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Published by Liveright Publishing Corporations / W. W. Norton, NY, 2014
ISBN 10: 0871401002ISBN 13: 9780871401007
Seller: North Country Books, Milton, VT, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Reprint. Hardcover edition with dust jacket -- both like new with no faults to note. Like new in Like new dust jacket.
Published by Liveright/Norton, NY, 2017
ISBN 10: 1631494759ISBN 13: 9781631494758
Seller: Nilbog Books, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This is a New and Unread copy of the first edition (1st printing).
Published by New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, 2020
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
very good dust-jacket, cover price $27.95, fresh attractive copy, very good gray hardcover, appears unused. GOODMAN, RUTH. The domestic revolution: how the introduction of coal into Victorian homes changed everything. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, stated First American edition, and 1st printing number line starting with 1, xxi, 330pp., . "'The queen of living history' (Lucy Worsley) returns with an immersive account of how English women sparked a worldwide revolution--from their own kitchens. No single invention epitomizes the Victorian era more than the black cast-iron range. Aware that the twenty-first-century has reduced it to a quaint relic, Ruth Goodman was determined to prove that the hot coal stove provided so much more than morning tea: it might even have kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Wielding the wit and passion seen in How to Be a Victorian, Goodman traces the tectonic shift from wood to coal in the mid-sixteenth century--from sooty trials and errors during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to the totally smog-clouded reign of Queen Victoria. A pattern of innovation emerges as the women stoking these fires also stoked new global industries: from better soap to clean smudges to new ingredients for cooking. Laced with uproarious anecdotes of Goodman's own experience managing a coal-fired household, this fascinating book shines a hot light on the power of domestic necessity" - CONTENTS: Living off the land -- Out of the woods -- The draw of coal -- London, transformed -- The spreading blaze -- Cooks' tools -- A new menu -- Cleaning-up -- The domestic burden. ISBN 9781631497636.
Published by Liveright Publishing/W. W. Norton, NY, 2021
Seller: North Country Books, Milton, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Like new hardcover and dust jacket. Clean, tight and unmarked. Dust jacket not price-clipped.
Published by NY: Liveright/W.W. Norton (2014)., 2014
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. 141 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Published by Liveright/W.W. Norton, New York, NY, 2014
ISBN 10: 0871403331ISBN 13: 9780871403339
Seller: Books by White/Walnut Valley Books, Winfield, KS, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Liveright/W.W. Norton, New York. 2014. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: As New. DJ: As New; NOT Price Clipped ($29.95). White boards with blue overlay on the spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. 684 pp 8vo. Tom Landry will always be known as the man who turned the Dallas Cowboys around and who changed the game of football from a no-holds-barred battlefield to the technical chess match it is today.This book shows the true Tom Landry, not the cold stoic fedora wearing man of few words, but a warm intelligent man with great reach and curiosity. A clean pristine copy.
Published by New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2020, 2020
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
near fine dust-jacket, cover price $28.95, fresh attractive copy, blue hardcover appears unused. black remainder dot on bottom foredge. LEPORE, JILL. If then: how the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2020, stated First Edition, and 1st printing number line starting with 1, xii, 415pp., . "A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller, These Truths. The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has no past but the scientists of Simulmatics are the long-dead grandfathers of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Borrowing from psychological warfare, they used computers to predict and direct human behavior, deploying their "People Machine" from New York, Cambridge, and Saigon for clients that included John Kennedy's presidential campaign, the New York Times, Young & Rubicam, and, during the Vietnam War, the Department of Defense. Jill Lepore, distinguished Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, unearthed from the archives the almost unbelievable story of this long-vanished corporation, and of the women hidden behind it. In the 1950s and 1960s, Lepore argues, Simulmatics invented the future by building the machine in which the world now finds itself trapped and tormented, algorithm by algorithm". ISBN 9781631496103.
Published by New York, N.Y.: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2014
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 317 pages: illustrations; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-307) and index. Summary; The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the body. It is our most distinctive attribute and connects our inner selves to the outer world. Yet there is a dark side to the head's preeminence, one that has, in the course of human history, manifested itself in everything from decapitation to headhunting. So explains anthropologist Frances Larson in this fascinating history of decapitated human heads. From the Western collectors whose demand for shrunken heads spurred massacres to Second World War soldiers who sent the remains of the Japanese home to their girlfriends, from Madame Tussaud modeling the guillotined head of Robespierre to Damien Hirst photographing decapitated heads in city morgues, from grave-robbing phrenologists to skull-obsessed scientists, Larson explores our macabre fixation with severed heads. Subjects; Head - History. Head - Social aspects. Beheading. 1 Kg.
Published by Liveright/Norton, NY, 2016
ISBN 10: 1631492241ISBN 13: 9781631492242
Seller: Nilbog Books, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This is a New and Unread copy of the first edition (1st printing).
