Search Results: Authors starting with A from Century Books

London: Macmillan, 1979. 2nd printing. Softcover. Good condition.. Published in the International Year of the Child. Book is part of the CHILD-to-Child Programme, which encourages better health in children by encouraging schoolchildren to assist with the health needs of their your brothers and sisters. 104 pages, illustrated

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1940. 1st Ed, 5th imp.. Hardback. Very Good+ condition. Blue cloth binding. Very light shelfwear, previous owner name on first pastedown endpaper, else fine. 381 pages, including index. Book measures approximately 8.5 by 5.5 inches. Chapters include planning, Cofferdam design, and detailed information about equipment. From the preface: This work is largely an outgrowth of the experiences in building the great dams in the Tennessee Valley. 'Whan that vast construction program was started late in 1933, the urgency to help relieve nationwide unemployment conditions demanded that construction be started almost simultaneously with the engineering planning. This resulted in placing unusual demands on a sound program of construction planning.' Ackerman was an engineer on the Tennessee River projects and author of many engineering articles. Locher served as Construction Consultant for the TVA.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1953. Softcover. Good condition. Previous owner stamps on cover.

Peace Corps. Softcover. Good condition. Peace Corps Information Collection & Exchange Reprint Series Number R-34. Report created by Lyle A. Wolfskill, Wayne A. Dunlop and Bob M. Callaway. Staple bound. 8.5 x 11 inches.

Vienna: International Atomic Energy Agency, 1977. Softcover. Good condition. Previous owner stamps, light edgewear. 295 pagers. Contents include: Distribution of Uranium During Formation of the Earth's Crust and Crystallization of Magmas; Distribution of Uranium in Rocks as a Guide to the Recognition of Potential Uranium Ore Deposit Districts; Metallotectonic Control of Uranium Distribution; and Recognition of Uraniferous Areas and Evaluation of their Uranium Potential.

Vienna: International Atomic Energy Agency, 1979. Softcover. Very Good condition. Previous owner stamps, slight fading. Contents include Estimation of Discovered Uranium Resources; Estimation of Undiscovered Uranium Resources; and Availability of Reserves and Resources.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. 3rd printing. Hardback. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket.. Previous owner inscription. One small corner tear on dust jacket, else fine. History and lore of beer and beer-making past and present plus 175 recipes. Part of the Knopf Cooks American series.

Cambridge, Mass.: Zoland Books, 1997. 2nd printing. Hardback. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Unlikely sleuth Norman de Ratour tackles murder to save his beloved museum and along the way discovers a cannibal cult in the anthropology department, creative writing in the primate pavilion and Nietzschean ambitions in the genetics lab.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1977. Hardback. VG/VG-. Part of Illustrated Junior Library. Wear at spine. DJ price clipped, several small tears. Beautiful color plates

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. 1st edition. Hardback. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Third Sir John Fielding mystery. Very light wear at corners of dust jacket, else fine. Fielding is a blind, 18th-century judge, and the story is narrated by his 'eyes,' young Jeremy Proctor.

New York: Simon & Schuster, [1991]. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Domestic thriller set in southern California.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. One very small tear on inside front flap of dust jacket, else fine. Author's first book, first Jacob Lomax mystery. Set in Denver, Colorado.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. 2nd printing. Hardback. Fine in Very Good dust jacket.. Dust jacket has one very small chip and one very small tear on rear, difficult to notice. The fifth Jacob Lomax novel from Shamus Award-winning author. Set in Denver.

Berkeley: Editorial Justa Publications, 1985. 4th printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine condition.. Novel set in a hospital for crippled children. Very compelling prose.

Warner Books, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Fine DJ. Anaya's first mystery novel, set in Albuquerque. Replete with the Latino identity and magical storytelling that are his signature. Book is unread.

Warner Books, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. P.I. Sonny Baca is back in another mystifying - and mystical - adventure, once again pitted against the bruja Raven.

New York: Times Books, [1977]. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Regional American recipes from across the land: Appalachia to California, New England to the Great Plains, the Mountain States to the Old South. More than 300 original recipes woven together with interviews with women who faithfully hoard the old-fashioned recipes they learned from their mothers. 334 pages. Light edgewear on dust jacket.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1972. Softcover. Good condition. Previous owner stamps on cover. 16 pages

Boston: Little, Brown, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket.. Previous owner name on top edge. Light edgewear and one small tear on dust jacket. Sections include The Psychobiologic Approach to Parenthood; Developmental Aspects of Parenthood; Clinical Attitudes and Behavior of Parents; and Some Clinical Correlations Between Parents and Children. 29 contributing authors.

Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, [1984]. Softcover. Very Good condition.. 128 pages. Shows methods to develop appropriate cookstoves with local populations. Provides basic information about the process of deforestation and related matters as well as hints for designing, selecting and testing stoves.