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Search Books Please visit the How to Order page to place an order. To search for a book, you can fill in as many or as few of the fields below as you wish. If you are not getting any results, try leaving some of the fields blank. Order Now! BookId: D5-22 Title: The Faber book of Aphorisms Author: W H Auden & L Kronenberger Publisher: Faber & Faber Price: 22.00 Description: Wystan Hugh Auden 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973 was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content. Some of his best known poems are about love, such as "Funeral Blues"; on political and social themes, such as "September 1, 1939" and "The Shield of Achilles"; on cultural and psychological themes, such as The Age of Anxiety; and on religious themes such as "For the Time Being" and "Horae Canonicae" A mixed bag: Many good quotes are included, including some new ones by familiar names which I had not encountered before, but also far too many bad ones. To give an example of the priorities of the editors of this book, the book includes only four and a half pages of quotes about the topic of science (very few of them any good) but on the other hand it devotes a whopping 26 full pages to 'The Arts' and another 20 pages to 'Religion and God'. Worth reading if you're into this kind of book and I did like it on account of the few gems included. Paperback , soft cover with big title name . The book is used but in good condition ...405 pages including index , solid spine , no writing or spoiling ....good reference book. Order Now! BookId: D5-24 Title: Equality Author: R H Tawney Publisher: George Allen & unwin Price: 75.00 Description: "This book deserves a wide and thoughtful reading not only for the practicability and flexibility of the specific programs which it recommends but for the sane spirit in which it advocates them and the broad humanitarianism which furnishes the motive." --Christian Century First published in 1931 "Equality" is a political treatise based on the series of lectures by Professor Tawney in 1929. The "Tawney Society" has been an influential social democratic group within the Labour and the co-operative movement and represents the broad values outlined in this and other books by Prof. Tawney. "Equality" starts by discussing the iniquities of the "religion of inequality" that had prevailed in England's entrenched class and commercial structures. It considers the concepts associated with "equality of opportunity" and makes the analogy of the economy being a horse and rider, with everyone having an equal chance of being trampled to death!! He rejects this as being inadequate and favours growth in communal provision to promote greater actual equality and human dignity within society. The book's conclusion is that material wealth "is not the greatest of man's treasures" and that society would be happier and better served when rewards "are less greedily grasped and more freely shared." Richard Henry Tawney (30 November 1880 – 16 January 1962) was an English economic historian, social critic, ethical socialist, Christian socialist, and important proponent of adult education. The Oxford Companion to British History (1997) explained that Tawney made a "significant impact" in these "interrelated roles". A. L. Rowse goes further by insisting that "Tawney exercised the widest influence of any historian of his time, politically, socially and, above all, educationally". The book is an older book with original dust jacket, in good condition for a few small tears. Hard cover is is a plain black cloth cover with name of author and title in gold on the spine . Inside of the book is clean and clear , no marking, writing , spoiling or name of past owner . 285 pages including index. Great book on Political thought , a must . Order Now! BookId: D5-25 Title: The World we have Lost England before the Industrial Age Author: Peter Laslett Publisher: MacMillan Price: 40.00 Description: The book explores the size and structure of families in pre-industrial England, the number and position of servants, the elite minority of gentry, rates of migration, the ability to read and write, the size and constituency of villages, cities and classes, conditions of work and social mobility. What was life like in England before the Industrial Revolution? The World We Have Lost is widely regarded as a classic of historical writing and a vital book in reshaping our understanding of the past and the structure of family life in England. Turning away from the prevailing fixation of history on a grand scale, Laslett instead asks some simple yet fundamental questions about England before the Industrial Revolution: How long did people live? How did they treat their children? Did they get enough to eat? What were the levels of literacy? His findings overturned much received wisdom: girls did not generally marry in their early teens, but often worked before marrying at much the same ages that young people marry today. Most people did not live in extended families, or even live their whole lives in the same villages. Going beyond the immediate structure of the family, he also explores the position of servants, the gentry, rates of migration, work and social mobility. Laslett’s classic work was crucial in causing an important sociological turn in early modern English history and remains as fresh and exhilarating today as upon its first publication. Thomas Peter Ruffell Laslett CBE FBA (18 December 1915 – 8 November 2001) was an English historian. Laslett was Reader in Politics and the History of Social Structure at Cambridge University (the title reflecting his own unusual mix of historical interests) from 1966 until retirement in 1983. At this point, his interests turned to the historical understanding and practical betterment of the elderly. Laslett played a pivotal role in founding the University of the Third Age in 1982. The book is a soft cover paperback in good condition Illustrated cover , third edition , the corners of the book have benn pressed a bit ,but the inside is very good , no marking, writing or spoiling , 353 pages including index. Order Now! BookId: D5-26 Title: The Politics of the Unpolitical Author: Herbert Read Publisher: