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Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 110 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.28 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 74 pages. Illustrated. Ian Stephens "The Ill-Famed Mahsuds" / D J Davis "The English Hedge" / H Dennis Jones "Coalminers' Quality" / Dr C A Gibson-Hill "The Cocos-Keeling Islands" / F Lyons "Australia's Rabbit Problem" (BT#47).

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 16pp. c.32.5 x 20.5cm. The pages, previously sewn, are now separated into two sections each of 8 pages (4 leaves). Contained in a flim front sleeve. Good clean condition [45g].

Condizione: Very Good. 5 pages, illustrated with illustrations & photographs. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 22 cms. Category: Wide World Magazine Articles; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. an Original Antique Engraving Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Excellent condition. An attractive and decorative engraving.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Hidden for a century from the English-speaking world, these poems now become available to international readers for the first time.Originally published in 1925, The Garden Left Behind is the first English translation of the poetry of George Valsan (1885-1935)-one of Romania's leading geographers, a member of the Romanian Academy, and a writer whose lyrical voice has long deserved to be discovered beyond the borders of his native country. This carefully prepared edition, translated by Octavian Cocos, introduces international readers to a remarkable work that has remained largely unknown outside Romania for a century.These poems belong to the great European tradition of lyrical meditation, where the beauty of nature becomes inseparable from the inner life of the soul. Mountains and forests, villages and monasteries, changing seasons, love and solitude, memory and faith are woven together into a poetic vision marked by serenity, emotional depth, and quiet spiritual strength.George Valsan possessed the rare gift of seeing the visible world as the reflection of an invisible one. His landscapes are never mere descriptions of nature; they become places of contemplation, where human longing encounters beauty, suffering opens the way to hope, and everyday life reveals its eternal dimension. Whether writing of spring, childhood, prayer, or the Romanian countryside, his poetry speaks with remarkable freshness and sincerity to modern readers.Known throughout Europe as one of the founders of modern Romanian geography, Valsan united scientific rigor with poetic imagination. His work reflects the same attentive gaze that made him an exceptional scholar: every landscape is alive, every season carries meaning, and every human emotion finds its echo in creation itself.Published under the auspices of the Romanian Society of Geography, this centenary edition restores to readers a voice unjustly forgotten for generations. More than a historical rediscovery, The Garden Left Behind is a timeless collection whose beauty, humanity, and spiritual depth continue to speak across languages and cultures.For readers of world poetry, European classics, nature writing, spiritual literature, and forgotten literary masterpieces, The Garden Left Behind offers the rare privilege of discovering an authentic poetic voice that has quietly waited a hundred years to be heard. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Condizione: BUONO USATO. Da revisionare ITALIANO Legatura editoriale, copertina in robusto cartonato, molto ben tenuta, con solo mende da piccoli urti; sovraccoperta segnata da dissolvenza, e fitti aloni di polvere, 256 pagine a 4 colori, 418 illustr., 3 cartine, completano il testo, trad. di G. Beari, fogli velati da sottile ossidazione effetto vintage. N. pag. 256. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Every creation myth ever recorded begins in the same place. Darkness, formless and without meaning, and then a moment when light arrives and the world begins. Why does this single story appear in every human tradition, from Genesis to the Rig Veda to the myths of peoples who never met? And what, if anything, does it remember?The Universal Dawn sets out to answer that question using the tools its predecessors lacked. Drawing on genetics, archaeology, climate science, and the study of oral tradition, Mark Cocos Copas traces the real history that the world's oldest stories may preserve: the slow emergence of the symbolic mind across hundreds of thousands of years, the other human species who crossed the same cognitive threshold before us and then vanished, and the catastrophes of the last ice age that drowned coastlines and remade the inhabited world within the span of human memory.Along the way the book asks unsettling questions and follows the evidence wherever it leads. Why did the stone hand axe remain almost unchanged for over a million years before the human mind suddenly caught fire? Were the Denisovans, a vanished human species who lived for tens of thousands of years in the high mountains of Asia, the original gods on the mountain remembered in the traditions of the people who came after them? What do flood narratives, found in nearly every culture on earth, preserve of the real and catastrophic drowning of the world's coastlines as the glaciers melted? And why, across continents that never met, do the oldest stories so often agree?This is a book about where the light came from. Not the light of physics, but the light of mind, the moment our species began to ask where it had come from and to remember the answer in story. Working only from mainstream evidence, and holding its hardest questions open rather than forcing them closed, it argues that myth is not the opposite of history but one of its oldest and most durable records.Rigorous, far reaching, and written for the curious reader as much as the specialist, The Universal Dawn reframes the deep human past as a single connected story: how we became the species that needed to tell stories at all. By weaving together ancient folklore and modern science, this work explores whether our oldest legends are actually encoded memories of lost human species and cataclysmic environmental shifts. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. revised edition. 239 pages. German language. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condizione: New.

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Stapled card covers, quarto, 50pp, b&w and colour photos, maps. Light wear to card covers; a very good copy. A brief history of the lead-up to and the actual confrontation between the Emden and HMAS Sydney.

