Search Results: Authors starting with V from PASCALE'S BOOKS

American Astronautical Society:/UNIVELT, Inc.:, 1971. This is the preceedings of the AAS 17th annual meeting June 28-30, 1971 in Seattle Washington. "In the coming decades, the operational capability and technology assembled during the last decade of space-related activity must be brought to bear on the problems of man on earth. The potential benefits of earth resource satellite systems, space stations and communications satellite systems, for example, must be fully developed to aid in alleviating man-created environmental problems." VERY GOOD SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

David & Charles: /Augustus M. Kelley:, 1968. First published in 1960, this book is a reprint from 1968, 300 pages, illustrated. "The service was the brainchild of John Palmer, a theatre proprietor who realized that mail-coaches, properly organized and run to a strict time schedule, would be much more efficient than the illiterate and often dishonest postboys on whom the country (UK) had previously had to depend for the delivery of its mails." FINE HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD- DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Houghton Mifflin:, 1990. The first printing, illustrated in color by Richard Brown. "A book for parents and caregivers to share with young children who are curious about daycare...." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine-. Illus. by Richard Brown. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall, Oblong.

Wiley-Science International:, 1973. 407 pages. " This book traces the fascinating story of man's attempt to control his own brain. The author offers a thorough account of the history of psychosurgical procedures and the underlying rationale, with an objective evaluation of the results. Equally thorough is his study of clinical and social applications, with a unique integration of animal research and human clinical information. He also discusses ethical problems involved in the development of techniques to modify the brain and examines proposed applications of brain control techniques to social problems caused by agressiveness, biomedical experimentation on prisoners, and thephilosophy of manipulating personality and behavior by destroying or stimulating brain tissue." FINE- HARDCOVER, GOOD DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket.. First Printing Stated.. Hard Cover. Fine-/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Free Press:, 1978. 183 pages. "In 1968, Bettylou Valentine, a Black graduate student in anthropology, and her husband Charles, a well-known White anthropologist, and their infant son went to live in "BLackston", the ghetto area of a large northern metropolis. Their purpose: to study from the inside the effects of inequality on an Afro-American community." FINE- HARDCOVER, FINE- DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine-/Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Studio Editions:, 1986. This book was first published in1897 by George Bell and Co., 480 pages, with 16 color platesand many b&w ones. "William Morris, 1834- 1896 was one of the major figures of the Victorian age and his influence as a designer, artists, printer and writer endures until today. Aymer Vallaces who wrote this magisterial biography was a personal friend of the artist and completed the book in 1897, the year after Morris' death. FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

World Scientific:, 1994. 336 pages. This book is the Proceedings of the International School on Cosmologiacl Dark Matter. Held in Valencia, Spain in Oct. 4-8, 1993. FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Butterworth Heinemann:, 2003. 306 pages. "Hazardous wastes are not a new problem; they have been a major environmental problem for centuries. This book approaches hazardous waste management from the perspectives of environmental engineering and health risk assessment. The author draws from his experience in both areas to present a unique approach to the challenge of hazardous wastes. The book is not only an excellent text for senior and graduate courses in hazardous wastes, but also a valuable resource to the practicing engineer, who is increasingly called upon to reduce or elimate the potential and actual risks posed by hundreds of thousands of chemicals being manufactured today." FINE HARDCOVER.. Hard Cover. Fine/Not Issued with a Dust Jacket.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Iceland: Iceland University Press:, 2000. 111 pages, illustrated in b&w. "This book deals with a subjet that does not exist as a special discipline within the field of design theory - the interplay of city and nature." FINE- SOFTCOVER. Softcover. Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Houghton Mifflin:, 1987. The 27th printing, illustrated in color by Chris van Allsburg. "Chris van Allsburg tells three story of the boy and his boat." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Chris Van Allsburg. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Houghton Mifflin:, 1982. The 8th printing, illustrated in color by Chris van Allsburg. "As the reader, along with Ben, observes the monuments from this unique perspective, details within Chris Van Allsburg's artwork soon reveal themselves to be clues to another structure of meaning within the story." FINE HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket.. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Chris Van Allsburg. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Peter Smith:, 1968. This book was first published in 1944 by Leland Stanford Junior College, and this book is the revised edition from Jan. 1947, 836 pages. "The era of American isolation has passed even from the viewpoint of our representatives in Congress. No longer can the United States bask in a fancied security based upon vast ocean frontiers and freedom from strong and hostile neighbors. One of the most vital results of this changed condition is the corresponding importance of a carefully considered foreign policy." FINE HARDCOVER.. Hard Cover. Fine/Not Issued with Dust Jackets. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Mariner Books, 1997. 406 pages, illustrated in b&w. "On the stand at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials, Albert Speers was alone among the accused in showing anything like remorse: he denied any direct knowledge of Hitler's Final Solution uet accepted his share of guilt as an unwitting collaborator. But was he really what he claimed to be?" FINE- SOFTCOVER. Soft Cover. Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

The Hogarth Press:, 1953. First published in 1934, this book is the 1953 reprint, 350 pages. "This is Colonel van der Post's first novel, was originally published in 1934: but it is as compelling a book as ever, both for its high literary distinction, and because it centres upon a subject of extreme importance today- the racial antagonisms in Africa." FINE- HARDCOVER, GOOD- DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket.. Hard Cover. Fine/Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

North Atlantic Books:, 1993. 427 pages, illustrated in b&w. "The author points to new evidence for the origin of the asteroid belt in a "planetary break-up event"; argues that comets may develop in a different matter than previously supposed; and gives the latest information about the possible existence of the 10th planet." FINE SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

MIT Press:, 1990. Volume I (isbn: 0-262-22038-5), 996 pages. "Volume A covers models of computation, complexity theory, data structures, and efficient computation in many recognized subdisciplines of theoretical computer science." Volume II (isbn: 0-262-22039-3), 1273 pages. Volume B presents a choice of material on the theory of automata and rewriting systems, the foundations of modern programming languages, logics for program specification and verification, and several chapters on the theoretic modeling of advanced information processing. The organization of each volume reflects the development of theoretical computer science from its classical roots to the modern theoretical approaches in parallel and distribution computing." The isbn for the 2 volumes is 0-262-22040-7. 2 FINE HARDCOVERS.. Hard Cover. Fine/Not Issued with Dust Jackets. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York:: Privately Printed:, 1945. 65 pages, illustrated by Peggy Bacon. "This is the story of a boy named Peter Makebelieve." VERY GOOD HARDCOVER, lettering is bright on the spine and cover. One of seven hundred copies printed by Yale University Press.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Present.. Illus. by Peggy Bacon. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Rockport, Massachusetts: Art Instruction Associates/ North Light Books:, 1990. 112 pages, illustrated in color. "In order to make your color mixtures as beautiful and as natural looking as you see them, you have to lean and appreiate, the character of color." VERY GOOD SOFTCOVER, signed by Helen Van Wyk on title page.. Signed by Author Artist.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Rockport, Massachusetts: Art Instruction Associates/ North Light Books:, 2000. 128 pages, illustrated in color. "Learn how to paint over 100 popular subjects using Helen Van Wyk's color recipes for flowers, portrait, still lifes, and landscapes." FINE- SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine-. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Kimball Press:, 1961. 115 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. "This book is for those who have neither the time nor the inclination to plunge into painting as if it were a life's work and yet are unsatisfied with anything less than a direct studious and explicit approach to the challenge of painting." VERY GOOD- HARDCOVER, with some underlining.. Hard Cover. Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.