Routledge Price: 28.00 Description: In this collection of fourteen essays, first published in 1943, Herbert Read extends and amplifies the point of view expressed in his successful pamphlet To Hell with Culture, . The politics of the unpolitical are the politics of those who strive for human values and not for national or sectional interests. Herbert Read defines these values and demands their recognition as a solvent of social and cultural crises’, and looks forward to the future with constructive vision. This book will be of interest to students of politics, history, and cultural studies. Herbert Read was a maverick character in the cultural life of the twentieth century. A radical leader of the avant garde in the 1930s, and an anarchist revolutionary during the war years, by the time of his death in 1968 he had become a key figure at the heart of the British cultural establishment. Sir Herbert Edward Read, DSO, MC 4 December 1893 – 12 June 1968, was an English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education. Read was co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. As well as being a prominent English anarchist, he was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism. He was co-editor with Michael Fordham of the British edition in English of The Collected Works of C. G. Jung. This is a smaller older book from 1943 with dust jacket , a bit shelf used and with small tears, price uncut of the original. Ivory color for the cloth cover of this hard cover , with name of author, editor and title in red on the spine. Spine is solid and the inside is looking good, no writing or marking in the book , no name of past owner, 160 pages (sorry just found a couple of pencil markings! ) a good little book. Order Now! BookId: D5-27 Title: #18 New World Writing Author: Jose Luis Borges, Malcom Lowry, Robbe-Grillet and more Publisher: J B Lippincott Price: 25.00 Description: New World Writing was a paperback magazine, a literary anthology series published by New American Library's Mentor imprint from 1951 until 1960, then J. B. Lippincott & Co.'s Keystone from volume/issue 16 (1960) to the last volume, 22, in 1964. Rare Library described it as "one of the longest running and very significant paperback magazines in American literature. An institution that sprang up in the 1950s, showcasing original and first appearance of stories, poems, essays, etc. of leading writers from around the world. It has sometimes lapsed, but then returned to life, outlasting imitators in nearly every decade. This is # 18 , some great authors : D.Athas, W. Dickey, V.Andahl, L.Edel, H. Rudd, W. Egan , K. Roelher, R.Kehlmann, J.L.Borges, B. Bodenstein, M.MsKenzie, A.Robbe-Grillet, R.Blythe and M.Lowry . Fourteen authors and sa many short stories , all worth reading. Soft cover , in good used condition, clean and solid , no writing or spoiling, it used to be a great magazine , 221 pages. Order Now! BookId: D5-28 Title: The Joy of Lex Author: Gyles Brandreth Publisher: Morrow Price: 32.00 Description: While others may bemoan the sorry state of the English language, Gyles Brandereth shows here that our common tongue is alive, full of varieties and possibilities. In this witty, engaging, and informative book, Mr. Brandreth reintroduces: English as Graffiti -- Crosswords -- Witticisms -- Mnemonics -- Anagrams -- Lost Words -- Puns -- Portmanteaus -- British vs. America -- Slang -- Limericks -- Malaprops -- Verse -- Bizarre Names -- Rebuses -- Rhymes -- Creations of Science -- Euphemisms - Palindromes -- Pidgin -- Visual Poetry -- Sexism -- and a host of other categories. Each chapter is punctuated by quizzes, games, and puzzles. Gyles Brandreth proves unequivocally that our words, with their diversity and range, can be a source of endless fascination and lively entertainment. This is one of the best books (sadly out of print) for those who love words and the English language. I cannot recommend it enough. You will laugh from the first page to the last. I know this book is out of print, but it's worth getting. It's a great book to read when you have spare time and the activities in it are very intriguing. One test in it allows you to caculate your vocabulary size. My brother and I greatly enjoyed reading it together. If you like words and you like to build a better vocabulary, get this book! It is not only entertaining, but educational. You can get many fun facts from it. Gyles Daubeney Brandreth (born 8 March 1948) is an English broadcaster, writer and former politician. He has worked as a television presenter, theatre producer, journalist, author and publisher. He was a presenter for TV-am's Good Morning Britain in the 1980s, and has been regularly featured on Channel 4's game show Countdown and the BBC's The One Show. On radio, he makes frequent appearances on the BBC Radio 4 programme Just a Minute. In 1992, Brandreth was elected to the House of Commons as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the City of Chester constituency. He served until he was defeated in 1997, and resumed his career in the media. He has written both fiction and non-fiction books, and makes appearances as a public speaker. The book is as new but no dust jacket , missing for some reason. The Joy of lex is a hard cover with white and red cloth cover , Name of book and author on the red spine . very good condition and solid spine.the inside is perfect very nice and clean with funny illustrations , plenty of games and entertainment ...no writing, marking or spoiling , no name of past owner , 310 pages. Order Now! BookId: D5-29 Title: One-dimensional Man Author: Herbert Marcuse Publisher: Beacon Press Price: 32.00 Description: Best-known and most influential work, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (1964), he argued that the modern capitalist “affluent” society oppresses even those who are successful within it while maintaining their complacency through the ersatz satisfactions of consumer culture. