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96p. Illustrated. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slightly worn. Hardbound. Nice copy. Especially scarce in a nice dust jacket. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SPACE/1
No marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 192pp. The author assesses the Government's decision following the Windscale Inquiry, traces the birth of opposition to official nuclear power and suggests what the future holds for the protagonists.
473p. Color pictorial title page and endpapers. Illustrated with full page photographs. Top edge red. 8vo. Original cloth backed binding. Original dust jacket, worn and with loss. Hardbound. Book Club Edition. SPACE/3 x 2c
525 pages. Index. Bibliography. Maps. Black and white photographic plates. Illustrated map endpapers. "Based on previously classified archival research and over 100 interviews, including with British and German Commanders who worked with the Canadians. Particularly fascinating are details of NATO planning for meeting a Warsaw Pact attack, including how nuclear weapons would be used." - from dust jacket. Printed on glossy stock. Moderate peripheral wear. Contents clean, bright and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Au sommaire de ce n°1, présenté par Jean-Pierre RIOUX, un dossier "Histoires de l'avenir - 1984 au rendez-vous d'Orwell": "Histoire et pouvoir dans "1984"" par François BEDARIDA, "Le Moyen Age entre le futur et l'avenir" par Jacques LE GOFF, "Stakhanov, ce héros normatif" par Éric VIGNE, "Après Mao, le retour du vieil homme" par Marie-Claire BERGERE, "Le fascisme italien et la vision du futur" par Pierre MILZA, "Imaginer l'inimaginable - Guerre nucléaire et stratégie américaine depuis 1945" par Pierre MELANDRI, "L'horoscope des populations" par Hervé LE BRAS, "Lectures sur les avenirs flous de la longue crise" par Jean BOUVIER, "Le siècle de la contingence ?" par René REMOND; rubrique "Enjeux": "L'histoire appliquée ou les historiens taumaturges" par Henry ROUSSO; et divers. Français
Albin Michel. 1937. In-8 Carré. Broché. Etat d'usage. Couv. légèrement passée. Dos abîmé. Intérieur acceptable. 236 pages. Illustré de nombreuses figures en noir et blanc dans le texte et de photos en noir et blanc sur planches hors texte. Etiquette de code sur le dos. Tampons et annotation de bibliothèque sur le 1er plat et en page de titre. Nombreuses annotations dans le texte. 'Sciences d'aujourd'hui', collection dir. par André George.
VG/VG. attractive dj with slight wear to top edges, but no loss. not price-clipped. no inscription. First Edition. pages with lots of illustrations on the history of nuclear energy in Britain and explaining the technology.
Features: Railroad news photos; 19th Annual Motive Power Survey - How to Merge Motive Power - article and photos; Pullman Prolificacy - when Pullman was America's passport to everywhere; Photo section; Coal - going, going gone? - replaced by nuclear?; Why is wartime so synonymous with railroad Wrecks? - article; 11 hours with 111 year-old locomotive - The General, the venerable (Rogers 1855) Western & Atlantic 4-4-0 employed in the daring, ill-fated Andrews Raid in the Civil War - photos and text; and more. Average wear. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
DISPONIBILITÀ GARANTITA AL 99%; SPEDIZIONE ENTRO 12 ORE DALL'ORDINE. FONDO DI MAGAZZINO: LIEVI SEGNI DEL TEMPO. The book gives the fundamentals of the theory of thermal and nuclear power stations, considers problems of their operation, methods for determining their technico-economical indices and the conditions for obtaining the best efficiency. The book is intended for students specializing in power engineering. This book may also be of use for engineers engaged in the design and operation of thermal and nuclear power stations. Informazioni bibliografiche Titolo: Thermal and Nuclear Power Stations Titolo originale: Teplovye i atomnye elektrostantsii Curatori: Lev Samojlovič