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Rock of Ages: Human Use & Natural History of Australian Granites
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Bayly, Ian
$27.78 Description: Like New in Like New jacket. D/J in Protective Wrapper. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. This guide to the natural history of Australian granites considers their history, biology, beauty and recreational potential. It covers the importance of protecting their ecosystems, and how unusual they are as habitats for plants and animals.132pp. Read More
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Santa Fe: a Modern History, 1890-1990
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Tobias, Henry Jack; Woodhouse, Charles E.
$24.22 Description: Like New in Like New jacket. D/J in Protective Wrapper. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Of interest to specialists in the fields of sociology, western and urban history, ethnic studies, political science and pluralistic social relations. From 1880, when the railroad reached Santa Fe, to the early 1990s, the city was transformed from a territorial outpost to a modern community. This book focuses on what changes over the past 110 years have meant to the city's inhabitants. The result is a readable, ... Read More
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American Cities Vol. 2: a Bibliography
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Kura, Nicholas O.; Shohov, Tatiana
$35.60 Description: Like New in No d/j as Published jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Covers Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami. Author Index and Title Index.362pp. Read More
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Caring for the Scottish Home
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Davidson, Ian (Editor)
$24.22 Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. D/J in Protective Wrapper. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Examines the history, design and function of various Scottish homes, their cultural context within the country's heritage and how they should be cared for.128pp. Read More
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Some Contemporary Problems of Condensed Matter Physics (Contemporary Fundamental Physics Ser. )
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Vlaev, S. J. (Editor); Gaggero-Sager, L. M. (Editor)
$113.81 Description: Very Good in No d/j as Published jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. This text contains eight works on some contemporary problems of condensed matter physics, contributed by researchers from Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, Spain, Germany and the U.S. The topics include the spectrum of quasiregular heterostructures; tailoring empirical tight-binding models for semiconductor. 252pp. Read More
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On the Way to Individuality: Current Methodological Issues in Behavioral Genetics
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Grigorenko, Elena L. (Editor); Labuda, Michele C. (Editor)
$81.11 Description: Like New in Very Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. This book is intended to provide a bridge between behavioural genetics, psychiatric genetics, developmental psychopathology and developmental psychology. Contents: Incorporating Development in the Search for Etiological Factors in Human Traits; Adaptive and Maladaptive Pathways in Development: A Quantitative Genetic Perspective; Variable Age of Expression: Implications for Developmental Genetic Model. Slightly bumped at tail of spine.252pp. Read More
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Bright Splinters of the Mind: a Personal Story of Research With Autistics Savant
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Hermelin, Beate
$24.22 Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. D/J In Protective Wrapper. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Not only a thorough exploration of autistic gifts, also a book which reaches radical conclusions on the very nature of talent and its relationship to intelligence. Slight dent to right hand edge of front board, and to right hand edge of spine, d/j similarly slightly dented.188pp. Read More
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Crusoe's Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America
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Brantlinger, Patrick
$17.11 Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. An introduction to the field of cultural studies, which charts the subject's development in both Britain and the USA. The text investigates the establishment of cultural history, and examines the contribution of structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, phenomenology and critical theory. Slightly twisted.212pp. Read More
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Clarence Thomas: a Biography
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Thomas, Andrew Peyton
$20.38 Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. D/J in Protective Wrapper. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. In this unauthorised biography, the most authoritative ever written about the controversial Supreme Court Justice, Andrew Peyton Thomas (no relation) explores Clarence Thomas' remarkable rise from a childhood of poverty in segregated Georgia to the nation's highest court. In his attempt to understand what drives the elusive and sometimes enigmatic Justice, the author located and conducted the first-ever interview ... Read More
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