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Hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Zustand: FINE. First printing. The story of the 12th-century nun, Hildegard Von Bingen: Benedictine abbess, writer, preacher, healer, composer, a visionary, mystic and author of liturgical songs and prophecies. Illustrated drawings, medieval art and by illuminations inspired by her visions. Bibliographical note, index. vii, 110 pp. Book only. Fine in glossy illustrated boards. …

Spiral. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A book documenting MTS's unplugged series. Light wear at th edges. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 2nd Edition. navy blue or Black leather wear to spine. FFEP torn in half. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 2nd Edition. navy blue or Black leather wear to spine. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. navy blue or Black leather slight tear to spine. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 2nd Edition. navy blue or Black leather wear to spine. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 2nd Edition. navy blue or Black leather wear to spine. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 3rd Edition. navy blue or Black leather tear to spine. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. dark Red Temple Shakespeare. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 2nd Edition. navy blue or Black leather wear to spine. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Firmly bound, green boards. Owner's embossed stamp inside. Stamp of former owner is deleted by pen. Scuffing with small tears and marks on jacket, not price clipped.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. navy blue or Black leather. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. navy blue or Black leather. Book.

Stated First Printing; small 4to.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; 184 pages; black and white and color illustrations; very good in a very good unclipped dust jacket.

Zustand: Good. Annual. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. (8), 192 pages. Portrait frontispiece, illustrations. Original pictorial card covers. *Published in association with the Public Record Office, this important book presents facsimiles of all the significant documents in the Royal Irish Constabulary's secret file on Michael Collins from December 1916 to April 1920.* A near fine copy without any library stamps, inscriptions, or other markings. Images available on request.…

paperback. Zustand: New. Shipped from the UK within 2 business days of order being placed.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Later printing. Format is 8.75 inches by 11 inches. 640 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Maps (some color fold-out). Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Cyrus Leo Sulzberger II (1912 - 1993) was a U.S. journalist, author, and a member of the family that owns the New York Times. During the 1950s/60s, he was that newspaper's lead foreign correspondent. Cy, as he was commonly called, joined the family paper in 1939 and was soon covering stories overseas as Europe edged toward World War II. Among the reporters who worked for him during the war were Drew Middleton and James Reston. He wrote two dozen books in his lifetime. Because of the circles he traveled in, he sometimes carried messages from one foreign leader to another; for U.S. President John F. Kennedy he conveyed a note to Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. It is said that he was closest to President Charles de Gaulle. The American Heritage Picture History of World War II presents the most comprehensive mosaic ever assembled of the mightiest conflict of all time. In more than 720 great photographs and color pictures, in a superlative narrative by C. L. Sulzberger, and in dozens of eyewitness accounts -- here is the essence and the drama and the real look of World War II. Pictorial Commentary by Ralph K. Andrist (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 384pp. B/w diagrams throughout. Not library copy, no inscriptions, no creasing to spine. (13/3).

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. xlviii, 259pp. Greek text with English introduction and notes. Cloth not printed to order. No dustwrapper.

