Survival from The Owl at the Bridge

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… Read more about this item

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.

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.

N.Y., Knopf, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. 225 p. First edition. ”We 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.” Third printing, October, 1971, no dj/ brown cloth, pencil underlining, $7.50. Stock#26413a.

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… Read more about this item