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New York: Avon Eos Published by Avon Books, Inc., 1999. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked. Author of Carve the Sky and River of Dust. SYNOPSIS: In the twenty-first century, eleven extraterrestrial races have settled our solar system, sometimes interacting with human beings, sometimes ignoring them altogether in pursuit of their own enigmatic ends. They reached human space with faster-than-light drives--deepdrives--designed to self-destruct after use. Without deepdrives of their own, humans have no way to cross the vast, interstellar gulf, or to compete as equals in the galactic community. But then a renegade alien crashes on Venus and a ragtag group of mercenaries determines to break him out and learn his secrets for themselves--maybe even the secret of the deepdrive. But in a search for the deceptive, nothing is as it seems, no one exactly who--or what--they appear to be. There are no easy answers, only layer upon layer of… Read More

Bath: A Lythway Book - Chivers Press, 1990. Very Good; Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked. Who Dares Wins. A Large Print General Novel. SYNOPSIS: It is the spring of 1944, and the Third Reich is sliding towards defeat. British Intelligence receives frightening reports that a new rocket programme, controlled by the SS, is being set up in Poland and is linked with producing a deadly nerve gas. To prevent the Allies from being forced to surrender because of this threat of a cloud of death descending on them, Captain Callum Douglas and his SAS troop are given the task of preventing the SS from activating such a fearsome plan. Their brief: to destroy the enemy rocket site and to kidnap the SS general in charge . . . . First Thus 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket (As Issued). Illus. by D. M. Stokes. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Scarborough: Prentice Hall Canada, Inc., 1996. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. COVER IMAGE: Peter Jones/Reuters/"No" rally, October 27, 1995. ACQUISITIONS EDITOR: Allan Gray. DEVELOPMENTAL EDITOR: Maurice Esses. COPY EDITOR: Kevin Connolly. PRODUCTION EDITOR: Mary Ann McCutcheon. PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Deborah Starks. PERMISSIONS/PHOTO RESEARCH: Marijke Leupen. COVER DESIGN: Margot Boland. PAGE LAYOUT: Michael Kelley. CONTENTS: Preface; Chapter 1 Institutions and the Game of Politics; Chapter 2 The Environmental Context of Government: Internal and External Factors; Chapter 3 The Constitutional Framework: Formal Rules of the Political Game; Chapter 4 Federalism: The Division of Powers and Financial Resources; Chapter 5 Nationalism and Regionalism: Quebec, the West and the Rest; Chapter 6 The Executive: Ceremony and Leadership; Chapter 7 Parliament: An Arena of Politics;… Read More

Macmillan of Canada, 1974. Previous Owner Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Fading Due to Sun Exposure. SUB-TITLE: Politicians and Policy-Making. CONTENTS: Preface; Chapter 1. Perspectives on the Canadian Legislative System; Chapter 2. The Legislative System and Policy-making: An Overview; Chapter 3. External Influences: The Environment and Structures; Chapter 4. The Inner Circle; Chapter 5. Parliament I: The House of Commons and Senate; Chapter 6. Parliament II: The Standing Committee System; Chapter 7. Political Actors in the Legislative System; Chapter 8. Problems and Prospects in Evaluating Legislative Activity and Reform; Chapter 9. Reform Design: Politicians and Policy-making; Index. SYNOPSIS: The Canadian Legislative System is a comprehensive analysis of Parliament which reintegrates the study of the executive and legislative branches of government. The impact of political culture,… Read More

Quintet Publishing Ltd. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Moderate Impressions (Handwriting); Lightly Scratched; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: In-depth examination of the latest stunning supercars from Japan; The history and achievements of each car - the ideals and the men who made them reality; Technical specification panels as well as driving impressions on each car with analysis of performance; Full-colour photography throughout revealing all aspects of the cars; They possess breath-taking power, ride on sophisticated suspensions and are cloaked in some of the most curvaceous bodywork ever to grace an automobile. They are the new breed of sports cars from Japan, and they are changing the world's definition of supercars. This book looks at such cars as the nimble and exciting Mazda Miata, the high-tech Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4, the high-speed Nissan 300ZX Turbo,… Read More

