Search Results: Titles starting with U from Companion Books

Washington, D.C.: Navy Department, 1970. Book. Very Good. paperback. Navships 0994-001-9010. Gently used; the word 'diving' in black down the spine. Text is clean. 687 pages..

Toronto, ON, Canada: Tribute Books, 2003. Book. Like New. Soft cover. ISBN: 0-9732584-1-1 As new, no wear. Quite clean. 'This sumptuously illustrated book portrays all the magnificence of this first-rank, globally oriented campus.' Illustrated. 124+ pages. 9 x 10.5 inches..

Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2011. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book is in very good condition, a couple instances of dog earring inside the book, text is otherwise clean. 'A collective collaboration, "UBUNTU" is a play in which humanity and cross-cultural barriers are revealed through the play's text and rich imagery. The play is the result of a series of workshops between five Canadian artists from Theatrefront and four South African actors from Cape Town's Baxter Theater Center.' 74 pages. 5.26 x 8.4 inches..

Paris: ODILE JACOB, 2006. Book. Like New. Trade Paperback. ISBN: 2-7381-1619-1 No wear. Quite clean. FRENCH text. 401 pages..

Liaoning Education Press, 2012. Book. Illus. by Ge Hokusai. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book is in very good condition minor rounding of corner to reverse top edgewise corner. Book is in very good condition otherwise and clean throughout. 'A beautiful rendition of Journey to the west in the Ukiyo-e style, this is the Chinese edition' 242 pages. 9.25 x 10.5 inches. Photos Available upon request..

China Press, 2012. Book. Illus. by Ge Hokusai. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book is in very good condition clean throughout no shelf wear. 'Romance of the Three Kingdom adapted in an Ukiyo-e style by Ge Hokusai. Beautifully illustrated, this is the Chinese edition.' 417 pages. 9.25 x 10.5 inches. Pictures Available upon request..

New York: William Morrow / HarperCollins, 2012. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Minor bumping about the spine top and top corners, little wear overall. Quite clean. '[The author] expands on her time-tested message with new findings, recipes, and user-friendly tools. [Her] twelve-week program supports readers step-by-step as they develop new habits to help them lose weight and keep it off - and her 105 delicious recipes, divided into thirty-five food categories, provide a foundation for personalizing and preparing everything from breakfast favorites to main courses to desserts.' 396 pages. 7.75 x 9.5 inches..

Blue Ridge Summit, PA: TAB Books, 1985. Book. Good. Trade Paperback. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Cover laminate is just beginning to peel, light shelf rubbing, little wear overall. Text is clean. 'If you're a lightplane pilot or aspiring pilot who's been grounded by the high costs of buying, operating, and maintaining a conventional lightplane, this book opens the sky! It's a realistic and practical look at how flying today's ultralight craft can be a rewarding and affordable alternative to flying conventional lightplanes. . . Here is a practical assessment of ultralight equipment standards, aerodynamic capabilities, and control characteristics.' etc. Illustrated. 195 pages..

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. ISBN: 0-521-66561-2 Very slight corner rubbing. Text is clean. 'The three long essays that constitute this book revised and expand the ideas developed in Jon Elster's classic study Ulysses and the Sirens. It is not simply a new edition of the earlier book, though; many of the issues merely touched on before are explained here in much more detail.' 308 pages..

Paris: EMMANUEL PROUST / Atmospheres, 2004. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. ISBN: 2-84810-040-0 FRENCH text. Very little wear at all. Quite clean. Illustrated. 51+ pages. FRENCH text. 9.5 x 12.5 inches..

Richmond, VA, USA: Valancourt Books, 2014. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The book is in very good condition, some shelf rubbing. Text inside appears clean and clear throughout. 'Left in the care of his unloving stepmother after his father's death, sixteen-year-old Tom Barber has a vivid dream one night in which he sees his Uncle Stephen, whom he has never met and who is rumoured to have been mixed up in scandal and the practice of black magic. Unhappy at home and not knowing what to expect when he arrives at Uncle Stephen's manor house, Tom runs away, hoping to live with his uncle. In his depiction of Tom's initiation into Uncle Stephen's mystic creed, his illicit love for the poacher Jim Deverell, and his adventures with Philip, a mysterious boy with a strange and fantastic connection to Uncle Stephen's past and Tom's future, Forrest Reid's artistic vision finds its fullest expression.' xxii+252 pages. 5 x 8 inches.… Read More

London, England, UK.: THAMES HUDSON, 2005. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. The book and jacket are in very good condition, some shelf rubbing to the jacket mostly along the edges, the book has much less. Text and images inside appear clean and clear throughout. 'Stephen Shore followed up his first volume of photographs, American Surfaces, for which he traveled the United States, with an even more expansive and in-depth exploration of the North American way of life in "Uncommon Places." Shore traveled much more extensively during the period of 1973 to 1979, from which these images are culled. The other main difference is that Shore had moved into large-format imagery at this point, hauling around an 8x10 view camera on his journey. This expanded edition from 2004 includes more than 60 previously unpublished images and an interview with Shore by Lynne Tillman.' 188 pages. inches. May require additional postage. This listing was made by a small independent book shop. We carefully inspect… Read More

London: Wallflower Press, 2006. Book. Like New. Trade Paperback. ISBN: 1-904764-64-9, As new, no wear. Quite clean. 'This timely study examines its representation of the Holocaust and offers case studies on the reception of this landmark film in different national contexts (France, Germany, Israel, Britain, the Netherlands the USA).' 198 pages..