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society is a 1964 book by the philosopher and critical theorist Herbert Marcuse, in which the author offers a wide-ranging critique of both contemporary capitalism and the Communist society of the Soviet Union, documenting the parallel rise of new forms of social repression in both these societies, as well as the decline of revolutionary potential in the West. He argues that "advanced industrial society" created false needs, which integrated individuals into the existing system of production and consumption via mass media, advertising, industrial management, and contemporary modes of thought. This results in a "one-dimensional" universe of thought and behavior, in which aptitude and ability for critical thought and oppositional behavior wither away. Against this prevailing climate, Marcuse promotes the "great refusal" (described at length in the book) as the only adequate opposition to all-encompassing methods of control. Much of the book is a defense of "negative thinking" as a disrupting force against the prevailing positivism. Marcuse also analyzes the integration of the industrial working class into capitalist society and new forms of capitalist stabilization, thus questioning the Marxian postulates of the revolutionary proletariat and the inevitability of capitalist crisis. In contrast to orthodox Marxism, Marcuse champions non-integrated forces of minorities, outsiders, and radical intelligentsia, attempting to nourish oppositional thought and behavior through promoting radical thinking and opposition. He considers the trends towards bureaucracy in supposedly Marxist countries to be as oppositional to freedom as those in the capitalist West. One-Dimensional Man bolstered Marcuse's fame as a contemporary Western philosopher Herbert Marcuse July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979 was a German-American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin and then at Freiburg, where he received his PhD. He was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research – what later became known as the Frankfurt School. He was married to Sophie Wertheim (1924–1951), Inge Neumann (1955–1973), and Erica Sherover (1976–1979). In his written works, he criticized capitalism, modern technology, Soviet Communism, and popular culture, arguing that they represent new forms of social control. The book is a plain paperback by Beacon Press from 1970, in good condition. , no dust jacket. The inside is clear, solid spine , clean no writing or marking , just name of past owner on the end paper. 260 pages including index. Order Now! BookId: D5-3 Title: Odd Jobs Essays and criticism Author: John Updike Publisher: Alfred Knopf Price: 46.50 Description: First Edition To complement his work as a fiction writer, John Updike accepted any number of odd jobs—book reviews and introductions, speeches and tributes, a “few paragraphs” on baseball or beauty or Borges—and saw each as “an opportunity to learn something, or to extract from within some unsuspected wisdom.” In this, his largest collection of assorted prose, he brings generosity and insight to the works and lives of William Dean Howells, George Bernard Shaw, Philip Roth, Muriel Spark, and dozens more. Novels from outposts of postmodernism like Turkey, Albania, Israel, and Nigeria are reviewed, as are biographies of Cleopatra and Dorothy Parker. The more than a hundred considerations of books are flanked, on one side, by short stories, a playlet, and personal essays, and, on the other, by essays on his own oeuvre. Updike’s odd jobs would be any other writer’s chief work. JOHN UPDIKE is the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009. The book is new , clean dust jacket with price cut . Green cloth cover on the hard cover , with name of author and title on the spine in gold or white . Inside is perfect , no marking , writing spoiling of any kind, it doeas not seem to have been read before . 920 pages including index. Order Now! BookId: D5-30 Title: A short History of Progress Author: Ronald Wright Publisher: Anansi Price: 20.00 Description: From Neanderthal man to the Sumerians to the Roman Empire, A Short History of Progress dissects the cyclical nature of humanity's development and demise, the 10,000-year old experiment that we've unleashed but have yet to control. A Short History of Progress is a non-fiction book and lecture series by Ronald Wright about societal collapse. The lectures were delivered as a series of five speeches, each taking place in different cities across Canada as part of the 2004 Massey Lectures which were broadcast on the CBC Radio program, Ideas. The book version was published by House of Anansi Press and released at the same time as the lectures. The book spent more than a year on Canadian best-seller lists, won the Canadian Book Association's Libris Award for Non-Fiction Book of the Year, and was nominated for the British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. Wright, an author of fiction and non-fiction works, uses the fallen civilisations of Easter Island, Sumer, Rome, and Maya, as well as examples from the Stone Age, to see what conditions led to the downfall of those societies. He examines the meaning of progress and its implications for civilizations—past and present—arguing that the twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology that has now placed an unsustainable burden on all natural systems. .../... Ronald Wright (born 1948, London, England) is a Canadian author who has written books of travel, history and fiction. His nonfiction includes the bestseller Stolen Continents, winner of the Gordon Montador Award and chosen as a book of the year by The Independent and the Sunday Times. His first novel, A Scientific Romance, won the 1997 David Higham Prize for Fiction and was chosen a book of the year by the Globe and Mail, the Sunday Times, and the New York Time Wright was selected to give the 2004 Massey Lectures. His contribution, A Short History of Progress, looks at the modern human predicament in light of the 10,000-year experiment with civilization. In it he concludes that human civilization, to survive, would need to become environmentally sustainable, with specific reference to global warming and climate change. The book is a soft cover paperback, in very good condition, solid spine and clear writing . The inside would be good but is filled with annotations and pencil notes and markings by a university English teacher ....so yo will get more information that needed. 