Search Results: Authors starting with D from Worldwide Collectibles

Project Pope by Clifford D Simak

publisher - Ballantine Books - Del Rey Book copyright 1981
Book Club Edition (BCE) #5722
Hardcover
5.7 x 8.45 inches, 313 pages

Project Pope is a science fiction novel by the American author Clifford Simak, published in 1981 by Ballantine Books. The novel is about a group of robots and humans living on a planet called the End of Nothing. Their mission is to search the universe and other dimensions to seek out true religion and knowledge. They add the information they gather to their Pope, a robotic supercomputer, in order to make an infallible authority of all knowledge and religion. The novel was nominated for both a Hugo Award for Best Novel and a Locus Award for Best SF novel in 1982.

Student Handbook (1960s) - Dr. Jonas E. Salk Jr. High School, Spokane, WAsee Table of ContentsPaperback8.5 x 11 inches, 28 pagesHerschel Lindsey (Principal) 1968-1979 (b 9/20/1918 d 10/7/2000)Herschel D Lindsey, principal of Ferris High School since 1968, is retiring at the end of the 1977-1978 school year. Lindsey was principal of Salk Junior High School at the time of his transfer to Ferris.A 1936 graduate of North Central High School, Lindsey has been a District 81 staff member for 33 years although he began his teaching career at Opportunity in the Spokane Valley.He is also a 1940 graduate of Eastern Washington University and holds a bachelor and master degrees in education from Whitworth College.Since 1947 he has been a school principal. He administered the Colombia, Regal, Garfield and Cooper elementary schools before becoming Salk's first principal in 1961.-----------------------Lindsey, Herschel D. (Age 82) Entered into rest October 7, 2000 in Spokane, his lifetime residence. Herschel was… Read More

Where German Wine Grows
Stabilisierungs fond für Wein - Stabilization Fund for Wine - 1978
by D, Meininger - map printed in Germany 1978
Text in English.
Dewey Classification: 420
19 x 24 inch map
folded size 6 x 9.45 inches

German wine is primarily produced in the west of Germany, along the river Rhine and its tributaries, with the oldest plantations going back to the Roman era. Approximately 60 percent of German wine is produced in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, where 6 of the 13 regions (Anbaugebiete) for quality wine are situated. Germany has about 103,000 hectares (252,000 acres or 1,030 square kilometers) of vineyard, which is around one tenth of the vineyard surface in Spain, France or Italy. The total wine production is usually around 1.3 billion bottles, which places Germany as the eighth-largest wine-producing country in the world. White wine accounts for almost two thirds of the total production.

As a wine country, Germany has a mixed reputation internationally, with some… Read More

Where German Wine Grows
Stabilisierungs fond für Wein - Stabilization Fund for Wine - 1978
by D, Meininger - map printed in Germany 1978
Text in English.
Dewey Classification: 420
19 x 24 inch map
folded size 6 x 9.45 inches

German wine is primarily produced in the west of Germany, along the river Rhine and its tributaries, with the oldest plantations going back to the Roman era. Approximately 60 percent of German wine is produced in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, where 6 of the 13 regions (Anbaugebiete) for quality wine are situated. Germany has about 103,000 hectares (252,000 acres or 1,030 square kilometers) of vineyard, which is around one tenth of the vineyard surface in Spain, France or Italy. The total wine production is usually around 1.3 billion bottles, which places Germany as the eighth-largest wine-producing country in the world. White wine accounts for almost two thirds of the total production.

As a wine country, Germany has a mixed reputation internationally, with some… Read More

Passenger Pigeons: Gone Forever by Vic Eichler Ph.D.

