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New York, NY: Dover, 1987. Dover Reprint of 1987 . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Paperback. Two Volume set. For both books: Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft covers/NF; both with trace soiling to lower back edges. Originally published under the title: Neelementarnye Zadachi v Elementarnom Izloshenii (Non-Elementary Problems in an Elementary Exposition) by the Government Printing House, Moscow, 1954. This Dover edition is a reissue of Holden-Day, San Francisco, 1964 & 1967. Two-volume set of challenging mathematical problems presuming, for the most part, a good high school background of the reader. 174 problems are presented between the two volumes; each followed by complete solutions.

Honolulu, Hawaii: Univ of Hawaii Press, 2011. First Edition, First Printing . Paperback. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE w/trace weae to corner tips of softcover. First Edition, First Printing. Anthology. Collection of 12 short stories by pioneering Japanese-American playwright and author Wakako Yamauchi (1924 -), born in the desert farmlands of the Californian Imperial Valley and interned in Arizona during World War II, Her parents, Issei (1st generation Japanese immigrants); herself Nisei.

Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2015. Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. Paperback/Fine. 1st published 1988; this is the 2015, 25th Anniversary Edition, 5th Printing. Basic, philosophical, key Christian theological queries from respected Christian author Philip Yancey (1949 - ), Christianity Today magazine editor, whose writings are translated to some 40 languages. Volume treats 3 puzzling, theological questions: 1, If God our Father cares for man, why is He so distant & beyond our reach?; 2, If He cares for man, why are we visited with bad things?; and, 3, What we can count on Him for? Yancey considers these issues with Biblical assurance, and paves a path beyond disillusionment to deeper understanding of the meaning of FORGIVENESS.. 304 pgs, 30 chapters, in 2 books: BOOK I, Part One: Hearing the Silence; Part Two: Making Contact: The Father; Part Three: Drawing Closer: The Son; Part Four: Turning It Over: The Spirit; and, BOOK II: Seeing in the Dark, followed by Discussion… Read More

New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/Fine. Text/faint upper corner crease to pg 331, else NEW & Bright. First Edition, 1st Printing. Gilt embossed black linen boards/Fine. DJ/Fine. Epic science fiction. The Last Star is volume 3 (preceded by The 5th Wave & The Infinite Sea) of a trilogy by Richard Yancey (1962 -), award winning author known for works of suspense, fantasy, and science fiction for young adults. The series captures invasion of Earth by the Others, beginning w/four devastating attacks with remaining survivors awaiting the fifth round. Complex evolving issues --- do the Others want the Earth or do they want it to remains for earthlings? Did they come to help save humans? What do humans want? What is it to be a human? 338 pgs. The 5th Wave has been adapted to film.

Casper, WY: National Parkways, 1977. First Edition, First Thus . Soft Cover/Stapled. Near Fine/None as Issued. Michael D. Yandell (Photographer). Tex/BRAND NEW. Illustrated, stapled soft cover/NF w/light edge rubs, primarily to corner tips. DJ/None as Issued. Fold-out map to rear.Comprehensive, photographic guide to the Grand Canyon.. Contents are: 1, Introduction; 2, History of the Park; 3, The Living Canyon; 4, Geology: Creation of the Grand Canyon Landscape; and, 5, The Motorist's View (from both South Rim & North Rim). In addition to maps of the Grand Canyon, the Grand Canyon Villiage Maps date from the 1535-1605, 1701-1777, and 1851-1869 periods.

Casper, WY: World-Wide Research, 1972. Vol. III/IV, 1972 . Soft Cover/Magazine. New/None as Issued. Gary Keimig (Maps). BRAND NEW COPY w/light edge rubs & faint creasings to corner tips of stapled soft cover. Special Double Issue. COVER ART: "Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park"; photo, Michael D. Yandell. True to title, excellent guide. Geology and region's history, flora & fauna precedes detailed guide for motorists and hikers. Illustrated with maps and color photography.

