Search Results: Titles starting with Q from 100 POCKETS

Xian, China: Museum of Qin Shi Huang, 1981. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated softcover/NF w/trace surface wear & showing light discoloration. Archaeological excavation records of Pits 1, 2, 3 & 4 of the city-sized mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang (Chin Shih-huang) (259 BC - 210 BC), the First Emperor of China who ruled from 246 B.C. to 210 B.C. Grand Historian Sima Qian, writing a century after the Emperor's death, records some 700,000 men were conscripted to construct the vault, traces of which were first unearthed March, 1974.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Scala Books, 1997. 1998 Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW. Black linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/VG w/loss to upper back corner. DJ/VG w/small closed tear to upper spine edge, & stain to inside of upper back corner. PO name to fEP. Guide to the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huangdi [Chin Shih-huang Ti], the First Emperor of China, unearthed 1974 near present day Xi'an. The first unifier of China, Qin Shi Huang linked the Great Wall of China to a continuous whole against northern nomadic incursions, standardized measurements, script, and thought (infamous burning of books). The tomb, estimated to have been built by corvée labor of some 700,000 strong over 38 years, suggests that the terracotta soldiers, horses and the like speak of an ancient past when living humans and animals were entombed with the powerful, sacrificedaccompanied final resting places of leaders and some notion of future resurrection or transmigration to immortality (note… Read More

New York, NY: NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1962. Hard Cover/Library Laminate. Very Good/No Jacket. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED COPY; no loan-pocket. Text/BRAND NEW. Boards/VG; showing soiling beneath library lamination. Quality of bank loans. A report on "one of the most extensive and important research projects undertaken as part of the National Bureau's Quality of Credit Program ... Before the Quality of Credit study was initiated, data on qualitative features of bank loans were extremely sparse. The Federal Reserve System's bank loan surveys of 1947, 1955, and 1957 had collected information on the size, terms, and borrower distribution of loans, but nothing on their quality directly. [To better predict loan and borrower performance what was needed was a timely] "before-the-fact" measure of the quality of current loans. As Wojnilower's study shows, [bank] examination data admirably fulfill these requirements." [Foreword by James S. Early] 74 (+ xiv) pages… Read More

Moscow, USSR: MIR Publishers, 1979. 2nd Edition, 2nd Printing . Hard Cover/Stitched. New/None (As Issued?). BRAND NEW COPY less dustjacket (none issued?). Pale blue linen boards/Fine w/trace surface wear. Faint discoloration to endpapers. First published 1963; this the 2nd Edition, 2nd Printing of 1979. Volume is sequel to Vladimir Alexeyev's (1888 - 1958) Qualitative Analysis and, Course of Qualitative Chemical Semimiroanalysis. 519 pgs in 10 chapters: I, Introduction; II, Gravimetric Analysis; III, Examples of Gravimetiric Determinations; IV, Volumetric Analysis; V, The Neutralization Method; VI, Examples of Determinations by the Neutralization Method; VII, Oxidation-Reduction Methods(Oxidimetry); VIII, Methods of Precipitation & Complex Formation; IX, Colorimetry; and X, Eletrochemical Methods of Analysis. Text concludes with Questions & Problems, and, 8 appendices.

New York, NY: Columbia Univ Press, 1960. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Maroon linen boards/VG; strong & sound w/edge & surface wear. DJ/None. PO (college library) label & paperclip shadow to fEP. Symposium on the interface between electronics and spectroscopy. Papers & discussions at the Conference on Quantum Electronics---Resonance Phenomena, Sept 14-16, 1959, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research. 606 pgs.

New York, NY: John Wiley, 1967. First Edition, First Corrected Printing . Hardcover. NEAR FINE-COLLECTIBLE/No Jacket. TextSmudge to left marin on pg 350, else bright, clean & Near New. First Corrected Printing of 1968. Gilt embossed green linen boards/NF w/trace rubs to corner tips. DJ/None. PO name to front cover versol. Classic text introducing engineering students to the first principles of major phenomena and devices of optoelectronics & optical communication technology by winner of multiple prestigious awards, Palestinian-born, Israeli-American scholar of applied physics, optoelectronics, & electrical engineering Amnon Yariv (1930 -). 478 pgs in 25 chapters, followed by 5 appendices.

