Search Results: Authors starting with J from Florida Mountain Book Co.

Boulder, CO: Shambala, 2022. Softcover, [xvii], 327 pages. Near Fine condition. First edition, first printing. Size 9"x6". "This first-ever guide to ideas and practices surrounding rebirth in Buddhism covers the historical context for the Buddha's teachings on the topic, explains what Buddhists believe is actually reborn and where, surveys rebirth-related practices in multiple Buddhist cultures, and considers whether all Buddhist traditions agree about what happens after death." Includes notes, bibliography, and index. Wrappers have light exterior shelfwear, else Fine condition, clean and unmarked.. Near Fine.

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. Softcover, 224 pages. Size 9"x6". "How did indigenous peoples fare under Spanish rule from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries? The contributors to this book discuss the social, demographic, and economic impacts of Spanish colonization on Indians.Contributors are Susan M. Deeds, Jesus F. de la Teja, Ross Frank, Robert H. Jackson, Peter Stern, and Patricia Wickman. Their essays offer a new and engaging synthesis that will reinvigorate teaching and research in borderlands history." New condition, in original shrinkwrap.. Brand New.

NY: Springer, 2007. Hardcover, [xvi], 616 pages. Near Fine condition. Size 9.375'"x6.125". "First book in a new series sponsored by the Office of Naval Research on the latest research in underwater acoustics. Provides ready access to data and models in high-frequency seafloor acoustics. Concise presentation of data and models will be of interest to sonar engineers and researchers working in underwater acoustics. Main text provides ready access to data and models and is backed up by an extensive bibliography and technical appendices." Book has light handling/shelfwear else Fine condition, clean and unmarked. . Near Fine.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Hardcover, [xii], 339 pages. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. Size 9.25"x6.25". "Recent years have seen major progress in the development of equations to describe the motion of fluid-particle mixtures and their application to a limited range of problems. With rapid advances in numerical methods and computing power we are now presented with new opportunities to use direct integration of these equations in the solution of complex practical problems . . . . the author formulates these equations carefully and fully describes the important existing applications that serve to test their ability to predict salient phenomena. This account will be of value to both novices and established researchers in the field, and also to people interested in applying the equations to practical engineering problems." Book and dust jacket have very light handling/shelfwear. Previous owner's name & blind stamp on front fly. Binding is… Read More

Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999. Hardcover, [xx], 399 pages. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Inscribed and signed by author on the title page. Size 9.25"x6.25". The author "sifts through the history of modern finance, from the efficient market hypothesis to behavioral psychology and chaos theory, to determine the cause of recent market crashes. Includes a Foreword from Nobel Laureate Harry M. Markowitz. Showcases the expertise of an author who identified and predicted the causes of 1987, 1997 and 1998 crashes. Explains the risks of little-understood option replication. Offers chapter summaries, appendices and a glossary." Book and dust jacket have light handling/shelfwear, else As New condition, clean and unmarked. . Near Fine/Near Fine.

Dubuque, IA: Wm. C. Brown Co., 1951. Spiral-bound softcover, 372 pages. Very Good condition. First edition. Size 8.375"x5.5". Pictured-Keys for identifying many of the beetles which are most frequently seen, with aids for their study and with other helpful features. Moderate exterior shelfwear. Previous owner's information on title page and back endpaper. Interior text clean and unmarked.. 1st Edition. Very Good.

NY: Columbia University Press for The Welfare Council of New York City, 1933. Hardcover 2-volume set, approx 630 total pages. Good condition. Size 9.5"x6.25". Green cloth. Exterior wear (soiling; rubs & scuffs on extremities). Previous owner's (org) stamp & card pockets on endpapers. Front fly of Volume I has a 5/8" closed tear on the top edge. Title page of Volume II has creases, and a 1/4" closed tear & tiny chips on the bottom edge. Bindings are tight. Interior texts are Near Fine, clean and unmarked.. Good.

The Carnatic Music Academy of North America, 1978. Softcover, 16 pages. Good condition. Size 11"x8.5". Concert programme for Mali's performance in New York, June 3, 1978, accompanied by T. Rukmini, Tiruchi Sankaran, and S.V. Raja Rao. This also includes the Spring 1978 issue of CMANA's newsletter/periodical 'Sangeetham'. Moderate exterior handling/shelfwear, text else clean and unmarked.. Good.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. Hardcover, [xiii], 570 pages. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. Size 9.5"x6.5". "With unprecedented access to previously closed Stanley family archives, Jeal reveals the amazing extent to which Stanley's public career and intimate life have been misunderstood and undervalued. Jeal recovers the reality of Stanley's life - a life of almost impossible extremes - in this moving story of tragedy, adventure, disappointment, and success." Includes b&w illustrations, bibliography, notes, and index. Book and dust jacket have light exterior shelfwear, else Fine condition, clean and unmarked.. Near Fine.

San Diego: Academic Press, 1998. Hardcover, [xxiii], 583 pages. Very Good condition. Size 9.25"x6.25". "Virtually all factors affecting the extent of metal adsorption are examined, including the effects of selected anions, competition among metals, pH, metal concentration, loading, variable metal adsorption capacity, ionic strength, hydrogen exchange and stoichiometry, and solids concentration. A variety of adsorption models are briefly presented and some are used to extend laboratory studies to field sites. The book is comprised of a collection of papers contributed by leading investigators from Canada, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the US." Includes appendix of abbreviations and acronyms, and index. Book has moderate exterior handling/shelfwear. Previous owner's name on front fly, closed tear on top margin of one leaf of Contents section, text else Fine condition, clean and unmarked.. Very Good.

