Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Eureka Books

Collins, 2005. Hardcover. Between your full-length mirror and high-school biology class, you probably think you know a lot about the human body. While it's true that we live in an age when we're as obsessed with our bodies as we are with celebrity hairstyles, the reality is that most of us know very little about what chugs, churns, and thumps throughout this miraculous, scientific, and artistic system of anatomy. Yes, you've owned your skin-covered shell for decades, but you probably know more about your cell-phone plan than you do about your own body. When it comes to your longevity and quality of life, understanding your internal systems gives you the power, authority, and ability to live a healthier, younger, and better life. You: The Owner's Manual challenges your preconceived notions about how the human body works and ages, then takes you on a tour through all of the highways, back roads, and landmarks inside of you. After taking a quiz that tests your body of knowledge, you'll learn about all… Read More

William Morrow, 2008. Hardcover. The #1 bestseller that gives YOU complete control over your body and your health. In this updated and expanded edition, America's favorite doctors, Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, discuss how YOU actually have control over your genes. Discover how diseases start and how they affect your body--as well as advice on how to prevent and beat conditions that threaten your quality of life. YOU: The Owner's Manual challenges preconceived notions about how the human body works and ages, and takes you on a fascinating grand tour of all your blood-pumping, food-digesting, and numbers-remembering systems and organs--including the heart, brain, lungs, immune system, bones, and sensory organs. There are also 100 questions asked by you, and answered by the experts. For instance, do you know which of the following statements are true? As you increase the amount you exercise, the rewards you gain from it increase as well.If you're not a smoker, you have nothing to worry about when it… Read More

The Federal School of Commercial Designing, 1927. Trade Paperback.

Tieton Water Users Association, 1908. Trade Paperback. Single sheet 9 x 12 inches, trifolded to create 6 pages. Printed in black on tan. 'This circular has been prepared in response to the many inquiries that have been constantly received by this office about the Yakima Valley in general and about the Tieton Project in particular. An effort has been made to present a plain statement of facts relative to the advantages which the valley offers to homeseekers without any overdrawn or highly colored stpries and with mention of some objectionable features which are to be found here as elsewhere.' - opening statement of circular. Circular describes Location, Water Supply, The Tieton Project, Climate, Products, Transportation, Markets, Land Prices, Capital Required, Wages, Time When Canal Will Be Finished, Government Lands, and Schools and Churches. First edition (first printing). Very good copy. Top edge waterstained. Small chip missing from front page edge affecting a few words on page 2. Scarce. WorldCat… Read More

Johnson, Song Publisher, 1860. First Edition. Ephemera. Song sheet, 9.6 x 6.25 inches, with text in double columns in eight eight line stanzas, each with chorus. At foot of song sheet: 'Johnson, Song Publisher, Stationer & Printer, No. 7 N. Tenth St., 3 doors above Market, Phila. See Prof. Brooks' Ball Room Monitor, it will give you more Instructions in Dancing than any book ever published...' Wolf, American Song Sheets, Ship Ballads and Poetical Braodsides, 1850-70, 2688. Very good on blue speckled white stock. Water stain on left, Chip Missing from top, not affecting text. Slight foxing on edges.

Georgetown University, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Very good copy in decorated brown cloth with gold. Mild edge wear. No dust jacket.

Scribner, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. 186 pages. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.

The Ecco Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. This is the California author's third book of poetry. Inscribed by the author on page opposite title page 'For Jim In friendship, Sandra' and dated September 1981 Portland. Signed again with full name on title page. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket tanned on spine and with small closed edge tear.

Woolmer/Brotherson Ltd, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 101 pages. A poem sequence inspired by the Children's Crusade. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket with a bit of loss to the spine ends, else very good. Inscribed to Frances Mays (sic?, probably Mayes).

Simon & Schuster, 2007. Hardcover. A very good used copy in a very good dust jacket. The author of The Know-It-All follows up his New York Times bestselling account of reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica with another improbable adventure--a year spent living, as literally as possible, by the rules of the Bible.