New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1978. First Edition, First Pinting . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW w/small closed tear to lower edge of rear endpaper.. Bi-color boards w/silver lettering/Fine. DJ/NF w/light wear & discoloration to spine. Trace soiling to upper text edge. A moral thriller set in Egypt circa 1937 in which an un-named, Australian narrator reveals a youthful experience. Then enroute to England to study law, the narrator finds himself sailing the Suez Canal. The battered old ship is inexplicably detained, and all passengers are quarantined in an isolated, decrepit hotel. Then begins a "faszad", an Egyptian word connoting "dirty business" covering the trivial to the disastrous. This faszad proves deadly. An eye-witness account by the narrator, imprisoned in a web of his own passivity and jealously, is unable to prevent the ensuing violence. First novel from the Honourable Justice Nicholas Paul Hasluck (1942 - ), Australian… Read More

New York, NY: W H Freeman, 1994. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. BRAND NEW & Collectible. First Edition, First Printing. Volume published with illustrated (jaguar) and a transparent plastic dust jacket which serves as an overlay with title in black print to front & inner flaps, and red ink for back cover text. New York born, 1969 recipient of the Nobel for physics Murray Gell-Mann (1929 - ) is a man of many intellectual interests. He coined the term quark (particles from which elementary hadrons are formed) from playful reference to James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake ("Three Quarks for Muster Mark!"). And the title for this volume, which explores the concept of complexity, is taken from a line of a poem by his friend Alfred Sze, "The world of a quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night." Gell-mann hopes this book will help convey "some of the thrill ... about the chain of relationships linking the quark to the jaguar and… Read More

Santa Fe, NM: Southwestern Assoc on Indian Affairs, 1972. Volume 7, No 6, Fall/Winter 1972 . Soft Cover/Stapled. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY. Quarterley publication devoted to safeguarding Native American Indian affairs. This Volume 7, No 6, Fall/Winter issue features: 1, 1972 Indian Market Awards; 2, Prize-Winning Pottery of the Past & Present (Betty Toulouse, Museum of New Mexico); and 3, A History of the Southwestern Assoc of Indian Affairs: Part I (Marian F. Love)

Santa Fe, NM: Southwestern Assoc on Indian Affairs, 1975. Volume 10, No 1, Spring 1975 . Soft Cover/Stapled. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/shipping label to softcover back. Quarterley publication devoted to safeguarding Native American Indian affairs. This Volume 10, No 1, Spring 1975 issue features: 1, Southwest Air Safari (Barbara Lenssen); 2, Report from the Legislation Committee of SWAIA: "The Fouled-Up Feather Fracs" (Harry O. King); 3, US Dept of the Interior: A, How Eagle Feather May be Obtained by Indians for Religious Use & B, Request to Receive Eagle Feather for Use in Religious Ceremony (IES); 4, Indian Cultural Coordinators Project (Margery Aronson).

Santa Fe, NM: Southwestern Assoc on Indian Affairs, 1977. Volume 12, Nos 1, 2, 3 & 4, Spring/Summe . Soft Cover/Stapled. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPIES, w/shipping address printed to softcover back. Quarterley publication devoted to safeguarding Native American Indian affairs. This Volume 12, Nos 1, 2, 3 & 4, Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter issues features: For No 1, Spring: 1, Acoma potter Stella Shutiva (Peter Dechert); 2, , Indian Arts as Collectors Items (Sally Kandarian); 3, Collection or Accumulation? (Sallie Wagner). No 2, Summer: 1, Indian Values (Popovi Da); 2, Kenneth Valencia, San Felipe Heishi Maker (Jody Butterfield); and 3, New Mexico Arts & Crafts Law: Update (Joyce Berman). No 3: 1, An Evening with Charles Loloma. No 4: 1, The Mountain Spirit Dancers (Delmar Boni); and 2, John Suazo, Taos Pueblo Sculptor (reprint, The Indian Trader)

Santa Fe, NM: Southwestern Assoc on Indian Affairs, 1974. Volume 9, No 1, Spring 1974 . Soft Cover/Stapled. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/shipping label to softcover back, and tape remanents to leading edge. Quarterley publication devoted to safeguarding Native American Indian affairs. This Volume 9, No 1, Spring 1974 issue features: 1, History of Southwestern Assoc on Indian Affairs, Conclusion (Marian F. Love); 2. Arts & Crafts Cooperative on the Navajo Reservation (Eric John Natwig); and 3, Witchcraft (E. Reesman Fryer).

