Search Results: Titles starting with R from The Book Firm

Macmillan, 1981. Hardcover. 4to. Ex-library, Lower corners bumped, o/wise contents good. Provides a chronological listing of the 2145 launches of satellites and space vehicles giving the name and international designation of each satellite and its associated rocket/s, with the date of launch, lifetime, mass, shape, dimensions and at least one set of orbital parameters. Covers more than 12000 satellites. xvi, 656pp. .

Macmillan, 1979. Paperback. Good condition. 268pp. ISBN 0333245350. .

Macmillan, 1981. Paperback. Good condition. Scarce. Out of print. 126pp. .

Croom Helm, 1984. Hardcover. Top corners lightly bumped, otherwise good condition. Includes papers under the headings of: race relations, cultural differences and ethnocentrism; language, education and minority groups; and minority group children in multicultural contexts. 295pp. ISBN 0-7099-2606-5 & US ISBN 0312661401. .

Lawrence Erlbaum, 1984. Paperback. Good condition. Examines "...factors which may influence the development of I.Q., using major studies of identical and fraternal twins in the U.S. black population, transracially-adopted black children, and white adolescents adopted in the first months of life...[prompting] some fascinating conclusions about the impact of environment on children as they are growing up, the long term effects of genetic differences on the lives that people lead, and the causes of racial, social class, and individual differences in intellectual skills." 545pp. .

Russell Sage Foundation, 1973. Hardcover. Ex-library, o/wise good (no markings to text), in DJ. Provides a systematic empirical analysis of citizen participation in the Community Action Program of the Johnson administration's "War on Poverty". 364pp. .

Garry Sparke & Assoc, 1984. Hardcover. 4to. Sticker to inside flap of dustjacket - "With the Compliments of Mazda (WA)". Good condition in dj. B/W & col. photos. Covers all the racing events in the Australian year for 1983, including Allan Moffat versus Peter Brock, rates Peter Brock's winning of the ATCC finale as the Race of the year; Dick Johnson's crash in Bathurst qualifying as Crash of the Year etc. 144pp. ISBN-10 0908081812. .

Tavistock, 1987. 1st UK edition. Hardcover. Good condition. No dj. A collection of essays examining racial inequality in the British education system. Rare. 211pp. .

Saxon House, 1979. Hardcover. Ex-library, a touch of sunning to spine, a little rubbing to covers, o/wise good (no markings to clean and bright text). No dust jacket. 235pp. ISBN 0566002949. .

Palgrave, 2001. Hardcover. Top RH corner of front endpaper and half-titlepage clipped, otherwise very good condition in dustjacket. 264pp. ISBN 080185332X. .

Australian Government Publishing Service (AGPS), 1979. Paperback. Report to Minister on radiological safety and future land use at the Maralinga atomic weapons test range. B/W diagrams, maps, tables, figures and graphs throughout text, includes bibliographical references & Annexes Ex-library, otherwise good (no markings to clean text). 99pp. ISBN 0642043590 .

Little, Brown & Co., 1980. 4to hardcovers. Two vols in slip-case. A little highlighting to vol. II, prev. owner's ex-libris stamps to endpapers, o/wise good condition. No dj's. 1286pp + 41pp. ISBN 0316232750 & 0316232769. .

University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources for Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1987. Paperback. 4to. Good condition. 165pp. .

Sierra Publishing, 2013. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Pictorial covers. Very good condition. No dustjacket. B/W & col. photos. "The spectacular mountain railway from Wodonga to Cudgewa in north eastern Victoria was one of Australia's truly fascinating branch lines, and the most challenging to operate on the Victorian Railways. It was a railway of scenic splendour, famous for its towering wooden bridges, notoriously steep grades, Hereford cattle and K class steam locomotives." Signed by author. 122pp.. ISBN-13: 9780980764055. .

G.N. Raymond Pty Ltd., Easey St, Collingwood, Victoria. Contains the instructions, solutions & timetables. Contains all but one of the playing cards. One has to find the times that one's train is leaving from one Australian train station to another e.g. Toowoomba to Warwick, Katoomba to Penrith etc. Some wear to box. .

Oxford University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Good condition in dustjacket. Fold-out map. Includes papers on The Future Results of the British Rule in India by Karl Marx; The Opening of the Bhore Ghaut Incline of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway; The Pattern of Railway Development in India; Railways and their impact on Bengal's Economy, 1870-1920; The Building of India's Railways: The Application of Western Technology in the Colonial Periphery, 1850-1920 etc. 356pp. ISBN 0195648285. .

International Rice Research Institute, 1979. Paperback. Ex-libris stamp to RH & top edges, o/wise good condition. Includes papers on alternative plant types and other agronomic characteristics for rainfed lowland rice; diseases of lowland rainfed rice; land and climate in relation to cropping patterns etc. 341pp. .

Australian Government Publishing Service (AGPS), (Volume 1: 1987), (Volume 2:1991). Paperbacks. Two (of Three) volumes. Australian national rainforests study report, proceedings of a workshop on the past, present, and future of Australian rainforests, Griffith University, December 1983. B/W diagrams, tables, figures and graphs, photos, throughout text, o/wise good condition. Special Australian Heritage Publication Series Numbers 7(1)& 7(2). Includes chapters on Floristic Communities and Bioclimates of Nothofagus cunninghamii rainforest in south-eastern Australia; Variability and Change in Nutrient Cycling in Australian Roanforests; Avifauna of Australian Roanforests; A Study of the Phenology of Some Rainforest Monocotyledons; Torres Strait as a Barrier to Rainforest Bird Movement etc. Some rubbing and a touch of sunning to covers, otherwise good condition. 344pp; 414pp; Volume 1: ISBN 0644061634. Volume 2: ISBN 0644096896. .

Oxford University Press, 1984. . Hardcover. A touch of sunning to spine of dj, o/wise condition vg. 473pp. ISBN-10 0195545648. ISBN-13: 9780195545647. .

National School of Drama, 1992. Paperback. 4to. B/W photos. Col. photos. 293pp. .