A Grouping of Six Late 19th and Early 20th Century Wedding Invitations
Various Publishers and Places.
Society
The Imaginary Library: An Essay on Literature and Society [Princeton Essays in Literature]
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. Hardcover. 8vo., 187 pp. Signed by the author. A speculative treatment of literature as a social institution which explores the inability of contemporary writers and critics to maintain a literary vision in a society that denies their values and methods.
The Most Distressful Nation: The Taming of the American Irish
Chicago: Quadrangle, 1972. Hardcover.
A Guidebook to Newport Mansions of the Preservation Society of Newport County
Newport: The Preservation Society of Newport County, 1984. Softcover. 8vo. 80 pp. Text by Ann Benway. Map on rear cover. Mansions include: Hunter House, Kingscote, The Elms, Chateau-Sur-Mer, The Breakers, Rosecliff, Marble House and Green Animals.
The Last Blossom on the Plum Tree
New York: Random House, 1986. Hardcover. 8vo., 244 pp.
A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society
New York: Poseidon, 1993. Hardcover. 8vo. 269 pp. Inex, Notes.
Kingdoms in Conflict
Morrow: Zondervan, 1987. Hardcover. 8vo., 400 pp.
Alcohol, Culture, and Society
Durham: Duke University Press, 1952. Hardcover. 8vo.
The Genome Factor: What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. Hardcover. 8vo., Shows how genomics is transforming the social sciencesÑand how social scientists are integrating both nature and nurture into a unified, comprehensive understanding of human behavior at both the individual and society-wide levels. Co-Winner of the 2018 Best Book Award, Evolution, Biology, and Society.....
Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. Hardcover. 8vo. 716 pp. Index, Notes, acknowledgements. With black and white photos. Definitive account of the struggle for LGBT equal rights in the twentieth century.
Drinking Occasions: Comparative Perspectives on Alcohol and Culture; International Center for Alcohol Policies, Series on Alcohol in Society
New York: Taylor and Francis, 2000. Hardcover. 8vo., 240 pp.
French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Softcover. 8vo., 408 pp.
English Countrywoman: A Farmhouse Social History, 1500-1900
London: Orbis, 1981. Hardcover. 8vo., 221 pp., 67 black and white illustrations. Reprint of the 1953 edition.
Lost Bar Harbor
Camden: Down East Books, 1982. Softcover. Small 4to., 123 pp. Profusely illustrated with photos, illustrations and maps. Map endpapers. A pictorial record of many, but by no means all, of the homes that have vanished, together with brief sketches of their principal inmates.
Society and the Homosexual
New York: Dutton, 1953. Hardcover. 8vo., 181 pp. Bibliography, References. An early attempt to analyze the social implications of homosexuality, written prior to male homosexuality decriminalization in Britain.
Lesbian Connection, Vol. 46, Issue 4, Jan./Feb. 2024
East Lansing: Lesbian Connection, 2024. Softcover. 8vo., 58 pp.
Famine and Survival in America
Alamo: Target, 1977. Softcover. 8vo., 196 pp. Index. Ruff was the developers of the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics organization. A unique perspective on long range health care for Americans.
The Taming of Chance
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Softcover. 8vo., 284 p. brings out the relations between philosophy, the physical sciences, mathematics and the development of social institutions, and provides a unique and authoritative analysis of the probabilisation of the western world.
Vanity Fair: Photographs of an Age 1914-1936
New York: Clarkson Potter, 1982. Hardcover. 4to. 203 pp. Second printing. Illustrated with over 200Ê black and white photos.
Love in Five Temperaments
New York: Atheneum, 1961. Hardcover. 8vo., 337 pp. Index. Bibliography. Blacka and white illustrations. Author focuses on five extraordinary women of eighteenth-century Parisian society.
On Reading Well
Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2018. Hardcover. 8vo., 267 pp. Foreword by Leland Ryken.
Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. Hardcover. 8vo., 432 pp. Jacket design by Louise Fili Discusses the social aspects of dining, including seating, portions, utensils, table manners, and customs.
Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold
New York: Dutton, 2014. Hardcover. 8vo., 311 pp. The true story of Olympic wrestling gold medal-winning brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz and their fatal relationship with the eccentric John du Pont, an heir to the duPont chemicals fortune. Made into a well regarded film starring Steve Carrell.
Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. Hardcover. 8vo., 284 pp. Behind-the-headlines story of the Astor empire's unraveling, Illustrated with black and white photographs, acknowledgments, notes and bibliography.
Liberty Without Anarchy: A History of the Society of the Cincinnati
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983. Hardcover. 8vo., 280 pp. First print. With seventeen unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations and portraits. The society was founded in May 1783 at Steuben's headquarters near Newburgh, N.Y., by officers of the Continental army and navy. They had not been paid for over four.....