Non-fiction from JWMah

NY: The Penguin Press, 2011. (USA) 1s printing. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to a Bon Mot Book Club bookplate to the half-title, no other markings, Fine in unclipped Near Fine dust jacket with a crease to the bottom edge of the rear panel. Hardcover, 804pp, index, B&W photos. Renowned energy authority Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer… Read more about this item

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. (CAD) Presumed 1st eidtion. No markings, slight fading to top edges of cover, otherwsie about Very Good. Wraps, 303pp. In the early 1970s, when women’s history began to claim attention as an emerging discipline in North American universities, it was dominated by a middle-class Anglo-Saxon bias. Today the field is much more diverse, a… Read more about this item

Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 1989. (USA) 2nd printing 1991. Owner's name to end paper, very slight fading to top edge of covers and to spine coth, Good used copy lacking the dust jacket. Cloth, 148pp, index. "In less than twenty years after its publication Sandra Dolby's seminal work on Literary Folkloristics and the Personal Narrative has become a… Read more about this item

NY: Crossroad Publishing Company., 1982. (USA) Presumed st edition. No markings, Fine in unclipped Very Good dust jacket with light rubbing to panels. Hardcover, 235pp, no illus. The Kyoto School is a system of thought rotted in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, coupled with an openess to Western thought and its commitment to bringing about a meeting of East and West.… Read more about this item

Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2006. (CAD) 1st printing. No markings, Fine as New in unclipped Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 174pp, index, no illus. From the jacket: A sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of the Species profoundly shocked Victorian readers by calling into question the belief in a Creator with its description of evolution through natural… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press., 2016. (USA) Presumed 1st edition. There wwere some pages with pencil underlining but these have been erased, thus Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 354pp, index, B&W illusttationss and photos. Although the frequency of child marriages has declined since the early twentieth century, Syrett reveals that the practice was historically… Read more about this item

Vancouver: UBC Press, 2024. (CAD) Presumed 1st edition, No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as published. Hardcover, xii, 288pp, index, graph, no other illus. Counting Matters questions the ways in which measurement culture manifests within the field of gender equality. The contributors ask how it is measured in different policy areas, how we might improve existing practices, and what… Read more about this item

NY: Bernard Geis, 1961. (USA) Book club edition. No markings, square and tight, Near Fine in Fair dustjacket with edge tears and ceases,rubbing to edges of Dj, and to spine extremities. DJ is in mylar sleeve. Yellow and grey hardcover, 256pp, index, almost 300 B&W photos of exercise position with Prudden in a spandex(?) bodysuit. This book… Read more about this item

Vancouver: Fforbez Enterprises. Ltd., 1980. (CAD) 7th Printing Owner's name, no other markings, scuff marks to purple portion of front cover, crease to corner of cover, some rubbing to edges of covers, Good. only used copy. Magenta Photo card covers, metal coil binding, 192pp, index. 170 B&W photos showing exercise positions. A self-teaching… Read more about this item

Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co, 1957. (IRE) Presumed 1st eidtion with 1957 to the title page. Two school stamps t the endpaper and pastedown with library slip and pocket to the front end paper, stamp to the rear end paper, label to the corner of back cover and another to the base of the spine, the fold-out colour map… Read more about this item

NY: Pantheon, 2012. (USA) Stated first edtion with the number line from 2 to 9, as is typical for Random house books. No markings, Fine as New in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 364pp, B&W and colour illus. From one of the most original and influential neuroscientists at work today, here is an exploration of consciousness unlike any other—as told by… Read more about this item

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958. (USA) Later printing of the first edition (B-3.58{V}. No markings, old book store price label to back pastedown, Fine in price-clipped Very Good dust jacket with hint of rubbing to head and foot of spine of Dj,1/4" closed tear to top edge of back panel. . Hardcover, black cloth, 205pp, index. The… Read more about this item

Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 1992. (CAD) Presumed 1st edition, No markings, Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with two tiny scuff marks to the back panel. Hardcover, illus end papers,304pp, index, lots of B&W photos. Author Ken Drushka, one of Canada's foremost writers on forest industry matters, has left no stone unturned in solving such mysteries as what happened… Read more about this item

Toronto: Signal, 2014. (CAD) First printing of Canadian First edition. No markings, Fine in unclipped Very Good minus dust jacket with 1/2" tear and small crease to top edge of rear panel. There are two samll spots the size of lentils just above the "e" in "Sapiens" on the front panel, and two faint spots near the spine edge of… Read more about this item

Cheshire CT: Graphics Press, 1998. (USA) 7th printinf of the first edition, 1998. No markings, Fine in Very Good dust jacket with a couple of small edge tears. Hardcover, 197pp, index, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics. Tufte was a profession at Yale where he taught statistical evidence and information design.… Read more about this item

NY: Public Affairs Press, 2009. (USA) 1st printing. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to the half-title: "To P---/ with best wishes for your help in the field/ Richard Dowden, March 2009", no other markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 576pp, index, no illus. The author is dorector of the Royal African Society. From the jacket: After a lifetime's close observation… Read more about this item

London: The Athlone Press, 1988. (UK) this book originally appeared in 1968; this is the first printing of the revised and expanded (second) edition. No markings, Fine in Fine(-) dust jackdt with a hint of rubbing to the head of spine of DJ and rubbing to panel gloss of rear panel. Hardcover, 160pp, index, no illus. This new edition… Read more about this item

NY: Wehman Bros, 1954. (USA) Presumed 1st American edition. No markings, Very Good used copy; lacking the dust jacket. Black cloth, [208]pp, 19 B&W photo plates and 5 line diagrams. Sydney James Van Pelt (1908 -1976) was an Australian medical practitioner and a pioneer of modern medical hypnosis and hypnotherapy. He was the founding editor of the British Journal… Read more about this item

Cambridge / London: The MIT Press, 2007. (USA) 1st printing. No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 408pp, index, colour and B&W photos and illus. The book starts of with Maureen Sherlock's horrendous account of the deaths of 200 yound women in the New York factory fire From the jacket: The Object of Labor explores the personal,… Read more about this item

St. Paul MN: Paragon House Publishers, 2007. (USA) 1st printing of first edition, SIGNED BY AUTHOR to the title page, no other markings, Fine in Fine (-) dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to panel gloss and a tiny crease to front flap. Hardcover, 371pp, index, small photos; diagrams. From the jacket: This is really two books… Read more about this item