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Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts, 1999. BRAND NEW Copy. This novel is written under the nome de plume U.S. Five, which is composed of a professor and four students of Jacksonville Univ, Florida. It is the reconstruction of the life of one Herman Mudgett (1858 - 1896) from letters and records in a sealed box discovered in 1995. Mudgett (alias Herman, Henry, Howard, and Hatch) was conceived from a man of cloth and a woman already in wedlock. Much loved by the ladies, Mudgett was America's first serial killer and m... more information

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Berkeley, CA: UC Divestment Coalition, 1985. BRAND NEW Copy. Mongraph on the use of power of economic power to challenge the system of apartheid in South Africa. A national student movement. This pamphlet focuses on the 1.7 billion of student fees, state taxes and state pension funds invested in banks and corporations doing business with South Africa even while the government ruled with institutions deemed "a crime againt humanity" by the United Nations. Fine historical document. Chapters are: 1, ... more information

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Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office, 1960. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated green, stapled softcover/NF; light rusting of staples. PO name to front cover verso. First published 1937, authored by Ella Gardner. This revised edition includes new chapters on storytelling, youth fitness, and dances. Issued by the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Dept of Health, Education, & Welfare. Excellent compilation of children's games. Subject matter, following Suggestions for the Recreation Leader, ar... more information

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Washington, D.C.: Department of the Air Force, 1999. BRAND NEW Copy. Illustrated spiral-bound soft cover/Fine. Introductory manual and reference for U.S. Airmen. Text prepared for combat readiness. Manual in 5 sectors: Section 1, Introduction (code of conduct); 2, Deploy (Rules of Engagement, Law of Armed Conflict) ; 3, Set Up (field concerns) ; 4, Fight (attack & recovery); 5, Survive (basic life-saving techniques, POW rights) ; and, 6. Notes (glossay, index).. 1999 Edition. Paperback/Spiral. New/None ... more information

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Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. Prepared by the US Department of Agriculture, this book, subtitled '88th Congress, 2d Session, House Document No. 279,' is a complete survey of the state of World Agriculture at that time. Major sections are titled, Perspective, Production, Marketing, World Trade, Our Trade, Agreements, Assistance, and Needs. 592 pages with map and Index, plus Foreward, Preface and Contents. Covers show scant aging, text is clean and strong.. Illustrated Boards. Fine/No Jacke... more information

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New York, NY: Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Text/BRAND NEW, Red flexible soft cover/Fine. First published 1977; this is the 13th Printing of 1987. Reference/resource. Field guide to some 508 species of birds found in western North America. The Rocky Mountains serve as the eastern border of the area studied --- this mountain chain being a natural separation of the mountainous, forested regions of the West and the arid area of the Southwest from the more uniform expanses of the East. Towards the north, this g... more information

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Scaffhausen: Verlag Peter Meili, 1979. A collection of tales written in DMueterschprooch. A sample, drawn from the title story (umlauts excluded): "Wo si dFamilienname vo dane Randedoorffer beschproche hand, ischt im e ufgweckte Purschtli, im Hugo, ufgfalle, ds sGschlacht "Leu" i zwaa Doorffer vorchomm, namlich zMerishuuse und zHamedaal, und sGschlacht "Werner" au zwaamol: zBegginge und zMerishuuse." 116 pages, with drawings, and Inhalt. Boards show light shelf-use; text is cle... more information

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Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1989. Text/BRAND NEW, showing trace edge discoloration. Soft cover/NF, w/trace edge wear. An analysis of special interest Washington in-group ... an "imperial Congress" with 98% re-election rate with free transfer to lobbyists ... dominance in the realm of runaway federal taxation, spending, and debt accumulation, with the argument for effecting constitutional limits as the solution. Fine copy.. First Edition, First Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine/None as Issued... more information

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New York, NY: John Wiley, 1966. EX-LIB/Univ Department. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated black linen boards/VG. DJ/None. Loan pocket to rear cover verso removed. Compilation of essays examining discernable sensory patterns and the allied cognitive processes of perception and concept formation. The 22 studies are grouped into 5 parts: Part I, Conceptual Framework: The Psychology & Philosophy of Perception & Discovery; II, Empirical Background, Summaries, Reviews, & Integrations of Experimental Finding... more information

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New York, NY: Macmillan, 1956. Text/Bright, clean, As New. Illustrated boards/NF w/faint rubs to leading edges. DJ/None (as issued?) First published 1941. This copy published 1956 with revision and expansion. 13 chapters: I, Easy Reading; II, Rome & America; III, Latin & the Romans; IV, Romans & Americans; V, Stories; VI, More Stories; VII, Games & Gods; VIII, Advanced Reading; IX, Myth & History; X, Gods & History; XI, Famous Romans; XII, More Myth & History; and, XIII, Men Who... more information

