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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Good hardcover. No DJ. Previous owner's name on end paper, pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Pages tanned. Covers show edge wear and rubbing. Slightly bent. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Softcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. The Companion to Chaucer Studies arose out of present necessity: it has been devised to assist students when they confront the formidable mass of Chaucerian scholarship, and, in particular, to give those who have small library facilities some idea of the critical background which seems essential for an appreciation of Chaucer's poetry at any but a superficial level. It may also, perhaps, prove stimulating and useful to those already familiar with Chaucerian scholarship. - Preface. Some underlining Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Solid binding. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1923 Hardcover. NO DJ. Shelf wear and staining to covers and edges. Pages are tanned, but unmarked. University sticker inside.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. Stated First Edition. Inscribed by the author on FFEP. No library marks. No underlining or highlighting. All pages clean and tight. DJ price corner not clipped ($10.95). See our photos. Inscribed by Author(s).

black & grey hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. looks new. like 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). b&w map. vii+244p. + about the author. notes. index. current events. world history. politics. american history. afghanistan war. taliban. al qaeda. history of pakistan. ~ The war in Afghanistan has raged on longer than any war in US. history, and far from suppressing the insurgency being waged by radical Islamic militants, it has led to stronger alliances among al Qaeda, the Taliban, and a host of once~autonomous militant groups and has inspired a flood of new recruits. In addition to reclaiming control of substantial territory in Afghanistan, the militants have now taken the fight deep within Pakistan~threatening to totally destabilize that nuclear~armed state~and are launching attacks on the U.S. homeland. Why has the insurgency been so irrepressible? Is this a war that can be won? Can we expect a wave of attach within the United States more sophisticated than the attempted bombing in Times Square? Nothing can be understood about the prospects for the war and the threat to the U.S. homeland without understanding how Pakistan has become the epicenter of the insurgency and why the rise of militant groups there has escalated out of control despite major offensives by the Pakistani military and an intensive secret U.S. Predator drone war against them. Based on extensive reporting inside Pakistan's dangerous lawless regions and exclusive interviews with militant leaders as well as high~level military and intelligence sources, Zahid Hussain, one of the most respected reporters working out of Pakistan, chronicles how and why the Islamic extremist groups based in Pakistan's remote tribal territories have greatly increased their power since the start of the war and unleashed a reign of terror on US. forces in Afghanistan and on'both the military and civilian population within Pakistan. He is the first to reveal how a loose constellation of tribal groups has now come together to form a distinctive Pakistani Taliban, working closely with al Qaeda and the Afghani Taliban to launch increasingly sophisticated and deadly attacks on both sides of the Af~Pak border. He discloses how they draw support and a steady flood of recruits from deeply entrenched support networks in major Pakistani cities, and how they have recruited would~be US. attackers, including Faisal Shahzad and Adnan Shukrijumah, accused of plotting to bomb the New York City subway. He is also the first to chronicle in detail the still unacknowledged US. war carried out in Pakistan by remote Predator drones, and, reporting from the scenes of a number of drone missile strikes and interviewing a number of attempted suicide bombers, he reveals the shocking extent of anti~Americanism the strikes have stoked in Pakistan, across the range of the population, due to civilian deaths, driving a new breed of highly educated, professional, and middle~class Pakistanis into the militant groups. His gripping and revelatory account is an urgent wake~up call about the blowback effects of the US. war in Afghanistan and the drone campaign in Pakistan, about how volatile the situation in the Af~Pak region has become, and about the deeply troubling limitations of the current military strategy in ever gaining decisive ground against the insurgents.

black, red, white & b&w photo illustrated trade paperback soft cover 8vo. near fine cond .binding square & tight. spine has reading creases. covers clean. faint ink scratch on bottom edge (might be a remainder mark, might not) other edges clean. contents free of all markings. first printing ( # 1 in # line) of this edition. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining. ~ x+261p. notes. suggestions for further reading. index. biography. philosophy. psychology. german literature. goethe. paul deussen. world history. doppelganger. heraclitus. hegel. kant. wagner. schopenhauer. zarathustra. ~ "Pletsch's brilliant and compelling account shows how the young Friedrich Wilhelm, coming of age in a Europe saturated with the ideology of genius, turned himself into 'Nietzsche.' In a narrative both subtle and powerful, he offers us a Nietzsche who was, to use a much~abused term, a deconstructionist avant la lettre. " ~ Peter Novick, Author of That Noble Dream.

