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London: Teach Yourself Books, 1972. Cover Neatly Laminated by Previous Owner; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. A complete working course. BOOK NUMBER: 05536 7. CONTENTS: I. Functions; II. Variations in Functions. Limits; III. Rate of Change of a Function. Gradients; IV. Differential Coefficient. Differentiation; V. Some Rules for Differentiation; VI. Maxima and Minima Values. Points of Inflexion; VII. Differentiation of the Trigonometric Functions; VIII. Exponential and Logarithmic Functions; IX. Hyperbolic Functions; X. Integration. Standard Integrals; XI. Some Elementary Methods of Integration; XII. Integration of Algebraic Fractions; XIII. Areas by Integral Calculus. Definite Integrals; XIV. Integration as a Summation. Areas; XV. The Lengths of Curves; XVI. Solids of Revolution. Volumes and Areas of Surfaces; XVII. Uses of Integration in… Read More

Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys Limited BOOK: Front Endpaper Pulled Due to Removal of Book Plate; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933-1948. SYNOPSIS: We tend to think of Canada as a compassionate, open country to which refugees from other countries have always been welcome. Yet, as historians Abella and Troper conclusively demonstrate, in the years 1933 to 1948, when the Jews of Europe were looking for a place of refuge from Nazi persecution, Canada effectively shut the door. Out of the millions of refugees, Canada admitted a paltry 5,000. In a world which was decidedly inhospitable to refugees, Canada's record was the worst. Employing a richness of archival and hitherto unavailable source material - written and oral - Abella and Troper trace the origins and results of Canadian immigration… Read More

Santa Cruz: Aerial Press, Inc., 1984. Previous Owner Markings (Including Name and Date Neatly Inked to Front Free Endpaper, Highlighting Throughout); Spine Bumped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: Part 1: Periodic Behavior; with 342 illustrations. CONTENTS: Preface; Dynamics Hall of Fame 1. Basic Concepts of Dynamics 2. Classical Applications: Limit points in 2D from Newton to Rayleigh 3. Vibrations: Limit cycles in 2d from Rayleigh to Rashevsky 4. Forced Vibrations: Limit cycles in 3D from Rayleigh to Duffing 5. Compound Oscillations: Invariant tori in 3D from Huyghens to Hayashi; Conclusion; Appendix: analytical expressions; Notes; Bibliography; Index. SYNOPSIS: Dynamics is emerging as an important conceptual scheme, unifying the sciences--physical, biological, and social--in a common geometric model. This book, the first of a series of four, introduces the basic concepts of dynamics, through the most important applications from 1600 to 1950. The… Read More

Santa Cruz: Aerial Press, Inc. Spine Lightly Chipped. SELLER'S NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL (NON CANADA OR USA) BUYERS: Additional shipping charges will be required and requested during the purchase process of this title. SUB-TITLE: Part 3: Global Behavior; with 136 illustrations. CONTENTS: Preface; Historical Introduction; Ch. 1 Global Phase Portraits; Ch. 2 Generic Properties; Ch. 3 Structural Stability; Ch. 4. Heteroclinic Tangles; Ch. 5. Homoclinic Tangles; Ch. 6 Nontrivial Recurrence; Notes; Bibliography; Index. SYNOPSIS: Dynamics is emerging as an important conceptual scheme, unifying the sciences--physical, biological, and social--in a common geometric model. This book, the first of a series of four, introduces the basic concepts of dynamics, through the most important applications from 1600 to 1950. The following volumes describe the recent progress in the subject. All four are written for a general audience, without the assumption of extensive training in math or the sciences. Visual… Read More

Harlequin Books, 1994. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SERIES: 492nd in Harlequin Temptation line. SYNOPSIS: The Mercenary and the Coward - Prim and proper Victoria Jones knew she was a coward - heck, she'd quit her job at the accounting firm because she found tax time too stressful! Only, her nice little job at the auto parts store, eating bland food and dating nice, predictable men never prepared her for . . . Marc Savin - Tough, sexy, everything she feared in a man. But he was the one man who could rescue her brother. Besides, Marc owed her - he'd sent Alec on that dangerous mission. For once in her life, Victoria would do whatever it took to get Marc to help her. No matter what Marc wanted from her . . .. First Edition 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Pan Original Pan Books Ltd Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. COVER ILLUSTRATION: Fish from Image Bank, Spacecraft by Chris Foss, Towel photographed by Peter Williams and Apple computer self-portrait by the author. MOVIE/RADIO/TV TIE-IN: This novel is third in the series The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, which is the basis for various productions. SYNOPSIS: In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-bogglingly big and bewildering but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair. Douglas N. Adams was born in Cambridge in 1952. He was educated at Brentwood School, Essex and St John's College, Cambridge… Read More

London: Pan Books Ltd Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. By the bestselling author of The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy. RADIO/TV TIE-IN: This novel was the basis for various radio and television productions. SYNOPSIS: What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), and pizza have in common? Apparently not much; until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious murder, assisting a mysterious professor, unravelling a mysterious mystery, and eating a lot of pizza--not to mention saving the entire human race from extinction along the way (at no extra charge). To find out more, read this book (better still, buy it then read it)--or contact Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Douglas… Read More

