Search Results: Titles starting with B from Mike's Library

Mount Vernon NY: Merval Corporation. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1923. Stapled wraps. Light edgewear, light tone, light wear. Solid paperback stapled wraps. ; "The material in this book is a compilation from the latest and most authentic sources on child hygiene. Full text and extracts from the official publications of the following authorities have been reprinted by permission: the United States Government, Boards of Health of New York State and New York City." 29th Revised Edition. Pediatric health pamphlet sponsored by the Baby's Health Association, "a group of manufacturers of articles that mother and baby need, the merchants who sell these artilces, and other representative business men who advertise in "Baby's Health", believing that the distribution of this little booklet furthers the great child welfare work of the country; and it will be welcomed by the mother to whom it comes as an ever-present help in that most important and always more or… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1949. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Light wear; Dust Jacket 1"square chip bottom front cover, edgewear, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Priced DJ. Raisin's first published novel, printed in England in 1947 as There Is Another Sun.; 248 pages .

Amsterdam: Da Capo Press / Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1970. Reprint Ed. Hardcover. 9022102254 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, cloth sunning, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Original t.p. reads: Baculum familliare, Catholicon siue generale. A booke of the making and vse of a staffe, newly inuented by the author, called the familiar staffe ... London, Printed by Hugh Jackson dwelling in Fleetestreete a little beneath the conduit, at the signe of S. Iohn the Euangelist, 1590. S.T.C. no. 3118.; The English Experience: Its Record in Early Printed Books Published in Facsimile; Ex-Library; Vol. 225; 70 pages .

London: Balliere Tindall. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0702014850 . Library stamps/slip/labels, light tone, otherwise slight wear. Crisp copy. ; Collection of 12 papers, in English. Table of contents: 1. Treatment of diabetic ketoacidosis and non-ketotic hyperosmolar diabetic coma; 2. Hypoglycaemia; 3. Disorders of the adrenal cortex; 4. Pituatary gland emergencies; 5. Thyroid emergencies; 6. Emergency treatment of Graves' ophthalmology; 7. Disorders of water balance - hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia; 8. Management of disorders of calcium homoeostasis; 9. Phaechromocytoma : diagnosis and management; 10. Endocrine emergencies in pregnancy; 11. Paediatric endocrine and metabolic emergencies; 12. APUDomas : acute complications and their medical management. ; Ex-Library; 234 pages .

New York: Garland Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 0824066715 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; "It is to be emphasized that the following study is an empirical study of American colonial trade with other areas (primarily Great Britain, Ireland, the West Indies, southern Europe and the Wine Islands, and Africa) for the period 1768-1772. Its contribution will be to supply quantitative estimates where none have previously existed. The study attempts to calculate, as best we can from surviving evidence, the values of colonial trade and set them in a balance-of-payments framework." - Preface. ; American Economic History; Ex-Library; 182 pages .

The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 9024720028 . Library REBIND in hardcover with paperback front cover bound in, library stamps/marks/labels/slip, light tone, spine sun, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; English and/or Balinese. "Notes" published as supplement (24 p.) bound in middle of book. Includes index. 48 illustration plate pages. "My contribution to the study of the pamanku is an endeavour to give some idea of the meaning the words he speaks have or must have had when they were still understood." - Introduction. ; Bibliotheca Indonesica; Ex-Library; Vol. 15; xiii, 105, 48, 24 pages .

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1932. Reprint. Hardcover. Well toned, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket edgeworn with 1" tears, creasing and small chips, spine sun faded, wear. Solid hardcover. ; Grosset and Dunlap's reprint of Lady Eleanor Smith's well-received third romance pot-boiler, telling the tumultuous story of Paulina Varley, who reinvented herself as Lina Varsovina, famed Russian ballerina. Attractive dust jacket art by "C B". Early Grosset reprint, using Bobbs-Merrill sheets and title page, with Grosset on spine of book, and Grosset dust jacket. The basis for 1941 Loretta Young movie, The Men In Her Life. ; 366 pages .

New York: Garland Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0824083857 . Library stamps/marks/labels/slip, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Information about individual ballets is scattered throughout the extensive literature of ballet. This book is an effort to bring that scattered data together by comprehensively indexing plots and descriptions of individual ballets plus associate material such as illustrations, historical background, criticism and analysis, musical themes, and bibliographical references. Although formal plots and descriptions are the main focus of this publication, the wide spectrum of material covered makes the index to a considerable extent a general reference guide to individual ballets." - Preface ; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities; Ex-Library; Vol. 756; xvii, 249 pages .

Moscow: Agraf. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 5778401736 . Light cover curl, scrape to fore-edge, light tone, slight wear. Solid hardcover. ; Russian language.; Simvoly vremeni; 254 pages .

