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Royal Anthropological Instit 1969 London, 1969 Very good issued in wrappers 1st Wrappers Tall 8vo iv, 706p Previous owner's stamp on front wrappers, edge wear, corners bumped. Volume 4. Soft cover.

11+42+[19 plates]+[1 blank]+[6 plates (2 folding)] pages with tables and diagrams. Octavo (9" x 5 1/2") bound in wrappers with original spine and covers tipped on. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 4085) First edition.A knight's tour is a sequence of moves of a knight on a chessboard such that the knight visits every square only once. If the knight ends on a square that is one knight's move from the beginning square (so that it could tour the board again immediately, following the same path), the tour is closed, otherwise it is open. The earliest known reference to the knight's tour problem dates back to the 9th century AD. In Rudraá¹­a's Kavyalankara, a Sanskrit work on Poetics, the pattern of a knight's tour on a half-board has been presented as an elaborate poetic figure called the "turagapadabandha" or 'arrangement in the steps of a horse.' The same verse in four lines of eight syllables each can be read from left to right or by following the path of the knight on tour. Since the Indic… Read More

414-435 pages with figures, tables and charts. Royal octavo (9 3/4' x 6 1/4") in Loose pages from Man, Volume 14, number 3. First edition. This article considers geographical and social aspects of marital choice in modern Britain and their likely genetical import. Marital choice is important biologically because partners with remote origins tend to be genetically more different than those with close origins. Proximity of partners affects genetical variance and the size and ease of definition of breeding populations. Most previous studies have concentrated upon village populations, but modern urban marriage also needs to be studied, especially since a high proportion of the world's population now lives in cities. A nationwide British survey showed that marriage up to the late 1950s was still relatively local. Differences in regional origin, social class and age all affect marital distance (and geographers' models of spatial interaction are a useful model for the large scale aspects of marital… Read More

Crown Publishers 1975 New York, 1975 Better than very good in a very good dust jacket 1st Thus Hardbound Quarto 250p Previous owner's name on front end paper.DW spine sunned, spine ends chipped.. Hardcover.

72 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume 53, number 4 Part 2. First edition.

Condition: Spine sunned, previous owner's name to front wrapper, corners bumped else very good.

325-374 pages with figures, tables, charts, plates, map and bibliography. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume 33, number 3 complete issue. First edition.

The region with which this paper is concerned lies in the northwestern part of the state, the extension being from the United States boundary to an undetermined distance south of the Mexican town Temosachic. The intervening distance is roughly 250 miles.

Condition: Spine sunned, corners bumped, wrappers torn and chipped and detached from spine else good.

University of Michigan Press 1959 Ann Arbor, 1959 Very good in a better than very good dust jacket 1st Hardbound Large Octavio xiv, 260p Previous owner's name marked out on front end paper, former owner's stamp on title page and page 100, corners bumped. DW lightly soiled,. Hardcover.

512 pages with photographs and film clips. Quarto (10 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. A movie review that describes and rates numerous movies. This is an older version that does not cover the twenty-first century and of course only gives the the writer's opinions. Condition: Corners bumped, pages age toned, light edge wear else about very good.

15 pages with tables and cited references. Octavo (9" x 6") bound in original publisher's stapled wrappers. Anthropological Quarterly Volume 42, Number 1 complete issue. First edition. Anthropological Quarterly, also known as AQ, is a peer-reviewed journal published by the George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research. AQ was founded in 1921 by the Catholic University of America and was published from 1921 to 1953 under the name Primitive Man. While continuing to publish outstanding, original, data-driven articles that advance ethnography and anthropological theory, AQ also asks intellectuals to contribute to on-going public debates relevant to contemporary experiences and public debates. Topics include: war, racism, poverty, nationalism, globalization, human rights, and the social, legal, and ethical implications of new genetic technologies. Essays on such timely topics are published in our "Social Thought and Commentary" section. Condition: Old institutional stamp and number in… Read More

71 pages with diagrams. Small octavo (7" x 4 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. First edition. The Scotch Game, or Scotch Opening, is a chess opening that begins with the moves:1. e4 e52. Nf3 Nc63. d4Ercole del Rio, in his 1750 treatise Sopra il giuoco degli Scacchi, Osservazioni pratiche d'anonimo Autore Modenese ("On the game of Chess, practical Observations by an anonymous Modenese Author"), was the first author to mention what is now called the Scotch Game. The opening received its name from a correspondence match in 1824 between Edinburgh and London. Popular in the 19th century, by 1900 the Scotch had lost favor among top players because it was thought to release the central tension too early and allow Black to equalize without difficulty. More recently, grandmasters Garry Kasparov and Jan Timman helped to re-popularize the Scotch when they used it as a surprise weapon to avoid the well-analyzed Ruy Lopez.Condition: Corners bumped, rubbed and creased, edge wear, lightly soiled else very good.

390-410 with tables and bibliography. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Anthropological Research Volume 32, Number 4 complete issue. First edition. To demonstrate the Coast Salish economic position, use is made of city directory employment data for samples of Indians and neighbouring low income non-Indians. Since the Indians, even while superficially occupying the same economic niche as non-Indians, are shown to have a lower economic standing, the data appear to support the metropolis-satellite model of politico-economic organization. Variables framed according to the acculturation model have no significant effect on Indian employment. Condition: spine sunned, light edge wear else very good.

