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Penguin USA, 1996. Cover bright, minor wear, lt corner folds Pages clean tight Very gently read Movie cast on cover <br></br>From Library Journal: In Gibbons's classic tale, first published in 1932, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds to organize everyone out of their romantic tragedies into the pleasures of normal life. Flora Poste, orphaned at 19, chooses to live with relatives at Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, where cows are named Feckless, Aimless, Pointless, and Graceless, and the proprietors, the dour Starkadder family, are tyrannized by Flora's mysterious aunt, who controls the household from a locked room. Flora's confident and clever management of an alarming cast of eccentrics is only half the pleasure of this novel. The other half is Gibbons's wicked sendup of romantic cliches, from the mad woman in the attic to the druidical peasants with their West Country accents and mystical herbs.. - Sharon Cumberland, Graduate Ctr., CUNY Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. . Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good.

San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1989. Fine 1989 Unread 1st printing in Near Fine Jacket Cover bright, minimal shelfwear Pages clean bright white tight Dust Jacket bright, very lt scuffs, very minor edgewear From Library Journal: The stated purpose of this book is to describe 'what the American archbishops do for a living . . . how they provide leadership . . . spend their time . . . get information . . . make decisions, and . . . communicate with their priests and people.' From interviews with the leaders of 31 archdioceses, the author (a Jesuit priest) provides this information in well-organized, clearly summarized chapters. There are also accessible accounts of the selection of bishops, the relationship of the American church to the Roman papacy, the church as a bureaucracy, and the varied managerial styles of church leaders. A chart allowing visual comparison of similarities and differences among archdioceses would have been helpful, as would an index. - Nancy M. Laskowski, Free Lib. of Philadelphia Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago: Nelson-Hall Publishers , 1991. VG- 1991 2nd Ed 2nd printing Cover bright, minor edge/corner wear sm chips rubs Pages mostly clean bright tight SCATTERED INK UNDERLINING MARKS NOTATIONS THROUGHOUT, HEAVIEST IN FRONT, name on side page edges Book Description: The third edition of this casebook helps students recognize and assess the strengths and weaknesses of moral arguments in the making of public policy. Part one considers the ethics of process: the morally questionable means--violence, deception, and corruption--that are most commonly used by public officials. Part two discusses the ehics of policy: the valuable but often competing ends that public officials strive to achieve. Conflicting values, scarce resources, and stakes as high as life and death combine with the duties of public office to make choices among policy goals controversial and morally difficult. In both parts, each ethical issue is paired with case studies in contemporary American politics. For example, the decision to defend organ transplants in Arizona introduces competing theories of justice; decisions by the FDA to ban AIDS-testing at home and by the New York legislature to ban dwarf-tossing as entertainment in bars illuminate the issues of liberty, paternalism, and moralism. . Second Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1996. Near Fine/Near Fine 1996 1st printing Cover bright, minimal wear Pages clean bright tight, top edge green remainder mark Looks unread Dust Jacket bright, very minor shelfwear to edges, very lt scuffs From Publishers Weekly: In the summer of 1973, Rawlins (Sky's Witness: A Year on the Wind River Range), rebelling against his Mormon family over the Vietnam War, took a job herding sheep in Wyoming's Salt River mountains. Twenty years later, he returned and?using the journal he kept in 1973?has reconstructed those two and a half months on the trail without trying to reinterpret that time from a new perspective. The vivid descriptions of the mountains are breathtaking, and his wry observations on the rigors, and the very real dangers, of a greenhorn's life with a couple thousand uncooperative sheep are refreshingly unromanticized. Rawlins's moments of philosophical introspection, however, are more of an acquired taste: 'Life is all we have. And a bear can kill so easily. I'm not a bear. It's a lonely thing to know.' He also writes poetry and liberally quotes Homer and other classical writers from an anthology he brought along. Rawlins has an increasingly testy time with the other herder on the job (an old friend); his brother drops by (and is chased by a bear); his girlfriend shows up (for a bit of sex and to end their relationship); a chance encounter with some Basque shepherds reveals how amateurish Rawlins's operation actually is. But he learns his job, how to cook, round up wayward sheep and load a skittish pack horse. Toward the end, he sums up this way: 'And after 47 days of... boredom, hunger, accident, storm, terror, mud, darkness, frost, fever, and snow, I felt as if the Devil himself couldn't kill me.' Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. . First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

HighBridge Company, 1994. Good ex-library w/usual stamps stickers Narrated by Dale Harris 4 cassettes play very well Plastic clamshell case some wear Original art inserted inside <br></br>From Harvard Magazine, Sept.-Oct., 1996: Of the various genres belonging to the Western musical tradition, grand opera is perhaps the most foreign to English-speaking listeners....[Harris] produced two series of recorded lectures intended to illuminate these beauties for the general listener, Enjoying Italian Opera and Enjoying Opera. [brought to you by HighBridge Audio] Harris does not presume any musical training on the part of the listener, there are no daunting technical terms...[Harris]...helps the listener situate the works in their historical context....He illustrates his points with well-chosen excerpts from available CDs of the works, with track numbers from the original releases provided. <br></br> From Audio Publishers Association:<br> Winner of the Audie Award for Best Original Work of 1995 . Abridged Audiobook. Good/Good. Ex-Library.