471 résultats
pp. 272-296, several photos on 6 pls., 4 figs., refs. Wrs.
pp. 361-425;427-445, many photos on 9+2 pls., 7+2 figs., refs. Plain new wrs.
Features: Hoover Dam - purposes, plans, and progress of construction; Editorials - Dr. George K. Burgess and Dr. George F. Kunz - are there White Indians? - back to earth - construction - wages; Flying in the beginning - early experiments with man-carrying kites and gliders; Peregrinations of a freight car - as a railroad freight car travels here and there over the country, records are made of its movements in minute detail; New Planetary discoveries - the discovery of minor planets has fairly been put on a basis of mass production; The muscular power of insects - the muscles of insects give them much greater power proportionately than other animals possess; A masterpiece of Museum-craft - the largest existing monument of Greek sculpture has been re-erected in a museum in Berlin; Radio in the forest service - new transmitter-receivers, one weighing only 10 pounds, are to be tested this year; Solo man - a fossil skull - a new find of great importance; new notes on ancient man - recent discoveries throw new light on man's antiquity; Tropical fish as pets; Food for a floating hotel - the supplies for an ocean liner's next trip are ordered while the liner is still 1000 miles out at sea; Whirling molten steel to make gun castings - newly perfected centrifugal process promises better guns; Treasure trove in lowly "Sweeps" - all wastes and sweepings in jeweler's plants are carefully salvaged and precious metals recovered from them. Building safety into automobile glass - laminated safety glass for cars does not shatter; Quartz takes up fire fighting in the automatic heads of sprinkler systems; Advertising a curb on product design pirates. Back cover graced with colour Lucky Strike advertisement featuring painting of a sensuous young woman beneath the caption "OK - Miss America! We thank you for your patronage."Three inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Book
pp. 472-494, 8 figs. on 2 lithogr. pls. Offprint, orig. wrs., uncut.
Over one inch thick. Many black and white photos. Features include: Through the Fields of Chukchi - a report of a Russian icebreaker's trip through a frozen sea; Along the Walnut Run - an N.F.B. story of the Nodwell Transporters, all-Canadian mechanical monsters; Tin Can Line is a Mighty Fine Line - a fast trip along a fantastic railway; Pioneering Arctic Air Services in Greenland - Scheduled Helicopter Flights; Transportation and the Settlement Frontier in the Mackenzie Valley Area; 175 Years after Mackenzie - a trip along the route of the great explorer; Beasts of Burden - a chapter from a book by Eskimo children of Chesterfield Inlet; Television in the North; Blow Spirit - Irene Baird's strange rescue from a storm; Yukon Pattern - a total approach to the problem of development of the Yukon; Fossil Harvest in the Far North; Tundra Trading - the fox fur trade; The Fur Auction - an exciting business; Canadian Fur Overseas - Canadian fur promotion; Fur Industry - the old and new of the industry; The Trapping Profession in the Northwest Territories - Father Brown of Colville Lake presents his case for a new approach to trapping; Walrus Galore! - Chesley Russell reminisces about walrus hunts he has been on; Neighbours - an Eskimo famly enlivens an Arctic campout; Turnabout - an African couple brings light to the dark north; Yukon Paperback - A. A. Wright browses through a 1909 publication; How to cook a Polar Bear; The Port Burwell Co-operative; From the Journal of Baron Munchausen - the great travel-liar visits Russia; Yukon tourist calendar; N.W.T. Tourist Calendar; A Tour of the better spots in the North; Cathay Revisited; Eskimo Art from Holman; Comment Est-ce Dans Le Nord; A Fair Trade - his freedom for a mug of tea - excerpt from a novel by Robert Kroetsch; Bicultural Ookpik - a pin-up designed by Eric Wilson; Yukon Mining Survey - 1965; Flowers of the Forest - Indian crafts from Fort Franklin, N.W.T.; The Tukcoat - an example of Eskimo handiwork; The Co-operative movement in the Arctic (2nd part in a series); The Return - a story of the occult; Northern Health Service - a picture story of the people it serves; Transportation at the top of the world; Indian Giver - short story by Fortesque McKay; Manuel - short story by Alf Copland; The Romance of Northern Names; The Bronze Cross - Scouting's Highest Honour; Early Geographical Concepts of the Northwest Passage; Pine Point Revisited; Growth of NWT Government; But Eskimo Children don't cry!; Bewildered Hunters in the 20th Century - N.W.T councillor Abe Okpik recounts a modern dilemma; Mountain Climbing in the Arctic, by P.D. Baird; A Daughter of the Midnight Sun; Women in Soviet Arctic Regions; Ma Courte Carriere de Vice-Reine; Memories of a Whaling Town; Transport by Submarine in Arctic Waters; Inukshooks and Itigaseemautes - mysterious beacons of the North; High School Drop-ins; Who will Be I; Community Health Workers at Hobbema; Wrangel Island Wrangle; Murder Trial in Spence Bay; Christmas on the Trapline; You only take the First Trip Once; Penny's Polar Probe, 1850-51; Tea and Bannock; Ookpik; The reindeer Journey; The Seal Hunt; An Indian Tale of Birch Bark, Musk-rat Tails and Rabbits' Ears; Since the Days of Barter; Still Life in a Tent; Eskimo Wife. Moderate wear. Tightly bound. Minimal library markings. Book
