Search Results: Authors starting with J from Pegasus Book Orphanage

Manchester University Press 1984 Soft cover Very good condition, some creases to front cover. An indispensable guide to clinical practice.

Hamish Hamilton, London - first UK edition 1982 hardcover, 8 3/4" x 5 1/4", and dust jacket VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD price-clipped DJ Red cloth-bound boards with silver type to spine, various b&w drawings, index. This is a highly entertaining and ingenious attack on the Experts who blind us with science, confuse us with jargon, intimidate us with superiority - and yet - precisely because they are so successful at all this - have the power to appropriate huge shares of public funds and to make decisions which fundamentally affect our daily lives.

Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia USA - third edition 1975 Hardcover, 6" x 9½" Ours is an ex-library copy without dust jacket, and usual library markings. Book in GOOD condition This edition includes new chapters dealing with perceptual-motor activies. Other contents are selective rather than exhaustive; references in the bibliography have proliferated, and a considerable number of illustrations have been added. An acclaimed text in US universities.

the Author, Dingley, Melbourne 1984 softcover Signed Book in VERY GOOD condition INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY AUTHOR."To many, this story of a cripple's life with and on horses, will read like fiction," writes the author. "Horses have given me the incentives to rise above my disability - they have been my life, and in some cases, I have been theirs."

Oxford University Press, Oxford, England - 1988 hardcover, 5¾" x 8¾", with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers & barcode, etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket The poet and critic D J Enright begins by surveying our daily diet of television, from adaptions of the classics through the pains and pleasures of soap opera to chat shows and commercials. In public life, and not only in the empire of television, language commonly features as a poor relation (a maid rather than a mother), and here it is treated to a festive outing, a display of its magnificence, potency, double-dealing, and squalor.

Maxwell Macmillan International, publishers, New York 1993 hardcover, 9" x 11¼", with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket Here are the fascinating stories behind more than one hundred of the world's most extraordinary feats of engineering and design, from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Organised chronologically to follow the stages in the development of bridge construction, including 'vital statistics' of each bridge - its location, date of construction, designer, materials, and dimensions - all beautifully illustrated with full colour photography.

Random House, New York 1973 hardcover, 5¾" x 8½", with dust jacket Previous owner's name and stamps to front endpaper. Short repaired tear to jacket front.GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket In November, 1970, Chile became the first Latin American nation to choose a government by electoral means. At once Salvador Allende together with his Communist and left-wing colleagues began the revolutionary transformation of Chilean society - but with a difference. In line with Chile's tradition, the revolution was to proceed peacefully and within the requirements of Chile's constitution - a road never before undertaken by Marxists. This book describes what happened.

Kluwer-Nijhoff Publishing, Hingham, MA 1985 hardcover, 6" x 9¼" (no jacket issued) Stamp and notation on endpaper suggests this book was previously owned by an insurance brokers association. Book in VERY GOOD condition Strategic planning is designed to assist the business firm in responding quickly, flexibly, and decisively to a rapidly changing environment. Its goal is more effective interaction with all aspects of the environment - political, sociocultural, and economic. This book is the result of a conference on Strategic Planning co-sponsored by the Geneva Association and the S.S. Huebner Foundation.

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1998 Hardcover with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering and usual stamps, stickers & barcode. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket This book is aimed at the trouble with trying to learn about probability. A story of the misconceptions and difficulties civilization overcame in progressing toward probabilistic thinking, it is also a skillful account of what makes the science of probability so daunting in our own time.

University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas - 1991 softcover, 6" x 9" Book in VERY GOOD condition The Golden Age of Soviet cinema, in the years following the Russion Revolution, was a time of both achievement and contradiction, as reflected in the films of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, and Kuleshov. This book records this lost golden age. Above all, the author captures Soviet film in a role it has never regained - that of dynamic artform of the proletarian masses.

