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Paperback or Softback. Condición: New. The Reaper: A Time to Plant, A Time to Nurture, A Time to Harvest. Book.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of articles and essays on Sax Rohmer and his works. Staple bound. Two sticker stains on the front cover. In very good condition.

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. ORIGINAL Articles, disbound from USGS Professional Paper; no covers; in very good condition. Journal.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st. First Edition, Thus; 157 clean, unmarked pages/index. B&w Illus (ilustrador).

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 62 pages. 8.98x5.91x0.08 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. ORIGINAL 1971 PUBLICATION; HARDCOVER; includes folded map in rear pocket (complete) ex-library; in very good condition. Book.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Small stamp mark from the previous owner. Publication of 80 pages. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed. Internally the pages are clean and complete. Staple bound. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 386 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.87 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS; THREE (3) USGS Water Supply papers bound together; HARDCOVER; ex-library; in very good condition. Book.

Ed. North-Holland, Amsterdam - 1986, in-8, broché, 104 pages (table des matières sur la photo) Bon état - Pour les envois hors de France, la tafication «livre & brochure» pour les frais de port a disparue.Les frais de port annoncés correspondent à une moyenne. Ils seront calculés au plus juste en fonction du poids de votre article.…

Hardback. Condición: Good. Ah yes, Computer Handling of Chemical Structure Information (1971) ? a title so magnificently unapologetic that it manages to sound both wildly futuristic and crushingly administrative at the same time. Written by M. F. Lynch, J. M. Harrison, W. G. Town and J. E. Ash, and published by the sternly dependable alliance of MacDonald and American Elsevier, this is a book from the glorious early age of computing, when the idea of getting a machine to understand chemistry still had the thrilling whiff of science fiction about it. Today, of course, we take it for granted that a computer can store, search, sort and juggle chemical structures while also distracting us with emails and weather alerts. But in 1971 this was serious frontier work. The challenge was not merely one of chemistry, nor merely one of computing, but of persuading these two extremely complicated realms to sit down together and behave themselves. How, after all, do you teach a machine to cope with molecules, rings, chains, bonds, substitutions and all the rest of the gloriously fiddly architecture of chemistry? It is one thing for a chemist to glance at a structural formula and nod wisely. It is quite another to reduce that same formula to something a large humming box can process without existential complaint. That is the territory this book inhabits: the fascinating, slightly forbidding borderland where punch-card logic meets molecular elegance. It is concerned with systems of representation, indexing, retrieval and classification ? in other words, the hidden bureaucracy of scientific knowledge. Not the dramatic bubbling flask end of chemistry, but the equally vital question of how one actually organises chemical information so that it can be found again before the heat death of the universe. There is something wonderfully ambitious about a book like this. It comes from a period when computers were still enormous, temperamental, and far less interested in helping ordinary people than in quietly revolutionising specialist disciplines from the inside. Here we see that revolution in progress. The authors are grappling with problems that now underpin huge areas of cheminformatics, database science and pharmaceutical research, but they do so in the measured, deliberate tone of people who know they are building part of the future with graphs, coding schemes and a deep faith in orderly systems. And what a future it promised. This is a world where the proper encoding of a benzene ring is not a niche concern but the sort of thing upon which the whole modern edifice of searchable chemical knowledge may eventually depend. It is, in its own dry and noble way, a book about translation: taking the exquisite visual language of chemistry and converting it into forms that computers can store, compare and retrieve. It may not sound romantic, but there is a peculiar beauty in the effort. Humanity had spent centuries discovering substances, naming compounds and drawing structures, and then along came computing to say: splendid, now please put all of that into a system. Naturally, being a technical volume from 1971, it does not exactly bounce along like a thriller. It is dense, precise and entirely untroubled by the modern need to be ?accessible? It assumes, with admirable confidence, that the reader has turned up because they genuinely want to know about machine methods for handling chemical structure information, and not because they were hoping for a light diversion before bed. In that sense, it is refreshingly honest. No gimmicks, no simplification, no brightly coloured sidebars pretending data structures are fun for the whole family. Just proper intellectual machinery, laid out with seriousness and care. Still, that is part of the charm. For collectors of vintage scientific and computing texts, this is exactly the sort of book that radiates period authority. It belongs to that lovely moment when computers were beginning to colonise every corner of specialist knowledge, and each new application arrived with its own breed of optimism. Somewhere between chemistry, information science and early computing history, Computer Handling of Chemical Structure Information captures a moment when people were teaching machines to think, very carefully, about molecules. This copy is in good condition , which is pleasingly appropriate for a book devoted to the proper storage and retrieval of complex structures. It has survived the decades with its academic dignity intact, ready to sit on the shelf of a chemist, historian of computing, lover of obscure technical literature, or anyone who enjoys books whose titles sound like they were generated by a committee in lab coats. In short, this is not merely a book about chemistry, nor merely a book about computers. It is a monument to the heroic age of making information behave. If you have ever wished to own a volume that embodies the exact moment when molecular structure met machine logic and both agreed to proceed in an orderly manner, then here it is. Available now from Crappy Old Books , where even the sternest technical masterpieces get a second chance to bewilder and impress.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS; TWO (2) Water Supply papers bound together, HARDCOVER; ex-library; in very good condition. Book.

