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Condizione: Bon. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Une ou plusieurs pages légèrement déchirées. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Slight signs of wear on the cover. One or several slightly torn pages. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.…

Condizione: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

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Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Covers have heavy soil, minor wear, rubbing and creasing. Corners and ends of spine bumped and rounded. Binding tight. x + 229 pages including 4 appendixes, notes and index. Descriptions of satellites, rockets and other elements of NASA hardware and programs and how they came to be named. Black and white illustrations. Size: 6.75 x 9.75.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Trade paperback in very good minus condition.

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Wraps. Presumed first edition/first printing. x, 227, [7] p. 25 cm. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Reference Notes. Index. This book was designed to answer questions about the origins of NASA-associated names. Names given to spaceflight projects and programs have originated from no single source or method. Some have their foundations in mythology and astrology, some in legend and folklore. Some have historic connotations. Some are based on a straightforward descripton of their mission, often resulting in acronyms. Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some cover creases. Some page soiling, .…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 440 pages. Contains a Preface by Marion Grafin Donhoff and 974 Illustrations (some in color). Map. Bibliography. Picture Credits. Index. Contains the Declaration of Leo Baeck and Albert Einstein. Slight creasing to top edge of dust jacket. This is the English translation of Juden in Deutschland von der Römerzeit bis zur Weimarer Republik Professor Nachum Tim Gidal (1909-1996) was a photojournalist, and in fact one of the great pioneers of modern photojournalism. His work appears, amongst other outlets, in Munchner Illustrierte Press, the London Picture Post, and Life magazine. He taught at the New School for Social Research in New York on aspects of visual communications. In 1980 he was awarded the Kavlin Prize and in 1983 the Erich Salomon Prize. This pictorial documentation is the life's work of Nachum Tim Gidal. Jews in Germany by Nachum T Gidal gives an account of Jewish culture and of the German Jews through pictures and commentary. It shows the beginning of Jewish life in Germany, and the flowering of Jewish culture which took place in the Middle Ages despite all the persecutions, the struggle for equal civil rights, and the contribution made by Jews to German culture. In his quest for the history of his people, he combines the objective realism of the photographic reporter with personal commitment. Marion Hedda Ilse Gräfin von Dönhoff (2 December 1909 - 11 March 2002) was a German journalist who participated in the resistance against Nazism, along with Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. After the war, she became one of Germany's leading journalists and intellectuals, working for over 55 years as an editor and later publisher of the Hamburg-based weekly newspaper Die Zeit. She joined the resistance movement, which led to questioning by the Gestapo after a failed assassination attempt on Hitler in 1944. Although many of her fellow resistance activists were executed, she was released reportedly because her name was not found in any of the documents seized by the Nazis. In 1946, Dönhoff joined the fledgling, Hamburg-based, intellectual weekly Die Zeit as political editor. In August 1954, she temporarily left the newspaper in protest against articles by Richard Tüngel, who had published, inter alia, a text of Nazi constitutional lawyer Carl Schmitt and went to London to work for The Observer. Soon afterwards, however, she returned to Hamburg, and She was promoted to deputy editor-in-chief in 1955, then editor-in-chief in 1968, and publisher in 1972. She was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990. She was involved in helping refugees settle in West Germany from East Germany and other parts of Europe. At the time of her death, Dönhoff was still co-publisher of the influential newspaper. She was the author of more than twenty books, including political and historical analyses of Germany as well as commentary on U.S. foreign policy. First English Language Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]/. Nachum T. Gidal (Photojournalist) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. xii, 631 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm ISBN 9780898658729, 0898658721 OCLC 29354318 ; brick red cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; Contents: Foreword -- Preface -- Early days -- Justices of Isle of Wight -- A river port -- Wars with England -- The strange case of the two courthouses -- Education -- to 1870 by L.T. Hall -- A railroad town -- Windsor by Judith Robinson -- The blacks of Isle of Wight -- The Civil War -- Isle of Wight's beautiful farms -- Transportation and communication -- Education 1870 -- present by L.T. Hall -- Churches of Isle of Wight -- Monkey rum and postage stamps, the story of the post offices of Isle of Wight -- Business and industry -- The giant on the Blackwater River -- The first peanut king of the world -- The ham capital of the world -- Twentieth century wars -- Historical sites and place names -- Recreation in Isle of Wight -- Sheriffs, supervisors, and county administrators -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index ; SIGNED by author on title page ; thick volume ; copy of Virginia Lee Golden Batdorf RN, born in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania and attended Elizabeth Buxton Hospital, Hampton Roads, VA Nursing School. As a registered nurse, she worked in the emergency room and the ICU at Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta GA. She also worked for 20 years with the Atlanta Journal Constitution in Atlanta. ; FINE/FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.…