New York: Quill An Imprint of William Morrow and Company, Inc. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: 27F5. BOOK DESIGN BY: Margaret Hinders. COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY: Oistin Macbride/Corbis Bettmann. COVER DESIGN BY: Peter Davis. ISBN: 0-688-14312-1 (Copyright Page)/0-688-16101-4 (Rear Cover). SYNOPSIS: Gerry Adams is widely regarded as the most controversial leader in modern Irish history, yet few know what sort of man he really is. Now he speaks out in a remarkable memoir that tells both an intimately personal story and a tale of political awakening in the crucible of northern Irish conflict. Born in West Belfast in 1948, Gerry Adams is the eldest in a large family who endured poverty and discrimination without ever losing the strong affections and the sense of humor so characteristic of the Irish. He describes a deprived yet happy childhood, and celebrates the closeness not only of… Read More

Los Angeles: Pinnacle Books, 1977. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Light Circular Impressions, Chipping on Front Cover (Left From Glass/Cup); Light Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Spine Slightly Cocked. A brutal, raw adventure of warriors caught in a struggle for survival in 27th century, post-cataclysmic America! This is a violent, excitement-filled futuristic epic, with the sweeping sword and sorcery tradition of Conan and Blade - yet something different - a unique new brand of adventure fiction you won't be able to put down! SYNOPSIS: BILI OF MORGUHN ...kinsman of the Clan Morguhn returns home from the Middle Kingdoms to find his father dying and the people of the duchy rebelling. The priests of the old religion have spurred the populace on to try to reclaim their lands from the noble Kindred. Only with the help of the Undying Milo, the Prairie Cats, and the power of Mind-Speak can Bili save his home from the Satanic priests and their fanatical followers. It… Read More

Old Tappan: Spire Books - This Spire edition is published by Bethany Fellowship, Inc., for the Fleming H. Revell Company. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled. SYNOPSIS: "time to run penetrates the problems that divide families and volunteers the clear-cut Christian answer to family alienations, loneliness, and frustrations." - Dr. Billy Graham. Here in book form is the most successful Christian film ever produced. All across the nation it is playing to packed houses. Screened in hundreds of motion picture theaters throughout the land, it will be viewed by literally millions of Americans. So enormous has been the response at the close of the movie that counsellors have been hard-put to keep up with the streams of inquirers seeking spiritual help. A picture so captivating is certain to be compelling reading. And we think you will find it just that. time to run, a moving film, and now a… Read More

New York: Macmillan Publishing Company BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large. SYNOPSIS: "Fifteen years ago, when I was only seventy-five years old, I wrote my autobiography prematurely . . . Much has happened in my life since then . . . I am, therefore, impelled to take a second look in the rearview mirror, and hope that those who found the earlier volume engaging will be similarly entertained by this one." So begins A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror, Mortimer Adler's continuing intellectual autobiography, the record of the development and evolution of his mind, his personal philosophy, and his analytical powers. Here, the second volume of Dr. Adler's autobiography describes the editorial process that led to the second (and enormously controversial) edition of Great Books… Read More

Washington D.C.: The United States Capitol Historical Society In Cooperation With The National Geographic Society, 1970. Lightly Scratched on Front, Rear Covers; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. If this Nation has an ennobling shrine, the Capitol is it. SUB-TITLE: Its Past and Its Promise. BOOK NUMBER: 7. EDITORIAL DIRECTOR: Jules B. Billard. DESIGN AND PRODUCTION DIRECTOR: Robert L. Breeden. COVER: Light and music fill the night at a Marine Band concert on Capitol steps (Front); sunset silhouettes Freedom atop the Dome (Rear). CONTENTS: Title Page (Photograph, Presidential Inauguration); Foreword; Introduction; The Meaning of the Capitol; A Building and a Nation Grow; Exploring Today's Capitol; Cutaway View of the Capitol; The Capitol at Work; Index; End Papers (Front: The Constitution; Back: The Bill of Rights). EXCERPT: Foreword - The United States Capitol Historical Society presents… Read More

New York: The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 1962. Laminate Lightly Peeling; Light Creasing on Front Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. BOOK NUMBER: MQ456. SERIES: The Mentor-Unesco Art Series is designed to introduce throughout the world important works of art that are little known and not widely publicized. SYNOPSIS: The Mentor-Unesco Art Series brings you Masterpieces of Romanesque Art in full color, finest quality, full-page and double-page reproductions. This handsome volume of Spanish frescoes of the Romanesque period features an informative introduction by authority Juan Ainaud in which he discusses the influences of Spain's internal and political affairs on Spanish art, describes the frescoes, and analyzes the artists' composition, style, and use of color.. Second Edition 1st Printing. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