Published by NY & London. 2013. Liveright Publishing / W.W. Norton & Co., 2013
ISBN 10: 0871404672ISBN 13: 9780871404671
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
grey & tan hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. couple of tiny spots on foredge. couple of faint spots inside rear cover, otherwise contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition so stated. first printing (#1 in # line). deckled foredge. b&w frontis. portrait. xx+648p. glossy b&w photos & illustrations. b&w map of london. source collections. notes. bibliography. index. biography. philosophy. world history. ~ Between his birth in 1818 and his death sixty~five years later, Karl Marx became one of Western civilization's most influential political philosophers. Two centuries on, he is still revered as a prophet of the modern world, yet he is also blamed for the darkest atrocities of recent history. But no matter in what light he is cast, the short, broad~shouldered, and bearded Marx remains~as a human being~distorted on a Procrustean bed of political "isms," either perceived through the partially distorting lens of his chief disciple, Friedrich Engels, or understood as a figure of twentieth~century totalitarian Marxist regimes. Returning Marx to the Victorian confines of the nineteenth century, Jonathan Sperber, one of the United States' leading European historians, challenges many of our misconceptions of this political firebrand turned London ernigre journalist. In this deeply humanizing portrait, Marx no longer is the Olympian soothsayer, divining the dialectical imperatives of human history, but a scholar~activist whose revolutionary Weltanschauung was closer to Robespierre's than to those of twentieth~century Marxists. With unlimited access to the MEGA (the Marx~Engels Gesamtausgabe, the total edition of Marx's and Engels's writings), only recently made available, Sperber juxtaposes the private man, the public agitator, and the philosopher~economist. We first see Marx as a young boy in the city of Trier, influenced by his father, Heinrich, for whom "the French Revolution and its aftermath offered an opportunity to escape the narrowly circumscribed social and political position of Jews in the society." For Heinrich's generation, this worldview meant no longer being a member of the so~called Jewish nation, but for his son, the reverberations were infinitely greater, namely a life inspired by the doctrines of the Enlightenment and an implacable belief in human equality. Contextualizing Marx's personal story~ his rambunctious university years, his loving marriage to the devoted Jenny von Westphalen (despite an illegitimate child with the family maid), his children's tragic deaths, the catastrophic financial problems~within a larger historical stage, Sperber examines Marx's public actions and theoretical publications against the backdrop of a European continent roiling with political and social unrest. Guided by newly translated notes, drafts, and correspondence, he highlights Marx's often overlooked work as a journalist; his political activities in Berlin, Paris, and London; and his crucial role in both creating and destroying the International Working Men's Association. With Napoleon III, Bismarck, Adam Smith, and Charles Darwin, among others, as supporting players, Karl Marx becomes not just a biography of a man but a vibrant portrait of an infinitely complex time. Already hailed by Publishers Weekly as "a major work . likely to be the standard biography of Marx for many years," Karl Marx promises to become the defining portrait of a towering historical figure.
Published by Liveright Pub Co/WW Norton, NY, 2012
ISBN 10: 0871404079ISBN 13: 9780871404077
Seller: Pine Tree Books, Pittsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. 266pp, notes, bibliography, Appendix, index. Near fine beige boards, blue spine, gold letters, small amount of sunning to top of boards, else fine. Fine illustrated jcaket in protective plastic. "Digging beneath the veneer of cowboy hats, oil derricks and Alamo cries, Collins has produced a profoundly original work demonstrating that most of what ails America was first birthed in Texas.".
Published by Liveright PUB.;.W.W.NORTON CO 2015 VERSO, NY, 2015
Seller: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, Durham-CA, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Author Photo Frontis (illustrator). first edition,1p; 1234567890 print line. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(NOPR ICE) DUST JACKET .CLEAN, SOLID BRIGHT; GOLD SPINE TITLES ON BLACK HARDCOVERS.WHITE TITLES ON GOLD DUST JACKET FRONT PANEL. (****SINGLE VOLUME ONLY***); 1880-2910 pg thick pages; In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survived Auschwitz.
Published by Liveright/Norton, NY, 2009
ISBN 10: 0871404109ISBN 13: 9780871404107
Seller: Nilbog Books, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. This is an As New (appears Unread) copy of the first edition (1st printing). iN an As New dust jacket. Introduction by Christopher Hitchens.
