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Indianapolis: Howard W. Sams & Co. Inc., 1971. From back: "The questions and answers cover various aspects of electicity ranging from the most elemental to the somewhat more complex." Covers basic concepts, batteries and transformers, rectifiers and motors, switching devices, general information. 112 pages with many black and white diagrams. Ex-library with typical treatments, many blacked out; covers have been laminated. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2003. CD-ROM which opens PDF files. This is the first AAAS yearbook to be published on CD-ROM. CD is excellent condition, card stock case has light wear. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. CD-ROM. Very Good/No Jacket. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.

Denver: Resin Publications Inc., 1987. Contents include: 50 Years of Progress; Profiing an Industry's Growth; Pioneers and Plastics: Honoring A Distinctive Past; "Plastics!" The Economic Impact; Future Prospects for Plastics. 170 illustrated pages with lots of advertisements. Edgewear, some small creases on cover. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . Magazine. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2002. 451 bright, white pages with some black and white illustrations. Creases on spine, small abrasion on back cover; edgewear. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, 1993. 114 bright, white pages with some black and white charts. Contents include: Rich-Wheat Production in Northwest India; Wheat Farming in Central Chile; Pesticides, Rice Productivity and Health Impacts in teh Philippines; Crop Protection Technologies; Alternatives to Corn and Soybean Production in Two Regions of the United States; more. Some rubbing and moderate wear to covers, chipped bottom of spine, top corner of covers and pages are bumped. We noted a crease to top of one page. We have several other World Resources Institute publications. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1995. 96 bright white pages. Edgwear, creasing to covers. From Report In Brief: "America can maintain its leadership in science and technology despite fiscal constraints, but doing so will require a new process for allocating federal science and technology spending." Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1942. From jacket: "The changing composition of the output of American farms is reviewed, and developments at home and abroad which have influenced consumption of foods and fibers are esxamined. This leads to a study of the nation's food supply, and the trent of per capita consumption. (Imagine how dramatically different this information is likely to be 65 years later.) Ex-library with typical treatments and penciled price on fep. 435 pages, 47 charts, 54 tables, 4 appendices. No jacket but inside flap from jacket, which has some underlining, has been papercliped to fep. The paperclip, now gone, has left an impression on several pages. Blue cloth cover has some light small spots and bumped back corners. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo… Read More

London: Edward Arnold, 1972. 180 pages with owners name and price on fep. A couple scuffed areas on outside spine, bumped lower corners. One page has very small pen mark in margin. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1966. 143 pages. Ex-library with typical treatments, many blacked out. Covers have been laminated. Light wear to covers; lightly bumped bottom corner. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Prentice Hall One of the Foundations of Biology Program series, Part 1. 117 pages with black and white illustrations and photographs throughout. Wear to covers. Crease to front cover and several pages. Penciled notation on fep and pencil mark on title page. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1878. Dark green cloth with black titles and decorations on front gilt tiltes and black decorations on spine. The Library of Contemporary Science. 548 lightly toned pages with 49 woodcuts. Preface by Professor Paul Broca. Translated (from French) by Robert T.H. Bartley, MD. Front hinge split. Chip to top of spine; bumped corners; signficant edgewear. Yes, we know the title on the page photographed is different than our title; it is the same book. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Dial Press, 1969. 8vo size blue clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 144 pages Published in the early days of space exploration: From jacket: "With all that has been written about man's journey to the moon, the general public still knows little of precisely what our astronauts will do once they get there, why they are doing it and what they are likely to find... We begin with a crew of astronauts navigating their Lunar Module to a landing site, and the moment of first stepping onto the moon..." Edgewear, moderate wear to jacket with two small areas on back of jacket where the lamination film is lifting. Please note that we photographed the front and back covers at an angle to reduce the glare and reflection from the glossy dust jacket. . 2nd. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. One of the Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change edited by David Maybury-Lewis and Theodore Macdonald. 8vo size trade paperback; 139 bright, white pages. Some black and white photographs and charts. Contents include: Ariall - An East African Pastoralist Society Drought, Development, and Kenya's Pastoralists Ariaal Identity and Culture A Pastoral Life: Livestock Production and Human Nutrition The Clan Settlement and Social Organization of the Ariaal Light crease to one corner, tiny nick to bottom spine, edgewear. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002. Signed (first name only) and inscribed on fep. 8vo size trade paperback; 177 pages. Revised Edition. From back: "The 10 original essays (in this book) explore in different ways the complex interrelationships between American literature and science in the 20th century. Part I, entitled Field, Quanta, Chaos, is devoted to the poetry and poetics of three postmodern writers: Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, and Jack Spicer. Part II, entitled Complementarity, features radical re-readings of six of Hemingway's best-known short stories." Edgewear, front cover not quite flush, bookseller's penciled notations on fep. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Signed by Author. Revised. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Academic Press, 1970. 8vo size trade paperback; 94 pages with many charts Contents include: Introduction to Biological Rhythms and Clocks Hypothesis of Environmental Timing of the Clock Cellular Biochemical Clock Hypothesis Covers have rubbing and edgewear. Front cover has two letters inked out in the title and a scribble. . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1966. Ex-library with typical treatments. Owners label and price on fep. Decorative green cloth cover in great conditon. 200 pages with some black and white charts. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1969. Contents include: Mistletoes; Sandalwoods and Their Relatives; Broomrapes and Parasitic Figworts; Rafflesiaceae, Hydnoraceae, and Balanophoraceae; Cuscuta, Cassytha, Lennoaceae, and Krameriaceae; The Haustorium; Physiological Aspects of Parasitism; Evolutionary Aspects of Parasitism. From jacket: "Here is a synthesis of all the known botanical information about angiospermic parasitism. The relevant botanical writings on this subject have been drawn together to develop a unified presentation of the parasitic mode of life as it has evolved in various flowering plants." 246 pages with black and white illustrations. Ex-library with typical treatments, many blacked out; jacket covered in mylar; some tan transfer marks from cello tape. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Cloth. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.

Washington, DC: U.S.Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, 1993. This is an original publication, not a copy. 80 bright, white pages with some black and white photographs and diagrams. Light wear to covers. From foreward: "By transforming agricultural or marine feedstocks, or harnessing the enzymes found in nature, a new class of renewable, biodegradable, and biocompatible materials is being introduced. Emergency applications of biopolymers range from packaging to industrial chemicals..." Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Stapled. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Grove Press, 2022. 8vo size trade paperback; 286 pages plus a section of color photographs on glossy stock From back cover: "A golden era of deep-sea discovery is underway that is rewriting the very notion of life on Earth. (The author, a) marine biologist, persuasively and passionately brings to life the majesty and mystery of the deep sea, a distant realm that nonetheless sustains us, while urgently making clear the price we could pay if it is further disrupted. Teeming with unsuspected and fantastic creatures, an extraordinary interconnect ecosystem ... has a huge effect on our daily lives..." In average used condition with edgewear, crease to bottom corner of front cover, tip of first few and last few page corners are curled, two creased page tips and shelf soil on bottom. . First Thus. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. From flap: "This book explains meteorology as a science and not merely as a means of describing and cataloguing varieties of weather. Its underlying theme is that there is in the atmosphere a hierachy of motion systems..." Ex-library with typical treatments, many blacked out; jacket covered with mylar. 227 creamy pages with some black and white diagrams. First Edition. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. First. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.