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A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Staple-bound. 10 1/4"w x 13 3/4"h. 30 pages. No date shown; circa 1962. Previous owner's name on cover.
Features: Ivory - the pearl of the forest - the age-old industry built around the teeth of elephants; Editorials - blindness and false shame - help needed - too fat? - international affairs; Testing the astronomical yardstick - when Eros approaches the earth, Astronomers will study him further; A stone dam greater than Cheops' pyramid - novel methods of construction on World's largest rock-filled dam; Has living matter been produced in the laboratory? - Mexican scientist produces what resembles low forms of life; The volcanic birth of a new island - an eruption in hte bay that was Krakatoa's crater; Mining the sky for scientific knowledge - problems and questions that may be solved by the exploring rocket; Modern 'alchemy' in iron and steel - scientists are making iron almost a noble metal; Preserving newspaper files - tissue coating adds to strength of wood pulp paper; An actor turns inventor - safety oven shelf spells financial success; Practical X-ray crystal analysis in engineering - inner characteristics of materials can now be ascertained; Pre-constructed pip-line hauled out to sea - launching a huge pipe to make an ocean filling station for tankers; Giant Tortoises - they are now being propagated in the U.S.; From the archeologist's notebook - Petra - Chinese pottery dogs - a venus from the sea; Landscaping with fully-grown trees - difficult procedure in moving large trees; On the track of the Mayas - modern Mayas mix Christianity with their old paganism. Back cover features interesting advertisement by Southern California Edison with photo of enormous new transmission tower supplying Los Angeles. Uncommon Auburn Automobile advertisement inside front cover features their Cord Front Drive feature. One inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Book
135 pages. Contains Four papers which describe recent research in the compaction of soils. The second part presents the transcription of a panel discussion in which the members of the panel address four basic questions 1. Why compaction? 2. Why do we test ? 3. How do we test? 4. What do we do with test results? Average bumping to corners of boards but contents clean and bright. Book
456 pages. Frequently illustrated with black and white photographs and line drawings. Topics include: New Dams in the UK; New Marine and Riverside Structures; Loading Tests on Large Bored Piles in Clay; New Zealand House, London; Some New Ecclesiastical Structures; The Economic Design of Members Subjected to Shearing (Ultimate-load Method) - parts I and II; Concrete Structures in Israel; The Principal Post-Tensioning Systems for Prestressed Concrete; Loading Tests on Deep Bored Cylinder Foundations; Precast construction of a training college; Prize-winning Designs for a Motorway Bridge; Research on Concrete Members Reinforced with Deformed Bars; The Inelastic Space Frame - Prestressed Concrete; Concrete Construction at Tinsley Park Steelworks; Construction of Student Hostels; The Counteraction of the Self-weight of Prestressed Concrete Beams; Pressures in Containers of Granular Materials - Parts I and II; Reconstruction of Benghazi Harbour; Model to Determine Temperature Effects on a Cylindrical Structure; A Specification for Concrete; Effects of Oiling and Grouping Prestressed Wires; Continuous Bridges on Elastic Supports; Developments in Foundation Engineering; Progress at Nuclear Power Stations; Removable Wide-slab Construction of a Car-Parking Building; Stresses in Stiffening Beams of Skewed-slab Bridges; A Theory of Bonding - Parts I, II and III; Extensions at Gatwick Airport; Research by the German Committee for Reinforced Concrete; The Design of Concrete Hinges; Installing Pipe-lines by the Thrusting Process; Critical Loads of Plane Frames; Tunnelling Machines for Tube Railways; The Analysis of Stairs with Unsupported Intermediate Landings; The Newark By-pass Road; Special Boundary Conditions in Membrane Shells - Parts I and II; A Multi-Storey Car Park at Leeds; Bridges on the Newark By-Pass Road; Tests on Helical Stairs; Bridges on the Heads of the Valleys Road; Chimney's Constructed with Precast Blocks; New Bridges on the New Motorways - Parts I and II; Practical Analysis of Frames with Beamless Floors; Stiffness Coefficients for Cylindrical Shells; Rapid Construction of a Precast Concrete Building; An Approximating Analysis for Shallow Shells of Translation; Ultimate-Load Analysis of an Edge-Loaded Rectangular Slab Resting on Soil; and more. Prior owner's name in gilt upon front board. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Tightly bound. High quality copy. Book
