Search Results: Titles starting with U from Zeno's

Tokyo. 1986. Kodansha. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0870117750 . 279 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Literature Translated Japan Asia Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This is an anthology of stories about women in Japanese society. It includes works by Dazai, Oe, Abe, and other celebrated Japanese writers. The stories presented reflect traditional women's roles while showing what radical changes have taken place, especially since World War II. inventory #3849 ISBN: 0870117750 .

New York. 1999. New Directions. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0811214214. Translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth. 238 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Literature Croatia Yugoslavia Women Translated Eastern Europe. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The Museum of Unconditional Surrender - by the renowned Yugoslavian writer Dubravka Ugresic - begins in the Berlin Zoo, with the contents of Roland the Walrus's stomach displayed beside his pool (Roland died in August, 1961). These objects - a cigarette lighter, lollipop sticks, a beer-bottle opener, etc. - like the fictional pieces of the novel itself, are seemingly random at first, but eventually coalesce, meaningfully and poetically. Written in a variety of literary forms, The Museum of Unconditional Surrender captures the shattered world of a life in exile. Some chapters are written in compact and beautiful prose fragments. Another chapter re-creates the daily journal of the narrator's lonely and alienated mother, who shops at the… Read More

New York. 2002. October 2002. Library of America. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1931082278. 880 pages. hardcover. Design by Doyle Partners. keywords: Literature Anthology Los Angeles. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In WRITING LOS ANGELES: A LITERARY ANTHOLOGY, The Library of America presents a glittering panorama m fiction, poetry, essays, journalism, and diaries by more than seventy writers. Beginning with Helen Hunt Jackson's romantic portrayal of the city's early days, the anthology covers a century's worth of Los Angeles writing. It brings to life the entrancing surfaces and unsettling contradictions of the City of Angels, from Raymond Chandler's evocation of murderous moods fed by the Santa Ana winds to John Gregory Dunne's affectionate tribute to ‘the deceptive perspectives of the pale subtropical light.' Here are fascinating strata of Los Angeles history, from the 1920s oil boom and the 1940s Zoot Suit Riots to 1950s beat culture and 1980s graffiti art, from… Read More

Deephaven. 2002. Meadowbrook. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0881660191. 135 pages. paperback. . keywords: Childcare Discipline. FROM THE PUBLISHER - YOU CAN HANDLE YOUR CHILD'S BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS WITHOUT SHOUTING OR SPANKING Discipline Without Shouting or Spanking offers effective, practical, nonviolent options for correcting the most common behavior problems of preschoolers. You will learn how to deal with misbehavior including temper tantrums, whining, negativity, sibling rivalry, possessiveness, aggressive behavior, resisting bedtime, playing with food, and many more problems -- without shouting or spanking. The authors' advice will help you be a more effective parent and discipline your child in a loving yet firm way, without damaging self-esteem or natural curiosity about the world. This easy-to-use text has been formatted like a first-aid manual for handling misbehavior. inventory #41003 ISBN: 0881660191.

Kansas City. 1997. Andrews & McMeel. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0836227735. 256 pages. hardcover. . keywords: FBI History America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In a hot June morning in 1933, 4 lawmen were brutally murdered in the parking lot of Kansas City's Union Station, among them an agent from the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation. Within hours, the bureaus' young director swore his men to vengeance. Out of this carnage of the massacre would grow the modern FBI and its legendary leader, J. Edgar Hoover. The author claims that Hoover & the FBI framed ‘Pretty Boy' Floyd and Adam Richetti for the murders of 4 lawmen in Kansas City in 1933. He goes on to suggest that Hoover used the publicity generated by this case to build the Bureau into the powerful institution it later became. inventory #24516 ISBN: 0836227735.

Boston. 1983. Houghton Mifflin. 1st American Edition. Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With Some Tears. 0395325269. 443 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Robert Anthony. keywords: Literature England Turkey Constantinople. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Robert Markham is an Englishman in 1908 Constantinople. The Ottoman world is crumbling and Markham is a new appointee to the British legation in Turkey. Twelve years before, he had watched helplessly as his Armenian fiance had been brutally raped and murdered, Now he seeks revenge amid the breakdown of the Turkish empire. inventory #27380 ISBN: 0395325269.

