Search Results: Authors starting with P from Conover Books

Toronto, Canada: Stoddart, 1990. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Minor edge and corner wear to the dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; inscribed and dated in blue ink by the former owner on the ffep; overall a very crisp and clean SIGNED FIRST EDITION! Signed by the author on the half-title page! Blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine. 134 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and informative pages nicely enhanced by black and white and full-color photographs and illustrations! "Two Spirits Soar celebrates the distinctive talent of the Canadian painter Allen Sapp, a Cree from Saskatchewan, and his relationship with Dr. Allan Gonor, mentor and friend. Sapp specializes in paintings depicting native life as he remembers it on the Red Pheasant Reserve near North Battleford, with subjects ranging from social activities and farming chores to full-dress ceremonies.… Read More

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Institute of Meat Packing The University of Chicago , 1938. Edge and corner worn, scuffed and scratched, foxing, corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, shelf worn, former owner's name is stamped on the ffep and title page, a spot on the inner front and rear covers and ffep where something was crossed out in marker, former owner's name has been marked out in 3 places on the outer page edges, overall a nice used first edition! Very very rare and hard-to-find! Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Extremely scarce first edition! "This volume presents a discussion of present-day methods of manufacturing and distributing sausage and ready-to-serve meats. Its purpose is to bring together in one volume the best available information on this important division of the American meat packing industry. While it deals chiefly with operating problems and processes, the material has been organized with a view to placing these operations in their proper setting… Read More

Ketchum, ID: Stoecklein Publishing, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A very crisp and clean used copy; almost new and unread condition; gift quality! Full-color pictorial boards with yellow lettering. 152 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and informative pages nicely enhanced by full-color photographs! "Londie Padelsky's gorgeous images of the California missions take the reader on a tour of these beautiful and historical structures. It is no wonder the missions draw so many visitors each year. Each one played an important role in the settling of the West and of California. Padelsky's vivid photographs capture the spirit and unique design of each mission and preserve their timeless beauty....

Columbia, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. Reprint . Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Brand new and unread; very fresh and bright condition; gift quality! Black and white illustrated wrapper with black lettering. 196 very crisp and clean new and unread informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! "A history of the North Carolina bandit, Henry Berry Lowrie. Includes biographical sketches of his associates.........."

Washington D.C.: Mathematical Association of America, 1986. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some fading to the wrapper; some light shelf wear; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Gold and white wrapper with brown lettering and a black and white illustration on the front. 65 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "Teaching Elementary Probability Through its History by Sharon Kunoff and Sylvia Pines / How to Balance a Yardstick on an Apple by Herbert R. Bailey / From None to Infinity: Challenging Problems in Cardinality Classification by Richard L. Francis / Coloring Points in the Unit Square by Charles H. Jepsen / Three Ways to Maximize the Area of an Inscribed Quadrilateral by Leroy F. Meyers ........" ---- and many many more articles and essays of interest!.… Read More

Washington D.C.: Mathematical Association of America, 1987. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some fading to the wrapper; some light shelf wear; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Gold and white wrapper with brown lettering and a black and white illustration on the front. 77 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "Charlotte Angas Scott, 1858-1931 by Patricia C. Kenschaft / Bach, 5465, and Upside-Down Numbers by Robert E. Kennedy and Curtis N. Cooper / One Factorization of Graphs: Tournament Applications by W. D. Wallis / Transitions by Jeanne L. Agnew and James R. Choike / Equalizing a Two-Person Alternation Game by Robert K. Tamaki ........" ---- and many many more articles and essays of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Good. 4to - over… Read More

