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Features: The Expedition Chronicle - Blood and Honour in the shadow of Europe's highest peak; The Basque Connection - Red Bay Yields New Answers about Canada's earliest known European settlements; Shadowy Mammals - Nocturnal Encounters in Tasmania, Haunt of the World's least understood marsupials; Inside the Royal Mint - Bullish Days in Canada's Bullion Trade; Threading the Cerebral Maze - Canadian Neuroscientist Brenda Milner explores the workings of the human brain. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Feature articles include: The Apish Origins of Human Tension; The Hard Kind of Patriotism; The Impregnable Boston Symphony; How America "Solved" the Servant Problem; Rockefeller's Triple-threat Brain Trust; The Case for Fast Drivers; Washington's Chance for Splendor; The Troubled Conscience of American Business; The Military's Limited War Against Segregation; A special duty for Republicans; Special Supplement - The Tangled Romance of Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson; Whatever happened to the peaceful atom; Our Most American Animal; "Consider Me a Communist" - a Portrait of Evtushenko; Latin - the Church's Mother Tongue?; On the Road in Brazil; Governing Buckley by the Numbers; Danger in our Medical Labs; Louisiana's Wonderful Invention; The Multiversity; Be My Host; Balanchine's Return to Russia; How Not to Integrate the Schools; The Lost World of Cape Canaveral, 1911; Is Kindness Killing the Arts?; How Buinessmen Can Fight "Big Government" - and win; Days and Nights in Texas; Mrs. Roosevelt Does a TV Commercial; Restraints on American Catholic Freedom; My Anti-headache Diet; Africa's New Elites; California Wines - A Look at the Vineyards around the Golden Gate; How to Treat the Broadway Malady of 1963; The Slow, Quiet Murder of Tax Reform; Detroit's Surprising Mayor; The Debate Over Velikovsky - An Astronomer's Rejoinder; The Angry Young Women; and more. Moderate wear. Tightly bound. Usual library markings. Book
126 pages. Special Features: Trust in Brains Instead of Brain Trusts; What Do Women of America Think About Morals?; Radio Doesn't Want You Unless-; and Fear in Children. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking, short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Ivory Soap, Campbells' Soup, and Coca-Cola. Full page colour Armour's Star Smoked Ham print ad with Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Half page black/white Lux Toilet Soap ad with Barbara Stanwyck. Full page colour 1847 Rogers Bros. Silver print ad with Rosalind Russell. Somewhat above-average wear. Few short openings along fore-edge. Front/Back cover and pages 9-39 loose but present. Magazine
48 pages. Features: Editorial about Maurice Duplessis' decision to censor all TV shows in Quebec; The Secret Nightmare of Europe - concern that the US might blunder into starting a world war itself; The Firing Squad - story by Colin McDougall - illustrated by Oscar Cahen; Karsh Photographs Canada's Melting Pot - Six pages of great photos; Is it True What They Say About Gordie Howe? - is he the greatest hockey player alive? - article with great photos, including a shot of Gordie in a hospital bed with a brain injury being visited by his mother and sister; Chinook - The Wind that brings June in January; The Erudite Jester of McGill - a Maclean's flashback to Stephen Leacock; Is the Male Really Necessary? - noted biologist Norman J. Berrill surveys the battle of the sexes among the lower species; The Ten Best and Ten Worst Movies of 1952 - with photos; Ad for Westinghouse Washers and Dryer on back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy. Book
Features: Pakistan - from a smuggler's paradise comes hell; William Shatner in ad for Kero-Sun heaters; Nice Schenley Awards ad; War Machines do not bring Peace, by John F. Godfrey; Cover Story - Marc Lalonde's New Deal; Unsuspecting victims of a collapsed economy; Marc Lalonde's Board of Economic advisors; Ocean Ranger disaster inquest begins; Manitoba doctors' strike; Painting 'The Tribute Money' - not a Rembrandt?; The Socialists conquer Spain; $25 Billion MX missile decsion; Shake-up in the espionage trade - death of Kevin Mulcahy; Guatemalan terror; Canada confronts the Robotis age; K-Tel enters the publishing business; Dan Colussy to take over CP Air; Peter C. Newman on Dome Petroleum; NFL players association; Normand Leveille of the Boston Bruins almost dies of bleeding in his brain during game in Vancouver; Canada's leaking immigration lifeboat - our 'remarkable openness' may come to an end; The amazing recovery of Lise Gauthier; Education - the return of the strap - corporal punishment; Halley's comet returns to earth; Fallibility in the computer; Cash register kickbacks; Challenges to WCB in Ontario; Too few organs available to be transplanted; Nice ad for the 1983 Ford Mustang GT; Rough Trade - Carole Pope and Kevan Staples - article with colour photo; Movie reviews. