new republic basic books (15 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. A VG copy of the stated first hard cover edition, first printing (full number line), the only blemishes being one small intact tear to the dustjacket on the front and a remainder strike on the bottom spine. Not price-clipped.

Hardcover. Etat : Like New. Etat de la jaquette : Like New. Joan Greenfield (Design); Leonie Haimson and James P. Rod (Author Photos); Tom McKeveny (Jacket Design) (illustrateur). 268 pp. Flawless book and dj.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Jordan Isip (Jacket Illustration); Rick Pracher (Jacket Design); Jane Raese (Design) (illustrateur). 1st Edition. 309 pp. Stated first edition and first printing. Solidly bound copy and dust jacket with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Dust jacket shows wear in some places. Light foxing on page edges. Water stains on top edge.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. First Printing. ------------Black spine, dark blue covers, book is 8 1/2" tall. 235 pages.FINE CONDITION- - dust jacket Fine Condition.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Like New. Cynthia Dunne (Jacket Design); Will Faller (Photo); Ellen Levine (Design) (illustrateur). 235 pp. Solidly bound copy and dj with minimal external wear and crisp pages. Relevant newspaper article included from previous owner. Pencil and pen markings throughout text.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. First Edition, stated. ---------White hardcovers, 9 1/2" tall. 433 pages.Book FINE CONDITION- - dust jacket Fine Condition.

Cloth. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 3rd Printing. xvii. Illustrations. End Notes. Index. 222pp. Black cloth spine with silver title and a purple "X" and purple paper over boards. Pictorial Dust Jacket. Author's thesis is that basically African civilization had no impact on Europe. Europe's civilizing influence came from the Greeks alone. She takes to task Cheikh Anta Diop, George G. M. James, and Molefi Kete Asante of Temple University. Author enters the debate with an acknowledged "completely unaware of it" as late as 1991. Hardcover.

Very good in lightly edgeworn, lightly rubbed dust jacket First Printing hardbound Label residue on back jacket.

purple & black 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. 3rd printing (#3 in # line). xvii+222p. notes. index. world history. african history. archaeology. ancient history.~Was Socrates black? Did Aristotle steal his ideas from the library in Alexandria? Do we owe the underlying tenets of our democratic civilization to the Africans? Hardly a week goes by when an article does not appear in a newspaper or magazine by an Afrocentrist writer making such allegations. But so far, no one has responded fully to these Afrocentrist claims or explained why these strange ideas are being circulated, and indeed taught, in American schools and universities. Not Out of Africa is the first book to refute these spurious claims. Mary Lefkowitz examines the ancient evidence and shows how it was misunderstood both in antiquity and in modern times. She explains how we know that Socrates and Cleopatra were Greeks and that Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek philosophers did not steal their ideas from Egyptian sources. Lefkowitz, a distinguished classicist, demonstrates that there has been no modern conspiracy among scholars to conceal the debt of Greece to Egypt and that some of the misconceptions arise from the ancient Greeks' own misunderstanding of Egyptian religions. Not Out of Africa explains why revisionist histories of the ancient world are being written now ~ and perhaps always will be. Modern Afrocentric writers are following a long~established pattern in which peoples, particularly if they regard themselves as having been deprived of a history, seem keen to acquire a glorious past. Lefkowitz explains how the notion that Greek religion and philosophy were derived from Egypt was preserved in the ritual and mythology of Freemasonry, and how extreme Afrocentrists came to allege that what they supposed to be an Egyptian legacy was not just borrowed but actually stolen by the ancient Greeks. This book will be of interest to everyone who cares about the ancient world and its traditions and to all who believe that our civilization has preserved some of the Greeks' best traditions such as democratic government, freedom of speech, learning, and discussion.

Octavo, cloth & boards (hardcover), 260 pp. Fine in dust jacket. Asian History, China, Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, American Philosophy.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. ---Black spine, gilt letters, light colored covers, very thick book, 9 1/2" tall. 610 pages, with b/w photos throughout the book. FINE NEW CONDITION- - dust jacket also Fine New Condition.

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. No Jacket. First Paperback edition. Card covers, pp.309, bw ills. Corruption and tyranny in modern African politics. Fine copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. Heavy Book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The text within the book is clear and bright. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Etat : Good. Publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 8'' x 5''. Contains 297 pp. Tanning to the page margins and in Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. AFRICAN CONTINENT.

Hardcover. Etat : Near fine. Etat de la jaquette : near fine. The first edition, first printing of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Problem From Hell" by Samantha Power. (illustrateur). First Edition / First Printing. Octavo, xxi, 610pp. Hardcover, black spine with title in gilt. A first edition, first printing with full number line on copyright page. Dust along top edge of text block. In publisher's first edition dust jacket, retail price on front flap, light wear along top edge, otherwise near fine. According to Power, a limited run of "a couple hundred" copies were released in the first printing. This important work facilitated Samantha Power's introduction to Senator Barack Obama and eventually her nomination as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. What began as a short paper on the history of American responses to genocide quickly became this Pulitzer Prize-winning work by future United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power. Her other works include The Education of an Idealist and Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World.