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

Guatemala: Editorial "José de Pineda Ibarra", 1975. Softcover (rústica), 73 pages. Very Good condition. Inscribed and signed by author on the half-title page. Text in Spanish. Size 8"x5.875". El autor "crea el retrato de un líder que no solamente supo manejar la espada sino que también combatió con la tinta de imprenta." Contenido: El periodista Simón Bolívar; Ayacucho: La libertad de un mundo; Bolívar, el don Juan de la gloria. Moderate exterior shelfwear. Small closed tear and hole on back endpaper. Interior text clean and unmarked.. Signed by Author. Very Good.

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1981. Hardcover, [x], 247 pages. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket. Size 9.25"x6.25". "A tragic ordeal that claimed 778 men, three destroyers, and more than 100 aircraft. This penetrating account details for the first time the events surrounding the storm, its chilling onset and ferocity, as well as its controversial aftermath." Includes b&w photo illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. Book and dust jacket have moderate handling/shelfwear. Binding is tight. Text is clean and unmarked.. Very Good.

Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs Smith, 1986. Softcover, 255 pages. Very Good condition. Size 9"x9". Biography of the early 20th century California architect. "He was part of that time when architects neither shunned technological developments nor forsook the fantasy and delight achieved in older architectural forms." Includes b&w photos and drawings, bibliography, and index. Moderate exterior wear. Previous owner's name on front fly. Interior text clean and unmarked.. Very Good.

Albuquerque, New Mexico: Sandia National Laboratories, 2002. Hardcover, [xvi], 155 pages. Very Good condition. size 9.25"x6.25". This book details the "history and mission of the Combustion Research Facility, part of Sandia National Laboratories." Includes b&w photo illustrations, bibliography, notes, and index. Book has light bumps on corners & fore edge, else Fine condition, clean and unmarked.. Very Good.

Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004. Softcover, [xiv], 444 pages. Very Good+ condition. Size 9"x6". This volume "offers a critical evaluation of existing and emerging approaches to applied conflict prevention that involve nontraditional actors ranging from the corporate sector and N.G.O.s to regional and multilateral economic and political organizations. The volume suggests best practices for individuals within these organizations to use the array of political, economic, social and developmental instruments available to them." Book has moderate exterior shelfwear, and is lightly bumped at the top front corner; else Fine condition, clean and unmarked.. Very Good+.

León, Gto.: Privately Printed / Talleres Gráficos de la Editorial Moderna, 1972. Softcover (rústica), 108 pages. Very Good condition. Text in Spanish. Quinta edición. Size 8.875"x6.25". Includes b&w photo illustrations. Wrappers have moderate shelfwear. Front fly has ink notation, price stamp, and is pulled from upper staple. Interior text is in Fine condition, clean and unmarked.. Very Good.

Guatemala, C.A.: Editorial "Jose de Pineda Ibarra", 1982. Softcover, 342 pages. Good condition. Size 7.625"x5.75". Text in Spanish. Seminario de Integracion Social Guatemalteca Publicacion No. 42. A collection of papers, previously published by the author, and documents & letters from the Archivo General de Indias, on Spanish-Indian relations in Guatemala during the colonial period. Moderate exterior shelfwear. Previous owner's name on half-title page, tears on back free endpaper. Interior text clean and unmarked.. Good.

Spézet: Coop Breizh, 2003. Softcover (broché), 284 pages. Good+ condition. 2nd edition. Text in French. Size 9.5"x6.125". Light exterior shelfwear. Previous owner's name on half-title page. Underlining or marginal bracketing in the first three chapters, text else Near Fine.. Good+.

Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 1992. Hardcover, [xii], 174 pages. Very Good+ condition in a Good dust jacket. First edition, first printing, inscribed and signed by author on the title page. Size 8.75"x5.75". "In 1989, newspaper reporter Jim Carrier spent three months in the spring with the Spann family on their ranch and three in the fall with the Knight family on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation in Colorado. 'West of the Divide' is a collection of his pieces that originally appeared in The Denver Post." Book has light handling/shelfwear. Text is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has rubs & edgewear.. Signed by Author. Very Good+.

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. Hardcover, 191 pages. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. First edition. Size 8.75"x6.25". "Peter's 1853 journey over the Santa Fe Trail in search of his father brings hardship and adventure as his old trapper guide leads the wagon train from St. Louis to Santa Fe. An exciting story that also provides an accurate picture of the era." Book is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light shelfwear.. Fine. Illus. by Pat Oliphant.