Condición: New.

Stapled. Condición: Good. School Certificate History Theme 3. Old price sticker on cover; cover sunned. 106 pages.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condición: Good. 116 pages. cover worn.

Paperback. Condición: Good. 108 pages. cover worn.

Paperback. Condición: Good. 107 pages. Cover worn and stain on front. Name on ffep whited outA programmed text and objective tests.

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Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 348 pages. 9.30x6.20x0.60 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover, 15x22. Condición: Gut. 145 Seiten altersbedingt guter Zustand, angestoßen, Schutzumschlag schmutzig 200524115 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 330.

Hardcover. Condición: New.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 2 v. (Vol. 1 : xi, 534, xxii ; Vol. 2 : viii, 521 p., numbered 535 to 1056, xxii) : illustrated with 667 figures, 196 in color ; 26 cm. ; grey cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjackets ; OCLC: 6372539 ; LC: RC920; Dewey: 616.62 ; Each volume has own index ; Dr. Lowrain McCrea, a graduate of Jefferson Medical College in 1919, developed the special cameras used here to create the series of images printed in the book, and in 1952 he gave the original camera to the Smithsonian ; "The text is presented in a simplified and descriptive manner, embracing a complete compendium of every urological and vesical disease observed cystoscopically or described in the literature.The natural color, as well as the black and white photographs of the norm al and of vesical pathology, are original and are the result of many years experimentation with intravesical photography." ; Contents: Vol. 1 : History of the Cystoscope -- The cystoscope -- Preparation of the patient -- Introduction of the cystosco pe -- The normal bladder -- Cystitis -- Miscellaneous affectations of Bladder -- Miscellaneous addections of bladder -- Tumors of the bladder -- Tumors of the bladder -- Vesical Calculus -- The neurogenic bladder -- Prostatic hypertrophy -- The uret ers -- Ureteral catheterization -- Vol. 2 -- Renal anomalies -- Renal function tests -- Injuries to the kidney -- Hydronephrosis -- Nontuberculous infections of the kidney -- Medical diseases of the kidney -- Specific infections of the kidney -- Specific infections of the kidney -- Specific infections of the kidney -- Renal cysts -- Renal calculus -- Tumors of the kidney -- Urology of the female -- Urology in children -- Urological roentgenography ; VG/VG. Book. …

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: 'Twixt Sunset and Sunrise - Mining Engineer William Bartle relates a story from Mexico where, outside the large cities "no foreigner's life is worth a farthing"; The Cannibal Islands - Part II - photo-illustrated article by Clifford Collinson who has lived in the Solomon Islands for several years and, in this instalment, visits the little-known atolls of Ong-Tong-Java, with nice photos; The Disappearance of Annie Mooney - A thirty-year-old mystery is solved in a strange and unlooked-for manner - was she kidnapped by the Chinese all those years ago?; The Most Wonderful School in the World - A remarkable "sun-cure" establishment at Aigle in the Swiss mountains where children - recently hopeless cripples - learn their lessons and romp in deep snow clad only in loin-cloths and boots! - with photos; Obyada, Bad Indian - story related by a member of the Royal North-West Mounted police about a troublesome individual near Red Deer, Alberta; The Rum-Runner - the story of a sea captain's first smuggling voyage, as told in St. Pierre, headquarters of a fleet of ships engaged in the liquor-running business; Soliman the Seer - the mysterious fortune-teller of the Pyraid of Cheops; The Children of the Wilderness (Conclusion) - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated travels in little known Mongolia; A Wildfowling Adventure - a nasty little adventure on the Solway Firth; Fishing for Crocodiles - using a special hook and line; On Patrol - a quaint little experience related by a flying officer of the Royal Air Force; The MIssing Links - An Indian magician discovers a thief when the police had failed; Round the World With a Lasso - former Texas Ranger Captain George Ash tours the world giving exhibitions and training troops in the use of the lasso - article with photos; The Strangest Mutiny on Record - The Schooner Pedro Varela; Six Hundred Thousand Francs - One of the most audacious jewel robberies ever perpetrated (in Paris); and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Prater, Ernest; Holloway, Cyril; Wood, Stanley L.; waters, D.B.; Nicolson, W.C.; Robinson, T.H.; Hiley, F.E.; Sindall, A.; De Walton, John; Edwards, Lionel; Whitaker, W.G.; Elcock, Howard K. (ilustrador). …