New York: Zebra Books Kensington Publishing Corp., 2011. Spine Bumped; Light Creasing on Rear Cover, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked. All New! First Time in Print! #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR. A Selena Alvarez/Regan Pescoli Novel. ISBN-10: 1-4201-0278-8. SYNOPSIS: APPEARANCES... A sad, strange coincidence...that's Dr. Kacey Lambert's initial response to the deaths of two women who bear an uncanny resemblance to herself. It's not like there was any real connection between Kacey and the B-movie actress or the elementary school teacher. But Detective Selena Alvarez suspects otherwise. CAN BE... One of the bodies contained traces of poison at the time of death. Selena and her partner, Detective Regan Pescoli, can find no motive for murder. But Kacey has started to nice ties between the dead women's lives and her own--all close in age, born within miles of each other. And all have links to Trace O'Halleran, the man Kacey… Read More

New York: Villard Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1984. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Repaired; Front, Rear Fixed Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover; Front Free Endpaper Pulled From Removal of Pocket and Sticker; Corners, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Heavily Cocked; Moderately Soiled, Including Edges. DUST JACKET: Light Sticker Residue to Spine Portion From Removal of Sticker; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The Autobiography. DESIGNED BY: Beth Tondreau. JACKET PHOTO BY: Bert Stern. JACKET DESIGN BY: Wendy Bass. CONTENTS: Prologue 1. Wyncote: Martinez's Son 2. Bull in the Ring 3. Birmingham: Just the Kind of Nigger Boy They Needed 4. Mr. Charles O. Finley 5. But Howe We Played the Game... 6. Jennie Campos...Jackson 7. Proceed Directly to the Earl of Baltimore. Pass Go. Collect $200,000. 8. Just Business 9. New York, New York 10. "The… Read More

New York: A Thomas Dunne Book - St. Martin's Press, 1998. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Scuffed; Moderately Scratched; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Kingsley Amis arrived on the English literary scene with the publication of his classic novel Lucky Jim in 1954, and few writers since have provoked such wildly disparate degrees of laughter, admiration, and contempt in the reading public. For better or worse, Amis was known almost as much for his personality as for his work as a novelist - for his outspoken nature (one columnist called him "a literary Rottweiler"), his unfashionable praise for Thatcherism, and his devotion to whiskey - and in this, the only authorized biography of Amis, Eric Jacobs skilfully captures that personality with sympathetic detail and healthy doses of Amisian wit. Amis's life was in turns both tragic and triumphant, and from it Jacobs manages to spin a narrative that… Read More

New York: A Thomas Dunne Book - St. Martin's Press, 1998. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Scuffed; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Kingsley Amis arrived on the English literary scene with the publication of his classic novel Lucky Jim in 1954, and few writers since have provoked such wildly disparate degrees of laughter, admiration, and contempt in the reading public. For better or worse, Amis was known almost as much for his personality as for his work as a novelist - for his outspoken nature (one columnist called him "a literary Rottweiler"), his unfashionable praise for Thatcherism, and his devotion to whiskey - and in this, the only authorized biography of Amis, Eric Jacobs skilfully captures that personality with sympathetic detail and healthy doses of Amisian wit. Amis's life was in turns both tragic and triumphant, and from it Jacobs manages to spin a narrative that mirrors the… Read More

New York: A Thomas Dunne Book - St. Martin's Press, 1998. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Scuffed; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Kingsley Amis arrived on the English literary scene with the publication of his classic novel Lucky Jim in 1954, and few writers since have provoked such wildly disparate degrees of laughter, admiration, and contempt in the reading public. For better or worse, Amis was known almost as much for his personality as for his work as a novelist - for his outspoken nature (one columnist called him "a literary Rottweiler"), his unfashionable praise for Thatcherism, and his devotion to whiskey - and in this, the only authorized biography of Amis, Eric Jacobs skilfully captures that personality with sympathetic detail and healthy doses of Amisian wit. Amis's life was in turns both tragic and triumphant, and from it Jacobs manages to spin a narrative that mirrors the… Read More

