Search Results: Authors starting with P from Century Books

London: Intermediate Technology Publications, 1980. Softcover. Very Good condition.. 68 pages. Written for hospital staff and community development workers in the developing world who are planning programmes to improve sanitation or hygiene in the rural areas.

New York: Prentice Hall, 1986. 1st Ed. Trade Paperback. VG+. Minor edgewear. Discusses historical devlopment of science, major technological breakthroughs, and their impacts on society.

North Haven, CT: Catbird Press, 1993. 1st English-language edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. A little smudge on bottom edge, light shelfwear. Translated from the Czech by William Harkins. A Perils-of-Pauline story mixing farce and pathos.

New York: International Universities Press, 1971. Hardback. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.. Some edgewear, rubbing. The authors 'have set themselves to the task of tracing dependence and its vicissitudes through the life cycle, from the early mother-infant dyad, the triad of the oedipal period, through adolescence, maturity, and senescence.'

Delacorte Press, 1995. 1st. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Light edgewear. Nine short stories features female sleuth V.I. Warshawski

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1968. Softcover. Good condition.. Previous owner stamp on cover. Approximately 9 x 11.5 inches. 43 pages. A review of the geochemistry of niobium and tantalum and a glossary of niobium and tantalum minerals.

Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing, 1981. 1st Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good condition.. This popular, out-of-print book is one of the best for Colorado spelunkers. Includes the history and descriptions of 256 caves and is fully illustrated with 50 maps and 158 photographs. Other topics covered are cave ecology, history of organized spelunking in Colorado, lost caves, treasure caves and the hoaxes which have been associated with many caves. Some edgewear and sunning. Creases on spine.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1992]. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. A lovely book. Lyrical writing, full color illustrations taken from oil paintings.

Delacorte Press, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Remainder dot, else fine. 12 original stores by Lawrence Block, Mary Higgins Clark, Thomas H. Cook, Vicki Hendricks, Joan Hell, Judith Kelman, Eric Lustbader, Phillip Margolin, David Morrell, Joyce Carol Oates, Shel Silverstein, and Peter Straub.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1971. 1st printing. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ. Dust jacket is price clipped. Bookplate on first free endpaper. A comic novel which the author describes as 'The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World.'

New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1997. 1st edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Previous owner embossed stamp on first free endpaper, else fine. Book is SIGNED by author on title page: 'To Bobbie, Best Wishes, Anne Perry' and dated March 26, 1997. Superintendent Thomas Pitt and his clever wife Charlotte must root out the truth in a Victorian English country house where murder stops negotiations between Irish Protestants and Catholics.

New York: Atheneum, 1988. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Lovely copy. Mystery featuring the redoubtable Amelia Peabody, her sexy, if irascible, Egyptologist husband Emerson and their catastrophically precocious son, Ramses. Set in London with intrigue in the British Museum.

Warner Books, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. This book was my first introduction to Elizabeth Peters, and I've been enjoying her novels ever since. Witty and inventive mystery featuring Jacqueline Kirby.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1969. Softcover. Good condition. Description of new stratigraphic units in a coal-bearing formation of southern Utah. Previous owner stamps.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1958. Softcover. Good condition. Previous owner stamps. All plates present. Contributions to the geology of uranium

Geologic Society of America, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardback. Very Good condition. Dark red cloth. Some edgewear. Previous owner stamp on edges, endpapers and title page. All plates and maps present. 103 pages.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1969. Softcover. Good condition. Previous owner stamps. 35 pages.

New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 1990. 1st edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Light edgewear, one small tear on rear of dust jacket.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1966. Hardback. Fine in Very Good dust jacket.. Dust jacket is scuffed, scratched. Review of psychiatric treatment methods.

Berkeley: University of California, 1979. 2nd cloth printing. Hardback. Book in Fine condition. Dustjacket is Near Fine.. From the Jefferson Memorial Lectures at Berkeley. Pole examines the meanings attached to the idea of equality by the people who have influenced American political thought since the mid-eighteenth century. He identifies certain conceptual categories: equality before the law, equality of political power, equality of religion and conscience, equality of opportunity, equality of sex, and equality of esteem. Dust jacket has two small tear at base of spine.