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

Albuquerque, NM: LPD Press, 2001. Softcover, 295 pages. Near Fine condition. First printing. Size 11"x8.5". "Frank Applegate was a well-established artist on the East Coast when he moved to Santa Fe in 1921. He was immediately drawn into the art of the Native American and Hispanic cultures and became a moving force in the Santa Fe art scene." Includes color and b&w photo illustrations, bibliography, and index. Light shelfwear to wraps, else Fine condition, clean and unmarked.. 1st Edition. Near Fine.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1952. Hardcover, [xxvii], 276 pages. Good condition. Ex-library. Size 10.75"x8". Please see accompanying photo for contents. Boards are scuffed on extremities. Library stamps, labels, and markings on exterior, endpapers, and prelims. Interior text is clean and unmarked.. Good.

Las Cruces, NM: Yucca Tree Press, 1990. Softcover pamphlet, 59 pages. Near Fine condition. Second printing. Size 8.5"x5.25". "Here are facts about nine strange events which happened in Territorial New Mexico." Very light exterior wear. Text is clean and unmarked.. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. Hardcover, [xiii], 220 pages. As New condition in a Very Good+ dust jacket. First printing. Size 8.75"x5.75". "Who am I? What am I? Where do I belong? These 'grave concerns' take a lifetime for most people to answer. They become even trickier for American Indians, who all too often face literal and figurative burial by those in power. Such concerns permeate the works of Louis Owens, a mixedblood writer of Choctaw-Cherokee-Irish descent. Chris LaLonde analyses five of Louis Owens's critically acclaimed novels: The Sharpest Sight, The Bone Game, Wolfsong, Nightland, and Dark River." Book is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light shelfwear.. 1st Edition. As New/Dust Jacket Included.

Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 1991. Two audio cassettes, approx 2 hours total playing time. Very Good condition. Recordings of three live talks from the Dalai Lama's 1991 visit to America.. Very Good.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Softcover, [xii], 168 pages. Very Good condition. Second edition. Size 9"x6". "In the second edition of their successful textbook, Professors Landahl and Mollo-Christensen have taken the opportunity to include recent developments in the field of chaos and its applications to turbulent flow. This timely update continues the original theme of the book: presenting the fundamental concepts and the basic methods of fluid flow turbulence that enable the reader to follow the literature and understand current research. The emphasis on the dynamic processes that create and maintain turbulent flows gives this book an original approach." Book has moderate handling/shelfwear. Previous owner's initials on front fly, else Near Fine, clean and unmarked.. Very Good.

NY: IFI/Plenum, 1969. Hardcover, [xvi], 288 pages. Good+ condition in a Fair dust jacket. Ex-library. Size 11"x8.5". "A slightly revised edition of DASA (Defense Atomic Support Agency) 1917-4. It incorporates recent advances in the field of cross sections and reaction rates and provides material on the more important processes involved in the excitation of air, criteria for the validity of LTE (local thermodynamic equilibrium), and special radiative effects." Please see accompanying photos for contents. Book has moderate exterior wear (rubs & bumped corners). Library stamps on front fly and half-title page, text else Near Fine, clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has chips & closed tears, soiling, and previous owner's label on back panel.. Good+.

NY: Konecky & Konecky, 1978. Hardcover, 364 pages. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket. Size 11.25"x9.75". "An extensive history of the development of ukiyo-e in its sociological context and of the lives of its masters, with particular emphasis on the innovation in style and technique that each one contributed . . . . a veritable mine of pictorial and written information for all who are fascinated by the unique magic of Japanese prints." Includes color and b&w reproductions, bibliography, and indexes. Boards are rubbed on extremities. Text is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has moderate shelfwear.. Very Good.

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. Hardcover, [viii], 253 pages. Good+ condition. Cameo edition. Size 6.625"x4.125". Green cloth w/cameo on front, gilt title on spine. Top edge gilt. This edition contains 4 new letters not previously published (to John, Knox, Increase Mather, Homer, and Samuel Pepys). Moderate exterior wear (rubbed extremities, light soiling). Frontis portrait browning. Final page has a small (3/8") closed tear on the top edge, interior text else Near Fine, clean and unmarked.. First Thus. Good+.

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 1987. Hardcover, [xvii], 318 pages. Near Fine condition. Size 9.25"x6.125". This book "deals with the practical aspects of both analogue and digital electronic measuring systems. The author discusses these systems with the designer in mind, giving information which will help readers to use electronic measuring tools in the most effective way." Chapter headings: 1 - Introduction-About Measuring Systems; 2 - Transducer Interfacing; 3 - Practical Aspects of Noise Reduction in Electronic Measuring Systems; 4 - Amplifiers; 5 - Analogue Signal Processing for Measurement Signals; 6 - Comparators and Analogue Switches; 7 - Digital-to-Analogue Converters, Analog-to-Digital Converters; 8 - Sample and Hold Circuits-Multiplexers; 9 - Data Acquisition and Processing. Book has light exterior shelfwear. Previous owners' name & stamp on front endpapers, text else Fine condition, clean and unmarked.. Near Fine.

