Verlag: New York: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004, 2004
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
PAPERBACK, cover price $16.00, very good. DANIELS, ROGER. Prisoners without trial: Japanese Americans in World War II. New York: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004, Revised edition, later printing, 162pp., . A critical issueAs issues of national security have recently led many to question the scope and extent of our civil liberties, there is a rekindled interest in the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War. This brief guide uncovers the history of that tragic part of our past. "Prisoners Without Trial is part of the celebrated Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series, which offers several concise and affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. - CONTENTS: Background for a roundup, 1850-1941 -- The politics of incarceration, 1941-1942 -- Life behind barbed wire, 1942-1946 -- Return to freedom, 1942-1946 -- Rehabilitation and redress, 1943-1990 -- Could it happen again? -- Epilogue: Since 1990 -- An essay in photographs -- Appendix: Documents. ISBN 9780809078967.
Verlag: Hill & Wang / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1998
ISBN 10: 0809047535 ISBN 13: 9780809047536
Anbieter: gigabooks, Spokane, WA, USA
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Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Hard Cover -- VG/VG -- Ex-Library -- Book and dust jacket show only light wear -- 351 pages withg index and section of illustrations -- Stated First Edition with original price of 27.50 present. Ex-Library.
Verlag: Hill and Wang A Division of Farrar Straus and Giroux, New York, 2006
ISBN 10: 0374500010 ISBN 13: 9780374500016
Anbieter: Henry Hollander, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Small octavo, paper covers, xxii, 120 pp. Translated from the French by Marion Wiesel.
Verlag: Hill and Wang: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1982
ISBN 10: 0374521344 ISBN 13: 9780374521349
Anbieter: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Good. xix, 119 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. First published, 1980, under title: Chambre claire. Translated from the French. Good+. Stain on one leaf (pp. 17-18). "Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.
Verlag: Hill and Wang; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1996
ISBN 10: 0809027534 ISBN 13: 9780809027538
Anbieter: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st. xvii, 251 pages, illustrations, map; 22 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Stated First edition. Fine DJ. "The story of the Erie Canal - the 363-mile 'artificial river' built to connect the Atlantic seaboard to the Great Lakes - offers a rich perspective on the tumultuous era between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. Completed in 1825 as part of the nation's larger transportation revolution, the Canal opened the Midwest to commerce and settlement, helped make New York City the nation's greatest port, and accelerated the pace of American industrial and economic change. The history of the Canal's impact on the nation's economy has been told skillfully by other historians, and Carol Sheriff considers instead the human dimension of the revolutionary changes that the Canal helped set off: widespread geographic mobility; rapid environmental change; government intervention in economic development; market expansion; the reorganization of work; and moral reform. Among the middle classes, these changes would be grouped together as signs of progress or improvement." "With innovative archival research, Sheriff documents the social and cultural responses of men, women, and children - farmers, businessmen, government officials, tourists, workers - to the Erie Canal and the progress it represented. For them, progress meant taking an active role in realizing a divinely sanctioned movement toward the perfectability of the natural and human worlds. This conception of progress would play a central role in defining Northern sectional identity in the decades leading to the Civil War." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.
Verlag: Hill & Wang / Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1980
ISBN 10: 0809013924 ISBN 13: 9780809013920
Anbieter: Bookfeathers, LLC, Lewisburg, PA, USA
Paperback. Zustand: VG-. Not ex-lib. Softcover in white and yellow illustrtated wraps, 8vo. 208pp. Index, b/w and color illustrations throughout. G+ to VG-. Toning and foxing to spine and adjcent borders of wraps; light rubbing central panels -- somewhat stronger on rear -- with front colors clean. Light wear at corners of wraps with curl at tips both lower and upper front corners. Reader's crease to spine with no effect on strong, square binding. Pages clean and unmarked, though scuffing to upper last page of index facing inner side of rear wrap.