New York. 1997. Doubleday. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0385486510. 251 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Ruth Marten. keywords: Literature England Italy. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Golden Umbria is home to breathtaking scenery and great art; it is also where Hannibal and his invading band of Carthaginians ambushed and slaughtered a Roman legion, and where the local place-names still speak of that bloodshed. Unsworth's contemporary invaders include the Greens, a retired American couple seeking serenity among the Umbrian hills, who are bilked out of their savings by the corrupt English ‘building expert' Stan Blemish; the Chapmans, a British property speculator and his wife, whose dispute with their neighbors over a wall escalates into a feud of nearly medieval proportions; Anders Ritter, a German haunted by the part his father played in a mass killing of Italian hostages in Rome during the Second World War; and Fabio and Arturo, a gay couple who, searching for peace and… Read More

Boston. 1986. March 1986. Houghton Mifflin. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0395354129. 309 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Carol Wald. keywords: Literature England Italy Venice. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A mysterious sculpture of a beautiful and erotic Madonna holds the key to the Fornarini family's secrets. When Raikes, a conservation expert, tries to restore her, he is swept under the statue's spell--and that of Chiara Litsov, a member of the Fornarini family. Raikes finds himself losing all moral grounding as his love for statue and woman intertwine in lust and murder. inventory #27351 ISBN: 0395354129.

New York. 1995. November 1995. Doubleday. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0385479530. 207 pages. hardcover. Jacket art from Bettmann Archive. keywords: Literature England . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Nicholas Barber is a twenty-three-year-old priest who, fearing the wrath of the bishop for breaking his vows of chastity, takes up with a troupe of traveling players. Coming to a small town in the middle of winter, the troupe puts on their usual morality play but gets caught up in a drama of a different kind: a murder has taken place, and a mute-and-deaf girl stands condemned, awaiting execution. Seeing an opportunity to attract a larger audience than ever, the players go through the town collecting information about the murder, which they weave into their next performance. As they perform, the story takes on a life of its own. Soon they learn that their drama is far closer to the dangerous truth than they originally imagined - and they are summoned to perform for the local potentate, the… Read More

New York. 1999. Doubleday. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0385486529. 339 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Literature England Lord Nelson. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Barry Unsworth, author of the Booker Prize-winning Sacred Hunger and the bestselling Morality Play, has long established his genius for both historical narrative and for sharply observed, fantastically odd characters and stories. In Losing Nelson, Unsworth's most brilliantly imagined novel yet and a nominee for the Booker Prize, he has enlisted all these proven talents in a way unprecedented in his earlier work. Every day, Charles Cleasby relives the events of Lord Horatio Nelson's life. He holds no regard for year-by-year chronology, so his life is a bustle of anniversaries: a political confrontation in 1797, for instance, might be followed immediately by a climactic sea battle in 1805. He reenacts the battles in his basement on a huge blue-glass table, moving the perfectly rendered ships that represent Nelson's Royal… Read More

Princeton. 2011. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780691149493. 144 pages. paperback. . keywords: NATURAL HISTORY BIRDS . FROM THE PUBLISHER - THE BEST FULL-COLOR ATLAS OF THE WORLD'S BIRDS. The Atlas of Birds captures the breathtaking diversity of birdlife around the world. This authoritative and full-color atlas features stunning maps that show where birds are found and explain their distribution, with numerous photos and illustrations that showcase the most interesting aspects of bird behavior. Conservation is highlighted throughout, backed up by the very latest findings from BirdLife International on the threats birds face today. The Atlas of Birds looks at the astonishing variety of behavioral adaptations - from flight and feeding to nest building and song - that have enabled birds to thrive in virtually every habitat on Earth. It covers bird evolution, charts key migratory flyways around the globe, and explores the complex relationship between birds… Read More

Boston. 2002. January 2003. Houghton Mifflin. Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in Wrappers. 0618247270. 284 pages. paperback. . keywords: Literature Nepal. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A math teacher and tutor earning a low wage and living in a small apartment with his wife and children, Ramchandra becomes involved in an illicity affair with one of his students, Malati, a beautiful, impoverished young new mother. By the author of Arresting God in Kathmandu. inventory #32331 ISBN: 0618247270.

New York. 1975. Knopf. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394495519. 228 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Neil Fujita. keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - In this brilliant novel, John Updike has created one of his most memorable characters: the Reverend Tom Marshfield - literate, charming, sexual - whose outrageous behavior with the ladies of his flock scandalizes his parish. . . inventory #1329 ISBN: 0394495519.

New York. 1979. Knopf. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394507053. 260 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - John Updike's first collection of new short stories in seven years deals with such problems as divorce and remarriage, parents and children, prostitution and leprosy, extinct mammals and guilt-gems, resigning from a committee and getting in and out of Ethiopia. inventory #1337 ISBN: 0394507053.

