Search Results: Authors starting with A from Florida Mountain Book Co.

London: Published for the Proprietors Hardcover, 750 pages plus a 6-page appendix. Fair- (minus) condition. Publication date not stated. Size 7.5"x5.25". "An alphabetically arranged dictionary of disease entities, injuries, medicinal substances (plant and animal), anatomical parts, etc. The text is abundantly illustrated with wood engravings, especially of medicinal plants." Exterior has rubs & scuffs, spine replaced with cloth tape which has splits along joints & spine. Front interior hinge is split. Bookseller's and previous owner's (org) stamps, label & notations on front endpapers. Title page & Preface have darkening from ephemera. Text has ink underlining throughout, and occasional soiling or marginal notations.. Fair-.

Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 1999. Softcover, [xi], 259 pages. Near Fine condition. Size 9"x6". "Child Astrology offers a comprehensive look at the planets and their influence on your child's emotional, intellectual, physical, and spiritual development. It provides easy-to-use planetary tables and clear instructions on how to record and interpret the positioning of the planets at the time of a child's birth. The author suggests specific approaches that help to minimize those influences in a child's life that are negative and to maximize those that are positive, approaches that aid parents in anticipating and addressing the major changes particular to children's different developmental stages." Book has very light exterior shelfwear, else As New, clean and unmarked.. Near Fine.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Softcover, [xiv], 280 pages. Very Good+ condition. Size 9"x6". This book combines "studies of anatomy and physiology and mathematical and computer modeling to obtain a quantitative description of cortical functions. The material is presented didactically; it starts with descriptive anatomy and comprehensively examines all aspects of modeling. The book gradually leads the reader from a macroscopic view of cortical anatomy and a description of standard electrophysiological properties of single neurons to neural network models and synchronous firing chains of neurons. Along the way, the most modern trends of neural network modeling are explored." Book has moderate exterior shelfwear, else Fine condition, clean and unmarked.. Very Good+.

El Paso: Self-published, 1984. Softcover, 98 pages. Near Fine condition. First edition. Size 9"x6". Text in Spanish. A unique lexicon of prison slang & colloquialisms, recorded by the author at La Tuna Federal Prison, Anthony, Texas. Includes vignettes of prison life and appendix of "dichos". Very light exterior shelfwear. Text clean and unmarked.. 1st Edition. Near Fine.

Mt. Dora, FL: Leighton L. Baker / The A.W. Peterson Gun Shop, 1976. Softcover pamphlet, 20 pages. Near Fine condition. Reprint of the 1966 edition. Size 8.375"x5.375". Book Number 2 of The Muzzle Loader's Little Library. Light exterior wear, else Fine condition, clean and unmarked.. Near Fine.

Wayland, MA: Ovolon Publishing Company, 1962. Softcover, 75 pages. Good+ condition. Reprint of the 1920 edition (Edgar H. Adams & Wayte Raymond, New York). Subtitled: A list of merchants' advertising checks, restaurant checks, and kindred pieces issued from 1789 up to recent years, including many of the tokens which passed as money and known as hard times tokens. Size 9.25"x6". Wrappers have moderate wear and are browning around the edges. Previous owner's name & bookseller's stamp on front fly, text else VG+, clean and unmarked.. Good+.

Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1951. Softcover, [xiii], 82 plates plus 13-page Table & Bibliography. Good condition. Text in French. Size 7"x4.5". Full-page reproductions of all of Goya's "Los caprichos." Book has moderate handling/shelfwear, and a small (1/2") tear to the wraps at the spine front top. Text and plates are clean and unmarked.. Good.

Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1898. Good+ condition. 81 pages. Complete statements plus two appendices, disbound from larger volume. 55th Congress, 2d Session. Document No. 225. Size 9"x5.75". Two leaves have small closed tears in the margins. Light creases on front corners. Text else Very Good, clean and unmarked.. Disbound. Good+.

Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Softcover, [viii], 205 pages. Near Fine condition. Size 9"x6". "Public debate about the use of genetic technology is dominated by fears of a Huxleyan 'Brave New World' or a return to the fascist eugenics of the past. In this controversial book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defuses these anxieties and defends the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children's genetic characteristics. Agar describes three technologies that may soon make liberal eugenics a practical possibility - cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer, genomics, and genetic engineering - and argues that parents can use these technologies to realize their procreative goals without harming the people they will bring into existence. He rejects the idea that eugenics need divide society into genetic haves and have-nots, and denies that social pressures need force eugenic choices to converge on a single view of human excellence, suggesting that these threats to… Read More

Springer, 2009. Softcover, [xiv], 410 pages. Fine condition. Size 9.25"x6.25". "In this undergraduate/graduate textbook, the authors introduce ODEs and PDEs through 50 class-tested lectures. Mathematical concepts are explained with clarity and rigor, using fully worked-out examples and helpful illustrations. Exercises are provided at the end of each chapter for practice. The treatment of ODEs is developed in conjunction with PDEs and is aimed mainly towards applications. The book covers important applications-oriented topics such as solutions of ODEs in form of power series, special functions, Bessel functions, hypergeometric functions, orthogonal functions and polynomials, Legendre, Chebyshev, Hermite, and Laguerre polynomials, theory of Fourier series." Wrappers have very light shelfwear, else As New, clean and unmarked.. Fine.

