2017, ISBN: 9780802072030

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Gyan Publishing House . Hardback. New. pp. 300, Gyan Publishing House, 6, UK,8vo s/back Original,1st edn.[S/back,paperback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in… Mehr…

Gyan Publishing House . Hardback. New. pp. 300, Gyan Publishing House, 6, UK,8vo s/back Original,1st edn.[S/back,paperback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but s/back and p/back originals are published prior to any other format.] NMINT.No owner inscrptn and no price removal to cover. Bright, crisp,clean and sharp-cornered,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated front cover with yellow+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - and no reading creases to spine/backstrip.Top+fore- edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,unread - apart from my own collation.UK,slim 8vo wraps,s/back original,1st edn,v-xiipp+1-172pp [paginated] includes contents list/ table,foreword by David Shepherd MBE,an introduction by Clifford Alford,President,Tavistock Cricket Club,a preface,Pts 1-6 comprising 9,8,8,8,7 and 6 sub sections/ paragraphs respectively,profuse contemporary b/w photographs throughout the text and the book,appendices(1-5) and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages.In his detailed and colourful history of Tavistock Cricket Club,local historian,Gerry Woodcock,vividly portrays the ebb and flow of the club's fortunes over the last 150 years.This is a book about the game of cricket,as played by one of Devon's oldest clubs for a century and a half.But it is also the story of the relationship between the club and the wider community,and of The Ring,the spectacular ground on the edge of Dartmoor, where cricket has been played since 1849.Most of all,it brings to life the people involved in the enterprise; their ambitions,hopes, disappointments,quarrels,celebrations,frustrations,defeats,and triumphs; and paints a portrait that will delight both lovers of the game and those with an interest in the social history of the charming and unique town of Tavistock. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, UK.PLYMOUTH,DEVON.NORTHCOTE HOUSE PUBLISHERS LTD.,1999., 6, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,subject/co-author portrait colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with gilt,black and gold colour lettering to both panels; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head of spine/backstrip of dw/dj minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges very,very lightly toned but still very bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,1-329pp [paginated] includes an introduction,PTs I + II comprising 3 and 4 chapters respectively,32pp contemporary b/w auto+ biographical photographs in 2 blocks of 16pp apiece,between pp122/3 and pp202/3 respectively,career statistics,a chronology (covering his birth,1946 to 2003 theatre tour with Jimmy Greaves),and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table with acknowledgements to verso and 1pp publisher's b/w photographic illustrated advert for 'Blessed' - George Best's autobiography as last page. For George Best it's not the adulation,the money, the match-day buzz or even the social life he misses most about his playing days.It's the fun: the conveyor belt of stunts and jokes, both on and off the pitch,that provided the backdrop to the game he knows so well and still loves. Picking up where 'Blessed' left off,in 'Scoring at Half-Time', George has gathered together his favourite memories,stories, anecdotes and observations from his experiences in and out of the game over the last forty years.No dressing room door is left unopened,no player's bar tale untold and no secret kept in this fond,humorous study of football's golden era from the man who was usually there when it happened. George's life continues to be extraordinary,and this book is his chance to celebrate the past and remember the good times,and your chance to have a one-to-one with one of the best sporting raconteurs around. Inside stories,lurid tales and embarrassing incidents from George,Bobby, Denis,Nobby and Fergie amongst others.No one escapes George's mischievious sense of humour and eye for detail. 'Scoring at Half-Time' will delight anyone who has ever wanted to spend time in the company of the footballing legend. He was the first celebrity footballer - an international icon.He has been voted the best British player of all time in a poll of nearly half a million fans.His extraordinary lifestyle and decline into alcoholism are well-documented in the pages of his autobiography 'Blessed'. