなり摩耗した読み物です。本文にマーキングがある場合があります。製本が割れている可能性がありますが、全ページ揃っています。ダストジャケットは含まれません。図書館から入手することもあります。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証In "Becoming Attached," Robert Karen offers fresh insight into some of the most fundamental issues of emotional life. He explores such questions as: What do children need to feel that the world is a positive place and that they have value? What are the risks of day care for children under one year of age, and what can parents do to manage those risks? What experiences in infancy will enable a person to develop healthy relationships as an adult?

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 U-Boat: The Evolution and Technical History of German Submarines - Eberhard Rssler (Cassell) 【紙書籍】 0304361208

タイトル: U-Boat: The Evolution and Technical History of German Submarines著者: Eberhard Rssler出版社: Cassell出版日: 2002年05月28日古本可。かなり摩耗した読み物です。本文にマーキングがある場合があります。製本が割れている可能性がありますが、全ページ揃っています。ダストジャケットは含まれません。図書館から入手することもあります。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証It's the enthusiast's bible of U-boat history and development, with more detail and technical information than any other book on the subject. Displaying photographic coverage second to none, it has a wealth of submarine plans and profiles that illustrate every aspect of design and operation. Track the constant improvements implemented from World War I to World War II and beyond: the single-drive models, small and midget versions, the move to high submerge speed, the change to Type XXI and XXIII constructions, and production in the twilight of Nazi defeat. "A Selection of the Military Book Club."

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology - Ronald J Comer (Worth Publishers) 【紙書籍】 1464176973

タイトル: Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology著者: Ronald J Comer出版社: Worth Publishers出版日: 2016年02月05日古本可。かなり摩耗した読み物です。本文にマーキングがある場合があります。製本が割れている可能性がありますが、全ページ揃っています。ダストジャケットは含まれません。図書館から入手することもあります。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証Covering the basic concepts of psychopathology in a way that is scientifically sound, widely accessible, and extraordinarily empathetic, Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology discusses the scientific foundations, the clinical realities, and the human cost of psychological dysfunction.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Demographics of Immigration: A Socio-Demographic Profile of the Foreign-Born Population in New York State - Nadia Haggag Youssef (Center Migration Studies) 【紙書籍】 0934733600

タイトル: Demographics of Immigration: A Socio-Demographic Profile of the Foreign-Born Population in New York State著者: Nadia Haggag Youssef出版社: Center Migration Studies出版日: 1992年01月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Not Just Green, Not Just White: Race, Justice, and Environmental History - Mary E Mendoza (University of Nebraska Press) 【紙書籍】 9781496241733

タイトル: Not Just Green, Not Just White: Race, Justice, and Environmental History著者: Mary E Mendoza出版社: University of Nebraska Press出版日: 2025年02月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Not Just Green, Not Just White brings together a group of diverse contributors to explore the rich intersections between race and environment. Together these contributors demonstrate that the field of environmental history, with its core questions and critical engagement with the nonhuman world, provides a fertile context for understanding racism and ongoing colonialism as power structures in the United States. Earlier historiography has defined environmental history as the study of the changing relationships between humans and the environment--or nature. This volume aims to redefine the field, arguing that neither humans nor environment is a monolithic actor in any given story. Both humans and the environment are diverse, and often the environment causes conflict between and among peoples, leaving unequal access and power in its wake. Just as important, these histories often reveal how, despite unequal power, those who carry less privilege still persist. Together these essays demonstrate the promise of the field of environmental history and reveal how, when practitioners in the field decide to move away from "green" and "white" topics, they will be able to explain much more about our collective past than anyone ever imagined.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class - David R Roediger (Verso) 【紙書籍】 0860915506

タイトル: Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class著者: David R Roediger出版社: Verso出版日: 1991年09月17日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to Blacks.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mine Disaster of 1917 - Michael Punke (Grand Central Publishing) 【紙書籍】 140130155X