Publisher: Shantimira Press, 2013
ISBN is 9780970362087 / 0970362080
Paperback
6 x 9 inches, 32 pages

The most abundant bird in North America, once estimated to number five billion individuals, is now extinct. The Passenger Pigeon, which resembled our modern Mourning Dove, was driven to extinction by senseless slaughter up until the 1860's when their numbers dropped precipitously. In 1831 John James Audubon, the famous painter of birds, described flocks of these birds, estimated at more than 100 miles wide, that blotted out the sun for days. The last individual of this species died alone in her cage at the Cincinnati Zoo on September 1, 1914, and there will be a nationwide effort to commemorate this tragedy during the centennial year 2014. This book discusses the importance of biodiversity on the planet and explores the lessons of the past as we look to the future and face the continued loss of threatened and endangered species of plants and… Read More

Markings by Dag Hammarskjold
Leif Sjoberg (Translator), W. H. Auden (Translator)
foreword by W. H. Auden
ISBN-13: 9780345327413
ISBN-10: 0345327411
Publication Date: 4/12/1985
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Paperback
4.15 x 6.75 inches, 196 pages

A book of meditations. A revealing spiritual self-portrait by one of the great peacemakers of our times. — Maturity: Among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play who takes it for granted that he is at one with his playmates. — Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. " less

written by Kay Dahler
edited by Melanie Fabian
Illustrations by Brigitte Peters
Bears designed by Dan Gill
Bear samples by Betty Bennett
photography by Peter A. Gick
copyright: Gick Publishing, Inc., Irvine, CA  1983
Paperback
10 7/8 x 8 3/8, 9 pages

text is in Chinese
 
"Masterpiece of folk religion - seven kinds"

The Kennedy Case the Intimate Memoirs of the Head Nurse to Joseph P. KennedyAuthors: Rita Dallas, RN & Jeanira Ratcliffe Publisher is G. P. Putnam's Sons 1973Hardcover5.7 x 8.5 inches, 344 pagesIn December 1961, after seeing his son Jack elected President of the United States, a lifelong dream realized, Joseph P. Kennedy suffered a massive stroke that left him partially paralyzed and unable to speak. Rita Dallas, RN became his private nurse and stayed him until his death eight years later in November 1969. During that period she lived with the family and experienced some of the most exciting and tragic moments in American history. Her stories reveal a very personal look into the lives behind the "Camelot" era. She also presents the details of the controversial patriarch of the Kennedy clan, Joseph P. Kennedy's struggles against the crippling effects of his stroke. A man known by reputation to be a ruthless, power-driven man and overly-ambitious financier.

Math Practice Games Grade 5 by Marcia E. Dana
ISBN-13: 9781568227535
ISBN-10: 1568227531
Publisher: Instructional Fair, copyright 1998
# IF 5207
Paperback
8.5 x 11 inches, 48 pages

Design Dimensions: An Introduction to the Visual Surfaceby Cynthia Maris Dantzic (Author)Publisher: Pearson College Div; (1990)ISBN-10: 0131999850ISBN-13: 9780131999855Paperback: 320 pagesItem Weight: 2.07 poundsDimensions: 8.75 x 0.75 x 11.25 inchesA professor of art at Long Island University, Cynthia Maris Dantzic is a graduate of Yale University's School of Art and of New York's Pratt Institute. She has exhibited works in painting, drawing, calligraphy, and photo-collage, and has works in several museum collections. Born: January 4, 1933 (age 88 years) She lives in New York.-------------Cynthia Maris Dantzic, American artist, educator. Mellon grantee, 1984, Long Island University faculty research grantee, since 1985; recipient Newton Teaching Excellence award, 1988, Trustees award single work, 1990, Trustees lifetime award for Scholarly Achievement in art and art education Long Island University, 1999, 40 year faculty medal Long Island University, 2007.Cynthia Maris was born on January 4, 1933 in… Read More

Best Practices - Nonpartisan Guide to Voter Mobilization
see Table of Contents

Magazine format.

