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188 pages. Features: The fuel economy of light vehicles; split genes; the sources of celestial x-ray bursts; the crest of the east pacific rise; countercurrent systems in animals; highly excited atoms; the sunflower crop; Chinese building standards in the 12th century; and more. Nostalgic colour photo ads. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Unpaginated. A lovely collection of illustrated poetry. Author was born in Kaslo, B.C. on Kootenay Lake. She is a lover of birds, wild flowers, and other wonders of the natural world. This love she expresses through her poetry. Unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Perpetual seafloor metal factory; Swallow-tailed gull of the Galapagos Islands; The cooperative whale and its rescuers; Frying Pan Shoals Light Station - an aid to seafarers and biologists; Sea Squirts; The short , unhappy saga of Steller's sea cow; Milkfish - Southeast Asia's protein machine; Unpalatable Goby. Sound copy. Book
Features: The Giant Clam - Friend or Foe?; Jan Mayen - a little known but important island; An organization to help combat oil spills; Australia's other fishes; Coral reef research and the Wellwood incident; The revolution in salmon culture; St. George Reef Light - Guardian of Dragon Rocks; Nurse sharks' mating ballet. Sound copy. Book
Features: Lighted houses in the sea; listening to the grey whales; the mystery of Erebus and Terror; The inflatable sharks - survival of the fattest?; Trivia; Oceanography's new eye in the sky; the fuzzy sponge thing; Kiel Canal - Busiest ship canal in the world; Making light of lifting. Sound copy. Book
Unpaginated. Author/Photographer and his eight-year-old son journey to the ice floes of eastern Canada to observe the thousands of harp seal pups born there. Gift greetings upon front endpaper else unmarked. Beautiful full-colour photography throughout. Very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
pp. (4)[Title page and Forward], 67 + Color frontis. Illustrated with numerous black and white and color photographs. Presentation insert from the Chrysler Corporation. 8vo. Original full black cloth binding, lettered in gold. Hardbound. Essential to the creation of the Atom Bomb, all the pure uranium metal to be had in the U.S. in 1941 came from the laboratory of a Westinghouse lamp plant at Bloomfield, NJ which was closely linked with Chrysler automobiles. "In the tremendous endeavor which produced the atom bomb, and thus brought World War II to a sudden close, Chrysler Corporation had an important part" - K.T. Keller, President of Chrysler Corporation. Very nice copy. SPACE/6
366 pages including index. Topics include: Stability and Change Within the Region; The Palestinian Quagmire - Searching For a Way Out; The Great Powers, Oil and the Middle East. Prior owner's details inside front cover. Several light pencil markings to contents. Average wear. Binding intact. Good working copy. Book
112 pages. Features: Kuthumi; Kryon; Hilarion; Mother Earth; The Group; The Council of Light; and much more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
112 pages. Features: Grandfather, Bolster Your Immune System with Benevolent Magic and Living Prayer!; Release Outgrown Circumstances; The Heart of Mary Magdelene; Beacons of Light against the Tsunami; and much more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
112 pages. Features: Who and I and why am I here?; Cell activation; On humana suffering; Dealing with emotions; Bringing spiritual analysis to love and money; The beginning of remembering is forgeting; The silver key; Ammual midsummer light conference; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
858 pages including index and some black and white illustrations. Mr. Pickersgill tells his life's story with a remarkable gift for detail, a shrewd grasp of what lies below the surface and a passionalte commitment to the country in whose affairs he has been so influential a player. Light wear. Unmarked. Attractively illustrated glossy covers. Quarter inch tear along fore-edge at bottom of front cover. Book
379 pages including notes, bibliography, index and black and white photographic plates. Makes an important, and colourful, contribution to regional history and to the history of education in Canada. In addressing issues of concern to many North American university communities it also makes a significant statement about the current crisis in higher education. Book clean and unmarked with very light wear. Light wear to dust jacket. Excellent copy. Book
373 pages including index. An extraordinary collection of letters by the writer Gore Vidal once called "one of our most brilliant - certainly most witty - novelists, whose literary reputation continues to grow long after her death." Contents clean and unmarked. Discard stamp upon top edge of text. Slight lean to spine. Very light wear overall. Nice copy. Book