Paperback / softback. Condizione: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Leatherbound. Condizione: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1910 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 18 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Every creation myth ever recorded begins in the same place. Darkness, formless and without meaning, and then a moment when light arrives and the world begins. Why does this single story appear in every human tradition, from Genesis to the Rig Veda to the myths of peoples who never met? And what, if anything, does it remember?The Universal Dawn sets out to answer that question using the tools its predecessors lacked. Drawing on genetics, archaeology, climate science, and the study of oral tradition, Mark Cocos Copas traces the real history that the world's oldest stories may preserve: the slow emergence of the symbolic mind across hundreds of thousands of years, the other human species who crossed the same cognitive threshold before us and then vanished, and the catastrophes of the last ice age that drowned coastlines and remade the inhabited world within the span of human memory.Along the way the book asks unsettling questions and follows the evidence wherever it leads. Why did the stone hand axe remain almost unchanged for over a million years before the human mind suddenly caught fire? Were the Denisovans, a vanished human species who lived for tens of thousands of years in the high mountains of Asia, the original gods on the mountain remembered in the traditions of the people who came after them? What do flood narratives, found in nearly every culture on earth, preserve of the real and catastrophic drowning of the world's coastlines as the glaciers melted? And why, across continents that never met, do the oldest stories so often agree?This is a book about where the light came from. Not the light of physics, but the light of mind, the moment our species began to ask where it had come from and to remember the answer in story. Working only from mainstream evidence, and holding its hardest questions open rather than forcing them closed, it argues that myth is not the opposite of history but one of its oldest and most durable records.Rigorous, far reaching, and written for the curious reader as much as the specialist, The Universal Dawn reframes the deep human past as a single connected story: how we became the species that needed to tell stories at all. By weaving together ancient folklore and modern science, this work explores whether our oldest legends are actually encoded memories of lost human species and cataclysmic environmental shifts. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Hidden for a century from the English-speaking world, these poems now become available to international readers for the first time.Originally published in 1925, The Garden Left Behind is the first English translation of the poetry of George Valsan (1885-1935)-one of Romania's leading geographers, a member of the Romanian Academy, and a writer whose lyrical voice has long deserved to be discovered beyond the borders of his native country. This carefully prepared edition, translated by Octavian Cocos, introduces international readers to a remarkable work that has remained largely unknown outside Romania for a century.These poems belong to the great European tradition of lyrical meditation, where the beauty of nature becomes inseparable from the inner life of the soul. Mountains and forests, villages and monasteries, changing seasons, love and solitude, memory and faith are woven together into a poetic vision marked by serenity, emotional depth, and quiet spiritual strength.George Valsan possessed the rare gift of seeing the visible world as the reflection of an invisible one. His landscapes are never mere descriptions of nature; they become places of contemplation, where human longing encounters beauty, suffering opens the way to hope, and everyday life reveals its eternal dimension. Whether writing of spring, childhood, prayer, or the Romanian countryside, his poetry speaks with remarkable freshness and sincerity to modern readers.Known throughout Europe as one of the founders of modern Romanian geography, Valsan united scientific rigor with poetic imagination. His work reflects the same attentive gaze that made him an exceptional scholar: every landscape is alive, every season carries meaning, and every human emotion finds its echo in creation itself.Published under the auspices of the Romanian Society of Geography, this centenary edition restores to readers a voice unjustly forgotten for generations. More than a historical rediscovery, The Garden Left Behind is a timeless collection whose beauty, humanity, and spiritual depth continue to speak across languages and cultures.For readers of world poetry, European classics, nature writing, spiritual literature, and forgotten literary masterpieces, The Garden Left Behind offers the rare privilege of discovering an authentic poetic voice that has quietly waited a hundred years to be heard. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This book is a fictitious encounter of a woman who is as pure and gentle as the day is long. About a woman who loved her father and sought out for a man just like him, honest loyal, loving and true. What happens when she finds two of them is what baffles us all. What will she do? Who will she choose? Is there even a choice to be made? Is the "American Dream" as we know it really a dream or is there a sense of reality to it? All these questions and more will be answered in this addictive read that you are about to encounter. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Every creation myth ever recorded begins in the same place. Darkness, formless and without meaning, and then a moment when light arrives and the world begins. Why does this single story appear in every human tradition, from Genesis to the Rig Veda to the myths of peoples who never met? And what, if anything, does it remember?The Universal Dawn sets out to answer that question using the tools its predecessors lacked. Drawing on genetics, archaeology, climate science, and the study of oral tradition, Mark Cocos Copas traces the real history that the world's oldest stories may preserve: the slow emergence of the symbolic mind across hundreds of thousands of years, the other human species who crossed the same cognitive threshold before us and then vanished, and the catastrophes of the last ice age that drowned coastlines and remade the inhabited world within the span of human memory.Along the way the book asks unsettling questions and follows the evidence wherever it leads. Why did the stone hand axe remain almost unchanged for over a million years before the human mind suddenly caught fire? Were the Denisovans, a vanished human species who lived for tens of thousands of years in the high mountains of Asia, the original gods on the mountain remembered in the traditions of the people who came after them? What do flood narratives, found in nearly every culture on earth, preserve of the real and catastrophic drowning of the world's coastlines as the glaciers melted? And why, across continents that never met, do the oldest stories so often agree?This is a book about where the light came from. Not the light of physics, but the light of mind, the moment our species began to ask where it had come from and to remember the answer in story. Working only from mainstream evidence, and holding its hardest questions open rather than forcing them closed, it argues that myth is not the opposite of history but one of its oldest and most durable records.Rigorous, far reaching, and written for the curious reader as much as the specialist, The Universal Dawn reframes the deep human past as a single connected story: how we became the species that needed to tell stories at all. By weaving together ancient folklore and modern science, this work explores whether our oldest legends are actually encoded memories of lost human species and cataclysmic environmental shifts. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…