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Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1999. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". xx, 150pp. Mild rubbing, toning, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Light rubbing and toning to corners and edges of paper over boards. Slight lean to spine. Inked underlining to pages. Underlining does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: An anecdotal guide for the perplexed new investigator as well as a refreshing resource for the old pro, covering everything from valuable personality traits for an investigator to social factors conducive to scientific work. Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a mythic figure in science. Hailed as the father of modern anatomy and neurobiology, he was largely responsible for the modern conception of the brain. His groundbreaking works were New Ideas on the Structure of the Nervous System and Histology of the Nervous System in Man and Vertebrates. In addition to leaving a legacy of unparalleled scientific research, Cajal sought to educate… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, 2006. First Edition. Paperback. Good +/Good +. First Edition. Paperback. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 1/4". 183pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Light rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Gentle creasing and bumps to covers and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Taichi Yamada was a Japanese author known for his works in contemporary literature. Born in Tokyo in 1934, Yamada gained recognition for his unique storytelling style, often blending elements of supernatural and psychological themes with everyday life. His notable works include "Strangers," which was adapted into a film, and "In Search of a Distant Voice." Yamada's writing often explores themes of loneliness, memory, and the intersection between the past and present. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Kazama Tsuneo is an immigration officer in Tokyo, struggling to live a… Read More

New York: Routledge, 1995. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 9" X 6". x, 310pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This collection of essays analyzes relations of social inequality that appear to be logical extensions of a "natural order" and in the process demonstrates that a revitalized feminist anthropology of the 1990s has much to offer the field of feminist theory. Contributors: Susan McKinnon, Kath Weston, Rayna Rapp, Janet Dolgin, Harriet Whitehead, Carol Delaney, Brackette Williams, Sylvia Yanagisako, Phyllis Chock, Sherry Ortner and Anna Tsing.(Publisher).

Boston: YMAA Publication Center, 1994. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 7 1/4". xxix, 270pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In the last seven centuries, many songs and poems have been composed about Taijiquan. These have played a major role in preserving the knowledge and wisdom of the masters, although in many cases, the identity of the authors and the dates of origin have been lost. For the last twenty years, Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming has translated many of these documents and according to him, he believes numerous are incomplete for reasons relating to: forgotten oral secrets, authors personal understandings narrowly focused and many documents are missing. Taijiquan Theory of Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming is an attempt to join together the various theories on Taijiquan in one complete text. "Based upon my personal background and understanding, I have tried my best to compile the Taijiquan… Read More

Shrewsbury: Entangled: Red Tower Books, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 623pp. Mild creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine stamped in gilt. Occasional spot of rubbing to black sprayed edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance. It's the new vice commandant, who's made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. Hardcover. Very good +. Hardcover. Signed by Trisha Yearwood in ink to front free endpaper. 10 1/4" X 8 1/4". 287pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper over boards. Pages are bright, clean, and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: 125 comfort food recipes and family favorites that are simple to prepare and will bring loved ones together, plus fun family stories and photos, from country music star, Food Network star, and #1 best-selling author Trisha Yearwood Trisha Yearwood's fans know that she can cook up a comforting, delicious meal that will feed a family! Like her earlier bestsellers, Trisha's Kitchen will include new family favorites and easy-to-make comfort foods, with stories about her family and what's really important in life. The 125 recipes include dishes her beloved mother used to make, plus new recipes like Pasta Pizza Snack Mix and Garth's Teriyaki Bowl. Every recipe tells a story, whether… Read More

Blackie, 1984. Cards. Good. Cards. 7" X 7". Light toning to paper walls of boxes. Visible wear to moving hinges and gentle bumps to some corners of paper "spokes". Crease through center of The Ugly Duckling. All 3 story boxes transform from flat to 3-dimensional, however, The Ugly Duckling and Little Red Riding Hood are somewhat loose and require being held to maintain their 3D shape. Each box features 6 upper panels of illustrations and 6 lower panels of story text. A charming collection of three classic fairy tales with interactive features.

