Search Results: Authors starting with K from Pegasus Book Orphanage

STC, N. Stuart Street, Arlington, VA - 1992 hardcover, 8½" x 11" (21½: x 28cms), with illustrated board covers Book in VERY GOOD condition Very little has been written for the teacher or student of technical writing. Technical editing is a professional communication activity that consists of improving the presentation and content of an author's technical document in order to prepare it for publication, without impairing the author's meaning - it is a complex activity requiring highly developed skills. This book spells it out.

Central Board of Missions & The Macmillan Co, London 1919 Hardcover, 7" x 4¾" (no dust jacket issued?) Inscription, dated 1922, to inside cover. Endpapers beginning to discolour. Book in VERY GOOD condition Grey cloth-bound boards with black title to spine & blue and black illustrated title to front cover, illustrated frontis ('Disguised as a Moor'), and four other full-page illustrations. A Christain missionary in North Africa and the Middle East.

Routledge & Kegan Paul, London - ISBN:0710088787 1978 Hard cover in clipped dustjacket Ex-Library copy with usual stamps, stickers, barcode. Very Good book in Very Good dustjacket Miss Chapman's book deals specifically with the education of the visually handicapped from pre-school to further education and vocational guidance. In her detailed description of educational provision for both blind and partially sighted, she pinpoints curriculum areas which require special attention and adaptation in teaching techniques and in the presentation of learning material.

Rigby Limited, publishers, Perth 1962 hardcover, 6" x 9½", with dust jacket One page has six underlinings in pencil (page 17). VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket Thirteen illustrations - mostly archival, including city plans of 1837, 1858, and 1877.

the Author n.d. (1968) Stapled softcover, 14cms x x21½cms, with card covers Covers scratched and marked. Booklet in GOOD condition A survey of major incidents from Point Nepean to Cape Howe, and nearer islands of Bass Strait; including Westernport, Anderson's Inlet, Waratah Bay. Kent Group, Corner Inlet, Port Albert, Lakes Entrance, Lake Tyers, Marko, Sydenham Inlet, Mallacoota, and Gabo Island. Book includes several b&w photographs.

Warner Books, New York - first edition 1997 hardcover, 9.25" x 6.25", & dust jacket CIA lied about its involvement - her moving true story. Crisp copy, firm binding. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket. 'Marble' covered boards with red type to black spine linen. The author, a Harvard-educated lawyer, went to Guatemala to help protect the rights of refugees and met Everardo, a resistance leader, fell in love & married him. He vanished, she searched, the

Ah & A W Reed, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 Hardcover, with dust jacket Childish bookplate to front endpaper. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket The fuchsia with its delicate and graceful blooms has, over the past few years, regained its rightful place amongst the most popular plants. This book traces the history of the plant from its discovery on a Caribbean island in the early eighteenth century, through the hands of the pioneer hybridisers and plantsman to the present day, where in temperate climates it has become one of the most widely grown plants. Chapters cover propagation, potting, fertilisers, choosing plants, greenhouse growth, breeding & pest control - all supported by charming drawings and 16 colour photographs

Gian Publishing House, New Delhi, India - undated (1990) hardcover, 5¾" x 8¾", with dust jacket Jacket edges are creased. Distributor's sticker on front endpaper. VERY GOOD book in FAIR price-clipped dust jacket The author was drawn into the freedom struggle at at college-age, when he was charged with the murder of an Englishman, and held without trial in jails in and outside Bengal, re-arrested under Defence of India rules and held as a security prisoner (he subsequently earned an Oxford doctorate and worked for the UN). This book of his reminiscences span four years in the vortex of a revolution - a fascinating, authentic first-hand account.

John Wiley & Sons, New York - 047152641X 1990 Hardcover, 9¼" x 6¼", with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, and reinforced hinges. Some minor stain to pages; lean to spine. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket Light-grey publisher's boards with red type to dark-blue spine linen, 20 b&w photographs on glossy stock, and short glossary. This book claims to be the first true-life account of the US Navy's fighter pilots in Vietnam. It also tells how the creation of the US Navy's Top Gun fighter pilot school helped to forge a dramatic victory in the Vietnam air war. Filled with pilot's first-hand accounts, this book takes the reader inside the cockpit - buffeted by G forces and battling the stick - in a narrative more gripping than fiction.

