Search Results: Authors starting with C from Underground Books, ABAA

Colombia: Editorial Pluma, 1980. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 269pp. MIld wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Bound in yellow paper over boards with spine and front cover lettered in black. Bumps to corners and edges of boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Previous owner's sticker to front free endpaper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Text is in Spanish.

Dumont: Albanet, 2004. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". xi, 311pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Price sticker to rear cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The book presents a novel theory on the epigenetic system of heredity supported by extensive experimental and observational evidence. A control system, with the central nervous system as its controller, is responsible for maintaining the inexorably eroding structure of metazoans, including us humans. During individual development, that same system performs functions of an epigenetic system of heredity, providing trillions of bits of information necessary for erecting metazoan structure. The main topics discussed in the book are: - Hereditary systems as control systems - The integrated control system and the control of gene expression - Manipulative expression of genes in the central nervous system - The epigenetic control of reproduction - The epigenetic system of… Read More

New York: Avon Books, 2002. First Edition. Mass market paperback. Good +. First Edition. Mass market paperback. Signed by Meg Cabot in ink at title page. Stated First Avon Edition. 6 3/4" X 4 1/4". 261pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Signed sticker to front cover. Creasing to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Nicola always gets what she wants. Nicola Sparks, sixteen and an orphan, is ready to dive headlong into her first glittering London society season. She's also ready to dive headlong into the arms of handsome and debonair Lord Sebastian Bartholomew. Nicola's dream is a proposal from the viscount—a dream she's about to realize at last! So naturally, Nathaniel Sheridan's insinuations about her fiancé's flawed character annoy her mightily. But when Nicola's natural curiosity gets the best of her, she begins to piece together a few things for herself. To her great surprise, Nicola realizes she's had the wrong… Read More

Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1993. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 215pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Small price sticker to rear cover of jacket. Sunning to spine of jacket. Bound in green cloth over boards with spine lettered in black. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Dance marathons were a phenomenally popular fad during the manic 1920s and depressive 1930s. What began as a craze soon developed into a money-making business which lasted 30 years. Some 20,000 contestants and show personnel participated in these events; audiences, the majority women, totalled in the millions. "A Poor Man's Nightclub," dance marathons were the dog-end of American show business, a bastard form of entertainment which borrowed from vaudeville, burlesque, night club acts and sports.(Publisher).

Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1980. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 313pp. Bound in full brown leather over boards, with decorations stamped in gilt to boards and spine. Raised bands to spine. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to covers, corners, and edges of boards. Rubbing, dust-spotting, and heavy foxing to all-gilt edges of text block. Discoloration to edges of silk moire endpapers. Blindstamp to title page. Foxing to endpapers, and occasional faint foxing to pages throughout, otherwise pages are free of marks and notation. Staining to silk ribbon placemaker. Binding is sound. An admittedly worn but still quite handsome limited edition of this collection of this collection of stories by Erskine Caldwell.

London and New York: Routledge, 2019. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xvi, 173pp. Very mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The Science of Judo is the first book to set out and discuss the science, coaching and history behind judo performance. Evidence-based and informed by the latest research, the book offers practical guidance on preparing athletes for high performance and understanding the core tenets of sport science underpinning it.(Publisher).

Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2005. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 7 1/4". xvi, 455pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Modularity—the attempt to understand systems as integrations of partially independent and interacting units—is today a dominant theme in the life sciences, cognitive science, and computer science. The concept goes back at least implicitly to the Scientific (or Copernican) Revolution, and can be found behind later theories of phrenology, physiology, and genetics; moreover, art, engineering, and mathematics rely on modular design principles. This collection broadens the scientific discussion of modularity by bringing together experts from a variety of disciplines, including artificial life, cognitive science, economics, evolutionary computation, developmental and evolutionary biology, linguistics, mathematics, morphology, paleontology, physics, theoretical chemistry,… Read More

Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". x, 427pp. Very mild wear to covers, corners, and edges. Light dust spotting to top edge of text block. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall solid copy of this collection of essays on environmental philosophy.

New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2003. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xv, 550pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine lettered in orange. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Game theory, the formalized study of strategy, began in the 1940s by asking how emotionless geniuses should play games, but ignored until recently how average people with emotions and limited foresight actually play games. This book marks the first substantial and authoritative effort to close this gap. Colin Camerer, one of the field's leading figures, uses psychological principles and hundreds of experiments to develop mathematical theories of reciprocity, limited strategizing, and learning, which help predict what real people and companies do in strategic situations. Unifying a wealth of information from ongoing studies in strategic behavior, he takes the experimental science of… Read More

New York: Catapult, 2020. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 301pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Blue paper over boards with spine lettered in white. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: An American couple travel to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby, who they hope will resurrect their failing marriage. This difficult journey leaves the wife, who is struggling with cancer, desperately weak, and her husband worries that her apparent illness will prevent the orphanage from releasing their child. The couple check into the cavernous and eerily deserted Borgarfjaroasysla Grand Imperial Hotel where the bar is always open and the restaurant serves thirteen-course dinners from centuries past. Their attempt to claim their baby is both helped and hampered by the people they encounter: an ancient, flamboyant chanteuse, a debauched businessman, an enigmatic faith healer, and a stoic… Read More

New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1972. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/8". 267pp. Hard bumping and mild rubbing to corners and edges of brown cloth hardcover binding. Gilt lettering to cover and spine. Front board rather loose. Binding remains sound. Previous owner's label to front paste-down. Small stain to bottom of text block. Contents are clean and unmarked. Chapters include those on Austria, Italy, Spain, Serbia, Japan, Louisiana, and the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries, with an introduction by Rondo Cameron.