Features: Christmas and the Rockhound; Christmas Decorative; Center for Advanced Gem Studies; Last Chance Fossil Beds; Diamond Knowledge; I Bought a Bottle of Opal; Geodes; Tennessee Geodes; Its Pointsettia Time; Rockhounding in Lime Gulch; A Rockhound's Christmas Tale; Tools of the Trade; A Lapidary Christmas Tree. Somewhat above-average wear. Date stamp upon front cover. Sound reference copy. Magazine
16 pages. Features include: G.M.F.C. Associate Dealer List; Sculpture of the Inuit; Silver in Canada; Fossil Gemstones. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Very nice copy. Book
Contents: Infant mortality in the U.S.; The moons of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto; The fundamental physical limits of computation; The evolution of Darwinism; The chemosensory recognition of genetic individuality; Minoan palaces; Fossil water under the Sinai-Negev peninsula; Milkweeds and their visitors. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Spiny Lobster Fishing in the Grenadines; The Return of Pilgrim; Old Four Legs - the Lliving Fossil; Rockall - The Smallest British Isle; Where Puerto Rico Meets the Sea; Sentinel in the Sound; Project CEPEX; Ovoviviparous Volutes. Sound copy. Book
Features: The Birth and Growth of Planet Ocean; The Octopus as a Pet; The World's Greatest Sailing Ship; Predatory Prawns; Hawaiian Fish Emigrants; Tractor Tugs - Marine Workhorses of the Future?; Fossil Mangrove Reef of Key Biscayne; Tiger Sharks. Sound copy. Book
Features: Mis-Applied Science, by Dr. Albert E. Burke - America is losing tomorrow's battles by insisting that scientists concentrate on producing better mousetraps; The Hot War in Vietnam - Can the U.S. win it?; Master of the Jab - Ho Chi Minh is waging the kind of war he knows best; Sunday's Gladiators - as the armed (pro football) combatants struggle before the crowds, there are reminders of ancient Rome; The Charmed Life of Gangster Tony Accardo - arrested 23 times but never convicted; That Bowl of Fire Called Chili - a peppery dish invented by the pioneers of the old Southwest is still savored by their descendants; My Awful Wedded Husband, by Mrs. Kirk Douglas; Inside the Frozen Mountain - colour photos from deep inside Wyoming's Fossil Mountain; Let'em Eat... Turkey - the crisis that erupted when the Veep missed Thanksgiving dinner in Korea, by Walter M. Turner; Boy's Home on the Range - at Boy's Ranch in the rugged cow country of Texas' Panhandle, Cal Farley uses work, love and discipline to turn bad boys into good ones. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Colour Corvair ad inside front cover. *Awesome* colour cadillac ad on page 9. Book
Features: The Mine that Disappeared - a story related by a mining engineer about the Bocanegra Mine; Casshel's Escape - the story of Ernest Casshel, one of the few criminals to ever escape from the "North-West Mounted" (locale - Calgary, Alberta); On the trail of the Dinosaur - a recent expedition into the Colorado River section of the great American Desert, in the State of Arizona, claims to have found not only fossil tracks of the three-toed dinosaur, but a rock-carving of a dinosaur - a picture which man could not have made unless he had seen the reptile he attempted to portray - photos; Babes in a boat - a neophyte sailor and his wife set sail across the Pacific - Part II (conclusion); The Padded Room - one of the most amazing plots in the annals of the French police; Five Greenhorns in Canada - An amusing and illustrated account of the adventures of five inexperienced Englishmen who set forth to make homes for themselves in the Canadian wilderness; Lost in the heart of Peru - an explorer is abandoned by his guide in the upper reaches of the Amazon - part IV (conclusion); The Demon Lion of Bandari - Lion Hunt; At Grips in the Girders - an extraordinary battle; An Alligator-Hunter's Story in Mexico; Part IV of In Search of the Lost Oases - a desert trip from Sollum on the Mediterranean to El Obeid in the Sudan - many photos; The Phantom Reporter - a story from Canada's Pacific Coast by Charles Harrison Gibbons. Above-average wear. Faint owner's name atop front cover else unmarked. Binding intact. Nothing loose. Decent copy of this broadly interesting issue. Book
Folio. Pp. [iv],132, many photos on 16 pls., 24 figs., bibl., index. Orig. cloth.
Folio, 36.2cm. Pp. [iv],23-37,[5], many photos and figs. on 2 pls. Orig. printed wrs. Spine mended. - Jurassic and Gault (Lower Cretaceous). With author's presentation inscription to Dr. F.L. Kitchin.
pp. 55-96, many photos on 9 (of 10) pls., 1 sketch map, refs. Plain new wrs. - The final plate was not published, due to an error of the printers or binders it was not included with the journal issue. - Exclusively on marine mollusca.
Pp. 68, many photos on 15 pls., 7 figs., refs. Orig. wrs. New copy.
8vo. Pp. 8, 5 figs. on 1 nice fold. lithogr. pl. Orig. printed wrs.Foxing on plate. - Offprint from Bull. Soc. Linn. Normandie, sér. 3, vol. 6.
4to. Pp. [ii],138, numerous photos on 28 pls., 7 figs., refs., index. Orig. wrs.
pp. 11-86, 5 pls., 24 figs., refs. Large 8vo. Offprint, orig. wrs.
Large 8vo. Pp. viii,218, frontisp., many photos and figs. on 58 pls., 39 illus. in text, bibl., index. Orig. cloth.
Pp. 50, several drawings on 5 pls., 2 fold diagrs., refs. Orig. wrs. - Permian.
4to. Pp. viii,97, 178 (18 col.) microphotos on 21 pls., 1 large fold. sheet of columnar sections in pocket, 13 figs. and diagrs., refs. Orig. wrs. - Thesis.
8vo. Pp. iv,84, 3 pls., bibl., indexes. Orig. wrs.
4to. Pp. 64, 4 pls., 63 figs., bibl. Orig. wrs. - Hungarian text with German summary.
Staple-bound. 7 3/4"w x 10 1/4"h. 38 pages. Many b&w photos. Light wear and scuffing to cover. Date of publication not shown; circa 1975.