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Contents: Managing solid waste; the geometric phase - the behavior of particles in certain quantum-mechanical situation; Plasticity in brain development; Patterned ground; Fertilization in mammals; Soft X-ray lasers; Snakes, blood circulation and gravity; Canal builders of Pre-Inca Peru. Average wear. Book
104 pages. Contents/Features: Black Hole Blowback - a single black hole, smaller than the solar system, can control the destiny of an entire cluster of galaxies; Mapping the Cancer Genome; A Digital Life - New systems may allow people to record everything that has touched their lives and to store all these data in a personal digital archive; Down go the Dams - Many dams are being torn down to allow rivers and ecosystems to rebound, but risks abound; New Predictors of Disease - Tests that detect predictive antibodies in the blood years before people show symptoms of various disorders may allow preventative action; Diesels become Clean - Improved engines and exhaust scrubbers, combined with a new fuel will make energy-efficient diesels nearly as green as hybrids; Illusory Color and the Brain - the brain may not separate perception of color from perception of form and depth. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
180 pages. Features: Migration between the core and the periphery; radar images of the earth from space; the development of maps and stripes in the brain; personal computers; samples of the Milky Way; the interaction of moving water and sessile organisms; the search for prime numbers; the lamps of Cosa; and more. Bit of writing to front cover and page 3. Covers partially detached from staples. Many nostalgic color photo ads, including an early Microsoft ad which incorporates their early green logo. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Lead Poisoning; Solid Stars; The Iroquois Confederacy; the prospects of fusion power; giant brain cells in mollusks; the fastest computer; the state of water in red cells; leonardo on bearings and gears. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: the economic growth of Japan; the lunar laser reflector; an early farming village in Turkey; the functional organization of the brain; inertial navigation for aircraft; how an eggshell is made; genetic load; monomolecular layers and light. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: The cost of world armaments; Ribosomes; Acoustical Holography; The Exploration of the Moon; Brain Damage by Asphyxia at birth; Experiments in Time Reversal; The Physiology of the House Mouse; The Possessions of the Poor. Prior owner's name atop first page. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Bobby Moore writes for you; Focus on Bobby Murdoch of Celtic; Early leaders sometimes miss the big goal; Too young at 18? 'No', say Tommy Craig, Ian Bowyer, Phil Hadley and Alan Hudson; Jim McCalliog; Full-page colour photo of Matt Tees (Luton Town); colour photo of Dave Hilley; Sixties Scrapbook; World Cup Supplement (including colour centerfold) with action shot of Pele); Sir Alf Ramsey; England's Probables and Possibles for Mexico; Joao Saldanha - the 'brain' behind Brazil; photo of Bill Glazier of Coventry City; Malcolm Allison's Big Comeback; Leeds are good but will be better, says skipper Billy Bremner; Uncapped stars who could help Scotland get ahead; Full-page colour photo of Mike Channon of Southhampton; photos of Johnny Graham and Joe Wark playing on a snowy field; England 0, USA 1 - the result that shook the football world; colour back cover photo of Colin Stein (Rangers & Scotland). Unmarked. Modest wear. A quality copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Reports from Washington, London and on Science and Industry; The Crisis in Teaching, by Oscar Handlin; Italian Communism, 1956 - by Paolo Pavolini; The Communist Approach to Burma, by David L. Cohn; Bella! Bella! - by Constance Tomkinson; The Word of Willow (poem), by Leah Bodine Drake; The Meanest Man in Washington County, by Dillon Anderson; How the Brain Works, by George R. Harrison; A Pair of Hands (poem) by