Vintage, 2007. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later--the night before New Year's Eve--the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours… Read More

Bell Tower, 1998. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In his new book, Stephen Levine, author of the perennial best-seller "Who Dies?, " teaches us how to live each moment, each hour, each day mindfully--as if it were all that was left. On his deathbed, Socrates exhorted his followers to practice dying as the highest form of wisdom. Levine decided to live this way himself for a whole year, and now he shares with us how such immediacy radically changes our view of the world and forces us to examine our priorities. Most of us go to extraordinary lengths to ignore, laugh off, or deny the fact that we are going to die, but preparing for death is one of the most rational and rewarding acts of a lifetime. It is an exercise that gives us the opportunity to deal with unfinished business and enter into a new and vibrant relationship with life. Levine provides us with a year-long program of intensely practical strategies and powerful guided meditations to help with this work, so that whenever the ultimate moment… Read More

Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 518 pages. A novel. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The Years with Laura Diaz is Carlos Fuentes's most important novel in several decades. Like his masterpiece The Death of Artemio Cruz, the action begins in the state of Veracruz and moves to Mexico City -- tracing a migration during the Revolution and its aftermath that was a feature of Mexico's demographic history and is a significant element in Fuentes's fictional world.Now the principal figure is not Artemio Cruz (who, however, makes a brief appearance) but Fuentes's first major female protagonist, the extraordinary Laura Diaz. Fuentes's richly woven narrative tapestry of her life from 1905 to 1978 -- filled with a multitude of witty, heartbreaking scenes and the sounds and colors, tastes and scents of Mexico -- shows us this wonderful woman as she grows into a politically committed artist who is also a wife and mother, a lover of great men,… Read More

1860. Ephemera. The Yeates Institute operated from 1860-1863, closed then, and reopened in 1878. 1. Autograph letter signed from L. Bowman, undated, 'outlining some of the principal points that occur to me, as proper to be introduced into the Charter of the proposed Institute...' Four points are enumerated: 1. It shall be called the Yeates Institute to be established in or near the City of Lancaster, State of Penn.; 2. The object shall be under the auspices and in accordance with the principles of the Prot. Ep. Church, the education of young persons, in all the customary branchers of sound Academical Learning, Special regard being always had to the Training & Instruction of those who are interested for the Ministry in said Church; 3. The affairs of the corporation shall be conducted by a Board of Trustees to consist of ____ persons of whom the Rector or Rectors of the several Episcopal Churches in the City of Lancaster shall always be a part. Said Trustees shall have power to be [enumerate powers].… Read More

Grove Press, 2020. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East. In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant--the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah's father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died, six months after Sarah's birth, the Yellow House would become Ivory Mae's thirteenth and most unruly child. A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom's The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized… Read More

Golden Mountain Press, 1975. Trade Paperback. Unpaginated but 18 pages. A collection of poems. Cover art by Dave Geiser. Very good with fading to spine and edges in wrappers (paperback).

The Yellow Line, 1935. Trade Paperback. Tri-fold pamphlet describing four tours of the Louisiana city. 4 by 9-1/4 inches. Light crease to bottom corner and light edge wear, thus near fine.

[J. J. Audubon], 1884. First Edition. Print. Modern name Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Empidonax flaviventris. Native to the northeastern United States. Original handcolored lithograph (plate 490) from the first royal octavo edition of John James Audubon's The Birds of America. (New York, 1840-44). Printed and colored by J. T. Bowen. 'This species was first observed in the spring of 1840, near Carlisle, Pennsylvania. During every succeeding spring since, it has been seen in greater or leas numbers, and several specimens procured each year. Its habits are much like those of the other species of this genus; it frequents low thickets near small streams, is seldom found in large woods like T. acadica, or T. virens, and is a very unsuspicious bird, allowing persons to approach within a short distance. It probably goes farther north than Pennsylvania to breed, having never been observed after the latter part of May or beginning of June.'-John James Audubon. Light spotting to print, thus near fine. Matted and framed. Read More

William Morrow, 2023. Hardcover. A new copy. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "Hard to put down, harder to forget." -- Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences... Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R.F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena's a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena's death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena's just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I. So what if June edits Athena's novel and sends it to her agent as her own… Read More