Bilbao: Editorial Eléxpuru Hermanos Quinta edición. Text in Spanish. Full leather bound in tree calf w/5 raised bands on spine; gilt lettering on spine in red & black fields. Tomo I - Prehistoria Edades Antigua y Media; 403 pages; published 1927. Tomo II - Edad Moderna (Los Reyes Católicos; Casa de Austria; Casa de Borbón; Edad Contemporanea); 575 pages; published 1929. Condition is Good. Leather is rubbed on extremities. Tomo I has a one-inch tear at top back joint and moderate creasing on back board. Gift inscription on half-titles. Paper browning, interior text else Very Good.. Good.

NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. Hardcover, [xxxviii], 329 pages. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. Size 8.5"x5.75". "Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's search for his personal identity functions as an allegory of Bolivia's search for its identity as a nation. Set in the early 1800s, this remarkable novel is narrated by one of the last surviving Bolivian rebels, octogenarian Juan de la Rosa. He commits his memories to paper in order to pass on that uniquely personal understanding of the past "with which serious historians never busy themselves."" Book and dust jacket have light handling/shelfwear, else Fine condition, clean and unmarked.. Near Fine.

Weinheim: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, 2010. Hardcover, [xvi], 265 pages. Near Fine condition. Size 9.625"x6.875". This book "provides first-hand knowledge about the design of safe and powerful batteries and the methods and approaches for enhancing the performance of next-generation batteries. The book explores how the innovative approaches currently employed, including thin films, nanoparticles and nanocomposites, are paving new ways to performance improvement. The topic's tremendous application potential will appeal to a broad audience, including materials scientists, physicists, electrochemists, libraries, and graduate students." Book has light handling/shelfwear, else Fine condition, clean and unmarked.. Near Fine.

NY: Oxford University Press, 1985. Hardcover, [xiv], 462 pages. Very Good condition. Size 9.5"x6.25". Section headings: 1 - Introduction to Stiffness; 2 - Occurrence in Practice; 3 - Stiff Methods; 4 - Stiff Packages; 5 - Special Numerical Approaches to Specific Applications; 6 - Theory; 7 - Analysis of Detailed Dynamic Systems; 8 - The Future. Includes References and Index. Book has moderate exterior shelfwear. Previous owner's (org) stamp on title page, text else Near Fine, clean and unmarked.. Very Good.

Oxford University Press, 2002. Hardcover, [xv], 504 pages. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. First printing. Size 9.5"x6.5". The author "offers the most detailed account to date of Gilbert and Sullivan's starkly different backgrounds and long working partnership . . . . Offering previously-unpublished draft libretti and personal letters, this thorough double-biography will be an essential addition to the library of any Gilbert and Sullivan fan." Book is clean and unmarked. dust jacket has moderate shelfwear.. Fine.

San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2001. Hardcover, [xvi], 499 pages. Very Good condition. Second edition. Size 9.5"x7.5". "The uniqueness of this book is that it covers such important aspects of modern signal processing as block transforms from subband filter banks and wavelet transforms from a common unifying standpoint, thus demonstrating the commonality among these decomposition techniques. In addition, it covers such "hot" areas as signal compression and coding, including particular decomposition techniques and tables listing coefficients of subband and wavelet filters and other important properties . . . . this second edition addresses new developments in applications-related chapters, especially in chapter 4 "Filterbrook Families: Design and Performance," which is greatly expanded." Book has moderate exterior shelfwear, else Near Fine, clean and unmarked. . Very Good.

Pittsburgh, PA: James R. Albach / W. S. Haven, 1858. Hardcover, 1016 pages. Reprint of the enlarged edition (Pittsburgh, 1856), compiled by Albach and edited by James H. Perkins (Howes P-231). Ex-library, library blindstamp & minor notations. Condition of the binding is Poor: missing backstrip replaced by cloth tape attached to boads, boards scuffed on edges, split hinges. Condition of the text is Good: paper moderately browning, dampstain on top & bottom edges affects final 160 or so pages..

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co, Hardcover, 34 pages. Good+ condition/no DJ. Publication date not stated. Size 9.25"x6.125". Maroon cloth w/b&w pastedown on front. Moderate exterior shelfwear. Binding is tight. Discoloration along interior joints, paper lightly browning, text else Very Good+, clean and unmarked.. Good+.

Des Moines, IA: Historical Department of Iowa, 1895. Hardcover, 682 pages. Good condition. Half-bound in leather over marbled boards. Gilt title & four raised bands on spine. Marbled endpapers. Size 8.5"x6.25". Leather rubbed/scuffed on edges, corners, and spine top; 2 splits (5/8" and 1 1/2") along front joint. Boards rubbed. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Binding is sound. Foxing on steel engravings and adjacent pages. All plates and fold-outs present, including 3 plates not listed with the Illustrations (portraits of William Larrabee, Thomas Lyman, and Mrs. Thomas Lyman). Includes Index of Persons, and Index of Articles. Interior text clean and unmarked.. Good.

Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs Smith, 1996. Softcover, 487 pages. Near Fine condition. Revised edition. Size 10"x8.5". "With humor and insight, Alexander traces the personalities and events that have shaped Utah, bringing to light little-known facts and raising for discussion often-buried issues. His narrative is rich in detail, providing context and perspective to familiar but sometimes misunderstood events, along with fascinating anecdotes to illuminate the times and people." Includes b&w photo illustrations, bibliography, and index. Book has light exterior shelfwear, else Fine condition, clean and unmarked.. Near Fine.