Search Results: Authors starting with S from Modern First Editions Boston

Artemis, 1992. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. As New. Square, tight and unmarked copy in As new condition. 192 pages with b/w photos and drawings of individual houses designed by Neutra. Size: 6.8 x 0.5 x 9.8 inches. Parallel text in German and English. This text surveys the work of Vienna-born Richard Neutra, one of the foremost architects of Modernism. It looks at various houses designed by Neutra including his most important furniture designs. With an ssay by Neutra's son, Dion Neutra.

U.S.A.: Summit Books, 1984. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. As New copy in near Fine dustwrapper with unclipped price. First printing with full number line. Unread, completely clean copy. Wear to dust jacket at top of the spine. Tear at front bottom of the jacket. Summary: Dr. Oliver Sacks's books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars and the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat have been acclaimed for their extraordinary compassion in the treatment of patients affected with profound disorders. In A Leg to Stand On, it is Sacks himself who is the patient: an encounter with a bull on a desolate mountain in Norway has left him with a severely damaged leg. But what should be a routine recuperation is actually the beginning of a strange medical journey when he finds that his leg uncannily no longer feels part of his body. Sacks's brilliant description of his crisis and eventual recovery is not only an illuminating examination of the experience of patienthood and the… Read More

Random House, 1978. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Remarkable New copy; edges of first several pages very lightly sunned manifesting as hardly noticeable yellow fading about 1/4 inches wide. Second printing according to number line. Protected by archival BrodArt cover. 273 pages; illustrated with maps, charts, diagrams, drawings, B/W photographs and two sections of color photographs. Note that this is a heavy and/or oversized book, which CANNOT be EXPEDITE shipped for the quoted shipping price. Please contact me prior to purchasing if you require EXPEDITE US or any type of INTERNATIONAL shipping.

Wiley-Interscience, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine or better copy in Fine or better dustwrapper. Scarce first printing with full number line. Pages, covers and jacket are crisp, intact and unmarked except for dots of dirt accumulated on top of pages and cover. 624 pages with Index; graphs and algorithms. This is a heavy and/or oversized book, which CANNOT be EXPEDITE shipped for the quoted shipping price. Contact us prior to purchasing if you require EXPEDITE US or any type of INTERNATIONAL shipping. Addresses some fundamental considerations associated with the engineering of large scale systems. The first part deals with systems methodology, design and management including a detailed examination of operational and task level system quality assurance through configuration management, audits and reviews, standards and systems integration. The second part discusses a variety of systems design and management approaches, particularly those concerned with system… Read More

Wiley-Interscience, 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. As New copy in Fine or better dustwrapper. First printing with full number line. Signed and inscribed by the author to title page. Also, author's signed memo to recipient friend laid in. Flawless copy except for 1/4 inch tear and some wrinkling to bottom of dust jacket. 605 pages with Index. Illustrated with charts, graphs and tables. This is a heavy and/or oversized book, which CANNOT be EXPEDITE shipped for the quoted shipping price. Contact us prior to purchasing if you require EXPEDITE US or any type of INTERNATIONAL shipping. Comprehensive text integrates the latest systems engineering methodologies with cutting edge process management approaches., including, systems architectures and integration, quality assurance management, software economics, metrics for cost and quality evaluation, etc.

London : Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1973. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/As New. Fine to As New copy in As New dustwrapper. Hardly noticeable yellow fading about 1/4 inches wide on top and bottom of pages, otherwise as new book. Unread copy, pages and cover are crisp and intact. Protected in clear Mylar cover. 0713904593

Cambridge University Press, 1997. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. As New/As New. As new copy in As New dustwrapper. First edition. Pages, covers and jacket are crisp, intact and unmarked. Oversized heavy book, priority and international shipping will be extra, please inquire prior to ordering. The Cambridge Companion to the Bible is unique in that it provides, in a single volume, in-depth information about the changing historical, social and cultural contexts in which the biblical writers and their original readers lived. The authors of the Companion were chosen for their internationally recognised expertise in their respective fields: the history and literature of Israel; post-biblical Judaism; biblical archaeology; and the origins and early literature of Christianity. The Companion deals not only with the canonical writings, but also with the apocryphal works produced by Jewish and Christian writers. The historical setting for the entire range of these biblical writings is depicted and analysed in this… Read More

U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1981. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. As New/Fine. Signed by the author on the first page. First edition. As New copy in Fine or better dustwrapper. Unread copy, pages and cover are crisp and intact. Protected in clear Mylar cover. 038517750X

Henry Holt & Co, 1978. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. As New/Fine. As New copy in Fine or better dustwrapper. Stated first edition with full number line. Pages, covers and jacket are crisp, intact and unmarked. Light shelf wear to dust jacket. 287 pages, illustrated in color and BW photos. 11.7 x 8.4 x 1 inches Note that this is heavy or oversized book, for priority or international shipping please contact me to make special arrangement. A narrative and pictorial portrait of the political and artistic upheaval that changed the course of Russian history and culture during the first three decades of the century

Crown Business, 2008. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. As New/Fine. As new copy in as new dustwrapper. Third printing. Unread: pages, covers and jacket are crisp, intact and unmarked. 3rd Printing 3rd Printing 3rd Printing

Routledge, 2011. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Near Fine copy of paperback second edition. Crisp and unmarked; 3 inches glue residue at front cover. 409 pages with Notes, Bibliography and Index. Illustrated in B/W photos and drawings. Note that this is a heavy and/or oversized book, which CANNOT be EXPEDITE shipped for the quoted shipping price. Please contact me prior to purchasing if you require EXPEDITE US or any type of INTERNATIONAL shipping. This is a book about structures that shows students how to "see" structures as integral to architecture, and how knowledge of structures is the basis for understanding both the mechanical and conceptual aspects inherent to the art of building.

