Search Results: Authors starting with P from Twin City Antiquarian Books

St. Paul: Hamline University Alumni Association, 1939 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Purple textured cloth, gilt titles on front board, 147 pp, 4 ff b & w plates. There is a 1½ cm tear in the margin of one leaf, otherwise very good, spine slightly sunned, original owner's signature on ffep. This is the 85th anniversary history of Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. A mimeographed card presenting the book to 1940 graduates is laid in. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . G+/No dj. 19½ X 13½ cm.

New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Natural linen, bronze titles & black decoration, orange endpapers, xv, 368 pp, notes, index. DJ slightly browned with a bit of rubbing to corners; in Brodart archival cover. Packard examines the phenomenon of social rootlessness in America as it developed in the 25 years after World War 2. In addition to statistical and other written sources, Packard travelled to various cities & suburbs to examine conditions personally and to interview residents about their experiences. Contents: journeys that explain the uprooting; problems of adjusting to fragmentation; impact on the way people behave; toward reducing the fragmentation. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 3rd ptg. . Fine/Near Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1957 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Orange cloth, gilt titles on spine, viii, 275 pp, index. Tiny repaired snag and some rubbing to bottom edge, else fine. DJ front panel & spine ends chipped & torn (up to about 1 inch), extemities moderately rubbed; in Brodart archival cover. From chapter 1: "This book is an attempt to explore a strange and rather exotic new area of American life. It is about the large-scale efforts being made, often with impressive success, to channel our unthinking habits, our purchasing decisions, and our thought processes by use of the insights gleaned from psychiatry and the social sciences. Typically these efforts take place beneath our level of awareness; so that the appeals which move us are often, in a sense, 'hidden.' The result is that many of us are being influenced and manipulated, far more than we realize, in the patterns of our daily lives." Shipping… Read More

New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1960 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full orange cloth, xi, 340 pp, notes, index. Top corners bumped. DJ rubbed, tears & creases to edges, loss of a few letters near bottom of front panel; in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, "Mr. Packard now demonstrates that persuasion and a desire for social upgrading are no longer enough to sell the surplus of products industry produces. Productivity is now being maintained by such strategies as 'planned obsolescence,' and in startling--and to many horrifying--detail, Packard now shows how waste has become a virtue and 'product death' a watchword in American industry. Though Mr. Packard has no quarrel with legitimate technological advancement, he seriously questions the morality and economic validity of a system that in order to exist depends upon artificially shortening the useful life of products. ... Packard gets to the heart of this new… Read More

Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1977 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full black cloth, gilt & orange titles on spine, blind device on front board, orange endpapers, x, 398 pp, notes, index. "MD" stamped on bottom edge, else fine. DJ head of spine has 1 X 3 cm chip in blank area, else fine; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "Packard takes his readers out to the present frontiers of the life and behavioral sciences of man. There he investigates the revolutionary temper in the mood of many geneticists, behavioral psychologists, and psychosurgeons as they seek to broaden the applications of just-discovered techniques. Similar enthusiasm, he notes, is exuded by the new breed of political, technical, and marketing professionals. To an extent previously unattempted, The People Shapers probes the full range of their startling efforts to change mankind." Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . Near Fine/VG+. 24 X… Read More

Chicago: Bonus Books, Inc., 1996 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter salmon cloth, grey paper-covered boards, white titles on spine, ill. endpapers, viii, 360 pp, 4 ff b & w photo plates, index. Top and bottom edges somewhat faded. DJ spine slightly faded; in Brodart archival cover. One reviewer said of this book, "The story of the Polk Bros. stores in Chicago is both a valuable business history and a picture of our times. From the postwar revolution in the home appliance industry through the rise of the electronics superstores in the 1980s, Polk Bros. mirrored and molded the life-style of American families. From the larger perspective, the Polk brothers' innovative business significantly shaped the retailing trends of the twentieth century. This is a remarkable case history. We will be studying it for years to come." (Donald P. Jacobs, Dean, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, as quoted on the DJ.)… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, gilt titles in double-ruled compartments on spine, [ix], 459 pp, 7 ff b & w plates, 1 2-page chart not in pagination, notes, bibliography, index. Top corner of front free endpaper clipped, else very good; top edge dusty and a few minor bumps. This life of Thomas Jefferson quotes extensively from letters and other contemporary documents and publications. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). First Edition. . G+/No dj. 22 X 15 cm.

Princeton, NJ, New York, London & Toronto: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1955 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Tan buckram, gilt titles in black compartment on spine, x, 329 pp, index. Owner's name stamped twice on ffep. DJ slightly chipped, paper browning, two small (under 1 cm) edge tears; in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, this book "explains the mathematical methods of physics in terms of physical interpretation, extension by physical intuition, and theoretical demonstration." Contents: integration & differentiation; the vibrating string; the general problem [2nd-order differential equations] in three dimensions; eigenfunctions & eigenvalues; geometrical interpretation of eigenfunctions; the separated equations; the nonhomogeneous problem; integral equations; methods of solving integral equations; the unbounded region; the Fourier integral; passive physical systems; viewpoints on Fourier transforms; the Laplace… Read More

New York, San Diego & London: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, foil titles on spine, [vii], 182 pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. First Edition is stated, but this appears to be a book club edition. Originally published in Slovenian in 1967. "A compelling Holocaust memoir by a concentration camp survivor, who returns, twenty years later, to recollect the horror." Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 4 oz.). . Fine/Fine. 20 X 13½ cm.