Albuquerque, NM.: University of New Mexico Press, 1990. Softcover, [xxix], 618 pages. Good+ condition. Size 8"x5.5". Includes b&w photo illustrations, appendices, bibliography, and index. Book has moderate exterior shelfwear, crease on spine. Binding is tight. Small remainder stamp on bottom edge. Text is clean and unmarked.. Good+.

The Lightning Tree, 1976. Hardcover, 64 pages. First edition. Size 7.25"x5.625". Book is clean and unmarked.. 1st Edition. As New.

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. Softcover, [xiii], 316 pages. Very Good condition. Size 9"x6". "Southeastern New Mexico encompasses 50,000 square miles, remains one of the least-known areas of the state despite its stunning and varied landscape and its rich and exciting history. The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the region's historical evolution, from the time of Paleo-Indian pottery makers to Plains Indian buffalo hunters, from early Spanish explorers to American pioneers, with particular emphasis on the period of frontier settlement from the 1850S until the turn of the century." Includes b&w photo illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Wrappers have moderate wear. Book is lightly bumped on top front corner. Binding is tight. Text is clean and unmarked.. Very Good.

Socorro, New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society, 2000. Softcover, 282 pages. Size 11"x8.375". Guideboook of the 51st New Mexico Geological Society Field Conference (Lordsburg, 2000). Includes Grant, Luna and Hidalgo Counties. New condition, in original shrinkwrap. Brand New.

Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2010. Softcover, [xix], 274 pages. Near Fine condition. Size 9.25"x6". "The first part of the book is a self-contained, introductory course on network calculus. It presents the core of network calculus, and shows how it can be applied to the Internet to obtain results that have physical interpretations of practical importance to network engineers. The second part serves as a mathematical reference used across the book. It presents the results from Min-plus algebra needed for network calculus. The third part contains more advanced material. It is appropriate reading for a graduate course and a source of reference for professionals in networking by surveying the state of the art of research and pointing to open problems in network calculus and its application in different fields, such as mulitmedia smoothing, aggegate scheduling, adaptive guarantees in Internet differential services, renegotiated reserved services, etc." Book has light handling/shelfwear,… Read More

North Lake, WI: Honey Creek Publishing, 1997. Softcover, [vii], 143 pages. Very Good condition. Size 8.375"x5.5". "In a work of deep spiritual reflection and tenderness he (the author) discovers: why a relationship of 50-50 responsibility doesn't work, and what does work; why one must learn his or her own 'rhythm of closeness'; the 'five mothers' we all have and how to deal with them; how to be really present to those we love and to life itself." Moderate exterior wear, interior text clean & unmarked.. Very Good.

Las Cruces, NM: New Mexico State University, 1999. Spiral-bound softcover, [iv], 57 pages. Good+ condition. Size 7"x4". A handbook/field guide for identification of 25 non-native weeds having a negative impact on the environment or economy. Color photo illustrations. Wrappers have moderate wear. Several pages lightly creased from handling. Text is clean and unmarked.. Good+.

NY: Oxford University Press, 1991. Hardcover, 251 pages. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. First printing. Size 8.5"x5.75". "The story of jazz is a story of individuals - enormously gifted, dedicated, sometimes driven, yet often gentle people. In this volume, Gene Lees continues his richly entertaining and informative chronicle of the lives and times of jazz with a new collection of fourteen memorable essays drawn from his renowned Jazzletter." Book has very light exterior shelfwear, else Fine condition, clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light shelfwear.. Near Fine.

Raleigh, NC: Pentland Press, 1998. Softcover, 82 pages. Fine condition. Size 7"x5". "This merry romp through rhyme and rhythm delights the eye, the ear, and the wit with its fun-filled and pun-filled poems." Very light exterior shelfwear, else As New, clean and unmarked.. Fine.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. Softcover, [xi], 117 pages. Near Fine condition. Size 9.25"x6.125". This book "introduces the basic 'variational' principles of classical physics (least time, least potential energy, least action, and Hamilton's principle), develops the mathematical language most suited to their application (the calculus of variations), and presents applications from the physics usually encountered in introductory course sequences." Wrappers have light shelfwear. Previous owner's name on front fly, else Fine condition, clean and unmarked.. Near Fine.