red & black 1/2 cloth hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic. would be fine cond. but has remainder ink mark on bottom edge. othw. nice clean copy. so. vg reading copy. binding square & tight. covers clean. contents free of all markings. dustwr. fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. first edition so stated. first printing ( # 1 in # line).x+352p. glossy b&w photo. illustrations. epilogue .note on sources. biography of Ira Einhorn ".self styled new age guru and a corporate networker. He was a fellow at the Harvard's Kennedy School Of Government". from Wikipedia."Ira Samuel Einhorn, a.k.a. "The Unicorn Killer" (born May 15, 1940), is a former American activist of the 1960s and 1970s who is now serving a life sentence for the 1977 murder of Holly Maddux".american history. french history. conspiracy theory. international crime. earth day. abbie hoffman. uri geller. andrija puharich. jerry rubin. allen ginsberg.

white, orange & full color illustrated trade paperback 8vo. fine cond. spine uncreased. binding tight. covers clean. miniscule spot on the foredge, othw. edges clean. contents free of all markings. xvii+164p. b&w diagrams & figures. references and further reading. index. science. history of science. sociology. natural philosophy. philosophy of science. aether. astrophysics. cal tech. cold fusion. constrovery in science. credibility of scientists. einstein. gravitational radiation. michelson/morley experiment. d c miller. replication of experiments. stellar evolution theory. theory of evolution. uncertainty in science.

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Zustand: guter Zustand. Paperback. Englische Originalausgabe eines spannenden und psychologisch interessanten Thrillers der bekannten englischen Anwältin und Kriminalschriftstellerin. Eckknick am hinteren Buchdeckel und den letzten Seiten, winziger handschriftlicher Eintrag auf Innentitelseite, sonst sehr gut. 314 (+1) Großoktav Gewicht: 429 g.

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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 149pp. Some cover creasing, very good.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. blue & full color illustrated trade paperback soft cover 8vo. fine cond. binding square & tight. spine uncreased. tiny scratch & bit of rubbing along the spine. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. first printing (nap) of this paperback edition. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates. no inking, underlining, or text markings. no remainder markings. xxvi+293p. bibliography. index to introduction. index to text. medieval literature. mysticism. history of christianity. religion. theology. meditation. monasticism. ~ "So set yourself to rest in this darkness as long as you can, always crying out after him whom you love. For if you are to experience him or to see him at all, insofar as it is possible here, it must always be in this cloud . " ~The Cloud of Unknowing (late 14th century). Written by an anonymous English monk during the late fourteenth century, The Cloud of Unknowing holds an important place in the history of both Western literature and spirituality. Though originally intended for a select audience, the work's simple, engaging style has won it widespread popularity since its rediscovery more than a century ago. The Cloud puts forth a method of contemplation that stresses the impotence of the understanding to break through the cloud of unknowing that separates God and humanity. Rather, "it is love alone that can reach God in this life". In his preface to this volume, Simon Tugwell sums up the challenge that the author of The Cloud presents us today: "If we wish to follow him, we must be prepared to be taxed to the limit. But if we have the courage and the ability to follow him, we shall not find that our effort has been in vain.".

black hardcover 8vo. (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, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition (Fpu 2004). first printing (#1 in # line). xxi+229p. appendix. notes.index. document facsimiles. world history. american history. covert operations. secret societies. true crime. espionage. middle east history. ~ THE 9/11 COMMISSION TOLD US THAT "WE ARE NOT SAFE." BUT IT BARELY HINTED AT THE TRUE THREAT~WHICH IS ALREADY IN OUR COUNTRY AND READY TO STRIKE ~ HARVEY KUSHNER, one of the top counterterrorism experts in the United States, has new evidence that despite the government's best efforts, radical Muslim extremists are better prepared than anyone realizes to bring death and destruction to America on a massive scale. It's not a matter of protecting the borders because the holy warriors are already here~from New York to Florida to Texas to Oregon~and many have been here for decades. We aren't doing nearly enough to stop them. In this shocking book, Kushner reveals how these extremists constitute a fifth column~a highly organized underground army whose tentacles reach into our colleges and universities; recruit converts in mosques and prisons; and raise money through bogus Muslim charities and drug~running operations~in America. They are committed to the most violent goals of Islamic jihad and united by the belief that God wants them to destroy America completely. While the federal government focuses on securing our borders and airports, it has virtually overlooked the challenge of rooting out the secret terror network already inside our borders. In fact, many of the most dangerous advocates of the holy war against America have been in the United States for decades~protected by organizations such as the ACLU, whose cry of "Ethnic profiling!" prevents entirely reasonable law enforcement measures. Kushner's inside sources have supplied new evidence that federal agencies routinely allow suspected ~and known~ terrorists to slip through the cracks because they won't communicate with one another or because political correctness takes priority over counterterrorism efforts. Some of the astonishing details Kushner exposes: The immigration process is still so flawed that even those applicants who testify to having committed terrorist acts are allowed into the country because the FBI doesn't cooperate with immigration officials. Federal judges continue to put on probation illegal aliens identified as members of terrorist organizations, and some have even been granted work permits and citizenship. Liberal judges don't deport criminals with known or suspected ties to the secret Islamic terrorist network; the sentence of one such convicted heroin smuggler included community service at the Queens Botanical Gardens. High~level sources within the Department of Homeland Security say DHS won't even be "somewhat functional" until 2006. Kushner's conclusion? "In my thirty years in counterterrorism, I have never been more worried about my country".