DAW Books, Inc. - The New American Library of Canada Limited Previous Dealer Markings; Repaired (by Previous Owner); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. SYNOPSIS: SLAVES OF ANTARES Slave of the colossus builders or scourge of the Inland Sea? Both roles awaited Dray Prescot on his return to Kregen. Torn between two contending forces, the Star Lords and the Savanti, Prescot himself wanted only to find his beloved, the Princess Delia of the Blue Mountains. But the powers that had drawn him across interstellar space to the world that orbited the two suns of the brightest star in the Constellation Scorpio had set him a task, the nature of which even he could not fully estimate. Here is an adventure-packed, full-bodied novel of danger and daring on a planet that is fully the equal of Burroughs' Barsoom and Norman's Gor - and that has already established a new high for interplanetary sagas.. First Edition 3rd Printing.… Read More

DAW Books, Inc. - The New American Library of Canada Limited, 1973. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: PRESCOT OF ANTARES Once again in the grip of the Star Lords of the Constellation Scorpio, Dray Prescot found himself torn from the battles of the Inner Sea for a mission in the air. For it was now his duty to carry his betrothed Delia by airboat to that far kingdom from whence she had come. But the route lay across the gaunt mountains and shadowy jungles of the Hostile Territories - and there Dray was to be plunged among stranger peoples and more fantastic challenges than even his Kregen princess had known. The saga of Dray Prescot, comparable only to those of Cabot of Gor and Carter of Barsoom, continues in this thrill-packed fully detailed adventure novel of the marvel lands of the planet Kregen of Antares.. First Edition 1st Printing. Mass… Read More

DAW Books, Inc. - The New American Library of Canada Limited Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Light Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. SYNOPSIS: SLAVES OF ANTARES Slave of the colossus builders or scourge of the Inland Sea? Both roles awaited Dray Prescot on his return to Kregen. Torn between two contending forces, the Star Lords and the Savanti, Prescot himself wanted only to find his beloved, the Princess Delia of the Blue Mountains. But the powers that had drawn him across interstellar space to the world that orbited the two suns of the brightest star in the Constellation Scorpio had set him a task, the nature of which even he could not fully estimate. Here is an adventure-packed, full-bodied novel of danger and daring on a planet that is fully the equal of Burroughs' Barsoom and Norman's Gor - and that has already established a new high for interplanetary sagas..… Read More

New York: Dover Publications, Inc. Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Rear Cover, Spine Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. ALSO KNOWN AS: This Dover edition, first published in 1977, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the revised English edition published by Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N. J., in 1972 under the title Introductory Linear Algebra. REVISED ENGLISH EDITION TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY: Richard A. Silverman. CONTENTS: Editor's Preface 1 Linear Spaces 2 Multilinear Forms and Tensors 3 Linear Transformations 4 Further topics; Selected Hints and Answers; Bibliography; Index. SYNOPSIS: Richard A. Silverman's series of translations of outstanding Russian textbooks and monographs is well-known to people in mathematics, physics and engineering. The present book is another excellent text from this series, a valuable addition to the English-language literature on linear algebra and tensors. It stems from the first four chapters of the Russian author's… Read More

Oakville: The John Wilkes Press Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Moderate Sticker Pull to Front Cover. CONTENTS: Why Peace Research Institutes; Difficulties: Real and Imaginary; Lessons From Radar; The Plan of Action; The Critical Few; Some Likely Projects; References. SYNOPSIS: Peace research is essential now because there is no longer any effective protection for anyone against today's weapons of war. The causes of war must be found as a basis for finding ways to prevent it. Since the first printing of this booklet, the Canadian Peace Research Institute has been established as a result of widespread interest in the content of these pages. The Canadian Peace Research Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan institute incorporated under federal charter for the purpose of conducting research into the causes and prevention of war. The Institute is independent of government but will work in cooperation with it, looking to government and to the Canadian… Read More

New York: Leisure Books, 1975. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. When man bites dog it's news. When the greatest writer of the new science fiction brings out a new book, it's history. Aldiss is back with the biggest s-f book of 1975. You may have to wait until 2001 to read a better Aldiss. But don't count on it. ISBN: 0-385-08430-7 (Copyright Page) 0-8439-00237 (Spine). REVIEWS: "There is no way to describe the mad sci-fi genius of Brian Aldiss, except to say, perhaps inadequately, that he is Joyce, Huxley, Waugh, on a pot party. With Arthur C. Clarke trying to give a lecture to Isaac Asimov while Noel Coward sings and plays the piano." - Edward L. Harris author of The Giants of Science Fiction.. First Thus 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Panther Books Ltd., 1968. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: 24603. SYNOPSIS: 1981- the year atomic testing in space got out of hand. The Truth slowly dawns: man has induced sterility in his kind. Civilisation, childless, crumbles. In scattered little self-contained communities the old comfort the old. But Greybeard and his wife Martha journey in search of hope. They have adventures. They meet the fantastic Jingadangelow, and in the end he gives them hope - but is it possible that the new dawn contains a suggestion of sinister malice?. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Illus. by KR. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.