Search Results: Titles starting with S from Companion Books

London, England, UK.: Brown Books, 2002. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The book is in very good condition, little shelf rubbing apparent, some fading to spine from light exposure. Text and illustrations inside appear clean and clear throughout. 'This book contains everything the survivor needs to know about thriving in nature, from making tools and finding water to eating plants and catching fish." A great help to anyone venturing out of doors."' 192 pages. 7.45 x 9.4 inches. May require additional postage. This listing was made by a small independent book shop. We carefully inspect every single book we list and give accurate descriptions. If you require we will promptly send pictures of listed books upon request. .

Columbus, Ohio, USA: Ohio State University Press, 1999. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The book is in very good condition, little shelf rubbing apparent. Text and images inside appear clean and clear throughout. 'The Lizzie Borden case was to Pearson "without parallel in the criminal history of America." It takes center stage in Studies in Murder, and Pearson's version is still considered the classic account of the Borden murders. The other four cases Pearson retells are "The Twenty-Third Street Murder," about the killing of New York financier Benjamin Nathan in July 1870; "Mate Bram!" about the double murder of a ship captain and his wife in 1896; "The Hunting Knife," about the murder of Miss Mabel Page in 1904; and "Uncle Amos Dreams a Dream," about the 1819 trial of Stephen and Jesse Boorn for the murder of their brother-in-law in Manchester, Vermont. Pearson carefully researched these… Read More

USA: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very light corner rubbing, little wear overall. Quite clean. 'It's not fun being hunted . . That's what Harmony Mendelson discovered after her first chakra awakening: The Corona would not rest until they had her. But at what price? The cat-and-mouse game continues as Harmony, Tristan and Emily journey to Terra Quattro, The Tribe of Light's headquarters. The sacred land is a hot-bed for initiation and training. It is in the Heliomatrix and the Metamorpho that Harmony discovers and activates her second chakra. The seat of he sexual power, she undergoes the transformative journey of opening her body, mind and spirit to the initiations of The Tribe of Light's ultimate mystery school: sexual alchemy.' 297 pages. .

London: Virago, 2009. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Author signed / inscribed the title. Minor lean to spine, very little wear overall. '1570 in the Italian city of Ferrara, and the convent of Santa Caterina is filled with noble women who are married to Christ because many cannot find husbands outside. Enter sixteen-year-old Serafina, ripped by her family from an illicit love affair, howling with rage and determined to escape. . . . A novel about power, creativity and passion - both of the body and of the soul.' 471 pages..

Rowayton, CT: Saraband Inc., 1998. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Jacket rear top corner has a small tear, very little wear overall. Quite clean. 'Expressions of human spirituality from animistic cave paintings and petroglyphs to the triptychs and carvings of medieval monuments, the works of the great Renaissance masters and the Buddhas, shrines and pantheons of India, Islam and the Far East.' Illustrated. 144 pages. 9.75 x 12.5 inches..

Vancouver, B.C.: Douglas & McIntyre, 1980. Book. Good. Hardcover. ISBN: 0-88894-285-0, First flyleaf has been neatly cut out; jacket rear top edge is creased with a lip; very little wear besides. Quite clean. 'With 40 superb colour photographs, 70 beautiful, full-page black-and-white plates and dozens of archival photographs, [this book] surveys the crumbling aboriginal structures, the early churches built in the tracks of the Hudson's Bay Company traders, the great colonial churches and chapels of Vancouver Island, the strange architectural legacy of the gold rush to the Cariboo, and the astonishing creations of the converted native Indians.' etc. Illustrated. 175 pages. 10 x 10.75 inches..

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Remainder mark to bottom edge, very little wear overall. Jacket in Brodart for preservation. Text is clean. '[This book] is the catalogue of a landmark exhibition of more than sixty of the finest extant Tibetan works from museums and private collections around the world. Closed to the West until the early twentieth century, Tibet was abruptly closed again in the 1950s by the Chinese. In spite of the loss of much of the staggering wealth of Tibetan monasteries and other monuments since that time, a number of masterpieces have survived in Western collections. Brought together for the first time, many of the paintings have also never been published.' Illustrated. 223 pages. May require extra shipping, 9.25 x 12.5 inches..

Warrendale, PA, USA: Society of Automotive Engineers, 1992. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The book is in very good condition, minor shelf rubbing, with the exception of a sticker on the pastedown the text appears clean and clear throughout. 'Provides the terminology and vocabulary necessary to understand and communicate within Aerospace engineering.' 845 pages. 8.5 x 9.25 inches. .

New Delhi: Creative Advertiser & Printers, 2009. Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Minor shelf rubbing, features labels on title-page verso and inside rear cover indicating it was once gifted by the Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation, text is otherwise clean. 5.5 x 8.4 inches. 366 pages..