Washington D.C.: Mathematical Association of America, 1985. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some fading to the wrapper; some light shelf wear; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Gold and white wrapper with brown lettering and a black and white illustration on the front. 73 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "Differential Equations and the Battle of Trafalgar by David H. Nash / Rediscovering Taylor's Theorem by Dan Kalman / The House Number Problem and its Variations by Joey Paul / Satan, CAntor, and Infinity by Raymond M. Smullyan / Constructing the Foci and Directrices of a Given Ellipse by Charles G. Moore......." ---- and many many more articles and essays of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Washington D.C.: Mathematical Association of America, 1987. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some fading to the wrapper; some light shelf wear; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Gold and white wrapper with brown lettering and a black and white illustration on the front. 80 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "Isaac Newton: Man, Myth, and Mathematics by V. Frederick Rickey / The Probability that the 'Sum of the Rounds; Equals the 'Round of the Sum,' by Roger B. Nelsen and James E. Schultz / Some Properties of Polygons Inside a Circle by Larry Hoehn / Is the Distributive Property Redundant? by Douglas L. Cashing / Newton's nth Root Method Without Derivatives by David A. Smith ........" ---- and many many more articles and essays of interest!.… Read More

Washington D.C.: Mathematical Association of America, 1987. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some fading to the wrapper; some light shelf wear; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Gold and white wrapper with brown lettering and a black and white illustration on the front. 89 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "An Interview with Lipman Bers by Donald J. Albers and Constance Reid / Bayes' Theorem, Binomial Probabilities, and Fair Numbers of Peremptory Challenges in Jury Trials by LeRoy A. Franklin / Equiangular Lattice Polygons and Semiregular Lattice Polyhedra by Paul R. Scott / Bat and Superbat by Herbert R. Bailey ........" ---- and many many more articles and essays of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" -… Read More

Washington D.C.: Mathematical Association of America, 1986. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some fading to the wrapper; some light shelf wear; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Gold and white wrapper with brown lettering and a black and white illustration on the front. 68 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "On Polynomial Matrix Equations by Harley Flanders / Geometry of the Rational Plane by Larry Cannon / Rolle over Lagrange ---- Another Shot at the Mean Value Theorem by Robert S. Smith / Combinatorics by Coin Flipping by Joel Spencer / The Change of Base Formula for Logarithms by Chris Freiling........" ---- and many many more articles and essays of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Washington D.C.: Mathematical Association of America, 1988. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some fading to the wrapper; some light shelf wear; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Gold and white wrapper with brown lettering and a black and white illustration on the front. 72 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "Antoine's Necklace or How to Keep a Necklace From Falling Apart by Beverly L. Brechner and John C. Mayer / A Discrete L 'Hopital's Rule by Xun-Cheng Huang / Random Walks on Z by Robert I. Jewett and Kenneth A. Ross / Evaluating 'Uniformly Filled' Determinants by Simon M. Goberstein / Musical Notes by Angela B. Shiflet ........" ---- and many many more articles and essays of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Good. 4to -… Read More

Washington D.C.: Mathematical Association of America, 1988. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some fading to the wrapper; some light shelf wear; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Gold and white wrapper with brown lettering and a black and white illustration on the front. 90 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "Theory, Simulation and Reality by Peter Flusser / Parameter-generated Loci of Critical Points of Polynomials by F. Alexander Norman / Ties at Rotation by Howard Lewis Penn / Mathematical Haystacks: Another Look at Repunit Numbers, Richard L. Francis / A Classroom Approach to Involutions by Joseph Wiener and Will Watkins / Involutions and Problems Involving Perimeters and Area by Joseph Wiener, Henjin Chi, and Hushang Poorkarimi ........" ---- and many… Read More

Washington D.C.: Mathematical Association of America, 1984. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some fading to the wrapper; some light shelf wear; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Gold and white wrapper with brown lettering and a black and white illustration on the front. 79 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "The Fractal Geometry of Mandelbrot by Anthony Barcellos / Additional Perspectives on Fractals / The Distribution of First Digits by Stephen H. Friedberg / The Grazing Goat in n Dimensions by Marshall Fraser / A Geometrical Interpretation of the Weighted Mean by Larry Hoehn / Reflection Property of the Ellipse and the Hyperbola by Michael K. Brozinsky / A Sequel to 'Another Way of Looking at n!' by William Moser......." ---- and many many more… Read More