San Francisco. 1983. Dennis McMillan Publications. 1st of This Reprinted Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0960998608. Introduction by Philip Jose Farmer. Limited to 1,000 copies. 286 pages. hardcover. Jacket art by George Barr. keywords: Mystery Australia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - A mystery by Upfield that predates the appearance of his famous, half-breed detective Napoleon Bonaparte. A first-rate thriller about an American millionaire who owns the House of Cain. The owner himself is a threefold murderer and offers his lodgings as a haven for murderers wanted by the law. It is with this man that Austiline Thorpe, the beautiful fiancee of Martin Sherwood, becomes involved. inventory #7092 ISBN: 0960998608.

Garden City. 1944. Doubleday Doran. 1st American Edition. Very Slight Watermark On Bottom Corner Of Front Free Endpaper, Otherwise Very Good. . 213 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Mystery Australia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Swift action and brutal violence mark the beginning of Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte's this episode of adventure in the Australian bush country. Crouched under the shade of some cabbage trees, bony looked down the road that led into the Land of Burning Water and saw the tragedy unfold in front of his very eyes. He first noticed the car carrying Police Sergeant Errey trailing a white cloud of dust across the desert. He watched the silver-gray monoplane swoop down over the automobile. Frozen with horror, he saw the bomb explode and a sheet of flame devour the car. Yet, seeing so much, Bony still understood very little until he arrived at the lonely homestead of Mr. Donald McPherson. In record time Bony extricated the identity of the killer pilot from a reluctant informer and… Read More

London. 1960. Heinemann. 1st British Edition. Very Small Bookseller Stamp On Bottom Corner Of Front Free Endpaper, Otherwise Very Good. No Dustjacket . . 208 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Mystery Australia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - The inimitable Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte must penetrate a close-knit group of hard-drinking Irishmen to find the killer of a government officer, who was looking for illicit ‘stills.' inventory #13744

New York. 1973. Ungar. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With A Small Piece Missing From The Top Back. 0804429367. Translated from the German by Donald Daviau. 202 pages. hardcover. Cover: Tim Gaydos. keywords: Literature Austria Germany Translated Drama Literary Criticism. FROM THE PUBLISHER - ARTHUR SCHNITZLER, dramatist, physician, student of depth psychology, devoted his life to portraying the Vienna of the early 1900s—the Vienna not only of the cafe literary circles and of Freud, but also of the final years of the monarchy, and of festering anti-Semitism. As Schnitzler saw it, this Vienna was a world of splendor and exuberance that concealed deception, hypocrisy, and decay. He was able to endow these portrayals with a validity transcending their time. Most Americans associate Arthur Schnitzler with the French film La Ronde, a sophisticated but distorted version of the author's Hands Around (Reigen in German). In a series of scenes, Schnitzler here introduced a… Read More

Berkeley. 2008. University Of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520257023. 1 map. 191 pages. paperback. . keywords: History Revolt Antiquity Slavery. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Although much has been written on Greek and Roman slavery in antiquity, the same cannot be said for slave resistance in this period. Slave revolts have typically been dismissed as historically insignificant or exceptional events resulting from peculiar historical circumstances. In the first in-depth work on this topic to be published in two decades, Theresa Urbainczyk challenges much current thinking by looking beyond the canonical sources to reveal a longer and far more significant history of slave resistance. Her engaging, up-to-date account considers the circumstances of these revolts, looks at slave leaders and how they are recorded in history, explores the aims of slaves, examines attitudes toward freedom and slavery, and more. Dissecting both ancient and modern sources, she finds that the… Read More

New York. 1992. Four Walls Eight Windows. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 094142376x. Translated from the Czech by William Harkins. Foreword by Vaclav Havel. 232 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Literature Translated Czech Eastern Europe Prague. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This book is a great event. Zdenek Urbanek's writings about Prague in the recent dark age turn out to be as wise, as sad, as wakeful, as mordant, as great-souled, as the man who wrote them. Urbanek has an uncommon gift for extracting beauty from bleakness. And his moral poise is extraordinary. - Leon Wieseltier. Asked to describe the theme of On the Sky’s Bottom, Zdenek Urbanek responded that in one way or another each of stories in the book describes the experience of a freely thinking mind inside a county which was, because of the general conditions of the world, compelled to accept a totalitarian regime. Like Havel, Urbanek is ironist, firmly in the modernist tradition of Kafka. Urbanek writes with deep despair and… Read More