Chicago, Ill.: Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, 2013. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. A hint of fading to the front cover right side, very little wear overall. Quite clean. This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989, at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, February 14-June 9, 2013. 'In 1989, the activist, actor, playwright, and poet Safdar Hashmi . . was fatally attacked by political thugs during a street performance in Delhi. The murder sparked widespread grief and outrage, and the formation of the Delhi-based collective Sahmat. Created to build solidarity among artists, intellectuals and activists on questions of conscience in current politics, Sahmat has emerged as a vital platform to promote artistic freedom and secular, egalitarian values throughout India. [This book] relates the history of this remarkable organization through case studies from a rich range of interdisciplinary projects… Read More

London, UK: Orion Books, 2013. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The book and jacket are in very good condition, some shelf rubbing, text inside appears clean and clear apart from the author autographed title-page. 'Known as 'the Saints', his colleagues swore a bond of mutual loyalty on something called 'the Shadow Bible'. But with Malcolm Fox as the investigating officer - and determined to use Rebus for his own ends - the crimes of the past may not stay hidden much longer.' 328 pages..

London: Orion, 2012. Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very light creasing to the spine, nearly-invisible sticker fragment to front cover; little wear. Quite clean. 'For NYPD Detective Frank Parrish, heroin dealer Danny Lange is just another casualty of the drug war. But when Danny's teenage sister also winds up dead, it's a different story.' 456+ pages..

Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 2001. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very light shelf rubbing, little wear overall. Quite clean. Jacket in Brodart for preservation. 372 pages..

Edinburg - London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1869. Book. Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. As is - Spine is cocked, rear hinge cloth is splitting but the cover is firm, minor water spot to the bottom corner, some foxing throughout, early penned name to the first free endpaper. A good reading copy. Complete with half-title Blackwood's Standard Novels, with ads upon the endpapers. 43 chapters, 368 pages. Photos available upon request..

North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Whitecap Books Ltd, 2005. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. ISBN: 1-55285645-3 Light corner rubbing, minor curve to front pp fore-edge and top corners; little wear overall. Quite clean. 'This comprehensive cookbook examines different salmon species, surveys the culinary and natural history of this celebrated fish, and provides tips on how to choose the freshest catch.' etc. 178 pages..

Salt Spring Island, BC: Chu'an Publishing Limited, 2004. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Very light corner rubbing, little to no wear. Quite clean. 'Salt Spring, the largest of the Gulf Islands, is a 180 square-kilometre nugget of forest, rock and pothole lakes nestled in the strait of Georgia between Vancouver city and Vancouver Island on Canada's rugged West Coast. . . Salt Spring is home to a startling array of visual artists, musicians, craftspeople and generally creative types, a small fraction of whom you will meet in these pages. Salt Springers Howard Fry, Michael Levy and Osman Phillips are three such people. This book is their photographic celebration of their island and fellow islanders.' Illustrated. 120 pages. May require extra shipping, oblong, 12.25 x 10.5 inches..

Easthampton, MA: TopatoCo, 2010. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Inscribed with caricature drawn and signed by Sam Logan upon inside front cover. Very little to no wear. Quite clean. 'Gangster gerbils looting your cellar? Stalker vampires getting in your space? Don't panic! Ninja Mafia Services is here to help, with all the resources a near-bankrupt ex-crime-syndicate has to offer. (None.) So relax, and let Sam and Fuzzy Fix Your Problem.' 367 pages. First Edition, June 2010. 6.5 x 9 inches..

Calgary, AB, Canada: Bayeux Arts Inc., Canada, 1998. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The book is in very good condition, minor shelf rubbing, text appears clean and clear throughout. 'Sami Potatoes is the story of the Russian Sami Co-Management Project formed to introduce the concept of natural resource co-management, and to train local people to conduct research to meet their desired ends. This book is at once a case study, a personal journal, and an important contribution to the international literature on northern planning and development. It's also a startling insight into one of the great ecological and humanitarian tragedies of the 20th century.' 120 pages. 6 x 9 inches. .

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 2000. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. The book and jacket are in very good condition, little shelf rubbing apparent. The authors inscription is on the first blank page, before the title page, the text and images inside are otherwise clean and clear throughout. 'For forty days and forty nights during the winter of 1999, three Canadians, Bruce Kirkby, Jamie Clarke, and Leigh Clarke, along with three Omani Bedu, travelled across Arabia's great southern desert - the legendary Empty Quarter, a remote and largely unexplored desert wilderness, where ranges of sand dunes tower to over three hundred metres. Theirs was the first crossing since the original 1947 crossing by world-famous explorer and adventurer Sir Wilfred Thesiger, whose steps they sought to retrace. . . Now Bruce Kirkby has written a thoughtful and deeply felt account of this challenging expedition - and has illustrated it with… Read More

Montreal/London: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The book is in very good condition, little shelf rubbing apparent. Text and images inside appear clean and clear throughout. 'Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez are two of the most influential Latin American intellectuals of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Addressing Nicaragua's struggle for self-definition from divergent ethnic, religious, generational, political, and class backgrounds, they constructed distinct yet compatible visions of national history, anchored in a reappraisal of the early twentieth-century insurgent leader Augusto César Sandino. During the Sandinista Revolution of 1979-90, Cardenal, appointed Nicaragua's minister of culture, became one of the most provocative and internationally recognized figures of liberation theology, while Ramírez, a member of the revolutionary junta, and later elected… Read More