Search Results: Titles starting with W from Century Books

New Directions, 1989. 2nd printing. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket. A short, powerful moral tale that sheds light upon the insidious nature of evil and the grip history holds on the lives the seemingly protected innocent.

New York: Simon & Schuster, [1991]. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Domestic thriller set in southern California.

Washington D.C.: Peace Corps, 1982. reprint. Softcover. Good condition. Staple bound. 8.5 x 11 inches. 243 pages. Sections include: Water Supply Sources; Water Treatment; Planning the Distribution System; Characteristics of an Adequate System; Construction Techniques; Operation and Maintenance; Scope of Disposal System Projects in Host Communities; The Privy Method of Excreta Disposal Design for a Village; and Water Carried Sewage Systems Construction and Maintenance.

National Demonstration Water Project, 1983. 2nd printing. Softcover. Very Good condition.. Cover scratched, previous owner stamp. 134 pages. Sections include: Waterborne Diseases; Water Hygiene Diseases; Water Contact Diseases; Water Habitat Vector-Borne Diseases; Methods for Evaluating the Quality of Drinking as to the Risk of Transmission of Microbiological Disease; Public Health Effectiveness of Water Treatment; Public Health Effectiveness of Excreta and Wastewater Treatment and Disposal; Health Impacts of Community Water Supplies; Glossary, and Annex B: Summary Analyses of Selected Field Studies.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. 1st edition. Hardback. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Third Sir John Fielding mystery. Very light wear at corners of dust jacket, else fine. Fielding is a blind, 18th-century judge, and the story is narrated by his 'eyes,' young Jeremy Proctor.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday Crime Club, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket.. Dust jacket is scuffed with some corner wear. Boating mystery featuring Scottish Fisheries Protection Officer Webb Carrick.

New York: Viking, 1947. BCE. Hardback. VG/G. Some edgewear, owner name on title page. BOMC article laid in. DJ is soiled, chipped at corners, faded/scuffed on spine.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket.. Dust jacket has scuffs, edgewear, one large tear. Pseudonym for Roberta E. Sebenthall. Also wrote under the names Roberta Hill and Harry Davis. When Susan Fine is charged with killing her boss, attorney Phil Kramer is sure that she is too beautiful to be guilty and the evidence against her is a little too pat. But to find the evidence to clear Susan, he must unravel a complicated series of puzzles.

New Mexico Geological Society, 1981. Hardback. Near Fine condition.. Edited by Rudy C. Epis and Jonathon F. Callender. Previous owner stamps on edges, endpapers and title page. 337 pages. Pictorial endpapers. Contents include road logs and articles on the region including Stratigraphy and Tectonics; Geomorphology; Uranium and Vanadium Resources; Oil Shale - Piceance Creek Basin; Coal Resources; Oil and Gas Resources; Geology and Ore Deposits of the Gunnison Mineral Belt; Tertiary Volcanism and Ore Deposits; Geothermal Resources; and The Hanging Flume of Dolores River Canyon.

New York: Viking, 1985. 1st American Edition. Hardback. Near fine in Fine dust jacket.. Second of the trilogy begun with The Rebel Angels and continued with The Lyre of Orpheus. Remainder stamp on bottom edge.

Avon Books, 1995. Advanced Reading Copy. Mass Mkt. PB. Near Fine condition.. Author's first mystery novel, introduces Tamara Hayle, a savvy, street-smart African American sleuth, a former policewoman turned private detective, and a single mom.

New York: Linden Press, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. Remainder mark. Two small, closed, almost invisible tears in dust jacket. 15 short stories.

New York: Science House, 1971. Hardback. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket.. Light soil and edgewear on dust jacket. Appeal for the proper training of residents in psychotherapy. Chessick's 'optimal psychoterapist' should be mature, empathic, understanding and perceptive.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984. Hardback. Near Fine condition.. Pictorial boards, some light shelfwear. Volume 1 551 pages, covers Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida and Georgia. Volume 2 pages 552-1183 , includes Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Illustrated.

Delacorte Press, 1995. 1st. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Light edgewear. Nine short stories features female sleuth V.I. Warshawski

New York: Arcade, 1991. 1st edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. Remainder mark, else fine. Collection of shorter works. Winner of the 1991 Colorado Book Authors Prize for Fiction.

Overseas Development Council, [1976]. Softcover. Good condition. Produced with Cheri S. Adams, Gabrielle S. Edgcomb, and Maritta Koch-Weser. Works focus on the effects of socio-economic development and cultural change on women and women's reactions to these changes.

Glencoe, Illinois: Free Press, 1959. 2nd printing. Hardback. Near Fine in Good dust jacket.. Dustjacket is chipped at top of spine, one small chip on front, fading on spine. An introduction to language as a social science, examining how languages came to be, how they grow and how they work.

New York: Modern Library, [1956]. Reprint. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Text of the third edition of the Jowett translation. Brown cloth.

Doubleday, c. 1953. Book Club Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Good dust jacket.. Dust jacket missing chips at spine ends, small tears, soil. Author's first novel.