Sterman, A. T. Šarkov (Sharkov), S. A. Tevlin Traduzione dal russo di: Viktor Grigorevich Afanasyev Editore: Mosca/Moscow: Mir Publishers, 1982/1986 Lunghezza: 510 pagine; 22 cm Lingua: Inglese, English Soggetti: Ingegneria Atomica, Calore, Gas, Termonucleare, Studi, Stazioni, Efficienza Energetica, Energia, Calore, Stazioni Nucleari, Efficienza, Cicli, Gas, Impianti, Depositi, Scorie, Andreev, Fratzscher, Felke, Grigoryev, Kalafati, Kerzelli, Arsenyev, Petrosyants, Tatarnikov, Norris, Scienziati Russi, Saggi, Collezionismo, Libri Rari, Nuclear Power Plants, Centrali nucleari, Manuali russi, Unione Sovietica, Libri Vintage Fuori catalogo, Soviet Atomic Energy, Thermal Engineering, Fossil-fuel Power Plants, Nuclear Power Plants, Design, Economics, Efficiency, Operation, Reactor Operation, Reliability, Steam Systems, Proceedings, Radioattività, Atomic Engineering, Heat, Thermonuclear, Studies, Stations, Energy Efficiency, Energy, Heat, Nuclear Stations, Efficiency, Cycles, Plants, Deposits, Waste, Russian Scientists, Essays, Collecting, Rare Books, Nuclear Power Plants, Russian Manuals, Soviet Union, Out of print books, Radioactivity, Fisica, Physics 1. Types of power stations. Combined and separate generation of electrical energy and heat 2. Schemes of steam-turbine plants of power stations 3. Characteristics of thermal and overall efficiency of power stations 4. Steam cycle parameters of power stations and their effect on thermal efficiency 5. Regenerative feed-water heating at thermal and nuclear power stations 6. Determiniation of power indices for steam-turbine plants of power stations 7. Heat supply from power station to heat users 8. Material balance of heat-transfer agent and working fluid at power stations 9. Elements of heat flow diagrams of power stations 10. Heat flow diagrams of power stations 11. Operating conditions and performance characteristics of station equipment 12. Selection of station equipment 13. Detailed heat flow diagrams of power stations 14. Pipelines and valves 15. Layout of main building of power stations 16. Service water supply at power stations 17. Fuel-handling facilities of power stations 18. Gas cleaning and ash removal at power stations 19. Deposits on inner surfaces of Thermal equipment and their removal 20. Sitting and general layout of thermal and nuclear power stations 21. Operation of power stations 22. Technico-economical indices of power station operation 23. Effects of power stations on the environment. Safe operation of power stations 24. Gas-turbine, steam-gas, and MHD-generator power stations
pp. xiv, 302. Illustrated. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slightly torn without loss. Hardbound. Book Club Edition. Nice copy. SPACE/5/6
pp. 167-292. Illustrated with a pictorial chart of the processes using Uranium to produce Atomic Energy. Small 8vo. Original printed wraps, soiled. SPACE/1
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers and no rusting to staples. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 38pp. A Government statement summarising present knowledge (1975) about the potential hazards to man of the element plutonium and its compounds.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Approx. 180 pages. Contributions By J. G. Ballard, William S. Burroughs, Ramsey Campbell, David Conway, John Coulthart, Michael Gira, Adele Olivia Gladwell, James Havoc, Brian Lumley, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Robert M. Price, Robert Taylor Peter Smith, John Balance, John Coulthart, and Carina Van Der Snee.
Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf wear to covers only, fading to spine. Creaseless covers and spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 92 pages including 15 plates & 12 pen-and-ink drawings drawn by the author under his artist persona, Gerolf Steiner. Contents include: soft-nosed snouters, Surface snouters, mud snouters, burrowing snouters, snout leapers, four-snouters, six-snouters, long-nosed snouters.
