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Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Reflections: Wisdom for the Young and Anyone Else Curious. Book.

paperback. Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

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Paperback. Condizione: New.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Signed by the author. Moderate wear to cover, spine creased for use but binding intact. Text block clear. WR. Signed by Author(s).

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condizione: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condizione: New. Reflections: Wisdom for the Young and Anyone Else Curious. Book.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 138 pages. 5.50x0.32x8.50 inches. In Stock.

HRD. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 138 pages. 5.50x0.44x8.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Suddenly, here I am with most of my life in the rear-view mirror and not much road left ahead. I am wondering-ok, 'What's it all about, Alfie ' This is an attempt to answer that question and to leave something behind that might be of some use.At the age of seventy-eight, Trevor Shaw, a husband, father, and grandfather; an accountant; an auditor; a manager; a teacher; an artist; a photographer; and a student in the martial arts of Wing Chun and Tai Chi, reflects on life. From the personal to the political, from the micro to the macro, he discusses what he's learned throughout his life and what he thinks of where we're headed next. After a long life well lived, he offers wit and wisdom for some grounding in the escalating chaos of today's world, along with what is needed for an individual to cope and for making the world a better place. Delivered in a highly readable, warm, sharply-communicated style with a voice that's pleasant to encounter and a point of view that's always thought provoking, Reflections is often not only helpful on a personal level but includes some highly cogent, well-informed, and incisive reflections on life in general, along with a frank analysis about where we're headed next.…

Paperback. Condizione: New.

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Paperback. Condizione: Very fine. 2nd ed.(stated). Large quarto in b&w illus wraps; xiv, 338 pages: numerous illustrations in b&w (photos and drawings); maps, portraits; 28 cm; bibliographical references and index. An impressive work. Well documented and illustarted. / Contents: THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAVE EXPLORATION: Motives for exploration -- The way in which cave exploration developed -- FROM PREHISTORIC TIMES TO THE THE RENAISSANCE: Prehistoric -- Israel and Assyria -- Ancient China, Greece and Rome -- Mediaeval -- LATE 15TH TO 16TH CENTURIES -- THE 17TH CENTURY: Slovenian caves in the 17th century -- THE 18TH CENTURY: Slovenian caves in the 18th century -- Development of exploring equipment -- 1880-1878: Belgium -- England -- The search for underground Reka -- The Postojna cave system -- Schmidl's discoveries in Postojna -- Schmidl's other explorations -- 1879 -- 1900: THE WORK OF CAVE EXPLORING SOCIETIES: Cave photography in Europe -- E.A. MARTEL -- CAVE EXPLORATION IN AMERICA: Saltpetre exploitation -- Cave surveying in USA -- Other cave explorations in USA -- Cave photography -- Exploration in central and south America -- CAVE EXPLORATION ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD: China -- Edible birds' nests in caves -- Guano deposits -- Mining -- Explorers and government surveyors -- Exploration for tourist exploitation -- HYDROLOGY AND CAVES -- UNDERGROUND RIVER COURSES: Southern Greece -- Slovenia-the Reka river -- Slovenia -- the Cerknica-Postojna area -- Slovenia -- rivers on early maps -- Northern and central Europe -- America -- Great Britain -- Submarine springs -- Karst water pollution -- THE ORIGIN OF KARST SPRINGS: In classical times -- The seawater origin of springs -- Rainwater as the source of springs -- THE WATER TABLE CONCEPT: Intermittent lakes -- Groundwater and the water table -- Phreatic flow in submerged channels -- The water table controversy HOW CAVES ARE FORMED -- A GENERAL VIEW, PRESENT AND PAST: Present-day views on how caves are formed -- Past opinions on cave formation -- CAVES BELIEVED TO BE MADE BY MAN -- TECTONIC ORIGIN: Caves formed at the creation of the world -- Centrifugal uplift near the equator -- Collapse into the abyss -- Expansion or explosion of underground vapours -- 'Convulsions' unspecified -- Internal subsidence -- Parting of strata during folding -- Fissures formed by folding -- Cavities and fissures due to contraction -- Growth of coral -- Eruption of soft limestone -- Electrical action -- DRAINS FOR THE DELUGE -- GAS BUBBLES IN NEW LIMESTONE -- EROSION OF 'EARTH AND MARL' -- EROSION OF SOFT LIMESTONE -- MECHANICAL EROSION OF LIMESTONE: The erosion-solution controversy of the 1890s -- SOLUTION OF ROCK SALT: Removal of salt inclusions by solution -- Solution in beds of rock salt -- SOLUTION BY JUVENILE AND THERMAL WATER: Solution in juvenile water -- Corrosion by acid volcanic gas and Virlet's other hypotheses -- Solution in hot thermal water -- Solution by geyser action -- SOLUTION BY VADOSE WATER: Vadose solution in water without carbon dioxide -- The significance of carbon dioxide -- Particular solutional features -- Multi-level caves -- The importance of joints -- The source of carbon dioxide -- Solution concurrent with mechanical erosion -- SOLUTION BY PHREATIC WATER: Pointers towards phreatic solution -- First recognition of phreatic solution -- Belgium 1893-1900 -- Cviji and Grund -- CORROSION BY THE ATMOSPHERE -- THE ORIGIN OF DOLINES AND PITS: Formation by collapse -- Formation by solution -- SPELEOTHEMS AND THEIR HISTORY: Terminology -- Some early descriptions of stalactites -- Some of the theories to explain their formation -- Early collections of speleothems -- FORMATION BY VEGETATIVE GROWTH -- FORMATION BY SOLIDIFATION OF WATER: By an external petrifying power -- By extreme cold -- By extreme stillness -- By unspecified causes -- DEPOSIT FROM VAPORS -- THE LAPIDIFYING JUICE -- DEPOSIT FROM SUSPENSION OR SOLUTION: Avicenna and Palissy -- 1600-1699 -- Deposition of particles from suspension -- Deposition from solution -- Deposition caused by evaporation -- Influences on stalactite shape -- Electro- crystallisation DEPOSIT FROM WATER CONTAINING CARBON DIOXIDE: From solution in an unspecified acid -- From solution in the acid afterwards identified as carbonic -- From solution in carbonic acid -- Development of the carbonic acid theory -- other factors -- The source of the carbon dioxide -- HELICTITES AND ANTHODITES -- CAVE PEARLS -- OTHER CRYSTALLINE CALCAREOUS CAVE DEPOSITS: Calcite rafts -- Gours -- Cave coral -- MONDMILCH: A fungus -- Metallic sublimates -- Calcium carbonate -- GYPSUM SPELEOTHEMS -- RATE OF GROWTH -- MEDICINAL USES OF SPELEOTHEMS: Crushed stalactite -- Mondmilch -- MAN AND ANIMALS IN CAVES: Animal bones in caves -- Prehistoric man -- Cave art -- Cave fauna and flora -- THE OVERALL DEVELOPMENT OF SPELEOLOGY IN RELATION TO OTHER STUDIES: Progress in karst hydrology -- Progress in speleogenesis -- Progress in speleothem studies -- Progress in cave exploration -- The general development of speleology -- Interrelationship between the various branches of speleology -- Interdependence of speleology and related sciences -- Speleology in relation to the general progress of history and learning -- THE EXPANSION OF SPELEOLOGY -- DIFFUSION OF CAVE KNOWLEDGE: The early scientific societies -- Early museum collections -- Universities -- Regional scientific societies -- Government influence -- Influential books -- Regional cave books and catalogues -- Speleological societies -- The international growth of speleology -- DEVELOPMENT SINCE 1900: The work of speleological societies -- Speleology in universities and specialist institutes -- National and international congresses. / Speleology -- History. Caves. Sp?l?ologie -- Histoire. Caves. Speleology. Spel?ologie; History.Geschichte; Anfaenge-1900. Very fine ; as new.…

