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Crossette, Barbara: The Great Hill Stations of Asia
Hardcover, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1999 0813333261 / 9780813333267
Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket, Small red remainder mark at bottom of page ends. Inner front jacket corner is price-clipped. Text clean and unmarked. "Upon arriving in India, the first English settlers found the humid, unforgiving climate almost unbearable. Malaria, cholera, and dysentery ravaged their beleaguered ranks, making the average life span for both men and women no more than 30 years. To escape these epidemics, they found refuge in the temperate climate of the hills. Above the clouds, Europeans built numerous hill stations, not just in India, but also in Burma, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Indonesia. From the luxury of these curious establishments, they ruled their colonies with imperial aplomb. Colonialism lapsed and the foreigners were eventually expelled from these countries, yet the hill stations still remain. In early 1997, Barbara Crossette, the United Nations bureau chief for the New York Times, embarked upon an ambitious journey through Asia to visit the hill stations that still function as tourist attractions. Part travel narrative, part historical retrospective, Crossette's book eloquently depicts each region's history, politics, religion, and economics in a series of thoughtful reports."
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Grafton, Carol Belanger: Pictorial Archive of Decorative and Illustrative Mortised Cuts : 551 Designs for Advertising and Other Uses
Softcover, Dover Publications, New York, NY, 1984 0486245403 / 9780486245409
Very Good, Dover Pictorial Archive; 0.4 x 10.7 x 8.6 Inches; 112 pages; Tall softcover with minor edge wear. Illustrations clean and unmarked. 551 designs, all include a mortised area that is left blank for adding type or any other decoration you might want to use. Scroll-carrying town criers, placard-draped "sandwich-board" carriers, blank books, women holding cards, flowered frames, bottles, trains, horse-drawn carts and much more.
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Grafton, Carol Belanger: Trades and Occupations : A Pictorial Archive from Early Sources
Softcover, Dover Publications, New York, NY, 1990 0486263622 / 9780486263625
Very Good-, Dover Pictorial Archive; 0.55 x 11.81 x 8.9 Inches; 208 pages; Minor edge wear, a light tea stain at top of page ends. Text clean and unmarked. "Over 1,100 ready-to-use illustrations selected from rare original sources, mostly 19th-century, featuring men and women in both familiar and unusual trades and occupations, from policeman and fireman, doctor and nurse to bell ringer, chimney sweep, musician and sculptor."
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Greenlaw, Linda: The Hungry Ocean : A Swordboat Captain's Journey
Softcover, Hyperion, New York, NY, 2000 0786885416 / 9780786885411
Very Good, 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.2 Inches; 288 pages; Minor edge wear, small crease at bottom corner of cover. Text clean and unmarked. "In the bestseller 'A Perfect Storm', Sebastian Junger describes Linda Greenlaw as 'one of the best sea captains, period, on the East Coast.'. Now Greenlaw tells her own story of a riveting thirty-day swordfishing voyage, complete with danger, humor, and characters so colorful they seem to have been ripped from the pages of 'Moby Dick'."
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Kronenberger, Louis: Kings and Desperate Men : Life in Eighteenth-Century England
Softcover, Vintage Books, New York, NY, 1942
Very Good-, Minor edge wear, former owner's name and address inside cover and name in pen across first page. Text is clean and unmarked. "A picture of 18th-century England until the time of the French Revolution. A social chronicle of personalities and ideas, manners and tastes, rather than an orthodox history book. A picturesque, rich and varied portrait."
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Kurlansky, Mark: The Basque History of the World :
Softcover, Vintage Books, New York, NY, 2000 0099284138 / 9780099284130
Very Good+, 0.8 x 7.6 x 5.1 Inches; 387 pages; Large softcover, very slight edge wear. Top corner is somewhat bent. Text clean and unmarked. "Straddling the border of southern France and northern Spain, the land of the Basques has long been home to a people who had no country of their own but have always viewed themselves as a nation. In this marvelous work of cultural history and appreciation, Kurlansky traces Basque history from pre-Roman times, when Basques worked as the mercenaries of Carthage, to the region's recent renaissance in language and arts. Along the way, he explains how the Basques came to be among Europe's first whalers, capitalists, explorers, industrialists and international traders. As he did in Cod, Kurlansky fuses political and economic history with delightful digressions into cultural and culinary traditions (several delicious recipes are included). The book is as politically loaded with opinion as it is culturally informative: Kurlansky expresses sympathy for the cause of Basque independence, arguing that many of Spain's current policies toward its Basque minority are holdovers from the repressive Franco regime. He also tends to accept the claim that the Basques "are the original Europeans," largely on the ground that Euskera, the Basque language, appears to have no linguistic relative and is likely the oldest European language still spoken. For all the ground it covers, this wildly informative work is a marvel of clarity, glittering with unusual facts and marked by penetrating insights into a people always "making complex choices about the degree of independence that was needed to preserve their way of life, while looking to the rest of the world for commercial opportunities to ensure their prosperity." "
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Laas, William: Crossroads of the World : The Story of Times Square
Softcover, Popular Library, New York, NY, 1965 B0007EEYQA
Good+, 159 pages; Paperback with minor edge wear, scuff on spine where sticker was removed and two small red marks on either side of scuff. Many b&w photos of New York City's Times Square, with historical facts, details about the architecture, people, businesses, and events that make this "one of the most exciting places on earth".
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Newman, Peter C.: Company of Adventurers : Volume One (1): The Story of the Hudson's Bay Company
Softcover, Penguin Books, New York, NY, 1987 014010139X / 9780140101393
Very Good-, 1.18 x 7.72 x 5.12 Inches; 608 pages; Some edge wear, a few light spots at top of page ends. Text clean and unmarked. "There has never been a business enterprise like it: at its height, the Hudson's Bay Company's territory covered one-twelfth of the earth's surface and was ten times the size of the Holy Roman Empire. Its domain stretched from London across Canada, down to San Francisco and across the Pacific to Hawaii. Its founders tamed a wilderness, and, in building the world's largest private commercial empire, they shaped the destiny of a continent."
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Sommer, John G.: Empowering the Oppressed : Grassroots Advocacy Movements in India
Softcover, Sage Publications, New Delhi, India, 2001 0761995730 / 9780761995739
Good+, 0.49 x 8.51 x 5.51 Inches; 206 pages; Minor edge wear, water stain at bottom corner of cover and first few pages. Bottom corner of front cover has laminate peeling from paper. Text clean and unmarked. "Traditional approaches to development have not proven equal to the task of ensuring a just society, especially for the most socially, economically, and psychologically oppressed peoples. The unique individuals and groups introduced in this book recognize that a qualitative and sustainable improvement in the lives of the most downtrodden- those battling discrimination by gender, class, or caste- can be achieved only when the root causes of their oppression are addressed, not just its symptoms. Not only have these leaders and their organizations found strikingly effective and innovative ways by which people may secure their human and civil rights and realign power relations in society; they have also enabled the marginalized poor to pursue their own interests and their own struggles for justice and equality."
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Zeigler, Alexis: Culture Change : Civil Liberty, Peak Oil, and the End of Empire
Softcover, Ecodem Press, Charlottesville, VA, 2007 0966504828 / 9780966504828
Near Fine, Slight edge wear, looks almost new. "The political resistance movements that developed in the twentieth century were adapted to conditions of economic growth. Those movements cannot, as they are currently structured, guide us through the coming age of declining civil liberties, growing fundamentalism and militarism, and the worsening environmental crisis."
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