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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, 1978. Examines the scientific claims of Marxism, the development of communist theory and practice in the Soviet Union, and the phenomenon of Eurocommunism, concluding that Marxism is not a rational philosophy but a religion and predicting that the Soviet Union, as a multinational empire, is unlikely to survive for more than a few decades (dust jacket has large chip and small tears on edges, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pittsburgh Center for International Studies, 1975. Trade Paperback. Very Good. This book, a product of the Comparative Communism Program of Pittsburgh, is a comparative study of existing socialist systems, divided into four sections: the first deals with theoretical comparisions by using classification schemes, the second is devoted to comparisons of the political system, the third concentrates on the economics of socialist systems, and the fourth provides a summary an integration of the major findings of the volume (very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Amherst, MA, U.S.A.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987. Bright red cloth with some corner wear, otherwise very good. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1980. This book examinesf the changing status of women's work and social position through history; drawing on a wide range of anthropological and historical evidence, the author shows that in primitive societies women's work was crucial to survival and that their social position reflected their economic importance, but that women's status declined under slavery, feudalism and merchant capitalism; industrialization has reduced the status of many women, but enabled some to rise through education and the demand for skillled labor (cover has some edgewear; dust jacket slightly sunned). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London, England, U.K.: European Jewish Publications, 1970. Paperback. Very Good. An issue of the publication Jews in Eastern Europe: A Periodical Survey of Events, which includes reports on individual cases, trials, arrests of Jews in the Soviet Union, statements, letters to the United Nations, etc. (yellow cover with black lettering, pages darkened)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Sheridan Square Publications, 1984. Trade Paperback. Fine. This book is the first in-depth analysis of the world of counterintelligence; it examines the battle between the CIA's Clandestine Services and its Soviet counterparts, the foreign directorates of the KGB and the GRU; the author was a career intelligence officer in the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, with undercover service in Cuba and Mexico; introduction by Thomas Powers (cover price effaced, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York: Quartet Books, 1982. Reprint (Orig Pub 1981). Hard Cover. As New/Very Good. A series of essays on the Palestinian question drawn from the speeches and writings of a Palestinian who served as Jordan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations

Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.: Stackpole Books, 1970. This book applies a Marxist conceptual framework to the study of industrial relations,; it examines Marxist theories of class consciousness, collective bargaining, and revolutionary politics in terms of sociological data from Britain, Russia, the United States, China, and Yugoslavia (price-clipped dust jacket with slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean copy). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Essex, England, U.K.: Longman, 1981. Trade Paperback. Very Good. In this book the author gives an account of the main characteristics of parties and pressure groups in Britain, within the context of their roles in the political system; it focuses on their policies, goals, and organization and relates their growth and behavior both to theories of democracy and to British history during the last century; relevant case studies are used to illustrate the actual working of parties and pressure groups; particular attention is given to major factions and sub-groups within the parties and to the main parties which rose to prominence in the 1970s; a final section assesses the impact of parties and pressure groups on the political system as a whole (green cover with minor shelf and edge wear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Haworth Press, 1983. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A collection of essays whose purpose is to discuss menstration from a feminist perspective; originally published as Women & Health, Volume 8, Number 2/3, Summer/Fall 1983 (red & white cover, slight edgewear,, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A: Latin American Studies Association, 1976. Paperback. Very Good. An issue of the journal with articles on Catholicism in Brazil, Latin American Studies in the United States, income distribution in Latin America, and the Cuban Modernist poet Julian del Casal, as well as research notes and reports and book reviews (cover has slight edgewear, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A: Praeger Publishers, 1983. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This study was carried out under the auspices of the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University and proceeds from the assumption that most of the military and political conflict in the future will take place in the Third World; it addresses itself to a series of questions: how aggressive a policy is the Soviet leadership likely to follow in the Third World, how much priority will be given to the Third World in Soviet strategic planning, what are the Soviet instrumentalities for developing relationships in the Third World, and what factors are likely to enhance or obstruct Soviet progress in Third World countries? (red cloth with gold lettering, slight edgewear, free front endpaper removed, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, 1975. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Condition: slight edgewear; collection of papers from conference on the economic decline of metropolitan areas, with numerous charts & tables

London, England, U.K.: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. A critical reappraisal of the relevance of Marxian analysis for a science of society which shows how various developments within sociology have had their counterparts in Marxism; the author analyses the status of Marx's work and the Marxist tradition in sociology and focuses upon those concerns which are common to both Marxian analysis and sociology (pages slightly yellowed, otherwise a bright, clean copy)

Cranbury, NJ, U.S.A.: Bucknell University Press, 1985. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. A collection of eight essays that illustrate the variety and intensity of contemporry literary criticism (charcoal grey cloth with gold lettering; dust jacket has slight wear, repaired tear, and a few creases along upper and lower edges, otherwise a bright, clean copy)

London, England, U.K.: Robert Hall, 1957. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. The author was a British District Officer in Kenya for 20 years, includes map and photographs (tan cloth with gold lettering, one corner creased, previous owner's inscription on ffep, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)

Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 1989. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A volume in the Lives of the Left series of biographies of leading figures in the European and North American socialist and labor movements; William Lovett, one of the most important working class leaders of the 19th century, was a self-educated artisan described as the "Father of Chartism" because he helped to draft the "People's Charter" with its famous six democratic demands; Lovett was a proponent of a free press, free education, and women's rights; in the 1840s he was a member of the Complete Suffrage movement, which sought to unite radicals of all classes in the struggle for reform (pages slightly yellowed, otherwise a good, bright, clean copy)

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A: Harvard University Press, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A publication of the MIT/Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, this study examines methods of evaluating school systems, the impact of school resources on student achievement, obstacles to efficiency, and the causes and magnitude of inequality of opportunity (first page has slight crease, otherwise a bright, clean copy)

East Haven, CT, U.S.A: Pluto Press, 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good. The central purpose of this book is to arrive at a critical view of the conventional state of thought on art and aesthetics; the central argument is that art is not a quality but a category, and that aesthetics is not primarily about art, contrary to the orthodox philosophical presumption (cover has slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

New York, NY, U.S.A.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1936. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Selected works (not excerpts) of 18th century British writers, including Swift, Pope, Gay, Chesterfeld, Sterne, Walpole, Sheridan, Gibbon, Blake (beige cloth, faded gold lettering, spine darkened, end papers slightly foxed, former owner's bookplate on pastedown, otherwise a good, clean, sturdy copy)