Washington D.C.: Mathematical Association of America, 1985. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some fading to the wrapper; some light shelf wear; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Gold and white wrapper with brown lettering and a black and white illustration on the front. 86 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "The Algorithmic Way of Life is Best by Stephen B. Maurer / One Needs More than the Algorithmic Approach by R. G. Dou / Algorithmic Mathematics versus Dialectic Mathematics by Berry Korte / Algorithms Are Not Enough by Peter Hilton / The Path to Hell by Peter Renz / The Need for Abstraction by Craig Smorynski........" ---- and many many more articles and essays of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Washington D.C.: Mathematical Association of America, 1987. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some fading to the wrapper; some light shelf wear; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Gold and white wrapper with brown lettering and a black and white illustration on the front. 85 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "Cryptology: From Caesar Ciphers to Public-Key Cryptosystems by Dennis Luciano and Gordon Prichett / The Bernoullis and the Harmonic Series by William Dunham / Facility Location Problems by Fred Buckley / Positioning of Emergency Facilities in an Obstructed Traffic Grid by Jeff Cronk, Duff Howell, and Keith Saints ........" ---- and many many more articles and essays of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" -… Read More

Washington D.C.: Mathematical Association of America, 1986. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some fading to the wrapper; spot on the front of the wrapper where a sticker has been removed; some light shelf wear; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Gold and white wrapper with brown lettering and a black and white illustration on the front. 77 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "How Far Can You Stick Out Your Neck? by Sydney C. K. Chu and Man-Keung Siu / What a Tangent Line is When it isn't a Derivative by Irl C. Bivens / The Pascal Polytope: An Extension of Pascal's Triangle to N Dimensions by John F. Putz / Of Probabilistic Knights and Knaves by Ruma Falk / Counterexamples to a Comparison Test for Alternating Series by J. Richard Morris ........"… Read More

Washington D.C.: Mathematical Association of America, 1984. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some fading to the wrapper; some light shelf wear; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Gold and white wrapper with brown lettering and a black and white illustration on the front. 84 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "An Interview with Herbert Robbins by Warren Page / Some Breakthroughs in Statistical Methodology by Herbert Robbins / To Build a Better Box by Kay Dundas / Convexity in Elementary Calculus: Some Geometric Equivalences by Victor A. Belfi / Basic Null Space Calculations by Dan Kalman / Is the Venn Diagram Good Enough? by Mou-Liang Kung and George C. Harrison......." ---- and many many more articles and essays of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft… Read More

Washington D.C.: Mathematical Association of America, 1988. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Gold and brown wrapper with brown lettering and a brown and white illustration on the front. 68 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "A Farewell Editorial by Warren Page / Using Leverage and Influence to Introduce Regression Diagnostics by David C. Hoaglin / Codes that Detect and Correct Errors by Chester J. Salwach ......." ---- and many many more articles and essays of interest!. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Washington D.C.: Mathematical Association of America, 1988. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some fading to the wrapper; some light shelf wear; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Gold and white wrapper with brown lettering and a black and white illustration on the front. 95 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "Should Mathematicians Teach Statistics? by David S. Moore / How to Define an Irregular Graph by Gary Chartrand, Paul Erdos, and Ortrud B. Oellermann / A Clamped Simpson's Rule by James A. Uetrecht / On Partitioning a Real Number by William Staton / The Relationship Between Hyperbolic and Exponential Functions by Roger B. Nelsen / Another Proof of the Inequality Between Power Means by Norman Schaumberger / Why Should We Pivot in Gaussian Elimination? by… Read More

Washington D.C.: Mathematical Association of America, 1984. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some fading to the wrapper; some light shelf wear; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the rear of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Gold and white wrapper with brown lettering and a black and white illustration on the front. 71 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! Contents include: "Pascal's Triangle, Difference Tables and Arithmetic Sequences of Order N by Calvin Long / Repeating Decimals by W. G. Leavitt / On the Natural Density of the Niven Numbers by Robert E. Kennedy and Curtis N. Cooper / Geometric Procedures for Graphing the General Quadratic Equation by Duane W. DeTemple / Pythagorean Systems of Numbers by Joseph Wiener / On the Sphere and Cylinder by Man-Keung Siu......." ---- and many many more articles and essays… Read More