Includes: Clarence Darrow's Latest Debate, Flagpole sitting, A suggestion for Harding's Mmemorial, Venereal Disease, Homosexuality in Lives of the Great, etc.

pages show age discoloration/yellowing/browning

Cases and Materials on Land Use (American Casebook Series)by David L. Callies, Robert H. Freilich, & Thomas E. RobertsPublisher: West Group, 1994ISBN is 9780314032539 / 0314032533Hardcover7.6 x 10.3 inches, 747 pagesThe 5th edition covers the entire range of modern land use legal practice and constitutional litigation from the onset of Euclidean zoning through the wide range of new issues arising in the 21st century. Completely new are developments in takings law from Kelo on public purpose and the state backlash, as well as Lingle?s explication of regulatory takings and substantive due process. New cases on accessory uses, zoning out competitors, and contract zoning accompany the classic cases of the prior edition. Topics covered include regulation of formula businesses, sustainability and green standards, new urbanism, transit oriented development, mixed use and the resurgence of large scale new towns, new perspectives on affordable housing, revitalization of cities in light of the mortgage crisis… Read More

To Hell and Back by David Dalton, "Meat Loaf"
ISBN-13: 9780753504437
ISBN-10: 075350443X
Publication Date: 6/7/2007
Publisher: Virgin Books
Paperback
5.1 x 7.7 inches, 212 pages

"poor fat marvin can't wear levi's!"a radio advertisement boomed as a 240-pound seventh grader named Marvin Lee Aday shuddered in humiliation. Parents said he was "too fat" to play with their children, and his classmates picked on him, even ganging up to lock him in a storage box. Unflatteringly nicknamed "Meat Loaf" by his alcoholic father, prone to getting concussions (seventeen in all), and drawn to musical theater, no one pegged this misfit kid to become a rock star. That is, until he recorded the third best-selling album of all time.In To Hell and Back, Meat Loaf reveals his amazing story--a rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches life that would rival most fiction. As a boy, he had to face down lowlifes straight out of Deliverance in order to fetch his drunken father out of gutbucket saloons--the same father who would later… Read More

Harper's Review of Biochemistry
Authors: David W. Martin, Jr. Peter A. Mayes & Victor W. Rodwell
ISBN-13: 9780870410376
ISBN-10: 0870410377
Edition: 19th Revised edition
Publisher: Lange Medical Publications
Paperback
7.2 x 10.3 inches, 638 pages

Harold A. Harper was born in San Francisco in 1911, and graduated in 1933 from the University of San Francisco with a B.Sc. degree. He pursued his education in biochemistry and completed a Ph.D. at the University of Southern California in 1941.

As a biochemist, his research focused on the biochemistry of amino acid metabolism and nutrition and he is remembered for his skill in translating biochemistry to a variety of audiences "with clarity and erudition, but without professional compromise." His interest in amino acids led him to crusade against quack treatments for cancer in the 1960s and 1970s. He taught biochemistry to students from all four schools and the Graduate Division at UCSF and during the turbulent 1960s was twice selected medical school… Read More

Folk Guitar. Beginners to Advanced by Mansel Davies Paperback8.45 x 10.8 inches, 115 pagessee Table of ContentsMansel Davies (double bass), born 22 March 1942, South Wales. Was a member of The Settlers, an English folk-orientated music group, originally from the English West Midlands, who formed in the mid-1960s.Mansel Davies is a busy singer and acoustic guitarist, playing solo gigs all over south Wales and beyond.

The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business / The Maticore / World of Wonders (A King Penguin)
by Robertson Davies
ISBN is 9780140065008 / 0140065008
Publisher:Penguin Books, 1983
Oversized Paperback
5.1 x 7.85 inches, 860 pages

The Deptford Trilogy (published 1970 to 1975) is a series of inter-related novels by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies.
The trilogy consists of Fifth Business (1970), The Manticore (1972), and World of Wonders (1975). The series revolves around a precipitating event: a young boy throws a snowball at another, hitting a pregnant woman instead, who goes into premature labor. It explores the longterm effects of these events on numerous characters.
The Deptford trilogy has won praise for its narrative voice and its characterizations. The main characters originate from the same small village. Each carries a secret that crosses the lives of the others and drives the plot forward. Fifth Business is considered one of Davies' best novels. The second novel, The Manticore, won the… Read More

Baldwin of the Times: Hanson W. Baldwin, a Military Journalist's Life, 1903-1991

primarily photographs of skiers at Winter Park Colorado, very light cover wear & soiling