May Sartun; The Dollmaker - story by Niccolo Tucci; The Musician - poem by R.P. Lister; The Illusion of Owning a Business, by Frederick W. Copeland; A Word for Farewell (poem), by Richard Church; Apley, Wickford Point, and Pulham - My Early Struggles, by John P. Marquand; Max Beerbohm, by Evelyn Waugh; Mitchell Goodman on Mexico (part II). Nice colour ad for the Tennessee Gass Transmission Company inside front cover. Attractive colour ad for Martell Cognac inside back cover features a Versailles theme. Nice colour ad for Old Charter Straight Bourbon Whisky on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Features: Giant relief map of Messines Ridge; Photo of General Sir Henry Wilson; Photo of Signor Caproni - Italian Aeroplane inventor; On the western front in Flanders - a railway laid by the Canadian Royal Engineers; Super two-page photo of a Baghdad street crowd watching British gunners hauling a heavy gun; General Allenby's advance towards Jerusalem; Romances of the Regiments - the 10th and the 37th; The "Friedrich der Grosse" brings U.S. troops across the sea; Two-page photo of a British Battery under attack near Passchendaele; Bad weather road traps on the Flanders front; using x-rays on the Western front; Devastation on the Flanders front; Admiral Mayo visits Sir David Beatty; Picking the brain of a captured Zeppelin; Women operating tractors; With General Allenby's Army in Palestine; Average wear. Staples almost disintegrated. Book
Stories: The Naked Man - a story from Africa; Starting Life Afresh in South Africa - our experiment in orange growing; Nine Lives - an interesting cat story; Doctor Ash Takes Charge - an amusing story of how a lazy family came to do some real hard work - perhaps for the first time in their lives; A Flight to Save a Ship (The Lipari) - the author rents a plane to locate a beached vessel and claim it for his salvage company; Chinese Pirates of Today - photos; The Big Voyage of the Little Shanghai - from Shanghai to Copenhagen in a 42 foot yacht; A Trooper's battle with a Lion; The Old Rifle - a New Mexico Tale involving the Halleck and Howard Mill at La Madera; The Mail Bag Mystery - a delightful Irish story; A bear with a Brain - a very clever thieving Grizzly; The Diamond Smuggers - the author describes his gem-running exploits; Land of Volcanoes - a visit to the Tengger, the principal volcanic centre of Java; The Last of the Corsican Bandits - the meteoric career of Romanetti; Prior owner's name pencilled atop front cover else unmarked. Above-average but not excessive wear. Back cover nearly detached. A worthy vintage copy. Book
39 pages. Features: U.S. Crime Syndicates are Moving in on Canada (first of two articles); Belles of the Ball - Canadian gals take to bowling in rapidly-increasing numbers; World of Colour the Eye Can't See - crystals viewed under the microscope; Brain Waves Comic; Canadians in a Great Adventure - The Undercover War Pays Off - Men of the Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.) risked their lives in a task that helped to free war-torn France; Northern Dolls are a hit down south - Eskimo/Inuit art; Shirley Calling Tokyo - Shirley MacLaine talks to husband Steve Parker; Nice colour photo and write-up of Boston Bruin star Don McKenney; Story about the NHL players with the highest goal/shot ratio; Nipper by Doug Wright. Many great colour ads including super Eaton's centerfold. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
234 pages. Features: 50 Classic looks for spring; The Timeless Coat at Irresistible Prices; Kristen Stewart; Surviving a Near-death Brain Trauma; Mario Testino on his day with Catherine Middleton and Prince William; Perfect Hair at What Risk?; and more. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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20102-1846906091Edexcel 2010. Paperback. New. 400 pages. 10.75x8.54x0.71 inches. Edexcel paperback
2010__1846906091Edexcel 2010. Paperback. New. 400 pages. 10.75x8.54x0.71 inches. Edexcel paperback
20010011869London: Collins. Bound in perfect green cloth with bright gilt titles to spine this 2001 hardback First Edition is FINE in FINE wrapper.unclipped. 392pp with Preface Foreword 17 Chapters Numerous photos tables maps and charts Postscript Bibliography and Index. In new condition! . Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 2001. Collins hardcover
2000Q-0781719569Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2000-01-15. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Lippincott Williams & Wilkins paperback