Silver Spring, MD: Sprinkler Irrigation Association, 1975 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full green cloth, gold titles on front board & spine, printed on coated paper so rather heavy for its size, xv, 615 pp, many photos, drawings & charts in text, index. Tiny snag to coth on front board tail of front joint bumped, else fine. Contents: sprinkler system uses & planning; soil-water-plant relations; plant & irrigation water requirements; irrigation water supply; sprinkler pattern, spacing & selection; hydraulics of sprinkler systems; irrigation pumping plants; agricultural sprinkler systems; turf sprinkler systems; land application of liquid wastes; environmental control; fertilizer & chemical applications with sprinklers; other sprinkler applications; installation of sprinkler systems; operation & maintenance; economics of sprinkler irrigation; pipe; drip irrigation; metric converson. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. 4th ed. . VG/No… Read More

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1960 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full black cloth, gilt titles on spine, frontis., 273 pp, 8 b & w photo plates, plan in text, list of popes, index. Head of spine faded, address label on ffep. DJ rubbed & slightly chipped at corners & spine ends; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . Near Fine/VG+. 23 X 16 cm.

Copenhagen: Thaning & Appels, 1958 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Printed stiff paper wraps, stitched, 164 pp, pen & ink drawings head some chapters. Very slight wear at edges of wraps. Slightly oversized DJ is creased and worn all along top edge, rubbed at joints and fore-edge. Pieces by twelve authors in Danish.. Wraps. Near Fine/VG. Illus. by Ib Andersen. 19½ X 13½ cm.

New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1977 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue & white wraps, xii, 689 pp. Slight wear to corners, date-received stamp on title page, else fine. Contains dozens of papers presented at a symposium held in Boston December 13-17, 1976, sponsored by the Academy, the American Astronomical Society, and the American Physical Society. Includes a brief contribution on "Black Holes and Unpredictability" by Steven Hawking. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. Wraps. Near Fine/No dj. 22½ X 15 cm.

London: Iliffe Books Ltd, 1965 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated from the French by B. Jeffrey; edited by D. L. Jones. Red boards, gilt titles on spine, ix, 198 pp, many figures, chapter references, index. Backstrip has a 1 cm puncture, otherwise very good, owner's name written or stamped in several places, corners lightly bumped. Contents: structure of matter, spectroscopy; elementary phenomena & concepts; elastic collisions; inelastic collisions (excitation, ionization; recombination, charge transfer, dissociation); surface phenomena; transport phenomena; diffusion; mobility; nonselfsustaining electric discharges in gases; Townsend discharge; glow discharge; electric arc; dielectric strength of gases--steady field & high-frequency breakdown; diagnostics. Appendices: electrostatic or Langmuir probes; plasma diagnostics by microwave methods. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition in English. . G-/No dj. 22½ X 14½ cm.

Reading, MA: Perseus Books, 1998 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Purple paper-covered boards with black paper-covered spine, copper foil titles on spine, xvi, 240 pp, 9 figures, 9 tables, index. Just a hint of wear to tail of spine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ: "...explores the more profound implications of the IT revolution, such as: why the Web has become the most overhyped but undervalued business tool; why business leaders must become fluent in the language of IT now or risk losing everything; how IT takes 'knowledge management' to its full potential; and how the adoption of new technologies is forever changing the roles and responsibilites of educators, researchers, policymakers, and general citizens." Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

Hinsdale, IL: The Dryden Press (Holt, Rinehart & Winston), 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. White dec. boards, green & blue titles, blue endpapers, xiv, 656 pp, index. Scattered yellow highlighting, light edge wear. "...a rigorous treatment of those aspects of economic theory and analysis that are most useful for managerial decision analysis." Contents: optimization; risk analysis; demand theory; techniques of demand estimation; production theory; linear programming; cost theory; empirical cost analysis; market structure & the theory of prices; pricing practices; regulation & antitrust; capital budgeting; Westfall Company (a case study). Appendices: compounding & the time value of money; forecasting; interest factor tables; statistical tables. Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 8 oz.). 3rd Ed. . VG/No dj. 24 X 19½ cm.

New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Putty cloth, red & blue titles, vi, 760 pp, hundreds of illustrations, diagrams, charts, & tables, chapter bibliographies, index. Faint spots near bottom of front board, and first few leaves slightly cockled near bottom edge, a few marginal notations in pencil. A basic civil engineering text on transportation systems, covering history, urban transportation planning, design of streets, highways, railways, pipelines, conveyor belts (e.g., at mines), airports, harbors, and port facilities. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. First Edition. . VG+/No dj. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Tor (Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.), 1995 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine, 287 pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "Celestis, inhabited by conservative human settlers from a socially decayed Earth, is riven by racial strife. Those conquered alien inhabitants who can afford it are surgically and pharmacologically altered to appear more human. Simon, a human diplomat, is taken hostage by alien rebels and thrown into contact with Katharine, an altered alien, with whom he falls in love. But Katharine, also a hostage, is cut off from her medications and rapidly begins the transformation back into a creature of alien needs and desires." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . As New/As New. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1904 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Attractive decorative binding in full blue cloth, gilt titles on spine and white decorations on front board, 292 pp, 9 b & w plates including frontispiece & map. Lacks half-title, else VG with moderate rubbing to extremities, gilt titles bright. Historical novel set on Jersey during the time of Queen Elizabeth I. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First US Edition. . Illus. by The Kinneys. 19½ X 13 cm.

New York, London, Sydney & Toronto: John Wiley & Sons, Inc WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. This printing after 1976, but copyright 1974. Pale grey boards with black titles & device, xv, 326 pp, many figures & tables in text, index. Top edge foxed, bumped corners & spine ends. Contents: structural shapes; unite stresses; structural steel; reactions, moments, & shear; theory of bending & properties of sections; use of the beam formula; deflection of beams; beam design procedures; floor framing systems; columns; bolted & riveted connections; welded connections; roof trusses; theory of plastic design. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 4th ed, 7th ptg. . VG/No dj. 22 X 14½ cm.