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1991. First Edition, First Printing . Paperback. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated softcover/NF w/trace wear to front upper/lower corner tips. What might one be alert to choosng locattion and a house in eathquake regions such as California, Nevada, or even Indonesia. Practical guide to prepatory survival. 218 pgs, illustrated with photos & diagrams, 10 chapters in 4 parts: Part I, A Primer on Earthquakes: Chapter 1, How Earthquakes Are Caused & Measured. II. The Geologic Hazards of Earhquakes---How to to Recognize & Avoid Them: 2, The Hazards of Faults & Faulting; 3, The Relative Hazards of Various Geologic Foundations 4, The Man-Made Hazards to You Property---From Dams to Neighboring Buildings. III, The Structural & Architectural Hazards of Earthquakes: 5,, The Principles of Earthquake Resistance in Buildings; 6, The Best & Worst Types of Construction & Earthquake Resistance; 7, Structural & Architectural… Read More

Mexico, D.F., Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma, 1956. Segunda Edicion . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Spanish Language Text. Text/BRAND NEW, showing faint margin discoloration. Soft cover/NF w/light edge wear & also showing discoloration. First published 1942; this is the 2nd Edition of 1956. Native Mexican Indian mythology. Study considers three Nahua mythological texts. Leyenda de los Soles (Legends of the Suns) recorded by Francisco del Paso y Troncoso, 1903; Códice Ramirez (Codex Ramirez), treaty of rites and ceremonies; and, the old calendar Códice Durán (Codex Duran) of Dominican Diego Duran completed between 1579 and 1581.

Salt Lake City, UT: The Assoc for Asian Studies/Univ of Utah, 1996. Quarterly Publication . Paperback. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. Volume 55, Number 4, Nov 1966. Quarterly journal; known as the Far Eastern Quarterly until 1956. This issue contains 4 leading articles: 1, Presidential Address: Reenvisioning the Qing: The Significance of the Qing Period in Chinese History (Evelyn S. Rawski); 2, Sultan among Hindu Kings: Dress, Titles, & the Islamicization of Hindu Culture at Vijayanagara (Phillip B. Wagoner); 3, How to Jibunshi: Making & Marketing Self-histories of Showa among the Masses in Postwar Japan (Gerald Figal); and, 4, Gender, Race & Semicolonization: Liu Na'ou's Urban Shanghai Landscape (Shu-mei Shih). Fine copy.

Peking, China: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. 3rd Edition of 1972 . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/Fine. PO name strike-out to fEP. Anthology of short stories by social activist, writer and novelist Lu Hsun (1881 -1936). Major proponent of vernacular literature, Lu Hsun is regarded as the founder of modern Chinese literature and best known for The True Stories of Ah Q. Fine copy.

Des Moines, IA: Meredith Corporation, 1982. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Collectible - Very Good/None as Issued. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated boards/NF w/trace rubs to corner tips. PO initials to front cover verso. Guide to using the handy toaster oven with some 170 kitchen tested recipes. Fine copy.

Beijing, China: Zhaohua Publishing House, 1986. 2nd Revised Enlarged Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Softcover/NF w/trace surface wear. June 1990 of purchase at Qin-huang-dao to front endpaper. Chinese cuisine. First published 1983; this is 2nd Revised Edition in English of 1986. 189 pgs w/color photos to front & table of contents to rear. Delights include Deep Fried Spinach Leaves. Recipes, w/traditional appelations in Chinese ideographs, from the Beijing Minzu Hotel & the Beijing Hongbinlou. Delights include Fried Spinach Leaves presented as "fish". Recipes: I, Vegetables; II, Meat Dishes; III, Delicacies from Land & Sea; IV, Poultry; V, Eggs, Desserts & Soups; VI, Cold Dishes, Family Menus, & Snack & Desserts

New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. First Edition . Half-Leather. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/trace wear to corner tips of green linen boards.Textbook. A study of coherent optics in science and technology without use of quantum mechanics. Presumed mathematical level at 4th students of electrical engineering or applied physics, and some knowledge of atomic physics and electromagnetic theory. 13 chapters: 1, Electromagnetic Theory; 2, The Propagation of Rays & Spherical Waves; 3, Propagation of Gaussian Beams;4, Optical Resonators; 5, Interaction of Radiation & Atomic Systems; 6, Theory of Laser Oscillation; 7, Some Specific Laser Systems; 8, Second-Harmonic Generation & Parametric Oscillation; 9, The Modulation of Optical Radiation; 10, Noise in Optical Detection & Generation; 11, The Detection of Optical Radiation; 12, Interaction of Light & Sound; and 13, Two Laser Applications. 342 (+ x) pages, with tables, figures, Appendix, and Index.