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.EBURY PRESS/RANDOM HOUSE,2003., 5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,colour pictorial illustrated wrap- around artwork [The Beggar's Opera - Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery/Bridgeman Art Library]; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to head of spine/backstrip and top edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean,contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners.Bright,clean,publisher's original brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain off-white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj, 1st edn,ix-xixpp+1-204pp [paginated] includes illustrations list, acknowledgements,a prologue,15 chapters,anepilogue,16pp glossy,colour+b/w contemporary illustrations/artwork,a bibliography,notes and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,dedication and contents list/table. Mistress Peachum was Lavinia Fenton,an 18thC actress who was the original Polly Peachum in John Gay's smash-hit play'The Beggar's Opera' and became the Duchess of Bolton.Raised in a Charing Cross coffee house,Lavinia nearly fellvictim to the ambitions of her mother,who plotted the saleof her virginity to an elderly gentleman for two hundred pounds,but Lavinia was determined to live her life on her own terms.She became an actress,and though she was a newcomer to the stage when she was chosen to star as Polly,her combination of a sweet voice,a pretty face and a knowledge of the seamier side of London life made the role her own.Both Lavinia and the play were overnight sensations,but she enjoyed only a few months of fame before she caught theeye of the Duke of Bolton,a married,indolent and childlessaristocrat.The Duke was determined to make her his mistress,and she agreed to elope with him,exchanging the rackety glamour of life as London's most celebrated actressfor twenty years of retirement.Lavinia gave the Duke three sons,but when she was left a widow she chose her own way once more,and scandalously threw away their fortunes on her younger lover.Lisa Hilton's ebullient portrait of Lavinia Fenton's inspirational life is also a scintillating depiction of the age.With a cast of politicians and pickpockets,highwaymen and whores,it illuminates the relationship between the theatre and the social and political climate ofeighteenth-century London.It also confirms Hilton to be oneof our finest writers of narrative history. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2005., 4.5, VG/VG Tight binding Unmarked text . Then A Soldier is two stories and two histories that are intertwined. On one level, it is a realistic, understated, un-romanticized description of close combat in Vietnam, and a serious analysis of three firefights in which the author was engaged. On the second level, it portrays the social, historical, and cultural pressures that led a Jewish boy from the Bronx of the early 1960s to become a career Army officer, and, when his country was at war, to seek out a combat assignment. It is the story of a young man setting out to prove that Jews could be good soldiers as he simultaneously embarks on an uncommon assimilation strategy to enter the WASP establishment. Then A Soldier describes the growth of the author from a boy, to a student, to a ROTC cadet, to a peace-time soldier and finally as a junior officer in combat in Vietnam. It is the story of a young man testing himself and finding a new dimension of his makeup.  Review A fine, honest account of close combat in Vietnam. This is a clearly-written, tough-minded memoir of the grunt's war, the brutal, exhausting and morally challenging long patrols and lightning-quick collisions with death at the muddy, bloody bottom of the chain of command, strategy and politics. Every veteran of the era, as well as today's soldiers and civilian readers, will find each moment spent with this book worthwhile. Ralph Peters, Retired U.S. Army officer, Fox News strategic analyst, Author of Endless War.Richard Gary Kurtz was born in 1942 in New York City and became a career Army officer through the ROTC program at the City College of New York (CCNY). He served thirty years in the US Army, retiring as a Colonel. Almost ten of those years were spent overseas, including two years in Vietnam with the 1st Infantry and 101st Airborne Divisions, where he was wounded in action and decorated for valor. He was later a battalion and brigade commander, and served two tours as a Pentagon staff officer. After retiring from the Army, he worked for 17 years as a contractor for the US Missile Defense Agency. He is currently a consultant to the US Army Europe for missile defense issues. Mr. Kurtz has a BS from CCNY and a MS from the University of Texas at El Paso. His hobbies include hiking, fly fishing, guitar, and weight training. He lives with his wife, Carol, in Alexandria, Virginia. They have three children and seven grandchildren., Warwick House Publishers, 2011, 3, Bloomsbury USA, 2017. Trade Paperback. A new copy. National Book Critics Circle Award Winner New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016 A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016 From the Civil War to our combustible present, White Rage reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America--now in paperback with a new afterword by the author, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson. As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as "black rage," historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in The Washington Post suggesting that this was, instead, white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames, she argued, everyone had ignored the kindling. Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains. The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow; the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South while taxpayer dollars financed segregated white private schools; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 triggered a coded but powerful response, the so-called Southern Strategy and the War on Drugs that disenfranchised millions of African Americans while propelling presidents Nixon and Reagan into the White House, and then the election of America's first black President, led to the expression of white rage that has been as relentless as it has been brutal. Carefully linking these and other historical flashpoints when social progress for African Americans was countered by deliberate and cleverly crafted opposition, Anderson pulls back the veil that has long covered actions made in the name of protecting democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud, rendering visible the long lineage of white rage. Compelling and dramatic in the unimpeachable history it relates, White Rage will add an important new dimension to the national conversation about race in America., Bloomsbury USA, 2017, 0, Melbourne: Social Credit Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. [1930s?]. Softcover. No signatures. Small <1/4" chips to lower edges of leaves. Printed price of "3d" on front wrapper has been crossed out and replaced with "4". ; (15) pages. Stapled. Page dimensions: 181 x 120mm. "A speech delivered by Major C. H. Douglas in Newcastle, England, under the auspices of the Commercial Staffs' Association, on January 31st, 1923." "Reprinted by permission, and published by the Social Credit PRess, 7th Floor, Yorkshire House, 20 Queen Street, Melbourne, C.1, Victoria." ; 12mo ., Social Credit Press, 2.5, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton Univ Press, 1995. 6th Paperback Printing . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6" x 9. 281 Pages Indexed. The author followed a Bosnian community over a period of six years, during which it has undergone dramatic changes and events. In the late eighties people were working hard against economic crisis. In 1990 they were full of optimism about the future but by January 1993 it was a village in fear surrounded by war on all sides and in April 1993 the village was attacked by Croat forces. In October 1993 none of the four hundred Muslims in the village remained. They had either fled, been placed in detention camps, or been killed. This is Tone Bringa's moving ethnographic account of Bosnian Muslims' lives in a rural village located near Sarajevo. Although they represent a majority of the population in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Muslims are still members of a minority culture in the region that was once Yugoslavia. The question of ethno-national identity has become paramount in this society, and the author focuses on religion as the defining characteristic of identity. She pays particular attention to the roles that women play in defining Muslim identities, and she examines the importance of the household as a Muslim identity sphere. In so doing, she illuminates larger issues of what constitutes nationality. This is a gripping and heartfelt account of a community that has been torn apart by ethnopolitical conflict. It will attract readers of all backgrounds who want to learn more about one of the most intractable wars of the 20th century and the people who have been so tragically affected. A solidly grounded ethnography of a deeply troubled place, this work will shed considerable light on ethnic relations in the region, as well as on the complexity of the relationship between religion and other dimensions of social and cultural identity. Illustrated with 13 black and white pohotographs. Contents in Six Chapters: History Identity and the Yugoslave Dream, A Bosnian Village, Men Women and the House, Marriage and Marriage Procedures, Caring for the Living and theh Souls of the Dead, and Debating Islam and Muslim Identity. Plus Foreword, Preface, Note on Language and Pronunciation, Glossary of Bosnian Terms Notes and Bibliography, Princeton Univ Press, 1995, 3, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn, and no price-clip (£25.00) to dw/dj - virtually as new - wrapped and protected from day of issue/purchase.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,subject+contemporaries b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - an unread copy. Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain maroon cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,with immaculate,colour facsimile hand-written letters/ correspondence illustrated eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp,viii-xivpp+2-402pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,a foreword,20 chapters,24pp profuse b/w+sepia (majority) and colour, subject+contemporaries photographs in 3 blocks of 8pp apiece between pp114/5,pp194/5 and pp274/5 respectively,an afterword,appendices(2),notes on sources and acknowledgements,source notes,an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and illustrations list/table. Frances Partridge was one of the great diarists of the 20thC, best known for much of her life for her association with Bloomsbury. Independent-minded and beautiful,she was linked by marriage or friendship to many of the most original and influential writers and artists of her time,and observed them all with clarity and affection.When she met and fell in love with Ralph Partridge she became entangled in the delicately balanced menage a trois he shared with his wife Dora Carrington and Lytton Strachey. In a life that spanned the 20thC (she died in 2004 aged 103) Frances grew up in a circle that included Henry James, Tennyson,Arthur Conan Doyle and Leslie Stephen.As a child she marched for votes for women; at eighteen she studied philosophy at Cambridge and danced the Charleston with Lord Mountbatten; in the 1920's she went to work at Birrell and Garnett's bookshop in Bloomsbury,and came to know Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey,Vanessa and Clive Bell, E.M. Forster and Maynard Keynes.By the Second World War she and Ralph were committed pacifists,whose house in Wiltshire,Ham Spray,gave shelter to their friends of all opinions. A busy and productive middle age as a translator and indexer was shattered by two disasters: Ralph's fatal heart attack in 1960,followed three years later by the death of their only son, Burgo,at the age of 28.Frances rebuilt her life in London,and found herself observing the social experiments of the 1960's while helping reassess the legacy of Bloomsbury.The publication of two memoirs and six volumes of her diaries in her old age brought her new admirers who delighted in her sharp intelligence,humour,fortitude and unfailing zest for life. With access to Frances Partridge's unpublished diaries and letters,Anne Chisholm's biography is both a portrait of an exceptional woman and a panorama of the lives of her generation. Frances Catherine Partridge CBE (née Marshall; 15 March 1900 - 5 February 2004) was a long-lived member of the Bloomsbury Group and a writer,best known for the publication of her diaries.She married Ralph Partridge (b.1894 - 30th November,1960.) in 1933. Working at a London bookshop owned by David Garnett and Francis Birrell,she became acquainted with Lytton Strachey,Dora Carrington and Ralph Partridge.In 1921,Ralph Partridge had married Dora Carrington,who was in love with Lytton Strachey,a homosexual who was himself more interested in Ralph Partridge.An added complication was Dora Carrington's intermittent affair with one of Ralph Partridge's best friends, Gerald Brenan.Carrington,Partridge,and Strachey shared a Wiltshire farm- house, Ham Spray,in a complex triangular relationship that was recorded in the 1995 film Carrington,with Alex Kingston playing Frances.Ralph Partridge now fell in love with Frances.They lived in London during the week and repaired to Ham Spray at weekends. After Dora Carrington committed suicide out of grief in 1932, shortly after Lytton Strachey's death,Ralph and Frances marriedon 2 March 1933. They lived happily at Ham Spray until Ralph's death in 1960. They had one son, (Lytton) Burgo Partridge,who was born in 1935 and named for Strachey.In 1962,Burgo married Henrietta Garnett,daughter of Angelica Garnett and David Garnett,with Henrietta already pregnant with their daughter.Sadly,he died suddenly of heart failure on 7th September,1963,only three weeks after the birth of their baby,Sophie Vanessa.He had already been noticed for his writing ability,and had published one well-received book,'A History of Orgies' (1958). Frances sold Ham Spray and moved to London.She was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Millennium New Year Honours. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template, altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2009., 5, Trade Paperback. Book and Outer Cover are in Excellent Condition, Like New. 299 pgs. HISTORY LOCAL > ONTARIO > TORONTO,Overall Rating: EXCELLENT CONDITION, LIKE NEW. SHIPS FROM ONTARIO. Title: Toronto's Gril Problem, The Perils and Pleasures of the City, 1880 - 1930. Author: Strange, Carolyn Publisher: University of Toronto Press Incorporated, Toronto, ON, 1995ISBN: 0-8020-7203-8 With the turn of the century came increased industrialization and urbanization, and in Toronto one of the most visible results of this modernization was the influx of young, single women to the city. They came seeking work, independence, and excitement, but they were not to realize these goals without contention.Carolyn Strange examines the rise of the Toronto 'working girl,' the various agencies that 'discovered' her, the nature of 'the girl problem' from the point of view of moral overseers, the various strategies devised to solve this 'problem,' and lastly, the young women's responses to moral regulation. The 'working girl' seemed a problem to reformers, evangelists, social investigators, police, the courts, and journalists - men, mostly, who saw