Book is in very good condition with moderate signs of age-toning of paper, bumped corners to the covers, minor exterior wear. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. About 520 pages (paginated to 500) with a great many mechanical illustrations, charts, tables, graphs, large fold-out page at back. Contents, with each chapter by a different author as listed above, including: Fudamentals of nuclear physics, The fission process, Neutron diffusion, Nuclear chain reactions, Elementary pile theory, The application and experimental basis of pile theory, Chemistry of the fission process, Control and operation of a pile, construction of nuclear reactors, Heat transfer, Heavy elements and nuclear fuels; with three appendices: Table of precise masses, Lossof energy in elastic collisions, Neutron cross sections of the elements.
192p. Title page and text drawings by Clifford Geary. Inked juvenile ownership. Top edge red. Pictorial endpapers. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, slightly soiled. Original dust jacket, worn and torn. Hardbound. Book Club Edition. SPACE/3
338 pages. Proceedings of a Symposium held at the University of British Columbia March 5-6, 1983. "We have created a technology that acts at speeds beyond our biological ability to cope. Yet the programs upon which the computer will act are themselves products of human thought which cannot possibly anticipate every situation and every event. By their very nature, therefore, they are highly fallible. We must face up to this fact. Nuclear arms are literally out of human control." - from foreward by David Suzuki. Moderate wear. Letter 'F' atop half-title page else contents clean and unmarked. Solid copy. Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 22pp. A concise reasoned demolition by Friends of the Earth of Justice Parker's government report of the Windscale Inquiry of 1977.
72 Pages. Features: Cover photo of British Tommy on Guard in Palestine; Full-page two-color ad for movie 'Carnegie Hall' starring Frank McHugh and Martha O'Driscoll; Classy one-page photo ad for Aquatoys rain coats available from Knox the Hatter; Nice one-page ad for Dumon televisions features the Sherwood model; Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, David E. Lilienthal, says development of nuclear power depends upon our knowledge of the issues at stake; Six photos from the U.N. which held its first special session to discuss the challenge of Palestine; Full-page photo of bombed-out officer's club in Palestine; How to achieve industrial harmoney between labor and management; Close-up of China in Travail - photo-illustrated article from China where 'her people are broken in spirit, her economy is collapsing, and peace is still far away; Cavalcade of Hollywood Heroes; Adult education is an ever-growing need; Spring thunder of waterfalls; Half-page ad for Marlboro cigarettes; Photos of political leaders in the news; Nice half-page color ad for Glen Oaks Men's Sportswear; One-page color ad for La Tausca simulated pearls; Photos of feeding time at the zoo; Lovely full-page color-photo ad for Monk's Robes; Nice one-page color ad for Chicken of the Sea and White Star tuna features Gramma on an old-fashioned phone; Home pastry instructions; Two pages of gorgeous fashion photos of tasteful dresses; Full-page color ad for J'ray Underthings; Nice color ad for Sherbrooke rainwear; Nice Lovable Brassiere ad features attractive Miss Jean Welch as their girl-of-the-month; Wonderfully colorful photo ad on back cover for McGregor Sportswear features David Niven, starring in 'The Bishop's Wife'. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage issue. Book
60 figures, 78 tables, gilt lettering to spine, chips and creasing to edges of d/j, two large peices of d/j are torn off, softening to head and tail of spine, tiny scrapes to top edge of cover, chipping to corners of cover, pen underlining on pages 225, 237, tiny pen marks on pages v, 232, 224, otherwise text and illustrations are clean, bright and tight throughout. Ex - Library
Features/Photos: Iranian earthquake kills 20,000; Farnborough 1962; Politburo versus Willaya IV - Algeria; Royal Tomb at Igbo, Nigeria; Mariner II - tearing the viel from Venus; Colour photos of nuclear explosion 200 miles over Johnson Island; Southern California Brush Land Fire; and more. Centerfold loose from one staple. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
Features: Shakespeare's Quatercentenary; A New Premier of Southern Rhodesia; Rt. Hon. Sir Frederic Aked Sellers; Ivan the Terrible Sculpture; British and Russian Spies Exchanged at Berlin Checkpoint; New York World's Fair Opens; Nimrod - the Nuclear Particle Accelerator at Rutherford High Energy Laboratory; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine