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Domenico Laurenza
Leonardo's Machines
Appears to be in as new unread condition. 239pp. Secrets and inventions of the (Leonardo) Da Vinci Codices. Superb images and descriptions of Leonardo's scientific and engineering works.
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Michael Lane
Baron Marks of Woolwich
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked maroon cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very slight creasing to upper front edge and minor traces of storage. 146pp. Biography of the international entrepreneur, engineer, patent agent and politician. He was responsible for a number of cliff railways including at Lynton and Lynmouth, Bristol, Bridgnorth and at Matlock in Derbyshire. He was involved with a number of other business enterprises and he became MP for Launceston in 1906, later crossing the floor of the House to join Ramsay Macdonald in 1929.
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Rodney Dale; Joan Gray
Edwardian Inventions : 1901-1905
Small label removal mark to lower front corner. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to slightly sunned spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright otherwise unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 153pp. An extensively researched and delightfully illustrated selection of the most unlikely early Edwardian inventions. For example 'Gillet's Appliance for Enabling a Performer to Appear to Stand Upon One Finger' and 'Device for Preventing Self Abuse in Horses'.
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Paul McAuley
Mind's Eye (Uncorrected Proof)
Appears in mint unread condition.. 422pp. Science thriller from Paul McAuley.
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L. Ashwell Wood & Denis Gifford (editor)
The Eagle Book of Cutaways
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards with Eagle motif and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little creasing to edges and minor traces of storage. 95pp. A collection of cutaway scientific and transport models taken from the Eagle comic of the 1950s with labelled description of the components revealed and a general description of each print. With mostlry images of scientific sites and transport vehicles in existence at the time plus some futuristic proposals including a railway engine powered by an atomic reactor. These were all first shown in the Eagle comic between 1946 and 1960.
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Allen, Cecil John
British Pacific Locomotives
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. 240pp. A detailed study of the pacific steam engines on British Rail across all the rail companies plus the 'standard' locomotives after 1948. Well illustrated.
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Gosling, William
Helmsmen and Heroes: Control Theory as a Key to Past and Future
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 230pp. Control theory with its origins in engineering is not just autopilots and robots - it can explain why economies boom and slump, why politicians succeed or fail, and what the future holds.
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Sutherland, Halliday
A Time to Keep (Signed By Author)
Signed 'Halliday Sutherland' to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, upper page edges dusty and with bumping to upper corners. Fore and lower page edges untrimmed and dusty. Dust jacket not price clipped with a few small marks, repaired tear to front, sunned spine and small pieces missing from top of spine. Now protected in a fully-removable transparent sleeve. 286pp. A second volume of reminiscences from the author following on from 'Arches of the Years' in which we visit his Highland childhood, his youth in Scotland, his medical life, yachting holidays, hospitals, law-courts, churches and race-courses. The last chapters tell of his reception into the Church of Rome, his famous law-suit with Dr Marie Stopes and his visit to Lourdes. Very scarce signed copy.
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F. J. Callahan
Swagelok Tube Fitting and Installation Manual
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked gold-coloured rexine type boards, slight traces of foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Translucent spider's web design paper cover over boards with some tearing. 276pp. Catalogue and instruction manual of tube and tube fittings.
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General Staff, War Office
Manual of Field Engineering 1911 (with Amendments to 1914)
Appears inread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 64 plates plus 131pp. A fascinating detailed work on the preparations for field warfare in the First World War. Very well illustrated. Extremely scarce.
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The Editor
Dan Dare Annual 1979
No marks or inscriptions. Not price clipped. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. 95pp. Space fiction based around Eagle Comic's Dan Dare.
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Fosbery, Richard
OCR A2 Biology Student Unit Guide: Unit F214 Communication, Homeostasis and Energy (Student Unit Guides)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 101pp. Revision guidance, examiner advice, sample questions and answers for biology - communication, homeostasis and energy.
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Walter C. Patterson and Czech Conroy
The Parker Inquiry
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 22pp. A concise reasoned demolition by Friends of the Earth of Justice Parker's government report of the Windscale Inquiry of 1977.
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Godderd-Smith, W. G.
Man & His Name (Vibra-Mentology) New & Revised Edition
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to oversize parts of covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with very slightly dusty unmarked boards and small indent to rear. 90pp. 'A course of instruction in the Philosophy and Science of Names and Numbers as taught in conjunction with the Science of Mind' by the author. Scarce.
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Godderd-Smith, W. G.
Cosmic Science : Practical Mind Training
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to oversize parts of covers and lower front corner, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards. 67pp. 'A Special Course of instruction in the Science of Life as taught by the Master-Mind, Jesus, the Christ' by the author. Tucked in is a drawing by a previous owner setting out visually ideas from this book. Extremely scarce.
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Knott, J.F.
Fundamentals of Fracture Mechanics
Name well crossed out on both end papers. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with rubbing/light creasing to upper edge. 273pp. A detailed study of the science and practice of macroscopic fracture mechanics for engineers and metallurgists with some reference to microscopic aspects.
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Marshall, S.A.
Introduction to Control Theory
No marks or inscriptions. Crease to upper corner of front cover. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage, slightly tanned page edges and no bumping to corners. 232pp. An analysis of closed loop control systems.
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Stone, Richard (editor)
Management of Engineering Projects
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly sunned spine and no bumping to corners. 248pp. A study of the administrative, financial and legal aspects of engineering projects as well as the more obvious technical aspects. Management of all of these are necessary for the successful completion of a project. This book provides that expert guidance from a Brunel University team under Richard Stone.
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Poularikas, Alexander D. & Seely, Samuel
Signals and Systems
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to slightly arched spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bump to lower front corner. 777pp. An account of the basic concepts and applications of signals and systems as applied to electronics, biomedical engineering, industrial processes, chemical process control and electro-optical systems.
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Clarke, Sir Arthur C.; Baxter, Stephen
Firstborn: A Time Odyssey Book Three
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with small scratch mark to front and very minor rubbing to upper edge. 290pp. The conclusion of the 'A Time Odyssey' series.
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Pratchett, Terry; Baxter, Stephen
The Long Mars (Long Earth 3)
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 357pp. Book No 3 in the Long Earth series.
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Pratchett, Terry; Baxter, Stephen
The Long War (The Long Earth 2)
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 422pp. Book No 2 in the Long Earth series.
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Bova, Ben
Mars, Inc.: The Billionaire's Club
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 357pp. A novel about a president of a successful company who sets out to recruit other billionaires to help pay to get a human on Mars. Scarce in the UK.
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Asher, Neal
Zero Point (Owner Trilogy 2)
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 564pp. Book 2 in the Owner novel series starring Alan Saul.
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Molloy, E. (editor)
Diesel Engine Manual
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Clean tight pages with faintly marked front board, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped but torn, marked and creased. 224pp. 'A truly practical book on installation, operation and maintenace' - of diesel engines. Second revised edition.
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Chapman, C. W.
Modern High-Speed Oil Engines : 3 Vols I, II, III
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Three very clean very tight copies with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. 237 + 218 + 230pp. Very detailed work on the high-speed oil engine, a key feature of modern life from cars to locomotives to boats. Well illustrated. A heavy set.
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Clarke, Sir Arthur C.; Baxter, Stephen
Sunstorm - A Time Odyssey: Book Two: Sunstorm Bk. 2
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 251pp. Sequel to Time's Eye by two of the greatest talents in science fiction writing.
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Threlfall, R. E.
100 Years of Phosphorus Making 1851-1951
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with slightly dusty very slightly foxed unmarked boards, dusty and slightly foxed page edges and no bumping to corners. 400pp. The history of the manufacture of Phosphorus, published by Albright & Wilson, one of the key firms involved in this process
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The Editor
Triumphs of Engineering : A Record of Modern Achievements
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked slightly sunned boards, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped but torn with some large pieces missing mainly from front. Undated, about mid 1940s. 256pp. Detailed information on world-wide, many famous, engineering works including bridges, canals, lighthouses, electricity supply, tunnels, railways and dams
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David Pogue
Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition (Missing Manuals)
Book in mint as new condition.