Published by New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2023, 2023
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
near fine dust-jacket, cover price $45.00, attractive black hardcover, top front corner dented, but book appears unused. BLACKBOURN, DAVID. Germany in the world: a global history, 1500-2000. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2023, stated First Edition, and 1st printing number line starting with 1, xxv, 774pp., . Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany. Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification- and revealing a national identity far more complicated than previously imagined. He traces Germany's evolution from the loosely bound Holy Roman Empire of 1500 to a sprawling colonial power to a twenty-first-century beacon of democracy. Viewed through a global lens, familiar landmarks of German history-- the Reformation, the Revolution of 1848, the Nazi regime-- are transformed, while others are unearthed and explored, as Blackbourn reveals Germany's leading role in creating modern universities and its sinister involvement in slave-trade economies. A bold and original account that upends the idea that a nation's history should be written as though it took place entirely within that nation's borders. - CONTENTS: Germans in a changing world. New worlds ; Combustions ; Empires -- Germany and the birth of the modern, 1780-1820. Revolutions ; Knowledge ; World literature -- Germans and the German nation in a globalizing world. A nation among others ; On the move ; Global traffic and the claims of German culture -- The "German Century" confounded. War, republic, Third Reich: Germany 1914-1939 ; The pivotal decade: Germany and global history, 1939-1949 ; The German question answered. ISBN 9781631491832.
Published by Liveright Pub Co/WW Norton, NY, 2016
ISBN 10: 1631490230ISBN 13: 9781631490231
Seller: Pine Tree Books, Pittsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. 167pp. Illustrated by the author. Near fine blue cloth, gold letters, rather racy drawing on end papers, slight ink smudge on bottom page edges-not a remainder. Near fine illustrated jacket has a small tear in back-closed, in protective plastic. "Featuring fifty original illustrations, 'Mary Astor's Purple Diary' narrates and illustrates the travails of the Oscar-winning actress alongside Sorel's own personal story of discovering an unlikely muse.Featuring ribald and rapturous art throughout, [book] is a passion project that becomes a masterpiece of one of America's great illustrators.".
Published by New York, N.Y.: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2014
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 317 pages: illustrations; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-307) and index. Summary; The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the body. It is our most distinctive attribute and connects our inner selves to the outer world. Yet there is a dark side to the head's preeminence, one that has, in the course of human history, manifested itself in everything from decapitation to headhunting. So explains anthropologist Frances Larson in this fascinating history of decapitated human heads. From the Western collectors whose demand for shrunken heads spurred massacres to Second World War soldiers who sent the remains of the Japanese home to their girlfriends, from Madame Tussaud modeling the guillotined head of Robespierre to Damien Hirst photographing decapitated heads in city morgues, from grave-robbing phrenologists to skull-obsessed scientists, Larson explores our macabre fixation with severed heads. Subjects; Head - History. Head - Social aspects. Beheading. 1 Kg.
Published by NY & London. 2013. Liveright / Norton, 2013
ISBN 10: 0871404524ISBN 13: 9780871404527
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
red, black & gilt decorative hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition so stated. first printing ( # 1 in # line). xv+336p. glossy b&w photo illustrations. chronology. notes. acknowledgments. bibliography. index. biography. world history. world war ii. politics. assassination. conspiracy theory. nazi germany. kristallnacht.~ On the morning of November 7, 1938, a seventeen~year~old Jewish refugee, Herschel Grynszpan, walked into the German embassy in Paris and in an act of desperation assassinated Ernst vom Rath, a low~ level Nazi diplomat. He did it, he said, out "of love for my parents and for my people," Two days later, vom Rath lay dead, and the Third Reich exploited his murder to inaugurate its long~planned campaign of terror against Germany's Jewish citizens, in the mass pogrom that became known as Kristallnacht. In a bizarre concatenation of events that would rapidly involve Ribbentrop, Goebbels, and Hitler himself, Grynszpan would become the centerpiece of a Nazi propaganda campaign that would later describe his actions as "the first shot of the Jewish War." In The Short, Strange Life of Hersehel Grynszpan, best~selling author Jonathan Kirsch brings to light this wrenching story, re~examining the historical details and moral dimensions of one of the most enigmatic cases of World WarII. Was Grynszpan a crazed lone gunman, or was he an agent of the Gestapo, recruited to provide a convenient pretext for a major escalation of Nazi aggression? Was he motivated by a desire to strike a blow for the Jewish people as an early partisan fighter, or did his act of violence speak to an intimate connection between the assassin and his target, as Grynszpan later claimed? In re~creating the life of this German~Polish refugee turned assassin, Kirsch convincingly demonstrates that the life of Herschel Grynszpan remains just as fascinating as the conspiracy theories that surround him. Challenging the perception of the European Jew as docile and unwilling to resort to violence in the face of aggression, Grynszpan was almost unanimously assailed by most German Jews, who were rightly fearful that the Nazis would use the murder to wreak widespread retribution. Yet he was at the same time embraced by the American journalist Dorothy Thompson, who rallied others to his international defense. Condemned by the likes of Goebbels at the time, he was still labelad as a "psychopath" and an agent provocateur by Hannah Arendt at the Eichmann trial two decades later. Jonathan Kirsch brilliantly succeeds here in illuminating both a single life cast into the shadows of history as well as the "countless tragic lives of eastern European Jews . in the terrible days leading up to World War II.".