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. black 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). no dustwrapper. remainder copy in vg cond. binding square & tight. minor fading & a few spots to the covers. red ink mark on bottom, couple of small spots on the foredge. pages 72~84 missing tiny bit of top corner, otherwise contents free of markings. good used copy. good binding, clean text. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first printing of this edition so stated (1971 original edition. xv+192p. b&w photos & illustrations. bibliographic footnotes throughout. bibliography. index. religion. mythology. psychology. american history. philosophy. theosophy. occultism. aleister crowley. kenneth anger. anton lavey. black sabbath. ozzie osborne. kiss. the process. charlie manson. oto. ~ "With this new examination of contemporary Satanism in America, Arthur Lyons brings us a much needed antidote to the extremist writings that have either decried or simply intellectually dismissed the many recent and usually sensationalist accounts the public has been presented through the mass media. ".

red & white 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). no dustwrapper. vg+ / near fine cond. binding square & tight. minor soiling, few faint spots on rear cover. edges clean. contents free of markings. nice reading or study copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. 4th printing (#4 in # line). xvi+408p. 9 b&w maps. glossy b&w photos & illustrations. cast of characters. glossary. chronology. notes. bibliography. index. medieval history. history of christianity. religion. islam. middle east history. ~ Nine hundred years ago, one of the most controversial episodes in Christian history was initiated. The Pope stated that, in spite of the apparently pacifist message of the New Testament, God actually wanted European knights to wage a fierce and bloody war against Islam and recapture Jerusalem. Thus was the First Crusade born. Focusing on the characters that drove this extraordinary campaign, this fascinating period of history is recreated through awe~inspiring and often barbaric tales of bold adventure while at the same time providing significant insights into early medieval society, morality and mentality. The First Crusade marked a watershed in relations between Islam and the West, a conflict that set these two world religions on a course towards deep~seated animosity and enduring enmity. The chilling reverberations of this earth~shattering clash still echo in the world today.

grey hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. remainder coy in fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. black ink mark on bottom, other edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in near fine cond. minor wear, tiny scratch on rear, not price clipped. nice copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). xii+381p. glossy b&w photo illustrations. (list of) principal characters. a note on sources. notes. bibligraphy. index. american history. history of pakistan. military history. covert operations. espionage. secret societies. ~ A Pulitzer Prize~winning reporter's riveting account of the transformation of the CIA and America's special operations forces into man~hunting and killing machines in the world's dark spaces: the new American way of war. The most momentous change in American warfare over the past decade has taken place away from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, in the corners of the world where large armies can't go. The Way of the Knife is the untold story of that shadow war: a campaign that has blurred the lines between soldiers and spies and lowered the bar for waging war across the globe. America has pursued its enemies with killer drones and special operations troops; trained privateers for assassination missions and used them to set up clandestine spying networks; and relied on mercurial dictators, untrustworthy foreign intelligence services, and proxy armies. This new approach to war has been embraced by Washington as a lower risk, lower cost alternative to the messy wars of occupation and has been championed as a clean and surgical way of conflict. But the way of the knife has created enemies just as it has killed them. It has fomented resentments among allies, fueled instability, and created new weapons unbound by the normal rules of accountability during wartime. Mark Mazzetti tracks an astonishing cast of characters on the ground in the shadow war, from a CIA officer dropped into the tribal areas to learn the hard way how the spy games in Pakistan are played to the chain~smoking Pentagon official running an off~the~books spy operation, from a Virginia socialite whom the Pentagon hired to gather intelligence about militants in Somalia to a CIA contractor imprisoned in Lahore after going off the leash. At the heart of the book is the story of two proud and rival entities, the CIA and the American military, elbowing each other for supremacy. The CIA, created as a Cold War espionage service, is now more than ever a paramilitary agency ordered by the White House to kill off America's enemies~in the mountains of Pakistan and the deserts of Yemen, in the tumultuous civil wars of North Africa and the chaos of Somalia. For its part, the Pentagon has become more like the CIA, dramatically expanding spying missions everywhere. Sometimes, as with the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, their efforts have been perfectly coordinated. Other times, including the failed operations disclosed here for the first time, they have not. For better or worse, their struggles will define American national security in the years to come.