211 pages plus index .great book Order Now! BookId: D5-31 Title: One Market under God Author: Thomas Frank Publisher: Doubleday Price: 36.00 Description: First Edition The book traces the development of what Frank decries as market populism: "the idea that markets are a far more democratic form of organization than democratically elected governments." He also discusses many facets of the New Economy, "culture studs," and internet brokerages. Thomas Carr Frank (born March 21, 1965) is an American political analyst, historian, and journalist. He co-founded and edited The Baffler magazine. Frank is the author of the books What's the Matter with Kansas? (2004) and Listen, Liberal (2016), among others. From 2008 to 2010 he wrote "The Tilting Yard", a column in The Wall Street Journal. A historian of culture and ideas, Frank analyzes trends in American electoral politics and propaganda, advertising, popular culture, mainstream journalism, and economics. His topics include the rhetoric and impact of culture wars in American political life and the relationship between politics, economics, and culture in the United States. The book is as new with a clean dust jacket in perfect condition , no tears, marking or price cut .... just like new. The hard cover has a white and burgundy cloth cover with name of author and title on the burgundy spine , in gold letters. No marking, writing or spoiling on the inside either , looks like the book has been unread. 414 pages including index .... very fine condition Order Now! BookId: D5-32 Title: Guns, Germs and Steel the fates of Human Societies. Author: Jared Diamond Publisher: Norton Price: 24.00 Description: Guns, Germs, and Steel is a multidisciplinary study that employs anthropological, biological, evolutionary, and socio-economic analyses to chart the fates of different peoples throughout human history and understand why some groups succeeded to develop and advance, while others haven't. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (subtitled A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years in Britain) is a 1997 transdisciplinary non-fiction book by the American geographer, historian, ornithologist, and author Jared Diamond. In 1998, it won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. A documentary based on the book, and produced by the National Geographic Society, was broadcast on PBS in July 2005. The book attempts to explain why Eurasian and North African civilizations have survived and conquered others, while arguing against the idea that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral, or inherent genetic superiority. Diamond argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate primarily in environmental differences, which are amplified by various positive feedback loops. When cultural or genetic differences have favored Eurasians (for example, written language or the development among Eurasians of resistance to endemic diseases), he asserts that these advantages occurred because of the influence of geography on societies and cultures (for example, by facilitating commerce and trade between different cultures) and were not inherent in the Eurasian genomes. Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American geographer, historian, ornithologist, and author best known for his popular science books The Third Chimpanzee (1991); Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Prize); Collapse (2005), The World Until Yesterday (2012), and Upheaval (2019). Originally trained in biochemistry and physiology, Diamond is known for drawing from a variety of fields, including anthropology, ecology, geography, and evolutionary biology. He is a professor of geography at UCLA. In 2005, Diamond was ranked ninth on a poll by Prospect and Foreign Policy of the world's top 100 public intellectuals. The book is a thick paperback soft cover , with pictorial cover . the book is slanted as the spine seems to be soft for such a big book . the inside is also slanted , the book has been craked open in a couple of places. but it still holding together . A few maps and illustrations , plus 2 sets of photographs from people from around the world (about 32 full pages pictures). the book has 496 pages , is generally clean but for name of past owner on the front end paper. Order Now! BookId: D5-33 Title: Industry and Empire From 1750 to the Present Day Author: E B Hobsbawm Publisher: Pelican Price: 25.00 Description: This outstanding history describes and accounts for Britain's rise as the world's first industrial world power, its decline from the temporary dominance of the pioneer, its rather special relationship with the rest of the world (notably the underdeveloped countries) and the effects of all these on the life of the British people. ""Eric Hobsbawm's analysis of the Industrial Revolution is magisterial. The IR was not only an acceleration of growth, but an acceleration of growth through economic and social transformation. It was also solidly founded on political and military pillars. Politically, the kings were subordinated to Parliament, which was controlled by an oligarchy of landowning capitalist aristocrats. The British government based nearly all its policies on economic ends. At home, it provided support for technical innovation and the development of the capital goods industry. It crushed also foreign competition. Its foreign policies were based on war and colonization, which permitted to capture other countries' export markets. Militarilly, it used the strenght of its Navy as a trade-minded weapon. The first phase of the IR (1780-1840) was based on cotton; the second one on coal, iron and steel. It constituted for nearly the whole British population a fundamental change, from the countryside to the city, and from a life of bare and uncertain subsistence to relative affluence. The decline began already before WWI, when Britain became a parasitic economy, living off the remains of world monopoly. The last part of the book is rather more an enumeration of pure statistics. The author states also that Britain was 'never defeated in war, still less destroyed.'In his magnificent biography of J.M. Keynes (part II), Prof. Skidelsky shows clearly that the debt contracted during WWII left Britain