Softcover. Brookline, MA, Paradigm Publications, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 403 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains Chinese text throughout. This book is a translation of the I-hsueh Yuan Lie Lun from 1757. It provides a window into the mind of a brilliant Chinese scholar-physician who practiced medicine in China just prior to the introduction of western ideas. Previous owner signed their name in blue pen on the title page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34044
Hardcover. NY, Pegasus Books, 1st thus, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Communist jokes are the strangest, funniest, most enchanting and meaningful legacy of the eighty years of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe. The valiant and sardonic citizens of the former Communist countries-surrounded by secret police, threatened with arrest, imprisonment and forced labor, a failed economic system, and bombarded with ludicrous propaganda-turned joke-telling into an art form, using them as a coded way of speaking the truth and coping with the absurdity of the system. In this poignant and historically revealing book, rare and previously unpublished archive material, including cartoons, caricatures, photographs, and oral transcripts take the reader on a unique journey through the real experience of the Communist era. 25+ B&W illustrations throughout. Clean copy. Record # 33934
Softcover. US, Indiana University Press, reprint, 1990-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 432 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 465885
Hardcover. Boston, Bradlee Whidden, 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&w frontis of author Blue cloth w/gilt lettering. Light wear/rubbing to edges and spine, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Acadian Land refers to an area of the eastern seaboard historically known as Acadia between 1755 and 1764. Acadia included the modern Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, along with part of the US state of Maine. Record # 75373
Hardcover. Vilnius, Lithuania, State Enterprise Valstybes Zinios, 1st, 1998, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 637 pages, hardcover. Black cloth covers have some white dappled staining, and the edges are worn with rubbing to the rear corner and middle fore-edge. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography of Lithuanian crosses throughout. This book's text is in Lithuanian, and it contains not only a collection of Lithuanian folk artist's marvelous sacral works, but it is also a snapshot of the nation's soul, replete with suffering, struggle and survival. This large-form book is available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34018
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, The University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is clean and bright, as are interior pages. Blue paper covers have one significant bump to the top edge, but are still in very good condition overall. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book explores the rivers and the coastal culture of Eastern North Carolina. Clean copy. Record # 34512
Softcover. US, Eastern Washington University y, 1st, 2008-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 71 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 465397
Hardcover. Berkely, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 760 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has a clean knife cut through the center front, which has been closed with tape. That cut went cleanly through, and marked the red cloth covers underneath. Despite this one very shallow scar, the covers are generally in good condition. Interior pages are all clean and bright, and the binding is solid. This book is a complete translation of an ancient Chinese medical classic, the Nan-ching, combined with selected commentaries by Chinese and Japanese authors. The Nan-ching was compiled in China during the first century C.E., marking both an apex and a conclusion to the initial developmental stages of Chinese medicine. This is a large format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34042
Softcover. Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press, 2nd Pr., 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 783 pages, soft cover. Covers have edge wear and rubbing, but are still in good condition overall. Interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book is primarily a study of the administrative apparatus which helped the emperors to assure obedience and forestall rebellions, but it is also an extended study of Chinese society in the nineteenth century. Clean copy. Record # 34480
Hardcover. New York, Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, reprint, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages, previous owner's inscription, colored illustration on front cover, name of book worn off cover, clean, tight copy, minor edgewear. Record # 801100
Softcover. Cambridge, UK, Monkey Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 243 pages, soft cover. Black covers are lightly bumped on the bottom corner, but are still in good condition. Interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. The work of sociologists Claude Larre and Elizabeth Rochat de la Valle here gives us access to the classical origins of Chinese medicine. Through their detailed study of the Neijing, Nanjing, and their commentaries, we are connected to the perceptive minds of the classical authors. Claude Larre's profound understanding of the philosophical and cultural background and Elisabeth Rochat's thorough knowledge of the medical classics provide a unique insight into the eight extraordinary meridians and the fundamental interaction on yin and yang throughout the body. Contains some Chinese text throughout. Previous owner's name has been stamped on the front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34035
Softcover. Boulder, CO, Blue Poppy Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 465 pages, soft cover. Purple covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book is a record of Zhu Dan-xi's differential diagnosis, treatment, and case histories of a wide variety of internal and external diseases. It is also the source for many standard pattern discriminations and treatments found in modern internal medicine texts. Previous owner stamped their name on the front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34043
Softcover. NY, Phaidon Press Inc., 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages, hardcover. Pictorial boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains full-color photography throughout. These home-cooking recipes, meant for sharing, explore the regional diversity of Middle Eastern cuisine. Contains more than 135 vegetarian, fish, and meat-based recipes, along with suggested mezze-style menus and a glossary of ingredients. Clean copy. Record # 34135
Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, Fortress Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 1022 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in fair condition, with a few closed tears and sunning to the spine. Leather covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book is a definitive text in early church history, offering a vast, panoramic sweep of Christianity's first six centuries, from the dust of Palestine to the court of Justinian, and the parting of Eastern and Western Christianity. This is a large format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34046
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 278 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is mildly bumped. Covers and interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. B&W photography throughout. Historian Lynne Viola reveals how, in one of the most egregious episodes of Soviet repression, Stalin drove two million peasants into internal exile, to work as forced laborers. The book shows how entire families were callously thrown out of their homes, banished from their villages, and sent to the icy hinterlands of the Soviet Union, where in the course of a decade, almost a half million would die as a result of disease, starvation, or exhaustion. Light pencil underlining present on some pages. Record # 33911
Softcover. Millbrae, CA, Celestial Arts, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages, soft cover, B&W illustrations and photos throughout. Minor wear but generally in good condition. Long before "turn on, tune in, drop out" became the credo of the American counterculture, Aldous Huxley was using mescaline and LSD in controlled, carefully documented experiments. Accounts of those psychedelic experiences, along with his interest in Eastern mystical religions, accompany the moving story of Aldous Huxley's later years with his wife, Laura. Huxley's fascination with the spiritual world remained with him throughout his life and never wavered through his final illness in 1963. THIS TIMELESS MOMENT takes the reader into the lively mind of one of the most profound thinkers of any generation. Previous owner's name on first front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33578
Hardcover. NY, Little, Brown and Company, 1st Ed., 5th Pr., 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 370 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, white cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains beautiful full-color illustrations throughout. This book tells the story of Pinmei, a young woman who embarks on a fantastical journey to rescue her kidnapped grandmother, the storyteller. Clean copy. Record # 34444
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