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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968. Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Gilt embossed beiige boards/Fine. DJ/NF; showing light edge wear & faint discoloration; under mylar. Blue endpapers w/faint erasure shadow to upper front corner of fEP. Biography of American mountaineer and US Airforce jet pilot John Elvis Harlin, II (1935 - 1966). Conqueror of mountains, it was the soaring north face of Eigar in the Bernese Alps that he revisited again and again until rope gave ... his spirit lives on ... more information

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Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1964. Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Embossed blue linen boards/NF. DJ/Good; nips, chips to edges & small losses to upper/lower spine & lower corners. Dyed upper text edge; map to endpapers. Record of first American ascent of Mt. Everest, 1963. Led by Swiss born explorer, film-maker, and veteran mountaineer Norman G. Dyhrenfurth, whose father led international expeditions to Kangechejunga and Batoro in the 1930s. Sponsored by Nat'l Geographi... more information

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New York, NY: Macmillan, 1973. Stated First Edition. Text/As New. Dark blue linen boards/NF. DJ/None. Published w/o ISBN; ISBN assigned to paperback reprint of Hampton Roads Publishing of 2003. Psychoanalytic studies of dream telepathy. Extensive historical survey of dream studies followed by detailed account of experimental methods developed by the authors at the Dream Laboratory of the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. Text in 3 parts: Part I, Spontaneous Telepathic Dreaming; II, Experimental Stu... more information

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New York, NY: IDG Books Worldwide, 2002. BRAND NEW Copy with Sealed CD. Reference/resource, manual/guide to Microsoft's Pocket PC. CD to rear with trail and full versions of application. . First Edition, First Pinting. Soft Cover. New/None as Issued. ... more information

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London: The Macmillan Company for the Columbia University Press, 1899. The boards, paper weight, and deckled leading text edge suggests that the treatise is a 1930's reprint of the Macmillan original but, if so, there is no evident indication of publisher or date published. The author has scant patience with the argument that Spanish literature, despite its popularity, was a major influence on Elizabethan and prior English literature -- "Parallelism with the Spanish is not in itself evidence of connect... more information

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Bureau of Indian Affairs/Dept of the Interior, 1940. Text/AS NEW. Stapled, red flexible cover/NF w/scape & surface loss to upper back. PO name to fEP. Monograph; Sherman Pamphlets, No. 3. Printed in sienna on beige paper, and illustrated w/photos from the Bureau of American Ethnology & line drawings by Velino Herrera (Ma-pe-wi). Text based on lectures delivered 1935 at the Sherman Institute summer program on Anthropology which focused on tribes of the Southwest. Contents cover who the Papago and Pim... more information

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Middleton, CT: Wesleyan Univ Press, 1969. Two-Volume set. Physical description of both volumes: Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft covers/NF; showing light edge wear, & discoloration (notably to spines). Both volumes are 2nd Printing of 1970. A 5-year interdisciplinary study of the Protestant clergy and laymen who serve college and university students. Volume I is the Report of the Director of the study. Volume II contains the working and technical papers of the many scholars (social scientis... more information

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New York, NY: Council for Social Action, 1949. Text/Near New. Illustrated soft cover/VG with closed tears to upper/lower spine edges. Monthly periodical published by the Council for Social Action of the Congregational Christian Churches and by the Commission on Christian Social Action of the Evangelical and Reformed Church. An analysis of the contemporary social/political scene in 1949 China at the onset of Communist take over. The 6 essays are: China, Communism and Christianity (Kenneth Underwood); Christi... more information

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Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ Press, 1914. Text/BRAND NEW. Crimson (what else!) soft cover/NF, showing discoloration. Frontis map & map on rear cover. A guide to the campus grounds of Harvard Univ as it stood almost a full century ago. A tour of notable landmarks by foot, having left " ... the car at Harvard Square", stroll past the Harvard Coop and the First Parish Church (where Commencement exercises are held), and enter the Yard --- a term used to the total exclusion of 'campus' as the space ... more information

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New York: Association for the Aid of Crippled Children, 1961. These are proceedings of a conference held at West Point in 1960. The subject -- not explicitly stated -- was children's accidents, and the consequences of childhood injuries. Among the 38 participants were Dornbusch, Festinger and Luzzatti (Stanford); Fisher, Kerlan, Page, and Wallace (HEW); and Gaza, Hayes, and Yudin (NYU). The major topics are Concept Formation in Accident Research (two papers plus discussion); Contributions of the Bahavioral ... more information

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