bankrupt after the war. His analysis of the negotiations about the Bretton-Woods system and the conversion of the British debt exposes mightily that the ultimate goal of the US Administration was the destruction of the British Empire and its Commonwealth ties. The US operation was a sound success. The US assured its place as new world leader, until now. A highly recommended book."Luc Reynaert Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm CH FRSL FBA 9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012) was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism. His best-known works include his tetralogy about what he called the "long 19th century" (The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848, The Age of Capital: 1848–1875 and The Age of Empire: 1875–1914), The Age of Extremes on the short 20th century, and an edited volume that introduced the influential idea of "invented traditions". A life-long Marxist, his socio-political convictions influenced the character of his work. The book is vol 3 of the Pelican Economic History of Britain . paper back , soft cover , no dust jacket . Book is in good condition, no name of past owner , no writing, marking, spoiling inside ,384 page including index. spot left by sticker on front cover. Order Now! BookId: D5-34 Title: The Culture of Contentment Author: John Kenneth Galbraith Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Price: 24.00 Description: The world has become increasingly separated into the haves and have-nots. In The Culture of Contentment, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith shows how a contented class—not the privileged few but the socially and economically advantaged majority—defend their comfortable status at a cost. The Culture of Contentment is an essay by economist John K. Galbraith analyzing the situation of the Western industrial world, which was first published in 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Galbraith traces the growth of a stultifying contentment in the Western industrial world, represented by the G7 group of countries. He pays particular attention to the self-serving economic comfort achieved by the fortunate and politically dominant community and contrasts this to the condition of the underclass which he sees as being for the first time in these countries stalled in poverty. John Kenneth Galbraith OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective. Galbraith was a long-time Harvard faculty member and stayed with Harvard University for half a century as a professor of economics. He was a prolific author and wrote four dozen books, including several novels, and published more than a thousand articles and essays on various subjects. Among his works was a trilogy on economics, American Capitalism (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), and The New Industrial State (1967). Some of his work has been criticized by economists Milton Friedman, Paul Krugman, Robert Solow, and Thomas Sowell. This book is a Paperback by Houghton Miffin from 1992 , and thus very likely the first edition on paperback. In as new condition , no dust jacket, no name of past owner . the inside if fine , looks new, solid spine, no marking, writing , 195 pages with index. Order Now! BookId: D5-35 Title: The Terrors of the Year 2000 Author: Etienne Gilson Publisher: St Michael's College Price: 10.00 Description: The Terrors of the Year Two Thousand, originally published in 1949 (but written in 1948—this 1984 edition commemorates the one hundred year anniversary of the author's year of birth), is a remarkably dour polemic, almost poetic in its apparently searching meditation on the contrast between the apocalyptic predictions made in the year 948 and those that can be made at the time of this work's creation, 1948. However, that searching quality of the meditation is only apparent for Gilson asserts that this time around, the terrors only imagined before have now all come true, namely in the form of modern science, whose now total power to destroy threatens the whole globe. Just as a thousand years ago, we should expect the apocalypse to bring in its train a devastating series of catastrophes, events that will forever change the Earth. Unlike a thousand years ago, however, a millennium which did not see the rise of the antichrist, this millennium has seen the rise of the antichrist. Étienne Henri Gilson was born into a Roman Catholic family in Paris on 13 June 1884. He was educated at a number of Roman Catholic schools in Paris before attending lycée Henri IV in 1902, where he studied philosophy.Gilson died 19 September 1978 at the age of ninety-four. This is a small brochure from St Michael's College Press still new and interesting to read through . Fine condition ,31 pages Order Now! BookId: D5-36 Title: The Economic system an Elementary Outline Author: G D H Cole Publisher: Longmans, Green Price: 10.00 Description: George Douglas Howard Cole (25 September 1889 – 14 January 1959) was an English political theorist, economist, and historian. As a believer in common ownership of the means of production, he theorised guild socialism (production organised through worker guilds). He belonged to the Fabian Society and was an advocate for the co-operative movement. Neither a Marxist nor a social democrat, Cole envisioned a guild socialism of decentralised association and active, participatory democracy, whose basic units would be sited at the workplace and in the community rather than in any central apparatus of the state. Cole criticized both state socialism and syndicalism as leaving open the possibility of tyranny, and envisioned a form of socialism where all enterprises would be democratically run by the workers through trade unions with the state remaining to guarantee consumers' rights and civil liberties. This little book was published for the Workers's Educational association series. soft cover , no dust jacket, in fair/good condition 1927 , a few tear on the inside pages, but not affecting reading , , a couple of pencil marks but clean and clear , semi-detached from cover ...90 pages. Order Now! BookId: D5-4 Title: Cannibals and Missionaries Author: Mary McCarthy Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Price: 35.00 