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Very Good. Size: 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall; Type: Book The Nightway chant is a Navajo healing ceremonial that extends over several days and incorporates songs, prayers, sandpaintings and the use of sacred material objects such as masks. This is the first substantive study of the ceremonial in fifty years, the text traces the history and genealogies of Nightway medicine men together with the history of the recording and documentation of the chantway by non-Navajo observers. 22 colour plates of ...
Like New in Like New jacket. Size: 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall; Type: Book 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.
Like New in Like New jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Type: Book 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, captivating ...
Edition: UK edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781560729617ISBN:1560729619
Description: Like New in No d/j as Published jacket. Size: 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall; Type: Book Covers Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami. Author Index and Title Index.362pp. Read More
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: National Museums of Scotland Publishing
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781901663624ISBN:1901663620
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall; Type: Book 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
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated
Date published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781560728894ISBN:1560728892
Description: Very Good in No d/j as Published jacket. Size: 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall; Type: Book 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
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781853029318ISBN:1853029319
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Type: Book 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
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780415902847ISBN:0415902843
Description: Good. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Type: Book 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
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Encounter Books
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781893554368ISBN:1893554368
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Type: Book 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 with ... Read More
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Marg Publications
Date published: 2000
ISBN-13:9788185026497ISBN:8185026491
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: Folio-over 12"-15" tall; D/J in Protective Wrapper Type: Book The most significant trends, tendencies and breakthroughs in the use of the sculptural medium are analysed in this volume along with a sampling of the works of individual artists. The first section has essays by young Indian art historians, critics and theorists on trends in mainstream sculpture of the 1980's and '90's. Section II critically reviews the notion of mainstream 'avant garde' in the ... Read More
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; D/J in Protective Wrapper Type: Book 82nd Edition. Featuring essays on the year's 10 best plays. Corner of front board slightly bumped.444pp. Read More
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated
Date published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781590332962ISBN:1590332962
Description: Like New in No d/j as Published jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Type: Book Robotics has worked its way from science fiction to science without the fiction to widespread applications not only in manufacturing but in medical research and other fields as well. Progress had been accelerated by the faster-than-light advances in miniaturisation. This book provides important citations, primarily to the book literature, with access through author, subject and title indexes.232pp. Read More