yellow, blue, orange & red decorative trade paperback soft cover 8vo. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. spine uncreased. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. printing # not given . nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~. xxii+253p+7 genealogical trees. 9 b&w maps. glossary. notes. bibliography. index. religion. medieval history. history of france. history of christianity. theology. secret societies. ~ In January of 1208 a papal legate was murdered on the banks of the Rhone River. Pope lnnocent III accused Raimon VI, count of Toulouse, and pestilential heretics of the crime. He exhorted all Christians to fight the count and to exterminate heretics between the Garonne and Rhone Rivers ~ a vast region that is now southern France ~ in a great crusade. This most holy war, the first in which Christians were promised salvation for killing other Christians, lasted twenty bloody years ~ it was a long savage battle for the soul of Christendom. In A Most Holy War, historian Mark Pegg has produced a swift~moving, gripping narrative of this horrific crusade. He interweaves troubadour epics, eyewitness accounts, and thousands of testimonies from men, women, and children collected by inquisitors after the war. What it was like to live through such brutal decades comes vividly to life. Pegg argues that generations of historians (and novelists) have misunderstood the crusade, assuming it was a war against the Cathars, the most famous heretics of the Middle Ages. These Cathars, Pegg reveals, never existed. He further shows how the Albigensian Crusade, far from being a Christian aberration, epitomized the sanguine beauty and bloody savagery of medieval Christianity. The love of Christ inspired great and small holocausts in the towns, villages, and fields between the Garonne and Rhone Rivers. Haunting and immersive, A Most Holy War offers an important new perspective on a truly pivotal moment in world history, a first and distant foreshadowing of the genocide and holy violence in the modern world.