Santa Fe, NM: Southwestern Assoc on Indian Affairs, 1969. Volume 6, No 1, Spring 1969 . Soft Cover/Stapled. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY. Quarterley publication devoted to safeguarding Native American Indian affairs. This Volume 6, No 1, Spring 1969 issue features: 1, The Pueblos (Bertha P. Dutton, reprint); and 2, Indian Values (Popovi Da).

Santa Fe, NM: Southwestern Assoc on Indian Affairs, 1976. Volume 11, No 2, Summer 1976 . Soft Cover/Stapled. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/shipping address printed to softcover back. Quarterley publication devoted to safeguarding Native American Indian affairs. This Volume 11, No 2, Summer 1976 issue features: 1, An Evening with Florence Ellis (Sally Kandarian); 2, Northern Pueblo Indian Artisans' Guild (Michael Hamilton); and 3, Lois & Derek: Ptteros of Santa Clara (Peter Dechert) Potter

Santa Fe, NM: Southwestern Assoc on Indian Affairs, 1972. Volume 7, No 5. Summer 1972 . Soft Cover/Stapled. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY. Quarterley publication devoted to safeguarding Native American Indian affairs. This Volume 7, No 5, Summer 1972 issue features: 1, Changing Times (Alan Lober); 2, The Right to Make One's Own Mistakes (Eleanor M. Scott); 3, Just Graduated (reprint, Navajo Times, May 18, 1972); and 4, Four Arrows Business Assistance Program.

Santa Fe, NM: Southwestern Assoc on Indian Affairs, 1976. Volume 11, No 1, Spring 1976 . Soft Cover/Stapled. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/shipping address printed to softcover back. Quarterley publication devoted to safeguarding Native American Indian affairs. This Volume 11, No 1, Spring 1976 issue features: 1, A Backgroun for Photo-Documentation (Peter Dechert); and 2, The Feather Fracas Revisited (Harry O. King);

Santa Fe, NM: Southwestern Assoc on Indian Affairs, 1976. Volume 11, Nos 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 1976 . Soft Cover/Stapled. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/shipping address printed to softcover back. Quarterley publication devoted to safeguarding Native American Indian affairs. This Volume 11, Nos 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 1976 issue features: 1, Indian Market at Santa Fe - A Brief History (Sally M. Kandarian); 2, Judging at the Indian Market (Iris Jackson); and 3, Reflections on Indian Market (John L. Lenssen).

Santa Fe, NM: Southwestern Assoc on Indian Affairs, 1967. Volume 4, No 2, Summer 1967 . Soft Cover/Stapled. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY.Quarterley publication devoted to safeguarding Native American Indian affairs. This Volume 4, No 2, Summer Winter 1967 issue includes: 1, The Hopi Snake Dance (Marian F. Krebs); 2, Remodeling the Museum of Navaho Ceremonial Art (Cathi Jorgensen); and 3, The 46th Annual Indian Market in Santa Fe.

Santa Fe, NM: Southwestern Assoc on Indian Affairs, 1971. Volume 7, No 1, Spring 1971 . Soft Cover/Stapled. Very Good/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/detached center page. Quarterley publication devoted to safeguarding Native American Indian affairs. Frontispiece: "Blue Lake Indian Sanctuary near Taos, NM"; photo. This Volume 7, No 1, Spring 1971 issue is devoted to the story of Blue Lake. Feature article: A Fair Deal for Indians (reprint, Baltimore Evening Sun, jan 28, 1971, by W. Thetford LeViness)

Santa Fe, NM: Southwestern Assoc on Indian Affairs, 1978. Volume 13, No 1, Spring 1978 . Soft Cover/Stapled. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/shipping address printed to softcover back. Quarterley publication devoted to safeguarding Native American Indian affairs. This Volume 13, No 1, Spring 1978 issue features: 1, Equality Impossible to Guarantee (Saul Cohen); 2, Pueblo Textiles Today (Nancy Fox); 3, College in the Pueblos (Leona Zastrow); and 4, A Conversation with Alice Wesche (Sally Kandarian).