Description: First edition . Cannibals and Missionaries is a 1979 thriller novel by Mary McCarthy which examines the "psychology of terrorism." The novel focuses on the action created when a Dutch/Arab terrorists hijack an Air France plane full of Americans on a flight towards Iran. Suspenseful and sometimes horrifying novel of manners, whose plot and odd mix of characters combine to produce an unorthodox thriller about the hijacking of a Middle East-bound jetliner over France in early 1975. "Psychologically astute, ironic and ultimately heartbreaking"(Publishers Weekly) Mary Therese McCarthy (June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989) was an American novelist, critic and political activist, best known for her novel The Group, her marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, and her storied feud with playwright Lillian Hellman. McCarthy was the winner of the Horizon Prize in 1949 and was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1949 and 1959. She was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome.] In 1973, she delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, the Netherlands, under the title Can There Be a Gothic Literature? The same year she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She won the National Medal for Literature and the Edward MacDowell Medal in 1984. McCarthy held honorary degrees from Bard, Bowdoin, Colby, Smith College, Syracuse University, the University of Maine at Orono, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Hull. The book is used but in good condition. Dust jacket with pictorial cover ,priced cut . The hard cover has a Beige and green cloth cover, name of author and title in white on green, small tears on dust jacket. Inside of the book is perfect , no writing, marking, spoiling of any kind , no name of past owner, clear and easy to read , 369 pages. Order Now! BookId: D5-5 Title: The Bishop's man Author: Linden MacIntyre Publisher: Random House Price: 27.00 Description: After the suicide of a young boy MacAskill suspects was abused by a priest years earlier, he becomes obsessed with his own chance connections to the tragedy – his role in exiling the priest, his familial ties to the victim and his affiliations with the church – and is led back into the dark corners of his earlier life. This existential thriller about sex scandals in the church is a worthy winner of Canada's Giller prize, says Rosalind Porter.For The Bishop's Man is an extraordinary novel, not least because it deals with rather hackneyed subjects (sex scandals involving the Catholic church, questions of faith and Glendinning's abhorred genealogies) without ever becoming a mere vehicle for the exploration of such issues. Above all, it's a great read – a page-turner which renders existential questions about personal responsibility into fodder fit for a thriller, and which takes language and form seriously. Linden Joseph MacIntyre (born May 29, 1943) is a Canadian journalist, broadcaster and novelist. He has won ten Gemini Awards, an International Emmy and numerous other awards for writing and journalistic excellence, including the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his 2009 novel, The Bishop's Man. Well known for many years for his stories on CBC's The Fifth Estate, in 2014 he announced his retirement from the show at age 71. His final story, broadcast on November 21, 2014, was "The Interrogation Room" about police ethics and improper interrogation room tactics. The book is as new. Very good dust jacket, priced cut, in perfect condition. the hard cover is a plain black cloth cover with name of author and title in gold letter on the spine. The inside of the book is fine , perfect condition, no writing, spoiling or past owner name , looks new. 399 pages. Order Now! BookId: D5-6 Title: The Master Author: Colm Toibin Publisher: McClelland & stewart Price: 25.00 Description: Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America's first intellectual families who leaves his country in the late nineteenth century to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers. “Colm Tóibín’s beautiful, subtle illumination of Henry James’s inner life” (The New York Times) captures the loneliness and hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitably fail those he tried to love. Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America’s first intellectual families who leaves his country in the late nineteenth century to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers. With stunningly resonant prose, “The Master is unquestionably the work of a first-rate novelist: artful, moving, and very beautiful” (The New York Times Book Review). The emotional intensity of this portrait is riveting. Colm Tóibín FRSL born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet. His first novel, The South, was published in 1990. The Blackwater Lightship was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Master (a fictionalised version of the inner life of Henry James) was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the 2006 International Dublin Literary Award, securing for Toíbín a bounty of thousands of euros as it is one of the richest literary awards in the world. Nora Webster won the Hawthornden Prize, whilst The Magician (a fictionalised version of the life of Thomas Mann) won the Folio Prize. His fellow artists elected him to Aosdána and he won the biennial "UK and Ireland Nobel" David Cohen Prize in 2021. He succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. He was appointed Chancellor of the University of Liverpool in 2017. He is now Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University in Manhattan. The book is new , fine , in perfect condition, new dust jacket , priced cut. The cover is plain black cloth with name of book and author in darker black on the spine. The inside f the book is perfect , no trace of having been own by somebody , no writing, marking or spoiling... 338 pages Order Now! BookId: D5-7 Title: Anil's Ghost Author: Michael Ondaatje Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Price: 30.00 Description: A literary spellbinder which unfolds against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka's landscape and ancient civilization, Anil's Ghost is a story about love, family, identity, the unknown enemy, and the quest to unlock the hidden past–a powerful story propelled by a riveting mystery. Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost is a literary thriller that analyzes the intersection of the political and personal in a modern Sri Lanka haunted by its brutal civil war. Seen through the eyes of a prodigal daughter, Anil’s Ghost showcases the very human toll of war on a group of academics and investigators striving to find justice for a murdered man, whose mysterious fate unleashes a dangerous set of revelations and questions onto the group. The novel’s protagonist is the forensic pathologist Anil Tissera, who is returning to Sri Lanka after fifteen years away. Having left at just eighteen, she returns to her home country as part of a human rights investigation, examining massacres and counter-massacres in the country’s long-running civil war. Assigned to assist her is an archeologist named Sarath, whose motives Anil does not entirely trust. Philip Michael Ondaatje CC FRSL born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor, and filmmaker. Ondaatje's literary career began with his poetry in 1967, publishing The Dainty Monsters, and then in 1970 the critically acclaimed The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. His novel The English Patient (1992), adapted into a film in 1996 won the 2018 Golden Man Booker Prize. Ondaatje has been "fostering new Canadian writing" with two decades commitment to Coach House Press (ca. 1970–1990), and his editorial credits include the journal Brick, and the Long Poem Anthology (1979), among others. The book is as new , dust jacket is perfect , no tears or creasing, priced cut . The hard cover is on a plain black cloth cover with initials of the author on the front, name of author and title of book in white letters on the spine. the inside of the book is perfect , no writing, spoiling, marking or name of past owner .... very clean and easy to read , 311 pages. I love the English patient but did not have a chance yet to read that new novel. Order Now! BookId: D5-8 Title: The village Author: Thomas Hinde Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton Price: 24.00 Description: 'Thomas Hinde has explored, in The Village, a major sector of British life, as well as a morality about contemporary values which will win him the acclaim he deserves as one of the most important novelists to have emerged since the war. The village of the title is Henlake, on the Downs, threatened with demolition and re-development. It is a rural haven caught between urban developments and trunk roads, a community in which the ancestral virtues which made Britain great, are still to be found. Or is it? As the author describes the attempts of the village committee to fight the developers, drawing a score of superbly realized characters, from inarticulate countrymen to stockbroking commuters, he strips away, layer by layer, the pretences on which so many people and classes have supported their lives, revealing their true motives, the real desires and fears; the fact that causes are not enough. ***Many will find The Village a deserved attack on modern shams and pretensions; others will find in it a narrative of modern times, peopled with memorable characters, that is unforgettable in its variety and pace. Without question this is the finest and most ambitious novel that Thomas Hinde has given us.' *** 'A superb novelist - one of the most powerful and brilliant among contemporary British writers' [Anthony Burgess] ***First impression of the true first edition in its original dust wrapper, in very nice bright collectible condition. Uncommon. Sir Thomas Willes Chitty, 3rd Baronet (2 March 1926 – 7 March 2014), better known by his pen name Thomas Hinde, was a British novelist. Thomas Chitty was born in Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, the son of Sir Thomas Henry Willes Chitty, 2nd Baronet, a barrister, and his wife Ethel Constance Gladstone, daughter of Samuel Henry Gladstone. He was educated at Winchester College and University College, Oxford. After service in the Royal Navy, he worked briefly for the Inland Revenue and then for the Shell Petroleum Company, before becoming a full-time writer. He became a baronet on the death of his father in 1955. The book is clean , very good with original dust cover , priced cut.. the hard cover has a plain black cover with name of author and title in gold letter on the spine . The inside of the book is very good , no past owner name, marking, writing or spoiling.... clear and easy to read, 384 pages . First edition . Order Now! BookId: D5-9 Title: Stones Author: Timothy Findley Publisher: Viking Price: 20.00 Description: "Stones" tells the story of a man who volunteered for WWII, and while he had been much loved by his family before the war, when he returns home afterwards he is no longer the same person, quick to violence and vulgar tones, a stark contrast to the way he had behaved before.In Timothy Findley’s short story “Stones”, the author shows a runaway’s self devastation through post war trauma, which gradually transforms itself into the father David completely losing his sanity caused by the tortures of his own mind and every day life. Through distinction in representation and narrative point of view, Findley highlights on the depreciated mental state of a caring dad. David, who through a fulfilling revelation, has become loathed by those who surround him. Everyone is confronted with struggles in life, whether they be physical or emotional. These struggles unavoidably shape someone’s personality and viewpoint on life.The stone, in this instance, is a contrast showing how it can destroy something so beautiful and delicate as a flower. this can also relate to the identity of the father post war. In other words, caring and loving are characteristics that could be associated to David before going to war. Additionally, the word stone itself conveys an implication of solidity and weight which can be seen in this act of subjugation by the people of the community. The father is being labelled as a deserter by society after having turned his back to his responsibility at Dieppe causing the