women's debasement as certain and appointed themselves as protectors of morality. They portrayed single women as victims of potential economic and sexual exploitation and urban immorality. Such characterization drew attention away from the greater problems these women faced: poverty, unemployment, poor housing and nutrition, and low wages.In the course of her investigation, Strange suggests fresh approaches to working-class and urban history. Her sources include the census, court papers, newspaper accounts, philanthropic society reports, and royal commissions, but Strange also employs less conventional sources, such as photographs and popular songs. She approaches the topic from a feminist viewpoint that is equally sensitive to the class and racial dimensions of the 'girl problem,' and compares her findings with the emergence of the working woman in contemporary United States and Great Britain.The overriding observation is that Torontonians projected their fears and hopes about urban industrialization onto the figure of the working girl. Young women were regulated from factories and offices, to streetcars and dancehalls, in an effort to control the deleterious effects of industrial capitalism. By the First World War however, their value as contributors to the expanding economy began to outweigh fear of their moral endangerment. As Torontonians grew accustomed to life in the industrial metropolis, the 'working girl' came to be seen as a valuable resource., University of Toronto Press, 1995, 5.5<

2001, ISBN: 9780802072030

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Cassell and Co, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. "In this ground-breaking and controversial new book, Marin van Creveld argues that while sexual equality might be desirable in the… Mehr…

Cassell and Co, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. "In this ground-breaking and controversial new book, Marin van Creveld argues that while sexual equality might be desirable in the civilian world, the job of waging war should be left exclusively to men. In the army, traditional gender roles are there for a reason, and political correctness not only puts national security at risk, but also endangers the lives of those very soldiers who are there to protect us" (jacket). Dark green cloth boards with gilt title to spine. In olive green jacket with black and white title to spine and front panels. Clean. 287 pages. MIL/032321., Cassell and Co, 2001, 5, Trade Paperback. Book and Outer Cover are in Excellent Condition, Like New. 299 pgs. HISTORY LOCAL > ONTARIO > TORONTO,Overall Rating: EXCELLENT CONDITION, LIKE NEW. SHIPS FROM ONTARIO. Title: Toronto's Gril Problem, The Perils and Pleasures of the City, 1880 - 1930. Author: Strange, Carolyn Publisher: University of Toronto Press Incorporated, Toronto, ON, 1995ISBN: 0-8020-7203-8 With the turn of the century came increased industrialization and urbanization, and in Toronto one of the most visible results of this modernization was the influx of young, single women to the city. They came seeking work, independence, and excitement, but they were not to realize these goals without contention.Carolyn Strange examines the rise of the Toronto 'working girl,' the various agencies that 'discovered' her, the nature of 'the girl problem' from the point of view of moral overseers, the various strategies devised to solve this 'problem,' and lastly, the young women's responses to moral regulation. The 'working girl' seemed a problem to reformers, evangelists, social investigators, police, the courts, and journalists - men, mostly, who saw women's debasement as certain and appointed themselves as protectors of morality. They portrayed single women as victims of potential economic and sexual exploitation and urban immorality. Such characterization drew attention away from the greater problems these women faced: poverty, unemployment, poor housing and nutrition, and low wages.In the course of her investigation, Strange suggests fresh approaches to working-class and urban history. Her sources include the census, court papers, newspaper accounts, philanthropic society reports, and royal commissions, but Strange also employs less conventional sources, such as photographs and popular songs. She approaches the topic from a feminist viewpoint that is equally sensitive to the class and racial dimensions of the 'girl problem,' and compares her findings with the emergence of the working woman in contemporary United States and Great Britain.The overriding observation is that Torontonians projected their fears and hopes about urban industrialization onto the figure of the working girl. Young women were regulated from factories and offices, to streetcars and dancehalls, in an effort to control the deleterious effects of industrial capitalism. By the First World War however, their value as contributors to the expanding economy began to outweigh fear of their moral endangerment. As Torontonians grew accustomed to life in the industrial metropolis, the 'working girl' came to be seen as a valuable resource., University of Toronto Press, 1995, 5.5<