Boca Raton, FL: Lewis Publishers, 1993. Hardcover, 823 pages. Very Good condition. First edition. Size 10.25"x7.25". "A practical methods manual and resource handbook that covers a wide array of methods for analyzing soil chemical, biological, biochemical, and physical properties. Soil testing for plant nutrients and methods to characterize organic soils and frozen soils are also provided. The book presents recent improvements in methodology, outlines new methods, and characterizes the best methods available for selecting appropriate analysis techniques. Methods have been selected for their accuracy, speed, and ease of duplication. References are provided for each method." Book has moderate exterior shelfwear. Previous owner's (org) stamp on front pastedown. One page (p18) has minor highlighting, text else clean and unmarked.. Very Good.

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2010. Hardcover, [xvi], 710 pages. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. First printing. Size 10.25"x8". "Raptors of New Mexico will provide readers with a comprehensive treatment of all hawks, eagles, kites, vultures, falcons, and owls breeding or wintering in New Mexico, or simply migrating through the state. This landmark study is also beautifully illustrated with more than six hundred photographs, including the work of more than one hundred photographers, and more than twenty species distribution maps." Book has very light exterior shelfwear, else Fine condition, clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has moderate shelfwear.. Near Fine.

El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press, 1998. Softcover, 390 pages. Very Good condition. Size 9.25"x7". "The Chagra brothers of El Paso were pioneers in smuggling drugs across the Mexican border, and were infamous for their fabulous wealth. But in the end Lee Chagra was gunned down, a federal judge was assassinated, Jimmy and Joe Chagra were imprisoned, and Charles Harrelson (Woody Harrelson's father) was convicted for Wood's murder . . . . This reprint from Cinco Puntos Press includes a new afterword by the author and black and white photographs of all the players." Book has moderate shelfwear. Previous owner's address label on the half-title page, else Near Fine, clean and unmarked.. Very Good.

Orlando, FL: Academic Press, 1985. Hardcover, [xi], 261 pages. Fine condition. Size 9.25"x6.25". Mathematics in Science and Engineering, Volume 175. Previous owners' name & stamp on front fly, text else clean and unmarked.. Fine.

Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2003. Softcover, [xi], 220 pages. Good+ condition. Size 8.5"x5.375". Drawing on his experience as a war reporter, Hugh B. Cave authored one of his best-regarded works, Long Were The Nights, telling of the first PT boats at Guadalcanal. Book has moderate handling/shelfwear. Spine is slightly cocked. Binding is tight. Text is clean and unmarked.. Good+.

NY: Springer-Verlag, 1984. Hardcover, [xii], 487 pages. Good+ condition. Size 9.5"x6.25". "This book is a modern presentation exploring the equations that govern heat and momentum transfer in viscous flows." Please see accompanying photos for contents. Book has exterior shelfwear (rubs on extremities, and sunned spine). Binding is tight. Previous owner's (org) stamp on front fly, text else Near Fine, clean and unmarked.. Good+.

Buenos Aires: Editorial Bruguera Argentina Safic, 1975. Softcover, 8 pages. Good condition. Text in Spanish. Size 12.125"x8.75". Dibujos por Nelly Oesterheld, ilustración tapa por Susana Martinez. Moderate wear to exterior (rubs & soiling), interior Very Good.. Good.

New Mexico Geological Society, 1994. Softcover, 335 pages. Size 11"x8.5". Guideboook of the 45th New Mexico Geological Society Field Conference (1994). Includes Catron County, New Mexico and Apache County, Arizona. New condition, in original shrinkwrap. New.

Los Angeles, CA: The Astrological Research Foundation, 1934. Softcover pamphlet, 21 pages. Very Good condition. Second edition. Size 8.75"x5.5". Wrappers have moderate aging. Bookseller's stamp on title page and final page, text else Near Fine, clean and unmarked.. Very Good.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Softcover, [xv], 460 pages. Very Good condition. Second edition. Size 9"x6". "This new and greatly revised edition of Professor Chandrasekhar's classic book Liquid Crystals (1977) presents a systematic and self-contained treatment of the physics of the different types of thermotropic liquid crystals - the three classical types, nematic, cholosteric and smectic, composed of rod-shaped molecules, and the newly discovered discotic type composed of disc-shaped molecules. The coverage includes a description of the structures of these four main types and their polymorphic modifications, their thermodynamical, optical and mechanical properties and their behavior under external fields. The basic principles underlying the major applications of liquid crystals in display technology (for example, the twisted and super-twisted nematic devices, the surface stabilized ferroelectric device, etc.) and in thermography are also discussed." Book… Read More