Verlag: New York: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982, 1982
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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PAPERBACK, very good, spine a bit faded by light, no ISBN on cover or in book. BARTHES, ROLAND. A Barthes reader. Edited, and with an introduction, by Susan Sontag. New York: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982, stated First Printing, xxxviii, 495pp., . With almost 30-page introduction by Susan Sontag - CONTENTS: Writing itself : on Roland Barthes / by Susan Sontag -- Part I -- On Gide and his journal -- The world of wrestling -- [Excerpt] from Writing degree zero -- The world as object -- Baudelaire's theater -- The face of Garbo -- Striptease -- The Lady of the Camellias -- Myth today -- The last happy writer -- Buffet finishes off New York -- Tacitus and the funerary baroque -- Part II -- [Excerpt] from On Racine -- Authors and writers -- The photographic message -- The imagination of the sign -- The plates of the Encyclopedia -- The Eiffel Tower -- Introduction to the structural analysis of narratives -- Flaubert and the sentence -- Lessons in writing -- Part III -- The third meaning -- Fourier -- Writers, intellectuals, teachers -- [Excerpt] from The pleasure of the text -- [Excerpt] from Roland Barthes -- [Excerpt] from A lover's discourse -- Inaugural lecture, Collège de France -- Deliberation. ISBN 9780374521448.
Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux: Hill and Wang, New York, NY, 2005
ISBN 10: 0809029561 ISBN 13: 9780809029563
Anbieter: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, USA
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Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing indicated. Very Near Fine in Fine DJ: The Book shows only a bit of crimping to the heel of the backstrip; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. The DJ is flawless; the price has not been clipped; mylar-protected. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 202pp. Hardback with DJ. In this follow up to his previous book on Hubbert's Peak/Peak Oil, Deffeyes gives us some engrossing info on such subjects as the Alberta tar sands, the Green River oil shale and nuclear power. Out of all the peak oil books I've read so far, this one is the only one that gives a very concise and knowledgable summary on these and other "alternatives" to cheap oil. Most other peak oil writers aren't old school geologists with hydrocarbon strings pumping in their veins instead of blood, so you don't get the feeling they really know what they are talking about. Several books I've read casually dismiss the Alberta tar sands and the Green River oil shale and shouldn't. Deffeyes doesn't. I'm actually a bit more hopeful and optimistic about the world's energy future after reading this book. First Edition; First Printing indicated.
Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux / Hill & Wang / Mermaid Dramabook June 1960, New York, N.Y., 1960
ISBN 10: 0809012022 ISBN 13: 9780809012022
Anbieter: A Cappella Books, Inc., Atlanta, GA, USA
Paper Back. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. Octavo. Clean, bright, sound without interior markings. [89 pp.].
Verlag: Hill and Wang A Division of Farrar Straus and Giroux, New York, 2011
ISBN 10: 0809026848 ISBN 13: 9780809026845
Anbieter: Henry Hollander, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo in dust jacket, 152 pp., color illustrations throughout, chronology, duotone photos.
Verlag: Hill and Wang - A Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1988
ISBN 10: 0809015390 ISBN 13: 9780809015399
Anbieter: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Trade Paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. Harrison, Jack - Design (illustrator). Second Printing. 179 Pages. No defects noted and interior text pages are flawless. Laid in is an interesting letter to the previous owner with an extensive review of this book. An astonishing report on combat's psychological tolls the author, an army intelligence officer-turned-academician sounds a startling note here. War has become an activity that has surpassed the ability of human beings to endure it. He arrays substantial and convincing evidence to support this assertion, beginning with a horrifying inventory of contemporary nonnuclear weaponry. driving home the point that conventional warfare is now 600 percent more destructive than during WWII. He goes on to examine the symptoms of psychological collapse in war, then looks at governments' strenuous but largely futile attempts to stave off these symptoms and their underlying causes. A frightening summary of on-going research into stress-preventive chemicals follows chemicals that transform soldiers into fighting machines, but at the sacrifice of their humanity. This powerful book deserves a wide audience. The author is professor of politics at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., served twenty-two years as an active intelligence officer, much of it spent at the Directorate of Foreign Intelligence in the Pentagon. A consultant to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, he is the author of numerous books on military subjects, including Operation Peace for Galilee, Military Incompetence, and Crisis in Command. Contents: Introduction, The Face of Modern War, War and Madness, War and the Limits of Human Endurance, Psychiatry in War, The Chemical Soldier, No More War, and Notes.