New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2005. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF. Reference/resource for all owners of personal computers though written primarily for those who prefer to "build"/customize their own systems. In essence, however, the book is a valuable primer for understanding how PC's function. Text in 15 chapters: 1, Before You Start; 2. Central Processing Units; 3, Memory; 4. Mainboards; 5, System Cases & Power Supply Units; 6, Video Systems; 7, Monitors; 8, Testing the Basic System; 9, Testing the Basic System; 9, Hard Drives; 10, Input Devices; 11, Sound Systems 12, Removable Media Drives; 13, Peripherals; 14, Setting Up the System; and, 15, Troubleshooting.

Moskva: Izdat. Politicheskoi Literatury, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/NEW, w/margin discoloration. Boards/VG; sound w/light edge wear, and surface soils. PO stamp to fEP. An important volume by one of the shapers of Soviet and Stalinist social ideologies. Yemelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky (1878 - 1943) was a Russian revolutionary, communist party organizer, atheist and headed the Anti-Religious Committee of the Central Committee. That the publication of this volume dates well after Stalin's death, raises questions about post-mortem emendations and alterations. The unnamed author of Ot Izdatel'stva assures us "V osnovy nastorshchego izdaniya knigi ... veato izanie 1938 g. V tekst vneseny neznachitel'nye redaktsionnye izmeneniya." 408 pages, with Prilozheniya.

New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1965. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. EX-LIB, UNCIRCULATED Copy. Text/Brand New & Bright. Blue boards/NF w/liight discoloration. DJ/VG, under library mylar. A basic review of deep sea oceanography. Published in 1965, also a primary historical resource. 176 pgs w/photos and diagrams. Text in 8 chapters: 1, Introduction; 2, The Chemistry of the Sea; 3, Ocean Circulation; 4, The Earth's Structure; 5, Topography of Ocean Basins; 6, Oceanic Sediments & Turbidity; 7, Marine Biology; and 8, Research Submersibles.

New York: Donley, 1936. Second Edition, Unstated . Printed Gray Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 7 7/8" Tall. By the Patent Editor of MODERN MECHANIX and INVENTIONS, friend of great inventors (Edison, De Forest, Steinmetz), and author of 1,500 NEEDED INVENTIONS (1936). The book contains recommendations, some quite level-headed, for obtaining patents and marketing inventions. Chapter headings include: Finding the Right Manufacturer; How to Price Inventions (where the distinction is drawn between patent life and economic life); and Foreign Patents. Sixteen chapters, 211 pages, with Introduction to the Author, and about 70 pages given to a Directory of Buyers. Covers grimed and slightly sunned, otherwise sound; text is strong and clean, though browning at edges.

Tucson, AZ: Arizona Silhouettes, 1952. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. BRAND NEW Copy less dustjacket. Portraits of Native American Indians. The some 40 years of archaeological and geological field of Byron Cummings' [Natani Yazzie, "Little Captain" in Navajo] (1860 - 1954) brought him in close contact with the indigenous people of the Southwest. In this volume, supported w/photos, Cummings presents "a few examples of Indians ... with whom I have worked and come to know quite thoroughly, hoping thereby to increase our esteem and respect for native populations". Biographical sketches of Navajo, Pahute, Ute, and Apache acquaintances.

New York, NY: Macmillan Pub Co, 1966. First Edition, 17th Printing, 1978 . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/folded corner to pg 13, else NEW. Softcove/NF w/light edge wear. Anthology. Collection of 195 poems and two verse plays from Irish and British world of literature from William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), co-founder of the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years a two-term Irish Senator. 236 pgs. 2 plays: 1. Calvaryn(1921), and 2, Purgatory (1939). Selected poem from: 1, Crossways (1889); 2, The Rose (1893); 3, The Wind Among the Reeds (1899); 4, The Seven Woods (1904); 5, The Green Helmet & Other Poems (1910); 6, Responsibilities (1914); 7, The Wild Swans at Coole (1919); 8, The Winding Star & Other Poems (1933); 9, Words for Music Perhaps; 10, A Woman Young & Old; 11, A Full Moon in March; and 12, Last Poems (1936 - 1939). As ancients review their days: "I heard the old, old men say/ 'Everything alters/ And one by one we drop away"/ They had hands like… Read More

Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1982. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/VG w/trace edge rubs & faint creasings to spine. Title & Jennie Low's (1940 - ) name transcribed in Chinese ideographs to first title page. Guide to leading Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin, Szechuan, Mongolian cookery) restaurants of the 1980's San Francisco Bay Area. 188 pgs. Region's celebrated eateries w/their specialties along w/dishes recommended by Jennie Low. BONUS: An assembly (pgs 153 - 177) of "Recipes from the Restaurants" to test in your home kitchen.