Toronto: Vintage Canada A Division of Random House of Canada, Limited, 1997. Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities. SUB-TITLE: The Story of Hannah Breece. EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY BY: Jane Jacobs. MAP RESEARCH BY: James K. Jacobs and Robert H. Jacobs. COVER PHOTOGRAPH: The village of Nondalton, assembled at the fishing camp on July 4, 1911. Hannah Breece, wearing a hat, is standing at the extreme left. Hannah Breece collection COVER DESIGN: Andy Carpenter. BOOK DESIGN BY: Oksana Kushnir. CONTENTS: Foreword; Maps and Photographs; Hannah's Alaska Chronology; Memoir by Hannah Breece; Commentary; Notes and Citations; Acknowledgments; Index. SYNOPSIS: When Hannah Breece came to Alaska in 1904, it was a remote, lawless wilderness of gold prospectors, murderous bootleggers, tribal chiefs, and Russian priests. She spent… Read More

San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (Name Neatly Inked to Front Free Endpaper); Repaired; Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Boards, Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: None, As Issued. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction: Concepts from Set Theory. The Integers 1; 1 Monoids and Groups 2 Rings 3 Modules Over a Principal Ideal Domain 4 Galois Theory of Equations 5 Real Polynomial Equations and Inequalities 6 Metric Vector Spaces and the Classical Groups 7 Algebras Over a Field 8 Lattices and Boolean Algebras; Index. EXCERPT: Preface ...The present book, Basic Algebra I, and the forthcoming Basic Algebra II were originally envisioned as new editions of our Lectures in Abstract Algebra (1951, 1953, and 1964 respectively). However, as we began to think about the task at hand, particularly that of taking into account the changed curricula in our undergraduate and graduate schools, we decided to organize the material in a… Read More

New York: Bantam Books Inc., 1973. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. How to Play-and Win! Step-by-Step, Fully Illustrated for Beginners & Buffs; The Most Comprehensive, Up-to-Date, Readable Guide Ever! By Two of the World's Greatest Players, Oswald Jacoby and John R. Crawford. BOOK NUMBER: B7823. SYNOPSIS: BACKGAMMON FOR FUN OR MONEY Everything You Need to Know to Play and Win! Here is the basic backgammon book, the one essential guide for learning how to play a game that is simple enough for a ten-year-old, yet so challenging that it has intrigued the world's great game players for over two thousand years! It's all here - from the basics of equipment and setting up a game, to understanding the object of competition; from preliminaries and starting plays to the fascinating strategy and fine points of the middle and end game . . . PLUS Step-by-step sample games and analyses; The official laws of backgammon… Read More

London: Sundial - Treasure Press - Octopus Books Limited, 1981. Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. CONTENTS: Introduction; Starters; Main Meals; Puddings; Sauces and Salad Dressings; Teatime; Baby Foods; Drinks; Party Fare. SYNOPSIS: Don't dismiss a mixer or blender as just another piece of kitchen equipment, left to languish in a cupboard and rarely used. These clever machines take the slog out of the daily task of preparing food, and allow you more time for trying new recipes, or for getting on with other jobs. This book shows you how to get the best from your mixer or blender, and provides more than a hundred quick and easy recipes for you to try. Every recipe is illustrated in colour.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket (As Issued). 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: An Ace Book Published by Ace Publishing Corporation Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Which would decide the fate of Galaxy II--sorcery or science? SYNOPSIS: Once there were mighty worlds and vast commercial empires. Once there were the Lords of the Exchange, masters of the multifold works of science whose products made II Galaxy boom and its myriads of inhabitants happy. But dark days had fallen, the lights had gone out everywhere, and superstition, ignorance, and the frightful reality of mutants and monsters had made that universe a place of terror. Pastora was one of the most backward of the surviving worlds, and on that world it fell to the lot of four people to go out on a faltering spaceship to loot a nearby planet. One went for adventure, one was sent for punishment, one went for wealth, and one went for the holy purpose of rekindling a fire that would… Read More