New York: Meir Yedid, 1989. Staplebound. Very good. Staplebound. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". Unpaginated. Faint toning to edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. With black-and-white illustrations throughout. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This is a totally impromptu routine which is easy to do and uses absolutely no props. The magician asks a spectator to copy his actions. Both place their hands palm down on the table and begin to turn them in a clockwise direction. The spectator is not able to turn his hand more than part way, but the magician continues to turn his hand in a full circle! One and a half times! This routine must be seen to be believed. On many occasions people have been so shocked that they actually screamed!(Publisher).

Charlotte: Information Age Publishing, Inc, 2011. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xxii, 223pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Small ink mark to bottom edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: As a consequence of the federal "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) law, there is tremendous pressure on school principals, teachers, school superintendents, district staff, state departments of education and governors to maximize the increase in student achievement that is obtained with every dollar of expenditure.Currently, teachers are forced to rely on extremely inefficient approaches that take enormous amounts of time, both during the school day and throughout the K-12 learning years. This is experienced in terms of the reduced time that is available to teach subjects other than math and reading, as schools resort to double periods of math, double periods of reading, and enormous amounts of remedial instruction… Read More

Dothan: Ampersand Publishing, 1993. Hardcover. Good +. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at front free endpaper. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". x, 276pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of green paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: They Also Served provides a unique look at some of the country's most remarkable women who happened to have a strong Alabama connection either by birth or as the site of their work. Their individual stories, spanning two centuries, are vastly separated by history, personal talent, and social circumstances; yet, they are distinctly similar in the amount of time, determination, and energy the subjects devoted to their causes. The events of the lives of the twenty-five women are traced from birth to death in an effort to show not only what their contributions were but also what might have motivated them to keep going, sometimes against great odds. The individual portraits bring the written descriptions into… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9" X 6". xiii, 280pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Defining Science deals with the major role of the historian and philosopher of science, William Whewell, in early Victorian debates about the nature of science and its moral and cultural value. Richard Yeo also examines the different forms or genres in which science was discussed in the public sphere--most crucially in the Victorian review journals, but also in biographical, historical and educational works. Analysis of the whole corpus of Whewell's work suggests that it be seen not only as an attempt to define science, but to clarify his own vocation as its leading critic.(Publisher).

Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1994. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9" X 6". xvii, 539pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The essays in this collection illustrate the interdisciplinary approach to the history of ideas fostered by the Journal of the History of Ideas. Science, philosophy and religion were closely connected in the 17th and 18th centuries, and common threads run through all the articles. A number of essays revolve around Locke: the implications of his doctrines for religion, and their relation to and support of the new science; several of these articles refer to Descartes, Leibniz andHume. There are essays on optics and vision in the work of Berkeley, Reid and Newton, and on the relation between biology and physiology, especially as these disciplines contribute to the science of man.(Publisher).

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by David Yoon at flyleaf. Stated first edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 349pp. A touch of shelfwear to dust jacket, with gold "signed copy" sticker to front panel. White paper over boards, with spine lettered in black. Binding is firm, tight, and sound, and pages are clean, bright, and unread. A highly presentable signed first edition of this young adult romantic comedy about identity and acceptance from the New York Times bestselling author of Frankly in Love, perfect for fans of John Green and To All the Boys I've Love Before. ABOUT SUPER FAKE LOVE SONG: When Sunny Dae--self-proclaimed total nerd--meets Cirrus Soh, he can't believe how cool and confident she is. So when Cirrus mistakes Sunny's older brother Gray's bedroom--with its electric guitars and rock posters--for Sunny's own, he sort of, kind of, accidentally winds up telling her… Read More

