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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $15.00, attractive copy, near fine. SARAMAGO, JOSÉ. Blindness. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, Inc, 2008, stated First Harvest edition, and letter line starting with A ending with B, 334pp., . A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" whose victims are confined to a vacant mental hospital, while a single eyewitness to the nightmare guides seven oddly assorted strangers through the barren urban landscape. ISBN 9780156035583 12.00.

paperback. Zustand: Fine.

PAP. Zustand: Used - Very Good. Used - Like New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

paperback. Zustand: Acceptable. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, annoying red ink underlining on about 10 pages, book remains quite usable and readable even on the marked pages. EDINGER, EDWARD F. Encounter with the self: a Jungian commentary on William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job : COPY WITH MARKINGS. Toronto, Canada: Inner City Books, 1986, 74pp., . USED COPY WITH RED INK UNDERLINING on some pages. 9780919123212 ISBN 091912321X.

paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, cover price $2.45, attractive copy, very good to near fine, probably unused, foredges lightly scuffed, light stripe across top edge. HOLTON, GERALD, ed. . Science and culture: a study of cohesive and disjunctive forces. Boston: Beacon Press, 1967, xxxiii, 348pp., . Series: Beacon Paperback PB250 - The Daedalus library Most of these essays, several in somewhat different form, were originally published in the winter, 1965 issue of Daedalus. - NOTE CONTENTS: DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM EARLIER VERSION: Introduction / Gerald Holton -1. Definitions: Semantics of culture / Harry Levin -- On Scientia / James S. Ackerman -- Culture and social cohesion: an anthropologist's view / Edmund R. Leach -- Unity and diversity in the modern intellectual disciplines: the role of the social sciences / Talcott Parsons -- [2.] On coherences and transformations: Scientific concepts and cultural change / Harvey Brooks -- The thematic imagination in science / Gerald Holton -- The established dissenters / Don K. Price -- The visual arts and the science: a proposal for collaboration / Gyorgy Kepes -- The future as the basis for establishing a shared culture / Margaret Mead -- [3.] On disjunction and alienation: Science and technology in popular culture / Oscar Handlin -- Science in modern culture / Eric Weil -- Remarks on a redefinition of culture / Herbert Marcuse -- The disjunction of culture and social structure: some notes on the meaning of social reality / Daniel Bell -- Science and man's nature / René Dubos -- Toward a common scale of measurement / Robert S. Morison -- The integrity of science / a report by the American Association for the Advancement of Science Committee on science in the promotion of human welfare. Notes on Contributors Index.

PAP. Zustand: Used - Very Good. Used - Like New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Hardcover. No DJ. Text unmarked with minimal page-turn soiling marks. Covers (green boards with yellow, black, and white lettering/illustration) show light edge wear with rubbing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Previous owners name on inside front cover and inscription on front end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: very good dust-jacket with light wear and rubbed spot at top front corner, cover price $4.95, very good blue cloth, somewhat faded by light along top edge, appears to me essentially unused. VONNEGUT, KURT. Deadeye Dick. New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1982, xiii, 240pp., . Dut-jacket design by James L. McGuire / Jacket photography by Jill Krementz. No indication of printing or edition on copyright page. - A young man from a peculiar family background inadvertently shoots a pregnant woman while playing with a rifle. This catastrophe has an irrevocable effect upon his life. Rudy Waltz, a.k.a. Deadeye Dick, tells the story of his life as a middle-aged man expatriate in Haiti. In addition to the other catastrophes of his life, his hometown back in the U.S. is virtually destroyed by a neutron bomb. At the ending of the book, it appears that Rudy, while he may not have fully come to terms with his actions, has at least come to live with them. 9780440017806 ISBN 0440017807.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Reprint; softcovers; minor shelfwear w/ light creasing of edges of wraps and leaves; several small nicks on lower edge of wraps; o/w in good condition; not read as pages are unopened.

PAPERBACK, cover price $1.50, HEAVY ink underlining on about 10 pages near start, some ink underlining on about 15 scattered pages, remains quite usable reading copy despite quite messy underlining near start of book. KUHN, THOMAS S. The structure of scientific revolutions : COPY WITH SOME INK UNDERLINING. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971, 2d edition, enlarged, Third Impression, xii, 210pp., . Phoenix Books P411. - International encyclopedia of unified science. Foundations of the unity of science, v. 2, no. 2. - Preface - Introduction: A role for history -- The route to normal science -- The nature of normal science -- Normal science as puzzle-solving -- The priority of paradigms -- Anomaly and the emergence of scientific discoveries -- Crisis and the emergence of scientific theories -- The response to crisis -- The nature and necessity of scientific revolutions -- Revolutions as changes of world view -- The invisibility of revolutions -- The resolution of revolutions -- Progress through revolutions - Postscript 1969. 9780226458045 ISBN 0226458040.

Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010. Passionate declarations: essays on war and justice. New York: Perennial, 2003, 2d printing, xvii, 341pp., PAPERBACK, cover price $13.95, very good lightly used copy, mild start of crease on spine at about page 70. First published in 1990. 9780060557676 ISBN 0060557672.

Soft Cover. Zustand: Very Good. ORIGINAL PUBLICATION; Softcovers; ex-library; in very good condition.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1997). 1997 1st edition. 8vo (158 x 227mm). Pp256. B/w illustrations from the literature, good bibliography. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight use and tanning but good-plus in slightly used dust-wrapper. An interesting discussion of the authors and literature of Scottish angling, up to the end of the twentieth century, including an anthology of 117 short extracts from the works discussed. An interesting read, and a useful guide to what is available. For the bibliographer and the bluffer (I'm sure the author didn't see it that way, but life is short), Simmonds gives some guidance as to content and quality. Professor Norman Willison Simmonds, ScD, AICTA, FIBiol., was a fly-fisherman, geneticist and internationally renowned expert on tropical food crops, particularly the banana. He began his career as a professional agronomist in the tropics but spent the last forty years of his life as an academic in Scotland. There, he applied himself to trout fishing, in between being Director of the Scottish Plant Breeding Institue and a member of the Edinburgh School of Agriculture, amongst many other positions. He wrote numerous books and countless articles, some on fishing, most on the genetics and practicalities of food crops. .

Soft cover. Reprint/Separat; softcovers; minor shelfwear w/ light creasing of wraps and leaves; small stain and chip on upper edge of front wrap; three leaves separated from binding (but present); pages browned; o/w in good condition.

Soft cover. Softcovers reprint/offprint; minor shelfwear and light soiling of wraps; o/w in good condition.

Schoeck, Helmut, 1922-1993. Geschichte der Soziologie. Ursprung und Aufstieg der Wissenschaft von der menschlichen Gesellschaft. Freiburg Basel Wien: Herderbücherei, 1974, 380pp., small PAPERBACK, very good, light wear to cover. Herderbücherei, 475. 9783451019753 ISBN 3451019752.

, McClellan, James Edward, 1922- / Kimball, Solon T. Education and the new America. New York, Random House, 1962, 402pp. 22 cm, good but worn dust-jacket, chipped at top of spine, very good cloth.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (s/hand, Hardcover, 1997). 1997 1st edition. 8vo (158 x 227mm). Pp256. B/w illustrations from the literature, good bibliography. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. From the library of angling collector, Colin Pitt, with his book-plate to the paste-down. Slight use and tanning but very good in clipped dust-wrapper. An interesting discussion of the authors and literature of Scottish angling, up to the end of the twentieth century, including an anthology of 117 short extracts from the works discussed. An interesting read, and a useful guide to what is available. For the bibliographer and the bluffer (I'm sure the author didn't see it that way, but life is short), Simmonds gives some guidance as to content and quality. Professor Norman Willison Simmonds, ScD, AICTA, FIBiol., was a fly-fisherman, geneticist and internationally renowned expert on tropical food crops, particularly the banana. He began his career as a professional agronomist in the tropics but spent the last forty years of his life as an academic in Scotland. There, he applied himself to trout fishing, in between being Director of the Scottish Plant Breeding Institue and a member of the Edinburgh School of Agriculture, amongst many other positions. He wrote numerous books and countless articles, some on fishing, most on the genetics and practicalities of food crops. .

Hardback. Zustand: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: NEAR FINE. Paperback original - first printing. Asked by his parents to look into the tensions within the Wagstaff orchestra, Madoc arrives just in time to see the French horn player drop dead - the death appears natural, and the orchestra boards the plane to its next engagement. But when a storm forces them to make an emergency landing and take shelter in a tourist lodge, closed up for the winter, the extent of the danger becomes clear as another victim is claimed.212 pp. Near fine.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

PAPERBACK, short tear at top of spine, scratch across cover, light wear, otherwise still very good lightly used copy. previous owner's name blacked out on front endpaper. SCHIMMEL, ANNEMARIE. Islam: an introduction. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992, later printing number line ending in 5, vii, 166pp., . First published in German in 1990. Schimmel: pioneering German scholar of Islam, teaching at Harvard at time of publication. 9780791413289 ISBN 0791413284.