Israel: Priory Books Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Rear Cover, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. A MILLION PLANETS IN CHAOS--THEIR FATE RESTING ON JUST ONE MAN! BOOK NUMBER: 1079. SYNOPSIS: In the tenth age of the star kings of II Galaxy...In that far off day of a far off future when mankind had spread beyond the Home Cluster, there was a man called Dragonard. Dragonard the Beast some called this fallen warrior of the immortal Lords of the Exchange who ruled and owned a million worlds. But Dragonard the Last Hope thought others when the terrible rumor spread that the star kings were finally dying. Dragonard did not know what to believe until he found himself torn from his prison, turned loose on a strange planet as a human weapon to be plunged into the heart of a cosmic mystery. But whose weapon was he? And what was his real mission? And above all how could he free himself to act for the real good of the people? Here's an exciting… Read More

Toronto: Penguin Books Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Canada Ltd., 1993. Light Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Heavy Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. COVER PHOTO BY: Alex Murchison. COVER DESIGN BY: Bruce W. Bond. MOVIE TIE-IN: This novel was the basis for the 2006 feature film of the same name. CONTENTS: BOOK ONE Omega January-March 2021 BOOK TWO Alpha October 2021. SYNOPSIS: When Omega came it came with dramatic suddenness and was received with incredulity. Overnight, it seemed, the human race had lost its power to breed... Omega was the year 1995, when the last child was born on earth. Twenty-five years later the world's population is seriously declining, and many countries have descended into anarchy. But Xan Lyppiatt, the charismatic Warden of England, is running things with a sure hand. Despite the imminence of worldwide human extinction, everything appears to be running smoothly. But is it? Theo… Read More

Arrow Books, 1998. Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped. SYNOPSIS: Russia in the early years of the coming century, at the end of a savage civil war. Newly arrived in Moscow, Inspector Constantin Vadim is assigned to investigate a series of horrifying murders by an elusive killer the people call the Monstrum. But Constantin is neither professionally nor personally the ideal man for the task. He is a provincial policeman who has never investigated a homicide-and a fatal attraction to strong women threatens chaos in his personal life. Yet he does not lack a certain kind of courage. Against all odds, he pursues his investigation as it carries him through Moscow's kaleidoscopic world of privilege and poverty, sex cults and sinister politics to a place where the evils of Russia's past and present meet. As a writer, Donald James has three lives. He is the author of the bestselling novel The Fall of the Russian Empire. He is also a successful scriptwriter, having recently completed… Read More

New York: A Dutton Book an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., 1991. BOOK: Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Light Moisture Damage; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Moisture Damage (Spine Bleed to Reverse Side); In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. Muriel James, Co-Author of Born to Win, and John James. DESIGNED BY: Steven N. Stathakis. JACKET DESIGN BY: Neil Stuart. CONTENTS: Introduction; 1. A Path with Heart 2. Behold! The Human Spirit 3. Passions of the Soul 4. The Urge to Live 5. The Urge for Freedom 6. The Urge to Understand 7. The Urge to Create 8. The Urge to Enjoy 9. The Urge to Connect 10. The Urge to Transcend 11 Mission of the Human Spirit; Notes; Bibliography; Index. SYNOPSIS: Muriel James, co-author of the landmark bestseller, Born to Win, and John James, an internationally known lecturer and trainer, are in the forefront of the new wave of psychologists who give full… Read More

Middletown: A PAL Paperback from Xerox Education Publications Repaired; Previous Owner Markings (4 Very Small Orange Marker Lines in Upper Margin of Page 17); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: True Stories of Those Who Overcame. BOOK NUMBER: B2. EDITED BY: Pat McCarthy. ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS: P. 9, Bob Abrams & Associates; p. 19, Perkins School for the Blind; pp. 25, 35, 37, 67, UPI; pp. 43, 51, Culver; p. 61, Johnson Publishing Company; p. 79, Thomas Alva Edison Foundation, Inc.; p. 83, Edison's Birthday Committee. All other photos: Wide World. CONTENTS: Singing the Blues: Ray Charles; The Silent World of Darkness: Helen Keller; Workers Take a Stand: Cesar Chavez; The Flight to Fame: Wiley Post; The Climb to the Top: Shirley Chisholm; Not Afraid to Die: Audie Murphy; The Man Who Lit the World: Thomas Edison; No Tomorrow: Janis Joplin.. Mass Market… Read More