World Books, Grape Street, London 1969 hardcover, 5¼" x 8", with dust jacket GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket The last Russian Emporer was an autocratic ruler of one-sixth of the world and, with his family, died in a cellar. Here is a story of a simple, worthy, well-meaning couple caught by forces much too vast for them to comprehend, who while trying to do their duty (as they saw it) were digging their own graves. Author Massie has read all the diaries, letters and memoirs left by those who figured prominently in this stormy epoch, and has written an admirably detailed account of the Romanovs. Includes twenty photographs.

I B Tauris & Co, London 1988 Hardcover, with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy with usual stamps, stickers, barcode etc. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket This is the story of Khalil Aburish, his wife, their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Like so many others, the family has been torn apart by events in Palestine during the twentieth century. Some family members remained in Bethany, others began a new life in the West or elsewhere in the Arab world. This is a moving tale of dispossession, exile and alienation.

Haper Collins College Publishers, New York - third edition © 1995 Illustrated boards Book in AS NEW condition 9.5" x 7.5", with photographs, maps, break-outs. A general sociology text from a comparative, historical, and evolutionary perspective, with highest standards of scholarly & pedagogical excellence. Includes rise of modern capitalism, changes in USSR & EEC

Progress Publishers, Moscow - first printing 1970 hardcover, 5½" x 8¼", with dust jacket GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket This book is devoted to reflections on Soviet literature based on Zelinsky's personal experience and the experiences of his fellow writers. "I would like my book to guide the reader to that main source which gives Soviet literature its inner power, and to explain why it is that Soviet writers have no wish to denigrate the life they describe, and why this life needs no embellishing." Starting with Lenin on the Partisanship in Literature, then Gorky, Mayakovsky, Yesenin, Fadeyev, Alexei Tolstoi, Pasternak, Pogodin, Leonov, Paustovsky and others.

William Heinemann, London - first edition 1954 Hardcover, 8" x 5", with dust jacket Top edge dusty. Rear of jacket has foxing at top. Sound binding. Jacket without gaps, creases etc. Previous owner has stamped initials 'SB' on three pages. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket Light-blue cloth-bound hardcover, with gold type to spine, azimuthal map endpapers, 25 b/w photos, & jacket. A Norwegian scientist & explorer gives fascinating detail on human, animal, & plant survival at Pole - half adventure, half revelations, but fact!

St Martin's Press, publishers, New York - first edition 2000 hardcover, 6½" x 9½", with dusy jacket AS NEW book in AS NEW unclipped dust jacket The Kagans begin by retracing Britain's international and defense policies leading up to World War Two, concluding that Britain was unwilling to face the responsibilities on which their security depended. Then they assess the United States today, finding remarkable parellels with the UK. Everything is banked on high-tech 'smart' weapons, they find, as opposed to long-term commitment of money, personnel, and planning that the deterrence of a major war would require

Continuum, publishers, New York 1995 hardcover, 6¼" x 9¼", 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 Oliver Stone has been hailed as the "director of the Sixties" for his socially concerned and politically charged films on Vietnam, Latin America, Wall Street, pop music, the JFK assassination, and the intertwined nature of celebrity and violence in American culture. Norman Kagan examines all of the controversial director's work and shows how the movies were inspired, how they were made and how others (critics and filmmakers) reacted to them. He also analyses films Stone helped write. Twenty-six movie stills.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Upper Saint Martin's Lane, London 1997 Hardcover, 24cms x 16.5cms, with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers etc. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket "This is the liveliest gay history I have ever read. Richly detailed, briskly narrated, eminently sane, Charles Kaiser gets everthing right. Essential and entertaining reading" - Edmund White.

Good Books 1986 soft cover Very good condition Signed by author, the story of a woman doctor working among the Amish in Pennsylvania.

Oxford University Press, Daryaganj, New Delhi, India - second edition 1982 Hardcover, 6" x 8¾", with dust jacket VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket This book explores the developmental significance of Hindu infancy and childhood, and its influence on identity formation. Anthropological evidence, clinical data, mythology and folklore lead the author into the daily world of the Hindu family and the shadowy world of collective fantasy.

Harry N Abrams Inc, publishers, New York (Concise NAL edition) 1975 large-format softcover, 8¾" x 11" Book in VERY GOOD condition The art and personality of Gramda Moses are inseparable. The author knew her for more than twenty years and his intimate knowledge of her work and life, which strengthens this present systematic study. Her awkward attempts, her sketchy small pictures, her incomplete works are shown here along with the refined, finished paintings - for all are of interest in forming a valid impression of Grandma Moses's oeuvre.