New York: Garland Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0815309678 . Library stamps/marks/labels/slip, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Contents: Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Regulation and Banking Development in California, 1853-1909; 3. Banking and the Development of California's Economy, 1860-1910; 4. A Model of the Banking Firm; 5. Individual Bank Behavior in California, 1878-1908; 6. Entry into Local Banking Markets in California, 1884-1908; 7. California Banking and the Evolution of a National Capital Market; Bibliography; Index. ; The Financial Sector of the American Economy; Ex-Library; xxv, 261 pages .

New York: AMS Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. 0404041906 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Facsimile reprint of 1928 edition, New York: Vanguard Press. "a monograph which may be regarded as a model of method in studying modern imperialism. She has drawn a broad historical, geographical, ethnographic and economic background for the picture of the intrusion of foreign capital into Boivia." Focus on the Loan of 1922 refinancing Bolivia's external debt, and contribution of tin mining to Bolivia's revenue.. ; Ex-Library; xvi, 233 pages .

New York: Arno Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1980. Reprint. Hardcover. 0405136714 . Library stamps/marks/labels/slip, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Reprint of the 1932 edition published by National Industrial Conference Board, New York. Contents: Introduction; I. The American Banking System; II. Structural Changes in the American Banking System; III. Changing Functions of Banks; IV. The Events of 1930 and 1931 and American Banks; General Review; Appendix: The Statistical Material. ; The Rise of Commercial Banking; Ex-Library; xiv, 157 pages .

New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0874271479 . Cover rub, otherwise slight wear. Crisp oversize hardcover.; Catalog of an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, May 27-Oct 2, 2005. "Banks Violette (b. 1973) has been called the "Grown-Up Goth." Whitney Museum of American Art curator Chrissie Isles, at the time of the 2004 Whitney Biennial, described his work as embodying "the dark side of the heavy-metal American dream." This book, which accompanies an exhibition at the Whitney, presents a new multi-media sculptural installation by Violette that, with a musical component, explores the central concerns of his work in a complete, immersive environment. This new work, Untitled, revolves around an idea of complicity between the artist, his collaborator the Black Metal musician Snorre Ruch, and the audience interacting with the piece. Cast in salt, the material surface of the piece is… Read More

Barcelona: Instituto Municipal de Historia. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1963. Trade Paperback. Light wear; Dust Jackets light rub. Crisp trade paperbacks.; Spanish language. Two of two volumes, complete set. Ayuntamiento de Barcelona. Consejo superior de investigaciones científicas. Instituto municipal de historia. Documentos y estudios. 11. - Con la colaboración de la "Fundación Juan March" ; Documentos y Estudios; xxxiv, 269; 295 in 2v pages .

Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 9024731631 . Library stamps/marks/labels, light spine sun, otherwise light wear. Solid oversize hardcover.; At head of title: T.M.C. Asser Instituut. ; Ex-Library; xviii, 273 pages .

Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 1402070276 . Slightest wear. Crisp NEW hardcover. ; Selected contributions from the international conference "Basic Mechanisms of Language and Language Disorders" held in Leipzig in September 1999. This highly interdisciplinary project presents new results and the state of the art of knowledge in the psychology and neurophysiology of language, reading and dyslexia. It concentrates on basic cognitive functions of understanding and producing language and disorders within its spoken and written execution.; Neuropsychology and Cognition; Vol. 20; 375+1ad pages .

Cambridge: Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0899460216 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Crisp hardcover. ; Contents: Foreword; Chapter 1 Basic Human Needs: A Development Planning Approach; Ch 2 Sectoral Aspects of a Basic Human Needs Approach: The Linkages among Population, Nutrition, and Health; Ch 3 Policy Issues and the Basic Human Needs Approach; Ch 4 Modeling the Effects of Alternative Approaches to Basic Human Needs: Case Study of Sri Lanka; Ch 5 Growth, Poverty Alleviation, and Foreign Assistance; Index. ; Ex-Library; 240 pages .

London: Wiley-Interscience / John Wiley & Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. 0471761001 . A few notes on front paste-down, owner's name and two owner's stamps, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; "With the aid of ligand field theoretical concepts it is possible to understand a whole series of physical and chemical properties of transition metal complexes from a unified point of view, and to obtain at least semiquantitative information." ; xv, 535 pages .

Harrisburg PA: Military Service Publishing Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1948. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Light tone, light edgewear, light cock, some writing on Contents page, otherwise light wear. Solid trade paperback. ; "This Basic Training Guide was designed to aid training of units and of individuals by furnishing a practical means of guiding instruction and at thesame time measuring the degree of proficiency attained. Training tests will be found to be a highly effective means of obtaining maximum results when instruction time is limited." - Publisher's Foreword. First Edition of the post-World War II, Cold War era, basic training guide. ; x, 318 pages .

Milwaukee WI: Marquette University Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1978. Revised Edition. Trade Paperback. 0874624517 . UNDERLINING and Margin Notes, creasing, rubbed, wear. Solid oversize trade paperback. ; "The findings of psychology show that there are certain value judgments which are necessarily present in the thinking of all men and consequently in the laws of all men. These findings receive support from the data of anthropology. These data indicate that there are certain value judgments which are universally present in the laws of all known societies of men." - Preface. ; 144 pages .