red hardbound 4to ~ 4º (quarto). large book. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. looks new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all 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. first printing ( # 1 in # line). full color frontis. self portrait. xvi+329p. glossy pages throughout. full color illustrations throughout, several full page. note on sources. editorial method. acknowledgments. index. american history. biography. autobiography. memoirs. american civil war. military history. ~ Eye of the Storm is one of the most important Civil War documents to be published since Ulysses S. Grant's Personal Memoirs. Four tattered scrapbooks found in a Connecticut bank vault in 1994 yielded a treasure trove of more than five hundred watercolors that vividly depict America's great national drama. These scrapbooks~plus a five~thousand~page illustrated memoir that came to light later~are the life's achievement of a long~forgotten Union private and mapmaker named Robert Knox Sneden. Sneden joined the Union army after the fall of Fort Sumter, in the jubilant, patriotic summer of 1861, and first served as a soldier, drilling, going out on picket, and seeing a few skirmishes. By 1862, however, he had parlayed his talent for sketching into a coveted appointment as a map~maker at corps headquarters of the Army of the Potomac. For nearly two years, Sneden was in a singular position to see many of the Civil War's greatest campaigns firsthand, including the Peninsula campaign and the vicious fighting of the Seven Days, as well as the second battle of Bull Run. On the evening of November 26,1863, however, he had a "premeditation that something would happen before morning." Later that night, isolated behind the lines near Brandy Station, Virginia, with a small band of poorly armed men, he was surprised and captured by the celebrated Colonel John Mosby. Bareback on mules and in filthy cattle cars, Sneden and a dozen other soldiers were transferred south as prisoners of war, first to Richmond, then to the notorious Andersonville prison camp. In Andersonville, 30,000 prisoners of war were crammed onto a patch of ground that provided them each with, as one historian calculated, "about the square footage of a grave." It was indeed a graveyard for many. Built over a filthy, fetid stream, it swelled to become the fifth~largest city in the South, completely overrunning its meager capacities for food and sanitation. Groups of prisoners preyed on the innocent; starving men despaired of survival. Sneden persevered, hiding his diary and his sketches in his clothing and shoes, and faithfully recording everything he saw. In the end, against all odds, he survived. Retuming to Washington, he found a notation of "missing, believed dead" in his service record and corrected it by hand. He spent the remainder of his life perfecting one of the richest and most detailed descriptions ever written of soldier life in the Civil War, and the only fully illustrated account of life inside Andersonville. A must~have for anyone interested in the subject, Robert Knox Sneden's Eye of the Storm is a permanent addition to Civil War literature and art, and a lasting achievement in human expression of the horrors of war. We know little about Private Robert Knox Sneden beyond the pages of his memoir. He returned horne to new York after his release from Andersonville and died alone in an oLd soldiers' home in 1918.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. big thick full color photo illustrated trade paperback soft cover 8vo. highlighted copy in good cond .binding square & tight. spine has a reading crease. front cover bottom corner curly, rear cover has a corner crease. foredge has a couple of smudges. bottom edge has faint pen scratches. approximately 49 pages with ink and/or pencil underlining, some orange highlighting, occasional margin note. second edition. 5th printing. good reading or study copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc~. xxix+970p.34 b&w photos & illustrations. 39 b&w maps. 19 tables. 8 figures. glossary. bibliography. index. world history. history of islam. middle east history. medieval history. asian history. ~ In the second edition of this classic work, Ira Lapidus explores the origins and evolution of Muslim societies. The book, now revised and updated, is divided into three parts. The first covers the formative era of Islamic civilization. The second traces the diffusion of worldwide Islamic societies, while the third explores their reaction to European imperialism, and emergence as independent states. The concluding chapters consider Islam's recent history, the formation of Islamic revival movements and global Islamic identities. The book is essential reading for students and for those seeking to understand the Muslim peoples. Reviews of first edition: "I do not think that any other world civilization can boast a comparable general account of such substance and quality . this is a great deal more than a textbook. It is a product oflearning, intellect and style of an extremely high order." ~ Journal oj the Royal Asiatic Society. "The value of A History of Islamic Societies lies in its sheer comprehensiveness. In one volume a vast amount of material is synthesized and presented in a clear and effective style. There is nothing else like it." ~ The Journal of Asian Studies. "Lapidus is concerned not with defining an essential Islam, but rather with mapping the role of Islamic beliefs, institutions, and identities in particular historical contexts." ~ International Journal oj Middle East Studies The first edition of A History of Islamic Societies was published in 1988 as a supplement to The Cambridge History of Islam (1970). Since publication, the book has become a classic work of history. The second edition brings this definitive and bestselling book to a new generation of readers.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. black & grey 1/2 cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight.covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). 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. first printing ( # 1 in # line) book club edition. b&w frontis. xxviii+290p. glossy b&w photos, illustrations & manuscript facsimiles. biographical sketches. notes. bibliographic essay. index. biography. autobiography. memoirs. american history. world war ii ~ROBERT H. JACKSON WAS ONE OF THE GIANTS of the Roosevelt era: an Attorney General, a still~revered Supreme Court Justice, and, not least important, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's close friends and advisers. His intimate memoir of FDR, written in the early 1950s before Jackson's untimely death, has remained unpublished for fifty years. Here is that newly discovered memoir. Written with skill and grace, this is truly a unique account of the personality, conduct, greatness of character, and common humanity of "that man in the White House," as outraged conservatives called FDR. Jackson simply but eloquently provides an insider's view of Roosevelt's presidency, including such crucial events as FDR's Court~packing plan, his battles with corporate America, his decision to seek a third term, and his bold move to aid Britain in 1940 with American destroyers. He also offers an intimate personal portrait of Roosevelt~on fishing trips, in latenight poker games, or approving legislation while eating breakfast in bed, where he routinely began his workday. We meet a president who is farsighted but nimble in attacking the problems at hand; principled but flexible; charismatic and popular, but unafraid to pick fights, take stands, and, when necessary, make enemies. That Man is not simply a valuable historical document, but an engaging and insightful look at one of the most remarkable men in American history. In reading this memoir, we gain not only a new appreciation for Roosevelt but also admiration for Jackson, who emerges as both a public servant of great integrity and skill and a wry, shrewd, and fair~minded observer of politics at the highest level. Robert Jackson was Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1941 to his death in 1954. A major figure in American legal history, he also served as Solicitor General and Attorney General of the United States, and the American Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trial. Author of the best~selling The Nuremberg Case, he is considered by many to be the finest writer ever to sit on the Supreme Court.