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Softcover. Zustand: Wie neu. 1. Auflage. Paperback. New book, unread copy, First Edition, original edition, clean pages, no markings, no underlinings, binding tight, in stock, sofort lieferbar.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 218 pages. Endpaper map. Illustrations and Maps (many with color). Fold-out Chronological Chart. List of Participants, A Compendious Account of the British Colonies in North America. List of Maps. Map Overlays. Index. Format is approximately 11.25 inches by 15 inches. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Publisher's ephemera laid in. Don Higginbotham (May 22, 1931 - June 22, 2008) was an American historian and Dowd Professor of History at the University of North Carolina. A leading scholar of George Washington, he was a pioneering practitioner of the "new" military history and an expert on colonial and revolutionary America and the early national United States. He served twice (1975-76 and 1998-99) as visiting professor of history at the United States Military Academy. Kenneth Nebenzahl lectures and writes in the fields of early mapping, exploration and American history. Nebenzahl served many years as a consultant to Rand McNally & Co., the Hudson's Bay Company and The Library of Congress. As an aid to the modern day reader, each of the maps is accompanied by some 300 words of commentary by Nebenzahl. These 'captions' help interprets the action depicted, explain the origin of the maps, and the significance of the engagement, as the situation warrants. Higginbotham contributes a 40,000 word essay on the background of the war. Higginbotham's text could stand as a worthy book on its own. As it is, much of the understanding of the how and why of the events mapped springs from this well-written commentary. Maps were to the Revolutionary War what television was to the Vietnam War and this atlas includes 54 battle maps reproduced in full color along with an accompanying commentary by Don Higginbotham tracing the events of the successive actions. This Atlas is the most unusual and comprehensive of its kind. It is truly a unique effort, telling the story of the American battle for independence with the help of priceless maps, many of which had not been reproduced since their original appearance over 200 years ago. Drawn by actual eye-witnesses to the events described, the maps capture the immediacy and excitement of the moment. The 54 maps are reproduced in full color with a remarkable degree of detail. Four maps present the theaters of the War. Accompanying each map is a clearly written commentary describing the events portrayed.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 406, [2] pages. Oversized volume, measuring 8-1/2 inches by 11-1/4 inches. DJ has some wear to top edge. Some damp impact at top fore-edge of some pages. Review slip laid in. This is one of the Sara F. Yoseloff Memorial Publications In Judaism and Jewish Affairs. Text is in English with some Hebrew. Includes List of Rabbinic References, Translator's Foreword, and Editor's Foreword. Book 1 covers Presuppositions in Aristotelian Natural Science and the Order of the Universe; Book 2 covers Basic Principles of the Faith; or Religious Law of the Jewish People; Book 3 covers Practical Philosophy (The Healing of the Soul). Also contains Hebrew Text of The Exalted Faith, Glossary, and Bibliography. Abraham ibn Daud was a Spanish-Jewish astronomer, historian, and philosopher; born at Cordoba, Spain about 1110; died in Toledo, Spain, according to common report, a martyr about 1180. He is sometimes known by the abbreviation Rabad I or Ravad I. Ibn Daud was the first to introduce the phase of Jewish philosophy which is generally attributed to Maimonides and which differs from former systems of philosophy mainly in its more thorough systematic form derived from Aristotle. Accordingly, Hasdai Crescas mentions Ibn Daud as the only Jewish philosopher among the predecessors of Maimonides. But having been completely overshadowed by Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed, Abraham ibn Daud's Emunah Ramah ("Sublime Faith"), a work to which Maimonides himself was indebted for many valuable suggestions, received scant notice from later philosophers. The stated purpose of this book is to reconcile philosophy and religion and to solve the problem of human choice and determinism. This is the first work by a Jewish philosopher to use Aristotelian language and thought to explain the principal commitment of Jewish religious faith. The topics discussed include issues in physics, psychology, astronomy, religious belief, prophecy and diving providence, epistemology, theology, and ethics and religious practice. This critical edition contains the complete Solomon Ben Labi Hebrew translation of the lost, original Arabic text as well as the English translation prepared by Norbert Samuelson and Gershon Weiss. Samuelson has also written an introduction to each section of the work, and has provided a glossary of basic, technical Hebrew terms. The comprehensiveness and clarity of the work make this text an excellent introduction for students who wish to begin study in this area of philosophy and Jewish studies. Samuelson and Weiss present a critical edition and English translation of Solomon Ben Labi's Hebrew translation of the lost, original Arabic text of Abraham Ibn Daud's The Exalted Faith. Ibn Daud was the first Jewish philosopher to use Aristotelian language and thought to explain the principal commitments of Jewish religious faith. His monumental effort, written in 1160, has been preserved in this, his sole work of philosophy. Abraham ibn Daud's importance lies in the fact that he was the first to present a coherent systematic interpretation of Judaism in light of the new challenge, namely Muslim Aristotelianism. The sustained use of Aristotelian doctrines and logical reasoning clearly distinguishes ER from the writings of earlier Jewish philosophers. Moreover, the manner in which he incorporates his Muslim (and to a lesser extent) Jewish sources in a carefully structured system in order to solve a religious problem is noteworthy. His thought develops along the following lines: substance-form - motion and transition from potentiality into actuality-soul - God-intelligences-prophet-freedom of the will-correspondence between correct knowledge and correct conduct-perfection.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No dust jacket. Internally clean and bright, with contents free from notes or highlighting. Firm bindings. A presentable used copy without major defects. xxviii, 639 pp. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Soviet Union -- Politics and government ; Add. Inventory No: 250312ABY0697628.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. red cloth many ist editions. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. various dates navy blue or Black leather bright covers. Slight pulls to three volumes. Rest Good to Very Good. Book.

Edition : First Commandino edition., 17th century mottled calf; spine raised with six (6) bands, compartments gilt, gilt lettered title on two; all edges speckled red. , First edition by Commandino. David Clement judges this edition of the first four books bound with the two books of Sereni on cones and cylinders, to be extremely rare. Also footnote (32) states: [in Bibliotheca Uilenbroukiana P.I. p. 55. Catal. duarum Bibliothecaruin Dom. N. B. & D. L. Hagae - Com. ap. Beauregard, 1747. in 8vo. p. 9, Vogt Libror. rarior. p. 40.] describes this Commandin edition surpassing that of Jean-Baptiste Memmius, which was printed in Venice in 1537. It quotes Fabricius? statement in the Bibliotheca Graeca about Memmius or Memus not having understood the subject at hand, translated from a basically wanting manuscript with manifold, thereby rendering his version weak. It also mentions that this didn?t mean Commandin?s was fault-free remaring the Greek manuscript he had drawn on was filled with failts. Concerning Apollonius?s work Koudela states? Interest in ancient Greek knowledge increased gradually in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, especially in Italy, the leading country of Europe's culture and science of the time. Latin translations of Greek works on conic sections and other curves - Apollonius and Pappus in particular - appeared in several editions. Although some original works were also published in the sixteenth century, no significant progress in the study of conic sections had been made until the work of Kepler. His contribution influenced the further development of projective geometry and can be regarded as the transition from ancient to modern geometry. The spread of Greek knowledge in the Renaissance The invention of conic sections is attributed to Menaechmus (4th cent. BC), a member of Plato's Academy at Athens. Various species of conic sections were obtained by truncating an acute-angled, right-angled and obtuse-angled cone by a plane perpendicular to the generator of the cone. Conic sections were also investigated by Aristaeus the Elder (4th cent. BC) and by Euclid (c. 325 - c. 265 BC). Their works on this subject are now lost. The works of Archimedes (287 - 212 BC) contain some important results concerning the properties of conic sections, especially parabolas. The greatest ancient writer on conic sections was Apollonius of Perga (c. 262 - c. 190 BC). His famous work Conics consisted of eight books and contained 487 propositions. Apollonius introduced the terms ellipse, parabola and hyperbola and showed that various sections of the cone can be obtained by varying the inclination of the intersecting plane. Among other ancient authors dealing with conic sections, we should mention Pappus of Alexandria (c. 290 - c. 350 AD), the last of great Greek geometers. His main work known as Collection is valuable - among other things - because it provides an account and comments on the results obtained by his predecessors. Pappus introduced the notion of the focus and the directrix of a hyperbola (Kline, 1990, p. 128 ). Apollonius? work influenced the greatest scholars of the modern era, such as Descartes and Newton. The Latin translation of the first four books of Apollonius by Gianbattista Memo appeared in Venice in 1537. The present edition of Apollonius? Conics of the sixteenth century is based on the translation and important new edits by Federico Commandino (1506-1575), who published ?classical Greek mathematical texts under the auspices of the Duke of Urbino.? Horblit: ?The most influential early edition of this highly important text, entirely superceding Memmo?s version of 1537? Other sources state that, in total, the Conics consist of 387, not 487, propositions published in seven books, with the eighth book remaining unconfirmed. References: Adams A-1310; Brunet I, 347; David Clement, Bibliothèque curieuse historique et critique: A-Aqvino, 1750, p.415/6; Dibner 101; Honeyman 118; Horblit 4; Koudela, L.: Curves in the Hi.…