Softcover. NASA Publication NASA SP-4402. First Edition. 228 p. very good condition, with a name sticker of the previous owner.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 2012 Brill hardcover edition. Light reading wear, crease to back cover else good condition. From the cover: The book contains individual essays on the wider issues raised by 'physiology', and detailed case studies that explore particular aspects and individuals. It will be useful to those working on medicine and the body in pre-modern cultures, in disciplines including classics, history of medicine and science, philosophy, and literature. Contents: 1. 'Introduction' by Helen King; 2. 'Physiologia from Galen to Jacob Bording' by Vivian Nutton; 3. 'Physiological Analogies and Metaphors in Explanations of the Earth and the Cosmos' by Liba Taub; 4. 'The Reception of the Hippocratic Treatise On Glands' by Elizabeth Craik; 5. 'Between Atoms and Humours. Lucretius' Didactic Poetry as a Model of Integrated and Bifocal Physiology' by Fabio Tutrone; 6. 'Losing Ground. The Disappearance of Attraction from the Kidneys' by Michael R. McVaugh; 7. 'The Art of the Distillation of 'Spirits' as a Technological Model for Human Physiology. The Cases of Marsilio Ficino, Joseph Duchesne and Francis Bacon' by Sergius Kodera; 8. 'The Body is a Battlefield. Conflict and Control in Seventeenth-Century Physiology and Political Thought' by Sabine Kalff; 9. 'Herman Boerhaave's Neurology and the Unchanging Nature of Physiology' by Rina Knoeff; 10. 'The Anatomy and Physiology of Mind. David Hume's Vitalistic Account' by Tamas Demeter; 11. 'More than a Fading Flame. The Physiology of Old Age between Speculative Analogy and Experimental Method' by Daniel Schafer; 12. 'Suffering Bodies, Sensible Artists. Vitalist Medicine and the Visualising of Corporeal Life in Diderot' by Tomas Macsotay; 13. 'Blood, Clotting and the Four Humours' by Hans L. Haak; 14. 'An Issue of Blood. The Healing of the Woman with the Haemorrhage (Mark 5.24b-34; Luke 8.42b-48; Matthew 9.19-22) in Early Medieval Visual Culture' by Barbara Baert, Liesbet Kusters and Emma Sidgwick; 15. 'The Nature of the Soul and the Passage of Blood through the Lungs. Galen, Ibn al-Nafis, Servetus, Itaki, 'Attar' by Rainer Bromer; 16. 'Sperm and Blood, Form and Food. Late Medieval Medical Notions of Male and Female in the Embryology of Membra' by Karine van 't Land; 17. 'The Music of the Pulse in Marsilio Ficino's Timaeus Commentary' by Jacomien Prins; 18. 'For the Life of a Creature is in the Blood' (Leviticus 17:11). Some Considerations on Blood as the Source of Life in Sixteenth-Century Religion and Medicine and their Interconnections' by Catrien Santing; 19. 'White Blood and Red Milk. Analogical Reasoning in Medical Practice and Experimental Physiology (1560-1730)' by Barbara Orland; 20. 'The 'Body without Skin' in the Homeric Poems' by Valeria Gavrylenko; 21. 'Sweat. Learned Concepts and Popular Perceptions, 1500-1800' by Michael Stolberg; 22. 'Of the Fisherman's Net and Skin Pores. Reframing Conceptions of the Skin in Medicine 1572-1714' by Mieneke te Hennepe; 23. 'Vision and Vision Disorders. Galen's Physiology of Sight' by Veronique Boudon-Millot; 24. 'Early Modern Medical Thinking on Vision and the Camera Obscura. V.F. Plempius' Ophthalmographia' by Katrien Vanagt; 25. 'The Tertium Comparationis of the Elementa Physiologiae. - Johann Gottfried von Herder's Conception of 'Tears' as Mediators between the Sublime and the Actual Bodily Physiology' by Frank W. Stahnisch; 26. 'From Doubt to Certainty. Aspects of the Conceptualisation and Interpretation of Galen's Natural Pneuma' by Julius Rocca; 27. 'Metabolisms of the Soul. The Physiology of Bernardino Telesio in Oliva Sabuco's Nueva Filosofia de la Naturaleza del Hombre (1587)' by Marlen Bidwell-Steiner; 28. 'Full of Rapture'. Maternal Vocality and Melancholy in Webster's Duchess of Malfi' by Marion A. Wells; 29. 'The Sleeping Musician. Aristotle's Vegetative Soul and Ralph Cudworth's Plastic Nature' by Diana Stanciu.…

Condizione: good. 227, wraps, illus., appendices, reference notes, index, some wear and soiling to covers. Part of the NASA History Series. The origins of the names of NASA launch vehicles, satellites, space probes, manned space flight, sounding rockets, and NASA installations.

Condizione: New. Print on Demand.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1954, 1ST EDITION, EARLY Issue, DJ LITE WEAR TINY CHIPS EXTREMITIES, Back flap lists Cherry Ames books "FRONT FLAP LISTS THRU CLUE GOLD COIN Blue tweed covers are very nice with only very minor outside corner wear. VG/VG, The dust jacket is very nice with some minor chipping. Dust Jacket is covered by a new clear mylar cover. BACK OF DJ DANA GIRLS THRU CLUE IN BLACK FLOWER, BLUE TOPSTAIN.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1954, 1st Edition, 2nd Printing, VG/VG ,AS-IS, BLUE ILLUSTRATED TWEED CLOTH BOOK IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. NO WRITING ON THE CLEAN, WHITE PAGES. DUST JACKET IS ALSO IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. NICE UPGRADE FOR YOUR COLLECTION! IN MYLAR CLEAR COVER, BACK DJ CHERRY AMES BY HELEN WELLS & JULIE TATHAM THRU COUNTRY DOCTOR'S NURSEPRETEXT LISTS THRU GHOST AT WATERFALL.& of Course I Kept the Ring, .There are JUDY BOLTON VANISHING SHADOW THRU HAUNTED FOUNTAIN , on the back flap.…

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. 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. Pages: 260. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1976 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. 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 Pages: 260.…

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