blue hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. remainder copy in fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. red ink mark on top, other edges clean. contents free of markings. partially price clipped dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining. first edition. first printing (NAP). x+274p. 21 glossy full color plates. b&w photos & illustrations throughout. bibliography. index. astronomy. mathematics. biology. philosophy. psychology. mythology. religion. ~ Our likes and dislikes ~ our senses and sensibilities ~ did not fall ready~made from the sky, argues internationally acclaimed author John D. Barrow. We know we enjoy a beautiful painting or a passionate symphony, but what we don't necessarily understand is that these experiences conjure up latent instincts laid down and perpetuated over millions of years. Now, in The Artful Universe, Barrow explores the close ties between our aesthetic appreciation and the basic nature of the Universe, challenging the commonly held view that our sense of beauty is entirely free and unfettered. Barrow argues that the laws of the Universe, its environments and its astronomical appearance, have imprinted themselves upon our thoughts and actions in subtle and unexpected ways. Why do we like certain types of art or music? What games and puzzles do we find challenging? Why do so many myths and legends have common elements? Who created the cornucopia of constellations in the night sky? And why? In this eclectic and entertaining survey, Barrow answers these questions and more as he explains how the landscape of the Universe has influenced the development of philosophy and mythology, and how millions of years of evolutionary history have fashioned our attraction to certain patterns of sound and color. Barrow casts the story of human creativity and thought in a fascinating light, considering such diverse topics as our instinct for language, the origins and uses of color in Nature, why we divide time into intervals as we do, the sources of our appreciation of landscape painting, and whether computer~generated fractal art is really art. Barrow reconsiders the question of whether intelligent extraterrestrial life exists, showlnq that the benefits (and even the likelihood) that might follow from the discovery of life on other worlds could be very different from what we might have been led to expect. Remarkably, we find that some of the properties of the Universe that are essential for the existence of any form of life play a key role in determining psychological and religious responses to the Cosmos. Drawing on a wide variety of examples, from the theological questions raised by St. Augustine and C. S. Lewis to the relationship between the pure math of Pythagoras and the music of the Beatles, The Artful Universe covers new ground and enters a wide~ranging debate about the links between art and nature. It will change our view of the creation of art and the way we see the world in which we live.

white & olive ½ cloth hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic. reading copy in fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. from the library of the late Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine with his signature on the front flyleaf, margin lines & underlining in black ink. also inkstamp on front flyleaf "purchased from Birmingham Temple auction". dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. ~ first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line). x+355p. b&w illustrations. notes. bibliography. index. world history. biography. economics. politics. capitalism. american history. ~ In this incisive and comprehensive history, business historian Charles Geisst traces the rise of monopolies from the railroad era to today's computer software empires. The history of monopolies has been dominatad by strong and charismatic personalities. Geiss tells the stories behind the individuals~from John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie to Harold Geneen and Bill Gates~who forged these business empires with genius, luck, and an often ruthless disregard for fair competition. He also analyzes the viewpoints of their equally colorful critics, from Louis Brandeis to Ralph Nader. These figures enliven the narrative, offering insight into how large businesses accumulate power. Viewed as either godsends or pariahs, monopolies have sparked endless debate and often conflicting responses from Washington. Monopolies in America surveys the important pieces of legislation and judicial rulings that have emerged since the post~Civil War era, and proposes that American antitrust activity has had less to do with hard economics than with political opinion. What was considered a monopoly in 1911 when Standard Oil and American Tobacco were broken up was not applied again when the Supreme Court refused to dismantle U.S. Steel in 1919. Charting the growth of big business in the United States, Geisst reaches the startling conclusion that the mega~mergers that have dominated Wall Street headlines for the past fifteen years are not simply a trend, but a natural consequence of American capitalism. Intelligent and informative, Monopolies in America skillfully chronicles the Course of American big business, and allows us to see how the debate on monopolies will be shaped in the twenty~first century.

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