Prentice-Hall, publishers, New Jersey 1984 softcover, 7" x 9½" Book in VERY GOOD condition Truly effective makeup, like all art, relies on principles of line shape, texture, colour, and composition. Even if you have no formal training, this book can help you develop the techniques you need to design and apply more convincing, more creative stage makeup. Sprinkled with pertinent history, it explains how to achieve striking and original makeup effects with a simple palette of three colours, a sponge and a brush. Plenty of hands-on exercises, and hundreds of illustrations are included.

Library of National Biography, Melbourne 1930 hardcover, 8.5" x 5.5" (lacks jacket) Original bookseller's stamp to front paste-down. Minor discolouration to endpapers. Cloth covers have insect tracks. Book in GOOD condition Dark-green cloth-bound boards with gold type to spine and front, sepia photograph as frontispiece, b/w drawing of St Patrick's Cathedral Melbourne. Includes 50+ pages by May Maxwell on Victorian Catholic activities & groups. Early biography of His Grace.

Australian Road Research Board, Melbourne 1984 softcover, 8 1/4" x 5 3/4" Book in AS NEW condition Many dozens of photos, graphs, diagrams and tables, glossary of bituminous pavement terms, index. Text is aimed at civil engineers concerned with the planning, design & construction of road pavements, emphasising specialist areas largely neglected in University engineering courses. This neglect has been due to an historic lack of appreciation of the viscoelastic nature of the bituminous adhesive & how it contributes to the strength of the bitumen/aggregate composite.

Williams & Norgate, London 1949 Hardcover (lacking jacket) Jacket portions mounted on rear cover & ffep. Shelfwear to top edge (corners dumped). A pre-loved work. Book in GOOD condition Black impressed hardcover, 8.75" x 5.5', fading gold type to spine, frontis photo of 'Queen Mary' at Southampton, 3 other photos, 16 b/w drawings. A book for lovers of the seas, from passenger liners to single-handed craft.

Gembooks, California n.d. Stapled booklet Booklet in VERY GOOD condition 8.25" x 5.5". A complete step-by-step guide that tells and shows how to cut faceted stones of many types. Detailed drawings and instructions by an expert teacher. A primer for facet cutters

John Wiley & Sons, New York - 1986 hardcover, 6¾" x 9½", with dust jacket VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket Transformations caused by microorganisms have a profound effect on the ability of soils to provide food and fiber for an expanding world population. Of paramount importance is the cycling of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, and the micronutrient cations. The knowledge of the various cycles and their interactions is essential for the intelligent use of soil as a medium for plant growth and for rational use of natural and synthetic fertilizers. This book covers all aspects of nutrient cycling.

Airlife Publishing, England - first edition 1983 Hardcover, 10.75" x 7", with dust jacket Ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode etc. Black cloth-bound boards with gold type to spine, 77 b/w photographs, index. The history of ground crew in British military aviation from the birth of flying to the end of WWII - those who stand in the shadows of the more glamorous air crew.

Hamish Hamilton, 1982 hardcover, 15½cms x 23½cms, with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, & usual stamps, stickers etc. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket Fifteen b&w illustrations. Baudelaire's unhappy childhood together with the mixture of strong affection and bitter resentment in the grown man's feelings for his mother, provide the key to much of what is contradictory and ambiguous in his behaviour and particularly in his dealings with the various women he loved. These various aspects of Baudelaire's genius are here set against the background of the optimistic, materialistic society of his day (which he hated and condemned root and branch).

The Devin-Adair Co., Connecticut n.d. Hardcover with dust jacket Book in VERY GOOD CONDITION. Every trick in this book is carefully and clearly illustrated to ensure you'll learn it in no time at all. As you progress through each section, coins vanish from folded paper or go through drinking glasses and plates; knotted ropes separate mysteriously; a handerchief lays half a dozen eggs. Hundreds of tricks become easy to learn and perform.

Angus & Robertson, Sydney - first edition 1931 hardcover, 7.5" x 4.5", & dust jacket Original bookseller's sticker to front paste-down. Jacket spine has soiling. MM. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket. Light-blue cloth-bound boards with dark-blue type to spine & front. Broomfield's interesting appraisal of Henry Lawson's literary value, in which he severely trouces certain local writers who have belittled the 'genius of our great Australian writer'.