Verlag: Hill & Wang/ A Division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1993
Anbieter: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, USA
Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Kay Rexrode (Design) (illustrator). Hill & Wang Edition/16th Printing. 139 pp. Nearly flawless copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text.
Verlag: Hill & Wang/ A Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1995
ISBN 10: 0809045958 ISBN 13: 9780809045952
Anbieter: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Brand New. Fritz Metsch (Jacket Design); Robert Carpenter Turner (Author Photo) (illustrator). 1st American Edition, 1995. 243 pp. Book and dj in pristine state.
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Verlag: Hill and Wang/ A Division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1998
ISBN 10: 0809064901 ISBN 13: 9780809064908
Anbieter: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Yuji Shiba/Photonica (Jacket Photo); Dede Hatch Photography (Author Photo); Abby Kagan (Design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. 212 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text.
Verlag: Hill and Wang/ A Division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2000
ISBN 10: 0809096951 ISBN 13: 9780809096954
Anbieter: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, USA
Trade Paperback. Zustand: Like New. Harry Ford (Design) (illustrator). 2nd Edition. 491 pp. Flawless, fresh, sharp, tight copy with crisp pages and clean text. Light stain on front cover. Publisher's remainder mark on bottom edge.
Verlag: Hill and Wang/ A Division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1992
ISBN 10: 0809001586 ISBN 13: 9780809001583
Anbieter: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, USA
Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good. Tere Lo Prete (Design) (illustrator). 15th Printing. 241 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Pages detached from spine. Highlighter, pencil and pen markings throughout text. Creased spine. Stains on back cover.
Verlag: New York, Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [, 2005
ISBN 10: 0809095289 ISBN 13: 9780809095285
Anbieter: Hammer Mountain Book Halls, ABAA, Schenectady, NY, USA
Hardcover. Minor bumps at top end of backstrip, top edge and corner of front cover; otherwise very good condition in lightly edge-worn dust jacket. ]. 277p.
Verlag: Hill and Wang A division of Farrar Straus and Giroux, New York, 1979
Anbieter: Henry Hollander, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good-. First American Edition. Small octavo in dust jacket with a small chip, ii, 152 pp. Translated by Richard Howard.
Verlag: A Mermaid Drama Book/ Hill and Wang/ A Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1981
Anbieter: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, USA
Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Saul Lambert (Cover Design) (illustrator). 177 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear. Occassional pen/ pencil/ highlighter markings on text/ marginalia. Previous owner's notes on inside front and back cover page. Slightly browned pages.
Verlag: Hill and Wang / A Division of Farrar Straus and Giroux / Harcourt Brace, New York, 2003
ISBN 10: 0809053446 ISBN 13: 9780809053445
Anbieter: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, USA
Soft cover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. We list the ISBN of "Guarding the Golden Door," a "First paperback edition, 2005." Number line complete 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 -- the first printing thus. The author -- since retired from the University of Cincinnati and identified as a "consultant to PBS" -- is an historian, offering little in the way of economic analysis of the issue at hand, and seems to be opposed to most efforts to limit immigration or to encourage illegal aliens to depart, referring to such approaches (including California's Proposition 187) as "unconstitutional," "nativism" and "vigilantism" and to media publicity concerning documented crimes committed by illegals as "anti-immigration propaganda." He calls any suggestion of "controlling our borders . . . irresponsible." In fact, the term "illegal alien" is absent from the index here, and Eisenhower's hugely effective "Operation Wetback" is skipped over in the author's chronology, receiving no mention that we can find. Needless to say, the Los Angeles Times Book Review praised this book as "balanced in its assessments"! 328 pp. Reduced from $22. OUR SECOND OFFERING, "With These Hands" is a 1998 first edition hardcover in jacket from Harcourt Brace, letter line complete E D C B A, ISBN 0151002053. Author Rothenberg taught in the Law and Society Program at the University of California, Irvine and was previously a paralegal providing "federally funded legal services" for farm workers. Based on more than 250 interviews. 334 pp. including index. Braceros immigrant agricultural labor, reduced from $20. The pair of books on related topics -- one hardcover in jacket, one a trade paperback -- combined into a lot to consolidate shipping charge, the pair now marked down from $20.