タイトル: Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mine Disaster of 1917著者: Michael Punke出版社: Grand Central Publishing出版日: 2006年08月08日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Revenant -- basis for the award-winning motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio -- tells the remarkable story of the worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history. A half-hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, a fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Company's Granite Mountain shaft. Sparked more than two thousand feet below ground, the fire spewed flames, smoke, and poisonous gas through a labyrinth of underground tunnels. Within an hour, more than four hundred men would be locked in a battle to survive. Within three days, one hundred and sixty-four of them would be dead. Fire and Brimstone recounts the remarkable stories of both the men below ground and their families above, focusing on two groups of miners who made the incredible decision to entomb themselves to escape the gas. While the disaster is compelling in its own right, Fire and Brimstone also tells a far broader story striking in its contemporary relevance. Butte, Montana, on the eve of the North Butte disaster, was a volatile jumble of antiwar protest, an abusive corporate master, seething labor unrest, divisive ethnic tension, and radicalism both left and right. It was a powder keg lacking only a spark, and the mine fire would ignite strikes, murder, ethnic and political witch hunts, occupation by federal troops, and ultimately a battle over presidential power.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Vintage Vermont Villainies: True Tales of Murder & Mystery from the 19th and 20th Centuries - John Stark Bellamy (Countryman Press) 【紙書籍】 9780881507492

タイトル: Vintage Vermont Villainies: True Tales of Murder & Mystery from the 19th and 20th Centuries著者: John Stark Bellamy出版社: Countryman Press出版日: 2007年09月17日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Containing accounts of ten classic murders and two inexplicable disappearances, Vintage Vermont Villainies is a veritable "best of the best" of Vermont homicides occurring between 1874 and 1957. Bellamy's catalog of miscreants includes Mary Rogers, whose seduction of two brothers paved the way to eliminating her inconvenient husband; and John Winters, whose date with the electric chair enlisted the sympathies of Clarence Darrow.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Archaeology of Knowledge: And the Discourse on Language - Michel Foucault (Vintage) 【紙書籍】 0394711068

タイトル: Archaeology of Knowledge: And the Discourse on Language著者: Michel Foucault出版社: Vintage出版日: 1982年09月12日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge--are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think. The Archaeology of Knowledge begins at the level of "things aid" and moves quickly to illuminate the connections between knowledge, language, and action in a style at once profound and personal. A summing up of Foucault's own methodological assumptions, this book is also a first step toward a genealogy of the way we live now. Challenging, at times infuriating, it is an absolutely indispensable guide to one of the most innovative thinkers of our time.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Sex, Orgasm, and the Mind of Clear Light: The Sixty-Four Arts of Gay Male Love - Jeffrey Hopkins (North Atlantic Books) 【紙書籍】 9781556432743

タイトル: Sex, Orgasm, and the Mind of Clear Light: The Sixty-Four Arts of Gay Male Love著者: Jeffrey Hopkins出版社: North Atlantic Books出版日: 1998年06月25日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Jeffrey Hopkins presents the 64 arts of gay male love in a sex and spirituality manual. Adapted from a highly explicit Tibetan sex guide based on India's Karma Sutra, this modern gay version presents ways to enhance the intimacy and impact of gay sex. The 64 arts are part of a process of spiritual development towards the ecstatic orgasm - when the true nature of reality is sometimes unleashed."

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Stones of Time: Calendars, Sundials, and Stone Chambers of Ancient Ireland (Original) - Martin Brennan (Inner Traditions) 【紙書籍】 9780892815098

タイトル: Stones of Time: Calendars, Sundials, and Stone Chambers of Ancient Ireland (Original)著者: Martin Brennan出版社: Inner Traditions出版日: 1994年10月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。This revealing text describes the exciting discovery and deciphering of the 5,000-year-old stone chambers and standing stones of pre-Celtic Ireland. At midwinter sunrise, Martin Brennan and his research partner observed a beam of light shining into the central chamber at Newgrange, illuminating a series of glyphs on the back wall. They went on to observe significant solar and lunar events at other chambers and stone complexes in the Boyne Valley and Loughcrew Mountains. Through a combination of careful observation, analysis of the astronomical alignment of the sites, and personal insight into the meanings of megalithic symbols and carvings, Brennan demonstrates conclusively that the passage mounds and chambers are actually sophisticated calendar devices, and that the abstract wheels, spirals, zigzags, and wavy lines are symbols of solar and lunar timekeeping.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 United Brotherhood of Carpenters: The First Hundred Years - Walter Galenson (Harvard University Press) 【紙書籍】 0674921968