Published by Liveright Publishing Corp. .;.w.w. norton, NY, 2018
ISBN 10: 0871404966ISBN 13: 9780871404961
Seller: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, Durham-CA, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. first edition,1p; 1234567890 print line. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(35.00)DUST JACKET, CLEAN, SOLID,BRIGHT; Gold titles on black spine strip. white hardcovers.white endpapers.BLACK TITLES ON WHITE DUST JACKET, SHOWING PART OF AUTHOR'S PHOTO ON DJ COVER.Photo also frontis ilust in text. ; 930pg thick pages; complete stories of Machado de Assis finally appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation.BRAZILIAN AUTHOR Drawn to the master s psychologically probing tales of fin-de-siecle Rio de Janeiro, a world populated with dissolute plutocrats, grasping parvenus, and struggling spinsters, acclaimed translators Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson have now combined Machado s seven short-story collections into one volume, featuring seventy-six stories, a dozen appearing in English for the first time.
Published by N.Y.: Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2015
ISBN 10: 1631490672ISBN 13: 9781631490675
Seller: Washington Square Autographed Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st U.S. printing. Binding tight; pages clean; a few stray pen marks to top of text block (see photos). Inscribed by Ann Morgan to prior owner on front endpaper. Author's first book, chronicling her journey through reading one book from each of the world's 195 nations. Originally published in the U.K. as "Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer." Uncommon signed. Inscribed by Author(s).
Published by Liveright/W.W. Norton & Company Inc., New York NY,, 2012
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
First US edition. Octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in papered boards with silver-gilt spine titles and upper board decoration; 311pp. Dustwrapper. Remainder. New. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. 9780871404039.
Published by Liveright Publishing Company/W.W. Norton & Co. Inc., New York NY,, 2015
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Octavo; hardcover; 416pp., untrimmed, with monochrome plates. Dustwrapper. Remainder. New. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "This memoir, while hardly no-holds-barred, fills in many gaps, especially about Glass's childhood and family in postwar east coast America. His grandparents spoke Yiddish. His librarian mother was the self-improver, urging her two sons and one daughter towards fulfilment through education. His father was steady in support. Little is said about the rift between father and son in later years, but the wound remains deep. Only two of his four wives feature: JoAnne Akalaitis, mother of his first two children, and Candy Jernigan, the love of his life, who died young. Two more children, born much later, are mentioned briefly. Friendships are celebrated, losses mourned, privacies respected. Aids, Woodstock, Vietnam, the film world, the art world, the jazz era of John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Charlie Parker: all spring to life in these pages. Philip Glass is a deft, quietly witty writer. Finding his own music - how to make it, where it comes from - is his first priority. 'What does your music sound like?' he is often asked. 'It sounds like New York City,' this generous-hearted, all-American composer replies." - Fiona Maddocks 9780871404381.
Published by Liveright Publishing/W.W. Norton & Company Inc., New York NY,, 2018
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in papered boards with gilt spine titles and an upper board decoration; 931pp., untrimmed, with a monochrome portrait frontispiece. Dustwrapper. Remainder. New. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. 9780871404961.
Published by Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,, New York, N.Y., 2016
ISBN 10: 1631490826ISBN 13: 9781631490828
Seller: Harry E Bagley Books Ltd, Fredericton, NB, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. cloth, dust jacket, 259 pages : illustrations , first edition (so stated) CONTENTS:The problem. The world ends, twice ; Humanity needs a biosphere ; How much biodiversity survives today? ; An elegy for the rhinos ; Apocalypses now ; Are we as gods? ; Why extinction is accelerating ; The impact of climate change : land, sea, and air ; The most dangerous worldview - The real living world. Conservation science ; The Lord God species ; The unknown webs of life ; The wholly different aqueous world ; The invisible empire ; The best places in a biosphere ; History redefined -- The solution. The awakening ; Restoration ; Half-earth : how to save the biosphere ; Threading the bottleneck ; What must be done.
Published by Liveright Publishing/W. W. Norton, New York, NY, 2018
ISBN 10: 1631493094ISBN 13: 9781631493096
Seller: Terrence Murphy, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Original b/w boards in FINE+ condition both externally and internally. Unmarked, tight, clean. Housed in the original dust jacket which has one tiny tear (repaired) at lower front corner, else FINE. Introduction, illus., notes, inde, 367p. AUTOGRAPHED PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY ARCHIE MANNING AT THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. BOLD WRITING IN INK ARCHIE M. TO JOHN. Signed by the Subject.