New York: Springer-Verlag, 1990. ix, 529 pp. 25 papers, list of contributors. This book integrates the most recent advances into the 80-year development of the field. The various contributions review the fundamental properties, the different classes of superconductors, their structural and electronic properties and those related to the coherence length, as well as mechanisms of superconductivity. This book will be especially useful to newcomers but also to those wishing to get an overall picture of supercon... (more information)

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Maputo, Mozambique, and Stockholm, Sweden: Eduardo Mondlane University and Riksantikvarieämbetet (Central Board of National Antiquities), 1988. 201 pp. Illustrations (some color), 1 fold-out page of figures, 4 appendices, bibliography. CONTENTS: 1) The environmental background: Physiography, climate and vegetation. 2) Patterns of man-land relationships and habitat. 3) Source material I: General background. 4) Source material II: Recent archaeological research. 5) The archaeological evidence of early fa... (more information)

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Patna, India: Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, 2005. x, 592 pp. Bibliographical notes, select bibliography. This is the first comprehensive, scholarly study of Urdu historiography. The book is divided into three thematic sections: the first examines the major trends and stages in Urdu historiography (pp. 1-165); the second discusses the major historians writing in Urdu (pp. 166-548); and the third evalutes the historians' use of sources and implicit notions of historical causation (549-577). CONDITION:... (more information)

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Nairobi, Kenya: East African Publishing House, 1968 28 pp. Maps, footnotes, bibliographical references. Originally published in 1966. A brief but useful survey. CONDITION: Stapled pamphlet with moderate overall handling wear. Underlining in red pen on two pages.. Reprint. Paperback. Good. 22 x 14 cm. ... (more information)

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Stockholm, Sweden: Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies, 1989 255 pp. References. A collection of 16 original essays addressing the relationships between changes in the African environment and national politics. CONDITION: Sewn binding. Light bumping to head of spine and lower rear corner; light overall rubbing to card covers. Text clean and free of all marks.. Reprint. Paperback. Good. 25 x 17 cm. ... (more information)

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Berlin and New York: Springer-Verlag, 2004 xiv, 345 pp. Footnotes, appendices, bibliography, index. An ex-library copy in excellent condition (stamped "withdrawn"; call number sticker on spine, library marks on title-page, barcode on rear cover). Book itself as well as the text are clean and neat, showing light signs of use only.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 24 x 16 cm. ... (more information)

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Monticello, IL: Council of Planning Librarians, 1973 51 pp. Contains approximately 700 references. CONDITION: An ex-library copy (call number and stamp on front cover; library stamp inside front cover; pocket inside rear cover). Text clean and neat. Stapled booklet. Light sunning/aging to card covers, with light handling wear.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 28 x 22 cm. ... (more information)

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Kuwait: Central Bank Press, 2006 278 pp. Color portraits of royal family and the bank's directors, color graphs, footnotes. Text in English. CONDITION: Very light shipping/handling wear; virtually like new.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 30 x 21 cm. ... (more information)

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Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xi, 384 pp. Footnotes, indexes. Economics has always had an unstable reputation in the academic world as well as in the public eye. Some consider economists to be scientists while others see them as disguised ideologues. The resulting insecurity of their discipline's status has driven economists continually to redefine its scope, methods, and content. Since the 1930s economists have increasingly emphasized the scientific, quantitative side of their field, whic... (more information)

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New York: Longman, 1996 x, 240 pp. Bibliographical notes, list of contributors, index. A collection of 13 scholarly essays on the English Renaissance poet. CONDITION: Text clean and free of all marks. Sewn binding. Light overall handling wear to covers.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 22 x 14 cm. ... (more information)

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Monticello, IL: Council of Planning Librarians, 1975 73 pp. Index. Contains 825 references. CONDITION: An ex-library copy (call number on front cover; library stamp inside front cover; pocket inside rear cover). Text clean and neat. Stapled booklet. Light sunning/aging to card covers, with light handling wear.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 28 x 22 cm. ... (more information)

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Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Company, 1998 xv, 125 pp. CONDITION: 6 pages in the first 17 pages of the book have heavy highlighting and notes, else text is free of marks. Moderate overall handling wear to book.. First Edition. Paperback. Acceptable. 24 x 19 cm. ... (more information)

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. lii, 235 pp. Chronology of Bolivar's life, endnotes, bibliography. General Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) was the leading hero of Latin America's independence movement from European colonialism. His writings continue to be widely read, and many of his most important essays, proclamations, and letters are included in this book in English translation. CONDITION: Very light overall handling rubbing to card covers (virtually like new); text clean and free of all marks.. First T... (more information)

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Montevideo, Uruguay: Editorial Sintesis, 1966. 126 pp. Bibliographical footnotes, bibliography, errata slip. Text in Spanish. An anonymous translation of the author's PhD thesis (entitled "The gaucho in some novels of Argentina and Uruguay") submitted to the University of Illinois in 1965. CONTENTS: Introduccion. 1) Eduardo Acevedo Diaz y Javier de Viana. 2) Roberto Payro y Carlos Reyles. 3) Ricardo Guiraldes, Enrique Larreta y Benito Lynch. 4) Enrique Amorim y Eduardo Acevedo Diaz (H.). 5) Carlos... (more information)

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Thessalonike, Greece: Hidryma Meleton Chersonesou tou Haimou, 1981. 268 pp. Illustrated with photographic plates of selected manuscripts. Text and documents are primarily in modern Greek (several in German); a brief summary and table of contents in English are included at the end. This book collects unpublished documents pertaining to Emmanuel Pappas (1793-1821) and his sons and their families and their involvement in the Greek Revolution against the Turks in Macedonia in 1821. Divided into two parts, the f... (more information)

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Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1987 ix, 270 pp. Bibliography. A valuable, original analysis of the semantic structure of emotive signs in Russian. CONDITION: In publisher's original shrink-wrap.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/No Jacket (as issued). 23 x 16 cm. ... (more information)

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Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998. xiv, 209 pp. Notes, appendix, glossary, bibliography, indexThis unique study argues that in the Qin-Han period, there arose in China a regime of textual authority-one that overlapped but did not coincide with imperial authority. Drawing on a wide range of research and theory, the author makes an original contribution to the analysis of early imperial elite culture, particularly in the fields of literature and linguistics, intellectual, and institutional history... (more information)

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New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xvi, 929 pp. Illustrations, glossary, list of contributors, index. With more than 300 entries covering topics from acid rain to zonal circulation, this reference encyclopedia is the most comprehensive, up-to-date reference work available on the past, present, and future of the global environment. Authored by leading scholars from around the world, the encyclopedia masterfully brings together information derived from recent advances in computing, physics, mathematics,... (more information)

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Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004 xl, 602 pp. Illustrations, references, appendices, index, list of contributors. A separate essay is devoted to each summer and winter Olympics beginning with the Athens 1896 games through the 2010 games. CONDITION: Crease to upper corner of front cover and adjacent page, else is virtually as new with minor rubbing to card coves only.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 26 x 18 cm. ... (more information)

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Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. Series: Documents in Imperial History, vol. 8. xxxv, 555 pp. Footnotes, index. The eighth volume in Frederick Madden's monumental documentary history of the British Empire, this volume deals with some of the dependencies--the West Indies, British Honduras, Hong Kong, Fiji, Cyprus, Gibraltar and the Falklands--since 1948. Using documentary materials, as in the earlier volumes, the book illustrates the progress toward self-government and independence, including, for instan... (more information)

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