タイトル: United Brotherhood of Carpenters: The First Hundred Years著者: Walter Galenson出版社: Harvard University Press出版日: 1983年11月09日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。What makes American labor unions distinctive from others in advanced Western countries is neither as simple as their wanting "more" nor as philosophical as their operating in an open-class society. Through a comprehensive analysis of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters--the largest union before the 1930s and the pioneer--Walter Galenson details the reasons for the union's success. He finds that the Carpenters survived the vicissitudes of rapid industrialization and modernization because it was a conservative, business union. From its inception in 1881, the Carpenters' union embraced the capitalist system and worked to improve productivity. This resulted in a higher wage scale, greater leisure time, use of technology to stretch construction work over the winter months, increased fringe benefits, job security during jurisdictional disputes, and more than normal advances by minorities and blacks. Galenson's book is based on a vast sampling of archival materials, including union records, diaries, minutes of local and affiliate unions, and AFL and CIO primary sources. The author blends narrative with shrewd intuitive analysis to provide an indispensable source for labor and economic historians and students of labor movements.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum - Michael T Klare (Metropolitan Books) 【紙書籍】 9780805073133

タイトル: Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum著者: Michael T Klare出版社: Metropolitan Books出版日: 2004年09月10日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。From the author of Resource Wars, a landmark assessment of the critical role of petroleum in America's actions abroad In his pathbreaking "Resource Wars," world security expert Michael T. Klare alerted us to the role of resources in conflicts in the post-Cold War world. Now, in "Blood and Oil, " he concentrates on a single precious commodity, petroleum, while issuing a warning to the United States-its most powerful, and most dependent, global consumer. Since September 11th and the commencement of the "war on terror," the world's attention has been focused on the relationship between U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and the oceans of crude oil that lie beneath the region's soil. Klare traces oil's impact on international affairs since World War II, revealing its influence on the Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, and Carter doctrines. He shows how America's own wells are drying up as our demand increases; by 2010, the United States will need to import 60 percent of its oil. And since most of this supply will have to come from chronically unstable, often violently anti-American zones-the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea, Latin America, and Africa-our dependency is bound to lead to recurrent military involvement. With clarity and urgency, "Blood and Oil" delineates the United States' predicament and cautions that it is time to change our energy policies, before we spend the next decades paying for oil with blood.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Druids - Peter Berresford Ellis (Constable & Robinson Ltd) 【紙書籍】 9780802837981

タイトル: Druids著者: Peter Berresford Ellis出版社: Constable & Robinson Ltd出版日: 1995年06月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 History of Sexuality: An Introduction - Michel Foucault (Vintage) 【紙書籍】 9780679724698

タイトル: History of Sexuality: An Introduction著者: Michel Foucault出版社: Vintage出版日: 1990年04月14日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Why we are so fascinated with sex and sexuality--from the preeminent philosopher of the 20th century.Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is.

古本, ノンフィクション, ヴィンテージブック, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Savage Mind - Claude Lévi-Strauss (The University Of Chicago Press) 【紙書籍】 0226474844

タイトル: Savage Mind著者: Claude Lévi-Strauss出版社: The University Of Chicago Press出版日: 1968年09月15日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。A new translation of this classic work, titled Wild Thought (9780226413082 ) has replaced this edition and is now available. "Every word, like a sacred object, has its place. No précis is possible. This extraordinary book must be read."--Edmund Carpenter, New York Times Book Review "No outline is possible; I can only say that reading this book is a most exciting intellectual exercise in which dialectic, wit, and imagination combine to stimulate and provoke at every page."--Edmund Leach, Man "Lévi-Strauss's books are tough: very scholarly, very dense, very rapid in argument. But once you have mastered him, human history can never be the same, nor indeed can one's view of contemporary society. And his latest book, The Savage Mind, is his most comprehensive and certainly his most profound. Everyone interested in the history of ideas must read it; everyone interested in human institutions should read it."--J. H. Plumb, Saturday Review "A constantly stimulating, informative and suggestive intellectual challenge."--Geoffrey Gorer, The Observer, London

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 French Occupation of the Champlain Valley from 1609 to 1759 (PBK) - Guy Omeron Coolidge (Purple Mountain Press) 【紙書籍】 9780916346683

