Search Results: Political Theory from Minotavros Books

Amstelodami: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1660. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 48mo. Full vellum binding. Spine lettered. Decorative gilt tooling on spine. All edges in red. 575 p.p., [23] p.p. index. Includes engraved title-page. Ogier Ghislain Busbecq [1522-1592] was a Flemmish writer and diplomat, who was ambassador to the Ottomon Empire at Constantinople, in 1554 and 1556, under the reign of Suleyman I. Bubescq later served as a councillor to Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I in 1562. The book contains Busbecq's four letters of the Turkish Embassy, military affairs, the embassy to Suleyman and Ferdinand, an letter to Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II, and a look at the life of the author. Bookplate of Frederick J.0. Montagu to front pastedown. Vellum soiled. Spine darkened, with lettering and gilt faded. Front inner hinge cracked. Top-edge of front free endpaper cut out [31.75mm x 12.7mm]. Sporadic foxing. Some dog-eared pages and chip to lower corner of p. 39, not affecting text. Else a… Read More

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 287 pp. Light sunning to spine, spot of fading to upper corner of front cover. Else fine. Controversies over such issues as nuclear waste, genetically modified organisms, asbestos, tobacco, gene therapy, avian flu, and cell phone towers arise almost daily as rapid scientific and technological advances create uncertainty and bring about unforeseen concerns. The authors of Acting in an Uncertain World argue that political institutions must be expanded and improved to manage these controversies, to transform them into productive conversations, and to bring about "technical democracy." They show how "hybrid forums" -- in which experts, non-experts, ordinary citizens, and politicians come together -- reveal the limits of traditional delegative democracies, in which decisions are made by quasi-professional politicians and techno-scientific information is the domain of specialists in laboratories. The division between professionals and… Read More

Edinburgh: AK Press, 1999. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 352 pp. Fine. Murray Bookchin has been a dynamic revolutionary propagandist since the 1930s when, as a teenager, he orated before socialist crowds in New York City and engaged in support work for those fighting Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Now, for the first time in book form, this volume presents a series of exciting and engaging interviews with, and essays from, the founder of Social Ecology.

St. James, New York: Brandywine Press, 1996. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First printing stated. Soft cover. xiii, 114 pp. Spine and extremities sunned, some rubbing to covers.

Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles, 1989. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The Augustan Reprint Society. Orig. tan card wrappers, sewn and glued. xii, 67 pp. Sunned to spine and offset panel to front cover, crease to rear cover, else fine. With an introduction by H.T. Dickinson.

New: New York University Press, 2000. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. With a new introduction by Eric Hobsbawm. Soft cover. 447 pp. Some slight sunning to spine and joints, curling to front cover, else fine.

Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo (tall). Soft cover, 89 p.p. Creasing and wear to spine and joints, light edge wear, some chafing to covers. Text is clean. A collection of essays by former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau written in the late 1950s, collected and published in English for the first time. Besides being a fascinating commentary on the state of Quebec politics before the Quiet Revolution, the essays form a clear, simple, sober statement of the author's considered conclusions on the relations between the individual and the state, on the sources of political power, and on the nature of politics, justice, and democracy.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. The First Reith Lectures for 1948-9. Orig. green cloth boards. 125 pp. Spine tilted, foxing to cloth. Dust jacket is sunned and rubbed to extremities, open tears to head of rear cover.

Lagos: Federal Ministry of Information, 1967. Soft cover. Near Fine. 5" x 8.25" Orig. card wraps. 15 pp. B&W photos in text. Wraps are age toned, some rust staining from staples to rear. Rear cover reads "To Keep Nigeria One is a Task That Must Be Done." Published just months before the outbreak of the civil war in Nigeria. "As I have warned before, my duty is clear - faced with this final choice between action to save Nigeria and acquiescence in secession and disintegration. I am therefore proclaiming a state of emergency throughout Nigeria with immediate effect. I have assumed full powers as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Head of the Federal Military Government for the short period necessary to carry through the measures which are now urgently required." - Major-General Yakubu Gowon, p. 2.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. vii, [3], 385 pp. Light curling to front cover. Age toning to edges of pages. Else fine. The Body in Pain is a profoundly original meditation on the vulnerability of the human body and the literary, political, philosophical, medical, and religious vocabularies used to describe it. Scarry bases her analysis on a wide array of sources, including literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture compiled by Amnesty International, and the writings of such figures as Clausewitz, Churchill, and Kissinger. The author begins with the fact of pain's inexpressibility, noting not only the difficulty of describing pain, but its ability to destroy a sufferer's language. She then analyzes the political consequences of deliberately inflicted pain, particularly in cases of war and torture, showing how regimes "unmake" an individual's world in their exercise of power.

London: Everyman's Library, 1975. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 18mo. Orig. orange cloth. xiv, 241 pp. Fine. Sir Thomas Elyot's The Book named The Governor, first published in 1531, is a composite treatise dealing with political theory, education, and moral philosophy; it seeks to set out a way of life for members of the English governing class.

Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2014. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Half black cloth, black paper boards. viii, 685 pp. A few very minor bumps to edges of dust jacket. Fine condition. What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. In this book, Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.

New York: The Modern Library, 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 18mo. Orig. blue cloth. xxvi, 29 pp. Spine tilted. Light rubbing to extremities. Dust jacket is age toned, rubbed to extremities, a few short tears. With an essay on Marxism by Vladimir Lenin.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. grey cloth. xxxi, 882 pp. Spine tilted, toning to edges of boards. Light rubbing to extremities. Foxing to edges of text block. Light soiling to gutter of front endpapers. Interior age toned. Dust jacket is age toned, foxed, rubbed to extremities, a few short tears, long tear to foot of front cover.

Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. xvi, 392 pp. B&W photos in text. Fine.

Chicago: Good News Publishers, 1949. Soft cover. Very Good. 18mo. Orig. red card wraps, staple bound. 61 pp. Light damp staining to front cover, and some pink offsetting from this to title page. Lightly worn at spine and rear cover. Stamp of First Pentecostal Holiness Church to title page.

Clarkson, Ontario: Canadian Peace Research Institute, 1968. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. In Your Opinion Volume II. Orig. yellow wraps. 209 pp. Spine and edges sunned. Sticker ghost to spine head. Creasing to head of rear cover.

Berlin: Panorama DDR, 1978. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo. Orig. orange wraps, glued binding. 96 pp. [16 pp.] B&W photo plates. Some light edge wear, small black stain to foot of front cover, some residual adhesive to rear cover.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. Still in shrink wrap. Approx. 320 p.p. [per WorldCat]. Dada, the international revolutionary artistic and political movement, emerged amid the unprecedented carnage of the First World War. Although short-lived, the movement - a heady mix of anarchy and nihilism combined with a lethal dash of humor - produced a vast amount of polemical and creative work in both art and literature. The Dada Reader provides the first representative selection of some key texts, many of which have never before been available in English.

Muscatine, Iowa: The Stanley Foundation, 1983. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. The Stanley Foundation, Occasional Paper 34. Original orange printed wraps, staple bound. 24 pp. Fine. In this paper, Davidow first briefly explains the struggle that turned Rhodesia into Zimbabwe and then develops a series of lessons concerning the nature of political leadership, the role of mediators in conflict resolution, the utility of international economic sanctions, and the problems of ethnic tensions which can be garnered from the Zimbabwean experience.