Knopf, 2013. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. New/New. Brand new copy. Stated First edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 240 pp. Summary: Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women¿s voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women¿s progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root causes, and offers compelling, commonsense solutions that can empower women to achieve their full potential. Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and is ranked on Fortune¿s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and as one of Time¿s 100 Most Influential People in the World. In 2010, she gave an electrifying TEDTalk in which she described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers.… Read More

Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1990. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. As New/Fine. As new copy in Fine dustwrapper. Signed by Hugh Carpenter. Second printing indicated by number line. Pages and covers are crisp, intact and unmarked. DSome wear to very top of dust jacket, no tears. 191pp including glossary of Asian ingredients, conversion chart, and index. 191 pages; 29 cm. Asian-American recipes adapted from Hugh Carpenter's Californian restaurants, combining Chinese, Mexican, Thai, etc in complex but quick flavoursome dishes. Magnificent production on glossy paper, illustrated with full colour photographs throughout. 2nd Printing 2nd Printing 2nd Printing

Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. As New copy in Fine or better dustwrapper. Rare first printing with full number line. Virtually brand new copy except some wear to top of jacket. 222 pages, full page color photographs. he author presents some of the greatest birdwatching places around the world through interviews with prominent birders, from tour leaders and conservationists to ornithologists and academics. Interviewees include ornithologist Kenn Kaufman; David Allen Sibley, Rose Ann Rowlett, John Fitzpatrick, and Steve McCormick.

Becocci Editore Florence, 1985. Soft cover. Fine/Good. Fine copy. Pages are completely clean and crisp. Several yellow spots inside front cover. Paperback. 47pp., color illustrations. Biblioteca de lo Studiolo series, no. 6. Text in English

UPNE, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/As New. New copy in As New dustwrapper. First printing with number line. Flawless copy, flat signed by author on the half-title page. 124 pages with Index, maps. Author presents a thoroughly accessible insider's guide to the discovery of the lysate test, the exploitation of the crabs at the hands of multinational pharmaceutical conglomerates, local fishing interests, and the legal and governmental wrangling over the creatures' ultimate fate.

University Press of New England, 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Brand New copy of first printing with full number line. Truly collectible copy, signed and inscribed by author on the half-title page. 136 pages with Index. Illustrated in B/W photos throughout. The House on Ipswich Marsh features Sargent's trademark interplay of information about the natural world, ecology, and politics.

Northeastern University Press, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. As New copy in Fine or better dustwrapper. Stated first edition. Pages, covers and jacket are crisp, intact and unmarked. 353 pages with Appendices, Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with vintage black and white photographs. Note that this is a heavy and/or oversized book, which CANNOT be EXPEDITE shipped for the quoted shipping price. Please contact me prior to purchasing if you require EXPEDITE US or any type of INTERNATIONAL shipping. Published on the 350th anniversary of the first Jews to arrive in America, this comprehensive history of the Jews of Boston combines illuminating essays by distinguished Jewish historians with 110 rare photographs to trace the community from its tentative beginnings in colonial Boston through its emergence in the twentieth century as one of the most influential and successful Jewish communities in America.

Amer Psychological Assn, 2001. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. New/New. Brand New copy of stated second printing.8vo, XXIV + 442 pages, index. We inhabit a world of both invariant characteristics and continuous change. Modeling and predicting these regularities and changes captivated researchers in recent years and resulted in tremendous advances in the field of measurement. New Methods for the Analysis of Change reveals those new trends and emerging themes. 2nd Printing 2nd Printing 2nd Printing

U.S.A.: Minotaur Books, 2008. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. New/New. Brand new hardcover with dust jacket in perfect, never opened condition. First printing copy with full number line. Summary: The Roman civil war has come to its conclusion ¿ Pompey is dead, Egypt is firmly under the control of Cleopatra (with the help of Rome¿s legions), and for the first time in many years Julius Caesar has returned to Rome itself. Appointed by the Senate as Dictator, the city abounds with rumors asserting that Caesar wishes to be made King ¿ the first such that Rome has had in centuries. And that not all of his opposition has been crushed. Gordianus, recently returned from Egypt with his wife Bethesda, is essentially retired from his previous profession of ¿Finder¿ but even he cannot refuse the call of Calpurnia, Caesar¿s wife. Troubled by dreams foretelling disaster and fearing a conspiracy against the life of Caesar, she had hired someone to investigate the rumors. But that… Read More