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Pamphlet. Condizione: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Light rub, light tone, light wear. Oversize paperback stapled pamphlet. ; French language. Pictorial history of Protestant missionary activities in Kinshasa during the Belgian Congo years, on the 80th anniversary of the 1878 landing of George Grenfell and Thomas Comber of the Baptist Missionary Society. Published for the booth of "des Missions Protestantes au Congo" at the Brussels World's Fair - Expo 58. The first major World's Fair after World War II, it also featured an inhabited exhibition Congolese village. Two years later, in 1960, the Republic of the Congo was declared independent. An uncommon missionary publication from the last colonial years. Illustrated by Illustrated (illustratore).…

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4to, 26.7cm. Pp. xiv,338, frontisp., 88 illus from old originals in text, 17 appendices (few folding), numerous refs., extensive index. Paperbound, pict. stiff wrappers. Fine, seems to be unread. - Very scarce. - [gkt.ds.946].

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Suddenly, here I am with most of my life in the rear-view mirror and not much road left ahead.I am wondering-ok, 'What's it all about, Alfie ' This is an attempt to answer that question and to leave something behind that might be of some use.At the age of seventy-eight, Trevor Shaw, a husband, father, and grandfather; an accountant; an auditor; a manager; a teacher; an artist; a photographer; and a student in the martial arts of Wing Chun and Tai Chi, reflects on life. From the personal to the political, from the micro to the macro, he discusses what he's learned throughout his life and what he thinks of where we're headed next. After a long life well lived, he offers wit and wisdom for some grounding in the escalating chaos of today's world, along with what is needed for an individual to cope and for making the world a better place.Delivered in a highly readable, warm, sharply-communicated style with a voice that's pleasant to encounter and a point of view that's always thought provoking, Reflections is often not only helpful on a personal level but includes some highly cogent, well-informed, and incisive reflections on life in general, along with a frank analysis about where we're headed next.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Suddenly, here I am with most of my life in the rear-view mirror and not much road left ahead. I am wondering-ok, "What's it all about, Alfie?" This is an attempt to answer that question and to leave something behind that might be of some use.At the age of seventy-eight, Trevor Shaw, a husband, father, and grandfather; an accountant; an auditor; a manager; a teacher; an artist; a photographer; and a student in the martial arts of Wing Chun and Tai Chi, reflects on life. From the personal to the political, from the micro to the macro, he discusses what he's learned throughout his life and what he thinks of where we're headed next. After a long life well lived, he offers wit and wisdom for some grounding in the escalating chaos of today's world, along with what is needed for an individual to cope and for making the world a better place. Delivered in a highly readable, warm, sharply-communicated style with a voice that's pleasant to encounter and a point of view that's always thought provoking, Reflections is often not only helpful on a personal level but includes some highly cogent, well-informed, and incisive reflections on life in general, along with a frank analysis about where we're headed next. Suddenly, here I am with most of my life in the rear-view mirror and not much road left ahead. I am wondering-ok, "What's it all about, Alfie?" This is an attempt to answer that question and to leave something behind that might be of. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…