Sort By:
Search Results for Keyword(s):culture  (matching all words)
Search found 1451 matching products.
Medicine in Transition by: Galdston, M.D., Iago
Click Image To View Larger

Medicine in Transition by: Galdston, M.D., Iago

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 220 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Some underlining, marginalia in red pencil. Foxing to top edge. Good reference copy. Record # 612895
Price: $12.00 

Michael Coleman: Paintings of Indian Life by: N/A
Click Image To View Larger

Michael Coleman: Paintings of Indian Life by: N/A

Softcover. New York, NY, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with white covers in good condition except for some rubbing. Staple binding tight, only minor wear. Pages are unmarked and crisp, with 19 b/w plates of artist's paintings, all of which involve Native American life and culture. Catalog listing at front includes 20 works. 16 pages. Record # 807139
Price: $12.00 

Modern American Culture: An Introduction.  by: Gidley, Mick (ed)
Click Image To View Larger

Modern American Culture: An Introduction. by: Gidley, Mick (ed)

Paperback. London, Longman, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 407 pages. Record # 40029
Price: $12.00 

Moscow: Treasures and Tradition by: Allenov Mikjail M. et al.
Click Image To View Larger

Moscow: Treasures and Tradition by: Allenov Mikjail M. et al.

Softcover. University of Washington Press/Smithsonian Institution , 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 281 pages. Introduction by W. Bruce Lincoln. Exhibition catalogue. Profusely illustrated with color plates. Red endpapers. Color pictorial wrappers. Light shelf wear, very good. Record # 512587
Price: $12.00 

My German Question - Growing Up in Nazi Berlin by: Gay, Peter
Click Image To View Larger

My German Question - Growing Up in Nazi Berlin by: Gay, Peter

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Illustrated with 32 pages of black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. Record # 612695
Price: $12.00 

Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians by: Opler, Morris Edward
Click Image To View Larger

Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians by: Opler, Morris Edward

Softcover. Lincoln Nebraska, Bison Books, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 406 pages, soft cover. Exterior and interior are in very good condition, despite some minor imperfections. This novel illustrates the richness of the oral storytelling and mythology traditions of the Jicarilla Apache Native American tribe of the Southwest. Clean copy. Record # 33606
Price: $25.00 

Nature of Laughter, The by: Gregory, J.C.
Click Image To View Larger

Nature of Laughter, The by: Gregory, J.C.

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1st, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages, including index. Cover worn, stained, with light marking, fading. In good condition. No dust jacket. The book delves into the physiological and psychological mechanisms behind laughter, examining the role of the brain, the nervous system, and social cues in triggering laughter. Gregory also explores the cultural and historical contexts of laughter, from ancient Greek comedy to contemporary stand-up comedy. Record # 176336
Price: $20.00 

New Lives for Old - Cultural Transformation-Manus, 1928-1953 by: Mead, Margaret
Click Image To View Larger

New Lives for Old - Cultural Transformation-Manus, 1928-1953 by: Mead, Margaret

NY, Morrow, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Mead's re-examination of the primitive culture she wrote about in Growing Up in New Guinea published 25 years ago. 548 pages, b&w photos. Dust jacket with light edgewear. Record # 600284
Price: $12.00 

Next American Nation, The : The New Nationalism And The Fourth American Revolution by: Lind, Michael
Click Image To View Larger

Next American Nation, The : The New Nationalism And The Fourth American Revolution by: Lind, Michael

Hardcover. US, Free Press, 1st, 1995-07-26, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463680
Price: $12.00 

Nietzsche & Jewish Culture by: Editor: Golomb, Jacob
Click Image To View Larger

Nietzsche & Jewish Culture by: Editor: Golomb, Jacob

Softcover. NY, Routledge, 1st thus, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 282 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This unique collection of essays examines the reciprocal relationship between Nietzsche and Jewish culture. Frederick Nietzsche occupies a contradictory position in the history of ideas and each of the essays explores one of his thoughts. Previous owner's underlining and marking is present throughout in black pen. Record # 34194
Price: $20.00 

Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War by: Shadid, Anthony
Click Image To View Larger

Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War by: Shadid, Anthony

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 448 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 470277
Price: $12.00 

Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village by: Erdman, Sarah
Click Image To View Larger

Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village by: Erdman, Sarah

Hardcover. US, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 2003-09-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 462318
Price: $12.00 

Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret by: Brown, Craig
Click Image To View Larger

Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret by: Brown, Craig

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2nd, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 423 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Craig Brown's kaleidoscopic experiment in biography combines interviews, parodies, dreams, parallel lives, diaries, announcements, lists, catalogues, and essays to create a witty, moving meditation on fame and art, snobbery, and deference in high society. Clean copy. Record # 33721
Price: $15.00 

Not Faster Than a Walk by: White, Viola C., Illust. by: Edward Sanborn
Click Image To View Larger

Not Faster Than a Walk by: White, Viola C., Illust. by: Edward Sanborn

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Middlebury College Press, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in very good condition. Interior pages and binding also in very good condition. Some B&W illustrations throughout. Tan cover boards, paste-down illustrations on front cover board. Author portrays in diary form a year of walking through Vermont. Clean copy. Record # 33621
Price: $18.00 

Old Age In The Old Regime: Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France by: Troyansky, David G.
Click Image To View Larger

Old Age In The Old Regime: Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France by: Troyansky, David G.