Dayton: Rhea Publishing Company, 1940. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Association Copy. Author was a close friend of the previous owner, Mrs. L.B. Trewhill. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". 204pp. Wear to blue cloth over boards with rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Foxing to endpapers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall solid copy of this history of Rhea County, Tennessee.

La Jolla: WildStorm Productions, 2001. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 10 1/4" X 6 3/4". Unpaginated. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Admirers of great art will delight in this rare chance to see the creative process that went into the smash hit Danger Girl Comic Book series, as well as the never-before-published concept drawings for the Danger Girl toys, video game, PVC set and statues.(Publisher).

Cutchogue: Buccaneer Books, 1976. Hardcover. Good +. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". 297pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of gray cloth over boards. Previous owners' stamp and name in ink to front free end paper. Inked underlining and notation to first 40 pages, with particualrly heavy notation to copyright page. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Countless would-be readers of Finnegans Wake — James Joyce's 1939 masterwork, on which he labored for a third of his life — have given up after a few pages and "dismissed the book as a perverse triumph of the unintelligible." In 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature named Joseph Campbell, working with novelist and poet Henry Morton Robinson, wrote the first guide to understanding the fascinating world of Finnegans Wake. Page by page, chapter by chapter, A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake outlines the basic action of Joyce's book, simplifies and clarifies the complex web of images and allusions, and provides an… Read More

Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xlii, 637pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Black scuff marks to edges of text block. Bump to top edge of text block. Occasional inked underlining to pages. Underlining does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Beginning in the early 1980s and continuing through the middle 1990s, the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) sponsored a comprehensive research and development program to evaluate and enhance the Army's personnel selection and classification procedures. This was a set of interrelated efforts, collectively known as Project A. Project A had a number of basic and applied research objectives pertaining to selection and classification decision making. It focused on the entire selection and classification system for Army enlisted personnel and addressed research questions that can be generalized to other… Read More

New York: Zone Books, 1991. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9" X 6". 327pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Edges of wraps have been reinforced with clear tape. Stamp to front endpaper. Small price sticker to inside of front cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The Normal and the Pathological is one of the crucial contributions to the history of science in the last half century. It takes as its starting point the sudden appearance of biology as a science in the nineteenth century and examines the conditions determining its particular makeup. Canguilhem analyzes the radically new way in which health and disease were defined in the early nineteenth century, showing that the emerging categories of the normal and the pathological were far from objective scientific concepts. He demonstrates how the epistemological foundations of modern biology and medicine were intertwined with political, economic, and technological… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". xi, 351pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Erased pencil marks to half-title page. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Heads of state today mark their rites of passage with splendid ceremonial, from Reagan's inaugural to Andropov's funeral. Such spectacles continue to be a prominent part of modern political systems, of varied ideological hue, but their precise meaning and importance often remain unclear. These specially commissioned essays address the central problem in the understanding of royal rituals, the relation between power and ceremonial. These contributions, from historians and anthropologists, examine a wide range of societies.(Publisher).

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +/Good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at title page. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 306pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Mild creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Rubbing and gentle bumps to corners and edges of black paper over boards. Boards are slightly warped. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Charged with felony misconduct in a high profile solicitation of murder case, Lt. Scully is faced with an impossible decision: either quietly resign from his job as a detective for the LAPD, the work he loves or face criminal prosecution. Rather than smear the departments reputation and his own, Scully chooses to leave. Scully s colleagues of years feel betrayed to learn that a dirty cop had been in their midst. His wife Alexa, the Chief of Detectives,… Read More

Huntsville: Ozark Mountain Publishers, 1994. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 11" X 8 1/2". Rubbing, toning, bumps, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Bump to bottom corner of Keepers of the Garden. Date written in ink to inside of rear cover. Pages of all volumes are free of marks and notation. Bindings are sound. This set is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT DOLORES CANNON: Dolores Cannon was a pioneering author and self-trained hypnotherapist known for her work in past life regression and metaphysics. She developed a technique called Quantum Healing Hypnosis Therapy (QHHT) to explore past lives and contact the subconscious. Cannon wrote numerous books based on her findings, exploring topics such as reincarnation, extraterrestrial life, and alternative dimensions. Her work has had a significant impact on the field of… Read More

New York: The Norton Library, 1967. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 7 3/4" X 5". xviii, 333pp. Mild toning, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Crease to spine. Previous owner's name in ink at half-title page and to inside of front cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The first detailed account of the way in which our bodies preserve their stability against the many disturbing forces they encounter, suggesting that the lessons to be derived from the body's wisdom might be applied to problems of social and economic stabilization.(Publisher).