タイトル: French Occupation of the Champlain Valley from 1609 to 1759 (PBK)著者: Guy Omeron Coolidge出版社: Purple Mountain Press出版日: 1999年05月14日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Journals of Sylvia Plath - Sylvia Plath (Anchor) 【紙書籍】 9780385493918

タイトル: Journals of Sylvia Plath著者: Sylvia Plath出版社: Anchor出版日: 1998年05月11日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。The electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America's most acclaimed poets. Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her "Sargasso," her repository of imagination, "a litany of dreams, directives, and imperatives," and in fact these pages contain the germs of most of her work. Plath's ambitions as a writer were urgent and ultimately all-consuming, requiring of her a heat, a fantastic chaos, even a violence that burned straight through her. The intensity of this struggle is rendered in her journal with an unsparing clarity, revealing both the frequent desperation of her situation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Tao: The Watercourse Way - Alan Watts (Pantheon) 【紙書籍】 0394733118

タイトル: Tao: The Watercourse Way著者: Alan Watts出版社: Pantheon出版日: 1977年01月12日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Drawing on ancient and modern sources, "a lucid discussion of Taoism and the Chinese language [that's] profound, reflective, and enlightening." --Boston Globe According to Deepak Chopra, "Watts was a spiritual polymatch, the first and possibly greatest." Watts treats the Chinese philosophy of Tao in much the same way as he did Zen Buddhism in his classic The Way of Zen. Critics agree that this last work stands as a perfect monument to the life and literature of Alan Watts. "Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, . . . Watts begins with scholarship and intellect and proceeds with art and eloquence to the frontiers of the spirit."--Los Angeles Times

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 American Egyptologist: The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute - Jeffrey Abt (University of Chicago Press) 【紙書籍】 9780226045344

タイトル: American Egyptologist: The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute著者: Jeffrey Abt出版社: University of Chicago Press出版日: 2013年06月25日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。James Henry Breasted (1865-1935) had a career that epitomizes our popular image of the archaeologist. Daring, handsome, and charismatic, he traveled on expeditions to remote and politically unstable corners of the Middle East, helped identify the tomb of King Tut, and was on the cover of Time magazine. But Breasted was more than an Indiana Jones--he was an accomplished scholar, academic entrepreneur, and talented author who brought ancient history to life not just for students but for such notables as Teddy Roosevelt and Sigmund Freud.In American Egyptologist, Jeffrey Abt weaves together the disparate strands of Breasted's life, from his small-town origins following the Civil War to his evolution into the father of American Egyptology and the founder of the Oriental Institute in the early years of the University of Chicago. Abt explores the scholarly, philanthropic, diplomatic, and religious contexts of his ideas and projects, providing insight into the origins of America's most prominent center for Near Eastern archaeology. An illuminating portrait of the nearly forgotten man who demystified ancient Egypt for the general public, American Egyptologist restores James Henry Breasted to the world and puts forward a brilliant case for his place as one of the most important scholars of modern times.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Not Dead & Not for Sale: The Earthling Papers, a Memoir - Scott Weiland (Scribner) 【紙書籍】 9780743297172

タイトル: Not Dead & Not for Sale: The Earthling Papers, a Memoir著者: Scott Weiland出版社: Scribner出版日: 2012年07月10日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。The instant New York Times bestseller: the lead singer of the Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver delivers an exhilarating memoir of scaling the pinnacle of rock stardom, plunging into the chasm of addiction and incarceration, and then clawing his way back to the top again and again. In the early 1990s, Stone Temple Pilots--not U2, not Nirvana, not Pearl Jam--was the hottest band in the world. STP toppled such megabands as Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses on MTV and the Billboard charts. Lead singer Scott Weiland became an iconic front man in the tradition of Mick Jagger, David Bowie, and Robert Plant. Then, when STP imploded, it was Weiland who emerged as the emblem of rock star excess, with his well-publicized drug busts and trips to rehab. Weiland has since made a series of stunning comebacks, fronting the supergroup Velvet Revolver, releasing solo work, and reuniting with Stone Temple Pilots. He has prevailed as a loving, dedicated father, as well as a business-savvy artist whose well of creativity is far from empty. Not Dead & Not for Sale is a hard rock memoir to be reckoned with--a passionate, insightful, and at times humorous book that reads with extraordinary narrative force.