Features: Everlasting Oasis - Canadian Archaeologists unearth 200,000 years of human habitation in Egypt's great Western Desert; Beluga Hunters - 'from time immemorial, this has been our life'; Traditions in Wood - hand-carved wildfowl decoys lure a new generation of collectors; Muddy Waters - Lake Winnipeg's rich fisheries and folkways face a stormy future; History's Lessons - a new atlas provides a fascinating vision of Canada and its development; The Daedalus Factor - Space-age materials replace the mythical wax and feathers in today's human-powered vehicles. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ball and Evening Coiffures - cover illustrations; Shabby Gentility; Blot-Ting Papers - No. VIII; New York Fashions - style of making, ball dress materials, trimmings; coiffures; Personal; Infant's bib with crochet edging; trimmings for ball and evening dresses; Pelerine with hood; Britta's Christmas Gift; Sayings and Doings; Centerfold illustrations of Ball and Evening Dresses as well as seven gorgeous opera wrappings; Debenham's Vow - continued; Paris Fashions; Lovely full-page image of birds eating grain from "The Christmas Sheaf"; Two coiffures of ribbon and flowers; Low Blouse waist with peplum; blouse waist with sqauare neck; Management of plants in rooms; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Reception and Promenade Toilettes; Blot-Ting Papers - part X; New York Fashions - calico dresses, jackets, trains, and collars, dresses for old ladies; Personal; Embroidered cover for work-table; tray for cigars, writing materials; Knitting-work holder; Pasteboard and silk basket; Window screen with netted guipure cover; Quilted cashmere walking belt; Beautiful children's hoods, collar, fraise, bretelles and jacket; A Rainy Day; Paris Fashions; Fresh Starts; Sayings and Doings; Centerfold illustrations of seventeen beautiful dresses; Debenham's Vow - continued; A Wail from the kitchen; Lost children in New York - with wonderful street scene illustration; Full-page of eleven evening and house dresses; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: High Waist Trained Suit - cover illustration; Prospectus of Womanhood; Manners upon the road; Appeal to Amercan Women; New York Fashions - wrappings, materials, trimmings, models and prices; Personal; Carved Walnut Cradle; Toilette Cushion with Tatted Cover; Foot-Stool with Crochet Cover; Borders for Table Covers, Sofa Pillows, etc.; Ladies' and children's winter dresses; Business Women; Nelly's Party; The Empress at Chiselhurst; Feminine Profitable Labor; Sayings and Doings; Awesome full-page illustration of child handing coin from her window to a street child - "God Will Reward You"; Full-page illustration "A Morning Reception", by W.L. Sheppard; Agatha's Fortune - a story of newspapers; The Cryptogram - continued; Nice full-page illustration entitled "On the Promenade at Scarborough, England"; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Mantelet with Hood; Black Lace Mantelet; How to Make True French Dolls; Ceasing to Grow; Sympathy with Sickness; Manners upon the road; New York Fashions - fall bonnets, materials, feathers, flowers, ribbons, the scarf veil, manner of trimming, round hats, fall wrapping; different trimmings for under clothing; Embroidered Chemise Yoke; Two Buttons for under clothing; Basket with Netted Guipure Cover; Crochet Rosettes; Rosettes for Covers; Braid and Crochet Insertions adn Edgings; The Line of Distinction; Paris Fashions; The Woman of the Future; Sayings and Doings; Amazing centerfold compilation of illustrations of dozens of clothing items including lady's drawers with shirr, lady's ttucked night-gown, peignoir with full sleeves, gentleman's under-drawers, Lady's chemise fastening on the shoulder, Pique dressing sack, and many more; Miss Maquand; Foreign proper names; Debenham's Vow - continued; Lovely large illustration of Lady Jane Grey; Woman's political rights in England; Humor; and more. Above-average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Cover illustration entitled "Far Away"; How Women Become Morbid; Verbal Fastidiousness; New York Fashions - dress-making, fall goods, silks, woolens, cloakings, driving and breakfast jackets, embroidery, fall bonnets; Personal; Dress-making - two-pages of text, illustrations and diagrams cover taking the measure, increasing or diminishing the pattern, making the waist and skirt, making trimmings, methods of looping, sewing seams in heavy woolen materials; Bound to John Company - continued; Outwitted; Great humourous centerfold illustrations entitled "Husband Hunting Sketches"; Tolerance; Evening Parties; The Derby Day; Sola - continued; Toleration of women; Paris gossip; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
Features: Canada's Modern Heritage - Time to Act; The Economuseum - sharing know-how to ensure its preservation; Beacon on Lake Erie - the Coast Guard's Point Abino lighthouse; Modern Classics - Care with 20th-Century Materials; Canadian Terminals on the Underground Railroad; Discreet Heritage - An Architectural Endeavour in Old Montreal - the Zone Building. Bilingual English/French. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
Features: Flowers of the Fields and Florists - Procuring Ikebana Materials; Face to Face - in the father's footsteps - the legacy of the Ohara School; Floral Focus - Eulalia; Ikebana Portfolio - gorgeous colour photos; Dolls for All Seasons - Toso dolls of Toshiko Ichihashi; Lacquer Times Three. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: "Stopped at the Border - Plant Quarantines"; Description of Materials available; and more Book
