Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Joseph Valles - Books

Boston : Little, Brown, 1987, 1987. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st US edition, 1st printing ; 230 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0316100420; 9780316100427 LCCN: 87-2708 ; LC: DT236; Dewey: 961/.204/0924; B ; OCLC: 15317933 ; green and black cloth ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, labels ; Contents: The American raid -- Qaddafi Superstar -- Birth of a leader -- The young cadet -- The coup -- Terror, Inc -- The Green Book -- The revolution in Practice -- Tightening the screws -- Stray dogs -- Pursuing the revolution abroad -- Murder in London -- Foreign adventures -- Financial empire -- Still on top ; VG.

New York : Hunt & Easton ; Cincinnati : Cranston & Stowe, 1875, 1875. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 308 p. illus. 19 cm. ; "three illustrations" ; similar to OCLC: 123006762 and OCLC: 4240173 ; "Chronological table of events in the early church": p. [5]-6. ; LCCN: 07-14493 LC: PZ3.L566; PR4883.L66; Dewey: Fic ; "In the pages of the following tale I have endeavored to show some of the many difficulties with which Christianity had to contend, on its first introduction to the centers of civilization, not only from paganism and philosophy, but from every mode of life and the whole tone of thought then prevailing. It was an age at once of atheism and superstition; of boundless wealth and the most abject poverty; of reckless luxury and selfish cruelty; and against all these, with the long train of evils they bred and fostered, the simple Gospel story of the life of Jesus, as told by a few fishermen, was all this new power could boast. In the remaining volumes of this set of books… Read More

New York ; Burlingame : Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1959., 1959. Very Good. 641 p. illus. 24 cm. ; Red, black and silver cloth ; OCLC: 225562 ; LCCN: 59-7733 ; LC: QD81; Dewey: 544.1 ; slight foxing to text ; slight knock ; name on ep ; a little wear ; Contents: Water -- An introduction to solutes and solutions -- Ionic reactions and ionic equations -- The concentrations of substances in solution -- More The concentrations of substances in solution -- More about solutes and solutions -- Coordination compounds -- Reaction rates and chemical equilibria in solution -- Precipitates and colloidal suspensions -- The direction of reversible ionic reactions -- An introduction to calculations with equilibrium constants -- Acids and bases -- The common ion effect, buffer solutions, indicators -- Solutions containing several weak acids and bases -- The dissociation of complex ions -- Electric cells -- The laboratory work in qualitative analysis -- Cation group 1 : the hydrochloric acid group -- Cation group… Read More

Honolulu : University Press of Hawaii, 1981., 1981. Good. xii, 172 pp. ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0824807367 : LCCN: 80-26650 ; OCLC: 6982466 ; LC: KNN4034; KNQ4034; Dewey: 345.51/05 ; Contents: Introduction -- Ancient China -- The early empire -- Acts of grace in medieval China: A.D. 220-907 -- Acts of grace in Sung China -- Late imperial China: the significance of change -- The uses of amnesty -- A note on previous studies. ; dark green cloth with gold lettering, in water stained pictorial dustjacket ; only slight effect on cloth binding ; water stain on bottom corner of back eps ; G/FAIR

Berlin ; New York : W. de Cruyter, 1975, 1975. Fine. xvii, 557 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 3110066920 :; 9783110066920; National Library: 7605709 LCCN: 75-41464 ; LC: RB40; Dewey: 616.07/56; NLM: W3; QY 90 ; OCLC: 1973998 ; orange cloth ; no dustjacket ; name on front endpaper ; Contents: Considerations on bilirubin determination -- Comparison between determination models -- Interlaboratory quality control using the daily means of patients results -- Quality control in relation to determination materials, standards and controls -- Evaluation of some determination materials used in the Scandinavian Recommended Methods for determination of four enzymes in blood and the performance of control materials with these methods -- The control of error and use of standardized reference samples in estimation of the true biological normal range -- Studies on alkaline phosphates of different origin with an external quality control scheme -- Evaluation of several commercial controls. Correlation between them --… Read More

Brewster, MA : Paraclete Press, 1990., 1990. Very Good. 13th printing; blue and white stiff paper wrappers ; crease at spine ; ISBN: 1557250189 ; LCCN: 90-61665 ; OCLC: 28631857 ; 150 pp. ; VG

London : Frewin, 1975, 1975. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 193 p. ; 23 cm. ; ISBN: 0856321648; 9780856321641 LCCN: 76-370412 ; LC: DA787.B7; Dewey: B ; OCLC: 2287425 ; blue cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; bookplate ; James Hepburn was hereditary Lord High Admiral of Scotland. He is best known for his association with and subsequent marriage to Mary, Queen of Scots, as her third husband. ; VG/VG.

