Search Results: Technology from Minotavros Books

West New York, NJ: Mark Batty Publisher, 2004. 1st American Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo (royal). Soft cover. 319 pp. Fully illustrated in colour. CD-ROM included. Fine.

New York: Twenty-First Century Books, 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Achievers: African Americans in Science and Technology. Updated and expanded edition. Pictorial paper covers. 169 pp, [2]. B&W illustrations in-text. Light rubbing to corners and spine ends, wear to rear fore edge.

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Full black cloth. ix, 252 pp. B&W illustration. A few scuffs to boards, else fine.

Antverpiae: Andreae Frisi, 1668. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Tempesta, Antonio. 12mo. Full vellum. Spine lettered. [24] 576 p.p., plus [48] p.p. index. Engraved half-title page and engraved vignette on title-page. Features [44] engravings, illustrating numerous medieval torture methods and devices. Atonio Gallonio [1556-1605] was a Roman priest in the Congregation of the Oratory. Interested in the Martyrs, Gallonio studied the various methods of torture they endured, which resulted in a book about the subject, first appearing in Italy in 1591. Bookplate of Hal Hitchcok to front pastedown. Soiling to covers. Small early doodle on title-page. Slight bumping at corners. Small bumps on spine. Rubbing to outer edges. Light damp stains to head and foot of first few leaves. Interior clean and crisp. Bright. A near fine copy.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. grey cloth, winged horse and helicopter devices to front board. Roughly cut edges. xi, 243 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Light bumping and rubbing to spine ends, light spotting to tail edge of boards. Bumping and creasing to upper corner of text block from pp. 215-222. Dust jacket is age toned, bumped and chafed to extremities, a few short open tears.

New York: Times Business, Random House, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Second printing. Quarter black cloth, black paper boards. xvii, 333 pp. [16] pp. B&W photos. Fine. Recreating all of the major moments in AOL's frenzied history, aol.com is a fascinating and important inside story about the birth of a new medium, the enterpising innovators who lead it, and the way it changed our culture.

Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clarke Company, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Western Lands and Waters Series VII. Orig. brown cloth. 439 pp. B&W photos in text. Chafed to extremities, a few spots to boards. Dust jacket rubbed to extremities, lightly age toned.

New York: Paragon House Publisher's, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 9" x 9" Full blue cloth. xxxiii, 422 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Publisher's letter inserted. Light chafing to dust jacket, tanning to flaps. Here at last is a book that focuses directly on the real questions about the future of the arts in our machine-oriented society. How will art-oriented technology - movies, video, electronic music, computers, lasers, and television - change civilization as we know it? What effect will the electronic revolution have on aesthetics and creativity?

New York: Pantheon Books, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Quarter black cloth, black paper boards. viii, 390 pp. [8] pp. colour plates. Fine condition.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1981. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Soft cover, metal coil binding. 306 pp. B&W illustrations. Some light bumping to covers, else fine.

Minneapolis, MN: Control Data Institute, 1967. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo (super). vii, Colour illustrated card wraps, sewn and glued binding. Sunning to spine and head, rubbing and wear to edges, corners, joints, and spine ends, some damp staining and scuffing to covers, pen notations to rear cover, owernship stamp to front cover of Nelson A. Boylen S.S. Mathematics Dept and crease to front. A volume with a method for self-teaching computer programming using baseball metaphors and themed problems.

Holzkirchen, Germany: Ing. W. Hofacker GmbH, 1984. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. First edition, first printing stated. Soft cover. 140 p.p. B&W illustrations. Very slight bumping to corners. Annotations to notes pages at rear, else a fine copy.

Toronto: Signal, 2015. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full black paper boards. ix, 447 pp. [16] pp. colour photos. Fine. A brilliantly reported, compellingly written book that overturns the conventional view of Steve Jobs - the Jobs that is frozen forever as half genius, half jerk.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Black glossy paper boards. 243 pp. Fine. In clear plastic DJ which has been price clipped.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Orig. brown cloth. B&W map endpapers. xvi, 555 pp. B&W plates, fold-out tables. Light chafing to extremities. Dust jacket rubbed and worn to extremities, scuffs to front cover, chip to head of rear joint, light soiling to rear cover.

New York: Antonomedia, 1996. First Ediition. Soft cover. Very Good. Paperback. 191 p.p. Light scratching and rubbing to covers and edges. Light wear to spine ends. Interior clean. Else a very good copy and an interesting look at the early history of the electric chair.

Chicago: WiDL Video Publications. First Ediition. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. ©1983. [275 p.p.] unpaginated. Contains a "Key-Word Index", and a list of resources, products and programs available for Atari. Light wear and rubbing to extremities. In very good condition. Scarce.

London: Penguin Books, 1950. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo. Pictorial paper boards, in matching dust jacket. 80 pp., 64 pp. B&W photo plates (separately paginated). Slight tilting to spine, light bumping to spine ends and corners. Staining to top edge of text block. Dust jacket has small chips to spine ends, short tear to head of rear cover, rubbing to joints. Mr. R.W. Symonds is recognized as the foremost authority on the history of clocks and clock cases in England. His King Penguin Book first published in 1947 is now presented in a new, considerably revised and altered form. In approximately half the cases Mr. Symonds has replaced plates shown in the first edition by others, either because new and more perfect photographs have become available, or because clocks have, in the meantime, been discovered which need inclusion in his book.

West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Orig. burgundy cloth. 228 pp. B&W photos. Fine.

Eindhoven: Philips Publications Department, 1973. 5th or later Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fifth edition. Soft cover. 140 pp. Covers toned, spine creased.