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N.Y., Knopf, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. 225 p. First edition. ââ¬ÂWe can no longer afford freedom," says B. F. Skinner, the most influential and controversial psychologist of our time; "we must design our culture to shape the behavior needed for survival.ââ¬Â Third printing, October, 1971, no dj/ brown cloth, pencil underlining, $7.50. Stock#26413a.
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Beyond Freedom and Dignity
by Skinner, B. F. (Burrhus Frederic, 1904-1990)
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An Echo in My Blood: The Search for a Family's Hidden Past.
by Weisman, Alan.
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San Diego, Harcourt Brace, 1999.. 3 p.l., 426 p. Born in Minneapolis of Russian Jewish immigrants, the journalist author "discovers a universal reality that all immigrant families, in order to survive in a new world, must create protective myths." This book delves into the author's concerns for Latin America, and the failed War on Drugs; on ecology and environmental degradation and Bush I's lack of concern for it; his father's service in the 30th Infantry, 3rd Division in World War II; of pursuing the question of his grandfather's murder in Russia; and many other subjects. Fine except for a Library of Congress surplus stamp on the flyleaf. Stock #101,289. Autobiography
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In Pharaoh's Army : Memories of the Lost War / Tobias Wolff.
by Wolff, Tobias, 1945- .
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New York : Vintage, Distributed by Random House, 1995. First published 1994. "Traversing an arc that leads from paratroopers' jump school to the carnage of the Tet offensive, Wolf re-creates a war where survival depends less on skill than it does on luck." Soft Cover. [16], 221 pages; 20.5 cm. New. Stock#NEU031x.
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by Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960.
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Morrow, NY, 1957. Hard Cover. Fourth printing (dj says 5th). 320 p., 21 cm. Novel of the few surviving humans after an atomic war. dj edges chipped; good+. 34360.
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Only One Earth. The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet.
by Ward, Barbara Mary (Lady Jackson), 1914-1981, & Dubos, René Jules, 1901-1982. Strong, Maurice F.
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W.W. Norton, NY [c1972]. 'First Edition' but BOMC. This book marks the beginning of awareness of environmental peril. Contents include Committee of Corresponding Consultants; The Planet's Unity (The World We Inherit; An Unintended Order); The Unities of Science (Energy and Matter; The Alphabet of Time; A Delicate Balance); The Problems of High Technology (The Discontinuities of Development; The Price of Pollution; Man's Use and Abuse of the Land; The Balance of Resources); The Developing Regions (Profile of Development; Policies for Growth; Problems of Human Settlements); A Planetary Order (The Shared Biosphere; Coexistence in the Technosphere; Strategies for Survival). "An Unofficial Report Commissioned by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, Prepared with the Assistance of a 152-Member Committee of Corresponding Consultants in 58 Countries." Hard Cover. xxv, 225 pages, index; 21.5 cm. Pictorial dj; minor wear; VG. stock#883.
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The Raft.
by Trumbull, Robert, 1912-1992. Dixon, Harold F., 1902-1987.
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"Experiences of three Navy flyers, H. F. Dixon, Tony Pastula, and Gene Aldrich, who spent 34 days on a rubber raft, as told by Dixon to the author." Flying anti-submarine patrol from the U.S.S. Enterprise in January 1942, the Douglas TBD Devastator ran out of gas and the three men-- pilot Harold F. Dixon (1902-1987); radioman Gene Aldrich (1919-1973); andbombardier Anthony J. "Tony" Pastula (1917-1982)-- drifted 1000 miles until they landed at Pukapuka in the Cook Islands. 205 pages, plates; 20.5 cm. Stock#48080.
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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. Selected and Translated by Barbara Vedder
by Borowski, Tadeusz, 1922-1951
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NY, Penguin Books [1980, c1976]. Soft Cover. 180 p.; 19.5 cm. Introduction, by Jan Kott, translated by Michael Kandel. Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics. Borowski spent two years as a Polish political prisoner in Auschwitz and Dachau. "Published in Poland after World War II, Tadeusz Borowski's concentration-camp stories show atrocious crimes becoming an unremarkable part of a daily routine. Prisoners eat, work, sleep, and fall in love a few yards from where other prisoners are systematically slaughtered. The will to survive..." Stock#40574. Good+/ paper.
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Two Old Women. An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival. Illustrations by Jim Grant
by Wallis, Velma. Grant, Jim, illustrator
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HarperPerennial [1994; c1993]. Soft Cover. xiii, 140, [3] p., illus.; 18 cm. Ch'idzigyaak and Sa', left behind by their starving tribe, survive much of the Alaskan winter on their wits and accumulated knowledge; reunion with the still-starving tribe points up the usefulness of ancient knowledge as well as young strength. ISBN 0060975849. Paper; minor wear; VG. stock#46817.
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Hillenbrand, Laura. [Zamperini, Louis, 1917- ]
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NY, Random House, é2010. Hard Cover. xviii, 473 p., illus., map; 25 cm. "Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor." ISBN (10): 1400064163. Stock#46837. Vg / dj vg.
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The Unknown Shore
by O'Brian, Patrick, 1914-2000
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Norton c1959; 1st Norton paperback 1996]. Soft Cover. 313 p.; 21 cm. O'Brian recounts the adventures and survival of two young men aboard the Wager, driven aground on the Chilean coast during violent winter storms. This is the dark side of, and companion volume to, The Golden Ocean. Color pictorial paper covers; VG. stock#44929.
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