London : Adam & Charles Black, R. and R Clark, Edinbugh, 1897, 1897. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 461, xii, 448, pp. ; 1/2 leather ; LC: PR 5321; Dewey: 823.7 ; LC: PR 5321; Dewey: 823.7 ; Quentin Durward is Scott's first European novel. The central character is a young adventurer and soldier of the Scottish guards seeking fame and fortune in the France of Louis XI. ;St. Ronan's Well is set in 1812 and portrays the fashionable society of the spa-town of St. Ronan's. The plot revolves around the enmity of two half-brothers, Valentine Bulmer and Francis Tyrrel. ; Two volumes from the Victoria Edition of the Scott novels here bound togather in a full leather binding with marbled papers, raised bands, and decorated foredge ; .

Novato, CA : Presidio, 1999., 1999. Very Good. xii, 330 p., [23] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0891413979 :; 9780891413974 LCCN: 90-7814 ; LC: DD256.5; Dewey: 943.086 ; OCLC: 22183796 ; black cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, pocket ; label ; ...[A] true and fascinating account of a young German boy determined to find out the truth about the Holocaust that took place during the Third Reich under its dictator, Adolf Hitler." ; VG

Cobblehill Music Inc., 1969, 1969. Sheet music. Good. Soft cover. approx. 27 copies ; SATB ; "To Herbert D. Strauss".

New York, Wiley, 1965, 1965. Very Good. 8th printing ; 294 p. illus. 23 cm. ; LCCN: 65-20764 ; LC: QA303; Dewey: 517 ; OCLC: 344730 ; paper wrappers ; Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. is an American physicist and physics professor at Harvard University since 1947. Ramsey also held several posts with such government and international agencies as NATO and the United States Atomic Energy Commission. He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method, which had important applications in the construction of atomic clocks. Ramsey shared the prize with Hans G. Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul. During World War II his involvement with MIT's Radiation Laboratory led to the development of 3 cm radar and later he was leader of the Delivery Group of the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. ; Daniel Kleppner, born 1932, is the Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Physics at MIT and co-director of the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms. He is the winner of the 2005 Wolf… Read More

Daybreak Music; Hal Leonard Corporation, 1997, 1997. Book. Good. Soft cover. approx. 28 copies ; SATB ; 08741018.

Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, 2000., 2000. As New. Pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; [1st edition, 1st printing] ; ISBN: 0824824261; LCCN: 2001-344506 ; OCLC: 45870621 ; Contents: Liar liar / Ian Macmillan -- The family / Edward Sakamoto -- All I asking for is my body: a play in two acts / Milton Mur ayama -- For George, our neighbor ; After Hurricane Iniki, Kaua'i ; Snacks / Eric Chock -- Chinaman's hat ; A sea worry / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Letter from Jian Hui: 1 ; Letter from Jian Hui: 2 ; Letter from Jian Hui: 3 ; Letter from Jian Hui: 4 ; Letter from Jian Hui: 5 ; Good luck ; Letter from Hai Bin / Phyllis Hoge -- A passage to nowhere / Rubellite Kawena Johnson -- Encountering sorrow / Darrell H.Y. Lum -- from The folding cliffs / W.S. Merwin -- Secrets / Marjorie Sinclair -- In prai se of O'ahu: Kaopulupulu, the prophet, and Kahahana, Chief / Leialoha Apo Perkins -- Ho'oulu lihui ; Olo / Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl -- The Bodhisattva muses ; The sister ; Caldera illumina / Cathy… Read More

New York : Simon and Schuster,1985, ©1984, 1985. Book. Good. Soft cover. 489 pages : map on endpapers ; 24 cm ; ISBN: 0671606409 ((pbk.)); 9780671606404 ((pbk.)) LCCN: 84-1353 ; "A Touchstone Book."/ Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-471) and index. ; LC: DS554.8; Dewey: 959.604 ; OCLC: 12981358 ; ; OCLC: 12981358stiff paper wrappers ; "William Shawcross (born 28 May 1946, in Sussex, England) is a widely renowned writer and broadcaster. Shawcross was educated at Eton College and University College, Oxford. His articles have appeared in the Sunday Times, the Sunday Telegraph, the Washington Post and the Sydney Morning Herald. In 1995 he wrote and presented the three-part BBC television series Monarchy and in 2002, to tie-in with the Queenzs Golden Jubilee, he again wrote and presented a landmark four-part BBC television series, Queen and Country, a revealing and intimate portrait of the Queen, and an absorbing study of the changing face of monarchy and of Britain… Read More