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New York and London: Liveright Publishing Corporation; W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. viii, 330 pages, illustrations, map; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar co… Mehr…

New York and London: Liveright Publishing Corporation; W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. viii, 330 pages, illustrations, map; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Based on a lifetime of pioneering research, preeminent naturalist Edward O. Wilson gives us a new history of human evolution, presented in an elegant and provocative narrative that promises to have reverberations in fields as diverse as anthropology and social psychology, neuroscience and 21st-century intellectual and religious history. Wilson begins by addressing three "fundamental questions" of religion and philosophy that have fascinated thinkers for centuries: Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Writing that "the origin of modern humanity was a stroke of luck, good for our species for a while, bad for most of the rest of life forever," Wilson traces the rise of Homo sapiens from its infancy, drawing on his remarkable knowledge of biology and social behavior to present us with the clearest explanation ever produced as to the origin of the human condition. Wilson also reveals how 'group selection' can be the only model for explaining man's origins and domination, and warns that it has now accelerated--through unregulated and untrammeled growth--to such a point that the planet as we know it is being threatened." - Publisher.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., Liveright Publishing Corporation; W. W. Norton & Company, 2012, 5, Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 1986. 107 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). "The voice of these poems is distinctive. It can be heard and understood at once. It speaks with an unusual combination of rural candour and urban sophistication. It is tempered by a poignant awareness of seasonal dyings and renewals, but also by a wry recognition of human frailties, social deceptions and self-deceptions, the intensities and brevities of love - and by glimpses of the darker aspects of modern history that have touched the consciousness of us all. The book opens on a life pausing at mid-point: taking the measure of its losses and gains in a strongly-felt country scene that is bracing and nourishing. It then moves backwards in time and outwards in space to explore the span of places, people and experiences that have led up to this situtation. Each moment, each poem, can be taken on its own, or as part of a larger story. These are poems which hide their craft, while inviting the reader to enter directly into the thoughtful meditations, the painful reassessments, the journeys and discoveries which the poet's imagination has recreated." Interior - Christmas gift inscription on first page, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - light fading to spine and hinges, minor rubbing.. Soft Cover. Very Good., Porcupine's Quill, 1986, 3, W.W. Norton & Company, 1963. First. Hardcover. Acceptable. Dust jacket is rubbed, scraped, chipped, scuffed, faded, creased and has been taped together with cellophane tape to the point that we are unable to remove it to assess condition of boards without ripping the dust jacket completely off. Front flap is price clipped. From what we can see of the boards, they are worn and scraped along the bottom edges. Dented corner tips. Lightly tanned pages. Some stains to text block. Binding is firm. Very readable copy. 280 pages., W.W. Norton & Company, 1963, 2.5, Paperback / softback. New. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Strange Planet and NYC Basic Tips and Ettiquette and Strange Planet comes 99 Stories I Could Tell, a guided journal with 99 prompts plus a customizable cover. Nathan Pyle takes journalers for a creative ride through the pages of this product--each prompt comes with a mix of black lines (solid boundaries to color) and blue lines (to trace and use as a jumping off point for further imagination. The prompts move from extremely suportive towards the start of the journal (giving the journaler lots of structure so as not to intimidate them) to more free-form , the idea being that the journaler's skills will increase the more they progress. The prompts themselves are a collection of inventive and humorous trips down memory lane, helping journalers curate and draw their most prized recollections, and also to unearth memories they didn't know they had (a lie you were told as a child that you believed until recently, or the first fictional death you experienced). With a well-honed sensibility for what shares well online and what people are searching for, each of the 99 stories has been chosen because it prompts emotional resonance and will be content people will be excited to share on their social media. The prompts can also be mixed and matched to create all new narratives, the way musical notes can be lined up differently to make new tunes. Package wise, this journal is a large square, big enough to satisfy doodlers, but light enough to easily fit in a backpack or totebag. The book's jacket is a silk-screened PVC case which adds to the nostalgic feel (reminiscent of a toy); the jacket is also removeable to reveal an uncoated cover where journalers can embellish the design in their own way, making each and every journal totally customizable., 6, London: William Heinemann Ltd. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1925. New Edition. Hardcover. New Edition. Burgundy cloth covers with gilt titling to the front board and spine. The spine and edges of the rear board are Very slightly faded, but only minorly and all titling clear and very legible. NO dustjacket. The page fore-edges are lightly tanned with age and have a little foxing (very light browny spots). Top edge quite 'dusty'. Overall a very good copy. Browning to the front free and rear free endpaper and it looks as if the rear internal hinge has been re-glued at some point but a sound, tight copy. Internally No Inscriptions or other Marks. Colour and b/w (half-tone) llustrations, and line drawings at the front of the book. (xvii) + (3) + 753 pp. Many illustrations from photographs, art-works and from pen-and-ink drawings by Phillip Ward. Includes chapters on: - Origin and Development of Etiquette; The Story of Speech; Debutantes of Yesterday; A Short History of Courtship; Marriage Customs; Gift-Making; Correspondance and the History of Writing; Calling Customs; Hospitality and Entertainment; The Tale of Table Manners; The Dance; Dress through the Centuries; Funeral Customs; Concerning Children; Popular Superstitions, and Survivals in Games, etc. Overall a VG tight clean copy. Quite heavy and may require extra postage for International customers only. See Images . ; Thick 8vo 8" to 9" tall ., William Heinemann Ltd, 1925, 3, Vancouver BC: Boag Foundation Limited, 1949. (CAD) Third Edition No markings, small spor to lower edge of last few leaves, Near Fine. Green card cover, side-stapled, 94pp. This book first appeared in 1942 and is an economic analysis from a socialist point of view. The Allan Boag Foundation is a grant giving non-profit society that was established in 1944. Its goals are to promote the principles of democratic Socialism. (1.1 JM HOZ 402/1. 3rd. Staple Bound. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"., Boag Foundation Limited, 1949, 4, UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to protected dw/dj - virtually as new. Bright,crisp,clean,subject's b/w,contemporary,montage'd photographic illustrated dw/dj,with red and white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,and solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,plain dark brown paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,15- 279pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-4,12pp of subject contemporary b/w photographs,in 3 blocks of 4pp apiece,between pp76/7, pp140/1 and pp204/5 respectively, the sources,notes and bibliography.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication, contents list/table,author's note,photographic acknowledgements, Pts+Sources separator pages. In August 1940 the Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrived in Nassau,where the Duke was to take up his post as Governor of the Bahamas.They were still the most romantic couple in the world,he the handsome Prince of Wales who had won hearts wherever he had gone,she the woman for whose sake he had given up a crown. But in Washington and London the royal Governor and his wife were already under suspicion in official quarters.The pro-German sentiments he had expressed during the 1930's were already well-known and the contacts that the couple had had with German agents and sympathisers during their sojourn in France and Portugal after the Abdication had made it imperative that they be removed from the European scene as quickly as possible.Exile in the Bahamas was intended to keep the Duke and Duchess of Windsor out of harm's way. 'The King Over the Water' tells for the first time (then 1981) the story of the years the Windsors spent in the Bahamas.During his governorship the Duke became closely involved with three men whose lives drew his into a network of scandal,political subversion,and,finally,murder.The three were Sir Harry Oakes,'the richest baronet in the British Empire', Harold Christie,the land speculator,and Axel Wenner Gren,the mysterious Swedish millionaire who was active in the interests of Goering and Krupp. Only the entry of America into the Second World War prevented these men from completing a plan that would probably have brought the Duke's name into eternal disrepute. During those years the Duke struggled for minimal social reforms in the face of implacable opposition from the ruling oligarcy of white merchants and lawyers,and the Duchess threw herself into work for the poor and the sick,but the apparently idyllic life of the islands,in which black and white lived together in peaceful inequality,was to erupt in riot and looting.In the Duke of Windor's little kingdom,the dream of a white man's Paradise was shattered for ever. Finally,in 1943,Sir Harry Oakes was horribly murdered.The Duke took personal charge of the investigation and a local adventurer, Alfred de Marigny,was arrested and charged.But the prosecution's case was disgracefully weak,de Marigny was acquitted,and the murder of Sir Harry Oakes has remained a mystery to this day (then 1981).Michael Pye unravels the tangle of threads,social, financial and personal,that point to a possible solution,a dramatic solution that links the murder with the other machinations in which the Due was involved. At the end of the war,the Duke and Duchess sailed for Europe,their magic faded,their glamour tarnished.The Duke was never again to hold an official position.The Windsor legend finally died in the Bahamas. Since April 2013,again in March 2015 and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.HUTCHINSON,1981., 5, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed and inscribed by Linda Ambrose to half-title. From the estate of Professor Roy Parker, the inscription is to his wife Jo. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket which is clean and bright with very slight fading to spine and minor edgewear. Boards clean and square with minor bumping to spine tips and bottom corners. Contents clean without bookplates, inscriptions or markings other than author's inscription. 256 pp; many b/w ills. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Landscape format. A lively account of the organizational life of the Women's Institutes of Ontario. First established in 1897 in Stoney Creek, Ontario, the WI set out to improve the conditions of life for rural women through the promotion of domestic science education. That mandate soon expanded to include self-improvement, government lobbying, and community betterment. At the same time the organization spread geographically, across the province, the country and around the world. Tracing that growth, this history concentrates on the activities of members in their own communities, and explains the enduring popularity of the Women's Institutes from the women's point of view. Orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed-for, and insured., Boston Mills Press, 1996, 3, London: Panther, 1968. First Edition. Small 8vo, pp. 174. Paper wraps. Cover scuffed and soiled, o/w a VG tight copy. An account of the student uprising in France in 1968, and an analysis and predictions that seem a little strange at this point., Panther, 1968, 0, London England: Cassell P L C, 2000. As the events of 1939-1945 fade from living memory and the Second World War recedes into the history books, new generations of readers seek answers to old questions. How did there come to be such a war at all, so soon after the Great War? Were the participant nations seeking conflict, or did they have it thrust upon them? What actually happened in that war to cause the deaths of some fifty million men, women and children? In his new book John Ray first examines the social, political and military background of the inter-war years. He then traces the progress of the conflict across all campaigns and theatres of war. At each point he explains how the leaders took the course of action they did, for good or bad, and the consequent effects on the future conduct of the war. He makes very clear the distinction between planning for war, and the real thing; we see how often indecision, incidents and accidents unexpectedly come to win or lose a battle. This is history made real and exciting in a concise, fast-moving and always fascinating approach of particular value to newcomers to the subject. The Second World War shaped the second half of the twentieth century; our grasp of the world we now live in is incomplete without an understanding of how and why that war was conducted. This book explains the Second World War. Illustrated with B/W photographs. Crease on back cover.. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softback., Cassell P L C, 2000, 3, London England: Ward, Lock & Co.. Very Good/Good. 1966. 9th Edition. Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall Duodecimo Hardcover Hardcover. A Ward Lock Red Guide. Complete Scotland. Slight foxing to end inside covers. Shelf wear and a couple of tiny tears to edge of D/J. Sunned spine. A thoroughly comprehensive Guide to the whole country, from the Border to the Shetlands and from Aberdeen to St. Kilda. Written from the point of view of those who travel by road, the book nevertheless gives all needful information respecting rail and steamer routes. The roads provide the greater part of the itiniaries upon which the descriptive chapters are based, while hill-paths and walking routes are most minutely described, and suggested tours are included for the walker, cyclist and motorist. Maps. 448 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) ., Ward, Lock & Co., 1966, 2.75, London England: Adam & Charles Black, 1949. Hardback. From the Library of Royal Society of Arts Library with withdrawal sticker to inside cover and ex-library markings. Red cloth with gilt lettering. The purpose of this book is to provide a concise history of English ceramic art, that is to say, an account of the sequence of the various kinds of distinctively English wares, of their authorship or derivation, and more especially of their aesthetic charm - of those qualities in fact which make their study and collection worth while. Matters of purely archaeological interest have naturally been excluded, and space has not allowed the citation of authorities or a full discussion of many controversial matters; these have, however, been pointed out, as subjects of special concern to the collector, and the reasons for any departures from customary opinions have been briefly explained. Contents: Preface. List of Plates and Figures. Introduction. Earthenware and Stoneware to the End of the Eighteenth Century. English Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century. Nineteenth-Century Pottery and Porcelain. With seventy-two illustrations from photographs, twelve from drawings, and thirty marks. 271 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). 4th Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harback., Adam & Charles Black, 1949, 3, Great Britain: Farming Press Limited. Very Good/Very Good. 1975. Third Revised Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0852360525 Harback Two experts on the subject "clearly point out that 'the simple truth is that sheep farming is still very traditional' and that so far there have been few brave wise men 'to blaze new trails.'" Blue cloth w/gilt lettering to front coverand spine in a very good condition..(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). ., Farming Press Limited, 1975, 3, Great Britain: David & Charles. Very Good/Very Good. 1984. New Edition Updated. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0715385194 Hardback Hardback. new edition - completely updated to include all ten official long-distance paths, plus striking colour pictures. The author guides us through the 1700 miles of beautiful countryside covered by the Pennine Way, Pembrokeshire Coast Path, South West Peninsula Coast Path, Offa's Dyke, Cleveland Way, North and South Downs Way. Ridgeway, World's Way and the Peddar's Way and Norfolk Coast Path. He provides a perfect armchair introduction (Or an invaluable companion) to the pleasures of long-distance walking. Each of the routes is fully described by the author. He gives plenty of practical advice about the terrain to be walked and enriches the step-by-step directions with a wealth of historical, natural and architectural information. Each path has a map and is extensively illustrated with photographs (many in colour) and drawings showing typical scenery and specific points to look for. An essential book for the walker and a delight to anyone interested in the countryside. Illustrated. 240 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) ., David & Charles, 1984, 3<

ISBN: 9780715385197

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