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Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA), 1969. 112 pages to this softcover with photo illustrated cover and illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs. Edgewear and light wear to covers; slight creasing to bottom corners, crease or tear across spine. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: AMACOM, 2003. First Edition with full numberline 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 188 pages including index From dust jacket: "The holy grail of communications technology is convergence. Where once there were separate Internet, cable television and phone networks, there is now ever-increasing bandwidth capable of handing media delivery, computing, telephony and more... Empowering this revolution in VOIP - Voice over Internet Protocol." In great condition; we note only wear to front, top of jacket. . First. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New - includes sealed package of postcards (which you can send to call centers that irk you.) Wide 12mo size trade paperback; 113 pages with some black and white illustrations. Back cover is a biography of the author. Edgewear; package of postcards are affixed to inside of back cover. There is a small discolored area on the back cover which appears to be from the adhesive holding the packet of postcards. . Trade Paperback. New/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Washington, DC: Congress of the United States office of Technology Assessment, 1993. 98 bright, white pages with some black and white charts. Contents include Developing Country Environmental Needs and Aid; How Aid Can Promote Exports; Aid and Exports: Selected Country Practices; Donor Country Practices. There are impression and/or rust marks from a paperclip inside from cover and on first two pages. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase price benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Stapled Wraps. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1915. 8vo size black cloth bound hardcover; 321 tanned pages with some black and white engravings and diagrams. Gilt titles on spines and engrossed titles on cover. Contents include: Force General Ideas of Force, Graphical Representation of Velocity, Force, etc. Composition and Resolution of Forces, Velocities, etc. Equilibrium: Three Forces at a Point Parallel Forces, Center of Gravity Concurrent Forces Applied at Different Points, Algebraic Conditions for Equilibrium Forces in Some Common Commercial Structures Motion Forces Producing Motion Work, Power, Energy Friction, The General Laws of Machines Elasticity Mechanics of Fluids Edgewear, bumped and worn head and heel of spine; small fray on back cover. . 2nd. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cleveland, OH: Pention Publishing Company, 1943. 8vo size green clothbound hardcover with gilt titles on spine; 436 toned pages with black and white photographs throughout Contents include: The Abrasive Materials How Grinding Wheels Are Made Theory of Grinding Surface Qualities and Finishes Selecting the Right Wheel for the Job Wheel Shapes and Sizes Truing, Dressing and Balancing Use of Grinding Fluids Tools and Cutter Sharpening Sharpening Cemented Carbide Tools Cylindrical Grinding Grinding Cams and Other Out-of-bound Surfaces Roll Grining Internal Grinding Surface Grinding Disk Grinding Centerless Grinding Thread Grinding Gear Grinding Grinding Dies and Molds Lapping Honing Superfinishing Preparing Metallographic Specimens Cutting Off with Abrasive Wheels Use of Abrasives in Non-Metalworking Industries Grinding Castings, Welds and Billets, more Edgewear and bumped head and heel of spine. This volume has a profound musty aroma. (We're treating the book with desiccant to reduce or eliminate… Read More

Washington, DC: Congress of the United States office of Technology Assessment, 1995. 95 bright, white pages with some black and white charts. Contents include Innovation and Commercialization and Elements of Innovation Systems. Much rubbing to covers. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase price benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Stapled Wraps. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Scranton, PA: International Textbook Company, 1916. 8vo size "Christmas" binding: heavy green cloth boards with red leather extended spine and corners bordered with gilt stamping; the book has dark green marbled endpapers with coordinating green cloth pastedowns and red bordered pages. Unconventionly paginated, each section is paginated without any cummulative page totals: more than 200 pages with high quality black and white engravings. For each section there are multiple chapters: Patternmaking Equipment and Operation Patternmaking Materials Pattern Requirements Patternmaking Green-Sand Molding Core Making There is a water stain on the bottom of the red leather spine, and some rubbing to spine; edgewear and some rubbing to covers. We note a crack to the binding at page 32/33 of the Core Making chapter. There is a penciled price on ffep. . Quarter Leather. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

1967. 8vo sized hardcover with dust jacket; 342 pages plus a section of glossy stock with 48 black and white photographs. From jacket: "This book is an attempt to explain the forces that have shaped technology from prehistoric times on, and have increasingly been shaping modern man. Instead of beginning with the problems of our own generation, Lewis Mumford goes back to the original of human culture; but so far from accepting man's rise and due mainly to his command of tools and his conquest of nature, he finds solid ground for rejecting this view. He demonstrates how tools themselves did not and could not develop far with a much more significant series of invention in ritual, language and social organization." Jacket has wear, sunned spine with chipping to head and heel and several other small chips, edgewear and several tiny tears; soil or dust to top of book. . First. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

1967. 8vo sized hardcover with dust jacket; 342 pages plus a section of glossy stock with 48 black and white photographs. From jacket: "This book is an attempt to explain the forces that have shaped technology from prehistoric times on, and have increasingly been shaping modern man. Instead of beginning with the problems of our own generation, Lewis Mumford goes back to the original of human culture; but so far from accepting man's rise and due mainly to his command of tools and his conquest of nature, he finds solid ground for rejecting this view. He demonstrates how tools themselves did not and could not develop far with a much more significant series of invention in ritual, language and social organization." First Edition; 1967. 8vo sized hardcover with dust jacket; 342 pages plus a section of glossy stock with 48 black and white photographs. From jacket: "This book is an attempt to explain the forces that have shaped technology from prehistoric times on, and have… Read More

University of North Carolina , 1998. with accompanying CD 8vo size trade paperback; 349 bright, white pages From back: "By investigating the relationship between acoustical technologies and 20th century experimental poetics, this collection, with an accompanying compact disc, aims to 'turn up the volume' on printed works and rethink the way we read, hear, and talk about literary texts composed after telephones, phonographs, radios, loudspeakers, microphones, and tape recorders became facts of everyday life." New with disc in sealed plastic pouch affixed to inside of back cover. Impressions on back cover and some pages in the back from the disc, crease on back cover. Price sticker residue on front cover, worn bottom tip on front cover, light soil on covers. . Trade Paperback. New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Libertyville, IL: Motorola, 1995. 8vo size spiral bound softcover with French flap on front cover (this is a flap like a dust jacket); 110 pages with black and white illustrations. There is an illustration of the phone inside front flap. Also incudes two slips of paper: 123 Simple Programming More Safety Information Contents include: The Basics Using Memory The Works Reference Information Edgewear, light wear to covers with a small crease at top of front cover and some light soil on back cover. The very top edge of back cover appears to have water damage. . Spiral. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Private Press.

Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. The International Quarterly of the Society for the History of Technology. Pagination from 239-435. Contents include: How New Technologies Spread Taming the Microworld: DuPont and the Interwar Rise of Fundamental Industrial Research Mr. Taconite: Edward W Davis and the Promotion of Low-Grade Iron Ore 1913-1955 Nuclear Waste and Historical Time: Michael Madsen, more. Edgewear and handling wear to covers, tear to top of spine Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.