Search Results: Authors starting with P from PASCALE'S BOOKS

Iowa State University Press:, 2000. 154 pages. This book "documents the development of modern agriculture in a comprehensive and understanding format that reads like a story. The authors provide the context and historical gaps of agricultural development often omitted in traditional texts. Don Paarlberg's extensive experience in working with the federal government has provided him with exceptional insight into the goverment's involvement with agriculture." FINE- SOFTCOVER, DEFECT NOTED: The 4 page Introduction has some underlining, else the book is fine.. Soft Cover. Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

MIT Press:, 1999. 265 pages. "Pacey explores how an individual's sense of purpose and meaning in life can affect the shape and use of technology. In the first part of the book, Pacey analyzes the direct experience of technology by individuals- engieers, mathematicians, craft workers, and consumers. In the second part, he examines the contexts in which technology is used, relating technology to nature and society." FINE HARDCOVER. FINE DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hafner:, 1963. First published in 1931, this set is a reprint of that edition from 1963, 1,323 pages and 206 illustrations in b&w. "For thrty years running this work has held the field as the authoritiative history of medicine in the United States." 2 FINE- HARDCOVERS, FINE- DUST JACKETS.. Hard Cover. Fine-/Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:, 1953. 400 pages, with three illustrations. This book is the stories of her African travels in Aug 1950- Sept 1951 and Oct. 1951 and Sept 1952. VERY GOOD- HARDCOVER, red covers, lettering bright on the spine.. Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket Present. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Johns Hopkins University Press:, 1995. 440 pages. "The author tells the story of the Hutterite beignnings in their original homelands- particularly in Tyrol and Moravia- and discovers important relationships among the early Anabaptist sects." FINE- SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Harvard University Press:, 1951. 393 pages. "The study of International Relations must inevitably be concerned with the issues of the present as well as with the general principles to be drawn from a study of the past." VERY GOOD SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge University Press:, 1998. 215 pages. "Unlike esisting popular books on cosmology, this book does not gloss over details, nor shy away from explaining the underlying concepts. Instead with a lucid and informal style, the author introduces all the relevant background and then carefully pieces together an engaging story of the evolution of our Universe." FINE SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Salem, Ma.: Peabody Museum:, 1950. "Being the journal from May 1 to October 3, 1852 kept by Charlotte A Page. Also excerpts from journal and letters written Sept. 20, 1856 to Jan. 30, 1857." 88 pages, illustrated, with an Introduction and Notes by Alvin Page Johnson, and a Foreword by Walter Muir Whitehill. "Charlotte Augusta Page was sixteen when she wrote the journal of her first voyage in the ship George Washington." FINE HARDCOVER, one of 500 copies printed.. Hard Cover. Fine/No Dust Jacket Present.. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

UK: Adams & Charles Black:, 1973. 64 pages, illustrated in b&w. "The story of the post begins over 2000 years agao when rulers sent written messages to the governors of their provinces and captains of their armies." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Wiley:, 1995. First published in 1968, this book is the June 1995 printing, and its the third edition, 416 pages. "The main theme of this book is that the transmission of energy by wave propagation is fundamental to almost every branch of physics; thus, besides imparting a sound knowledge of the theory of waves and vibrations, this book has an important role in demonstrating to the student the pattern and unity of a large part of physics." FINE SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

American Mathematical Society:, 1934. 184 pages. "This book represents a definitive statement of the results obtained by the late Mr. R.E.A.C. Paley and myself during Mr. Paly's year as Rockfeller Fellow at MIT (1932-1933). Mr. Paley was killed on April 7 in a skiing accident in the Canadian Rockies, during a short vacation which he had taken from our joint work. Most of our work went through several versions, in writing which both author's took part. A part of our work was published in the form of a series of notes in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. This work covered a great variety of topics, but was unified by the central idea of the application of the Fourier transform in the complex domain. " VERY GOOD HARDCOVER.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Present.. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Talewinds:, 2000. The third printing. "Will young Danny be the next addition to the ocean's food chain?" FINE- HARDCOVER, FINE- DUST JACKET, signed by the illustrator.. Signed by the illustrator.. Hard Cover. Fine-/Fine-. Illus. by David Biedrzycki. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall, Oblong.

Dodd, Mead and Company:, 1918. 479 pages. "Upon our entry into the war, I became one of the band of reserve officers who might do special service while they envied the men of the training camps their youth. My duties allowed me a wide range of information and observation with our expediationary force in France from its inception." VERY GOOD+ HARDCOVER, red cloth covers, lettering is bright on the spine and cover.. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket Present.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Dodd, Mead & Co:, 1930. 482 pages, illustrated. "George Rogers Clark was the genius of that enterprising Clark family. I have written something of the social and economic background from which he sprang, and of which he was the product, as every leader is no less of his times." VERY GOOD HARDCOVER, blue cloth covers, lettering bright on the spine and cover.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Present.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge University Press:, 1965. 178 pages. "The development of the concept of valency has provided one of the major unifying contributions to the growth of chemistry as a science. Dr. Palmer preverses the historical look of the different chronological stages by including extracts from the publications of the most influential scienists, in the nomenclature and terminology of their time; quotations from German are however accompanied by an English translation." FINE- HARDCOVER (5 words written in pen on title page, else fine), VERY GOOD+ DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine-/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Yale University Press:, 1941. 297 pages, with an Introduction by Lloyd Lewis. "That any man who fought special privilege across the second half of the nineteenth century in American political life should have found himself in varying political organizations does not now seem strange. Yet the man who did it- John M. Palmer- was known from coast to coast as a "turncoat"." FINE- HARDCOVER. Blue cloth covers, lettering is bright on the spine.. Hard Cover. Fine-/No Dust Jacket Present.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

State of New York:, 1909. 836 pages. GOOD HARDCOVER. Worn cloth at spine edges and corners of book. . Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket Present.. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

G. K. Hall & Co.:, 1990. 300 pages. "Arranged chronologically, the entries in this bibliography cover material concerning George Eliot- criticsms, analyses, reviews, biographie and bibliographies- published between 1972 and 1987. The scope of this compilation is to trace modern response to Eliot's writing, particularly in regard to the growing body of literature that considers issues of feminism and women writers." FINE HARDCOVER.. Hard Cover. Fine/Not Issued with a Dust Jacket.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

AIMED Press:, 1995. 299 pages. "In this book, eighteen psychiatrists, pyschologists, and other mental health professional describe the work, lives, and personalities of sixteen famous artists, writers, and muscicans. Succinctly and clearly, these authors connect recent psychological theory with art and lives of creative genius." FINE HARDCOVER, GOOD DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket.. Hard Cover. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Ma.: Acanthus:, 2011. 385 pages, illustrated in color and b&w, photography by Gretchen Almy & Tony DeCosta, and with a Foreword by George Morris. "Amatuer rider Jeff Papows has interviewed an array of show jumping superstars who have shared deeply personal stories of the intimate and enduring relationships they have with their equine partners. 23 horse and rider teams, both professional and amateur, are showcased in candid portraits that reveal the jubilation and hearbreak of peak performance at the highest competititve levels of the sport." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET, signed by the author.. Signed by Author,. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.