Thomas, P.F.MareMagnum
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108 pages. Bibliography. Intended to "Disseminate and synthesize some critical, but very scattered existing knowledge concerning the human costs of J.V. Stalin's once-acclaimed achievements." - from page one. Contents clean and bright. Light external wear. A quality copy. Book
Features: Malevolent Mountain - The Western Hemisphere's Highest Peak Challenges Canada's Himilaya-Bound Mountaineers; The Quiet Famine - Biologists Protest and Bureaucrats Ponder as Hunger Decimates Canada's Seabird Colonies; Reflections in an Orbiting Eye - Canada from Space, Beauty and Science in the Images of Landsat; Leduc - A Legacy of Eclectic Excellence from a Quebecois Painter Undiscovered in his own time; Caribbean Backwaters - Riding the Ebb Tides of Colonialism in the Turks and Caicos. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: the physiology of starvation; cable television; the object in the world of the infant; the lunar rocks; carbon 14 and the prehistory of Europe; how living cells change shape; Mossbauer spectroscopy; the measurement of the 'man-day'. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
Describes the activities in Canada for assistance to occupied Greece in WW II, Medical supplies , consignments of food, especially Canadian Wheat, for famine relief, and later aid sent after the earthquakes in 1953.Illustrated with contemporary photographs 193p. plates tables (Flora Macdonald's later career included becoming a well respected Member of the Canadian Parliament and Minister) Laid in is a typed letter from "The Greek War Relief Fund" requesting support. Book
262pp.avec ills., 26cm., br.orig., bel état, P74092
36 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Contents: Marine Mammals - a cultural and economic resource for the future; The origin of the Narwhal - a myth; Hunting stories from Hall Beach; Starvation at Koluktoo Bay; Stalking Netsiq on the sea ice; Sound under the ice; Arctic marine mammals. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
Gift inscription to titlepage from editor (Peter Garnsey). Light knock to base of spine. Corners have light creasing. Mild shelfwear. ; A theme of the volume is that a combination of natural and artificial shortages made inevitable the bulk movement of staples between regions in all periods of antiquity. Novel contributions are offered in addition in relation to the cost of shipping, the extent of long-distance trade in wine, the relative demand for wheat and barley, the incidence and gravity of food crises, the efficiency of famine-relief measures and the part played by food shortages in the collapse of the late Roman frontier system. ; Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Vol 8; 126 pages; Signed by Editor
Describes the activities in Canada of the Greek War Relief Fund established to provide assistance to occupied Greece in WW II, Medical supplies , consignments of food, especially Canadian Wheat, for famine relief, and later aid sent after the earthquakes in 1953. Illustrated with contemporary photographs 193p. plates, tables [Flora Macdonald's later career included becoming a well respected Member of the Canadian Parliament and Minister of Foreign Affairs) Book
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Edited version of the Narrative of a shipwreck on the Island of Cape Breton, in a boyage from Quebec 1780. A first hand account of a British sailor who was stranded on Cape Breton Island when his ship sank in a storm. Prenties and five others were rescued by friendly Indians and he eventually made his way back to Britain.
Pages a bit tanned. Tiny faint stain to rear wrap. Else very light shelfwear. ; A theme of the volume is that a combination of natural and artificial shortages made inevitable the bulk movement of staples between regions in all periods of antiquity. Novel contributions are offered in addition in relation to the cost of shipping, the extent of long-distance trade in wine, the relative demand for wheat and barley, the incidence and gravity of food crises, the efficiency of famine-relief measures and the part played by food shortages in the collapse of the late Roman frontier system. ; Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Vol 8; 126 pages
Previous owner's small neat label to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and the tiniest bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little creasing to edges and traces of storage. 570pp. A major study from the 16th century onwards in which ninety-five leading scholars from twenty-seven different countries consider a wide variety of issues including regional migration patterns.
Fully printable 509 page PDF listing over 2,000 works, searched in seconds, non-English titles translated, this book has been produced in CD-Rom version only, CD in case. New. Compiled from numerous sources by a well-known medical author; Catalogues books, articles and manuscripts written in 10 European languages; Annotations and translations: English; 33MB PDF - Best viewed in Adobe Reader 6.0 or 7.0: Electronic search tools; Small page format for easy reading; Collation, biography & illustrations; Manual search tools: Topic cues in margins - Alphabetical index of authors; Appendix: A New Translation of Cleyer on Tongue Diagnosis 1682.
Don McCullin photographs, selected by him. From rural England to Vietnam and the Congo. Introduction by John le Carré. Light wear to cover edges with rubbing to surfaces.
8p. 8vo. Original full printed wraps. Remains of album mountings on rear wrap. Very nice copy. Scarce. WWI 13
510p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
New English Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 102 p. First printing Constantinople 1875. Account of a famine which devastated Central Anatolia in the 1870's. The famine in Asia-Minor: Its history. Compiled from the pages of the Levant Herald.
Very Good English Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 102 p. First printing Constantinople 1875. Account of a famine which devastated Central Anatolia in the 1870's. The famine in Asia-Minor: Its history. Compiled from the pages of the Levant Herald.
Book is in excellent condition with very light wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 36 pages with maps, articles include: Marine mammals: a cultural and economic resource for the future, The origin of the narwhal --- a myth, Hunting stories from Hall beach, Starvation at Koluktoo bay, Stalking netsiq on the sea ice, Sound under the ice, Arctic marine mammals
8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates, numerous illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Grand livre du mois, 2007. In-8 relié cartonnage souple de 508 pages, photos. Rares passages discrètement soulignés au crayon de papier sinon bon état
New English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 13 cm). In Turkish. 224 p. Kazakistan'da kizil kitlik, 1929-1933. Stalin'e mektuplar, anilar, röportajlar. Study 'red famine' at the beginning of 1930's in the Kazakhstan. This book includes letters to Russian State - Stalin, memoirs and reports about famine.
in-8°, 308 pages, broche, couverture illustree Bel exemplaire. [CA28-7]
Presses Universitaires de Caen, Groupe de Recherche en Etudes Irlandaises, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, 2007 pp., broché, étiquettes sur la première page de garde, très bon état.
Seuil 1975. In-8 broché de 189 pages. Bon état
[Irish Famine](cm. 31.5) Brossura editoriale.-pp.36. Ricchissimo di illustrazioni e fotografie a colori il volume racconta il periodo che va dall'Aprile 1945 all'Ottobre 1947, visto attraverso gli occhi di una dodicenne, caratterizzato da una carestia che ha creato notevoli disagi al popolo irlandese. Testo in lingua inglese.Firma di appertenenza al frontespizio, datata Dublin Settembre 2006. Esemplare perfetto. [n48] Libro
