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108 pages. Bibliography. Intended to "Disseminate and synthesize some critical, but very scattered existing knowledge concerning the human costs of J.V. Stalin's once-acclaimed achievements." - from page one. Contents clean and bright. Light external wear. A quality copy. Book
Emphasises the extreme significance of legal philosophy in representing the integration of legal principles and moral precepts. This text discusses, delineates and analyses the integral legal philosophies of thinkers such as Hobbes, Wilson, Descartes, Hegel, Leibnitz, Kant and Carlyle Clean Copy
xvi + 278pp., hardback, 22cm., VG
288 pages including index. Illustrated with line drawings. Chapters include: Introductory; Different Ends for Which Pictures Have Been Used; The Different Kinds of Pictures; Stereographs and the Stereoscope; Experiences of Travel with Stereographs; The Importance of Environment; The Limitations of Language; The Wide Environment The Stereograph Travel System Gives. Part II includes the following chapters: What are the Necessities of Life; Life is the Purpose of Our Existence; What is the Life We Are Here to Develop?; Happiness vs. Pleasure; The Different Needs of Our Life; The Fundamental Conditions for the Development of the Intellect; The Fundamental Conditions for the Development of the Aesthetic Nature; Fundamental Conditions for the Development of the Moral Nature; Fundamental Conditions for the Development of the Religious Life; Summary and Conclusion. Small dab of liquid paper upon front endpaper. Minimal markings to text. Some pencil markings have been erased. Lettering worn from spine. Above average wear to boards. Hinges intact. Minor lean to spine. Average soiling. Moderate yellowing to contents. Book
303 pages. Hamilton had an extensive heralded career with the British military and was a prolific author. "Here, greatly daring, I have taken an Army as my theme - that mould of steel which fixes bodies and souls into another pattern from those of agriculture or commerce." - from page 24. Includes the following interesting chapters: Knowledge of Armies; Higher Organization; Organization Generally; Military Organization; Discipline; Training; Numbers; Genius; Patriotism; Application of Higher Organization; Application of Organization to the Troops; Application of Discipline, Training, Patriotism. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper. Long closed opening to first blank leaf. Above-average wear. Backstrip completely open at back board. Interesting small vintage Calcutta bookseller label inside back board. A worthy reading copy of this fascinating and valuable military reference. Book
264 pages including index. The social sciences are in turmoil. There is not even any agreement on the nature of the subject matter. Robin Fox, an anthropologist, has always spoken out for a science of society based on evolutionary theory as a way out of the confusion. Here he shares with us, in essays, his explorations of this contentious subject matter. His focal point is the endemic opposition to any approach based on innate human qualities, and hence any definition of cultural universals. This opposition is deeply ingrained and often irrational, so Fox digs into its past to uncover its philosophical and political underpinnings. Book
104 pages. Features: Great color photo Studebaker ad inside front cover features military insert; Plymouth ad; Great colour photo ad for Armstrong's Asphalt Tile; The First American Crusade - Herbert Hoover's personal memoirs of World War I, originally intended for release after his death but printed here in view of the imminent entrance of the US into World War II - with photos; Go Fly a Kite, story by Eddy Orcutt; Hearts of Oak, by Walter Havighurst; Cellini to Hearst to Klotz - the sale of fine art and objects by Gimbel Brothers; Stanford Football Coach Clark Shaughnessy behind the Eight Ball - article with photos; The Liar That Laid an Egg, by William Hazlett Upson; First Baby, by Dorothy Thomas; Botany Bay, by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall; Morale in a Test Tube - Research at the Merck plant in Rahway, NJ; Great color photo ad for Campbell's Soup; The Phantom Filly, by George Agnew Chamberlain; Nice color ad for Oldsmobile cars, featureing a red two-door model; Great color ad for GM locomotives; Nice two-page Buick ad; Chrysler ad; Color Cadillac ad; Dodge Fluid-Drive car ad; Wonderful full-page two-color cartoon strip-style ad for Hotpoint appliances; Wonderful two-page color ad for Del Monte canned foods and their 3rd annual Round-Up; Nice two-color full-page ad for Champion spark plugs shows lady in top-had being hit by snowball; Fantastic Timken bearing ad shows all the military applications of its products; Wonderful color ad for the 1942 Packard Clipper, featuring a blue Clipper Club Sedan; Large color ad for RCA Victor Radios; Great color ad for Old Gold Cigarettes shows smooching young couple; Underwood typewriter ad; Dramatic illustrated Eveready Battery ad depicts the attack on the Egyptian liner ZamZam as experienced by C.A. McCarthy; Nice two-color ads for Nunn-Bush shoes and Aunt Jemima Pancakes; Lovely full-page color ad for Roblee shoes for men; Luden's cough drop ad illustrates 'Clothespin Nose"; Nice color ad inside back cover for Van Camp's pork and beans features Mrs. Lou Little; Ivory Soap ad on back cover. Average external wear and soiling. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: A vote against motherhood - Gael Greene; Danger from Within - Dwight D. Eisenhower writes that Indolence and lack of moral principle present a greater threat to America than the armed might of Communism; Perils of Pauline - America's highest-paid femail TV commentator, Pauline Frederick, fights skeptical bosses, prettier rivals and video's glamour code; "We Sailed the Columbus Ship" - Robert Marx relates how nine men in a forty-two foot boat braved wind and wave to recreate the first conquest of the Atlantic - many colour photos; Golf-Ball Goof - retrieving lost golf balls; Last Stop Alcatraz - Mickey Cohen and the inside story of how Federal agents put him behind iron bars at long last; Ice Hockey's Geriatric Marvel - 38 year of age, going on 45, goalie Johnny Bower of the Toronto Maple Leafs seems to have found the secret of perennial youth; Nuclear-age School - New Mexico students pursue knowledge under a 21 inch concrete slab in Artesia, New Mexico - Abo Public Elementary School is the only one in the nation underground - it doubles as a fully equipped fallout shelter; Black Merchants of Hate - fanatic and well-disciplined, Negro 'Muslims' threaten to turn resentment against racial discrimination into open rebellion - photo of Malcolm X. Nice colour Pepsi ad on back cover. Great two-page colour ad for Chevrolet trucks. Nice full-page ad for a blue 1963 Dodge Wagon; Colour Ford Auto centerfold features the Fairlane. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
221 pages. An inquiry into the failure of the American criminal justice system - its causes, mechanisms and moral implications. Attempts to identify the reasons for the failure of the system and why it is allowed to persist. Generous helpings of high-lighting, marginalia and underlining in this copy which is actually only lightly worn in still glossy covers. Book
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viii + 115pp., 23cm., Academic dissertation ["Dissertatio ad lauream in facultate philosophiae apud Pontificium Athenaeum "Angelicum" de Urbe"]
112 pages. Features: Imperial Dentistry; Life with Father - More and more divorced men are demanding the right to custody of their children - with photo of Dr. Joseph S. Bell and his children Gerald and Jennifer; Nice Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith II ad; To Be Young, Rich - And a Spy - Andrew Doulton Lee and John Christopher Boyce passed secret U.S. defense documents to the Russians through the Soviet embassy in Mexico City; Spoleto U.S.A. - Gian Carlo Menotti has made the Italian summer festival a byword for artistic excellence for twenty years, and now he's taking it to Charleston; Color BMW ad features the 530i; Nice one-page color-photo ad for Mademoiselle Magazine; How "Moral" Can We Get? - by injecting human rights into foreign policy, (Jimmy) Carter has revived an old American dilemma; Small ad for the Lotus Esprit; Piracy on the Low Seas - Vessel 'Pirate's Lady' vanishes with Tony Latuso and David Diecidue aboard, after fueling at Apalachicola on the Florida panhandle; Bausch & Lomb ad features Halston designed frames for glasses; Sotheby Parke Bernet ad features photo of Jane Wyeth; White-Water High - a great wave of boating is hitting America's rivers; Suddenly it's Summer - gorgeous beach fashion photos; Summer Rental Redo by Bob Patino and Vincent Wolf; Sunoco ad features their 'Penny Pinching Pump'; Small Beer. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
pp. vii, (9)-253, 96. Error in paging, page 263 numbered 253. Dampstain. Age stain. Early manuscript margin notations. 8vo. 205 mm. Original full leather binding. Original leather spine label, loss at one corner. Title continues: 'Book First, Containing An Extraordinary Variety Of Questions In Prose, On Moral, Philosophical And Other Subjects, Together With A Great Number Of Enigmas, Paradoxes, Rebuses, Charades, etc. Also A Number Of Curious Mathematical Questions. Book Second, Containing Answers And Solutions, In Prose And Verse.' Hardbound. Good. S&S/AI 11448. PAIMP 24
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear to cover. 168 pages.
