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Santa Fe: a Modern History, 1890-1990 more books like this

by Tobias, Henry Jack; Woodhouse, Charles E. other copies of this book

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

American Cities Vol. 2: a Bibliography more books like this

by Kura, Nicholas O.; Shohov, Tatiana other copies of this book

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

Caring for the Scottish Home more books like this

by Davidson, Ian (Editor) other copies of this book

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

Some Contemporary Problems of Condensed Matter Physics (Contemporary Fundamental Physics Ser. ) more books like this

by Vlaev, S. J. (Editor); Gaggero-Sager, L. M. (Editor) other copies of this book

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

On the Way to Individuality: Current Methodological Issues in Behavioral Genetics more books like this

by Grigorenko, Elena L. (Editor); Labuda, Michele C. (Editor) other copies of this book

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

Bright Splinters of the Mind: a Personal Story of Research With Autistics Savant more books like this

by Hermelin, Beate other copies of this book

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

Crusoe's Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America more books like this

by Brantlinger, Patrick other copies of this book

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

Clarence Thomas: a Biography more books like this

by Thomas, Andrew Peyton other copies of this book

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

Georgics (Classics Ser. ) more books like this

by Virgil; Chew, Kristina (Translator) other copies of this book

Description: Like New. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 152pp. Rendered in an idiom drawn from present-day nature guides, gardening handbooks, how-to manuals, and scientific treatises--and in a style influenced by twentieth-century poetry--this bold new translation seeks to renew our appreciation of a work often relegated to the pigeonhole of didactic poetry about farming. In doing so, it reveals the Georgics as a remarkable window on Roman conceptions of the natural world and of the place of human life ... Read More