Verlag: A Mermaid Drama Book/ Hill and Wang, A Division Of Farrar, Straus And Giroux, New York, 1958
ISBN 10: 080900710X ISBN 13: 9780809007103
Anbieter: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, USA
Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. George Mas (Cover Design) (illustrator). 340 pp. A great study/work/reading copy. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page. Tear on front cover and first few inside pages.
Verlag: Hill and Wang/ A Division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1976
ISBN 10: 080900125X ISBN 13: 9780809001255
Anbieter: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, USA
Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Neil Stuart (Cover Design); Gustave Niles (Design) (illustrator). Paperback Edition. 229 pp. Tightly bound copy with moderate external wear. Clean text. An excellent study/ reading/ work/ research copy. Minor stains on fore-edge. Light creasing on spine.
Verlag: Hill and Wang / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York, 2006
ISBN 10: 0809067226 ISBN 13: 9780809067220
Anbieter: Adventures Underground, Richland, WA, USA
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Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.
Verlag: Hill & Wang/ A Division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux/ Harper & Collins, New York, 1990
Anbieter: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, USA
Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 3rd Edition, 13th Printing 1990. 406 pp. Nearly flawless book with minimal external wear. Clean text.
Verlag: Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY, 1973
ISBN 10: 0809020882 ISBN 13: 9780809020881
Anbieter: Orpheus Books, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Includes a text by Karl Borgmann; one of a series of Terra Magica books, first published in Germany; this first American edition is beautifully printed in Germany and includes such masters as Robert Doineau, Robert Frank, Leonard Freed, Dimitri Kessel and Ernest Rathenau; all images identified; printed without dust jacket in photo-illustrated boards; rare in As New condition; a superb collection.
Verlag: Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY, 1974
ISBN 10: 0809021927 ISBN 13: 9780809021925
Anbieter: Orpheus Books, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: As New. One of the superb Terra Magica books, originally published in Germany; the first American edition with an adaptation of a text by Robert Lembke and Sven Simon; 56 images, both color and b&w by Willi Moll, Max Muhlberger, Lubomir Zelinka, Rudi Herzog and many others; beautifully printed with photo-illustrated boards (published w/o DJ); scarce in described condition i.e. As New.
Verlag: New York: Hill and Wang. A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976, 1976
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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Lenz, Siegfried, 1926-2014. An Exemplary Life. A Novel. Translated by Douglas Parmée. New York: Hill and Wang. A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976, stated First Edition, 423pp., dust-jacket chipped and torn around edges, original price $12.50, good brown cloth, light fading around edges. Dust-jacket by Muni Lieblein. First published in German in 1973 as Das Vorbild. 9780809043224 ISBN 080904322X.
Verlag: Hill & Wang/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, NY, 1985
ISBN 10: 0809085380 ISBN 13: 9780809085385
Anbieter: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. BOMC/Book Club Edition. Book Club Edition. Text/BRAND NEW. Gray boards/Fine. DJ/NF. Two-act play with four actors. First performed April 1, 1970 at the Washington Theaer Club, Washington, DC. This is the revised version presented by The Second Stage on January 17th, 1984, New York City. Two couples in their mid-thirties, in contemporary America, searching for who they are, what marriage means, and for that matter, what life means. Fine copy.
Verlag: New York : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015., New York, 2015
ISBN 10: 0374535116 ISBN 13: 9780374535117
Anbieter: Inkberry Books, Niwot, CO, USA
paperback. Zustand: Fine. xix, 456 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Verlag: Hill and Wang / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York, 2019
ISBN 10: 0809016532 ISBN 13: 9780809016532
Anbieter: Adventures Underground, Richland, WA, USA
Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good+. No Jacket. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.