224 p. Foxed. 24mo. 155 mm. Original full leather binding. Original leather spine label. Joints cracked. Boards fragile. Very Good. From the Second London Edition. S&S/AI 43-296. Hardbound. AI BX 4
xiii + 226pp., softcover, 23cm., VG
pp. 272, 64 Plus engraved Frontis of the author. Foxed. Damp stained. Early stamped ownership of Paul Coriell, Baltimore. All edges gold. Tall 12mo. Original leather binding. Boards elaborately embossed and decorated in gold with oval portraits of the first four presidents. Portrait of the Signing of the Declaration on front cover and Washington receiving his commission on rear board. Boards ruled in gold. Decorated spine. Small loss head and tail of spine. Binding worn. Hardbound. Second Edition. There is a variation in bindings between the first and second editions. First edition has a gold urn while second edition has a rampaging lion on front board. Most famous for his later writings on Free Masonry, Judson here deals with a wide variety of topics, including: government; morals; agriculture; children; debts; dueling; education; the press; religion; etc. AMERICANA BOX 9
viii + 241pp., cloth, dustwrapper, 24cm., in the series "International archives of the history of ideas" vol. 33, VG
New English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In English. 196 p. The making of Turkish bogeyman. A unique case of misrepresentation in German journalism. Translated by Michael Brunet. "In the long run, every country will be accountable for the windows smashed by its press. A bill will be presented some day in the form of the disgruntlement of the country affected. (Otto von Bismarck - Speech to the German Reichstag of March 6, 1888).".
br. Questo libro risponde all'esigenza di un manuale completo e aggiornato per lo studio della tipologia e della storia dei tanti e vari libri liturgici utilizzati per la Messa di rito romano. Tiene conto della notevole mole di lavoro scientifico svolto in questo settore negli ultimi venticinque anni, in particolare l'edizione delle fonti. L'autore critica molti presupposti comuni che, con il passare del tempo, richiedono una revisione. Inoltre, questo studio include molti elementi nuovi non trattati nei precedenti manuali sui libri liturgici. È un lavoro accuratamente documentato, che offre una chiara sintesi di un complesso campo di studi.
xiii + 413pp., cloth (hardback) + dustwrapper, 22cm., in the series "Oxford ethics series", VG
364 pages. 194 illustrations, including 173 in full color. "The text of this great picture-story is taken almost entirely from the King James Version of the Bible... A glorious representation of our great Old Testament legacy." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with slightest wear. Tight and square. An excellent copy. Book
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Fragile binding with a few loose pages and loose hinges. Silhouette illustrations by Ellsworth Young. 5 1/4"w x 6 7/8"h. 92 pages. Brown cloth boards with library tape on spine. "The Jatakas, or Birth-stories, form one of the sacred books of the Buddhists and relate to the adventures of the Buddha in his former existences, the best character in any story being identified with the Master."
No marks or inscriptions. Clean bright green cloth boards with no bumping to corners. A lovely clean crisp tight copy. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with slight traces of handling. 254pp. A definitive anthology of essays by one of America's most respected neoconservatives. They reveal his dramatic transformation from a liberal pacifist during World War II to a humane realist.
