Search Results: Authors starting with N from Twin City Antiquarian Books

New York, London & Toronto: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1957 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, xi, 292 pp, figures, fold-out chart, bibliography, motion-picture bibliography, index. Corners and spine ends lightly worn, edges a bit dusty. A "how to do it" book on work simplification incorporating much material from the author's earlier book, Motion and Time Study. Contents: people & problems; product, form, & man process charts; operation chart; therblig chart; multi-activity chart; analyzing nonrepetitive work; other analysis techniques; getting ideas; selecting the "best" method; designing the proposed method; reviewing and testing; installing the new method; fundamentals of work measurement. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). 2nd ptg. . VG+/No dj. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York, London & Toronto: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1955 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, x, 612 pp, numerous figures including two foldouts, bibliography, motion-picture bibliography, index. Corners, spine ends, and bottom edges of boards lightly rubbed. From the preface: "Two interesting comments may be made concerning our high standard of living: motion and time study has helped create it, and it has helped create demands from all areas for more motion and time study. This book might be called a result of this latter demand. Unusual sources (like hospitals, mapmaking, etc.) with unusual types of activities need new techniques for solving their methods problems...." Contents: goal determination; analysis of work; application of principles of methods design; selection of feasible solution; formulation, review, & test of methods design; installation of method; standards setting. Shipping… Read More

New York, London & Toronto: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, 1953 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full rust cloth, black titles & decoration, x, 710 pp, hundreds of figures including schematics, charts, and line drawings, index. Extremities rubbed & beginning to fray, otherwise very good. A practical treatment emphasizing the use of electricity in specific industrial devices rather than theory, although basic electrical equations are given with example calculations. Contents: electrical algebra, fundamentals of electricity, wiring, magnetism, armature winding, generators, motors, controllers, geometry and trigonometry, alternating current, a-c circuits, transformers, polyphase systems, alternators, alternating-current motors, stator winding, multispeed induction motors, a-c controllers, electrical instruments, electron tubes, welding systems, illumination, electrical drawing. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 2nd ed, 3rd ptg. . G+/No dj. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, black cloth spine, foil titles on spine & black titles on front board, [1], iv, 248, [1] pp. Spine slightly cocked. DJ rubbed with 2 tears of 3½ cm to rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. Novel. Colonialists and guerillas mix it up in the Caribbean. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb. 12 oz.). BCE. . VG+/Good. 22 X 14½ cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter black cloth, tan paper-covered boards, copper titles on spine & monogram on front board, viii, 430, [1] pp. Boards slightly faded near edges, small spot on top edge, front endpapers browned by clipping no longer present. DJ spine slightly faded, some edge wear, 2 small (1 cm) tears at head of spine, stains on reverse do not show through; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "Naipaul explores the life, the culture, the current ferment inside the nations of Islam--in a book that combines the fascinations of the great works of travel literature with the insights of a uniquely sharp, original, and idiosyncratic political mind." Naipaul travels through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Trade Edition. . VG/VG. 22 X 15 cm.

New York: Viking, 1991 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter black cloth, black paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine, [v], 521 pp. Some soiling to edges (mostly top edge), bottom edges of boards fading, one corner bumped. DJ has light edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "As Naipaul travels east, west, north, and south, his carefully structured journey begins to read like a novel. Each character has his story, and each story reveals another facet of the totality which is India. There is the ferociously successful businessman with a shrine in his office, the old friend who has become a recluse and a saint, the Sikh farm visited hours after a massacre. Everywhere, among a multitude of discovered lives, there are mutinies--against the British, against the government, against the Brahmins. And everywhere a tradition of self-sacrifice quite alien and surprising to the West." Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First US Edition. .… Read More

London: Ginn & Company, Ltd., 1956 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full orange cloth with black titles & decorations, xvi, 384 pp, 35 photos, 24 drawings, 4 maps including endpapers, Greek-English & English-Greek vocabulary, grammatical index. Top of rear joint has a 2 cm tear to cloth, otherwise very good. Book is divided into three main sections: Greek readings, grammar, and English paraphrases to be translated back into Greek. A few elementary readings are by J. A. Nairn; otherwise they are all selections from classical Greek authors. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 3rd ptg. . Good/No dj. 19 X 13½ cm.

New York & London: The Macmillan Company/Collier Macmillan Limited, 1968 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Mostly green boards with black, white & blue titles & decorations, xx, 650 pp, glossary, bibliography, index. Slight rubbing to extremities. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Printing. . VG/No dj. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1980 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Beige boards, beige cloth spine, maroon titles, 176 pp, black & white photos & drawing throughout, bibliography, index. Small surface scars on pp. 34-5, else fine. DJ covered with adhesive plastic, else fine. Contents: nature & evolution of the hand (you need hands; structure of the hand; function of the hand; evolution of the hand); social & cultural aspects of the hand (tool-using & tool-making; handedness; fingerprints; gestures). Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Near Fine/VG. 25 X 19½ cm.

New York: Hearst Marine Books, 1983 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. ISBN on dust jacket (0-87851-313-2) does not match that on copyright page. Pale grey boards, black titles on spine, 201 pp, 8 ff color plates, many b & w drawings & photos in text. Slight wear to corners & tail of spine. Price-clipped DJ has a 3 cm tear to top edge of rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. The author spent six years sailing with his wife and two children from California to New York via Hawaii, the South Pacific, New Zealand, Australia, Africa, and South America. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/VG+. 24 X 19 cm.

Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, green decoration on front board, green endpapers, [xii], 129 pp, 19 full-page b & w drawings. Gift inscription, one corner bumped, board edges slightly faded. DJ front panel spotted w/a small chip; in Brodart archival cover. One of the shorter verses, to give you a sample: "Poor Manfred, always in bad odor,/Muddled middle-of-the-roader./Veering Left toward visions bright,/Leftist jargon drives him Right/Until the Rightist hatchet men/Turn him toward the Left again,/Searching for a category, Spo-Radical and desul-Tory." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/VG. Illus. by Robert Binks. 19½ X 13½ cm.

New York: Atheneum, 1978 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter violet cloth with black paper-covered boards, author's initials blind-stamped on front board, top edge dyed red, red endpapers, [vi], 453, [2] pp. Top corners bumped, top rear corner reinforced with acid-free PVA. DJ slightly browned, rubbed at extremities, with a few small tears (up to 1 cm); in Brodart archival cover. Intrigue and terror at the Vatican, by the author of The Rainmaker. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition. . VG/VG+. 24 X 15½ cm.

Lawrenceville, NJ: Township of Lawrence, NJ, 1997 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue laminated boards with town seal on front board & black titles, 236 pp, index. There is about a quarter-inch nick at bottom of front joint, else fine. Photos & brief articles, facsimile maps, and documents are arranged topically, covering early history, government, industry, transportation, schools, churches, neighborhoods, natural disasters, etc. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. . 28½ X 22 cm.

New York, London, Sydney & Toronto: Wiley-Interscience, 1971 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full grey cloth, xv, 456 pp, many figures, chapter bibliographies, index. Corners & spine ends bumped and a bit frayed, owners' names on front cover, title page, and endpapers, a few small spots. Contents: theory of gases; atomic structure; ionization; deionization; electron emission; behavior of charged particles in a gas in electric fields of low E/p & high E/p; self-sustaining discharge; breakdown mechanisms; temporal development of breakdown; partial breakdown or coronas; breakdown under alternating fields; the glow; plasmas; appendices. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Good/No dj. 23½ X 15½ cm.

Knoxville, TN: SPC Press, 1990 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red cloth, gilt titles on spine & decoration on front board, xxii, 440 pp, 53 figures, index. Faint spots near bottom edge of front board, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. According to the foreword by W. Edwards Deming, "This book by Henry Neave explains why the prevailing system of management has led us into decline. It explains the transformation that must for survival take place under the leadership of top management. It gives me great pleasure to see this book, and to express my appreciation for the efforts of Dr. Neave to achieve clarity in exposition...." Neave provides an alternate explanation of Deming's philosophy of statistical quality control, which Japanese manufacturers credit with their rise to dominance in the 1970s and 80s. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). 2nd ptg. . Near Fine/Fine. 22 X 14 cm.

Stuttgart: Calwer Verlag, 1983 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown boards, yellow titles on spine & decoration on front board, 258, [2] pp, 53 color photos, many more b & w photos, maps, & plans, bibliography, index. Notes & underlining in ink, otherwise very good, owner's name on ffep. Text in German. The author summarizes the results of three decades of archeological digs at ancient villages & cities in the Negev desert, including Beerscheba, Arad, Oboda, Mampsis, Nessana, and Sobata. Sites dated from the early Bronze Age to Byzantine times. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . G+/No dj. 23½ X 15½ cm.

Indianapolis: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2004 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pictorial wraps, mostly yellow spine, xx, 1066, [18] pp, index, 4 CD-ROMs in front & rear pockets. Slight shelf wear, pockets have been opened. CD-ROMs include only the executable binaries, documentation, and kernel source code; other source code is available separately from publisher or Red Hat. In addition to the software, this is about as comprehensive a manual for installing, using, and administering Fedora 2 Linux as is available. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No dj. 23½ X 19 cm.

Wells, VT: Fraser Publishing Company, 1964 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Light grey-blue cloth, blue titles on front board & spine, 232 pp. Sticker mark on ffep, one marginal note in red pencil, else fine. DJ has small tears to top edge, is lightly rubbed & smudged but quite presentable; in Brodart archival cover. When originally published in 1903, this was the first appearance in a book of what Nelson calls Dow's Theory, taken from the editorials of Charles H. Dow (about half of the text actually consists of a selection of Dow's editorials). This reprint adds an introduction by Richard Russell. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Near Fine/VG. 18½ X 14½ cm.

Minneapolis: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 1964 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in black & white pictorial wraps, no titles on spine, 77 pp, photos, graphs, maps. One-cm tear to front cover, else VG, rubbed & browning about edges. Explains why there is a Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, gives some institutional and monetary history, shows building at various dates. The original Minneapolis Fed building (modeled on the Bank of England) still stands at the corner of 5th & Marquette, but is almost unreconizable on account of later additions and modifications. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Wraps. G+/No dj. 23 X 16½ cm.

St. Paul: Control Data, 1982 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Seven-hole punched photocopier paper, stapled, in stiff green paper covers, [ii], 245, [3] pp. Appears unread. This is a dictionary of computer jargon in common use at Control Data Corporation. Most of the terms were in use in the computer industry in general, but some were specific to CDC. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ed. Fine/No dj, as issued. 11 X 8½ in.