723 pages including bibliography. Records the achievements of forty years of medical research, giving direct and easy access to over sixty of Dr. Best's original important research papers in the fields particularly of insulin, heparin, and choline. Opens with the early papers describing the discovery of insulin, and continues with those dealing with its preparation, extraction, physiologic effects and first clinical applications. Dr. Best has also looked back over the record as given in these papers and provided informative and informal bridges between them which place them in historical perspective. Contents clean, bright and unmarked. Negligible wear to book. Contains several colour plates and black and white illustrations. Price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in glossy new Brodart cover and shows light wear. A quality copy. Book
110 pages. Learn how shame keeps you from being the person you were born to be and how to change that. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
202 pages. The ideal book for anyone wanting to learn more about the sport of women's hockey. An essential guide for players, coaches, parents, and fans of all ages. The first book to explain all angles of interest to the young player. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Some curl to front cover. Solid working copy in glossy colour covers. Book
Features: Please note: standup figure of Bobby Moore not included; Cover colour photos of Eusebio and Bobby Moore; Bobby Moore writes - 'Top clubs beware - the giant-killers can cut you big boys down to size'; b/w photo of Les Latcham (Burnley) vs. Bobby Tambling (Chelsea); Francis Lee - Finished with Football! - he almost gave up the game - now he's England's most exciting player; No one wanted to win the F.A. Cup in 1960; Colour photos of Bruce and Neil Rioch (Aston Villa); Colour photo of Jack Charlton (Leeds United and England); Kidology! - the secret of being a successful manager; Aladin's Lamp saved Huddersfield!; Nice colour centerfold team photo of the Sky Blues - Coventry City; b/w photo of Willie Whigham (Middlesbrough); b/w photo of Alan Stephenson (West Ham) vs. Wyn Davies (Newcastle United); You Can't be on top without a Scot!; My Most important Goal! - by Jeff Astle (Albion); Colour photo of Barrie Jones; Focus on John Holsgrove (Wolves); Great goalmouth photos; Have the Welsh Dragons lost their fire?; New boy Eusebio joins the Champions Benfica and... The Eagles Swoop to Conquire Again!; Colour photo of John O'Rourke (Ipswitch) on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Modest wear. A quality copy. Book
309 pages including index. Argues that we've got the wrong deficit culprit and before we all gather for the public shooting, we should consider the consequences. Some small creases to dust jacket flaps otherwise unmarked with very light wear. Book
242 pages. Author spent most of her adult life in the grips of a compulsive relationship with a deceptively innocuous substance - food. Overweight from age 12 she reached 330 pounds by age 29. Here she shares the story of how she made peace with her body. Describes the gradual emotional and spiritual transformation making it possible for her to live a healthy, fulfilling, ad joyous life free of her obsession with food. Contents clean and unmarked. Light wear. Small crease to back cover. Nice copy. Book
In-4 (cm. 30), 2 volumi in custodia rigida, similpelle editoriale, fregi in oro al piatto ed al dorso, tagli spruzzati in oro, pp, (252) senza numerazione, con numerose illustrazioni a colori nel testo, tomo che riproduce in fac-simile l’opera originale edita a Londra nel 1823 posseduta dalla “Fondazione Mormino” del Banco di Sicilia; testo in inglese e francese. Text in English. Texte en français. Il secondo volume, brossura, pp. (32) senza numerazione, con una immagine del frontespizio (tradotto) in bianco e nero nel testo, presenta la traduzione italiana. Esemplare numerato tratto da una tiratura di 500 copie. In ottimo stato (nice copy).
218 pages including index, bibliography, notes and black and white photographic plates. A penetrating look at the hidden history of Canadian prisoners during the First World War. Probes their fate and their pain, and follows their own private physical and psychological battles against hopelessness and desperation. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket price-clipped with light wear. Very nice copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition with very minor shelf wear 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. 144 pages with a great many b&w photos.
182 pages including index. A celebration of a landscape - not a wilderness landscape as might be expected, nor a rural one, but one that through most of its history has been unabashedly industrial. Author returned to Pittsburgh in 1990 after two decades of cataclysmic industrial decline and was distressed that, as a nation, we let our industrial places go with such equanimity. An eloquent tribute to a way of life largely disappearing in America. Book with faintest wear. Light wear to dust jacket which bears tiny tear at base of front panel. Excellent copy. Book
x, 536 pages. General Index. Family Index. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of archival black and white photos. Photographic endpapers. A record of the first hundred years of this village and district. Prior owner names atop title page and handwritten notes to several properties on photo inside front board, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this wonderful genealogical reference. Book