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Floyd, Michael
Building Web Sites with XML (Unused CD-ROM attached)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 418pp. A step-by step approach building web or intranet sites using XML - definitive series from Charles F Goldfarb. Sealed CD-ROM attached inside rear cover.
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Wiener, Richard S.; Pinson, Lewis J.
An Introduction to Object-oriented Programming and C++
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 273pp. A learning tool for C++ and Object-Oriented programming.
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Wiener, Richard S.; Pinson, Lewis J.
C++ Workbook
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 349pp. With a set of example programs and case studies, this book is a learning tool for C++ and Object-Oriented programming.
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Barnes, J.G.P.
Programming in ADA (International Computer Science Series)
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 367pp. A complete manual to the computer language Ada, developed by the US Dept of Defense. .
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Habermann, A.Nico; Perry, Dewayne E.
ADA for Experienced Programmers (Addison-Wesley series in computer science)
Appears unread. Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 479pp. A powerful learning tool focusing on the software language Ada which was developed by the US Dept of Defense. Very scarce in the UK.
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Purdum, Jack J.
C. Programming Guide
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. Very minor creasing to rear, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 250pp. An excellent learning tool for the C software language.
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Hancock, Leslie; Krieger, Morris
The C Primer
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 235pp. An excellent learning tool for C, the software language. Scarce in the UK.
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Purdum, Jack J.; Etc.
C. Programmer's Library
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. Crease to lower front corner and to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to lower front corner pages. 366pp. A tool to help you develop more advanced, generalized library functions with C programming. Very scarce in the UK.
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Jamsa, Kris
The C. Library
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 294pp. With over 125 carefully structured routines ranging from macros to UNIX utilities.
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Booch, Grady
Software Engineering with ADA
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly tanned page edges and no bumping to corners. 504pp. This book teaches the effective use of the Ada language in a software engineering context.
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Kernighan, Brian W.
Software Tools in Pascal
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked slightly sunned boards and no bumping to corners. 366pp. An excellent learning tool to help the Pascal programmer to write good Pascal.
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The Editors
UNIX System Manager's Manual
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards. Ring binder in excellent condition. Unpaginated. pp. Troubleshooting, syntax, system operation, programming, kernel, security, server operation etc for the UNIX system. Very scarce in the UK.
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Hunter, Bruce H.
Understanding C.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 320pp. A tool for anyone with programming experience to learn the C language.
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Kempf, James
Numerical Software Tools in C.
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 261pp. How to apply software tools to numerical programming using the language C. Scarce in the UK.
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The Editors
Turbo C++
No marks or inscriptions. Faint creasing to lower rear corner, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 268pp. Getting started on Turbo C++.
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Woodward, C. (editor)
Annual Reports on Analytical Atomic Spectroscopy. 1973: volume 93
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 324pp. A review of the year 1973 in the developing science of Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy.
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Parsonage, N. G.
The Gaseous State
Name/address inside front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, very faint crease to slightly sunned spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 170pp. An explanation of gas properties in terms of the behaviour of the molecules of which they are composed.
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Meakin, J. C. and Pratt, M. C.
Manual of Laboratory Filtration (Whatman)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked slightly rubbed boards and no bumping to corners. Ring binder in excellent condition. Samples plus 110pp. A detailed account of Whatman paper filtration products. At the end part of the book are full page examples of eight such products identified by product numbers. Scarce.
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Hugh E. Williams; David Lane
Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL
Name/date to front end paper otherwise fine condition. Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 796pp. Detailed work on building and maintaining databases, validating data, multiple users, PEAR and all techniques of dynamic content with PHP and MySQL.
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Bejtlich, Richard
Extrusion Detection: Security Monitoring for Internal Intrusions
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 385pp. A comprehensive guide to preventing, detecting and mitigating security breaches.
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