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 8 3/4" X 5 1/2". xiv, 269pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Price sticker to rear cover. Very occasional inked underlining to pages. Underlining does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Musicians of Asian descent enjoy unprecedented prominence in concert halls, conservatories, and classical music performance competitions. In the first book on the subject, Mari Yoshihara looks into the reasons for this phenomenon, starting with her own experience of learning to play piano in Japan at the age of three. Yoshihara shows how a confluence of culture, politics and commerce after the war made classical music a staple in middle-class households, established Yamaha as the world's largest producer of pianos and gave the Suzuki method of music training an international clientele. Soon, talented musicians from Japan, China and South Korea were flocking to the United States to… Read More

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1873. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good. Ex-Library. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5 1/4". 310pp. Rubbing, bumps, and toning to covers, corners, and edges of green cloth over boards. Toning to edges of text block. Bookplate from Emory University Academy Library to front paste-down and library borrower's card tipped in to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers. Toning to a few pages where it appears flowers were pressed. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this 1873 work on botany and plants. With illustrations throughout.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 7 1/2". xiii, 665pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This comprehensive resource examines every aspect of coma, including related anatomy, physiology, neurochemistry and pharmacology, new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, and decision making--and presents a clear clinical and investigative approach to the syndromes of impaired consciousness. It's unqiue blending of neuroscience with sound clinical practice and modern management strategies creates a text that's eminently useful in daily practice, providing effective management strategies that respect medical, legal and ethical principles. More than a scholarly text, this title addresses the hottest topics in the field including side effects of modern therapies, new techniques for clinical examination, new methods of management in the ICU and much more.(Publisher).

New York: Springer, 2011. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xxxviii, 849pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book sets forth a new model of development from a causal perspective. As this is an area vital to several disciplines. It has been written at multiple levels and for multiple audiences. It is based on the work of Piaget and Neo-Piagetians, but also covers other major models in development. It has elements that make it attractive as a teaching text, but it is especially research-focused. It has clinical applications. It presents many new ideas and models consistent with the existing literature, which is reviewed extensively. Students, researchers, and practitioners should find it useful. The models presented… Read More

Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1916. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 9 7/8" X 6 1/2". 55pp. Preface in English, original text in French only. Stated 1916 reprint, possibly later. Edition limited to 250 numbered and signed copies, 50 are printed on large paper, quarto; the remainder, octavo , on buff-tinted rag paper, all are uniformly bound in boards, uncut, paper label. This copy is unnumbered and unsigned, perhaps a printer's or binder's copy. All leaves have been opened, likely rebound as well. Bound in blue paper over boards, with spine backed in blue cloth and lettered in black. Binding shows moderate wear, with edgewear, bumping, spot of heavy rubbbing to upper board, toning, and corners split and turned in. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper, dated 1951. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid and presentable facsimile reprint of the first book published in the United States by an American botanist about American botany, horticulture,… Read More

New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2006. Paperback. Very good +. Paperback. 9" X 6". xvii, 180pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Michael Young has christened the oligarchy of the future "Meritocracy." Indeed, the word is now part of the English language. It would appear that the formula: IQ+Effort=Merit may well constitute the basic belief of the ruling class in the twenty-first century. Projecting himself into the year 2034, the author of this sociological satire shows how present decisions and practices may remold our society. It is widespread knowledge that it is insufficient to be somebody's nephew to obtain a responsible post in business, government, teaching, or science. Experts in education and selection apply scientific principles to sift out the leaders of tomorrow. You need intelligence rating, qualification, experience, application, and a certain caliber to achieve status. In a word,… Read More

New York: Routledge, 2008. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xx, 247pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: What is it in the twenty-first century that we want young people, and adults returning to study, to know? What is it about the kind of knowledge that people can acquire at school, college or university that distinguishes it from the knowledge that people acquire in their everyday lives everyday lives, at work, and in their families? Bringing Knowledge Back In draws on recent developments in the sociology of knowledge to propose answers to these key, but often overlooked, educational questions. Michael Young traces the changes in his own thinking about the question of knowledge in education since his earlier books Knowledge and Control and The Curriculum of the Future. He argues for the continuing relevance of the writings of Durkheim and Vygotsky and the unique importance… Read More