128 pages with frontispiece, diagrams, photographs, color plates, figures and index. Quarto (10 1/2" x 7") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Kenneth Hudson, a journalist and museologist, he was a controversial character of the European museum scene and inventor of the term "industrial archaeology" in the 1960s, a broadcaster and the author of numerous books. In 1963 he wrote one of the first books on the subject, Industrial Archaeology: An Introduction, and in 1965 his Industrial Archaeology of Southern England. He was the first editor of the Journal of Industrial Archaeology in which, with others, he produced an annual review of the rapidly growing literature. In 1972 he published his book on Building Materials in the Longmans IA series, and in 1979 he co-wrote, with Julian Pettifer, Diamonds in the Sky, the result of historical research on the social history of air travel for the BBC television series of the same name.… Read More

ix+255 pages with bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. George Copway, a Canadian Ojibwe writer and lecturer, rose to prominence in American literary, political and social circles during the mid-nineteenth century. His colorful, kaleidoscopic life took him from the tiny Ojibwe village of his youth to the halls of state legislatures throughout the eastern United States and eventually overseas. Copway converted t Methodism as a teenager and traveled throughout the Midwest as a missionary. He became a forceful and energetic spokesman for temperance and the rights and sovereignty of Indians, lecturing to large crowds in the United States and Europe and found a newspaper devoted to native issues. Condition: A fine copy in like jacket.

xii+190 pages with plates and pastedown maps. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over blue boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Since 1969, when oil was first struck in the British sector of the North Sea, Britain has become one of the world's major oil producers. But how this treasure is extracted from beneath the sea bed and what like is like up on the 61st parallel is still a mystery to outsiders. Condition: Light bump to front head edge else a very good to fine copy in a near fine jacket.

316 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black boards with white lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Signed by the author. First edition. It began as a routine age discrimination lawsuit, but when a key witness is gunned down in her Cadillac, savvy up-and-coming attorney Rachel Gold finds herself with a case far older and far more dangerous than her 63 year old client.How has Beckman Engineering, the powerful St. Louis construction monolith, been managing to rake in exorbitant profits from government contracts for over fifty years? And where has over half a century's worth of dirty money been going? The skeletons both in and out of the closet pile up as Rachel delves into a mystery with ties that span two oceans and six decades of age-old prejudice, political treachery, legalized bribery and cold blooded murder.Luckily, the truth is in the files. With the help of wacky Professor Benny Goldberg and his beer swilling, pizza chomping hotshot law students (not to… Read More

Jarrold Colour Pub 1965 Norwich, 1965 Very good issued in wrappers First Edition Wrappers Small Octavo Unpaginated Corners bumped.. 1st Edition. Soft cover.

85-102 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume VIII, Number 1 complete issue. First edition. The only Omaha-type kinship systems in Middle America are those found in the Highlands of the State of Chiapas, Mexico. Of these systems, Romney reports "The best example of a thoroughgoing Omaha system is found in the Tzotzil town of Chalchihuitan. Other articles: Asa and Aramanik: Cushitic Hunters in Masai-Land by Harold C Fleming; The Meaning of Kinship in San Juan: Genealogical and Social Models by Eva Hunt; Egalitarianism in an Autocratic Village in Israel by Harvey E Goldberg; The Cultural Ecology of a Colonial Tribe by Mary W Helms; Nahua Affinal Kinship: A Comparative Study by Joan A Law; Western Apache and Kiowa Apache Materials Relating to Ceremonial Payment by Morris sE Opler. Condition: Spine sunned, edge wear, corners gently, institutional stamps to front wrappersss else very good.

128 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition.

In the Tarrasch variation of the French defense - named after German grandmaster Siegbert Tarrasch - White defends the e4 pawn by 3.Nd2. This looks less active, but avoids the pin 3...Bb4 (after 3.Nc3) and maintains the possibility of supporting d4 by playing c2-c3.Condition: Light edge wear else very good.

115-160 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ciencias Politicas y Social Ano XI (11) Volume 39 complete issue. First edition. Contents: Sobre ensenanza e periodismo y medio de by Jorge Fernandez; Apreciacion critica de la ensenanza periodismo. ?Responden las escuelas a las actuales necesidades de los medios de informacion? by Armando Rivas Torres; Apreciacion critica de la profesion y de los medios porlas escuelas de periodismo. ?Por que la Escuela no receibe la ayunda necesaria de los medios y de la profesion? ?Cuales son los medios para lograr el encaje desado? by Alfonso Valencia Rios; Planteamiento sobre los problemas de la informacion rural by Raul Noriega; El Estatuto del Periodista como medio para la integracion de los factores que intervienen en el periodismo: ensenanza, medios y profesion. Problemas del salario, establidad, mercado ocupacional, oportunidades para editorialistas, reparteros, fotografos, etcetera by Mario Rojas Avendadno; El futuro de… Read More

355 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter blue cloth with silver lettering to spine over blue boards with silver initials PAD in original pictorial jacket. First edition. A former Air Force investigator comes out of retirement to find a killer, only to discover a massive government cover-up. With just two previous novels to his credit, Patrick A. Davis has become known for edge-of-your-seat military fiction. Of his first novel, The General, the Houston Chronicle proclaimed, "Davis scored a hit". And Publishers Weekly agreed that his "adrenaline-charged" second novel, The Passenger, firmly established him as "a writer with a knack for white-knuckled suspense". In The Colonel, Davis creates a new hero caught in the midst of the case of his life. Retired Air Force investigator Martin Collins lives a quiet life in rural Virginia, working as the local chief of police and consulting on military homicides. When he's called in to assist on a grisly triple murder, nothing… Read More