NY: Springer-Verlag, 2001. Hardcover, [xv], 268 pages. Very Good condition. First printing. Size 9.5"x6.25". "The book emphasizes both the human and the computer side. Part I gives a thorough introduction to Bayesian networks as well as decision trees and infulence diagrams, and through examples and exercises, the reader is instructed in building graphical models from domain knowledge. This part is self-contained and it does not require other background than standard secondary school mathematics. Part II is devoted to the presentation of algorithms and complexity issues. This part is also self-contained, but it requires that the reader is familiar with working with texts in the mathematical language." Book has light handling/shelfwear, spine is sunned, else Fine condition, clean and unmarked. . Very Good.

NY: Springer-Verlag, 2002. Hardcover, [xv], 268 pages. Near Fine condition. Second, corrected printing, 2002. Size 9.5"x6.25". "The book emphasizes both the human and the computer side. Part I gives a thorough introduction to Bayesian networks as well as decision trees and infulence diagrams, and through examples and exercises, the reader is instructed in building graphical models from domain knowledge. This part is self-contained and it does not require other background than standard secondary school mathematics. Part II is devoted to the presentation of algorithms and complexity issues. This part is also self-contained, but it requires that the reader is familiar with working with texts in the mathematical language." Book has light exterior shelfwear, else Fine condition, clean and unmarked. . Near Fine.

NY: American Heritage Publishing Co., 1975. Hardcover, 104 pages. Very Good condition. Size 11.25"x8.75". Please see accompanying photo for contents. Boards have moderate shelfwear, else Near Fine, clean and unmarked.. Very Good. Magazines & Periodicals.

Loveland, CO: J. V. Publications, 1994. Softcover, 295 pages. Very Good+ condition. Size 8.5"x5.5". "Indian eater Big Phil, the deadly rat game, gold bricks for sale and the pickled skull mystery are all as much a part of Colorado history as mining and railroading. Imaginative, ambitious people and hard frontier living combined to create a fertile setting for genuinely bizarre behavior. Short story format is used in this well-illustrated book." Includes b&w photo illustrations, bibliography, and index. Book has moderate exterior handling/shelfwear, else As New, clean and unmarked.. Very Good+.

Cheltenham, UK: Nelson Thornes Ltd., 2010. Softcover, [xxiii], 418 pages. Very Good condition. Second edition, first Indian reprint. Size 9"x6". This book "offers a multidisciplinary approach spanning physics, electrical engineering, and materials science. It provides an understanding of the behavior of electrons within materials, how electrons determine the magnetic thermal, optical and electrical properties of materials, and how electronic properties are controlled for use in technological applications. Although some mathematics is essential in this area, the mathematics that is used is easy to follow and kept to an appropriate level for the reader." Book has moderate shelfwear. Binding is tight. Text is clean and unmarked.. Very Good.

NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1993. Hardcover, [xix], 442 pages. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. Size 9.5"x6.5".This book "begins with a lucid introduction to the method and proceeds to one-, two- and three-dimensional problems. Describes the method's applications to many electromagnetic problems from scalar to vector shields and static to time-harmonic cases. Includes thorough treatment of open-region scattering, radiation problems and the latest developments of the finite element method in electromagnetics areas which have not been covered in any other texts." Book has very light handling/shelfwear. Previous owner's name on front pastedown, text else Fine condition, clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has moderate shelfwear.. Near Fine.

Vantage Press, 2004. Softcover, 78 pages. First printing. Size 8"x5.375". A four-act play set in rural New Mexico. "A spicy, politically incorrect comedy, with a mixture of Anglo, African-American, and Mexican ingredients." New condition, clean and unmarked.. 1st Edition. New.

Albuquerque, NM: CEC Publishing, 1999. Plastic comb-bound softcover, 257 pages. Very Good condition. Inscribed and signed by David Johnson on the title page. Size 8.5"x5.5". "This book is best understood as an extended dictionary or a brief encyclopedia . . . . a guide to millennial thought in the history of Middle Eastern, European, and Euro/American civilizations." Includes a 30-page Introduction, and Bibliography. Moderate wear to protective plastic covers. Interior text clean and unmarked.. Signed by Author. Very Good.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003. Hardcover, [xi], 777 pages. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. Size 10.25"x7.75". "This narrative account, from the earliest cave paintings up to the present day, has new things to say about almost every period of art. Taking account of changing scholarship and shifting opinions, Paul Johnson draws our attention to a number of neglected artists and styles, especially in Scandinavia, Germany, Russia and the Americas. He pays particular attention to key periods: the emergence of the artistic personality in the Renaissance, the new realism of the early seventeenth century, the discovery of landscape painting as a separate art form, and the rise of ideological art. He notes the division of 'fashion art' and fine art at the beginning of the twentieth century, and how it has now widened." Includes color reproductions, and index. Book has light exterior shelfwear. Binding is tight. Text is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has… Read More

Living Batch Press, 1993. Softcover, 296 pages. Good condition. Revised edition. Size 10"x7". "First published in 1968, this classic book foreshadowed the regional haute cuisine that became popular twenty years later." Book has moderate handling/shelfwear. Binding is tight. Interior text is clean and unmarked.. Good.