Features: An investigation of head-sea parametric rolling and its influence on container lashing systems; Effect of longitudinal bulkheads on damage stability of model RO/RO ferries; Innovative structural designs of tankers against ship collissions and grounding - a recent state-of-the-art review; Options for nonindigenous species and their economic impact on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway - a survey; Optimium structural design of high-speed surface effect ships built of composite materials; Considerations in the design of primary treatment for ballast systems; Spreadsheet modeling to determine optimum ship main dimensions and power requirements at basic design stage. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Features: Roofs and Roofing Materials; A prewar puzzling metal dollhouse #58; Chateau la Chaille; Marilyn Munroe; The Alchemy of Pippin Hill; Minicruising '91; The New Angela Peterson Doll and Miniature Museum; Christmas All Year Round II - a Pioneer Christmas; Easter Baskets; A Bachelor's chest; Make Your Beds; A Maple Sugaring Box; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
24 pages. Features: The Problem of Raising Sanctions Against Italy; The Kind of Insurance Which is Untertaken at Lloyd's (of London); The Prejudice Against Finger-Printing; How Governor Landon Got His Nomination; Why the Nations of the World Should Form a Trading Club; "An International Policeman Somewhare in the Background"; Access to Raw Materials; "My 60 Years In the Law" - by a Judge's Clerk Mr. F.W. Ashley; The Small Boy At Any School Sports On Any Saturday Afternoon; "Behind the Real Smile in Japan" - Mr. E.K. Venables; Miss V. Sackville-West Discusses Joan of Arc's Visions; Dr. Rufus Jones on Psychology and Religion; Mrs. Elinor Glyn and Her Allegory of Gold & Silver; The Spirit of Sussex Downs; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Center page holding by one staple. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Advanced materials and the economy; Materials for information and communication; Materials for aerospace; Materials for ground transportation; Materials for energy utilization; Materials for medicine; The science of materials; Electronic and Magnetic materials; Photonic materials; Advanced metals; Advanced ceramics; Advanced polymers; Composites. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
172 pages. Features: Smart weapons in naval warfare; vibrations of the atomic nucleus; microbodies in the living cell; modern pork production; new inorganic materials; computer-intensive methods in statistics; the social influence of the Motte-and-Bailey Castle; sudden cardiac death - a problem in topology; and more. Small initials atop front cover. Many nostalgic color photo ads. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
144 pages. Contents: Stopping the production of fissile materials for weapons; Helioseismology; Oligosaccharins; The Compartmental organization of the golgi apparatus; Bimetallic catalysts; A Web-Building Jumping Spider; Slips of the Tongue; Yellow Rain (it was honeybee feces, not chemical warfare); Nostalgic ads, and more. Small initials atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this interesting and informative issue. Magazine
Features: Wide-beam Max concept extended by Stena; Effective purchasing with IT systems; New temporary surface-protection materials; Safety technology; Japan; CAD/CAM update. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Photos: Materials being unloaded at Anzio bridgehead; Landing craft No. 349 is wrecked off the Italian coast; Berlin by daylight - as seen by American bombers; new pictures from the Russian front; stocking up the invasion supplies; and much more. Above-average wear to covers, otherwise a sound copy. Book
Is Belgium's Deliverance Near? - events likely to follow on the capture of the Ridges - article by Lovat Fraser; Views on the road of victory over Vimy Ridge - 2 photos; Italian Boats that went by mountain ways; Under German fire in Aisne and Champagne; Canadians utilizing the 'tump line' for carrying heavy materials to the front line; Photos of enemy ingenuity i.e. a phony hollow-tree observation post; The Victory of the Flanders Ridges - how British troops won their first sight of Bruges - article; Seven 'Somersets' capture Forty-Two Huns; Rise and Fall of the U-Boat - how Germany's blockade of Britain is rendered ineffective; Prowess and pity in Mesopotamia and Palestine; Splendid work of the gunboats on the Tigris; Humour and courage of the 'jocks' - memories and episodes of the fighting on the Western Front; French air messages and hun air murders; Realistic tests of efficiency at Aldershot. Somewhat above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 2 volumes set ([vii], 220 p., 1 folding map; [xxxii], 328 p.). A very comprehensive study on Diyarbakir folk legends. First Edition. Diyarbakir efsaneleri. 2 volumes set: Vol. 1: Diyarbakir efsaneleri üzerine bir arastirma. Vol. 2: Diyarbakir efsaneleri ve Diyarbakir üzerine sekiz bildiri.
30 pages. Illustrated. Includes notes to discussion leaders. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