demise of numerous soldiers that were under his orders. However, the public does not understand the reasons he deserted or the situation he was placed in at Dieppe along with the horrors he faced. The desertion itself is already hardly bearable for David. with the popular hatred shown toward deserters, it only intensifies the feeling of guilt, which makes the deserter’s social status a force that ultimately drives David. Timothy Irving Frederick Findley OC OOnt (October 30, 1930 – June 20, 2002) was a Canadian novelist and playwright. He was also informally known by the nickname Tiff or Tiffy, an acronym of his initials.His writing was typical of the Southern Ontario Gothic style – Findley, in fact, first invented its name— and was heavily influenced by Jungian psychology. Mental illness, gender and sexuality were frequent recurring themes in his work. Many of his novels centred on a protagonist who was struggling to find the moral and ethical and rational course of action in a situation that had spun wildly out of control. His characters often carried dark personal secrets, and were often conflicted – sometimes to the point of psychosis — by these burdens. The book is nice and clean , small creasing on the dust jacket , but still in good condition, no price cut .... the hardcover as an ivory and green cloth cover with title and name of author in white over the green of the spine. The inside is perfect , very clean and easy to read , no writing, marking or spoiling ,221 pages. Order Now! BookId: D6-000618 Title: Sabine's Notebook in Which The Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Continues Author: Bantock Nick Publisher: San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992 Price: 50.00 Description: Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. The second book in a series of correspondence between Griffin and the mysterious Sabine . Hard cover with price clipped dust jacket , with very decorative illustra tion , in excellent condition , unpaginated, .Posters and letters are all in good shape and can be removed from their enveloppe for reading .Nick bantock illustrations and imagination are without li mits .Ex library book , but As New. Order Now! BookId: D6-001172 Title: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Author: James Joyce Publisher: Penguin Price: 18.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D6-001507 Title: Griffin and Sabine an Extraordinary Correspondence Author: Nick Bantock Publisher: San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992, 1991 Price: 50.00 Description: Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. The first book of a series of correspondence between Griffin and the mysterious Sabine . Hard cover with price clipped dust jacket , with very decorative illustra tion , in excellent condition ,end papers illustrated, unpaginated, .Posters and letters are all in good shape and can be removed from their enveloppe for reading .Nick Bantock illustrations and imagination are without limits . As New.,. Order Now! BookId: D6-001590 Title: Our Only May Amelia Author: Jennifer l Holm Publisher: Harper Collins Price: 16.00 Description: Our Only May Amelia is a 1999 American historical youth novel by Jennifer L. Holm. Set in 1899 near Astoria, Oregon, it follows a young girl's coming of age amongst the region's Finnish community, and her life as the youngest of seven children—and the only girl—of Finnish immigrant parents. Publishers Weekly called Our Only May Amelia an "extraordinary debut novel" with an "unforgettable heroine."] The novel was the recipient of a Newbery Medal in 2000 Jennifer L. Holm (born June 16, 1968)[a] is an American children's writer, and recipient of three Newbery Honors and the Eisner Award. The book is a soft cover , no dust jacket , in very good condition , this is an uncorrected proof , and the jacket might not be the final choice; the inside is perfect , it has never been read, 247 pages. Order Now! BookId: D6-001602 Title: Like Water for Chocolate Author: Laura Esquirel Publisher: New York: Double Day, 1992 Price: 18.00 Description: Decorative Cloth. Good/Good. Like Water for Chocolate , a novel in monthly installments with Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies by Laura Esquirel .The most delicious, the most original , the most sumptuous feast of a novel to ever emerge from the kitchens of the New world .To the table or to bed , You must come when you are bid. Decorative brown cloth cover, dust jacket is clean , tiny tear at bottom front , 246 pages. Order Now! BookId: D6-002036 Title: Far Cry , the Making of a South African Author: Mary Benson Publisher: London: Penguin Books, 1990 Price: 15.00 Description: Mass Market Paperback. Good. A remarkable life, bravely lived. the total impression is one of life-affirmation of a happy woman . A lovely book and a piece of History. Far Cry, The making of a South African by Mary Benson .already a Classic .one of those rare autobiographies which can tell a moving personal story and illuminate a public political drama . it recounts the South African battles against apartheid with a new freshness and intimacy , and it throws a bright sidelight on familiar figures who have been portrayed only from the 'front". Penguin Masspaperback book, no jacket, 254 pages including index. Order Now! BookId: D6-002297 Title: God Bless You, Buffalo Bill ... A layman's guide to History and the Western Film Author: Wayne Michael Sarf Publisher: Associated University Press Price: 28.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D6-003349 ISBN: 039428013x Title: The English patient Author: Michael Ondaatje Publisher: Vintage books Price: 20.00 Description: Winner of the Governor General's award and the Booker prize... An unforgettable story of love and war , and of three men and a woman... a young Canadian nurse, a Sikh bomb-disposal expert , a thief turnes spy and a man burnt beyond recognition- who come together in the final moments of the Second world war... Soft cover , as new, no jacket, 302 pages. Order Now! BookId: D6-0035 Title: King Lear The kittredge Shakespeare Author: Geaorge Lyman Kittredge / Shakespeare Publisher: John Wiley Price: 15.00 Description: |
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