Toronto: Random House Canada, 2008. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A slight small moisture spot to one page bottom edge, very light shelf rubbing, little wear overall. Text is clean. 'More than a century ago, a young William Randolph Hearst stormed the Manhattan publishing establishment and usurped the fabled Joseph Pulitzer as the dominant force in the most hotly contested newspaper market th world has ever seen. In three adventure-packed years, Hearst built the foundation of one of America's great media empires, yet his reputation as a journalist has been in decline ever since, haunted by allegations of reckless sensationalism, tireless self-promotion, warmongering, and outright fakery. In this major re-estimation of Hearst's early years at his New York Journal, which were bookended by the ground-breaking U.S. presidential election of 1896 and the Spanish-American War, [the author] brings to life the early career of the world's great media… Read More

Canada: Anthony Francis Winstanley, 1995. Book. Good. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Minor corner rubbing, rear cover yellowed, previous owner's name to the ffep. Text is clean. 'During [WW2, the author] served as a deck officer on British and Dutch ships. In 1948, he emigrated to British Columbia, Canada with his wife and two children and continued seafaring on coastal and deep-sea ships. He gained his Master's Certificate in 1962. He has served on many different vessels including tankers, troop ships, research vessels and cruise ships. In 1973 he joined the B.C. Ferries where he worked for the next 13 years. Over a period of 55 years Tony has sailed on over fifty ships under eight national flags.' Illustrated. 208 pages. Volume I: 1937 - 1947..

New York, New York, USA: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1917. Book. Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The book is in good condition, minor shelf rubbing to exterior, slight damage to bottom of some pages but shouldn't effect reading at all, front cover is connected to spine but binding has minor damage they may get worse without repair, the rest of the book appears clean and clear throughout. 'A searing, unflinchingly realist novel about life at war, written during the First World War. 'Men are made to be husbands, fathers - men, in short! Not animals that hunt one another down' Under Fire follows the fortune of a French battalion during the First World War. For this group of ordinary men, thrown together from all over France and longing for home, war is simply a matter of survival, and the arrival of their rations, a glimpse of a pretty girl or a brief reprieve in hospital is all they can hope for. Based directly on Henri Barbusse's experiences of the… Read More

Mercer Island, Washington, U.S.A.: Starmont House, Inc., 1990. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very little to no wear. Quite clean. 'On Earth life held for him only the fate of a recluse - confined to daydreams and the lore of ancient wonders but apparently destined never to share them - until the day he found the formula that enabled him to cross interstellar space.' Illustrated. Starmont Hardcover Collection # 4. 144 pages. Photos available upon request..

London: Routledge, 1997. Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very light corner rubbing, small crease to front cover right side, little wear overall. Text is clean. 'Has Western religion come to the end of the road? [The author], renowned for his direct and accessible writing, considers how far Western religious and philosophical thinking can be enriched by the ideas of India and China. [This book] is a comprehensive overview and an outstanding introduction to the key philosophies of the East and how they compare with those of the West. [He] clearly presents the key tenets of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Jainism, Yin and Yang, and Confucianism, comparing and contrasting them with Western religions.' 197 pages. .

Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA: Pearson Education Canada, 2008. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 4th Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The book is in very good condition, minor shelf rubbing. Text and images inside appear clean and clear throughout. 'Understanding Movies provides an excellent and accessible introduction to Film Studies with thorough, quality coverage of Canadian cinema and the Canadian film industry. The 4th Canadian edition comes refreshed with even more coverage of Canadian cinema, increased visuals, expanded coverage of genre and up-to-date discussions of the impact of technology.' xviii+438 pages. 7 x 9.25 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. .

Polity, 2010. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. The book is in very good condition, very little shelf rubbing, aside from two instances of dog earring the text appears clean and clear throughout. 'Peace operations are now a principal tool for managing armed conflict and building world peace. The fully revised, expanded and updated second edition of Understanding Peacekeeping provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the theory, practice and politics of contemporary peace operations. Drawing on more than twenty-five historical and contemporary case studies, this book evaluates the changing characteristics of the contemporary environment in which peacekeepers operate, what role peace operations play in wider processes of global politics, the growing impact of non-state actors, and the major challenges facing today's peacekeepers. All the chapters have been revised and expanded and eight new chapters have been added. Part 1 summarizes the… Read More