Hardcover. Ithaca, NEW YORK, Cornell University, 1st, 1989, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 260 pages explore a dramatic change in French attitudes toward aging and the aged and the confrontation between changing demographics circumstances in a more secular world. 8vo. B/W illustrated plates. Gray cloth with red spine title label, gilt lettering. Burgundy endpapers. Near Fine. Pictorial dust jacket with minor marking. Very Good. Record # 219956
Price: $12.00 

One Drop of Blood  by: Malcomson, Scott L
Click Image To View Larger

One Drop of Blood by: Malcomson, Scott L

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 584 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 466179
Price: $12.00 

Our Yankee Heritage: New England's Contribution to American Civilization by: Beals, Charleton
Click Image To View Larger

Our Yankee Heritage: New England's Contribution to American Civilization by: Beals, Charleton

Hardcover. New York, David McKay, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 311 pages, endpaper map, cloth cover. Acetate protected dust jacket with minimal chipping to edges and slight foxing on flaps; book itself in neat, tight condition. Record # 603754
Price: $12.00 

People of Legend: Native Americans of the Southwest by: Annerino, John, Illust. by: Annerino, John
Click Image To View Larger

People of Legend: Native Americans of the Southwest by: Annerino, John, Illust. by: Annerino, John

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Sierra Club Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 122 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has been price clipped and has one closed tear and some sticker residue, but is otherwise in good condition. Red cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains full-color photography throughout. This book is a vibrant pictorial celebration of the remarkable culture landscape of contemporary Native Americans. Clean copy. Record # 34353
Price: $12.00 

People of the Land of Flint, The by: Campbell, Richard Dean
Click Image To View Larger

People of the Land of Flint, The by: Campbell, Richard Dean

Softcover. Lanham, University Press of America, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages. Softcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Previous owners stamp on inside front cover. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy. Record # 612833
Price: $12.00 

Pictures from and Expedition: Early View of the American West by: Sandweiss, Martha A.
Click Image To View Larger

Pictures from and Expedition: Early View of the American West by: Sandweiss, Martha A.

Softcover. New Haven, CONNECTICUT, Yale Center for American Art and Material Culture/Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. White stapled wrappers with color plate to front, perfect binding, endpapers decorated with b&w map, foreword by Alan Shestack and Rick Beard, preface by Howard R. Lamar, 34 color and b&w plates, checklist of the exhibition. Clean wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very neat, tight catalog. Record # 807964
Price: $12.00 

Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture by: Editor: Kivelson, Valerie A.Editor: Neuberger, Joan
Click Image To View Larger

Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture by: Editor: Kivelson, Valerie A. Editor: Neuberger, Joan

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 284 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains more than 100 B&W and full-color photographs and illustrations throughout. This wide-ranging book is the first to explore the visual culture of Russia over the entire span of Russian history, from ancient Kiev to contemporary, post-Soviet society. The book examines the ways that Russians have represented themselves visually and used visual images in social and political contexts. Expert contributors discuss images and objects from all over the Russian/Soviet empire, including consumer goods, architectural monuments, religious icons, portraits, news and art photography, popular prints, films, folk art, and more. Clean copy. Record # 33975
Price: $18.00 


Pogo by: Kelly, Walt
Click Image To View Larger
Pogo by: Kelly, WaltPogo by: Kelly, Walt

Pogo by: Kelly, Walt

Softcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 182 pages, soft cover. Covers are in fair condition, with multiple chips and edge wear. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This is the original Pogo, with which Walt Kelly opened the door for anthropomorphic comics to contain political and social satire. Originally syndicated to American newspapers from 1948-1975. Clean copy. Record # 33897
Price: $18.00 

Practical Woody Plant Propagation for Nursery Growers by: Macdonald, Bruce
Click Image To View Larger

Practical Woody Plant Propagation for Nursery Growers by: Macdonald, Bruce

Hardcover. Portland, OR, Timber Press, Inc., 5th Pr., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 669 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has minor chipping and a few closed tears, but is still in good condition overall. Green cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography and illustrations throughout. This is an exhaustive exposition on propagating methods, from growing seeds to cuttings, grafting, layering, and tissue culture. It is based on the actual working methods of successful propagators worldwide and presents detailed explanations and illustrations of the procedures used. This is a large-format volume, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34449
Price: $30.00 

Problems of Literary Evaluation: Yearbook of Comparative Criticism (Volume II) by: Editor: Strelka, Joseph
Click Image To View Larger
Problems of Literary Evaluation: Yearbook of Comparative Criticism (Volume II) by: Editor: Strelka, JosephProblems of Literary Evaluation: Yearbook of Comparative Criticism (Volume II) by: Editor: Strelka, Joseph

Problems of Literary Evaluation: Yearbook of Comparative Criticism (Volume II) by: Editor: Strelka, Joseph

Hardcover. University Park, PA, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 212 pages, hardcover. Cover boards have some discoloration, particularly on the rear. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Some black ink on the spine has been rubbed off, but gilt text is still legible. This series is devoted to the study of literature based on two assumptions: that literature is an expression of the culture in which it is written, and that the study of literature involves value-judgments. Previous owner's signature is present on the front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34242
Price: $16.00 


  
Monroe Street Books
Cart 7 Shopping Cart